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2 George N. Sanders tn Reply to the Richmond Examincr—Touches Pierce, Hunter, Ma- sen, the Jesuit Brownson, Knew Nothings, he. dice New Yorx, August 1, 1855. 70 THY EDITOR OF THE RICHMOND EXAMINER. Sm—You have thought proper in a late issne of the Praminer, to wake a personal attack upon me and te im- pogn my motives imrecent notes addressed to democrats en the conduct of public men. Although I have within the last few years written much for the public, the record will bear witness that it has not been of myself, The violence and want of courtesy in your remarks, make it @oubtfal whether I shonid in self respect now depart from his rule. But the invitation it offers to give you and ‘ethers, still more objectionable, the skinning you all so wichly deserve, is too tempting to forego.” Moreover, it is a duty to expose the viciousness of yours and similar reactionary movements becoming too eommon in the Pierce press on leading subjects of public aterest. 1 am surprised that the usually intrepid Examiner shoul, in its vindication of Senators, fall into the mean practice of the Pierce organs, in arrogantly reviling the motives of gentlemen without saying one word of defence ‘on the subject matter; chuckling over the idea that thi ily trick will change the issue before the country. Iie the settled tactics of this administration to ont- vage those national democrats who cannot be dra gooned or seduced into favoring their machina- tions, so as to be able to cry out in reply to their strictures, “It is personal pique’’—and its members con- gratulate themselves on having in this summary way stopped the mouth of many an ibignant democrat, but cobweb mancuyres only challenge me to break through them. ‘twas rather an unfortunate selection, however, to take me up as an instance of aman speaking the truth, only wander the influence of disappointment or revenge. 1 defy 4 to show a line from me, courting the favor of the administration, or sustaining it under unworthy acts, even while in the enjoyment of the office etmy choice, the best in the gift of the government, which I could easily etained by an abandonment of amy “hard” and “red” principles. ‘Unhappily we do not have to go out of our own country for examples of the influence of power on human charac- ter, and ii was natural enough, howeyer dishonorable, that the administration should seek to break in or break down any office-holder who showed the slightest inde- pence of thought, outside of its own line of action for the time being. ut what is unnatural and alarming is, that democratic Senators whose duty it is to sustain the inde- pendence of the citizen against executive tyranny, should to aid the administration in f officials, but to lead in the age ‘against me being ie than any of themselves. ‘The reaction bad spread its stifling pall hea- ate. Bat the unworthy revenge of de- representatives does not lwssen my contid ‘the jurtice and generous appreciation of the living - racy of the nation, or weaken my devotion to the demo- ezatic principles in which I was © raised.” Penetrating to motives, it is quite as cazy, and more to the point, to impugn the motives of gentlemen who <up- port the administration, expecially when the patronage <f the government has to be given or pledged to obtain the inost ordinary endorser t ‘You would seem to intimate irginien, or » man @escended from Virginia, has some peculiar right to ad- @ress the public; and that 1 may arrogate something to myseli from this lineage, even by the way of that Ken- tucky which you so enviously characterise as a “‘ swi producing” State. Now, although I revere the Virginia statesmen of the olden time, 1 ate the idea that a Kentuckian or a New any con- sequence from the most illustrious Virginian that his own efforts, however humble, can he prej by contrast with the nobler acts of his foreiathers. To be an American citizen is right aud title enough Yo address American citizens on any subject of public eoncern. I by no means, however, lightly esteem this vight, and | trust that whatever I have said, or may say. has always borne and will always bear with it evidence o my deep sense of the propriety and care which should mark the language of a wan who avails himself of it. With this consciousness I have felt that no apology is re- ‘quired for speaking to democrats, and Imake none, Can- didates, Congressmen and federal office holders have too long claimed to be the only legitimate talkers, desiring to secure themselves thereby a monopoly of influence and power, and to frighten citizens from entering the politi- cal arena, Editors owe it to their readers, who are a le- Fitimate constituency, to. oppose this assumption. I very souch distrust the democracy of one who would desire to bring into discredit the practice of citizens addressing the public opportunely on any subject of general interest. If by ridicule and abuse, the administration press can in- timidate any sensible person, however little known, from a decent expression of opinion on public men and measures, the people lose at once one of the my most interested f lowering w that I was of Euro reateat, safeguards on public virtue and respousi- Ie tr he London Zimes boasts that English men always have access to its ¢ ‘English citi- zens,” os it proudly calls by anticipation English pub- , It is the business of officials, the President included, to act; it is the duty of the people to write an1 speak, and to tell their servants what to do. We must have more action with less talk from representative and exe- autive men. It is childish malice to tannt me with Know Nothing- iam, and comes gracefully from a press whose very types ‘would pale at being set up with the names of Kossuth, Ledru Rollin, or Mazzini. As the Examiner does me the honor to make my polities of suflicient importance to be misrepresented, { will state to its gricf, that I have never had the slightest connection with the Know Nothing or American party, but am now, ever have been, and ever will be, a State rights dew at of the Ji ‘sonian school; in European politics “ red,” of the most sanguinary Due, With all its incongruities, the’national men, especial ef the South, are under deep obligations to, the Philadel. phia Know Nothing Convention for their thorough and unequivocal resolution on the Kansas-Nebraska bill. ‘Thie action has done more to weaken Northern sectional- ixm than any recent political move, notwithstanding the attempgpof the Pierce press to cast ridicule upon its pa- triotien® The administration is the leaven of the Know Nothing fermentation, which hax been excited chiefly by popular detestation of its Jesuit policy. Tne labor, ar- tistic ekill and capital of Europe have been invited to our shores by all the means known to us. ‘The national ge ernment, the States, corporations and individuals, have vied with exch other in offering inducements. It would Ve a violation of American honor and integrity to deprive this emigration of any of the rights and priviloges to the enjoyment of which they have been invited. The bountt- fal harvest and the brilliant general prosperity of the whole country will not be without effect in recalling to eur people what is due to European Americans. ‘The danger to the democratic party is not from any out side combinations, but from the low intrigues and want of and elevated thought in its would be leaders, ‘The * jealousies, heart-burnings and bickerings”” of per- fonal partisanship which you accuse me of having ex- cited, were smouldering with fierce and deadly intensity when I assumed the management of the Democrat: Re- view, (Ist January, 1852,) aided by some of the boldest, most \ntellectual’ ind disinterested writers in the land. Young America took bold of the distracted elements with rough but generous hands. It raised the canvass from personal squabbles io the consideration of great principles, It represented faithfully and accarately the aarcer upon which the people wished the couutry to enter, and the nation responded with acclamation af the polls,’ Look at the vote for Frank. Pierce. What gained it for bim’—his long tried services or distinguished military genius on hfs country's battle flelds, as com- pared with the faithful and brilliant career of General Seott?