The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1851, Page 6

~ me anne JAMBS GORDON BE PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. eee OPTICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. | onaeeenoaed DAILY HERALD, 3 cents per copy—$l per ropa. oe 88 paid for. m Fonsien Conaas- — PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO SBAL ALL — ve. ' Subscriptions, or with be ire iceae ‘will be | communications, | ‘cash in advance. | ie ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. CASTLE GARDBN—No performance | BOWERY THEATERS, Bowery—Youxe Wi0ow—Tanum — ‘Wranvsmes. Wiese. fn. opined mitece Matin nn | DOUBLE SHEET. | . Mew Yeo a@ay, Augast 12, 1851. ‘Telegraph’c Summary. Our telegraphic intelligence gives information of | another murder, perpetrated about two years ago, we ie believed, in Vermont. The examination of | Gh, ia Rhode Island, for the murder of his ches 2lso commenced, Certainly, never have ‘the columns of the public journals teemed wish so many accounts of murder as now. Are these horri- "ble crimes increased by the agitation of the ques- tion of abolition of capita! punishment ? We have intelligence from Cienfuegos, Cuba, three days Jater than before received, which reports all quiet n het pla e and vicinity. Arrival of the Arctic—Four Days Later from | Europe. | The Collins steamship Arctic, after a very short passage, arrived at this port yesterday morning. ‘We publish all the interesting aews which can be gleaned from our files of European papers, which have four days’ later dates than those before re- eeived, and als: telegraphic despatch reveived at Liverpool asthe steamship left her moorings. ‘The news is not of much importance. Cotton has advanced about one-eighth of a penny on the pound. ‘The state of the money market in London and Paris is worthy of observation to those who deal in exchange. ‘The political news is such as we were prepared for by the preceding arrival from Europe. The Creton proposition has been rejected ia the Legis- lative Assembly of France, and the proposed disso- Iution of the session was really to take place on the tenth instant, and to continue till November next. What events may take place in the meantime to | ebange the character of the Assembly by the } period of its next session, will be interesting | studies. Doubtless, many attempts will be made | to strengthen the re-action in some minds against the republic. In England, the session of Parliament, also, was to be terminated on the Sth inst. The Jewish dis- abilities question bas been before Parliament; but the decision was, as heretofore, against both Mr. Salomons and Baron K othschild. ‘There are rumors from Spain that Mazzini, or his friends, b: been attempting to create a revolu- tionary feeling in that country. We can scarcely bdelieve that Mazzini is engaggd in any such work. the restoration of Italy from her enemies; and the ebsurd reports of thie kind must be well known to those who couple his name with them. The op- pressors of Italy detest him for bie republican prin- iples. street—Richarn Now that the whigs have agreed to suspend hos. tilities against each other, there will be a calm in the tempestuous ocean fcr a few weeks. The ac- tion of the convention will be awaited with the greatest. anxiety, and should the Sewardites mani. fest theiberality of allowing an equal nember of candidates to be placed on the State ticket, as the trianguler committee of Albany privately agreed wpon, then there may be some degree of unity @bserved at the polls. On the contrary, should Weed, Gook, Geddes & Co. demand and usurp the lion’s.chare, then the silver gray presses, the Albany Register, Buffalo Commercial, Rochester Americon, “Troy Whig, and the lesser satellites, will repew ihe warand open their batteries upon the abolitioniets with renewed force, energy, and effect. Until that interesting day arrives, am ar- | pistice will prevail. Well, how ero mattere on the other hand? Is there any fraternity, any real tellowship, any #in- oerity in the leading ranks of the democrate ' Their united State Committee have agreed to | hold a single convention for the nomination of a | State ticket. Ie chere a possibility of uniting upon a platform! Net content with adopting the se Mente of the last tate Convemion, which declared that the slavery qacetion wes no party test, aod that every man, damocrat or whig, was entitled to his individual views upon that rubj without in- fisting upon its being brought into par’y actioa, the hunker presses now declace that res:lations shall be adopted, and candidates sustained upon the principles of the compromise measures of the This sceertion is daily uttered b, | last Congress the most inluential bunker presses in the in : te able of this = Not bewg p aaa j tional democratic pre i at section of | the party, being without an organ, are not aware of | ebe wore ments of t brethren in other portion as | ' of the State. On the reverse, the m as, feeklers, intolerant, unecrepulous, insolvent, do arepit baroburners, insist © this effort to en- deree the compromive is sustaining a whig measure They call the cotvioment of the davery qe oa @hig measare, and cal! upon aeir handful of tacit follower to reeut the * which will be made the Mth of Soptember, at Syracuce, to compromise, and thereby stifle all further agiiation on the subject of devery The selection of delegates to the State Cony theo will soon take place; and, as it is A te have only one, the strife for the wastery will b spirited, enthusiastic, and even desperate There tan be no doubt as to the result, for the pabli> mind baring been troubled and disturbed with this Gil absorbing sgitation until it has become d's Ag wrted, the peopie of reason, reflection, and sober oa ‘Bt, Fill bot conrent to open the wouad which ir Bow | it fair progress of soon bewoming healed. The excit, “Ment in relation to the Fugitive Slave law was fannea into threatening flames when Crafts and Ehadrec > Were reecued from the hands of the public eathoritie* at Boston, and when Thompson, the | British rene Gee and agitator, and tale, Wendell Phillipe, sue! others, threatened defiance to the goverment But the promptnce: with w Scestaissetion gceted in arresting the rescuers of | hadrach bas lulls! the violent storm of agitation Thompeon har returs, od to F-ngland, Hale, Vougiags, fam. Ward, and Joos Van Baron have tinued agitation, and > ncluded that ther united powers were impotent im opposition to the consti tation of the country and the laws of ¢ “ The disbanded, factions rexvnant of v Pereberners aleo sssert, with impudent serarance, ghet the compromise measures pel! not be em Goreed at Syracuse, beonuse it ina “ win,? measure, end by thas sanctioning the tettlemem of the Derery question they will be “ sustaining tho whig wetain the h the administration.” This is the language of Saarie- yowof the A bany Atlas. Why, the most casua) reader well koows that the leading men of both the main parties in Congress labored zealously for those measures; Clay, Cass, Webster, Disk- inson, Crittenden, Foote, and so on, were the statesmen who discarded party affinities, and solemnly united in an effort to arrest the whirlwind of desolation, and restore peace and tranquillity to the country. What makes the com- promise a whig measure? 