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and the obscuration d merely temporary. Be
fore long we expect to see it dispersed and
succeeded by the most hopeful sunshine
Already we perceive in the Southern States
the unmistakable evidences Of returning
prosperity. The railroads are being rapidly
rebuilt A day or two ago we published list
of these roads and statement of the progress
made upon them Mail communications are
being re-established, and this is, Of itself, .
most important agency of restoration. Adver-
tisements sent from the South again appear in
our columns and show that business is reviv-
ing. Every day we receive letters from former
subscribers to this journal asking for their
newspaper again. There could be no surer
sign of life than this anxiety for the news this
interest in what is going on in the world.
Neither do men destitute of means and OF good
business prospects pay cash in advance for .
daily journal Besides all this, we are informed
that the Southern crops are well sOwn and that
the coming harvest will be abundant Large
quantities Of cotton are awaiting transporter
ton to market, and the sales OF
government steamers will supply this de-
mand Numbers Of Northern men-mostly
discharged soldiers-are emigrating or
preparing to emigrate to the Southern States.
Quite number of companies have organized
or are organizing to develop the mineral re-
sources of that section Of the country. When
such gentlemen as Major General Dix are in
terested in these companies we cannot doubt
that they will add greatly to the wealth Of the
South, and increase her value to the Union.
All these things, we submit, are the signs of a
true progress and the promise of magnificent
future. Under the cloud is a sure prosperity
which cannot be long delayed Instead Of lis
tening to the complaints and the growis of dis
appointed rebels and abolitonists, we prefer to
look st tss ma.sria! syja2asss q the regeners.
lion Of the Southern people. Those men who
are reconstructing the South, commercially and
financially, are too busy to make speeches or
write for the newspapers. We do not hear from
them; but we see that they are hard at work.
By and by, when their labors are accomplished,
they will tell US that the bitterest opposition
which they have had to encounter has come
from the very soreheads, North and South, who
are now complaining that nothing has been
done, or that everything has been done
wrongly. ~~>S'"'ss'e
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the negro question for the present in the hands
of President johnson. who no doubt. in his
own quiet way, will settle those matters
satisfactorily 10 the people, and at once
apply their attention 10 the condition OF
our financial affairs, in order that they
may go into the halls of Congress in December
next prepared to legislate upon so vital ques-
ton. and fully competent to afford all neces-
sary relief to our struggling country. They
should take some of their lessons from history,
in order that they may avoid the difficulties
which other nations encountered in times past
in enieavoring to restore their dilapidated
monetary systems to sound basis. 1t took the
British government ten years after the close Of
the NapOleOnic war to place herselfin healthy
financial condition, and to bring her currency
to the specie standard, during which time she
brought ruin upon thousands of her most enter
prising citizens and endangered her national
existence. This young giant of republic, with
its countless wealth and numberless resources,
under proper guidance, can accomplish the task
in one quarter of the time, without crippling its
commercial interest to any alarming extent, and
without more than barely producing ripple
upon the surface of our great and growing trade
But our leading men must take hold of the
matter with proper understanding and with
disinterested motives. II they continue to deal
with minor questions, or permit the negro to
engross their attention, in order to make politi-
cal capital for themselves or their party, there
will be no hope for the country, and we must
prepare for collapse which will be far greater
in its direful consequences than that which
wrought such widespread ruin and bloodshed
in England in 1919, and produced such COM
mercial distress in 1925. In such an event the
negroes of the South would necessarily be de-
prived Of government aid, and all the efforts Of
the Chase radicals t9 elevate that class to the
standard Of white men would not unlikely end
in instruction and the probable determination
Of the race. We call upon the President and
upon those men who are about to assume the
control of the affairs of the nation to give this
not improbable picture due consideration.
Let us now look at our situation. Our ma
tional indebtedness has already reached the
enormous proportions of nearly three thousand
millions of dollars, and before the war claims
are all settled we will have two thousand FIVE
hundred millions Of debt, upon which the credi-
tors will demand an annual interest at the pre-
sent rate of one hundred and ffty-ive millions,
and volume of currency looking to the gov
eminent for redemption, aggregating seven
hundred millions more What then will be our
annual expenses We will estimate them for
the present fiscal year, compared with the
actual outlay for the year Immediately preced-
;no tho war f-., ls.st
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The Condition OF the Southern States
Better Times Coming.

