The New York Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1864, Page 2

2 FINANCIAL A 1 1D COMMERCIAL. 1984. om of the cal exe August 21 ait n view of the y eney of ou rative of evils of x Y 08 thet aifunded be Prepob w nd p oLwe ¢ ple issue of paper ignate ebould br were not unlike | uh were in~ | goverement, | roth becarne, sue, equally. | be lost sight of. fy trace gio and cours firet sugeested by the “mu, # municipalities of eene and cbureb ale by wot of the the var rty ire pt Assembly 1 which they were to have d at discretion, so as to 8 epreciation of value which wo 1 its being plnced in the market ali at once, +, not having the Itinols Cevtemb, Michigan Comura: Mich erry Milwamkee & | Maripone sin ing. 0. ‘ v Obien. New York ¢ 1 On & Miss Pacile mail 1 Pennsylvania Coal’. Pitsburg & Port Wayo Quicksilver Mining Reacing Railroad The f curities; — ) .AURe Aug.18. Avg 29. een la 11% Mg 804 135%. 13649 Fegistercd fe of 18: 106 To 10835 6's of 1881., 16s 103% on. 105s 1104 twenty regisiered. 106% 10045 10-45 | 10-40 5 per cent bonds... = _ 103 a. Ons year cortificates ly ae 9% October 73.10 notes, . 109 107% 108 no August do . _ 209 lwo now State stocks were quoted ws follows — uri 6's. 68 North Carolina 6' 69 see O's. 6 Calforom 7's. . J Indiapa 6's .. ‘9 Obio 6's, 1881.. 8 ois O's., D | Georgia 6% Lows ana o's 63 Micbigan o's ing Assistavt Trensurer of (he United States in big mocey to pay for sferred to them before disposing of it darg and gave | these bonds to the si y, which the latter paid out to ite credit and others, whose ty was thus f course, | strongly 0} dw fed out both Rgainst thie and money, | to-whieh it ut Mo moas: h critical was deemed a political nevessity by b eb | Goon aiterwards decreed the issue of four nundred mil tions of useigrats, Dearing interest, and soured by more of this provers taken from the elersy and eml grants, on was honest enough, for the revo. it had destroyed monarens, was auxious wos designed that when the by the assigrate, was sold the ed by the treasury and destroyed 0 mi but, as the success of the revolution was doubted, the property was purchased by mone. The assignats conse quently remained in circiitation a8 s9 many unsecured promises to pay, and depreciated s@ rapidly in value through this lack of faith in thelr ultimate redemption that as early os 1795 they were quite inadoyuate to cupply the wants of the State, Yet aseignate were the only money it bad to moet the expenses of a war against all Europe. Force was therefore employed again and again to make the people coept tymaes a legal tender, but iv vain, On the 11th of April, 1793, the Covvention passed a law punisbing with years’ im prisonment all those convictet of exchanging gold or silver for greater nominal amount of assignats, and the same punishment applied to those who Sxed two prices upon their goods—one in assiguats and the other in specie. But the immutable lows which govera finance and trade could not thus easily be disposed of. Specie aloue remaiwed og the real standard of vaine, and in June of the same year, notwithstanding this legislation to the contrary, one frare in silver was worth three in assignats, apd two months later it wos worth six, The price of living and everything else, except corn—the of which was fixed by the Convention on the 4th ay, 179S—increased im proportion to this depreciation of assigoats, but still a vast amount cf claims for rent and otherwise were seitied with these at their nominal value, at whicb creditors were forced to receive them. The tendency of this was towards the impoverishment of the wealthier classes by diminishing tea this city gives notice that the mew Keven aod Lbree-tenths | Treasury notes will bereafter be delivered upon the de posit of funds, The notes are of the denominations of $50, $100, $500, $1,008 and €5.000, all dated August 15, iS64, upon which the accrued) intercat (rew thas date to | date of deposit inust be paid. The Gnancial transsenons of the Bub-Treasury Ip thie city during the past week ure exhibited in the annexcd table:— Receipts from Total Customs. Monday... $150,000 inesday, 187,000 if Wodnesday .... $24,000 4,061,538 Thorsday 420,718 4,940 897 Friday... 61,000 1,341,942 Saturday 0 Total $1,755.718 Week previous.. 1,480,000 9,128,901 12,683,029 Tho receipts from customs last week execed those of 10,609,984 (he previous week over $275,000. The balance tu the bands of the acting Assistant Treasurer on Saturday was $21,569,251, against $16,971,011 left over from the pre. | WICGS Week, . Up to and including the 1ith of August, the folowing amounts of the several descriptions of government notes have been destroyed:—|nited States notes, demand, Gfty cine and a half millions, Usited States notes, new loans, twenty two and a half millions; postal currenoy, six millions; fractional currency, one million; one year five per cent notes, two hundred ard Sty six thousand, two years Ove per cent votes, two bundred and sixty thotisand; two years five per cent coupons, seyenty.one miitions; Ubree yeare compound Interest notes, three mil- los. It is said the government inteuds that the issues of the national banks shall take the place of this cur- rency. ‘The following summary exhibits the condition of the three hundred and eight banks of the State of New York, op the morning of Saturday, June 25, 1864 :-— Revources. Toone and discounts... 1,188, 792 Overdrafts..... 721,187 Jue from banks 20,914 756 Due from director Due rom brokers. Reulestare Speci their capital, as well as to make the poor poorer by re. ducing their real earnings; for the depreciation was 60 rapid that the advance ip the rate of wages failed to keep op with it, During al! this time ard as iong as acstgnats were re. garded ag ourrency, there was active speculation im them, apd, in spite of legistation on the subject, they fuctusted rapidly in market value om the ? ric Nxcbange, which was then the scene of as much speculation as ever Wall or Wiiam stress owas, snd false ru- mors of military euccees or defeat were just ke commonly cougooted to impose upon credulity and Coence a market og they are among the ‘bulis” and of gur own time aud otry, Thus, while France was invaded north and south by her enomies, neags consisted of money which was pot recoyuized, except by the eye of the law, avd the value of which was as uncertain as the end of the revolution ite-if, aod which at every appearance of reverse dimin ished in proportion to the estimated extent of tbe ‘anger, The assiguats, buwever, actually rose for a short time &) par, owing to @ forced loan and the victories which teruinated the campaign of 1793; but thoir rapid de. cline again to @ sixth or eigbth part of their nominal valve left the State ines bad a condition ag before, and “bears” her tluavcial iu 1794 a fre sue of & billion of assignats was decrees, making ia all four dilliows six hundred millions, Im 