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PCSTPONEMEST,

The above sale is postponed until the u JAN.
UARY, 1875, at the County Court OF nen[ice
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.


MINIATURE ALMANAC, JANUARY II, 1875.
sun rises. ,..... 40 Moon sets.......... OF
Sim sets. 4.50i High tide.......... 7.5U
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Rv Paine, cabelt & Co., Auctioneers'

r., Ry Paine, Cabet 81 So.s AuSIaoi1seS.0 $50 : j
aReE AND ATTRACTIVE SALE. r
-. On WEDNESDAY, 18th Instant ...'.:. =,
commencing at 10A O'Clock, we VIII Sc! sen a. out
,,,rebouse a large and desirable assortment Oh
pprsH and sEAsoNABLE GOODS, consisting
81 and FANCY DRY GOODS,
BOOTS, SHOES, aud BALMoRALs' -
READY-MADE CLOTHING
MEMS and BOYS HATS and CAPS
aERlNo SHIRTS, OVERSIZE RTs.
.i BLANKETS, COMFORTS, &c. &C.
-.r. 5g isl ALSO, 'ts" Il.
a large invoice, comprising ESQ dozen MEMS
FANCY SILK TIES, BOWS, and scARFs.
ALSO,
q large invoice Of STOCK GOODS, in good ORDER
Sale positive and without reserve.
PAINE, CABELL & CO..
o.s .aa 1wI Auctione ers.
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FINANCIAL.
RICHMOND srooK. EXCHANGE ~

!itst SATURDAY, January o.1s7s.
sALEs.-s1 600 Virginia consols sold at Or
n oao virginia consol. coupons sold ~ eo3
=, 'oS,n u.nchester Bridge S's sold at 90.
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BY Davenport Norris, Auctloheefs'
4 fiction SALE OF COFFEE.-On
a THIJRsDAY. 14th January, we VIII sell Ell: al
auction at our warehouse, corner DOCK aho h.rI
tenth streets at IL o'clock, Inc cargo co ..
"Penguin," direct from hio de 'aneiio' '0l''e
OF 1000 BAGS RIO COFFEE.
QUALITY MOSTLY PRIME-1S STRONG DOUBLE
BAGS.
Selected with great for the southern ana west
ern trade. Ia fGNI IN " nc,innaers
ja7 .reo
an assortment OF groceries. consisting OF
- LIVhRPOOL FINE SALT; 1900
EXTRA SUP H.RFlNE FLOUR; .#.
REFIN ED SUGAkS;
SYRUPS. FINE TEAS, BACON;
HERRINGS, &C., &C. ~.t.. w..
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| Real estate and personal property sold at public
auction or privately. houses and lands rented out
aud particular attention paid TO the prompt colee-
ton Of rents. ConyCyancing and notarial acknowl.
! edgm ats promptly attended TO.
| Real estate negotiations OF every description
| attended TO. ..... no 23-3m
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REGULAR LANDINGS ON oAAEo III 1r"
On and after WEDNESDAY,, Sept. %, 1874:
this Company's fast ano elegant steamer join
Captain j.. A. POST, carrying
United States Mall and Adams Express, will leave
wharf Rockets, for aboye-named points Mon.
DAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and FRIDAYS Ut e.3o
q Passengers make sure connections with Bay Line
at Norfolk for Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New
York ON
FARE TO NORFOLK AND RE-
Fare to Baltimore. ................"' W
Fare to Philadelphia. ....."...-.S e4
Tickets for sale on steamers, at GorDer q 20
Ticket Agency, Main street, and EXCHANGE H9tei
and baggage checked through. Freight recelVe'
daily for Boston, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, a.
regular landings on James river from A. d.. &c
sP. NJ, ut reasonable rates. 49,
Freight for way-landiugs must be prepaid:
LIB. TATUm, General Agent.
Office: Company's wharf, Rockets; branch OF.
fee at ". D. Blair & Co.'s, corner OF Ninth a1e
Main streets. Sc ZZ
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GENERAL RAILROAD
- TICKET OFFICE
RICHMOND TRANSFER COMPANY.

TICKETS on sale to all principal points In thu
unind States ana urope.
RATES SAME AS AT DEPOTS,
No trouble 10 give Information and answer letter.
Passengers aud baggage Called Tor, and baggage
checked from hotels and residences 10 destination
on all tickets sold by US. .lE
SLFEPING.CA TICKETS ON SALE.
The only railroad ticket office In the city where
passengers can have choice OF routes.
A. w. CARRIER. 826 Main street.
Branch ticket office at Exchange Hotel. ja4
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REAl, ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE.

