The New York Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1859, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 8419. THE NEW BOUNDARY DISPUTE. War at Victorla--Movements of Troops and Ships, &e., &., ht. Our San Frantisco Correspondence. San Francisco, Atigust 26, 1859- Movements of the United States Troops—Affairs at San Juan—A Council of War at Vicloria—The Press op. the Boundary Question—No Joint Occupation—Call Oup the Militia—Commissioner Campbell and the Difi- culty, de., ec. ‘The steamer Pacific arrived this morning from Victoria, ‘Dringing dates from the isiand of San Juan to August 22, ‘Though all was quiet, the movements of troops and | hips were very active, The Massachusetts arrived the day before with another company of soldiers. The whole | mumber on the island was flye companies of infantry and four companies of artillery. A company of sappers and miners were expected from Vancouver by the Northerner, fer the purpose of erecting fortifications. The American camp, now garrisoned by four hundred men, exhibits a fine military aspect. The eight thirty-two pounders lately received have been placed in a commanding position; be- ‘sides which there are six field pieces. Colonel Casey is in | ©ommand. It was expected in the course of a fortnight | that two thousand United States soldiers would be on the island, as General Harney, in case of necessity, intended ) tocall for volunteers. The Washington Territory papers Say that General Harney bas called for reinforcoments from California and for two men-of-war. The messenger arrived in this city last week. MOVEMENTS OF UNITED STATES TROOPS. There was quite an excitement at Steilacoom, W. T., wonsequent on the departure of troops for San Juan. In pursuance of orders, Co). Casey, with his command, pro- ceeded to the island, where he is now stationed—Capt. Pickett’s small force of some forty men being deemed in- sufficient to bold possession in the event of an attempt ‘Deing made by the British to drive them off. Companies A, C and H, Captains Malony, Hunt and English, and Lieutenants Kellogg and Conner, all under the command ef Licut. Col. Casey, went on board the steamer Julia, at about noon, taking with them two heavy brass field pieces and a large quantity of ammunition. The whole force numbered about 160 men—leaving here a simple ‘d of about twenty men, and ubout thirty more in the pital and guard house. This will increase the forco on San Juan Island to some 200 men, which will probably be further increased by the addition of Capt. Woodruif’s company from Semiahmoo. Lieut. Harvie is left in charge of Steilacoom. Four companies of artillery are on the way from Fort Vancouver to this ae, en route for San Juan Island. Two companies left Vancouver on Monday, and two more on Tuesaday. The first two will reach Steila- oom August 14, and last on Sunday. The British Colonist (Victoria) of August 19 says that ‘the Julia landed 250 more soldiers at San Juan August 17. More were daily expected. General Harney was ex- pected by the steamer Northerner. ‘The force which left Steilacoom consisted of 165 men, Colone) Casey in command, with Captains Hunt, Maloney and English, Lieutenants Connor and Kellogg. We understand, says the Pioneer and Democrat, that General Harney has also given orders to call on Governor Gholston for volunteers if necessary. Four companies of the Fourth infantry left Vancouver on August 8, under Lieutenant Hodges, for San Juan. They are now at San Juan, Lieutenant Harrow is left in charge of Fort Steilacoom, with twenty men, and about thirty in the hospital and gnard house. ‘The Puget Sound Herald says that intelligence of the tending of troops under Colone! Casey was sent to Vic toria in advance ef uw embarkation. Tha act ig de- nounced as teseninh Hie a that if the messenger 1s found lynch law will be used. Captain Woodruff’s company at Semiahmoo will proba- it to San Juan. Oy Tira Maine has ordered all the English mon-of-war et Sound to remain. ser Slaenty's ship Tribune arrived at Esquimalt from ugust 18. ; Sater Malost 8 ahlp ‘Satellite is now at San Juan, having Deen ordered there to relieve the Tribune. On entering Esquimalt the Tribune saluted the Admiral, which wag by the Ganges. rete “Tue States Surveying sieamer Active, Captain Allen, arrived at Victoria Augusé ie San Juan. ‘A court martial of seven offers, Col. Wright presiding, convened August 8, at Fret Steilacoom, for the trial Dr. Wirtz, United States Army, to detide whether the familica of officers se entitled to ineaical attendance. The decision will °¢ pints oae Moe os pines aud separ on Tuesday. Coneinded ite by AFFAIRS AT SAN JUAN. ‘ieaih i mopaing (August 10), Says a correspondent, the ate mote Goer were and Shubrick, and the mail if omer ‘Julia steamed simultaneously into the harbor. Toe Julia had on board an express from Gen. Harney, at Vancouver, ahd a portion of three companies of United States troops, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Casey, Which, with some fifty tons of munitions of war, stores, Rc., with two howitzers, were duly landed. The Ameri: an force on the island at present consists of Lieutenant Colone) Casey and his aids; Lieutenant Kellogg, of the Ar- tillery; Lieutenant Reynolds, and Licutenant Conner, Ad mntant. Company D, Captain Pickett; Company H, Captain Stan, of the Ninth; Company A, Coptain Malony, and pany C, Captain Hunt, of the Fourth infantry—making ai all about two hundred rank and file in occupation of the island. I understand the instructions of General Har- ney were to maintain the occupation of the island at all hazards. Ihave no hesitation in saying that the landing of British troops, if attempted, will be considered a hostile meagure and resisted. At noon her Majesty’s steamer Satel- lite steamed into the harbor, and shortly after Captains Pro- vost and Hornby and Commissioner Campbell, from the Shubrick, paid together an official visit to Lieut. Col. Casey. ‘The interview was eaid to be of a mostamicable and friendly nature, and I really cannot see how any discordantelement can intervene except throuyh such persons as will take care to prevent jeopardy of person to themselyes. The Steilacoom Herald condenses other letter from San Juan Island under date of the 8th and 9th thas:— Notwithstanding the very frequent arrivals and depart- ures of steamers from and to Victoria, with despatches to the commanding officer of the Tribune, Capt. Hornby, no olinite or extreme measures have thus far beon adopted; ‘avid Lam pleased to joarn that all intercourse between Uiphains prowett and Hornby bas ‘keen marked by fhe most courteous art @eBtlemanly feclings. The af ha highest terms of THE NEW YORK HERALD. MORNING EUJTION—SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1859. vailed as to the probable immediate ences of the step, and especially as to the action the British authorities would take in the matter, Shortly after the landing of American troops a report was circulated that a joint occu- pation had been agreed upon, and there are still thor’ , who predict that an agreement to that effect will ye’, arrived at, But the resulting from *"oig"an.” nouncement of a summary settlement of the diff ‘eulty had acarcely become general when the statement * was contra- dicted; and since that time the public mind “nas been kept ina pion ny? by he. Ca sed ¥ amors that have revailed from day y. The » - uglaes, which according’ to us~_.,“foveat, of Governor should have been final step in the matter (80 far ag“ff\» notion of authorities here is concerned), was "owed up by a meseage to the Assembly, in which it ™ as stated that British troops would Pong lived bse ssiand; and to the later docament and r oré “1 discussions in council the present - tude is attr’‘outable. fe The question as it stands is a very simple one, and can oniy be