The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1856, Page 1

* WHOLE NO. 7214 MORNING EDITION—FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1856. PRICE TWO CENTS. December, in which the grounds of charge against Mr. | the recruiting agents continued to be mace by the Seore Crampton were tully stated, that the testimony ot Stroe- | tary of the Consu! in the Conaul’s presence, from time to bel anc Hertz was quite a secondary on¢ unimportant tens sve be disappointed, he will not , fe hia duty, to u.'e all the power wih which he is to enforce obe, tence to them. Io view of this 1 Democratic Convention, ABBIVAL OF DELEGATES—PLAN FOR A UNION OF XMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. Recretary Marcy’s Reply to Lord Clarendon on the Enlistment Difficulty. Wassage of the Land Bills in the Senate. ‘COL, BROOKS TO BE EXPELLED FROM THE HOUSE, Prospect of a Fusion of the Hards and softs at Clucinnati, &e., &e., ke, TRIRTY-FOUR?S CONGRESE. FIRST SESSION. Senate Wasmyaton, May 29, 1856. PASSAGE OF THE LAND BILLS, ‘The House bills granting lands to Wisconsin, Alabama, ‘Louisiana and Michigan, to sid ia the construction of cer- fain railroads therein, wore severally passed. THE ENLISTMENT TROUBLE WITH GREAT BRITAIN, A message was received from the President of the ho United States, txforming Cougress that he has eeased to faold intersourse with the Minister of the British govern- ‘Tent to Washington, and stating that he deema it proper fo lay before them the considerations of public duty whish have led to the adoption ofa measure of so much impor- Rance, Among the documents transmitted by the President fs © despatch from Sesretary Marey to Mr. Dallas, dated ‘May 27,1856. It is as followe: SECRETARY MARCY TO MR DALLAS. DEPARTMENT OF STATS, WASHINGTON, May 27, 1856 Sin—The President has ca:efuily comidsred the nove of ‘She S0th ult., addressed to you by the Kari of Viarendon, Ber Moyesty’s Principal Secretury of s:ate for Foreign Affairs, relative to the questions which have arisen be. ‘ween this government and tatu Great Britain, on the fubject of recruiting withio the Uxite! States for the British army, and bas diced me to preseat you his wiews thereon. for the purp.re of having them made Known to her Majesty’s govirnment, He nas been much | open by the conciliatory spirit of that note, and by ‘ne desire manifested by the Clarendon to adjust Bde existing difficutties, aud preserve ani strengthen the Hiendly reiations between the United Siatea and Great Britain. The vast interest which the government and people of both crustries baye in upholding nd ehorishing such relations, enonot be more solemn: Jy imprersed upon ber Majesiy’s government than itis upon that of the United States. The unequivocal Gisolaimer by her Majes'y’s government of “avy inten. tion elther to infringe the Jay ur disregard the policy, or wot respect the sovereign rigate of the United States,” and their expressions of regcet ‘if, contrary to their in- Zentiona and to their rei erated cirections, there has dren any infringement of tve laws of the United S:ates,”’ are saidsfactory to the President. The ground of cem- sint, ao far as reapects her Majesty’s government, is jus removed. But the Presidynt extremely regrets that je cannot coneur in Lord Ciarendon’s tavorable opinion ‘or the conduct of some of her Majesty’s officers, who were, as this government believed, and, afer due con- leratice: ot all which has been offered in their defence, Glill believes, implicated im proceedings which were so clearly an tufcingement of the lawa and sovereiga rights of this country, In reepect to auch of these officers aud agents as ave no connection with this government, it has nothing to ask from that of her Maj sty; but the case is different do relaticn to Mr. Cramptua, her Mojesiy’s Eavoy Extra- Ordinary and Minister Pienipoten :iary to this government, and the Consuls at New York, Philace’phia and Cincin- mati. The President 1s gratified to perceive that her Ma- jesty’s roment woula not hsve hesitated to comply with the request to withiraw ‘hese officers from their official porition if it had entertainos che v.ews here taken of their conduct in regard to ree-ui sonirary to the Jaws and sovereign rights of the United States. I need scarcely say that in makisg this request no ia- ferruption of the diplomatic rejations between this co ‘vernment and that of Great Bri‘ain was anticipa‘ed, bat ox the contrary, the President was aod ia sincerely de- Birous t> keep them upon a moat triendly footing. Mr, Crampton’s withd:awal was wsked for expressly ‘@ipon the grounds that ‘bis conn-xion with the affsir— Fatnirg rSruita in this cou stry for te British service— das rendered him an unacc»ptable rpresentative of her Britannic Majesty near this g-versment.”’ For the same reason the withdrawai of the tbree British Consuls ewan ale requested. These officers vere, as this govern. xcent confidently believes, deeply implicated in proceed- as ga 001 to the law #nd sovereign rights of the Drited States, and contrary, as is now appears, to the dntentiors and reitera'ed instruotivny of their own gov- eroment. It was their personal acts, not the less ob- etiopable for having been done con'rary to diras- fons of her Moajesty’s Min!s:er, which rendered ther 3m their official cbaractera and poritiuns unacceptadls tothisgovernmant, and indaced the Presi‘ent for that Cause to a licit their recall believing tnat oy this course he was cortributing to the commen interest and ha mony of the two goveruments. He has not, after mo ‘giature Celiberation, been able to cyanga hia view of their ecncuct, aud cannot therefore changs his purpose in rela- ion to them, though tbeir conduct related to, and in fact originated a difficulty which disturbed the cordial har- ‘mony and good understanding between the two countries. Tt ccnsti uted a cecided objection to them of @ personal Gharacter, which loses none of its ‘orce by the aa‘istac- ory adjustment of that difficulty. The only embarrassment hich attends the cases t: ifferencs of opinion be- tween the two governments as to the complicity of these officersin illegal proceedings within the Unite Sia'es, In reviewing this subject, the Presi tent was disposed fo avail himself ot any reasonable doubts whish could be raised in his mind, io order to bring hie opinion in this respect into conformity with that of her Majesty's go- svernment; but after careful consideration of the case, he ‘bas been unable to change the conclusion to which be thad previously arrived. The olfference of opinion may fin nome Ccegree be ascribed to the difference im the views of the two governments in respect to the neutrality law @ud ecvereign rights of this country, It is not preposed, Dowever, to continue the cisszasiom upon that subjest. The conclusions of the Pro#id-nt, stated in my despateh of The 28th of December, to your pre‘ecessor, in regard to the construction of tha: law and the extent and charac- Ger of there rights, are unchaoged, and hy cannot forego ‘the duty of using all proper means'to sustain and vinai- ate them, ‘The main canse of this differance of oviaton is the dif- ion of the proofs by which the charges jesty’# diplomati> representative and Con- sustemed, Lord C.arendon asks this government ‘&o regard tLe bare declarations of thexe officers as of “enfiicient weight to counteryall evidecce against them. Their deniale.