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Wholesale Prices Current.

ST. PAUL, Thursday, August ., 1864
ALCOHOLICS y gallon.
CANDLES-Nlould, 1S@2Oc y H.; Star, 1885,
Adamantine, 34c; Sperm, 55(9GOc.
COFFEE-Fair Rio, . 10, Sc; prime SIC; Java
65c
CHEESE-Reserve. y b., 2Oc: Hamburg. pc.
80 CORN MEALIYellow bolted' 1913; unboted,
So white bolted, $500.
FlSH-Pickled Herring, new, Fbb, $11 .OO@12 90
Scaled Herring. . box, S5c No 1 Herring, y box.
a5c; Goldfish, Georges . 100 BIS, $1,000; Grand
new, No. l. extra large half bbls., $11 No. 2, me-
dunn, half bbs., $3.50: Family Maekerel, 90:
No. kits, new, 1928; Family kits, 81 so; new, 81
Fh0 G.h Xxx, bills, So 50; sacks, $500.
FRCIT-Green Apples p Dbl, -; Dried, y
10, 1sc., Peaches, dried, 20922c y ID. Cranbes-
res b bu., =. Rasins, S.. 1906 25 q box; half
boxes, 1926. Prunes, 2sa3oc. Currants, 2Sa3Oc.
Almonds, H. S. 24c, :. S. Sc.
GLASS-sx1O, y box, $3.50: 1Gx12, $615; 1Ox14,
$500.
IRON-Common Bar, lOHc; Horse Shoe 1aa
LEAD-Pig, =; Bar, 20c . b.
LEATHEk-Reported by H. Rogers & Co, n T.,
Leather Store Third street)-Best Spanish Sole;
Sc; best Slaughter Sole Sc; best Oak Sole, 6sc
ness New York finish, very fine, C; Bride Leath.
er. $7@S: Rein Leather, fair New York finish,
$1o9 -; American Kip hemlock, ST. 1Oc81 go: Amer
can Kip. oak ST. Jog 80; French Kip, sI.75@2.C0;
American Calf hemlOck, 81 .SO@2.1O; Am Calf oak
81. 7592.5O FIR nch Calf y dozen, $sO@11o Upper y
foot hemock SIC; Upper, . side, oak, $500 OC.
LlME-COrdOva, Port Byron and LIE Claire, So 40
y Dbl. Grand Rapids Cacined Plaster, 81. So
LIQUORS-COmmOn Rectfed, q GAL, $175;
Monongahela, So. 0O@5.O0 Old Bourbon. 50. 0Ot96
MOLASSES-Plantation, y gals 1O@l 90 Sugar
House. 81. SG91 IS: Golden SyTlp, $14C91 so
NA1LS-10s y key, $1,000.
OILS-CarbOn, by Dbl, S1.10; Whale 81 IS;
Neatsfoet, 5000 Lard, $780, Linseed, 81 90
POWDER-Per key, S19.25.
RICE-1sc y ID.
SALT-9s Dbl, 1851.
SHOT-S60O q bag.
Significantly, lie per 10; Palm, l9c; Ger
man, l2c; Castillo. 26@aoc: imitation do, 9oc
SPICES-Cloves, 75c; Pepper, Coo; Allspice, SOC:
Nutmegs, $500; Mace, 81 75 Cassia, 9Oc@S1 90.
SUGARS-N. O. common, 24c; fair to good
e6@27c; prime to choice 2s93Oc. Cuba, common
to fair, 2a@e4c; good to choice, 27@2sc. Port
land Sugar, 26@21c. Porto Rico, good to choice,
2S@SOc n. Y. crushed, powdered, &C., 34@35c;
white coffee. A, 33c; B, 32c extra C. Bic.
TEAS-Imperial, 81. POOP. 90; Oolong 9Oc(aS1 So
GunpOwder, S1.00t92. 90: SOuchong, 15c0S1 IS;
Japan, uncOlOred, $1.O0915O so.
TOBACCO-Plug S5c(9$1.00; Natural Leaf 81. 40
81. so; Fine Cut, 90c9$1.25; Smoking, 25Cs4oc
WHITE LEAD-$1s@22 per cwt
WOODENWARE-P dOzen-Pails two hoops
$40; three hoops, $3.50; Tubs 16 in, $500. Is
in, $3.50 20 in, $500: Churns. Sl45O016
Half Bushels $500; Wash Boards S25O@3. SO:
Bowls, S4.559.u0.
