The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1859, Page 4

Haseown all toe seeds of hor present troubles, and it ‘Would be an interference with the most righteous ‘laws of Providence to interfere to shield ber from the conse- Ba on hee oF pees ae jy when the comsequ:nces of Fronch om and let any m nisery that repudiated at once, THE RIGHTS OF NEUTRALS. [From tbe Paris Moniteur, May 2: By acircular dated the 3d of May bis Excellency the Miniter for Fc Affairs has requested ali the diplo- ‘Matic agents of Emperor to deliver to the govern mente to which they are accredited an official note, with the object of announcing to them that the government of his Imperial Majesty had given to the commanders of bis land and naval forces the necessary instructious that they , during the present war, Ps gel the territories, navi- gation and commerce of neutral powers; and also ob- Serve, particularly with regard to the States which ad- here to them, the principles consecrated by the declara- tion of the Congrese of Paris of the 16th April, 1856, The Pirdmrntese Gazitte of May 21, containd a declara- tlon appouncivg that the principle? of maritime law ‘eed upon at the Congress of Paris 0« the 16th of April, 1866, are recognised by Sardinia durio the present war, [From the Manchester Guardiau, May 25 ] The Foreign Office bave announced, in reply to a mer- cantile inquiry, tbat the Tuscan provisional government baving sent its army to join the French aud Piedmontese, while Leghorn bas been occupied by French troops, Tas. cany most be deemed a belligerent country, and that nou- trals carrying contrabaud of war to her ports will be Mabie to the rieke pointed out in the recent prociamation. NEUTRAL ORDER OF THE SWISS COUNCIL. ‘Tho Swiss Fedora! Council, axxious that the war in Italy Should not infringe upon the nuvrality of Switzerland, ia sued the following orders at Berne op 2lat of May:— 1, The expors of arms and of any munition of war over the Swiss Italian frontier is interdicted. The accum tion of such articles near the Italian frontier is likew Prohibitec In cage of actin, a this order all wares Of the kind above mentioned will be confiscated. 2 Arme brovght from Italy into Swiss territory by fu- tives, deeerters, or in apy other will be seques. ated; except weapons carried by travellers provided With regular parsoorta, or by thore fugitives who imme diately go on to the interior of Switzerland. ‘8. Al! fugitives sha!l be directed to a canton which is in cance frem the Italian froatier, and wili have to remain there. Old men, women, children ant sick Persons shall be treated with due regard concerning this 4. The ‘ng of persons able to bear arme in order to frum the tertitory of one belligerent power to, that of the other is, in ali cantons joining to, Italy, interdictod Shouid tbe introdere not go back, they are to be ordered inte the interior of Switzerland. Ali deserters or fugitives who do not keep quiet will be expelled. THE NEUTRAL ATTITUDE OF GERMANY. The following 3 the text of the declaration made to the Federal Diet by M. d’Usedom, relative to the proposition of Hanover to piace an army on the Rhine:—Already in the sitting in which the proposition of tue Hanoverian government was made, the Prussian Earoy, order of his government, protested energ: against it, and be stili maintains that protest But bis government rees no formal objection to its being brought im due course before the Miltary Commitee. Prussia having repeatedly given a positive assorance to her German confederates while making considerable arma- ments, that in case of need she would pat out her whole strength and go far beyond her federal obligations to de. fend the safety and independenc» of Germany, the Prus. sian government, with a special consideration to the pecu- Mar position in which another great German Power is placed ip consequence of the war in Italy, has a righi to g expect that its other German confederates will leave to it | ‘the initiative of adopting euch military measures as may be required. This is the means for obtaining the neces. sary unity to ceal with the question successfully. The Prossian goverument canvot give its approval to any pro- position which anticipates events, and exceeds the limite of the federal right, and, to ite great regret, it will flad itself obliged always to protest witn the same energy against proporitions of such a nature, ‘The Munich Gazette, of the 19th of May, says:— An Austrian corps d’armée of 40,000 men, who are on heir way from Bohemia to the Tyrol, will be conveyed om the Bavarian’ reilway from Moff to Tanvypruck. These troops will not_ make apy stay in Bavaria, but will only stop at the principal stations to receive provisions, THE PORT OF TRIESTE. Maxoussrex, 4 Cooper Street, May 18, 1859. Dear Sin—You will be fully aware of the very animated commercial intercourse between this community abd ths free port of Trieste,and without entermg into a detaiied explanation on the importance of same to the merchauts of our city. we beg to appeal to your kind offices to ascer tain from the Secretary of Foreign Atfairs, on bebalt of this our commercia! commun'ty at large, whetber any officiai assurance or explanations bave been received from French government that they will cousider the free port of Trieste ae belonging to the German Confederatioa,and will consequently, allow merchspdise on ships sa ling under the Engliah fieg, and not carrying contraband of war, to enter the said free port unmolested. It appears to us most robabie that atsurances to this eflect have been receivad oes the Pees government in order to frustrate any pretence of the German Confederation to take a hostile part against France in the present war; and we hopethat the Secretary of Fore'gn Affairs will beat liberty to answer the above question, and thus to confer a great boon upon 8 large proportion ‘of the commercial community of this country. If your efforts to procure the above information should be successful, you will, by giving tome publicity, coafer great favor upon commercial men of this coasnuo ity. Pray excuse us troubling you with this request; and be- eve us, dear sir, youre most respectfully. HERMANN, SAMSON & LEPPOC, J. A. Torwer, Eeq., M. P. Forenan Orrick, May 20. 1859. Sir—I bave laid before the karl of Malmesbury your Jetter of the 18th inst., enclosing a letter from Measrs Sameon & Leppor, requesting you to ascertain whether | any official atsurances or explanations have been received from the French government that tney will consider the Free port of Trieste as Velonging to the German Contedera. tion, and will, consequently, allow merchandise or ships, sailing under the English flag, and mot carrying contraband Of war, to enter the said free port unmolested, T am to state to you, ia reply, that her Majesty's government have recvived mo such explanations or as- surances From the French government; on the other hand, they bave received no intimation of the port of Trieste being placed under blockade. 1am, sir, your most obe- dient, bumble servant, E. HAMMOND. J. Asprvatt Tuner, Esq., M. P. SPEECH OF CARDINAL WISEMAN. THE POPE, THE ITALIAN WAR AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. A bazaar was opened in the Leeds Town Hall, May 23, baving for its object the assistance of the building fund of the Female Orpbunage, wo be erected on Mount St, Marie's, eds. His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman opened the bazaar,and was accompanied by Dr. Briggs, Bishop of Beverley; Dr. Rogkell, Bisnop of Liverpool; the Hon. and Right Rev. Dr, Chisford, Biehop cf Clifton, and Dr. Amherst, Bishop of Nottingham. Tbe following canons were also’ preseat:— Revs. M. Fisher, Shetfield ; Iingworth, Halifax, and Thomp- 00, Pontefract, other ecclesiastics and gentry pre fent included tbe Hon. and Rev. Etmund Stoner, London; Lord Herries, Hon. H.C. Maxwell, Mr. Edmund Waterton, Walton Hail:’ Sir William Lawsou, Peter Myddelton, Esq.) | Myddlewn Iodge, &e. A little after unree o’clock Cardinal Wiseman ascended the orcheetra in the Town Hall, having travelled by spe- cial train from London for the purpose. His Eminence, in his accrees, adverting to the prezent position of Italy, taid:—The Boly Father bas kindly forwarded, through my. hands, a cameo for the purposes of this bazar. Jetters, also, which ahow that His Holinese has expressed the warmest interest in this undertaking. (Hear. This is & moment to him (the Pope) of great anxiety. (Hear, hear.) There is much more dweliing upop his thoughts now than the ordinary cares of government or the usual rale of the church; and yet, notwithstanding the great events which are taking piace in bis neighborhood, and the doubtful com Plicity of affairs in hes own dominions. and the fear in which Kevinght naturally be suppwet to be, either on one side or anctier, or the canses of collisvm which may spring up, etil! be was able to turn bis thoughts, nis strong pa ternal feeling mind, nis deep fatherly affection, towarde the orphens, the little ones of Leeds—(oenr, hear)—and, forgetting for the moment every other cure, he gands to you this token of bis regard, (Hear, bear.)’ Within these few days, I have seen persons who have conversed with the Holy Father in the course of the last weel: and ali with one voice bave assured me that he is trauquil, ua- moved by ali that is passing, s6 though he bad no p-rson- al ingercet in it, His remark was:— Whether in Rome or in chile, whether free or in prison, Tam the same. I shall still be the vicar of Christ, and the Hea of the church.” Tbaye reaton to kpow (sali the Cardial, in conclu- sion) from étatistics! facts which have come to my know- leege within the last three or four days, that we have ‘been most crucliy treated with regard to the education of Catholic orphaos; that thove funds which are supposed to be available for their support, and not to he turned to aug other use, are becoming, and are at this moment, a terri- ble means tor the perversion of many of our children, re could give you facts and (igures which I believe would na- tonith you, a8 tothe exteutto which the hae been car. ried; but there 1s @ determined spirit aroused amonget Ca. tholics to persist in investigating every case, to bring to ¢ he light every attempt to play false with the little snos that belong to us; and I hope before long these determined sounds will unite, and will be beard almost amultaneousiy over every town and city and bamiet in England, and swell the cry for justice 80 that it can no longer ve re! (Hear, hear.) The Cardival concluded with a few remarks on \ocal matters. About one hundred gentlemen subsequently partook of ‘8 déijetimer ip the refreshment roo of the fown Hall.J 1. Holdforth, Feq., J. P., intoe chair, Cardinal Wiseman was present, but no toasts were given, nor were any #pecciee made, POSITION OF TURKEY IN THE WAR. The London Jimes of tae 26th of May allutes to designs on the part of the Viceroy of Egypt to tuke advantage of any disturbance which may arise ip Tur sey, for tue par- pore of obtaining, if not independence, at least a larger measure of suthority. It then goes On to eay that the influence of France for the moment is mupreme, bu! that England will ail of mo eijiing in this mailer The slightest tign of « disposition to evade the treaty of 1840, it adds, will brmg upon the Viceroy the whol weight of England’s power. We bold Walta and Corfu on toe one side, Bombay and Aden on the other, and fleets and armies will advance from either quartr to bring an ambitious risler a SC TOG30N. A Constuntinople letter aseorte povitively that a geueral 4 ary Moveront 1 organized tarougiont Lop Drovincer wn bre re umpire. It is aup 4 by foreign nego. The Tarkish govert@ment 1. at ™ We power topeevent the dan e ring wore demtroyine the Austrian tele. , » thereby cutting off communication be- Rafura. and The Russian General, Louis Menschikot!, had arrived at ‘Constant , bis ostenzibie business being the inatallu’ ticn of the ewian Patriarob. . The Emperor of Russia is said to have written an anto eersph Jetter to the Sultan filled with expressions of (rant. enip, ieavowing all ideas of aggression, and asanrine Dim that ho will taco’ oaré thas the evouw passing mn bu- pope chal a no way sllbos his intercass. Thave | NEW The Financial Effect of the War in Europe. Insolvent Governments Looking for Loans— How France, Austria and Sardiola Re- spectively Raise the Funds—Suspension of Specte Payments in Austrian and Sardinia, and the Pawning of the Crown Jewels of the House of Hapsburg—lmmense Depsec= elation of Government Secarities ia Eag- jand and on the Continent—Finauclal and Commerciai Failares—Revolution in Mai- ters of Finance=Rise and Falt of Great Bankers, &e., &e. ‘The mest serious consideration connected with the ex isting war in Europe is not what territorial change may be affected by it, not what thrones may be overthrown or what dynasties rooted out, but what practical effect wil it have on the progress and prosperity of the peopic whose governments are, or may become, involved in it?— how will it bear upon their trade, their resources, their finances?—will it, or will it not, shut up the workshops of Europe, fuin the cities and impoverish the peasautry? That is rouily the most important subject of inquiry, and one which, far above the “pomp and circumstance of glo rious war,” ehould force itself upon the attention of all intelligent minds. Our own opinion is that the nancial revolutions that will grow out of this Italian war will be more momeotous than any political revolutions or changes that it may pro- duce, The people of the present generation are happily but little familiar with the financial effects of groat wars. All the departments of business have been carried on for the Inst forty years on what may be designated the peace basis. But when the crash of war resounds through. out Evrope—wher France and Austria, and Russia and Italy, and, it may be, England and all Germany—are on gaged in the struggie, and have to strain every nerve to sustain themselves—then the peace basis of business transactions is at an end; and thenoeforth everything is done on a war currency. To use « familiar illustration that can bo easily understood here, we might say that Europe before the war, and Europe during the war, will occupy, in regard to its floances, just the same relative position as is occupied by a railroad company whoso stock is at or near par, and (hat same company when its stock dopreciates to ten or five per cent. [Europe is just coming to that, Tho various governments, like go many insol- vent railroad companies, are in the, market beg- ging for means to carry on their operations; but most of them find that capitalists turn a dosf ear to their representations, button up their pockets and | refuse to advance any more funds to such ricketty con- cerns. The alarm of the Furopean capitalists in regard to the | existing etate of affairs originated with that hostile and offensive speech made by Louis Napoleon to Baron Hubner, the Austrian representative at Paris, on the occasion of the New Year’s levee. That speech appeared to fore- shadow so significantly the course of events that have been since developed, that no sagacious mind could fai! to perceive the importance of it. Its effect was general and | Prompt. Capitalists and statesmen distinctly saw in it the | shadow of the war cloud. Capitalists and speculators and | business men immediately proceeded to retrench, and to | | observe more than ordinary caution in their transactions, while on the other hand the governments procoeded openly to arm for war, and to increase immensely their budget of expenses, Perhaps the first real manifestation of insecurity aud alarm in financial circles was that attending the e‘fort of Austria, to rajize a small loan of thirty millions of dollara. The Rothschilds, who were chaged with the | lean, found it no easy matter to induce popular faith in the security offered. The political atmosphere was too murky just then to warrant a belief in the continuance of fair weather. So they thought they would wait to see the effect of Louis Napoleon's speech to the Corps Lagis Jatif on the opening of the session. The speech wi that could be desired in the interests of peace; but the impreesion prevailed that it was insincere, and that the Emperor of the French, while he talked peace, meant war, And 50, instead of confidence being reatored by the speach, the belief in war was strengthened. Capitalists declined to go into the Austrian speculation; the loan failed ; the Rothschilds euffered a lows of prestige; and, a8 the last desperate resource of Austria, the metallic reserve in the Bank of Vienna was seized, specie payments were suzpended, government rites officially falsified, a forced loan of $37,600,000 i YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1859. TRIPLE SHEET. Ciated with dag and Medito rauoan trade. Tuose, Low ever, tions oO the coming storm. Waen it comes, @mert every department of flaauce aud industry in Europe will be prostrated, Te cannot be otherwise, Hach of the governments that has gono into this war has found its revenaes