—his own origination or support of great civil measures then or ever in his Wife? No. It was the con- fiding belief of native and adopte ons, skilfully auursed by hix own dissimulating career during the elec- Yion, and maintained up to the very day of his inaugura- tion; that he would carry out the principles and policy of Young America. Duriag the canvass we acted on the broad and just maxim that as the discnasion of priaei- ples is the way to reach truth, 80 the discussion of indi viduals is the way to expose weak and bad men, and to dring into the light of public notioe the merit and intellect ‘of the country. The selection of an inferior man was no faalt of ours. We thought we went low enough dowa in the scale of possible candidates when we examined the pre tensions of Lynn Boyd. But unheeding the hints of the New York Henavp, wide awake as Young America was and is, we thought ‘it waste of energy to take up with gauntletted hands the poorest General of the Mex war. After thé nomination, it was too late. what as good democrats we were bound to do—accepted him, believing the good that was claimed for him. We soust do that, or factiously throw away the election. His welection was an accident, but such an accident, { must ray, as would be unworthy of a chance crowd on @ rail ear or steamboat. Such an accident must not occur again, if we want to prescrve any respect for our democra- ic conventions. The sentiments of the Kraminer in regard to the Demo- eratic Review, when the Examiner was not an * organ’ ey reigning administration, are somewhat to the in a puxtract trom She leading article in the Bearing: rol, i—'* The Democratic Review pleases the milliod. It Foy 3 Who are members of the million, At last we ot @ national organ possessed with courage to take up the word which Washing‘on, Jefferson, Jackson, ut- tered repeatedly in their day. That word is, Onward, The Democratic Review bas unfurled once more the gonfalon of Pa te opined V3 stamp this iron truth on the razen wrong, that this world is not fini and is not the best possible world. It has teh eyed Pefore the eyes of mankind once more the great duty of amen, which is to make the world better than it is. It has dared to stand erect before the Bast of man-worship, to call back the from the adoration of individuals ‘As to your Senator Hunter, it is easy to go into empty explosions of wrath, but I should like the Hea. miner to give its own views of Mr. Hunter's higher liw, whieh haa found sich earnest champions in the abolition yanks, and which a writer of that ilk, in the New York ‘Times, evidently under the same religious hallucination, sf defends, (in the midst of @ thicket of pious abuse of m6,) while exp his undoubted confidence that Fenators Seward and ill at the proper moweat ‘be found to not exactly haps, on the same ground with Lloyd Garrison fendell Phil. ips, but their proper st omewhere either under the constitution, or outside of it,” &e. While solicitous of : courtesy to his Southern confederate, he generously the palm to Mr. Hunter, who, he says, expresses 6 the came doctrine, only in a more doctrinal form,” and # ‘* more recent and more expres’’ in it announcement, The Higher Law is the gravest question of political ‘ethics now before the nation. It canuot be trlt with or meered out of sight. Its subtle precepts and insi- @ions inferences hav ng through the lips of her cherished inion, it forces itaelf on the at- Aanidon of her gtategmen and Igialature. distinguished religious summerset, 0. A. Brown. won, haa also come tofthe aid of Senator Hunter, ina lntter ‘ agentloman of North Carolina, which seems lo be a kind of corotlary to My, Hunter's exposition of Catholic Higher Jew la jigy of his statowens it becomen of thy highest NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1855. American Cathe ortance U Ture whether Mr. Bronson is a responsible organ of their opinions, Did American revolu Cat in 1776 actually wait for absolution from the tholiea ever—or did Cath and German Catholics, and Italian the Pope to * release their consciences” in 1848? or did the Romans themselves ask abgolution when a republic in Rome? The er Lay of the Gutheliie according te Mr Bronson entirely in the bands of the Pope, who is declared superior to all laws and constitutions. You deem it presuming in me to look into the langnage of Senator Hunter, and J shall add to this presumption by looking into the deeds of Senator Mason. Senator Mason, Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the Senate, is responsible for the loss of Cuba, Our vacillating President would not act without the ad- vance support of Congress. Senator Mason prevented the necesenry action and sustained the administration in all its folly and turpitude in the adjustment of the Spanish aggressions. Mr. Soulé resigned because he was not supported in the affair of the Ostend Conference. ‘The first the country knew of his resignation was the appoint- ment of his successor, hurried through the Senate in euch hot haste by Senator Mason as to leave no time for Senators to inquire into the conduct of the administra- tion, The Minister to France, # patriotic and distin- guished Virginian, was as much @ party to the Confer- ence, and just as much rebuked by the course of Vir- iuia’s Senator, as was Mr. Soulé himself, Had Senator son exhibited the least nerve, Secretary Davia pretends to think that the administration would have taken courage and done something. (More than doubtful. The course of Senator Mason, however, amount perfect surrender of the interests not only ‘of the Fouth, but of the whole nation. The administration tIthough guilty itself, very justifiably throws the weight cf the blawe upon Senator Mason, who showed bimself lamentably deficient in all the sinews of statemanship. Thave long since made up my mind that we are to gain no more territory under this administration, and f shalt think the country fortunate if it get rid of iu without the lose of any. ‘The Spanish ministry, 1 am sorry to say, has shown more fidelity to those who serve it, even disbonocably, then our own government has to its most honorable and faithful agents. Finding their devoted Perry cashiered for levelling from the Minister up (or down) ‘to the Pre- sdent, they generously graced his fall by some thousands of reals, scattered over the Black Warrior outr ‘are the tampering with the higher and the abandonment of Cuba all that your Senators will be held responsible for. There was a Northern Senator who assumed the responsibility of the Kau- ras Nebraska ill, and carried it through, Congress in the widst of a hurricane of sectional denunciation. Southern Senators had it in their power ito show their appreciation of his rervices by promoting, him, and the Southern people wouli have been gratitied to haye seen him clected to the vacant Prosttency of the Senate, Jealousies and petty aspirations interfered with the exhibition of such integrity, and the office was thrown away upon the most lubberly intellect in the Senate, always excepting President Pierce's extraordinary Dodge. ‘The democracy owes it to its dearest interests to attack with strong conilemnation the motives which lead to the Selection of such small men for the highest offices in the it having become the fashion now to choose places of trust, not for their merits, but for their negations. In taking leave of the Examiner, which until recently we regarded with pride as a gallant exponent of Young America, J cannot refrain from expressing my surprive and regret that after having bravely resisted the fury of the waves of Legitimists and Orleanists in 1852, it should in 1855, have, in a fit of despatr, allowed itself to be suck- ed into the fatal eddy of Pierce iupertalis g ‘ANDERS, Extraordinary Marriage. {From the Clarksville Tobacco Plant.) Our readers will remember that some time since ted that it was very usual for ladies to insti- tute suits for breach of marriage promise, but that no instance of such a suit, in which the gentleman was the plaintiff, had fallen within the range of our observation or reading. The following facts may lead to such a denouement:— Squire John Bradsher, of Person county, N. C., had been a widower for only afew months. After the loss of his partner, he felt sadly oppressed with the unwonted loneliness of his sitnation, and natural- Jy fell into the habit of visiting a Miss Franky Lea, of the neighborhood, by way of dispelling his gloom. It is not in human nature for two