1795 the assignate fe} to a fifteenth of their nominal value, 4 law was t assed making, the assiguats available tor pure sing the cational property revered to ut chree times valu ia 1799, S measure was calculated to rb them rapidly, were w sh to invest tn chim way, but stormy debates led to fis surpousiun aud nu afterwards. Another messure was then adopted to facilitate ext nges, by which a quarte very pay- t made 2 for every o ired milltoas ihions, Bot (21s was ridicu ‘or hefore the end of L79f asst; ftietb part of th received its taxce m them, the land tax and cust . whicb 4, it followed the people oo Ds lew mouths the bulk of cesiga twelve to tweuty nize thousand mil a'ter the establisimeut of the fend m is were two council chambers. Then a forced was docreed in reat vaino # in assignats to be received aa the apere, 1796 in circulation effect ) a hundred and os tbo S ue, and e-baif of m dot time when France hod to the eyes of the word, v state of indigence, The r 4 of paper money, and determined | cut measures were no longer lation of arsignats, and every ) Sell demanded specie in pay ally, therefore, the svecie which exported retursed t 4, was declined Moat the pedpie a pitiay cult ased w regard to mor ass, i Weir market waiue crequence was that their Jeclive to absolute workh ately accelerated, and they soon sold ud to ope ip aper A jittle later { bistory—repudiated, if moe we only a shing little speculative activity 4 Stock Exchange opera- cked hy the absence of ver D the operators a yrokers from tbe be volume of yeen smait toda ¢ ¢ulnets baa prevaried, with & gruduat a prices im the «Ile et towards the end of Government bemring securities haye, b © trong dewanc wt an advance, chiey | to G1 foreign orders. The eubecriptions to the sew loan b mown & ma d increase ag compared with she week, which the improvement in the market * Lowa ted T ar. i ton, on bis way from Was ave rise to @ rumor respecting acall for ob o en nsist ij ano | r 4 ‘ por aera | Mile a1 Ng " rat kea ft wo 2 4 “lowed 09 Saturday ot be on eney abd huge l With capit exeece the requirements, at seven per scepuonal (ransactions at six per cent cp nm wine were the quotations for railroad and mis- ce ee 4) the clogs of euch of the past four , n 19.6, 4ug.18.Aup.20 A an gold 250 20616 ee 6 Ot ey bp “ © Ws 112% 119% 119% 110 HO 110% EE Wuverow River WH 19h We 181K | Sury account, eight and two-th Cash tems . - Stocks, promissory und U.S, 73-10 notes and indebtedness certifionlos |. $1,037 443 and Bonds «ad mortgages... Bilis of solvent bavks aud U. > Bills of suspended burks, $05 ard Lost Aud expenee account Add for cents... s Total..... Capital. Creutat! Profite 23,509,367 Due baaks 90,048,991 {ae individuals and corporation: otnér then bunks and depositors. Dae treasurer stare of New York.. Tue depositors oo demand .... Due others not included inv bow Add for cents..... b neat hate isthe seven ee, $478, 843,709 —The Bank of Bath did not taskea balance in its report. Hence the difference nthe above totais. Two banks have ceased doing business since the date of the previous re- Port—Marcb 12~and the New York Exchange Bank, Bank of Kent, Bank of Newburg, Chittenango Bauk, Cro. ton Paver Rank, Setauket Back, Deposit Bank, Bank cg Bath aod Bank of favana have given notice of closing their affairs, some of which, it is understood, will reap- pear onder the Natiogal Banking law. Compared with tue returna of Murch 32, ‘here bas been an increase in Inans and discounts of $784,506; in specie, $443,000, and decrease in bonds and mortgages, $470,563; in stocks aud other State «nd government secnrities, $3 277.371; in de posits, $38,477,200, and in cireulation, $3.547,500. ‘The following statement, made on tbe fest Morday of Avguet, exbibits the condition of the several incorpo- rated banking institutions of the Stare of Oaio, compared wiih the returns of the sme varks om the first Moaday in February, 1864:— —— Pebriary Y—— -——- August! Les Independent” — Free ‘Indep ndent “Free Banks. Banks, Mawes, Barts, ita! stock $152,500 1,106,000 ty fond 72,100 Penogita. us culation. x 227,637 287,065 5 Toa State Bank ail Banks. and State Bank A br'hes, 5.913.039 10 853.603 6,810,545 10,090, 6,022,077 5/52) rewurns of the Bank of Eogiand for the week eudivg st 3 compare with the statemems of the pravious week as follown:— July 2%. Argue Padiic deposits ++ A961 046 5.158, Liber deposits 1 13.51 Goverament sevuritier 11,04 Otber secur: 20,765. Notes in circ 2128 Specie and buition I2sT 43; From November to July, 1864, the Bank of Em and made the following changes tn tbe rate of interest November 2. 4toS April 1s. +6 t07 Nevembor 5 5t06 May 2... LT to 6 December 2... 6to7 Ma Suog December 3..........7t08 9108 Decei ber 24... 8 to7 $07 Junuary 20.. 1.708 Twos February 11 8to7 6007 February 28 to6 Being Aiteen changes im niae months. The London Tues staves tbat the bank may find tt necessary to ito wediately further raise the rate of interest to nine per cout. The return of the Pank of France for the week evding August 4 Bhows the following changes, compared with the previous account:—Inerease——Commercin! — biil three and one-fiftu millions; ash, three-fifths of a mii- lion; advénee, one-third of a million; current account, Ghirteen millions. Decranse—Noter, five millions, Trea 8 Millions, The avnexed table exhit of dour aud grain at Chicago during the week entrag Auguat 15, in the years 1863 and 1864 p—Neceipts — Shipments — 1863. 1864. 186%, 1946 Vi178 18083-6517 17 4u8 a mi 108 325 320,974 781,996 674.075 160,875 516,008 88, 291,900 250460 24 #120 = 0g ud shipments dorimg the ren. Ajgues Lo in sWe abowe pears were ar follows — Recesplt 7 Bhapments. a 1904 1363. 18rd. hesat ? 8 46,098 A, been “49 6 988.098 6,196.675 t ’ 410 9$ 8,606,988 u q % 44h 065 2 499,077 ye © (a28 198,492 S$ 162 =~ | hicago apd Aivon Mastroad during the week endive Angast 1f, tp 1963 aod 1464, amounted to the following suis — 1848, 1864 Passengers... 0 eit Miscellaneous aS OR aaa . | Tnorease ageee : 006 | The following ! a comparative statement of the enpne me Of ibe Mariette and Cincinoaty Railroad during the second week of Atgust.— #8 1804, Paexomgers ... 6. $4,149 0079 vreight. . 6,467 | Matis, &o ‘ 5 Tota’ . oes 810,081 nerecee Che roceipts of the above road siver January 1 amount to $586,457, AgaiDet SOTL,005 for Lue 68M Doriod isnt Year, Increase, $215,580, j Ory COMMER 8 the receipes and shipments | \P RE Neb Wy Yt ~ &PORT. ¥, as) 208 P.M Bailes 30 bbis, pote a: $13 69, is OB Priva@le terms, tbe pominal quote ro) a. Sai ‘Agers.—Recelpts , 12 bbls. aad 25 de ton! nes Une sook HmkerKecetpeyy 10,669 Dbi9 fear, TO bois. andy 640 ba. s corm uneal, $3,888. 