inatequble to its wants io time of peace. The war will augment their expenditures four or five fold; aud where is tue money to come from? The bankers will not advauoe it, It must come out of tho pockets of the people, in the sbape of forced loans or voluntary contributions, Tho dedtof France, prior to this lust loan of £100,009,000, was seventecu bondred millions of dollars, Tae debs of Fngland waa about two aud a half times that of Fro or, say four thousand millions of dollars, Botd debts 0’ for the moSt part, be by the people of the respecdve countries, The title holders of the Kagtish debt number 209,000 persons; those of the French debt aeariy four times that oumber—viz ; 1,008,682 persons. Tae poy larity of the war in France, aad the dence of the Freoch people in the government, are exhibited in the fact that for the loan of a hondred millions asked from the people to earry oa the war, the subscriptions amounted to four hundred aad sixty millions, offered by 525,000 subscribers. Ausivia, on the other hand, flads neither capitalis's nor people willing to come to her aid in the matter of money. Sho says tbat she wants a loan of a hundred millions, but conjesées that it 1s impossible for her to get it. Sie there- fore orders the national bank to issue notes to tho ) government for twothirds of the amount, and re- | impored on the Towbardo Venetian kingdom —a dependency which will probabiy pass from under the House of Hapeburg in the course of the present year—and the following financial decrees issued :— | 1. The income tax of the third class is to be retained by the pey office immediately upon the interest on the public funds being paid. 2. A loan of 200,000,000f1. is ordered, but as it fs for the | present imporsible to contract it, the National Bank will advance two-thirds of the nominal value ef the loan ia | new notes. | 3. The third decree releases the National Bank for the present frdin the obligation of meeting its notes by spacie | payments, 4. The fourth decree orders that duties and certain ex cise dues muet for the future be paid in silver, or in pay- able coupons of the national loan. But it was wben the existence of the secret treaty be- | tween France and Ruesia became known that the alarm in | financial circles became most intense. What the effect of that news, and of the almost simultaneous intelligence that | the Austrians bad crossed the Ticino and invaded Sardi nia, was throughout Europe generally, may be eetimated in a measure by {ts effect in England. Tho English consols fell in one day 33, per cent, representing @ depreciation of a hundred and forty million of dollars, although England | Was then in no way mixed up in the dispute, and has since | officially declared its neutratity. The French rentes fell 5 | Percent. Between the 2d and 2th of April, Russian 43, | Per cent stock fell from 100 to 87; Sardinian stock, from | 81 to 65; Turkish 6 per cent loan, from 934 to 7; while | Austrian 6 per cent stock was quoted as low [as 49. Within one week some fifty stock brokers on the London Exchange failed to meet their liabilities. The depreciation of government securities in England'was estimated at $350,000,000, and of all other securities ata like sum. A similar effect was produced on the Paris Bourse, while in Berlin and Vienna, and other continental centres, a complete derangement of financial | | matters was the reault. A few facts will illustrate the extent of these failures, One defaulter on the London Stock Exchange agreed to pay 25 per cent of his liabilities, and that per centage amount. ed to $125,000, His creditors, therefore, suffered to the extent of three times that sum, Lioyd, Beilby & Oo., of London, a house that was largely evgazed in the Australian trade, failed, with ligbilities amounting to over $700,000. The immediate caee of this etoppage was ascribed to the curtailment of aasistance during the war crisis by the banks which had been in | the babit of discounting for the firm. $250,000 wag required for the ensuing two monthe, but not more than half that sum could he obtained, or sufficient for one month only; and it was immediately determined to suspend Four yeare ago the capital of Mr. Lioyd was estimated at $350,000 to $00,000, and his private expenditure sinos then bas not exceeded $7,500 per annurh, In answer toa question, it was mentioned that there are some liabilities for Stock Exchange speculations, but as they are not re- cognized as legal they do not appear in the account, In examining the books no losses appear to have beou expe- rienced by speculation White & Co., of London, bankers and East India army ‘Sgents, went down about the same time, with large liabili- ‘ies, and there were also serious fullures in the iron trade in Birmingbam. That trade, notwithstanding recent Symptome# of resuscitation, continues much depressed. On the 14tb ef May Messrs. Cresswell & Son, ironmasters, of Tipton, stopped payment, their obiigations exceeding $306,000, The Credit Mobilier in France falied to meke its annual dividend, on the ground that it would be more pradent to appropriate ite surplus means to making good the de- Preciation of its securities, | One of the oldest bouses in Vienna—the house of Arn- Stein & Eekeles—went down in the firet crash of the war news. Its liabilitien were siste? at over teo iillions of dollars, out of which the creditors were not likely to get | §0 much 330 percent, This firm tad @ sort of official goarantee about it; for in 1818 it waa assisted by ao ad- vance from the government. Some of the best assets, to the amount of nearly $2,000,060, had been pledged to the National Bapk by Baron Fakeles. The tosaes fol) Prins pally upon the connections of the.establishment Viroughout the Austrian provinces. ‘The baukibg firm of Wolf & Co., of Berlin, hitherto in | rood credit and with extensive transactions, also suc. | combed to the shock. §o did the banking house of | Tntteroth at Trieste, Tbe snspension of this house in re. | Presented as being a still greater calamity then that of the house of Arnstein & Eakeles at Vienng, The firm enjoyed a European reputation, and the last commercial , crisis did not shake #. The head of the house, M. H. Lovteroth, is Congul General of Prussia, and director of the Austrian Lloyd’s at Trieste, Besides all (ese Gawucial #hocks, there bave been some comparatively unimportant euspension in ranches ago. | uscfal and couse + Jeases the bank from redeeming {ts notes with spec The Emperor has even found himself roduced to the hu- miliating necessity of pawning the crown jewels for the trifle of sixteen millions of dollars. The total debt of Aua- tris in 1856 was $1,208,000,000, but ber anuual defict was going om at the rate of some thirty millions a year. ‘When it is remembered that the estimated expsnse to Austria of carrying on this war is set down at from three hundred to three hundred and fifty millions of dollars « year it will be seen how hopelessly bankrupt tha Austriau ewpire iz, Within the space of three weeks the sum of $120,000,C00 was emitted in paper money by the Austrian government, witbout having any metallic basis, and there bas been a general increase of ail tho direct and indirect taxes, Great commercial distress bas been the conse quence. A great number of failures have occurred, and bank notes have depreciated fifty per cont. Sardinia bas been going through, on a smail scale, the experience of Austria om a large one. Her annual expeu dijures baye been regularly in excess of her revenues. That excese amotints for the last five yoara to about eleven milligns of dollars, or over two millions a year It is one of her allegations against Austria that Oux ‘Albany Correspondence. Atnany, June 2, 1859, Supplementary Letter from the State Capital on the Work of the Late Session—1he New York Assessment Law and he Superviors—How and for What Purpose the Coun ty was Despoiled of its Prerogative — C mplicity of | Seward and Atorgan in the Scheme—Dhe Plan for Shift- ing the Burden cf Taxation from the Millionaires to the Shoulders of the Working Classes Up Town— How the Now Tax Board was Organised—Is here Any Legat Authori- ty to Impose Taxes in New York This Year ?—dhe Uncmsti- tuivonality of the Comptroller's Appointments—The New Registry Law and the Flaw which May Defeat it in the CityShall We Have Two Boards of Registration?