complicated by action based on prejudice and pas- sion. The American occupation is an accomplished fact; itcannot be prevected or recalled by any stepson the part of British authorities; and although temporary re- dregs may be had by a collision, no remedy can be ob- tained by such aconsummation. And action that ht have been excusable in the heatof the firat excitement cannot be justified after the lapse of such a period as has passed since the inception of the difficulty. No good can possibly result from measures that will lead to a colli- sion, while the harm that will follow is incalculable. The matter must ultimately be settled by the twogovernments. Is it not, then, clearly the duty of the authorities here to aligw it to be presented in a shape which willadmit of an amicable adjustment? If hasty action be taken now, war will exist before the British government has been inform. ed by its officials here of the alleged aggression which has led to such @ result. Can it for a moment be supposed that a policy will be approved by that government which, if extended, would give every colonial Governor the right to involve the nation in hostilities with previously friendly Powers? Assuredly not. NO JOINT OCCUPATION. ‘om the Pioneer and Democrat (W. T.), August 13.) it is well understood that a}l efforts of the Commission- ers to settle the dispute about the right to San Juan had proved perfectly fruitiess. The ultimatum of their instruc- tions left the matter still a bone of national strife and con- tention. General Harney will employ, if necessary, all his force to maintain military possession of the island, in defiance of the British men-of-war, and we think he will not suffer a joint military occupation of the island by Ame- rican and British arms. We firmly believe that no representative of British an- thority should be permitted for 4 moment upon that soil, if his presence there was to indicate British dominion. We believe the floating of British colors as a token of Bri- tish occupancy over the island of San Juan offensive, in- vasive and entirely unjustifiable. But while maintaining these views, as the matter is in the hands of the Commis- sioners here—ag both sides will soon be heard by the two governments—tct us await their action in the premises, and let not our peoplo by any acts, either with British re- sidents or with those usurping authority there, entangle and render the question more complicated. CALL OUT THE MILITIA. [From the British Colonist, August 22.) ‘We know no moyement better calculated to unite the various elements of the British population in this Colony than by carrying out as soon as practicable the proposi- tion made in the Assembly to organize the militia. One Mmoijety perhaps of all British subjects here are from the United Kingdom; the other from the British North Ameri- can provinces and other Colonies. By organizing¢he mili- tia it would be known who are British subjects and who are not. The occasional meetings for drill would have its social advantages, and besides, foster a healthy national feeling. Both are desirable, and both would have a good ten- dency. Hence the movement deserves encouragement from the powers that be. We do not believe the time required for dri would be generally felt as a bur- densome tax; but that a cordial assent would be given, and drill days hailed with pleasure. Independent of any possible contingency arising from our unsettled relations with the United States, making it necessary to call the militia into active service, it is advisable as a precaution- ary measure against an Indian outbreak. The extension of our settlements, the encroachment on their hunting and fishing grounds, the altered policy in relation to pun- ishment for crime, render the chances of collision greater every day, We are unwise if we expect to live always at peat with them. Then to be ready to protect gur earths against a ruthless attack from savages is pre-emi- nently a duty, and in organizing the militia we but follow the dictates of self-preservation. COMMISSIONER CAMPBELL AND THE SAN JUAN DIFFI- gULTY, ram the Plonecr qud Bemvo ated The British Colonist of the 3d inst. has un article head ed ‘Boundary Commission,” in which certain strictures are made upon the conduct of the American Commission- er, Mr. Campbell, at San Juan Isiahd, accusing him of using undue influence, a8 chief of the United States Boun- dary Sppsniaaion, wit Gea, Harney, to bring ie ee occupation of that jj iullitary forces of the Ualted States, mand by the y In Svatice to Mr. Campbell, we state, from reliable infor- mation, that he knew nothing of the movements of Gen. Harney until Capt. Pickett was under orders, nor has be been officially informed of it, except through Capt. Pickett on the island. The responsibility of the whole matter rests on Gen. Harney, and on him alone. He decided to protect the Americans on the island, after hearing their position on his recent visit. He takes the position that the British authorities of Vancouver Island forfeited any claims to treaty stipulations by attempting to take an American citizen from the island to Victoria for trial. Captain Prevost, the commander of her Britannic Ma- jesty’s ship Satellite, on his visit to San Juan Island im- mediately after the arrival of Captain Pickett’s command. ‘was disposed to assume much importance to himself, and did not treat Captain Pickett with that courtesy and con- sideration to which he js entitled as an officer of the Ameri- can army, occupying the responsible position in which he had been placed by Gen. Harney. When Captain Pre- yost visited th » Shubrick afterwards, in San Juan harbor, Commissioner Campbell told bim be had been wanting in courtesy to Captain Pickett. Captain Prevost appeared surprised, and changed bis manner towards that officer; and it is very evident, and may be relied upon, that the British presses are now attacking Commissioner Camp- bell for the purpose of covering the conduct of Captain Prevost. The whole course of the British authorities in the matter of these disputed islands bas been arrogant aud insulting to the American government, A joint commission was appointed to run the boundary. The American Commissioner had full powers and discre- tion torun the boundary line according to the treaty. The British Commissioner did not have such powers and discretion, but the treaty was construed for him, and he had positive orders not to give up a portion of the disputed territory. Whilst the question was being arbitrated and arranged, the British authorities of Vancouver Island undertook to decide it by force, and they committed the high handed ontrage of endeavoring to seize an American citizen and take him to Victoria to try him for an alleged violation of British law. We thank God we have, in the commanding officer of the Department of Oregon, @ man equal to any and all emergencics in the protection of American citizens on this Northwest coast. And we will gay to our cotemporary of the Colonist, and to British officiais geuerally, that not- withstanding their Ganges, their Tribune, their Satellite, American ofilcors speak in «. ca Gapwain’ Hornby and. his brotier Coc idhes olay Wibe*5 the continued harmony to the disc7eel and nble manner in which he has discharged the @a- ties devolviug upon him. It is generally understood that Governor Douglas has it in his power to preserve peace or involve in war bet the course which he may pursue in the premises. Captain Pickett is, of course acting uader the orders of @ sy erjor—it is immater!! Mhothor that superior beCeneral'Harney ot ‘hs Secretary of War—in the 0¢~pation of his present position, and any one who kno™;« his character for decision and bravery, gnd the nature of his duties as an officer, must feel that ‘any attempt to land the troops of another nation upon the