The New York Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1857, Page 4

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The Ecropean edition of the Huma, printed tu Freoch gad English, will be published at ton o’clook in the morn fag. Single copies, io wrappers, six cents Sudecriptiona and advertisoments for any edition of the sw Yous Huraip + |)! be received at the Soliow!ng place ‘@ Berope— ae Saar Seni rg 10 Euchange st7006, 2 nena ERPOO! fureke a merepens Express Co., 2i Rue Corneille ‘The Glasgow Murder. ‘The murder of D'Angelier in Glasgow, and tho trial of ‘Mise Madeleine Smith for the offence, bare attrac c1 80 much notice that we take the first opportunity our space permits to give @ fall report of the extraordinary Proceedings in Covrt. It will appear in to-morrow’s He | Rap tm extenso. We shall include in our publication gn excellent portrait of Mins Smith, and all the le:ters written by ber to D' Angeline and others. The News, The European mails brought by the Europa | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1867. dy at the time of Mr. Brody's announcement. Upon all these points testimony has been produced for the last eeven days, and will now be laid before Jadge Ingraham, when the arguments of counsel will be resumed, with what prospect of brioging the case to a speedy conc!usion it is impossible to predict. The question as to the final disposition of the ‘books and papers of the Street Commissioner's of fice was argued yesterday before Judge Ingraham. We give a report eleewhere. The argument wil! be continued to-day. The Surrogate rendered a decision yesterday in the case of the estate of the late George B. Reed, distributing three-fourths of the property among the four nieces of the testator, his next of kin. The City Hall Commissioners are waiting on their oars to see the reply of the Common Council to their communication, sent in some time since, respecting the amount necessary to build a City Hali. The Common Council, from what we could leara, seem not very anxious at present to raise the eum required by the Comm‘ssioners. The matter therefore re- mains in statu quo. ‘The enles of cotton yestercay embraced about 1.009 bales, the market closing firm, on the basis of 1540 8 16 3c. for middliag uplsnés end Now Orleans. Flour was unchanged tn prices, while some descrip isns of common grades wore said to be rather firmer; while the sales were moderate and confined mostly to the Jocal and east- orn trade. Wheat was quiet, and new Svotnern was unchanged; while the sales of old were confined 'o Mil- wankie civb ut $1 45 8 $1 48, and common Canada white so $176. Indian corm was firm, with sales of Western mixed at F%e a 0c. Pork waa quiet, but Grmiy held at abou! $74 25. Sugars were in fair activity, with rales of 1,800 bh¢s. at rates given tn another column For stocks, &c,, we refer to another place. Coffee was {im and more active; tho rales embraced 4,340 bags Rio at lic a 11x¢ In frelghts there was come more offering, but ea gagemerts were moderate and quotations unchanged. What Should be the Feeling tn the United States on the Indian Affair. There is one point of view in which the Indian mutiny has not yet been considered by our peo- ple Admitting that the Eoglish have pursued an unprincipled course of filibusterism in the ac- quisition of territory, and a very oppressive and tyrannical policy in their method of retaining it, it cannot nevertheless be denied that they have conferred some benefits on India by their rule. Of late years especially, honest and well meant efforts bave been made to introduce European civilization into the country; works of irrigation have been undertaken on a large scale; railroads and telegraphs have been established; roads for the conveyance of produce from the interior to the seaboard have been projected and even com- menced; an administration of justice—faulty and corrupt, no doubt, but yet far superior to the na- tive courte+has been eolidly planted; large and beneficial improvements have been made in the Hindoo laws concerning land tenures, marriages and wills. Under ordinary circumstances, the ef- fect of these and the other similar improvements which are going on would, in fifty years, make of India a far greater country than she has ever been. Tf, however, tbe present insurrection is to succeed, aud the Eoglish are to be driven out, these works of civilization cease, all internal improvements reached this city at an early hour this morning, Our telegraphic summary from Halifax, published | on Thursday morning, contained all the important | points of the news. } On the first page may be found a full report of the | first day's proceedings of the Convention held at Old Point, Virginia, in aid of the proposed line of steam- | ers between a Southern port and Great Britain, to gether with the speech of ex-President Tyler and letters from several distinguished gentlemen in fa- vor of the project. Our reporter is inclined to be lieve, jndging from the enthusiasm manifested by the delegates in attendance, that the scheme may be caried out eventually. Some eight thousand dol- are stopped, and India relapses first into anarchy, next into a desolate barbarism. Again, the possession of India, and the invin- cibility of the British army, cannot be sacrificed by England without an awful loss of prestige and credit. She could not raire her head again in Europe if she suffered the