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Adviees from New Orleans, of the 5th,
state that there is unusual activity among
military circles in that city. Since the re-
cceptlon OF the recent dispatches from TIC
R1o Grande, mysterious orders have been
issued and the sale of boats prohibited,
and those on hand are being placed on a
war footing. The sale of all transporta-
ton and supplies has ceased. The list,
been ordered to embark for Indianola. and
report for duty at San Antonia, to General
Gerritt. The dismounted colored cavalry
at New Orleans are also destined for the
same place. General Forsythe, General
Sheriaan's chief Of staff, has gone to
Brazos.
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COMMERCIAL,

LIvEnPooL, November 12.-The cotton
market opened dull and closed firmer.
With an advance Of Id. on American tor
the week. Foreign cotton is dull, with
a decline o! 3@3d: on Surats for the week.
Orleans mlddling has advanced1d.
EVENING. OF cotton to-day 900
bales; market less firm; quota tons un-
changed. Breadstuffs unchanged Provi-
sions firmer.
LONDON, November 12-Consols ss@s9s;
fivc-twentics 633@64
NEW YORK, November 21.-Flour has de-
clined Sc. Wheat has declined 1l02c. Corn
declined 1c. Beef quiet Pork heavy.
Whiskey dali Cotton quiet--sales 1000
bales, at 52@53c. Naval stores dull.
Frclghts quiet. Gold l75.
The Cincinnati Price Current OF q late
cate, says: There seems to be very gene
raj determination on the part ofpackers to
avoid the risks involved in accumulating
stocks of pork, at present prices, and
unless they can dispose of the product
from the block, they refuse to buy. About
5000 hogs arrived during the week, but
the great bulk of them are still in the pens,
the owners being greatly disappointed in
not being able to dispose Of them at pay
ing prices; 11@12c: per pound gross, in
Guiding the slaughtering, which is one
dollar head, is the range Of prices paid,
and s13.6O@s13.75 net, and about 400 head
sold at the inside rate.
ATLANTA, November 16.-The cotton
MAJ ket was very quiet yesterday, and the
transactions were few. There was a re-
luctance both On the part of buyers and
sellers. There is not much on the market.
and little coming IN. The outside figures
may be placed at from 33@38c. We believe
some lots were sold at the latter e cures
MONTGOMERY, November 4.-The receipts
o! cotton in this city from about the first
OF May until the present time, amount, in
round numbers. to $4,000 bales,
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Local Itenns-

Local ITEMS
CasH.-C. .ss..s:s :3s sss s;.ss,,ssifpaiion. ad-
vertising ana Job work are cssh. We hons
all parties wiiibear this in nxesi.
THE BURN.x7 OF CoLuMp1.:-Ai inter.
esting account: of the ssSack s1ra Destrnc-
tion Of the CSty Of Columbus 8. has
just been issued, in pamphlet serrn, from
the PhGnir sseam power pr1ee. Orders
can be filed to- any extent.
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MEETING OF ZEE LKaIsLATUi.x:- Oar I,e-
Slsiators will re,essemble this e7ening, at
O'Clock, and etnreParc, cut anus div" work
for the regular Aession, which commences
on Monday next The House ,SM hold its
sessions in the ch5! chapel, witL1a the Col
lego Campus.
Mr.. G. II. BakIswrn (whose piiase of bus-
ness is at the oSa stand of Alien 4 Dial
corner Main an6s1Fnshington :esrrcts,) ad-
vertises fine assessment of srasles in his
line. Amongst ihe lot, some extra fine
butter. Read GiS advertise z.ent then.
greenbacks in bsnas, give him rcall.
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yesterday, that war had been declared
against the Unde4l States ;sy~Grcat Bri-
tain, and that 5s consequence, cot ton had
declined to twenty cents LIZ New York.
Doubtful.
The steamer H: D! Mo,lsA, which left
New York for Jacksonville, Florida, some
three weeks ssasee, is repcstad to-day to
have sonnderel: IL the reo4nt hurricane,
at sea, with alGan board
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VIC have Resolved fron. Messrs. Town
send North n, copy of 2slrpcr's Monthly
for December They ar, agents for this
| publication, ass,well as thu, New York Her
aid, Day Bces, Leslie,s. publications, the,
Ledger, New York Weee.p, and the Albion.
--------->~~~>o-o--->-,>,<->-
FINE APIGES.-s'All bands" connectaJ
with the Rtgnie' establishment return
their sincere thanks, IN Mr.. Rich. O'Brisn.
| (Gervais street, neaaS Assembly, for. d
liberal supply of really fine apples; wsen
we say fnes, We mea,si in every sense--in
size as we'll as flavor. Mr. BIS stoek of
groceries, &C., is c.Mplete, and he desires
a call frela all in search Of something geod-
SUaSEsrYoN--The finances OF .s,e. city
being IN such q condition as to rsaKent at
present the employment OF Sufficient
ciy!s police, We would respectfully. suggest
to the eomh,andant of the rpst, that he
detail a portion of his force t.. aid the city
ssthorities in preserving order and quiet.
rfArosnr"rH, we nave nad sErh poIlcc, and
the city was kept in admsrable order. and
we trust that the present efficient COM
msndant will give the suggestion the con-
alteration it deserves,
NEW ADvERT1sEsr1ssss. is call
ed to the followiag advertisements, which
are published this morning for the first
time: -
Apply at shis Boarding.
"- Hoses Honas sr2sea. tor ssia
F.H. E!more-Election of Alderman.
Tax Books to be Closed
e. II. Baldwin-Bacon, &c.
~" &C Olive Oil, DC.
Richard o'Brien-Apples.
=. r. Pelham-Resumption of Guo,dSon.
Isaac Moise--Godard Brandy
). j. McCarter-Lew Books.
~. Goodwyn-Rooms Wanted.
Co1rtenay Trenholm-Lost Box.
). q. Glbbcs-Spring Wagon &c.
Laurel Street-Board for Legislators.
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GENERAL GRANT ON THE MEXICAN QUEs-
TIoS.-Fihe most important part, perhaps,
Mexican question, in New York, last week,
was omitted in the published reports. In
was one OF the few topics on whicchR whicchRestlon na o,
lowed himself to speak freely. It is known
that the appointment of General Logan 10
the Mexican mission was made upon
Grants recommendation, and that in pri-
vate conversation in New York he freely
expressed himself in favor Of driving the
bayonet.
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We have Reserved from. Messrs. Town
send K North \, copy of 2slnrpcr's Monthly
for December They ara agents for this
publication, assswell as thu, New York Her
aid, Day Bces, Lesle's, Publications, the,
Ledger, New York Weesp and the Albions
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The Career OF the Shenandoah.