island will be deemed an invasion, which, regardless of all questions of title between the governments, he would doubtless resist to the extent of the force under his com. | mand. No one will doubt for a moment that the force at dhe command of his Excellency Governor Douglas could antidilate dhe little band of men now here, with a oss, perhaps, of pot far from an equal number; but the ques- tion whether the results 10 bo gained wor\G justify the fgacrifice should be pondered well before so dire a calamity 33 forced pO, S the nite ee m my 5, foukd the Tribune Me daartoct netting the men in all the varied phases ‘Which a naval engagement, could presens, not alone on ghip supposed to be on fire, and suds a na oats with heavy cannon on the bows. tee toe ea Bestee revenue cutter Jef. Davis was wh ony ‘American vessel, and her gallant commauler, John Ma- gon, Jr., had come over on his awa responsibility t plaoo his vessel, crew and boats at the service of Capta.n Picker" Captain Mason is a grandson of General McCoo. "4 the generous chivalry of the renowned veteran 89 j)<¢ none Of its virtue in the descent. A COUNCIL OF WAR IN VICTO",,, ‘Thore is a report on the street, sav, the Vi of Aug. 20, that a “ Qouncil of Wap5) was hel ment House ga Tuesday; the ‘subject, the diffiealti ing out of the occupation of Bellevue Island by American Aroops, and more particularly their avowed intention of erecting fortifications. The ‘ war party” have taken re newed offence at the proceedings of Lieutenant Colonel Casey to fortify the island, which they declare ander pre ‘Bent circumstances is little less than an open declaration of war, and this council was called at their instigation, The council consisted of his Excellency vovernor | Doug- las, Admiral Baines, Colouei mite. Judge Begbic, and Captains DeCourcy, Prevost and Hornby, and very exciting speeches are said to have been made. Explanations from the United States oiflcers were strongly fasisted avon dy several members of the Council, whish, if nso tory, then active hostilities wore to be inaugurated, the final’ result was that the ‘fre-cators” {iilod in their efforts, and the previously agreed upon course of waiting onders from home was determined upon, We cannot vouch for the entire truth of these romors and street con~ vergations, and merely pat them in print as portions of current history, A MEMORIAL. ‘The British Colonist of August 22 says that a memorial will shortly be circulated for signatures, addressed to her sty’s Secretary of TUteign Affairs, reprosenting our right to Juan, and the necessity for the imperial govern. monf to maintain it. Whilst we heartily second its spirit, ye differ as to the manner in which itis to be introdt to the public. There is ample time to call a public meeti for that purpose, and if a {ull and fair expression of British feeling is called ont, it will have a far bedter effhot and re ceive many more signatures than it would otherwise “THE PRESS ON THE HOUNDARY QUESTION. From the Victoria Gazette, Angust 20.) From he time when the pation of Bellevno Island was first made public the greatest uncortainty has pre ol and their Plumper, we have no fears that American rights Will be trifled with hereafter in this quarter. The International Cricket Match. OUR MONTREAL CORRESPONDENCE. MoyTREAL, Sept. 21, 1859. The English cricketers on board the Nova Scotian, which was tolegraphed from Farther Point at 10:30 A. M. this morning, are expected to arrive here at twelve o'clock to-morrow (Thursday). The Montreal players anticipate that play will commence on Friday morning, and havo made their arrangements accordingly. An excursion + train arrived here this morning with some two thousaud poople from Boston, Lowell and the astern States, to witness the match, with the privilege of returning by any train by the Ist of October. To-dey has been most un- favorable for viewing the city and neighborhood, an ~ jnterrupted rain having fallen during the las P patitied hours. Unless, therefore, a change ’ athe weather takes place, the prospect of the mr 3 wh coming off this week is bie aaeyarene, a, .¢ grand banquet announced to be given to the Ebr”, players at the St. Lawrence Hall, ori- ginally a>" cunced for Friday next, is postponed to Satur: Gay: The leading members of the Montreal Cricket Club uave gone down to Quebec to meet the eleven English players and couduct them to this city. They will be lo- cated at the St. Lawrence Hotel. In the little speculation that prevails bere the eleven are freoly taken against the twenty-two Canadians. TELEGRAPHIC. Mostreat, Sept. 22, 1859. ‘The English cricketers have just arrived here from Que- ‘They are in fine condition, and ready to play at bee. short notice. It has been raining all day, and the match has not beon commenced. The weather is now clearing, however, and play will be commenced to-morrow. — Coroners’ Inques Ctiape wy Drowstxa.—Coroner Jackman yesterday held un inguest on the Wely of an unknown , who: about haif past six o'clock jast Taureday evening jumped overboard from the ferryboat Com, Perry of the Wil- liamsburg tine, and was drowned, The boat was immedi- ately stopped and the body recovered, bat life was ex tinct. The deceased was about forty-five years of age, five fect nine inches high, hair gray, eyes light brown, and was dressed in eheok pants, figured veel aud steal mixed sack coat, Burxxp wine Davsx.—George MoCanthy died day morning at the City Hospital from the offects received a few weeks ago by fulling asleep while intoxi- cated with a lighted pipe in his month. The pipe yestor- his lips, eet fire to the bed clothing, and barnod deceased badly, Coroner Jackman held an inquest on the body. Drowxrp.—Inquests were also held on the bodies of two unknown men found drowned. One was discoy in the foog of Spring strect: the other was found int the Fast river, foot of Twenty sixth stveot. PRICE TWO CENTS. TE£ GREAT EASTERN AT SEA. Additional Particulars of Her Passage Down the Thames—Ovations by the Way~Her Trial Trip—Her First Voyage to America—Her Future Destination— Comparative Dimensions of Steamers— Progress of the Mercantile Steam Ma- rine=Shakspere a Prophet—Adjusting the Compasses—Cutting Through the Sea—Lilliputian Appearance of an American Clipper—Captain Harrison, her Commander, déc., &c. ‘The first step has at length been taken in the way of verifying the anticipations formed of the Great Eastern steamship. On the 7th inst. she was taken in tow by four steamtugs, and proceeded gown the Thames. as far as Purfleet, where she anchored for the night. Next day the journey was continued until she reached the Nore, at the mouth of the Thames, where she came to anchor. Her progress all the way down to this point was. triumphal one, the greatest enthusiasm having been manifested by the public along the entira route. Curi- ously enough her constructor, Mr. Brunel, was prevent- ed by serious ilness from being on board and enjoying the gratification which such a scene would naturally have af- forded him after his eight years anxiety in regard to the experiment. FIFTEEN MILES AN HOUR. On the second day the aid of the tugs was dispensed with, and the Great Eastern was left to herself. Without exerting more than two-thirds of her steam power, and being in her worst trim, she nevertheless ran a distance of fifteen miles in fifty-eight minutes, and set at rest, ac- cording to the correspondent of the London Times, all doubta as to her being, beyond comparison, the fastest vessel in the world. Her maximum speed is now esti mated at twenty-three miles an hour, nearly double the avs rage of oocan steamers. Her engines are represented as having worked with astonishing case and almost without @ perceptible vibration. Before coming to anchor she ‘was put about, and turned completely round within a cir- cle of less than