The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1858, Page 2

” The Pennsylvania Bank tn Philadetph: Soto Wolenan i ay. TRIAL OF THOMAS ALLIBONE AHD THOMAS A. NEW* 000 noheae HALL POR CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD. check; it case is BOW on trial in the Philadelphia Quarter : Sessions. We quote fram District Attorney Loughead’s'| py? My > no dowdy pening asketch of the history of the bank, and an out- | PY .,me; 1 have no doubt ling of the facts he expects to prove:— The Bank of Pennsylvania was chartered in 1793 by the | Legislature. Its capt that time was $3,000,000. In | 1510 a recharter of this bank took place. Again, in 1830, this bank was recbarted for twenty-five years, Ko as to | end in Mareh, 1858, With a reduced capital of $2,500,000. Under these example prosperity the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; ithad been the re ceptacie for the public funds of the Stute, and was the | ageney by which the transier of public stocks had been ef- fected 830 it stood in that high and flourishing condition, but a litte after this the disastrous and ruinous time of 1887 and 1838 scame, protrating indi vidual enterprise, and the bauk felt the shock in com mon with others, and accordingly the capital, in 1844, was reduced from $2,500,000 to $1.562 000, and the shares of stock, which had been taken et’ $400 per share, were reduced to make the par value bank, under that reduction of capital, again rallied and business flowed into her doors, ans in 1849 she felt suffl ciently recuperated Jo ask ‘an extension. of 1849 the capial was iner to $1,875,000, and thus it continued until September, 1857, About the year 1353 the gentleman who had for a number of years been acting as the president of this bank retired, and it was then that ‘one of these defendants was elected to fill that highly res- pongible post. At this time Mr. Newhall was a dircetor, avd it is beliewed That he'was active and mainly instru meatal in promoting the election of Mr. Allibone. During the few last years, whenever the president was called away, he calied, asa temporary president, Mr. Thomas A. Newhall. There are peculiar privileges allowed to the presidents of bai there are peculiar accounts, kept from every eye except that of the president or the’ clerk having it in charge. But there is more than this intimacy between the defendants. A member of the family of the president became the partner in business of Mr. Newhall, and many of the loans running through the books of the bank are loans to the easter of the business firm The facts which the commonwealth is prepared to rrove were then set forth by Mr. Loughead. Board of Directors, placing the most implicit reliance in their presi, Were in the habit of meeting and pass. ing upon the nierits of paper presented to them, 1 selecting such amount as they thought advisable, and after the transaction of this and other necessary business, they supposed the aflairs of the bank had becn attended to. But they were mistaken. It was after their Inbors had concluded that the business of the president, or ihe acting president, was transacted. On the 6th of July 1857, the president, without the knowledge or au or assent the directors, gave to the all, the accommodation of the bank to the anou 3 which he drew on a hou Liverpool. ‘The transactions of Mr. Newhall were v , and it Was necessary for him to make remittance me necessary tha’ should ud then it was that be / ratt before stated. On tt £11,000 was handed t dir w £17,000 in bills of exchange ¢ the means chased from Mr. Alli 14th of August anothe N knowle severa this wise —Mr. Newball nat were called his not handed to th » Of ein Man eged that he had not "4 But something that vill, aud df dione wit anust be me, Without the kaowledge of the directors, ti ; from Mr. New hail, aud in four or five ¢ ward, while Mr. Alli bone was absent, he nt to the ¢ id told told bim that he should be ceedited for this $50,590. and accordin he received credit for about $240,000 ly ® was enabled to lift his mem 26th day of September arriv and i dso lon » confidence of the public, to be totw on that day the depositors, notebolders and stockholders went to it doors to transact their us: closed. During this tim jom came te the bavk, being necessarily engaged the officers of Other institutions; and about the Sth of October he retire b alleging sickoess. Mr. Newhall had beer ive part in the affairs of the bank, and during absence acted as president. On the 28th of September, and before Mr. Allibone bad retirod to his house, Mr.’ Newhall came into the bank and went to the note clerk, whose duty it is, when notes are offered for discount, toenter them on his book and transfer them to the cashier, who returns thet about the time they ma ture, in order, inorder that they may be arranged for payment. To this clerk Mr. Newhall, acting made application fora certain amount of bil lected fre bills, then the property of the 499 62 worth of the bills discounted and app turity. Several of the notes were due the next day, and nove of them matured at any very distant period. Among the rest were two notes of $10,000 each, one of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, and the other of William S$ Boyd & Co. eae notes were taken by Mr , be depositing the cl: rk for the fsame his memorandum chocks. The notes for $10,000 were each due on the 1st of Getober—d ur to the bank, as they bad been discounted there, and were payabie there ris L. Hallowell & Co. bad been iarg depositors in the bank, and when its doors closed they had a heavy balance in their favor. They thought it just that what the bank owed in the way of deposit should be taken on account of the notes then coming due against as understood thet the matter would be ar y, the firm giving their check for the # coming due amounted to $40,000, aud bi it $14,000. These notes were in th pwhal!, with the understanding that 2 the counting bi of Messrs Ha call on the firm, are ived in exchange for the notes a check of the Bank of Pennsylva hia for $14,000, the amount on deposit there, and also re ceiv ser checks upon thr balance—$26 000. 4 in about two hoursthe returned to the a Fett the clerk. He bande ‘ual a# payment first the check for $14,000 note of the Philadelyh b solvent and paying banks Mr. Newhall then nk on the oat Ph 2 rand payable in blank; and as a bal cual { the $40,000, cave $6,000 in the notes of the Bank onsyivania, On another occasion $18,300 was from the receiving telier in the Same inanner. Afr. pughead then referred to the state in which the fire proof eafe was found by the stockholders, after it been represented by Allibone to contain assets to the amount of a million of dollars assets of value were found at all. The book in which the “transient d accownt’’ is kept, was referred to by Mr. Loughe b 4 detie:t Of $425,000, This book is under the trol of the went mp in part nporary le » of parties app oa $i 1 acting president alon: apd The t now Ftands $301 ¢ nt,’ which is for the “between nanagement, president directed that ‘individual iedger nt the president himself sses called were clerks and directors of testified as to th rse of business in the bank, an’ veritied certain papers viden ir John Whiteman, Sr., tes was en the bank as first teller, p or: 1 was twenty years up to the § faibire some them ae The the bank, w ying time memora te! m wae for $82,000, « 1867 from the 6th tw the 14th of J the 1éth of August, for $53,000 ax * r k another one was for $3,200, th wllect’ Thad the whole three to. ket awer counted as my wh 4 from Me. Newhall: these | i A by m ir a v : on, and bh w tly ¢ t 1 them trom Mr, Meche 1 ne Ve ransactious of the oor eiving teller, after the day's business, too, except the notes of the other city othe Exchange: the Ualance wae ha morning; these three checks rema. counted as cash, from the 14th ¢ { September: they dent of the bank on thy it was a regular ch paid by bim, and receiving teller Weller tw receive the for two large ones Neve I handed the I banded them over to the money: Newhall’s check was they amounted to $136,000; Allibone was then pre. sident of the bank;Tthink be was there, but 1 am pot certain as to that; Pthink Newhall acted as pre gident geo tem. part of the time up to when Ail‘bone left, 1 do pot recollect having any conversation with Allibone Newball in reference to these checks, I kk on the Bl«t of October. The check® wore memorandum checks vi been given to the receiving teller of the bank by Mr. Newhall. 