€ eapach of the d of April, and ¢ ich ba been commanicated to thie government on tha -usject neem « be epecisl, and do rottraverse sli the stiegaions againat then. They cleny thet they have infringed our neutrality Jaw by Yisting persons within the United States for British ‘wice, or hiring or retsining perrons to leave the United States for the purpoee ot being enlisted in that service. ‘The charges against them are much broader, and em. “brace the lence of violating the laws and sov. reign rights of the United States, b: ‘ion within oar territory, and conducting, an ex’ five system of recruiting, which was not, and eould ‘ «not be, carried fato effect without infringivg upon our Jaws and rights, by employing numerous agents to en- petsons for Pereniasy and other considerations, to Jeave the United States tor the express purpose of enter- ivg into the British army, ard. by keeping these agents in this employment, atter it was well known taat they were ccratantly infringicg our iaws, Tue denial of the Amplieated officers only covers ® part of the delinquen- ces imputed to them; bat confiaiog the exculpatory declaration to the the rimple charge of having violated ‘Gre provisions of our neutrality act, it dies not meri: the consideration which Lord Clarendon bas ascribed to it, By adop tog Lord Clarendon’s construstion of our neu- ‘crality law, contained in his note of the 1éth of Novem- ber, which renders it almost nugat ry, and ia eon- edraty to that of this goveroment and of its judicial tribunals, these officers have not probably found ouch embarrassment in meeting the char gos with a gen- eral denial—but giving to the ceciaration of Mc. Cramp- don and the Consuls ail the consideration which can be Jairly c'aimed for {t under the circumstances of tue care, it cannot counterbalance the unimperched and wall sus (tatned evidence which es’abiivhes tue charges against ‘these officers, of having infrirged the laws and soversiga srighta cf the United Staces, ri Clarendon’s note to you of the 30‘h of April, eon. ‘veya the impression that the evidence by which the offi- ers are implicated is derived from one or two witness ‘whice credibility has been assailed. This, however, is not ® correct view of the facts. By exewination of my d «itch of the 28 h of December, it will be perceived that ‘these witnesses were strongly confirmed, and that there ‘are proofs Rehan edd of their testimony abua -dantly sufficient to establish the complicity of Mr. Cramp- ton aud the Consuls in their infringement of the lawa and -movereign rights of the United States, I trast that 1: “will not ke questione 1 tha: it belongs exclusively to this «government and i's judicial tribuna'n to give # construc. ico to ite municipsi laws and to determice what acts dore within its jurisdiciion are an infringement of those Jaws, This isa matier which concerns i ternal ad- ministration, and it cannot allow the agents of any toreign Power to controvert that construction and jus- vtity their conduct by a different interpretation of our tawa, which virtually renders them ineffective for the cpurpores intended. “The Earl of Clarenden foforma you, in his yote of the 20th of April, that Mr. C>ampton posi ively denies the charge of complicity in wny of the aote of illegal enlist. x ent Jn the United States, and that tho three Consuls in- salpated do the same. He assumes that the charge against them is sustaines mainly by the evilence of two rsons—Stroebel and Hertz—whom he conceives to be unworthy of credit; and he appeals to the American gov: rnment to accept, as conclusive, decisrations of the Minister and Consuls. I am instructed to say that thew aonsiderations do not relieve the President’s miod of the unfavorable {myrestfona prodaced by tho conduct of Ghose gentiomen in relation to foreign rocruit- ment in the United States. It will be seen, by relorring to my cexpa'ch of the gSth of setting in op Ee of the evidence adduced, the charge beixg supported dependently of their testimony by other witnenses, by Original letters of Mr. Crampton ard others, and by the urdented and undeniable acts of Mr. Cramptom. As to Stroebel amd Hertz, however, it may be chserved, the dccumenta transmitted by Lord Clarendon as provirg theee perrons babe of cresit are entitled to bat little weight, consisting as they do chiefly of ex parte affidavits, Cetaiing matters mostiy of hearsay; and whatever may have teen the character of those persons, it by no meaus follows that they did not testify to the truth. ‘Ti ey were agents relected and trusied by Mr, Crampton himself, and wo them he committed most 1mportent con- cervs. Such an enéorsement should countervail the impeachment cf their veracity founced en loose. rariay reports. Nor does it seem to be @ thing of much m2- ment, im relation to the present questi, that Stroebs), in copsequence of imputed misconduct, was diamixsed fr m employment by the Lieutenant Goveruor of Nova Scotia, ond afterwards endeavored to obtain menuy from Mr. Crempten. The fact remains that he held a commis- sion in the British Foreign Legion, and that.as it is clearly proved and not denied, he maintained, as reeruit- ivg officer, and, tor a considerable period of tine, aseo- cation, personally or by correspoudence, wita Mr. pon. The employment of Stroerel py Mr. Comes ton—thelr long association inthe joint work of reoruit- ing in the United States for the Foreign Legion—the dis- tinction of ber Majesty’s comfzission of captain in the corps conferred on Strebel, would seem, at least, to de- prive Mr. Crampton of the right to deny’ his oredibility an a witness. But there is a large apd more comprehenatve class of consicerations applicable to this particular question. For ® period of nearly five months-—thatts, from about the middle of March, 1866, to the Sth of August, 1855, tho pas and order of this Paneey wrre disturbed, especially he citiew of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Cinein- nati, by the uniawful acts of numerous persons engaged in raising recruits, or in belog recraited for the British Foreign Legion. They were supplied with ample funda by British sgente, ard they obstinately resistef and set atraught aul the efforts of the !ocal authorities of the United States to puta stop to their proceadivgs; nor did they Gesist until they received orders to that effect from the British goverpment, in the month of Amgnst. The rec1uits thus uplawfully raised in the United States during all that time were conveyed by British ageuta to Halifax, and there enlisted in the Foreign Legion, All theee acts, av well sa their illega ity, wore noto- rious. Lorg belore the trial of Hertz in September, and of Waguer in October, they must have been brought to the particular notice of Mr. Crampton, the British Con- bula, and other agents, by the preitminary judicial in- quicies which tock place both at New York and Phila- delphia. In conrequence of steps to thateffect taken by me on the 22¢ ct March, the proper instructions were i sued on the 23d, and prosecutions commenced in Patla- delpbia on the 30th of March, ardin New York on the 6th of April, Asan example of tae sharacier of these proceedings, their notoriety and their comorenensive legal effest, whet o‘curred in May deserves particuiar notice. At New York, on the 15.h of May a number of persone, namely, Godfried Wachier, Wilhelm Schumacker, ulius Parkers, Oscar Cremey and Andrew Lutz were ¢x- suined before Commissioner Betts, ons charge of recruit- ment for the service of Great Britain. Eminent coun- sel were employed by the. accused, who argued that no offence had been* committed, because it did not appear that any valid contrast of enlistment bad been consummated, but this ground of defence waa overruled by the Commissioner, who, though he dis- charged Wacbier for de‘ective