The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1865, Page 1

. eral Wealth. Whe Climate, Productions and : Amusements, Ren, &e, ae. “ ahinery—all these crowd themselves upon me and compel \ WHOLE NO. 10,556. THE ATLANTIC CABLE, Preparations to Reeeive It in Newfoundland, Description of Heart’s Content and the Surrounding Country. TELEGRAPH HOUSE AND INSTRUMENTS ~ Sketch of the Past and Present of Terra Nova. ‘Its People, Resources and Min- Our St. John’s Correspondenee. Sr, Jouss, N. F., July 1, 1865. As your special commissioner to the land of fogs and cods ‘have the honor to announce my safe arrival. We left alifax on the morning of the 7th, in’the Cunard steamer Alpha, commanded by Captain Sampson, and reached here at nine o’clock this morning, after a very snccess- ful passage. Hero I am, then, within a few hours’ jour- weying of the little village of Heart’s Content, which has Been selected as the American terminus of the great electric cable, which is to join togetler in a bond of eternal amity, let us hope, the Old World and the New. Js it to be my:grateful duty to chronicle a glorious suc- ers, or another costly and disheartening failure* Stand- Sng, a8 1 do, upon this great arm of the Western world, which seems to be stretched forth in such an inviting manner towardsthe more venerable East, and whieh Pro- “ ‘widence appears to have fashioned and designed for the ‘very purpose for which it has been selected, I find that his is the natural question which springs up in my mind at this moment. 1 confess that for the first time a slight doubt forges itself upon my attention. The magnitude \ @ the undertaking, the difficulties to its accomplishment, the discouragmg results of previous attempts, the innumerable chances of \ittle mishaps, from the uncertainties of waves and winds and ma- me to ask myself whether, with #0 many obstacles, inevi- table, probable.and possible, the thing can ever be sue- oossfally cartied out. J° realize more fully than ever the ‘vant importance of success, and this it is perhaps which makes me somewhat prone to scepticism, It is idle, ‘however, now to indulge in speculations or calculations am the subject. Three days ago the Great Eastern was ‘to have started from the coast of Valentia on her great mission, wind and weather permitting, and while I am ‘writing this letter she is no doubt engaged in uncoiling «, from hor tanks the mysterious cord which is destined to annihilate time and space by bringing America within « minute’s communication with Europe. AJl we can do therefore is to wait and hope for the best. In ten or fwelve days the problem will have Bhi itself, and ‘then we shall know all about it. ‘As the steamer Alpha leaves again. for Halifax to-mor: Yow morning, and there will be no means of communi. wating with you for two weeks thercafter, # am obliged ‘to write a very hasty letter, affording you in a very con- donsed form what information I have already obtained respecting the arrangements Yor the reception of the @able ut this side of the Atlantic. ‘THR AMERICAN TERMINUS OF THE CARLY. ‘The little village which has been chosen as the Ameri ‘ean terminus of the ine is situated on Trinity bay, some &hirty miles from the bay of Bull's Arm, where the cable was last pulled on shore after. having been snecess- fally carried across the ocean and deposited in the bosom Of the fimous telegraph submarine plateau of Lieutenant Maury. It rejoices In the paradisiacal name of Heart's Content, a name suggestive of everything beautifel in mature and delightful to the feclings of buranity ; but, Hike many other things in this world of ours, it is better 3m name than in reality. Heart's Content is a small vil- lage of some nine hundred inhabitants, celebrated for Bhaving no hofels and plenty of mosquitoes. The mos- quitoes, I am told, have 4 great portiality for human flesh and bite like furies. They are called “gallynip: pers” in these regions, The village const of a collec tion of very neat white cottages, owned principatly by @shermen and people engaged in other pursuits ina Agmall way. It is located on the southeast side of ‘trinity bay, about thirty miles from ite entrance, und is believed W be better adapted for receiving the cable than the place which was formerly selected. It possesses a beau Biful harbor, surrounded by a range of high hills, which end to it the appearaoce of a vast basin. It is sald iobe sleep enough to permit the Great Eastern to approach very wear the shore with perfect safety, which will prov wery great advantoze in hauling the shore end of eable to its place of permanent resting. The inhabitants re an honest, industrious clave of people, with a reputa- tion for kindly disposition and hospitality to strangers winder ordinary circumstances, But (he present cireum stances are very extraordinary, and the people here wider they have a perfe nt to change with the er eumstances, They b consequently pot hospi aside and made up their minds to iake to money makinw Boarding aud lodying and ail the necessaries of jife have taken a rise which wold sturtle housekeepers, even in the city of New York, with all its extravagance ant high prices. A number of visitors and exentsion parties from the States and British provinces expectod to arrive here to witness the grand spestacle of the age, and the BKoepers of boardinghonses expect to reay a rich harvest from those nnfortunote travellers who come here on p re or business, From this it will be seen that (his is mo little village, where peop come with the hope of having piqnty to eat and Jittle to pay, and enjoyiny the romforts of rural happiness at & y HORT, Thowe who have started with sueh a idew will tind themselves snd!y mistaken. THE TELSORAPH STATION ds xituated about the contre of Lhe village lacing the bay. It is & plain, unpretending sty Are Of wood, two stories