three-quarters of a mille. She was as completely under the control of her rudder as a small river steamer; and, in fact, her whole performances were entirely satisfactory. BER FIRST TRIAL TRIP. She left the Nore at a quarter past nine on Friday morn- ing, the 9tb instant; was off Dover at three P. M. the same day, and was expected to reach the harbor of Port- land, in Dorsetshire, early on the morning of the 10th. From thence she was to start on her trial trip, having animmense number of passengers, paying each twenty-five dollars for the privilege. After Ler return from the trial trip she was to proceed to Holyhead and take in her pas. sengers for America, It was a mistake, therefore, to say that her frst transatlantic trip was to be made from Port- land in England to Portland in Maine. She is to set out from Holyhead, a harbor in the island of Anglesey, on the 29th instant, and will probably be at her moorings in Port- land the first week in October. ‘WILL SHE COME TO NEW YORK?! It does not appear to be as yet finally decided whether she is to visit New York; but judging from the fact that during the last two weeks of her being exhibited to the public on the Thames, no less than twenty-flye thousand dollars was received for admission fees, it would be a capital stroke of finance to exhibit her tor a week or two on the East river, HER FUTURE DESTINATION. Her future destination, after this first transatlantic trip appears alsoto be still an open question. The move- ment of passengers between England and India is hardly considerable enough to justify her being placed on that Suu. La amboration ia Anatralio ‘+ twindliug down, and the exports from that colony are insignificant, except in the matter of gold. But between Europe and the United States the movement of passengers and of commerce is so ‘mmense. and so continuously increasing that it would not be a matter of surprise if the directors of the Gray East- ern should finally come to th¢ dctefmination to employ her in that trade. Should they doso, thon it would still be a matter of doubt what ports would be seleoted cn each side. Holyhead, Milford and Queenstown are putting forward their respective claims to the eastern terminus of the Atlantic ferry, while New York, Portland and Quebec are each spoken of as the western terminus. Of course we regard New York as having incomparably the highest pretensions to the honor and profit of receiving this dis- tingushed visiter; and if the eddy at Hellgate be regarded ag in the least dangerous, we will undertake to say that, through the enterprise of our merchants, the rocks near the channel at that point would be cleared away in the course of a few weeks. Then there would not be the slightest obstacle to the Great Eastern getting to her moor- ings at any of the piors on the East river or on the Hud- OUTLINES OF REPRESENTATIVE STEAMERS, To enable our readers to comprehend at a glance the progressive increase in the size of ocean steamers during the last twenty years, we give the following relative out- lines of the Great Western, the Great Britain, the Persia, and the Great Eastern :— STEAMSHIP GREAT WESTERN. Built in 1838.—Length 236 feet. STEAMSHIP GREAT BRITAIN. Built in 1844.—Length 322 fect. STEAMSHIP PERSIA. Lt Built in 1856.—Length 390 feet. a STEAMSHIP GREAT EASTERN. a Built in 1850,—Length 680 feet, COMPARATIVE DIMENSIONS OF THE REPRESENTATIVE STRAMERS. It isasingular circumstance that the same man who built the first transatlantic steamship should also have Duilt this last and greatest specimen of nayal architecture, and that both vessels should be so closely allied in name— the one the Great Western, the other the Great Eastern. ‘The first was built in 1838, tho last twenty years later. ‘The disparity in their dimensions illustrates the progress that has been made in shipbuilding within that score of years, The length of the one was 236 feet and its breadth 2514. Tho length of the other is 680 fect and its broadth 83. The Great Western was in its day almost as great a marvel as the Great Eastern is now, although it was not more than one-third the length of the modern monster, In this connection it may be interesting to note the pro- gressive advance made in the size of steam vessels for the last thirty years:— Length, Breadth, Date. Newme and Description. Fed.” Feet, 1825—Enterprise, built expressly to go to India, coaling at intermediate stations. . 122 27 1835—Tapns, for the M 182 28 1838—Great Western, first ship built ex. pressly for Atlantic passage... 286 9534 1844—Great Britain, first large screw hip, md the largest iron ship then projected... .... 922 61 1863—Himalaya, iron ship for the terranean,.. 43g 2860—Porsia, iron ship. 45 1856—Adrmtic..... é 50 19590—Great Eastern, iron... a) 83 ‘Thus, the ocewn-going steamer of 1850 is nearly six times the length of that of 1826, whilst the difference be- twoen the tonnage is still more in favor of the lattor. The entire weight of the Great Eastern, With coal and cargo, thousand tons, which is greater by eighteen ¢ than that vessel now afloat, As com h steamboat—the Comet, built is thirty thor any andl in 1812, of twenty-five tons burthen—she is ag a huge man- of-war to a little satiboat, PROGRESS OF THE MERCANTILE STEAM MARINE. It is curious and instructive to observe the progress which the steam marine has been making for several years past as Compared with that of railing veasela. We find by the English returns that in 1846 the whole regis- tered tonnage of the United Kingdom, exchisive of the colonial shipping, was 23,808 sailing vessels, of the aggre- gate tonnage of 3,088,721 tons, against 963 steam vessels, of 181,256 tons, while at the commencement of 1868 the former class had increased to 26,273 vessels, of the aggre- gate tonnage of 4,101,274 tons, and the latter to 1,824 ves- sels, of 417,466 tons. In other words, while the number of sailing vessels increased only at the rate of ten per cent, and their tonnage at the rate of twenty-five per cent, the number of steamers increased one hundred per cent, and their tonnage two hundred per cent. SHAKSPERE A PROPHET. When we consider the revolution effected and to be effected by the application of steam vessels—the Levia- than, as the Great Eastern was first called, standing as the great representative of this new power—and by the discovery of the telegraph, of which (he submarine line between Ireland and Newfounland will be the grandes achjeyement—we cannet help thinking that Shakspero was gifted with prophetic vision when he wrote these Mines Onwrox—Re thou" here again cre the Leviathan can swima league. Puck—W J puta girdle round about the earth in forty winutes. NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. [From correspondence of London Telegraph.) ADJUSTING THE COMPASSES. ‘The binnacle of the Great Eastern consists of an enclosed battery of magnets adjustable by vertical screws, which move the maguets according to the deviation of the com- pass, consequent upon the influence of the iron. The ex tent of the deviation is detected by celestial and terrestrial observations, and when the instruments have been once perfectly reguiated the process of readjustment, when- ever this may become necessary, is £0 execedingly simple that, by merely placing the ship’s head in two positions— namely, north’ or south, east or west—the compass in the northern hemisphere can be made perfect. If alteration of an opposite character should take place in the ship’s magnetism, by reversing the position of the ship’s magnets, and adopting the same process with reference to the ship’s head, the instruments can be re- stored to their original accuracy, To obviate the dan- Rerous influence resulting from the heeling of the ship, an apparatus is used with a moveable vertical magnet in'the centre, and it is no uncommon occurrence for the