Hindoos to drive her out; nor could she aseume the attitude of an equal, in dealing with this country, if she were emartivg from so humiliating and irreparable a deteat. Indeed, we have no hesitation in saying that in general terms, the power and prosperity lars in aid of it were subscribed on the spot. The | of Englard depend upon the prosperity and Convention adjsurned sine die yesterday. Mr. Dud- | ley Mann, the originator of the project, was deputed to present the subject to the Conveation to be held at Knoxville in a few days. The Metropolitan Police Commissioners held quite ‘a lengthy session yesterday, and transacted cousid- erable business. Mayor Wood presented an applica” tion from the First Marshal of the Mayor's office for | sufficient police force to carry out the city ordi- | pances relative to cartmen and others licensed by | the Mayor. Mayor Wood asked the Board to allow him to appoint twenty-five of the old force, well ac- | quainted with the duties; but the request was not | discussion the | granted, and after some subject was referred to a committee, to | report today. Tie charges against Deputy | Carpenter were taken up, and after the entering by him of a demurrer to the jurisdiction of the Board, the case was eet Gown for Tuesday next, when, if the demurrer i# quashed, the trial will proceed. | Five wards of the New York police were paid off | yesterday, and the balance, as well as the special | torce, will be paid immediately. The Brooklyn po | lice will be paidto-day. Some of the members of | the old force in this city continue to report for dut, on toe ground that they have not yet been legally | discharged. We have received the official reevrd of | the actions of the Board from the date of its orgaai- zation up to the time its seoret sessiona were abolish. ; ed, but owing to the crowded state of our columns, | are compelled to defer ita publication. The Health Commissioners met yesterday, but no quorum being present, nothing was done. Tne Brook lyn Board of Health was occupied in hearing com piaints against Pickersville’s candle factory in Water street, and the bone boiling establishments in the Ninth ward of that city. One of the Btevedores who has been engaged on the brig John Boynton, which bas been iying for several days at the lower Qaarantine anchorage, wee yesterday taken sick with the yellow fever, and sent fo the Marine Hospital at the upper Quarantine. The John Boynton ar rived from Gonaives ten days azo, and lost two of her crew from yellow fever during the pas sage. The case mentioned is the only one of yellow fever in the Hospital. There was but one arrival yesterday from an in- fected port—the brig Clara Windsor, from Port au Prince. She was sent to the lower Quarantine an- chorage, to be cleansed and fumigated. The ship Amalia,from Bremen, brought one case of small pox on board, which was sent to the hospital, and maintenance of the Indian empire. If the latter be lost, England will, like Poctugal, sink to the rate of a fourth rate Power, and will cease to fi!l any place in the world’s eye. The question for the practical American mind is, there‘ore, how would this country be affected by @ relapse of India into barbarism? And how, by a decline of England from a first to « fourth rate Power? The answer to both queries is the same: the Uaited States would in both cases be affected injuriously. Time need not be spent in argument to show that we chou'd be loeers by the relapse of Hindos- tan into barbarism. Our trade with East India is not large, though it is large enough for its withérawal to be felt. But, every yeor, a8 our capacity to produce and the capacity of the Hindoos to consume increases, it would swell and become more im- portant. Moreover, asa leading nation of the world, we are to acertain extent partaers of every other race, and sharers in their prosperity | and their reverses. The relapse of Hiadostaa into barbariem would affect us as injariously as —for instaccc—a commercial convulsion in Englend—and with more permanvnt results But the decline and fall ot England would be afar more serious matter. Besides being our best customer and our clerest commercial ally, Englund stands iv s position that is peculiarly interesting to us, as the head and home of liber. ty im Europe. England isthe only country ia Europe where speech, thought, the press and ac- tion are free; the only home for patriots exiled by despotisme. Were England destroyed there would be no refuge on that side of the water for such men as Victor Hago, Koseath and Mazzini; no dam or breakwater against the ferocious ty- ranpy ot the royal houses and oligarchies. There would not be a foot of soil in all Europe where | an honest man could safely peak his mind on | political matters. From the Frozen Sea to the | Mediterranean, Eorope—freed from Eogland — would be sealed to the despots: and in their ex- ultation at being released from their terrible an- | tagonists—the great free preas and the bold free lengths these despots might proceed. The fall the vessel and passengers erdered to be detained at | of England might quench European liberty for » Quarantine. The vessels R. C. Dyer, Hampden and Nancy R. Hagan have received permission to come | to-day from the lower to the upper Quarantine an- chorage, to discharge their cargoes. The Commissioners of Emigration paid a visit of | inspection yesterday to the old Quarantine. Mr. Bebell, Collector