evidence, committed Lute, S:bumecker, Cremey and Parker. ‘At Philadelphia, on the 25th of May, three persons— Bertz, Perkins and Bucknail—having been arzes'ed on the charge of illega) recruiting ic the service of Great Britain, applied to the Circuft Court of the United States by habeas corpus to be discharged trom custody, ‘The presiding Judge, the Hon, John K. Kaas, on the ex- amination of the evidence taken in the case be: fore a commissioner, found the proofs were suf- ficient to bring the acta of Hertz and Perking within the condidions of the law, but not so as to Buck- nail; accordingly the latter was discharged, but the two former were committed for trial Thos, so early as May, it was judicially shown that what was doing in this respect was unlawful, Mr. Crampton was acquainted with there proceedings, and was thus sufficiently admonished that the acts of re- cruitment carried on under his authority did in fact, whatever may have been his intention, constitute a vio- jaion of the municipal law of the United States. This had been decided by the courts of the United States, and was publicly and extensively made known, It is not controverted, indeed it is admitted, that he bad the recraiticxg business in his charge and under his control, yet he permitied it to be continued, although judiciay determined to be unlawful, through the months of May, Jtine, July anf August. Now, tuin Ieng series of acts, unlaw.ul and otherwise judiciei ‘to the gocd name and tranquiity of this country, were performed by persons who were liber- wily paid by the British ciiccre, and many of whor.. soruslly entered the military service of Gtét Britain. That was insonteatl>ly proved on the trial of Hertz and Wagner, by evidence which has not been, and cannot be impeached: and although the evidence adduced on those trials dees not need corroboration, stil! it may mot be amiss to add, that mach other evidence to the same ef- fect is in po:session of this government, some of which is aunexed to this despatch, in the fo-m ot ‘osumante responsive to those accompanying the letter of the Ear of Clarendon. Who is fo be held accountabie for these unlawful acts Were they al performed by volun-eer and icresponsibls perecns, as srgued in the Earl of Ciarend on’s despatch of the 16th of July? That cannot be admitted, for the con: clusive reason that they recelved pay from the British ofiicers, and of course were employed by some responal- bie egents of the Bri ish government. The Eatl of Cla rendcn, in behaif ot her Mvjesty’s goverameat, cis- claims all intention to violate che laws, compromise the veutrality, or disrespect the sovereiznty of the United States by the enlistment of troops within their terzitcry. The President unreserveoiy accepts ard is fully satiefied with this disciaimer. Of course the uvlawfal acts in questicn were not authorized by the British government; fbut the fact is nevertheless well ea- tablished that they were done, and done in the name and at the expense of tne Britith government. Who, then, is respontible for these acts? Were there xo direct proof, though there is much of that character, the faference would be irresistible that, not belng authorized by the British gcvernment itself, they were the unsuthorizea acts of the Britisp agente in the United S:ates. Such agents having acted in wiiful disregard of their overnment in thus infrivging our laws, may ave failed to inform their government that what they had undertaken to do could not be done with- out infringirg those laws, or by mismanagement, discre tlon or over-zeal, may heve participated in soch in- fringement, though well knowing it was con'rary to the wishes and express orders of their government. How- ever this may be, i: is certain that agents existed. be- cause their acts appear. Who were those agents? (f this we are not left in doubt, subject recently laid be‘ure s ated that the enlistments in the stop until Mr. Crampton gave orders for their cassation, on the 6th of Aueust. He had the power to stop the acts of enlistment. He knew the proceediags from the commencement, exgeedingly « government, and that it was devoting its active energles to arrest them. He was bound to krow—he could not bu: kuow—what was notoricus to all the world, that thiough the months of April, May, Jane and July the recruiting agents, In various parts of the United States, and conspicuously in Boston, New York, Philadelpaia ard Cincionati, were keeping up a most unseemly con- test with the law officers of the United States, and that, at least, ax early an May, the illegality of the proceedings Lad been pronounced by the federal courts, i2 New York and Philadelpbis, and yet, notwithstanding this, ha per- mitted the unJawful acts in question to go oa without check until the month of August. For thus giving countenance to these illegal proceed- ings he is distinctly responsible. But his accouatabili- ty extends yet further, for the same documents chow that the cfiicial suggestion to the British government of the untoward scheme of obtainirg recru‘ts in the United States came from the correspondence o* Mr. Crampton and cf theConsuls at New York, Philade'phia and Cin- cinratt, and that to Mr. Crampton was the supenntend- tpoe and exeou'ion of the scheme committed, and thus it isthat he who directed had power to stop the pro- cee: ings; and thus from early in Maron until August he is fund busily cecupied in superintending the eniis ment, RRrt yin the United Stater, aod partly in Ceuada and ‘ova Sootia, and in issuing instructions to the agents ergeged in that enterprise. It does not suffice for Mr. Crampton now to ray that he did not intend to commit or participate in the commission of any infringement of the jaws of the United States. He was the directing head of the long continued infringements of the law. it under superior authority frum him that acta o! nucus violation of law were perpetrated by the agents, Some of those agents are proved by his own letters to have beld cirect {utercourse with him, and of inquiry in the numerous cases y the American government there is reterence by letter avd oral declaration to the general euperintendence of Mr. Crampton, His moral and legal responsibility sre thus cemonstrated. With full 10- formation of the se pf o” the laws ot the United States against toreign recruiting; with tion of its being all but impossible to raine without infringing the laws; and with a kn of the condernatoty judicial proceedings of April and Mi New York and Philadelphia, yet be persisted In carrying on the scheme until August, when its obsiinase provecn tion brought on a most unpleasant controversy be- tween the United States and Great Britain; sad it is not he Jesst cf the causes of com- plaint against Mr. Crampton, that by his ac’a of c:mmission in this business, or in failing to ad- vise hie government of the impracticability of the un- dertaking m which he was embarked and the series of il- legal acts which it involved, and in neglesting to observe the general orcers of his government and etop ita re- cruiting here the moment its illegality wea pronounced by the proper legal authorities of the United States, he wan recklessly endaneering the harmony and peace of two great nations, which, b7 the character of their com. mercial relagiona, and by other considerations, have the strongest possible inducements to cultivate reciprocal amity. The foregoing considerations substantiaily apply to the ocnduct of the British Consuls at New York, Philacelphia and Cincinnati. Though of a subordinate offictal c'aras- ter, they are not leas responsisle than Mr. Crampton ‘The continuous vic lation of law proceeded within their respective consulates month after mon‘h, under their eyes, not only without any apparent effort on their part vo atop it, but with more or lesa of their active partici jation therein, The consulate at New York appsars to hove been the point at which the largest expenditures were mace, and it is proved by doeumen s bere vi bh trand- paitiod, that pay meats ay tbat Coayn'ar odize ty syme yf tame, down to the beginning of Jannary of the prevent year. The President, na bua already been stated by me, can- not admit the force of the objection now urged, of the alleged want of respectability on the part of some of tne Witnesses by whom these facta were proved; and as to ‘wnom ® prominent cause of suck al want of respect- ebility seems to be the fact that their evidence bas in- culpated thelr accomplices in the violation of the lew. ‘The testimony which most directly inculpates the Britieh Cc osu! at New York, aa will be perceived by theenclosures herewith, 1s in the affidsvitaof the very persons reifed on by her Majecty’s government for proots in this case, and whese feceetions accompany Lord Cleiendon’s note to you of the 80th April. The Karl of Clarendon per ect'y weil understands that in Great Britain, as well as in the Unites Sister, it would be impossible to adminis er pana! justice without occasionally receiving the evidence of ac- cowplices, In Great Britsin, not only is evi: ene» of this class recetved continually in State tials, as well as fo inferior matters, but rewards and other »pretal induce- menta are held out to euch witnesses by not a few pro- visions of acts of Parliament, The competency of such persons in a given case, and their credi- bili'y, are in both countries questions upon which the “court and jury, in their respectives spheres of jurisdiction, wtimately 98. the present cae conclusions have been established on dooument procts and other unimpeac! by - ings before the proper tribupala of the Untfed States, by the verdicts ot juries and by the rulings of judges, which must be beld as final in the estimation of the President. The Eari of Clarendon suggests, ax a conside- Hd Pertinent to this question, that ie Led £ ons! Po means or opportunity, of rebel tl 8 Inéirectly brougat against tnem in the trial of the inferior recruit een te. In regard to the Consuls, the Farl of Clarendon errs in sepposing that they had not fall means and opportuatty, uf they raw fit, to appear and to confront and contrasict Any accusing witnerses, They were not allowed to in- interfere in the trials by mere lettera written for the oc- casion, which, indeed, they could not have done lawfully, bad ‘there been no such probibition; but it consctoua of thelr own imuocesce, and tbat of the parties on trisl, and that their own acts would bear examination, it was alike their duty and right to appear and say ao On osth, and to contradict by their testimony whetever was alleged against British officers or ag {t known to them to be untrue, Nor is it apy just cause <focmplatot that evidence was received upon ‘hese trials impugning the acts of Mr. Crampton, It was in due couree cf proceedings required to shown as against the parties on trial, that the reeru{‘ments in which they were ergaged wera for the service ot @ foreign govern- ment. Mr. Crampton was himself privileged from trial for’a violation of our municipal Jaw, but the persona whcm he employed were not for that cause to go un- punisbed—nor was the administration of penal justice to be tndefinively euspended on account of his position, and the diplomatic immunities whioh that conferred. On the contrary, it was peculiarly proper that the facts by which be was implicated, but for which he coald not be tried, ehonld be verified in due form of law for the in- formation of his own government as well as that of the United States. The Earl of Clarendon remarks, in hia letter of 30th of April, that ‘The intentions of the British government, and the arrange. ments made to carry those totentions into ‘exechtion, were not concealed from the government of the United States, Those nientions and sirapgemente were frankly stated by mr. cramptor to Mr. Marcy, in conversation. on the 22d of March, 1885, and the only observations which Mr. Marey made in re- py Were. that the neutra ity laws of the United States would rigidly be entorced, but thal anv, number of persons who de. sired it might leave the United States and get enlisted in any foreign service, It is incumbent on me to sey that, in this respect, the Earl of Clarendon labors under serious misappreh snsion, which, while {t serves in part to explain how {t happened that the en!istmests went on for se many mon‘hsin a man- ver contrary to the inten'ions and express orders ot the British feceaet also serves to increase the weight of Mr, Cramp'on’s responsibility in this respect. I 1e- peat now, with entire consciousness of ita accuracy, what I sated in my letter of 28th December last, that at that interview on the 22d of Mareh, the only one I ever bad with Mr, Crampton, as he admits, in which the re- crvi ment business was alluded to, he (Mr. Crampton) had satisfied me that bis government had no cornection with it, and was in no way responsible for what was doing in the Onited States to raise reoruits for the Brivish army, But I am_ quite certain that on no occasion bas he intimated to me that the British government, or any of its officers, was or bad been ip any way concerned in sending agenta into the United States to recrutt therein, or to use any in- Aveements tor that purpose. Nor did he even noti’y me tha! a6 wes taking or intended to take avy part ia fur- tbeping such proceedings, Such # communication. time- ly wede, would probably have arrested the mischief at ita c: mmencemert. If he had then apprised me ot the system of recruiting which bad at that time been alre: srrepged anc put in operation within the Untved States by British agents, and under hi sui tron, he“Would have fSeu?,25. por! such acts were conirarv to the municipal law, incompatible with the neutral policy of the coustry, a violation of its national sovereignty, and especially warned egsinst the violation of Cur neutrality law: jut he blames me now for not then stating to him my construction of that law Giflereé from his cwn; but no such difference of opinion was then developed, Mr, Crampton on that ocaasion manifested a coinci- ¢ence in opinion as to the provisions of that law which then held, and have sin fully disclosed. He called upon me to show a letter which he had written on that day to the Consul at New York, disapproving tbe proceedings of a Mr. Agua MeDonald, “because I (he), thought thone roceedings wculd, or might be taken téonstitute a vio- lation of the act of 1800—the neutrality lae ofthe United States. What were the proceedings of Mr. McDonald, which Mr. Crampton thought might constitute a violn- tion of our neutrality? The simple issuing of a handbill specifying the terms on which recruits would be received at Halifax, into the Queen’s service. This opinion of Mr. Crampton ascribes as much stringency to our neutrality acts as has ever been claimed for them by the government cr the courts o! the United States. I fad then no suspicion, nor di Mr. Crampten give me any cause to sutpect that he was acting or interded to act upon an interpretstion of that law which would justify the act of Mr. McDon- ald. which he then condemned, and make that law but little better than a cead letter. I cculd not out suppose he viewed itin the same Nght as Lord Clarendon did when be wrote