The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1853, Page 2

GRE WAVEVING PIACE CORRESPONDENCE. Sc mmer bamblings and Reaiings. Leng Island, Haairon Hovss, Ferr Hamitton, June 30, 1853. t After a seri sof ihree or four cloudy and damp, oo] ds y+, with ovcasional fogs and showers of rain, ‘Chis mcrning brings the warm, bright sunshine again, though « southerly wind will not permit the mercury te rie above 72 degrees in the thermometer. Linen coats and trowsers are again in requisition, and the prospect is that the middle summer month will have at its incoming a temperature becoming its charac- ter. During the hot weather of last week, (Tuesday and Wednesday.) when the Heap reported the thermometer in the city at 95 degrees, 97 degrees and upwards, the maximum here was 83 degrees, or, 28 ome ray, 82 degrees—in either case, a difference to be thankful for. A more magnificent prospect of Jand avd water than is presented to the eye from the stately front of this house, can hardly be imagined. ‘The sweep of the horizon includes the Atlantic Ocean, as it rolls up to the outer gate of the bay, with Sandy Hook aad Nevisink Highlands, .with their five lighthouses on one side, and the white beaeb of Coney Island on the other, above which are Raritan Bay and Staten Island, on the right. Graves- end Bay, and the low, curving Long Island shore, on the left—the two coasts here approachiag each other wi'b an intermediate space of Jess than a mile, the op- | ite points commanding the Narrows by the fortifi- | cations on either side. The new wallsof Fort Richmond | have risen rapidly from the water during the last year, | and begin to give the observer some idea of the tre- | mendous power with which the forty-two pounders | | | | efthis humble looking water battery (aided by the gonsef Forts Hamilton and Lafayette on this side) will guard this inner gate of the harbor agaiost any hostile naval force. ifsuch occasion should present. ‘A view of these defences of the national emporiam is | interesting to all Americans, as well as to the in- | habitants of the great ae thereby protected. The | defence of New York is the defence of two-thirds of | ‘the fore:en commerce of the Union, aud of two thirds @fthe federal revenue derived from duties on im- rts. ‘Fhere are multitudes of intelligent New ‘orkers, who bave no more idea of the peculiar to: | »grapby ef the Narrows and the bay itself, than of e port of Constantinonle or St. Petersburg. The exclamations of surprise and admiration made | by sueh persons on taking a first view from the plat- | form of the Hamilton House, show that the scene is a nv velty to very many who bave passed a creat part | of their lives within seven miles of it. The prome- pades and public rooms of the house already show that the place is fast filling up unusually early in the season. | But few rooms are left unengaged; and probably by the Fourth, or within the week, the whole will be tuken for the season. A finer company than the quiet agreeable group of families now assembled here, | was never seen at the Hamilton House, or any simi- Jar place of summer resort in the country. A lively and pleasant reason is naturally expected by them. Among the families which have arrived or engaged rorms, are the Morgans, Wilmerdings, Newtons, Van Nests, Mr. Hevry James, Mr. and Mrs. Contwit, the Diagos, of Cuba; also. Col. Adams and family, | Mrs. Capt. Baldwin, Dr. Spence, and others, from Baltimore; with scme two hundred more from all parts of the Union. Rhodc Island. Newronr, R. I., July 4, 1853. This ancient and venerable town (now city) is ap parently endeavoring to awake from its Rip Van Winkleism. More new buildings are now being erected than has been hitherto in any one year to the recollection of ‘ the oldest inhabitant.” This is ow- ing solely to the impetus given to the place as a sum- mer reeort. The season can now be said to have opened, for the hand organists have this morning made their début in the streets of this city. I left New York incog. in # steamer last Friday. Phere must have been over 600 passengers on board, for before the boat left the dock all the berths were taken—the staterooms having all been engaged hours previous. And for more then an hourafterwards the elerk had bis hands constsntly repieuished with Woney from passengers paying their fare. The extra pumber of passengers was in consequence of persons fleesng from the annoyances of the Fourte in New York. There were about 100 for Newport—the most @f whom are stopping at the Atlantic and Bellevue. At the Atlantic are some eighty boarders, at the Bellevue about one hundred and thirty, at the Ocean nearly fifty, On Saturday evening, the Worcester Guards, numbering avout fifty, arrived here on a pleasure jaunt, and were received hy the Newport Ar- tilery, who date back their existenve to 1741. The Guards quartered at the Atlantic, and Jeft this morn ing to participate in the celebration at Providence ¥ must tay decidedly that althoagh | have witnessed | the conduct of many companies off on excursions, that [ never have seen so orderly and gentlemanly a set of suldiers together, and who 0 popeny de- Meaned themselves on the Sabbath. have also noticed that rowdyism geverally is dying out of the i character, and a more dignified conduct taking its p! I notice on the registers many ar- rivals from Philadelpbia as weil as New York, On | the 10th, the Germaiia Musical Society, who are now fu Boston, are expected bere forthe season. In fact, | from the rooms already engaged, a more brilliant and successful season is auticipated this year thao any | ewe that has preceded. If. you bad witnessed the | ebampague fly, and the claret aud brandy opened | ree at the dinner table bere, a8 I have for a few | y' | 8 part, you would be satisfied ‘that the Maine | Bere i: a8 mu:h a dead-head as the bottles that are Of conveyances hither, and the hotels, of | emptied. which there are some eight, larze and small, please | gee advertisements in the new~papers; for I am not | bere to puff this or that conveyance and house, bat | to state the facta of the present aspect of affairs, pay- | fag my way like any other man, not desirons of the benor of being classified with Maine law and empty Dottles—as a dead-head. | Bristow Ferry Hovesg, July 11, 1953. Having looked over the Haran of Satarday, and @iscovered a corner devoted to fashion, [ have been serely tempted to acquaint your hundred thousand Feeders with the fashions of this delightful and in- | e@emparable watering place. | It is ecmewhat desirable, in the first place, that | you and your readers should be posted up as to the leeslity.” Permit me to bring you here in imagina- | tion, and you will scon pine for the reality. | Now leave your pen in its place—leave your orders with the superintendent of the office—kick the devil @e having no friends, or none who will acknowledge themselves such)—pass out of your sanctam—step into the carriage at the door, and afew moments find us on board one of the magnificent Fall River bosts. We take our supper, smoke our segar, gaze at the stars, retire, and after a fine night's rest find ourselves, at an early hour io the morning, at the place of 's) lind'es, (Fall River) We here bave our | breakfast; not only have it before ua, but eat and en it. AtS8o'clock we take the Bradford Durfee aud, after a beautiful sail of half an hour, are safely landed at the Bristol Ferry House, hosted by that pricce of landlords, Captain William Vars. Now our trials and troubles are over; we need have no