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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, RAETOR. many qmarter of the BPE FoRrGN ¢ ) BPQURSTED TO BEAL a) MLD, Pasty MeRArD, aid vi Eurvpean Edition: Volume ANU No. 214 NIBLO'® GARDE, Bronday BADE CONG: eT—OLAICAN, OR THE RB BOWTEY Tia TRR Bowery—~Txuxt Grarosuxs— Two Bors. 3 BURTON’ SEW THEATRE, Broatwsr, opposite Bout— Semove Famuy—Tux Poomis Micras—Paomx- as WALLAOK S TABATRE, Broatway—Osvect on Ire- Rest INVEMSLE PRINCE, LAURA KPXNB'S TERATRE, Scoatway.—Bisce Sosan— Was mening Moo sth Lair tae! NEW OF.9M@10 THEATRE, Broudwsy—Pi: oF vax Prt Poca ~OlemaNe—ioie Do cox B LESUN'S AMERIOAN MI IM Broaitway—Braverias We orprREisy—OuniosrriEs (GRO CHRISTY & WOOU'S MINSTRELS 444 Broadway Tus Magioas—Neowo Ninsragiey, ec Broaiway—Nwuao Maronirs By Bay ans» MomseRess. MECPANIC’ HALL, BG. -Baacretn A D.N, New Work, Tucaday, August 2, 18. 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Toe Ne* \oag Waextr liwaaco—California edition— containing the latest intelligence from a!! parts of the world wil! be published at tea o'clock morning. 3 es, io wrappers, ready ‘or iaalling, eixpenes, Azonts wili please eend in thelr orders as carly as possible. The sews. We Save no returns of the electi place sesterdey, except from Louisville, Ky., where Col. Marshall and Mr. Jone, American candidates for member of Congress and State Treasurer, have a mejority of eleven hundred, and some unimport- sat rctarns from Missouria, which afford no indi- cai.on the result an that State. Contrary to general expectation, the election in Louisville passed off without @*:orbance, Another of the series of popular cemonstrations sgainst the odion: laws passed by the Legislatare inst winter, took place in the Nioth ward last even- ng. Wegive a full report of the proceedings in another coleman, The Metropolitan Police Commissioners balloted one hundred and seventy-two times yesterday fora successor to Mr. Draper without effecting a choice. which took Cyr Cortis was the. republican, David Banks the | eemecr sad Erastus Brooks the American can- dijate. The matter was then postponed till Wed- nesday rext. The fight bids fair to eclipse that be- tween Banks, Orr and Faller for the Speakership ia Corgress. Svme conversation (ook piace as to the Liab of the city for the rent of the station houres hired by the Board, but nothing was done about :\. Deputy Superintendent Carpenter's trial is set down for to-day. The August seesions of the Coramon Council com- menccd ‘ast evening. In the Board of Aldermen a commanication was received from the Mayor calling attection to the necessity of making contracts for cleaning the streets without delay. As the street cleaning is managed at present by the City Inspec- tor, the work will cost $600,000 per annum, whereas reeponsible parties are ready to contract to do the « for $150,000. The Mayor was authorized a reward of $1,000 for the apprehension of the murderers of John Miller, kilied during the Reventeenth ward riot, and Augustus Van Liew, tound desd recently in Mercer #trect. The Comp- ect to the Board an interesting communi .a- tion re ative to the fire telegraphic apparatus and the ocenipation by the officers of the Street depare meatot the premises lately ueed by Chief Mateell. We it ‘he document entire iv oar report. The report esto the disposal of the Crystal Palace was mace the special order for Wedne+day next. A ree luticn authorizing the payment of the old police up tothe Ume of the disbandment of the force was offered and defeated. The policemen must resort to (Le courte for a settlement of the question wa to ther right to compensation. The resolation appropriating $1,000 for the reccption of the Mayors ot Cincinne\i and Bt. Louis was iaid on the table. la the Board of Councilmen lest evening Mr. Jone. o*ered a resolution directing the Metropolitan Pol« to arrest all street mendicacts and vagrants who wanvcer about the city and sleep in uninbabi ed éeclings, which was unanimously adopted. This is @ vory important resolution, and if vigorously car © effect our city will be relieved of an in- toier ieance. Mr. Hushes moved that the ‘Coors troller be directed to pay the Manteipal Police np to the time of their dismissal by the Mayor. ve subject was laid over, The Comptroller was nsteucted to report by what authority the Staten Island ferry house bas been extended cver the uo- ieated property of the city. The awarding of con- tracte fcr cleaning the streets was made the special Necnesday evening. Communications a and the State arsenal pro 3 munication from D. D. Couover, rie to grading « street, was laid on Councilman MoCabill declined to ve suggestion ot Mr. Ottarson, was placed uuder arrest tor contumacy. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday after noon. A communication was received from the Mayor, vetoing the resolution authorizing a commit t the Board to Ot np offices for the Tax Com o for coutingent county expenses was exhausted t ty and county of New York, presenied in the Boord ppears that the inerense of the valnation to nothing more then our business like no- ot 7 over that of 1856 was $7,495,072 45° } tions and habite our geograpbica, m, and ' q | the influence of onr capital. As loog as Southern mills of the Cambria Iron Company, | room tally, feel and act aathey are in the habit of nevt », Pa. were destroyed by fire on Sat a st ures " wg a lone of from $60,000 to #70, doing at these eo-calicd commercial conventions, ri © was lomurance on the property to the § they will never stand the teast chance of compet em t ‘The company wil rebuild ia , Ne With us in the race of commercial progress mediately J Whilst ‘hey wre expending theic stren The A term of the Court ot G: oeral Sesion wordy ¢-clamation and jealous ineeetive against OS Ne W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS ing important rit Pan- AGKS Wr do nat in the Comptroller relative to the | ners. The Comptroucr announced that the fand | By table of the value of real and persons! estate in formally commenced yesterday, tut os usual no quorum o! grand or petit jurors could be obtained, and thore answering to their names were discharg- ed till tris morning, The much talked of prize fight between Bradley and Rankin, of Philadelphia, for one thousand dol- lars aside, took p'ace in Canada on Saturday last. The battle lasted nowards of two bours and « half, when Brad'ey was decl.rei the winner, his antago- nist being unable to cont‘nue the contest. Rankin wae severely beaten, and it is reported that he is not like 'y +o survive his ‘pjuries. In another colomn we give an interesting report of the proceedings of a meeting of citizens of the Fifth and Eighth war's, hela last evening to per tect arrangements for the organization of a law and order or vigilance committee. The immediate canse of this movement was the murder ani rov- hery of Mr. Van Liew, in Mercer etree’, one evening lass week. One of the speakers informed the meet- ing that a Vigilance Committee, nombering fifteen bundred property owners, had been for some time in existence in the Ninth ward. The brig Argus arrived yesterday from St. Domin- Bo, having lost reveral of her crew from yellow fever Curing the voyage. She was ordered to the lower Quarantine anchorage. There are oniy three vessels now at the lower anchorage: the Argus, the Arvum, and Clara Windscr. At the upper Quarantine there are twenty-+even vessels. George Reif, Isaac Von Buskirk, John Simicoff, end Edward Knight, the four stevedores arrested Sunday for asean'ting a party of other stevedores at the old Quarantine, were taken yesterday before Justice De Forrest, at Tompkirsville, for examina- tion. Roff and Knight demanded a jary trial, which was granted, they having given bail in the sum of $250 each to appear for trial; the two other arrested pagties gave bail each in a similar eum to answer any Indictment that might be found against them by the Grand Jury of Richmond county. The Commissioners of Health, with a number of invited guests, took a trip yester¢ay down the lower bay in the Quarantine steamtug Robert C. Smith. A new iron scow, just built to take refuse bedding | and other msterials usually thrown from infected vessels for the purpose of burning them, was inau- gurated into service on the occasion. The Commis- the Horschorse, skirted slong the sbore of Seguine’s Point and Coney Island,and then returned to the | city. A good dinner, with abundant etceteras, and various speculations as to the best locality for a per- manent Quarentine for New York, combined to make the visit a very pleasant one. It was anounced come time ago that a French frigate was loat on the Banks of Newfoundland. It | appears now that it was the Newton, a steam des- | patch boat ef 220 tons, under the command of Mr, | Sagot Duyauroux. The Newton has belonged for a sew months past tothe French squadron stationed of Newfourdland, and went agbore at the entrance | of Port-eu-Choix. No lives were lost. It was found | impossible to raise her. | The French war steamer Tonnerre arrived in the | river below New Orleans yesterday from Vera Cruz | and Havana. She bad yclow fever on board, and | was put in Quarantine. | Aman named James Shepherd was arrested on | Sundsy last on suspicion of murdering his wife, | and subseqnently firiog his éwelling, located in | Pifty-third street, near Tenth avenue. The build- | ing was destroyed, and the charted remains of the poor woman found in the ruins. The occurrence | took place on the %th of June last, since which time | Fire Marsbal Baker bos been busily engaged in “ working up” the case. We give a report of the | affair in another column. The importing merchants had a meeting yester- day in the Exchange to devise some means of re- moving the delays to which they are now subject in passing their goods through the Custom House: The proceedings were merely preliminary; but « committee of six gentlemen was appointed to wait ' on Mr. Schell relative to the matters complained of, and to report to a enheequent mecting. ‘The eales of cotton yesterday emoraced aout 1,600 | pater, at very full prices, Within the pastithree days the les have reacbed about 2,800 bales. The market closed | at 15‘c.a15xc. Flour was urchanged; there was ® feir Eastern and local demand, with moderate sales. New red Tennersee wheat sold at $173; white do, at $1 85; North Carolina new white at $1 85; old Milwaukie club, ta he slip, at $1 44, and old Canadian prime white at $1 600 $1 8236 Corn was lest booyant; mnsound Western mixed told at S€c & 8TKc.,and sound and good at 8c a 690, Dore was Srmer, with ema’l sales @f mesa in lots at $24 30 8 $24 35, while some holders asked $24 40. Refuse mess told at 622 75. Sugare were steady, with sales of about 200 hhds. at prices given im another coinma. Coilee was rieady; a cargo of 3,400 Lage St. Domingo was sold at 126-16c. Freights were inactive, while rates were un cbanged. Dudiey Manns Ocean Steam Ferry Project— Southern Jealousy of the North. We publish today a full report of the second day's