his despatch to Mr. Crampton, on the 12:h of April thereafter, in which his Lordship declared it to be “not only very just, but very stringent.” To show that | was not mistaken in this respect I quote 2 pas- rege troma letter of Mr. Crampton, dated the 14th of March, toSir G. Le Marchant:—‘Any advance of money by ber Majesty’s agents or others in the United States would constitute an infraction o! the neutrality law.” The de- petitions which accompany this despatch are made by scme of the same persons who have furnished the Britis government with affidavits to impeach Strobel Hertz, and prove conclusively that Mr. Crampton did disburse various sums of money to agents employed in recruiting within the United States. It was, indeed, apprehended by me at the time that violations of that Jaw would ensue. It could rot fail to be scen that eny organized scheme of a foreign govern- ment to d: recruits from the (nited States, pone by mere invitation, would necessarily tenc to, and result in, violations of the municipal law. So decided was my be- lief in thia respect that measures bad already besn taken by me, in bebalf of the government, as it happened, upon the very cay of the interview with Mr. Crampton, to in- stitute proeécutions against persona engaged in this bu- tinese in New York acd Philadelphia. I then notified Mr. Crampton of that fact, as be expressly admits in his re- port of tbat interview made to his government. An at tempt ie made to deduce an excuse for Mr. Crampton’s courte in the buriners of reerulting in this country, from the alleged fact that be communicated to me on that occasion the arrargementsj which hed been made for that purpore, and that I did net Girapprove of them otherwise than by in- sistirg upon the observance of the neutrality law of the United states, This allegation is bardJy consistent with Mr. Crampton’s own statement of what then passed. In the defence of bis conduct, recently sent by him to his gcvernment, be makes admissions {oconsistent with tho aliegation that there was no conoealment on bis pe ard that the recruiting arrangements were communicat- +c tome, He rays:— It ia perfectly true that T did not enter into any details of meaue wh'ch were to te adepted by hea Majesty’a government to rercer aval'ad 'e the servi those who tendered them to na in such numbe: torre the appearance of eng: £ Delon of ephatavoriog ine, inicreste ot ome of favor or approbation of & plan favoring the. int on of the partied to twar, Ail T coud desire, on his part, wae neutrality and impartiality. His reasons tor withholding from me the details of the enlistment systen—the moat important part of it for thia governtent—are rot satisfactory. If Mr. Crampton believed that what be was doing or intended to do in the war cf recruiting was right, he oould have had no re- lustacce to communicate {t to me, for his instructions required him to male that disclosure. Acting in due frapkrers, ond with a prover regard for the dictates of Interzatioval comity, Mr. Crampton should, it would ceom, bave diselcred to me all measures intended to in puraved within the United States by the agents of bin government, including himself, in execution of the ect of Parlioment fr rairing a foreign legion, Nay, he was ly commanded hy his goveroment to practice uo concealment with the Arcotlean government on the sud ple If he }ad obeyed these orders, al) mixnderstand ing between the two poverpments would bavs been pre- vented, Mr. Crampton was the more ‘operatively called upon to make fvil explanations on uhe subject, pot oply because he was commands by Lis government to do so, but for the futher reason that immediately atter the breaking out of the the war between Greet Britain and Fraaes on the one band, act Russia oa the oMer, he had, by an official note acdreseed to me, inveked the efforts of thiv yovern- ment to enforce upon the iehabitants of the countcy (eltizens or others) the neceesity of observing the strict ést neutrality towards the belligerent picties, and expe- cially to enjoin upon them ‘o abstain from taking part in armaments tor the service of Rusia, or in any other Teeasure oppesed to tke duties of strict neutralily. To (his application the uncersigned, by exorees direction of the President, replied, deslaring that the United States, while claiming the tall enjoyment of their righta ns = neutral Power, will observe the atrictest noutrality to wards each all the belligsrenta, Reference was made to the severe restrictions imposed by law, not only upon citizens of the United . but upon all persons resident within ter itory, probibiting the enlisting of men therein tor the purpose of bs! @ part im any foreign It was added that the President did not apprehend tempt to violate the Jaws, bus should bis jqat 0: formaiiand solemn appex.' by Mr. Crampton to the Ameri- can government, and of 1) ¢ A#Furance he received of its det tion to maintain a 4'rict neutrality, it was not for ® moment suspected that “ir. Crampton could mtsua derstand its purposes, or belie ¥@ he would be pe:mitted to set om foot andexeenta, fora, reriod of five connecative monthe, @ systematic scheme too, *t#in milliary recruits tor the. service in the Unite.’ Sates. ' Crampton did enter mo."t deeply into this scheme is proved by evivenco already #ubmited to her Goverument, but is still more conclusively os tapuehed by the additional proofs which &ccompany this maa iaves Cetraction from th @ value of the tes t Mr. Crampton may resu tt from the at tem, it Stroebel aid Heriz, is mu ch more thi , by Additional proofa now ado WI This body of strong cumulative evicence confirms the Presi- dent's former conclusion as to the compliciy of sr. and the British Conruls at New You'®, Phila delphis-and Cincinnati in the idegal enterprise of re. soldiers for the British pte withia the Watted ‘States, and the President does not doubt that whew this pew evidence shall be brought uxder the considerat'on of her Majeaty’s government it wilt not longer dissent 177m is eomelmion, The gratification which the President feels at the satic- settlement of the recruiting vuestion, in so far as reapedte the action of the British government itself, hes induced him to examine the case again with the view to remove, ifpoesidle, from his mind the personsl objections Ggainst her Mojesty’s Minister and Consuls, ‘This exami nation bas not produced that effect, but, on the contrary, strengthened bas his conviction that tne interests of both 5 trments require that those persons should, conse to boid their present official poritions in the United States. He sin ly regrets that her Mujeaty” rn ment bag not been able to take the same view of case and to comply with his request for their recall; but it has not consented to do #0, It in the carnest desire to act with all jonnible courtesy towards ber Majesty's government, the sident could have suspended his determination in the csse tn order to submit the new testimony, which he is confident would have been found sufficient to in €noe compliance with his request for the recall of the British Minister, he is preciuded from any such thought of delay by the exceptionable character of the expatches of that gentleman, copies of whieh having been recently laid before Parliament, bave thus cme to the knowledge of this government, and which are ofa tenor to render further intercourse. between. the two go- verpments through that Minister alike unpleasant and detrimental to their gocd understanding. ‘The Pregideat has therefore been constrained by con- riderations of the best interests of both countries, re- Juctantly to have