The New York Herald Newspaper, August 23, 1865, Page 1

> vend juander more snoney WHOLE NO. 10,586. EUROPE. Arrival of the Borussia and . Sity of Baltimore. Wglish Opinions of General Sher- map, Our Mexican Policy and the Rebel Cotton Loan Decision. Jeff. Davis and the Starvation of Union Prisoners, &e. &e &e. ‘The Inman steamer City of Baltimore, Captain Mire- hous, which loft Liverpool at noon on the 9th and Queenstown on the 10th August, arrived here yesterday. ‘The Hamburg stentner Borussia, from Cowes, Isle of Wight on the 9th instant, aleo arrived. Strange Change in European Criticisms on America. ‘TRE LONDON TIMES ON SHERMAN’S MODESTY, BOLDNESS AND SAGACITY. ‘Whatever may have boen the character of General Bherman’s audicnce at St Louis there is no mistaking the modesty with which be told them the story of the ‘campaign of the Mississippi; nor can any one fail to appreciate the feeling which prompted him to stop ata point where tho narrative must have become a mere his- ‘tory of his own successes. It is no easy trial to a victo- rious general to stand before.an audience already excited 4 his favor He mugt neither be cold vor vainglorious, ‘The first would be a rebuke to his-hearers, the second an injury to himself. General Sherman deserves the er ered't for having passed through the ordeal with s He took up the narrative of the war at a time wken be was almost unknown, and he dropped it before he be- came the singie object of attention and «peculation. There je.a homely. plainness about the speech of Gene- ral Sherman at St. Louis which will. perhaps, be regarded in this country as its inost admirable characteristic. ‘The wsuocessful soldior addresses the nation of the world most given to rhetorcal oratory in words blunt and rude as ever Othello could have used. Of himself’ he says little, and he never speaks of his superiors or colleagues except hy way of praise. It is thus that he disarms all criticism ‘on the occasion of his speech, At the first-blush nothing wan be more opposed to.our notions than that a General should be called upon to.address a mixed audience upon ‘the campain in which he took a feading part, Oner, in- deed, an Admiral announced the victories he waz going torachieve, but he wa’ excused because he came from a demonstrative race, and his exploits, possibly from no Tanit of his,'bore but a slighg proportion to his promises. We are accustomed, howev@r, to look with more favor upon the older commander whose despatch to the Admi ralty was con!ined to the sentence, “I have destroyed all the Spanish vessels on this coast, their names and rating as per margin.” General Sherman's speech was longer, bot it was as plain and direct, and it must be suid of him that he wa’ uw: medest in victory.as he was lold und saga cious inba lie. LIMENTS FROM THE SATURDAY REVIEW. of determined to find muy be done by the government of the Unit . If the wone of + Washington Cabinet is warlike, this is the natu ope om of democratic bluster and democratic. iuso If the tone of the natiiral rs into silence at fist sy of rising wrath in great and good nations like and France. But, except to critics ¢ho think in this wa ‘the recent forvign policy of the United States se ms ho adle, pr dens ind ers tea It as (rue that common « recommended that :a nation suffering {rom the calamity of a long war, and weivhed down under the burden ef @ vast debt, should not waste more fives in a useless contest with a European Power, Bat then it is creditable to mation that it shonid be governed by common gens and even very sympathizing friends of the North pro phemed that, a8 soon as the South was conquered, the victorious legions of the republic would press on to Mexico, and force the French into the sea. Nothing of ‘the sort has happened, and it bas noi happened sunpiy Decause the government of the United states bas been ‘t00 wise and prudent to allow it to happen. The popu Yar fevling in favor of a Mexican -expodition has been mtrong enough t have been earily fanned into a fame #f the President and his advisers had been bent on war. ‘The advocacy of the Monroe doctrine and the inctina- tion to support it has been strongest in the party to which the ident owed bis election. But from the first moment when the policy of the Cabinct bad to be decided, a firm resolution was eXpressed that a war with France for Mexico should not ‘be undertaken; and ‘tha nat on, being thus forced to consider the objections to it,, has learnt to acquiesce in the policy of the govern- ment, and to acknowledge that it was right. The eviis mecessarify attendant on a war with France are very obvio: #; but the evils of any war are not very likely to @rizhten a people flushed with victory, and proud and conscious of its strength. The less obvious evils that saust flow from a war for Mexico, even if successful, Ihave had greater weight in proportion as reflection bas made them ap nt. It would add greatly to the diff- eulties with which the North has to contend if it had to not only the South as it now is, but a new prov Jace, istiabited by a demoralized =panish population of alien