proceedings of the Old Point Convention Southern transatlantic steamehip scheme. It will be read with interest, if not for the practical Southern chatucteristics so abundantly displayed in them. Southern commercial conventions enjoy some- what of the busines+like distinction which ob- tained for the deliberations of the three tailors of } Tooley street, a historical reputation. | plans are generally pregnant with grand re- | eulie—the enthusiasm of their faith fa them would suffice to move mountains; but it eome- how unfortunately happens that the period of | their execution is always adjourned to the Greek | kalends. When, therefore, we hear of a South- ern commercial convention we are di-posed to look apon it as one of those baseless fabrics of a visiouaty’s deeam, which has avither substance nor entity, and ie merely destined to serve us a eufety-valve for Southera eloquence, With a show of a well conridered plan, pro- mising magnificeut reeulte tor Southern inte- rests, and of a Roman determiuation to accom- plish it, we arc sorry to say that the Old Point Convention does not impress us with any higher idea of its practical character than those that have preceded it. Leaving out of view for | the moment the moriis of Mr. Dudley Mann's echeme, we are tempted to nek, what seriousness of purpose is to be expected from men who cua talk in the strain which prevailed at this meet- ing? Misplaced classical allusions or poetical | flights on business topics we can excuse as the | results of the proverbial warmth axd redandan- cy of the Southern imagination; but we confess ' we are at a lose to comprehend thore figures of ' rhetoric which are pointed with euch meaning. | tess phrases ae “the commercial tyranny’ and “the tyrannizing monopoly” of the North. If by terms such a# these it is intended to in- ‘nate that our commercial superiority hee been attained by unfair means, or is preserved at the expense of what ie legitimately due to other tions of the Union. then we must say that the gentlemen who h sentiments either do not know what \hey are talking about, or, kaow- ing it, wilfully pervert the truth. Our aston } deney in commercial matters is dae, let us tell —C tler sioners went as far as Sandy Hook, took a circuit of | for the furtherance of Mr. Dudley Mann’s | nature of the views developed, at least for the | Their | Re erereeeenencerennecaenennteatintpeestiersnenan NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1857. those who have more practical views and more energy than themselves, the men of the North will be already half way towards the rvalization of their objects. What, for instance, would be thought here of the chances of a echeme like this ocean steam ferry line, embracing as it dovs the promise of such gigantic results, for which in an assemblage of weighty interests like that at Old Point, a subscription of only eight thousand dollars could be raised?—a eum not even eufficient to pay three days coal of the new mammoth steam ehip. What a figure we should cut in the eyes of people abroad were it to be euggested that for the accomplishment of euch a project the New York Chamber of Commerce should send canvassers and colporteurs through the State on the most approved missionary prio- ciple! Aud yet these are the extreme efforts of Soutbern energy in support of this scheme. Of the project iteelf we are reluctant to speak in terms of discouragement, Unlike thespeakera et this convention, we are disposed to favor everything which tends to promote the general interests of the country, even though it be at the expense of our own particular eection. We be- lieve, however, that there is no back bone to this echeme. Steam lines to New York pay because it is a great receiving and distribut- ing port, connected by its railways and canals with all parts of the Union. One of the greatest sources of its prosperity is its connection with the Wert. Now, to the South these advantages are wholly denied. It has no back country upon which it can count to furnish the resources neces- sary tomaintaia a line of steamers of each magni- tude, and ite own cotton and other produce would foil to doit, becauee the planters willalways ship at the nearest port, without regard to other interests. Where, thea, is the trade to come trom which is to fulfil the magnificent promise of Mr. Dudley Mann's figures? We look for further statistics aud data before | we pronounce a more positive opivioa in regard to thie matter. We are open to coaviction—we are always open to conviction; bat these Southern | gentlemen must stick more closely to facts if they wish to produce any very decided revolation in our views. It is to be hoped that at the con- vention at Kooxville on the 10th of next month, when this scheme is again to be broached, some attempt will be made to divest it of its sectional | avd partisan coloring, and to demouastrate its ad- | vantages on the broad basis of the general inte- rests. if Mr. Dudley Mann and his associates understand the principles of political economy aad the iaws which dictate the mutual depend- ence of communities, as wellas of nations, upon each other, they would know tbat what benefits the South cannot fail to benefit the rest of the Union, She Banks and the Railways, Tke recent failure of two bank Presidents, in consequence of their connection with insolvent railways, suggests some momentous inyuirics as to the extent to which the banking is involved ia the railway system. It is now genera'ly fore- seen by pereons of experience apd judgment