The New York Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1858, Page 2

2 apor of the moment Bich cond: op.wica, Lighly jowrorthy. saps, “to assert pally. Gentlemen, may Soetre is . nanny Soares Be dgne ‘neult wan adoresoed. in what was ave : weet raf uniform to world wil reflect on ba Pe is the Fre’ krow what the chivalry new coc ini 3; oon cf the challengers, ty five years forty five >» may “with the most per! duel, bim even as he is falling. i, bd ata Ose 10 which every man ‘and every inst!- Sow cutjected in France, Sy » M Posada had succeeded M. terior The Queen of Spain, accompanied b Sree, Se Freaeh Miniter et hinaiss, anda m vo suite, ar- rived at Albacete. was on his way to France on leave of absence, but it was thought he would not retarn to Madrid. The Duke de Alameda was spoken of as the probable sveressor of Geveral Concha in the governorship of Cuba. ‘The Madrid jeurpais aro urging government to admit the free importation of grain im consequence of the sudden rise in the price af bread. I A protracted Cebate was Place in the Sardinian | H F i : é, Ff § 3 rE sh 53 | i i & Hi é : E . 5 g z Py H lf | Bs ie ; fr He | i i him, afi ay i Chambders on the subject of a projected government loav. In the course of @ speech on the subject, Count Cavour declared that ent considered tt of paramount im- porterce to make Spezzis a strategelic position in case of war by land or sea. The Pope had returned to Rome, and all the inhsbitants of the c ty went out to meet him. ‘The oficial journal of Rome ccntradicts the statement hat the fortifications of Civita Vecchia and Ancona were to veeplarged. Tt was merely in contemplation to iacreaso tae wail round those places. ‘The War in India. ‘Tho overiand Caloutta mails have arrived in England. ‘The letters were Cespatche’ to er at G6 A M., 9 ard to the provinces Corn By § mails on ‘@eth of May. The advices by present mall g only to April 23, sre no later im date than those by the Bombay mai). Tbe Lozcom frmes publishes a letter from its special corresponcent He bad moved with the headquarters from Luckzow to hy tome ets The pestecript ia date April 18. He says— haz, which he expects o reah oa the 2d. ‘The Hurkaru, published at Calcutta, speaks of nows of rebellion on every cide, and of three armies io the fleld ainet us, while the Englishman thows that no decisive blow is ttruck, and that the rebeia are dispersed all over the country. ‘The Calcutta correspondent of the London Times rays It ts pot imagined that the rebels will make auy great resist ance, except at Bareilly, but tnere is danger of a des, rate effortto ezcape. Their pian is eaid to be to trust to their legs to cutmarch uz, and press on for Central Iatia and Bombay. There they will find a new army to tamper with anc a population which bae not forgotten thet itonce paid its texes Gut of the plunder of the rest of India. ‘This {6 our real and permatent difficulty, We cannot march twenty miles a day, and the rebe's accomplish forty reguiarly,acd sixty whem hard pressed. Gradually as ths Pwcaree war deve! | ourorgapization wil! be mo- éofed by necessity, and a body of ligbt horse which can deen pretty eteady 9 and py Pr atook, 219 a 22 ‘The follow: sain Bos Mon q 24..97 partments is £18,112,402, showing a increase of £185,422 ‘when compared with the ye retarn. There is little change in the bullion market since our lest; Mexican dollare in rather less demand. OCuwmmowwoc clauses of the Barkruptcy Consolidation act to curry, on the busipess under inspection. A fortnight is all> for avy discentiert ereditor to lodge an objection. The liabili- march jike Mabratie cavalry, with one pack horse per man, must witimately 8 into existence. Meanwhile the rebeis are swarmirg into the Doab; the telegraph .s ipterrup'ed between Cawnpore and Futtighur, apd tn tbat district, Etwab and Mynporil, the officers are barély pressed. ‘There is a kind of guerilla war coirg on everywhere. Two cr three thousaad rebels ravage a Pergannah Naturally its inbabitants plead inabi ‘ity to pay revence— we with the rebdels ge Re The magis- cut a fying column, bas been tom- ‘The villegers bave knocked our or duraiserd the new men. The reicststed landlords ight tothe death, and though politically powerless, form a moet important clemect in producing auarchy. The reme- uy of raising an srmed native policy is not without danger. ‘The wrser eays the present vondercript army will prove some ¢ serious embarrasament. A Jikh chief has warted Brit'sh «Moers that the Sitbs, if left idle, will be worse (bap the Hinder tnar so. Eignt ¢ivisiona! & icrs of armed police are bein: raised 'n Bengal, one ef whom aro tobe Sikhs, the remaincer men without caste. ‘There bes been po raiu in Bengal, or only two inches for eix moths, and the crops are selfering severoly. If tas drought continues there will be distress for food— a (biog tot koown ia Bengal for eight ycars past. THE OUDE PROCLAMATION. he Calcutta correspondent of the Loadon Times saya tbe prociamation has cot been withdrawn or soNened, but that Mr. Montgomery has received a carte blanche to deal with each case as he chooses. His course is to compound with the aristocracy, and the landholders, finding that tne chef gives them their property, are com. ing to bum fast. There is, however, litte +} of the pa cification of Oude for # months. We hold only the city, and thot we are compelied to fortify agatn. Tae Northwestera cfficials, soloog devoted to the vil- lage Pysiem vow acmit that tbe native aristocracy is es- seata. to cur own sccurliy, and that without permitting \andbolders to grow, permaneat peace fs imposa- bie Cornet Bakes, of the Tth regiment of Hossare, bas died from oboiera, ani