recourse to the only remaining means of removing, without delay, these very unacceptable officers from the connection they now have with this goverpment, This course has been deemed necessary on account of their unfitness for the positions they hold, arising from the very active part they have taken in gstting up and carrying out a system of recruiting, which has been at- tended with numerous infractions of our laws, which has Cistorbed our interval tranquillity and endangered our peaceful relations tea nation with which tbis govern- most is most anxious to maintain cordial friendship and intimate commercial and social intercourse. He bas, therefore, determined to send to Mr. Oramp- ton, her Majesty’s diplomatic representative, his paraport, and to revoke the exsquators of Mr. Matthews, Mr. Bar- clay and Mr. Roweorct, British Consuis at Philadelphia, New York ad Cincimati. Iam, sir, Tespectially, your obedient servant. W. L, MARCY. Gro. M. Darzas, Eaq., &c., &e., London. Mr. Masox, (dem.) of Va., spoke in complimentary torms of the ability with which the question had been discussed by Mr. Marcy. Mr. Cass, (dem.) of Mich., thought that no pretext.for war could arise out of the dismissal of Mr. Crampton, unless England was determined to go to war. Mr. Toomns, (naticnal) of Ga., thought it thi ment was fatisfied with the exp'avation of Lord Claren- don, Mr. Cramptcn should not have been dismissed. Mr. Cass repiied that this government bad not express- ed itself satisfied with Mr. Crampton’s condust, but with the arsurance of the British government that they (the government) had intended no violation of our laws. Bat it has now turred out that Mr. Crampton had acted in violation of the intentions ard dizections of bis own go- vernment. Mr. Toons did not believe Eagland or her officers hat violated our Iaws at all. While the matter was pending, he did not choose to argue the question against our go: vernment, but he would now asy he disapproved the con. atruction which this government had placed upon cur centrality laws. Berge, (fen.) of S. C., thought it would have been better tulaur. Clomised Mr. Crampton as soon as luis complicity in the matter was discovered, Adjourned till Menday. House of Representatives, Wasurvaton, May 29, 1850. THE SUMNER CASE. Mr. Campnrit, (nigger worshipper) of Ohio, from the select committee on the Sumner assault, said he had been unanimously instructed to ask the House to adopt a resolution that said committee may prerent their report or reports, withs journal of their proceedings, at any time when the House isin session, und that the docu- ments shail thereupon be laid on the Speaker’s table and printed. : the reso!nticn applied for was unanimously adop‘ed. DISMISSAL OF MR. CRAMFTO: A westage was received from the Pre: Congress of the dismissal of Mr. Crampton, and trai mitiing dooumente—being the same that were sent to the Senate, Reverred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. THE ADMISSION OF KANSAS. Mr. Grow, (nigger worshipper,) of Pa., representing the majority ot the Committee on Territories, made a re- ort, proporing to admit Kansas into the Unien, with © constitution. Conalderaticn was postponed till the 25th of June, Several private bilis were pasced. ‘Adjourned till Monday. A Canadien Physician's Account of the Sum. ner Assault. Boston, May 20, 1856. . The Evening Journal of to-Cay publishes the following : —Dr. Bunting, of Montreal, Canada, states that he was in the gallery of the Senate chamber at the time of the assault on Mr. Sumner. He had just been conversing with the only Jady there remaining, when he saw Mr. Brocks approach Mr. Sumner, notin front, but on his side, and address to him some words iu alow tone of voice, and at the moment Mr. S, raised his head, turning it to one side to listen to Mr. Brooks, the latte: siruck him nume- rous blows with the greatest rapidity, with a care about three quarters of an iach in diameter, isying bare bis scull with wounds from three to five inches deep, Mr. Sumner tried several times to rive from bts seat, but was évidently so mueh hemmed in as to be incapable of rising, until be had, bya great effort, torn the dark from its fastenings, and then he pitched forward insensible upon the floor. While this assault was progressing Mr. Keitt stocd with ore band flourishing a large cane to keep off ay person dispcsed to interfere, and with the otter hand holding a pistol behind him partially under the flap of bis coat, but which Dr. Bunting saw very distinctly project ing from between the flaps of his (Keitt’s) coat. Dr. Bunting was enabled to ree this very clearly {rom his po- sition in the gallery, directly above the actors in the scene, The lady that Dr. B, was with had then gone, and when be rushed down stairs the assault was over. During the attack Senator Donglas stood within five feet of Mr. Sumner, in a free and easy position, with both hands in bis pceckets, and making no movement towards the aspailant, Dr. Bunting shaved off a part of Mr. Sumner’s hair, and drew the lips of the wounds togetber with sticking plaster, but they were not sewed until Mr. Sumner was takenfhome. The above is a c’ear and distinct statement, from a dis: interested eye witness, distirguished gentleman, who is entirely reliable, even to the minutest partioular. Dr. Bunting is now stopping at the Adams House in this city. News from Northern Mexico, New Orizans, May 28, 1856, An extra from the San Antonia Gazette office contains letter from Eagle Pass, stating that President Comon- tort hed ordered Gen, Vidaurri to collect and deliver up all arms which had been distributed in his Stute, Gen. Lanberg, with four thourand men, was marcitin against Vidawrti, and it waa thought the latter would vesit. The union between Coahuila and Nuevo Leon bas beea evnulled, Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD, Tn rina, May 29, 1866, Stocks exeited—Pennaylvania Piven, road, 445; Long Jalend Railroad, 13; Pennsylvania Railroad, 4474. BALTIMOKE CATTLE MARKET. Bacrimore, Mey 29, 1854, Saren of beeves to-day ,1,000, ata slight decline, (inc buncred sold for New York, and 806 for Phitadelp!... ‘The remainder ranged from $8 a $10 25 net. A lot of cx tra, on the hoof, at $5 50. Hoge bave declined: sales at $7 & $7 50, New ORLEANS, May 28, 1866 The cotton market is unchavged in any respest. Salew to-éay, 4 600 bales. Flour is quoted at $6 25. Mews pork, $17, Other articles unchanged. AUNANY, May 20, 1856. Oate—Calen 10,000 pushels, at S5c, 37 %Ke., the outaide figure above the market price. Corn—Salea 4 000 bush- els Western mixed at 65e, Wheat—Sales 2,000 byshela Genadinn rpricg, gt 4 oh , 93; Reading Rail- Morris Canmi, 13%; THE NAW YORK HARDB AyD SOFTS. Cixcuwnari, May 29—10:40 P.M, About five hurdred delegates bave arrived this evening The balance of the New York softs have appeared. The Douglas men are laying low, but we shall bave « great crowd of them from the West cm Saturday. The Penn- sylvapians are going strong for Buchenan, while the mort tremendous efforts are being made for Pieres.