The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW BUSINES FEATURE (F THE METROPOLIS. sninananesnunanacene The Rallroad Ticket and Freight Offices of Broadway—liise and Progress of the Busi- ness—Its Object and Wha 1¢ Hes Accom- plished—Modu+ Operandi—Sketches of the Principal Offices, &e. ‘One of the many evidences that New York city is the commercial centre of he coun'ry is apparent in the fact that all the principal railroads of the United States nd ig nocessary to have direct representation here for the en agement of passengers and freight, The attention of the intelligent pedestrian through Broad way must lately have been attracted to the increasing num- per of these spacious ticket offloes, whose glaringly letter” ed windows are 80 frequently seen on our great thorough- fare. Their establishment is quite recent, comparatively speaking, and was a necessity to supply the inexorable demands of trade. But a few years since merchants visit- ing this city and purchasing here found great difficalty in getting their goods t6 their various destinations in the far ‘West, owing to the loose and miserable management of the railroad companies im making connections. Goods were thus often delayed on the passage or lost, involving in either cage extensive damages to the owner, ‘This, of course, injured our trade immensely, and led the ‘Western merchants to purchase nearer home. The ex- press companies were established to obviate all this, aud no well did they succeed that they grew and multiplied, and now form one of the moat important branches of business, and are indispensable to the widely separated buyer and seller, These express companies, by means of arrangements with the diferent roads, obtain a measure of preference in the carrying of freight, secured regularity nthe transmission and delivery of goods, and have also acortain reputation for safety. They were and are a great convenience to the country, permeating the several Slates like the veins and arteries of the human body, and obtained and still hold a high place in the confi- dence of the merchants, both sending goods to and carry- ing them from New York, All sorts of packages, from a daguerreotype to an clephant, are {recly and safely car- ried, and receipts given for them to secure the parties from loss, The railroad companies themselves were for a long time satistied with this arrangement, and willing to allow freight to pursue its natural channels. But, from the growth of competition in the carrying trade, and per- haps from a little jealousy of the increasing business of the express companies, or to make a show of doing busi- nees directly with the shippers, some of the roads initiated the establishment of an office in New York to secure to them as large an amount a3 possi- bie of the passenger and freight business. This they claim became necessary in consequence of the various | routes by which an extreme point West or South might be reached, having their favorites and frieuds here in an in- formal way 8 it were; and it was believed that being directly represented they could the more carefully and certainly secure their proportion of the business. Other roads, in turn, were of cours obliged to come into the arrangement, until pow nearly every prominent road inthe country has an acknowledged representation for the securing of passengers and freight in New York, capable of coutracting for the conveyance of both, either | way. The plan is simply for different interested roads to | combine, and jointly pay the expense of renting an office, salariesof clerks, printing, advertising, und all necessary Outlay, and thus far it has been found to pay well. ‘The grand result of this movement has been to secure to passengers through tickets by any route over different roads in connection with each other, and to shippers a through bill of lading to any point. Instead of, ag in the old way, going to the respective depots of the railroad companies, passengers ran now buy at the New York | offices tickets in the shape of a series of coupons, each of ‘which is good for a passage over its respective road, tho traveller having notrouble but to get into the cars anil drop the coupons a8 required. So alap with freight; goods delivered here are receipted for all the way to the points of their destination, securing the shipper against loss, with nothing to pay until they are received, The character of the different ticket and freight offices, 80 numerous in the principal atreets, may be divided into Uhree classes: first, the regular railroad offices; second, the regular express offices; and third, the commission othces, which receive from the roads a per centage on all the passenger and freight business which they can controt for the respective companies. These second and third Classes are so numerous that we do not propose to give them more than a passing notice, but design to confine this article to what we understand to be the regular rail- road offlces—mesning no disparagement to others not named, and witbout the most distant idea or intention of injuring. or in any way affecting their business. It is not intended to convey the idea that these railroad offices are superseding the express compapies, a8, in the carrying Of light packages, goods to be paid for on delivery and the Collection of drafts or notes, the express companies do neeriy all the business ; but by bringing themselves in ¢:rect contact with the shipper, and studying his conve nience by taking goods from his door, and delivering them at the door of his customer in a distant place, the railroad companies now carry a large amount of heavy freight, which for a long time has been carried by the ex- press companies exclusively, acting us it were as the ‘agente of the railroads. All of the railrcad offices referred to are scattered along Brosdway, {rom Cortlandt to Chambers streot, and uni- | formly present attractions to the passer by in the shape of | profuse lettering and handbills, setting forth in large type the various points to which tickets can be bought. Ia the interior are dixplayed extensive maps of the different roads, and large showbills calling the attention of the pub- Lie to the advantages of the various routes. Information is readily obtained, qnd generally any inquiries as to the location of other railroad offices are freely answered. Most of them have littie guide books, given gratis for the convenience of travellers. The great point, however, is to seoure the freight business, and it is jor this purposo—to catch the-syes of merchunt visiters to the city—that the most prominent localities are selected. Each ofllce bas obviously for its first endeavor to sel; tickets over the roads which sustain it, aud, for the con- yenisnce of the paseenger or shipper, enters into an ar- rangement with other connecting roads by means of which through tickets are given, the road selling the tickets settling with the other roads. Thus, the Great Western and Detroit and Milwaukie office, corner of Cham- bers street and Broadway, sells through tickets, for in- stance, from New York to Chicago, over the Now York Central, or New York and’Erie ronda, connecting with the Great Weatern and Detroit and Milwaukie, and those roads in return ha benefit of the services of passengers and freight coming from Chicago over the Detroit and Milwaukie or Great Western, who in turn accommodate their customers by sending them over the New York and Erie, or New York Central, as they may prefer. In this way they study each other's interests in consulting their own, and the travelling public haa an accommodation which cannot be lightly estimated. THE MICHIGAN CENTRAL AND CONNECTIONS. Tue large office on the northwest corner of Broulway and Cortiandt street is sustained by the Michigan Con tral, Iliinois Central, na aud Chicago, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Hannibal and St. Joseph, aud Burliugton and Missouri roads, which jointly pay the ex penses of keeping it open. It was opened about ince, under the direction of Mr. Darius Clark controls it. Tickets are sold here direct to Chicago, Lox venworth City, Pike's Peak, Rock Island, Cairo, St. Jo seph and New Orleang, snd all other important towas ‘West, Northwest aud