The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1862, Page 2

THE CORRUPTION IN CONTRACTS. Speech of Mr. Van Wick in the House, &e., &e., &e. ‘The House of Representatives on Friday last having under consideration the report from the select committee on government contracts, Mr. Van Wrox, (rep.) of N. ¥., chairman of the ¢om- mittee, said:—Mr. Speaker, on the 19th day of April, 1861, the world was startle’ with the recurrence of one of those great events which mark eras in the history of me with a deeper infamy and exalt the man, brand: virtues of a generous manhood to @ nobility almost di- vine, of whish heroes have boasted and poets sung. The parallel of April 19, 1775, was complete. The days, ‘months, years and cycles ofa peaceful and happy uation- ality had borne the Massachusetts soldier from tho field of Lexington to the streets of Baltimore. For a time the great American heart ceased to beat; a national paralysis for & moment, and then the people realized the horrors and oruelties of this unnatural war. The merchant left bis counter, the farmer the quiet of home, the manufacturer's shuttle paused in ite half fivished round, the anvil rang not out the bhammer’s beat, the lawyer's unfinished briof lost its interest, up his sacerdotal robes, mothers, with folded the clergyman the dovotion of Spartans, bade their sons ge forth; the wife pressed more elosely her newborn babe, as sho gavo a parting, and with blessings and prayers the husband weat forth, probably never to return. ‘The na- tion offered up its life and emptied its treasure into the lap of this great calamit, the rich bestowed of his abun- dance; the widow gave her mite, an only son, or a tear sanctified with prayers. Not ono of us can forget it. History, in after times, will record this the noblest moral exhibition of true courage the world has ever witnessed. Searce a whisper of treason or murmur of discontent in all the North; yet mamy of those who made the welkin ring for truth and liberty, who professed to worship the true God, ware ready to cry out, “Great is Diana of the Ephosians!”’ hoping to crucify the spirit of freedom. There were others, meaner, baser still, only watching the opportunity to make merchandise of their country’s mis- fortunes, coin the grief of the nation into currency, and peril her ing imwtions, if it could minister to their base cupidity Ono class commenced secretly seuding intelli- gence to the rebels: the other rendered to them no less valuablo assistance by conspiring to defraud the people and the government. Almost the same instant harpies besieged the Troasury and the vultures in the North snuffed the spoils afar off. While the bridges od by rebels were yot smoking in ruins, before the regimonts impeded by their destruction could reach the capital, the sappers and miners, who knew the trembling necessities of the na- tion, oommonced the assault. tho panic of those times w: It has been said that in ‘ulness on the part of pub- {ic Officers should not be required, and the larcenies of plundering hordes should be overlocked, CATTLE CONTRACT. About tho time the New York Seventh—the pride of the Empire State, composed of the best of her-eitizen’ aoldiery; of men of wealth, high family position, educa” tion, enjey the confidence of the community in ali th® relations of iife—with the Massachysetts Sixth—a regt- ment representing the intelligence and business cecupa” tions of that wonderful State—aide by side were fordin’ streams, building bridges, laying railroad tracks, sleeping on the untented ficid, and, when hunger was pressing upon them, the Seventh dividing their last store of bacon and hard biscuit with the gallant mon of the Sixth, a con- tract was made im this city by the Department with Dwyer, Laughman, Sibley & Tyler, for cattle, from two to ton thousand,at eight doilars: tivered here, and five and nia, What (acilities had 1 tion mbich the, goverame ernment iy strong arms upon railroads and use 5 plant its gather- ing armios to guard the bridge and track. At that vory time au agent was sent by into Maryland, who, without difficulty, purchased cattle to be delivered in Washington at six and a half per hun- Besides, direct navigation with New York was not obstructed by the Potomac. Still more, if the danger of transportation through Maryland waa an excuse for this contract big with profits, why a provision tion should be delivered in Pennsy! Department desired, and why were nearly 1,500 received im Harrisburg, while scarcely 800 were delivered in dred, live eight. that ap hundred, live weight, de- uarters in Ponnsyiva- & Co, for transporta- goverament did not posses? the Department sia if the Washington’ Notwithstanding the lions in the way, Dwyer & Co. immediately sub-iet the contract to New York men, so that without any hazard or perils they re- alized over $32,000 on about 2,000 head. dificulty during the panic of those times in Why should the government have found any? contract. They had no onbing this There is no pretence that oither of these men had any get courage im overcomin, ili in purchasing cattle, dangers, or remarkable ‘wo were railroad contract- ors, one particularly near to the Secretary, one a lawyer. and one the winter before had been in consultation and Begotiation with rebels for the sale of arms. Thus trea- fon and corruption were continued at the capital. AGENCY OF ALEMANDER CUMMINGS, 19Q.—PURCHASE OF ARMY SUPPLIES. Nearly simultaneous with this occurred another trans- action. On the 2ist although day of April, the Secretary of War, be well know the groat ability and experience of Colonel Tompkins, Quartermaster, and Major Eaton, Commi-sary in Now York city, wrote two letters to Alex: ‘andor Cummings, Fsq. In one he ‘‘wants him to aid the Commissary in purchasing supplies, to assist the Quar- terinaster in pushing them forward.” The other letter States that — The Department needs at this moment an intelligent ner energetic man, in whom it can pushing ‘orward troops, munitions and su No man knew better than the Secretary that these qualifications were already possessed by the army officers in New York, on whom it was safe to rely. The Secreta- =~ to cy then gracefully compliments bir. Cummings:— You are acquainted with the internal arrangements and connections of the railroads in Pennsylvania, over which, for the present, they will nave to pasa, ‘Can there be so much intricac: gections in Pennsylvania that master in Now York or Philadelphia was not conversant with themy The Secretary then adds the touching ap- peal to his patriotism:— Tam aware that your private affairs may demand your induce you to aid me, time, [am sure your patric even at some lows to yourself, On the 234 of April the Secretary again wrote:— In consideration of the extraordi and immediate and deci Ize Edwin D. Morgan and A hecessary arrangements for the transpo: a ud casistauce of the oflicers of the army of the Untied tates, Either was authorized to act in absonee of the other. On the 4th day of May Governor Morgan delegated his portion of the power to George D. Morgan. On the 24th the Secretary wrote:— I sent you yesterday an official paper to act In connection with Governor Morgan by land, through Maryland and Penn- sylvan} {cs inportat you ahould act, prompt) pute MMINGS. purchase of supplies. St ing over w the regulations. nothing—bad never seen before. be did not know who recommended him: then be thought inary ses which measures, I hereby author- nder Cummings to make all ‘of troops, in ex in about