The New York Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, the rebel exrrency shattered the faith of the South Curvlina planters iu paper money of all kinde that they generally prefer ten cents per pound in gold for their cotton to fifteen evnts in greenbacks. Astnall fight lately took place at Bagdad, on the Moxt- can sire of the Rio Grande, between some of our soldiers and a party of Southern rebels, in which one or two per sons were killed and several wounded The Mexican soldiers interfered, and drove all the combatants across to the Texas side of the river. All the rebel prisoners recently confined at Newport's News, Va., have been released and furnished transporta- tion to verious Southern ports. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS TERMS cash in advance, Money sent by mail will be etthe risk of the sender. None but bank bills current in New York taken. : THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy, Annual subscription price, 614. THE WREKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents per copy. Annual subscription price:— One Copy ..+. . pee pel pee The repairs on the broken Southern railroad lines are ree Copies. . . Five vi g | Peing rapidly pushed towards completion, There is now y , through from C Ten- ‘Ten Copies. railroad communication throug! hattanooga, nessee, via Atlanta, to Columbus, Georgia. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The steamship Manhattan, the ploneor of the new line between this city and Vera Cruz, arrived here yesterday, from the latter port on the 28th ult., via Havana on the 8d fust, Our despatches mention a rumor that the cession to France of the Northern Mexican States of Sonora, Sinaloa and Durango, so long talked of, would finally be consummated in a decree to be issued by Maxi- milian about the 1st inst, The Emperor was still on his tour in the interior, and the Empress had left the capital to mect him. They were both well received by the people wherever they went. The guerillas in different parts of the country were atill giving plenty of employ- ment to the imperial troops. Over one thousand fresh French soldiers for Maximilian had recently arrived in Vera Cruz and passed into the interior, and more were to come. } Our despatches by the steamship Manhattan inform us that the revolution in Hayti against the government of President Goffrard was still unsubdued. Some military successes had been gained by the revolutionists, and they had been reinforced by many citizens of the republic of St. Domingo, who had taken arms against Goffrard be- cause he did not interfere in their behalf during their recent war with the Spaniards, i The ship William Nelson, Captain Smith, of and for this port, from Flushing, Holland, with over four hun- dred German emigrants, was burned on the banks of Newfoundland, on the 1st inst. The ship's boats wero filled with the passongors and crew, who put to sea; but only part of them, who were picked up by the steamer Moteor, and taken to St. John, N. F., are known to be saved, ‘The now steamship City of Boston, Captain Kennedy, of the Inman line, will sail to-day at moon, from pior 44 North river, for Qneenstown and Tiverpool. On the last passage of the City of Boston to this port she made the run from Queenstown in about nine days. Tho mails will close at the Post office at haif-past ten A. M. By the California Overland mail we have Sandwich Island news to May 20. The ex-Queen Emma had sailed on board the British war ship Clio for England, to visit Queen Victoria. It will be remembered that one of the midshipmen of the Clio some time ago took down the eagle in front of the American Minister's office, and was compolled to replace it. Before the ship sailed some of the Clio’s men, with the design of being revonged for this humiliation, disgraced themselves by sing- ing ribald songs before the Minister's reaiderce. On receipt in Honolula of the fnews of President Lincoln's assassination the government offices and stores of the merchants were immédiately closed, flags were craped and half-masted, a meeting of condolonco attended by the most eminent citizons was held, and sympathy with the American people was manifosted in a variety of ways. Comptroller Brennan bas announced.that the fund in our city treasury for the relief of the widows and chil- dren of our soldiers who have fallen in the late war is exhausted, and unless the Common Council makes another appropriation for their benefit there will be great privation and saffering