Lieut. Cooserai from the effects of his weunes. Additional from China. Flea of cowspapers from China bad reached Eogiand. ‘The papers assert thet Lord P¥gia had declared himself mp'oy force to penetrate to Pekin iweif. prese hopes that Teentsin, situated y miles from the capital, would be easily taken. — for gunboats for river service hai been mace The Chincee authorities continued their tortures of all suspected to be favorable to the allied Po wera, and to the tore wing open of the ports. A correspondent of the London 7imer wi iting from Hong en 18th of April, ” taken an wofavorable tara. hority, is endermood preveaktush « eoures lowed. The War in Montenegro. BATTLE OF GRAHOVO—TH® MONTENEGRIN DES- PATCHES. ‘The Nord publizbes the following ¢ The fret la the report ef the Voioode Mirko Potror'c Njegos, bro- ue of Prince Dacilo, and Presideut of the Montenogria rate — Your Pictnnis—Toretey. May the 1ith, at seven o'clock is the mormicg, the weather (hick, the iafantry of the vtto maa ariny attacked ‘he columns on our left fiank. formed by the militing ef Cools ani, Curl, Gravijani, Komani, and Zags rac. At the commencemen! our eoiumes slowly retired, then they pened a rapie fire on ths Turks, and Bually eeizieg. their hencyars. they threw toemasives on the enemy, slaging J song, “Glory t9 God, and honor to our Prinse. fed, apd we pursued them toth«irtrenches. They r field of betve BB kiLed. without counting the ng ‘bat, (he right wing which I had the ties sre stated at £' 486,000. {From the Loadon Times (City Article), May 20 | The Eglish fonds opened with increased firmness, but the improvement was not maintained—the public baving lately confined their purchases to consols, a common practice when a dividend is a bing. Re duced and new Three per Ceuts are considerably below their proper rates relatively to that stock, and an advan- ao be gained by changing from consols into either them. At a meeting of the fire iasurances to-day it was deter- mined to ircrease the rate of premium charged on fl>at- ipg policies on all or avy of the decks in Middlesex, from 2s. 6d. to 38. 6d. per cent per annum. In the Court of Bankruptcy to dey judgment was de. ferred op the question of certificates in the cases of Messrs Gotch (bankers), Kettering, and Mr. Adams (Ranker), of Ware and Hariford. {From tho London News, (City Article,) May 20.) The fuxds remain very dull and inective, Day after day the extreme ficctuaticn tcarcely exceeds one eighth per cent. Contois c’osed to-day ala fraction lower than yester- day. In-ibe share market, in which the forthuightly settle. ment is vow in full progress, considerable heaviness pre- vealed Erglieh and Iodian rai) shares ware especially depressed. The fall in the latter cf late made further pregress through the sudden baste of the Kast India Com- bied guarantec at the liberal rate of five per cent from the Indian government are currently offered at a discount, pam ag og Tg ma Indian loan, (bi rathor weaker during the lact two days, is still maintained at pm ng op In the money market the ) sums ab. sorbed Gepoeits on the new Brezil'an loan are not miesed, two and @ quarter per cont being stil] the current rate of art for choice paper. At the bank to day the applications were very moderate. There were no bullion operations at the bank to-day. Within the last two or three days about £26,000 in silver has arrived in the Thames from the Continent. The foreiga oxobanges this afternoon were geverally steady. AMERICAN SECURITIES, Mersrs. D Bell, Son & Oo. report:—The market for American securities during the past week has shown much activity. There bas been a good demand for the various State stocks for investment, with but a mderate hilst the chief feature in railway securities hes flax of bonds for sale of Virginia 6° 886. Do. _6'n, sterling bonds, 1688, Rorton four and a half sterling binds... — Central 3's, i . is. The rales of tbe day Minols Centra) 7's, of 75, 82a 81x Michigan Central, of '69, 84);; New York Contral sinking furd, 6145. RICHARDSON, 3TENCE AND CO.'S CrRrovican. i Lavenvoot, May £8, 1858. ‘The arrivals this week are apain large, cons of wheat, 199,197 bushels corn, 35,036 bbls. States; 84 quarters wheat, 720 quarters corn, 7,906 tacks, 14 bbls, flour from France; 906 quarters wheat /rom the Baltic; 200 quarters wheat from Portagal; 's0 Advanced. Bandjar in hand; the certre ad well, commanded by Bens'or Dare Kuszvac of the guards cf your Highness, at gd Hoon ‘be contest berame Turkied artillery and musketry ie ibe & thick f Finally, to besten some whole line, a end the uegs, the Bemator Turks left rer’ i bave e 5 disp: our the tnemy on four rides, We bare mail communication wiih hi; head oriongsrdraw his mean ». Receive, as, ‘The se d report «addressed by the came Comman- der in Chiefef the Monienegrins to Prince Danilo, ani is | as jolows — Price of the valisn wisred protien I Foope yeloved brother, 1 dispose: afore the sunrise, for 8 general Montene erin: Petr, of m:; Tork! reneh istely the tack were formed I « the valley, where were meseed the guards of y ma, to cut off var falthfal joatene rics apply tot eves ra crying with vaapeak ona. Lop atte’ "I saw there ny prgalates ‘lam ani love of liberty he advarced guard of ihe inft wing Straigh! upon the enem)'s et! bmen's sta carried et the troope of ‘he right wiog peeege:! the fagiives at the point ot | the sword I! '« impoa-ivle for me at this 7 prinoe fand breiver, lo give you 8 detailed beren | AD ful. one blows fell on ihe | ae ‘hough we had been whit’ the 7 urkieh arm: able to 08 know to fight for t! Lat } bear witness } 2c 7,000 Tur t | 1.20 eaparier ned ihorten, nnd 0 Raut not posmible ‘9 erumerate the arms captured, mor all | oF whieh we have ine soquires. ied forest, and the | of horr or. | eurine hare in part Borers, tine 15, 1380). 