The Condition OF the Southern States
Better Times Coming.
The South is now under cloud. Devastated
by the civil war into which her leading men
plunged the country, she finds upon the return
Of peace that her social system is disorgan.
lied; her institution of slavery abolished; the
best of her young men either killed or Grip
pied; her agriculture abandoned, and her trade
commerce and manufactures totally democrat.
lied. These are the results Of the attempt to
dissolve the Union, and they carry their own
lesson with them. 1t will be we'll for the men
of the South if they learn this lesson thoroughly.
Bad as their situation now is, they may con-
graduate themselves that the war has ended
by the restoration Of the Union. The Union
means reorganization, and reorganization means
renewed prosperity. Better the present cloud,
with the sure prospect Of bright and happy
future, than that kind Of Southern independ-
ence which is in reality submission to foreign
dictati0n.
II is not, perhaps, to be wondered at that the
politicians and disappointed leaders Of the re-
bellion at the South do not take kindly to the
new order of things. They are the men who
suffered least from the war which they pro-
voked. While the rebellion lasted, they had
certain sort Of power, and now that they are
suddenly turned out Of power by the re-estab-
lishment ofthe Union, they are discontinued and
they grumble. II is these men, rather than the
masses Of the Southern people, who are making
all the trouble In the South, and who are dill.
gently obstructing the work Of reorganization.
They have control Of the Southern newspapers,
both the old and the new, and of course we
are favored with their opinions upon all
the questions at issue. But for their opin-
ions wc care nothing They are no longer
representative Southern men. Still, they
are asssted-as they always were, before
and during the rebellion--by certain portion
of the Northern press, which is continually
grooming and croaking about the condition Of
the negro, and which would have us believe
that the South is a pandemonium into which
no Northern man, and especially no Union
man, can safely venture. We know, however,
that such representations are utterly false. We
give no credence either to the grumblings of
disappointed rebel leaders or to the croakings
of their allies, the Northern abolitonists. The
South IL under q cloud, IL is true; but that
cloud u hy no means 90 black o. thev paint IL
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Our Financial Condition and Prospects.
The Treasury Department has just published
q statement of the national debt dated July
81, which shows the total amount registered at
that date to have been $2,757 ,253,275. This is
an increase of only sl22,O47 ,522 since the pub
LEGATION Of the previous statement, on May 81;
but some allowance must be made for the I'M
usually large "amount In the Treasury" of
SIG, 1852, which is deducted from the to-
tai Of the debt which would otherwise
be $2,S73,992,907. The non-publicaton Of
this statement last month led to apprehen-
sions that the condition Of the Treasury
was more unfavorable than 1t is now
shown to be. 1t must not, however, be sup
posed that the maximum Of the public indebted
ness has been already reached. On the con-
trary, large amount has yet to be added to
the acknowledged total before US A multi
tude of claims have to be adjusted, and mean
while the current expenditures will continue far
in excess Of the receipts from revenue. We see
as yet no prospect or even the possibility, of a
contraction Of our paper money system; but, on
the contrary, steady imitation is going forward.
The present debt statement shows an increase
In the currency Of about twenty-seven millions
Of dollars during the last two months, exclu-
sive OF the national bank issues which have
at the same time been adding to the volume
afoat at the rate of three millions per week.
The condition Of our monetary affairs Is
indeed becoming with each succeeding day
more and more complicated, and the
denser the clouds, which are gathering
over our financial system, become, the
less attention the subject seems to receive
tighten the burden under which we are now
laboring, and to strive to avert the difficulties
that are impending The reconstruction of the
Southern States and the amelioration of the
condition Of the unhappy negroes that consti-
tute so large proportion Of the population Of
that section, are Of course desirable objects
which engender hopes for speedy consumma-
ton. But there are other questions which just
now are Of equal Importance TO the welfare of
the country, by far the most momentous of
which is our financial condition and prospects.
Financiers and commercial men are becom-
ing alarmed at the course which the leading
politicians are pursuing. While the country is
standing upon the brink Of financial collapse,
we find our representative men entirely alb
sorbed in the negro question, part clamoring
for universal suffrage and others combating the
issue, without needing for moment the danger
Gus fiscal situation into which we have already
drifted. II is the duty of the members elect to
Congress, and we feel inclined TO press IL upon
them. TO leave the restoration Of the South and
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