18 wheat, 80.006 ue. ome | | abd 217 do. rye. The market for shipping graces wer $a lo. better, witb # brisk demand for Saturday, but (rade ved fawily brands were without decided changs “lor fu tare delivery pothing definite transpired. Rumors were | current of a sale of 5,000 bbls exine,Slae atoll for De- gomber delivery, but #iscked conGrmution, The dey'® | businiess'com prised 23,000 tbls. State end Woerera, 2,400 | Southera and 1,000 Canadian, Rye our was frm at $3 50 & S11 50, with exiles Of 150 Dbis, Corn meal was un- changed end 450 bb's. eold. We qucte:— ertine State and Western flour vee 8 9200 9 60 Extra Slate LO 10 #10 16 Choe State 10 20 9 10 25 Common to mx 10 65-8 10 69 Extra round boop Qbio 10 90 a 13 25 Weatero trade brands 11 05 & is 00 Extho St, Louis, «11 16.8 14 00 Common Southei Exirs aod fancy, do,, Common Cunsdi Good to ebotce an “Rye flour, sopertin Corn meal, * Corn mea, parcbeo ~The wheat market was a shade firmer, the best graces of spring command! fan advance of Ic. a 2c There Was bot @ single sample of strictly prime sj ring on mar ket, if here it would Dring $240, The sales include $2.36 for Milwankee club, $2 87 n $238 for amber Wil- Waukee abd Green Bay, $2 35 a $2 36 (or wivter red West- ern, §2 47 a §2 62 tor ol4, avd $2 55 for choice Lew a ber Mictigon, and $2.63 for white do. Rye und barley continued scarce, and held above the views of buys. ‘the corm market was ebout 1¢. better. with a good in: quiry; sales 90,000 bushela at $1 64-0 $155 tor Western m xed, closing’ at the outside price, and $1 63 for un Sound. Onte were lower aud dull, cleaing ut 940, % 96c. with sales of prime Western, early iu the day, ct 970 Coat.—Foreiga searce and tirin.” Domestio was quiet, We quote Lackawanna and Pittston at $12 60, Sernutcn ot $15, 50. Lebigm at $12 60.8 $18, ard hard at $14, de'rvored at retuil irom yard: CorrmR—Tbe market was lors netive, put prices were very orm, We note sales of 100 bags Rio at 5ic., 60 do do. at 63e., and 16 do. do. at 500. : ‘ Cormox.—ihe market was ‘lors active, but prices were | very drm; sules abeut 500 baies, We quot Upland. Ploriaa, Mobile. N.0.¢ 7. . 1 V6 166 167 . 18h Tot 182 182 Good middling | » 184 184 186 186 YurGa were extremely dull, The operitione of bo Dew pirate craft at the eastward bave a@ tendency to atrict business by the Americad flag, apd ue rates ¢ manded by neutrals were above the linnts of shi To Liverpoo! tbe nominal rates were 1d, a 8d. ou grain, and Is, 9¢. a 2s on flour, by American and neutrais. Engegements 4,000 bushels whbext by neutrad at sa. aod 250 bags hoops by American at 228. 6d. To Londoa, by American, 1,500 bbis. four at 2s 4i¢d.,and_by neuiral, 20 tons hair at 276. 64,, and 20 toms oil at 27s. 6d. fo Havre, 1,200 bbis. petroleum at fs. 6d. To Hamburg, 1,500 boxes extract of logwood at 20s. A ebip was char: tered from rice ports to the United Kingdom at 30s.; a Prusstan brig, to Gugensiown for orders to ® port in tbe United Kingdow, 2.200 bis. petroioum at 68.; if to the Coutinent, 6s. 6d’, OF if to the Continent direct, becweou Havre ond Hamburg. 63.; a bark of 396 vons,'to north side Cuba, shooks, 60c.; 8 Briish bark of 417 tous, to Havaon, $4,500; a British schooner of 395 tons, same voyage, $4,000; one of 147 tone, same voyage, $4,950: a bark of 690 tons, from Philadelphia to Veusacols, with ‘con! at $10. J cmrer,—Fastern spruce and pine were in (air demand; Biles 500,000 feet spruce at $23 504 $27, to arrive on AUD, a" 110,000 bushels, at $2 4540r red winter Jersey, $215 4 | ONDAY, AUGUST’ 22, yey gpanery ys Trial Trip of the Battery Mahopac, The Mabopec, the tast one of the Monitor batteries of the sopqnd bpich building m phis imupeds He apd ‘mide » Facgessfol trig) Urip'os Saturday twat, leaving the builders’ yard, Jersey City, at about teu o'clock, and steamed up the Hudgon river, abreast of Fort Washing: toy, where she anchored Wtry, her. gums, Tbe party on board consisted of Rear Admiral Gregory, Captains Wor.) flen and Boggs, Chief Engiuese WW. W. Wood, Com- mander W, A, Parker, commander of the vessel, and ® Lumber of raya; odoers, moet of whom have been ordered* to che vessel. Among the iuviied guests was Count Rosen, » Captaine Lieutenant of the Royal Swedish Navy, 7 Feomed much interested im the working of the veseel every partloular, Lioytenant/Gregory, aon of tbe Admi- rai, was procent, having come from St, Louis op import- ent Dubiness qovnected with toe iron-clad inwerest, , Alter sncboriig, the two ffteen-tnch gane—whicb, by the » are sevevieen iuches longer than any ia uge oo shipboard | Beretofore—were loaded with thirtystiva pounds ot pow- dor and an empiy shel | The first went clean over the Pallisaces, sho seecnd striking ca the! rocks about Batt {wey ap.’ The gues were now charged with fifty | pounds of powder and a cored shot, We. projec Ules teking eect near tho Dare of tho biuils. The guns Were now charged with Arty pounds. of powder sod a solid shot weighing (our huudred and eighty pounds, the shot striking the water and richocetting up qe back. This ended the trial of the guns, carriages And olber guncery details. The "weskol was Bow got vO- Jer way aud proceedeg down the river—ber average time said to be eight kaots, She was teken to the Navy Yard, and formally turned over to the authorities, The Maho- poe was dailt by Secor & Co., Jersey City, under the able suporinte: dence of prvge Birkbeck, Jr. and is probsbly the best piece of workman- nip they have turned out, ig Qrm_ have ¢oo- iructed singe (he war the Monitors Weehawken, ‘amancne, Mantatts Tecumseh avd Mabopac. Engineer [nepector Griiiin will make some new improver ments in the veutilating apparatns of the vescel which we think wil be of vast importancs, and be will also tn- woduce a plas by which Lbere will de @ possibility of the erew and firemen ercaping in cuge of an accident by whick the vessel might be sack, Everything n on. nection With the Mabupac gave geveral eatisfaction, nd to a tew days she will be a commissioned yessel-ol-war, The Light Draught Monitor Tunxis SBE IS TO PERFORM SOM# SPRCIAL SERVICK—CHISF ANGINEER STIMPRS ORDARED TO A PUST OF HONOR—A TOKKN OF RESPRUT BY THE NAVY DEPARTMENT, BIC. It ta currently reported that the wew Night dranght Monitor Typxts wili ahortly Jeave Philadelphia on an im- portant mission, and that Chief fngineer alban 0. | stimers, who ig the inventor of this uovei etyle of war ressel, will go out In charge of her engine department, Mr. Welles bas-selected this superior officer (or this post of honor {o consideration of the valuable services he has rendered the government as well ax science in bringing to euch a state of perfoction the vessels known as light draught Monitors, We may expect great things of Me. Stimers, Important to Volunteer Navai Officers, CMOULAR. Waseinctox, Angust9, 1864, The following course of oxamination will be required for all officers of the volunteer naval service for entering Sual service or for promotion io it, The cdmpiuadmg oiicars of squadrone wil, poo recommending an officer of the volunteer paval service for promotion, forward at the ome (ime to this Departimeat a report of bis qualidce- tiong, in accordavce wita theae regulations; avd should a volunteer oilicer be reported by his commanding officer uanal terms, and 25,000 feet pine at 90c. per foot, Mox sses.