1 Cox was our foreign note the sterling accounts they II; they were not checks af kote of the foreign note ci Mr. Newhall, but by tt, Mr. Newhall by the recerving wore drawn; they reprosented a debt the bank: I know vothing of the r coiving tellers books or what is upon thom: the Alling up of Uw cheeks wae in the handwriting af Nowhall & Go. neon ido om know, Mr Cox can tell: whem they wore jmid they were credited t the drawer; Memorandum checks | had oceasionally in my drawer drawn by other parties, but they were checks: it was pou to bave tickets from the receiving teller tng cash was only occasionally that I bad exchange wae purchased of the bank ke this course or shape 4 was not in my line of dgo—When 1 received the tinket Mr. Newhall ‘for it and represented that much accommo ven to Mr. Nowhall, and repr what he Thayer They represented what Newhull ad to he paid for it by @ check dated the 224 of Sep awn againet hie account kept in the bank: the ven by hit were for $186,000; the other momo. ok for $8,200 wae aleo Mr. Cox's, what thie at know | think probably it was for a bAl of ve bo recollection of the date of it, when T bank it Was still io my drawer; I do not know if it avged to Mr. Newhall or what beoame of it; I handed (he persou who officiated in my place, it was my son iroumstauces, the bank had a history of un: | It had been the favorite bank of.) 250. The | By the act | The | NEW YORK HERA Nowhall's checks were cks and other matters, it was for Check Lauded to witness.) Th is the dated September 26, 1857, for $262,254 0 for | 78, payable to exchange or bearer; this was not ,paid it was ;1 have no recollection if it was paid on my side: Ihave no doubt of its being paid; it was charged to his account in his bank account; my file and the receiving teller’s file mark is upon it; gave the memorandums to the geceiving teller; 1 do not recollect if I gave the memorandums to Mr, Cox or the receiving teller; in the usual course of business the memorandums would go from me to the teller, but this check was for two or three other transactions; as a ma ter of cash they would be destroyed as s900 as paid; th + cheek if paid would be placed upon my file Mr. Alfred Cox testified —1 was employed in the bank as foreign note clerk; L collected alt notes placed ou deposit in this city, other cities and different pargs of the United States; I had charge of Mr. Peabody's account; Tdeew the | bills of exchange and placed them in their pro pount | on the 6th of July, 1867 $82,733 in our currency; it was a bill exchanges; it w: then sold at 94 per cent; it was drawn on Peabody to the Was drawn for £11,000; 914 was the rate it was then— | $58,655 83; on the 1st Saptember, one Bill was drawn by | the bank for £19,890 6s, 4d.—it amounted to $99,799 26; ou the 2d of September, 1857, one was drawn for £6,000— it amounted to $29,066 60 in our money at the then rate of | exchange: the bill of July 6, 1867, I was directed to draw | by Mr. Alli do not recollect seeing Mr. Newhall, but T might havo given them to Newhall; they were signed by the President and Cashier; I did not receive the money the bill; I creditet Peabody's account on the receiving | teller’s books; that is the first bill of exchange; this was | done on the 14th inst.; I gave the receiving teller a ticket crediting Peabody & Co, with the amount: T. A. N., or T. A. Newhall & Co., were upon the foot of the ticket or me- morandum,; this was done to show that it appertained to Newhall & Co,,and he would eventually settle for it; on August 14 the bill was arranged in the same way; September 1 remained with nothing done, til the time Mr, Newhall paid for them with bis che°k, as also the one of September 2; on the 16th of September Alli bone purebased u bill of exchango for £50,000 of Mr. New- hall; Allibone made all the arrangements in reference to | these bills, and I merely filed them up and kept the re- cord of them; on September 15 I receive a bill of change on Messrs. Rostrano & Co, for the purpose of send- ing it to Peabody & Co., drawn by T. A. Newhall & Co.; it | was for £69,000; I did send it by Mr. Allibone’s direction; i wast ‘awn to the order of G. Philier, cashier, and en. dorsed to Peabody & Co, by him, as cashier; the bank | was then the debtor to P. & Co. to £40,000 or £50,000 ster- ling, these bills were part of the £17,000 ana £11,000 drawn for Mr. Newhall; I sent the bill to Peabody & Co. by mail: Ihave seen one or two of his sons about the bank, that is, Mr. Allibone’s sons; Ido not know if any money was d for the £50,000 bill; whali got credit | for itm the bank; it was for $240,000; bill at the rate | of eight per cont; the credit was mot'given on the 16th of ptember; it was for sixty days sight drafts; credit for it on September 22 by Newhall, who requested tle up these matters, as they were rather large— it and debit—which I did; on the following day I | right, and he said it was; I bad request; the credit went to the aud $240,000 was credited to | me to s | bis ere books of the ri Newhall on that day. | To Mr. Thayer—After the remittance was made by the bank of the £50,608 bill, the bank drew on Peabody for Mr. Stewart, two bills of’ £10,000 each, and T think two Dills, one for £10,000, and two for £5,000, which were not accepted; there was one for £20,000, and that | was atter September 15, when the £50,000 bill had gone forward: the bank got the money on the £20,000 bill to Stewart: 1 don't know abcut the other; I do not know whether the bills drawn for Mr. Stewart were given to $145,209 9$ was the amount ey of £30,000 draft; that was a bill fur- Newhall to the bank; it was drawn by Brown & Bowen on Brown, Shipley & Co., of Liverpool, payable in London at sixty days sight ;” Mr. Newhall brought that bill to the Will not be certain wheth- er Newhall or Allibone brought it to me; it was forwarded toleabody for the account of the bauk ou September 1; the | bank settled with Mr. Newhall for that bil on the 224 of September; between the Ist aud 22d of September; Mr ‘Newhall had nothing to show for it; think he had no memo- | randum; Mr. Newhall was aware be could at any time | settle it; no entry was made of the £30,000 bill until the ptember; the settlement with Mr. Newhall, on , Was made by me in this way: There were 0,000 and one of £50,000, which Mr. Newhall was entitled’ to have credit for, ana ‘there were four bills of exchange which he owed for, ove of £17,000, and one of £11,000, comprising the two memoranda in Mr. Whiteman’s drawer, one for £19,890 5s. 4d., and the other £6,000, amounting’ together to $262,254 78; 1 gave him credit for the two bills, one for $240,000 and the other tor $145,999 98 on the receiving toller’s book, where Mr. Ni I's account was, and he gave me his check for with the check which he gave me I took up the two memoranduin checks in Mr. Whiteman drawer, and also settled the two bills of exchange (one to the credit of Peabody & Co., at the receiving teller's desk, and paying him with this’ check of T. A. Newhall & Co.; the two memoranda, I presume, were destroyed. Letter from the President. The following letter was sent by Mr. Buchanan to the the evacuation of Fort Duquesne, at Pittsburg, on the 25th inst. 1 ve had the honor to rec present on the 25th inst. at the ce the capture of Fort Duquesne, and I regret that the pres lic affairs, ata period so near the meeting of ders it impossible that I should enjoy this priv Privery patriot must rejoice whilat reflecting upon the un paralleled progress of our country within the last centu ry. What was, at its commencement, an obscure fort, far Beyond the westorn frontier of civilization, bas now’ be come the centre of a populous commercial and manufac turing cit, ding its productions to large and prospe rous sovereign States stili further west, whose territories were then a vast, unexpiored and silent wildern From the stand point at which we have arrived the anxiong patriot cannot fail, whilst reviewing past, to cast a glance into the fature, and to spesulate upon what may be the condition of our posterity shal! assemble to celebrate the second anpiversary of the of Fort Duquesne. Sb: whole country