Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1864-1869, 1865-11-25
News Items.

Inc hrsg cotton manuiaCturv in Cali.
fornia is Just finished, and will get its raw
material from the Mexican States, for tho
present nj least. Successful experiments
in cotton raising on large scale have
been made this season in Southern Cali
fonia, There iso great sugar refinery
established in San Francisco, dawing its
materials for refining from the Sandwich
Islands.
Mr.. y. R. Timby, Of this place, acien
tidc gentleman, and well known inyen-
tor, has shown US new discovery of bis
for using the impure and aaheaiihy at
m02DhGlc O8iy Of a room, for supporting
combustion in coal burning stoves. His
motboI is simple and perfectly practicable.
It's Importance is too obvious to require
comment. Smatogian,
Now counterfeit "iftics" Of tho United
States legal tender notes are being circu.
Iatod, and the public is cautioned to keep
q lookout for them.
letter from a correspondent with tho
Northwestern Indian Commission, states
that the tribes beyond Fort Sully arc near
" lamished, and all are anxious to make
peace, except one branch Of the Sioux, who
! have taken refuge in British territory.
| Th, census report for 1860 is nearly
completed, under charge Of Judge Ed
monds. of the general land Office, and will
bo printed and ready for diSributon,when
Congress meets
Major John Haddock, Assistant Provost
] Marshal for the Western District OF New
| York, has been tried by court martial for
malIeasance in Office, and sentenced to five
years Imprisonment and to pay inO of
ten thousand dollars.
The Fouians are said to be very aelivo
in Canada. The "Ordor" has Lodges, or
"Cent.rs,n scattered all through the Pro.
ynccs. and it is thought in Canada that il
any real mischief against the British Gov
ernment is mcditated the British Pro.
vlncos, and not Ireland, will be the intia-
tory scene Of operations.
Major General McCook has resigned his
commission in tho army, and identified
himself with Buuorfold's Overland Dis
patch Company,
Tho estimates Of tho Secretary Of tho
Navy last year were one hundred and thir.
Inv nine millions of dollars, They have
been cut down for the coming fiscal year
to thirty millions.
Tho finder Of tho reoontly-discovcrod
statue Of Hercules, at Rome, presented it
to the Pope, who allotted him pension Of
two thousand five hundred crowns, and
presented him with u gold snuif-box, in
! which was. not snuff, but one thousand
gold crowns, cnvcloped in titlo deed,
9 comforting the title Of Marquis on himself
. and descendants.
In the report mado by Captain J. NJ
e Moore. who was sent to AndorsOnyille ia
e marx the graves Of the Federal prisoners
{ he states that he has recognized and placed
9 propor tablets at the head Of twelve thou
s sand four hundred and sixty-one graves
+, leaving but four hundred and Gfty.On,
y "unknown,"
= Postmaster General Dennison authorize
= the contradiction Of the statement tina
q there will bo deficit of eight millions 0
dollars, when all Of tho Southern mai
y service is resumed, The contracts are be
II ING made at forty per cent. less rates thar
" those made previous to the rebellion
K which will make the service self-sustain
~ ing.
!. Six thousand acres of land in Arkansa
m bclongine to General Gideon }. Pillow
NJ whiob has been held as abandoned pro
M nortv. for somo time past, by the Govern
at mont, has been restored to its origina
lk owner
at BierstadPs great painting, the "Rock
d, Mountains" has been sold for $4,000
ly Tbis is larger sum than has ever bee
lis rsolized by an American, if not by mo
r. dcrn. artist, for n single work. Church
IA oHeart of the Andcsn would doubles
ly bring as much, were the painter to con
ot sent to mart with it. Tho purshaser
be the former was James McIIenry, Esq
Liverpool, one Of the capitalists who late
" visited ST. Louis.
~ ~ According to the Washington Chronc
an the entire mail service in Texas is to
to to restored Immediately by a competent COZ
NV tractor,
N Humphrey Marshall intends to bccor
. member Of the New Orleans bar /
will certainly add great'r 'r'i9ht to IT.