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Now that General Burnside has been
removed from command for good" the
Republican papers are beginning to tell the
truth about him. Says the Springfield
Republican
Doubtless, however, his fault was ewing to
MS natural impetuosity of temper and restive-
ness under control, his opinionativeness in
thinking his own plans and details were as good
AZ anybody's, and the lack of that proper judy
iileht and selfcontrol he has before manifested
oh occasions since the war commenced.
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Thanks to Admiral Farragut.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-The Secretary
of the Navy has addressed the following
to Admiral Farragut:
NAVY DEPARTMENT.
WASHINGTON, d. c., August Is. {
SIR our dispatch OF the 9th instant, stat
ing that you had on the morning of that day
entered Mobile Bay, passing between Forts
Morgan and Gaines, and encountering and over
coming the rebel fleet, had the satisfaction to
receive this day. Some preliminary accounts
OF your operations had previously reached us
through rebel channels.
Again it is my pleasure and my duty to con.
gratalatc you and your brave associates on an
achievement unequalled in our service by any
other commander, and only surpassed by that
unparalleled naval triumph of the squadron
under your command in the spring of 1862
when, proceeding up the Mississippi, YOU
passed Forts Jackson and st. Philip, and, over
coming all obstruction, captured New Orleans
and restored unrestricted navigation to the
commercial emporium of the great central val.
ley of the Union The bay of Mobile was not
only fortified and guarded by forts and batter
les on the shore and by submerged obstruc-
tons, but the rebels had also collected there a
formidable fleet, commanded by their highest
naval officer, a former captain in the Union
navy, who. false to the government and the
Union, had deserted his country in the hour of
peril and leveled his guns against the flag which
it was his duty to have defended
The possession of Mobile bay which YOU
have acquired, will close the illicit traffic
which has been carried on 10y running the
blockade in that part of the gulf, and gives
point and value to the success you have achiev-
ed. Great results in war are seldom attained
without great risks; and it was not expected
that the harbor of Mobile would be secured
without disaster. The loss of the gallant era.
vens and his brave companions with the Te-
cumseh, vessel that was impenetrable to the
guns of Fort Morgan, by concealed torpedo
was a casualty against which no human fore.
sight could guard. While the nation awards
cheerful honors to the living, she will ever
hold in grateful remembrance the memory of
the gallant and lamented dead who periled
their lives for their country, and died in her
cause.
To you and the brave officers and sailors of
your squadron, who participated in this great
achievement, the department tenders its thanks
and those of the government and country.
Very respectfully, &C.,
GIDEON WELLEs
Secretary of the Navy.
Rear-Admiral David G. Farragut. Command
ing &c.
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reason why Mcclellan, our best General, has
been retired for two years, was because the Ad.
ministration feared he might win greater honor
and be chosen by grateful people for the Pres
idepcy. The people have seen this and known
it all the time. Under this two years ban OF
the Administration, the conduct of Mcclellan
has been such as to win him hosts of friends.
He has committed no act, uttered no word to
offend the most exacting.
Dillon O'Brien was next called out MIR. o.
Brien said he had not been a party man or o
politician. He had no party ties to warp his
Judgment. Had he hungered after the flesh
pots of Egypt, he would have needed no Union
ticket to bridge his way into the Administra-
ton ranks. He might, perhaps have went his
way to pick the crumbs from Abraham's
loaded table to the music of Here the loyal
Irish patriot comes" He had not relied upon
his own judgment in choosing sides, but had
taken Washington farewell address for his text
book, in the warning against sectional parties,
&c. Mr.. O'Brien continued in forcible and
elegant argument, illustrated by passages of
rare eloquence, and showed the utter failure of
Mr.. Lincoln and his Administration. The YER
dict which the people are ready to utter against
Mr.. Lincoln depends now, he said, not so much
upon the acts of Mr.. Lincoln as upon the ac-
ton of the Chicago Convention. Mr.. Lincoln
and his Cabinet have frequently shown that
low cunning which is the common attribute of
little minds, but never more than in Mr.. VAL
landigham's return to the States. I tell you
they expect him to do them good service at
the Chicago Convention with his cry for peace
above all things. The people will have no such
thing. They expect the Democratic platform
to declare for the Union above all things. Let
the Convention give such platform and Nc
Clellan for candidate and the country is saved.