High, fifteen feet wide amd twenty-five feet in Jengtb. It but was Charles y, as the or the required pur On the first floor will be two rooms, one to be oe Company: Terk ofMr A, M York, wround. are ive was originally intended asa private residence, Mr purchased in an unfinished condition | Lundy, Agent of the Avantic most eligible building in the ville. pose. e@cpied as the operating room of the Atlantic chi and the other as an office for the Mackay, Superintendent of tt Jand and Loudon Telegraph Company THE OPERATING ROOM fe at present being flited Ap ina very comfortable man mer, under the supefintendence of My. Lundy, 1 will be made perfectly air and water-tight, #0 as to prevent the slightest external influence from affecting the dugly delicate instruments whieh » be used. The Noors will be carpeted, the wallk neatly papered, and the entire building furnished in style eres in contrast with the miserable accommodations of the old telegrapin station on Boll's Arm bay, Two eolamne of briek a stone, built on the solid rock, rive up (rem the contte of the room appropriated for the reception ef the end of the cable, and on these will rest the galvanometers hy ~ will be received trom Va joter consisia Of » coil Of exer fine copper wire, covered witir silk, in the rent 6 of which is sispended a email inirror, about three eighth an inch long. To the back of the mirror i ted a smal! piece of magnetized iron, which te suspended by « single fibre of silk just ae it comes from the cocoon Opposite the galvanometer is placed a paraffine lamp. Wearing berore it a horizontal scale, The light from this Jamp is directed through a slit in the seale, and is throwe mpon the face of tbe mjryor, which reflects buck an the ri eit Sate SF Soe Oh ONE ch Ae LAPEER PE BIR ESR EB PD EAE RE RE OE TEE ON YO ET SERA BBE EET ELI ES BRE NE SE REE CEI AE ARIE LEE TO LOE A D LAI S AAI I TR OEE ” scale @ spot of light. By the movements of this spot to the right and left the telegraph messages are read. The needle weighs exactly a grain and a half, These instra- ments are of the most delicaie and sensitive character. The operating room of the New York and Newtound- land Company will be located on the second floor, under the direction of Mr. A. M. Mackay, the energetle enper- intendent, who will be assisted by eight practical electri- cians chosen for their skill and experience. Mr. Lundy will have nearly double that number of assistants, A few words about these two gentlemen, who are to hold the position of managers of the line in Newfoundland, will not be out of place in this connection. FKRTCH OF MR. A. ¥. MACKAY. Mr. A. M. Mackay, the superintendent of the New _York, Newfoundland and London Tekgraph Company, is ig a native of Pictou,,Nova Scotia, but possesses a large amount of Yankee energy and go-aheadiam. As a prac- tical ‘electrician he ranks among the toremost in tho country. He was forinerly connected with the Canadian and Nova Scotia lines, and has held the position of Super- intendent in Newfoundland for the last fifteen years with great credit, to himeelf and entire satisfaction to the company. He ix still « young man; being only in bis thirty-tirst year. s (BOF CHARLRE WIIAM LUNDY. Mr. Charles William. Lundy is a young Englishman of considerable reputation as an electrician in his own country. He arrived here about a month ago for the pur. pose of superintending matterson behalf of the Atlantic ‘Teldgraph Company, and of making all necessary prepa- rations for the reception of the cable. He has heen in the telegraph business fourteen years, and thongh still very young, has acquired 2 thorongh knowledge of the theory and practice of the science of electricity. Before leaving England he tested the whole’of the core of the cable at the gutta percha works in London during the progress of its manufacture. In 1868, when the cable which had beon laid across the decps of the Atlantic was flickering like a dying lamp, Mr. Lutidy was sent ont bbre from London by the directors, charged with the almost hope- less task of endeavoring to resuscitate the continuity. Everybody had given the thing up in despair, but Mr. Lundy, by applying a new description of yalvanometers, succeeded in transmitting a few faint signals, and for awhile revived the hopes of the friends of the enter- prise. But, as is well remembered, all efforts were in vain. The cable bad been injured past repair. Mr. Lundy was accompanied from London by Mr. Wm. Cu- nard, one of the directors of the company. My. Cunard, however, has not yet been out heré, and probably has no epecial duty to perform connected with the laying of the cable. ‘THE ROUTE TO HEART'S CONTENT demands a passing noticé. It is partly across land and partly by water, Teaving Halifax in a coach, you are conveyed nine miles te a place called Portugal Cove, where a smnall steamer, called the Ellen Gisborne, i# in waiting three times a week to carry you acrovs to Car- bonear, a distance of twenty-two miles. This Jittle steamer, though not-the hest in the world, is a great public convenience, and is ran by a gentleman named Mr. George Mackinson, a resident of Harbor Grace, For the rest of the journey you have to depend upon your own fesources. You may chance to succeed in getting a carridge by paying a good round sum of money, but sometimes it isnot easy even to get it then. If you ar- rive coming on davk you are almost certain to find your- self obliged to walk the entire distance to Heart's Cor tent, thirteen or fourteen miles, or else make up your mind to spend a night in some of the rural habitations of Carbonear, THE FAIRIES OF CANBONV-AN, ‘The mass of the inbabitants—that is the lower order— are a simple class of people, somewhat given to O1d World superstitions, and belioving in the existence of “good people’? or fairics, They hold that the spirits of fairyland roam through the