1s there anything that can make it so ! Did not a large majority of the Se nate vote for those laws? Was that body whig? Assuredly not. Did not the House, by an emphatic vote, sanction them also! Was the House whig ? Most certainly not. Then the compromise mea sures, as they were presented by the Senate com- mittee, after much reflection and deliberation, were placed inthe hands of a democratic Congress; and both houses, by decided majorities, adopted them, and assumed the responsibility. A whig President Teheantepec and Coatsacualcoas route, or those Nicaragua mysteries and high sounding treaties or tne Panama route, with miasma and sickness, which, thus far, have resulted in but perplexi- ties, vexations, and loss of time and money. Is the Atrato, also, a mere lithographic enterprise ? Can the work be done? Willitbe done? Will it dot Will it pay! We pause for the answers to these questions. Portv@aL ann THE ARMSTRONG Cram. —We publish, to-day, in another column, the statement made by the claimants im thecase of the armed brig General Armstrong against the goverament of Portugal, a3 filed by them in the Department of State of the United States. According to the last advices from Paris, it appears that the President of the French republic has been lected by Portugal as the arbitrator to decide on the justice of this claim, which has been for so long a time pending between Portugal and the United States. The argument of the claimants is sound and possessed the veto power, but did not exercise t, and he signed those bills, as any patriotic Presi- dent should have done. Such is the truth, in a nutshell, and the attempt to carry agitation to Syracuse, by assuming that the compromise mea- sures are solely whig doctrines, and thereby pre- venting the endorsement by the Democratic State Convention, will be labor in vain, and will prove unsuccessful. Although the barnburner faction in the last State Convention refused to endorse the resolutions which were carried om that occasion, still the masse of them sustained the State ticket, by which they succeeded in electing Mr. Church, Lieutenant Go- vernor; Charles 8. Benton, Clerk of the Court | of Appeals; and B. F. Angel, State Prison Inspec- tor—all the candidates of their order upon the tick- et. The nominations now to be made are Comp- troller, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Engineer, Canal Commissioner, Attorney General, and State Prison Inspector. The first and fifth are the most important offices, and have the power of dispensing more patronage than all the remainder. The desire i ited of power and lust for effice may induce a united sup | hundred or three hundred men, while on the part port of the ticket, provided the hunkers manifest a liberality in dividing the candidates equally between | the sections. Tbe barnburners, insignificant as they now appear, possess still sufficient strength to defeat the ticket. The barnburner section possess another element of agitation, which they will thrust in the conven- tion. That is, the canal enlargement question. Having taken the lead in opposition to the bill— having induced the twelve Senators to resign— forced a new election, and resisted the bill with all their power, and still declare their intention to repeal it, while the hunkers have either remained dormant, or partially favored the bill; it is plain to see that discord must prevail upon that question. Certain it is, whether the canal law be strictly con- stitutienal or not, the party that attempts to take iseue upon that question in November, will be beaten by twenty thousand in the State. The bunkers will avoid making that issue, and will en- deaver to make nominations of such men as have not been at all conspicuous on either side of the controversy. These facts and suggestions we present for the benefit of all concerned. Isthmus Canal Communications —The Atrato Route. It is already known, that a Mr. Blagg, of New York, and a Senor Para, of New Granada and company, have secured of the Congress of that re public the exclusive right of way for an inter- oceanic ship canal, from the Gulf of Darien on the Atlantic side, southward by two natural water lines, tothe Pacific ocean. Very little, however, is known of this route, although actually navigated fiom ocean to ocean, by the Jesuits, in boats carrying merchandise, more than sixty years ago, or as early as 1738. Near the Pacific ocean, six degrees north of the mountains, are the sources of two rivers, inter- | lapping each other. The larger river, the Atrato, flows northwardly ; and the range of mountains to the right, sheering off towards the peninsula of | Magdalena, leaves a wide opening for the river to | the Gulf of Darien, after a course of about 150 | miles. The other river flows southward, and the range of muuntains ea the west declines so as to admit of an easy passage into the Pacific. This river is called the San Juan, (a very popular name for rivers with the Spaniards, because of the his torical associations of Ss. John the Baptist with the sacred river of Palestine.) The San Juan has a course of about one hundred and twenty-five miles, aud empties into the Pacific through several chan- nels, the mouth of the principal one being desig- | nated Point Chiramira. The whole distance by | this route from the mouth of the Atrata, in the Atlantic, eight degrees north latitude, to the de ow hure of the San Juan in the Pacific, four degrees north fatitude, is two hundred and seventy-five miles. Through the whole of this distance we are informed that the two rivers afford from six to eight feet water, excepting an interval of four