the railroad con- 0 United States Quarter- AnBRON. This is tho first time be recognised his friend as Doctor. Thus armod, the Doctor seemed supreme in his orbit; in- Stead of readoring aid and assistance, he effectually su- Persedod the army officers. formed him that his services were uot needed in the he Doctor commenced buy. 21,000 worth of straw huts and linen pantaloous, ich were worthless to the army, and not required by He employed a clerk of whom he knew In his evidence at first Major Eaton distinctly in- ‘bo was recommendell by Mr. Thurlow Weed—dnally gaid ‘I romember now that Mr. D. Morgan. publisher. CHARTER OF THE CATALINE. is was the 23d omething by lay of April, the the brave and generous young men of that city Daylight left without convoy, passed up t wubet convoy, and reached Washi 9 2 é 5 78 to tho Develin all the tim the 26th the boat was ins, he rely: agent of Doctor Cummi Department, paying for he three m to € 0, oul Vues i wae al 10 required for ‘use $10,009 Ns, and if lost by war Fiske tt 0. Colonel Tom mistook aegurer agent sign ‘The Captain kao Weed told me he knew all about him, and apon his recommendation I took This clerk the Doctor suffered to do all the bus make all the purchases, except what were made by G It is but justice to an influential and widely lated paper in the city of New York to say that sinos u World was united with the Courier and Cummings has had no connection with it ag editor or ‘rer Mr. ext appoints Captain Comat hey cone ‘ock to charter Instead of purchasing the Doctor to do so, 2 Mr. Develin that ory w York with the Seventh regiment and two hundret reertite ot om Comstock all bis skill and energy, his mission ‘was wed to benefit friends. He knew Dr. Cummings was War Department; still he counsels freely lin about the value of the Catalis gives an opinion what will be paid for her charter. Had cheap at $15,000 his government was Purchase. fAfter yielding to Mr. the negotiation, on chartered by Colonel Tomp- ‘ing upon Captain Comstock, the authorized of the War per month for ab governmen king w ti ' ime, and until worth W toe t him." sand value of the boat and what she cost. ing ap imterest in hee protkts, swears thoy did tend she was worth $50,000. ever, denies that he alleged sho waa worth that amount. | NEw YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, Mr. Freeman, hav: pre- Captain Comsock, how The testimony of Captain Comstick shows the vast num ber and almost unlimited powor of persons at that tiew | assuming to act a8 agents for the government. He says:— | Mr. Weed to come to the Astor House about the time of the commencem: ese dies. Hi I was sent for b; service. Six to ten vessel, that he wished to ww Afterwards Cu Upun me aad showed me the saine suihority jown, It had been transferred to him to 2 eT should think that Weed chartered from erforum the same ‘This tostimony was given on the 23th day of December and up to that time » ‘committee had no evidence or intimation that Mr, Weed bad been an agent for the go- vernmont or acting as such. The department was liberal ip Destowing confidence and grants of power; but that thet to have been w b confidence seems WV Rn 8 authority one to the other transfer of Ral home prevents an oxaminabion @t present into the natu and extent of his agenoy. And when she could in whole or part sol will aceobmt for ; Tnon pantatoonsy Lendod porte ring, “butter, cheese and all.”” that'on the 47th of AprilMr. Stetson, in whose title had been ace, eat tan 9 repo eRe sions, and called The committee hay able to show for whom the steamer was load been intimated she was loaded by privi run, however, at the risk and ex he obtain a ‘ance her cargo was to government. If thig be so, it ‘8 purchase of 3 r, Scotch ale, Collestor Barn of ou him, di Whea not been . It has »to be rnment. par’ w hats, itch her: swoars e the clear- the who were acting for Mr. Stetson, in hing he did, candid: and: tade > concesimonk Whet on the Collector ‘‘he brought a Q called note from Mr. Weed, stating that the cargo consisted of supplies for troops, and requesting @ Barney declined, but saw Mr. Weed ‘learance Rot be granted. Mr. Weed said ‘‘it was ‘ight, and would be arranged in some other way.” He concluded not to give a clearance unloss requested to el all ri and explainied pd why Mr, do so by General Wool. He saw tho General, and re- quested: him to be caroful before he gave orders for a clearance. A General, which , however, was obtained from the 8 regretted: for on Monday morning he sent an order to the Collector revoking it; but the fugitive had escaped, with the and Genera! Wool upon her. tunate one; condemnation of the Collector Her voyage was an unfor- after two months’ service she was destroyed by fire. The question recurs, who were the friends referred to by Mr. Stetson as the owners of the cargo? It is necessary to go back and see who had any interest or connection with the transaction. Mr. Freo: man, who had a one-tenth interest in the profits, swears, after first declinifig todo so, that he received, as part security for the purchase money of the Catalino, four notes , of $4,500 each, as follows:—One note by John E. Develin, endorsed &. €. Davidson; one note by Thurlow Weed, endorsed John E. Develin; one note by G. C. David- son, endorsed O. B. Matteson; one note by 0. B. Matte- son, endorsed Thurlow Weed. These parties must all have been in New York city at this time. The only other person besides the Captain and crew was James Larkin, who went on the boat, he says,as purser, al- though he finally concluded his duty was to act as check upon the captain. This man was appointed by Mr. Deve- lin upon the recommendation of Mr. Davidson. No one seemed to take any interest vessel except Mr, Develin. Colonel Tompkins knew nothing of her ‘cargo. The Union in loading the Defence Com- mittee knew. nothing of her cargo; and when Dr. Cammings was, asked if he knew an: her cargo, ho said, “Not a particle.” ing of: reliod entirely upon and trusted tothe clerk, Mr. Humphreys, appointed upon the recommendation of Mr, Weed. It must be left to surrounding facts to show who were the friends referred to by Mr. Stetson, and whether the boat was first loaded for private speculation; and when no clear- ance could be obiained, Mr. Cummings, through bis clerk, purchased the cargo for government, so that a procured. pass could be giving a pass to the Cataline sentation to General Soott Doctor was retary says, notwit |. General Wooi’s hesitancy in Page ly induced a repre- t the condition of his ‘Wool’s) health required repose from arduons duties. i iauaalamantont eiperienced e igent ries ‘said = true. man. Sec- ing the preseure on his private Dusiness, he is sure he will aid him. Yet the Dootor re- pays this gonereus and unbounded confidence by know- ing nothing, absolutely not of the purehasing of million dollars, by articles or loadi the Secretary of tl of vessels. ‘Treasury, were placed in the hands of a committee of high toned, honorable men, out on the order or requisition of Mr. Cummi 7 itbout id it his produeing to them any vouchers. Strange 4s it may. ect while this money was there to respond to his requisition, he draws $160, mame, with his private account, Strangor still, four months after 000, and fn one deposits it in bis of the city banks. coased, he Jeaves no vouchers with the War Department. The rous confidence, seeks no War Department, in ite settlement with the shot hand, ‘which i gov that it would not long survi right to plunder while