habits, principles and religion, and barely able to its own against the pressure of innumerable sav- oo That the Americans could simply restore a am republic, and, leave a kindred and congeniat ment to preside Over a bappy avd contented peo- ple, is impossible. Annexation would be a necessary nce of the conquest of Mexico, for no native in the = degree capable of governing 3 and if the United States by force of arms placed the republican party im power, the follies and crimes of ‘the ted would soon oblige the protectors to relieve Abe country from the misery for which they would be ‘Virtually responsible. The Americans have therefore to aak themselves the simple question whether they would gan = having Moxico, even if they could get it atu less cost that of a French war; and no sensible Ameri- ean who has tue slightest idea of what Mexico really 1s can possibly think Mexicoa desirable acquisition It has ‘mothing to offer that the Americans have not got already wm abundance, and it would introduce into (heir political an accession of the verygevils against which have sedulously to guard. ARE THE UNITED STATES BOUND BY REBEL CON- ‘TRACTS ? From the London Examiper. A case of singular importance to thé interests both of Great Britain and America was heard last week before ped Wood, whose opinion did not excite quite the it deserved. The point nominally raised was ‘whether any seogery of the late Confederate govern- ment existing in Engiand belonged to the United States, ‘at it involved the far more important point whether wnent was tiable for Confederate ob! cations. Does clalin to property involve the obligation of pay- debta? for if it does Gedhore of the Sonth may cash visibly belonging to the Washington govern. ment. By means of taxation and voluntary coniribu- ‘tions the Southern confederacy came into possession of a quantity of cotton, not the contribution of any particular state, but the property of individual citizens. In order to make this cotton available the government entered imto cortracts with respoctto it ‘with merchants in England, who had already <upplied the Contederat* government with ships, so x= to enable abem to carry on the war, and who were willing to run Ea of the blockade, and to obtain whatever profit could out of the cargo of cotton, In thie state of earoametances the war came to an end. Some of the cotion, haying been enfely carried out of the reach of the blockad! . equadrons, wae already on ite way to La pons ry ecased, he time of \ts arrival at Liverpool the war and the United States Cousul there gave no- ‘toe to the consivnees that they were required to hold the eotton for the benefit of the government of the United rates of America ‘These gs gave rise to a suit before Vice Chan- eetior Wood, in which the United States of America ought as plaintiffs to gain possession of the entire cargo, pon the nd that thy Were entitled, a represent; the 80. i government of the Coniederate stat es, to all property which existed to specie, and that as the Ganfederate States were in the position of rebels and ewrongdoers, they could not confer any right to their upon the English mervhanta who, at the time dealings with md late government took place Maware of the rights of the government of the States and of the rebellion of the South. The ‘Vier Chancellor decided: that the United Stater of America were clearly entitled to the cotton, but he re. served bis tinal opinion till a later stage of the suit as to whether or not they were beund to recognize claims arising ont of the contracts made by the d facte government with the Euglivh merchants hinted, however, that bis #trong opinion was, that she benetit of the hai of could only be obtained the government of the Unit®d States, upon condition their making good the expectations the Englieh merehonts Thies care hasan interest to every holder in England of property in spocie which previously belonged to the government of the Confedbrate St Jt touches to ders in the Con- aE 3 : i se i tt 3s 4 iter ie bornd to accept the mont has attached in nll i i i which. bv the government with the Cm emract of the de facto Sederate tomdholders’ in England, was impowd vpm the cotton which there the loan? should not recommend the bondholders to try the experiment of proceeding in the American courts upon this question, nor are we surprised that the Vice Chancellor's opinion produced no effect upon the price of the loau: We think no such claim could be raised with success, because. In this case, as well as in that we bave had under ditcussion, the true principle which, as we conceive, should guide the courts of justice of both mations is this—that no obligation attaches upon a conquering State under any circumstances, still less where the enemy hate been. rebels, lo observe and carry into effect contracts the avowed object of which was (0 render dir-et assisiance in the struggle o the conquered. This 1s com- mon sense. We believe it will be found to be in accord. ance with the principles of equfty—a system which merits the description, erroneously apphed by a great lawyer to the common