hun. dred yards between the head waters of the two | stream; and across this interval, grown up with | tropieal vegetation, are the remains of the Jesuit canal, used by them in their commercial tra: t between the Atlantic and Pacific, upwards of sixty yearsago. Itis cetimated that the sum of five hundred thousand dollars will re-open the canal and remove the obstructions in the two rivers, 40 as to admit of the passage of steamboats and vessels drawing from six to eight feet water, from ocean to ovean. Our informant reports a good harbor on both sides, and appoars to be well satisfied of the practical advantages of the route As evidence of the feasibility of this proposed cans] communication, we are informed that a British compaoy, backed up by Lord Palmerston ord the Baring?, a (serman company, possessed of an immense capital, and several different individa. ais from the United States, were also applicants to the New Granadian Congress for this monopoly, which wae finally sevured by Mosere. Plogg, Phelpe & Co., by placing the name of Senor Para a citizen of that country, at ihe head of the firm Among the Americans captivated by this Atrato * ¢ understand, Dr. Foots, of Buffalo, our ate Charge to Bogote, may be coumorated that his return to the United States bi rganization of a company w, whether the Atrato route is exactly the thing represented or not, we shall know ia dee season. If five hundred thousand dollars wili open | @ communication there between the tw oceans, for steamers of even four feet draf:, the work may be completed #0 as to monepolise the interoceanic trade for many yeare to come, excepting the small | proportion which can be absorbed by the Panama railroad. The Tehuantepoc schetwe scems to be postponed for an indefinite extension of time—the Nicaragua enterprise appears to have had its bot- tom pariy knocked out by the local government— | the Panama route drags its slow length along | atidst sickness; and, therefore, this Atrato route turns up in the very nick of time Bat the New Granadian government has also | ented another right of way to a Senor Gonzales, of the provinces of Choco. It i ight of way fi a river aod canal communication up the Atrato some twenty or thirty miles, thenve throug’ an im- mense pile of mountains, by travelling, to the | river Eupica, and thence down that stream to the Pacific. The distance, by tis route, would be nly some fifty miles; bat the tunnelling of the mountains, it is said, would be some fifty millions of doliers. But what ie that, if the work can be done, nd will anewer the purpose of a transi; for ships the neck of the continent ? The policy of the New Granadian government, im ite grante of mercial privileges, seome to be & liberal and enlightened policy. We hope that the results of its contracts and privileges, conceded for isthmus canals and ratlroxde, will roewls in very able one, and will be found highly interesting, more especially as the case is pow attracting the attention of the diploma- tists of all Europe. The main question involved is purely a principle of international law, and is strongly sustained by all the clementary writers on the laws of nations, that where a national power permits the violation of her territory by a bellige- rept, who captures and destroys the property of an enemy within her ports or territory, the neutral government is liable to the owner of the property for all loss thus sustained. The capture of the private armed brig Genera, Armstrong, by a Ryitish fleet, at Fayal, one of the Azore islands, in September, 1814, and her total destruction, during the last war between the Uni- ted States and Great Britain, was one of the most flagrant violations of the lawe of neutrality ever rage on civilization. The defence made dy her gallant commander, Captain S. C. Reid, was one of the most signal ever recorded in naval his- tory. The English are reported to have lost two of the Americans only four men were killed and seven wounded. The government of Portugal, immediately after the affair, demanded and receiv. | outrage committed by her naval forces im the terri- tory of Portugal, and on her citizens, but no indem- | nification was made by England for the loss of the American brig, although it was demanded at the same time. | Portugal never denied her liability to this go. vernment until within a few years; and the reason, we presume, why she was not pushed for a settle- ment before, was on account of her internal revolu- tions and the unsettled affairs of that couatry. When, however, a peremptory demand was made by General Taylor, she was doubtless instigated by England (who is ostensibly the responsible party) to deny her liability, on the pretext that the Ame- ricans had first violated the neutrality of the port. part of the expedition, then concentrating at Ja | New Orleans; that a small vessel or tender was re- | quired to ascend the Mississippi and other adjacent waters, and that Captain Lloyd, the commander of the fleet, determined on the capture of the General Armstrong fer that purpose. If these are the facts, which we have no reason to doubt, the baseness of the transaction is unparalleled, and a stronger claim for indemnity could not well be made out. These facts are sufficient to show the strong pre- judice and hatred which the English government entertains against the rights of the claimants, and the reason why its writers and its press have not ceased to make the grossest misrepresentations, on all occasions, by distorting the facte. It is urged | po by England that this little Yankee brig, British feet, ming vu ond U1 hus became the aggressor! None but a lunatic | ae could be capable of making so ridiculous an aver- | ment. The facts are, as set forth to us by reliable committed, and was regarded at the tima as anout- — ed an apology and reparation from England for the | We are nformed that the British fleet composed a | maica under Admiral Cochran, for the capture of Of Re uahstetetrestanotee hers atk, 7? ‘The Oli Street Murder. EVIDENCE TAKEN AT THR CORONER'S INQUEST— THE VERDICT OF THE JURY. | Coroner Geer, according to previous notice, yesterday morning held the inquest at the Second ward statien | house, im Beekman street, on the body of Edward Smith, | the mam stabbed and killed on Sunday afternoon, by James Sullivan, at No. 4 Cliff street. Soon after 10 o'clock the Coroner empannelled a jury, who were con- veyed to view the body, which was still lying at the house in Cliff street, where the affray took place. Dr. LeRoy, the gentlemanly and skilful surgeon from the City | Intelligence. AWAFE mena a BE POISONED BY HER HUS- BAND—STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES—CORONER GEER CALLED TO HOLD AN INQUEST ON THE BODY—AR> REST OF THE HUSBAND ON SUSPICION. | Yesterday # remarkably suspicious case was brought to — the notice of the Tenth ward police, respecting the very suspicious and sudden death of Mra. Victorine Grunzlg, wife of Otto Grunzig, residing at No. 105 Eldridge street, in the rear. From the circumstances attending the j affair, and the eppesrance of the dead body, it is truly | believed that the deceased has been killed by poison, | supposed to be arsenic, but by whom administered | gud Martin Liviley. of East Uhester, were picked up. and taken to the Eleventh ward station heure. They consist of a cloth snuff colored pants, ‘and claret culored coat. vi Bovirs Fourp.