it liv tor, nor an inspection vouchers. Sach were the promi at a time when a man’s freely have offered every country. This was the cloud,’no larger than a man’s increased amd spread inent tramsac- until the men ive, and each had a common ed. Even in the matter of | Mr. Morgan is honest. the purchase of two sailing vessels, two men of New York to the crime of larceny added the sin of perjury, from the Treasury $3,000. In the case of the Stars and Stripes the President of the shat they might rob ‘New Haven Propeller Company, government $19,000 more than she cost, » after taking amount nearly $4,000 to line his own cuse W his company ex-member of ( of the bureau; high toned ox-member of esa to his country he was #0 anxious to serve her inthis, the ‘ker extremity, that ho appropriated nearly bour of that he & i irom tia initiation aa honorable, , im Connecticut, bad been subjected to calumny. That President, before the com- mittee, testified that after taking $19,000 in profits from $5,000 of his colleagues’ money to his private use, so he could devise some machine to take all the Southern cities, and no one get hurt. Colonels entrusted with the power of raising regiments colluding with contractors, bartering away and dividing contracts fer horses and other supplies, to enrich personal favorites; purchasing articles and compelling false invoices to be given. | While example has been set in the very As @ general thing nene it ig no justification, departments of ‘ment. Dut favorites gain access there, and none other ean ob- tain contracts which bear enormous profits. They vio- lage the plain provisions of the law requiring bide and proposais on t lie exigencies require it. Should this last as long the Peloponessian war, the same excuse would be used, The Departinont, which has allowed conspiracies, after been closed, to defraud the goverament the bidding had lave: gem ed og Anbually, and this enormous sun saved to the Treasury; of the lowest bid, by allowing the guilty to reap the fruits of their crime, has itself beoome u crimi- nis. Who protends any public exigency for ving out by private contrast, without bids, over one million mus- kets at fabulous prices? Who te make a private contract amount of $800,000? PRNNBYLYANIA HORSES. Kentucky is proverbial for her splendid horses. Hor | find a solitary case where merchants have allowed two Joyal citizons would ha’ otands & public exigency Fr for rifling cannon to 1] benefitted by sales to the government. Who will pretend that the public exigency required that when cavairy regiments were to be for- warded from the State of ’ennsylvania to the land of the dark and bloody ground, it was necessary to transport, ‘At great oxpense, the remaini disabled, diseased boracs y colleague on the eom mitteo (Mr. Dawes) a few days since spoke of the poact offerings to Penneylvania politicians, and referred to horses of Colonel Williams’ regiment. There is yet an- other case—a eontract not made upon the res} of the bureau, as the late Secretar: pross order, and refused to be ibility id, but by ite ex- tise ordered, I refer to the contract to purchase one thousand horses, to be delivered at Huntington, Pennsylvania. Such a horse ‘The first inspector—an market the world never saw. hundred rejected three in five. efused to present themselves, and in he was removed'and others sub- stituted; then horses of all ages, and defects, secret and open, wer from day to day received. ‘Tho whole neighborhood w in arms. The peopleremonstrated. Lawyers and clergy men were present at the inspection, and sought to deter the Duccaneering crew by open coudemnation, the in- spectors heeded not this clamor, but ordered the horses to be ridden upon the crowd, to drive them away, if pos- mon decency he would be ronght the same day ¢ with running sores, which were secn by the inspectors, wero branded, and if one outrag: rejected, and an opportunity to pase and rand him tthe 14 ed com- ately the horses were subsisted by private contract to favorites at thirty mine cents per day, and to farmers from twenty-four to twenty-six. hundred of these horses were sent with Colonel Wyn- koop’s regiment, and the papers at Pittsburg report some actually 80 worthless they were left on the docke. The on agviai " me of the remaining five hundred were left at Huntingdon for the benellt of the contractors over fifty thousand doliars mont. Such fonds in ho value unless penalties such enormities. In that single transaetion ore stolen from the govern- care not for expo- sure; a feion's doom through life should be theirs; and the labors of Pal committee will be of little practical an Jongrees shall by law punish wi am. severe At one time it would seem there was an intention to establish a huge contract brokerage system. The testi- mony of Mr. John Smith, of Kingston, N. ¥., powder manufacturer, shows that In the month of May he pro- posed to give Mr. Weed a per coutage for a powder con. tract; for Mr. Thurlow Weed. what Mr. & told, he inquired of Mr. Smith pay; he replied fiv Mr. Weed asked t ar wards, at Wo he result was etter to General Kipley partment, to divide the © that he went to the Astor Ho: vidsen, woom ho had never see: h D ‘ i of Mr. Weed hat he fr, Smith als uld aft 0, mot Mr. Da and inquired of versation be on being could afford to says | tho states manuficturing. It is somewhat strange that | tho Secretary should apy Mr. Weed as his messouger to carry bis wishes t0 the different bureaus. M Suith understood that Le was to pay Mr. Weed fivo per cent, Mr. Latlin a!8o testified that his powdeo firm demurfel (0 paying Mr. Weel five per contr tht Mr. Weed give them aentherity to mak, one thousand barrels of powder, but they prefered hay ing the authority direotly trom the government. He a'so testifies that the patriot Dwyer, who Agu:ed in the cattle contract in May orJune,at Washington, wid him if be Would give five ;ercent he would sell all the powder he could make; but Lattin declined. Favorites obtai: com- tracts when frequontly they haye not the pecuniary re: sources to fulfil them, and not manufacturers of the artt- Gles to be delivered. “ie professional politician or the Telired es-meowber of Congress, Who has large contract which requires’ much imachinery and great mechanical ingenuity, evidently takes it as a speculation; takes it enrich himself, or }O extort” from thfe pockets of honess industry takes ittorsub-let to siciifub mamufacturers at reduced pric ‘The departments which give contracts to men, knowing that they have not in aud of themselves ‘executing: them, are and deserve severe censure. What excuse is there for an honest department to pension this gang of middle mou? All the ill-gosten gain found in their pockets is so much stolen from reasur von in tho Treasury Depart- Bee ha ft Pda iaa Beccotary to be—what business man /couldygustify, or who, in his own transactions, would allow ‘that @ con- tract of over baif @ million exponditure should te competed for by only two firms, who couk! combine and unite? It luo answor to say that the work is done as cheaply as before. The spirit of the law has been Violated, and the millionaire enriched. Besides, the pro- ducts of all departments of labor are c! by the stagnation of business. In bay yd contract, as in some of ‘eduire. of the Department. approach within charmed circle; pers shall be put” on file, and whose by the eyes of the Seeretary. The soldier whO, borne down by disease and overcome with fatigne, is found sleeping at his post, you punish with