of the Port, and several other in vited guests, went with the Commissioners The Old United States warehouses erected at Quarantine | for the reception of the cargoes of infected vessels, and the piers and wharves fronting them, were thoroughly examined. It was thought that the buildings might answer the purpose for which they are used for some time longer, but the wharves and piers were pronounced too dilapidated to be nsed longer with safety. The hospital and grounds were f und in excellent condition. A dinner and speeches | | / at the bouse of Dr. Bissell, the physiciap to the Ma. | rine Hospital, terminated the visit. ‘The testimony before the referee, Mr. Hfiton, in the Conover contempt case, was concluded yester Gay with the examination of Mr. Charles O'Conor. ‘This finishes one branch of the case; the testimony being taken for the purpose of showing whether Brewer and Farrington were in court and within hearing when Mr. Brady announced that an injanc- tion bad been issued by Judge Ingraham —whether Conover knew of such injunction when the warrant , was signed, and what steps had been taken to txeoute the search warrant issued by Judge Peabo- whole century. To an event which might possibly lead to such an end this country could not by any possibility remain indifferent. It is claimed by our states- men and our pocts that our mission in this world is to dieseminate and plant the roote of pure liberty; a part of that mission is evidently the maintaining and euccoring of liberty wherever it is planted. For fear, therefore, on the one hand, that a succesful mutiny of the Lfindoos shonld replunge Hlindostan into barbarism, and Jest, on the other, lodian disasters should precipitate the fall of the only country whose face is not set against liber- ty, the ouly country besides our own whore ex stence is a plea for human dignity and capacity | for self-government, the temper and feeling of | this country would, if property handled, take a | strovg turn in favor of England in the Indian matter. wh sympathy be barren. . » place the contest in Nor need ¢ Were proper mesus India ina tine light before the people of the United States, itis highly probable that active aid could be obtained here for the Indian govern- ment. The United Statee contain far yore men who are ready to serve as troops in actual war fare, tak Great Britain; aud as we baye no treaties with the nations or peoples with whom the Englich ure fighting in India, none of our laws would be broken by enlisting them. To gatn their good will, it would of course be neces- tary to satisfy this community tha’, in return for our sympathy abroad, the English were williag to cede to us the entire control of the affair of thie coutinent and its dependencies; and this wculd not be an easy thing either for so unbend- ing @ politician as Palmerston to achieve, or for to incredulous a peeple as ours to credit. But were it sccompliehed, there might doubtless be awakened a strong feeling here in favor of the Biitich in India; and very likely, with proper measures and a suitable outlay, fifty thousand men could be enlisted in a few weeks. ‘The Central American Questions. Too much importance cannot be given at the present time to the consideration of the position of Nicwregua end the other Central American States, for it constitutes the initial point of the pew policy which our government must inavgu- rate toward the Spanish-American States of North America. ‘The conditions which attend our material pro- grees as a nation; our increasing population and commerce oa the Pacific ehore, with their at- tendant increasing necessity of transit facilities over the American isthmus; the advascing dis- integration of the’ communities that now tule those territories; their social decay and utter political insignificance, all com- bine to press upon our government the adoption of some polioy toward them which shail open those regions to the undisturbed pas- sage of commerce through them, and restore to them the gerws of political stability and social progrees. Their admiseion to our Union, with their heterogenous population, animated by feel- ings of the deepest hostility toward each other, is utterly out of the question. The eetablishment of a Girect protectorate over them, exercised by officials appointed at Washington, after the man- ner of the Eoglish protectorate of Mosquitia and the Bay Islands, is foreign to our system of go- vernment, and cannot be entertained. Still, the great necessity of pacification and the establish- meat of social security there, loom up before us; and we are called by our geographical position, the extension of our material and moral influence, and the diminiehed respect in which the Cabinets of Europe are held there, to fulfil the miesion. In order to consider this question properly, we mind of Eogland—there is no suying to what | must review the condition of the several States of Central America as they present themselves to the world at the present moment. The most prominent of these is Nicaragua, from the fact that she has been the scene of a recent contest, which must inevitably be renewed unless our government abandons the policy of non-intervention in her domestic affairs. One of the first points that strikes us in contemplating her, is the social elements of her population. There we find the black avd mixed races num- bering ten to one of the intelligent white race, and a