—Three bodies have been recovered ftouy the wreck of the schooner Ellen. run down on the of the 24th of Jul have been identit Chester; Hevry Clay Barker. of Arzival of the Frigate St. I-awrence. The American frigate 8t. Lawrence arrived at this portlast night. forty-two days from Lisbon, She left: this pert about six months ago, with the American con~ Hospital, who made the post mortem examination, ®- | remnging tobe ascertained. Suspicion at present rests on | tributions for the World's Fair, After her splendid re~ companied the jury, and explained to them the extent of the wound and the direction of the knife. The jury re- | turned back to the station house, where Captain Leon- | ard, the efficient officer of chat district, arranged « very accommodating place to hold the investigation, and was | remarkably attentive to the wants of the reporters, for | which, as one, we return our acknowledgements. The | following is the | ‘TESTIMON’ William Kline beiog sworn, says-—T ama policeman of | the Second ward; about two o'clock om Sunday after- noon. an alarm ceme to the station house that a man bad been stabbedat No 4 Cliff street; I went tothe | | place. accompanied by officer Sullivan; on arriving there, | we inquired where the prisoner was. aad was told by se. | veral that Sullivan was up stairs in his room. we went to | the door and it was found locked; we knocked, and when — it was opened. we saw Sullivan standing bebiud the door; we immediately took bim into custody; we saw the room in great confusion, broken dishes, &c., about the | have done the same ar [ did if you had been placed uao- | der the like ciroumstances;” we then led bim to the sta- tion houre; after taking Sullivan to the station house, J returned to No. 4 Clif sireec, apd saw the deceased; he was lying in the front room on the first floor; [ examine his body aud saw a wound in the left groin; he was dead af this time; a great quantity of blood was on the floor near the body. Jamex Walsh being sworn, says:—I reside at No. 4 | Cliff street, ‘aud-at about balf-pist one o'clock op Sun- | day, I besrd the quarrel im the room of Sullivan; I went | from my room on the second story, and I saw at the | Sooewey of Sullivan's room the deceased with his foot across the door and Sullivan inside the ron, and the remopetrating with him about he wife of Sullivan was-then | decessed was apparent | breaking the furniture; away in another room for fear of her husband; the de- ceased then left the doorway, supposing Sullivan would | not break any more cf the crockery, but Sullivan again | broke some dishes, and them the deceased entered the room. and a struggle ensued between them, and they went down on the floor; then went into the room to | separate them; at that time Sullivan had the deceased by the sbirt. aud the deceased had sullivan by the hair of the head. and succeeded in loosing the grasp of the | deceased, and then the wite of Sullivan and another | woman rushed into the room and fell on the dresased, apd began beating hin and tearing his clothing; Sullivan was then clear from the Reoraped, and I saw him run to the closet. and, as [ believed he was going to gst a pistol, which he threw towards me; I next saw them struggling together on the landing cf the stairs, when soom after be cried out he Wat tabbed, and weot dowm stairs; T saw | three wounds, from which the blood rpouted out pro- fusely; one on the arm one on the buck of the shoulder, | and the other in the left groin ; J immediately went for a doctor, and on my retura with the physician. the de- ceased was pronounced beyond recovery, and he died in a few mir utes after, Richard Brennan sworn, says—T reside at Nov4 Cliff street; about half-past one o'clock on Suaday I visited the deceased, im his room up stairs; I wanted hin to room; the prisoner, after his arrest, said, “You would | 9; | and fearing I might be the victim, I ranout of the room; | after that the women tore the shirt off the deceased. the hutband and «® young woman named Marge- retta Lawrence, who was mistress to Grunaig prior to the arrival of his wife in this country. The parties are all foreigners, from Germany. Grunzig has been in this country about fourteen months, and his wife ouly about four months, during which she has been absent from the city half of the time, and was not aware of the resi- dence of her husband. THowever, prior to the arrival of his wife, Grunzig had been, for the last fourteen months, cohabiting as man and wife with Margaretta Lawren a and achild was the result of their intercourse, The wife ultimately discovered the residence of her husband,and on last Thureday a week ago, she visited the house No. 1C5 Eldridge street, and took up her abode, The mistress | was now compelled to vacate her habitation and seek some other place, but before leaving, it is said she uttered some revere threats t the life and safety of the le- | it agains! timate Mrs Grunzig. The next day, or the day after, | | the wife after eating some beef steak was taken with violent vomiting, and so continued at intervals. Dr. Landermann of No 55 Allen street, was sent for, and to | him sbe communicated the suspicion that she had beea | poisoned, since which time she has been declining, and | yesterday merning about one o'clock, “rm. pr agaia taken With violent vomiting and expired in about an hour after. Within the lart few days, a Dr. Le Grand of No. 78 Walk- er sireet, wes called in to preseribe; and yesterday after her death, at the request of her husband, he gave a cer- } tifieate