doatB, while the mi ho holds his w festival at tRis<earnival of blood, rides: in bis carriage, drinks: @ and dings.with Cabinot ministers, you iy deferential respect. Do you say ernment banish treason an@ punish erimo? On the 4th day Of July, 1860; at Occoquan, Va., Mr. Underwood:raised a pole, unfurled the American flag’and-a banner with the Bames “of Lincoln and Haml of Etlsworth, with about forty men, ‘sofe up the Stars and ipes, “banner as a trophy. One of the ringlead is this day in the employ of the government in this city. The laboring men who testify against ofliciass are remov,. ed, while the wretch who -bas been robbing the govern- ment is worthy a better place. Is it possible. that..this monstrous system of wrong, extending from the Atlantic tothe Missiasippi, from Potomac to the lakes, can- Mot be stopped, orevem chocked? If that be go, better disbandour armies, and let the oligarchs of theSouth rule “and reignoyer us. This committee has been in session for mouths; ‘nment officials must be aware of its power of examination; still, at the commoncement of this seasion, itspectors of horses were colluding with con- tractors; superintendents, réjo! in the title of cap‘ tains, were selling government horses to private citizens, taking diseased and worthless horses frou the eommuns, branding them in the service of the United States; wo w might ~recelve pay for the samo- city Dutehers buying mest from government sup- plies,” Your government retains in this capital, seats Of honor and -profit, and around our coun- cil bogrs sane whose ta are filled with treason and minds with rebellion. Yourdepartments are disinclined to hear char, of treason oF jcorruption; they would rather ostractse thoae who furnish the truth than re- move the, treagonable and ‘gu! offenders. I am not harsh; I only what, standing in the mighty and ust presence of stirring times, contemplating a bleed- ing, suffering country, I feel {t my duty. I have aright thus to apeak in terma of warning and admonition to an administration which I aided to,glect, to whose principles amcommitted, by w " of tribulation, ans rness beydad. But besecch, in the name of a com! zed, disturbed and freabury em of { lant army of five bandred | wo this the tented field are waiting to rescue a country t through fire and blood, die that ation may live—in the namie of ‘thatones ‘dreary by the loved ones around the evening fires, of ts fact that in nearly every instance the owners asked, We can test the atrength of his posi- tion by the Stars and Stripes. To her cost $36,000; by her charter the owners realized $15,000 from’govern- ment; they then asked $60,000. Mr. Morgan paid $55,000—five thousand less than they asked, but $19,000 more than she cost. While with the Potomska and Wamsutta the owners realized $63,000, the govern- ae pe ee ment paid $60, he Sasked money, or he would not, he could not, 80; Mr. Morgan always notified them they must pay bim two and a baif per cout on the Besecbeme bat they must name the lowest cash price, and add two and a balf per cent thereto, If Mr. possesses the business abili- ty which the Secretar; and which I do not doubt, he certainly could have obtained all the vessels the tho two and @ half per cent. Who should not the sellers as readily have oes half per cent to government as to . Morgan? No, sir; that fallacy roay suit the Secreta. ry, but it will not deceive the . In September last, when Mr. Morgan had 000, representation to the Cabinet was made in regard to this matter, and the ‘Secretar; changed the | opel rberrager ery have been charged upon hi but he persistently refused, and im December Mr. Morgan bad increased his fortune to the enormous sum of about $00,000—at the rai quarter of a million per annum. Mr. Morgan's services could have been secured at $5,000 price he did, tess doubts it? Why Dut if this be not so, and men owning vessels have been compelled or induced to sell them at small prices, what right bas the Secretary to allow his brother-in-law to put his hands in the pocket of each seller and realize the im- mensesum of $90,000 in afew months, That money ro- ally belonged to the government. As an agent he takes it; and if it be an unconscionable amount it belongs to his e ers. The Secretary should know that the rules of the Chamber of Commerce in New York,as to commissions, do not apply whore the value of the vessel exceeds $30,000; beyond that sum the per centage is left to bargain between sclier and broker. Can the Secretary and a half per cent on a vease! worth $100,000? The rule “in Boston is one per cent where the value is over $20,000. DEFENCE OF SRCRETARY WELLES. The Secretary, in his last message, claims that the ves- sols have been’ cheaply purchased. Assume it, if you please. Doos he not know that our commerce is paralyz- ed—that sail and steam vessels have been crowded on the market, and must be sold at any price or rot at the docks? As well justify the purchase of the Potomska and Wamautta, which were charged to the government for $7,000 more than the owners received, on the ground ‘that they were cheap. The Secretary must have known this transaction was liable to the criticism it had reveiv- ed, or be would not, as he says he did in advance, feel he might receive some censure because this great bounty was bestowed on a brother-in-law. The Sect , in his la. bored defence of Mr. Morgan, has done great injustice to Commodore Breese in the purchase of the Roman and ne ‘There wasan early disposition on the part of the Secretary to take the purchase of vessels from the avy officers; for the Commodore swears that he “had direction from the Navy Department, by letter, April 21, 1861, to consult with persons capable of giving informa: tyon ‘and advice.” A letter written April by H. Bridge, chief of the bureau of clothing, says:— “Mr. Wil- liam H. Aspinwall has offered hia services to the Secre- tary of the Navy, who wad to call on him Fd need assistance in the matter of the steamers, as well as to acknowledge bis courtesy.” On the sane day the Sec- retary also wrote, ‘‘advising him to consult with Gover- r Morgan, G. 1. Morgan, with Messrs. William Evarte, Blatchford, Grinnell, also committee of citizens, who are empow to act for this department.”’ In a letter of April 20, the Secretary says:— In my letter of the 234 inst. I referred to certain gentlemen Comunitiee, with whom you migh consult. tiemen al to, George D, » agra cree behalf of the Department, and as ite jin the purchases you may and the extraordinary wee you ‘are compelled to take, bas been gratifying to the department to witness the promptl- tude and alacrity that have been oxblbited, and the ae! rendered, not only by the gentleman referred to, but by Mr. eplnwall and oibers. i On the 80th April, 1861, tho Seer convenience, dyisers in the icy, L have prop . D. Morgan and Mr. W. H. in wall be substituted in their place. These two geritie. men have been eificient in aiding and assisting you, and are iatry and. tts faterests, ‘They will, i ia bee epartinent when you h it with it, Both of th for the In m letter of May 13, speaking of purchasing sove y #, among them whuiing ships, he says: + D. an in te ard t t y mpears thi were ordered, in , th | gan, he cal adv and action, and May 19 wrote to T have comm: cre raed by his Beoretary:— indicated by Mr. baa cen, toproceed wo New: Bedford to negotiate for the. parchase ef three whaleships, wh tain for coming uses, one can the Department directed me (o ob- 4m this place. Alter the Secretary had