thor ght for the morrow, or the next day, or as long as we feel inclined to stay; on what we shall eat, for that is the captain's business; or what we shall drink, for that is the cuptain’s business; or wherewithal we shall be ciothed, Tor that is the capta'n’s business also, or if it is not, he makes it such, which amoants & the same thing. Uristol Perry is sitarted ou the ielond of Rhode Island, teu miles from Newport, six miles from Fall River,and seventeen miles from Provi- dence and isa delightful part of the immense State of Rhode Island; and Providence plantations are the mort desirable summer resorts on Narraganset bay, not excepting Newport. Leaving basiness to take @are itself, in New York, and giving par. ticular directions to have the Hrratp sent me regularly ; aud, having placed myself on board the steamboat two weeks since, soon arrived at this lo- ca@lity, and, w= yet, have no desire to leave it. Sach fishing a8 is to be had here renders it a very uude- sirabie place to leave—scup fishing, tautog lishing and shark fishing. By the way, Mr. Editor, did you ever catch asbark? If you never have performed this exploit, you know but little about fixning, and [ pity you. Stich sport for the foolish fish to jump at the bait, thinking (couceding that sharks are think- ing animals) he is bet to bite and ron—then, when he bas run as far ua is practivable, what fun to haul him in, and, a8 he reaches the surface, to see him try fo get away; and now, if you have no gloves, sing out fer help; and vow be islanded. We will apply the headache stick, and the poor fish, having no re- Mable frieuds, is soon numbered among the things that were. These fish are frequently taken from five to eleven feet in length, and weighin, from fifty to five hundred pounds, aad that's what call fishing. One more question. Did you ever at tend a Rhode Island clum bake? Don't imagine | that I «peak of such homeopathic affuirs as tuose ealled Ly the game name held at Coney Island. The renowned Captain Williom Vara, the Napo- Jeo, of clam bakers, having a few strangers call npon him afew days since, baked in ove heap eizhty bushels of clams, aud made seventy-tlve galloas of —- a chowder, and after a company ef ene thousand men hed partaken to their hexrt’s content, there was not @ clam left, and but abo ta gallon of chowder; and that’s what | call a clam bake. And then what pretty girls are p'odueed on this island—these can’t be seen unless you attend church —which t» your pious readers would certainly prove no great inconvenience, and let me assare all that they would he fully remunerated for their trouble, if they attead the Methedist church, about two and a bal’ miles from the hotel. ‘The de k is occupied by a new comer, whoaccord- ing to the rules of this denomination is to remuin two ears, and my word for it, if his health is spared, Tia congregation, (before the expiraticn of gis term.) will be made tully acquainted with his views, as to matters end things wortby, fora more independent and original apeaker it Lever bas been my pleasure to hear. He is from Western New York, and some- what uniamiliar with Down East notions, He had the temerity yesterday to accuse a portion of his church of beiig afflicted with the spiritual lock-j iw, which, to me, was a new disease; and also assired them that should they all backslide and the devil get the whole of them, there would still be left in the town of Portsmouth one bible at least to lead erring man to his Maker. These, I believe, are his ve words, verbatim et literatim. He is a worthy an pious man, and may his life be long and useful. Should another Sppeesanlty offer, I will write again—assuring you that my friend Capt. Vara haa ample accommodations for all who wish to live, eat and be happy. Sharon Sp-ings. Saaron Sprinas, July 5, 1853. Before I leave this place, I propose to give you a slight sketch of the impressions which a few days sojourn have made upon my mind. Taking theone o'clock P. M. Hudson River railroad train from New York last Saturday, we arrived in Albany at 64 P. M., and were immediately transterred to the Cen- tre] Road, which landed us, after a most delightful ride through a highly cultivated, and rather pictu- resque country, at Palatine Bridge, at about 44 P. &M., at which place we took a stage and arrived here about 114 o’cloek, which was much later than the usual hour of arrival, but which was owing to the Jarge number of persons who had arrived in previous trains, and who were sent over in the best stages, thus leaving us an inferior team. The Pavilion, to which we bent our way, is a large, spacious, and re- markably cleanly house, capable of accommodating about three hondred people. It is built facing the southeast, a position that would be perfectly unpar- donable, did not the view which ber-ts upon tae sight on that side of the house irresistibly tempt the architect to éeviate from any and every rule of posi- tien, ratber than sacrifice such a charming prospect. Sitnated on a very high summit. but one of gradual ascent, in the heart of a boldly rolling country, where the luxuriant valley and the verdant hill to, blend in one harmonious scene, where the road, at one moment visible, is at anothey lost in the rowing crops of some well cultivate@ field, or be- fing some quiet and comfortable farm house which rises unpretendingly at the bottom of the slope, the Pavilion presents a point of observation from which the eye may wander over a most beautiful landscape, bounded only by a range of hills skirting the hori- zon, whose misty tops are lost in the clouds they seek to penetrate. But one thing is wanting to per- fect the scene, and that is some limpid stream, or crystal Jake, which might reflect back the beauties by which it would be surrounded. Even with this deficiency, however, Sharon is beautiful; and the de- lightful mountain air does quite as much, we doubt not, to restore invalids, as the sulphur springs for which this place is celebrated. The house is well filled, and quite a number of handsome ladies are among tho guests, Mr. and Mrs. S. M——, of New York, are here; Miss K——, also of New York, who looks as good as she is pretty; Mr. and Mrs, P——, | of New York, with their handsome and accomplished jaughter, who is accompanied by her friend Miss N——, who might, from her grace and loveliness, be taken for some mountain sprite. Mr. P—— and his charming wife, and Mr. and Mrs. A., are also here, and Miss S., of Philadelphia we believe, whose lovely face and burning eye are calculate 1 to do ccn- siderable damage in the course of the season. There are many other very attractive ladies here, whose charms and merits some other pen will doubtlessly depict before the season is over, and we hope that we may even oursclyes have the opportunity, Saratoga. Saratoca Springs, | Union Hatt, July 8, 1853. { I have heen looking for some days to see your “child” taking notes of our crowd—in the absence of one of your veteran reporters, let me give you a few jottings by the way. The world is coming to Sara- toga. Already do we begin to feel the onward move- ments of that wave which brings the thousands to all American watering places. Saratoga 1s uut quite | itgelf yet; the belles and beaux, the sharpers and the knaves are not yet here, but we can boast of society for al! that. The grave and staid men of business and their households, clergymea, and other professional men, the planter of the South and the cotton aristocracy of.the North, some fair gheeked damsels who wear their beauty with