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The New York herald., 1869-09-03
CASTLE GARDEN lAsoa EXCHANGE.

The semimonthly report OF the superintendent OF
the Labor Exchange at Castle Garden. gives the fol-
lowing interesting statistics the l4th ana
the s1st day Of August last, comprising fourteen
working days, there were registered 2oaS applicants
for employment. OF these there were, males l'SS2
and females 0oa orders from employers ior
laborers were received--for male help, LS7S;
for female. 800. Total, 2,ocs. Employment was
secured for l,2e4 males and 67ss fema'es'
or 1850 in ALL The average rate Of monthly wages
paid to males employed was $lo 90. and 70 females
$40 The classification Of emisrant labor FOR the
period was:--Males-mechanica iapor' zSS' aRncui-
tural, o8e; femaesskilled labor' 2i, ana unsk'ed'
ssA or those employed, 1.102 males and s0e TO-
r,o,a. ware eb,e to read and wrItc and 1872 males
and i7c females were not able TO DO So The first
report for August including the two weeks from the
,st To the 18th showed $40 engagements. thus Civ
Ing a total OF 34e5 engagements for the whole
month.
The New York herald., 1869-09-03
TIE HUMBOLDT MONUMENT.
False Report-Blaeser's Bust Of Humboldt
Already In Port.

A False Report-Blaeser Bust Of Humboldt
Already In Port.
Quite an excitement was created yesterday BY o
despatch from Berlin, stating that "Blaesers bust
OF Alexander von Humboldt has been successfully
cast here. 1t will be shipped to New York directly"
II this Information were true the bust could hardly
have arrived In time for the memorial festivities
the l4th of September and the proposed ceremonies
OF unveling the monument would have to be post
poned. But the despatch was false report In
the first place the bust was not cast ct Berlin. but ut
Hanover from model made BY Professor Blaeser,
of Berlin; and then the bust was shipped nom Bre
men in the steamship Amertcs and arrived safely
and uninjured In this city on last Monday, % tn
quiry OF Nj. william Aufermann, . member Of the
committee, and OF Messrs. Pelrcho Co., agents OF
the Bremen steamship line, disclosed yesterday. A
letter from Mr.. Kamroth the secretary OF the oom-
mittee Of arrangements states the same tact In con-
tradctton Of the report telegraphed, and hence no
dIsarrangement Of the programme need be feared
on thas account
The New York herald., 1869-09-03
NOTES ABOUT TOWN.

Instead OF making huge bonfire OF the branches
OF the poor old trees in the City Hall Park, why
could they not have been given to the poor in the
vicinity, many Of whom no doubt. were without .
nre during the late. cold snapi BY the way, who
gets all the little odds and ends In rhis new Post
ONCE jobf
Is sanybody responsible for q nuisance that has ex
listed for Q year past at the northeast corner Of
Eighth avenue and Forty-third street, About nrty
cubic yards Of broken stone, blasted from the sub
cellar OF the adjacent building. monopolizes about
one-third Of the width Of the avenue Blast !
the selling Of the plank fence around the City
Hall Park for bill posting was bid to perpetuate
nuisance for two, or 1t may be 1ve, years to come.
Tho meanness of the thing is despicabIe.
Who took down the great liberty pole In Franklin
street and left lot OF stumps, deorts and uneven
ground instead abating one nuisance and creating
anotheri Does anybody speak.
The better way for the government to have done
in regard to tho new Post Offlco site would have
been to have made neat fence around the enclo-
sure and to have had 1t whitewashed and kept clean
and free from the odious placards that will now
cover It. But this would have been whitewashing
process In which the people were personally inter-
ested, and as no Congressional committee had .
hand In the business the people must suffer.
A very pleasant exhibition OF the chemistry Of
nature can hourly be seen on the corner OF Eleventh
street and University place. The broken walls OF
the sinks ON the vacant lot in that locality show
better than any chemists laboratory tho influence of
decomposing forces on animal and vegetable mat
ter. Il would be good move for the chemists Of
the Health Board to select this place for their daily
experiments.
The sub-letting of places for placards on the new
Post once fence has, 1t is reported already begun,
and the chief lessee Is likely to receive handsome
revenue from 1t. New Post once job No. 1.
The government going into the show business
Leasing to speculator the fencing around the new
Post Once site for show placards
The New York herald., 1869-09-03
YACHTING NOTES.