for the burial of the body, setting forth the cause of death to be “inflammation of the bowels.” It is very true, no doubt, that the death was caused by intlam- | mation of the bowels or stomach, and when the post mor- tem exaroination is made to-day, it may be discovered | that the iuflammation was caused by arsenic, or some | other poison slike in its effe Burely ic is t the sus. picion atterding the whole affair permits the idea of foul | play, and not until @ medical examination has taken | Pluce, and the circumstances are fuily scrutinized by a jury, will the fucts exhibit themselves. Mr. Andrew Bieakly, the efficient deputy coroner, was at the house of the deceased last , and ordered the arrest of the husband, to be det nt il after the investigation, | ‘The inquest wiil be held at 11 o'clock this day. A surveil- lance was also placed on the movements of Margaretta, | who resides at present at No, 40 Elm street. | THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS—THE ANNUAL ELECTION OP OFFICERS. At the annual election of officers of the Grand En- | eampment and Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which has just been held at the Odd Fel- jows’ Hall, the following are the results: — GRAND ENCAMPMENT. Grand Potriarch.—Whole number of votes cast, 51; necessary for a chvlcé, 26. N.B Mountfort received 45. | Grand High Priest. —Whole number of votes cast 49, | of which three were blanks; necessary for a choice 24, | James Batebelior received 25 |” Grand Senior Warden.—Whole rumber of yotes cast, | 60, of which four were blanks; mgeessary for a choice, 24. come to dinner; the deceased raid te me, “I wonder | RG Millard received 43. what Sullivan is about. kickiog up all this noise; when I go down to, dinner.” said he “C shall go in‘wnd settle the differefige between him and bis wife;” the deceased | went down stairs before [ did. aud when I was going down, I raw bim st» nding with hix knee across the door. — way of Sullivan's rgom, and was remonstrating with him, { ina nice, pleasant manner, about breakiag his things, saying that he (Sullivan) had a sober wife, and that he ought not to abuse her, and. ae it was the Sabbath, he should desist feom further noise; Sullivan replied that | own things if be pleased; I then went down stairs. on coming up stairs again, to go to my own room, T saw "the deceased and Sullivan talking loudly t ; [then went up stairs, and shortly afver 1 heard a great noise, | and, on going down steirs, I saw the two women—Sulli- Fan's wife and another worman—-and Sullivan hitnsel. all on the deceased. in which the shirt of deceased was torn off; I took the watch from the neck of deceased; he was then on the stairs, and I told him not to go up again, apd cautioned him to beware of a kyife; he went up | in to the room, and soon after he came down stairs — | por pacts he was stabbed; the blood was copiously flowing from the wounds; I saw three wounds, as the | deceased was without a shirt: Irhould say that the de- ceased and the prisoner had both been drinking. bat they were not drunk by apy means; they well kacw | what they were doing. | Eliza Ferrie sworn, says—She Pa boarding house | at No. 4 Cliff street, and heard the varbance ia Sulli- his hand in his jates; after he strack me eased von after came room, breaking the dishes aud T came down stairs, and the stairs tied vung ovvneten, EUAVE disturbance. Jobn Donnelly. policeman of the Second ward, sworg. oftteers; the room wes in @ disordered state, breken authority, thatas soon as the fleet came up to the _ plates and dishes about the floor, and the prisoner ap- harbor, which it entered for the purpose of the cap. ‘d much excited; I searched his person, but dif not | find anything; I then arrested Mrs, Sullivan, and the ture of the brig, they commenced signalizing with | woman. Mary Moran. as aiding in the death of Smith; I each other, and four large launches were hoisted | out, and they could plainly see from the brig that inflicted, but could pot find any; I muskets were being passed into the boats, before | The intention was | palpable. The statements and arguments which | | have characterized the British press have been | dictated by prejudice and bad temper, and every | | resort bas been made use of to prejudice not only — nt sae the world in regard to the facis, but to sustain Por- | | tugal in ber unjust refusal to indemnify the cla m- | | apy reconroitering took place. | ants, and even to prejudice the government of the | United States, and stultify its efforts in recovering | for theclaimants their undoubted rights. As we bave said before, “all that we can rely upon is that Louis Napoleon will be governed more | by the facts, and the law of nations, than by the opinions of tae British press; and it seems to us that their intermeddling in the matter, at this point of | the busin is neither necessary nor strictly magnanimous. | clusive in favor of the American government, and | of the rights of our injurea citizens. Tue Barreny Extanoemenr.—Is there a law for the rgement of the Battery! The law wa patsed—the law was vetoed; yet some contend that the veto was a nullity, and others that the law was a dead letter without the veto. Will the two boards take a sweat on the subject, and decide the question of law between his Honor the Mayor and dir. Conklin—whe will, probably, insist upon his right to fill up the harbor! We have a right to krow whether the harbor isto be diminished, or the Battery is to be enlarged; or whether the city is to be saddled with an expensive lawsuit. Ie not the Mayor's veto a good legal veto? Will our city fathers be good enough to throw a little light on the subject! a little gas light, if you please. Tne Oxrorn Bayx Case.—Tue Decision oF rice Morwrrort to Hew rae Derenpanr Past. —It will be seen, by reference to another column, that Justice Mountfort gave his decision jerterday, in the Oxford Bank case, in which Miles Bradley, of Cincinnati, was charged with ob- @ money by false pretences, from Robert Barber, of St. Louis. ‘The decision is to hold Mr Bradley to bail in the sum of $3,000, and Mr. Bar- ber in the sum of $1,900, to testify. It will aleo be seen that the Justice deals out some hits at “ others.” Tho case has been removed, by certir rari, before the Supreme Court. re Tre Granp Mansiant, Jemere at Casta Gaapen —Everybory who desires to be present at the greatest festival of its kind on record, will visit Castle Garden sometime to-day, or during the even- ing. Arrangements have been made for every one’s | comfort, and the entertainment speaks for itself, by | the monster progr Bettini, it is said, will ring from “ Robert Devereaux,” in addition to ap- pearing in another opera ; and Salvi, Lorini, Bosio, and the others, will all appoar to advantage after 2o'clock. The doors will open at * o'clock this morning, #0 that risiters may select good seats be | fore the performance. This is wel! | SLIveGaMMon.