persons of opposite sexes, with warm impulses and throbbing hearts, to associate constantly and dniimetly, without _be- coming strongly attached, one to the other. The thought at first, Perhaps, entered the brain of neither. But Miss Franky, as is the saying, had the quills. Twelve thousand was her dowry. This, with her other attractions, (for, mind you, she was only 57,) operated like magic upon the ardent nature of the Squire, who, though in his seventieth year, was rejuvenized by the inspiration of Miss Franky’s smile. He, therefore, found no difficulty in making. up his mind to marry her if be could. He propose —she accepted. The morning of Saturday, the 14th July, just passed, at 8 o'clock, was fixed upon for the mairiage. The Squire procured his license, paid au extra price for it, in view of the expected accession to his wealth, employed a parson, rigged himself off ina suit of black, and made every other imaginable preliminary arrangement for the ceremony which was to consummate his bliss. The daughters of Mr. Samuel Johnson, another widower of the neighborhood, were invited to the wedding. Johnson was only 57—Miss Franky’s age exactly. They had heen children together; and while they were both quite young they had loved. He was not satisfied that she and the Squire should marry. On Friday evening, the day before the ex- ted wedding, peeing a palates passing his Fouse, he hailed him. ‘The neighbor found Johnson very much excited and disturbed. Johnson stated to him that he could not bear the thought of Miss Fran- ky’s marrying Squire Brasher, and that he wanted him to go to Miss Franky at once and say to her for him that if she preferred marrying him to Squire Bradsher, she could do so. The neighbor insisted on his writing to her a letter to this effect, offering to deliver it. “No,” says he, “ entirely too nervous to hold a pen.’ You must go and deliver the ™ e.” Finally he consented and repaired to Miss Franky’s residence, charged with this messa; of love. Miss Franky, in reply authorized him say to Mr. Johnson, that if he would get ready to Twurry her at sunrise the next morning, she would marry him. It ‘was then late in the afternoon. Having no time to spare, he put off under ure and spur to Roxborough, the county seat, for his license, aud at the same moment started off'a servant to Leasburg fora parson. The servant took care not to inform the minister what it was his master wanted with him, but énly said that his services were impera- tively required at sunrive the next morning. Mr. Jokusen, the minister who had been engaged to ofliciate, and the friend who had borne the mes- sages of love between Miss Franky and the bride- room, were at their post at the appointed hour. The marriage rites were performed, and Miss Franky Lea became Mrs. Franky Johnson, J ‘An hour afterward Squire Bradsher and his reti- nue were tocome. Accordingly the bride hastily addressed a note to the Squire, informing him that she was uo longer Miss Franky Lea but Mrs. Franky Johnson, and that he need not trouble himself any further about her, 5 The astonished yet incredulous Squire could not believe the note atthentic, but regarded it as a hoax attempted to be practised upon him by some of the wild young men of the neighborhood. © To settle the matter he hiustened over to see his inamorata. Ar- rived in her presence he presented the note to her and inquired if she wrote it. ¢ replied in the af- firmative. Tucensed at her faithlessness, he in- dulged (who that is mortal would uot?) in bitter complaints of her ili treatment. (Johnson mean- time in the next room, reclining ona sofa, cosil, smoking his pipe, and listening with more of merri- ment than resentment at the imprecations heaped upon his bride.) Indeed, having foiled his competi- tor while in the very act of paceng the fruit for which he so much yearned, he could well afford to endure the pain of a few bitter reproaches. J After a free ebullition of his indignation, the Squire retired, resolved, as our informant tells us, upon a resort to the law to stanch his heart wounds, and heal, as far as possible, his bruised and lacerated af- fections. Having derived these facts from undoubted au- thority, they may be regarded as true to the letter, An Arrocious Murper 1x Crycisnati.—Our city has again been horrified by an atrocious murder ofan aged German named Ferdinand Cortis, who kept a fruit store at No. 6 Walnut strect, and who is supposed to have fons to bls sleeping room, up stairs, about ten o'clock on hursday night, and was never seen alive again. The store was not opened yesterday morning, as usnal, and this caused some inquiry, and finally the neighbors opened Mr. Cortis’s room and found ‘him sitting ina chair, dead, with a cut in his left breast, whieh severed three of his ribs from the sternum, As his hands were bloodless, and no knife in the place, ani as the wound must have caused almost immediate death, it can scarcely be au that the old msn committed suicide. He bad the reputation of being wealthy. ‘The room door was found joeked on the inside, bat was opened by two of the neighbors with » pair of pinchers, whieh grasped that part of the door key that extented to the outside. This may have been the way the door was fastened after the murder had been committed. A considerable sum of eash (8406 80), and several hundred dollars’ worth of promissory notes, were found in the room, but a much Lirger ornt may have been carried away, There are suspicious cireumstances, which ff properly traced out, will, we think, lead to the detection ofthe murderer. Ma. Cortis was born in Bavaria, and came to this country in 1849, His friends and relatives are all dend, and his loneliness induced the old man to make his will about a year ago, leaving a bequest of $1,000 to the German Protestant Orphan Asylum, anc also directing that at his death all the candies, fruits aud nuts in his store should be given to the ebildren in the asylum. Another curious direction in relation to his fa- neral was, that there should be only yy ee The directors of the avylam Inst night took of the deceased, and will inter it to-day, tem examination be leld.—Oineinna gust 4. 3 Frovr rrom Grows Warat.--We have seen @ recipe for tomy | bread from flour manufactared from gore wheat. The sprouting is said to destroy the alco lic quality of the grain, so that ite life i# gone, while the nutricious quality still remaios. It is affirmed, there- fore, that if a gill of alcohol is a:lded to the dough in kneading, it will make excellent light bread. This sounds Rollow, byt theze may be something in it, ‘Terrthle in China. MURDER OF CAPTAIN WOODBERRY OF THE AMERICAN BARK SABA. (trom te Pod of Cnn Mag On the 17th of May last year we gn ac- count of the loss of the American bark Sarah Moore gor See) coal Fi , Master, a8 learned from ¢ carpenter of that on his arrival here in the oe hy from the Raven bi pany in ey ; . Amongst other particulars it was of the Sarah Moore that :— The cabin rs were a Mr. and Mrs. Ross autour chilrden, and two +h and one English female. A difference ‘between the passenger Rosa and his wife, and she not demuaring, the unfortunate hus- band was tied hand and foot and landed on an island called Rotamah. The easengers ‘endeavored to prevent such an atrocity, (this part of the narrator’s statement ‘was untrue, the passengers were glad Ross was pat on shore,) but the captain, backed bfi his mates, vowed to exercise his revolver on any one attempting to check The reaidue of the passen; wrecked vessel did not arrive here the month of July following; and, as occasion |, We made en- ‘state ba ceria awe men e man wi at Rotana. The result of all these enquiries are as follows :— ‘Not long after the Sarah Moore left Sydney, Ross and his wife commenced q) ; and both of them being fond of liquor, scenes of violence were continually occurring. On one occasion the wife ac- cused the husband, » Of being an escaped con- vict—of being one of the robbers of the gold cscort from Ballarat, (the robbers took lifeon occasion, if we remember aright,) and of — other flagrant ers from the offered traordinai offences. So accused, of or not, is doubtful, Ross vowed to take his wife’s life, and in this.he was not far from effectually succeeding. The following is taken from a ep written by Aloxan- der enson, steward Sarah Moore, placed in our hands some time ago:— ‘At the same time Ross, using the most profane lan- uage to her, she then xpitting blood freely, goes up to Fertund says, “I will give you something to ery for,” and makes another effort to strike her, to which she says, ‘for God’s sake, Ross, don’t strike me any more or you will kill me, for in the room you kieked me so hard that you broke one of my ribs.’ Ross then suid, I will do more than that, at the same time using the most abusive language to her. Mrs, Ross then got up ani went into the water closet; he soon followed her into the closet, and then asked her what she was doing undressed, and said damn you put your clothes on; I will kill you; J will cut your throat. Ross then came out of the ‘closet into the cabin and got a case of razors from his berth; then re- turned to the water closet and said to her, damn you Iwill cut your throat, to which Mrs, Roxs shrieks and suys for God’s sake, Janes, don’t kill me; he says to her what are you making a noise for, people will think Tam killing you; ina few minutes after Ross came out of the cloret and brovght the razors out with him, and put them into his berth, and then he went and set upon the sofa. I then went down into the storeroom which joins the wa ter closet, and heard her, as 1 thought, trying to vomit, and then I heard a kick two or three times; as soon asf heard the kick, I got up out of the storeroom and went into the pantry and put the things that T had in my hands down and starts for the closet, but before { could get to the cloxet, Ross told the eklest, boy James, to go into the closet and see what his mother was doing in there; he went and found her lying on the tloor; he gave the alarm, and said his mother was dying. 1 went into the room as soon ax possible, and found her lying on the floor; the captain, alxo some of the passengers, came into the room, and assisted in getting her into the cabin, laid her upon the floor «0 as the air could get to her; the froth was coming out of her mouth; she came to’ her senses in about tive minutes. Ross, then sitting upon the sofa in the cabin, did nos do #0 much as to get up and look at her, but @amn her, she knows better than to hang herself, she is not such a fool as that. Rows then takes another glass of brandy, drinks it down; he then offers the captain some, he refuses it, and says, I will not drink with you. Ross’ then said, Tet it alone then, Ross then commenced to abuse his wife, set- ting very near each other, used the most profane’ and abusive language to her, und also threatened her lie, saying to her that he was not done with her yet, and that there was two that he wanted to get hold ‘of, then he would be satisfied. All the time he seemed to be ina great rage. It also appeared he wanted to have a fight with some person or other. He used such linguage and threats to his wife, that all the passengers came on deck and would not stop in the cabin. The captain told him that all the passengers were leaving the eabin on his ac- cout, for ho wade #0 much noise that they would not stop'in the cabin. Ross then sald it was her that made all the noise, +o that the people would think there was murder going on. Ross sald that he did not care a damn if the passengers did go aut of the cabin, and said: Call in the man that will put me out of the cabin, and they will sce fun, Ross then set upon the sofa, got up aguin, took a glass of brandy, then went down into the steerage; he then came up ‘out of the steerage; the second mate took hold of hima, and the cook and one of the crew held him, and bound him with rope yarns. He then was using the most abusive language, and threat- ening the life of the captain—if they would only let him loose, he would kill two and then be hanged. The cap- told fim that he would put him on shore, They put lin into the beat, aud the captain told him that he would rend a man of war ux soon as he could, His wife vent his clathes on shore, and so ended, ‘This statement was corroborated by the testimony of the passengers, Maloy and his wife, Power and his wife, a female of the name of Jane Winch, and the captain, Woodberry, from whose private log we tuke the following entry: Terspay, & with light airs, warm and variable; wood. Put dir. Ross on shore with his clothes, * %* % © His wife said he tried to hang her; she was found hanging bs the throat or neck; when found her breath was nearly done, she was gasping and frothing from the mouth for some min- utes after she cume to, Woodberry gave as his reason for Putting Ross ashore the jeopardy to which he was exposing the lives of himself and passengers in keeping such a man on board; and although the act of landing a passenger in such a way is an offence highly reprehensible, under all the circumstances, we can but think there was great excuse. Ross, according to a letter in the China Mail of the 26th uit., succceded, after a time, n getting from Rotamah to Sun Francisco, via Syd- ney, and ultimately reached this port. It was on the 3lst of March last that Ross called at our office to state that he was making every effort to find his wife and children—that his eldest daughter had matried a discharged sergeant, Bodell, of the 59th regiment, and thet if he could obtain the title deeds of a lot in San Francisco (worth $9,000) and a bot- tomry bond on the Sarah Moers, (for £500,) he would give as much as $200 and leave his wife and family to go what re they pleased. Ross added that Mr. Mitchell (the sheriff we presumed) had directed him to our office, as to a quarter where ad- vice how to proceed in the search ut Macao (where he believed his femily was to be found) was most likely to be readily obtained. A week or so afterwards Ross called again, and complained of his want of success. This time, also, he spoke in terms of warm indignation regarding Woodberry, and vowed that, for the hardship be had sustained at his hands, if he could not get justice done Lim in conrts he would take his lite. Again Ross called at this office with a request of us to pub- Nish the letter Levring his signature in the Mail lefore referred to. Observing his statement to be very partial, and hardiy consistent with the true state of the case as herein detailed, we desired the man fo gait until we hud an opportunity of con- ferrin, Mr. Cooper Turner, whom he named as his solicitor ; telling him at the same time that, if particularly bent on early publication, there were other papers in which his statement conld appear. ‘The Mail's remarks in publishing the letter had re- ference mainly to “the way (sheriff's) business is done in Hong Kong,” proceeding on t! rent belief that all Ross said was fact, But Woodberry, for whose apprehepsion Ross had obtained a writ, left Hong Kong for the Pratas Shoals a fall week before Ross asserted that he saw him, and, so fur as we are advised, has never since been in Hong Kong. ‘The tale, therefore, about the mistress, is all ima- ginary. On that point, too, it is pretty certain that the female passenger, whoce position as his mistress Woodberry repeatedly denied—left Hong Kong in a vessel bound to Amoy on the 14th ult., a week before the Sunday alluded to in the letter. We now arrive at the horrible result of this tale of crime. Woodberry, about 6 P. M. on Wednesday last, was walking on the Praya Grande, Macao, witl Captain Piepen, of the Prussian bark Marie, when Ross rushed across to him, drew a dagger from his ocket, and, exclaiming, “Ah! you are the man [ want,” stabbed him repeatedly. ‘Death, from inter- nal hemorrhage, soon followed, and at seven yester- day iets Woodberry was buried at the expense of the American Consular Agent. Ross, we have only to add, is in the hands of the Macao govern- ment, and, evidence of his having coolly aud delibe- rately committed the murder, for which be has to be tried, being ample as it cau well be, he, no doubt, will ey obtain the deserts his atrocious crimes merit. 