among them. ‘The laborers and cartmen who are interested in stroet cleaning held another meeting yesterday, at which the same spirit of resistance to the new contractors was maintained as on the day before. The meeting adjourned till this afternooa, Surrogate Tucker has admitted to probate the wills of Mrs. Ann Graham and Mrs. Martha Codwise. ‘The Metropolitan Police Department statistics show that over ten thousand lost children were found in the streets of this city and taken charge of by the police during the past year. Of the entire number all were reclaimed by their parents excepting two hundred and eleven, who were turned over to the Commissioners of Charities and Correction. 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In accordance with the finding and sentence of the military court by which they were tried, and the ap- proval of its decisions by President Johnson, David KE. Harold, George A. Atzerott, Lewis Payne and Mary E. Surratt were yesterday hanged by the neck until dead, in the yard of the Penitentiary in Washington, between the hours of one and two o'clock in tbe afternoon, for assisting iu the conspiracy by which President Lincoln was assassinated and the attempt was made to asdagsinate Vico President Johnson, Goneral Grant, Secretary Soward and other members of the | government. During tho forenoon a habeas corpus writ, at the solicitation of the counsel of Mrs. | Burratt, was tasned by the Supreme Court in the Dis- trict of Columbia, ordering her surrender by the military | to tho civil authorities, On the presentation of this writ by Genoral Hancock, who had charge of the execu- tion, to President Johnson, the latior issued a special order suspending the writ of habeas corpus in this case, fend directing the General to proceed to execute the sentonce of the court martial, which he accordingly did. Everything connected with the solemn affair was con- ducted in the best manner and with the utinost @ecorum. After the arrival of the criminals on the | wcaffold, and during the performance of the religions Dorvices, the spiritual advisers of Payne, Harold and Atserott returned thanks in their behalf forthe unt- formly kind treatment they had reo tved throughout their confinetnent from the officers and soldiers having charge of thom. We publish this morning fall Actaile Of all the circumstances connected with the exe ution, and biographical sketches of Mra. Surratt, Payne, Harold and Atzerott, THE SITUATION. ‘The health of President Johnson was yesterday 80 fmach improved that he was able to attend a Cabinet moeting, the first one held in two weeks. ‘The tate Department in Washington has received ‘oMeial information of the determination of the Spanish Grown to deliver to our government the late rebel ram Btonewall, alias Olinde, now in the harbor of Havana, ‘whére she was surrendered to the Captain General of ube by her commander, Captain Page, on the collapse ‘of the Southern rebellion J | Governor Holden, of North Carolina, has appointed « ‘commission to proceed to Washington to learn the de- (eigns of the government regarding the confiscation of Whe property of rebels.in that State. As a mrge number @f Northerners have already arrived in North Carolina for the purpose of purchasing real estate and settling thore, an carly decision on the conflecation question Is Tar Groans or Tae Wounpen.—A delegation of rebel soreheads from Tennessee have laid before President Johnson an appeal for his in- fluence in behalf of the repeal of certain laws adopted by the loyal government recently set in motion in thay State. They say, for instance, that “the law passed by the adjourned Legis- lature, which says that those who have been | engaged in the late rebellion and those who have sympathized thorewith shall have no | right of suffrage for a scries of years to come,” stands “stubbornly in the way” of all those really desirous of lifting the State apon her legs again ; that “three-fourths of her voters are disfranchised,” and so on. But what of all this? Andrew Johnson, as Military Governor | under President Lincoln, turned over the busi- ness of the formation of a loyal local govern- ment for Tennessee to the loyal men he found in the State. That was the best he could do, ‘Those loyal men have established a State gov- ernment; that government now rulos the State, and can be upset only by Congress, and Con- gress cannot upset it in reference to rebels with- out first repealing certain existing laws of Con- gress doad against them. It is