Southwest, Through tickets to all these points may be bought at this offic mente also made for freight. All freight are promptly adjusted here Among the inducements prominently hold o oe ‘cwide cars, sleeping care, no dust, no rechecking of bag gnge, and fow and ensy changes.” Travel or freight for Tilinots, Wisconsin, lows, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and all points on the Missouri and Missigsippi, toave New York via the New York and Erie or Hudson River roads, or the People’s Line of stoamers, connecting at Suspension Pridge or Buffalo with the Great Western Railroad, at Detroit with the Michigan Central, and at Chicago with all pointe North, West and Soath. The main object of the oi of course to sell tickets over all the roads which surtain it, but it is always a policy with the agouts (0 sella man tickets over any roads he pleases, 0 long us he patronises one or more of the roada represented in the oilice. On these cuteide tickets for their connections no commissions arc received, and the favor is reciprocate’ by the other offlces in turn. The pasrenger business of this office is estimated at about nd engag lowes or damage to aud at Chicago, t aro thos $160,000 annually, and the frofht business at two or | three times that sum. It claims to be the first oiflve of the kind established in this city. TAB LAKB SHORM AND MICHIGAN SOUTHRRN. At the cornet of Dey street and Broadwey (No. 19: the office of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Jines, with connections, The two former sustain the office, but through tickets and bills of Iading are given to Cieveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, Milwaukie, Cairo, St. Louis, St. Joseph, and all poinig West and Southwest Passeagers and freight teave by New York and Kicie and Hudson NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1859.—TRIPLE SHEET. River Railroads, and People’s and Merchants’ lines of steamboats, making direct connections with express or other traing as required. They connect at Cleveland with trains for Springticld, Dayton, Iudianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, and ali points South, sud at Toledo with trains of Wabash and Western Railrowd, aad all points on the Miseouri. Amoog the inducements held out to passengers are patent sloping oars on through | trains, and rates of fare as low as any other route. | Passengers or freight may go by any conuection with the Michigan Southern to points on their roads and beyond; and they advertise “passengers may stay over at any point, and no charge for handling baggage.” Mr. John F. Porter is the general agent, and says the office has been established about six years. The receipts from sales Of tickets are estimated from $75,000 to $100,000 per year. ‘This road is south of the Michigan Central. WATERTOWN, KOME AND CAPE VINCMNY RAILROAD: The office of this company is at No. 197 Broadway. The business is mainly in freights destined to Cavada, Potsdam and Ogdensburg, connecting with the Grand | 193 Broadway, where tickets are sold for the entire lengtl Trunk Railroad at Kingston, the Ottowa and Preacott Rati- road to Ottowa, the Watertown and Potsdam Railroad at Watertown, the Coburg and Petersburg Railroad at Co- burg, and the Port Hope, Lindsey and Peterboro’ Railroad at Port Hope. They claim to be the shortest route to Chi- cago, Milwaukie and all points West, and to Toronto and Collingwood via Cape Vincent, on their canal, railroad and steamboat line. The ofllce has been opened in this city about two years, and Mr. G. B. Benjamin is tho general agent. The annual sale of passenger tickets is estimat- ed at about $5,000, and the freight business is estimated at about $40,000, and increasing. PENNSYLVANIA CBNTRAL RAILROAD. The office of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad for passengers and freight ig at No. 2 Astor House, where it bag been located about five years, Mr. J. L. Eliott is the agent. Tickets are sold here to Cincinnati, Chicago, aud all points West and Northwest over the Pennsylvania Cen- tral road, and they claim to be the most direct route to the new Pike’s Peak gold mines, as well as to Cleveland, St. Louis, Milwaukie, Jefferson City, St. Paul, Chicago, St. Joseph, and all towns West. As is the custom with the other offices, they sell through tickets from this city by any route to their road, and by any other road connecting with them. They connect at Pittsburg, Pa., with the Pitts- burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago road, which they claim to be as nearly as possible a bee line from New York. Evon berths and meals may be secured hore for boats on the Miseissippi. Tickets on this route are also sold at No, 8 Battery place, and at the New Jersey Railroad Office, foot of Cortlandt street, but the Broadway office is the princi- palone. The ticket receipts are cetimated at $200,000 } annually, and freights much more, | BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD, The office of this company is at the northwest corner of Barclay street and Broadway. It claims to be thoshortest route between Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and they call it the great national route | between the Eastand West, They claim that its connec- | tion with the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, the lines at | Wheeling, Benwood and Parkersburg, give it superior at- tractions; that it is the only railroad by which direct com. | munication with Washington can be had from the Fast | and West, and that its accommodations for travellers and | beautiful soenery give i€ superior advantages, Through | tickets and bills of lading are given over any route to | ) their road and beyond it, and their freight business is | very large. A daily line of steamers counects with the road from Wheeling and Parkersburg, to Portamouth, Cincinnati, Louieville, Evansville, St. Louis, Cairo, &o. | Mr. ©. W. Pevertl is the agent, aud the ticket sales are | roughly estimated at $200,000 annually. The office has | been established in its present location about five years, | and claims, among its other benefits, to be a direct route to Pike's Peak. NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD. i The office of this company has just been removed to | No. 239 Broadway, corner of Park place. It isthe well | known route, via Hudson yiver, Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, © Suspension Bridge, connecting | with the Great Western Railway, or via Lake Shore Rail- road and Lake Huron Railroad, for all points West, | Northwest and Southwest. Through tickets ara sold over any connecting roads to or from them, and, like the others, they claim to be the moet dircet route from the East to the | for som: great West. Passengers may reach their road by the Fiadgon River Railroad or steamboats, and leave it by any of the great Western roads with which they connect, | having baggage checked clear through. A great many emigrants go by this route,as well as by tne New York and Erie, and Penneylvania Central. The office has been establizhed since 1855, and may be considered permanent- ty located at the corner of Park place and Broadway. Mr. Jobn H. Moore is the agent, and the ticket sales are eeti- mated at $150,000 to $200,000 annually. | But when tbe American shi; INTERESTING FROM THE EASY. Our Dong Kong Correspondence. Cxcosp Stare Sreansmr Pownaray, Hong Koa, Jan. 29, tio. f The English Assaults om (he American Atinister and the Chinese and Japan Treaties—The Way the Work was Done—LHonor to Wars Honor és Due—The Japanese Mision lo Washingon—Arrival of Mr. Keenan, the American Comiut. About twenty years ago I was one amoaga dozen or more boys who listened to a very excellent story, Your- self and the majority of your readers have, perhaps, beard the same yarn; but as it is applicable to my present ov- ject, it may be here repeated, I beg, therefore, that you will listen to its narration once more. We will call it tho Story of a Woil Dog — A gentleman in easy circumstances, and the owner of 4 Ane iam, upon which he grazed a flock of sheep, was one day alarmed by the sight of a large wolf in dangerous proximity to the latter portion of his property. “Twill bay me a wolf dog,’’ he exlaimed, and chase the rascal into some tar country.’” The following day, therefore, saw bim well mounted, gun in band, aod a large dog following, in search of the wolf, Fortune favored the search, and in due time the niruder was “started.” Dog and wolf soon disap- peared—the latter flying from man, and the former giving chase simply becauso he had something 0 run after. In hot pursuit followed Nimrod ; but the ground being broken, he was soon distanced. After awhile he crossed the path of a humble neighbor, and asked, hurriedly— ‘Have you seen anything of a wolf and dog passing this way?” « Wal, I have, aquire.”” How cloee waa the dog? Was herunping wol!?”’ “Wal, be were, squire, I rayther guess if anything that he were a leetle ahead.” It seems that the wolf had turned, and, after one or two snaps, reversed the tables. I purpose now to substitute the word “humbug’’ for “<dog,’” and “rascality”” for “wolf,” and ask, which is ahead in this present contury of ours—humbug or ras- cality? As applied to Eastern affairs—such ag have lately boon participated in by the Emperors of China and Japanon tho one hand, and the four great Powers of the Weat on tho other—this question is particularly diffloult of solu. tion. To read the scurrilous and uncharitable abuse of our late Minister to Ching by many English home ag well as colonial papers, one would be opt to say—I rayther guess, if anything, that the Wolf is 8 Jeetie ahead;”’ but if, after reading said abuse, he will continuo his attention to other publications of the same papers, and see how everything is claimed for Lord Eigin, and nothing granted to Mr.Wm. B. Roed, Mr. Town. send Harris, Baron Gros, and Count Putiatin, he will bo as apt tosay, all this isn’t natural. It is not probable ‘that one man, no matter what his ability, should deserve the credit for everything, while there were four others, ail men of note, striving for, in many cases, the samo ends. I won’t believe it. It is humbug. “1 ray thor think, if anything, that the dog is a leotle ahead.’” Perhaps the greatest curse of the present age is hum- bug. I, penetrates the family circle in the shape of a desire to avoid being outdone by our neighbors, and thus entails debt, Tt swelis around the mysterious frames of scrawny females in the shape of crinoline, and thus de- ceives the unwary swain, And in diplomacy it is di- cult to mention any shape in which it does not intrude, or the extent of the false impreasions conyeyed to the public mind by ao prolific a parent. While the English press is thus claiming for its noble Minister even more than the lion’s share of the credit due for the late “exploits of the Eaat,’’ I will aend you a fow undeniable facts—bare assertions which noone can deny— which, when placed after the English word “claims,” in italics, will show vividly how humbug is blinding the eyes of the general reader, In the London Times of November ‘ ~« find, among other modest agsertions, the following: — Lord a reached Macseaki cueuee ne no one; there but some un ugust, and found apancae underiinge acd e>me Dutch ofcials, who naturally gave all hopes. fheace he went, staggering through one of the tremendous gales that rex ‘thone seas, to the w of Simoaa, where the Ame- ricans are in power; and at tais place be for the firat time dis- covered the workings of the echoes ot bis own doiags ou the Pei-ho. It seems that as soon asthe Tien-sin treaty was ar- ranged the Awerican odore rushed off to Japan to take advantage of the consternation certain to be created by the fret news of recent events in the Peibo. It was smartly imagined. He found at Simode the American Consu( Gr just returned from Jeddo, whither be had men-of-war since Uommo. dore Perry's time, about fifteen miles below the capital city of dJeddo. Terrible stories and frighitul anticlpations had for some time posseneed the minds of the Japanese, Japan, hike other countries of ancient institutions, ae its conservative and pro Rreseive parties. ‘The oi 0 had siood atoutly for ancient Japancee conetitntion and no foreign ol ip of-war apy Aimerican version of the. warlike o lated, » « ogres. | sive pry. Brine Boringo retired, and Prince Bitau oe Bie lace. Under the new 7 General, was ndmitied to an faterview with the Rosperor: porte THE NEW YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD. | Complying with the general movement, the New York | and Erie Railroad have established a branch office at No. | of their line, and connections to Bulfalo, Canada West, | Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Jowa, Min- | neaota, Tennessee, Missouri and Louisiana. The arrange- | ments are similar to those of the above mentioned roads. | ‘The gentleman in charge deciined to give any estimate of | the ticket sales or receipts, DETROIT AND MILWAUKIE AND GREAT WESTERN RATLROADS. ‘These companies have lately opened an office at the oor- ner of Chambers street, No. 273 Broadway. They join | the extreme northern routes to the Wet, and claim to be the particular pet of the Northwest, end pagsengérs and freight as cheaply to Chicago as the otber lines, and nearly as quick. At Milwaukie they connect with all roads—-North, West and South: Through tickets may be had over the Great Western Railroad proper (from Suspension Bridge to Detroit) over aay of the roads on either side, though this offica prefers the | connection with the Detroit and Milwaukie. Among other advantages they offer prompt connectioas, through bag- gage checks, rapid changes and “tickets good till used.” They connect with the roads Northwest and South, and aro rapidly growing in public favor. Tho office was for a a long time under charge of Darius Clark, of the Michigan Central, but baa lately been remover to its present loca- lity, which may be considered permanent. Mr. &. P. Beach is the agent, and from four weeks experience in this place the annual receipts from tickets are roughly e6- timated at about $100,000, SUMMARY. The above are,we believe, the principal offices of the railrosA companies for the sale of tickets aud arrange ments for freight. Tbe Belfontaine road has had an office some time at No, 9 Astor House, but it will be abandoned on the first of May. The others appear to think thatthe system is profilable; that it pays the roads by securing them from being controlled by the express companies; that meny emigrant paesengers are secured which might otherwiae be monopolized, and that means are alforded to meet inetantly any effort on the part of one rond to obtain an advantage by a sudden lowering of fare, At the preseut time all the roads are depressed by the extremely low rates | of fare and froights, which dre ascribed to a lack of business rather than the umusnal competition. It ia a fact that freights are now taken to Chicago at sixty to seventy cents per hundred, when they ought to be, in good times, $145, while canal freighta, which ought to be forty ive cents, are down to eighteen cents, So duil is the buainess, hat long routes compete with shorter ones in patting the Tates down; and what with the compotition and the lack of bnsiners, all of the roads are pretty well ran down. But reviving business must bring them up along with it, and no doubt when they all get aa much a4 they cau do they will cut one another's throats. These strenuous efforts of the companies to obtain busi ness here are undoubtedly an ovidence that New York is the sun of the commercial universe, of which other cities are but the radii, or the satellites, with borrowed bril- Navey, What London avd Paris are to Eugland aad | Fy e, New York is w America, A New Comet Discovered, lonpreepentence of the Detroit Advertiser.) L have the pleasare to taform you thatI discovered a new comet at nine o'clock this evening, near the star numbered 17 in the constellation Lynx. Ita right agcon. sion if 6 hours 68 minutes and 39 seconds, and its dectina. tion 60 degrees and 57 minutes north, It bas a tail about a quarter of a iegree in length, and the nucleus is a8 bright a8 a star of the eleverith magni. tude. | The observations made thie evening show that it is moving west about two degrees and sonth one degree and any yates daily. JAMES C, WATSON, Anw Anvor, Mich., April 23, 1850, Gone Back to wen Niagarr—The