Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1864-1869, 1865-09-30

| Detroit, 1868 53,2l7
Chicago, lO9,260 207 O66
One Of tho largest and finest rolling
mills in the United States is already in
operation in Chattanooga, Tenn, which
is daily turning out tho best quality Of
railroad iron. A blast furnace is in con-
temptation, and copper rolling mill of
s 100000 capital is soon to be put up in
the ncighborhood.
Anthony TrolIops says, hc knows Of no
hours more terrible than those passed
waiting in railway stations. "Ths
minutes will not 60 away, and utterly fail
in making good their claim to DO called
winged Everything is hidcous, dirty,
dis0greoable; and the mind wanders away,
to consider why station masters do not
more frequently commit suicide.
Punch's cartoon represents flock Of
mermaids sporting with the Atlantic cable
line. Old Neptune shouts from the bank:
"Aho.o-O.o-Oy thorcl get off o that 'erO
cable, cant't ycr--thaPs tho way fother
one was wrecked II"
A Mississippi paper says the people OF
that State will want, this year, at least
five hundred thousand dollars worth Of
farming Implements, and at least another
half million Of dollars worth Of wooden.
ware, shoes, candles, soap, &c.
A parsimoniOus sea captain answering
the complaints of his men that the bread
was bad, exclaimed. "What! complain
of your bread that is made from Aour?--
What do you think Of the Apostles? They
ate 'shew bread made from old boots and
shoes"
All travellers and correspondents who
have recently made journeys through the
"Lons Star State" report the prairios as
aboundng in fat bccyos, As beef pro-
ducing State, Texas has no rival.
Sydney Smith says; "Power will intoIi-
cate the best hearts, as wine the strongest
heads No man is good enough or wise
enough to be trusted with despotic power;
for when possessed Of it, others can no
longer answer for him, because he can no
longer answer for himself"
The Charleston Daily News, aluding
to the resumption oibusiness is that city,
says;
at gives usso much pleasure to observe
the rcopcning of houses Of business, and
to see the names Of merchants that werO
familiar to us before tho war, in their
puces again, that we can do no less than
make record Of them. The energy with
which these gentlemen have returned to
their former pursuits, and tho determine
tion they exhibit to meet with q success
equal to that which they previously nc.
quircd, gives US pleasant antiuipations Of
considerable prosperity during the cnsu-
ing fall and winter"
An inventory taken by direction Of tho
Chief of Ordnance, Of rebel stores cap
tured Mt Macon, Ga. by General Wilson,
shows 81 pieces of artillery, 10 steam en-
gincs, $50 pieces Of various kinds of new
machinery, u great many naval stores
brought up from Pensacola, together with
tho books Of the Pensacola Navy.yard;
GU,OOl pounds cordnge lighthouse furni.
/ turo of every kind, 100000 pounds copper
m sheets, bolts and rods, 400 tons bar
iron, fresh from John BULBS domnions;
1 immense quantities of chemicals, 10000
b rounds shot and she'll, freshly cast 1000
tons cast iron, 10000 stand captured
, arms, together with large lot Of pistols
in process Of completion. Tho estimated
value Of these stores is $2,OOO,OOO.
The receipts of oil ut Pittsburg since
| the opening of navigation, a period OF
q four months as appears from different re-
7 cords, has been 3l0,G93 barrels. To this
should be added, probably, not less than
d twenty-five thousand barrels, Of whichno
s account was kept Tho total receipts this
+ season have been considerably y in excess
Of any corresponding period, although
!. some part oft has been marked for dull
e ness. The PittSburg Commercial says
4 dealers are looking for activity for tue re-
d muindcr of the season.
+ The following statistics will give cor.
u rect idea of the extensive boot and shoe
. interests of the New England States. Mum.
q bcr of establishments, 2,43S; capital in
!, vested, $l0977, ,ll3; number of male en-
N ployces, 52,00i; number of female en-
J, ployces, %, ,2S2; cost of labor, SIT 400 1856;
!. and annual value Of productions, $54, ,Sl5,
u 94S.
The recent uuiayorabc reports with re-
ference to Mr.. Stephens health have in
duced the President to order a change in
the nature Of his confinement