Tho yachting season promises to be unusually
brief Indeed, should the present cold weather con.
ttnue 1t viii not last beyond the end Of the present
month Several interesting events, however are
announced to come on.
The spirited challenge recently issued by Commo.
dore Kidd to sail the well known schooner yacht
Alice against the no less famous Eva, owned By Mt.
Mahlon Sands will In ell probability be accepted.
In fact Mr.. Sands hos intmated that when the Eva
returns from her cruise, which will DO IN week or
%, he will take up the gauntlet The course
sugRested BY the Commodore is either around
the New York Yacht Club regatta course, or nom
City Island around Stafford lightship and back 70
starting point the latter being distance af about
eighty miles and the former but forty; each yacht to
use only four sails two Jibs. fore and mainsail.
BY this mode the sails Will be eQualized to proper
tionate displacement Of vessels, upon which basis u
spared and canvassed below mastheads. More
over, the merits Of each vessel would rest more
upon the model and seamansnip rather than upon
the saimakers and long outrggers with main-
masts set alott. The race will PROBABLY take place
ut the latter end Of the month"; ana will unquestion-
ably excite great interest in Yachting circles; A.
The nne schooner yacht Widge0n owned by MI:
Lloyd Phoenix has been sold to Mr.. J. b. Norris, OF
the slO0p yacht Bonita.
the eastward as far rs New London with her owners
and party OF friends has returned to the city In
time to take part IN the cruise OF the Jersey Club;
She encountered rough weather when homeward
bound, especially of the Thmble Islands, but from
the manner In which she rode through heavy sea
she proved herself one OF the abcst boats OF her
class. The contest between the Peerless and Mr..
MorQan's fast and handsome little yacht the Flying
Cloud the date OF which has not yet been deter
mined Is looked forward TO with great interest, and
1t Is said that large amounts nave been ALREADY
staked the result both boats having many ardent
Mr James r. Morgan. owner Of the Flying Cloud.
sends the following card In reference To Tue contest
alluded to-
Inasmuch 40 owners Of the Peerless clam that there
exists TO the terms OF the match BE-
tween the Flying Peerless (herctosorc agreed
upon and have refused to sa the hereby renew ny
challenge the Of the Peerless 10 sal race ot
twenty miles against the Flying Cloud according 10 the es
and regulations Of OF tho established yacht clubs within
the State Peerless being larger than the Fng Cloud
And offer TO mako the confederation valuable piece OF
plate or money, II preferred say purse Of Sl,WN
The New York herald., 1869-09-03
Tho September statsueas Of the Publio
Dobt.

Oobt.
The Treasury Department is able fortunately
to exhibit to the country another fattering
monthly statement of the public debt. AS the
figures are arrayed there is decrease of the
debt of over ten millions and half since the
LIST of August, and of over forty ty-seven millions
since March, when the present administration
came into power. The calculation is made by
estimating the total outstanding obligations
and then deducting the cash in the Treasury,
the sinking fund and the bonds purchased for
cancellation, but which lie In the Treasury
awaiting the action of Congress. But in this
mode of estimating the debt accrued interest
is reekoned and the bonds issued to the Pacific
Railroad are ignored Adding the accrued
interest the decrease of the debt the last month
amounts 70 over five millions six hundred
thousand dollars. The bonds issued to the
Pacific Railroad, however, should be reckoned
as part of the debt or obligations Of the gov
ernment, and Secretary McCulloch always
placed them as such in his debt statements.
They were issued by the government, it is re-
opouoADio AoA tuoiu, ouU ~ iuoy Aovo w P"y
them. Counting this as part of the debt,
therefore, and taking the comparative exhibit
Of the whole debt for the year, we find that,
after deducting the amount In the Treasury
the debt has decreased since September l,
1868, over thirty-seven and half millions.
Even this reduction shows the enormous re-
sources Of the country and revenue and our
ability to lIquidate the debt. Still, much more
might be done under an improved system of
finance and by using the surplus money that
lies all the time in the Treasury for purchas
ing bonds and saving the interest on them.
With all the demands for specie to pay the
coin interest on the debt there il now in the
Treasury the enormous sum of hundred and
one millions. While other governments find
it difficult to make both ends meet Mr.. Bout
wells great trouble is to know what to do with
the plethora of money in his hands.
The New York herald., 1869-09-03