BY j. Thompson Brown,
Real Estate Agent and Auctoneer,
Ills Main street, opposite Dispatch ONCE
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JAMES RIVER SrEA
ID COMPANY.
'. TRI-WEEKLY LINE. 14'-
.. WINTER SCHEDULE. ... -...
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FOR NORFOLK. PORTSMOUTH. BALTIMORE
PHILADELPHIA. AND NEW 4oHh,
ALSO FOR
pFcrT AR LANDINGS ON JAMES RIVER.
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FORT MONROE, January 9.-sailed: Brazilera
for hichmond; ship John Mann ana bark Irouba
dore, from Norfolk for Liverpool; brig Abbie L
Iitcomh, from Richmond for hio.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-27
Report of the Commissioner Of Indian
Affairs.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-In his forthcom-
ing report on Indian affairs for the last
fiscal year, Commissioner Smith will make
some important recommendations in regard
to the future management of the bureau.
That which will probably attract the most
attention, and which is supposed to be in
harmony with the views of the President,
Secretary Chandler, and other members of
the Cabinet, is the adjustment of the con-
tract system of purchasing supplies, and the
transferring of the whole of this portion Of
the business Of the bureau to the proper
branches of the War Department when the
purchases shall involve an expenditure of
81 900 or more. Commissioner Smith thinks
it will be better in all respects for the Indian
service if it can be relieved of every trans
action of a purely business or commercial
character, and devote itself exclusively, as
far as may be, to the civilization and educa-
ton of the Indians. His plan is that all
supplies of clothing, annuity goods, arms,
and ammunition, horses, wagons, tents,
farming and domestic utensils, etc, etc,
be furnished the agents for distribution by
the Quartermaster's Department of the
army, after having been inspected by an
officer of the arm to be appointed for that
purpose, SO that the agent shall be response
BILE only for the proper distribution of the
goods, and that all food be purchased IND
dropped at the agencies in the same manner
by the COmmiSsary Department of the army.
This VIII, on the one hand, relieve the
bureau of all suspicion Of financial manage
ment, and, on the other hand. will benefit
the agent in his official relations with the In
sians in many ways, and give him more time
to attend to their education.
COMMISSIONS Smith will also recommend
that the Indians living on reservations with
in the limits of certain States be transferred
to the care of the proper officers of those
States. There are now living in the State Of
New York on their reservation. and under
the care of the bureau, 1900 Indians: In
Wisconsin there are s 5000; in Michigan. o.
900; and in Minnesota, 5000. In each Of
these States the Indians nave reached a de-
gree of enlightenment and civilization that
separates them from what are known as
''plains, . or wild, Indians, and the same
systems do not applyproperly to both classes.
In each State there is property enough in
the reservation, if properly managed, to
educate each individual Indian TO the aver
age standard Of citizenship, and give them
permanent schools and churches. Commits
sioner Smith will recommend that the care
Of these Indians, their property and funds,
be transferred to the government of the
States in which they live, believing that ii
can be better managed, both for their in
terests and the interests Of the General Gov
eminent.
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-~Forty-five hundred Australians are
going to exhibit the products of their
island continent at the Centennial.
To such an extent have we become
the p%uryeyors to foreign governments
of arms for warfare that we export
yearly between 100000 and GOO, 000
stand of arms.
The interest in fish culture is in
creasing rapidly, and there are more
than double the fisheries now establish
ed in the country than there were a
couple of years ago.
According to a statement which
has recently been issued from the Blu
reau of Statistics Of the production of
gold and silver in the United States, the
annual average production of gold has
been $50, 10000.
-Pesnut-oil, which the Sout herners
took to making during the war, has be-
come very popular, and is now in large
demand. 1t supplies the place of olive
and almond oils in various uses, and is
lower in price, retains its purity and
flavor for a long time, and is less sus-
oeptible to the effect of light than olive
oil, The oil is extracted entirely from
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Foreign Notes.