1k of the hero Cf the other, bravieg 10 ‘distinguish | eyes. in ibis nema we forty seven | killed aad apent sixty wourdet On the gide of he Tarhe bpe peshas we taken by ihe jbetulc. (spi eng) “In tho he Comba: body le the common sie ce, cea om th are avenged the me m (u- of their prince. ey rgahed jukanor de | ‘a boa. | ae 22778 “sae Dantio has annov need & © 0 apite of } 290 | pow fom ‘8,941 quarters wheat, 4.653 quarters corn from the Medi- trraneaa and Black Sea. Farmers’ deiiverier of wheat for the week ouding last Saturday were 111,989 quarters at 449. 6d , last 112,312 quarters at OTs Od in the corresponding week of ‘The weather continues very jie, and the gene ral tone of tho grain trade throughoat the coustry is dull | and inactive. At to Gay's market few buyers presented themereives, and the business done was mostly limited. Wheat was ia foor demand, avd the aales made were a! about as ices. Flour much depressed, and again 64. per bushel ower. French still arrives freely. American most diffi | Calt to eci!, the appreach of warm weather causes anxie ty_e8 to conditiqp, and he'ders show some desire to Tesliee. In¢ian corn little inquired for, without change in value. We quote wheat, red, br. 10d. for Western: 6s. ; extra ; Weet- ‘corn— Yellow, 34s. 8 344 61. per 4890 Iba. © of improvement. Desiers are very cevtices im curchasing, while hoiders aro anxious to quit the.r stocks and meet buyers freely. Powx —L merican held for fuil A offering, apd , however, i plentiful aad considered rola t. 7 < Boiaers demard extreme rates, but the oom try i continues very slow and there are no sales reporte e Cull avd easier. Lanp is very slow, and declined in value; the tion, and sales for the wi A Lie. Od for choice, bbe for fair to good. Taitow —The demand bas fallen off, and to effect s.).6 lower rates have to be taken. “Butohers’ Association’’ is Offering cn. the spot and to arrive st 58. per owt., but der arrivals, hae somewhat price is checking consump. are not over 100 tons, ab 674. | there are ro buyers. and 54s. a Sas, 6d. le ful! quotation. in London the market ia quiet at Ste. 6d. and Juno, and 5) last three months of \... year for ry Cc. Rosix —Common etewly at 4s, to 4a. 1d. per cat. Bark dull: only 90 bi Philadelphia have been sold a4 10r.; Halt sore offered at 7s. to 7a, 6d., without Buyers. Ore.—10 true sperm sold at £93 be. to £83 15s. No charge in whale. Cloverskgp.—No transactions to re; A ties abers end below into the American " vired, have that increase: each weekly steamer for some time affecting bosiness in Manchester, but being werk, there te seldom much done there at ae Orleans, Tigd.; Mobile, T1.; Uplands, 6 yer NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUN® 1}, 1858. THB WILLETT'S “POINT ENVESTIGATION. | bom pucbered ont, wimmn's pron or by i the mores © true, that be “early” eommuni- Ph ns og By special committee, "8 proposition, coin cae satice oe ah Sat xt Scbugior fie, Waar . be Major pe yg and ‘ORs undersigned, me War will qin en ou » . pled f the Willett’ therefore bave not ‘submitted rem with submitted to the Secretary, short oman ition of Mr. Wissman might on Se oral eee wes ot bm! the of on mi have .t ‘and between the 26th and Stut of sible range. bave been opeaeret by the close, limited ial tacrusion upon pS ae pl disconsected with the subject as the sequel will show. And even this ‘then, General Floyd was kept all the sazctity Re a A with the special desire to Sint ks know sar affected by the results , 29th or 30th of March, for Kaas ee be oe Benegal Teen a to submit Pettehed, to sim to withhold it on tho other, cause during which he sup- Of ‘the motive that prompted) ting under hie instructions undersigned have oe to proceed to Albany to judge for bimseif, from Tt appears from General report. Their provit 90) ani his letter that with the facts of particular we, cbiefly are— pation atsesemont by ‘That a long time adsence of all proneness on for a fortit purchase in any ortant national defence, was urged upon the goverpmont > (to use f Gon. ‘The significant question then arisés, when did the Sec- y ies) Karty seat boas’ fr hs roe og ets retary of War ‘iret Dave notice of Msjor Barnard's and the celebrated Gen. Bernard; that Mr. Wissman’s wu? object was—to quote the c to the positive statement of Governor all the circumstances Acz0r hls abich ig fortified by several times;” that in pursuance of ‘the ones), not uniil bis attention was arrested by commendations, Congress finally, by an act approved | a tele communication from jor Barnard to tort oppats or Semuplor, Now York ahe ua ef one | the Weer that unless tho. vargula’ was inntnly a fort ‘e uyler, New Yors,"’ sum ef one wi bupdred and fifty tbousand dollars, with Wissman, tho would pass into the hands priation was made, the —_ ae of speculators, and appre! yo was made, becessary De; yas were I commenced by tbe enginecr department for the pur- chase of Willet’s Point—about 110 acres of land, or 130 acres, inclus the water front—for the site of the pro- | reg fortuf ; aod, finally, that upon careful inquiry the value of the [oo gn a ion with the the Povernment be'then forced to pay ight of the 26th of Maroh, 1867, Major Bernard (sce bis lotier of March 27) bad got inform. ation of tho existence of a conditional but writtem contract between Wissman anda Mr. Irving to the effect that if Cabinet, and with its appro! lett’s/Point was pur- | the government did sot close the purchase with Wissman chaged at the price of two hundred thousand dollars. fat $120,000 by the first day of April the said Ir was Io ordinary