necdlo of this magnet to be deflected to the extent of fifty de- grees, and even upwards. This disturbance produces oscillation of the card whenever the vessel rolls, the frequent repetition of which eventually causes the card to revolve with such velocity as to render it worse than use- Jess to the seaman. On board the Great Eastern there is also a vertical double disc, which registers the ship's course, and thus prevents all possibility of dispute with the officer on duty. On each side of the binnacle there is, moreover, placed a metal box, containing soft iron, for the adjustment of any trifling amount of deviation in the quadrants. This, to- gether with its contents, remains stationary in all lati- tudes. The object of the patent floating compass is to prevent the vibration of the ship from affecting the centres of action. It consists of an inner bow! floating in an outer one; the former is, of course, perfectly insulated in its water bed, as only the outer bow! is at all influenced by the action of the vessel. Itis the entire combination of the foregoing important details that ensures alike per- fect indication, steadiness of action and extreme durability. Mr. Gray, of Liverpool, has not only been entrusted with the supplying of the compasses to the Great Eastern, and all their attendant apparatus, but has been, and is how en- gaged in the onerous task of adjusting the instruments, feven of which will be in action at the game time. CUTTING THROUGH THE SEA. BeLow Gnavesenn, Sept. 9-11 A. M. ‘The crew of the last tug gave a tremendous cheer as the rope was cast off. We are at the head of Sea Reach, and ip ee te aoe ve are ig half speed of the engines, giving nearl; cleyen miles an hour. reer ad z 9—12 Noon. SRPTEMEER the Nore Light. Wa are going Our, at nine revolutions per minute of the paddles, The action of the yessel is so clean that the bow gcarcely makes a ripple in its passage along the water, Tho Great Eastern literally cuts “through the sea.’’ A Hull boat, crowded with passengers to the fun- nas just passed upwards, thé Occupants of the decks greeting us with tremendous cheers. We have 4,600 tons of coal on board; but we must be deeper in thefwater ere Captain Harrison will put the Great Eastern to her fuli speed, Wo hers june thirteen knots an HEAVING ANCHOR. I had already been amused previous to our leaving Frith by the ceremony of heaving the anchor—pardon a confusion of nautical nomenclature on the part of a thorough Cockney—the capstan used for lifting the un- wieldy mass having its bars manned by, perhaps, a hundred men, of all statures and sizes, young and old, hirsute and smock-faced, but all remarkably pitchy end tarry. At first they endeaycred to lighten their labor by Singing & cpg in unison, the words of which were of ‘Curse about ‘jolly young tars,”’ and a “life on the ocean wave,’ but which had a most lugubrious refrain or chorus—something, in fact, between a short, spasmodic yelp and a@ prolonged moan of the “whiliatoo”’ or- der, Then they tried organized tramping; thea, as the capstan moved easier and {ts propellers went more quickly round, they essayed a species of wild war cance; but that which seemed most to ease their toll was the shrill harmony of the ‘ear piercing fife,” played by a youthful executant, who, at the command of the boat- swain, struck up ‘Wait for the Wagon” and ‘The Good ‘Time Coming” to the apparent delight of the capstan heavers, who speedily accomplished their allotted task. ‘Music, it will thus be seen, has charms to soothe not only the savage but the maritime breast. THE PATENT LIGHT ANCHORS. And yet our anchors are not, comparatively, such pon- derous matters. Their shrewd inventor and patentee, Mr. Trotman, pins his faith upon light anchors, With light anchors, in respect to the Great Eastern, he has pledged himself to stand or fall, He has staked, so to speak , fortune and repotation upon the success of his inven- tion, and the result has most triumphantly borne bim out. When the anchors for the Great Eastern were first spoken of the directors would hear of nothing but the ald speci- mens, fourteen tons in weight. Mr. Trotman pointed out the fallacy of reverting to them, showing that anchors were not dropped gradually, but were let go with a run; and be demonstrated, on the strength of a visit to Ports- mouth dockyard, that there were in that establishment no Jess than twenty anchors, the arms of which had been knocked off by concussion with the bed of the sea, and which had been rettfrned as useless from the Baltic fleet. Mr. Brunel sent Captain Claxton to Portsmouth to inquire should be found ether that the Great Eastern only saves a few hours in such a voyage, or does not save anything, ‘we mg then very safely conciude that she will not an- ewer at a commercial speculation, aud that she will be the Arstand last of her kind. If the Great Eastern does not pay her present proprietors, is not likely that any such vessel willever pay; for they obtain ber from the original shareholders at one-third or one-fourth the sum. that she has cost, and at very much less than the price at which any such vessel can ever be built in future. | The Great Eastern will solve, one way or other, & ques- tion of the utmost practical importance, namely, that of the limits of steam power and machinery in producing speed in sea voyages. Since the steamers of the British and North Amcricau Royal Mail Company began to cross the ocean from Europe to America, the duration of the voyage has been shortened from about fourteen days to rather more than ten days. ‘To effect this reault it has been found necessary to increase the size of the vessels used from 3,200 fo 8,600 tons, and to increase the steam power in the same or in a somewhat larger proportion, The finest steamers now in use on this line (which we instance because it is the best and swiftest in existence), are understood to have cost upwards of £160,000 cach; and we learn from the letters of Sir Samucl Cunard, Bart., recentty published, that he and his partners think it poesible to produce a Corr rate of speed than that attained at present, by uilding larger steamers, at a cost of £200,000 caeh. But from these steamers, costing £200,000 each, and counting gay ubout 4,000 tons, to the Great rh, which has cost from £600,600 to $700,000—if not more—and which counts from 16,000 to 18,000 tons, the interval is prodigious, and every one must look with the strongest interest to sce whether the results attained are at al) adequate to this rodigious increase of expenditure. If they are found to £0, but few months will elapse before other Great East- erns will be commenced, and we shall see as great achange in ocean navigation during the next twenty years as we baye een in land communication since the intro- duction of railways. A want of capital never stands in the way of real improvements in this country. We have found upwards of three hundred millions of money to form our own railways, and have lent, perhaps, half as much as that to foreign nations and our own colonies to form theirs. If the speed of ocean communication can be doubled, or can be even increased twenty-five percent, by a mere investment of capital in large steamers, there is no. doubt that the capital will be found. The first point, however, is to get the five and twenty or fifty per cent of additional speed. Barring accidents, we shall know in a few days, or at most in a few weeks, whether guch an in- crease of” speed can be obtained by Any amount of expen- diture; and knowing that, we shall be able. to judge whether we are on the point of entering suddenly on a great revolution in ocean navigation, or whether we shall haye to go on in the course of improvement step by step as for the last twenty years. CAPTAIN HARRISON, OF THE GREAT EASTERN. {From the London Mustrated Times, Sept. 10.