10 THE EDITOR OF THY: CHINA MATT. Hone Kone, 24th April, 1855. Sin—At Svdney, on Ist September, 1853, I agreed with the captain for a passage to San Fraucisco, in an American bark, Sarah Moers, for myself, wife and four children, for which I paid £150 sterling. On the 4th of September we leit Sydney for San Francisco, by the way of the South Sea Islands, un- der pretence of trading with the natives of those islands, My agreement with the captain in Syduey was, that the above named vessel should not remain at apy one island more than three days. On the 22d September we came to an island by the name of Ro- tabma, in the South Sea. On the fifth day—that was on the 27th of September—I spoke to the eap~ tain concerning the unreasonable detention of the ship, and the answer he gave me was, “You d——d son of a b—h, if you interfere with what I call my daty, I will put you on the island.” With that he caught me by the collar of the coat, a scuffle com- menced, and [ released myrelf from his grip; and then he called upon his officers and crew to assist him, After being brutally maltreated, [ was n, fee vem hands aod feet, a rope rough My arms, and then I was hauled up to the mata rigging and kept there for two hours. They rigged a purchase to the main yard in order to lower me into the boat, and when I ‘was over the side of the ship, they let the fall go by the run, which caused me to fall heavily into the boat, breaking two of sry ribs; and theo the saper- cargo and the chief mate came was lying with eo dary the thwart, when the aa d—d son of a b—b, penne ‘ked out my teeth, shore and threy tain. the last two months no clothes to wear, when Captain Stewart, of the schooner Jane Lacy, called at the island, and most Kintly_gare me a pamage to the Fejee Islands, and ate passage to Sydney in the brig , and there I got fonds to p Francieco, where the ship (Sarah Moers) was bound, thinking to find my family there. Not finding them there, nor apy m, 1 stayed two months, when the news came from Hone Dang. thas te ship. ‘wos lost on Raven’s Island, the passengers all saved, and arrived i Hong Kong, I then took Passage to this place, and arrived here on the 23d of March. On the 24th Tapplied to the American Saree Mr. Keenan, to know where my was. told me that they had lived in Hong Kong for three or four months, and during that time my r n ecger ie ama OT of the 59th regiment, by the name of James Il, and that my wife had bought his discharge, and that they had all left together, and no one knew where. That day I got information that the Captain of the Sarah Moers was in this city. I then applied to Mr. Keenan for a warrant to have him arresied; my chi against him was piracy, robbery, and attempt of murder. The Consul tol me he could not grant me a warrant, on account of my being an Englishman; but that he would ike to have him. punished, for that he knew him to be an old scoundrel. Then I ap- lente ies be al “ B. cate Police lagistrate of ng Kong, and s' my agree- ment to him‘ of, ah he took a copy. I then ask ed him to be kind enough to grant me a warrant to apprehend the pepsin. He said he could not—it ‘was ont of his jurisdiction to do so; and then I was told to call to-morrow. I then carried my messa; to the Consal—Call tomorrow.” The Consul told me to call at 5 o'clock. I called at 5, and he was at his office. He then went to the magistrate’s private residence with me, to see what they could do for me. They could not grant a warrant because the robbery and brutality was committed at sea. On these grounds I could not have him arrested. I then went to a solicitor, and he has taken the case up for me. By those means I obtained a writ for his ap- prehension. I then applied to Mr. Mitchell, the sheriff, for o bailiff, knowing at the same time where to find the Captain. I was anxious to get a bailiff, but was told to call again. He was ecen on Snn with his mistress. I made a report to the bailiff whereabout he was to be found. The bailiff had to see Mr. Mitchell. He was most anxious to fulfil bis duty, but had no authority, And that is the way business is done in Hong Kong. JAMES Ross. Later from the Rilo Grande. We have received a file of the Brownsville Fag up to the 26th ult. That paper, under date of the 17th, says of the revolution :— No action has as yet taken place between the conten’ ing forces of the opposite bank of the r, though at lay they weré manmuvring quite near each othtr. Letters were received here list evening trom the camp of the insurgents, stating that the commander, Vi- darui, hearing of the approach of # reinforcement of go- yérnment troops, hud countermarched with a portion of his conimand to Monterey, to meet this new enomy, while General and Governor de In Garza remains at the head of the insurgents on the river, to watch the operations of Gen. Woll, who is alxo in the field with all his available force. The letters state there is no fear of the ultimate success of the insurgents, as the people from all quarters are flocking {o their standard en masse, filled with the greatest enthusiasm. Their numbers are suid to have al- ready swelled to three thousand of the best men of the frontier. Many of the most wealthy and influential men of Northern Mexico, inspired by that love ot liberty which actuated our fathers of '76, are said to have abandoned their homes, contributed their means, and joined the ranks as private soldiers, But will the change now about taking place establish a permanent government, or better the-eondition of the people? We fear it will not. Already nave the germs of dixcord discovered themselves in the insurgent camp, and are like to lead to conflict between the States, after their sovereignty has been restored; and if so, then will come chaos, and another, if not a final dissolution. Tn our last numaber we stated that Caravajal was second in command. This has turned out to be incorrect. This gentleman has withdrawn himself trom the movement and ix now on this bank of the river. He took offence « what he conceived to be the assumption by Vidaurl of what he construed to be the rights of the people of Ta- maulipas, and hence his withdrawal. Jose de la Garza now fills his place as second in command of the insur- gents, Caravojal is having published the correspondence h led to this result, and which he thinks will justify him in the eyes of his friends. It is rumored that litteen or twenty of our soldiers, from one of (heartillery companies nt Ringgolil barracks, had de- erted and joined the insurgents, taking with them their side arms and accoutrements. “the following is seven days lator:—Tho_ revolution «tilt gains strength on our frontier. al Woll has. fallen brek trem Reynosa upon Matainoros, and a consid number of the rebels are now, at the time of our goin, to press, close upon his heels. We have it from goo authority that three several parties are encamped near atymoros—one at Guadalupe, about thre leagues dis- nt; one at the rancho of Agapito Longorio, about eight Jeagues off; and the third party at some other point close by. These parties are, we learn, commanded by Capis- trun, Tijerina and Sayas. They do not contemplate an attack upon the city us yel, we believe. A rumor, suid to be well authenticated, aays that Gen, Vidauri, baving regubated matters at Monterey, was again marching on Matamoros, with a force of twenty- eight hundred men, It is also said that the forces now arcund the doomed city have orders not to engage the encmy.until the arrival of Vidauri’s reinforeements. In the meantime Gen, Woll and those subaltern to him have grown wrathy to desperation, Daring the absence of General Woll the command of the city is eaid te have devolved upon the famous Donna Lueinda, his repated wife, and her first use of authority was to command the inhuman treatment of one of her own sex, which not jears of the ladies of Matamoros could prevent ful proceeding is fully described in Spanish in anogher place. Jt is impossible to say when Matamoros will fall, but its fate is inevitable, and then terrible will be the reckoning. We have much to say on this subject, but our limited space will not permit. The Jady alluded to above as having been inhumanly treated, was named Hernandez. She hud crossed the river to Matamoros, and had been persuaded by her brother to deliver a letter to an official of t city, named Barba- rina, asking an interview. This, and the fact that she had not a proper passport, caused her to be arrested au thrown into prion. On the following day she was tak into the public square, and her hair was eut off, lock ter lock, by the hands of different. malefaetors of prison. ’ Her family witnessed this shamefal panishment in the deepest distress, while she imploced the authori ties to put her to death rather than submit her to such di-grace. She was afterwards sent to Vera Cruz. = The Glen Cove Regatta.. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Your reporters, in the account which they have given a at this place on the dd inst., were possibly wisinformed on the subject, or they in among us a sufficient length of tine to g culars. did not ren the pa In the first place, the first prize was awarded to the The Katydid being Julia, and the second to the Mary. short tonnage, according to th Yacht Club was ruled out, aml deck entitled to the prize. Again: It is said that, to Mr. William B. Burton the people of Glen Cove are indebted for this race, Jt was he who induced the club to race at that place, and to his liberality the affair owes its success, ‘The inhabitants of Glen Cove and he were in a kind of partnership. They took the credit of the affair and he paid the money.” Whereas, the fact is, (hat Mr, Burton, with a number of visiters of the Pavilion Hotel and residents of this place, each subscribed an equal amount of money to defray the expenses for the prizes awarded to the successful compe- titors, as well as the ball and entertainment im the even- iny given to the club. The chief credit due to Mr. Burton was in entertaining the members of the club and his per- sonal friends at his own mansion on the day following the regatta. he cups were delivered by the members of the club, to the regatta. ‘THE VISITERS, of the Pavilion Hotel, and * THE RESIDENTS, of Clen.Cove. Gry Cove, August 4, 1855. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. In the HgRap of this morning (Monday) | see it stated that the Katydid was ruled out,on account of her tonnage, and the Luckey because of carrying too many men. The Katydid bas been measured several times, and measures over fifteen tone—the tonnage required by the club. They offered the owner of the Katydid the second prize, but he said he bad won the first, and would take that or none; and he {x going to contest it, The Luckey was entitled to carry one man to every three tons, and a member of the club, which she had, and a couple of boy+—~one nine years and the other twelve years old. Now, if we count these two children as men, “ young America’? t« growing fast The Luckey is an elliptic boat, built on an entirely new principle, and just Jaunched and sailed under the disad- tages of sulla not setting well, and carrying « large ye deck, and nee | no light sails, She be- longs to C. ¥. Morton, Es. and was built by Messrs, Fish, & Morton, of this city, and her model can be seen office. Yours, &e., 6. P. S.—Enclowed I send you the rules, New York Yacht Club. SN. Bit the Katydid and Luckey had not heaton all the other yachts, we would not have heard anything about tonnage nor too many men. New York, August 8, 1855. Lby that club not the committee to one of presented to the victors in Alluding to the equirrels on Boston Ci al pon, the St. Anthony Falls (Mo.) Expree rayso—Here wo deal in larg- er game. We understand that the mayor of St, Anthony has ordered fifty fine buffalo, and the aime n of elk, from Pembina, to be turned loose on the of RL. Anthony upon ernment for protection. But the newspapers, th of England and America, from time to time bear evidence that the Chinese resorting to these enlightened countries are treated as outcasts, and have no means of redressing their wron; An in- stance is given in the subjoined letter, si; Zwingle the production of a jinese who has receined foreign education, without having forgotten either his own language or lost a love for his own country. Some ‘ago certain residents in China, took an Ierest in the cause of education, itn and two other boys from the Morrison School, under the charge of its teacher Mr. 8. R. Brown, on his return tothe United States, with a view to their being educa- ted in America and in Great Belin, Oneof ae tarned to China some ago, , imper- Xequilted ‘himself with muuch psy educated, has ac of Edin- a courte of medical study at the Universit; burgh 5 ‘and the third, the writer of the y's paper, was educated at Yale College, Connec- ticut, . In saying that the letter is his juction, we mean that it has not been dressed up, but appears as he wrote it, with the bial Stee of two or three words, which he would probably have altered had he geen a proof for revisal. - His acquaintance with the facts narrated is derived partly, from Agew, the interpreter, formerly a fellow pupil in the Morrison School, and Das eee his own obeervation, when sent for to assist the benevo- lent people who rescued the Chinese from their un- happy condition: — 10 THE EDITOR OF THE CHINA MATL. Hoxa Kova, April 19, 1855. Sin—I was requested by Leong Agew to communicate to you an account of the treatment which the Tung-fok- tong Chinese Dramatic Association had received from the hands of certain parties in the city of New York, about two years ago. The facts of the case were made known tome by Loong Agew himself, who acted as interpreter for the company. { would leave the propriety of publish ing this commuinicationjentirely to your discretion, The facts are as follow The Tung-fok-tong Dramatic Association, consisting of more than a hundred and twenty actors, left Canton in the month of June, 1862, and arrived at San Francisco in August of the same year, During the five or six months which they spent there, their performances met with great ane mong the Chinese. - It happened, how that a George W. Beach proposed to Li-koon, the proprie: tor of the said company, to go over to New York, to es- tablish thelr headquarters near the Crystal Palace. Be- ing pleased with the idea, and the flattering prospect of still greater success, Li-koon and a part of the company yielded to the persuasions of Beach & Co, After, in the words of Leong Agew, ‘‘a long perseverance,” the parties came to the following agreement, which was signed on the 19th of March, 1853:— ‘the length of ‘time for which the company engaged themselves was ten months. For the first #ix months, they were to receive six thousand dollars per month, to be pald in advance monthly; for the other four months, seven thousand dollars per month, also to be paid in ad- vance monthly, Morcover, if wus also agreed that $12,000 (twelve thou- ennd dollars), or two months’ wages, were to be advanced to the Dramatic Company before they started for New York. Finally, that Beach & Co. were to defray all the Recessary expenses of the company during the whole time for which they were engaged—sneh as the passage from Sun Francisco to New York, board bill, and travelling ex- penses, ° No sooner had those arrangements been made, than Beach & Co, found that they were unable to raise the whole of the said $12,000, and begged Li-koon, the pro- rietor, to take $10,000, with a promise to make up the lance of the $2,000 at the close of the first performance of the first month in New York. Accordingly, the wardrobe of the Dramatic Company having been’ taken both asa security for the $10,000 that had been paid, nnd as a pledge for thelr faith- ful performance in New York, Li-koon and his troop embarked with Beach & Co. for their place of des- {nation, where they arrived on the 2th of April, 1853. Three weeks after their arrival, they found, to their astonishment, that their wardrobe was mort gaged, without their knowledge or consent, to Messrs, Davis’ & Brooks, Steamship Company, by G: W. Boach & Co, who, most probably, were neither able to pay their own passage, nor that of the Chinese Dramatic As- sociation, amounting to nearly $0, In order to obtain for the Dramatic Company the use of their theatrical trappings, Beach & Co. eS iio, who, I believe, is the proprietor of Niblo’s Garden, w place of public amusement, to give security to Mersrs. Davis & rooks, which Li-koon and his troop were persuaded to sign; but ina great measure ignorant of tho contents of the boud, until they were informed by @ lawyer of its full signiticance. Having thus obtained their wardrobe, they began to play at Niblo’s Garden, Their performances, however, ili suited the public taste; so the whole affair, after a weok’s experiinent, failed beyond resuscitation, On the evening of the 26th of May, 1803, they made their last appearance before the public, the proceeds of which re, as announced, intended for the special benefit of Li-koon, who had only the satisfaction of seeing G. W. Beach pocket the money, after which he abseonded from the city and left the Chinese in a state of utter helpless- ness and destitution in the Skakspeare Hotel. Being