then c¢ ¢ the united nation, more popu | lons, powerful and free tan any other wiaich bas ever ex | isted ? Or will the confederacy have been rent asunder and divided into groups of hostile and jealous States ¥ Or may jt not be poesible that, ere the next cesebration, all the | fragments, exhausted by intermediate contlicts with each other, may hare tinal onited and sought refuge under the shelter of one great ard overshadowing despotism ‘These questions will, 1 irmly believe, under the fence of God, be virtai tion, , We have reached a depends the preservdtuiou of the cording to the letter aud spirit of the constitution; and this once gone all s lost L regret to say that the present from pr pitions, In the last age of the re oamidered almost treasopable 10 pronounce the word dieunion ‘Times have since sadiy changed, and now disanion is freely prescribed as the remedy for evanescent evils, or imaginary, which, if left to themselves, would specdily vanish away in the progress of events. Our Revolutionary fathers have passed away, and the generation next after them, whe were inspired by their land example, have nearly all dieappear . deprived of these light decide the States en footings of towards each other—and let a their descendants in the form a ted it from their forefathers: and our country ip future times Tehail adsume the privilege of advancing years in re rence to@pother growing and dangerous evil. In the . Uke ourselves, were divid tical parties which often bad sever? coniliets with er, yet We never heard, until within a recent pe { the employment of money to carry viections did thie practice increase until the voters aud th representatives ip the State and national Legielatures sha’ fountain of free government we must end. as 1 spirit they have inber all will then be well for proves, in military despotie \ democratic republic, all ag r sustained by pablic virtue. When this is corrupted* and the people become venal, there is @ cancer at the root of liberty which will cause it to wither aad to e. cannot long survive 4 of the tre ave. | L pray Almighty Goa v * your remote posterity may cptury after centary, for ages yet to come, to bm the antiiversary of the eaptore of Fort Duquesne vb “ er the protecting banner of the Nor teen exebanges, a m was Le Se Minnesota. pany ban on « pr hat he wished to stv claim that be (ft w cell, Wher place op the ron r murdered hie bark to & tavern, bor then returned t« Cire a un spade and buried lim, and went and ultimately to La: Crosse. { euapicion in Le Seur county the grave wai @ Mutilated! remains Of Bedell were fwond derer was purened and arrested at La Crosse, and Was taken back in irons to La Seur county. On Wy t the neig min itted, the twelve comp the Ieeality, at after al th Reunced gard to their after action, one stantial citizens in witnesses, and lieited, Kinchart wad pro: prta reach us with Fr then took him that from the court room and hung him forthwith: another which i¢ the most probable, that they committed bim ail tO avait trial by the proper author it The Prairie 4 Chicn Leader cays that t nobart was in Prairi¢ du Chien a little a year ago, and there he seoms to have taken the rat While stopping at the "America wrote back to une of ty steer of villany House in that city be + tader a forged Raror Ne traveller: that in com the acquaintance of a art, and that the evening lertaking W crose had been drowned pisee, while p the letter was a request that # should be published for the benefit of friends, which was done, The ietter tself was drawn ap in a manner calee ) lated to give credence to the story, and Kinehart’s bro. ther ia law came am to Prairie duChien at th the wife of the supposed deceased, to take such steps as the cerasian might require, He ealled at the American Houre and the Leader office, where Fy t had virived, and sntiefied limeelf that the let a forgery, though he pr 1 himself unable to assign any reason for ite perpetration. He represented Rinchart as being in good circumetances, possessed of some property in Le | Seor county, and of fair standing among his acquaint ancer, and hie wife as a most estimable lady | Subsequently, Rinehart returned to his home, since | when hie progress in guilt has been rapit. Not less speedy bas been the retribution that foliowed it. | committee having charge of the centennial celebration of | BOF a | certificate by which | | Senos | | | weather, as he would he @ one | scovered and | arrival | captain? | | cash, according to the receipt | &e., the eitizene of | entered 8 closed port | to that The Franco-Portuguicse Questios (Transiated from the.Lisbon Diario do Governo of October 24, for the New Yous Harau.) ‘Tho French bark Charles et Georges was captured by the commander of the naval station at Mozambique, for bein ¢ found bor near to the Islaud of Quintangonta, ia the bay of Conducia, a port closed to foreign commerce, and for haying Cn board 110 negroes who said they were there against thelr will, and for having also articles oa board whieh, a ig to the decree of the 10th of December, emed indicative of the slave trade. ‘The Crown and Visca! Attorney at Mozambique, in com: nce with the deeree of 26th December, 1857, libelied the vessel and proceeded against the captain and crew for r of the fiscal laws and the purchase of slaves, terminated on the 8th of March, 1858, Court sentenced the captain tg two years pubiic labor, i the payment of 500 milreis; condemned the vessel, 4is tackle, and specie en board, and dismissed the crew, ‘Ap appeal was taken to the Court of Relacao, at Lisbon, hoth by the Crown aud Fiscal Attorney, aud the captain of ca 2 | the bark. The French government denying the right of capture and the lawfulaess of the proceed ngs before the Portu favor of Mr. Newhall; oh August 14, 1857, another ill guese tribunals, under the plea that the vessel was autho- rized to contract for free laborers, and had on board a delegate appointed by the Governor of the island of Re- union to superintend said contracts, demanded of the Portuguese government the restitution of the bark and the delivery of the captain's person. Of course the Portuguese Executive could not int fere in an affair that was pending before the judi power, whose independence could not be controlled with- out violating tbe constitution of the country. The French government stil urging its claims, especially by note of the tb of last September, addressed To the Minister of Yoreign Affairs by the Freuch Minister at this court, which note was replied to on the 18th of the same month, inclos- ing documents establishing the affair in its true light, the Portuguese government algo directed its Minister at Parts, by despatches dated 24 and 6thinst., to propose to the imperial government the decision of the pending ques- tion by the mediation of a third Power, chosen by his Majesty the Emperor of the French, in accordance with the principles laid down in protocol No. 28 of the Paris Conferences of the 14th of April, 1856. This proposal was rejected at once. By despatch of the 13th iust., Count Walewski, Freuch Minister of Foreign Affairs, directed Marquis de I'Isle ce Siry, the French Minister at this court, to make known to the Portuguese government that the Frenclt government would accept an arrangement upon the ‘ollowing basis:—Delivery of the captured vessel, and the captain set at large twerity-four hours after the Freuch vessels.of-war shall have left the Tagus, mediation of H. M. the King of the Netherlands to fix the amount to in- demnify the parties interested, France repelling all idea ot mediation in regard to the question of right. Count Walewskt adds:—Should said basis not be accept- ed, the Minister should proceed as bafore instructed. ‘Those instructions, which were verbally communicated by the French Minister to the Minister of Foreign Attairs, were such as ultimately to require the eaid French Minister and the members of the Legation, as well as the Consulate of Franee in Portugal, to quit this Court, thus interrupting the diplomatic aad commercial relations between the two countries, aud leaving Admiral Lavaud, commander of tue French naval forces in the Tagus, charged with the termination of the pending question. Under these circumstances, the Portuguese government, though persisting in the conviction of its right, but at the