—Du plicate Elections and Two Contesting Sets of Officials Re- turned Ly Two Sets of Inspectors, de. My return bere suggests to me a varicty of topics, which, when the Legislature was in session, and I was in aitendance as one of your correspondents, puzzled me a good Geat, These subjects have since assumed a clear and positive character, where before they were kept altogether Wo tbady to be reiisbly discussed in print. I am tempted during my temporary leisure here to allude t» a few of those which I should think will not be out of season or destitute of 1mportance, Ihave already informed you of the very curious man- ner ip which the tax office of New York city was ro- organized for the benefit of the incumbents of that con- cern. The reappointmenty.of the whole body of those Officials since, by Mr, Haws, bas well borne out the cor- rectners of my statements, The Dill has already deve- loped iseif a8 one of the most extraordmary jobs which bss ever passed the Legislature, Its true aim is fully em- bodied in the fact which I but hinted heretofore, but which 1 now agrert upon the direct at ity of the officials of the Tax Office, that the intent bas been to revotutiouize the taxable valuations of property in the city of New York, for the benefit of the owners of the large estates in the lower end of the city, Leee by the HxRaLp of yoster- day that my statement to this effect is sustained by the proceeding in the Board of Supervisors. The maiter will uow doubters undergo a thorough overhauling. It was well known bore by Governor Morgan and others, before he signed the bill, that ite object was to take of! a million apiece from the valuations in the First and Secoua wards. 1 wrote to you during the late session indicating how the burden of taxation was, by means of thia bi, to be shifted from the stores and warehouses down téwn, bolonging Almost exclusively to the millionaires and corporations, 40 ‘thai a suil larger proportion should fall upoa the homes of the industrious Classes, who have takea refuge in we upper pertot the city. I bave the beat authority for stating that not ouly is it in contemplation to add the twenty odd millions to the valuations up town, whish Su- pervisor Purdy speaks of, but Tsay, moreover, upon ac: knowledgeinents from the lips of the parties engaged iu the work of the apportionment, that next year, and each of the five years for which tne new Board bas procured its appointment, ib is designed to carry outa like process for the benetit of the same interested parties. Toe pew tax bill was engineered through here bys. in order to be prepared against attack from that Power, sho had to maintain a larger army than would have been otherwise required, and con sequentiy had to expend more than ber revenues. Hor debt in 1857 was over $136,000,000. She will be fortu nate if 1860 does not find her debt increased to two bun- dred millions. Ae it is, she has had recourse to that des Perate expedient of suspending specie payments, waich is but another name for raising forced contributions, and which is destructive to public credit. A decree, issued by the King of Sardinia, gives forced currency to the notes of the National Bank. The Turin Rank is moreover authorized to issue addi tiona! notes to the amount of $1,200,000, and in return therefor engages to lend the government $6,000,000 at two per cent per annum. The rate of discount is not hereafter to be advanced without the consent of the Minis- ter of Fiance, Even Russia, with her high credit—whose 434 per cent stock is quoted at 87—Iis in the market ‘or $60,000,000, and is willing to issue her bonds for that loan at 69 por cent. These-facts show what a terrible condition of things the Present war is bringing about. The basis of national credit is undermived throvghout Europe; public and pri- vate securities are ruinously depreciated; the commerce of the belligerent nations is threatened with destruction; and a dead!y biight is thrown on all those branches of in- dustry that add to the wealth of the nation and of the community. Its effect on financial atfairs wil! be equally ruiuous. ‘The war,as we have oaid, will inevitably derangs the Pre-existing systern of finance, by substituting @ war basis of value for a peace basis. Tae reaction, comes, wil! be no leas disastrous. Some of the great fu. ctai houses are sure to be Involved in the general wreck ‘That of the Rothsobilde appears to be one of thess doom ed establishments bas beeo the great banking institution for the govera mente of Europe, It owes its rise to the wars of the first Napoleon, and it may owe its decline to the wars of the third Napoleon. In the space of twelve years—from 1813 to 1824—when all Europe bad been ruined by war, and when governments were only able to keep themselves afloat by drawing largely on posterity in the shape of joana—as they are now trying to do—there was raised through the agency of the Rothschilds, partly as loans and partly as subsidies, the enormous sum of six hou dred milli of dollars. Of this sum two hundred and fifty millions was for England, sixty millions for Austria, fifty for Prussia, one hundred for France, sixty for Naples, thirty for Russia, five for a few of the emali German principalities, and fifteen for Brazil. And yet these operations, yast ag they were, were exclusive of the sums raised for al the al lied courts, of several hundred millions each which were paid as an indemnity for the war to the French, and were also exclusive of the manifold pre ceding operations executed by the house as coxamissioners for different governments, the total amount of which fur exceeded the foregoing. Butnow how stands the case? Austria wants a trifling | loan of thirty millions, and asks the Rothschilds to nege- tiate it, They undertake to do so, but fail. Franco wants @ loan of & hundred millions, and—atterly ignoring the existence of the Rothschilds, as well as of all other Great capitalists—cal!s upon her own people to subscribe to the loan; and go anxious are they to do so that they Offer five times as much as ig needed. Are not these un mistakable evideaces of the loss of prestige on the part Of the Rothschilds; and is nobthe French plan particular. ly indicative of such a twoopihg change in regard to go. vernment loans «* rust overthrow all the great banking houses based upon the oid principle? It appears evident, therefore, that the financial revolu tiers set ip motion by this crash of arma in the plains of Italy will be ne ess momentous in thelr consequences thon the political ones. We have alroady had a fore taste of their effects, and we may not have long to walt for further developements of the eame kind, The Legare Monument in Charleston, {From the Charleetou Mercury, June 1.} Of the recent monumental eréctions in the Magnolia Ge. metery, the most noticeable toe memory of Hon. Hugh. 5 Legare. are, reared ‘he Hanog Of affection and of friendship, will hereafter inte one of the chief resorts for the pure and taste fal who reverentiy tread the hallowed walks of Maguolta, In symmetry and native beauty it is unsurpassed by any mondmens ih the grovnds. The monument haa been hyp- pily situated at afork in the walk that skirts the pond, not far from the rude bri’ge which crosses to the other ‘sec. tion of the grounder, near the receiving tom). In prneral desigo it representa a massive memorial cas. ket of four sloping sides, enbaged and capped by classic mouldings. Above this springs a plain cylindrical shaft, whogs upper portion is enwreathed with a garland of im: mortellrs. This if but the base to the column, which i@ bardeome fluted shaft with an Ionic capital ’ The whole is surmounted by an urn, over which « mantle ix throwa, while from the top ascends the emblematic flame. The whole monoment is wrought of arich and brilliant mar ble, brought to the utmost polish, and is, we should judge, in the vicinity of twenty feet in height. The sites of the casket bear thé inscriptions and aculp- tures, which are worked with great care aca skilful free. dom, from the same stone The southerly side,*which in tho front, bears the following: H SWINTON LEGARE. EMAL AND. ACTING SECRETARY Ave oF THe UNITED STATES JaNvany 2, 1797. Diep at Boston, Mass., June 20, 1843. Removen rom Moont Avnurn CEMBTERY, SevremneR 80, 1857 Derostren At MAGNOTIA CEMETERY, Octoner 8, 1867. ‘The eastorn aide bears a fine’ representation of the cont. of arme of Sonth Carolina, done in relief, the palmatto stands erect from the incline of the side, with the twin Shields resting against its trunk. while beneath les the low of av old palmetto . The northerly side hesrs the following:— SOUTH CAROLINA CLAIMS THE REMAINS OF THR CHERISHED AND LAMENTED SON. ERECTRD TO HIS MEMORY LY B18 SURVIVING SISTER, AND bY ° NUMEROUS ADMIRERS AND PRIGNDS OF Borw Av CHanteston, 8 © The western ride