times such a ty: being but acom. | at liberty to take the ty at $130,000, Accordingty mor business act of a department the government, | fearirg, aa he eays, that the gevernment would lose large would bave passed without complaint. The integrity of | ly by ‘condemration of the land, and that unless Wiss. a man’s the act would have been a matter of universal presamp = pri presert exasperated state of y poll- | i should be accepted before the Ist of tion. But in the eo of tics, and heated local strife between factions o! land would pass the hands and government be thus forced party, there is Ittle charity with ths; who areoutof | to pay he egain, by letters power for those who are in; and hence the purchase of | dated the 28th and 30th of March, urgently pealed the Witlett’s Point property by the ent hag been | tothe head of the bureau for authority to close im- mace the subject of grave anc on ageiast the fanc } mediately with Mr. Wiseman; and on the 3lst be tionary who made it, the Secretary of War, and other off] | telegraphic despatch was sent by Msjor Barnard to cers of the government. Totten to the same effect —(See letters of Major Barnard, From the tenor of interrogation pursued by the mem: | of above date; see also Mejor B.’s testimony, p. 173, 74, ber of the committees who originated the investigation, it | 75; also telegraphic despatch of lst Maroh, filed with the 1s most manifest that the effort is, tofix upon the Se grave imputaticne :— First, be violated the law in giv ing more for the Jand than the amount of the appropriation. coudiy, that he gave more for thd pro- verty than it could have for. Thirdly, that much more was given than id was really worth; leetly, that the Secrotary War was a party to combinetion to effect the ea'e of the property a! aa exor- bitaat price. ‘was, and the evideat rs in the care. of War the following bas os Y Now it was this telegraphic despatch communicated to the Secretary of War late in the evon'ng of the Sist of March, just es be wis leaving bis cfflce, as he says, that conveyed tohim the firat intelligence of any negotiations being in progress for the purchase of the property, Congress is a eufficient explanation and vindication. @ words of the law are as follows:— * For the commencement of @ fort oppoalte Fort Echuyler, New Y¥erk, ove huotred and Sfiy thousand dollars.”—(See | fees , acta 1856 ard page 191) , it, be might have laid it the same cay before the Cabinct, and might bave seen the urgency of the need for imme: diate action before the Slet of March. But the failure of Geréral Totten to communicate the “confidential” lotter of Major Barnard to him precinded from him not only ail action but all bnowledge of the subject. | ‘The committee de not hasitete to sey that there is no- | man to Irving was made closed, and thing in all the voluminous test mony or in thofactsof | oply a fraction of a day between the time Governor the case to lend even the faiatest color to any one of these = Floyd was first of Wissman’s proposition, insinuations. | and the actual consummation of the sale from Wissman I. As for the excess of the price psid over the amount | to Irving. If be had been apprised by Goveral Totton of the appropriation made, the | of the act of | the on the 45th, w! received Bad the appr: ion been one complete, s: ‘ final appro: icu for the purchaee of the site of the for Well, the Istof Aprilcame,and on that day the con- mast eae ly the law wou d bave been transcended by e: tract between Wiseman and Irving was executed aad ceedizg the amount of the appropriation; but there was | made absolute, and Irving became the proprietor of Wil- Ro F} , independent, entire appropriation for the pur- | lett’s Point. Thus, before the Secretary bad had time to act, with a ty jo! LJ & hie bane canals ew banis of nepotation _ ‘AD anew Le Now the question comes up, what, uncer these c'rcum- pw at har woe My beset’ 9 " ‘surprise popped upoa him’ with none of the material for the closing of the apy ore elee? Should be have notice, to a decision on #0 grave cbase cfarite. The ds geceral—is in ite ex- prees terme but the 'y step towsrds the construc- lion of a great work of ational defence, which the will of Congress bad formally and solemnly resolved. does net, cn ite face, id to be complete and final. Fature appropriations to carry out a great work of public policy are evidently intended, for no one is stupid enov, to suppoce that the contemplated fortification could built for the sum of ope hundred and fift7 thousand dol lars. Congrese, then, having resdived oa the policy of building a fort opposite to Fort Schu; ler—that being aset-— tled thing—ard the purchase of the si'e for the fort being | first ward the consummation of this policy, ine met portant matter, ne | m3 | defore hits, the order and guiding. facts About exat no violation either of the spiritor letter when his chief ineer, regarding Wissman’s price as making purchase of the site. The purchase of | exorbitant, and irg of & site on the beat practicable terms was nothing more nor | private contract of sale, would have dissented from his ices than an absolute necestary means for ¢fectiug a action, and when that offic'r did not attach Vevlar, and settles, and ‘oved end. ladeed. The ficance to Wissman’s proporsl to induce him to bring tt to direction to tbe Secretary of War, to ‘commence for- the notice of the Secretary of War? Uflcation carries with it, necessarily and irresisiibly, The undersigoed are of the op'nion that the Secretary discreticn and power to purchase the tite oa avy reason acted in the premises with a wise caution, which is de- @ terms, more particu'arly when thero is po |imitation a <n or po