Show LATEST FROM EXCHANGES 1 1 A recent BECENT sanitary inspection of natchez discloses the fact that the city is at present populated as follows whites negroes neg roes roea 52 aw soldiers camped in the city limits 2671 total tim THE small town of frankenau in hesse resse cassel camel has been almost destroyed by fire the church town hall and one hundred and thirty houses with their contents fell a prey to the flames no lives were lost IT I 1 is s understood that the mission of gen sickles to bogota was for the purpose of obtaining grants of land for the purpose u 0 se of settling them with blacks rol vol from t the tho he united unite d states ates and that the late president who authorized the mission was willing to give fifteen millions of dollars for adequate territory THE cincinnati gazette clipping from various newspaper accounts respecting the growing crops says we have already produced enough from our exchanges to show that everywhere throughout the land the husbandman will be reet greeted edwith with the most generous harvest A delegation from scotland representing a capital of four millions of dollars has arrived at washington with a proposition to tb invest in southern lands on account of penson persons s composed of the industrial classes wh who 0 will emigrate at once if encouraged to do so accounts continue to be received of the rava ravages es of smallpox small pox in ill jamaica and the mortality among the laboring classes in the interior districts the people have been dying like rotten sheep while about bay those afflicted have been see seen m exposed on the highway there being no place provided for their reception by the public iconoclasm image breaking seems to be on the In increase Orease in france the allegorical statue of the city of lille on the place de la in concorde was some time back badly mutilated mutilated and more recently the hands were broken oft off the statues of st louis and st elizabeth which had been placed at the great door of the church ot of st elizabeth in the rue eue da du temple paris U UNDER MER instructions of the ni ravy navy av I 1 department part ment league island off philadelphia was visited for the tile purpose of preparing it for the iron clada elada which are all to be laid up there are several monitors in the stream off the city which came up lip I 1 from the south atlantic squadron including the iron ironclad clad nad nock lea league ue island is the site poff coff offered ered by the city of philadelphia to the government for the navy yard ard FROM the kentucky auditors report for 1864 the louisville journal has compiled a statement of which the following are the totals whites owners of slaves slaves total free colored indians 33 3 aggregate population THE tiar news from the south received by way of new orleans has a very cheerful aspect the tone of the newspapers as well as the accounts given by correspondents is different from anything received before since the commencement men cement of the war and much improved in as compared with the contents of any previous mail even by recent arrivals this is true both in regard to business prospects and the political con of the interior of the southern country from which advises advices ad vices necess necessarily arll arii y have been meagre in mississippi an and arkansas than which few states have been more addicted to fire eating cating there seems to be a prompt and positive a acque asi c q essence in the results of the war and a disposition on all sides patch up broken fortunes in the most expeditious manner preparatory to the resumptions of business in the old way few vew symptoms of disorder are anywhere manifested mani the gradual restoration of railroad lines iines nes and mid resumption of navigation 0 in the interior in in connection wit with 11 the abolition of the passport system and gen candys order removing trade restrictions strict ions encourages a better feeling in all respects journal of commerce THE crops in ireland are reported from all quarters to be in a very catisi factory condition potatoes hay wheat flax and oats are all in a forward state and the most beautiful weather continues throughout the island TIIE tile loss by a recent fire in quebec is estimated at one million dollars the distance devastated by til the e fire is about one third of a mile AN A i explosion of firedamp nire fire damp occurred at the new pitts pitta colliery near gar ar england fifteen dead bodies had teen been brought up to the bank and it was supposed that 30 or 40 remained in the pit miss MARIA MAKIA MA ria KIA IMITCHELL has been appointed astronomical professor in the vassar female college poughkeepsie the only known instance of a ladys holding such a position miss M is the discoverer of a comet which bears her name |