bears a representation of tli coat of arme of the United states, relieved in atyle wimiiar to th opposite Cw consisting of a eculptured eagle, with outepread he national*motto in his voak, aad the eprig of olive and the darts of war in hix talona: be hind. opon the retreating face of this side, the federal constellation appears To thage who have not yet shan priate memoria} to the warth of! knew and loved hiw be # visit to Magnolia: coy onr patnre enn rarely with the cul nt and appro. “by those who y recommend holier emotions of e@y ctiered in unison x im one of its moss tor For the last half century this boase | delegation @ officials from the tax office. Tho echome, Lhave reasun to kaow, was concocted even previous to the organization of the Board of Supervisors asa sepa- rato bovy, aud the peculiar transformations which that Roard Las undergone were but preparatory steps in this deep laid scheme, The same parties have attended here personally, or by deputy, upon this matter for three win- ters, The same band that drew the !aw organizing che Supervisors in their present form as a Board, drew also the vew Tax and Asssesement bill, and the first act of the reorgapizeu Board of Tax Commissioners was to establish this particular legal draughtsman upon the footing of a “oeputy,” at $2,000 a year, to act as counsil to the tax office. “Such was the adroithess with which the work was managed, that the bill was scarce’y known to be in ex. istence by apy person except such as were in the coufcence of those interested. It was, never allowed to be referred to the Committee of the Whole in eitber bouge, although it was among the first to be introduced and the last to be passed and signed, The great point, and a most difficwlt one ip such an important bili, was coucesiment. The most materia! Staves ip its progress were put through at tunes when its agents bad to keep watch with the midnight sessions, aud when the biM might bear a reading without attracting notice to ite extraordinary provisions and objects. To iliuatrate the necessity of this procedure, let me siate the romte of the new law and their very siagular bearinge. This bill provides that‘ there shall be appointed by the Comptroiler of tbe City of Now York (shat is, by a charter or Corporation officer, and pote that the absurdity 1# pot attempted of saying the * comptrolier of the cit} ‘and county’) three Commissioners, who shai! forma Board, and be designated Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments for she city and county of New York.’ Mark, that this Board ig established for the * city and county,” that is to fay, 8 Corporation officer, elected at a separate charter election, and epcially created under a local charter, sha'l have power to set aside the regular coustitutional county | autboritics im their vital and sovereign prerogative ol | levying and apportioning the taxes of the State and of | the county. Thea it is provided that the regularly ap- ponted functiouaries, and also the power aud con tro) in all matters ' pertaining to the apportionment | of taxes, vesting in the Board of supervisors under the constitution and the decisions of the highest courts, (Finistead ve, Mayor N. Y., 8 Comstock, p. 436), shall be taken away, “abolished,” and “vested” in this corpo- ration board. | itis also provided that these corporation functionaries shail not only discharge the constitutional duties “ identi- cal and inseparable’ according to the decisions of the highest courte with tbe powers and obligations of the Su- | perviaors, (‘the power of taxing and the power of ap- Portioping taxation are identical aud inseparable.” Peo- ple vs. Mayor of Brooklyn, 4 Comstock, p. 247); but it is also contrived that this tax board shall determine all mat- ters of compensation and expenditure for performing such work, by meave of @ clause which gives them power to bire indefluitely any number of men at twelve hundred doliars @ year, (fourth section), say as many as the Me tropoiitan Police force, the Seventh regiment or the like, if they think proper. “And this section says that such ex- penditure sbul! “be paid by the Comptroller out of the county treaeury.”? Besides “ abolishing” the regularty constituted County Roard of Assessors forthwith, it i8 provided that the Comptroller shall appoin; “immediately” and for five | Years, the pew board, who therea(ter have no accounta. | Diity to bim, nor to any other power, for their acts or for the character of their subordinates, or the limit of their unrestricted powers of expenditure, sbort of a criminal proceeding woder the general laws, where it may be poa- sibie to flud evidence against them for misdemeanors. This act ip the clause, which contrived that its operation should begin just at the juncture when the asseseore had com- Dleted their returns to the Commissioners, exhibits au- other of the peculiar specimens of sharp practice which characterize the whole purpose of the (proceedings. Had the law been made to take effect after the tax rolls were delivered to the Supervisors, a very different organization of the Board would have been made by the Comptrol | At firet be was disposed to delay his appointment vat montbe after. But be found the old organization was abolished; there wes no one who was legally authorized to furnish the assessment rolls uvless tbe Comptroller soould immediately sppoint. The old Board could alone be expected ata day’s notice to sign the retarus, and withiD ® month or two present them completed to the Su- pervieors. Thus the law necessitated ao imme tiate sp- Polutment by the Comptrolier, and compe led, also, in the uature of the case, that the old iscumbents should be re- appoin ‘The friends of the Comptroller, desirous of securing for bim some control where he seemed saddied with go | much responsibility, bad an idea that be might ailow the mmiseionere to bold over without appointment: that keeping bis power to appoint in reserve, he could dictate who the assessors should be, and presid- | ing over the doings of the coucern ‘be in reality 18 head, Bet a bint of a proposed wandamus (which wna circulated at the time), together @iti the extraordinary ouiside pressure whioh was brought to bear, deciaed bim, probably, to comply with the mevita- ble design in which be was made an iustrument, and his Teappowtnens of the old Board was relaciaatly mase 1 can barciy have space at this time tw extinit ta detal the vature of the pressure whicn was brought to vear pon Mr. Haws, I may hereafter recur to tue aubj kad show bow repeatedly and urgently Governor Morzan interfered, both here and in New York, and for what special reveona, I will, perhaps, recur to tue discussions on this sucject of the Astor House, showing to what ond Senator Seward, as one of the last arrangements ho made before bis Cepurture, joined Governor Morgan in over sulipg Weed on the distribution of the patronage under the vow bil, with au exclusive view to the wishes of car- tain heavy militonaires, whose subscriptions ia politi emergencies, past and to come, were decided to be of far more weight than the scampering usefulness of any of ts Workiug politicians who were candidates. There may be & more Hitting occasion for publishing the jist of reai catate owners who, to the extent of twenty-five or thirty mi! Hons represented on the tax books, petitioned apd per eonally backed the demand for geome of thee reappoint- ments, If the Supervigore are not despoiied of ali their powers as the local Legislature of the county of New York, they may etiil bave the customary power to send for perso3s and papers. Should they decide to exercise Unis power acd obtain these petitions fom, the Comp troller, you will doubtless bave and the Board may poasivly fod to the changes and revisions in the aay Should the temper manifested in tbe { the Supervisors, reported in the HkkaLD, be coatinned J acted ipm, It would make the most seriou interfe noe with the plaue of the great political Paul Morphy, who bas returned here with wlarming apprehensions on tue subject. The unconstitutional mode of appointiag the Tax Commiss'on by the Comptrolier, which Weed ackno#- jerges is a great biander, can only be remedied, and the levy of Laxes aunewsed upon a logal basis, by the appoint ment of e new Board by the Supervisors. Tho question i2 of Still more extepsive importance evea toau the tex rolls. for the fate of the Reyistry inw nnd a (air trial of ty of New York is aiso in jeopardy. Ite working depends upon the appoutment of inspectors to be choken by the Supervisors. The revubiicans, in thoir anxiety to Secure