Gen. Mcclellan, by his dignihed silence during
the two years in which the Administration has
assailed him through all its channels of abuse,
has shown himself well fitted to govern. He
has shown the highest attribute of a nations
leader in his governing himself under such
trying circumstances. He has waited till the
people could right him, and now they will
right him at the ballot box
Mr.. O'Brien was applauded frequently and
received a very hearty round at his closing elo.
quent appeal to all to unite in trying to save
the Union and the blessings it has given us I'M
der the Constitution of our fathers.
At the close of Mr.. O'Brien's remarks, list
of delegates to Chicago was proposed and
adopted by unanimous vote, as follows:
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Boors AND SHOES. Gotzian. on
Jackson street, has just returned from the East with
very large stock of Boots and Shoes of all kinds
everybody in need of the above articles is invited
to give him call and see for themselves.
Country Merchants will find it for their advantage
to give him call when in the city, as he is prepared
to supply their wants. Orders promptly attended TO-
august 10, 1864. aug16.1stbn 3td&w
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Democratic District Convention.
Second Senatorial District.

The delegates elected to attend the Demo-
cratic District Convention for the Second
Senatorial District are requested to meet at
Holcombe's Hall in the city of Saltwater,
Mimi, on Thursday the LIST day of September,
1864, at one o'clock P. NJ, to nominate one
Senator and two Representatives to the Legis-
lature. The counties are entitled to the follow
ing number of delegates Washington, 9 ;
Chisago, s. Pine, L; Kanabec, /.
By order of the District Committee.
August IS, 1864.
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ABOUT RAILROADs.-Ift the friends of the
Minnesota Valley Railroad want to know what
Others think of the trade of the Valley, let
them visit Mendoza and the Minnesota
Central landing on the Minnesota Just
above, and see what preparations the Mime
sofa Central company are making for that
trade. We suppose st. Paul has an important
interest in the subject, and we know of no way
to protect that interest more efficient than to
hasten the building of the Valley Road, as well
as the Superior and another down the Missis-
sippi, each of which will serve her in retaining
her importance as the market OF the Minnesota
Valley
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PATENT OFFICE

NATIONAL PATENT OFFICE
New York, Patent Soliciting House and Patent
Commission House combined.
SOLICITING.-This Company will act as Attor-
neys for securing Patents for new Inventions in this
country and in Europe on the most reasonable terms
conduct Infringement Cases, and procure Renewals
OUR EXHIBITION ROOMS AND SELLING
DEPARTMENT.-We respectfully submit to the
public that ours s the only Responsible Soliciting
House in the world that has an Exhibition Room
and an EFFICIENT and SUCCESSFUL selling denartment
attached. On Patents taken out by u.s. we rsouire No
Advance Fee for selling.
We are in Regular Communication with UPWARDS
OF $50 Patent Sellers throughout the country who
depend wholly for their supply of Patents upon MS
Our Exhlbitlon Rooms corner of Broadway and Bar
clay street. In the very heart and centre of the cty
are daily visited by numbers of Capitalists and men
OF Enterprise seeking investments in valuable PAT
ents Tor the purpose of reseling in subdivisions
while other and heavier Capitalists are ALWAYS ready
to purchase useful Patent and engage in its manu-.
facture, and thus secure lucrative mOnopOlv These
sources of demand that are daily augmentlng are
fully sufficient to absorb the entire supply of Patents
that are now being issued and THAT AT FAIR PRICES
Consignments Of Patents for sale are respectfully
Solicited Any information free. Responsible Agents
wanted in every county and town. who have fixed
places of business To such we will pay $50 per
quarter, and eight per cent on all sales to act as
per day. of the models of such Patents as may be
placed in their hands for sale. To good Statesmen
VINO Will give their whole time to the business, we
will pay $SS per month. Also, Travelling Agents
wanted at fair salary.
Agents will be required to gre some satisfactory
security or deposit the cost prlte OF models, which
will be refunded when returned
~ Address, enclosing stamp.
SNYDER Il WALTERS.
No. 229 Broadway.