The Prince of Wales and party
while in Cairo visited the Pyramids and
dined there. The Pyramids were illu-
minated for the occasion.
1t is reported from Paris that work
on the projected tunnel between En-
gland and France viii shortly begin.
Experimental borings will be made, and
if these result satisfactorily the main
work win be at once proceeded with on
the French side.
An English solicitor named Will
liam TAlley has been sentenced to twelve
months imprisonment at hard labor for
attempting to induce the plaintiff in a
case where he was counsel for the de-
PENDANT, to condone the oflense and ac-
cept a payment of money in place OF
continuing the prosecution.
The Mayor of Lille, France, hate,
music, and because his townspeoplt
have lately displayed a marked love for
the celestial gift, has issued a proclima.
ton forbidding the use of pianos and
organs in the city in all places open tC
the public after the LIST of November,
on the ground that they are nuisances
The Government of France decides
that the Pope cannot grant any title o.
nobility to its citizens, for the reason
that he is no longer a temporal soyer
eign, and hence has no authority to is
sue such titles. A large number Of
French noblemen received their title,
from Rome, and this decision of the
Government will be apt to create some.
thing of a sensation in France.
The royal family of England is said
to be a little mixed in its religion
Queen Victoria dislikes the Ritualists,
and delights in a simple form of wor.
ship. The Prince of Wales, on the con.
trary, enjoys the forms of the Church
whenever he attends, which is seldom
His eldest sister is a Lutheran. Lord
Lorne is a Presbyterian. The Duchess
of Edinburgh is a Greek Catholic, and
her husband is a Low Church Episco.
palian.
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Ind accidentally shot himself while
cur HlllitI1- M - - a. sun "
7i'ot' anu "' WIN i"'' '''' ms ~
Charley Crago, II years Of age at
Rochester, Ind, while turning somer-
saults from u spring-b0ard at school fell
upon his head, cracking his skull. He
lived four hours.
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1t is reported that Chicago is to
have a new university, which IS to be
called the university of the West and
to be under the control of the Reformed
Episcopal Church, and Bishop Cheney
rs chancellor.
The religious denominations of
Philadelphia are getting ready for the
coming Of Messrs. Moody and Sankey.
A large building at the corner of Thir-
teenth and Market Streets is being fitted
up for them. Much interest is shown
in the prayer-meetings which are now
held in anticipation of the coming of
the eyangelists.
The bodies of growing children are
soft and tender, easily made to grow in
either a normal or abnormal shape.
Now, to grow normally requires CON
slant change of position and freedom of
limb. 1t also requires exercise to make
the blood flow and load it with fresh
air. Now, confinement in a school
room, unless strict attention is given to
air and exercise, prevents their free de-
velopment and causes deformity. The
only remedy is to make physical culture
as prominent as mental, a thing not
yet done by any means in even the best
schools.-Herald of Healh.
The article relating to public
schools finally adopted by the Constitu-
tional CopvenGon of Texas, requires
the Legislature to establish and make
suitable provision for the maintenance
of free schools sets apart all the alter.
nate sections of lands reserved out OF
grants made to railroads and other cor.
porations, with one-half TIE remaining
public domain, as a basis for a school
fund and also requires that a part Of
the general revenue, not exceeding one
fourth, and a p~oll-tax of one dollar OIL
all male inhabitants between twenty-ont
and sixty years of age, shall be set apart
annually for the benefit of public
schools.
On Saturday, November 9th, foul
ladies sailed for Liverpool, in the steam
err "City of Berlin on then way tc
South Africa, to engage in teaching
There is a school for young ladies a
wellington, about forty miles from
Capetown, after the model of Mt. Holy
oke Seminary, of which a Miss Fergu
son, from this country, is already prin
cipal. Miss Emma Landfear, of New
Haven, Conn, goes to join and assisr
her in hat institution. Miss Caroline
S. I~ngraham, from North Adams, Mass.
goes to assist Miss Gibson, also from
America, in a school at S~tellenbosch
eighteen miles from Capetown. Mis-
Anna and Miss Nellie Smith, from Sun
derland, Mass, are to start another
school at Worcester, this and the school
at Stellenbosch being intended as feed
ers to the seminary at Wilmington. The
teaching is to be in the English Ian.
guage, among English and Dutch colo
nists. The climate and productions o
the country are all that could be desired
for comfort in living.-TndepeRdent.
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Taxes on National Banks.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-ln a supple
mental report the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue calls attention to the laws regulat-
ing taxes on national banks and on banks
not national, for the purpose of presenting
forcibly the exemptions on deposits in saw
ings banks. He says that national banks
pay to the Treasurer One-half Of one per
cent. each halt year on their deposits and
the same rate each half year on the amount
Of their capital stock not invested in United
States bonds. These taxes are collected by
the Treasurer, and constitute no part of the
internal revenue. The amount realized
during thu last fiscal year from this source
was S7,21O, 75S. 40, and the amount paid by
the national banks on deposits alone during
the same period aggregated S3,42l ,5l6.3l.
Other taxes on banks and bankers not ma
tional are collected under the Internal reye-
nue. laws nj the rate Of one twenty-fourth
of one per cent. each month on the capital
emploved beyond the average amount in
vested i'm United States bonds; of one
twelfth of one per cent. each month upon
the average amount OF circulation issued by
them. and an additional tax of one-siXth of
one per cent, each month upon the average
amount of such circulation issued beyond
the amount of ninety per cen OF the capital
of the bank, association, company or person.
BY the existing law deposits made IN saw
ings banks by any one person are mol liable
to tax unless they exceed 81 900, and thiseN-
emption, instead II being confined 10 savings
banks having no capital stock and doing no
banking business. j. now 10y recent legisla-
ton extended to classes OF Institutions OF
kindred names, having capital stock and
making dividends. The fruits oil TINS lesls-
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Our Mail Service Omeial Report.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-The Hon. James
n. Tyner, Second Assistant Postmaster
General, in his annua report, says:
During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1870,
the cost of inland mail transportation was as
follows: On 81 rail routes, aggregating
70,0S3 miles in length, 50, 216, BIS; on SO
steamboat routes, aggregating 10, 1SS miles
in length, 1864, 100; on 7,323fother routes,
designated ''Star' routes, aggregating 1872, =
002 miles in length, -, 453, 721. Total cost
during the fiscal year. So, 800, 800, which was
an increase of s, 1T6 miles in the length of
routes over the preceding year, and a de-
crease OF S4S, 6SS in the cost thereof.
The appropriation to cover the eXpendi-
ture for inland transportation during the
present fiscal year is ST., 54S, 600, and the
same sum is estimated for the next year.
The cost of mail routes in operation July /,
1875 1.-THE commencement of the present ifs
cal Year,. was S14, 949 ,669. 10, to which has
been added an increase for July, August
and September of $3.50, 1913. 81, which being
considered an average increase for the sew
eral quarters of the year. would make the
increase during the entire year 500, ia, PA.
Add to this the recognized service of rail-
roads, estimated d at S762 ,4S9. 70, making the
probable cost of inland transportation for
the present year &c., 1888. SO.
In conclusion, Gen. Tyner calls attention
to the interesting fact that the total appro-
priatiOns asked for the next year exceed
those provided for this year in the sum Of
only 81, AIS,
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The Bull and the Locomotive.