frequently advised him to con- sult a pumber of persons, in every letter re‘wcing the nuanber, nei he declares his warm sttachment to Mr. Morgn and Mr. Aspinwall, although the letter ordering the whaleshups r approval of Mr. prcesing necessities of the purchase ested Bim to purchase them with the organ; still, in hig absonce, and the end considering the high eulogiums pronounced by the Secretary on Mr. AB- pmwalt, the following statement in tho letter of the Seoretary is renmrkable, and unsustaimed by the evi- dance the naval officer followed the orders that were give’ Had him, these frauds would not have been Commodore Mr inferior veaseis, which cou! Breese employed Mr. Aspinwal and the results were a gross fraud and the pur” not have been the case the policy which the Department was then prevatled tis orders beem obeyed. porpetcamed. But 's bi roker, and not ‘The attempt to sacrifice Mr. Aspinwall and Commodor® Breese in Mr. Morgan's defence requires no comments Still more remarkable ia the charge of the Secretary, when if is remembered that the person reforred to as W._¥ Aspinwall’s broker was Starbuck, the very man em- ployed by Mr. Morgan as broker pede, of the Roman following letter -—- Phare a and anull have req ‘ee you. from you ahall do n¢ Mr. Starbuck, who ‘Very truly, your cheater wen subsequent tothe and Badger, as appeare by the ted the Mediator to also refers to the Penguin and Albatross, bought pore Breese for $75,000 each, alleging that they were ‘of ho greater thao ‘The Albatross’ BORO nt Rervan! iifing inthe maataee purchased hor, tocall and it by Com- the Stars and Stripes. however, omits to state that tho Pe: were built for seagoing veasela, with double in and engines, and cost, probably, in conatruction, one-third more than the Stars and Stripes. ‘The Secretary further says:— Ina wee transactior by Commodore Bi owner felt that Mr, Morgan was employed to relieve the Department. id difficulties he succeeded in saving to the in that originally made with a large ship- Breese, for five, valuable slentore, 4 the government was unfortunaiely involved, and his action Under transaction, above ‘The explanation, as I understand it, is this:—The Com- the five vessels, required tho own- ors to insert a price at which they would sell to govern- modore, in chartering ment. It was a mere proposition on their part. led; neither was the government bound to pay retary also adde:— ee It was t. ‘Yet Lhear from the owners. and sellers no complaint that ey, by the ppressed or aggrieved. ‘Tot us exunrine the correctness of this statomont by one In the month of May last J. Rudolph Sieg tran8action. operation of this aystem of purchase, we been and James C. Jewett & Co., of New York city, were own- he steamer Mercedita. During that month a man by the name of Burrill, claiming to be an agent and ad- proposed @ pur- visor chase. tions of Jowett & goverment agents, of the Navy Department, to prevent on the 19th day 7 the extor- of June wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, offering to charter or sell that vessel at a valuation it. A similar letter was sent to bo fixed bj by, thom to tl the De Pres! lent of tho United States. Tho Sec- retary returned an answer refusing to charter or pur- oe She was unsuited for an armed ahip. short! er a} te can sel peas, Sarin mee eens steamer 5 thas. he had Burrill 10 rejected ton, and ‘asked authority from them to sell to government, which was July jurrill came fetaryof the Navy dition that the owners should selyes wanting for bread, before go to bribe rill to flr the of the beard lof, and he had say to en him on the 34 day of July. On the 3ist of in and made an offer from tho Sec- the rejected steamer, on the con- $5,000 ¥ $5,000 to him, besides a ‘Said was to be given government for their assistance in selling this vessel. dewett & Co. refused, proclaiming that they would first see their vessel rot at the wharf, and them- government ~--wanted.- -$5, thaf sum towards ane saw fit toallow him ‘and one of the Board did not $2,500 sell or their would a] in the tion for the for bis purchase, money until he consent to pay, ington and urge the immediate remittance of the mono} The above facts must have been known to the Seo: bg anothe: New York Sixty-ninth. Burrill lapee of a few hours from Washington, the condition, and they for his and need only services. They accepted, on the same day gave Burrill tment; and he presented a list Ta'the haddwriting of 8. M. Pook, to examine vesse! then i ‘admitting regiment to £ z E 2 gE F the owtlers could not get ho would’ write and if they to Wash- retary. Thoy were written to Com, Hudson, October 31, with juest that.they be filed in the’ Navy Depariment, wi doubtless was done. Since the letter of the Sec- retary the committee have not had time to examine the owners of the Mercedita; but the for cl quent facts ip connection with the purchase aro sus ed by affidavits of J. Rudolph They teat! George R. ing and subse- in: Sieg and James C. Jewett. that they did not see or know anything of gen until after the purebase an deliver: of the bill of sale to the Department through Burrill; that on the 10th day of Novem! taken thi same,on the ground that he Sredived i to the Navy it is sum so the Departs Department they called on Mr. Mor- ment of $2,500, and hesaid he had ment; that he had onl; ight have so muc! back in case the Department clected to keop the understood the Mercedita coat only $64,000; yet Mr. Morgan, when be took the Sate othe Se ‘a recoipt for the same ‘for commissions on jorcedita.”” The owners deny that they ever asked $120,000 for the steamer, although Mr. igh Mr. Morgan claims in his statement that such amount was demanded of him. The Department fired the value, and negotiated through the medium above statea. On the 17th of January Jewett & Co. wrote another lettor to the Secre. tary, in which plaints, showing they grieved, in which they say: De you obtain e' think it right (Ags after such an offer on our recite the fact of their former com. have been oppressed or 2; wor to carry to the the idea that we sou, $20,000 more than this ves vali thie falseboo! om the public to giv: blic, Pat ts i to foster 2 idea of your brother. in-law's fitness to purchase vessels for the government? PURCHASE OF HALL’S CARMINEY. Another remarkable transaction was the sale by the Ordmance Bureau, to Mr. Eastman, of five thousand Hall's oar rar'eh 90 arm which needed some alteration to be useful, for 50 cach. This private sale was made at atime when the Department was buying arms which had been condemned, and sent from the arsenals of Ku- rope. After an expenditure of from 75 cents to $1 25, they were sold to Simon Stevens for $1250; then to Ge- neral Fremont for $22. No wonder our expenses aro $2,000,000 por day—government sells at $3 50, and ina short time buys back at $22. Dr. Cummings bought undred of the samecarbines for $15. The evi- sevon bi derce of Major Hagner shows that Mr. Stevens was an agtnt or aid of General Fremont. nies. However, the relation was one of a warm perso- nal character. This Mr. Stevens do- He had prebably just left him with in- stroctions to purchase. His despatch to Fremont was just such a8 an agent would send, or one who had the assurance of the necessities of the West, and that the arms would be taken. unconscionable one, whereb; At all game , the bargain was an y Stevens was to make about $50,000 in one day, without incurring any risk or invest- ing any capital. DEPARTMENT OF THR WEST. ‘There seemed to be