nature’s modes- ty, and other representatives of our chequered socie- ty, have made Saratoga tolerably full. Now is the time for pleasure, nod of fatigue and dress and balls, but pleasure in its truer sense. All eeem to throw off care, and give themselves up to rest. You are so well posted on scenery, I shall not venture on description. It would be a vain at- | tempt to tell the Hrrap what it has told a thousand times. Suppose I should daguerreotype the crowd at Congress Spring—the brighteyed maidens in morning dishabille, the pale and weary invalids seek- ing for health in the saline stream, the grave old burgher, the merry urchins, the motley crowd—you have seen it all; or if 1 take you with a pair of ponies anda pheaton to the lake, and tell you of its rare beauty, the Leadiand faraway, the crystal water, and the gentle breeze still whispering love's pledges of | Jouvers eve, suppose I could jot down in ad- jectives and nouns, azure, green, golden, and blue, | and couple these with forest trees and brooks, and green weer it would only tell the tale of @ year ago; so I shall not attempt it. Last year’s file of the Heracp, and the years before, have many such descriptions, and with a sigh we quote the wise man’s words, “ there is nothing new under the suo,” ‘‘all is vanity.” In living lile we bave at the Union awell assorted crowd; the visiters seem to be of that better clare, well dressed, quiet people, who had something on which to live before last year. The: came to Saratoga to enjoy, and not to be, like milli- | ner’s figures in Broadway, mere automatons tu show the shopman’s fabrics. ‘The ladies are well dressed, fair to look upon, and are not as yet of that class who fear to laugh, and think a simper and sinirk is another term for smiles. We can boast of quiet, blessed boon for your dust and brick worn city men. Some 350 guests are here, and yet you might mistake us fer a home, for our homts have arranged ail things as the most fustidious could wish. The Union Hall has been very mnch beantified and enlarged, and it can accommodate two hundred more than last season. The house is well furnished, the servants most excel'ent—many old stagers froin the city—the table any supplied with every variety to minister to our wants, a band of music from your city discourses sweet sounds at the witching hour of eveuing, avd all in all arrangements are ample fur our pleasure. The season hes began much earlier than usual, and slready Saratoga can say “the come,” “they come.” [notice that great improv: ments have been made in all the houses, and do not doubt that visiters will find allexeelleut. Weshould do violence to our host, and inj istice to our self, and neglect our friends away, if we did not say some- thing of the excellent srrangements at Usion Hail. After a &w nore days of ruralizing here, we go to Lake George, and so northward, far away. You may have the infliction of asother letter, so I will shorten this, and say ‘‘Good bye.”” Usirep Staves Horun, } Saratoga Sruinos, July 15, 1353. ( For some time past I have been luxuriating among the quiet shades of this beautiful Saratoga. Such is the astonishing rapidity with which, in these days of iron and eteam, we are transferred from one spot to another, that T had scarcely taken a seat in the cara, and seen the last spire of the city fade from view, be- fore I was shaking hands with Mr. Marvin, the pro- prictor of the United States Hotel in this place. I truly pity those who, from press of business op other causes, are compelled to endure the suffocation and heat of the city. What a blessing it would be if all, in their turn, could for a short time exchange the hot pavements and scorching sun for the cool, and balmy breezes that delight to linger around this old and time-honored watering place. What magic there is in the very name of Saratoga. It conjures up from | the misty past a thousaud sweet and inspiring me mories. How many, upon whom the cares of life have pressed heavily, have here found a few days or weeks respite from anxiety and toil! How many weary and deaponding invalids have here regained the “exulting throb,” and sipped health and bappi- ners from the life-giving fountain! And how many fascinating belles, whese charms, alas, have long since fled, have here won their proudest triomphs, Every foot of is racred to some leve tale, nd consecrated to some puasionately whispered vows of eternal fidelity and love. ‘The few first days after my arrival here were Te- morkably quiet and tranquil, compared with the stirring thmes of the present. It seems as if since that time an enchanter's wand had pea over the LJ The few modest and retiring individuals that had taken up their avode here have been entirely lost and swallowed up by the noisy mae of white, black and gray. spirits that, like the Goths and Van- dala, have rushed in, and before whose hurried tramp all the modest virtues are glad to beat a hasty retreat. I am not aware that among the future arri- vals there are any expected who are desirous of as- suming an active or conspicuous position in the per- formances that are usually enacted here during the fasbiovable season. I believe all the importaut per- sonages have registered their names—Achilles, Ajax and Ulysses, and a host of others, too numerous now to mention. We are informed that in ancient times, when the immortal gods waged war, dire confasion reigned, and borror filled the earth’s “ vast con- cave” —I hope there will be no such disaster attend this re-un‘on among the sons of men. 1 am not cer- tain that a casus belli exists, and all may puss off ia beautiful harmony. At all eventa there will be some funny sights, and a good deal that is laughable and amus pg. 5 ‘The number of arrivals at the different hotels, last week, was ahead of any one week of last season. From present appearances the number of visiters this sea- son will far surpass that of any previous one. There was a “hop” at Congress Hall on Taesday- night. I dropped in a moment to listen to the music and admire some of the fair forms that were tripping it on the ligks fantastic tee. The same evening there was a “hop” at the United States. The place selected for this purpose was the dining room. I was surprised at this, us the dancing hal! connected with this establi-bment is perbaps superior to any in the country. The reason may be, that the first dance there was a failure. On that occasion a large company was not wanting, nor the best and sweet- est of music, but every one looked to his neighbor to open the ball. I presume if the ige had ouce been broken, all would have went “merry, the marriage bell.” But I never saw so much modesty ia such an assembly before. They wil probably get bravely ever it before the close of the season. In fact, the following night the commodity just mentioned was below par, for the ladics allowed themselves to be whirled aboot until far in the night be‘ore they re- tired to their couches, where, wearied and exhausted, they gave themselves np to refreshing slumbers, mingled with sweet and lovely dreams. A letier writer from Siratoza should not omit to notice an important class of persons that yearly congregate here in great numbers. I mean the iu- valids. They are known as those who are early at the springs ‘to imbibe frecly of its waters. After that they are seen at the breakfast tavle, knife and fork in hand, descending with the fary of a capnibal on the surrounding eatables. They are about as healthy a looking set ot invalids as I ever saw, and teem like most anything