A two.year-old bull of a bellicbse and
disputatious turn of mind brought the
up train Yesterday morning to a stand
still lust this side of Mechanicville.
The engineer saw the bull on the track
and footed for him to get off. But the
young bovine evidently regarded the To-
connective as a big rival, and at every
foot of the whistle he answered back
with a below, and began to paw up the
dirt and lash his tail as if he could lick
all the bulls in creation. The whistle
snorted. The bull beloved. The en-
gineer hallooed att the bull. But the
bull lowered his head and challenged
the locomotive to come on. Then the
engineer stopped his train and went out
and told the bull to "git off, The bull
refused. And then the brakemen raj
lied, and a grand charge was made on
the bovine, but the bovine went for the
brakemen and drove them out. SO they
armed themselves with fence-rails ana
powders, and, amid the cheers and
shouts of the assembled passengers and
the inspiring shrieks of the whistle, the
iight openeA once more. For some time
il was doubtful which way the tide OF
battle would turn. Several times the
railroaders were put to flight. At last,
however, the bull was defeated by a
piece of strategy. A feint was made in
his front, while the enemy moved by
the flank, and, taking Mr.. Bull in the
rear, got possession of his tail. This
substantially ended the fight and the
bull was ignobly turned into the ditch:
The battle for the possession of the road
lasted about ten minutes and was one
of the most lively struggles for the pos
session of a railroad known in history.
-Sarat0qlqR.
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Combat Between a serpent and a Rat.