fields and woods after sun- set, and that it is therefore dangerous to venture forth and thus tempt the vengeance of the good people. Mr. Lundy has given me au account of his adventures on the occasion of une of bis visite to Heurt’s Content. He arrived late at Carbonear and tound great difficulty in getting a conveyance to the end of the route. No one was bold enough to invade .the dominions of the fairies, and threats and entreaties were alike in vain. Being thus battled by fair meavs, Mr. Lundy determined to re sort to stratagem, After pretending to resign himself to the force of wircumstances, he suceeeded in inducing two of the inbabitante to drink with him, and getting them into good humor plied them very liberally with whiskey. The charm worked, The resolution not to convey Mr. Landy that night was rescinded, the horses were hitched to the wagon, and the party started off tor Heart’s Content, Lnody triumpnant and bis guides mellow. The former prided himself on having achieved quite « “big thing ;” but bejore he had proceeded half way on the road be had reason to repent of his bargain. He found his guide— who was also driver—utterly unfit for business ty reason of intoxication.” The driver was unable to sit steady in his seat, and got down to walk behind bis conveyance, leaving Lundy sole ocenpant. ‘There was a predicament to be in. Lundy, the elegaut, thus victimized by a drun- ken driver, “G’up, there, Beeny; g’up now; g’up, J say,” shotted the driver, from the rear of the wagon, staggering wong the road with difficnity, “Bish—go now, good Beeny, good.”’ You can imagine for yourself Mr. Lundy. “blarsting” the “blarsted fellow’? that had brovight him into seb trouble. 1 shall, merely add that the journey, which should have occupicd only a little over an honr, wax not performed in five hours, and then only after the most desperate efforts on the port of the traveller, The road i¥ wp bil! and down hill, and halt the time travellers have (6 get ont to enable the bores to ket along, Going up bil} travellers are expected w walk, because the boraes couldn't otherwixe pull the convey- ance ut all; aud going dewn hill they are also expected to walk to avoid making more rapid descent than would be healthful tothe human body, You will Que see that ii 10 Hearts Content overland ix by no moans an insignificant feat to have to boast of. ay EXTENSION OF PRE NEWROUNDLAND LINRS—THE ACCLDENT TO 7H GULY CAULK My. Mackay bas had men at work patting up lines be tween Sf, dons and Heart's Content, and by Thursday next the communication by tolegraph between those two places will have been completed, ‘To-day there reraain only three miles to be fixed along the road, Tam sorry te be obliged to state that the aceident to the submarine cable weross the Gulf of St Lawrence, connecting Cape Breton with Newfoundland, still remaime unremedied, anid, what ix worse, there if Lo prospect whatever of dik: covering the charectér of the infshap, The cable tailed to transmit currents on the Ist of June last. Mr, Mackay sent x fine schooner from Cape Ray, with # proper crew and suitable instruments, to investigate the cause of the sceldent, and make the necessary repairs. The expedi tion Was under the command of Captain Jobn Murphy. ‘The cable wae underrin for three miles out at both the Newfoundland and Cape Breton sides, without coming at the polut were the break or other aecident occurred. The investigations were prosecuted no further, and all effort to repair the injury bas, therefore, been postponed until the artival of 4 steumer from New York. This iv greatly to be regretied, in view of the probable success of the Atlantic cabke enterprise. Since the occurrence cident thére hae been ample time to lay a new ewhich would have been the most certain way of ing unbroken communication from Europe to every civilized part of Ameria, ‘The onty thing that can be done to have @ fast steamer ready at Cape Ray to carry messages across 1 Capea Breton, This will be a hod, but the best that can be resorted to under the eroumstantes, ‘It ie probable the Groat Eastern, when she arrives, will have sufficient of the extra cable to fill up the gap between” Cape Breton and Newfound-« There w @ome talk of rovning a cable direct to Cape Broton, to avold the present eireuitons ronte by way of Aspy bay, This would, undoubtedly, be a change for the betior, : ERY ATION® ON NEWFOUNDLAND LN CENBRAL cL bitve iven you brietty a sketch of ail T know preparations in Newfoundland for the recap. tion of the cable, and Lahall, therefore, fil up the rest of toy letter with » few observations on Newfoundland in Herat—what [have seen, whet T have heard, and what Thave read, As greonhorn, jnet arrived in the country, Tan of Conese not qnalified to dive deeply into this sub: joct, Tf Bware ro de ang injuctioe ta the place or the people, Tiknow 1 shontd come in fore fair share of re proaches andodium. Bat 1 think there is little danger of that beappening, for ihe simple reason Mag L have been now is low } | | frown oblivion the scanty records of the past of NEW YORK, MON DAY, JULY 24, 1865. favorably impressed with most of what I @ave already seen with my own eyes, and the result of my inquiries about the rest is equally happy for Newfonndiand. Bt. Johns is not a New York, nor even a Hobokem, but a quiet, Old-fashioned town, with a’ comfortable class of esidents, numbering some thirty odd thousands, Tas informed that businoss ia rather dull here just pow, bub I shail postpone any extended remarks about the place until ome future lottor, after } shall have had lelsure to see for myself. 