no gross frauds upon the seal pot in the republic. The y the Potomac, found a eounterparton tho banks of the Mississippi. The con- fagion spread and fastened iteel upon the West. A bevy of cormorants mont, who were feasting upon the blood they were draw- ing from the nation—more impudent in their claims, moro unblushing in their extortions. There, as here, no sales could be made with the government except through the medium of heartless contractors. There, ‘tment of ithered around Fre- as here, nono but special favorites could share of public bounty’ Those willing to furnish oer ban well were cast aside, while a hardware firm, Chil tt & Fox, wore allowed to furnish nearly $1,000,000 without the formality of fixing the price in advance, they procuring from the very men who offered to supply the offered five to fifty icon, while ernment, and at the they charged an advance of twenty- per cent. Men in league with Quartermaster McKinstry and his inspectors would Arst extort from the honest farmer and then unblushingly rob from the Trea- $100,000 was sq juandered favorites. These plunderers, seme imported 4 some for long while in the employ and food and raiment from the government, gather- fornia, an reeetving In building the forts at St. Louis more than pen, profigate, unprincipled from Cali- ed around the person of Fremont, and suffered none to tere him too nearly. 1 Child, Pratt & Fox or MoKinatry, a moment, believe that Secretary Wi mous profite of bis brother-in-law. way that the tion, the impending danger our national pathway and was @ justification for allowing idity. Without doubt generals and cabinet ministers havo bowed coup’ the very’ ground on which they trod. the War Department ailowi transportation of troops, down Quartermaster McKinstry was priost at this festival of robbery and crime; = had for many years been in the of the United States; a man furnished b; aw: hed De posed a trusting, confidi do not preten lar service adminis ment of the Weat, which was sup- ity for his faithfulness and integrity; , Fremont watched him not closely. that Fromont shared the spoils with more than I, for shared the enor. Tt is ne excuse to itude of this rebellion, hi in ahadowe th the weight of increasing responsibility; but this reckless horde were undermining ARMY TRANSPORTATION, Another item of reckiews oxponditure was the ordor of and horses. 80 enormous were the companies in the West bid and paid from $1,500 to $2,600 to nearly every regiment for the privilege of transporta. tion, it is two cents per mile for the Nvoral pris for baggnge Hhromd: ‘ofits that ra} markablo that tho late Secretary, who was himsolf, by long exporienee and observatioa, $0 con vorsant with the management of railroads, who ‘rejotced in the confidence of a friend, who was intimate with rail- road a could ta connections, especially in Pennsylvania, should have lowed railroad Companies such large amounts that they vish thousands for the transportation of « single Trains not running as swiftly ,ynd sometimes Vetter cara, charged nearly doable more than w that each askenger tan FEBRUARY 9, 1862. Hed on Mr. Aspiowall, and was nerve, aud bleeding at ever tures, for gain, to Who shrine their lusts in Heaven, Aud make a pander 0! their God, havea firmer grasp upon th» throat of the pation than thie armed robellion. Like panthers, at set of sum, acroes the nativn's darkened path, they Bound upon their startled prey. And while this mighty nation, this giaut of the West, is trembiing boueath its groat weight, ile arms growing weary, all its nerves and sinews quivering—almest while ts ebbing from its veins—if gold could be extracted from the quarts they would vick by piecemeal the rook on which he stands, or if they could make merchandise of his locks, disheveilad by the rough tempest, would shear him of his strength. ‘They follow With that keen second acent of death By which the vulture suuffs the food. 4. We cannot overcome the open enemy in front, lot as at least banieh the masked traitor in our midat. De this, ‘and you strengthen anew the arms and add to the cow of the nation; inspire hope, and insure the con vic. that ail will be well. Traitor spies have bees walk- ing your streets, feasting at your saloons, promenading your lovees and sleeping in your capital. They have departments, making drawings of your fortiticationa, agereentions of your armies; all your Consultations, your plans of battles and order of marches have been communicated to the enemy. Your generals have been paralyzed, your armies defeated, by very men who are feeding upon the boun y of your govert- ment—betraying your confidence and the land which holds the graves of their fathers. Ob, for » tocurse the slave, tongue ‘Whose trer sim, like a deadly bigh (neset eet Une Counacta of the besser ‘And biasis them in their hour of might! Sir, 1 am not ono of thos disposed to question or dis truat the ability or correctnoss of our loaders. I have always believed that a poor goneral, with the confidence of the peop‘, was far better thin a Napoleon or Hana. bal with mutterings of complaint and half-uttered dis- trust. We cannot afford anothor defeat. Those whocon- trol oug armies will illy discharge their duty if they aro guided by aught e'se than their own matured judgments. But [have a right to tnsist that we shall uso all the means which a God of providence has placed in our reach. No war has been more causeloss; no rebollion with so little of complaint sicco the angels fell, no treason which threatened go much destruction, and imperiled $0 much of happiness for tho present, or hope for the future; nono involving so much of crimo against humanity, or sin against Him who guides tho destinies of nations, Men in arms were formerly our brethren; and, whilo in peace we would treat them as friends, in war let us treat them as cnemies, They are seeking to wrap in flames the temples which their fathers built, and in which they worshipped. They are trampling under foot the constitution and Jaws which their fathers or. dained, and of which they boasted; above all they bave despised-and rout in twain the flowery banner which their fathers and ours planted in victory on Saratoga and Yorktown’s plains—that banner which floated in triumph at Chippewa and New Orleans; under which, on the plains of Moxico, the Palmetto regiment and the yolunteers from the Empire Stato fought side by side, whore the gallant Butler fell. They cannot divorce the American people from that noble ensign; cach stripe on its starry folds goes back and entwines itself around the battle flelds of the Revolution. Every star stands as a sentinel over the grave where the patriot sleeps. How deep the crime of those who have been roared. to sing of ils power now to trample and despise it. Are not such men the basest of enomics, who should feel our punish- ments and our vengeance too? Will you talk of the cun- stitutional rights of men who are steeped in the gail of such damning infamy? In this war {t matters not what may be their institutions. No matter though they be the best on earth, if we can harm them, punish them, subdue them by sunder- ing their institutions, it is our duty to do so. A rebel sells you horse for one hundred dollars, which you agroeto pay him, by solemn contract, in’ writing; he ‘comos, stoals the horse, and thon demands that you zlull pay bim the prico agreed. It will not do for thjs adminis- tration nor for us, witha half million of men sleeping ontheir arms, to be apologizing with proclamations which