PERFECTLY SArIsFAoroRY-The opinion Of
Chief Justice Chase pronouncing the Seques-
tration act Of the late so-called Congress Of
the Confederate States null and void, and all
proceedings hereunder, and that all parties so
despoiled may find relief in court of equity.
The New York herald., 1869-09-03

Different men have different ideas Of glory
and Of monuments-millionnaire especially.
As the rule their surplus funds are distributed
to colleges, schools, churches and asylums.
Many of these institutions have thus become
richly endowed. Smithson, an old English
bachelor, in London, took the curious notion
into his head Of founding an institution at
Washington, upon the basis Of half million
of dollars, ''for the increase and diffusion Of
knowledge among men" and there it is in the
Smithsonian Institution. Girard, Of Phila-
delphia, has left as his monument his splendid
college, costing several millions. George
Peabody, while still living, has erected
poor in London, and his educational disburse-
ments in the United States, especially in his
millions for Southern schools, embracing all
races and colors. A. 7. Stewart is building
splendid monument in his beautiful hotel up
town for workingwomen, and another on his
Hampstead Plains purchase for cheap homes
for workingmen. John Jacob Astor has left
us his free library, and Roebling in his suspen-
sion bridges will be transmitted to posterity.
But our water commodore and land admiral,
Vanderbilt, has given us something new under
the sun. It is his life and times in a massive
monument of bronze. 1t is not so prodigious
as the Pyramid Of Cheops, nor so lofty as the
Colossus of Rhodes, but it will do. 1t bangs
out anything in bronze to be found at
this day in either hemisphere, and
nothing like it has been put up on this
planet since the creation. What they may
have in Mars, Venus Saturn or Jupiter we
don't know and we don't care. We have
the Vanderbilt monument in New York,
and that's enough. The shield Of Achilles,
made BY Vulcan himself, was q magnificent
work of art, with Its numerous graphic pic
lures embossed upon It of scenes Of peace and
war in the time Of Homer; Trajan's column at
Rome is book of history, and so Is Napo-
Icons at Paris; but In none Of these great
works have We the pleasing variety Of objects
and ideas grouped around the central statue of
our water commodore and land admiral Van
derbilt
| First we have the Grand Admiral himself
dwarfng Chang, the Chinese giant and cir
cling round him pictorial rainbow in bronze,
we have steamships and locomotives, and
Neptune and sea monsters and raccoons, and
the Palisades and lighthouse, and ferryboat
and dock, with its coils Of rope, pineapples
and bananas; and watch dog, and cotton
bale, and capstan, anchor and chain and
Liberty, and forest, and . fence, and two
cows, and o railway train entering tunnel,
and villa on hilltop, and harvesters 81
work, and agricultural products natural as life
and even birds flying in the air. This grand
triumphal arch Of the Hudson River Railroad
depot at st. Johns Park, therefore, may be pro
nounced, Of all the great works in bronze, 'th'
biggest thing out" and cheap for eight hun
drcd thousand dollars for 1t Is built to last
long time. Sill, such Is the progress o
modern improvements in this city that eve
before the end of the next generation this i'm
The New York herald., 1869-09-03