the appointment of these, have inseried a clause providing thataix Supervisors may choose al! tlic jugpectors ior the city. If the Board ia thos put * into the mxen ” and the six democrats aod gx repnbiicana apooiit Independent Bourde of inspectors, for taking the veg.alry snd baying exclusive charge of the polis, you must necea tarily bavoa duplicate election aad duplicate returns, ene democratic ant one opposition. Of course, also ae necessary result, you will have two sets of contesting oli ciais and all the cenfusion which you may readily iwnagine in Such wh extraordinary state of things Ot the aethods by which the republicense, at the suggestion of Weed, will seek tw ox tricate themselves -from the — difficult! ma the Dourd of Supervisors, two, it 18 understood, have beet already tried. One war’ to by over (he aecossary voto of .n democrat, which, J ava assured, has signally failed, The other i# to intimidate aay inde. top by threatening to break up the bogrd it- legally constivuted. This may aliees the r republicans .who wee nominate’ by the porate) Gite, rejected (2) elected) by the puople, aie - Uivance of party legivigtion proluaged into a doutttol Gilicimi being. Tue other side baye wae advantage of mt July, when the year’s work of the tax oflices woula be | completed and the officials could have nothing to do for least legally elected member of the board, Mr. or ca ‘whom the demoo can lean for a colorable right If the board sleuld be judiciaily quashed, every democratic member of the board would be equally cor- of a renomimation by his party and are election by the people of the county Meanwhile, the dissolution of the Board of ‘visors must throw the regisiry law upon the meroies of the Board of Aldermen, where the republicans are LO ways desirous of eutrusting its late and their reeponaibility for tte working. As & Inat resort, the resi of the Tax Commission- eré 18 contemplated, when @ conciliatory arrangemeut could probably be mace all round, It te conceded that Mr. Hawe -. pa Ro moe aoe iveaenat ap upon him, 4 ‘appoint county officers with egal power to apportion sa bene taxation, than Marshal Rynders. The fisoal sev- tion of the act, reorganizing the Board of Supervisors apd otber hke provieions of law, vests in the Comotrotier merely Guancia! functions, which in no way conflict with tbe constitution. Captsin Van Vitet, of the Army, (Specht Despaic 50.400. Prene ) a ASHINOTON, {7 17, 1859. charges bave o preferred Tilt esata Guartermasier "nbn expended nearly two fal of dollars in the purchise of mules sud stock tor xpedition These Serene come from parties fur. piaoed part of the mules, and Captain Van Vilethas been called ep for an exylapauon. A court mortial will ro doubt be or: dered, but tee friends of this distimguished officer entertain no tears for the resuk, [From the St. Louis Republican. } We notice this paragraph merely to say that Captain Van Viiet wil! find no aifficulty in relieving himse@f from any “serious charges” that may have been preferred against him. He bas been one of the best, most faithful officers the government ever bad, and if he has erred at all it has been in trying to take care of the great interests entrusted to him, indifferent to the censure which might be bestowed upon hiin by individuals who may have bad interests opposed to those of the United States. ‘From the Leavenworth City Herald, May 24.) Tt affores us pleasure to fully concur tn what is said of Captain Van Viiet by the St. Louis We bave Watched the progress of this conspiracy against a most worthy and excellent officer with astouishment and sur- prise. Are astouished at the recklessness of the conspi- rators—surprised twat their baseness should have been treated otherwise than with contempt in any respectable warter. . ‘We can speek from personal knowledge of tho facts con- nected with this crusade against Captain Van Viiet, and know that the charges are base aud entirely unfounded. The disbursements made by Captain Van Vliet amount- ed to four millioos matead of two, as stated by the cor- respondent of the Times, and the charges are made by one George V. Hobb, and instigated by a sot of disappointed mule contractors— men who, altbough they made a handsome figure out of their contracts, were disappointed because they Were not permitted to Inake an independent fortune at oae “fell swoop ”? Last fail these greedy cormorants charged that the Captain had not pod them enough tor their mules, and a doard of ofiicere was ordered which earefuily investigated the matter and exonerated him entirely. Now, solely out of revenge, they bring charges against him ‘with the hope of damaging bis well known character for integrity, uprightnees and Lionesty. For the information ‘of Captain Van Viict’s numerous friends, bere and elsewhere,’we state that these desperate characters have charged him with having reccived large sumsof money from certain gentlemen who transacted Dusiness at the Fort last year. This foul charge is basely and infamonsly false—cannot ‘be sustained by a scintilla of reliabie testimony. The evi- dense repelling it—we speak only what wo know—is as ciear, positive aud overwhelming as the English langasge can make it, It leaves the unpriacipled fabricators of the foul slander nota single hook to sling to. We merely maxe this statement in advance of a court of inquiry, which we presume Captain V. will demand, in order that the antidote may go with the poison, and to show to the country the nature of the persecution to which an honest and faithful disbursing oflicer of the go- yornment has been subjected. » Murder in Rhode Inland. A MAN SHOT DEAD FOR ENFORCING THE LIQUOR Law. From the Providence (R. I.) Tribune, May 30.] On Friday evening, 27th inst., about a quarter past cight o'clock, was perpetrated one of the most cold blood- ed murders which ever took place in Rhode Island. Bar. rill Arnold, ® man about the age of forty-eight years, re- siding in Centreville, Warwick, Kent county, about twelve miles from Providense—highly respected as a citi- zen—was shot dead in his own store as he sat talking with a friend. A short time before the fetal deed, John Long, ® resident in the village, had been out to get a pail of water. As be returned with his pail he rested in his yard and leaned againet the fence, A man of ordinary size and appearance passed the sireet within a few fect of him, going towards the store of Burrill Arnold. Long took no particular notice of the individual. He went into his house, and inafe# moments heard a report, which his wife said was the failing of the fence. But there was no wind, the fence had not falleu, and presently a man rap rapidly by aud was soon jost in the darkness. Buta monient prior to the murder two young ladies, Frma Gould aad Charlotte Allen, went into the store to make some purebasct, As they passed beneath tho awn- & man standing @ few feet from the store Just entered thé building when the sho: red, and the man flea, Patrick Nolan bad ‘ain the store buying a fow ar- ticles. “He went cut shortly before the giris entered. He had not proceeded tar ere a man passed him, running ou tip toe, not very faat, but soon increased his speed. He had whiskers, irimmed to a point beneath the chia, The murder wus committed in this way:—Burrill Arnold bac just returned from Providence, whither he had beon to make purchases to repienish bis store. The store fronte on the main street. Arnold was sitting with his back to the front wincow, perbaps not more than a foot trom the giage, which was and is somewhat dirty. He was engaged in conversation with Ezra J. Caty, who sat very near to hin. The murderer—the man undoubtedly who stood upon the walk when the girls entered—wont up close to the window, rested bis pistol on the sill and fired, The murdered man jumped up and fell into the arms of Cady, exclaiming, ‘My God, I ama dead man; I am shot.” He expired in less thao Qve minutes, but uttered no more ewords. Palmer Tanner, who dwells directly across the street, bearing the report, ran out and into the store. ‘The deceased was tben breathing his last. John Rico ‘was coming to the store from the south, aud was near enough to see the flash of the pistol when the shot was fired. He thought nothing of the flasa, and saw no man, though he heard the murderer running away subse- quent to the report. The deceased mnat bave been well Known to the assassin. Such an opportunity might mot again preeent iteelf, for the victim sat 90 near the window. The murderer knew his victim through the dirty glass, and in the evening too. Had he been a stranger to