are senseless; that we should be dancing like har- lote inthe antechamber of this stupendous criminal, though armed to destroy and surrounded with the min: ions of an enslaved nationality. To the incendiary who jee el fined nip ine yn Semen peop you of ily and sy, Would you stand crouched on one knoe Tike a dog that you did not mean to bura his di ‘or destroy hia property? No, sir; let us stand in the dignity of our natiopal manhood. And he who violates our constitution, tramples on our 1) OF perils our commerce, is an onemy, whom we should strike, whether it be in tho destruction of life or pro- been pronounced; pers: Already das pi ; it has been decreed ‘they should sutter death, and are now, or should be, undergoing the pen- ality. As well ht ery out for constitu. tional rights as for malefactor in the penitentiary , or the murderer under the gallows, to claim the rights’ of life, liberty and the pursuit of happinese. Let not geno- rals be issuing orders to degrade the manhood of our troops by rescuing or returning fugity’ laves. Let them not be exercising their talents to determine how they shall hunt siaves, rather than capture rebels. Let them not treat a loyal black man worse than a traitor See, just before the battle of Mansssas, a part of his time in writirg orders that no fugitive slaves should be allowed within the lin Had slaves been suflered to brivig intelligence and give warn- ing, many of our brave soldiers might not now be sleep- ing in death on that dreadful fold. He must have read the history of his own country to but little purpose, or he would have known that two of the most disustrous do. feats our arms sustained in the South during the Revolution were because two slaves guided the enemy to the camps of our fathers. The slaves who periled their lives to ferry our maimed soldiers over the Potomac at Ball's Biull you would return to chains and stripes, while you olaim to protect the con- stitutional rights of the traitors who had wounded them. Some men among us talk of compromise and peace. None desire more than we. Let these men not im) tune us; we have not provoked nor encouraged this war. Lat them go to the rebels, who stole our guns, uniimbered them, upon our fort, and disgraced the lag. Let them go to the men who are floating the b'ack fiag of treason aimost in sight of the Capitol. Let thom goto ‘the men who make night hideous with demoniac shrieks of digunion over the grave where the bovesof Washing- ton are mouldering. Let them go to Richmond and ask the rebel crew to pull down the Confederate banner, aud float the Stars and Stripes in its stead, over our custom house and post office. Let them go to Charleston and New Orleans, roli themselves in sackcloth and ashes, and ask that the ensign of their fathers shall float in their ‘ts. Let them do this, and we will have peaco. We ask no more; we will submit to no leas. Let them do this, and the sword of every Northern soldier will be re- turned to its scabbard, and he will no longer pray to teach his hands to war and his fingers to fight. We know their terms of compromise. Davis, taking advantage of his to mature his conspiracies, in the other end pitol, wanted us to roll up ead away the national flag. Roll it up and lay it away! Why 't had been made giorious in three wars, aud the wreath of its victories was yet green. It had carried Americaa civili- zation over the prairies of the West; from the mouth to the source of of Waters across the t wastes beyond; (rom the summit of the Rocky Moun- tains its protecting folds covered a land washed by two oceans. Koll it up and lay it away! Why? It had floated our commerce on every soa, was the einblem of Our nationality and power in every port. Its folds were stiffoned by the spray of the Northern ocean, and lan- guidly it hung to the masts in tropic seas. Roll it up and lay it away! Never. It was powerful to protect Martin Koszta thousands of miles from this capital, and it shall be powerful to protect the loyal citizen wherever he may be found; men like Johnson, in Eastern 108500 , jolt, in his Kentucky home. If this be not so us perish, and as a nation be forgotten; better history bad never been written; better of Independence had never been Tho ition our the Declaration fone otter the blood of the Revolution had never eon shed. It is no wonder that the thrones of Engiand and France and the despotisms of Europe are in sympa- thy, and, as far as they daro, in action agi ry know this to be the last hope of freedom, last of the oppressed; they kuow ‘That earth's struggling millions turn hither in cl. ‘To the land of the beautiful, land of the free, They know that the great American people are in sy:n- pathy with the downtrodden, with thehewers of wood and tho drawors of water, on the Eastern continent. They know that the revolutioniste may wage the battle for the rights of man, and, if unsuccessful, find a city of rofuge here. United, they know that we are powerful to defend our own, and protect the rights of others; divided, our power ts 9, and we become as feeble as the ropublics im South America, They know that the itical exile, the captive in his dungeon, the soldier of iberty, wh on the summit of the Alps, or in its deep .tavines, in the gloom of Hungary, or amid the desolations of Poland, are breathing forth prayers that in this great battle the rights of man may be victorious. They know if we are divided, defeated, destroyed, the dust of centu- ries will longer remain upon the throne of power; the crown will rest more easy on the despot’s brow, and every tyrant grasp more firmly the sceptro which he wields. Lat us disappoint them while we frustrate the schemes of speculators counting their gains, and politi- cians gambling for the succession by the half-opened grave of the republic. The doad past, from out the of history, is looking down upon tai the living present, throbbing with hope, trembling with fear, is looking down upon us, on-com: of whose ‘millions footfalls in the corridors of time we can almost hear, is looking upon us, beckoning to us, aud in silent Prayer beseeching that we may be truo sed tot to tho great logacy our fatnors bequeathed, to trust placed in our to and trans- mit, not to and destroy. By all the memories of the it; by all pects past pd by all jot us rid ourselves jo BAppers conquer this rebellion and subdue tho traitors. Do you say we may not succeed? Then lot us perish in the attempt. Wo die for the land we cannot save? Then bo it 80. Here let hope and liberty Hi it be fought. Tho pale angel of the grave can at steer our Mil. destined bark through the ‘Gate of Tears.’’ be betrayed, Str dear ioved county Meade A land of carcases and slaves, One dreary waste of chains and graves. dare not, yield while heaven has light or 08. No; rather houseless roam, Where freedom and our God may lead, Than bo the sleekest slave at home That crouches to the conqueror's creed, No such dreadful fate can be ours, if we are only true to umanity and the God who guides the destinies of na- tions, the movemonts of arms, as he does the spar. row in hia fail, Here wo make bur stand; five hundred thouswd men, a wail of human hearts, to guard the land Lonor, If driven hence, we ove, the fag w » inkea, we there will stand, te oovan and (he Ink Until the jast red blade be broken, And (he inst arrow in the quivers Removal of Rebel Prisoners from St-. Leate. Se. Loom, Feb. 6, 1802. fome 500 of the military preomers cow in thu city ar to be (rausperie! to the leetlemtiary beiiding at A tou, ‘The captives Lave bere Cammitted to the custody of the ‘Thirteenth United Mater Infantry, Liewtenast Colone not arrive hero until next week. Resolutions compliment*ry to the gallastry an‘ cour age of Colonel Harvey Hrown,& native of New leery, in command at Fort Pickens, were introduced in the House, We-day coms me! the inations of the Goveruer—L. @, G. Bimer, & BD. Poter Vredeberg, for Suprems Court’ Jodges P. for Clork of the Supreme Chart J for Commissioners of Postage; School and Prosecutors for Fasex, Cape May, Meroe, Mit dlesex, Morr confirmed. Somerset and Union counties, were also New Hampshire Unton Convention. Comconn, N. H, Peb. 6. sta. The Cnion Convention, compuned of tne diswa' with the action of the win, of Nashua, for Railroad tendance was elim. The Maine Legisiat Mr. Smart's resolves, si confiscating, liberating an: ‘the saves rebels, if it shall be a mili conentip lavogemel Sonate to-day by @ vote of 24 against 4. The Pacifie Te! ‘ae, Fob. Telegraphic communication to San Francitos. which has been interrupted for some time by tools in Califuras , are resumed. Meeting of the Historical Society. ‘The rogular monthly meeting of the New York Histori- cal Society was held ou Monday evening at the corner Eleventh strect and Second avenue—Dr. Bradish in the chair. After somo routine business wag transacted a meme- Tial was road, which is about being transmitted to the Stato Legislature, asking that an agent be appoimied, whose business should be the collection of statistics, his- torical facts, &o., in comnection with the presen war, t= ordor that a true record of the same may not be lust to future generations, The Librariau’s report, announcing the reception of several now works, together with a copy of Filiett’s at tack upon General McCiellan, received from Col. Pratt, of the Uister Guard, was read and revived. Mr. Wivrnpov bere read a leugthy before the Society, which he denominated as “Oid New York,” giving some intoresting historical facts relative to the rise and growth of our metropolitan city. He sketched the condition of New York many years ago, before it ‘became recognized as a large and populous locality, bis remarks being loudly applauded throughont Colonel T. B. THoRvE wus next introduced by the Presi. dent, who to deliver an in and ia structive dissertation upon the subject of ‘Cotton.’’ first proved that cotton had existed from an early age of the world, for Herodotus, who wrote four hundred yeare before the Christian era, described it and the uses for which it was made, Th? canvass which covered the gladiatorial arenas of ancient Romo were const:ucted of cotton, and Alexander's invasion of India made the ar‘ic’e familiar with the Groeks. Cotton was tound on American soil by Columbus. The planting of the article at the South began in December. The lecturer then went on to describe the manner in which cotton was raised in tro cal latitudes; the various uses to which it was put in the every day work of life; the vast benoflts which had accrued to the South ite successiul manu- facture; how England h: mense importation of the staple from into her torritory, and how much she owed her power and influence to the same, of cotton in the Southern Statos, howeve: Thorpe asserted, had reached its maximum standard. The black population was overy year growing smaller, and the white growing proportionatoly large. When the South produced 1,400,000 bales, the price pald by Eng land was 14%; conts per pound; but when the production came up to 1,800,000 bales tho price averaged 7% cents. Might it not casily be supposed that should 3,000 000 bales of cotton be produced annually the price would come down to nothing at all. It was the opinion of the lecturer that in time to come India and Eyypt would provide as much cotton for use as was necessary for public consumption. The lecturer was much applauded throughout his disconrsc. After the transaction of some further unimportaat business, the Society adjourned. Charge of Murder on the High Seas. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER'S COURT. Before J, Buchanan Henry, Fsq. Fes. 6—The United States vs. Captain Nathan H. Millet. The defendant in this case is charged with the murder of John Dilion on the 24th of January, 1861,0u board the American ship Saracen, by snooting him. Mr. Andrews appeared for the government. and ex. amined a seaman named French, who deosed to tho shooting of the deceased py the accused. His tostimony was published in the Hrxatp at tho time the prisoner aud the depositions, taken in Hong Kong, were sent on by the Amorican Consul to the authorities at this The ‘witness detailed some dispute that ccenrred between the mate and some of the sailors respecting seme work to be dono; the mate struck Jack on the forelwad with « Delay in pin and cut him; Captain Millett came up and od what was all row about, and said he would goon sottie it; tho captain had a pistol in band and presented it at witness; ono of the mon said, “Captain, don’t shoot that sick man, he has only come on deck to-day;” Dillon, the decoased, came out of the forecastie, and the captain presented the pistol at him; Dillon said, “My God! Captain, don't shoot me," the captain said he would, and shoot them all like do their duty; the captain fled, and ly God! Captain, you havo kil'od mo, and you will suffer for is; « the captain that he should not have shot that man; the in said, ‘It is done now, and it can’t be helped,” lion suffered much all that night, and died at ge o’clock in the morning; he was buried at eight Crossoxamined by ‘Mr. Choate—Witness heard of or seen any quarrol between the deceased and the captain; the decease! was a quiet man; tho cap was quiet, and treated the men and officers well; ne Reard him swear at the men or officers; the first officer ‘was a disagreeable man, that would make distur bunce in any voyage; he called the men all sorts of namos, swore at ‘thems and beat them; be (the first officer) beat Dillon with an fron before the disturbance in question; the crew didn’t like the first mate at all. cross-examination of this witness Court of Common Pleas. Before Hon. Judge Brady. ACTION AGAINST THE GALWAY STEAMSHIP COMPANY Fen. 6.—Stephen Flynn vs. the Adlantic Royal Steamship Navigation Company.—This was an action brought by plaintiff for.damagos for injuries received by him in fall. ing through a hatchway on one of the company’s vessels on a yoyage from Galway to New York, by reason of the i defendants’ servants. The plainti(™s on jer bine ode broken and he was thereby ten ‘out of 2 ee oedes thas if the jury believed there was igence on the part of the defendants, in not having a Tithelplaced over open hatchway, the laintit was ‘entitled to recover. Verdiet for plain, $800. Counsel for iff, On: Taltmadge; for the defendants, Mr. O'Gorman. Marine Court. Before Hon. Judge MoCarthy and a jury. ASSAULT AND BATTERY BY A DEPUTY SHERIFF. Fes. 6.—John Dillon vs. Bernard Reilly and another.— In October last plaintiff presented a bill to the defendant Reilly for painting. Reilly denied tho indebtedness, when Dillon charged him with being a liar, whereupon Reiliy attempted to shove Dillon out of his (Reilley’s! store, While inthis act the other defendant stej up, struck plaintiff a blow which broke bis jaw. Bernard Reliley, formerly a Deputy hori under Mr. Kelly was the only party served. ‘The jury, after being addressed by Mr, Townsend for defendant, and ox-Judge Thompaon for the plaiatiff, gave the lalter @ verdict for $60.