cane time perceiving the impossibility of making it pre- vail, thought proper to assume before the country the grave responsibility to submit to the peremptory demands of France, Mberating the imprisoned Captain Kouxel and fiving up'the captured vessel to the person appointed by the French Minister to receive it. In regard to the media- tion referred to by the Imperial government to fix the required amount as an indemnity, the government is of opinion that, as France did not accept the mediation in re- speet to the question of right, the only one in which the hondr and dignity of this country was interested, Portu- gal should not accept it as to the pecuniary question, leav- ing it to France itself to proceed in regard to it as she thought fit, and declared it would accede to the resolu. ton France might adopt, for the same reasons which had induced Fortugal to yield to the other demands. In this sense a note was addressed on the 28th mst. by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the representative of the imperial government at this court. All the documents in relation to this affair will be presented to the Legislature at its next session, (Translated from the Lisbon Journal do Commercio of the 23d and 26th October for the New York Henan.) It is rumored that France, ia its wtimatum demaoding the immediate delivery of the vessel, had the extreme po- liteness to declare that Portugal should make that deli- very twenty-four hours after the French fleet should bave Jeft the Tagus, that it might not appear we submitted to force, Certainly, 0 much attention and delicacy should be acknowledged. The Portuguese government could not help delivering the vessel, as France demanded it sup- ported by its navy and its armies. Had France been con- scious of its right, it would not have rejected the arbitra. von of a third Power. The abuse of force m questions of for £19,890 5s. 4d. and one for £6,000) by placing them | right, and which right alone should settle, is tho clearest evidence that the nation employing it desires it to prevail over justice. We are not aware what has been done in respect to the required indemnity. This point should not be discussed. If We cannot maintain our right, if we cannot resist vio- lence, we should not diepute a question of money. Ho- has been wounded by the abuse of force, and spoliation should be added thereto to complete the injury to the oppressed and the shame of the oppressor. It is said the French Minister was quite pointed by the refural of arbitration in regard to the indemnity, for it is Supposed hig government required that ours, by ac- cepting arbitration, should admit the right to an indemni- ty, which it would afterwards most generously have ra up and ade one more insult to Portugal. If this be true, the expectation of France has been sadly disap- minted. Pert has como to our knowledge that there exist in the Naval and Colonial Department two important documents, Which, among others, were sent there by the French Minister at this Court (signed and scaled by him) to elucidate the question pending be- tween our government and that of France, in rela- von to the capture of the Freoch bark Charles et George, and us we have obtained some tion of their con- tent# we shall make use of it to prove that these very documents crtablish a suffierent indictment against the captain and the bark, for the said captain therein admits First, that he entered a port of the Oriental coast of Portu- | fume Africa, closed to foreign commerce. Second, that ‘e there came to an understanding with the chief of a be of negroes of that coast for the parchasing of forty ‘oes for 6,800 francs. Third, that the first eleven of ere sent on board with their arms tied be- jaration js quite ingenious, and ary th risible, and yet, the effrontery of the dee be equalled by the ingelence of the fact. These important documents are the following —First, a the chief of the tribe of -Ma- Ubana, in the bay of Conducia, declares (together with the sub chief and others), that Mr. Rouxel, Captain of the Freneh bark Charles et Georges, at anchor in the Roads of Quintagonha, shipped on the 4th of November, 1857, forty free laborers engaged by the so called Abdalla Mahomet, the interpreter of the vessel, to go and serve for five years in the Isle of Bourbon; and, according wo the very letter of Unie certificate, * fous ont éte libres a bord les onze premiers ud eur leur consentement se sont dans la chaloupe les bres amarrcs,” (all went free- ly on board exeept the first eleven, who, by their owa consent, Were #hipped with their arms tied bebind their backs): Pecond, another certificate by which the same chiet of the tribe Matibana declares having received from Capt. xe! 6,800 franes for the forty negro laborers be had rniebed bim with On perusing these doonments, will any one say that pegrocs, with arms tied, eam be considered free " onceded that these black men would o if they lett their own country willingly? considered by the civilized nations the slave or human ftesh trade? If any one thinks otherwise then we are not in the right Js it not tree that Caytain Rouxel entered the port of Condueia when that pert is closed to foreign commerce by the law of October 17, 1852, which only opened to that trade in the province of Mgzambique the ports of the city ‘of Mozambique, Ibo, quilin Inhambane and Lourengo , Marge ist not true that be cotered that port not by strese of © it believed, but to contract for the purchase of forty negroes and ship them on board his vessel? Is it not true that these negroes were purchased for iven to Captain Roaxel by wi ration cau only the chief of the tribe Matibanay Is it not true that a number of these negroes wore shipped on board the “Charles et George,” with their arins pinioned, as is frankly declared im the certificate of the engagement? Je it pot true that Captan Moore! dit actually infringe the laws of our country, not only our fiscal custom laws, but also those probibiting the infamous slave trade, becoming both acontrabancist and a slave trader? it t8 stipulated , ing and | of vessels, e two countries shall be sabject, respectively, t0 the laws and regulations of the terri tor, Te it not true that Captain Rouxel han been guilty of uply tranegressing Portoguese legislation withim its wh jurisdictionFirst, guilty of contraband, for bavi second, of slave trading, in whi third, of piracy, attached unlawful trade. ond, foorth, of robbery, inas sa number of thoee negroes received in the road stead of Quintagonha were the property of Porthguese resi vente of the city of Mozambique. and bad been enticed away and stolen from them by the agents of that same If this be not true. why, then, we are not io the be was 8 flagrants eliete ght Tet ne euppoee, however, that all thie ie mot guffieienth; proved inthe very documents presented by the Frene himecif. Is it not true that, by the treaty of is of the 20th of March, 1866, the principle waa oe tabliehed, to which Portugal was invited to adhere, and for. y did adhere. that whenever serious diesens:ons should arise between two States, recourse should be had ta thord friendly Power as arbiter in the qaestion, before the employment of fore:? ude, if private and public law and treaties are an request of | zero, and al nine O'clock at Zo dag. above, respected, Franc teed com: todeliver -anel we inwfuily capt as a siaver and contra iat, but #he, who by etories in the Crimea ately caused the admiraton of Rurope for her courage valor, will again surprice e when the Portuguese . emg)! but high-minded and unjastly agerteyed, are if a public protest that France, violatingebe pubhe law of Lorope, and tearing up treaties guarantocd and respected by all civilized ations, proclaimed force all ski Rinehart | tie oniy foendation of justice Caxan axn Riven Navigarrox.