feeling of discord between them that bas already broken out into open hos- tilities. No sooner have the forces of the other Central American States retired from her terri- tory, than we find her own generals, Jarez and Martinez, over'hrowing by violence the provi- sional government of President Rivas, and es- tabliching themselves in executive power. In view of the fact that a popular election was to take place within a few weeks, this event has a marked siguificance. Either these leaders dis. trusted the success of their own Presidential candidate, or the election is a farce which they do not intend shall be performed. While these things are transpiring, the preas of Granada and of Leon are abusing each other, and stimulating their partisans to mutual hatred and rancor. The mass of the people, impoverished by the long continuance of intestine strife, which has destroyed productive industry and coasumed their wealth, are ready to take a part in any violent turmoil which promises through rapine to give them the means of living. This is simply a renewal of the old state of things in that countey, which necessarily resulted in an invita- tion to the filibusters. In San Salvador we see a victorious General returning with his troops from the contiguous territory of Nicaragua, attempting to overthrow his own government by a coup de main, which was only defeated by a want of energy on his | part; yet, notwithstanding his failure, we find | him rufliciently powerful to defy arrest, and the | government acknowledging that power in treat | ing with bim, and suffering him to go at large in the very capital with impunity. Goatemala, governed by a rough, uneducated | man, who hes attained power and maintained | social security there by applying to men the same rules that he learned in driving his herds | of wild cattle—using, without stiot, the goad and the lasso upou them—presents the strange specta- cle of receiving in triamph her returning General, aod approving his course in personally insulting the President of the country he was sent to suc- cor. More than that, President Carrera refuses to hold any intercourse with the government of Nicaragua until he has received an apology for certain supposed insults. Honduras acknowledges herself bankrupt and ruined by the expenses incurred in the late war, and looks to the energy and enterprise of foreign- ers in bailding an interoocanic railroad through her territory, as the fountaiu from whence she is to receive new life. Costa Rica presents a social organization some- what superior to that of her neighbors, but poll- tical dificulties of even greater magnitude attend her. With a population where the intelligent white race has a large preponderance, but whose numbers do not exceed those of some of our third class cities, she is laying out work tor herself that will require the resources of a power- ful nation to complete, rather than of a people numbering barely one hundred and fifty thousand. The unwonted energy she has displayed in the late war haa given her a moral influeace in the neighboring republic of Nicaragua, which pride and political necessity urge her to endeavor to maintain. She recognizes “as the fuodamental | basis of future progress the permanent establish- , Ment of peace and the re-organization of Nicara- | gua, either through reason or force.” Sach a policy not only imposes upon her the holding of the Transit route through Lake Nicaragua, but the maintennoce of a standing army and navy which | shall hoid in respect the discordant population of Nicaragua, numbering more than double her own, These are significant facts, and from recent oc- currences we are led to believe that the govern- ment of Costa Rica is fully aware of their im port. Not only is she taking steps to fortify the river San Juan, but also to put a navy upon Lake Nicaragua which aball serve as a guard against external attacks and internal treason. Iu order to meet the sacrifices requisite for these operations, ele has turned her attention to the other States of Spanish-America, But their meagre resources, their own intestine discords, and tbat mutual punctilious jealousy that has characterized their past history, gtve her no good augury for the future. Ia fact, ome of them are already demanding of her explanstious and spologies tor fancied insults. Ia this siate of things there is but one course for her te pur- sue if the wishes to carry ont her policy of pacification aud ¢o.al re orgavization in Central America and es‘ablish those great truths which President Mora an- nounced to the Congress of Costa Rica in his metsage of August Jas, She must turn her eyes to this country, and, discarding the fa'lasious theory that there is a war of races in the mate rial developement of nations, eeek in a fraternal union of policy with our government the means of her own support in the great work she has undertaken. On the other hand, our own government must throw aside all sentimentalism, and, looking the future practically in the face, establich such a freedom of intercourse with that of Costa Rica as sball enable the one to give and the other to accept such moral support, and, if needs be, ma- terial aid, as sball secure the permanent sarcty of transit through those couofries, and their fature eelf developement in accordance with the pro- gress of the age. Snq@ co-operation between this country and Costa Rica is not oaly feasible, but can be carricd out without any great aban- donment of the policy of non-intervention oa our part, or the incurrence of any step on the part of Costa Rica that sball constitute aa abnegation of the rights of sovereignty and self-government. Re-OPeNING OF THE Ex@uisn Stave TRapE.