—We novice seles of only 100 hhds. New Or, teu: s, at 97, 5 Parroigum.—Peceipts, 4,020 bbis, The market for crude was very quiet, Dut firm after the excitement of Friday. The dealers were generally very firm, but the advacce moveront received a pretiy sudden, check, most of the holders Gemauded 55c. a d6c. for ail this mouth, ard nearly as much.on the #po Ketined in bond was quiet at 87¢. a 8Tjgc, and free was likes bu iirm, the sales wore 1,500 bbls. crude at ue month, 600 do, reiined, in bond, 87¢. a 87 '<¢ , and 22.0 fe> ot £Sc, a Ovc., chicfly white, at the outside price! aio 790 Go, Of next month at ¥7}gc. Benzing was Provisions. —Receij ts, 25 bois. pork, 40 packages be 20 do. cut meats and .66 do, lard The pork market wos Lirmer and more active; gales on the spor include 5,009 bis. at $37 for mess, FT oT} a $40 2 for new do., cloning at $40 12), a $40 25. $35 DO tor prime, and kSa His 00 for pritwe. meas, ale, for ature delivery, 2.000 bbls _new mess, in lots, for o!] August, buyer's option, at $40 25 a $50 75, and 2,000 bbis. do., for Se; tember. same Opt.on, ot 42.0 $42 50. The veef market was dull and unchanged; giles of 200 bbls. at $15 a $15 tor ccuniry mess, $6.8 $8 for country prime, $15 a $20 for repscked mess, and $22 a $25 for extra do. Prime mese beef was quiet, and prices were nominally utchanged. Bacon was quiet, and prices were without change. Cut me ty were less vctive, but prices remain unchanged: sales at lic. a 16}. for’ shoulders, and 17c, a 18c. for hams. Lard was less active, but itm, the demand being tavstly space- lative, seles 500 bbls. at 220, a 23c., also $00 bois, Inst he pteraber. seller's option, st 23\c., aud 1,000 obis., for September delivery, same option, at 2350, | Butter was tirm aud higher, sales at 40c a 4sc, for Ubto, ang 49c. a Sfc. for State, Cheese quict at i8e a 26¢ lor common to prime. Rice was quiet, sales 75 bags at 150, Srearine.— We note sales since our last of 20.000 ibs, primas city at 26c.; and 100 do. No.1 Western at 25c., cn | quiet Dut frm at 45c, a SCc. Sales 426 hu 24 ¢c. for Cubs and chin hond, and 24 isc. a 26c for Porto Rico Redned was tn brisk demand and prices were drm. Vane w.—The stock ts light and the market firm, at ie 2 1%3¢. for common to prime country aud city, with saiee of 74,000 tba. Tora: the market whe firm, with «fair inquiry. jee 250 bhde, Kentncky at 14146 a S6c., and 200 cages 4 leaf at lic. a 4€c., cash. Munulacturad tax paid o baceos were in good tmaquiry, but prices were without change Wraskey.—Recetpts. 1,029 bbls, The ma in favor of sellers, with a fair Cemand | At $i SL u $1 85 for State and Westera, et continued es 1,200 dbis Triats at Poltee Headquarters, A ROW IX AN OYSPER Sao! CHARGED WIrd PREPSEING OY SKKIOUS CLUDBING FROM THE LEIGH CINCT, ETC. The attendance at trials for the week past has been very lerce. There were one or two cases only out of the large number on hand that were of special public iater- One of these was the case of oflicer Marab, of the Sixteesth precict, who was charged with baviog as- Led aud beaten two citizens, mame Charles Friebetl and Sebastian Gunter, ia an oysier saloon, without just cause, Citizen Friebell was the priocipal complaeant, aud stated that bimseif and friend went into Riley's sa. loon, in Seventh avenve, to get.come oysters; that (hey jet tocir oysters a few wormenta to go into the yord, and that wheo they ams back oliver Mareh had er ome of Ubetm, ad pet so much pepper ia the rietor they tat they could not eat them, that the prop | inate ed wow ther paylog or the oysters, waich \ re | ea toem. } pr evidence to the coutrary, whith he aid, | proprietor of the saloon stated that citizens Priot Gupther came » bis place grossiy imtoricated; Lbey ordered oystors, abd after getting them committot sums indecescies iM the establishment and refised to pay, thet be called officer Marsh in to enforce order, and that the oliver was in thedischarce of his dn thing tore, The citizens were iniormed thet the best way (or (hem ja the future would be totuke lees © unnlus | and preserve better or ‘The case againes the officer ae dismiseed, The case oC officer Ityan, of the Nightesath, was one | svocerning clubbing. Citizen Franeis Steineker, of No, ZiPavenve A, compiained that be was co veverciy | clubbed by (he officer that pe became iceensibie sod bis | hfe wee despaires of, nd that be fed committed 20 of- | fouce to warrant euch uaa, | were produced sod to do, tbet upon this Marsh cate fn and assault. Ibis story was ali very weil uDtit the officer ‘The A great many witnerses ; ides, but the evidence went rath- | er to excuerate rhe officer than otherwise It was shown that the oeighvorbood reverted to wae @ troublesome one | do the po tee, thet at the time or the alloged cluvbing the compleinagt was walking uparddown tho avenue in a Slate Of iatoxication, appearing vory ugly ‘ant carrying ( u Uis hond a etoall carving ur butober kaife: that off Fyan come up and endeavored to yet him home, Oualiy succeeded im doing ©, bUt thet be cate out again ) and “@ 86 much trouble that | was obliged to arrest) him, A sued between them, when complainant suc dp getting Lhe olfcey sclubaway from bite, The ofcer recovered the club agein, and foun timeeit obfiped wo } use ib, abd did 60. The prisoner being under the tuftuauce { of liquor, a few blows silenced him. The strugele occurs red im an wleyway as noon §8 the priscuer was quiet the officer drew tim owband laid him dow a walk. y from the bead, aod the crowd gath ond (breatened to ynce the Cfticer, The wounded wav was o and the Ofoer started away for help that €ome woman came up to complainant | struggle begoo antl Look une kni'@ from Wis gover itanpeare (hat 610g Alcohol was whole matter, and that ofcer a a good and rather wild oMosr, tore than duty OF course the Dob suit cOmplarbant or bis frien legal procoodl: ga wil be bad ag: wor doing 90 pect of alates did and it probebe it the oicer fo Kewwene: Patendyas AcctbaN o8 Mie PORTLAND a Veerorday's one ¢ © paseenger tr ver the % | and Kennebre Hatir eater augicte ‘ Wy My dent rear Vuseoiboro, Tbe britge eye nd oe | 2 re meny, dropping © portion of the train to the SOttOmR, The ohyiti¢ aud fenidbr fut ver fu 5a Hit eed that the weight of the focotibtive wae ib cure BEERS down. Several care werd bully emmehes,” Some or thirty passengers were injsrod, of monly ibeee are Sorionaly hurt. Ono maa had an irm broken aud @ lady suilered a fracture of the jag Pha was gorious'y tajured internally. it pw 9, lives wore lons outright, — Por: | sug at 2% chat Arguay ‘Tex PAureMonn ann Omo Rariaoar, work of répale. Ing the damages done to the Beltimore and Ohio Raitroed by the Confederates during their