* Ooe hundred and fifty votes are claimed for the Brigadier on the first ballot. Everything is ina state of Deautitul confasion, and we will not be straightened out before Sunday, Col. Greene, Colector Peaslee, Harry Hibbard and other New Kogland- landers are lobbying for Pierce. Forney in foremont smcng the Buchanan men, and the cause of Peznsy!va- nia ls somewha’ injured by Js advooates. Douglas stock growa better every hour. Pisrce stock gsthup a i:tle on the Crampton bustaess, but ths people think [t is rather late in the day. The New York troubles excite warm discussion. A Proposition has been made for » conference com mittee of Ave trom cach delegation to settle edl their troubles out- side of the Convention, The proposition remains in abeyance watil all the delegates Lave arrived. It hax been accepted in part. Tae New York division mow ex- Gites more taix than the nomination. pba saath tier rN Prospect of = Single New Yorit Delegation at Cincinnati. Auoaxy, May 29, 1866, A Yarge numbsr of democratic delega’ from the city of New York and the river counties, parsed through this city last evening’ and this morning, for the Cincinnati Conveation. Both’ softs and hards were in company. From two of the most tpfluential among them I learned that a secret proposition, in the shape of a circular, hae been made to unite upon a ringle delegation araong them- relves, and thereby avold all colliston, disagreement or dissatisfaction in theGonvention, No psrticular cardi- date is praferred, and they agree to abide the deciston of || the Convention, either under a majority or two third rule. Both delegations are to arsemble togetver at the Burnett House on Saturday evening, when an effort vill be made at reconciliation, No outsiders are to be admitted, and no one to be permitted to know the terms of unity, It is freely stated thyt the recert bombshell of the ‘radical democrats,” thrown into the camp of the soft shells, has had the effest of in- ducing Cochraxe, Seymour and company to make the Propcsition to the hards, upon any terras, for a single delegation of the New York democracy to the Cincinnati naticnal convention. Such an event will take everybody by surprise, and may be the means of turning the eleotion io this State from a course which at this moment seems inevitanle, Interesting from Washtogton, GEN. PIKROR’S KKCURD MADE UP—THE BROOKS AND WILSON AND UROOKS AND WEGB COMTROVERSIES— NO DUBL AFTER ALL—SUMNER COM/ORTABLB, BTG, Wasnisaroy, May 29, 1856, The views of the President on the enlistmeut question, and the Central American question, wore communicated to Congress to-Cay. Thus it appears he has completed his reccrd on all the leading questions now before the country, and bas given his opinions in full. ‘There can now be no doubt of the line of public policy he will pur- sue relative to Kansas affairs, internal improvements, public lands, tariff, aati the,Central American as well as all other questions in disp It is now believed that Dougias and [itzpatrick will be the nominees, Col. Orr will not be sble to go to the Con- vention. Messrs. B, B, French, Lewis Clephaue and John Bige- low were appointed delegates to attend the nigger wor- ebippers’ Convention. Hon. V. D. Parris, of Maine, was chairman of the Maine delegation in the Baitimore Convention, and urged the nomination cf Franklin Pterce, His reward was the Special Agency of the Post Office Department tor New England, instead of the Consulship ot Rio Ja- veiro, for which his friends urged him. Col. Perris b arived in Washington, en rowe for Cincinrati, and called upon the Postaaster-General and President Pierce, to wkom he horestly stated that his vote should be given to Mr. Buchanan, Soon after his return to his hotel he received the following characteris- tie note:— Post Orricr DEranTxxn7, May 26, 1856, fir—I am directed by the Postmaster-tieneral to inform you that your servicer aa official egert of this department are uo longer required, and that you will celiver into the hands of the Postmaster of Por?land, Meine, the mail keys, papers relating to depredation cares, ard all other papers appertaining to your oftice now tn your posees- sion, Lam, respectfully, your obedient servant, RORATIO KING, Firat Ass’t Postmaster Gen’l, Hon. V. D. Parris, Colonel I. will carry this document with him to-mor- row to Cincinnati for the edification of the convention. It is understood that no further business is to be trans- acted »n Congrees until after tne Philadelphia Conven- tion. ‘The Special Committee in Col. Brook’s case will report on Monday, and recommend his expulsion from the Houee. They will also xecommend a vote of censure on Messre, Keitt and Edmundson. The minority will report that the assault on Senator Samuer involves no violation of the privileges of the constitution, and that outside of the constitution Congress has no privileges Some twen ty witnesses have been examined, and the journal of the committee bas swollen to@ frightful size. Some of the negro worshippers object to an expulsion of Col. Brooks lest it make # martyr of him, and divert public sympa; thy from Sumner. i send you the correspondence between Messrs. Brooks and Wiron, Wilson bas fizzled out, contrary to the expect! ef lis friends. Brooks wrote to Wilson that be bad derounced hie aesault ow Sumner as cowardly, thereby srsuming to be a judge of true courage; that Wilson hod also repeatediy avowed that for anything he might sxy on the floor of the Senate he beld hunself respopsible, there or elsewhere. Brooks then wrote: — I desire to hnow when and where I can meet you out of this cistriet, To this Gen, Wileon replied as follows:— Your note of the 27th inst. was placed in my hands at twenty minutes past ten this merning, I characterized on the floor of the Senate the assault upon my colleague «# bratel, murderous and cowardly. 1 thought ao then ~I think #0 now. 1 eno qualifications whatever to make in regard to these words. I bave never entertain- ed or expressed in the Senate or elsewbere the ives of orsopal responsibility in the sense of the duellist. I ave alweys regarded duelling as the lingering relic of = barbarous civilization. which the lew of the country has branded as acrime. While, therefore, I religiously be- lieve in the right of self-cefence, in its broadest sense,the Jaws of my country and the natural convictions of my whole jite forbid me to meet you for the purpose indi- cated in your letter, Mr. Brooks haa given notice to General Webb, through Governcr Aiken, that his letter in Tueeday’s Courier and Enquirer is personally inoffensive. All excitement appears to have ceased, excepting that which is connected with the challenge of Mr. Brooks to Senator Wilson. Mr, Sumner continues comfortable, though not out of ves at Columbia, B. C., are getting up a testimo- nial to Brooks for protecting thelr rights and liberty, There was a grand celebration of the Union Association o{ Sunday schools of Washington and vicinity to-day. It is estimated that over ten thousand adults and chil- Gren formed in the procession. At n meeting of the Republican Association last even- frg several speeches were made, denouncing in the strongeet terms the assault committed on Senator Sam. A committee was appointed to pre- pare, aud prevent at the meeting on Saturday evening, resol tions expressive of their feelings upon the subject, ‘The Binck River and Utica Ratiroad, Unica, May 20, 1866. Ovo bunéred and sixty thousand dollara worth of first wortgage bonds of the Bisck River and Utica Railroai ompany were fold at auction her, to-dey te wus then scjocrne’ until the 10th of ————— — Erte Tarn A Coroner Conne'y bed an jnest at No. 20 Cant street, on the houy aa woe na | Hauneb Jetty, who comnttted aticile by teking a dove of arsenic, The docwaced, tt appebro’ had been wuilering in mind from 1919 domestic diifoulties; vd intent upon deatroying hevvelf, -he purebesed 9 dows eolored ‘iat she bad taken the po'wm with the mt otton of putiing ac ond to her existence. A post movie ox amination was made upon the body by Dr. Fargasun, but no treces of poison could be in the atamach, ‘put congestion of that membrane was