1 wid merely jot down in passing that the bulk of the honses are plain, but substantial; while some tine buildings that would ornament even your metropolis are to be found here, There js at least one good hotel, the Union, kept by Mrs. Warrivy:ton, a cosy, Pleasant, homelike spot, very unlike bhe general run of hetels one mecis in travelling. RARLY TRADITIONS ABOOT THB IL AND—!TR ABORIGINES ASD PRODUCTIONS, Respecting the country in, genetal very little has been written, a# yorkare aware, and even that little bas bed & tendency to misrepresent dnd disparage. Persons who have undertaken to write about it have for tii most part based their opinions upon # very hasty tour of the Island; or rather, I should say, of. a part of it, confining themselves to a ride abont the capital and rapid glances at sme other of the well Known and thickly populated shstricte, Naturally enough the _.ggpsequence has been gross misstatement or silly fabrication. Jtis customary to speak of Newfoundland merely ae 4 fouiy, batren, tasty, frigid, abandoned and Giod-forsaken lump on the terrestrial globe, inbabited chiefly by rude fishermen, shaggy dogs, whining seals, hungry wolves and other specimens of the brute creation. Thisis notori- ously the popular estimation of Terra Nova. Now, what is the real truth of the matter? Why, the fact i# that Newfoundiand in not at all what it is cracked “down” to be, Of course it is subject to fogs; but so is Maime along the greater part of its seacoast; #0 is New Brunswick, and so is even the fortile and biooming seat of the Arcadians and Haligoniana, Newfoundland is the foggieat of them all, no doubt; bat that is no reason why @ perpetnal fog should be allowed to hang around her history, her people and her resources. J have used the word history; but until very recently there waa almost nothing worthy of the name in existence. Scraps of general information respecting her might have been found, accidentally as it were. in works ppon other sub- Jects, and they were the only source upon which an ide of the country might be derived, always excepting, of course, intelligent personal observation and travel. Is it not extraordinary that » country olaiming to have been discovered some fonr centuries anterior to the birth of Columbus should be thus slighted by historians—a coun- try, too, not without its romance and ite fi In the year of our Lord 1001 it is said, you are aware, that one Biorn, a sea king of Iceland, not only knew of the existence of Newfoundland, but actually took posression of it, and settled somewhere ip the neighborhood of Harbor Grace. ‘Ths may be a fable or it may not; but it is at all events probable, as claimed by some, that as early as the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Norwegians attempted its colonization. The original inhabitants are # savage race of Indians, diffeving in many respects from the aborigines of other Parts of North Awerics. Thongh ferge in disposition, they were uncommonly shrewd and clever, and spent their time Jargely in hupting the deer and fishing in the Deautiful lakes and ponds that abonnd x!) over the coun- try, éven on the very tops of the mountains, ‘Their fate has been that of the Indian everywhere clse-—extermina tion before the march of civilization and the white man. Not one of the tribe can now be met with on the island, having been driven off to Labrador by the European.in vaders and the Micmacs of Nova Scotia—a trjbe indige- nous to the soil of the Bine Noses. A few traces of their rade ekill still remain, showing a degree of ingennity highly creditable to a race supposed to have been so low | down in the scale of civilization. A feiice thirty miles long, used a6 a sort of net to entrap deer, and built from watcr to water, with @ gap in the middie, where the Imunters were wont to lie in wait for their prey, is among these relics of aboriginal genius still left standing. But to return. Newfoundland is by no means the bay- ren waste it has heen represented to be. The rocky, in- hospHable look of its coast is no eriterion for the rest of theountry. A short distance-inland the evidenves of u soit that could be made richly productive by cultivation are abundant, and the fact. hus beon tosted successfully. ‘Wheat, potatoes, apples, plums, cherries, raspberries, | currants, gooseberries,. and other fruite and vegetables are grown in abundance, notwithstanding the fact-that the season suitable for such cultivation is but of brief duration. It, makes up tn degree, however, what it Inck in time, Many of these fraits flourish in a wild state, and also the fed and white clover, and Karopean and American grasses. THE TRUK WATERING PLAUE FOR AMMHICA, ‘The climate is not by many degrees eo nevere as. ix commonly supposed. Indeed, if what I have observed myself here already, and what the people themselves suy be of any value, the climate is in the highest degree su lubrious. The temperature just now is delightful, the pure and cool sea breeze being to my taste a most grate- fal change from the torrid blasts one gets even at the most eligible of the watering places in “the States,” ‘This ix the true watering place for young America if 1 am not very muah mistaken, and I think the time is not far distant when the fact will be generally recognized. What finer place in the world, for instance, could there be than this for the lovers of the uoble art of angling? Here you have trout and salmon, halibut, mackerel and cod in prodigious and inexhaustible abundance. What more does the sportsman desire? If yon want to spear lobsters, or hook ecls, or eich herrings, here is the spot for you. If yoo want to go hunting on a more extensive scale, there are wolves and bears enough herg to be had for the secking. Land and aquatic birds are also very numerous. SOMBTHING ABOUT CHNTEN ARLANS. A® « proof of the bigh sanitary condition of the island, 1 am told that the inhabitants liye to a patriarchal old age. Four score and aoine i# vothing anusnal, ‘ihe there are many now living who are said to have reached their centenary anniversary. ‘4n 1820°-~l am quoting from historical