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Country subscribers toSthe Nsw YORK HERALD
questsd remit their subscriptions, whenever pract
cable by Post ONCE Orders It is the safest mode Of
transmitting money by mail
Advertisements should be sent TO the Office before
O'Clock in the evening.
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Dsstructien By Fire OF an OIL We'll.
PruoIn. Pa August a 1a6S

Well No 10, United States farm, on Pthole creek,
destroyed by nrs about seven o'clock this evening
The we'll finished yesterday and was flowing about
two hundred barrels and no tanks being up the oil was
allowed to now on the ground Some twenty persons
standing in and around the derrick, Of whom
IL Is feared were unable 10 escape, for the ground
for forty feet around one sheet Of flame In mo-
ment Three men are known 10 DO seriously burned.
and only saved their lives BY jumping into tae creek
Tha vol N slu flowing end burninA
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A Case Deserving Sympathy and Ala
TO THE nDIroR or THE HERALD.

Nsw YoRR, August 3. 1853.
poor blind woman widow, sent her son. the sole
support Of herself and daughter, 70 the war He was
discharged u before bis Two years up on account
Of Sickness and so could not get tho bounty This son
has recently died and the poor widow and her daughter
who live al Is Norfolk street. entirely dependent
on charity. Will not some Of your generous readerr
help 10 make up fund for this deceased patriots blind
mother and sister All amounts contributed will be q
knowledged HURST. ~ BroadNAv. rom No IA
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Tue Duty OF THE STATE TO THE MErRopoLp-
The interests of every portion Of this state are
involved in the question Of reform in the gov
eminent Of the city Of New York. When the
metropolis suffers from the evils Of extravagant
government, the whole State must be affected,
for the metropolis is the centre Of life TO the
State. 1t pays majority Of the taxes. It Is
the great market for the products of all the
counties 1t supplies the interior with labor,
and provides II with consumers. There Is there
fore so close connection between the city and
country districts, from New York bay to Lake
Erie, that IL is manifestly the interest of the en-
tire State to rally around the metropolis in Its
efforts to put stop to official corruption in the
municipal government; and that can best be
done by eecting honest members TO the next
Legislature, and sustaining Governor Fenton
If be Is oulv earnest In bis endeavor 10 afford
us RELIEF
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No one, we think, will pretend that the coun-
try can flourish under this national blessing
of three hundred millions of annual expense,
and the only way to divest ourselves Of such q
pressing load, il, first, to consolidate the debt
second to reduce the interest to three or four
per cent, and then establish permanent sink
ing fund similar 10 that recommended by Will
liam Pitt. who was Chancellor Of the Exche-
quer, to the British Parliament In 1892. Under
such policy we could reduce our debt in ten
or twelve years to little more than eight
hundred millions, large portion Of which
would necessarily be reserved a. basis for the
issues Of the national banks, and the balance
would naturally float upon the market or be Sc
curely held as q safe investment Something
of this kind must be done to reduce the
national expenditures, and il the efforts Of
our present Secretary Of the Treasury to avert
catastrophe and to restore our finances to q
sound condition are properly seconded by
Congress, we have no fears but all will 90 we'll;
otherwise the great national blessing" which
has been forced upon us will be likely, in
the end, to produce national bankruptcy, anan-
cial disorder and commercial ruin.
THR BURNING OF THE GIAsaOv-THE ADM
RABLs MANAGEMENT OF CAPTAIN MANNING IN
REsCUrNd THE PAssENdERs-The steamship
Glasgow was destroyed by fire on the 3lst
ultimo, when two days OF sea. This makes
the twenty steamship destroyed by
Are during the twenty-seven years which have
elapsed since the arrival in 1888, at this port Of
the Sirius, the first stea nship which ever crossed
the Atlantic. When we reflect that since that
time the ocean has been covered by steamers
of various lines, which ply across it with all the
regularity Of our river ferries, as many as four
and five often arriving here in single day. this
average Of a little over one per year, though an
enormous loss in the aggregate, will not appear
very heavy.
In all these cases there is no more remark
able instance Of admirable management and
presence Of mind, under terrible danger and
great responsibility, than the conduct on this
occasion of Captain Henry Manning, the officer
in charge of the burning vessel The positive
and determined manner in which he issued bis
orders gave him complete control over the
passengers, and the great danger in such emer-
gencies, panic, was averted by bis personal
exertions The cool, systematic manner in
which everything was managed, as detailed In
our account published this morning, shows
Captain Manning to be commander of the
very rarest and highest ability; and his example
is one worthy of close study and imitation by
every seaman.
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The Odd Feilows' Conven tion.