— It will be ecen by reference to the letter of our correspondent at Port Spain, Island of Trinidad, that the Eoglish are in advance of the Frencn in the pew scheme for supplying the West Indies with negro labor, and that Palmerston is abead of Leuis Napoleon in the business. While the latter is openly making his contracte with a Mar- seilles house, and sending off the ships in open day to carry cargoes of negroes to Martinique end Guadaloupe, the former has slyly sent off his vessels, and the first thing the world knows of it is the arrival at a Brifish island of two ship loads of “ Portuguese-African emigrants, who come to serve a voluntary apprenticeship of ten years.” We cuppoee free emigrants were more easily procured at the Portuguese-African settlements, because they have all the requisite arrangements, barracoons, &c., for free emigration from the inte- rior of Africa. We should like to know how there two slave ehips eecaped the vigilance of the Britieh cruisers on the Coast of Guinea. Are they clippers, and bad it in their heels, or did they have sea letters from the Britich Admiralty? Will some member of Parliament inquire how much theee “Portuguese-African emigrants” cost per head? We admire the ingenuity of the new name. is honored in no: calling them “free Afficans,” &c., and all the odium of their procurance is skilfully thrown upon the Portu- gucse. Let us know something more aboutthis Portuguese-African emigration. Tur Free Lasor Movement is Virainta.— We publish in another portion of our columns to-day the report of a speech made by Eli Thayer, President of the Homestead Aid Society, to the citizens of Guyando‘te, Va., at a meeting in the town hall on the 21st of July. The Home- stead Aid Society, as most of our readers are aware, was chartered by the New York Legisla ture at its last session, with a capital stock of $200,000, and the privilege of increasing it to $5,000,000. The whole of the $200,000 was subscribed for immediately after the books were opened. The object of the ateociation is to colo- nize the western portion of Virginia, which is at present less known and less populated than the distant regions of Kansas or Minnesota. Some feeling has been manifested in Virginia and other Southern States in reference to the aboli- tioniet character or tendency of this movement; and it was for the purpose of dispelling preju- dices and errors in the public mind on that point that the meeting was called at which Mr. Thayer's speech was delivered. This free labor movement in Virginia appeara to usto be a much more sensible one than the movement to the wilderness regions of the West, which we have seen going on for some time past. The lands in Western Virginia have been hither- to entirely overlooked by emigrants, and can therefore be bought now at less than the gov- ernment price. They constitute a splendid wheat growing and pasturage country, are well eupplied with timber and coal, aud are said to be eminently healthy. The Homestead Aid Society propose to establish what they call a manufac- turing city m Wayne county, Virginia, near the borders of Kentucky, and a little south of the southern dip of Ohio. We understand they have selected and secured 5,009 acres on both sides of what is known as Twelve Pole creek, two miles from the mouth of the Big Sandy river. This is to be the site of the future city, which it is pro- posed to baptize by the name of Ceredo, signifi- cant of the bountiful harvests that it is to stimu- late. Itis at the head of navigation on the Ohio. From this point to Kansas there is water communication, and it needs but the building of some two hundred miles of railroad to connect Ceredo with the Kanawha and James River Canal, and thus perfect communication with Richmond or Norfolk. The importance of this communication and of this outlet to Western produce by a Southern port is incalculable. Governor Wise gives the undertaking the weight of his eupport, seeing clearly the immense advantages which Virginia is destined to derive from it. The Homestead Aid Society, by establishing the site of their city at the point proposed, will, by the impetus they will give to land settlement for a circuit of han- dreds of miles, stimulate the completion of this work. Mr. Thayer, in his speech at Guyandotte, points out many of the advantages to be derived from the enterprise, not by the emigrants alone, but by the people of the entire State. To this speech we refer our readers, merely adding that the company has already sent out $40,000 worth of engines and machinery, and that the fira, do- tachment of settlers is to leave in the middle of Angust. They are not to move in large bodies before September. Tavrtow Weep Aut. Anovr.—Thurlow Weed is the Mephistophiles of the black republicans. One cannot go in any direction without sceing him tarn the next corner. At one moment he is seen at Buffalo, at the next at Albany, and then, hey!—presto! at New York. We understand that a few days since he waa down at Shrewsbury look- ing at the marl beds and other alluvial deposits of New Jersey. He had a geologist with him, inspecting the character of these layers, out of which he expects to make pondrette. The Now Jersey farmers will, therefore, enjoy the satisfac- tion of having their own produce returned to, them in 9 manufactured state. Mr. MoEcxara’s Far.vre.