} It is quite safe to say that the main subject of interest atthe present moment is the Great Fastern steamship, and in connection with it our readers will no doubt be gled to be told something of the history, antecedents and qualifications of the experienced seaman to whose skill and judgment the great ship, with her immense passenger and stowage accommodations, is henceforth to be confided, ‘At a very early age Captain Harrison, whose nautical pre- diiections were absolutely irrepressible, selected, in a somewhat self-willed manner, the profession he has ever since followed. He was afterwards apprentice din regular course, and that the man was cut out by nature to com. mand ships rather than to serve in them may be gathered from the remarkable fact, that before he was out of his time he was captain ofa vessel. It was in the East and Weet Indies, and on the coast of South America, that the earlicr years of his career were passed. Here for some cight years he was in command of freetraders, sailing hips, and in the course of the numerous squabbles among the rival Powers in the last named region, was more than once in action, handling his ship on all ‘occasions as a good officer and courageous man. Subsequently to this period he went into the service of the Cunard’ Jine of Atlantic steamers, and continued in this position for the fifteen years immediately preceding his engagement with the rn Navigation (now the Great Ship) Company. During this period he successively commanded the following well known vessels:—Acadia, Britannia, Hibernia, Cambria, America, Africa and Arabia; and it was during this period that he acquired his great celebrity as an Atlantic navigator; and when it is re- collected that during the earlior portion of the time indi- cated every Cunard steamer crossed the ocean ten times, and during the latter portion no less than fourteen timee, & year, it will be readily understood how Captain Harri- son's voyages to and from England and America number something over one hundred and eighty. He says him- self, “I counted up to one hundred and fifty-so- yen, and then left off” Many anecdotes are ‘cur- rent, al) bearing on hie natural skill, acquired ex- perience, iris gelf-possession, and ready presence of mind. Of these we call to mina one of the most appo- site. Leaving New York once after the prevalence of heavy southwoet gales, Which had filted up the bar to the extent of a foot or two, aud the Africa, or wien stip be was then in command, being very deeply laden, the yeesel touched the bar as she was passing over it. ‘The pilot in charge called out instantly to ‘stop her.’ Our readers should be at once nautical men and commercial men {to appreciate fully the nature of the calculations which in one second of time it was necessary for the cap- tain to make. They may be explained as something of this kind:—“We are on the bar now, and if we stop the chances are a hundred to one that the ship is a total wreck in a few hours, but all the insurances will be safe; on the other hand, if I jam her across I shai/ save the ship, but by tuking her out of the pilot’s hande, shall avoid the insurances.” The rceult was that within a tenth of the time occupied in writing the above these calculations had been all made, and ‘Go on ahead, full speed!’ was the order; the ship touched twice more, but was brouglit safely’ across, and came into port strong and sound. Itt was during his command on the Cunard line that some of (he gentlemen connected with the direction of the great ship and also with thatof the Grand Trunk line in Canada, having frequent occasion to cross the Atlantic had opportunities of observing the abilities of Capt. Har- rison, and the result was an overture to take charge of the Leviathan, then building. The oyerture involved the instalment of the captain as from November, 1855; but certain honorable considerations, highly creditable to him and bearing on understandings between him and his em- ployers, induced him to postpone the engagement, and on the last day of the year 1855 his engagement with the Cunard line ceased, aud with the year 1856 that with the Great Eastern began; since which time—and certainly during the launch and during the last two or three months, at any ratelong before the ship was out of the contractor’s hands—o1 the hardest worked men on board has been the cay ‘The mere ordinary routine of a vessel of such bewildering size one would have sup- posed enough, and more than enough, for any sea captain goings but when one adds to this the frequent confidences of irectors and other oflicials, the unceasing inquiries of the gentlemen connectedwith the one small botherations of small selves great ones, and the everlasting undercurrent silly chatter inflicted by the thousands of other y' who all seemed to cousider the captain as n: there to answer foolish questions, one’s only wonder is that either the man’s brain or his urbanity has not given , ress, the thousand and visiters thinking them ¢ way. We may add that Captain Harrison is in the very prime of singularly vigorous manhood, a littic more than into this, and ultimately the governing authorities of the Great Eastern came round to Mr. Trotman’s views; and he, having ascertained the length of chain which it was proposed to attach to the anchors, decided upon a maximum weight of five tons for’ the an- chor itself, This decision was subsequently somewhat modified, and the Great Eastern has now three bower anchors of five and a half tons, EX stock, and four anchors of four tons X stock. A prejudice arogo, it will be remembered, against Trotman’s anchors, from the fact that when at Deptford the Great Eastern broke from her chains. Now it must be borne in mind that when this mishap occurred, her broadside was exposed to the gale blowing over the Isle of Dogs. She was pinned fore apd aft by no less than sixteen eables, literally “cribbed, enbined fd confined;”’ but there was a pressure on her broadside of not fot than 500 tons; use bow cl a gave and but for the opportune services as a fender or Vitor rendered by the dumb lighter, she might have gone on shore. ‘Thus a casualty, Mr. Trotman maintains, is not likely to occur, where the vessel can turn her bow toacurrent or a gale, and the truth of his reasoning was certainly and conclusively proved to-day, when the Great Eastern with one five tou auchor “brought to like a cutter.’? THE Gneat sutr's SPEED. eae my last despatch I spoke of our speed havi are knots aD hour; we have now done thirteen knote at three-quarter speed, her screw being at the same time four feet out of water, aud her paddles scarcely “biting the waves, In fact, this is as yet but ‘skimming’? work, rather than heavy ploughing. Butshe was fast working up to “speed” before we anchored to-day. Tt may be imagined that Mr. Scott Russell looked remarkably pleased upon the success of the engines—marvellous monuments of mechanical skill and power they are—constructed in his factory, and sbook hands with a good many people. Captain’ Harrison had also every reasan to be delighted at the rate the yessel had attained, and to receive with na- tive modesty the congratulations of Captain | Comstock, who has occupied for many years in the Collins line the same arduous and responsible position formerly held by Captain Harrison in the Cunard mail fleet, and whose assistance has been cheerfully accepted, in directing the river navi- gation, albeit the chartered commander for the time being was and is the Trinity House pilot, Mr. Atkinson, LIPUTIAN APPEARANCE OF AN AMERICAN CLIPPER. ma {From the Correspondence of the London Globe.) Near Woolwich the great ship was met by a first class “Anucrican clipper, which looked like a dwarf beside her. ‘Tho American crew appeared to be astonished at her vast proportions, and greeted her with a hoarty