"ANYwHERR, ANYWHERE, OUT OF THE
WORLD. The story Of the two girls who
went to Hoboken to commit suicide shows
the progress, wealth and civilization of the
age on sad, sad side. Brought perhaps by
their own wilfulness, perhaps by trusting
natures, perhaps by vice, perhaps by mex
orable disaster to bad way of life they had
the good left that enabled them 10 feel the
degradation and the will to take the most
desperate remedy. But how is it tllat, with all
our Magdalen asylums and all the ostentatious
charity of the reports of lady dIrectresscs,
these forlorn girls were found trying the
Hudson river rather than their "Chrisiian
charity?"
The New York herald., 1869-09-03
Tho Crops-Glorious Prospects.

The report of the crops which we published
yesterday from the great farming region of
Ohio is most promising From all quarters
we read such phrases as these :-"Wheat crop
magnificent, oats splendid, hay crop un-
equalled;" "wheat, oats and potatoes have
not been equalled in the last twenty
years )" 'harvest laborers receive two dollars
day and found, field hands average twenty
dollars month and found" and so on. The
fruit crop, too, with the exception of apples,
which appear to be short in quantity this year,
is quite as abundant as it is in our own vicinity
and in the States south of us. So far the
prospects of the agriculturists in the great
West are beyond all expectation. Reports
from Europe state that the harvests are very
prosperous. In England the grain crop is
regarded as fair average, and if there be
any more needed we can supply 1t at moderate
prices. With these facts before us we may
safely calculate that popular disturbances are
not very likely to occur during the coming
winter, for cheap bread makes happy people.
The cereal productions Of this season must
secure that boon to both continents. It is
true that some short-sighted farmers may
growl because the prices are low, for they
always do, without gratefully considering
the blessing which has been showered
upon them in an abundant harvest Dry
goods and other necessaries of life, We
observe, are also declining towards prices
within reach Of the poor. so that If the coal
monopolists would only abandon their horrible
conspiracy to defraud the public in the sale Of
that article there would be no reason to antici-
pate that dread of the working classes,
sshard winter"
The New York herald., 1869-09-03

He WON'T BE RR0ONsTRUoTED-JeRD Davis.
He has been playing the lion in Scotland, and,
as it appears, writes to friend that he
win probably spend the remnant Of his days
in the United Kingdom. Davis and Slidell,
we believe, are the only leading rebels Of them
all who won't be reconstructed. They are
like the butternut Arkansas bushwhacker, who
thus defined his position
An out-and.0ut old rebel
/ was and still am;
And won't be reconstructed,
And don't care a-hemi
The New York herald., 1869-09-03

posing composition may be carted OF to some
factory to be worked up into chandeliers.
Happy, however, is the man who lives to build
his own monument to suit himself, regardless
OF cost and who lives to see 1t proclaimed as
among tho wonders Of the world. Vire 10
Grand Admiral! Vioe la rSpu6liqus!
The New York herald., 1869-09-03

A "CoRNER" IN GoLD.-The gold gamblers
had an exciting time Of it yesterday, the
''bulls" making sudden dash upon the market
and putting the price to 1851. They are said
to have purchased more gold than is really in
the city, 80 that 'corner" is expected to be
the result. The speculative movement is
greatly to be condemned, for the reason that at
this season, when the fall trade is opening, II
is essential to have the greatest equilibrium in
the price Of gold.
The New York herald., 1869-09-03

TIE UNKINpRsT Cur OF ALL.-Mr. August
Belmont is called upon to resign the chair
manship of the National Democratic Com
mittee by New York democrats, on the charge
that he is not citizen of the Union. Think
of 'little New Jersey" following suit. Well
may Belmont exclaim, ''Who made thee q
Judge over Israeli"
The New York herald., 1869-09-03