possible that this stringently loyal State government of Ten- nessee may be set aside by Congress because it a ee nee has not admitted the jloyal blacks to the right Ong of the Henan eorrespondents who tas recenty | of g ; but that would not mend the mat- {hoon travelling extensively through South Carolina tx | tg in retorenice to these complaining rebels. ‘eatistiod that the amount of cotton still remaining inthe | The host thing, therefore, thet they can do, we deterior of that State ie very large, exceeding any exti- | yuogs, ig to make the most they can of the which has yet been published. There is much | chances left them of becoming good citizens Aioulty in gotting it to the eeabonrd, owing im a con- | and Joyal men for the future, They are asking siderable degree to the slow progress wh'cli is being made | too much in asking to jump at once from the Dy the railroad companies in reparing their linen. These | rebel army of Hood into the control of the loyal fonds wore most effectually destroyed by General | men of Tennessee, They must first as rebels (@horman, and the iron to relay the tracks has yet to be (ought, and the money to buy it with will have to be down. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1865., Execution. The curtain has fallen on the last econe of the melancholy drama that began with the murder of President Lincoln in April last. Harold, Mrs. Surratt, Atzerott and Payne paid yesterday with their lives the just penalty for their share in that atrocious crime, and all but one of the other criminals, whose complicity in the act of murder was leas positive, are perhaps already within the walls that they will never leave alive. There have uot been in a great many years any executions as to the propriety and justice of which the public mind was so settled ag about these All of those hanged confessed their guilt; but.these confessions hardly sur- prise any one, and do not affect phblic opinion. The conviction of guilt was so deep and dis- tinct that confession seems like a superfiuity; and if the fact of a confession relieves any minds at all, it is only the minds of those who rejoice that these poor wretches did not go out of the world with the weight of that horrible secret on their souls. ¥ There are some remarkable points in the his- tory of this trial. One of these is the modera- tion with which the people have marked its progress. The murder of Mr. Lincoln thrilled this country with the grandest paroxysm of popular passion ever seen. Every loyal man who heard the news felt it like @ personal blow. And yet, though it was evident from the first hour that these conspirators were ar- raigned that they were the guilty parties; though it was as clear as possible that those persons were the ones who had plotted and planned, day after day and week after week, a dastard blow atthe country through the life of that great man, there has not, from the first to the last, been the least tendency toward any popular viglence. If there ever was a case in which the most sudden and terrible appeal to natural justice would have been almost blame- leas, it was this; and the forbearance that gave these persons due time for defence and every possible facility to make out a case, to impugn witnesses, and to defeat justice by legal technicality, is one of the most striking in- stances on record of the admirable moderation of the people. This is even the more remarkable since 60 bad a use was made of the chance thus given. Certain of the defences were the most impu- dent ever made, and were insulting alike to the court and ‘the country. On behslf of one it was pleaded that he acted from conviction. He thought he did right. Mrs. Surtett’s counsel thought he could answer all the evidence by showing that his client, certainly the worst spirit in the party, was “a good Christian.” And general defence was set up for the wholo crew by @ press conducted in their interest, which questioned the jurisdiction of the court, and now denounces its members as murderers. Society does not generally pay much at- tention to the wy the criminal at the bar reads the law that bears upon his own case, and so it took little heed of the screeches of the press that it knew to be the mouthpiece of those mumerers. But in the fature the patience with which it looked upon all this will seem the strangest part of the story. One notable question is settled by this execu- tion—a woman can be hanged when justice requires it, The laws against crime do not discriminate between