—This morning at veven o'clock, the thermometer stood at 18 deg. abov About four inches of now feR Inet evening, and the storm extended as far West a8 we have heard, along the line of the canal. Sixty four beats passed Schenectady yesterday , but nome have reached this city since Saterday night. We have not learned that they were able to move yesterday be- tween this city and Sehenecta! doubtless effected at lenst at tween Troy and this city the river was covered with ice this morning. Below the city there was a good deal of floating and sharp anchor tee. A beayy fog covered the river this morning, which ry the muvement of stoamboats. —Albary Journal, Nov 20 .D, FRI Our Par a Paras, Nov, 18, 1858. The Case of Montalembert—touis Napoleon's Ingluence in England—Iiis Parliamentary Friends—The Wit press’ Birthday and Fite—Local Migration—The Great Bridge—Sea Sickness—A Good Time Coming, de. , 6. What with storms in the Channel, and fogs in the capital, which rival any of the proverbial mists of London, and that state of still life which always prevails before the re- turn of the Court to the metropolis has inaugurated the “sevson,’’ our spirits may be said to be at low water level. The grand excitement which was to put us all on the qui vivethe trial of M. Montalembert—is postponed by the request of his distinguished advocate, M: Berryer, till the 24th inst., when we shall see what we shall see. in must be confessed that the sympathy exhibited to- wards M, Montalombert meets with more alloy on this side the Clannel than apparently it does on the other. It is averred by many that M. Montalembert, with ali his elo- quence, shows the same want of judgment that has so fre- quently distinguished French parliamentarians, and makes: the common mistake of supposing that his country, while retaining principles and practices of a nature peculiarly its own, «an, notwithstanding, engraft upon it principles and pructiccs essential to other nations whose whole organiza- tion and governmental machinery are wholly different. M. Montalembert, for example, himself a distinguished ora- tor, listens to the debates in the English Senate, he reads the speeches the following morning in the daily press, ke hears that throughout the length and breadth of the lanu’ the words and sentiments of the leading public men are passed from mouth to mouth, and form the subject of in- tense interest at every dinner table or assemblage of men. ‘Why shouid it not be so in France?” he asks. But the answer given to this question in France is that here there is absolutely nothing to stem the tide of enthusiasm which parliamentary language arouses. It is but one step from the banquet to the centre of authority, and the mor- row of the debate is the warfare of the streets. You can- not have parliamentary government in the capital, and the absence of all parliamentary or self-government else- where. In Engiand, the vestry meetings, wherein are de- cided the repair of the roads, the lighting, watering, clean- ing of the streets, &c.; the ‘poor law unions, where dis- cussions for the —? ~~ are held with all ~ forms and wiety of parliamentary usages, are, as were, parilamentary y nurseries for thenational mind. Ex- citing language in the senate, however stirring, falis upon the national ear, therefore, always more or less cum grano. But,’ besides this, there is always this great’ difference, and therein lies M. Montalem- bert’s chiefest mistake. It is in England not so much what is as who it is that says it. M. Moutalembert might @aipse the best orators of the English Senate in the force and fire of his language, but Without a feudal rent rollor gathering at hik back of halt the property of the kingdom, in the shape of parlia- mentary support, the beauty of his eloquence would pass away like a Summer dream. In a word, France, un- hike England, which forms the subject of his eulogy, has no council of the nation, so tospeak, in ber rear, to poise the scalcs of judgment Over a too zealous patridtism; but oa the contrary, has an army of functionaries which, by its eternal system of drill and interfereuce, has eaten’ out the very heartof all popular self-reliance;’ and, therefore, parliamentary eloquence, while in England and America it constitutes the life blood of the national welfare, has hitherto proved in France a sigval and monstrous failure, ‘The great revolution made of all things a tabula rasa; aud it is not easy to see how a solitary link of a complex chain imported from another country’s machinery can be introduced with beneficial effect I have been struck with a very general prevalence of sentiments of this kind, even among those who view with indignation the present despotism. Perhaps one of the oddest features in the relations of France and England just now is the personal intluence ex- eres ex ministers from the other side the Channel. Here are Lord Paimerston and Lord Clarendon, with their respec. + tive wives, hob-nobbing with the mass at Compicgne, whom the English nation shrewdly suspect of an intention ofone day dealing them a heavy blow and great discour- emeut. With whit face can either of these noble lords rate the supineness of Lord Malmesbury in the Mozam- bique business, or utter a syllable about Cherbourg, after enjoying all the luxurious festivities of Compiégne? The halit is growing into a system — No sooner docs - Russell, Disraeli, Lord Malmesbury, or any man of their influcutial position, show hitneelf in the capital, than the imperial palace is opened wide to receive tem. It may or may not be an auspicious omen. Certain it is that the effect is visible in the courteous tone held in the British Parliament whenever there magnates have occasion to ‘but the fact will not pass un- speak of the Emperor, noticed by the English nation, It may be mentioned, as a of arising from it, that the Emperor wrote wi his own hand to Lord Palmerston that he should not have ventured to offer bis hospitality unless he had previously—by the publication of his letter to Prince Napoleon—iaid the groundwork of a better un- derstanding on the slave trade; and I happen to know from the best autbority that both the noble lords inti- mated to the Ambassador, Lord Cowley, here, that with ‘out the appearance of that letter they could not possibly have availed themselves of his Majesty's condescension. ‘The 16th was the féte day of byte om her tpeliem was celebrated at Compiégne by a low mass in the paris! Church of St. Jacques. Although there was no special vocation, all the public functionaries, officers of the con’ ‘National —.. = og . on woe eae to. | cotton brokers, and not cotton buyers; denies the authori- resent. Reived the congratulations of Prince Napoleon, the Prin- cess Mathilde, the officers and ladies of the household, the Ministers and officers of the Guard on duty at Compiégne, Queen Christina algo paid a visit to the Empress, and returned again to Paris in the afternoon. At one ‘o'clock the Emperor reviewed in the Place du Palais the grenadiers and lancers of the guard, and the squadron of cent.gardes, which now form the garrison of Compiegne. ‘After passing along the ranks, his Majesty, with his staff, placed himself in front of the palace for the filing off. The weather was unfavorable, but the Empress and the ladies of her household placed themselves in the open gallery above, and the troops marched past amidst loud cries of Vive !Empereur!” “Vive I'Imperatrice'” “Vive Je Prince Imperial!’ In the evening a grand dinner took which were present, in addition to the guests at the principal authorities of the town and the superior officers of the garrison. At night the gates of the park were thrown open to the public, and a brilliant pnd ‘of fireworks took place, Bengal lights were placed in the middle of the different clumps of shrubs and trees, and produced a picturesque effect. All the public Duildings were illuminated. The recent improvements in Paris bave caused a con siderable diminution of the population in some districts, while a corresponding increase has taken place in others. ‘The Prefect of Police has been obliged, therefore, to make anew distribution as regards the police. The whole city is divided into twelve divisions, but they have not, as Litherto, the same limits in the arrondissements, and each division t# diviaed of rather subdivided into four sections: at the head of each section a Commissary of Police ts to be place’, and each contains, as nearly as possible. the same populatios. The new arrangement comes into force on the ist of January, 1859. The iron arches for the new bridge facing the Hotel of the Legion of Honor have arrived. The bridge isto be | 474 fect long by 46 wide, and costs about 50,000¢ A. M. Jobard has published book on fea sickness, which poeseaees some novelty, He states that sea sickner® t* caused by the mechanical action of the bowels, which are made to vibrate by the heaving and pitching of the vessel and to strike against the diaphragm. The liver and gall bladder, thas ‘expesed to repeated action and percussion, emit a larger quantity of bile than usual, and retching is the natural conrequence. M. Jobard, therefore, simply proposes to tie down the intestines, so a8 to prevent the jolting, which may be effectually done ly to belts, one passing under the thorax and the other between the Workmen and Lo pee are Lye ~ ff 3: —_ and day. in putting the apartments flories ina paate for the reception of their Majesties. 