The annual Convention Of the Grand Lodge l. O. O. 3
OF the Southern district Of New York assembled accord
ing TO adjournment, at their ball Of Grand ana
Centre Streets at ten O'Clock yesterday morning In
consequence OF the session Of the night previous havne
been protracted to two O'Clock 10 the morning. no QUO
rum was present, and the Convention adjourned y
eight r.
committee having been appointed to supervise III
election the polls were opened at two p NJ and bsots
were received during the afternoon At eight O'Clock
the Convention organized In regular session. and the ba
lots being all received by ten, the polls closed -
that hour The following the officers elected for next
year:-Grand Master John Davies Of Brooklyn; Dep
uty Grand Master, John Medole Of New York; 0rssd
Warden N. Pettt OF New York; Grand Secretary, Do.
Witt Q LAngdon Of Brooklyn; Grand Treasurer, jacob
Russell ~ Assistant Treasurer, Of New York Grind
Representative, Edwin Swanton, Of Brooklyn
Minor business having been disposed or the Conven-
ton adjourned 10 meet to-day for the installation OF he
officers elect and the completion Of the general work
CoScssr Ar GLm Cow. Concerts at the Watering
places are quite 10 vogue this summer We percstvs
that the Bar Brothers. Antonio and Ettore, 70 give
grand concert ct the Pavilion Hotel, Glen Cove. 70
morrow Saturday evening signor Paolcchi, Massss
Afedo Baril and several pupils Of the sgnor Bar viz
assist
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WINTER GARDEN. Broadway. -BARsua's MusEUs
omPAnV. BEAUTY SBvILix-RoBRRr AND BERrEAND-
ic0L0 BROrusRs. Open Day and Evening
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WOODS MINSTREL HALL. 5if Broaivay-ErHorrA'
SosGs DARcks, &c.-HAHpY ASDY-RUSsIsc THE BLocxADG
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MILO GARDEN, Broad~sy.-AaRAs Ma PocuEi or
WiCKa0s W EDDING.
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BROADWAY THEATRE Broadway-JEALous WIRE
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HELLER'S HALL. 5S5 Brosdway.-SAS FRAscisco Mir
rRELs-sErnloPIAS SINGING, DANCING, &c--ARsAH NA
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-04-12
TIM ELY VERSES.