the sexes; but public opinion does. No good reason can be given why a bad woman should be spared where a bad man would die; buts sentimental notion does not stand upon reasons, and it seemed possible that such a notion might have a favor- able effect on Mra. Surratt’s fate. Itisa healthy sign when the law cannot be swayed from its straight course by such means. ders and the Rebel Conspirators in a—His Official HReport to Jeff. Davis. We publish this morning a communication trom Geo. N. Sanders to Jeff. Davis, under date of March 7, 1865, in which that fussy intriguer details his connection and association with the rebel conspirators who have for the past year congregated in Canada. Sanders bas evidently become alarmed at the position which he now occupies before the public, and has resorted to writing letters, and unearthing those previously written, for the purpose of throwing the stigma off from his own shoulders and placing it upon those of his afsociates. This letter comes to us printed in the primer form, and has appa rently been sent out for the express purpose of convincing the public of his innocence. It will be seen that he gives a general idea of the schemes that he has undertaken since his arrival in Canada, and the politicians whom he bas manipulated. Singularly enough, almost at the very outset he gives a filng at‘Thomp- son, and insinuates that he (Thompson) is the originator of the raids on our borders, burning our cities, and other revolutionary proceed- ings. The language of Sanders on this point is plain. “Mr. Thompson,” he says, “would not enter into my views; he had no confidence in political movements; he believed in nothing but stirring up rebellion in the Northwest” —thus directly charging Thompson with being the instigator of the revolutionary proceedings of the Sons of Liberty in the Northwest, under Vallandigham, and the raids on our borders. The greater portion of Sanders’ communioa- tion is taken up in detailing his operations in trying to control the Chicago Convention, the peace negotiations with Greeley, and manipu- lation of the copperhoad politicians. From these statements we have the admission that the rebels united with the Seymour, Wood and Vallandigham democrasy to control the demo- cratic party at the North and make it anally to the confederacy. But it seems that their scheme in making @ tool of the entire party was foiled by the letter of General McClellan accepting the nomination, which Sanders styles an “arrogant, wor-spitting letter.” In this dilemma Sanders appealed to Governor Sey- mour and Ben Wood to prevail upon McClellan and his advisers to change their course, threatening him with defeat unless he did. But the efforts of these copperheads had no effect. McClellan was im- movable. Here, no doubt, is the explanation of Vallandigham’s famous speech deolaring himself the father of the Chicago platform, which was made for the very purpose of driving the war democracy from the support of the nominee of theConvention. From his own confessions the politicians whom he could use as he desired were Greeley, Seymour, Wood and R. J. Walker; but, not having the as- sistance of Thompson, his schemes all failed, and he writes a pitiful letter to Davis, in the cease to blow and bluster, and quietly qimmer | first place charging his failure at the door of Jake Thomoson and then making a special ap- horrowed at the North, So greatly has the collapse of | The Sentences of the Court and Theix | peai for himself, Like all other applicants for favor, he parades his references. But in his tale of complaints he has evidently left out of bis published letter the most important part. He gives the public to understand that the appearance of the organized and privately armed bands of Sons of Liberty at Chicago and the operations of those parties in the Northwest were inatigated by Thompson, who control- led the conspiracy fund, and then suppresses the balance of the paragraph, as the stars indi- cate. Why did be not give all the facts to the public, and not leave his work half done? ‘'Thé statements which he does make are curious, interesting and suggestive. They plainly show @ desire on the part of Sanders to clear his own skirts. This being his object, why deal in insinuation or suppress the facts which reveal ‘the real guilty parties? The public already know that Jake Thompson had fall control of the rebel conspiracy fund, and Sanders now assures us that he (Thompson) used it to stir up a rebellion in the Northwest. We have