rocent raid i¢ progr 4 rapidiy, Gud $f there are 6 more visits from them We pre ie are thet the entire road tbe io fall operation by the Grat of week. Abcut Lon miles of the road above Martinaburg was tora up, the oroae tise dorned and the rai! honted aud hentia ali imaginary shaper. ack cree, Plat Aad Opaquan bridges were more or lege damaged. The trains are now runolng Ort Wheeling to Hancock and (rom Qaltitora te Harper" ) Berey —-Cwmbariand Uiien, A wauit 12 as incompetent to discharge the duties assigned him be will be subjected to this examination, a report of whirs ‘will de forwarded to the Department: {u the examination of candidates for the position of Acting male, thore being but three years’ sen service re- quire, a prodciency im seatnansbip and navigation is act to be oxpectod. [It is desiradie to secertain (he general {nveltigence of thé cand:tate and his aptitude forthe Uuties of the position, | In Seamanship —svich ordinary routine of ship duties fod koowledge Of seamanvbip as avy oue may acquire in Inieet yous aveen Vavigaion.—Observing and working the meridian al- Uthde of the sua for latitude and dead reckoning. ACTING RNSIGS. 4 Will be Sxaminet in— Scamanship.—Generai routine of rigging ship avd stow- Ing hold; bending, unbdending, reefiug and furling eails; working ancuOrs, Cables aud bawsers; tacking, wearing sod the ordinary evolutions; and and deep sea lead dines. Qavigalion —Log line, compass and its corrections; dead reckoning, use aud adjuettments of sexteat and quad: rant: observing abd working mertdian «ttitude and longi- tude by chronome: Gunnery.—Stationing men at gun and guo exercise: loading atd use Of tangent sight and fuses; smail arm roudaword exercise, ‘The examination in gupsery is only to be required in caadidates fof promotioa who have served xs act mates, and oot for original appointments to acting ¢ signs, ACTING MASTRR. Sromawhip.—Rigging and stowing hold, as practiced in the navel sery.cs; mayal foutine of bending aud ua- bending sails; crossing and sending dowa yards: work- jog ship aed gailg onder all circumstances, aod working auchors and cabies. Navigation.—Log tine, compass and its oerrections dead reckoning, use of s@xtaut, with corrections and justments; observing and working meridian altitude, sin- gle aud doubie aititules, longiiuce by cbrouometer and lugar distences: ampiitids aad azimuth; latitude by polar star; treatment of aud rating chronometer; use of barometer and thormotneter, aud use of charts, Gunnere.— tationing men at guns, broadside and pivrt runs, iiarin aud Droadsword exerci ng@ Of beu- gent “ight, mounting and dismouoting guus, exereige 0! boat and fletd howitzer, stowing magazine and shell com and work iDg powder civision, 16 aed adjustment of us 3, acd general use and management of rie guos.* adottion We Candidate will be examined, and a re- made ns toh 8, roliciency tn bve ordicary branches Paghsb edication—reading, writing, arittmetic and graphy —specifying apy vccorapiisaments whicd the idate may possess ACUNG VOLUNTERR LISCTEVANTS. © examination will courish of shat speculed for acting . sith the addition in— mansh yp, watcniog Aud stationmg crews fir xl! evolutions: and requiriag a greater proficieacy im ail poval coatine, and the management of a vessel under sail end n ry —A good knowledge of Ordaance Manual y me " ACTING VOLUN LIEUTENANT COMMANDERS AND ACTING NORM COMMANDERS. © 48 for ncting volunteer tiew- ed with more previ and ualificatioa of Une eandidare for Separate commend aud ability for conductiag corres. povdemoa, Ac. All the requirements are to be strictly tomplied. with. Roard (or examination for Acting Mote wil consist of one no\ing volunteer leutowant, or master, Aud two Act. ing eoRighs, For cting Ensign, will consist of one reguiar officer and (wo vaiunte Bot below the grade of master. For Acting Master, wilt consist of one regular olllcer and two volunteer Heutenants For scttig Volunteer Lieutenant, wilt consist of two or lieutenant. ctag Volunteer Lienteosut Commander, will cou two commanders and one lieutenant commander, ng Volunteer Coromander, will consist of one ema dore, or captain, and two commanitera GIDEON WéLL&S, Seeratary of the Na Togulat olicers and ove acting vot Yor The Portsmouth Navy Yard, COR NAY AL CORRESPONDENCE. Portewovry, August 19, 1864 Afairs at Portemovth Navy Vard—The Coming Launch of the Pranklin, @e. This quiet o!d town of Portamouth tae received a fresh fofnsing of fife since eo many suips buye commenced bulidjng bere, ‘The frigate Franklin, measuring three hundred and six feet over all, and thitty-geveo bundred tons burden— beirg the largest ship iu the navy excopt the Ningura—ie heerly completed, amd will be Imonched about the Ist preximo The steamer Contoooool three hundred feet long, i zapidiy approacding completion. Tho geste of three viher steamers, of the eame plan, have beeo inid—the Pinca. fagua, Mimnetouka ard [linoie The Coble turreted, seagoing iron clea Agamesticus, launched several weeks Will shortly be ready to aid ip she reduction of ine defences of Charleston The work om the Passaconaw: ’ an iron clad of the same clagy ts progressing but slowly, ‘The other vease's Siting ont bere are the frigate Calo. | tado, which will be veady i Sve weeks; the meurner’| Albairors, pow in the dey dock, sue Tinga, andthe | oto, which bre my the yellow fever w Portemouth, | ing ae vera deaths among the citizeus The Boston Navy Varad. OUB NAVAL © SDRNOR. p Avguat 19, 1864, | Pursuit of the Taltahasiee— Where s+ Pont —Bosion Navat Neowr—Some Politics, do, ithe been thought that Avwistant Secretary Fox was the mostactive apirit inthe Navy Department. But thie cannot Fox © com ip Portsmouth, spending (Ue summer vacetion with (he Woodburya, and old Mr 186 ander, Jobu G, Walker, which will threo weeks; (8° double turrettsa neagoig ironclad Mouaduock, which will not be ready for three movths; the screw steamer Manitou, the gide-whoel Mas- EASOIL, (he bark Nigtinga.e, aud the pew (rigute Ammo- noOsUC, ‘fAliene and niggers’? are in great demand bere now, Every Purltanic Yaukee preactes “war to the knife,” Abd Urges every body elke Lo enlist, UL is cereful to say AL howe himself. All sorts of cheats and. tricks are con. sidered right that tend to betp fill up the quota under thy pss cuit for Live hundred thousand volnoveers. One town, ear Boston, which acver furpished over @ doven Daval recruits, filled itf quote per salum in this Way. A smart lawyer tu Cobrt street undertook the job, Bud Dy kp adroit manceavre succeeded in getting cHough Seamen who had enlisted {rom other towns credited to this town to fiif ber entire quota: and for this be received wenty-four hundred dollars, The job did not take an Boers Dubit i allright, “Tbe end’ justifies the means’? ere ihe repubiicats of the Old Bay State are in a @mixed up"? condition jnat vow, Governor Andrew is Making a strong cousest for & renominktion for Governor, And also wants the seat of Henry Wilson, in the Senate, whith Wilson atso 1s determivéd to retain, Speaker Bullock ig st the head of @ movement to throw Andrew Overboard and secure the gubernatorial chair for bimeelt, Andrew has been losing ground (or a long time—ia this state by hig cliquiam and financial extravagance, with the national administration by bis domineering madners Dd his avowed. sympathy with General Fremont, The Roilock movement for the Governorsliip, like tbe Bremout gyn for the Presidency, has gnot yet “come to @ A Hint to Mr. Welles, 10 THR EDITOR OF THS HERALD. New Yorx, August 18, 1864, Teme plain map, but 1 know not whether the sugges- tion 1 am about to make is plainly enough stated to be understood by, you and your readers. Tobe short, tt! 1s ‘his:—American shipping is in constant danger and inours constant loss at the haada of rebel pirates and privateers. Our Navy Doparkmens cannot protect Amertoan vessels, or prevent their destruction by the proseut means it em: ploys; a triat of the mouns I propose may vot be utterly absurd, Let a system of naval convoyage be established; toe government furnish a ew fast going war steamers for every open port in the United States (according to the average tonnage or number of versels at such port} ume acd Jeisure, be compelled to start op certain days of ‘be week. whea one or two effective men-of-war,are to Accompany a uumber of them (merchant vessels) as (ar a3 way be deemed practicuble by the commanding oficer of such convey, | AS most of our trade is with Liverpool and London, in England, Havre, iu Frange, aud pmburg and Bremeo, in Germany, ove vessel near each of hese ports, if well commanded, would be able to give American yesseis proper protection Om tbat side of the ocean. If our vavy consisis of as many vessels as ia currently supposed, a half dozen more vesseia may be roaming about the bigh seas in search of pirates, avd be bigh roads of watious clear of the plague that them If the above suggestion, Or any part of it, is acceptable to youy your renders or the Navy Department, either or all are welcome to it, Yours very respectfully, A UNIOK MAN, FORT PITT CANNON FOUNDRY. The following description ef the great cannon foundry at Pittsburg, and the method of casting the famous heavy guns, made on the hollow or Rodman principle, is taken from the Pittsburg (Pa.) 2rade Circutar:— ‘The Fort Pitt Cannon Foundry is very unturaily an ob- ject of pride to Pittsburgers, Hstablished in 1803, it has cust cannon for three wars in which the government of the United States has been invotved. A portion of the guns ased on toe United States ships on Loke Krie, at Perry's victory, were cast at this establishment. Guns and Shells were atgo cast for the use of our armies in the Mexican campaixn; and’since the outbreak of the rebel- hon, in nddition to'a large Amount ofjguns of the more or- divary calibre, this establishment bas made the largest gaue in tbe world, fhe foundry was originally located on the corner of Fifth aud Smithfield streets, on the iot where now stands the Custom House, and was established by Joseph Mc Clurg ia 1803, Im the sixty: yeurs of its extetence, its operations have been conducted by several ficins, among which wore Wade & Botten, Knap, Waite & Co,, Knay, Rudd & Co, At present the establishment is owned solely by Chas. Koap, Raq. Sinceg 1849 there baye been 2,403 canpon and mortars made ia tne establishment. of which oumber 2,033 haye been cast since the outorealting of the rebe lion. ‘The foilowing (able shows the aumber and size of the gups cast, together with their weight and the weizbt uf the ball or shell carried by them. The army guns of eight, ten, fifteen wod twenty inch are popularly known a8 columbiada — Service Shot Weight g No. of demgned’ Weight each "or of rach Size of Lore. Guns. For, Gun, los. Shell. Batt,lbs D-ibeh .. GO . Navy 9,100 = Shell 10 10-18¢ch 10 Navy 16000 Bail 10 Lech. 50 Navy 16.000 = Shelli 130 1-iech, 68) (Navy 48,900 Bull 450 20-10ch, Navy 100.000 Ball —1,000 army 8,400 Ball 64 army 16.900 Ball 128 Army 60,000 Bail 450 Army 116,497 Ball_ ‘1,000 How tver — Sheil 60 8 Mortars — Shell 60 & 84 18-itey 50, Mortars — Shell 200 434 ine iy — Bail 38 ‘The valance six and Uwelvo pounders. ‘be fittean-inet army guns suumerated In the avove tadle are seventeen feet wine incues long. The navy Kung, seventeen (ect Ove inches long, and both descrip. tion’, four feet in diameter at the trunions. DHe-eriptions Of the twenty-inch columbiads have beea already so widely circulated through the press thnt their enormous dimensions are familiar to the public, ‘The finishing of such immense gups as (he fifteen and twentyginoh colombiads i a buge task and cue of great aicosy. They are required te be finished jnside an? out, toa scale furnisued by the government, to whose exavt dimensions the inspectors ivexorably mold the proprievor of the worke, The Suishing of a gun is, therefore, neces- sarily conducted with tho same care and completed wish ag mich mectiauical skill asa piece of tbe finest m: chivery, ‘Shu our readers may have some idea of the care required and the nice adjustment to be observed in the use of the cools, we state that coverament inspectors, Wf the stce of the bore js.& huadredth of an inch larger than ihe scale furnisted, reject the gun, aud nothing retains but to break it up. Of this aicety an idea Corther obtaiwed by stating that a one-hundredth 's 9 {ne not wuite as thick as the interstice between tho teeth o/ the livest of those flog teethed ivory combs used for iu ants’ beads. Phe fact Coat but coe gun bas beea ve- jevved cut of (ho large aumber cast, (or auch a departure “om the seaie, 8 A wonderful certificate to the sicil! of the sorkmen employed and the Anish of the machinery Used. (he Gung are also rejected for other de cats equally ws .uUie Por jnsteuce, we Muticed two guns that the inspector had refuseed (0 pars ig which the daw that vonuoroned them «as of the circumference of av ordinary ‘oud poecil, Got over the sixteenth of an inch in dept!, acd sitasted im the extreme end of w suriace of the tranion, a point where even if it nad een we big a4 ao eRe Ht Cowid not have in aay way aifectas the woar of the gun. We bave cited this ice Fiaudérd, to which the guns Toast be cast and dnished to be sted by the govertment, to show that although at first Dnt a Luge mace of iron casita, Of from tour to fifty aud ®.s(y ons In weight, the moulds must bo prepared and che casting done with the care of a five bronve, and Gnished © Lhe nicety of a watch movement to prounoe a KUM Aecopiable to che government The casting of those heavy guny are made on what is called ue hotiow or dmaa principle or pateut, which, not being ceneraily understood by the pubsic, may rouder © fow words of description interesting. On the Rethnan principlo, tie Mask is sunk im the pit a8 wns