LIST OF VESSELS DESTROYED BY THE PIRATE
The pirate Shenandoah has at last ar
rived home, having been absent since the
Sth of October, 1864, during which time
burning, destroying and bonding American
vessels. Among her last acts was the de-
struction Of our Northwestern coast whal- 4
ing fleet.
The Sea King was built at Glasgow, in
October, 1868, and was registered as the
property OF William Wallace, banker, of
London, and others-her registered ton
mage being seven hundred and ninety tons,
her combined power being two hundred
horse, her frame work iron and wood plank
ing. On the Goth September, 1864, she was
transferred by bill of sale to Richard
Wright, ship owner, of Liverpool, who was
{: very near connection of the rebel finan.
cial agent in that town. On the 30th Sep
tember, P. L. Corbett was endorsed as mas
ter, and on the 7th October, Richard Wright
executed o certificate of sale to Peter Lu-
ther Corbett, the master, empowering him
to sell the Sea King at any port out of the
United Kingdom, for not less than f45, 900,
within six months from date of certificate.
She was then entered and cleared in ballast
as an ordinary merchant vessel at London
for Bombay.
In the meantime, another vessel called
the Laurel, and owned by Henry Lafone,
of Liverpool, was taking on board oil the
| necessary armament, stores, etc, several
rebel officers and large number of men.
| On the same day that the Sea King sailed
! from London for Bombay, the Laurel sail
cd from Liverpool for Nassau. The two
bsss, ana there, wit6in Portuguese waters
the armament and men wcrc speedily trans
ferred from the Laurel to the Sea King.
both vessels being still under the British
! flag. The Sea King was then rename:,
Shenandoah, hoisted the rebel fiag, and
set forth ON her piratical cruise. Far arm
ament consisted OF six guns, VIZ four 68
Founders and two 32-poun1ers, with full
crew OF British sailors. The first we heard
OF her after she lcf. Madeira, was that She
had destroyed few vessels in tho neigh
borhood OF the Island of st. Helena. Hsr
next performance Vas to double the Cape
OF Good hope and cruise around in the
Boy OF Bengal and the Straits of Sundy.
She next made her appearance in the port
OF Melbourne, Australia, and was coaled,
provisionod, and received reinforcement
OF men, strictly in accordance with British
neutrality After remaining there for some
time she started anew on her career of de-
vastatlon. The next we hear Of the pirate
is that she is in the Arctic Ocean, captur-
ing, destroying, and bonding the vessels
composing our whaling fleet. From the
beginning Of April to the end Of June she
destroyed and bonded twenty-nine vessels,
thus entirely breaking up the whaling soa.
son in that quarter. We append list OF
vessels destroyed or bonded by the pirate
in tho Arctic:
savc D.JN.
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ms.
lowed himself to speak freely. 1t is known
that the appointment of General Logan 10
the Mexican mission was made upon
Grants recommendation, and that in pri-
vate conversation in New York he freely
expressed himself in favor Of driving the
French from Mexico at the point Of the
bayonet.
LoUIs1ANA.-A correspondent writing
from this State says: The largest esti,
mate Of the cotton product of Iouisiana
ior IT th1s us season which has yet been made,
that Of suger, 5000 hogsheads, against
4s0, 900 in 1880; ana 15.G00 barrel. Q. mo-
lasses, against 100000 In 1860. Besides
these two great articles, Louisiona docs
not produce as much as she consumes,
except, perhaps, Of the article Of corn, OF
which there may bo surplus, but not an
available one, on account of the want and
heavy expenses OF transportation.
Hon. George " Julian, republican, ad-
dressed large audience at Indianapolis,
Indiana, or Friday night, taking strong
ground for the punishment OF rebel lead.
ers, the confiscation Of estates Of promi-
nent rebels, and their apportionment
among loyal Southerners Of whatever
color, and the extension to the Southern
negroes of the right Of suffrage.
The minister OF an English church, the
pews OF which bring rental Of f650, an
nounces that he is about to abandon this
source OF income and make all the seats