—It ie well that the minds of our young bu-ivees men ebould be di- rected again and again to the lesson taught by the failure of Thomas McElrath of the Tribune. fome years ago, long afier Mr. MoElrath’s first failure as a bookseller, it epcears that he was engeged in @ lucrative busincss in this city, when he heard that Mr. Swain, of the Pailadel- phia Ledger, had made money by speculating in coal Janda, Straightway Mr. McEirath followed the example, and feeliog quite certain that he would make a fortune, built himself a manorial houre, ut 2 eost of $100,000 Having failed, ad Jost all this, be then again followed the example of other parties here, and boaght up a biock of vacant lots to build on them, in the upper part of this city.” This ech+me was likewise a failure; bot having become the President of the small Neseau Bark, and having besides a handsome ia- come from his ebares in the Tribune, he undertook @ pew epeculation in the shape of shaving the paper of the Steubenville Railroad. From this he judged that he was so certain of making money that he began another palatial residence on Long Ieland, neer Fort Hamiltoo. The result ia known. Had Mr. McElrath stuck to his business as bank president and financier of the Tyibune, very likely his income would not bave been much under $15,000 or $20,000 a year. He has ruined himself by his too great greed of money; and we hope hia example will deter others from offending in the like macner. Tue Crry Democracy IN a Stew.—The office- seekers and politicians have brought tne demo- cracy of this city into a greater etew ‘ban they bave ever before been placed in, in regard to their +tanding organizations. Toere are now three General Committees ciaiming to be regular, and each professing to be the organ of the whole democracy of the city. The days of technical democracy are gone by. We have now gota great living iseue, arising out of the infamous le- gislation enacted by the last republican Legisla- ture; and the technical politicians of Tammany Hall will find themselves left high aud dry if they have the folly 'o set themselves up in oppo- sition to the real representatives of that issue at the next election. THE LATEST NEWS. Inte, esting from Washington. REPORTS FROM THE G1LA EXPEDITION PROCEED INGS OF THE NAVAL COURTS, ETC. Wasuinatow, July 31, 1867 ‘The War Departmont has just rece!ved the following \n- teresting intelligence :-— Heapgvartess Gita Exravrmoy, Dxvor om Rw Gita, June 2, 1353. In forwarding my montnly return | have the honor t» remark that the expedition is developing one of the moat beautiful, tertile and healtuy of our country, in all evideace of a former numerous people, on” industrious, and no dont irrigating canals, Cut ten fee: wide into the sides of the mountains, conveying water miles to irregate val- Wes of the richeet character, some of which are abie to contain — thousand ishabitants. Oar efforta con- staptly at the beels of those Apasbes force them further West, cowding, as I iesrn, upon more western nations, who report that thetr mountains are tnundated wita neq faces, who are forcing their way with rifle and revolver. B. L. E. BONNEVILLE, Gol. Third Infantry, Commanding. In Naval Court No. 1, to day, the case of Lieut. Dulany closed with the examination of Surgeon Mason and Hon Jobn S. Pendieton in bis bebaif. The defence will be read in afew days by Mr. Phillips. The case of Licut Mercer (dropped) was next taken up, and Commodore Voorhees (eetified that be knew the applicant well; had satled with bim for three years on the frigate Congress; thought bim @ good officer; never had to reprimand bin. In Court No 2a sumber of letters taken from the files Of the department were read by the Judge Advocate to show that Lieutenant Harrison had not bia duty promptly, On March 19, 1854, Capt. Henry Feg'e, commanding the Princeton, reported Lieutenant Harrison for not being on beard as ordered whon the ship sailed. He had to leave without bim on March 21. Com. modore Boardman reports him {il {2 bed op the 234. Capt. Hudson, who had beea directed to inquire why teat. H. fatled to be on board the Princeton, reported that stormy weatber bad prevented bim. A boat could not be tniuced to venture to take him to the ship On the 26th Lieut. Harrison reported himself to the Department, expressing his disappointment and mortification at being unable to get aboard bis ship before she sailed. Court No 3 proceeded with business under the decision of Mr. Toucey, that the law did not require three members on the Court. Commander Long's counsel protested. His defence will be read to morrow. The Courts will soon take # recess, to enable the Jadger Advocate to bring up their synopsis of the testimony for the use of the department. My despatch was sadly bungled by tho operators last night, Itsbould have stated—stamped envelopes at one dollar forty, not “one dollar fifty.’’ Lieut. Jobn D. Raney bas resigned bis com mission—tot Lieut. Dulany. ‘The number of warrants issued from the Pension’ Office during July, onder the bounty land act of March, 1856, is 2,185, to satisfy which pearly 522,000 acres are necessary. To satisfy the 201,000 warrants issued since the passage of tho act 26,260,000 acres of land are required. The not amount in the Treasury subject to draft is $18, 666,667, of which over $8,C00,000 are in New York, nour- ly $3,000,000 in Philadelphia, $2,774,000 in Boston, and $1,500,000 each in New Orleans and San Francisco, ‘The Next News from Murope. Boerom, July 31, 1887. Wo learn from a private note from the Liverpool agent of the New York Associated Press that Captain Judkins, of the royal mail steamship Persia, will, if the weather should prove favorable, send ashore at Cape Race the news bag of the Associated Press; in which case the Por- sia’s Dews—one week later than the Karopa’s at Halifar— ‘will doubtless be flashed over the Newfoundland and Ame- rican Company's lines to morrow. Departure of the America. Hauivax, Jaly 31, 1887. ‘The steamship America arrived here from Boston at 4 o'clock this morning, and sailed again for Liverpool at haif past five o'clock. The woathor is calm and cloudy, ‘The Public Works of Pennsylvania. Parapmurma, July 81, 1867. ‘The main line of the public works of the State of Ponn- syivania will be taken formal possession of to-morrow by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The Governor issued hia proclamation yesterday at Harrisburg, directed to the ‘superintendents, toll collectors, officers and agents of the commonwealth, announcing the transfer, but informing them that (bey would retain their sitaations at the expense of tbe company until removed or re appointed, and tha: their official bonds will enure to the use of the company. Crops to Texas, Wasmotom, July 81, 1857. Fine rains bad fallen in the vicinity of Houston and Bas- trop, in Texas. Several plantations on tho Colorado had yielded immense wheat crops. Tho acoounts of the corn crop are contradictory. The Buffalo Firemen Gotng Home, Partanmrnta, Jaly 31, 1857 ‘The Battalo Hose Company No. 2 left for home this morning. Death of the hota SA ~ eae aster General D n a Pmtapenema, Taly 81, 1987, ‘The wife of ox. Postmaster General Campbell died here ‘al an early hour this morning. Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Prmiapenrnta, July 31, 1867, Stocks dull, Pennsylvania 6's, 81%; Reading Railroad, 86%; Long Island Raiiroad, 12; Morris Usmal, 625; Poam” ayivania Railroad, 465 New Onveams, July 29, 1867 Cotton firm Balon today 800 baler; receipts 190, Flour dull at $6 75. Corn decliniog. R'wl wheat (now) Gl 30. Freighta—Cotton to Liverpool, 7.164. Sterling excharge @\ per cent promium Ataany, Joly 81—6 P.M. Flour remains moady, with a fair demand at anobanged Fates. There ie no new feature In grain, no wheat er corn botng en the market oF siloai, and none expected before the commencement of nox! week. No salon were made to arrive, buyers’ wad sellers’ views being apart wervato, July 316 P.M Elour unchanged, Sales of 400 bola, at #0 62jg @ 81 for dull, Sales of 6, bushels Chicago spring at 8! 55. Cop dull. grote of 16,000 bushels at 78¢ « 78a, Lake imyorts to-day -- 24,400 bushels :f whoat, 18,000 do. corp. exports—31,000 bushels corm, 25,800 de, American Horses for the trench Emperor, ‘The steamship Vanderbiit, which sails for Havre at noon to-day, wil! take out « pair of splendid bay horses, whteh have been ordered by no leas a personege than Louis Napo- leon, Emperor of Franoe, who wishes to add a few choles Napeleon is quite a connoisseur (n horses, and bis écurtes contain some of the finest specimens in Europe, and cost the imperial treasury @ fabulous eum of monoy The horses that go out to-day will vie with any that he new bas, in the particalar use for which they are destined, which is to draw the imperial carriage on Btate occasions; and their having been bought at the Emperor's order tie another evidence of the high estimate that is beginning te ‘be placed on American horses in Europe. Withiaa few years American troiters have been much sought after by English turfmen; bet the Emperor Napoleon is the first to abow any apprecistion of our fine carriage horses, the more showy English ones baviog heretofore been deemed the most desirable for those purposes. ‘Ibe circumsiances connected with the buying of these horses are a litle curious, and goes to show the influence ‘@ woman in France may have in bringing horses as welt as hoops into fashion, provides she is at covrt and bas the ear of the Emperor. The Marquis de Lavaliotte, a Senator of France, and one of Louis Napoleon's con‘idants, is mar- ried to a pretty young American lady, formerly Miss Un- derwood, and cousin to ex-Aléerman Undsrwood, of the Third ward of this city. On the Emperor exprossing wish to buy a pew pair of carriago horses, he consulted with De Lavallette, who, of course, at the {ustance of his wife, advised him to purchase a pair from America, which he agreed to do, and the fair America’s relatives were choren as agents to purchase the eximals, with instrue- tions to epare no cost, but procure the finest and of the purest breed. A notification to thiy effect was sent to the sealor member of the firm of Underwood & Co., in Roston, who, after some delay, jpurchesed the Koraee in Rutland county, Vermont, and sent them on to his brother, the ex Alderman tn this city, to be sent off in the first steamer that sallod for Havre. ‘The animals arrived by way of the Ddoat from Troy afew days since, end were put in a ttable in New strost, near Beaver, where they remained anti! yesterday afternoon, when they were taken on board the Vanderbilt. Tholr