Judson girl, whose elopement from Pontiac with the nigger Joo, some time since, cauged considerable talk, is now in Canada | living with bim, baving in deserted her home and friends. On the occasion of her former ont her futher and brother reclaimed her with great difficulty aad took her to Indiana, where a divorce was 0! |. She ‘wont bome with them and remained until last week, when she again left, with or withont the consent of her pareats, and came to Detroit. Crossing the river she found Joe, and they wore speedily married for the second time, an are now living in the enjoymont of coanubial happiness, Joe baying sold bis horse and cart and bought some farni- ture with the proceeds. — Detroit Free Press, April 26. Yot they claim to re ed, and commercial tariffs agreed upon pretty much Sain set ora the statement we borrow from the Nort Ohi: pa Ierald. Now, while showing how utterly groundless is the foro going extract, I would not be understood as wishing to re fleet upon the deserved glory of Lord Elgin. That gentie man bas carried himself with ability and energy through- Out his entire mission; and never, I feel coufident, would endorse the absurd stories just quoted. [rather think that it is to 4 Mr. Elphinstoae—a member of his suite— that the Times i6 indebted for this extravagant shipment of—humbug. Tostead of “rurhing off to Japan to take advantage of tho copsterpation certain to be created by the English guns at Tien tei vbe American Commodore had some months previously informed the governmens at Washington that he should poss most of the summer in Japan, Moreover, no one bat a Iandsman (and an ig- Rorant one at tust) could ever suppose that the Engliah ‘victories to the north of China would be beard of in Japan under some months. The American Commodore would therefore, bimeelf, have bad to be the bearer of the nows which was to prove so powerful a talisman; and any on ai ail acquainted witb Japanese braias cau see very how they would have received it, Taey woulil hay shrogeed their shoulders, smiled, aad said—* You wish | to frightea us grith lies.” Again, instead of fin¢ing Mr. Towuaend Harris, (ately “returned from Jedéo, whither be had been upon a six months’ missiop, vainly Importaning for some commercial privileges,” as the Times states, we found him living quietly in bis large house, several raouths having elapsed since bis return trom Jeddo, with an excellent treaty in his pocket, and with a kind of private treaty in addition | which bound the Japanese to sign the iirst and completa | one ou the lst of September, 1864. | The Commodore no sooner learned thia and read the document—no ene on board had any idea at ail that Me | Herris had a treaty under way at ail—than he exclaimed, | ‘By Jove, Harris, you have got a magnificent troaty here. That noitea you were after anything of this sort. And | now fet megive you a word of advice: You have been | hard ai work for nearly two years in bringing thia about, and to you belongs all the credit, H you put off the signing Until the Ist of September, however, the Eaglish, | French and Russians will be over here and get the | start of you ww, you have got unbounded influence with these peopte, ‘Why not jump oa board the Powaatan | to-morrow, steam aroudd to Jeddo, vee the princes, (we'll give them a dijeuner in my cabip,) and get them'to sign | it at once—there and then. Then [’il send a ship with it | to the mail at ones.’ | “All right, Commodore,’’ replied the Consul General. “T'm obliged to you, I think it can be do And it was doze, and just in that way, and w! | threats or compaision on our part. As to the | version of the warlike operations in China’ having in- | fluenced the judgment of the princes, it isabeurd. We | qlnured greatly the conduct and’ general oharac- | ter of Sir Michael Seymour, tho Engiish Admiral, | and would bave liked to have stood ride by | side with bis brave offieers men in many of their battles, but we never held these batties up to frighten | the Japanese. Indeod, ] much doubt if any officer or man | of the ship ever once referred to the operations of the | Engiish in China, So mach for the truth of this extract from the columns | of the Thunderer. { would atvise Western Jove to open Kastern negotiations opon hia own account—end to be obtained, a reliable correspondent from tuis part of the word, General Keenan, United Stator Cons! to this port, ar- rived to reagsume the duties of hia of a few weeks | beck. Ho met with a brilliant reception trom the Arnort } can auipping ia port, all of whic " of the occasion yivania ewly quite @ lengthy one You will have donbtless heard ere thin of the largo trad: | whichis alreaty springing np betweca Oh.s | opened Japancee port of Nagasaki. Vequta | lacquer ware, Lemp and porcelain seem Ww be ports, And now, in ending this fetter, (would say a few words in justification of the acts of one who faa latoly been moat upgenorously aud ucwuly attacked through the columns of some of our Jeading journals. [refer to Vag Officer James Armatrong, woo left this station some eighteen months since in bad heatth, after turning over th aqued rou to bis successor, Fiag Officer Jowiak Tattnall. The | Substance of these attnoks may bo summed up in a few words—for they all evidently apringfrom the aams woarce “Since the equadron has paseed from the hands of Flag Officer James Armatroug w those of Flag Olicar Josiah Tattnall,’ Baye our friend, “things have nadergone a most a 7 astovishing change. The abipa now, instead cf romai ing idle in port, are actively employed, avd thinys goverally have a different appearauce’’—or words to that «ifs. It ie wuch broadosat and apparentiy as these which often injure a fo: no ove, Tt is #0 tor of fact assertions ea offloer and bevetit ly necessary 10 remark here that they gle exception, Lotally without founda- strong is too well known to require It ls aucoubtediy true that he kept asthe writer but at the time the whole country about Caution blaze of civil aud foreign war; mitiions of dollars oriean were in peril; the lives of Amori cans in danger. And where more proper for the Amerioay commander in chief to show bh. voy fam partly induced to make these remarks by having heard our prosent Flag Ollicer express bimself rather warmly agaias.nuc iiseho!t takers, and should I be 89 fortunate as to cateh the eye of im who strove to injure ove hoacrt maa while needionsly praising another, who & ab: hin praise, it mhy bea satisfaction to him to loarn that no ‘rue man ever acowpiy praise st tho expense of & brother officer, even were the latter not equally deserving from amy one. Jacivto many months in this port, The Mississtppt on Her Way Home with tho Japanese Delegation, OUR NAVAL CORKMSPONDRNCR. Usireo Starss FRicars Missmster, Hone Koxa, Feb. 13, 1859, } Again at Hong Kong—Crew Healthy —Chinere New Year— ‘The Robbery and Murder om the American Ship Mas- A — Movements of Lord Elgin—Terges Practice—The Na- gasalci Consulship~The Germantown at Manila—About Sor Home Antics of a Yankee Caplain—-Large Dry ‘Deck at Amoy, de , de. We are again in Hong Kong, arriving here on the 8th from Whampoa, where we have spent fifty-seven as dull aud miserable days as could be well conceived. For tho last thirty days of our stop in tho river the weather had been extremely disagreeavie and cold, the sun only favoring us with its rays for three bours during that | time; previous to our leaviug fever and aguo, dysen- | tery and diarrhona had made their appearance on board; but by prompt action on the part of our medical officers, the patients are noarly all restored to health, These oficers have had a great deal to do be- sides attending om their ship's company, as there was some sickness among the shipping, and several men on shore sick, all requiring modical treatment, which was all promptly attended to, Assistant Surgeon Wales, of this ship, performed three or four very important operations among the Chineae, and one or two among the crews of the ships. Heisavery skilful young surgeon. Ho is from Baltimore, and well may she be proud of him. By the last mail I sent you the fact that the master of the Amorican ship Mastiff had been robbed, and that a part of his crew were im prison. Since that letter loft, ‘one