free. He was converted to the free church
system by reading pamphlet thereon,
which has lately attracted much attention
in England.
A New Orleans firm, Francis Bonvian &
Co., propose to establish q publishing
house, from which the productions Of
native authors may be issued as cheaply
n fIv CNa o.
The first book issued will be new edition
OF the History of Louisiana, by Charles
Gayarre.
The richmond Enquirer says company
is organizing with a capital of S., ,OO6,O 900,
for the purpose of making loans to South
ern planters who need capital to recon-
mcnce operations WITH. This is capital
idea, and as soon as the loans commence
we shall go into the planting business
ourselves
The Louisville Jonnn says that ssthe
Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, is about to
write letter to the President Of the United
States, which will doubtless attract much
attention. Mr.. Bells position and motives
have been misunderstood and consequent-
ly mlsreprescnted."
The Washington Chronicle says that the
excess of the receipts over the expendi-
lures in the Post Office Department for the
year ending June 30, 1865, is more than
$500 Never before was so favorable
an exhibit made in the Department.
A Richmond letter says that the reason
OF the refusal to restore the property Of
Hon. Henry A. Wise is that he declines to
take the oath.
General Palmer has been indicted by the
grand jury OF Louisville, for enticing slaves
to leave Kentucky.
New England pays an internal revenue
of over $50, ,00O, 900 per annum Massachu-
setts handing over &28, ,7S9, 1896.
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CAsH.-c tS--..is 81 s,.sS's subscription, esifpaion ad:-
vertising arE5l Job work arc cssh. We hors,.
all parties VIII bear this in nsosl
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LONDON, November 12-Consols s9MS9t
fivc-twentics 633@64.
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The BURN-Ns OF CoLuMBz..-Ai inter.
esting account; of the seSack s1rd Destrnc
tion Of the CITY Of Columbus 8. has
just been issued, in pamphlet. Germ, from
the PhGnir sssam power pr1as. Orders
can be filed to- any extent.
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which may be used either in fitting
out privateers OK in any other manner
calculated to attain the object in view.
1t may not be many weeks before we
hear OF Mexican privateers lowering
near the French coast, just as we have
recently heard of Fenian privateers
lowering near the English coast.
But it is not the policy of the United
States to quarrel just at this time with
any foreign power. We do not want
to 60 to war now. 1t is our best
course to keep quiet for the present.
Let us devote ourselves to the labor
of reconciling the whole country, to
restoring domestic tranquility, to adj
justing financial and other important
hone questions, for = little while.
Meanwhile we can let England and
France know that they cannot quar-
rel with u, nor go to war with any
other power with impunity. We
hold them both by the throat. At
solitary signal, ten lines of a procla-
nation from the President of the
United States, or five lines of a reso-
luton in Congress, we can, without
SoiiS W WAL OiISelfcs, nuke Ufic
Atlantic ocean swarm with Mexican
and Fenian privateers, that will sweep
their commerce from its surface like
an East India simoom. All that we
require of England and France now
is to keep civil and step up to the
captains Office and settle Otherwise
we assure them that our causes of
quarrel with them will keep, like
barrel Of mackerel well salted, until
the proper day of reckoning shall
arrlve.-Nesc York Herald.
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MEETING OF 1TEE LKaIsLATUicx..- Our Le-
Gislators will reaesSembe this e7eninp at
O'Clock, and etnreParc, cut anu dry" work
for the regular Aession, which commences
on Monday next The House 7SM hold its
sessions in the ch5! chapel, witEla the Col
lego Campus.
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MONTGOMERY, November 4-The receipts
o! cotton in this city from about the first
OF May until the present time, amount, in
round numbers. to $4,000 bales,
Smyrna times., 1865-04-27
WHOLE NO. 562
The Presidents Fame.