no doubt but that if Sanders will tell all that he knows of Thompson's operations he will open the road for a pardon from the bands of the President, or at least furnish an excuse for Mr. Johnson to withdraw the reward for his head. He has already published sufficient to make Thompson his mortal enemy, and he has nothing to gn from silence. Weall know what he means by his hits on Thompson; why, then, withhold the details? He has an oppor- tanity to serve himself and the whole American people. Will he avail himself of the oppor- tunity by making a full statement of facts? Inhuman Treatment of U Prisoners of War—Letter of Henry 8. Foote. Our comments upon the report of the com- mittee of the late rebel Congress on the treat- ment of prisoners of war confined in Southern prisons have brought out a reply from Henry S. Foote, who, it seems, has found a resting place in Montreal. We stated, upon what we con- sidered good authority, that Mr. Foote said to his son-in-law that the starvation of our prison- ers was decided upon in Cabinet meeting. This statement Mr. Foote now corrects by the explicit assertion that among the documentary. evidence before the committee was a communi- cation from the rebel “Oommissary General, Mr. Northrup, to Mr. Seddon, Secretary of War, pro- posing to withhold meat altogether from mili- tary prisoners then in custody, and to give them nothing but bread and vegetables.” Upon this document, he further states, is the official “endorsement of Mr. Seddon, in which the latter substantially says the time had ar- rived for retaliation upon the prisoners of war of the enemy.” In addition to this important fact Mr. Foote states that he “first learned from @ government officer that the prisoners of war in and about Richmond were’ suffering se- verely for want of provisions, and that it was manifest that a systematic scheme was on foot for subjecting these unfortunate men to starva~ tion.” While, therefore, Mr. Foote denies some of the details of our letters, he more than sus- tains other material facts. He shows that the treatment of our prisoners was not the work merely of the men in charge of the different prisons, but that it was authorized by a Cabi- net official, and was systematic throughout. Now these are the class of facis which the public have been for a long time try ing to get hold of. If, then, our comments and strictures on the report of the committee of the rebel Congress have accomplished no other results than to draw out this letter from Henry 8. Foote, their publication has been fully justi- fied. The people of the North have seen their neighbors, brothers and sons returning from confinement in Southern prisons mere walking skeletons, They are familiar with the barbar- ous treatment, the hundreds and thousands of deaths from starvation; and if there is one thing about which they wish to know, itis who is responsible for this barbarism. The people could not believe that the officials in charge of the prisons coffld be allowed to continue that system of inhumanity to helpless and de- fenceless men for months and months, save with the sanction of the ruling power at Richmond. It is but natural that the inquiry should come up from every nook and corner of the loyal North, Who is responsible? There are too many graves of Northern men within sight of those black prison yards, too many broken constitutions and men disensed for life by the sufferings endured there, for it to be otherwise. The reports which were flying around the country, although numerous, were contradictory. In order that these might be set at rest, the report of the committee of the rebel House of Representatives was wh- earthed and spread before the public. This document, instead of throwing any light upon this important subject, denied that there had been any ill treatment. In- stead of satisfying the public mind, it only increased the anxiety and embittered the feeling against the Southern leaders, But we now have the whole statement from Henry S. Foote at whose instigation the committee was raised, and upon whose sug- gestion an investigation was had. From his version of the affair itappears that the com- mittee made a regular whitewashing report, neither based their statements upon the evi- dence before them nor allowed the evidence to be published. All the documentary evidence we have alluded to, which, as it will be seen by & perusal of the letter which we publish elsewhere, not only corroborates the reports of starvation, but proves it to have been done