The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02
NEWSPAPER NEWS.

The receipts of uncoined gold and sill
yer in san Francisco, through public
channels during the past year, amounted
to nearly $40, 0O6, 900 as against S43, 000, :
900 in 1864. In 1868 they were less than
$44 100000; in 1862, not quite $42, 900, 900,
and i'm 1861, just about 10000, 600.
During the last twelve months the area
of our metaliferous territory has been
considerably extended, while many
| mills and reduction works of large ca
pacity have been put up in various parts
| of the country. The quartz mines OF
| California have given for the past year
large returns, and the fact has been
fully demonstrated that those mines in :
crease in yield of gold with depth of
| working Copper is found in paying
quantities in various localities, and CON
siderable ore, averaging thirty to forty
per cent, has been forwarded to San
| Francisco from the Colorado region of
Arizona. The general reader will be
surprised to learn that gold quartz pay
ing IS to $40 per ton, in favorable locali-
ties, IL worked at II large profit in Cali
fornia. The average of the silver veins
in Nevada is only $50 to $40, in Arizona
much higher. In Montana and Idaho
the gold veins are said to average more
than in California.
The first veto ever put forth by a
South Carolina governor, has Just been
issued by Governor Orr, being in oppo-
sition to an TACT to amend the patrol
laws" which, in effect, re-established
the police regulations with regard to
freedmen, which had once controlled
them as slaves. The Governor says that,
having accorded freedom to the African
race, the people of South Carolina are
bound by duty and policy alike ito give
him all the concOmitants Of what he re-
CARDS as SO great n boom" Under the
old Constitution of the State, the veto
power was not vested in the Governor,
but the new Constitution has CONFIRMED
in this respect to that of the other states.
Statistics of the Treasury Department
show that there is no foundation for the
commonly received opinion that there
is balance of exports over imports in
our foreign trade. The official values
Of the exports are currency values, while
the valuations of the imports are made
in gold figures. For the three years,
1863, 1864 and 1865, the imports amount
to 1916 900, 900 in gold, while the ex-
ports, valued in currency at 1912 900, 900,
when reduced to gold standard, amount
to only 1862, 0OO, 900, leaving, instead of
1856, 900 900 in our favor, a deficit of
$l54, 5000 This is the true condition
of our foreign trade, and probably ex.
plains the cause of the great flow of our
securities in Europe.
The New York Tribune says: "Those
members of the Cabinet, we are inform
ed on good authority, who contemplated
resigning their portfolios, have con-
Guided, after consulting with friends, to
await the action of the President. They
prefer to give him the opportunity of
removing them, should he think proper,
rather than accepting their resigna-
tons. 1t is not improbable that he will
accept the alternative in the case of one
of these gentlemen in the course of a
few days. Such is the expectation at
Washington among persons we'll to-
formed"
Quite an excitement has been created
in Charleston by collision between
Judge Aldrich and General Bennett.
The Judge sentenced a white criminal,
convicted of robbery, to receive thirteen
lashes on the bare back, in accordance
with the state law. General Bennett
interfered and prevented the infiiction
of the punishment, declaring that ''it
was against thespirit of civilization that
pervades society at the present day"
A Revenue Inspector at Cincinnati has
written to the Gazette of that city let
ter of interest to cigar and tobacco man.
ufacturers. He says that cigar and to-
bacco boxes, when used second time,
must have the original United States
revenue brand obliberated, otherwise. the
manufacturer is liable to a penalty of
three hundred dollars for each box bear
ing the old brand. The same penalty
applies topetroleum and whiskey brands.
General Stephen Elliott, of South Car
olina, is dead. . ,..s y