else than victims of dys- pepsia and consumption. ‘ ut what stall { say of the ladies! Heaven bless | the hind souls. They will stick to man while there isa butten on his coat to hold by. What a dreary world. this would be without them. Wherever a sigh or “roan is heard her angel form is seen, cheer- ing ning, and comforting; and when man meets . “we festive board her smile is there. Veri- ly, without her, earth would be as dark as Erebus. Among thoe who bid fair to carry off the prize as belle of the seasen, Miss H—-, of New York city, stands prominent. She erters the list with the Jau. rels of past triampbs green on her brow. Miss S——., from the sunny South, is another prominent candidate for the same honor. She is very volupta- ous looking, and has a very winning and captivating way about her. Her eyes, €ark ebarma ’twere vain to tell, But gxze on that of the gazelle, It will acsist thy fancy well. Miss , from Augusta,Ga., could be, if she chosé, a formidable competitor. I have not yet seen her in the polka or quadrille She has more sub- stantial charms than this; she never looks better | than when under tue excitement of animated con- | versation—then her features assume a lovely ex- pression. | But I have not space t2 notice others whose | | | charms entitle them to consideration. Some other time I will introduce them to the readers of the HERALD. Cape May, Aruantic Horen, } Cars May, July 8, 1853. { Here I am at last at Cape May, having had a pleasant, smooth, and un-oceanlike trip by | the good steamer Delaware. My first impres- | sions are decidedly favorable to the Island Cape, | so much so, that I am vastly more pleaved with it than I supposed I should be. It has, ia my humble opinion, a decided preference over all our watering places,so far es natural advantages are | considered, but its hotels will not compare with those of Newport or Rockaway. It has a splendid beach, a lovely exposure, to the ocean, asd all the land breezes are only those which come from the north- east quarter, Unlike Long Branch, the hotels, some seven in number, are rather too much crowded to gether, snd the bathing places are all embraced within a limit of a few hundred yards. I had great difficulty in getting a lodgment, as the island is al ready much crowded with visiters—I have a room some four by mx fect, which however has a splendid | front, and after ten A. M., I can sit all day in the | shade and geze out on the mighty ocean. How | beautifully and trutbfally did Wordsworth write :— | “ Lirtep— the Great Betog is awake, | And doth with bi: eterbei monor make A roise like thunder everla-tingly ” | The Atlantic, J think, is the best located hotel, as it is immediately on the beach, and in full view of the whole bathing ground. I tried a nap this morn- | ing about eleven o'clock, soon after my arrival, but | my heavy soe were scarcely closed, before I was | startled with the merry stouts of a hundred voices, | aud looking out of my window, I was still more startled by the scene before me. I do not believe that Franconi’s Hippodrome ever presents a gayer, | mere grotesqne, and animated sceve, than | wit- nessed. Hurdreds of bathers, clad in garments of every shape and color—green, blue, orange, red, and | white-—were gayly disporting before me, and withia | afew yards of Inywmdow. The blooming girl, the | matronized yet blushing maiden, and the dignified | mamma, were all playing, dancing, romping, and | wa together, as if they were all of one age, and | were all alive with one teeling. I noticed several ladies of admirable shapes, ‘* whose forms Praxitilés | might worship,” most elegantly and fittingly clad, | slowly promenading on the beach before ‘‘ they tempted the briny wave.” Oh! ye happy waves, | what a blissful destiny is yours, when you can en- clasp ond kiss such lovely forms. The most con- | spicuous gent was.a noble darkey, who sported any quantity of red cloth and gilt lace. He had in charge | several lovely pirls, ‘‘ white as pearls,” whom fs bathed and ducked with a gallantry and grace which | would have honored a Broadway exquisite. I shall try and learn something more of his lordship to- morrow, and will give you all the particulars. We had asplendid dinner to-day at the Atlantic, but the “ ministering spirits” were sadly “ behind time.” They were enough in number, but their ap- intments as to places, (rather Custom-House-like just now.) and their movements as to time, (ditto,) were sadly “ out of time.” The head waiter seemed | as proud as a field marshal, stationed ashe was at | the head of the room, with a small bell constantly in | his band. He had a most refractory set of rascals to | deal with ; “ Old Hickory” never had a rawer set of undisciplined troops. Continnully such phrases a3 these take your place da, what you do here?’ “help that a lady dare,” “d—n_yon, go beck,” and similar expletives from head’ waiter aforesaid, enlivened the dinner, avd supplied the place of a“ fnil band” of music.’ Bat the crowning, and most Indicrons scene took place at the clearing of the dishes. The ‘ fleld marshal” aforesaid. (as we lawyers say,) after numberless ringings of his bell, and isuings . had succeeded in drilling bis “ Arabs” into someting like a“ grand display,’ and in the act of making a most magnifi- cent fourish, he upset a castor, which falling ou the boards with an awful crash, dispersed the whole “army,” who retreated as gracefully as possible. Afier a tragic exclamation of * D— to h—Il, pick up the pieces,” order was comparatively restored, fas the “ pies and almonds’’ submitted to their jate. I have an invitation to a hop, which comes off to- night at the Mansion House. If | attend, I will note down tor yeur numberless readers, the beauties who are preseiit, and the other et-ceteras. The belles of Baltimore and the “ Quaker City’ are all here, avd you constantly meet ladies of exquisite loveliness, Noone peed have the “ blues” bere, as pretty faces, kind greetings, and above all, the grotesque and harlequin bathers, will drive every thing away but gaiety, cheerfulness, and happy hearts, Forrtn or Jony amoyxe tun Tcantans —The roceedings of the day commenced by the Nauvoo orse Company assembling on the square at eight o’clck, and marching from there down to the Nau- yoo Mansion, where the ladies of Ninvoo | fact. | peated since, that if Judge Pa | Bartol. sented a banner with an appropriate address, ¢ vered in their behalf by Mr. John Head, which was responded to by Mr. Joseph Smith, in behalf of the | company. The company ayain assembled on the equare at 10 o'closk, where they were joined by the Tearians, with their band, and ‘a long’ concourse of | citizens. The procession moved forward ty Mr. Fil- | son's grove, where the exercises of the day com: | menced by an peg I Vai Ad by the Chapiain, Rev. Mr. Lovesee. The Declaration was then read, and following the Declayation, an able oration was deli- vered by Mr. E. Gregory. The company were then dismissed to seek annsement as best suited their se- ite fancies. The ball at the Mansion went off in e order, and was attended by a large crowd. Our Besten Corse pos dence. Bosren, July 16, 1893. Dull Times in Politics—Governor Clifford—The Constitutional Convention—The Sudiciary—Ad- Jjcurnment of the Convention—Death of Mr, Gcurgas—His Position—Judge Putnam—Sam- uel Appleton—Literary and Religious Items— Intermural Burial—Pilgrim Celebration—Post Office Appointments—Anti-Catholie Letters, &c- ‘There is scarcely anything to make a political par- agraph abont, unless I mention