apecific sum fixed by law for acquiring ¢ site, How cauld the fortification be “commenced” without a previcus acquiait’cn of the site on which it was to erect ea! ard ii, a'ter Corgrees bad indicated its will tbat the work abould be “commoeveed,”” and had prescribed no fixed price for a site, the Secretary of War had declined commenving it because he could mct purchase the stte witbin a particular sum, would he not have boen amena- Je to the charge of frustrating, at least for a time, the le- lative purpcre en: lig “T deciired we it,” bay Floyd, in his own words, “for it was a thing T sbout at all; it was my first money transaction, and so I ‘Was not incl'ned to do it’ This was just such prudence termine Had be pursued & diferent course, acting with agents. a course, - out conference with bis colleagues and the Prestfents fi would bave been an act of official haste and | recklessness, 1 is true that Geveral Totten, ia examination before avflered, under the circumstances, the loss of the whole the comm.tte made, se*mingiy, to beartestimony value of ‘ty, than to have eet an againet the view jost preeetted; but the adverse bearing = ¢ xem it record in the history of is rather eceming than real, for bis enewer is in response to a particular form of inqu'ry, deceptively put, and does not touch the point in controversy. ‘The question propounded to Ceseral Tetten was the fol- cur clvtl a’ ministration, in _d'egrace alike the government and tts effcer. Then, indeed, might his assailants cess impeached the iotegrity of hie act; for Waa senses to ynarmaee | Wook tee heed of tae Varemn bak vieeeed bee Has! the War Di t ¥ the bureau re} a or ints cance copeapeaen tar wreverte, eee, two befere as cxtorticuate, would have really eubjested bim to revere animadversion. y one for not obtaining the Willett’s Point pro- & lore price, & Nes net upon the Secretary of War, pious spirit might tal: «1 that the Seoretary Phould be held reeporaibie for all the acts, both of cm'ssion aud commission, of his chief engineer and of all bis subordizetes. It would be suilicient for any head of » Cepartrert to attend to all the details of businces in the ‘various divisiors and subdcivieions of bis de ; that there murt be trust tp ev Acase. rience. (Pee page 9) | Here doth tbe question and the arawer refer to a oxse of } specific appropriation for specidc property. In such @ care an exoers of price paid over and above a specific | stmcunt of sppropriation, for a epecific object, would have been in derogat'on of Jaw. But iv the Willett’s Point case no such case ‘# presented. There was no ‘ifle proper. } ly named, and po specific price prescribe for its Te, | | Ae before said, tho appropr ist'on was initiatory only; made, rot to purchaee thia property or that at this or that price, | gineer Bureau 's copied the task of taking the initiatory but to put en foot, to i @ fortification ny movements for the Cn ty Sod gi in the military Fort Schuyler, New York." It was based evidentiy,on | department of the United States If there has been in the ices of al! such future appropriations as might be me- | th‘s matier any want of ptcere in that buread, or if ceraary to complete the work in ali its parts, from the | jt Las committed orrors of jadgment or of any other kiod, purchase of the foundation to the laying of the last stone the bead of that bureau is consurabio, not the Secretary planting of the lact gun. of and the ‘And so 8 to the testimony 0° Jat ge Black, the Attorney Gexeral. There is mesifert purpose t> make his opinion ear against legaiily of the Wiilett's Point purchase; but, on critical examination it wil! be found, like General It may be alleged in behalf of General Totten, that he regarded Wissman's pride as totally iosdmirsib! va —— ton tend govervment to : eae condemration and a e may hive re geréed Governor Fieyd as enterts'cing oa these Totte in in no wine antagonistic potute the The question is very Cexterous!y propounded, if the | esme opinion with himself, and, therefore, be may goverment bad made & specific appropriation of $160,060 | rot have thought fit promptly ‘to advise xu for the purchase of Willet’s Point, would be (the Attorney Fropesitions contained in the letler rior officer of General) bave recommended a purchase at $290,000! jor Bar As the question wes put, Judge Back answered cor. rectly, that “neither the War Department nor any other Cepartax ent of the government is authorized to expend more morey than is appropriated for a partioular pur- But the true question should have been, if Comgress bad appropriated_a certain sum to commence a fortification, pot limiting the price to be paid for the site, and the site could wat be bad for that certaia sum, would it have been that certain sum for the hn differeat anewer evidently did not have before him, at the time ap- propriation ect of March 3, 1857, 8 different opinion ; for the subject bad been off - witted to bim while it was io pregress, and he had sanc- Se jai adviser of the Secrets ty ‘er. ‘Tet General Toiten is mistaken when be says that there ‘was no instance _ Le Cee ol ofa f 38 Pr exceed’ ecific appropriation. 