records—‘“Martin Galen, of Placentin bay, wag over one hundred years of age, lived in excel lent health, and, in company with bis brother, caught that year nine quintals of fish.” Seventy years previ- ous he bad piloted Captain Cook into the bay. A lady named Tait lived to the ripe old age of one bundred and twenty-five years in the same neighborhood, and an other woman reached an equal degree of longevity ata place called ‘Torbay, not far from the elty of St. Jobna Of the latter it is related that shortly previous to her death she bad sent for the doctor to attend her sick vhild, an ipnocent little pratier of only ninety years ot ago. * That was what a New York boy would call “a high old infant.” But whether they live long or die early, one thing i# certain, and that is that a finer type of peo- ple, physically, than the Newfoundianders, bred and born, are not easily tobe met with. They are healthy, blooming, robust, good looking and eplendidly developed. ‘THR UNIVERSAL RESOURCE. Beakdes all these advantages, Newfoundland ean boast of mineral resources of no contemptilie character. There ate not wanting scientific theorists who even see, or fancy they see, indications of gold and silver in cer- tain districts, Coal formations have been discovered on the weat side of the island, and copper is not only known to exist, but is at present being worked out by English mining companies. Gypsum i# abundant. Most of your readers have fresh in their recollection, no doubt, the results of Mr. Gishorne’s late explorations and the covery, in 1861, of the remarkable lode of fron pyrites, containing also mach copper ore, which were detected ip the vieinity of Little bay, on the northeast coast, The attention of English capitalists bas been drawn recently to these mineral developments, sind Tam informed that companies have already been formed, and are still in proesss of formation, with @ view to very extensive operations, A little leaven of Yankee genius and euter: prise would be found Cory useful ont here. .Your Boglish capitalist is very slid and very sure, but he te plaguey slow and nervous in avsaming risks: - J have said (hat there were no histories of Newfound: land antil a very late period, but C would be doing injosti¢e were 1 to omit mentioning the names of two gentlemen who have recently endeavored to rescue Terre Nova. Mr Charles Pediey, of thia place, bas writen and published a vory fine historienl eketeh of the iatond, aod the Right Rey. Dr. John Muiloch, thé RG Bishop of Newfoundland, bas @evtributed come valuable papers on the ancient and present condition of the seene of his Inverse. ‘The publivhed lectures of this prelate display a vast amount of research and profound scientific know- ledge. Ina recent lecture on the subject delivered by him inthis city,ho remarks as follows reepecting the Mineral resonrees of the island: — “If the country were explored: and ebpital invested im ng, Under judi emient, there is no deabt ‘but that the enterprise woud be a great souree of wealth for centuries, perhaps as great ay the fishery iat present; but when we consider thit only a emall portion of the eountry has heen hitherto explored, and ouly ou the sea voust, Chat wherever wining operations have been undér- taken, except at La Manche, they have been of the most snperficial charactor, merely surface works, and thet i ‘was only very recently that any attention at all has been Paid to miniug—the sea being maturally considered by a maritime and fishing population as the only mine worth exploring—a mine richer in redlity than at! the silver taines of Mexico, producing milltons for the last three centuries, and inexhau-tible—we ought to rest satiefled with what has been done us an earnaat of what will be - done herea‘ter. TF regret, iudend, that the lead mine of La Manche ins been, not abandoned, bat the works sum Pogiled fora time, 1 heard from Mr. Crocket, one of the superintendents there, two years ago, that there was then as much leat discovered as a thousand men cquld remove in twenty yeas. To a person like myself it appeared unaeconntuble Liat such 2 region of lead as T saw there should be Jett idie, bat T hope in the spring opera- tions will be commenced anew and such @ souree of wealth not allowed to he fallow, Silver is fonnd in some of the lead specimens I have seen, though not in any great quantity in the La Manche ore, and I iimve seen minute threads of native silver in stones taken from # well dug in the ucighborhood of the Hospital of St. Joins ‘Time will tell whether, like the Lagenian mine, sung by Moore, these indications are only spangled over the surface, but I bave not the least doubt that copper and lead are most abundayt and will hereafter be an epormons source of wealth to the country. Of native gold, though the toot’ geuerally distributed of afl inctale: Thave not seen» specimen but one, with some micros- copic particles glistening in the quartz: the pereon who had it told me he would call again and tel! we the locality Of bis discovery, but never did so, 1 would be easy to try by amalgamation whether the spangtes were gold or pot. The gold matrix, ax deseribed hy Humboldt and others, certainly exists, but the attention of the people has never been valled to it, It tg remarkable that (he fish- ermen in the lower part of Placentia bay used to go to eLa Manche, take the pure galena, smelt it, and run jig- gers out of it; and still the existonee of the mine, though almost. every pebbie on the shore bad specks of lead in it, was either unknown or disregarded. ‘This shows how mueb wo require that the country should be explored by competent persons. Since the discovery, three or four years ago, many thousand pounds worth of lead has Debo shipped off. Onee while J wan there, sixty-five valned at forty-iive poands a ton, were sbipped off, another time 1 saw several, perhaps