the deceuzed Mr. Cady might have been tho victim. ‘The intelligence of the horrible event spread like wild- Sre through the village. The leading men convened. All Proper measnres were at once set in motion to have the Murderer ferreted out. Shortly after midmight Caleb R. Bill, Coroner, summoned a jury of inquest. Most of the persons pamed above wore examined. A | Post mortem examnation wus ordered, and Doctors Moses | Fifield and Robert Hall performed that duty. The inquest | was adjourned after being in seesion a couple of hours. it met apaint at seven o’ciork Saturday morning. Nothing material was elicited up to that hour, nor, as far as we | can Jearn, during the session which was held at two | o'clock in the afternoon. It thus appears that the pistol was loaded cither with | two balls, or one balland a slug It must have been a sivgle barrelied weapon, for there was but one shot fired, ond the two missiles emanated from one source, a3 the short distance between the holes in the coat aud the body bear witness, The deceased was ans'ive of Smithfeld. He removed into Warwick some tr r fifteen years since. He hag kept a store in Centr. ...e about a dozen years, He waz twice marriett, » ves the Recond wife to moure his joes, By bis first marriage he had a son, the only child | he leaves. Eis name is George W. Arnold, and he ia a Etudent of Yale Ooilege. What was the cause of the marder? men will ask. We will endeavor to auswer the question. Sometime last fall a worthless fellow uamed James Crowcrotf had been con- vieted for selling rum in the town of Warwick, at Cromp- ton Mills. He was carried to jail in Bast Greenwich. Ho liad not the wherewithal to pay the costs of prosecution and could not get out of jatl when the time expired Various efforts were mule by the ramaellera and others to have him released. Petitions were circulated through the town for that purpose, but without effect. About baif aa hour before the murder occurred, it is very Singular to reiste that amon named David Blaky weat into the store with @ similar petition, and requested tne signature of Mr. Arnold. The deceased, knowing the character of the prisener, refused to sig Mr. Arnold was a staunch temperance man; had ben very active, in connection with Pardon Spencer and E J, Cady, in assiet tog Jonathan Taylor, Sheriff of the coanty, in’ enforcing the nuisance isw. Warwick, and especially the village of Crompton, has been overridden by rum, Many are the threste which bave been made, A’short time ago Sheriff Taylor's horse was powsoned, the harness was cut, and perronal violence was feared, Tarcats deep and dark were made againet Mr. Arno. Tt is «aid that when Crow. croft was going to jail, he, beiog somewhat the worse for Hquor, revealed the fact that he had been offered $50 to tvoot Arnold, When suber he would gay nothing about the bribe. ‘The $100,000 dh Brea jel of Promise e the Verdict. Case—Ren- [From the St. Louis Democrat, June 3.] Yesterday morning @ larger crowd’ than ever collest- ed in Rotunda long before tae opening of court. When the doors were opened the scenes of the past few davs were renewed, and the reom was speedily crammed fuil of human beings. Wundreds, unable to obtain adult. tance, were obliged to lears, Ata quarter betore eleven Judge Bates commenced his concluding remarks for the defence, and finished at a quar- tor past twel Major Wright then summed up the case in a spoech of two hours aud three-quarters in iength. At ite conclusion the court ream resounded with the applause of the vast crowd, by stamping of feet and clapping of hands. The applause ooutinving for eome time, Judge Reber or- dered the Deputy Sheriff to arrest all whom be might seo creating the least (igturbance. This had the effect of im” medintoly restoring order. The jury then retired to an apartment situated ou the southwest corner of the court room. The latter was Yen cleared, and tue jury allowed to use it undisturbed. The crowd remained in the Rotunda ontil the formal rendering of the verdict, to agree to which the jury did not require more than ten minutes, but the Judge being absent, some delay occurred in consequence, At four o'clock Judge Reber returned, and the doors Were et once thrown ujou. Upon the Judge taking hie seat, the Clerk read the paper which had beea haaded him hy the foreman, which was a3 follows :— Hleury Shaw, dMbtor to Effie Garstang, j Sud for the pleintifi, aud assovs the damages at $100,000 C1 Geutiemon of the jury, 80 say you all? = juror nodded neasnt . he crowd at this made « zeneral rueh for the door, and upon reaching the Rotunds indulged in a general hurrah sad shout, which gave undoubted indications of appro: vation, We, the jury, * ANoraynm StraKp euunr.—The Niskayana Shakers bave inet an Niskayn ple, This time both parties ‘y—~Brotier Brauna aud qalte an excitement in so mattor makos: tug Uitte cvs, ‘The Case of Messrs. Embil and Fesser. The Diario deta Marina of Havana, of April 30,00n- tains a publication signed by Dr. Eduardo Fesser, with the object of reotifying certain errors in the Hmnacy's ‘correspondence of Havana, dated March 30, aud published in the Hxwarp on the 6th of april, relative to certain lands belonging to Mr. Embil, “and which were granted by the Captain General to the Regla and Matanzas Railroad, of which Mr, Feseer is principal director.” Said correspom- dence adds, that ‘it was conjectured that the chief end of that expropriation was to yive greator value to the pre- perty in the new district called Concha, built on the coniis cated lands which at one "me belonged to Pinto, and ia the prosperity of which, itis generally believed, General Concha is greatly interested.’” ‘Mr. Fesser adds that, in the Heratp of the 7th of last month, peared signed by D. Mi do are in a pss of Mr. Feasor pry bamed an ox officio counsel for his defence, and that Mr. Fesser was one of the parties to be benefited by the ex- propelation of Mr, Embil’s Property (appraised at ,000 by him) and for whiob he (Hmbil) nad net re- ceived a single cent, as for other expropriations of b 'y made to beuefit'the Concha lands, . Feeser says, in bis exposition, that he would aot have taken notice of said publication were it not that oer- tain charges were brought against him, and taut aa em- Droii ous Deen made of the two suite oP Mr. Kunbil—vine one was for disreepect towards the chief authority of the Island, in a Certain representation mage by Mr. Dil be the goverument, the usher, the proceedings reiative to the expropriation ef jands of Embii for the railroad from tae bay of Havana (owen al The first suit was, criminal proceetingy ioatituted by"the Ministerio Fiscal without the managers of the road having take any part im it. Tae error of the Hxraip corre dent douvtiews arises from ignorance, but ou behalf of Mr. Embil for a studied object, show the legality with which the railroad manage- Ment proceeded, as a'so the government in the aforcend expropriation, it will be iat t@ state the foliowing facta: After the grant of said railroad was made to his Excet- Jeacy D.Jacinto Goozales de Larrinaga and himself, Fesser —afver it was declared & work of public utility, and the Mne approved by the superior government—thea cosaed the forcible expropriation of all the lands required for the road. DM. ce Embil, being interested in the underiaki ‘was well aware of the direction it would take, and, otber s'ockholders, signed the act granting the laying tne road conformably with the plans and estimates approved. Not only dia he make no opposition to the line passing through his lands, but when that polut was discussed be made srorg effors to carry out that onject, knowing it greatly enbanced their value, The work being com- Mmenced August 19, 1857, it wasto be continued immedi- ately on the lands of Mr. Embil, situated near the start point of the road; the administrator genoral thercof call on Mr. Embil to bring about an understanding as to the price of the lands to be |, Whereupon Mr, Emi demanded an indemnity amounting 10 hundreds of tnou- sands of dollars, under the pretext that be had intended to make a large townsip on that » In vain was tt re- presented to bim that the township was merely imagi- Dary, add that his pians oad not been approved by the municipality; Mr. Embi! persisted in his pretensions, aad | it was impeseibie to come to any agreement. In these cases the law of ao be tape! = ace =e Spain, provides that each party ‘appoint an appr and s'roferee by the authority. The lacds required for poblic works are valued, but Mr. Embil declined appoiat- ing am appraiser, knowing, doubtless, that