1; was done, tod by Deseret Toe imeelf, mthe Fort T: ad hav Secretary, at the pcssible moment, that letier of the 24th of Marob, and all subsequert ones to the sane effect, which, for some rea. sop that the casnot comprebent, reem to have been marked private or confidential. The result might have been the acquisition of the Willet's Point pro = the rate proposed by Wissman— $120,» for the whoie. ML The amity for obtaining the site on Wiseman's promn irae Deca Isat, nad Wiens Poiat having passed into the proprietorship of Irving, the inqu'ry, of Course, next arose at what price the property could be On this poipt the upders'gned must do the Seer stary of War the justice to eay that ev Precantion seoms to bave been taken for the obtaining of the laad on the low. eet poesib’e terms, Two modes of arriv! at the value of the property feem to bave been rad —Firet, that of condemns ten and sssigoment by & jury; aed, secondly, a direct dition, and no later than August of Jast year. In this case purchase from the new 5 the land (17 scree) was purchased at $26 acre, aod On comaideration, the Plan was abandoned, and, the ation Was $42,900, ard. unike whion was | the undersigned | me = the a Witlett’s Point, was com- wan XY Major feemsto besa aceent fo lete and f ‘aterms. Yet, for certain reasons, “it | proceed! condemnation on ingul , thought better by Genere! Totten to pay the ‘addition. | and rubrequent nS was constrained to conclu that ‘bis ) Sa of ascertaining ths value was a most unfe one for the government. In his letter to Gen. Toxten, of March 25, 1857 (Appen. G., pp 249, 260), be way Fow in reference to ‘bat, (the condemnation further reflesticn and bnowledge of the actual sate a e testimony of Captain Wright, p. 227) This = net have been strictly legal. It Pee ke i justified, or it may at least be excused by the case. But ne matter what the reason «f shows clearly that the government has not, bas induced me to hesitate about ite « > , and bef a En dnd eee IS, | going (oA Theny with that object thick vest te consult ror, TeeaintaOgibatesi "a eat at fant 7, | Ale elie ak te coosracon fo fort ot Wile ‘ol w “ damage a! pr around,” an a In coeclosion on this puiut it is very well known that | [itches wonid all be taken into the account by 8 jury A hee been the practice of (.¢ government, where incip- | lent appropriations are mate with the evid ee to “make the United States pay heavily for coming /' he says— futare apprope tations, to exoret by tan the exhting propriations, and thy avon tho necessity | 14 aa my firm sonvietion Let if uhe Ualted Staton sein ; > onan bale ery. they ne app + Oe En ee, ee tien, apo that neh eniy. dete in. tho commonsement of Tee tho wlll pen public Daveteres work, but # ¢elny in obtaining tho tite will enous, ec ifces conatrected by the government, including the uae lotter to General Totten, of March 20, 1867, Capitol ja whieh Coogrevs sits, are consiucted under cr ntraets enticirative as to the ‘greater part mepen- | No jury will aasese at lone shan $100,000, and by artfu! chores open them. —s ata me j 1 & jury may be got to assess at en 4 Tl. As to the second point, that tho iand might havo | #4000, The property shi immediately go is agae 6 been bovght for lees than was, in the ond, pald tor it. tid wr. We x ewall sum, compared wih what hey The weet ed Co not sernple lociare their entire to mel ? will risk it, a 9 convicuicn , if at bd = ‘the land at Willett’s Polat —— ey wil oe pry arora a, 3 Bi cs L) a t could Lave been purct ae. 4 for less than the sum a ty Fi i compel paid for it, $200.00, there is no sort cf blame or respon t Secretary of Wi made to the aan sibility for’ ve z 3 z 4 i i . zg bi § vow it iakont oad responsibility of the Secretary of Presumed that there was lett’s Point par- sometning would vestigation, ove be al inquiry was suggested inte $3,000 per acre;”’ and that, from the result all the ings relating to the transaction. quiries and pecticn of the property, they The investigation commences. The accused party is therght, ‘if the quantity of land was as represented, the | not prerent to confront and cross-examine the witnosses, sum of two hundred tbousand doilars could not be con- | because there is no party actualy accused or arraigned; Te PESTS se on sinionet ip. | Dios sslaentn nevus Somme tcnenaes ‘The opinion of these e Ut BY , and save ing from the al e pose, shou'd be regarded as at on6® ootclusive as to rho fold farce, « ree of random’ 7 evelevant in ‘value of the land. They ore gentlemen of nigh standing | terrogation \e8 indispensable and is silowed. and high position in the service and confidence of the go. | _ The result is an outrage upon all justice aad right. vernment, and under no motive to render any but auim- | While there is no named alleg: it Gor. Floyd, tial cecision. “Jt seemed very proper t> me,” says | and himself all the while absent; bis official conduct, and ¢ Hon. Mir. Cobb, “that two officers of the goverament | even his private ing no sort of connection ehou!d be gent, abd my mind was impressed with the | with hie public relations, were subject of idea tbat it was the beat jon the government could | & prying scrutiny for months ; he ia placed bave.”” But thie opinion of the commissioners (Messrs. | before the oumaey im the attitade of a public fune- Scheil and Fowler) is sustained by au overwhelming | tiapary arr for malfeasance in the amount of correborating testimony. Some of the wit- | recess of committee room it known that no oce bas dared to Derses, it is true, do rot attach so large a value, though cone of them fix it at less than $600 per acre, but the un- Gersigned believo that the more inteligent aud reliable El wa upholds the estimate of Messrs. Schell and ler. Forr real estate brokors (see p. 7) estimate at $7,250 20,000 fa Mejor Parvard, im bis letter of the 24:h of March, al ready £0 often referred to, ays:— Youree bow tive, by sing any committee of investigation ae fre epee oon gang = etenta Be son there be a spec.fic, tangible charge sad a res; lo ac~ jands such value; viz, forconmtsy aocie far the weeny. comer, Cetsewiss, Congrens Wik bus lend 65 ope General Proeper M. Wetmore, (see his testimony, pp. 62, 68,) basing bis opinions not upon upon the value of property in the neighborhood. rats~ the value, even as @ private speculation, at 620,000. Jobn C. Mather cays (eee p. 88):— From what informe ion I hive reoeived. T heliove the go vert ‘wor! Mr. Day, who purchased a tract, would not take Jess than end I would Neck and ble acre. on the Nor-h river within @fty miler of New a for leas than from $1,700 to $2,010 peracre --( eeA ‘0. 