by design and sanctioned by at least one member of the Cabinet and perhaps more. We have thus at last been able to obtain light upon this important subject. It appears that Mr. Northrup, a Southern vegetarian philosopher, who believes in feeding the human family on grass and hay, used his position as Commissary to put his theories in practice on the Union prisoners. Obtaining the sanction of the chief of the rebel War Department, who endorsed the scheme for the purpose of retalia- tion, as he claimed, the experiment was tried and was tollowed by horrible results, We com- mend Mr. Foote’s letter to the special attention of the administration at Washington, and urge upon them to secure if possible the mass of testi- mony, documentary and otherwise, which the rebel Congressional committee has seen fit to suppress, and lay it before the public. We see no reason why the government detectives should not be able to secure it, if it has not been ere this destroyed. Mr. Foote’s communication, by giving the names of parties who were cognizant of the facts, furnishes a starting point for a thorough investigation. We trust that the Pre- sident will see that there is no time lost in probing this subject to the very bottom, and in ascertaining the whole truth and all the facts bearing upon this worse than barbarous treat- ment of prisoners of war. A New Orcanmation or Panties.—From the violent, threatening course of the leading Northern abolition radicals in reference to negro suffrage, we look, during the coming long session of the new Congress, for a split in. the republican party, and the organization of a new administration party from the moderate men of all parties. The war democracy of the North are ready, and tbe steadfast loyalists and honestly repenting rebels of the South are ready for this movement. It is a combination which, if rightly started, will be apt to control the affairs of this country for the next fifty yeara; but to be homogeneous and successful all those old Southern secession fire-eaters must be shut out, and all such Northern democratic heretics and disorganizers as the Vallandighams, the Sey- mours, the Woods, the Brookees, and all their tribe of pestilent copperheads. In this move- ment for the future, let Southern rebel fire-eat- ers, Northern copperhead leaders and abolition fanatics, all be packed off to Coventry, and we shall have a new national democratic organi- gation that will control the next Presidency. Tam Execution or Mrs. Scrrarr.—After the result of the trial’ of the Washington con- spirators was known to the public, the imprea- sion became almost universal that the extreme penalty would not be inflicted upon Mrs. Sur- ratt, not because she was deemed less guilty than. those who suffered with her upon the scaffold, but solely on account of her sex. We knew, however, that the President before issuing his order for the execution had given the sentence of the Commission hie most serious considera- tion, and that he would not be likely to change convictions formed after mature deliberation, merely upon the solicitations of sympathizing friends, within thirty-six hours after his deter- mination was formed. r Tae New Croron Reservom—WaERE ARE tue Commissioners?—There appears to be a hitch in relation to the new reservoir intended to supply the upper end of the island, and a hitch in o curious place. It is decided thata reservoir ia necessary, and is to be built, and the Croton Board is ready to go on with it. But they have to wait upon the movements of another body. Mr. Hoguet, Mr. Elijah F. Purdy and Recorder Hoffman were last winter ap- pointed commissioners to choose and value the ground. Until they do this the Croton Board cannot go on, and they appear not to have moved in the matter at all. What is the cause of the delay? Hurry up, Mossre, Commission- ers. Plenty of fresh water is very necessary in this hot weather. Vowonrenr Capinet Maxers,—From certain hints thrown out by the organ of Belmont and Barlow, it would appear that while Ifon. H. J. Raymond and Thurlow Weed were the other day patching up a new Cabinet for Andy Jobn- son in one place, Hon. Horace Greeley and cer- tain members of Congreas were engaged upon the same job in another place. But we should like to know what Montgomery Blair and Bar- low were doing all this time. They can’t all be captains. Fineen’s Fronts.