Strike hard the foel with blow for blow
More stouty as he meets you So
Till low your valor lays him;
Then rise ! be great as well as just,
Nor crush brave man in the dust,
But lend hand to raise himl
Strike in way to keep at bay
The foreign medderin our fray,
Whose envy would divide usi
But hold when he would make amends,
Content with all mea to be friends,
Who wisely stand beside US.
Strike for the right though kindred fight,
Arrayed in arms in latures spite
One foe is kelaaother;
Once victor, act the iero's part,
And nobly spare the vaient heart
Whom nature gave for brotherl
Strike him whose haId would lift the brand
Against the life of laHor land,
Though born otcommon motherI
But yours the 'vantagd stay the blow
Enough to know that e lies low,
And that he is abrother.
oltlhe WIN " III tuo'gn PITY tnrllli
Keep striking tits MS fdtering skill
Betrays the hurt te smothers;
Great nature pleads as ere he'bleeds-
Ellis flesh is yours forge3 his deeds
'Tis God that maddyou brothers |"
Strike then, but hear witt broken spear
The truant, long arms y1ur peer,
Drags home with limbs that fail him:
Sheut victory all nor stint your cheers
Shout but respect his maly tears,
And with welcome hail him
Let blows increase that strife may cease
The shafts of war are winged for peace,
And with dove-piumagAsolely;
A blessing falls on Clasped hands,
And unity the Lord commandsl
And that should makh ilholv.
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Horace Greeley when a Roy.

The. Boston Mail refers to Horace Gree.
ley when an apprentice in country prin.
ting office in Vermont.
On visit connected with political mat.
ters to the Hon. c. Mallory, then one of
the most distinguished members of Con.
gress, and most able champion of the
american System" we went with him
to an obscure printing off i,e in Poultney,
his place of residence Among other
things he called our attention to a YOUNG
composiror, who was extraordinarily stick.
ing types, and who though evidently full
grown was the youngest apprentice in the
office. His legs ran a good deal more than
a "feet" through bis pantaloons-the
sleeves of his coat scarcely reached to
his elbows-his hair was very white and
tiaxen, and he was on the whole, in the
aggregate, taken separately and together
the greenest specimen of humanity we ey.
er looked at-and this is saying great
deal. for we kept a good looking glass
"That boy,.I said Mallory, will make a re.
markab.e man; [ can't hold an argument
with him on masonry or anything else
connected with politics" As Mr.M. was
one of the ablest men in Con.
gress, his remark caused US some surprise
and we not onl " "made a note of it." bu.
took another look at the "devir' printers
we mean) and could not but trace in the
expansive forehead "a mind formed in ma.
tlre's finest mould, and for Immortality
1t was years afterward that we became
aware of the fact that tide boy was Horace
Greeley.
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PETROLEUM SENT ABROAD IN 1864
The export of petroleum the past year
amounted to 2l,28S,49 gallons. There
were sent to Great Britain 6,275, 900
gallons; to France, 1925, 900; Antwerp.
5,l49,OO0 Bremen, OIL 900; Hamburg.
l,l86,OOO; Rotterdam, $4,000; Cron.
stadt, 4OO,OOO; Genoa and Lcghorn,
go ,OoO; Peru, 10000; Lisbon, 167,-
OOO; China and East Indies, $4,000;
Brazil, lag, 900; Mexico, 10000; Cuba,
4l6,O00. In fact it was sent in large
Quantities to nearly every leading port in
the world. Four thousand gallons were
sent to light up the tcmbs of Egypt, and
even Hayti took 1000 gallons. The
National IatelIigomcer remarks that this
new product fills the void in our cotton
expectations.
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Pension Bounty and War Claim
Agency.

DENSTONS procured for soldiers of the
IL present war who are disabled by reason of
wounds received or disease contractracted
while in the service of the United States and
pensions, bounty and arrears of LAY obtained
for widows or heirs of those who have died
or been killed while in service. All lette of
inquiry promtly answered, and on receip, ~
mail of a statement of the case Of claimant |
will forward the necessary papers for their
signature. Fees in Pension cases as fixed by
law.
REFERENCES. Isaac BENSON, Hon. A.
g OLMsTBD, J. S. MANN, Esq. F. w. KNOX.
Esq. DANBAKER.
Claim Agent Couderport Pa.
June 8, '64.-1y.
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TERMS $3.50 PER ANNUM.

in New york, Charley Boguet was able to
walk, and the only evidence exhibited Of
the general break up he had received was
slight swing of his left leg in walking.
CharIey's declaration, as be lay there
all in heap on the forecastle, was pro.
phecy; for fifteen years later my father
was buried at sea from the deck of the
Beaver, and Charley Boguet, as chief off.
Ger of the ship, directed the ceremonies,