deceived and deserted, it so happened that a man, Bayly, offered to take them over to Cuba, to serve on his intation for the term of eight years, at the rate of $$ a th, but (said Leong Ayew) “shone of us were willing to go; rather die in ove place thun to go there.” t noble and disinterested philantrophy this is! To attempt to take advantage of men’s ignorance, credulity, destitu- tion, and despair, and endeuvor to make slaves of them, when they had just suffered from the ruthless hands of others ! No sooner had Bayly left them, without accomplishi his humane intentions, than » 1more plausible, and to afl appearance a very laudable plan was concocted to give them material aid—that ia, to discharge their boord bill due to theShakspeare Hotel, and to send them to China; but in reality to use them as tools, by which persons might prey upon the benevolent, sober-mninded and indus- trious citizens of. the community. Accordingly, William Seeback, bookkeeper of the hotel, accompanied by Leong Agew, the interpreter, went to some of the principal cities and obtained a sufficient subscription, the snount of which was supposed to be several thousand dollars, to accomplish the alleged purposes- ‘The poor Chinese were then assured that a Boston ship, owned by G. G. Dennis, Esq., was to be ex. prestly at New York on the 27th of October to convey them home to China gratis, provided the Commissioner of Foreign Ymigration would supply them with provi- sions enough for the whole passnge. The appointed day but neither the ship, nor G. G. Dennis, Esq., was nor heard of, except so far that G. G, Dennis, E Was a person not to be trusted; so that the Com- missioner of Foreign Emigration had not even the sha dow of «chance 1o act upon their proposed condition, The appointed day passed away, and the Chinese were turned out of doors, withont sccing even a mite of the money that had been raised for their relief, ‘They were Sent by the Commissioner of Forcign Emigration to ard’s Island to pass the winter, and in the spring of 1854, sccing that they could no longer be kept at the public expense, he scent them away from the island to shift for themselves. Friendless, homeless and penny- Jess, they straggled through the streets of New York tor several months, and were objects of ridicule and pity alternately, aceording as they were viewed by persons of different dispositions and classes, till, through the infla- ence ot a lady, & committee was appointed to relieve them, and assisted most of them home, Fitleen hundred dollars were raised for that purpose, and on the 220 of July, 1854, twenty of the whole com- pany, at their own request, were sent by the committee ; four of then sailed direct for China rest, at their own option, were nition of the Rey. Me. E. W. syle. iel history of a series of deceptions practised on a company of strangers in a strange land, by men, 10, in moral point of view, could not have beem any- less than totally depraved. The treatment which t vnfortunate Chinese had experienced from G. W. Beach & Co., William Lubooh, and G. G, Dennis, Exq. left upon their minds an impression by no means favorn ble to American laws and institutions, whose efficiency ana expansion wre so much yaunted both at home and abroad. As a proof that they cherished and carried away with them such an impression, I need only quote the words of Leong-Agew, through whom the company i “although (seid he) the jess; for the g this country seems not to ca from snother lind who have been succeesively deceived by its citizens.” Now, whatever may be the logic of ench reasoning, still it is their reasoning, and conviction founded upon their own sad experience, and like other deep-rooted con- yictions would tend to spread itself with full force, had it not been mitigated and ina great measure restrained by the subsequent benevol ent spirit shown towards them by the good citizens of New York. [ remain, yours truly, ZWINGLE. Commexcement at Bowpomn Cotiror—Tues day, Wednesday and Thursday of last week were occupied with the anniversary exereikes at Bowdoin Coll Brunswick, Me. An oration was pronounced by Pr: Felton, of Cambridge, on Tuesday, before the literary +o- cicties, His theme ‘was “Greece.” On Wednesday, thirty-five young men received the degree of A.B. The honorary degree of LL.D, was conferred on Hon, Rewel Williams, of Augusta; and that of D.D. on Rey. J. W. Chickering, of Portland; Rev, Caseneau Palfrey, of Bel- fast; and Kev. Prof, Hitchcock, late of Bowdoin College. The Rev. Dr. Burroughs, of Portsmouth, delivered an ad- dress on Wednesday evening, on the “Red Men of onr Country,” before the Hi vical Society. On Thursday, the Phi Beta oration was pronounced by Rev. Dr. Thomp- son, of New York. The Portland Advertiser adds :— “Among the pleasant incidents of the oceasion, we ma notice that a donation of $3,000 was received by the col- lege from Hon. Reel Williams, and that the Collins Pro- foxsorship, recently vacated by Dr. Hitchcock, has been snppiled for the present by the election of Egbert C. Smyth, the Professor of Rhetorie.’” AS 01) Maxston at Harvarp Destroyep ky Fine.—On the Md inst, the fine, solid and liberal old family mansion of Henry B. Pearson, Fsq., of Harvard, was destroyed by fire. The Boston Transcript says that this was built in 1736, for the first minister in Harvard, Rev. John Sec- comb, and has long been the admiration of the neighbor- hood, and of all who have visited the town of which it was one of the chief ornaments, Spacious, and of a pe- culiar style of architecture, it stood on a beautifal lawn, embosomed in a grove of lofty elms, and surrounded with verdure, It reminded ane ‘of the lonely halls of merrie Fogland. In the year 1770 it became the seat of the Bruamfields, being occupied at the close of the last and be- Binning of the present ecutury by Col, Henry Bromfield, and subsequently by his descendants. It fv # public Iowa, The buikling was early one hupdred and twenty yeara old Interosting from Niearagua. OUR 84N JUAN DEL SUR CORRESPONDENCE. i SanIuvan pet Scr, July 28, 1855. Progress of De Chelera—The Intestine Wor—Situation of the Chamorroand Leon Partics— Walker's Band—Another American Company. ‘The Uncle fam arrived at this place last night from San Francisco, in eleven days. She had two hundred and fifty passengern, all told, The sea was remarkably smooth during the passage. Their health was perfect, and nothing occurred to mar or disturb the perfect harmony qf the voyage. By the California papers you will be"able to: gather a synopsis of the last two weeks’ mews on the Pa- cific coast. ‘This route is delightfully pleasant at this season of the year. The trade winds are blowing, tempering the at- mosphere to delicious coolness. The eternal and ever surging forests that clothe the hills of Nicaragus, now wave in darkest foliage and cast their deepest shadows. ‘The dread cholera, the inexorable visitant of sll parte of the world, is fast disappearing from this lovely country. It was undoubtedly imported here from New Orleans, and, gradually spreading up the San Juan river, and westward, ‘ts last stronghold has been this little picturesque town.. t hae spent its fury, and has now almost entirely abated, he prevailing winds driving it down to the neck of the: ontinent, to combine with the dark miasmas and jungle evers which hang around the Isthmus of Panama, and eed on human life. When we consider the relentless tnd irresistible course of this dread scourge, we may well dread its silent march to Darien, because sad ex- erience has taught us that its onward tramp is ever marked by a swarth of corpses and the wail of thou- sands, The pure atmosphere that floats around the magnificent lakes of is republic has doubtless done much to assuage the fury of the plague. And ‘Nicaragua may now Eiely think that the wings of the angel of death no longer wave o’er the ils and expansive lakes within lier borders. The it week has not witnessed any new victims along the line of the ‘ransit. ‘The civil war still rages in the interior of the country’ The Guadiola party, whilom the Chamorrro party, are now in possession of the country, except Leon, WI Castellon is ehut up with five or six hundred men. Col. Wm. Walker and bis heroic little band are om board their verre], and at anchor off Realejo. He shot two of his men for incendiarism, the night he embarked from thia place; his future movements are shrouded in deep mystery. "We learn his party are in great distress for food and clothing ; $f #0, look out for a swoop at an early day. Rumer sage there are fifty Americans at Castillo rapids in the employ of the government, and commanded y a Pole, They were surreptitiously smaggled out of Now York by the Nicaragua Steamship Company, whose sym- pathies all go with this government and the side of per- manent peace; for they find the distractions of this un- happy land « rongly militating againat the welfare and profits 40 deservedly due their Pacis exertions and vast outlay to win a share of public patronage. 