of the crew has confessed and told the whole atory. He says that the cabin (Chinese) boy was murdered by the crew, and a stone tied to his neck and he throwa over- board; that they then stole the money out of the cabin, and not being ablo to get on shore with all of it, they buried it in the hold amongst the ballast, where about thirty sovereigns have been found. A few days after tho robbery the dead body of the cabin boy was picked up alongside of that ship. The crew was shipped ia Austra- lia, and are all Englishmen of the very worst characters, On the 8d of this month China Now Year was colebratod with considerable pomp by the Chinese of Whampoa, New- town and Bambootown, and Josh was feasted tn all sorts of manners; all the junks and boats, and the buildings on shore were pretty freely decorated off with red Josh Paper, whila all sorts of nolses were made, chin-chiniog for Josh. In the evening the feast of tho lanterns mado quite a display, and every one seemed tobe happy. Oa that day all debts must, by the Imperial laws, be paid. Accordingly, considerable money changed hanus during the day, even our little washerwomen were after us for the few coppers due them for washing, in order that they might pay off their liabilities. A rifle company has been formed on board of this ship, with the intention of celebrating our return home target excursion, while the men are waiting to be paid of. You can rest assured that it will come olf ia fine style, such ag will bea credit toour boys and the navy. When we leftthe river everything was quiet, and business at a stand still, the shipping waiting freights had all sails un- bent, and most of their crews discharged. On the 2d instant Lord Elgio arrived a! this port from Shanghae; on the 4th, he proceeded up to Canton; aa ha passed this ehip in the river we hoisted the English flag at our main, aud saluted hira with nineteen guns, which was returved from the frigato Cambrian, Ho aad Admiral Seymour baye both been on a tour of inspaction in the vicinity of Canton, The report that the distinguished gon deman had falien into the hands of the rebel party turns ovt most happily to be a false report. On our way down from Whampoa we stopped near the Boco forts and fixed at a target placed on shore, a distance of seven hundred and fifty yards from the ip, six rounds of shell and shot; in all thirty-six, was fired at the same, and twenty-nine out of the thirty-six hit the target; better shooting never was done by any ship's company attached to the United States navy, and for ehooting or drilling we challenge aay ship afloat to beat us, Weciaim the hovor of being the ANo. 1 ship’s compuny of the American navy now afloat. When the day comes for our examination by the Examin- ing Board after our return home, we anticipate that that board will be obliged to say that the Mississippi's crew, under the gallant and fatherly Nicholsou, are tho best that has ever passed an examination. Another new candidate is in the fleld for Consul at Naza- aaki. It bas leaked out recently that Capt. Johnson, of ihe American ship Invincible, of New York, now at Wham- poa, is hard at work, with the aid of certain merchants in Hong Kong, to procure the Consulship at Nagasaki, in Japan. He gays he expects that the next mait will bring him out bis appointment. It was hoped that Mr. Brown, of this ship, Captain’s clerk, would have been the succesatul candidate, and he is every way qualilied for that re- sponsible eituation. Capt. Johuson, no doubt, wiil dia- charge the duties to the satisfaction of ali, should he succeed in getting the appointment, ‘which I doubt very much, for be 13 a strong black republican. He has been away With his ship fivo years from New York on a trading voyage, aod has his wile aud child, who wag born in England, with hiro, and, to use his own langusge, he prefers Foglish rule to that of Amorican; therefore, 1 doubt very much if an American with such poe a ought to hold an office under the present aduiinis- tration. Tue Germantown’s recent visit to Manila wa: unfortunate ono. Soon aiter her arrival mto that port the cholera broke out on bourd of her, and two men died with it, one In six hours and the other in twelve. She immoviately left the port, aud started for the north, in hopes that the cold weather would clear the ship of that fatal disease, Lord Elgiaand Baron Gros are both sojourning in this harbor. The sloop Gorman town arrived in this port two days ago. We leara from her officers that the American Consul! at Mauiia (to which port she carried Lieutenant Piaco, after his fatal accident) gave up his house to the injured maaa aud doue everything | ip bis power to make him comfortable. Business is ox- tremely dull at this port; the market ig fall of money and exchange on the United States is down t) six per coat, and not many taken at that. | We will proceed to New York by the way of Cape | bgt ‘The sloop Germantown will proceed ia a few days 0 | The Pngiish journals of dong Kong soem to spouk as if | Our Consul General, Townsend Harris, Haq. Was eutitied to more praise for the compiction of the treaty between that country and Fagiand than Lora | Elgin. They state opealy in their papers that had it not | Deen for the assistance reuderad by Mr. Harris to Lord Wigin that be would wot have succesded in gottiag his treaty signed, ‘The Epgiish shipe of war spoken of in a former letter as being on shore at the north have, by the late unusual high tides ia the river, heen got off, ‘and have arrived at | Shavghae. An arrangement bas been made with the Wandarins of Fat Chan, by whith all foreigners are to ve permitted to visit ana trade in the place. Ragliah steamer Five Brothers was wrecked a few days ta what is known as the Cropchi passage, by striking « sunken rock, and has become a total wreck, Daring the year 1898 ons hundred and sixty-four Americaa veuso's arrived in Houg Kong frou New York, Boston, Baltimore and. California, the toanage of which’ amounted to on» hundred and forty vine thousand and six buadred aad sixteen tone, alrnost double that of t Britain, which was only oighty-aix vessels, toouage five hundred and thirty-one tons, The Intest di i days ago, roport the rebel party ag being quiet at ch North, e&pecially since the execution of their priveipai chief, Schu Fong, who was captured by tho imporialiat Twan, the proyiacial pacificator, who was at ooo time little ‘thought of at the north, has become quite popular very x 2 makers at the vorth, Penith of officers and men 4, Capt. Soule, of the American clipper ship Ur sby, has cut up quite a farce in Hong Kong lately) whivt he bas made himself a laughing stock te everybody, It seems that he bad tried to run his crew ashore by bard and cruel treatment, which is anid to have been of » very. haveh nature; for this the Acting Vice Consul, Mr, Ro. berts, caused him to be arrested, and ho was iried ‘and fined. This enraged the captain of the Uacle Toby to such @ degree that he was determined to avonge his supposed wrongs, and accordingly be made a brutal w Sault upon Mr. Rovers, aad then in quick daste made his eacape to Macao, out of the jurisdiction of the sh laws of Bong Kong. A warrant is out for bis arrest, and if he returns to this port he will lave to pay dearly for this wanton attack upon Mr. Roberta, Governor Sir Joba Bowring, governor of this coloay, wii be relieved ia April next; the appointmeat of his successor gives rise to @ great deal of speculation in this place, the residents of which aro auything out gatisied with theif present rulers, A large and commodious dry dock completed at Amoy, capable of taking in the Jargest merobant ships for repairs, and will be thrown open for use on the first of May next, General Keenan, Consul General of this colony, re turned to hi post a few days ago from his receat visit to the United States, aud waa warmly weloomed back by his numerous frieuds in Hong Kong ; to p visit a few dave ago, and waa welcomed seven guns. The usual civiliues have t tween Captain Nicholvon and the com the various ships of war in port, that is war about leaving station for bome. I learn that wwo of the Amorican ships now i port intend to proceed oa a speculating voyago to Japon, Yesterday we saluted Baton