the work must then cease, with the view of obtaining an indemnity a hundred times greater than the just one. He applied to the tribunals, instituted sppeais, and availed himself of every possible means i order to procrastinate the work by vexatious and irreievant cording to the words used by magistrate, D. Joaquin Calbeton, at that time Fiscal of the Royal Audiencia—words which acquire great weight from the fact of his \euving the island pre- vious to the commencement of the suit against Embil. In copgequence of this obstinate opposition of Mr. Eubit the work was delayed for months. At length a deoiars- tion was iseued, in conformity with the opinion of the Real Audiencia ud the Ministerio Fiscal, that the affair came ‘under the juriadiction of the administration; and the ernment then notified Mr. Embit that within three he should appoint an appraiser, who, in conjuction with the one named by the Railroad Board, should determ: the value of the lands, 48 aiso the amount of awardable damages. Mr. Embil did not make this appointment, aad at the expiration of tue third ‘the government directed the appraisement to be made. committee, in the year 1866 appointed to appraise that property, in order to psy ‘the municipal tax, valued it at $2,500 the (33 acres 2. Rinne the owner thereof, D. M. de Embil, on preseat. ing the same year his sworn declaration for the appor- tionment of the municipal tax, declared that the produce of the estate umounted to nothing. 8. That the adjacent lands were suld in that year at the « rate of $4,800 per caballeria, and that the same year other lavds similarly situated sold for $6,000. 4. That the said ra'lroad from tne Bay of Havana of- fered considerable advantages to such iands. 6. That the said lavds were in part mountainous, bad soil and unprofitable for cultivation. From theabove data the land was valued at $10,000 per caballeria, or more tba $300 per acre, and a further eum was allowed for the trees, crops, &c., a8 damages, bat which Mr. Embii declined te accept. The said bagperty consists of two caballerias, which hi purchased onthe 5th of December, 1863, for $10,000, appears by the pudlic bill of gale. ’ He has consequently | eceived double the amount paid for it, and therefore | cannot complain of injustice in the valuation awarded to him. Mr. Fesser adds that the said railroad to Matanzas has | received no other javor from the goveroment than the just protection which it bestows, as is well kaown, on every undertaking of public uitiity; and, far from acting + with pariiality towards the road, tolerated Mr. Emo! contempt for the law jor the space of four months, to the detriment of the work. Tat the question of the so-called digtrict of Concha, which they pretend to be conaected With the land of Mr. Kapil, shows there is no coanesction | whatever between them. It is well Known that the dis- trict bearing the name of Concha is a township projected since 1851, but not yet put into execution, and situated om the opposite shore of {be bay, at the starting point of the eaid railway to Matan: We leave to any peraoa of common judgment to say what can be the meaning of designsting it the lands of Concha, wishing it to be under- stood that it refers to private property of his Excelicacy the Captain General. To the inbabitants here this remark is useless, but abroud it is very differ with those who are igo orant of she localities, EDUARDO FESSER. HAVANA, April 28, 1859, ' A Wife in Search of a Truant Husband—Shy Shoots Him. {From the Lancaster, Pa., Examiner, June 1.] { Ou Wednesday last a shooting affair occurred at Miller’s “Lamb Tavern,” on tne Willow street turnpike, which came near and may yet result in the death of one of the parties to theaffray. The particulars of tho affair are im substance as follows :— Aman named Isaac Wagner, in the employ of Jacob Shenk, ep in hauling ore to Geiger’s farnace, and re- Presenting himeeif as an unmacried man, while feeding his horses ai the Lamb Tavern was suddenly confrontea by 2 womaa representing hergelf ag his wife, charging hime with desertion, bigamy and a number of other crimes, Wagner denied her charges and was endeavoring to get out of her way when tbe iufuriated womae drew a sx shooter, fired at him, aad shot bim inthe back. Ws ic endeavored to get into the house, when the woman fired another barrel, but this time without effect She thea coolly walked off, daripg any one of the bystanders to arreat ber. She was subsequently arrceted,and commitied te the county prison to answer the charge. The wound im- theted upon Wagner 18 quite a serious one, and should in- dammation set ia it may reauit in bis death, The woman who shot Wagner states that she was mar- ried to bim im 1851, by the Rev. Dr. Brainard, of Pailadwi- phia, a fact which ahe proved by exhibiting her marriage Certiticate. She further states that they had lived ve- ; gether two or three yearg, and that she had two children by him, one of which is stilt living, aboot seven-years old, residing with Wagner’s father, in Montgomery coumiy, * where they had lived wfter their marriage, Wagner if her, went to Lebeuon, aud there married another woman, with wbow be lived sowe time, then left ner, and is wow living with @ taird woman, near Quarryville, ‘Sbe aleo cays that she bas been following her some time, devermined that be should act jugily towards her or ubide the consequence. After her husband had de- prted sbe went to service as cook, living for some time im various hotels in Philadelphia. Hearing that Wagner left # deserted wife at Lebanon, Penn., she repaired. taitber and hud an interview witb*her. From thence she tracked him to Quarryville, this county, where she alleges she found. bim living with anotber woman, whom he recog- nized as wife. With these facts in her possession sho repaired to this city for the purpose of entering complaint against her busband for bigamy. She did so, but Wagner, hearing of the compiaint, and being aleo advised that an officer was ia pursuit of bim, endeavored to keep out of harm’s way. He succeeded in escaping the officer, but not his enraged, insulted and deserted wife. She was swift upon his track, and meeting bim at the Lamb Tavern, took her vindici tion in ber own hands and meted out to her recreant bus- band the punishment she thought he deserved, Des having reported the gallant 10g steering of Aiken, and Sitting high shines with a brace of Boston girls, before the peace- ful inbabitants, with the additional fact that ths. tandlord ‘Was exceeding}! of the party and desirous to get rid of them, the out in the following card in the Charletton Courier, ré iatiog the scandal and alleging an alibi in proof of his and their imaocengo :— CHARLBSTON, May 28, 1859, Capt. H. A. de Reviere has never boarded in Aiken, ag the books of the hotel will show, He was never io the at all but twice, and only « (ew hours each time, coming. from Savannah to Augusta by railroad. He was in Sa- ‘vannah boarding at Pulaski, us late as the 6thof May; then camo to Charleston by steamer Gordon, and boarded at the Mills House up to the 20th of May: went then back to Savannah and boarded at the Marsuall dotel up to the ‘26th; @ back on the 27th to Charleston, at the Mills House, ‘where he now These Fqctacan be ascertained by the books of the various hotels. Captain de Reviore most empbatically denier knowing, with any degree of intimacy, any ladies responding to the description given in the Augusta article, which he declares a fabrication of the basest charater, inasmuch as it attacks the repu- tation of ladies with whom be never had any social inter- course, He would not take any notice of any such contemptible libel, were it only to concern himself, but if the partion insulted would choose, he will be ready to punish the calumniator either by law or personal chastisement at their option. H. A. DE REYIERE. ——————— eee oe vreas sereans Hanpen, tue Wire Porsonsa.—The trial. of Harden for.murder, !n Warren county, will ‘not take ace till September, the Board of Freshelders having re- ned to order @ special term in July. Great offorts, we are informed, ure being made to create a feeling in favor of Harden, and there are many who really believe him in- nocent of the crime with which be is charged. He has preached two or three Sabbathe in the jail where he tt con- ‘ed, and large number of Indien have flocked to hear him, Harden says imaeif that ay is by detgs sy aud pretends to be earnestly-engaqed im * by when ‘iberated, to prosecute bia mintaterlal week.—Zren- tn, (WY. v.) dmertean, May, Seumossrttaaw * t bt 4