Without the least desire to ION in the race
Of hcapmg extravagant and prepoStcroua lauda-
tons on our dead President II the wiSeSt and
greatest man who ever lived. We feel sure that
the discerning and considerable of all parties
will concur in our judgment that Mr. Iincoln's
reputation will stand higher with pOstcrity
than with the mass of his cotcmporaries-that
distance, whether in time or pace, while dwar-
hng and OhScuring 50 many, must place him in
iairer hght-that future gencIatiuns will
deem HIM undcrvalued by those lo and with
whom he laborcd, and lie puzzled ~ the bitter
hcrcencsS OF the personal assaults by which his
temper was tested.
One reason for this is doubtless to he found
in the external, superficial, non essential tests
by which we are accustomed to gauge contcm-
porary merit n king without his crGwn and
purple robes is, to the vulgar apprehension, a
solccism, an impossib'''ty. y coar>ry clad,
travcl-staincd. barefoot Jesus could get no
| hearing in our fashionable synagogue, though
his every discourse were Sermon on the
Mount. And Mr.. Lincoln was 50 essentially,
nchangcably a colnmoncr-amonq cmbassa-
dors and erandccs in the White House the
identical 'Old Abe" that many Of Us had sha-
ken by both hands at Western barbecues-his
hOmely, pmgcnt anecdotes so ike those We
had heard him relate from political >tumps and
by lOg-cabin tiresidcs-that the masses Thought
of him but as one with whom they had been
splitting rails OH pleasant Spring day or ma
king prosperous voyage down the Mississippi
/ on an Illinois flat boat and had found him a
downright good fellow. We have had Pres
idents before him sprung from the loins of p0v.
erty and obscurity, but never one who remain
! ed to the last SO simply, absolutely, alike in
heart and manner one Of the People. No one
who approached him, whether as minister ur
messenger, felt impclled either to stoop or to
strut in his presence. He was neither con-
| strained nor uneasy in whatever presence. and
he imposed no conStrant nor ceremony on
others. Every one found him easy of access.
yet no one felt encouraged to take undue lib
critics. Mr.. Everett one of the best bred,
most refined and fastldious of our countrymen,
after observing his bearing among the cabinet
and foreign ministers, the governors, senators,
generals, and other notabieS collected at the
Gettysburgh celebration, pronounced him the
peer in department of any one present. Pre-
suming that to be the fact it is probably due
! to the circumstances that he alone never
thought Of manners, nor how he nor any one
else was appearing to others. His mind was
intent on matters of wider and more enduring
consequence.-N y Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1865-04-27