one hundred j, Of dreseed ore in barrels, prepared for exportation; and still £0 little knowledge did the people possess of the treasnre existing in their midst that for generations the only nse made of it was to dig out a bit to make a jigger.”” In conchimon I bave inerety to add that several war vexnels are expected to arrive here in a few days to take part im the great work, as the representatives of various nations. By the following extract from the St. Johns Ledger it will be seou that a French line-of-batue ship in among the number:— “A communication hax beeu reveived by J. C. Tous saint, ; Consul for France, from the French Admiral commanding ons the West India, Gulf of Mexico and North American station, apprining him that the imperial \ine-of-battle ship Jean Bart, Commandant Dieudome, appropriated to the instrnction of naval eadet, will pay ® Visit to our port of St. Jobns in. the 1 month of Joly, It is not improbable that the Jean Bart will be here before the arrival of the Great Eastern with the Atlantic cable, and that she will ramain until the com- pletion of that great enterprise, poxsibly leaving Trinity bay for Brest, thus giving the cadets an opportunity of aegis at once & sea voyage and wi ‘ing the, we successful planting of a sp means of comfatnivation between the Old and ‘New “Worlds. We peng ty a yom ides of training cadets for the navy nar water ix quite 4 new one, naval instrac: re fon i been tined Ww agme moored in : ae De the tbeory of seaman- ‘may + taught without he inconveniences und practical applications belonging to the deep seu sailing. ‘The French Admiral saye:—This is the first applica tion which has been ude of the new system adapted for the education of our aspirants, and his Excellency aitaches great value to the voyage.”’ Instructions to the Consul to forward in every way the views of the Admi- Tal with regard to the reception and general information of the cadets (‘‘aspirante”’) are embodied in the commu nication, and we can have no doubi that facilities will bo afforded for this purpose, both by our authorities and the principal inhabitants of the town. ‘Thus, then, in addition to the very large influx of visitors to irinity bay next month, which will undonbiedly take place from many distant quarters, be the spectacie of a French Tite of battle ship, with something like s hn dred ‘naval students on board. RECALL OF ‘THR AMERICAN CONSUL. Mr. Converse O, Leach, who bax been the American Consul xt this port for the last four years, received let ters from government. opting his resignation by the ateamor which brought us on here. He goce bore in the Alpha on the Uith His recat! wis with his own wishes, Mr. Thos, N. Malloy, « comm sion merchant in this city, has heen appointed vie aul pro tempore. SAD MARINE DISASTER. = of the. United States Steamer Quinebaug. THIRTY PrRson MISSING, &e., e., * de, Bavrmona, July 24, 1860, A Fowires: Movroe letter of yesterday says the United States Steamer Quinebang, Captain Jerome, was wrecked ‘on the bar of Morchead City, N.C., on the 21st inet About thirty persons are reported loot or ming ‘Throe Wundred soldiers were board, who nearly all landed on shore. “Phe Quinebuug left Morehend Cry ow the Zat, for Port- ress Mouroe, with some three hundred soldiers belonging to the Ninth Maino and Seventy-sixth Pennsylyania regiments. After passing outside of the bar the steamer Decame tinmanageable and went achore, proving & per feet wreck Ome name of the lost ascertained te that g ant W. F, Deming, Ninth Maine, whove ody on were Coroners’ Inquests, KGKD ABOWTION CASK DISEASR RE CAUSE OF DEATH THR DRORASHD oF ‘THE AKART NOT YRT IDENTIFIED. Coroner Wildey yesterday held on inquest at the house of Mrs, Rovella Worcester, 530 Hudson stroet, over the Temaine of the unknown woman who «died there last ‘Weanosday afternoon, as wae (hen supposed from the effects of wn abortion which had been produced npon her. Mrs. Worcester made A lengthy deposition, in which she dotailed the circumstances under whieh deceased came to ber house, how she was treated, the magner of her death, &e.; but it contwined ao important particulars other than ‘those heretofore published in the Henan. Dr. Wooster Beach, Jr., who made a.post-movtem exami- Nation on the body, found that the deceased died of dix ease of the heart, and not from the effects of an abortion, apat first supposed. The jury accordingly rendered « verdict to that effect. As yet none of the relatives or friends of deceased have made their appearance, conse quently her name and pluce of residence still remain a mystery. UNKNOWN MAN DROWNED. —-An inquest was yesterday held by Coroner Collin on the body of an unknown man, which was found floating in the river off the Battry. Degenset’ was about forty years of age, five foot seven inches in height, with dark hair and Whiskers under hia chin, He wis dressed in white linen Coat, blue overalls, dark vest, mastin drawers and ehitt, ted Haniel wn shirt, Black necktie, shoes with ickies aad gray woe stockings. The body had heen im the water for 4 4 Wievew , yhow About halt yp lav evening C. Wagner, « Corman re of age, wae found Iving dend in the rewr wot, where he had been Boarding ‘i have Goon Wited by falling from the window of a tourth ‘story room during the nieht Ooroner Collin was notified fe bold we hiner. Deoeared lived in Georgetown, D. € To “EUROPE. The Peruvian at Father Point with Four Days Later News. Maximilian Excommunicated by the Pope. PRICE FOUR CENTS newt, contr eneral expectation, ¢ ptions by & small majority throughout the In Lisbon and Oporto, however, the opposition ol tained a majority country, Turkey. There had béen rumors of the appearance of the chel ere at Constantivople and Sinyrna. They are prononneed unfounded; but a short quarantine bad been established * between the two ports, Commercial intelligence. LONDON