that Governor Clif- ford inereages in unpopularity from day to day; bat that is nothing new. The whigs are especially an- gry with him in Essex county, all about offices. Though not toasted in Faneuil Hull on the Fourth of July, it is supposed that he will be ‘done brown” on the second Monday of next November. Thestory is thet he has declared that be will not, happen what may, be a candidate for reelection. It is un- derstood that ex-Governor Briggs is to have the va- cant place on the Common Pleas Bench. The Constitutional Convention has resolved against changing the construetion of our judiciary. The proposition that judges should be chosen by the people was rejected bya great majority. Another propesition, to the effect that they should be ap- pointed for a term of years, came very near passing. These results are attributable, not to the attachment of delegates to the present system, but to their fear that if the tenure were changed the people would reject the entire constitution. The reformers have all along fought shy on this subject, and perhaps not without cause. They cannot be accused of a lack of radicalism on most other points, and yet they seem determined upon not making shipwreck of their craft through carrying too much sail on her. This is the Yankee mode of doing business—radical, but cautions. The proposition to insert a provision in the consti- tution forbidding aloan of the State credit, which was meant as a hint and a kick to the Hoosac tunnel project has failed of success. Its adoption would have have done much towards the rejection of the new constitution. There has been adopted a resolu tion-giving full power te the Legislature over Har vard College, and likewise over all corporate franchises hereafter to be granted for purposes of educatioa in this State. It is theught the Convention will rise on the 234, next Saturday, but it may sit beyond that time. It hasbeen a hard-working body, ita only faults being too much tendency to talk, which could’nt very well be prevented, and the raising of the pay of mem. bers, whereby geome thirty-five or forty thousand dol- lars will be added to its cost. An election will take place in Concord on Monday to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Gourgas. The death of Mr. Gourgas, delegate to the Conven, tion from Concord, will prove a serious loss to his party. He was one of the most sagacious, clear- headed men in Massachusette—emphatically a man of judgment. He knew how to do the right thing, in the right way, and at the right time, better than apy one of our public men with whom I am ac- quainted. He was admirably situated for the effec- tive use of his rare cuales, Middlesex county being that portion of the State which by its action has de- cided the political character of Massachusetts from the time that the coalition became an accomplished The death of such a man, who was go situated for effective action as to make his labors tell, oannot be without grave results to the party which had hitherto profited so much by those labors. People may speak slightingly of political leaders, but they are, afterall has been said, important items in the tum of public life, and more than one good enter- rise has failed of success only because it has not jad the proper man to guide its course. Mr. Gour- gas’ death was a hard visitation. He had just be- come well situated, had a fine estate, an ample in- | come, and full leisure for those political and litera ursuits 10 whch he had been devoted for halt his ife. I know not, but it seems to me that such things must render the parting hour doubly bitter. Judge Putvam, who died a fortnight since, was one of the old school lawyers. He was barn in 1768, aud was eighty-five when he died. In 1830 the snd- éen death of Chief Justice Parsons placed Judge Putvam ina very responsible position, by causing him to preside at‘the Knapp trials, for the murder of Cajtuin White, at Salem. Mar. Webster bad gone down special in aid of government, and he was just the man, in those duys, to rule in a court where the presiding Justice was not a first class person. Judge Petnam. (conscientiously, no doubt, and for the-par- pores of justice.) ruled pretty much as the great ad- vocate desired, and both the Knapps were hanged, though at the time it was said, and bas been re- ns had lived things would have gone very differently. Samuel Appleton, one of our richest and oldest men, died on Tue-day last, in the eighty-eighth year ot bisaxe. He was in his eleventh year when the Declaration of Independence was 1ss'ed, and was 80 much older thon the nation itself, He had been very succcesful in business, and made an exceedingly liberal use of his wealth. giving away large sums rey year for the promotion of charitable, religious, andliterary objecta. Not long ago, lam told, he met | @ person with whom formerly he had some business relations, and who, in reply to some inquiries, repre- rented that bis circumstancea were not good. Ina short time he received a check from Mr. Appleton for $5,060. He died very easily, thus crowning with the lust token of felicity a career that had been emi- nently Ce ae for good fortune, for health, character, riches, and length of days. ‘ibe anpuai Commencement of Harvard Colle, will take place next Wednesday, the 20th. The Ge vernor hes invited the Board of Visiters to accora- pany him on the occasion. The visitation of the divinity school will take place on the 19th, and the sermen before the gradusting clase of that school will be preached to-morrow evening, by the Rev. Mr. The corner stone of the new Universalist College, on Walnut Hill, in Somerville, will be laid | next Tuesday, at 10 0’clock, A. M. ‘The city government has done a very foolih thing —nothing strange, perhaps you may say. Not long since, there was a regulation made to prevent what is | called intermnral burial. After the first of July no | more burials were to be allowed within the city’s limits. Copp’s Hill, and the Granary burial grounds, were to be shut up, together with that which adjoins King’s Chapel. This regulation was very generally approved of, nothing having been more conclusively settled than that the interment of bodies within the beunds of thickly-peopled cities—and Boston is ver: thickly peopled—is a proceeding of the most ajar ous character. But the Society of Trinity Church, nit being so much impressed with the necessity of earthly purity #8 with that of the spirit, Lave prevailed upon the city government to allow their dead to be buried on their premises. The rale having been thus broken through, it will soon be of no account whatever, for there is no reason that can be made to apply against burial in one place that is not good aguinst burial in all other plaees within the “walls” that exist nowhere, they having never been built. According to some accounts people in the vicinity of Trinity Church rather like an atmosphere tainted with gaseous exhalations from the head. The “ Pilzrim Society’ have resolved upon cele- brating the anniversary of the Embarkation of the Pilgtims from Deitt Haven, August 1, 1620, at Ply mouth, a fortnight from Monday next. Great pre- perations have been made, and a marshal and some thirty six aseistante, and two aids, have been ap pointed. No doubt it will be a great tims. Mr, Ide, who bas been made Postmaster at Taun ton, is a moderate cvulitionist. He edits the Demo crat newspaper at that place, and is one of the town’s delegates to the Coustitational Convention, 0: which body be is the youngest member. Coloue Holbrock, who has reveived the appointment o Portinasier at Concord, was a warm opponent of the coalition last year. A pungent pamphlet, entitled “Familiar Letters to John B. Fitzpatrick, the Catholic Bishop of Bos- ton,” by an Independent Irishman, has just made its appearance. The author's object is to show that the Catholic Church is opposed te freedom, and that its existence ie incompatible with that of human liberty. He handles several eminent Catholic writers wit glovelers hands. paying his very particular respects to Thomas d Arcy McGee, who used to be of the anti- priest portion of the Catholics, but who is now charged with having beeome “a pliant, passive, and willing tool of ubsolutism !’’ Some scientific blows are planted in Mr Brownson’s bread basket, who is admitted to be the ablest man the Catholic Church “can boast of in this country, though an apostate in- fidel.” Strong language, this; but Mr. Browason can’t complain of its use, as he is not in the habit of choosing his controversial phrases. Everything that has been said of late by Catholic writers and speakers against freedom of opinion and action is gathered together by this writer, and avery dark jicture he bas succeeded in drawing. [ have not the least idea o’ the authorship of the “ Letters,” bat they are written with vigor, and are ealculated to muke a sensation. Itis clear that the old disputes among Catholics are coming up in this country, and that we sball be treated to a good deal of pious and spitefal writing. The new State almshonses are almost completed. They are in Tewkesbury (Middlesex Co.), Bridge- water (Plymouth Oo.), and Morrison (Hampden Co.) Each establish ment will be capable of accommodating 600 persona wit! little discomfort as is compatible with bum ind a large farm is attached toeach, for the pu! of showing that there is some truth in the de tion that eating and working should | and Ceran St. Vi fe etber. The objeet of government isto make ibe charge ‘or the enpees o* Btate pau as low as porsible, it hitherto having been very lerge, and the €TRODE Uy ported being almost entirela Covelaetss. Eome honert people there have been in the mass, but many bave been lazy rogues, with no more morality than the some number of pickpockets. To bring the | expenditure within tke smallest possible limit, and to “sweat out” panperiem where it does not happen % be chronic, are the objects of the uew institutions. Some persons have opposed the establishment of there alms-hoveer, on the gronnd that they are just 80 many insalts to the Trish ole! which is a good joke indeed, The State is determined to be no long- er made the home of lazy vagabonds, whether they shall have been born on this or that side of the sheet of salt water commonly known as the “herring pond.” ALcomar. The Proposed Railwey to the Pacific. Wasuninaton, July 7, 1953. Messrs. Gales & Seaton: Gentlemen—As your aper is much occupied with the great subject of the i doy—that of a railway to the Pacific ocean—I send | ou some letters just received from Taos, in New Mexico, aud the proveedings of @ public meeting at that place, all in relation to that subjeet, and con- firming what Fremont and Leroux have said in favor of the route through the Coochatope pass, at the head of the valley of the Del Norte, writers of the letters, and the committee who drew the resolu- tions at the meeting, have all been upon the route, and many of them huve hunted and travelled the | country through which it pasees for thirty years,and | know it to be practicable and in «@ state of nature | both summer and winter. One of them travelled it twice last winter; another had jnst returned a if it. Four thousand sheep were driven along it this | spring. The country is fertile, well watered, good for grazing, and no mountain to be crossed, or other obstructions to be met except a heavy forest of tim- ber—a present impediment, but fnture advantage in the construction of a road and the settlement of the country, I know most of the persons from charac- ter who wrote there letters or joined iu the meeting, and could vouch for their respectability ; but, as Colonel Fremont is now here, axd knows many of them pertonally, and can speak of them as they de- | serve, and can verify and illustrate the points and places they mention by observations of his own, I have submitted the communications to him for his remarks, and herewith send the whol: to you, re- questing their vublication in the National’ Intelli- gencer. Respectfully, gentlemen, Your obliged fellow-eitizen, Tuomas H. Benton. Wasnineron, July 8, 1853. Drar Sin:—I have read with unusual gratifica- tion the account which you handed me of the pro ceedings of a public meeting recently held at Taos, and which you accompany with a request for some remarks from me as to the character of the men who composed the Committee of Resolutions. I do so with pleasure, and the more readily as it affords me a fit occasion to offer my acknowledgments to the chairman ofthe meeting for the very honorable mention he has made of myself. With all the men of whom ‘ou ask me to speak, T have been for a long time more or less acquainted, with seme by the common report ofthe country, and with others ipannccaly and intimately in the companionship of travel over the region to which oe have so earnestly invited the public attention. fudge Beaubien isa highly intelligent and eda- cated man, for many Rene a citizen of New Mexico, where he has spent, I believe, the greater part of his life. For the last ten years I have been accustomed te hear him spoken of as one of the leading men of New Mexico, enjoying influence and consideration among bis fellow citizens. His long residence and facilities for information—and which also were in- cidental to his business eonnexions—have given amp e means and reasons for forming an opinion upon the subject referred to him. Mr. Hatcher has spent the most active years of his life in the furtrade, usually in charge of trading posta | for Bent or St. Vrain, generally in remote and iso- lated positions. In the prosecution of his business as trader and trapper he has made many laborious and extensive journeys. frequently on foot, over the coun- | try. lying tween the soe waters of the Arkansas and Red rivers and the Pacific coast, and is especial- | ly familiar with the tributary region of the Gila. He is an unusually a elliseny and well-informed man, of | cxuerreiary pervonal activity and energy, and of a remarkable intrepidity, which his peculiar life has given him frequent occasions to signalize. With Mr. Maxwell I have been intimately ac- | quainted since 1842, in which year he accompanied me in an expedition to the Wind River Mountains. | He ina map of quick and intelligent mind, a good traveller, and a good judge of country, of trank and honorable character, and a cet courage aod hardi- hood which have distinguished him in some hazard- ous and bloody encounters with the mountain In- | dians. His occupations have led hiin also to make frequent and long journeys over the country referred to, with which he bas consequdntly a familiar ac- quaintance. What he says would ulways command | ny ecnfidence. | Ir. Quinn is a prominent citizen of New Mexico, | ruin well known as partaer with the late Charles Bent. It woulo take me beyond the limits of this note, and would be perhaps invidious for me to go farther into particular deveriptions of those men, whom I happen to know better than others of the committee. They sre ell of character and enterprise—men who have been sifted