7 ermann Lion, the well known bass rat the Opera Comique, at settenty two nights ago of apoplexy. He c ears of age. bs Sy bs ‘of Bercy and at the Gar d’Tory are now of wine from every part of France than on Tp fact, we may faith in old midsummer eve (the eve of St. the one a fast the other a feast in the Catholic hon—will next year fall on the same be prediction to the following effect, which we bope may be abundantly verified “Quand Jean fait jeGner Diew A nce de biens en tout lien ‘The oyster dredgers of Saint Valens en Canx have just landed two days upwards of 300,000 Our New Mextco Correspondence, New Muxico, Oct. 27, 1868 Orignn ana Progress of the Hostilities now Waging with the Navajo Indions—Their Harsh Treatment by the United Sate Trooprelnge fect Organization of the United States Puree for an Indian War, de., de It may interest your readers to learn the cause and pro. grees of the war now waging between the troope in New Mex en and the Navajo Indians. are ago a post was ordered to be established in the co: he Navajo Indians. These Indians own, immense herds of horses and sheep and a very poor grazing country, and they were consequently very much aggrieved Dy the location of this powt in te midst of their best grazing tracts. Before this time the Thdiane were the Twost peaceable existing—they manufactured blankets, yawed sberp and horses, traded with the Mexicans, and in y ar showed « desire for and ag Laat year being a very dry season, urass was dried up everywhere, except in the valley about the fort. Here the Indians drove their herds The offeer in command sent company of artillery to drive them away. faller of Sewers “ This company being surrounded in a camon, Was ordered back to the post by the Indians, and wae forced to ovey. Col. Loring, with Six companies, wae then ordered to this country. He wont, bad a talk with them, made a treaty, which stipa jated for a recompense to the Indians for their grazing tand, and returned leaving then contented. This treaty « hever ratified, nor have any of ite stipulations been futile’. The ey py A AJ sues oreemenaen i ain thie rove » ae year, grazme grou y pts a ‘and it erie cca ek then Lieut. Lane, with eompany A. ritles: 4 finally, Capt, Lindsey, with pd semen tend F, rites ‘The Iisdians have lont thirty mon killed, ten and several hundred horees. Tho troope have five men killed (riflemen), two office wounded (riflemen), and thirty horses lost, ster ad ery proepect for long and bloody war We want more The infantry cannot overtake the Indians, and mules are stolon they are helplers infantry soldiers bas yet bad a shot DAY, DECEMBER 3, 1858. :d by Napoleon III. over parliamentary leaders and |+ | and that he (Stewart) “did not, Supreme Court—General Term. INTERESTING COMMERCIAL, CASE. Before Judges Davies, Hogeboom and Sutherland Nov, 20.—Kobert Lewin, respondent, vs. Thomas J. Stewart, impleaded with William P. Wright, aprettant.— | ‘This was at Appeal from a judgment giver by Mr. | Justice Rosevelt, at special term, tn 1854, bolite Mr. Stewart liable upon a purchase of cotton or ship ment of cotton. Lewin is the surviving partner of Jonathan Ogden & Co., by whom the suit was originally brought. The suit was commenced {s the late Court of Chancery in, 1844 (fourteen years ago),_ and tho object Was to establish a lability on the part of the firm ‘of Stewart & weet for half the loss on a shipment of cotton of about bales, lo by Jonathan Ogden & Co., who allege that they made the shipment as a joint adven- ture of the two firms, and Stewart alone defended, on tho ind that he had wot consented to take aay interest in p pape a tnt Summrtanp, Justice—The principal questions discussed ‘on the argument of this case were— 1, Whether any agreement betwees Ogden & Co. and Stewart / right is \uitted by the answer of Stewart, or is esta lished by (ue proofs, or can be judicially de- duce. from both, 2. If any agreement between those firms is so established, or can bo deduced, what was the agreement? Was itan | absolute agreement on the part of Stewart & Wright to purchase or take an interest, absolute, in the 285 bales of cotton which had been bought by Ogden & Co. without | reference to its quality, or to its being of a grade known in the market as ‘fair? or was it a conditional agree- | ment: that is, an agreement to purchase or to take aa interest if the cotton was of the grade called “fair,” as represented by Lewin, . Is the case within the statute of frauds, 90 that ian | ae to purchase on the of Stewart & Wright a share or interest, or a sale to them of a share or interest in the cotton, is admitted by the answer or established by | the proofs, yet, there being no written evidence of sucl agreement to purchase or of such sale, the plaintiff cannot recover. In the view I have taken of the case it will be necessary to examine only the first and the last of these questions, and perbaps only the first. It is conceded that the or: dinary partnership business of Stewart & Wright did not extend to this transaction, so that Wright could bind Stewart or the firm without’ Stewart's authority and con sent. What is the evidence, then, ofan agreement by Stewart & Wright to take an interest in the adventure or to purchase an interest or share in the cotton, or of a sale to Stewart & Wright of a share or interest by Ogden & Co.? ‘There is no written evidence. The evidence of witnesses “as to what im one conversation between plaintifl and defendant is all the evidence. There was no entry of the transaction in Stewart & Wright's books. No invoice, bill or memorandum of the transaction were furnished by Ogden & Co. to Stewart & Wright. Og- den & Co. paid for the cotton the 23: March, 1844, but uever called upon Stewart & Waight for their share of the cost price. The witnesses are three: Wright and Dunbam for plaintiffs, Joyce for defendant. Notwithstanding Stew- art’s objections Wright was admitted asa witness. The code has no application to the question of Wright's admis- sibility, for the proofs were taken and closed in 1846, Wright had permitted the bili te be taken against Lim as confessed in November, 1844. In December, 1844, Ogden & Co. executed to Wright a written instrument or release, As UPON P Separate compromise, porsuant to the “Act for the Relief of Partners and Joint Debtors,”” (laws of 1838, p. 243,) exoncrating him from all individua! lability incurred by reason of his connection with the firm of Stewart & Wright, or by reason of any liability with the said Stewart, of and concerning the transaction as to the cotton. It is claimed that this made Wright a com- petent witness. I thick it did not. The very question in the case was, whether Wright had eniered into the transaction as to the cotton with or without the consent of Stewart Stewart did not consent: to the adventure Wright J coafessed as indiVidually lia- ble, as having gone ito the transaction without any authority from bis partner. If the plajutiffs did pot suc- ceed in this suit the statutory exoneration would have no effect. The plaintiffs could, notwithstanding the inatru ment of exoneration, and on Wright's own confession, recover the whole amount from Wright, on the ground that it was not a partnership transaction of Stewart & Wright, but an individual transaction of Wright's. The statute of 1838 is confined to joint actually existing debts. ‘The object of this suit, and of introducing Wright as a witness, was to establish the debt to be joint. “I think Wright was inadmissable as a witness, and that his testi mopy must be considered as out of the case, and it would hardiy be considered that the testimony of the other two witnesses proves any consent or agrecinent of Stewart. Dunham says the