REFERENCES:
We, the undersigned doing business in New Yor,
CITY, do authorize Joseph s. Walters and G.. H Snv
der. Comprising the firm of the National Pateyt
Office to refer to u.s. and believe they win condnct
their business upon stvictly honorable Dric;oIee
New York February 20, 1864
JOSEPH MoKEWAAN, ESQ.,, Importer, IS Maiden
W. L TAYLOR, ESQ.,, Banker, 7s Wall street New
cH I8Ia IS Il; VOORHEES, ESQ.,, Banker. 4s Pine
street, New York City. D'AA'i' 10 LIE
SHEPHERD, SEWARD & CO.. Imnor+ers e14
Pearl street, New York City. '' -'
Green, New York City. "o"nns
JOHN w: K1HbI, Esq. Metropolitan Bank 1os
br0a1M1y, New York City.
d; AHraOh Esq, Director British and American
E NacnaVnge Hanking Corporation, 6s wall street
H; DAWES s1fTH. Esq, Chemical Bank corner
b Broaawsy and Chambers street. New York City.
ma1'n ~ ioo4. married., eod&w1y
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IHE Misunderstanding harvest time
our local market has shown but little activity
and scarcely any change in prices. OF some
articles our wholesale dealeis are nearly sold
out, the scarcity of dry and salt fish being
particularly noticed. Produce shows no
change, and nothing doing. The grain buyers
are waiting for the new crop and, unable to
make shipments, care little about buyinp
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The Fire Department Association has
made an investment of 800 in the city seven
per cent bounty bonds. The Managers of the
Association exercised their usual good judg-
ment and represented the public spirit Of the
members in the act.
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In this city, on Sunday afternoon, August 21st,
1904, SAhAH ELIZABETH, only daughter of Will
nam ~ and Janet Bishop, aged Q years, months
August 29d, DORA c., youngest daughter of Fer
dinand and Clara Willius, aged months
On Saturday, August Goth, of dysentery, LILLE
LOUISE daughter Of Alveran and Louise J. Allen,
aged year and 6 months
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MINNESOTA CENTRAL RAILRoAD.-The

MINNESOTA CENTRAL RAILRoAD.-The
grading upon this road from Chestnut street,
including the filling of ground for station
house and shops, is nearly completed to the
river crossing, distance of over two miles and
half. The grading is, a large part of the way,
of double width. AS the track is to run along
under the bluff the excavation and filling,
though requiring the moving of great deal
of earth and rock, was all short work. In
some places the excavations have uncovered
limestone of the best quality, in large detached
masses. Sufficient of this has been quarried
to lay the foundations of the buildings. and
furnish good part of the building stone. Two
large rocks that have been unearthed. each
about four feet thick and sixteen feet square
are standing on edge short distance above
Chestnut street, awaiting their turn to be SUBJ
ject to the operations of drills and powder.
Messrs. Smith & Kittredge, contractors for
the pile driving, yesterday fioated their new
steam pile driver up to the location of the
bridge, and will commence their work TODAY.
They have to drive about twenty-five hundred
piles. The bridge is to be built on eight stone
piers, each of which will be laid on piles driven
as far as possible and sawed off few feet be-
low low water line-the sawed tops of the
piles with timbers laid on them forming the
foundation of the stone piers.
The company is also prosecuting the work
OF grading on the opposite side of the river
from this city to Mendoza, besides employing
large forces of laborers upon the main line and
in the construction of depot grounds, ware
houses, &C., on the Minnesota River, near
Mendoza
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A LARGE RAFr.-The first large raft of
sawed lumber for two or three seasons, is be-
ing collected near Stewards Mill to be foated
to Burlington, Iowa. It is the property of
Sumner Farnham, Esq, Of st. Anthony, and
will contain over 10000 feet of assorted
lumber.
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MARRIED..
DIED.

On the 10th inst, at Calvary Church, Phiadelphia.
1 ~ Tue Ic,, Rev. louis Il. Fox, ROBERT ORMSBY
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FINANCIAL.
New York Money Marke

co NEw YORK, August 23, 1S64-6P.M
,sS IIcID-Firmer, opening at 2571(, advancing to
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Col. Mulligan's Diary.

From the Richmond Dispatch. Aug.
The diary of Gen. Mulligan, who was killed
at Kernstown, is a valuable record, and we
hope will be kept as a precious memento of
this war. His dependency about the war and
conquering the South is quite pithily expressed
in the last entry made by him on the day of
battle; swell, said he I" our cause is gloomy;
we will conquer the South about the time the
Jews all return to Jerusalem!"
