Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1864-1869, 1865-12-02
News Items.

As the city Of Richmond is about to be
turned over from the military to the civil
authorities, the local newspapers call upon
citizens to aid in the enforcement Of the
laws.
Mobile papers complain that mail ar
rongements are still very imperfect. News
papers from Chicago arc received by ex-
press four days ahead Of the mail bags.
1t 10 stated that Gen 0rtega, is about
to leave New York for Mexico, to assume
the administration of tho government as
the constitutional successor Of Juarez.
Extensive Goldfish banks have been dis
covered in the Sea Of 0chotsk, and vessels
are being sent from San Francisco and
other Pacific ports.
In London, on tho 10th inst, goods
train was blown two miles through pnsu-
matte tube in about five minutes. Tho
Duke Of Buckingham and several directors
Of tho company were blown through in the
same length Of time. Additional lengths
Of tubing are about to be opened. A cir
cular disc or fan twenty two feet in dia-
meter is made TO rovolve rapidly by steam
power, and can bo used either for pro-
pellng the laden tains by atmospheric
pressure behind them, or for drawing them
back through the tube by forming a par
tial vacuum before them.
A Calcutta letter Of August l6 speoks
Of large prospective decline in tho pro.
duction Of Indian cotton. In the north.
western provinces not half the area will
be sown, with cotton, which was covered
with itlast year. The sudden drop in
prices lHst October has destroyed nil that
newborn confidence which it took three
seasons to create.
The shipments Of the Marquette (Lako
Superior) iron trade for the present year
to the Goth Of July, were 90,S33 tons of
ore and 1858 tong of pig iron; and tho
product for the remainder Of the year will
be about the same making in ronnI
numbers 100000 tons of ore, and 10000
tons Of pig iron,
According to q statement publisbod i,
London, the shipments this year Of snecio
to the East fall short Of the shipmants
during the same period in 1864 fnino
months) by more than u millions gterlinS
viz, to Alexandria, less SO far in lSG3a
Gl,O00 1000; to India, fl0,OOO, 700; to China
GlO00,OOO. To other unimpOrtant plnoos
tho export appears to havo bosn about
equal to that Of last year.
A beautiful bark Of about $40 tons, fo,
the London Missionary Society, wos
launched at Aberdeen, Scotland n fow
days ago, called the John Williams, TO bs
employed mainly among the South San
Islands.
Ben Holiday denies that the overland
coaches have ceased running on account
Of Indian dcprodationS.
Artomus Ward, Snowman, il ,oid IA
have received 100000 a rich npcls
lately deceased in London.
A Montreal correspondent Of Lo Gam.
dien imparts tho following dctails.-"Tb,
children Of Jefferson Davis have been for
some time in Canada, as is well known
The two boys are just now in Chsmbly.
and about to enter LennoxviIlO College,
The young girl, nino years of age, ia A
pupil at the convent Of the Sacred iIoart.
Sautau Recollcts. Last Sabbath, several
Southern refugees wentto see her."
A squirrel slaughter at Whately, Mass.
on the Goth, resulted in the death Of about
5000 squirrels or their equivalent in yari.
} Gus kinds ofgAmo. The party numbered
% gunSmen.
Tho Richmond Wing says that parti.s
are in negotiation for the purchase Of
Dutch Gap Canal, for the purpose of wi
dening and deepening it, and making il
available for tho passage Of steamers and
vessels, toll to be exacted in considera.
tion Of the seven miles Of travel which n
cuts of.
Major Lamb, Norfolk, who commanded
Fort Fisher when it was taken by our for
ces, has been in Providence, X, l., for
: some weeks. The mimic bali that he 70.
+. coived in his hip during the struggle at
. Fort Fisher has been extracted by sur.
gcon Of that city.
The rebel General Simon Bolivar Buck.
y ner has turned editor, and assumed charge
Of tho New 0rlean Crescent,