A teacher in western county in Canada
while making his first visit to his "constitu-
ents, came into conversation with an ancient
" VarmOunt" lady who had taken up her res
idence in the "backwoods OF course the
school and the former teacher came in for crit
icism; the old lady, in speaking Of his prede-
cessor asked:
well, master, what do you think he larnt
the scholars"
"Conldn't say, ma'am Pray what did he
teach?"
"Wall he told 'em that this ere airth was
rcound, and went around and all that sort o
thing. Now, master what do you think about
sich stuff? Don't you think he was an ignor-
ant fellow?'
Unwilling to come under the category of the
Ignorant, the teacher evasively remarked
1t really did seem strange; but still there
are many learned men who teach these things?"
"Wa'n, says she. If the airth is rcound
what holds it up?
"Oh these learned men say that it goes
around the sun, and that holds it up by vir-
tue of the law Of attraction.
The old lady lowered her specs and by way
Of climax responded
"Wal, if these high learnt men seq the
sun holds up the airth should ike tn know
rhdt holds the dith up lchcH the sun goes
dOlcn %
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p o T. T r Y
Upon Hearing of the Death of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
BY FANNY CAMERON.

"The bloody act is done.
The most arch deed of piteous massacre
That ever yet this land was guilty Of"
Shakespeare.
"Od Abe's" in Heaven, now.
There gIitters on his brow
A radiant crown, not wrought by human hand.
Weep for the gallant brave
Weep for the gallant band
Who gave up all to save their Native land.
Foremost among them now,
CircIing the .greatI AM
With tuneful harps, stands Honest Abraham"
His tender heart and charitable hand
Were far too Ienient with the accurscd gang
Ofuaitors Davis led.
His martyred blood be on jeff. Davis hand.
HIS Jagged wound cries out let rebel leaders hang
His troubles now;
His ceaseless round of painful duties past.
Whate'er our future be, for "poor old Abe"
Thank God, there's peace at last!
And we will still hope on.
Though traitors think our prop and stay is gone
Though treason's blight hath fallen on the land
Though Lincon's pershed by an assassin's hand
Our God, our FlIher's God. will lead us safely on.
April 18th, 1865.
Smyrna times., 1865-04-27
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Pssssd at the First Session Of the IAirty-sighth
Congress.
[PuBLIc-No. 73,l
AN ACT to organize a regiment of veteran volunteer

[PuBLIc-No. 73,l
An ACT to organize a regiment of veteran volunteer
engineers
BE it enacted by the Senate and House Of Repre-
ssntatiUes Of the Uaited S0tes of Ameriea, in Con-
2rsss assembled, That the Secretary of War be ana
h. is hereby authorized to enlist out OF any vp'u"
teer forces in the army of the Cumberland thal naae
served, serving pioneers cu ,,'"
OF engineers, to serve wherever reguireu ~
years, during the war, to consist oil le" nIs
and to have the organizations pay, o"u 'Lc
mcnts as allowed engineer sor'eaS ilI
provisions of the fourth section ol a ao'
"An act providing for the oel'sr ., A., ,;rS
military establishments aPpio'eu -ANsuS' '"''0'
Sec. 9 and be ii further enacted, That the officers
oftLe engineers authorized to be raised under the
PROVISIONS OF the foregoing section shall be appoint
ed and commissioned by the President of the United
St ties, on the recommendation Of the commander of
the army of the Cumberland, and shall receive the
same pay and allowances as engineer officers OF SIM
liar grade the regular army.
Approved, May 20, 1864.
Smyrna times., 1865-04-27

Power OF IMAGINATIoN.-Alex Du-
mas nnblished. some time ago, in daily Paris
paper, a novel; in which the heroine, prosper
GUS and happy, is aSsailed by consumption.
All the gradual symptoms were most touch
ingy described and the greatest interest was
felt for the heroine.
One day the Marquis de Calomieu called on
him.
Dumas" said he have you composed the
end Of the story now being published i'll the
-?"
"Of course"
"Does the heroine die at the end2'
"Of courSe-dies of consumption. After
such symptoms as | have described, how could
she liveY'
"You will have to make her live. You
must change the catastrophe.
=" cannot.
eyes, you must; for on your heroines life
depends my daughters.
Your daughter s2'
Yes; she has all the various symptoms of
consumption you have described, and watches
mournfully for every new number ofyOur novel,
reading her own fate in your heroine s. Now,
if you make your heroine live, my daughter,
whose imagination has been deeply impressed,
will live, too. Come life to save is temp
tatlOn -
f" Not to be resisted"
Dumas changed his last chapter. His he
roine recovered, and was happy.
About five years afterwards, Dumas met the
marquis at party.
"Ah, Dumas!' he exclaimed, let me IN
troduce you to my daughter; she owS her llfe
to you. There she is! -
"That fine, handsome woman, VINO LOOKS
like Jeanne d Arc?"
"Yes. She is married, and has had four
children :, .,D
"And my novel four editions" said Dumas;
{" SO we are quits"
A Boston storekeeper, the other day stuck
upon his door the ladOnc advertisement, "A
how wanted" The next morning, on opening
the store, he found a little urchin in basket,
labelled Here he Is.
Smyrna times., 1865-04-27

Sunday, January 22d, was a memorable day
in Utah. On that day Christian society was
organized, and services held under the shadow
of the Mormon temple, greatly to Brigham
Young swrath. General COnnor, a Catholic
himself. is deterroined that religious liberty
shall exist there, and he has the power and the
snunk to enforce his views.
Smyrna times., 1865-04-27

A DAUGHTER OF Eve" Why, Sarah, y"
remarked a schoomaster to young girl who
had failed to give satisfactory answer to d
question in arithmetic, when was your age
[ could answer any question in arithmetic that
was asked me. +"
tion Which don think you can answer.
"What is it, Sarah? 2
"Why, sir, suppose one apple caused the
ruin of the whole human race, how many such
apples would it take to make barrel OF cider?'
Schoolmaster tainted.