cheer. RATE OF INSURANCE. [From the Liverpool Mercury of Sept. 9] ‘The transactions yesterday at Lloyd’s in msurances on the Great Eastern were few and smallin amount. The risk has been taken very sparingly for the voyage out and home, including the trial trip, at six guineas per cent against total loss, The samo price has been acce| tor airisks, excluding the running down clause. Without this exception, the rate may be quoted at cight guineas per cent. QUESTIONS TO BE DETERMINED BY THE OREAT EASTERN. {From the same.] ‘A few days or hours will settle the question whether the Great Eastern will sail much quicker than vessels of ordinary size, and afew months will settle the not less im- portant question whether she will pay a fair dividend on the enormovs capttal invested in her. ‘The answer to the second qnestion will depend in a great measure on the answer to the first. If it should be found that the Great Fastern will cross the Atlantic in two-thirds or one-half of the time ocenpied by the Persia and other frst rate steam- ers, there can be litile doubt that she will pay, for sho will in that cage have much the same guperiority over other ‘voesels that railways haye over turnpike roads. Bat if it midway between forty and fifty; bis eye quick, sharp, and penetrating; his head, voice, and general bearing de- noting rapid perception and quick determination; his man- ner remarkably straightforward, honest and courteous, even for a sailor. Taking him all in all, there is perhaps, no man living to whom the great spectlation could have deen go judiciously intrusted—ne man who can more con- fidently fay to his passengers, a8 the “ Daneel bright and bold of eye” said to Thalaba, 47 kenw the ocean pat Wilt thou go on withm Ship Helen A. Miller. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Allow me to correct errors in the statement made in your correspondent’s letter dated San Francisco, Angust 22, and published in your paper of last Wedneeduy, con- cerning the ship Helen A. Miller. Your correspondent states that “large advances have been made on the cargo by Messrs. Coleman & Co., aud also by Mesers. Ross, Dempster & Co.” And again, that “the Helen A. Miller is owned in Baltimore.” The “Jarge advances” amount to about $2,000, which were not made on the cargo but on the freight. The ship is owned by the master, Captain John Sweeney, who ought her in January last, and sho hails from New York. ‘AS there are reports in Circulation calculated to injure the character of the captain, 1 wish to inform those inter- ested that there are letters in this city from the officers of this ship, giving particulars concerning her logs, and show- ing more conclusively that it was no fault of the captain, Dut that all was done to save the vessel and cargo that was ible. Ey inserting the above you will do an act of justice to ‘tunate mariner. ac H. MOUSTON, 9 Beaver street. Grorcr Camsry’s Mixsterts.—Our Brooklyn friends are promised a rare treat this evening, ina performance at the Atheneum by Geo. Christy. We have no doubt that the Brooklynites will turn out in force, so as not to be be- hind Jersey City in spirit and enthusiasm. New FActumes ror COMMERCE oF THS PoRT.—Our read ers will perceive by an advertisement in another columa that a new and important agency has been established ia this city by the Peninsular and North African Steam Navi- gation Company—Bake, Adam & Co., London—which is likely to be a great accommodation to our merchants trading with Portugal, Spain, Teneriffe, Grand Canary and the African coast. i ON eo Tre Roavns’ Lexicox.—We have received from ex Chief of Police George W. Matsel! a copy of bis recently published book with the above tide. It confains ak the flash words and phrases employed by the rogue fraterni- ty, with their definitions in plain English, and in this re: spect the book is indeed a curiosity, It also has the gam- Bers’ flash words, with their explanations; the phrases used by billiard players, the words of the prize ring fancy, and last, though by no means least, the yeghnienlitios & the Wall street brokers. The book is decidedly novel, and there is probably no man in existence better qualified to produce a work of this description than ex-Chief Mateell. The Financ: ‘The Italian Committee, © clcsing their labor , Present to the public the compl |.st of subscribers to the Italian fund, and desire to exp; +s their thanks to the friends of Italy for the cordiat inczmer in which they have responded to their appeal. Private letters received from all party of the country bear wituess to the comfort and encourage. ment their sympathy has afforded, and to the great relief experienced by many sufferers through the aid thus ren- dered, The Committee also present a copy of a letter from: Count C. Cavour in acknowledgment of the first remittance: collected and forwarded by thom for the Italian fund, The bearer of the despatch having been detained on his way to the United States, the delay in the pgblication bas been unavoidable, The second and last remittance wil? be forwarded by the next steamer, and the receipt pub- lished as econ as it shall be received:— Gexriemex—I have received your tarorotibe 2 Palttiee closlg tour drafts ou London for the ansount pounde sterling, being the proceeds ‘of the aulecription poe or soldiew Aid to Italy, Moted by you the relief of the families of Italian engaged in the war for the independence of our country. hall cash these drafts without del and transfer fo the “Treasurer of the Central’ Commities foe arlene take blewware. in doing same ants you may especially as the department of foreign. fice Wen te bee he Thedium throuyh which the ¢ ri received aii contributions from abroad. I avail myself of this opportunity to ofter you my warmest thanks forthe seal with which you have initlated this noble work; and I remain, with: hi eration, yours, ©. CAVOUR. jo the [raLtax CowmiTiEx: In New York. The following letter to the President of the committ in New York hag also been received :— sed Torr, July 9, 1869, Dar SR—Thave received your esteemed letter of the 22 ultimo, in which you were so kind as to taform me that an Tta- lian Committee had been boa mar in your clty to collect sub- scriptions in aid of the families of the Ttutian soldiers e1 in the war of natioy independence. I hasten members of the commitiee individually, and to acknowledge the Feceipt of the amount thus far forwarded. The spontaneous. proofs of sympathy and affection that all civilized’ nations 80 penerounly. rendered to the defenders of Italian ndence- ‘ully prove that our cause §s fntimately connected with- the highest interesta of justice and civilization. The country of Washington was ever among tbe first to give: us effectual and practical proofs of its benevolence. Follow- ing its example, aided as it once was by generous armies of France, we shall finally accomplish our object. and Italy, ag- sured of her own independence, will bring again into the Con. i gress of ions ber fruitful tribute of industry, science and art ¢ of you ta thank publicly, in my name, the Italians. who have contributed to the promotion of the subseriy » ae Well as those American citizens who have so generously’ ge- conded your efforts. I take this opportunity to assure you of are consideration. Yours, 2 CAV . ‘o Professor ¥. Borta, President of the Ttalian Commitiee: in New York. ‘The following receipt from General E. De Sonnaz, Presi- dentof the Central Committee in Turin, has also been re- ceived — Tort, A Gextuzw4x—Throngh the Royal Departness or Foran Affairs the Central Committee bave received the sum of one thousand pounds sterling, being the result thus far of the: subscription opened in your city for the relief of the families of those who have fought for the independence of Italy. ‘The undersigned, President of the Central Committee, in a¢- knowledging the receipt of the said liberal remittance, takes pleasure in offering the most heartfelt thanks to you, gentle- men GAY piece Committee wl teh anne to the Sent. can public, for the geuerous an nthropic enterprise, (or the eplendid results thus far obtatsed, and fanally for all that you may be able to do in future for a class of people so well Worthy of sympathy and assistance. I have the bonor to re- taain, genllemen, reapeoully Yours es eaten To the Trattan Commrrrre in New York. The following is the complete and revised list of the subscribers to the fand: ¥. Botta, $100; Otto Fabricoti, $250; G. Albluola, $100: @.