clearly peroepti- ple. The deoossed was twenty-one years of age, aad was DAI of Germany: Drexel & Co... Wells, Fargo Metrcpoliian Bua: Order C, Mo Wm. Hoge & Co How'd & Aspin James Patrick ror of the Mlinois, Wines & €o., Wells, Fargo & Co. the Pacific Express Coun pavy, and the San Francisco news cepot of J. W. Saf- livan, George Leder, ten menthe, Cotned iv 1854,, Coined in 1866,.....6.6. Coined in 18f6, first qu ARRIVAL OF THE ILLINOIS, THE PANAMA RAILROAD ACCIDENT. UST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED, THE WAR IN NICARAGUA, TWO WEEKS LATAR FROM CALIFORNIA. News from New Granada, Nizaragua, gand- Wieb Islands, Costs Klea, Pera, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuader, $1,791,187 im Treasure, &., &8., & The steamship Llinols, Chaa. 8, Boggs, U.S. N., oom- mander, lett Aspinwall May 20th, at 6:27 M, end ar. rived at Havens on the “4th, at Left Havane om ‘the 2hth at ¥2 M., end arrived et Quarantine eas big o’olock A. M. yesterday. She brings the Californi# maile e? the Sth tat., $1,791,- 187 fn freasure om freight, and 602 passengers, brought down on the Pacific aide by the Pacific Mail Stoamulip Company's steamer Golden Gate, Capt, W. F. Lapidge, which left San Francisco May Sth, a3 3:40 ?. M., with 688 paunengern and $2,079,691 on freight, $285,774 of which was ou forsign account, May 15th, at 7 P. Mi, the Gelden Gate spoke steamer Golden Ago, from Panawa for San Fransisco, and arrived at Paname May 19th, at 6:50 P, May 254, at 12 M., off Caps St Antonio, exchanged rig- nals with Premen bark [torcules, standing to the morta. May 26th, at 2:50 P. M., spoke the United Suates steam frigate Susquehanna, atarding for Havana Die May 28, Miss 9, Allyn, aged 20; of Sandwich, Mass, The following is the epecie list of the Ilinois :— G. H Wines & Co 9550, 006 985,500 170/000 112,863 Goidamith & Jacobs 8,2 B.A. Stein & 208 Hans & Co... 8,008 CH. Cuamings,.; 688t John Vhelan, Je... 6160 Hamburger & Brow. 6,076 B. Harris... Freeman & Co H, Strybing. Myer, Levy & L. Negbaur.... 2.176 J. Avezena, 1,444 Everett & Brown. 1,280 een eeserereees wooo 81,798,100 indebted for favora to Mr. E. M. Mitshelf, par- id to the Calitornia expresses of G. Hl. Governor Jobnaon had removed W. H. Rhodes from the office of Secretary, and appointed Wm. Bauman, iste Secretary of ihe Senate. The ship Horizant sai'ed for Auatralia om the 25ta of April, carrying a large number of theatrical ledies am@ gentiemen, among whom were Mrs. Sinclair, Mile. Duret, Harry Sedley, Jobn Dunn and daughter, John Dean aad Mrs, Sinclair intended to be absent sbcut Mr. french, for a long time itentified with the stage in San Fraccireo, as proprietor of the Matropolitan, had received a complimentary benefit and departed for Mexico. Statintice of the San Francisco Mint. GOLD LEPOSITS AND COINAGE. Deposited, 1854, ounces Deposited, 1865..... . Deposited, 1866, first quarter. Deporited, April, 1856... Total amount deposited since Apni, 1854, 2,975,608 68 ++» 84,084,207 00 +17 598,300 6@ Coined in Apri), 1856., Teta] amount coined Bars, 1864 . Kare, “56 Bars, 1856, Bars, April, 1856. Total amount of bars . GOLD AND SILVER DEFOSITED AND COINED, SINCE THE OPENING OF THE MINT, APRIL 3, 1964. Gold deporited, ouncee Silver depcatied..... Total amount of gold coinage. +++ $31,171,507 00 $5,651,151 40 » 8,359,371 43 840 oe 315,608 1¢ 1,171,607 @o Total amount of gold bars. 9,356,077 @8 Total amoant of gold worked... 340,628,484 00 Total amount of silver cuined,., . 261,134 46 Total amount coined since April 3, 1864.$40,779,618 6 Horrible Batchery in Mariposa County. {Translated for the Chronicle from the Keho du Pactfique.J Marirosa, Apri 28, 1886. Ibave to inform you of events of grave importance, which appeaz to me to demand the intervention of every one who has the heart ofan honest man. At Agua Fria, under some pretext, the mob {a driving away the Chinese, burning their tents and provisions, and bratally beating thore whom they ea‘ch. At Buckeye ft is worse still. A band of twenty bri- ganda, well armed, are chasing before them, like cattle, al the Mexicans, Chileans and Chinese whom they en- counter, and information just recelyed leads to the belief that buicbery 18 the purpose, At Maxwel Croek a:sarsivation is the order of the day, wid bes been ior several devs, The Americans bave ore dered all the Mexicans, Chiieans, and Peruviens to leave the county, and their fixed property, within fifteen mi- nutes after receipt of novice; and in case of failure te comply thirty Inthea are acminiatered, Alter the notice there was a regular chase, and all of the persecuted blocd have been mercilessly ' massacred wherever found, whether in their own houses, on the roada or in the bush. At the last news the chase was still in progres on al) sides, and the number of per- fons known to bave been maseacred was sixteen, and ft in rearonabie to believe that many others have autfered in the bush. It in Jesponsibie to foresee where the affair will a The public officers have not moved. They @ every intervention, ‘a5 near as Maxwell, under aif- ferent pretexts, and among cthers, that tt 1s necessary for them to protect this vicinity, where complainta are constantly arising. A correspondent of the Feo del Pacifico, writing from Jamestown, Toolumns county, says that seventeen Chile- acs avd three Mexicans bave been murdered by Amert- cans near Banderites, in Mariposa county. The kil of Cenley by a Chilean furnished « pretext for a gang bounds to collect and visit ali the Spanish camps in the vicinity, hanging and shooting at discretion, and order- ing those whose lives were spared to leave the county im- mediately. Later from Casson Valley. The woun! express man, John A, Thompson, ar- ento, from Onrson Valley, having started cf April. He encountered snow some three feet in depth for about three miles, but so compact as to eustain the weight of males. In fact, the train has crosse® the mountains and returned. Up to the hourof his de parsure there had heen no rain in the valley. The prospecting party to Walker river had returned, atter an absepee of eighteen ¢a hey discovered op the bead waters of the river. an¢ about one hum miles to the southward of Carson. The surface earth sbouttbree cents to the pan, Gold was found in rai Jocalities along the river, but the party did not pros as thorcughly as they would have done had their si of provisions not given rat. On the eastern slope of the Sierra Ne ‘And to the southward of Carson, gold was found as far as they travelled, and they were only deter- red from continuisg their researches Sy the scarcity of wocd ard wat ‘At present, the ‘ings cannot de profitably worked. Washoe Iadians, living east of Carson Valley, grounds are inter~ T thresjen hostilities beeause the fiehing ith; they number about eight hundred, Thay bag not fered turred a cabin on Crear Creek, but the settlers om therreciven in acy Imminent danger, Teother Oreca Hyde had taken up, the Truckee Mea~ cows, Which axe situated about thirty miles north of tha Mormcn tation, He anticipaes tha settling there per- manantiy of the emigration f:um Salt Lake, there beim tore hundred families shortly expected ‘trom that valley iodian Outbreak tn Shasta County. BATILE WITH THE WHITES—TWENTY SAVAGES KILLED. We are indebted to the Sacramento Union for the following important ge ge Tuesds vening, the Indians Uving on Cow Ci ‘, 20me teen miles from Shasta, to the number of over three hundred, made ® descent on Harrold’s Mill, but after a skirmish were repulsed, with the loss of twenty of namber, It apponta that about mouth alage @ pastaer oC ome Ucy,