olid cot ngs a tube closed and water tight at the lower ond aud uled On the exterior for the escape of the generated by the metal, forms tow base of the core. This tube ts wrapped closely along its entice Jength with a rord, over which i® prastéred mud to the ¢epth of three fourths of au imeh. Inside of thie inde ts a copper pipe for the purpose of conducting water to the beftom Of the Inrger tube, (rom whence the water rises fling the entire thbe or core, and the surping pasces off froma pipe at the toy, After the metal bas been poured into the mould of ibe water is allowed to run b the pipes for ‘twelve hours, wheu it ie 4 oof for an bait tour or 40, during whieh time the boat of the yet ‘uneooler huge tase of molten metal, causes the cord, already Mentioned af wrapped round the tude, to be comsnmed, when (be entire core, whiett it would otherwise, from the shrioking of the mt Around it. be impossible to re- ‘awn, Water i# thon allowed to J bore of (he gun until tt is stm siently coved to be hoisted from the Hack. By thi process & close grained interior ts obtataed, #)FINg Ereater service tothe gun; and being thus cooled tegen thé interior adords the additional edvantage of the whtal sbrioking opon the centre, thereby causing @ oatoral banding of the metal arourd the ci of the bore Another advactage gaivea by this method of hol. low castings the avoidance of danger of crack ‘ng. A tw of metal a huge as the Biieen h gone east solid will crack im seven eason out of tem, Thie principle of casting .was dia. covered sud perfesied in tha Fort Pitt works by a few of the foremen of the establishment and Lieutenant Rodman, when that oMeer was in charge of the works, aod for whteh be obtained a petont. The vaiue of this method of gakiog gaos ie farthur shown by the res experiments mace at hese works. if casting guns of A196 Gi26 1D pairs, One Oo the hollow principle and one with ne subd The result te one pale thus mele wa, Uhat While the gum cARt Of the Kolid meth burst be (wo bundred and omety.amth discharge, the oo@ on the hollow ping was fired que thousand (ve hundred (ines without any perceptible strato, in ano- tuet pair, purporely made with very inferior metal, the One cast ob (he Kolid plan ures atthe @neteonth round, while the other was tischarged two bundred and ity Umer, In another case 9 hollow cart gan was fired (hice Woltes bas Seen terpateh secre With Qeolerity truly | Mheasand eight bondred times without any ipjuricus wonderful (er Gim, } eet pits borat apperens, | The catabiiatmoot io which there immense, and, in all On Saitrday tae, within twenty four hours after the sews of the depredations of the Taltanaagen r frots Bie aflervovn onp, he ceapatoned’trod this parsuit of Whe pirete, the wt piize to ut), commended by Acting Volune | tose ‘Lieutooant Edward P Devine, and ibe steamoe | Dunbarton (fornerty the “prize Thistie), co ‘Acting Master Henry Brown, ee ae Qa Sanday he performed a ati! greater fant, Hesent | ub on the eRe errand the steam sioop Dakota, Com, sender Albert Clary, But, ag the Laiiahasees makes bout « doven miles an hour, while tbe Dakots can make | bo more had About #608, ® problem has been proposed by one of the wees to fe ow log it will & the Da. kota to cat Talishasge: it might be more to the purpose (0 send ont tho steamer | oder Stephen () Trenohard, now un- tthe will bardiy be ready for There are two vessels building here—the frigate Porm. penoosne and the doubie-turretted reagoing ironclad | Cainsagamood ‘The yersolg Ailing (Or BOR hora gow are (he steamer otod Dita port, ia! marr Trietam Shardy (0 | the Connsc Meypects, gonderful gine are made, Occujres & #yuare of cousd fogr Rundred ant twenty-eight fret by two bun. f iand @tty, Of ‘hus apace, the foun try proper is two Sundred and sixty wine (eet long dy ninety wide. The in emit (s Cheee hundred and th rty eight fest long by OFty two wi oat Ot the ground Is #uirrounded by offices, ke, formitg a Yollow the found’y for melt ‘One of there qv machine ehop, pattera sho} There fe a x furoAces dod two Epon. equare, poses haces, most probAbiy the larges: charge of forty tone of metal at one heat, two otherg twenty Ove tone each, three others Afle@n tons sach, and tu in the world, moits « the two Copolee twenty five tone y each. As bigh as Ubree hundred and nine toos of metal have been run into ik, WILDOUL FE ARE Of Lhe CUpolKs and with of the furnaces. ‘of steam f@ Ine, B eXpediling and aed enving the Te the foundry there are ‘ix immense sloarn erange for banding (ho guns when cast, twe i the boring mill for similar purpores, beside four large cranes worked by hand. The loading of the 008 open the care which run upom road built in connection with the works, and the raliroads centering at Pittsburg. \s also done by & huge avoar dor Railroad braces and (ura taples fun ia all directions thrquabout the movement from one donart. ment to another, of the ponderous masses Of mnetal tomb form the columbiads, The machin driven ot ine present ime by thirty-three sterm engines worked from the gleam gorerated by three pairs of boilers, Six of these engiges are in use 19 the foundry, kwous bbe eLbe for foishibg the tweoty-inch guys, uwo im the macaine shop and twenty three io thé boring shop, The metal used in the casting of the monstrous guns made at this foundry, 13 principally obteieed in the dus iota region of Pennsylvania, and tae balaoce from the Bengng Rooke pegion of Obi.’ Since the com uencement Qf the war (hes@ works have been continuously ruaming, With but a stoppage of twenty-four hours in every sever days; andbave, in addition to he great numer of guns, Uurced off ten Million poripds of shot and shell, There ie average of two hundred and eighty hands employed AD the establishment, whose wages amount \o avout five thousend dollars a week, We regret oxceedingly that our columas do aot allow ef + orate degerfption of these remnarkable works, \ whieh are on fnany accounts the most interesting in the country, and perbaps.i@ therworld. For,the few facts we Rave hastily Chrowategether {o this aridele, we are ia- debted to Mr Josevh Kaye, the foreman of the foundrys and were commonicated to us by bim na few minutes con- versaticn while be superintonded the removal of au elegant ittio pocket ; \ece of some seventeen feet long, four feet thick and about forty thousand pounds weight, Mr, Kaye has be-® connected with the éstadlishacent fora quarter of a century, and looks omfd bis huge weapons as though almost a inodera Jupiter, Re could bring columbiads résdy made from his brain, #0 thoroughly does he under. stand bis work, and so rugged and grim does he seem Amid It and Chere are notes enough to be gathered im a day's attendance upon bim io bis labors to make a book. ‘The boring mill is under che superintendence of Mocwra, ‘Taylorand Frew, The machine shops under Mr. John Merlroy, and the pattern shop under Mr, 1. E. MeFeety