copversation was between plaintiff aud Wright; that Stewart was in the room a portion of the time, but he does not swear positively that Stewart heard anything that was said. (Stewart is partially deaf.) Joyce says:—Plaintiff came to Stewart & Wright's place of business with a sample of cotton, and proposed to Stewart to take an interest in a lot, of which that was a sample, and that all three—the plaintiff, Stewart and Wright—went into the office ot counting room together, and he (Joyce) remained outside, and heard no more. T do not think that these witnesses prove the cousent or agreement on the part of Stewart. jow, let us look at the billand answer. The bill alleges that Ogden & Co. had purchased the cotton, and that Stewart & Wright, hearing of the purchase, and that Ogden & Co, intended to ship it, requested of one of the plaintiffs (either of Ogden or Lewin) a half share or interest in the cotton, to which Ogden & Co. agreed, and that thereupon Ogden & Co. be- came jointly interested with Stewart & Wright in said ad- venture of cotton—Stewart & Wright being entitled to one half of the profits, if any, and liable to one-haif the losses, ‘This is the way 1 which the agreement is alleged in the bill. ‘The answer of Stewart alleges that Stewart & Wright were ty of Wright to bind Stewart in the transaction; and as to request of Stewart & Wright for a half share or inte- rest in the cotton, and the consent of Ogden & Co., upon whieh it is alleged im the bill a partnership in the sip. | ment of cotton was created betweea Stewart & Wright aud Ogden & Co., the answer alleges:—That at about the time mentioned in the bill he (Stewart) was solicited to take an thterest in a shipment of cotton which Ogden & Co. were about to make to Liverpool, con sisting of a large number of bales—say about 285—of which over nine tenths were what i termed “round bales,"’ but that he never consented to take any interest therein, otherwise than conditionally, and upon the in ducements of faise representations—that is to say, Lewin at the time represented the cotton to be ail quality, known in the trade as the grad then worth in the market, if in equar Shc. per Ib.; that he exhibited a sample whieh was of that quality, apd stated that each bale Was, on an average, equal to such sample in style, quality and Value: that such statement was intentionally false; that Lewin thereupon urged Stewart to join Wright in taking a share or interest, to which be replied, “That if the the cotton was equal to that sample he would be interested, otherwise not,” in any other way, consent to take such an interest.” Now, is thie an admiesion of the agreement set up in the billr Tthink not. It is only an admission that he (Stew. art) Was willing, and said be was willing to enter into an agreement and fein Wright in taking a or interest in the cotton if the cotton was equal to the sample, It does bet appear from #latement in the answor that there was a meeting of and the bargain coneluded. And suc uud= and detinite agreement scarcely follows from allegations in the bill. The request to have an interest according to the bill was made either to ‘Ogden or Lewin, to only one of the sellers, by both of the buyers. Is it probable that thereny Ammexdiately —the proposition was accepted by both the sellers, ag alleged? frat it -an agreemes or tale ie alleged in the bill with sufficient certainty, T think that such agreement ts not admitted by the answer or established by the proots #0 as W authorize the judgment at special term. In this view of the case it is unnecessary to examine the question of the application of the statute of frauds. Butt will say, that I do not see why the case ix not within the statute. Admit the plaintiff's case, and Ogden & Co. had Sonat the cotton when Stewart & Wright agreed to take terest in it. Ogden & Co. did not buy it aa the nts of Stewart & Wright, or with the joint funds of the two firms, or as partners of Stewart & Wright in that par ticular adventure. As between the two firme, Ogden & Co, were the owners of the cotton when the allege: ment was made, that Stewart & Wright should have a share or interest whether Ogden & Co. had actuatly paid for the cotton or not. or whether it bad been then actaal ly delivered on board the shipor not. As between the par es from whom Ogden & Co hind bought, and Ogden & Co. the delivery on board the ship was a de! ver; Co. , and not to Stewart & Wi To hold delivery to Stewart & Wright by Ogden & take the case out of the statute, would, iam: 2 palpable evasion of the statute, The cial trial, with costs, to abide the event. to Ogden & Turkish Colonization Decree. The following document has just been received hy J Horsford Smith, Req. , the Ottoman Consul in tis eity — Ordained by the Imperial government, in relation to colonization in Turkey of families who, arriving from foreign parte, may desire to establish themeerives there by Becoming subjects of the Ottoman empire— Article 1. The colonists must first of all take the oath of allegiance to hie Trperial Majesty the Soitan. come the subjects of the empire without any r or limitation Art. 2. They shall submii themselves, ander a!l cireom: isting and (ture laws of the empire. all the other subjects of the empire, th hail be free from all impediments in the e of the religion which they may profess, and they Ii enjoy, without distinction, the same religious privi all other clusees of the subjects of the empire, | scalities whieh the government shall aesign | for their settiement, there shonid be chapels auitable for their worship, they may perform their devotions the bat if new villages are to be formed, they ehall solicit and obtain from the Impbrial government permisgion to erect the chapels which they may require Art. 4. Ip such provinces @f the empire, where their settioments shall he deemed proper, frou among the dis porabie lands belonging t© the gevernnant. the tile and heaithy i be chosen, and to ene tion of the land shall b ing to bis te either for agreultural of other trial porsute. Art. 5. The coloniets who sheuld sett lands belonging to the government, graited gratuitonsly. and shall be exempt from taxation, either territoria) or perponal, for the term of six years, if they are located io Rowmelia, and for twelve years if in ania Art. 6. Also the eoloniste sball be exempt from military Service, of its equivalent in money, those of Roumelia for the term of «x yeors, and those Art. 7. After the cxpirat the colonists hall be @n! fervice ag all the other subffets of the = Nod | accord indas- i |. He questi | Propriety of thus diverting the vessel, with its cargo, aitwirs and the villages and towns vhere they are established may be. long, and they shallke governed by them like other sub of the empire. ‘AIC 11. Hf, beforethe expiration of the terms of fram chise, these Aatocied are gbligod to change their residence and establish thentsi7es in Any (ther part of the empire, they shall be permites' to do so; ly ce term of their ex emption from dugs md services sali dale trvct the tinye when the original gray ¥a* first made to thet Art. 12. These colm'sts, Uaying, beon in there owie es untry neither crimitais nor of d reputation, must be honest people, farmers and artisans; and the [mporiat gove Thment reserves to ilself the right of expelling [rome the exopire those wao afterwards should prove 10 Lave been criminals or bai characters in their own country. Art, 13. Since jand‘n proportion to their moans will be ranted £0 cach family who may desire to emigrate to Puy Key with dhe view to sitle there, therefore, before Wier families start for Turkey they ehali draw up and tranamie to the Imperial governttent, through its own legation aud consulates abroad, wherever there are such, registers con. taining in detail their nanes, qualifications, means, the amount of their capital am their profession, And ‘it is also ordered that each famty mult possess a sum as capi tal equivalent at least to sixty gold madjidiyes (about | -) Art. 14. At the time of thér departure for, as well a6 on their arrivai in Turkey, the Consuls of the Sale lime Porte in foreign countries and the Imperial function. aries in the interior, shall grant to these colonists ail tha ooey facilities in the transpotation of their goods amd chattels. ‘Their passports shall be furnishel them