—The firemen of different companies still continue their old amusement of firemen’s fights. This fighting was one of the objections which resulted in the supersed- ing the old volunteer fire department by the new paid department, and the officers of this new department must put an cnd to these dia- graceful scenes if they would secure a long term of office. NEWS FROM NORTH CAROLINA. A Déepatation Scnt to Washington to Confer With the President on the Con- Mecation Question—Northerners in New- bern, &ec. Nawnuax, N. C., July 3, 1865. Governor Holden has appointed a commiss!on consist- ing of Colonol J. M. Heck, Komp P. Battle and others, to proceed to Washington to confer with the authorities on the subject of confiscation. The tide of emigration from the freo Statos having already sét in, and as many im- portant sales of real estate are pending the settlement of this question, the best interests of the State require that an understanding should be reached a4 soon as possible. Hence the departure of the commission. It is, however, bolieved that there will be 00 confiscation in North Carolina. Nogroes are making two or three dollars per day at re- washing the dirt in the North Carolina gold imines from which gold has been once extracted. The negro who was hung up by bis thumbs for forty hours noar the railroad depot in Raleigh, on Friday last, died soon after he was taken down. Newbern now contains a large Northern element to ite Population, and has become the business centre of the State. Cotton and other produwets from all parts of the State are daily arriving bere in large quantities for ship. ment north, which gives the porta very lively appear- ance. J. T. Bridge, A. G. Hills and Henry ©. Burr, of Boston, have associated themselves with G. W. Perry, a planter of Newbern, for the purpose of establishing a factory to extract tar, turpentine, ol! and pyroligneous acid by the new process of destructive distillation of lightwood. Other factories of this kind are to go into operation here, where thero is aa endless quantity of rich material. Muste in the Park. ‘The Park Commissioners announce that there will be music on the Mall at the Park to-day, commencing at half-past four o'clock P. M., by the Park Band, under the leadership of H. B. Dodworth, if the weather is fine. ‘The folowing is the programme :— ° i mi asian, wei 5 wi The Union. Barart's Miverttis.—This is the last night of the season at Bryant's, and the performances are for the benefit of Mr. Neil Bryant, the efficient manager. The full company, including Mr. Frank Moran, Mr. Nelse Seymour, Mr. J. Cox, the flutist, and Mr. Mickey War- fen, the best of the jig dancers, will appear. The Bry- ants then take a country trip, beginning at Newark. Mr. Dan Bryant will soon return and will rejoin the troupe noxt season. The National Loan. . Potapmwrnta, July 7, 1865. Jay Cooke reports subscriptions to the sevon-thirty loan to-day to the atnount of $4,261,200, including the following :— Second National Bank of Chicago First National Bank of Cincinnati, First National Bank of St. Paul. . First National Bank of Columbus, Ohi $320,000 200,000 100,000 100,000 First National Bank of New York .. 150,000 Eighth National Bank of New York. 100,000 Seventh National Bank of New York. 904,860 Central National Bank of New York 600,000 First National Bank of Nashville. 260,000 Second National Bank of Clovelan: 100,000 Second National Bank of Boston. 100,000 National Bank of the Metropolis, 200,000 Henry Clows & Co., New York. 100,000 Clark, Dodge & Co., New York... 100,000 Fourth National Bank of Pittsburg. LL. 76,000 Number of individual gubscriptions, thre thousand oiaht hundred and afty. The Ship William Nelson Burned | at Sea. Probable Loss of Four Hundred Lives. Forty of Her Passengers Picked Up and Taken to St. John, N. F. ac, de. he. ‘The ship Wiliam Nelson, Captesa Smith, from Ast werp, June 4, of and for New York, with passengers, ‘was burned on the banks of Newfoundland, (he lst inas. ‘Thirty or forty of her passengers were picked op and taken to St, Jobn, N. F. The boags, with crows, &c.,.amp missing, and l ig aupposed that four‘bundred lives hve been lost. Farther Particaiars. Mowrnsat, July 7, 1668. | ‘The Purser of the steomsbip Morarisn makes the fob lowing statement:— The ship Wm, Neleon, from Flushing for Philadelphia or New York, was destroyed by freon the Banks cs Newfoundland. The fire originated frome rod hot bole being put into a tar pot between decks. Forty people were taken to 8t. Joho by the stcemer Meteor. Four hundred people are missing. Some may have been saved in the boats. Captain Aiton, of the steamship Moravian, gives tee