that as productive property the railroads of this country are a failure, and that the question of the insolvency of some and the quiet ex- tinction of others is merely one of time. Bat no such impression prevails generally with regard to our banking institutions, which, as a rule, are regarded as safe,and prudently managed. If, however, it shall turn out that the one are in- volved with fhe other and the banks in any home or Woy enguged toward the --vile at abroad as ee-~sies for the railwaye, then the pub- Itc mmpreseion had better be altered as soon as possible, for the ruin of the railroad interest | would precipitate the ruin of the banks. | As o geueral rule, we presume that the banks are not to any coneiderable extent holders | of railwey stock or bonds A few imprudent | bankers may have a portion of their means in these securities; but, in this part of the coun- permanent investment by the banking class in apy so precarious paper. The only points of contact—at present—between banks and railways—are advances to the latter by the former on stock or bonds hypothe- cated, or on railroad paper. The extent of these advances is large, the temptation being great. Ata time when money can be had with ease upon first class paper for ° a 10 per cent, railroad pa- per eell# notoriously at two per cent a month; end this not in the case of such utterly broken concerns as the Erie and the Michigan Southern, | but in that of roads which are still considered productive property. It isa common saying in Wall street that individual paper is worth jast twice vs much as railroad paper; and experience fully verifies the adage. It is this temptation which icads some of our banks, and we fear very | many of oor bankers, to use their spare moneys | in discounting acceptances which a prudent busi- ness man would not touch. The reward—for the moment—is large; bat experience shows that the ultimate cost in a great proportion of cases must beruin. No concern in this country can do busi- | nese profitably while borrowing capital at two | percent a month: any one can tell, therefore, what must be the eventual fate of the lender, Loaning money on stock appears a safer opera- tion. A prudent capitalist will exact a large margin from the borrower; it is understood for inetance that the parties who loaned the money | for the late “corner” in Michigan Southern, took | the stock a collateral at 50 per cent. Bat this is only another form of gambling. Let an acci- dent occur, and who shall say what margin will be safe? How much did New Haven stock de- cline when Schuyler’s fraud was discovered? Let a California steamer be lost with our fortnightly supply of especie, and where would the stock market be? Any one of a handred mishaps that may ! imagined would knock all the virtae out of the most copious margin; all the hypothecary holders would rush into the market, and, as a matter of course, the hindermost would suffer, We look to see several of our prominent capital- ists and bankers caught in this manner, in apite of what they consider to have been most remark- able prudence. Considering everything—the obvious decline in public confidence with regard to railways; the | decline in their receipts and the increase in the cost of working them; the constantly recurring frauds among those who are entrusted with their management, aud on whose honesty the whole value of the property depends ; and finally the evident eymptoms of a desire on the part of our forcign friends rather to return us the securities they bave then to plunge deeper into each ingest- ments ; considering all this we cannot but think that it would be sound judgment for our banking institutions to stear ae clear of the railways as they would of bogus mining companies. A tim: is ovideotly at hand when Earope will again be horror struck at the insolvency and fraud devel- oped in these great railway corporations of ours: it behooves the bankers to see that they do not share the distrust that will be created. As a general cule we bave reasgn to believe that the | bu’k of our chartered banks throughout the coun- try rest on a tolerable recure basis, and are capa- bie of e'anding very well a mcderate etrain ; but let it once be understood shat they, or their offi cere, are interested in railways, or implicated io the finaxcial affiairs of the railway cystem, and necessarily the public mind will class them to- getter. Confidence is the soul of banking ; let our bankers beware lest in their anxiety to make large profits, they destroy the confidence now re- posed in them, and bring themselves down in the coming railway catastrophe. Tuer Pouce Commisstoners.—If at the time of the passage of the Metropolitan Police bill there could have been found a hundred intelii- gent citizens of New York, who, uabiassed by party prejudices, really believed that that bill was destined to operate beneficially to the in- terests of the city, we feel convinced that the practical oprration of the law, for eo far, must have considerably weakened if not entirely disi- pated that belief in most or all of toem. The riots and disorders that have disgraced the city within the last month—the imbecility shown by the Police Commissioners in these crises—the proverbial incapacity of the force itself—-the im- punity in which crime revels in the metropolis— the litigations in which the municipal government has beccme involved, andthe complete diso: gani- zation that has marked all branches of the gov- ernment, arising from the improper interference of the State