How BELMONT MAY HEAD THEM.-The
Tweed men desire Belmont to resign his posi-
ton as chairman of the National Democratic
Committee, and they want Tweed In his place.
But Belmont may head them of by simply
resigning the Craftsmanship, retaining his place
as member of the committee. Thus New York
will still have its member, and the committee,
from some other State, will have to elect their
chairman from the committee as it stands,
leaving Tweed farther off than before.
The New York herald., 1869-09-03

CALIFORNIA GONE DEMOCRATIC. Accord
ing to our telegraphic dispatches the elec-
tion in California on Wednesday went demo-
cratic. This result was to have been antici-
pated. General Grant, with all his popularity,
carried the State last year BY mere majority
Of some five hundred, and the democrats had
a majority Of fourteen in the Legislature last
year as prestige to enter the present contest
with. The principal point settled in this sue
cess of the California democracy-if further
accounts confirm our first reports-is that, 80
far as the fifteenth amendment to the consti-
tution-negro suffrage-is concerned, 1t can
not receive the vote of the Legislature Of that
State. No doubt the coolie suffrage question
also entered into the canvass and helped to
swell the vote of the democrats in opposition
to the extension of the elective franchise to the
newcomers, Of whom California has at pre-
sent more than its share. The democrats car
ried San Francisco, electing their candidate
for Mayor by majority Of thousand or so.
The vote was small, and, contrary to expecta-
ton, there was very little excitement
The New York herald., 1869-09-03
Tho Sale Of Pelseus.

There Is case before a coroner in Hoboken
illustrating the worthlessness of all present
provisions for protecting the lives of the people
from the "charms Of powerful trouble" sold in
the drug shops. By the united stupidity of a
father and an apothecary one grain of opium
was given to . child three months old, with di-
rections to repeat the dose in four hours This is
adose for grown person, and, ordinarily given,
would bea safe one, but given to an infant must
cause death with absolute certainty. 1t is a
common custom for people to 90 to the apothe-
cary rather than to the doctor for ''physic,"
and they do not know the exact limit of safety
in this respect; and while spothecaries sell
drugs on such call they should be made re-
sponsible for such atrocious heedlessness as
distinguishes this case. The subject Of tho
sale of poisons Is one that needs entire re-
vision In the law. We have o provision for
bidding the sale Of certain number Of poi
sons whose names are more familiar to the peo-
pie; but there IL an infinite number beside
these whose sale Is not forbidden at all. We
believe our own statute forbids tho sale Of
poisonous doses Of opium, and II this is true
there isnot single bottle of the soothing syrups
and similar abominaHons sold in the shops but
exposes the seller to penalty. Has not the
Board Of Health some duties In this direction?
The New York herald., 1869-09-03

Too Coop TO BE TRUE-The reported dis
covery of coal mine twenty-five miles from
Buffalo, in New York. A railway hedging
device, most likely
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-22