Gros, the French Minister, with nineteen guns, and Lave just given the Commodore a parting saiuto, aad are wow getting under way for Japan and homo, is nearly a ship of Our Bombay Correspondence, Bomnay, Fob, 9, 1859. Arrival of the United States Steamer Minnesota with Mr. Hieed—The Calumnies of the London Times Against the United States Commissioner—Lord Elgin's Tribute of Re- gard to ilim—Hnglish Self Conceit and Notions About Americo—The War in Oude— Activity of the Kast Indian Trade, de., de. Tho United, States steamer Minnesota arrived here on the 16th vit, from Point de Galle and Colombo, and has been from that time to the preseot the great atiraetion of the piace. She brought the Hon. W. B. Reed and suite, who loft this by the last mail steamer, the Northam, on their way home, via Italy, &c. Mr, Reed proposed to journey leiturely towards the United States, and reach there some time in May. It waa, assure you, a grpat source of satisfaction tothe (ew American residents of Bombay to bo enabled to learn, {rom tho partis #0 directly connected with the rocont Chinese nogotiationa, the exact amount of American success in the matior, Of course itis woll known at home with what eagerness the Fag. lish press seized upon the first intimation of anything which might by any possltility tend to detract from Mr, Reed's fair fame and Low ly joyous the London Times ‘was over ita correspondent ine letters. Puppy-dog like, a”! of Yoo Engin colonial pregges iu this part of tag ‘bampoa, where she will lay until ordered howe, | ot Japan, | and he is feasted aad otherwise idolized by the peace | uur thousand world echoed the Thunderer’s bark, ill tho nalnds of even good men were £0 thoroughly impreguatod with the idea our Plenipotentiary was but a Russian “oatspaw,’ they wore hardly willing to treat bim with commom do- cency ‘could the story of the Minnesota’s visit to Sin- Bapore be written, we fear it would not redound to the credit of mavy of the British authorities in that place. ‘To aay that the story of tho Times is false ja but a mild expression, It was one of the meanest, most ungentle- manly, coutemptible articles ever’ published; but why ‘should .we complain? Who expects to’ find in this sheet any thi honorable = whea the United States is concern But why dwell upon this longer? As Daniel Webster once said of Massnchusctts, 50 we can say of Mr. and the result will prove tuat be needs no defente at the hand of a single countryman. His dignified silence baa already done more for his vindication than pages of apgry retaliation. It is sutliciont for us to know tuat Lord Kigin’s expressions towards him wore of a kind to utterly refute the base charge of his lordship’s secretary. In parting with our Minister, he says:—‘ I am indebted to you for some of the eee hours of my fe.” A curious diplomat must Lord Elgin be to give ut- verance to such a sentiment; when Mr, Reed, ns the faith ful Zimes correspondent asserta, was doing all in his ywer to render abortive the attempts of the English tnister to form a favorable qi The English public of Bombay has been yory kind to our officers dui their stay hero, and their many little attentions will not soon be forgotten. Brother Bull has a great many good qualities; take him over his beef and beer, and a right jolly fel- low he is. His es fault {8 self-conceit, and in wo many instances it is the conceit of ignorance. He stares with wonder at the beautiful Minnesota; don’t believe at first that sho is American; thinks she must have beon bunt at Plymouth; thon she is not 3,700 tons, because the Royal Albert ship-of-the-line ip no larger; her Dahlgren guns are for nothing, because it is an exploded idea with them to use such ; the hollow shot which she throws cau't possibly any damage, as compared with precoion, a extcly ia tho way OC Nguting Eo pice, So, ion, is exactly way ing the piece, ‘All thie is very amusing, no doubt; but poor Johuny muat rub his eyes once more. Hore, especially, io India, he ia too far behind the age, and does not know that his goverument has already turn- ed out some half dozon steamers upon the same mo- de} as the Merrimac, , &o., armed with Dahl. gren guns, and throwing only bollow shot, or rather, as with us, shells. To return: it is Brother Bull’s great ene- my—this conceit—but, unfortunately, he don’t scom to know it; and tho childlike simplicity with which he puts such questions as these is really amusing. For instance, an English captata hero recontiy asked if the Mississippi river was as large as the Thames! Another wanted to know if there were many of our people now civilized | Still another, toan officer of this ship, if many Americans were as white ag he! It educated young men were very loud in their assertions that the United States tolerated the slave trade, and that slaves were constantly imported into Charleston. The best thing of all was a ques- tion put bran English divine; it was this:—‘Pray, tell me, Bir, W) language do the Americans speak?’’ All this is absurd, and doubtless many a reader thinks that the writer of these lines had an almost unlimited supply of that hand: COnmm slit enicane nadions ~ Weil, let thom think what they please; he can vouch for every one of the above statements. [Tt isso all through the world. Wherever you meet an Englishman ho is wrapped up com- pletely in his own Httle isle, and the grim cliffs against whicti the spray dashed so impotently are not more firm than he, immovable to alt that may spring into being out- side of his own narrow compass of ideas, ‘Tho war in the East is almost a dead lotter; for nearly a month we have beard of gcarcely a single engagement. ‘Tantia Topee, who a while since was supposed to be on his “ast legs,” has again escaped, and fleeing into the Nepaul country, has there been joined by Nena Sabib and sundry other of the “remnants”? of the rebellion. In fact, the war in Oude scems to be extinguished, at least for a time, Although there are many rebeis still in arms, yet, with- out leaders, aud thorougtily disorganized, there is little to fear from them, save ag bands of robbore; and even in sucha manner of warfare, in face of the numerous co lumns of English soldiery, there ia little to fear. It is hoped and believed that Nepaul will not long remain an asylum for theee outcasts, Already Sir Jung Bahadoor bas proclaimed against them, and will deliver to British authority apy who may fail into hie hands. It is curious t note the effect of all this upon trado— road@ have been opened, accumulated stocks of produce reieased, bullocks and carts which had boen monopolized by government for transport of stores, &c., set free, and an impetus given to the business of this place really won- derfat. . Ih is estimated that the lineced crop of Bombay will fully equal this year that of Calcutta. Other oil seeds, such ag rape, mustard, poppy, gingelly and teci, are in great sup- ply, and the cotton crop is roughly caiculated at from 700,000 to 1,000,000 balea—more than double that of any former year. We certainly hope there isa good time coming for shipping in these paris. It is really astonishing te seo the vast amount of pro- duce daily pouring into Bombay. I don’t thiak ft is gono- rally known in America—ecarcely imagined, yet true, nevertheless, that Bombay will have, ero ten years have passed, the largest trade of any port east of the Cape of Good Hope, . NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. {From the Rotterdam Courant, April 5.] Returus of trade have been received at the Department of ihe Colonies from the Commissioner for the Nether- sands, at Nagasaki, Japan. Nov. 3, 1868,—Suiled, the British schooner Vindex, for orem with about 600 boxes wax, Iaquered ware and porcelain. Nov. 10.—Arrival of American clipper ship Florence, 1,200 taps, from Shanghae. This ship, together with the following British aud Amorican ships, were allowed to trade under the additional stipulations, Noy. 14.—Arrival of the American clippor Aun, 600 tons, with 100 Chineso sheep for the governinent of Japan. This vessel sailed for Shanghaeon the 17th November. Nov. 25,—Arrival of tho Britigh schooner Viadex, from Shanghae, with sapanwood, tin, broadcloth, cotton goods, und Chinese medicines, Nov. 28.