MONEY MARKET, Lownox, July 14, 1865. tions eaused general dult- Fauds were inactive; the o ness, ‘There Was an inc ed demand for discount at the Bank, bat no pressu: ‘The rumored conversion of the tirm of Gurney & Co, into a Hmited joint stock com pany was confirmed. The prospectus of the company had been issued; its capital was £5,000,000 sterling. Liberalism Gaining Ground at the British, Elections. Stuart Mill and “Tom Brown” Hughes Returned to Parliament, Final Arrangements for the Sailing of the Great Eastern. The Persian Gulf Cable Stilt In- terrupted. Earl Russell's Explanation to : Mr., Seward. a EUROPEAN CONGRESS. Forty-three More Passengers Saved | from the William Nelson, &e., &e, &e. Farner Pours, July 23, 1865. ‘The steamship Peruvian, from Liverpool at two P. M. of the 13th, via Greencastle the next day, parsed this point at an early hour to-day. ‘The steamship Hibernian, from Quebec,” arrived at Greencastle on the 9th, ‘The steamship Bremen, from New Southampton early on the 12th. ‘Tho steamship» Bavaria and City of Mand out dh the 10th, ‘The steamship City of New York, from Ne rived out on the 11th, ‘The steamship Erin, from New York, arri pool on the 14th. ‘The convict, Dr, Pritchard, had confessed that he pui- soned his wife, at Liver Maximilian Suubbed and Excommant- | cated, The Papa) Ministry having declined to attend a ban quot at the Mexican Enibaasy, it 1s reported that the Emm- | assy will shortly be withdrawn from Home. “A private télegram is reported announcing thet the Pope bus exeommanicated Maximilian, Whe Great Cable. 11 i nally settled that the Great Rastern aves the Nore earty-on the 16th and Valentia on the 19th. Stoppage of the Persian Guif Cabt eTelegraphic counmnnivation with India remuins sux pended. It ie believed that there is @faulior break in the Persian Gulf cable. z The English Elections. ‘The English political news is entirely ovptered in tbe Parliamentary cieetions, They commenced on the Ith. One hundred aud sixty-one inembers were returned on | { that day, of whom thirty were conservatives and seventy | one Liberals. ‘The contest was so lavorable to the liberals that the indications were that Pulinerston wonld have an increased majority in the new House, The conservative | journats were not diMfieartened by Ube lirst day's proesod | ines, bot still bopeful of sneceme | The Londen apd metropolitan boroughs retarued in ait the turns to the ¢ ighty ton sixteen liberals, incinding J. Siwert Mill, Hughes, 1 autho of Vem Rrowe’s Sehool Daye;) sir Charles | otrician, and Baron Rothselild. ' of the 12th showed one ate end libe hondred hundred and « ad lwo conservatives and gained twenty that the ,overnt so that the ut will haw an ioreased strengeb in j at the Astor House, “York, reached | ‘The liberals tid lost eighteon seats | eations continue | Cousols clised at 8034 a 9044 for money. The weekly return of the Bank of Boxland shows a decrease in bullion of, £538,000. AMERICAN SECURITIES. Iifuois Central, 86 « 86%; Erie, o4%¢; five-twenties, T14¢.a 714. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. Liverroon, July 14, 186% including 7,500 to speeula: tors and 10,500 to exporters. ‘The market bas been dull, with adechiie of 44, on Ainerican and Surate; other descriptions were irregular, Sales to-day (Friday), #900 bales, market closing firmer at unchanged rater, autborized quotations are:—Middling uplands, 190, , Orienns, 194d. do, Texwa 194. The stock of cotton in port amounts to 361,000 bales, including 29,500 bales of American, LIVERPOOL BREA DSTUPES MARKET. Broadstuifs are quict and firm. Wakefield, Nash & Co., and Richardson, Spence & Co, report four quiet and steady, wheat tirm, but quiet, at Re. 6d. @ Oa, for red w.n- tern, com trmer, and tending upward; sales of mixed at 208, a 288, LIVERPOOL PROVIXION MARKET. «Tho provision market is quiet and roan Gordon. Bruce & Co,, and Bigland, Atuya & Co. rt beet steady, pork quiet and steady, bacon steady, ie Some, but firm; tallow quiet, LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKF’ Ashes quiet and steady; sugar firm; cotfee inactive; rice, no sales; petroleum, stuatl sales at £2 48, for crude ; rosin steady; spirits turpentine flat, United States Sales of week 45,000 baie OUR RETURNING VETERANS. GENERAL HOOKER AT THY ASTOR HOUSE-—HE RR- VIEWS THE NINETY-FOURTH NEW) YORK ANT SKCOND MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENTS, At five o'clock yesterday afternoon the Ninety-fourrt New York regiment, which arrived iy this city on Satur day, passed by the Astor House, on their way to Albany When they reached the hotel the regitnent was imme. diately halted aud furmed in line, This movement tock place in honor of Major General Hooker, who is stopping ‘That gentleman immediately came on the steps, ayd was loudly cheered by the returning soldiers. Doffing his hat, he weicomed them beck to their homes in a few appropriate remarks, when they marched off renewing Uheir applause to the gallant sol While General Hooker stood on the steps the 4 Massachusette cavalry came along, and they wixo od enthusigstioully. To ther Crequent maniterts tions of good will General Hooker incroty bowed bis | acknowledgments, ‘he Nixety-fourth Now York is an Albany regiment. A sketch 0 career in the told rf was published in Satneday’s Hearn, ‘The Second Massachusetts cavalry arrived in the city Ke their anyurtre for hone yesterday. ‘They ase command of Colonel Arch. McKendy. The regs mont numbapereven Bundred and ninety-five wen and forty-six officers. | THE OXF HUNDRED AND FORAY -THIRI New youn. The One Hondved and Forty third New York Veton teers arrived yesterday morumg. ‘They ‘were organized | in October, 1862, under Colonel David P. De Witt. The, regiment is Known as the Sullivan county regime although two of its companies were raised m Tompki county. Upon taking the