gratuitously by | the Ottoman Consuls. Moreover, the Council of the Tauamat deems essential that whenever families express tlur desire to emigrate into Turkey for settling there, the Inperial goverumemt. should be apprised of it at least two months beforehand, 80 that, in accordance with the foregoingregolutions, there’ may be time to designate the =a. locity for their sot- tlement in the Provinces, and tho lan vanted te the colonists, in order that upon their avival.in Turkey they may neither lose time nor suffer inconvenience. Ae- cordingly instructions to this effect shall bt furnished te the representatives and consuls of the ompir abroad. , Our Jacmel Correspondence . Tacmnt, Nov. 4, 1868. ‘The Case of Reimbaud—The Way He Did Business Ihaye been kindly furnished by a friend hore with « singular document which has just been received fran Port au Prince, issued by ordtr of commissioners appoitied to inquire into the affairs of a house that failed during the commercial distresses of the past season. It is writtem with much care, in Haytien Frenh, and, although a bum- ness document, is prefixed with a moral, and, as with ai documents intended for a southern public, abounds iw noble sentiments that are in no way connected with the subject of the paper. Ithink that several passages may prove interesting to your readers, as they show how a heavy business can be transacted in this country, as well as in yours, with but a moderate capital. Of course here there are not the same facilities ag in the States for raising money, and dry goods houses cannot here with $50,000 do the business that would properiy require $500,000, as we understand has been done in your city. Itranslate the following few lines, not only became they illustrate what I mention above, but also because, notwithstanding their curious tenor, they throw light upow the dealings of that Mons. Reimbaud who first brought the iniluence of the hard times to press heavily upom Hayti. The opinion expressed I believe to he a just one, and that pride rather than dishonesty occasioned his ve ‘siness relations to assume disastrous consequences:— “Reimbaud, crazy to do business, occupied himself bat little in regara to the profit that might accrue, provided only that he could contract commercial relations. Every transaction ended in loss to bimscif, Anxious to maintaim his position, he planned account current transactions almost ail the merchants, and then, to balance his ac: with the most prudent’ and distrustful, who, perhaps, might be very ready to disclose his true position, he would pi it himself to houses like the present, and would engage in some transaction tempting for tho mo- meat and lucrative to the taker. In this mode he ob tained bills of exchango without paying a cent in ready” money, and scttied his debts with such contracts. Hence through bis pumerons transactions result a deficit of more than twelve millions of Haytien dollars.”’ The above would tend to prove that Reimbaud is not now living in luxury, as many maintam, but that the world aad bis fortune are still before him, and that he must again start from the beginning. This, too, fixes the amount) t at twelve millions of Haytien doilars, which I have seen variously estimated in your paper at from ten te eighteen millions. Advices from Port au Prince represent the market as tending upwards, especially in the article of flour, which has during the past month ruled at a very low figure, and even at present prices does not pay. “Currency also is rising, and the new crop of coffee is coming in large quantities, of very fair quality. Some districts report's. want of rain, but several storms have lately ‘the country most in want, awd I think that any injury that might have resulted is entirely removed. Business here, which for a moment after the fire was almost at a stand still, is again as brisk and lively as ever. Our Charleston Correspondence, Carterton, Nov. 24, 1858. The Slaver Case in South Carolina—Probabitity of Comic tion. ‘The prevailing topic of conversation here is, of course, the recent capture of the Cuban slaver now lying in thin port. The trial of the mate anda portion of the crew comes off in the District Court, at Columbia, before Judge MeGraw, on Monday next. “Here, as at the North, one ia destined to hear the eternal ery of “nigger,” “uigger,’* Mh all political discussions, and, of course, this saver case bas been godsend to the agitators in South Carolina, the rendition of a runaway slave is to the abolitionists, ¢ our own State. The fever ran high when the vesse was first brought into port, and the ultras were loud in their threats to procure the Liberation of the officers and crew of the captured ship at all hazards But by degrees the excitement abated, and good sense was suflered to prevail. The slaves, landed at the government fort out in the bay, and not upow the main land, were shipped on board the Niagara without difficulty or interruption, the captain was liberated on bait and suffered to depart, and such of the crew as were un able to procare the uecessary sureties were beid in ove finement, and as well treated as the circumstances of the Tne tect to apparent bere, to is toa that the fire. ‘State observer even, , disunion sentiment, 80 rabid im they fret and fume, and believe themselves powata, Secon they are suffered to talk as rabidly as they ploase, but the National Convention democrats, as the more conservative men are styled, bold them hopelessly in check, and de the voting at tLe proper time. The idea c the fire eaters has beem that be conviction ean ever take place in the Stato of persons captured While engaged in the slave trade. They forget that in former years convictions have taken piace here when the ultras were far more powerful than at the pre sent time. Judge MoGraw, who preskies over the court where the cases are to be tried, is a conservative democrat the gentleman who was #0 ¥ editors of that paper. Mr. Tabor was a young and pre mising member of the State right» party, and a connection of the Rhett family, He was killed on the third shot. Jodge McGraw is spoken of as a high minded gentleman and an upright anc fearless Judge. and tt i thought that the “solid men’’ of Columbia, who will constitute the jury, will assuredly conviet the defendants should there be suf fletent evidence to warrant their conviction m any North. ern court alt State ab avoids mendation conveyed In & Governor's message. Tn relation to slaver case, Governor fliston ulates the fact of the capture of the vessel by the I off the coast of Cuba, her arrival in the ton, and the subsequent shipment and tranfer of the sia to the coast of Africa by the ¢ z Fs s Z isiil the preservation of law and order in the citetpent consequent upon this event, and ther condnet presents a striking contrast with the v' and illegal course of Northern agitators, But he takes easion W express hie belief that if there be any whoch genetions svch interference with the commerce the inhabitant® of Cuba, such treaty must have , framed mm direct disregard of the sound advice of, Washington, not te © en and prosperity in the toile of Ka oF caprice,”” and ought to be ile Hy irom ite deat‘ned channel, and thrusting it under the ao: toe of the excitable er of Sonth Carolina , and he ew srowwes his opinion that while Uncle Sam may very posse nly, onder the constitution, possess the power and the right to prevent our own from stealing niggore from the coast of Africa, he acte the part of a meddier and a busy body when he interferes in the regalation of the enforcement of the police of foreign ian ions. i The tone in Which the affair ie treate’ by the Govecnar fe, however, conservative and calm, and weil calculated to satisfy the publie mind with a conviction of the prisou- ere, should the evidence warrant it, Senator Hammmud’s recent speech, fo well received at the North, a fair reflex, I think, of public sent this State, Tho fact is, the gensibie people hore ianagine South Carolina a very mug, nice little one of the present fights whieh will ever tion which the stronger pe ever cheerfally yield, A Yournrct Moraen. The official return of the ‘Taunton, Mass. , vayton was eleven years old ‘Uth day of May, 1858, and lerame the other Horace White Drayton on the Ist of Febraary, 1858— ‘months and twenty four days she was clovom }