Ob the fidelity of thege foremes in conjunction with Mr. Kaye, and the skill of the workmen under them, depends the successiul working of 80 important & national works Shop, and the trust is certainly faltnfully fuliilied, City Intelligence. New Drviogs oF /ickrockits—Cavtioy to Tar Posie Every one should know two of tho latest devices of pick- pockets that'they my know bow to protect their purses, A gentleman recently coming down town in a Fourt® Avenue stage relates his experience as follows, by whieh one of these devices Is exposed:—At Fourteenth street, three woll dressed young men entered the stage. One of them stood on the step, with bis arm leaning-on the door window, the seccnd in front of him and the third in (rout of the second. “The siage was full and they were alt Standing. The qentioman sat im the corner next the door, Be felt a band ou his watch, grasped it, aud discovered it was the hand of the “gent”,at the'door, who was trying bored bim of it. He tried to rise to stop the stage, bet ‘found bimself -pinned dowo by the arm of the feoond, while tho scene was screened by the third, who carried a light coat over bis arm te Aid bim in concealing the movements of his confederates. Refore the omaibus could be stopped: the pickpockets had got out apd run off at (ult speed, Avoiber device by which ladies are robbed ja the following:—Iwo of these operators” enter the stage and sit near a laty. Ther Drexth is strongly tarnted with onions When ‘they dis- cover on which side her purse is they make (heir bream go offensive to har ou that side that she turns her face Away from them and from her pocket, and they them take advautage of the opportunity to pick ber pocket, Look out for hase thieves whou you go into a stage. Pomerat of Masog Boriax,—The remains of Major Wa, Butler were conveyed to their lest resting piace in Om vary Cemetery yesterday afternoon, from the City Hal The deceased officer fell in front of Petersburg | A de» tachment of the old Sixty-nintn regiment acted as guard of honor op the ccoaston, aad there were many officers ef the Irish Brigade and Corcoran Legion among those whe assembled to pay a last tribute of respect to ihe memory of the gallant young soldier. the works, facilitati Polles In tetligence. CaARGE OF ADULIERATING Mitx.—Yestorday rning officer Ely, of the Sanitary Poliee, arrested s mile dealer named Terrance Smith on the charge of adulteras- ing milk, in violation of a State law passed at tho last session of the Legisiature. from the officer's affidavit ® appearé that afew mornings since he visited the diss tillery stables of Moesrs. Lowber & Ostrin, corner of First ana North Fifth streets, Williamsburg, and while there saw Smitn drive from the stables with his milk eans on the wagon, The officer aizo saw Smith go to pump on Second street and there pump water iuto bis milk cars, after which be crossed the terry to this c! and sold some of the adulterated milk at Nos 120 and 1: Kast Fourth atreet. He afterwards delivered one of the milkcans ta Wm. Glesa, milk desler, corser of Tenth street and First avenve. At this point Smith wag arrestod and subsequeatiy taken before Jnatico Mansfeid, who beld him to bail in tive hundred dollars to answet THe PRINTERS) STRIKE—ONE OF THaM ARRESTED FOR A® #aurt.—Oo Saturday eyeuing James Moulton, a printer, who waa ouge engaged in the Tribune office, made an ap sault on Mr. David A. Breckenridge, hitting bimon the head with bis Ost, Mr. Breckenridge is also a printer, and ai present employed in the printing department of the /ribune office. Moulton was atrested by officer Sem mun, of the Fourth precinct, and Justice Hogan com mitted bim to the Tomba ior trial, Novt in 4 Bosrpixa House—A Man Baty Cot About one o'clock yesterday moroing Deanis Sullivan ap@ Abrabam Floiow, fotlow boarders at 302 Pearl street, got into am altercation in their sleeping room, when Flotow, 4a is charg>d, seized @ water pitcher and struck Sullivam on the left wrist and severed an importantartery. The biond flowed #0 coptously from the wound shat Sultivam sank from exhaustion, and was conveyed io the New York Hospital. An alarta brought officer Clendenen, of the second precinct, to ihe spot, and hearing the facts tm the case he took Flotow into custody, Justice Hogan committed the accused to the Tombs to await the result o% Sullivan s injuries, in explanation Flotow states that Sullivan gos out of bed and struck him three times, whem he caught (he pitcher and used it in self-defeoce, Coroners’ Ing te. Patan Razosp Casvarsy.—Corover Naumann was yesterdey nctitied to bold an inquest at the New Yorm Hospital on the body of Anthony Hamoid, x young mam, sighteen yeats of age, who died from the effects of im juries recived on ¢ne 2d instant, by being run over by an Figbth avenuecar. Decesred, in attempting to } from the front platform of the car, felt before the w which pasced over his eg. It was subsequently found becessary to ampatace the limb, which proved too much lor the patient to bear, and death ensited 2s slated, cung Hamoid lived with bis parents, at 270 Greenwi street. Owing tothe absence of witnesses ihe inquest was postponed tilt to-day. Boor Recovaxen.—The body of Cornelius Canty, the young mon who was drowned a few days sinco while bathing at the foot of Forty-fifth street, East rv, bas been recovered. Coroner Naumana was 30tificd, aad held am inquest, KILL@D GY FALLING FROM 4 Wixtow.--A man named Wm. By Slidel!, at one o'clock yesterday morning, ncete dentally el) from the fourth story of hie residence, Ne, 5¥ West Thirty-reverth street, to the pavement, and was almott irsiantiy killed Ao ioquest will be beld om the body toda Prach Sreeviavone Birres.—The peach crop Jersey ai winware is coming into mar quantities, A.farmer from Kent county, Delawar writes to tbe Philadeipbia Ledger, Saye ever since peach growlog has been a business have there been such abandunt crops in Delaware as this sem rou. The present prices ate not paying expen for picking, aod the giut has not yet come The supply Wil! increase (rom two to foor fold antl the 10th of September —Thete will be much money lost by Hpecolator# who have gone round and bought up the crope wt high Gigures, and (here js uo delp for thetr being muicted deeply. “4 man ear Smyrna will jose from tweaty © (Dirty thousand dollars on this kind of opera tons, " DRY GOODS A T, STEWART & CO, we made large additions jo their elegant assortment of DRESS Goons, HOSIERY. CLOTHS, © CARPETING AND iN eN ESB Ba, of every description Imported expressly for the fall wade of 1864, vers te ularly sottel ‘The attention of CHAMBERS fat i F es A Puyo A XCLUSIVELY FRENCH FLUTING.~THRRE FOUR® hnotice “nly required a Mis. GOLDEN & Ereweh Free. Ing Feet abt stem 18 Amoly street, om Lor train Brosdwar, 127 Bleeck below Worater, N. F, and. aii Fulton’ sttéey, Brookiye, 'N. 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