Legislature in our local affairs, a!l tend to prove most conclusively that that interference has proved as pernicious as it was unjustiable ; and if there be any who etill cling to tae hope that eventually the law will prove a great public benefii, we think tbat the conduct of the Police Comwirsioners within the last few days must give the death blow to that hope, and convince those who entertained it that an efficient, thoroughly eorganized police system is not to be looked for under the operation of the Metropolitan Police law. Not only was that law partisan in its inception ard in its provisions, but those who were appoint- ed to give it efficacy were selected in the same idea, The Governor, instead of being guided in his appointments by the competency and ability of those who were to act as Police Commission- ers, seems to have been guided by no otuer stan- Gard than the contemptible one of politics. He selected four black republicans and one Know Nothing, and by pure acciden‘, it would seem, there was one active, effi- cient man to be found in the batch. But he, becoming eoon disgusted with the incom. peteucy of his colleagues and their eystematic thwarting of his practical measures, sent ia his resignation and retired from tne board, leaving behind him four mere politicians, having no fit- ness whatever for the office, and the two ez officio Commissioners, the Mayors of New York and Brooklyn. Since his retirement the proceedings of the Board have continued in a complete dead- lock. Having but one idea in regard to their duties, and that idea being the advancement of political partisans, they have been able to do literally nothing. The three black republicans act and vote alike on all subjects that come be- fore the Board, and the two democratic Mayors and the Know Nothing Commissioner act and vote together on the opposite side. And thus they go, playing the childish game of see-saw to the ne- glect of their important business and to the in- anne a of this whole commanity. ve now tt in tl “Verner tomas adalah Pamsiotead sane man can see what a man’s politics should have to do with that office, it is on that poiat, and that alone, that the fitness or unfitness of a candidate is judged. The three black republicans can see no virtue out of their party, and so vote right through for one of their own stripe. The two democratic Mayors, resolved not to have a | mojority against them in the Board, vote as de- try et least, there has been for some time no | terminedly for a democrat; aad Mr. Cholwell— wiser than both these together, Sayr, “Do what you will, but there’s nothing like leather.’” And so they ballot, and ballot, and ballet, and still with the same reeult—black republican, 3; democrat 2, American 1. Sometbing like three hundred and fifty ballots were had on Saturday and yesterday; but not a step nearer have they brought the Board to the attainment of its ob ject. And thus they may go on to the end of the chapter, trifling with the interests of the city and with the patience of the public. If a further proof had been wanting—as it was not—of the partisan feeling that motived the passage of this bill and the selection of the Commissioners under it, and that goveros their mode of executing its provisions, this balloting for the vacant Commissionership would have supplied the need. Those who flatter themeclves that under such a law, so administered, this city is ever to enjoy the blessing of a good police sys- tem must be endowed with a very hopeful turn of mind. We see nothing to give us the faintest shadow of a hope that so long as this law re- mains on the statute book we are to witness any improvement on the present disorganized condi- tion of the city. Ivvortast rrom Mexico—Our advices from Mexico are of a very important character, and will no doubt tend to increase the ill feeling be- tween that country and Spain. The gross insalt to the Spanish flag perpetrated at Puebla, unless the story has been exaggerated, will prodace a feeling of great irritation upon the Spanish mind, aud destroy all the good effect that might have resulted from the voluntary punishment by the Mexican authorities of the assassins of San Vicente, and the renewal of payments upon the Spqnizh claims. We give the letter as it comes tots from Vera Cruz, in the hope that further ac- counte will mitigate its present unfortunate aspect. The tenor of all accounta, however, oes to prove that the war epirit is very rife in Mexico, and that the insulting and menacing tone of the Spanish journals has had a very irritating effect ten the popular mind there. ‘Tor Sew Live ov Staamenirs ror Catirorvis.— We have rece! ved from Capt. Henry Randall a fine lithographic print of one of the new steamships which are intended to be beil for the company now forming io San Franctaco, We have before description of the plan on whieh it i= proposed to bajid these steamers, which is upon ® most magpidcrt reals, They are to be supplied with double engines nd double sete of paddle wheels, placed so far apart that the after wheel will aot in what it called tho dew) waier or tection. This plan, w: ore, bat or heen tried, exoopt upon astenmor for ehailow water mayi- gation ob the river Nile, im Africa, It wae proposed at first to give « double ret of wide wheels to the sicamabip Great Rutern, bot it wes afterwards considered ‘mprasti cable, and a ecew was eabstituted for ono sot of wheels, Capiain Randall hat clearly demonstrated that two eele of wherls can be made to act wihh mort deneficial effect on the speed of the ves eci, and the new California Company are #0 con vinced of (is soncess that they haye adopted bis plea for ibeir sleamehipe, Tho dimensions of these veweoRs, ax tho print ibe toutes, are to bem Tength wreadt! . Palaver accom modatione Tro ciring engines... 