4 VERITAS. OUR VIRGIN BAY CORRESPONDENCE. Vincix Bay, July 28, 1855. Colond Waiker at Realsjo—Desertion—Enlistments, The cholera is still sweeping over the country, and carrying off its thousands. Walker is at Realejo, and finds the party too slow for him to act with them. The company have enlisted ome one hundred soldiers to- fight for thegovernment party. Among them is some from California, with Captain French, who was to have joined Walker. Tue Smrrring or Troors To Nicaraqua—We wnderstand that the acting Consul of the United States at Greytown, Mr. Mason, has reported to the State Depart- ment that the dior He Transit Company of this city are shipping troopa by their steamers, in large numbers, from the United States to Nicaragua. He says that on the eve: of the 15th July the steamer Star of the West arrived at Point Arenas a body of forty-four privates and six officers, e1 in New York by M. Marooleta for the military service of hia government, upon conditions that they should have a free paseage in the Transit Company’s steamer, and if accept- ed by the government, shor be enlisted as soldiers of Nicaragua, and receive for their services at the rate of ten dollars monthly for each mun, and betweon fifty and one hundred dollars for each officer The station where the men were to be enlisted was Costillo, and their wages for four months, the terms of the enlistment, are stipulated, says the Consul, to be paid by the Accessory Transit Company from money owed . by them to the Nicaragua government. He says the soldiers have been enlisted, and are now stati at the fort of Costillo, They are mostly French and German residents of New York, (none of them Americans birth.) and are under the command of Col, Gasyyuski. He also reports, upon the authority of one of the Cheers that an additional company of recruits was expected to come at an early day. Since the Consul’s communication was written, we have advices of the arrival of anothor lot of soldiers, forty-six men and four women, by the Northern Light, and bound also for Costillo. ther the impression that the From these facts we Transit Company are trying to build up a sort of East In- cia Company in Central America. They mean to legin by being hired by one or the other of the rival factions of that distracted country to defend it; if successful, they will continue to defend it until they have ‘sed all the political and mili- tary power of the country, and _ this trading association, lke tte great prototype in the Fast, becomes an indepen: dent nati ty ‘o bring ubout this result, troops are enlisted and cannon eve shipped in the company’s steam. ers every voyage; but the strange thing about it is that Mr. McKeon, whose concern for our neutrality laws de- prives him of a great deal of his natural rest every night, it ia naid, should never have heard anything of these pro- ceedings; that troops should have been enlisted, landed at Nicaragua, and their arrival reported at Washington before the Cerberus of our district hears a word about 1, ‘The occupancy and possession of Nicaragua by Yankees may be the best thing that can happen to Central Ame- rica, and the Transit y may be doing a good work in sending out “‘peace-makers” to quict the disturbances among the rival clans who claim the right to rule there; but fro, whence the hostility to the Kinney coloniate ¥— The Late Storm in Massachusetts. [From the Boston Traveller, August 6.) At Peverly, the shower coming on 81 nly, surprised a large quantity of fish on the flakes—the larger, because there had been no good weather for drying for some time. As soon as the shower was seen approaching, a scene of very extraordinary activity commenced, and the fish went under cover very fast, but not fast enough to save it all from a wetting. During the thunder storm the house of a man named McMahon, in Washington street, South Canton, war struek by lightning, which knocked down the chimney, and made an almost entire wreck of the house, plows ing up the ground outside in various eccentric directions ae it made its escape. Mrs, McM., who was then in the house, miraculously escaped without injury. The fiuid de- scended by the chimney, which is entirely demolished, and on the ground floor divided, and passed off — the rooms to the west and to the east, breaking nearly every pane of glass in the house, and frolicking with the jurniture, In North Rochester, Plymouth county, during the same shower, Mrs. § sulley, while in the act lof el rs window, was struck by lightning and_instantl iilled. She was about 85 years of age. No mark of the fluid was perceptible on her person, Abarn owned by Mr. Joseph Tolman, in Sharon, was struck by lightning during the shower, and consumed, together with about ten tons of hay, including the last load, which had been “safely housed” as the shower came up, and was standing on the wagon, No insu- rance. During the shower the lightning struck the flagsta’ at the Kneeland street end of the freight depot of the Bos- ton and Worcester Railroad, and shivered {t to fragments. ‘Two men at work near the spot were knocked down and so seriously injured that they will not be able to return to work agnin Jor « week or ten days, On the line of the Boston and’ Maine Railroad, near Reading, there was, fora few moments, quite a severe hail storm, At Taunton the residence of Sheriff Babbitt was struck, the chimneys and windows injured, and two children thrown down, one cf whom hada shoe torn off. At Braintree a coal-laden vestel was struck by lightning, partially shivering tho masts and spars, and knocking down one of the crew who was in the hold. The telegraph reports several barns as having been struck and burnt in the vicinity of Hartford, Conn. Alleged Counterfetters. TO THE EPITOR OF THE N. Y. HERALD. In your paper of to-day, under the head of “Police In- telligence,” the name of Ellen Taggart is connected with the ‘yaragraph entitled “Wholesale arrest of alleged felte co ill you do the Leni at the favor of inserting in Jour [aper the following faets:—The said Ellen Taggntt is the wife of Pdward Taggart, of No, 42 Baxter #1 e carman; thet Filen Taggart never handled or saw counterfeit bill in her life; that she is a hard working, in- ustrious woman, It is but a few months since said Ellen rt was ar. ested in her house, herself and other females st f their clothing, and said Ellen driven around the » orhood in a carriage, and there was not » shadow of evi- From Tuesday til Haturday she wan Bail en: hus insulted, until Justice Pearcy discharged was offered to the amount of $16,000 and was refused.. ne of the persone concerned in that outrage haa re. against her. eatedly made the most violent threats against sald Ellen MRS, EL oggart. * EDWARD TAGGART, New Yori, August 7, 1866. 42 Baxter atteet. Gvaxno A Preventive or Yeiow Faven—A correspondent of the Norfolk Herald suggests that gaano be tested as a preventive of yellow fever, He gives the following as the reazon of his wi jon:—I take leave now to state a fact which was related to me by Captain H. H, Cocke, U. 8, Navy, whilst he was in command of the sloop-of-war St. Louis, on the coast of Brasil, during the awful rage of yellow fever there some back. He stated to me that the crews of the merchant veasela were swept off in the most awful manner, and every ship- Tivar in iio, save the St, Touls, shared the same tate; and she, if my memory holds good(did not lose a poul. This he attributed solely to a quantity of guano he had purchased for his own form, @& an experiment when he Paurned heme, ‘There aa not more than one or two barrels of it, and euch was his faith in it as 9 preventive that he bad it sifted about on the berth deck of the abip. nineteen Neval Intelligence. The sloop-ofwar Cyne went to sea July 29 fom Havana