A friend yesterday gave MS an account
Of a desperate fight which he recently
witnessed between q cUtton-mOuth or
highland moceasin snake, about "a feet
long, and a large rat, The fight had
evidently been going on under the pick
ing-room of a Clubhouse, near whichour
friend and q companion were standing.
In the struggle the eembatants came
from beneath the house and within o
few feet Of them. The rat was evil
IDENTITY the assailing party, and would
rush upon his antagonist with the fury
of a small hyena. The snake would oc-
casionally make its coil and strike the
rat, knocking him ? feet. Nothing
daunted, however, he would return to
the assault, biting the snake wherever
he could catch hold, and shaking him
like q terrier killing q rat. At times
the snake would get him in its folds,
but the little fellow would struggle out
from the dangerous embrace. Both
combatants seemed totally oblivious OF
the presence of the gentlemen, although
they followed after them only . or q feet
distant. The snake frequently Fen-
d|eavored to escape by climbing a cot
ton stalk, but the rat would seize him
by the tail, tearing the flesh away and
finally pulling him down, though several
times the snake lifted him over a foot
from the ground. They fought IN TINS
manner at least 80 yards across the
patch of cotton. At length the snake
stretched itself out, to all appearance
dead, when the rat took a position 2 or
8 yards off, and quietly sat down and
licked himself, keeping a keen eye on
the gentlemen, though apparently with
out any fear of them. One OF them
struck the snake on the head, when
killed it, even if it were not dead before !:
The flesh was almost entirely torn OH
for at least a foot up its tail, which was
done while it was climbing cotton stalks,
The gentlemen left and were absent
half an hour. On their return to see
what had finally become OF the VIC
torious rat, neither rat nor dead snake
was to be seen, and they were SATISFIED
that the former had dragged OIL his
dead enemy, but whether to eat IL OF
not could not be known.
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200 IHais a.lH..UE tHt ft eIiu
f.9H lta . evidently Deco hE.uH H
bis HefrHa #JH yesterday De- aIEHlied
Ia U tg mfsa a.aH breast f tHH
natter, anI tai lhr whole truth
&C. s1fa De- iHgHa1fHteH Che carving
eyefoI5f Hf thn rtrd-fIHlet bt quietly
cutting fIt odd italian thfuui, holding
him hf The H8.F hud saving OBJ. dirk
across his wIuipipe ttI hc w. quite
detbI The other butchers, WIN we're
cutting uud sIashiug at the bog, failing
In distatebing him a4 easily as they bad
hoped, be- left thc ODD man and went e.
their assistance. and gave the boy q
stab that took his breath away from
him. With this, be- SAYS, be- put mp his
knife and took no further part, except
tp look on. from the front room, while
Arata, Ballette and Giuseppe cut the
thruatso % the other two bows rs they en-
tered by the back door, lie saws that
they took from "a belt, andalso a pocket
book. on the old MANS body, the sum
Of $500 I'm cold and 1917 in currency.
! A rood part Of this, he claims, was doIed
ont. in sums varying from $50 to $40,
te all The parties concerned in the crime,
/ and he denies having buried any por-
| tion Of the spoils, but saws his share,
eycanf the afnouut found mon him
when arrested. was spent in reaching
Nov Mexico. Cont acknowledges that
he GOT The others to ioin him in the
murder Deodata. whose ~preyarica-
lions are both amazing and anus
mo w1s tho first man spokep to
on tha .ubiact He aUreed to 90
" snogLs" with I'm in the murder.
Then ON the last dty of the Territorial
Fof,. FcInanIpz he Mexican. was
! askad to inin and chenrfnTv consented.
~snyiuo he could uuile them out of the
c] ooy}nf5Tv sofoIr 7AIafo the how whose
confesSinn has carried much weioht
With II whom sroken n. refnsed to take
mart Inf afar,yar5 consented One Inv
ppna 'hn yboIe gang were annrised and
onIietod ;n'the T9ndertaking
Conti,s reason for kiIin9 the old man
is his. Years ago he was following
bis trado of tinkeT in Now Orleans liz
,yas vory mncb liked bv All his Italian.
Frencb and Snanisb ac6-uaintances, and
tbe confidence in him was so sfronG hat
snvaraI Of Them dennsited their earnings
Nth him for safe keening In time
thosa nriroto danosits roIled mn into the
snm Of rs 1000 He thouobt he MIGHT
a. woIi reon some heneft from tbe funds,
and oncordingly loaned fine money to
an Italian f~rTitydeaIer, who came M TO