- Cocearini, $60; E. P. Fabri, $50; (. Gajani, $15; M. Pastacaldi, $250; V. Cine $15; G. B. Pandolfini, 850; F.. Zanoni, $50; A.D. Sirologo, $60; N!N. R., $2. A. Belmont, $200; Battelle: $i9; Brine $25; habushy 92054. sh, #2, A.B. . Gianelli (ubseri s. J. G. Bennett, ders, $20; TL. Janin, $30; — & Gebhard, $) N Kehr $5; Bal A.D. Lee, $60; Aristareh, $20; Glabninl, $1; L. MC Zacchi, $2 50; 8. Zaccbl, $i; B. Canapint $i; , $4.50; L: Delmonteo, $100; Lecture of Mr. Tinelis, $30; ward Everett, $50; N Rossignoli, $20; L. Leslie, $$; O.. 1, $1; G.Buttl, $5; B, Thomas, $5; A,Perucchi, $2; C. Bra- H. Thomas, $2; G. Lehere, $1; J. Foutaaa, $4 ;, W. M. Gillesple, $10; B: a , $10) Mra. 1; F. Contesso, $6; C. Stopani $1, R. A. G. "Liparl, Si, A. Cella, $1; _Mre- 1H. ‘Tagiablu, $5; J” Milles, $1; Ri Tamagno, $6: A. ‘Simson, $b; Pertignazza, $8; & friend of italy, $5; F. Perazza, $5; 'a Parmesan, $1; F. Frazzetio, $1; G. i, $2; A. Ghio, $6: G. Faghah $10; G. Speroni, $2; Halferty & McHough, $3; G. McReddy, W. Colvin, $1; John Jeffrey, 0c.; J. A., $1; R.A. $1; F. dows, $5: F. D. Sedgwick, 85: C. Fertero, $8; 8. Hunter, $5; money raised for a sword to be presented to King Vietor, and applied 10 this fund, €60 76, 0N- J. Flagg, $10; & Yassin, $25; L. Antonarolli, $4; G.J.Wi j; A.De Batolon- 0, $5; L, Borg, $25; an Englishman, $25; Chester Driggs, $5; @ Guidicini, $60: 'A. G. Norwood & Co, $25; G. 8. Robbins & n, $60: W. inwall, $100; Stokes and Brother, $20; G.U, Blunt, $26; et, $10: W. A. Sale & Go, Hicks & Bell, $10; John Randall & Co., $100; E. G. Fabbri, © & Bresler, $26; wit, Hurlburt & Co. $1 &Co., 1 J. Finn & Co., $25; Haight J.C. Lord & Brothers, $15:" Bonghtow & Randall Oppenheim 4 Co., $50; Sufis & Colley, $20; Fen €10; Fieher 4 Co., $10, Ch. Watson. $10; A. 40.8, Comm tock. $10; M. A. Rogers, $30: . J. Hayes, $25; W. Halsey & Co., 0; Eli White's Bone, $25; W. & Wilkses, $20; ‘ite, $25; Samuel J. Ja- Co., $30; Oliphant, Son & 'Co,, $10; Wallace C,H. Bbipman, $60; W. A. & A.M. White, bs, $10; Geo. G. Holson, $50; Duncan Sherman & Co., $100; 5, $25; Richard Mort G. Ca- i; V. ‘As- So d, $1; 3. MeM col, $6; D, Battaglia, ‘$20; Sicilian, i, $5; T. A, $1; F , $10; MK. Moodey, 85; Le. Topi, $0: 1, W. Paige & Co. 860 J. Ring, €25. A. Paladint, $5; Ch, G. Milnor, $2. J.B. $5; M- Knowlton, 6: W. Wariur, $5; Geo. W. South, $5: J- sh, $1; R. C., $1; Thomas Milnor, Van Rensselaer, $10; A. te Hy A. L., $1; Cash, $31; L. Bona, $10; i N Val . H. Pugl Gansette, $1; Mitchell, $2;'A. . Bosher, A. V., $10; J. A. ¥., $10; ** |. S. K., $10, 1. 8. Hecksher, $150; Ch. Moran, $100; Morgan & Smith, $100; Lurman, $100, G. C. Ward, $10; Thomas A, Doyle, $1 $5; D. Bushman, $6. 3. $10; J. C.. $15; D. & B. Gi 10; Emily Wilder, G. Avesta, $5; Misses i $80; V. Ruffani, $2; J. 1. Siroub, $5; G. ia, $10; T. C. Delano (subscription raised by himself), $100; @.. arpinoni, $1 0; Domenico Chisachi (subscription raised by him. se}f), $42; Proceeds of the AomEnT OC Music, “June 22 $2304 Misses Peters and friends, $50; L. Roberti, $20; any. Brooks, $800; Sturges, Shaw & Co., $200; Robert Rennie, $25; Ch. Leupp, $25; Percy R. Pyne, $25; Jchn H. Gourlie, $20; Theod.. Dehon, $25; Edw. Gillelan, $100; Chafflin, Mellen & $100; Flag & Bal ; BF. Beekman & Co., $25; J.B. Wil Hams, $20; Edw. Delano, $10; Dalla Associazione Pitts, $105 03; Haggerty & Co., $100; L. Graham, $10; W. Carter Brown, $100; A. Magni, $21; J. P. Cronklite, $85; Ch. Buckingham, $5; A. Cordell, Cerrai, 3. Piechetti, $1; M, Benvenuto, $1; V. diondi, $1; F. Benvenuti, Picchetii, $1; A, Trivel~ inl, $1; Deniel Cole, Altdecbi, $100; lecture of the Rev. Dr. Thampson, $4 N., Conorath $100; Riggs & Co,, $60; tis D, Abbott, $25; Meiga & Greenleaf, $25; $l 1. Grant, $3; A. Muaroe M.'W. Harvey, lecture of Mr. >. Dord & Co, $00; A. Guerber, $5; E. La- i. Melazzo, $10; M. pict ; Me ly M. Mantelli, $2; ‘Th. McMullen, $5; Moore, J.'W. Condrilivol & Co., $5; John Sealy, Sr.y er, Townsend & Co., $25; Ch Miles, $10; J. W- . $10; G. Blunt, $20; J. B. Phillips, $20; E.'Faber, $15; urs, Sig; Job Coawell’ & Co. Shi: Cary & Gor’ $605 re $00; Udolpho Wolfe, $5); Sherman, Colling & °0., $00; %. 8, Lathrop, $25; J..8. Tappan, $25; Dayton, Sprague “G cM. H. Harmony, $10: ha heafe, $60, BB ‘a. . McGaw, $15: N. Lenght, $5; Siro Baltramnit, $1; 5 eechl, $6; Mary A. Reara, $1; Mrs, Blucker Pigs, aces re asa O2 Deeety Aint ance ow, See . Lewis, 81; G. sented to the committee, $66; . Bertinatd, $100. 445 M. @ e ‘Total sum raiged from the subscription 623 12 First remittance. vel Sof ibe Dah is. 5,700 91 a‘ : ‘$10,628 12 For the Committee. V. BOTTA, President, Otro Fansuicorm, Treasurer, Naw Yous, September 23, 1859. Army Intelligence. During the temporary absence of General Scott the headquarters of the army will, as heretofore, remain in this city, Colonel H. L. Scott acting as Assistant Adjutant General. The resignation of Lieutenant J. B. Wharton, Seventh infantry, has been accepted by the President of the United States, to take effect August 31, 1859. Lieutenant J. C. Tidball, Second artillery, is relieved from coast ay duty, and will, on the dst proximo, roceed to join his company. . Assistant Surgeon J. Letterman, Medical eperet, ig assigned to duty in the city of New York, and wil} report to the Surgeon General of the army accordingly. Aleave of absence until the opening of navigation of the Upper aan next spring is granted Lieutenant F, Beach, Fourth artillery. An ‘extension of leave of absence for two nionths hag been granted Captain John Whiters, Adjutant General's ri Goneral-in-Chiet has kiudly remitted the sentence of Ordinance Sergeant (now private) Williams, ed ou illams was iried by court martial for disobedience of orders, &c., to his superior officer, and sentenced to bo “1 to the ranks and be discharged from the 4 ney good v" i brought us conduct, however, having been w 1 notion ‘of the Commanding General of the army, he caused him to be restored to his former rank and po- sition. Note from Mr. Brown, of Tammany Hotel. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘Tanmary Hore, Sept. 23, 1859. In your remarks upon Tammy He!! to-day, suggested by anarticle in yesterday’s News, you have, imadver tently, no doubt, dono me, as manager of tie Tammany Hotel, an injury, and my numerous patrons ab injustice. The Tammany Hotel is not a arty to any political or other sins which may be committed by Tammany Hall. Ido not bother myself with partisan squabbles about ‘ammany Ali or any other hall. I atteng@ to my owt jness as a landlord, and try to conduct a hotel in a re- eyectable and orderly mitt a way to win a due share of well earned patrona; nd L think I have succeeded, ax my hotel register will show. I do not dispute the right ‘of politicians to quarrel, to criminate and to recriminate, but politicians should not, from motives of spite or ag- grandizement, drag into their arena persons and t to. with which they bave no right to ot LES BROWN. Naval Intelif cee Lieut. Richard W. Meade, Ji i) States Navy, has ‘been ordered to report for duty: on board the United States fajgat anac, now at ma. ee echt has been ordered to the steamer Wyans dott, and Lieut. W. R. Mayor to the Naval Academy,