tel it was assigned to the “aote of Washington, Where it remained unti! April, | when it wae transferved to the Dgpartment of rh where it participated in the siege of Suffolk and the operation against Riebuwond. Immediately after the battle of Gettysburg it was transferred to the Army of the Potomac, and in the tollowing September wae seni with Generel Hooker te the Army of the Cumberland, in which SC Sed duniny the Chattafvogs and Kray itte campaigns, Since thon it hae formed a part of General Sherman'g command, wad participated in all of tes and campaigns in which the Twentieth were engaged in ite mareh from Chattanooga to Raleigh. It has uever beeu forced tu take a step backward, an hax heen highly complimonted fur ite bravery and eftieeney ‘The regiment will be mustered ont of the United States service on Thursday n@xt, The men nr@ tealthy and ine Une condition, and it ix highly satisfactory to witno=s their gleeful countenanges at the prospect oF so sperdy Teturming to their homes and friends, Its officers are rv General Horace Boughton Burtlott’s division, Lie diag regiment, Rens Quartermaster; Stuart, Assistant |. Captains. Hf Pfaney Harrixon | Marvin, William it. Gee RB. Bennett, De Witt A yea First, Lieatonante—Lwigh Pour KE. I A. Jace Hill, on, TH. Hern! nies. —Withett PB aud David A Lieutenants rinetpal batt mt Valley, |, Daliaw, © oe THE TWEst WOAND TWeETY- viaurn NeW YORK the now Parliament, Four’ prominent’ members of the BATTERIRS. administravon had been defeated. vize—Lord Bary, in | phese dwo batteries have becu quartered sinee 1862 in | Dover; Colonel White, at Kiddermin, Altred | the narbor of New Y fwentte! Pagetyat Litebfeld, and Mr. F. Vee¥at Bury. Asa rule} quty on Governor's Toland and the Twenty-elghith wt the contest had gone off satisfactorily and with very tittle | poy Seluyler Pheir principal active service daring Me noting war hae hoon the Sappression of the draft riot. They Nuinor le Work progresing when the Peru | were, with th vinn sailed, and it would’ be another week hefore the | almost nncra r county contests would be decided the liberals had obtained a net go Up te the batesi dal Lot seven | Kart Russell to Mr. Seward. Lin addition ta th spands published in Saturda ting tot the Freneh and English governments in’ withdr ols, Earl Russelt’s reply to of belligereus rights Ht aptonna? ic », Fe 0 ving Mr, Seward’s note on the was laid before Parti wit regrets that hin explanations were wot © to the United states government, and adduces arguments in favor of Eng land's course. He irnsts that these additional explana tions will prove favorable Wo the extablichipent of Iriendatip between the two nations. fhe Ex-Plrate Rappahonnock. 11 is stated that the steamer Beatrice, tate the Ruppe nnuck, was overhauled by the Sacramenta be Teaching Liverpool, bit permitted to prorved eptable hweting Forty-three More Passengers Saved from the William Nelson, The «hip Mercary, which has arrived at Havre from New York, reports having picked ap, on the aiuh of June, thirty eight paetongers trom a boat of the burned ship William Nelson and five other passengers from Pievos of the wreck floating in the viet A bark was #oen near by, whieh it ie expected sue mn anving rede more lives, Startling for the Germans. tionable story wae atioat thatGeneral Lee bed a transatlantic A que rived in Germany by 4 Belgian cognite steamer # France. There were rumors of renewed negotiations fora Kuro jean Congress, but they lucked any gign of authenticity Ta France denies the rame f negotiations for a KBuropean Congress, Le Monidour i silent on tbe aube joet Abd-el Kader had bad an interview with Ni rumor again coonects him with the fatere | Algeria J. The Bourse war mieady, Renton Of; 4 { Spain. { The Senate had paswd « BI modicying the pret law, | by 117 agatnat 14 | On the 17th Marshal O'Donnell reat the royal deeree tn | Congress, closing the contest. Notwithstanding #trong | cterien) opposition, recognition Of italy by Spain may be | reser an accompliated fet, The Spaniah covernt@nt haw notified the P recognition of the Kingdom of Hoty, ‘One OF tte York hurbor st that tit conduct on that cece don ba fn retaining them In the works round. the bart | thar date THe FIFTH RHGIMENT UNITED STATES VRTRKAS VOLUNTRER SS . Ih wak the Fifth Aeginwnt Uaitod State Vou " wiftely arri Saturday bat, and Late in the war ation be re-entered the fo. the. [iret army corps, comman Generat W. 8. Hi TUR NINETY-NINTH NEW YOUR. ninth Veteran battalion United Suates Saturday, at hail-past the batty | F in four The Ni fantry Volunteers left « POM, tor Harts 1 dl, where | off and the men ti organization, a8 bas been report Friday, + 2iet in uoder comin Jones. numbering only avout one lure and officers. They jeti this city in Mey First regiment Uni ard. tbe ne owt — Ker guard on saneated > ‘Sou hesides in detachments operating: be 4 therebcis on Craney, Isiand, Sowell: Bait wnt Van tn Aviguet of 18Gke Hw 1 into wr (oy res ment, taking the nr on whieh |) now bears, in Jan@of 1964) fom will He proved The General Butler, when, as pie} Asn court guard it pa Bethe! ran en! dee organization wae again formed into a veteran tata tt at tine it nnnbered ~ome thee hundred men has participated ine nomber of battles, among thy hivent of which are Cherry State Oreek, V Harrison Junction, “duly 18H ated -the by. NC. Maret 7, $9 and 40, T886, Tt bas be < ‘both in V glory the fret Union fe rolina, bag rinent iy Che The National Loan. Part ont A, duly inh | the sevemthitly loan swb-cription Saturdtny arnonnied to $6,190,400, including the followin S100 000 400,090 National Bun Breweter, Second Natic Firat Natior Henna, Franklin Ne “hui hank, Colymbas. nk, Faults yma! nat 8 ve posit Bank, 7 First National Bank, New Be Phore were 3,501 indivettial aabseriptions Phe total vaing forehe Week were $82,608,000, ound Nat Yarmer