—One of the Wall street journals, of the Robert Macaire stripe, publishes a letter from Orange Key, Bahama Binks, setting forth that two small steamboats, from New Orleans, with from 1,000 to 1,200 men on board, had anchored some- where in that neighborhood, on thoir way to the conquest of Cuba. This is importan:, if true; and, if not true, it is somewhat curious. Supporing the letter to be @ Slievegammon document, it is curious that an organ striving for the favor of the adminis tration should thus encourage the f/ilweteros. ‘Uhe ntelliggnes ie very much in want of conirmation We commend the argument of the claimants to | “| the attention of our readers; they will find it con- searched the room for the purpose of endeavoring to fad ® knife or some instrument whereby the wound was found the pieces of rag new produced, with blood on it, by the mantelpiece in Sullivan's room; the prisoner ackao’ while in the station house, that he had used the rag for the purpose of ing one of the table knives. and that pag een refused to auswer any more ques- jone. Joba 0'sullivan, of the Second ward. sworn, ed prisoner, and when conduc! ion house he said to me, that if he ~ the” knife with him that [ could not take him so rea- dily to the station house; when put him in a cell, he pee me to strike him on the wv cane had in my hand, that be did not wish to live; I am teeause mw at once the importance ef vuch au ne’ ure I raw once of such an ac | Mtwe jury bare to have Mary Moran, the jury here propos: ve joran. the cou- sin to the prisoner, who was arrested vith Sullivan and his wife, examined as a witness. The Coroner said as there did not appear any evidence that she had inflicted any of the deadiy wounos, he supposed it would be pro- per to take her testimony. She was called Mary Moran sworn, snys—I reside at No. 4 CLM street; James Sullivan is a first cousia of 1 present during the quarrel with the deceased 5 I t disturbance between Sullivan and his wife; down to dinner, and the wife was jawing ted him to give the child some pennies, ¢ bad none, and she said he was able to «pend the money eleewhere for himeelf, and he was able to give the child some; Sullivan then seized a plate and threw it athis wife, who jamped up from the table and ran out of the roo Sullivan then went to the closet and tock down atin skimmer. aod commenced to break Mrs. Ferris then came up stairs, entered the nd took bold of daliivaa. aod ye took be 5 u eet le t ; Mre Ferris then left, and rah dow po athe 3 took the young child trom the eradie and went into the next rocm; I beard the deceased aod Sullivan talking toge- ther; apd after awhile I saw Sullivan and the deceased | pulling one asother by the hair, and fell together ia the entry; Mre. Suilivan them came and sexed the d by the bair of the head; I had the baby in my arms, and abe told me fur nd I went a iD any way beard bim ray that Sullivan, the pri murders d bim; I did not see any knife used in the aifray, nor did Tee the prisoner have any Kuife on that oc: casion Captain Leoverd, of the Second ward police. # taye—I saw the Cecrased. and arrived at the house 4 Ulf street. before he died; I spoke to him several & but the deceased appeared to be too weak from the of blcod to moke any reply; I should suppose that he mn. survived abcut fifteon or twenty miautes after receiving | the wounds F. @. Le Roy. resident surgeon at the New Yor’ Hospi tal, sworn. raya: He has made e post marten examian. tion of the by dy of deceased and found an incised wound tm the left groin two and a haif inches in length. and | Petetrating seme four inches, completely dividiog the sartorius murcle. and then passing bebind the femoral artery; in cutting down to the vessels, found the pro- funda artery to have been cut across, the femoral vein aixo punetured: there was also an incised wound inthe left shoulder of the «ame depth as the former, whereupon introducing the finger, the head of the boov was found to be expored; the cause of death was low of blood and | the shock to the «ystem by the wounding. The medical evidence closed the teximony, and the Coroner with a few brief remarks, submitted the case to them to render @ verdict, and im the rpace of twenty minutes the jury returned the following VERDICT: | Thot the deceased, Edward Smith. 0 0 hie death tieted in the groin by some sharp instru. | the hands of the prisoner, James Sul- ” On the rendering of the above verdict, Coroner Geer ealied up the prisoner, and examined him on the charge. Sullivan. im anewer to several uestions put to him, stated that he was thirty-three years of native of resided at No 4 Cliff street, ant i pta jank | | Ireland. rb Tn reference to the charge preferred inst him, he replied that be had nothing to say at + ree Coroner thereupon committed bim to prison in the Toimbe, to await his trial The Upera at Castle Garden. Last night there wasa very large audience present notwithstanding the lowering aspect of the heavens, to witners the representation of “Don Pasquale,” which | has been anticipated for some time, by the lovers of music, It was admirably executed, and Boro, Salvi, | Badial!, and Marini, exerted their talents in ® most | hoppy manner to produce an effect, which was appro clated by an admiring audienes, We have seldom seen | an audience more pleased than on this oecasion, and the repetition of the opera, to morrow night, will be sure to | draw another crowded house. for the merits of the per- | formance of last night will be the theme of our musical eft | cles for eome time to come Castle Ogrden, this evening, ard during the day, will be devoted to the grand Mar. | rhall Jub‘ive. end. as arrangements have been made } the errofort of every viaiter, no doubt thoneands will be gind to be present at an entertainment #0 magnificeat | he was in his own room. and hada right to break bis *s room; I went up to his room to see about the diff | y. when Sullivan struck me @ blow in the face; [saw | carrying | Sullivan with some kind of weapon only ninety men and eight guns, first attacked the | tly interposed between Sullivan and bis wife to | rays—I assisted in arresting the prisoner with the other | 2 | well, the obi I | 183 Allen street, and conveyed to Greenwood Cemetery | wae in the babit off the night time pg) yj Grand Serthe —Whole number of votes cast 36, of which two were blanks, John J Davies received 34. Grand Treaswer—Whole number of votes cast, 19. G. R. Jackson reevived 19. Grand Junior Warden —Whole number of votes cast 33, | of which three were blanks; necessary for a choice, 16. W. 0. Groser receive . ' Gand Representativ ‘Whole number of votes cast, 53; necesary for a choice. 