Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-18
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persons, nearly all cotton dealers. 1t was
sold at gold rates, and the prices obtained
for Savannah were estimated to be, quality
considered, not far from five cents per pound
higher than at the auction sales of Georgia
and New Orleans cotton lastweek. Middling
fair cotton brought Al; strict middlings 400;
strict low middling S9l, and ord;"ary from
Sj4 to S7l-
IN TOWN.
NFw YORK, October 1.-THE Worlds
| Washington special says Maj. Gen. Hovey,
his final instructions before leaving for
Peru.
LIEUT.. COL, wOoJEY.
Lieut.. Col. Wooley, who has been for the
past two years Provost Marshal of Baltimore,
has been breveted Brig. Gen., and is now
Provost Marshal Of the middle military de-
partment
COTTON.
The Times says the Commissioner of Ag-
riculture has issued circular to the Assist
ant Assessor requesting the name of every
person, firm or company engaged in the
manufacture of cotton in its various
branches, IN order that circulars may be
issued to such manufacturers with reference
to an accurate and full account of the
amount of cotton used by them, the object
being to encourage farmers to increase the
culture of cotton in the Southern States, as
it is a m tier of high Importance to the in
dustrial interests of the country.
ASYLUM MEETING.
Strenuous efforts are being made to secure
a quorum meeting of the corporators of the
National Military and Naval Asylum, to
take place at the Smithsonian Institute on
the 18th inst, Wednesday. Such assurances
have been given as to lead to the belief that
a quorum of fifty members will be obtained
at this meeting.
RAILROAD STOCK SALE. s5sz rz
The Tribunes special says the Govern
ment is now selling off all its rolling stock
used on military railroads. Locomotives
sold at Portsmouth last week, at auction,
averaged $4,000 each, and 1000 tons rail-
road iron have been sold for S77 per ton.
BANK NOTE PAPER.
The Herald's special, speaking of the ad-
vance in the price of bank note paper, says
the amount of Bank note paper used in the
Treasury Department for bond, note, and
revenue stamp printing is prodigious. A
heavy advance is insisted on by the manu-
facturers, and this has caused the Depart
ment to open its eyes, and look about for re-
lief Two or three parties enjoy the mon
opoly of the bank note paper business.
Superintendent DeFrees of the Public
Printing Office, who uses up vast quantities
of news and book paper, has also been
forced to submit to large advance in the
price of white paper. --. ~.
The Treasury authorities have been cogi-
tating, since the rise, over the project of
building paper mill, at Great Falls on the
Potomac, twelve miles from the city. 1t is
estimated that it could be built in six months
Rags could be impoIted from Mediterranean
markets, and plenty Of paper made cheaper
than at New England prices.
STATE OF THE RIVER.
PGrTsBURGH, October I7-There are twenty
inches of water in the channel by the new
pier mark or glass house, and falling very
slowly.
sPELLING-BOOKs.
New YORK, October 1.-THE Houston,
Texas, Telenraph says that more than half
the spelling-boo sold in Houston are in
the hands of the negroes, and several schools
for colored persons. are in operation in Gal
vestion. Many planters buy a stock of
school-books for schools on plantations,
which are not unfrequent
EMIGRATION.
New York, October 1.-THE Worlds
Olly OF MeAlCO lelleT bd ls -ludI hdAlD1lllldu
has issued decree authorizing and encour-
aging emigration to Mexico. The order says
that Mexico is open to emigration to all ma
tions. Agents will be appointed who will
be paid by the state, and whose duty it will
be to promote the convenience of emigrants,
and to put them IN possession of the lands
them, and to facilitate their settle
ment on them by every means in their
power. They will receive their orders from
an Imperial Commissioner of Emigration,
and to whom all communitions relative to
emigration must be addressed. To each
will be issued an authentic title
Of land property, and a certificate that said
is free from notifications. This
property will be exempt from taxes, as
well as from the payment of duty to the
transfer of possessions, but only on the first
sale. Emigrants can be naturalized as soon
as they are settled as colonists. Emigrants
who desire to bring with them or to intro
duce laborers in considerable numbers, are
authorized to do it, but these laborers will
be subject to an especial protective regula-
lation.
RThe household goods of emigrants, their
animals for labor and stock, seeds, tools, ma
chimes and implements of industry, will
enter free Of custom house and transit du
ties. 'a
Emigrants will be exempted from mill
tary duty during five years, notwithstand-
ing they will be formed into fixed militia
for the protection of their property. Liberty
IN the exercise of their form of worship is
assured to them.
In conformity with the organization of
the empire decree regulating labor, the
Emperor says, agreeably to the laws, all
men of color are free by the simple act of
setting their feet on Mexican territory. The
;vstem is arranged similar to the coolie sys-
tenn in Cuba and elsewhere, and is evidently
designed to encourage the Importation Of
coolies. Laborers are bound to their em-
Dloyers for a term OF years, and banks are
where their earnings can be de-
posted.
THE FIRE IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, October 1.-THE loss by the
FIRE last night was about SS5,00O. The
sufferers are the St. Louis Rail-
road Company S3l 900, insured for $1,000
J. II. Talbot, Pacific Mills, $4,000, insured
for $4,000; j. H. Morris, lumber dealer,
$50, 900, fully insured; Armstrong $4,000, no
Galen Eastman, $1,000, fully in
sured. ...,
WASHINGTON, October I7.-At public sale
Of rolling stock at Alexandria, Va, to-day,
by COIonel hOOlnsOn,tn locomotive General
9. R. Robinson, brought SI6,5OO; General
Crouch, SIG, ,l30; General Sickles, $4,000;
General Meade, S12, 800; and General Couch,
$4,000. These engines cost the Government
about two years ago, 1000 each. The
freight cars and shout 1,5OO tons of railroad |
ron were sold. The cars averaged about
1854 each. The latter were bought by the
Baltimore Ohio, Northern Central, Phila-
lelphia & Cincinnati, and Erie &Pittsburgh
Railroad Companies.
CONFEDERATE COTTON LOAN. !
The publication of the list of the princi-
pal owners of the shares of the Confederate
Loan, has, it appears, created much excite
ment in England, and calls forth several
ln,,inls n- "a i4s f,.I,fh Whatevar ncnI1rs Il