11.) Henry Fringes eays he ht twenty two acres year aU 81.20 per sere, tp) cel acre: for acre that ke regarded Willett’s Point as worth, for speculat 7 N he purpeses, atleast $1,600 per scre, abd that if he owaed i alllanos “The papers sill omtain daily articles respesng sbould held it at $3,000 per acre.— (See his evidence, | aciened out committed by the British squedron in Pp. 216, 216. Gull of Mexico. & tustapees or more are mentioned in which the American flag has, {! le sald. beem insulted, aad pot un! would not take lees than $3,000 “Property slong ers {Willow's Point), ‘be saye, is Seseasing VT pe aed pee Se ee) ee rn a Willisia ‘Weeks, bolog asked ‘what be pi bob ee 8 rig atles, bo make no com: ae aor tend, seplesen ‘The Legislative Aszembiy was in seasion, but the eat- judge. the vslue of that property by comparing tt with | rae question bad not been noticed. ee ree er cgea.ce tts country which bas been | ‘The Bermudian of the lst of June, in its notice of the sold. “T ocnesive that $2.000 an acre would pot beextravagant » -4 for it; some portions of it v. T have sold property fancy bail given at Govornment House on Quecn Victoria's in that section, and near it, for private residences, at $1,50) | birthday, says:— an sore, which I did not conceive #2 well located. A gayer or livelier scene bas aridom bere witnessed Ia the In reply to the question whether the appropriation mate | Se douet he soler array of mocers’ Ragland for the by Comgrees bad Dot had the effect of enbancing tho value | Brighter hues and more piciurenque myles of Mestern and Willett’s Point, he said:— other foreign costumes, anc the scene wan in polat of droas ‘There ts uo doubt of that; yot ati'l propert: has eubanoed in | as veriogaied and ourtoua as thal on the Plaza value in that vieinity end bas teen dolug so all through ths | itself. Inst rummer through the panic (are pp 238, 239) The prevailing taste in costume was decided! Bn seh Lawrence the following question was pro tye ye Py ny ss for that elegant style of dreas which He web ¢ consider the property at Wikina’ Poist | worth: “Auawer’ From A'tecn to twealy thousand dolices, | duced a section of the Indien in, the Dece use 1 Is loented 20 1 ‘Winaman 1ald itont tn dald- i Jot, and sold a lot acho. f think ita Tocallty and potion meke ttagrest gent | (nls moment (0 adopt ore valuable. It is ‘Abrupt on the Bound, but rises | fotnyi! fi beautifully and ine mound, (Beep. 231) yore A Hon. Joba A. Searing, member of Congress from the | particular, Gistrict in which Willett’s Point is situated, deposed aa | dice, « prefer the gi follows: — Gress of Turkey to the ost one‘ural mechisery courived Question. Tabe the whole of this lend at Willett’s Poin: | DY the tailors and modisies of modern Paris. tc ge'ber— froul, back apd side lnad—what do you estimate the ome hundred acres worth’ Answer. From bas been neil bare paid s'most any p: mout and drt rain, and cool Torction. by My. Vierence. Weel you have given $2600 | mercy ene brnates Behe ne Pocnteb concerned, the an acre for it’ spewer. Very bkely; probably more. truit developir, ty to be almost eniirety BUC you bad been ihe owner of ihe property, and | ip gh: een ke pee of thane With but very fewrece Lmact bad been pase for the purchase of 1 bag tan what would you have expected to gel from wernment | © the , tomon and limo troes, which in past for ty Anew etty large sum. I would have got haw at this season, were boginuing to bent under a if Teould have possibly done it. oad of fruit, exbibit nothing but a crop of leaves; and the woul tes hs Led aos rag for some may bo said, generally, of the grape, the fig and the “Anawor. If peach. dit, and Have the property, and “io | .. The amount of produos ex to the 2d ins’, was-— Siboes 1, ie't bed potd cule Ble tee fil world bevenoken | Potaloes, 26,73 barrels; , 428,900 Ibs.; and toma. $220,000, of as auch more as I could heve got. toes, 1,818 boxes. . er w Stas price for the Wiles Porat property. view 2 o6— | comparative price the gov- ernment in other cases of 2 itary’ iy a preeeat instance cf Willett’s Point. tration--already referred to, the price paid wes $1,300 per cre, whiel, considering the ‘cheopereti the New Bedford purchase Point, is more in 10} G ISLAND.—TROTTING.—MON- Pirie hernias setae pene wate, | Oe Sak Serer hea: Bie Weer Seale om, | mile» to wagons, me ‘ee paid for seventeen cata wen 242500, ants i carat Ty Pater memes beg Piek. fro e'milarty situated ia reference to New York. It would be entirely pertinent to ask, if it was not exor- | 5—\arowa, GUARD UNIFORM COMPLETE, AND bitat in ibe government to give $2,500 per acre for the , Wil be sold ® bargain. Address D, lend at Port ins, how cen it exorbitant to give Siaeo Pest saeco. "9 * saad $1,500 per acre for Willett's Potot in the enme vicinity? | Bint Cae B.C. Weighs teetineny, pp. $0,208, | GS Of toe corn wil ba weld atthe iprcee Howe, ~ And on the 14th of A June 11, &t § o'clock, to make arrangements for and a balf acres was pw for fortification parposes, | ike Fourhol July the Saee of Peter Jeccbron, for 913,000, oF more than $2,990 pet | pendeure “by enters enn, Ma TROND: Golecaly acre, Which was 8+00 per acre more than was for Teac Mo Pavers, Adjutant, ma Witlets’s Point —(2ee App. No. 17, p. 280 Such is The ackeat evidence 00 id the yatus of the ¥ 5 leit’. Peint