law, of “the perfection of com- mon sense,’” Jett. Davis and the Starvation of Union Soldiers, The letter of the new Amezican correspondent ef the London Times, avowing that the evidence respecting (he ‘starvation of Union soldiers in rebel prisons is_irresisti- ‘ble, bas caused great excitement among the rebel sym- pathizers in England, Lieutenant Colonel Freemantle, of the Coldstream Guards, writes ax follows to the Times of the §th inst. : — In the Times ot -last Friday your correspondent, writ- ing from Saratoga, states that public feeling in the North still eraves for vengeance on Mr. Davis, in consequence of the “tineredible and infamous treatment which Nortb- em captured soldiers received in Southern prisons.” As I travelled throughout’ the entire Southern States during the heighth of the war, I had many opportunities of essing Northern prisoners under a variety of circum: stances. T always observed they were treated with gene- rosity and humanity, and not with barbarity. Tcun quite believe that they must have suffered dread- fully, and been often almost starved, at Andersonville— hardships whic! y had to endure in common with confederate soldiers, Women, and children in many parts of the South; the superior numbers and resources of the enemy at the latter period of the war having enabled bi lay waste the crops and destroy the means of ance, as well as railway commnnication, The cruelty of keeping vast nambers of men confinéd in places where they could only be fed with much difti- must reinain with Mr, Lincoln, and not with Mr. Davis; for it 1s notorious that all objections to exchange prisoners came from the North, not from the South. dir. Davis would always have been delighted to exchange the fifteen thousand starving federals at Andersonville for a similar number of confederates who were at the same time rolling at Johnsin Istand. With regard to the starvation and cruelty alleged to have gone on at the Libby Prison, yon, Sir, had fortun- ately a correspondent at Richmond during nearly the whole war. ‘This genueman has often been able, after personal inspection of the Libby Prison, to expose in your own columns such odious calumuios. I have seen the disgusting sensational photographs of federal prisoners to which your correspondent alludes. Copies of them were sent tome an to muny other per sons ungolicited—a novel and horrid manner of raising public feeling against the South. As well might the emaciated, naked bodies of dying guardsmen be photo- graphed in London, and then published as examples of the manner in which Engtand treats ber sol With the deepest regret I sce for the fi widely honored name mixed up with these alle; Iv any respectable Northerner really believes Lee capable of countenancing cruely to the unforunate, T wish hecould have overheard the manner in which that officer soon after the battle of Gettysburg lamented to me the necessity he was under of marching several thousand federal prisoners to Richmond. He deeply regretted that’no exchange could be effected, as he de plored the hardships they would have to encounter on the journey at that particular time May Task, in justice to'Mr. Davis, that you will insert this letter, as he is now ‘placed ina position peculiarly unfair, for, probably, his mess and determimation alone prevented the €e rate gi ment from listening to the clamors for rotuliation, “blark flag,” &e., whieh often poured sinto Richmond from diferent parts of the South. time a tions. eneral Austria and Prussia’s Diffieulty—The Women Taking it in Hand. [From the Paris Aveuir National } Tf to play with the destinies of a people, and to tyran. nize over it brutally could ever ve langhable, we should think the last trick in the-aflairs of the duchies very di- verting. This embrangled question has now fallen into the domain of the distaff. The Horsenhall announces that the interview between the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia having become altozether doubtful, the princesses who are averse toa rupture have taken’ the matter in hand, There is, therefore, to be an inter: view between the four sisters, the Archduchess Sophia (mother ‘of the Emperor Francis Joseph), the Queen Dowager Eliaabeth of Prussia, the Queen of Saxony, and the Duchess Louise of Bavaria, As to M. de Blome’s mission, of which there was #0 wuch talk, it has com- pletely ‘failed. ‘The old King William will uot hear rea- son. “According to the Viena Press, M. de Bismarck openly declares that. a rupture betwoen Austria and Pras- sia is immine ot. ST. DOMINGO. ih Authorities— i—The Domini- Conquer Their Independen es 2 [Translated for the Henaup from the Paris Opinion Na- tionale of Angust 7.} A strange fact relative tothe Amencan policy of the Marshal Dake de Tetuan has been brought forwards in Spain. 