7. Wilson Small received 39, GRAND Lovae ror Grand Master. —Whole number of votes cast 181, of id | which three were blanks; necessary fora choice, 90. | Andre Froment received 178 Deputy Grand Master.— Whole namter of votes cast 286 of which four were blanks; necessary, for a choice, 142 JR. Wiltsle received 219. Grand Werden.—Whole number of votes cast 139, of which one was blank; necessary for @ choice, 70. @. H. | Howell received 106. Grand Secretary —Whole number of votes cast 130; ne- cessary fer a choice, 70. John J Davies received 139. For Grand Treasurer —Whole number of votes cast 133; ne fore choice 67. Matthew Bird received 133. Grand Representative No. 1.—Whole number of votes cast 170, of which two were blanks; necessary for & choice, Jas, W. Hale received 168. Grand Representative No 2—Whole number of votes cast 137 of which five were blanks; necessary for a choice, 67. Jobn G Clayton received 132, Tur Weatien.—Com with corresponding pe- riods for several years past, the weather, daring the greater part of July, and since the beginning of the present mouth. has been cold. In Juiy, the mercury } as 83 on one occasion; while the | QO'%0 fem very many Instances. ‘The highest degree ta e , dicated by the thermometer since the first of August, ; and in only one other instance did it reach as 80, which is only about the mean average of the em ding days cf the past four years But, al- tbe the heat was not so intensely scorching as on Jormer cecasions, the here has been unusually | clore and sultry, Yesterday and Saturiay were the wo warmert days of the present month. Drath oF tHe Rev. We. M. Stieweit —On Sati ' he 9th inst..at Astoria, the Kev. Wm. M. Stilwel breathed his last. been forty-four | pal Church, during’ whieh time he was thirt; | pastor of the Methodist Epiecopal Church | street, New York. During the ministry of exem- | ‘divine he has the ceremony | Bearly £000 times, and base read the burial rervice over | 7.000. The Rev. Mr. Stilwell was father of Richard E. Stil- iging and efficient Deputy Clerk of the United States Cireuit Court, New York, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. The remains of the | Feverend gentleman will be taken from his residence, | this day, at two o'clock. | Gur Investigation isto tHe Crana AGAINST THE | Cosmtrsstonens or Exnanation.—It is stated that | the witnesses to be examined by the committee sppointg ed by the Legislature to ing into eertain charges egaipet the Commirsioners of and now hold ing its sittings in Wall street, are Moses Carrigan. who can give evidence of the wasteful expenditure; Doctors Telkamp, John Liddell and Weber, who caa give testi- mony as te the working of the mew medical plan; Joseph Werterfirld, the warden of Ward's Island; Patrick Cogh- Jan, Clerk of the Medical Board, disintered on the suspi- clen of telling the truth to the New Fork Herald, about the butcheries on Ward's Island; Jameu 0. Fagan, Ber- Dai a Dillon, Commissioner of Euigra- | thom. and President of the Irish Vmigration Society; Jame Regan, Captain McArdle, together with Messrs. | Hutehins. Hopper, Clarke, and Bull, « plumber; and se- verel others who did work in building and other con- | tracts. Would it not be derirable to get the man Feel beck from Balti where he was spirited at the time | of the former investigation about the dissections ’ The Baionayt Rewwens, Forwanvens, axe Boanpiva | Hover Kesrrns—Last evening the emigrant runners, forwarders. and boarding house keopers, held a meeting | at 64 Green street. when say Seanad themselves | | | into a Mutual poinied @ committee on resolutions. Mr. GW Daly wes unanimously appointed President of the society, and Mr Giffert Vice Prevident; Mr. J. W. MN ogee | a Frederiek Kruder Treasurer; Mr. Jobn Enright was appointed Corresponding Secreta: j Ap Executive Committee was appointed to watch the proceedings of the committee appointed by the *Le- gisistare to inquire into the charges against the Com- missioners of Kmigration and toemploy counsel. if ne- ceneary. to reprevent the interests of the society. The | meeting thea adjourned. The speakers” pitehed into ” the Commisioners cf Emigration and some other antho- tities. ‘The meeting was most enthusiastic. port to morrow. : Tir Bonsine ov rite Troms—A Case ron Crane MeNulty. the urfovtunate fireman who was burned to death on the Trojan. has left a widew and four children extnely destitute The deceased, it ix stated, was the firet te give the alarm, and wake up all hands; he then | attempted to escape through the cabin window. and had get his heed out, when a sheet of flame coverdd his face, and be foll baek and was burnttoacinda fle bas been | in the employ of M Rodman for a wumber of years, and was an honest, sober man. A subseription wae set on ¥y the boarder of the Hamilton House, amt has ben up by others, for the widow and orphans of | unfortunate deceased Tre Lose Ietaxn Rari.noan.—There is an office of this railroad at the South Ferry; but the public complain that it is only open oece sionally, and there is no person there to give them the necessary information about the times of ‘he starting of the trains, the fares, the prices of fresght. Xe, The company, for their own sake, ought to eee Lhet tome attention is paid to this matter Vrotation or Orry Onotsaver.