5,590 horas powor THE LATEST NEWS. News from Washington, TNCBRASE OF TBE AFRICAN BQUADKON—ENGLAND'A AF¥aIR8 IN THE EAsT—PROCAKDINGS OF THS NAVAL GOURTS, ETO. Wasmixcton, August 8, 1857, ‘Tne administration intend immediately to increase our African equadron. We now have in those waters three s'oops of war: the Cumberiand, St. Louis ang Dale, mating fn all fifty gens The treaty requires eighty. This move- ment ix made with reforanee to suppressing the African slave trade, which is largely on the increase, and to pro- tect our commerce. Lord Napier bad a long interview yesterday with Gen. Cars relative to this eubject, and also with reference to England's complicated afters tu the East, and to ascertain Gen. Case's views on this, to him, serious question, Charles Lanman, former!y privare secretary ¢> Daniey Webser, bas been ap ointed to a similar capacity by the Secretary of the Interior. In Naval Court No 1 to-day Lieut Corbin testified that he had galled with Lieut. Mercor, now under trial; never saw him drunk; thought he (rank a Hitile too much; did ‘not think him adapted to naval service. Licut. Luce tea. tified that the bad eailed wih Lieut. Mercer int he Con greas, where bis conduct was correct: {t was irrogular on the Vandalia; recollect only one case of drunkenness; con- eidered him a gentleman, but vot adapied to naval sor- vice Dr. Garret, eqn-in taw to Governor Wise, had known Liout. Moroer twenty years; sailed with bim two) sars, be was perfectly temperate, gentlemanly and capabie Lieut. Forrest was with Mercer for etx months onthe St Mary’s; he was’ prompt and temperate, and a men of bopor and integrity. This clored tue testimony in Lieut Mercer's case, aud the case of Ligut, Mathias ©. Marin, dropped for physical inability, was ext taken up, and Lieut Pinckney called by government. He teatified that he bad known bim for five years; considered bim, mentally, morally and professtona'!y , weli qual ted for naval service: be bad been deiicate from dyspepsia, but per ormed his duties efficiently and promptly in every respect. Captain Marchard, a government witness, had known Marin since 1836 had ealled with bimat various timon; covsidercd him thoroughly competent and efi dent, except when aick on the Cumberland. In Court No, 2 Sona‘or Iverson, of Georgia, testified that he knew Lieutenant Harr‘son intimately; met bim often in the social circle where the wine flowed freely; never knew bia to indnige beyond a glass or two of wine; con eldered bim an intei'tgent gentioman; Lieut Harrisoa la a pative of Georgie. Lieutenant Maury testified that Harrison bad served with him abouta year at diferent times at the National Observatory; always found bima good officer; he discharged important duties satisfaporily and very credibly to tbe establishment; never knew an Insiance of tagobriety; Cap'sin Ramsey knew Lieut. Har ison well and be had his entire confidence; he considered him aa efficient officer, and one of the best seamen he ever knew. Lievtenant Harrison’s case was here closed. The care of Lieut M.C. Perry, (farioughed,) son of Commo- dore Perry, comes up next in this court. Before Court No 3 Commander Armstrong testified that he had known Commander Green (farioughed for in- temporance) since 1821; Green’s character was as fair as guy officer’s; in war or peace be would take him as bis fret officer; bad ui sailed with him since 1822; knows nothing of his bubii« Commander Whittle had known Green all his Life; lived wear him in Norfolk; never saw him under the infuence of liquor. Captain Gardnor knew Green well—morally, mentally and phyt!- cally; his queiifications for naval service were of the highest order; of his professional ability he had no knowledge; bis reputation es an officer and gentleman was unexoeptionalie; thovght Green had & convivial disposition: never saw bim drunk. Mr. Con- way Whittle, ex-Jollector at Norfolk, had known Green for thirty years; regarded him as an efficient olticer—avch was his roputaion. First Lieutenant Junius Daniel, of Tiird Infantry, U. 8. army, bas resigned, and his resignation bas been accepted. The Indian bureau have advices that the smallpox is raging at this time among the Kickapoo and Pottiowatomies tribes of Indians. The Ind'ans number about six hundred —three hundred and fifty Kickapoos and two hundred and Afty Pottowatomies. The cost of attendance upon the sick and of vaccinating the well, was upwards of four hucdrod dollars. ‘There have |¢en twenty eight desertions from the North Carolina, receiving ship at New York, since November laet. ‘THE GENERAL NeWSrAraR Pwrarcn, a rer 0 ET Ee Harr Wasiincron, August 3, 1867. ‘The State Department bas been oilicially advised of the passage of an act by the Venozuelan Congress imposing an acditional cr subsidiary contribution of ten per cent apon the duties collected at the various custom houses of the republic from and after the Lat of July last. On Friday evening Lewisburg, Virginia, and the vicinity were visited by # hailstorm which for extent and doatructivences is withont precedent in that part of the country. The whole vegetable and growing crops were pearly annibilated. Some of the ballstones measured five inches in circumference. Genera! He nningsen jeft the city to-day for the