1t was O'Donnell who, aa President of the Coun- cil and Minister of War and the Colonies, conceived in 1861 the deplorable idea of subverting the liberty of the Dominican people end sizing upon their territory by vio- lence. People remember the painfal impression created in Europe banger ill-advised attewpt. The Dominicans expressed their true sentiments by continual insurrer tions and by an obstinate struggle, which resulted a few months ago in epeving the eyes of Spain and making her comprehend the great fault that had been committed in her name, and feel alarm at the ruinous expense cansed by the war and at the thousands of eoldiers she would have to sacrifice to preserve a territory the revennes of which would never cover the expenses. The Narvaez Cabinet therefore judged that it was both for ibe interest and the dignity of Spain to renonuce a conquest which had already absorbed one hundred and fifty millions of francs The Cortes, after long and anmmuied dixcussions, approved of the judgment, and the evacuation of the Dominican republic was ordered, A treaty was con- eluded with the Dominicans, and the Spanish troops began in succession to quit the country. Nacvaz is now fallen; O'Donnell resumes the direction of aftuirs: and, in spite of the decision of the Corter, in apite of the solemn adhesion of the Queen, in spite of the con- vention between the Dominicans and the Spanish gov- ernment, the Duke de Tetuan, takiug a* & pretext some the Dominicans, is is said, to resume the inauspicions work of 1861 and to recenquer the Dominican reprtblic. Tt even appears that he has transmiutd positive orders to General Gandara, and that at the moment we write the war bas recommenced in the eastera part of the island of Hayti We have applanded withont reserve sqme of the last acts of the new Spanish Cabinet, but we also combat ax uureservedly this second claiming of the Dominican territory, because it is an attack on the miaciple of nationalities which O'Donnell himself bas Jost consecrated in Italy, because it is contrary to the interests aud honor of “pain; and because it tends to eubstitute’ in countries beyond the Pyrences. for t) deliberations of the Cortes, the dictatorship of the Press. dent of the Counei!, and to compromise the national representation by making it eondemn +n the morrow what it had approved tlie day before {Translated from the Journal des Debate of August 7.) Men do not easily avow their errors, and are more dis- posed to submit to a condemnation of their judgment thant n themesives im the wrong; such fx the in- firmity of Luman nature. General Gandara, under pre text of certain diftenities which have arisen between him and the ehiets of the native gevernment in St Domingo, is said w bave publieh proclamation to the following effect;—1 That im evacuating the island Spain reserves all her righte to reincorporate it, and will enforce them whene: he may think proper. 2 That war still contin between Spain and Si. Domingo. 4% That the blockade of all the ports and coasts of the Dominican territory is maintained. Such i# the statement given by the Epsa, whilst, aceording to the ¢ ‘ia, Spain means to retain Samana and to fortify it ax a sirategical point, “where the Dominicans who wish to rewain Spanish suljects may find asefuge against the fury of their un- grateful fellow citizens’ The Dominicans are therefore ungrateful, because (ey prefer to majntain thoir inde- pendevec rather than undergo, by becoming Spanish subjects, the harsh government which Spain imposes on her colonies. This reproavh of ingratitude is like the Parthian arrow, diseharged at the fast moment. It is evident that Samana, when fortified, would become a focus of annexionist intrigues well calculated to serve the ultertor projects of reincorporation, which Genera! Gandara does not take the trouble to dis. somble, and that the Dominicans ae oe means, allow Spain thus to retain @ footing In their country. Such seems to be the present state of affaira, The Span teh government had imprudently engaged in an adven- ture which could have only disastrous results, Enlight: ened by painful experience, it took the wise resolution to yetrace iis steps; but in Chis retreat, imperionsly com- m by ofreumstances, we kuow not what unbappy Tevival of ambition, what false shame, holds it back and arrosts it midway. It evaouates St. Dominge without evucuating it, and it makes peace with the Dominicans without putting an end to the war? The evil it has done has been done Soeehively i bat when it would do good, it Ny. Aevitates and does it bu 0. F., of Northern Angust 1865, of Northern New Grand Lodge, 1. 0. New The Grand Lodge of Odd Fell Ya this afornvon. when Soha i, Selkrog, of Tusacn, ont al whe 5 war installed Grand Master; William, Gould, of Buffalo Grand Wi i coves J. Gardener, of Byracuse, Watertown, ie ‘cnn ime, Peer Maryin, of ete Hee report Te =H) two a w 0 Siadictions of Northorn Bnd southern Kew York at ten A.M. to-morrow. The officers of the were elected ‘ond installed. Jonn H, White, of non, wan elected tirnnd Revrereniative. ANOTHER STUPENZOUS FRAUD. Remarkable Case of Theft and Forgery. The Forger Obtains the Mouey and Makes Hxtensive Invest- ments in Jewelry. He Draws Two Hnndred and Four Thousand Dollars in Railroad Bonds from a Hotel Safe on a Forged Receipt. His Confession and Recovery of the Property. A LADY IN THE CASE, &o. ke. &. One of the most remarkable