Gen. Mulligan left in black and white his OBJ
inion of Gen. Hunter. He calls him .'fiend -
He 'blushed for his country for keeping such
a tiend in the service" Hunter is fiend. He
is said to be a Virginian, and we are not sur
prised at his depravity; for Virginian that
turns against his mother must be very bad
man. We are never astOnished at any crime
that Virginia traitor is guilty Of But who
is, or was Mulligan, that he could feel indigna.
ton at the brutalities of Federal General to
wards Southerners He was hardly Yankee,
and could not possibly have been Puritan.
He was either an Irishman or the son of one
He had somewhat of magnanimity and human
ity, and not particle of either could enter the
Puritan heart. Peace to the ashes of General
Mulligan! He was that rare man in the Yam
kee army-a generous adversary
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THEGovERNMENT LoANs.-Subscriptions
to the 7-3O and 1O-4O Government bonds. at the
First National Bank Of st. Paul, during the
past week, amounted to $41, 500, considers
BILE increase over preceding weeks, showing
the growing favor in which these securities are
held by capitalists.
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The MISSISSIPPI DRYING UP.-The river
is at this time lower than it has ever before
been since the first steamboat landed at Fort
Smelling. In 1913, a part Of the season, we
are informed no boats could get up here but
then the boats were of heavier draught than
the light boats that are being used this season,
while an old pilot who got IagrOund several
times that season in taking couple tons of
freight down river in a batteau, asserts to us
that there was more water then except on Ka.
posia bar, than now. This season Newport
bar has proved the chief obstruction to naviga-
ton, though, at the present time, there is not
more than twenty inches of water for One-sixth
of the way between this city and Hastings. At
Newport bar there is only sixteen inches of
water and the river is yet falling. Of course,
steamboating is not very profitable to owners
or pleasant to crews and passengers in such a
season. The Winona Republican is responsible
for the story that the boats in some places be-
tween Winona and this city are obliged to blow
their whistles to drive the cattle out of the
Channel. Between this city and Hastings every
day tor the last two weeks, the boats have run
through herds of cattle standing in the river,
but we have not yet learned of collision hav-
ing taken place or any serious danger of boats
being thrown from the track by running into
the cattle The animals seem rather more
afraid OF the boats in water than of cars on
| land.
The railroad lines are doing the best they
can, acting in concert, for the accommodation
of the travelling public. Yesterday a small boat
was sent down to connect with the Mollie
Mohler ct Newport bar, and, with number 81
the smallest boats to use the ageots of the line
feel confident of keeping up communication
without vexatious delays to passengers. Ir
case their boats fail to come in so as to 90 ON
in time, the passengers will be sent down b,
STAGE to connect with them at Hastings. III;
boats will leave hereafter at about one o'clocl
each day.
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HE STEAMBOAT L1NEs.-During the
present low stage of the river the Albany will
leave st. Paul, daily, at II o'clock A. NJ, with
mails and passengers for both packet COM
panies, connecting with the G. H. Gray and
Mollie Mohler at Newport bar. The packet
companies will spare no effort to get passen-
gers through with as little delay as possible,
and the travelling public is indebted to their
liberal enterprise for continuance of steam
boating when the wear and tear of boats and
expense of running makes it impossible that
the business should be more than paving.
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MINNESOTA CENTRAL.-A flying trip alon

MINNESOTA CENTRAL.-A flying trip along
part of the heavy work of this company adds
to our impression of the energy with which it
is pushing its work. The ground for station
and shop buildings at Minneapolis has all been
neatly graded, and some of the buildings are
now nearly completed. The depot grounds
and buildings there are located so as
to promise one of the cleanest AID roomiest
stations in the country. The companys build
ings at Minneapolis will all be of stone, sub
stantial, and neatly finished The buildings at
Mendoza are to be of frame. These are sta
ton house in the village and large freight
house on the company's dock half mile above
the mouth OF the Minnesota. The contractor
Mr.. Fitz, is now engaged in taking the timbers
for these buildings from the water, and will
soon commence their erection. The buildings
at Minneapolis are to consist, we believe, of
passenger, freight and engine houses and ma
chine shops. We propose to visit them some
OF these days and gather full description.
The heavy grading from the bluff be
low Fort Smelling to the Minnesota is
being finished at lively rate since the con-
tractor few weeks ago laid a temporary iron
track and put on larger number of dirt cars.
Track laying from Mendoza south has been
prosecuted as fast at the iron could be got up
from below. In fact. the whole work of the
company is going on finely. If there is any
delay in opening the road to Mortified at the
time heretofore published it will only be on
account of the great difficulty attending the
transportation of their iron from La Crosse
this low water season.