South, Judge Mason to-day resired from the office of Commis- sioner of Patents. Samuel T. Shugert, the chief clerk, ‘will act ip bis place unt! bis successor is appointed. ‘The New Orleans maii did not arrive to-day. No despatches from New Uricans have boon received by the Seaboard line since Thurniay. Whe Kentucky Klection. Lovin, Ang. 3, 1857, In this city Humpbrey Marshall, the Amerioan candi- date for Congress, and Jones, Ainerican candidate for tho State Treasurership, have each a majority of about 1,100, ‘The election passed off quietly. The Election in Missourt. St. Lovis, August 8, 1857. Franklin county will probably give Rollins, indepen- dent, for Governor 300 majority. ‘The town of Herman, Gasconade county, gives Rollins 62; Stewart, democrat, ¢1. At Jefferson City, at 2 o'clock, the poll stood—Rollins, 125; Stewart, 185. Mr. Rollins’ majority to this city, in the Fifth ward, 's 409; im the Fighth ward 206, and in the Ninth ward, 6, Mr. Stewart's ms jority in the Primary Milections tn Baltimore. BarnMonn, Aug wt 3, 1857 Primary elections are be'vg hold to night by tbe Ameri cans for delogater to the City Convention, Two sols of delegates have been chosen in many of the wards. Thero | hee beou considerable divorder and some fighting In the Second, Fourth snd§Sixih wards, but sothing of a serious ‘Dature bas oncu: Bevrato, Augum 8, 1857 About one hundred tone of rock fell from the precipice t Goat Island, Niagara Falls, about thres hundred fect bolow the British Fale, yesterday afternoon. Four por- sons were beneath | at the ime, and three of them were burt. @, W. Parsons, of Cleveland, it is fearod, is fatally injured; F. G. Williams, of Now Haven, bas so arm broken, and a boy named Hancy a leg broken. Martests, PHILADELPBIA 8TOOK BOARD. Pintanerrma, August 3, 1867 ‘Stocks stoady. Iven'a fives 84%. Road Rail. pa LE hae Ben ies ee . , 52% Pennsylvania 16! Naw Onrrawy, August 3, 1867. Cotton firm. Middiing, 14%. 0 160. Vorkfirm, White corn, 800. Bacoo—%houlders, Ilo @ Ilse; sides, 18%. Freighte—Cotton to Liverpool, igi. Ovber artivies uncaanged and all. Brrvaco, Auguet 3—1 P.M Flour i# unchanged. Salos to day 100 obia., at $6 $7 26 for extra and double extra Ohio, Wheat is dtu’ Corn ia dull and unchanged = Sales to day 14,000 . Cate firm at Go Whiskey lo lower—corn to New Vork He. to noon to day 1,000 bbie tone, 4, hours wheat, 108,060 bushels of corn and 8,000 bushels Exports in same time—1,009 bbis. flour, 00 bn. wheat, 157,000 buahols corn, and 7 7 Bevrsto, Aug or Mw Flour in steady, Sater to-day 800 bbis at #5 60 for an perfine Ohio, and $6 6 Bh for common t cuolee ex. ta do, Wheat Sina to-day Whiskey low —torn to Troy Jost ony eight hew whient, 88 000 buhe hoshela wheat (to 2 N19, 28,000 {00 beenels corn he ie Oty Oswaco, Angrat 36 PM slog of ovtea State nt 86 50, Whest hel Chicago spring at $1 34 ho inter’ corn, 5,000 bushels rye Cmoano, Avast 3=6 P.M Flour {* qniet. Wheat (« dull. Corn has a declining tendency. Unts doll. Sh pmeute to Buifalo, 600 bots. flour and (9,000 buthels oJen: no wheat Ditto’ ts Onwow, no tlour OF wheat, 15,000 brebels corm, Receipts, 400 bis. flour, 4,300 bushels Wheat ant 46,000 buahela oor Dvir; ba nan. Canal freiehty | to Now York—!hiut m7, Lae importa to day— 12 wheat, 46,000 bushote corn Canal exporie1,000 bois. oar, 28.000 bushols ‘The Persia’s Hews. Gr. Jouns, N. F., August $8 P., ‘The steamer Victoria, which left this port on Friday tamg for the purpose of intercepting the Ourard steamemp Persia, on ber passage from Liverpool to New York, hes returned. She reports « thick fog off Cape Rave, and eon- eequenuy no sign of the Persia, which hus now doubles passed that point. The effort to get hor news is thoretap ‘unvuccessful, unless the tin can containing it bas bem picked up by some Gshermap, in which case ber adviews may yet be received in season to aaticlpate hor arrival New York. French War Steamer below Sew Orleans with Yellow Fever on Board. New Onuaams, August 2, 1866. ‘The French war steamer Tonnerra, from Vera Cras t Havana, bas put toto quarantine {below this city wil yellow fe-er on board. The deaths last week numbered 106, (These deaths ee Maen ey a ete, ‘There is no pellow fever ‘Two Men Shot in Baltimore. Barnmoas, August 8, 1860. Last ight, shortly after nine o’clock,@ maa named Joby T. Bernoy was deliberately shot while elanding «= the cormer of Baltimore and North streets, by one-of « Party of young men who were scen luring about tne oppe- ette corner, This ts but one of several cases of viciesae that bave © wurred in tho city during the last ¢-vonty four hours arly yesterday morning « man named Conecr was ebot by Lewis Sterman, with whom he had « previews diMoulty at @ drinking house. Both mon wore seriously wounded, Affairs at Cape May. , August 6, 186¢, ‘The company yesterday at Capo May was not large, and tu the evening was vory near being one lose, by the lap of Dr. Goad, of the city, Healta Officer. The Doctor ewam out far beyond bis depth inthe ebb tide, and was being carried off, when a Catholic clergyman, who fortunately was near the Doctor, suc: ceded in saving bis life. Whe Loss of the Bar& Monasco. Br. Jouns, N. F., August 8, 1853, The bark Monasco, of Vienna, Me., lost of Burts 0a the 2let ult., had acargo cof iron avd eixty passengers. The bodies of the fifty who were drowned have been recovered aad buried, Sreamaairs ATLANTIC AND VANDRRILT.