temporary ascommodations in New street were anything but imperial, and must bave been immensely ingutting to animals with so regal e dest!ny bofore them. For three days they had been compeiled to consort with all manuer of vulgar beasts who had all their lives bees drawing milk wagons, coal carts, and some had been put to even baser uses. The piace was cleanly enoagh, but would hardly compare with the splendid écurtes of the Emperor. ‘These animals are geldings of the pure Morgan breed, which has furnished so many fine horses to the American turf and road, Thoy are nearly seven years old, and are within a fraction of being sixteon hands bigh, and have all the marks peculiar to the Morgan horse. They are of @ bright bay color, with a white spot on the fore head, and, as is usual with horses #0 marked, the near hind hoof and portion of ‘he fetlock including the pasterm- joint are aso white. In appearance they are very stately avimals, with small heads, and ears nicely eet, thiok arched neck, deep full obest, showing them tobe long winded, clean Limbs, with strong muscular developements. At present they are rather full in flesh, but this adds to thetr appearance, and will make them more presentabis to ke Grand Ecuyer de U Empereur, wo whore care they will be consigned within © month. An American groom, named J, McBrice, will take charge of them on the voyage, and until they arrive at 8. Cloud, whither they are destined. The American purchasers, for reasons best known to themselves, and probably with a desire to appear as di- plomatic as possible, as befits the agents of an emperor, decline stating what they paid for these antmals; but they would probably bring $2,000 at Bull’s Head, and more im Wall street, where every broker is a great judge of horses. ‘They are not fast horses, not being bred for the turf, but bave trotted their mile within throe mioutes, in harness. Ample accommodations have been provided for them on board the Vanderbilt. Twenty days feed has been placed on board, to provide against accident, and they will re ceive all the consideration their bigh destiny entitics them to. We shall doubtless next hear of them in Paris, particl- pating in sume State display. sion to the sister city last evening, at elgbt o’slock. On their arrival they were met by Company F of the Fourth Regiment of Artillery, commanded by Captain McMahon, se peo ag yee » hg bor Rape ginal yng of artil. the évent of the arrival of their trethren ta oreame the id Gi and the State Guard, which escorted them street, to the Bowery, Two apl bande, exclusive of the band of ihe Grenadiers, wore tw atiendance, and they contributed in no smal degree ty os- liven the eclat of the arrival. Fea iy Ei Stamer.—Shortly afer 8 o'clock yes, lerday morning s fire broke out in the asbinet shop occupied by G. W. Williams, at No. 93 Elm strost, sooomd floor. The fire destroyed stock and tools probabiy to the {s owned by Mr. Houtoo, and was damaged to the amount gout. St yaa. hegamp hen coon} 7 Gausbergen as a lignor store. to stock by water aboct 8500. No invuranoe. Pvniie Scuoot No 1, or Starurroy, bad their first pie nile at Tompkinaville, yostorday, to celobrate tho anniversary vastly. Addresses were delivered to them by Rev. Mosars. Kocloston snd Thompson, and Theodore V. wang several js for their amasement, which were re- cnceret After en) ying themselves tn wound the woods, they attacked a boge mountain of es ee eran late in the retorned much pleased with their days’ excursion. § wishing to leave the shop fora fow moments, asked the prisoner if he would be kind enough to take care of bis money until his return, The prisoner roplied that he wees be the custodian of tho property, and as be cid not to leave the work bench that day, be would ake fond care f the money. | The complaitanl thereupon banded the prisoner the amount ia the ee Se & tae eeeeeen, ond oe his depar are the store. Upon returning Liebau was somowbat tnd had let oo word regureing he moneys However, be no wor the money. waited iy for the prisoner nti! afer 11 o'clock that night, when Mr. Hirth made his appearance. Withoat em. tering into an explanation aa to the absence of the prison. er, Mr. Liebau promptly asked for the ; but what ‘was hig astonishment when Hirsh very coolly donied hae Cane oF Licuway Rommny,—John Lester, & bateher, was arrested on charge of having attacked and robbed Mr. Neal Rooney, of Throgg’s Neck, Westohestor county, of ‘a five dollar bill, Mr. Rooney alleges that he was indoced by the prisoner to enter # drinking esloon on the Five there partake of nome brandy and water. Point, and, Toulowed froma the saloon by the prisoner and ‘another man whose name is toknowo, and that they drag. him into an alley way adjoining, aod there rebbed mone: Rooney received pretty rough usage at (fe hands of the highway men as she condition of hin face fully testified. Lester was brought borore Jumioe Connolly at ihe Lower Pollee Court, whore he waa held w bail in the sum of $500 to wuswer, A Onvnen BRoxee eto axD Ronmwn.—Tho Mariners’ charch, corner of Madison stro vt and Uatharine, waa barg- Inrlously entered on Thursi@y uight and robbed of rome wma} change, which the thieves found on ransecking the clergy man’s private seoretary. The rascais boing disap. felted tn thelr hopes for pluiner, defksed the Tarattare 0 the chureh and thon took their leave of ihe promisss. No arrest bas yet been munio by the police,