market and prices are steady st 40 to 42c.
Good so TO 35c.
Taere is s light demand for BEANS.
Iized White 2 to 50 so per busnel'
Npvy 3 TO So 50.
The PEsvIsIoN market is very hrm
and Sole holders Of meats ask ! TO tc
higher. but the advance is hard to re-
aI;zs. Mess Pork 80 50 to S33 90 In
larga and email way. Prime Mess 29 90
20 $50 90. Prime Pork q 90 to SIS 90.
Rumps 26 to $2S. Jowls ga. Clear
bulk Sides 161to 1870. Clear Ribl5z 70
Ie.. r b Sides Is to 15@c. Shoulders
l2f to 1889. Bacon, clear Sides la TO
I74c. Shoulders 1871 to lac. s.. c. Hams
plain, 1871 to Ice. 8. G. csnvassed % to
2lc. Lard, in ~tierces, is to 19c; kegs
1871 to zoe; caddies 201 to 2l3e.
There ia no change in COFFEE All
grades are in fair supply and light DE-
mand. We quote ordinary to choice
Rio 10 to 26o; Java "a to S5c.
There is a fair stock of CORNMEAL on
hand and demand is mostly IN s small
way. Fresh, 8 so to So IS Kindred,
8 rs to "a.
The demand is active for al kinds Of
DRIED FRUITS. Dried Apples 8 to l2ci
Peaches IL to lac.
The supply OF EGGs improves and
prices sre lower. We quote at is to lSc'
La FLOUR there is no change.
All grades are dull and weak.
superfine 5 so to IS 25 X6 so to 81;
Xxx so to IS SO; xxx and Fancy
brands 9 to Sll.
The FEED market is only moderately
active. No Corn upon the levee; held
In store at SOC. Oats are steady at IS to
/ sos. Bran scarce at Sc. Hay firm and
scarce at 26 to S27.
Thu HIDE market is dull and prices
wesk. Green 9 to 93c; Salt 103 to lie; Dry
Salt, 2Ic; Dry Flint, &c.
Cape and Alabama LIME held at 1 20
to 81 per barrel. Utica IS to s.. Louis
vile Cement2 50 to So.
In SUGAR and MOLAssEs there is
no change and market fairly supplied.
Fair to Choice Yellow Louisiana 49, to
49,: Yellow and White Clarified Ice.
Moiasses IS to 9Oc as to quality.
Produce Of all kinds sells slowly.
Potatoes are weak, except Peach
blows, which are in fair de-
mand for eating at 2 90 to 81 p
per barrel. All seed varieties, in
Guiding Neshannoeks, Russetss PINK
Eyes, ETC., l 50 TO 81 per barrel. Sweet
Potatoes l to 81 25. Onions z to 50 per
barrel.
The POULTRY market is firm n
poorly supplied. Turkeys 20 to S24.
Geese s to So. Ducks6 so to 81. Chickens
6 so to 81.
The LIVE STOCK market is moderate
" active. The Bluff City stock-ysrd
quotes as follows for beeves: LIST class,
65G7Sc; 81 class, 5@6e; 81 class, 394c;
inferior, 2@3c; Mich Cows, SSO9l0O each;
work Oxen, S75@l25; Hogs, 99lOc,
gross T; Sheep, 1907 per head. The mar
kst for cheap Horses and Males has been
very active the last few days, and prices
range from S50@lS0.
The stock Of SALT is good and prices
are steady. Large Dairy. in seven
bushel barrels, "a 50. Small Dairy,
in 5 bushel barrels, So SO. Large
Common, in 7 bushel barrels, 3 80 to
s. so. Small Common, in 5 bushel bar
rels. ? 80 to 81 70. These are quotations
in lots from first hands.
There is a fair jObbing trade doing in
manufactured ToBACCOs and prices are
steady.
The demand for low WHISTLES re-
maiDs moderately active and prices
weak. Highwines SOC per gallon.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-22
FINANCE AND TRADE.
OFFICE OF THE DAILY APPEAL, /
MEMPHIS, April q, 1859.

IAN
The usual routine Of banking business
to-day was not varied by any incident
worthy of especial mention. AT every
COUNTS We heard the customary com.
plaint OF dull times and money easy for
all ordinary business purposes. tstern
cotton bills are offered ia sufficient
amounts to keep up Exchange balances,
and, as a general thing, cur banks man
g to get along very well by mutual &C
Communications. Bills are taken upon the
Fast at par and bank Exchange at c
premium, while the selling rate is steady
at fc premium.
City and other Bonds are in fair de-
msnd but no sales.
City, County and Police Scrips are IN
changed aud nominal.
Gold opened in New York a. l34o and
closed at 134Ic. Sterling Exchange
closed steady at I0Sfe for prime 60-dsy
bills. Money on call Z per cent.
Tennessee Bonds are improving rap
idly. Sales Of old were reported to-day
at zoe and new at oslo.
We have but light transactions to re-
port in Geld; 500 and $3.50 were taken
ct lS33e, and in one or two instances
I84s was, we believe, psid for small
amounts. Selling at l3429l35c.
Governments at the opening were dol
but generally steady. AT moor they
were 8 little 6rmer aud moderately &C
tive, closing somewhat unsettled.