and singled out from among their fellows by their pronounced energy of charac- ter and peculiar fitness for the singular pursuita into | which they have been thrown. Collectively they postess a rare combination of practical ideas and | thorough knowlede of the subject referred to them, | which enables them to pronounce upon it with a full understanding. Their opinion is the experience of | their lives, and will doubtless receive from the coun- | try the respect and weight which is due to the testi- mony of honorable men speaking with a thorough knowledge ot what they say. j In comp'iance with your request to give my own | views of the best route for the read, | have to say | that all subsequent information bas strengthened me | in the conviction that it is the one 1 undertook to ex- plore in the wii ter of 1848-9, and in which [ was | alked by a deplorable mistuke of my guide. Bt. | Louis and San Francisco I con-ider the national | points on the Pacific and the Mississippi, aud that the road ought to be on the nearest and best line be- | tween the two. With the view of finding a practi- | cable route through the Rocky mountains, or near the line of these two cities, I searched along the west and bare of the Rocky mountains south of the (so called) South Pass, out to the head of the Arkansas, and found several passes which were described in | my reports, aud over which | am informed emigrant | trains with all their incumbrances of wagons, car. | | | | riages, and stock, now pass; but my information led me to expect a better puss, and near to the line, at the head of the valley of the Del Norte; and although I mised it through the mistake of my guide, yet it is vow proved by the concurrent testimony of many gcod aud credible witnesses to be there. My own explorations left but two sections in the line to be examined to satisfy my own mind corm- pletely—one was from the head of the valley of the el Norte across the valley ef the Upper Colorado to Las Vegas de Santa Clara, or some point in their neighborhood; the other trom Santa Clara west to the Sierra Nevada. All except these two sections I had sufficiently examined to satisty myself that here was the linefor a road on the shortest line between St. Louis and San Francisco; and examine these two rections was the object of my winter expedition of 1648. Circumstances bave prevented me from completing what was then undertaken; but infor- mation received in New Mexico, after my disasters, from many inhabitants of that country, and from | Leroux himeelf, and the statements now farnisned to you by the respectable public meeting at Taos, prove ibat the way is good, and nearly direct on the first recticn from the bead of the De! Norte to the Little Salt Loker Las Vagas de Santa Clara. (Note.— ‘This Little Sait Lake is a lake of seven miles loug by ore broad, and is exactly at the point where the great Spanieh trail quits tts northeast course, and tarns southeast to goto New Mexico.) The second section, from Santa Clara to the Sierra Nevada, crosses what is called the desert, but which has vegas (that is to suy, meadows and water.) in many parts of it, affords level routes, and I judged from a range of mountains which I saw runnin; east and wet, that a route might be foun due wert to the neighborhood of Walker's river, at the east base of the Sicrra, cutting off the elvow that is made by following the Spanish trail southwest to Los Angeles, and reaching the valley of Culitoraia, by a pars which we believed to exist between Walker's and Owens’ rivers, in latitade about 33°. I | now see in @ letter from Carson, that this pass found, and we have been always confident that would be found. But the precise point at which the Sierra would be passed or pierced yet remains to be determined, and presents no extraordinary difficulty. Waiker’s Pass and the Lake Pass iiamediately north of itare good, but further out of the line than could be desiied. Other practical passes may be found more exactly suiting the direction of the line, or at all events a good place tor tunnelling, Mountains there, in come places, rise high upon a very narrow tore; and in this very part of the Sierra, between atitudes 370 and 35°, 1 was on the crest of one several thousand feet high, at the base of which on the west lay a +mall lake, so near that it seemed to be under us. A winter exploratien of these two sections is what I now decm to be desirable, and I believe it would prove that the snows are not greater obstractions there then in New England and Western New York. The computed distance between the State lines of Missouri ana California on this route, twelve hundred miles. Respectfully, &e. Joun C. Fremont. Hon. Mr. Benrom , © CORRESPONDENCE. Don Fernanvo DE T4038, June 3, 1853. Hon. Thomas H, Beoton, Drar Sin:—Your letters to the Missourians just reached ua this evening, but we held a meeting day | before yesterday, in which we have endorsed every { thing that ‘Leroux had written, though we had not ' | and California, this meeting coul | of water and the finest timber in our territo | vail, Manuel Letebre, Obarles Otervis, Charles Wil ; Many of them within the last year—that the most teen your letter or bis. We send this by meet the mail om its way into the Ftater. we the proceedings of the meeting, whieh was eo) pored by persons wh: have trapped and travel) over that povalee for the last thirty years; also, se, ou a letter of Maxell. who passed iy twice last w ler. Beaubian, thirty two years in the country, pa ed over divers times: Wootten, this year with ahe¢ Send us Fremont and we pledge ourselves to shi the most feasible route for the intended road. Yours, respectfully, James H. Quinn, © 3 . P. 8. Thanks for your lettey. racine acme Dow Frrnanpo DE Taos, June 3, 1853. GenTiewen :—Herewith please find a letter fre Col. Renten to the people of the State ef Missou in which you will perceive there is letter from o fellow-citizen, Antoine Leroux, in relation to- tl great Pacific railroad and the country between t) Arki and the Vegas de Santa Clara. As 1a wel ave that the country is well known te yo and that Messrs. Maxwell and Wootten have pasy over it this reason and retarned, you will confer great favor on the public by giving your opinion « the subject of its practicability. An answer your earliest convenience is requested. Yours, truly, ° — James H. Quinn. Mesers. St. Vrain, Maxwell, Wootten, and othe: Don Fennanno dE Taos, June 5, 1858. Srr—Yours of the 3d instant bas just been hande us, in which you desire us to give our opinion of tt Pencoeanllicy of making a railroad from the Arkansi 'o the Vega de St. Clara. We have been a numbc of times over the route spoken of in that letter, an! this year one of us (Mr. 1. Wootten) followed tt exact track spoken of by Mr. Leroux with fot thousand renee Land had no difficulty in reachi: the Little Salt Lake, from whence there is a lev: lain to the Vegas de Santa Clara. We deem it tt est and most practicable route that can be adopte| between the Mississippi river and the Pacific ocea1 from persoval obvervation. We endorse the trut! of the statements of Mr. Leronx.