—Arrival of the Dutch ship Oldeubarneveld, Hock master, from Batavia; cargo, sundries. Dec. 1.—Arrival of the American clipper Aun, from Shaughae, with sapanwood, rhubarb, sugar, and sun- iries. Dec. 9.—Sailod, the Vindex, for Shanghae, with wax, sundries, and samples. », Dec. 20 —Sailed, the Oldanbarneveid, for Batavia, with tles, copper ware, silks, &c. Dec. %4.—Arrival of the Vindex, from Shanghae, Uip, lead, dyestuil, cloves, pinaug, toriowe shell, wood, rhubarb, woollen goods, watchos, &c. Jon. 4, 1869 —Sailed, the American clipper Ann, for Shanghae, with coal, rice, rapesced, camphor, soya, lac- juered ware aud porce' Arrival of the American schooner Maria, from Shang- nae, with sapan wood, logwood , bevelauts, and cateciu. Arrival of the Britiah ship Henry Collie, from Ninxpo, with Chinese avd Spanish goods, woollen goods, atpaca, solored cotton goods, rhubarb, cloves, catechu, vermil- ‘on, indigo, aniseed, cinnamon, nutmegs, lemon peel, me- tickies, candies, &0, Jan, 6.—Arrival of tho British ship Versailles, from Shongbee, with sapauwood. Jan. 10 Arrival of the Satevia, with sundries, Arrival of the Dutch schooner Anna and Jacob, from Amsterdam (late from Hong Kong), with sundries. Jao. 12—Arrival of tue British ship Egmond, from suanghae, cargo not known. Jan. 19-—Arrival of the British echooner Edmont, from shanghue, cargo not known. Jan, 20.—Arrival of the American schooner Fernando Je Morzagavat, from Sbanghae, with Chinese sugar, sapan. wood, rhubarb, &e. Advices bad deem received from the United States Con- 11 General, dated, Simova, Dec. 16, 1858, according to sick uo foreign vessels hat visited taat port. “Dutoh sip Gelderland, from Matrimonial Items, DIVORGK CASES IN INDIANA. Hon. G. S. Orth, saya the Lafayette ([ad.) Journal of he 25th inet., held a “ Divorce Court’ tor Judge Test om saturdey, and made the following decrees :— onlsea ys, Coulsen; divorco at plaintiff's (husband) wosts, Cause—Incompatibility of tempor. Marshall vs. Marshall; divorce at defondant’s cost; $1,000 alimony granted to the plaintiff, with the custody 4 the children, The defendant is Robert Marshall, of this city, who is serving outa term of imprisonment in the penitentiary for passing counterfoit money, Traband ve. Traband; divorce at defendant’s (Aaus- band) cost—custedy children given two pialatiif, Cause—Abandooment and druakenness. Shigley vs. Shigley; divorce at plaintif’'s (husband) cost. Cause—Incompatibility of temper. Blickerstul vg. Bickerstaff; divorces at defendant's (husband) costs $260 alimony for plaintiff. Cause— Abandonment. Garth vs. Gurth; divorce at plaintiff's (wife) cost ; ustody of children given to the wife. Causc—Abandon- ment and drunkenness. The cases of Allen va. Allea, Etisworth va. Eilsworth, Cuuridge vs. Claridge, and Young vs, Young, are still held uuder advisement. A LARGE DIVORCE DOCKET. The Goshen (fad) Democrat says that tho divorce oket of Elkhart county has enrolled the names of thirty. ppheants for disanion and seccession from the state irimoDy, KPLOIT OF A KENTUCKY The Louievillo Journal relates hich ocurred some five mil mn the river road, on Thuraday evoniog tast, in sbich an interesting wud refined Kentucky lady sv. verely whipped @ husvand whow she tad disoa Jot parties beivg present at a trial before a Jus f the Peace, ehe seoretly ordered her negro boy w wabited he Loree attached to the buggy in which the hay. aud bad Gome, 80 as to prevent bis othold of the whip of heputy Soorut tito, without ex: Dg any SuEpicion eto her intentions, awaited the exit ber busband from the temple of justice after the termi- vation of the trial. As soon as he stepped out she com- megeed belaboring him uumercifuily with the whip. Ho made good time to the buggy, pursaed by her, but to his chagrin he found his horao wahitched, and returning, stiil Pursued by Ler, ho called upon the olficora for protection. “he protestod agninat any interference, remarking that he Usd a Set of cceth In bis mouth that wero paid for by her, and #be waated io get ihem, RLOPEMENT. Mrs. Isadore Paulin, formerly of St. J ) Mo., = lady about forty, uncomely, pitted by stnallpox, and indoed to be pitied, hos eloped with her husband's olork, a more bey of twenty etx, loaving hor husband to regret ber ab- sence, that of bis little girl taken with thom, the loss of quite @ large sum of money, and the aid wabt of grati- tude manifested by the youth, whom Mr. Panlin had ADY. a “rich affair,” above Loaiay treated like an indulgent parent, all unconacious that be was harboriog a serpent. A MISTAKE. Aman tiving’ near Nashville, who bad been abeont in California #ome three years, on coming home recently found « babe only three months old lying in the crate, With a cruelty utterly diabolical, he at once ent off the in- fant'a ears to avenge his “wounded honor.” ‘Thessreauns of the little sufferer called in the family, when the inf. riated man learned that the child belong to a noignbor who was visiting hie wifo. He had to floo to escape a lynehing. A Srixe ny Mounpers.—The moulders in the em- ployment of Messrs. Quackenboss & Waeaon, in Albany announce ia «card that they have steuck for the rato ot wages paid in 1857, before the panic, aud against ro. ceiving Orcers as pay. cape, and Oaviog | THE JUNIOR MUTINEERS. Sentence of the Tate. Mutincers tn PLUMER'S ADDKESS TO THR 5 May iT PLease Taw CovrT:—I am asked if I have aay- thing to say why sentence of death should not be upon me, Ibave much toeay. ButI will not detain Court long. I will not enter juto arguments hore Pronounced or executed upon — those reasons moro Tutt Gatbiaed, oat al delieviny frieuds, berealter, and sustained by evidence, tatlfy, not simpy tho contmumity, but she cheties mee eatisfy, not simply the communi ut the District At- forney’ and above all, the Proeidact of the Ui in whoge hands rest, that bs hogrod of justice and the interests of ol marine, moted by inflicting upea my law. _T object to sentence of lst. Because T am not Archibald Melien. fis bl night, as they are known ant lic in nesses and prisoners now in ji reached and fully Jaid before’ the appear—First, That I and others wont cabin of the Junior that night, not with committing murder, but for the erg aud securing the captain and certain that ship. It would appear—Secondly, that at first accidental, and arose from a plans agree ope, and that the shot which I, the cabin, fired in the dark (as is evident from in the captain’s etateroom, as to where the the gun struck, and can be sustained by the “opinions of Capt. Gardner, who brougat the trom Bidney, and who slept in the same berth Captain Mellen, and whore affidavit is in that the shot w! [fired did not hit nor wou Meilen, and could not have done 0. thirdly, that the death of Captain Mellen was caused ‘wounds inflicted with a hatchet in the hands of another person, who went into the captain’s stateroom, and who, ogke i tetthts fs il E : alti E HG = sf afterwards, coming on deck, gtated to another person that T “misred the captain, but that he did not tm,” and poastingly showed the blood on his Guerngey frock, apg ‘it was the captain’s blood, and that he was a butek. er.’ That man is Charles L. Fifleld, whom I generous ly but bavi, screened from suspicion by assuming his crime, that he might remain in the ship, because bo came to. me in toars and told mo he dared not ; a shore with the other men with whom he had q i led, and who abhorred him and his conduct, Ibave v:oa convicted by the perjury of that mau, who, coming hoi without suspicion, has thoroughly exposed his basenuss by throwing himself under the protection of the govern- ment, aud partially confessing his guilt hag wic! sworn his Own crime on my head. [objeot, therefore, first, to the sentence of death being passed upon me, be- cause I am not guilty of the murder charged upon me. I object, secondly and strongly, because the real culprit— the most guilty person in my judgment—the one whose contriving brain and intriguing heart wore the instigating cause of tho conspiracy and mutiny on board the Juaior, would not be reamed io my person. Could all the men who were on board the Junior on the morning of the 26, of December, 1857, be found, and thelr testimony ob- tained, or even perhaps without that, could all the facte and originating causes of what occurred on the night of the 25th of December, as they are known and lie in the minds of some, pernaps mauy of the prisoners and witneesos in this matter, now in the jail im this city, be fully ascertained and laid before the Court, i believe and maintain that it would sppear that none of the forecastile and stecrage men, none of the sailors on board that rere heey he over fori conceived of, designed or attem, execu e@ couspiracy, eer and murder with which some of them now stand charged, had they not believed, and bad reason to believe, that one of the officers of the ehip was privy to their pur- , hd would in several ways, disect and indirect, ald 5 its execution. Could all the facts aad the whole truth be ascertained, it would shear that the ro he of this officer with the events of night of the 26th of Docom- ber, was the real instiguting and cucouraging cause of those events, while at the samo time this complicity, ow- ing to a misapprehension which aroge at the moment, wag the incidental cause of the deaths ixflicved, and of tne da- raogement of a!) intended subsequent plans. I object, therefore, to sentence of death boing passed upou me, because 1 believe the ends of justice, and the apd aecurily of the best interests of tae commercial ma- rine, make it the duty of the goverument to probe this matier more deeply than has yet been done, and that in so doing they would reach the great culprit, the and instigating source of the crime that was committed, ia one of the officers of the sbjp, who deserves punighmeat more than myself or any other man belonging to tho ship. To prove clearly to the Court and to the world that I could not have originated the design to seize that ship and murder her oflicers, I have only point to the record made in the log book after I left the ship, which admits and declures that my know. ledge of navigation was not suflicient to carry me to any place to which I might wish tw go. But, still, 1 probably knew more of navigation than auy person on board ex. cept the captain and mate, The provivence of God is in that record, aud it as clearly points to the bage origiaator of the routiny ae it turns the suspicion and the odium of the design away from me. And whileI cannot and witl not attempt to justity myself for participating, eveu to the shghtest degree, in the plans proposed w me, und maintain that if proper moavs are used by the go ment, the grestest criminal will be brought to justice, others will be saved trom punishments they do ‘not de- serve, and my memory, if tho laws and society mexorabiy demand my death, will be relieved of the atrocitica at Present attaching t my mame through the perjury and collusion of those who have heaped crimes upoa my head which I never committed, aut put fiendlike language inte my mouth which I uever conceived of, nor uttered, Thirdly and lastly, I object to sentence of death being paseed upon me, because while] am guiltless of taking life, used my best efforts to preserve tife, and did in two or move ‘uetances actually preserve it, and through that pre- servation of Ife, was instrumental ‘in preserving property and restoring it to tae owners. Withous going into aa enu- meration of all the causes ana intluences which placed me in that position, L admit that allér the moraing of the 26th of December, 1857, L was at the head of the company on board the ship Junior, and had command of the ship and men, having been pl im that command by others without any previous arrangement, design, or solicitation of my own. “And I maintain that all my power and infla- in that position, aud up to the time at which I left were used and exerted to prevent bloodshed, to prevervo lifo, to restrain thieving, to protect property, and. that my influeuce did actually preserve the lives of two of the officers of the ship—Mr. Lord and Mr. Provost; and notwithstanding what has been said to the contrary, as I have lourned, by the counsol for my fellow prisoners, iu the trial which Closed yesterday, 1 maintain that, afver I was vested with authority, no act of mine, a8 commander of that ship, can be adduced—as my fellow’ prisoners, if al- lowed to wstify, would bear atrong witness—which would justify the agsertion that I was imperious, tyrannical or oppressive, or that [ exercised my authority in any way but what was necessary to preserve peace and order on board the ship. Peace und order I did preserve; life I did protect; and al! parties—my fellow prisonors, the rest of the sbip’s company, and the owners of the proporty—in- stead of accusing me of an abuse of power, have reason to thank me for tue way in which I used my power. Those who know all the facts, and are true to ir Own con- sciences, I believe do thank me. In view of these fi 1 maintain what T know t be my real cha- racter, that I am not the bloodthirsty man that the law would make me out to be, and that the ents of justice and the security of life aud’ property im the commercial merine, under sitailar circumstances, would not be promoted, but jeopardized by passing and executing sentence of ocath upon me. Let that senteaoo be executed, axd hereafter, whenever any man is ia the position in which I placed om the morning of the 26th of December, 1867, he will remember that “dead men tell po tales,” and will be by tho remem. Dranee of my fate to uge his autbority, not w preserve bub Wo destroy life, and sink or destroy property, These are my Feasons. Guiitless of bloodshed, led into crime by in- trigne, and (as J believed then, and maintaia aow, was the fact) by the complicity of one of tha officers of tho ehip with the enterprise, asing my inflveuce and authonty after it was tharst upon me to preserve life and property, Telaim that the scatence of death ought. not to bo jasesd nor exeeuted upon me, Thes is all I have to Tthank the honorable Court for the opportunity to aay this, The experience of the last fiftecn montas—ogpecially of the Jawt four monthr—bas not been without its inflaence upon my rater, Lam deeply seustbie of iny poaition, oma responsibility uuder which I speak. Bath ¢ Gol, who is tobe my jadge,on my honor as atesn,on my faith as a bumble and penitent bellever in the Lord Jesi Christ, through whom [hope for meroy, 1 are Uuat I believe that all Lhave uttered is tie trata, On tbat treth Tobject to the sentence now tw be passed, TR DEATH SENTENCE. Judge Clifford then addressed tho prisoner, Cyrus W. Plumer, preliminary to passing seutence upon hire, He reviewed the cirorimetances of his arrest, arraignment, examination and trial, with its forms and incidents, Ho hai been tried as he had sected, before God and tue coun try, and he waa now leg coovicted of the murder of Archibald Mellen. His crime being estabiisnod, he cast now oxpinte it as the law provides. He exirosed no in ention, in reverting to his crimo and triai, to narcow his feelings, but only to show that he nad the privileges te which he was entitied. Ono privilege was atiil left nim, & priceless boon, which had been denied to tne victita of Pir aed ~ eee would forewara hiv of iw exe. ution, aud ive him time to preprra to moet his God. Archibald Mellen had no such ivinee, but when bia murderer stolo softly to his berth and inilioted the Catal wound, ho awoke to flad himself iw the agonies of death: Ho urged him to direct hia mind to @ pre aration for death. Hie concluding words were ae follow :=~ All that now rewaing for the Uoart wo do is to pro- bounce upon you the last words of the law. It is con. sidered upon by the Court, that you be taken back to the piace where 730 havo been conflaed you remain there till Friday, the 24th day of Vetweon the hours of eloven o'clock in the fo and ove o'clock ia the afternoon, and that you be then taken to tho place of execution, and banged by the neck till you are dead, And may God have mercy upoa your soul! During the delivery of this sentence Piamor was adeoted to tears, At ita conclusion be was taken from tue court room and remended to jail. Judge Spraguo then proceeded to geateace upom Carther, Herbert and Stauloy, bar After rome prelimioary remarks, be said that the Court bad heard no evidence or arguments to show exteonating OF WING M4g CKCUmatANGS, Tuy soutuues Was lumbed Og