—~The pilot boa Moses H. Grinaell reports having paased tho e‘camshye Ailantic and Vanderbilt af 8 o'clock on Saturday evening, seventy (wo miles from Sandy Hook, side by side, each Spparontly golug atthe top of their speed. A gun ome Gred from one of the ships as the Grinnell approached them, but so near were they to cach other that the pllete could uot determine from which vessel the salute came. Our Washington Correspondence, Wassinoros, Augast 1, 1967, The “Book Business”—The Way it is Done—M. C's. alt District Libraries, de. I have seen several erroneous statements in the paper: nrefercnce to what is familiarly known as the “boo& business,” in connection with the clerk of the House Representatives and mombers of Congress. I have ob- tained @ correct statement of the question, and will now give it, eo that there may be no misapprehension upon the potuts involved. It is known that Congress bas been in the habit of dis ttbuting among the mombers certain nuaber of books, amounting iu value or cost to tho government w the eum of twelve or fourteen hundred dollars. At the commence- ment of the last session the usual resolution was passed, directing the clerk to furnish the members as heretofare. in the compensation bill a provision was tnsorted to the effect that Looks, hereafter distributed should be charged © the members who took them, but it was not made epplicable to the members of that Congress, Under the resolution above referred to, the clerk, it appears, bad eet- pple te a Sf Do meee: onde Sachin Sane adomuid ry was io the bill that be noel be indenaniled for the parce wae be bad already made, and that all books not previously delivered over to the members should be deported by clerk tp euch pubito brary in cach district as might Geaignated by the member from the district. U law the Secretary of the Trearury has directed account of the clerk for books bought and deli members prior to the passage of the law rhoult be upon the production of the receipts of the | f tiles ait whom the books were bought; an the carrying ont of the provisions, which looks to cawe eyed ae will S made to = cler\: unt mem Congress shall desiguate Public library, to which the books are to be forwanted; not be settled until he juces the reosipta of the prover pervons to enow that books have been bought and posited in the pubiic Hbrary so designated. 1 will readily be seen that ! Meeting of Lmporting Merchants. COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE CUSTOM HOUSE. ‘The importing morebants of this city met yesterday at two o'clock, in the Rotunda of Yee Exchange, pursuant te «call, for the purpose of devising some means of obviating ‘the ceiay and annoyance to which they complain that they are now compelled to submit in obtaining their goads. There were quite a iarge number of merchants preset. Joun H. Browsn, Esq., was called to the chair, and ad- dressed the meeting. Hoe said—Gentlemen, 1 Wid not ex- | peot when I left my office to come here, that I woula be called on to preside ever your meoting, the object of which im to neo if wo cannot ostablish some reform which ia called for in some of the departments of the Custom House, whoro the arrangements are not commensurate with the ‘wants of the importers. I may say for the new Collector that he came into office only thirty working days snd that he found such a quantity of goods stored and packed » that {t was, I presume, almost imocossibie fo meca besier thas he bas dono. ih o i} | ‘The Murder of Young ®ompkins, | mo inquest in the one of the marder of young Tomp- kins will be resumed thix afternoon at fear o'clock, before Coroner Crane, at Hoboken. There haye been no new arreate since Sunday night. Mrs. Mitechell, who, ft will be recollectod, was taken by mistake to Hoboken after her arreat, waa brought back again and couflced at the Sixth Precinct station house with the oiber two, as Coromer Crane did not like to detain her without the Governor's requisition. A requisition, however, will not 06 necesmary, as the arrested partion bave ail consented to go without this formality. Tho barkeepef, Simon, who was arrested om Sanday night, hae boon Identified by the young men who were with Tompkins ae the man who made tho sesalt with the cleb. IL appears (hat when young Tompkins reached the Bar- clay street ferry house, he bad 60 gh rm | coat and o'hor clothing wore badty torn. This teem to abow an though he mast have been engaged ta @ revere nat desperate strngglo before making his eacape from the honse in Mulberry etreot. (a bis arrival a@ the ferry house he told Mr, Ebenhart, the master, ‘that he bad been in & muss up , and that res the reapon of hit Preset or boing very nude bi ; he immediately, weak and mick, and sat that be had been | ed be believed’ he should die from the eilects | Jories. Me, Boenhart assieted him inaide tho doket | ane eaten tm « eat Lon eg) e maaster we ver, cauer of the Hodson i king was ablo to my bot litte, and en, Tomypt 4 7] incohereatly, Meantime the taxen on board the ferry bosi l wee fo weak that he wag unable wus sosor tingly Heid on one of the be quite | + delonging to | the boat. Tompkine utered the last words he wns head | to utter joet before they isid bim down, which wer | tthey’ve ot the best of me to plebt.'” U po: ert | of tho ferry boat at Hoboken, these young mon, H wy | Golid, James Loneton, Howry Laigut and Mr. Homoruver | | took the devessed home. fompk'os ath remaios at the henge heer, 17 Werbington vorrace, fat etal noes of the fantly, @ fhe wpe, wtih hae a bedy of you where bie mothy fow persote, only sere permitted rondy bee | prepare we remem wo Terrptews to mor row the Famern 4 to we plan re tly Boy