following statement:— ‘The Associated Press boatman at Cape Raco reportee that tho steamer Meteor, belongiog to J. & W. Stewast arrived at St. John on Friday, with forty of the passem- gers and crew of the ship Wm. Nelson, taken from the Durning wreck on the Banks of Newfoundland. Tho Wm. Nelson sailed from Flushing for New Yost with German emigrants on board, Bofore the Meteor reached the burning vessel all the boats bad put of tail of passengers and crew; but none of the boats had bees, heard of. : e: As far as Captain Aiton could learn thors wards of four hundred passengers on board wheo veesel sailed. our Description of the Ship Williant Neleoms The ship William Nelson was built at Somerset, Masea- chusotts, by Mr. Hood, in 1850, and was.a fine veasehof 1,039 tons register, rated at the American Hloyd's Aue and was owned by Wm. Whitlock, Jr., of South street, fn this city. She was valued at fifty thousand dollars, and was ingured, it. is said, for onty ffteon thousan@ dollars. Her commander, Captain Levi Smith, bas the reputation of being a very caroful and oxperienced seme man, and we shall probably bear of the safety of some ef ‘hose in the boats that put off from the burning ship. No list of paseeng:re by the William Nelson has beam received at the office of the consignee. If the ships papers have been saved, wo shall probably have ‘the names of those who were lost within s fow days, —— o City tellig: Z AN Apoomnrryat Prise Fient.--Policoman Ss mons, of tho First precinct, has called our attention the report of a prize fight, said to havetaken plaesem pier 18, on ay bear Ras Petros Pv cece cut one ae en ae oe eee Mr. Suitz0x W. Waning, of Columbia, Bragoria coantyy ‘Toxan, wants to @nd the present address of bis wife; Bey with three children, came to Now York four Mr. Waring is residing with W. P. Johnson, at Resovan rrow Dsownima.—On Thursday morning @ New York party, enjoying themselves in # yacht, 1 the t at Sheepshead a exhale, strvggling Loa Me. Copel es te aaa hing’ man. Ho s:coceded vossol to save the drownin; fo, and him eafely until he reached @ rope Sr Pearse ey eka eng > the ‘was unable to’ master the Mort’ Tactics. —Tho police of New York and Brool> lyn, bave adopted for their aril! Gonera! Morris’ Infantry Tactics, on account of their simplicity and usefulness, Soppen Deara oF 4 Socpigr.—On Thuraday ovening Jobn R. Jones, @ private in Company D, Fifth New Yor heavy artillery, was found sick in Canal street and @om- veyed to Believue Hospital in a but. f word before resching thors. was inthe. C4 from the servic®, a8 d return to his wife aud children, wpe reads ip Southern Maryland. Mr. Swift, a lawyer, of No. Broadway, had been employed by deceased to collect bis bounty money and back pay. Buran ny Rowpixs--Jaw Fracrorap.—Richard Gough, ‘a man twenty-three years of age, whilein Broadway, near Houston streot, late on yes gy Poe was oh Pon nel f a gang of ro’ who beat Sethbly fractured his jaw. The ants mado their escape: aro still at large. After being attended by a Gough was conveyed to his residence, No, BA Sullivan street, Yuatsrpay was @ vear relative of the “ hottest dag ever known to the oldest inhabitant,’ If ft was not, tm Gait Sete arn tee e ai 5 noon, and st two PM. ithad climbed’ to. ninety-one ie grees, Hot enough for this clime, to say the least of Marrorouitan Exrtoruext Aguxcy.—Thisinstitution, wo street, The be found at the office of H. Sree gid ds bachangh poe had to be deterred. are cases in the where the widows and of ore were ent apon this fund for their aod now has been stopped they become cntit or n from OF worse, brovght up thieves and What action will the Council take? Fatat Acorpanta.—Ann Callaban, aged 8 months, yeo- terday fell out of bed at the residence of her parents, Soronade at Saratoga. Saratoaa Spawn, July 7, 1866. A grand serenade came off this evening in honor of Hon. M. 8. Wilkinson, of Mitinesota, Commodore R. r Stockton and Hon, James A- Bayard, of Delaware, whe are now stopping atthe Clarendon. The affair was got ap in grand style, and everything, including specohen and champagne, passed off delightfully. eee A Healthy Ship. TO TH# RDITOR OF THE HMRALD. The ship North American, Captain Cutting, arrived @ this port on Wednesday Inst from Liverpool, with sevem hundred and thi all fn good health, 1rte%D The remarkable leanty state ot the ship and sani ers. rofloct oredit condiwion. of the Cuttl first officer Gillespie. Captain O'S BURDETT, M. D., Doputy Hoalth Offeon, Quananrurs, 8. 1, July % 1866