property. It is clear, conclusive, overwheli AP WANA DADS irg tothe poiat ‘hai twe goverzmont paid no more than @ LARD OF OUBA EXPAMAS, 6 AD WAY — TH pg fe hy theee in ene greens 1g, at It arelock Me. per tml But pessirg by ell parol proof, one Cahawba. Freight musi’ be cel to us om or copsideration which stampa entire rearonabieness onthe | Friday evening. Rx ry ty fs . local the land settles the ques. eee e ELLA, FARO , Agente, Svtuated 8 fow miles of the won ny ewy 4 [Sane Empire State of the Union, whose commerce j¢ wor! ; Ractirg rich tribule from every Bis'e of the INDE: ENCE DAY, ond ing np almost sean! ans nally magnificent cred fy ue catid® for theo princely ville sid ‘palatial reeds. ful ecenery, are fo The aided ony! Pete mony lied 1 year's delay in the purchs to the cont, perbaps and before the last wee round polley of War to make the TRY. = ovce, that be bas saved money to the govern. earna > WY A NEW PROOPSR- IN OR. ing 0. OTRD. X OR. charge, ther process of extracting lesth ten sceme to oun te fix apon bey me coermnat e Yh a roacrent of elegtricity around the yo wpon the Secretary of War—to wit, cree alinying (be pain, DR that be wag connected with combipation to effect a sale | Nhs) Cr Co two eseh from # of the Willett’s Toint property for some end of personal | St during for hich p cents oaly fo chevnss of ones St evidence ts the Zoutraty, they | toree ourm from S106. Mo he will exiract Tratta for camnot crnsest to Go. Wan Sgentiemian the | who win W. #. ROBER is, 66 Bond streot, WA’ JEWELRY, a. ND GOLD VReT nS FROM St a uh "ay on a i. A aver for Tncobe’ egtel © L JA 38 Dromtroy. AD into private ® otayora bere ver, Sah of Wiltett’s Point, for $3,000 per acre.—(3ee 7 Bemry trtenell, white he motestly states thet he 4 the prope Ttouk & fancy to tbe properiy 1 would have been willing 10 hoe for te cae , noe Perrcoal Ponor or i : i Jo ne char, aroused by the mere fact of the investigation; defamation is act to work; fa'sshood dces its task; aud yet, after @ moe! protracted aud eearching, and oven inquisitorial in- ‘veatigation, pot one single circumetance is developed te impeach, in the slictitest degree, his honor asa maa or hia uprightoess as a public agent. ‘The justice of (his great nation revolts as such a course of prodedure, and Cobgress owes lt {to the country and the obaracter of the mation at once to apply [mtr a acre, and for the tmprovements, Ceposit of stone, K>., adcition. yb lands Pref sctually héld all rity to the perpetration of injustice and wrong; calumay willhave unrestricted scope,and no man’s reputation wilt be safe. The undereigned submit the following resolutions: — Resolved, That ibe evidenc# taken before ths committee does pot in suy degres warrant the slightest impute'ion pen the cflcial or personal integrity of the Receotary of Resolved, That the evicence Coes not warrant the imputa- Soltequeves Te cot peetion will tne patcutze of tes petperw? ehtegeesey te coe posion wt trehase’ , af Wilisw’e Pate . yang Resolved. That the commitise bs discharged from the fur- ther consideraticn of the subject G. W. HOPKINS. THOMAS B. FLORENCE. News from Bermuda, REPORTS OF THE NAVAL OUTRAGES—FANCY BALL — FASHIONS ON THE ISLAND—A BATCH OF CURB GYMBN FOR JAMAICA BXPEOTSD FKOM AMERICA— BAD WEATBIR AND LITTLE FRUIT—-AX?ORT OF PRODUCE, BTC. speculative data, but meat bss bought the property for $50.00) Jesstban 1; is of the Willett'’s Point 1,500 an acre for his tend, id for beside. Hi states, more- told his land, in the immedi- emnenis to be a Mr. French state (he adds) that T cannot buy land between the New York, with such water front and otber «asi: for lesa than $1 600 per ‘ork. wi" at $8,000; apotuer par- Qt $1,600 to $1,600 per acre; another at $2,500 per ; anoiher of thirty-seven acres, for $3,000 acre ¢ front, and $2.0C0 for the upper part; a lot of eix 8 for $8,000, and of four acres for $2,500 per acro; in mepy of them the meaiors report tha! their vessels were ued into with rifle balls ’ ‘The jcurvals con y the message of President Buchanes 3 good judge in the matter, deciares that ne, for ved tep acres in the vicinity of Willctt's ‘The Bermudian of June 24 contains the followiag news summery :— ‘The state of the weather is unparalleled for the season. June is here, the month thst usually brings im its trie s Gi ansogaies a the weather is more like thar which toe Tatretaston of March—a wi of means, ani deriret to buy Avawer. If im that If you were s \¥, What would you have paid for ii! TON COORAR, I. T. iatar five Mr. Conway ra b m Lady Jane. to wi vere ‘coprie tore, Koveo names br m Mikmatt, to Good day nad (rade, RAW. & WAL NION COURSE SATURDAY, SUNE 12, AT 3 PM, match for $00; mile an in hacnean. tae hace aD Wald eee ton, former y Potter. TROTTING. FRIDAY, JUNE ‘M.. mateh for 650), mile beats, best three no drive, the New Bedford case om parative location of God Willett's lady wil roa from for Wil ; and yet Willett’s Point and Fort Tompkins are Sek nor. Ge ey ati ates Proprietors. THE MILITARY, meeting ‘st, 1964, 0 lot of land of five | Sozer Brocme end Mercer streeia, thin (Friday) from every country of the civilized Kretusien for ime o her citizens. and laying the foun- Labor: H : Ko. 809 Broadway.” Where samples of sanibiuon oo eunb io mien ar A shor! notica. oe a rerteg of foo irg ra°d) as mortal means can ‘public displays we ander signed property was by of inteti wi upon; farther believe that, tent advence in real estate values im ‘al metropolis of the Union, a year's, or nae, woul have added largel donbied the price to the ernment, permet "They wo jemt that it 3 yo AND Mat Oh omen TBS effert was ™ rt AN, $6 YRARS GP me Beenie annie y nite triet or APC TRES 8B nero