—On Sunday morning complaints were made at the Sixteenth ward beuse, that ® man named Mulligan, residing in avenue. between Thirty-ffth and to Bis Bambert HB patohed to ii the matter, and they found about twenty-five pow of powder stowed The dangerous was removed The neighborhood in which thie house é a. and. she oy the Harlem railrond ears com. menced running on the extension of the track along the Park. through Park je first ear that ran was the new one. with doors at the sides additional accommodation to the public, Trers vr Sunday night, « Pp, in Kleventh strest, was veton fire burst open by the po- | lice, and the flames soon extinguched. At 2o'clock on ter Mendey morning. a stable at the corner of Fourth g:reet and Avenue discovered to be on fire, The door wae broken open, and the fire soon extinguished, with | trifling demaze. A bunch of rage steeped in epirite of | ¥ turpentine, wes found among the hay. inthe loft tt | I ~ been ed and thrown into the loft, causing the re Drowsen —On Sum was drowned while street, The body bes not afternoon, anunknewn mai , near the foot of Seventh Tecovered. His clothes } A fall re | 2 Ack anova rin Pant= Finer pay op | *hd Reading Railroads, have temsively on time, but the ope maintained. Poremouth This will be a great Mining Company have advanced a fraction. There are at present few buyers About half past nine o'clock, on | Durin ception at Southampton, and failing to obtain the re~ mains of Commodore Paul Jones, she proceeded to Lis-- bon, thence home, Annexed is a list of ber officers:— BR. Sands, Cc mmanider. » Bo fires | ; BE. G. Parrott, second ‘Ayer: iuied do; G, UH. Preble, fourth do.; F. h.. 0. Hunter, Surgeon; James I. Harrison, Assistant dos. Todd, Purser. Caldwell iret Lioutenant marines. Ni Westrott, Master F. Monroe, Passed id pipers J, G. Sprosion, Vid» . Fyffe, do.; W. F. Glassell, Sailmaker. General F. Santor, a/taché to the Portuguese Embassy, . | at Washington, came passenger in the St. Lawrence. Capt. Sands brings home the ratified treaty betweem: the United States government and Portugal. Board of Supervisors. ‘ Superviror of the Twelfth ward iu the chair, ‘Avo. 11.—Tho Board met at the usual hour, and har: ing passed @ fow bills and received and referred some hsif dozen petitions for relief from tax, adjourned tw Thursday next, at four o'clock. en Malls for Kurope. ‘The American mail steamship Washington will leave this port at 4 o’clock this afternoon, for Southampton: Her maile will close at 3 o'clock. The British mai!‘ steamship Niagara will leave to-morrow noon, for Liver+ pool. Malls for California, The steamship Georgia, Capt. Porter, will leave thie port at 3 o’slock tc-morrow afternoon, for Chagres. Her mails will close at two o'clock. The Weexuy Heratp wild: be published at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. Book: Keeping.—The Author of the Ameri«- can system of practical book-keeping will qualify gen tlemen for keepin; ercantile or double entry in United Stacos Ig ® set of books by wr ercis! housein the h day from fore. then rel he mn alitied by him. The subject is most intimately connected qu With the law of commerce of tho United States, J. AKLINGTON BENNE* ‘&e., 135 Fulton street, nervine re: Brace up the nerves to d all diseases must retire. Now any 0 il restore the worst of all nervous diseases, convulsions, immediately. 102 Nassau street. Green Turtle.—Festival Soup.—The Sub. soriber would respectfull, den during the day and z. thathe is prepared with a full su py of Green Tut oft Crab, Lobster and Chickca Salads, kc. &e. P.M. BAYARD, Albert Maretzek, No. 600 Broadway, base~ Bore Waters, Ly ems) im ety, yen Restaorant pee Joon. “Every deliency of the season, pra the beet French and’ Atatrican cous. Also, "= few face nished rooms to of Bridal Cade, Bavcloper Re. e!1. Broadway, corner’ of Dual Wait street. ri Wood, Hatter, 57 ib arden, tetrs "872 Broadway. ‘talisis.—A party having $10,000, hear of most proftable meth of om dressing T. KR, box 1319 Pest Office, ted as confidential, To Ca man is a hero to his valet, it 4d, that no man looks like a gentlem: plese he ble shirt. Such shirts, fitting to a mira- tiv unrivalled im ty, GREEN'S, 1 Astor House. tm “yee le Cloth! nishing Goods, &e.—8ee AL. tisement on next pag . Them $5 Suits stillon Hand.- We can t im & vory respectable ai of bl tin vest, fancy cass talon fp any 80, over coat ‘orner Of Nassauand Beckman streets. LEVI & MEGAN. Now So She come to make your purchaser’ sot Ma athe way of s Carpet, Re HIRAM AN clothe from 3s. to 4s. Carpets, 7s. to 9.3 Ta Is. bd tole. Meu, eo, ‘t from. Go at once anc’ aaidailas Re sstuctured, having ovecy reacts iorargentaman a at vi requ! vy a for sale a 'N a Sete the et apd most od article now in ving boom bef lie for the last. thirty yours, fore the publie for the last thirty ‘ean be had of the G@. SAUNDERS & SON, 147 and 387 Broadway, ea ambt—Ladies are respectfully invited to and examin becril rtmen' nd gzamine the subscribers’ asso t of the adove, bt the finert im the city. a 387 Brosdway, atreete. & J. SAUNDE Between PERS. 29 wi Booty, Beauty, and Utility, the motte. at BROUKS'S New Pork Bont and shee ton street. We ise al! who me ble Boots Shoes, establiah: it, ‘Where did yo tnid & friend the othe for some time, At he replied. Call a1 peat psa, rap ¥ pe ‘oun at treet 3 Cr He aay TO, Re Pe Broadway; Callender, Dye Instantly con- dee Sabtile quid t Reatora: depot, ai Ps an Dr. Gonrand’s old established treet, near Broadway. ¢ Orange Flows: for thos who may be 60 #ixvell tympathy we feel by it, ifthey mly give it a fair trisl, All wh ing fer m maple tions pimples, freckles, eunburn, Ml ait ellent remedy. and will atroduce it ty theit tof Fever and Ague —Wyn for does not fell to cure this d ¢ Wild Cherry, Dook, Dandelion. "there Pre emi c Flem- ok ye article is ia blae mn building. BO exeure for suifer from Dyspepsl: Hechios 4 Mowpay, Augurt 11-6 P.M We have very little change to report in the stock re ket today. Prices were pretty weil sustained, and the. | Was an active demand for all the te ding railroad seeur! iy ban powder had boon used for blac, | Hct, Morris Canal and Long Irland have boon brought =] ‘quantities had been kept in out in larger qaantities than usual, with having « de- A. -4 | Pressing infuence on prices Norwich £rie, Harlem been operated in ex. ning prices were hardy Dry Dock and New Jersey . OF sellers of this class of sticks. & % period of epeoulative excitement, the low Priced stocks aro great favorites with operators; but during a dull, heavy state of the market, they are usu- or. more depreseed than an: | ket y others. The money mar- oes not perceptibly improve. The banis promise ery little, and generally fail to perform even that. fn the ptroet the rates of interest range very high, And the best business paper afloat cannot be megotia- ted rider three-quarters per cent @ month, While } Money is no valuable for legitimate commercial pur~ | pores, we cam hardly expect fancy stocks to advance