— Yours, respec fully, L. B. Maxwe.1, B. L. Woorren, Cus. Beausien, Ceran §r. Vrain, RAILROAD MEETING IN TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXIC( Ata large ani enthusiastic meeting of the citizer| of the county of Tus and territory of New Mexict held at the covrt house in the town of Don Fernai éez on the Ist of Jime, 1853— On motion of Mr. Peter Joseph, Ceran St. Vrair' Esq., was called to the chuir, and Ezra N. De Pe appointed Secretary. James H. Quinn Esq., being called upon, ad dressed the meeting on the subject of the great By cific Railroad. It wasonr duty (he said) to a) ont on this subject. We live in the viciuity of th best route from the Mississippi valley to the valley ¢ the Pacific. Notwithstanding the ‘assertion in thi Senate of the United States, that nothing is known q| the country between the iapbatd of New Mexic| Id assnre them tha| thousands of our citizens know the roatefrom Los An geles to Abequin, and alsoa more northern and direc} route from the head of the Arkansas to the Vegas dj Santa Clara. This route had been unfortunately thy scene of a misfortune which could in no way eubtrac} from it as a practicable route. That happened in th most severe winter ‘hat we had seen for years, and owing to circumstances it was impossible to foresee} We all knew the indefatigable perve evergy of the leader of that ill-fated expedition, and we can attribute no blame to him; but we must mire him for his qualties as an explorer. They un led in the Legh of the continent. Ou fellw citizen, Richings L. Wootten, has just re turned from an expedition to California, on 60 tinuation of the route that Fremont was followit He decl-res that the rou e is most excellent, and t! only difficulty a wagon train would have in d over this route ts the timber. There is abun James H. Quinn. We all knew how all our old mountaineers desi to settle in that sectiou of country. They loved fat meat, and there they always He ven tured to say—*nd he had the authority of Lero Carson, the chairman of th> meeting, and man: others around him, who knew that country—th it was the finest grazing country on this of ou continent. Make a road up the Arkansas, thence the junction of the two branches of Grand river, thenc to the Vegas of Santa Clura and to San Francisco} and we could furnish them on the Pacific the fine beef and mutton at four cents per pound. He minded the chairman of the meeting of what he well aware of, that in 1840 Robidoux left the Arkan| sas with wagons for California, and arrived at the Coochatope, and there lett his wagons, on account the difficulty of cutting out the timber. This timbe: would be a great advantage to the railroad.» Hq hoped we would see Frewout here again to continud his exploration, which would immortalize him. Hq wished a comuuttee to be appoiuted by the chair, of persons of the meeting preseut who had been ta ‘alifornia, and who, like Leroux, had trapped on hese streams. He therefore moved that 2 commit tee of ten be appointed to dratt resolutions expyes sive of the senre of the meeting. . On which motion the Chair appointed Messrs. Lu: cien B. Maxwell, Rickiugs L. Wootten, Chas. Beau bien, Francis Tursot, Berral Leroux, Michoux Da- ‘iame, and Theodore Migoault said committee, who, after retiring, reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were adopted :— Whereas, the Conzress of the United States has made an appropriation for the exploration of the most direct aud practicable route fora railroad ta the Pacific ocean from the Mississippi river; and much doubt appears to exist in the States on the sub ject, aud whereas a majority of your committee have der the entire intervening country, they deem itf ut justice to their country and the public to expre: their sentiments on the subject. Therefore, Resolved, Thut this meeting are well assured, from their own experie::ce,aud irom the statements of Wootten, Lervux, Maxwell, Hatcher, Carson, and hundreds of others who have passed over the route direct and practicable route from any point on th Arkansas would be to fullow up said river to the mouth of the Hueriano, up said st to its source, thence up the Wet Mountain valley through a valle: between the White Mountain and the Sand Hills ta} the Chowatch aid the Cuo-cha-tope, down it te the east fork of Grand river, thence due west to the] other fork, thence to Green river, and by the Littl Salt Lake to the Vegas of Santa Clara, from whit the route bas been surveyed to California, Resolved, That though we have heard a great des of the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains, we| are well assured trom experience that California cam| be reached by this route without crossing any eleva-| tion deserving of the nume of mountain. Reselved, That we consider this much the most} practicable route, not having the immense canons ta) cross that are on the more southern ones. On motion of Mr. Jobn G. Lentwick, resolved, Tha' the proceedings of this meeting be sent to the Santa Fe tazete tor publication. On motion of Mr Charles Otervis, it was resolved;| Thht a coyy of the proceedings of this meeting be} sent by the Secretary’to the Hon. T. H. Benton. On motion, the meeting then adjourned. Crenan St. Vain, President. Gra. N. DePew, Secretary. United Staces District Court. Betore Hon. Judge Betts. DECISIONS IN ADMIRALTY. Samuel Veazie und cthers vs. the Ship Stephen F.| Austin—Case of Cuilision at Sea,—The Commis- sioner reported ‘the gross ig ee of damages sus- tained by the brig Huytord, from collision with the ship, at $4,643. ‘The owners of the ship excepted ta the allowance of tue greater pert ot the items ad- mit‘ed by the Ccmmissioner. The Court overrales the exceptions in purt, and allowed a purt, and fur- ther ordered the report to be moditied and corrected in several particulars, with the privilege to the par- ties to go Lefire the Coumissiuner with additional proofs upon some items. Henvy A. Barclay vs. the schooner Richmond — ‘This suit was by « shipwright, who demanded $700 for repairing the echoouer—ber damages occasioned by a collision. Decided by the Court, on a review ol the proots, that the lisellant had contracted to do the work by the job, to ve paid $300 therefor, which 80m he refused to accept when offered by the claim- ants, but as the ofler was not in the form of a le; tender—Held: That it did not stop interest, an that libellant was cutitled to recover the agreed sunt of $350, with interest. The offer of full payment. leing made beiore suit brought, and the agen’ having funds to make good the offer—Ordered : That gusts of the suit be denied the libellant. Edwin s.the sloop Martin Wynckoop. — Collision in the night time, on the tiudson River, between the sloop und schooner Marian, by which both veseels were sunk. Held—Upon consideration of the proots aud law, that the fault of tne collision was with the sloop. Ordered—Her condemaation ia damages und coste, and reference to a commissioner to compute the amount of damages, Dexter Carlton and others vs. the steamship Roa- noke— Ezra Calderwood and others vs. the Same Actions for loss of schooner Sprightly Sea and cargo; by collision with the steamer in Hampton Ruads, im the night time. Held—On the preots and law, that the collision was occasioned by the fault of the steamship. Ordered—Her condemnation in dam- ages and costs, and a reference to a commissioner to ascertain the amount. The United States vs. One Package, §c.—This case presented a question upon the constraction of the act of Congress of February 26, 1853, relative to the coats of officers of the United States Cout An opinion of the Attorney General of the Uni States was referred to on the Lind a an allowance of fees for services required by law, im cases where no compensation ig appointed by the statate for such services. Held, that the act of Con- gress is peremptory and exclusive, and that no feea or costs can be taxed other than those specially ap pointed by the statute,