cages of crime that ever transpired in this city was partially developed yesterday afternoon, and involves two distinct cases of forgery, by means of which the perpetrator obtained a draft and bonds to the amount of nearly $209,000. It appears from the facts, as far as they bave trans- pired, that some ten days ago a man thirty-two years of age, a carpenter by trade, who had been a soldier in the army, and giving his name as George Gladwin, called at the Post Office in New Haven, Conn., and asked the clerk for the letters of Mr. Trowbridge, a geutleman doing business at No. 16 Long Wharf, that city. The clerk, believing that the applicant was duly empowered to receive the letters, delivered them to bim, Among this mail matter was a draft drawn on tho ‘Manhattan Company of this city by Messrs. Bur- dick, Frisbee & Co., brokers, 93 Wall $3,966 76, payable to the order of Mr. Trowbridge, and bearing date August 12, 1865. That night or on the following morning Gladwin started for this city, bringing with him a weman whom he is pleased to call “Emma,” ind took rooms at the St. Nicholas ‘iotel, Gladwin deposited the draft he had taken from the letter of Mr. Trowbridge in the hotel safe for safe keeping, but withdrew it the next day, and proceeded tothe jewelry establishment of Mr. Thomas Kirkpatrick, corner of Broadway and Doane street, and asked to look at some jewelry. He finally selected two ‘beautiful gold watehes and chains, a costly pearl set diamond breastpin, ring. &c., valued in all at $1,200, in payment for which he offered the draft’ in question, or, if Mr Kirkpatrick preferred, he could take his pay from some railroad bonds, which Gladwin exhibited. Mr Kirkpatrick made inquiry concerning the draft, and, becoming salisfed that it was genuine, accepted it and gave Gladwin the difference between the amount of the . purchase and the face of the draft’ Mr. Kirkpatrick deposited The Bank of the the draft in bis bank for collection. Manhattan Company subsequently pronouneed the en- dorsement of “A. Trowbridge’ on the back of the draft One of the bank officers immediately to be a forgery. called on Captain Jourdan, of the Sixth precinct, and imparted to him information concerning'the matter ‘as was in his possession. him. ‘carefully proceeded with the business he had in hand, and learned that Gladwin had offered for sale a watch to @ man named Bradley, with whom be was on intimate ferme, A strict watch was kept on Glad- ‘win’s boarding house, and on Monday evening officer Wooldridge succeeded in arresting him, and 6Ming in bis possession all the jewelry he bad obtained from Mr. Kirkpatrick. The prisoner was placed on board the first train for New York yesterday moruing, and arrived here in the afternoon. In acon- versation with Captain Jourdan the prisoner stated that he had found the draft, with seven $1,000 bonds of the ‘Titin and Fort Wayne Railroad Company and other papers, tn Brondway, and had left the bonds at (he store of Messrs, Kohlsast Brothers, corner of ‘Broadway and Reade street, till he should call for them. The prisoner also confessed to forging the name of Mr. Trowbridge on the daci: of the draft. Of course the Captain did not be- lieve that pari of the prisoner’ jory where he stated that he had found the draft and ‘bands in the street, and intimated in an unmistakable manner that it gas use- less to attempt to deceive him, as he knew the whole trath of the matter. ‘This brought the aveused to terme, and be frankly confessed that he had obtaiwed two hundred and four thousand dollars’ worth of the Tittin and Vort Wayne Railroad Company's bonds from the safe in the St. Nicholas. Hovel, without the knowledge of the hotel prietors or any of the clerks. ‘The plan adopted hy Gladwin to pomess himself of the bonds, and that, to, without exciting the suspi- cions of the persons having charge of the safe, shows him to be an expert in that line of business. As the draft which Gladwin had deposited in the safe was retarned to him he saw a large package in the iron receptactrad- dressed to A Smith, and carefully noted the hand writing on the packege tp giving a réceipt for the draft Gladwin again saw the siguatare of Mr. Smith on the re- coipt book. This operation lepositing and withdra ing the draft from the safe repeated several times by Gladwin, and after having become familiar with Smith's atyle of writing the accused took some blank cards and practiced writing “Aaron Smith” on them tit! it was almost a facsitnile of the genuine. This being accomplished, Gladwin boldly approached the safe and asked for Aaron Smith's package. The clerk, not suspect- ing anything wrong. delivered it to him, when he gave a receipt ia the name of Aaron Smith, s with the bonds, which he deposited elvewhere. These facts having been obtained by ain Jourdan, he sought still farther inforiaation concerning the whereabonts of the bonds. and sueceeded in learning where the prisoner bad left them. Accordingly, yesterday afternoon the wonds, which belonved to numerous pai were recov. ored and taken possession of by Captain Jourdan, Gladwin, whose 0 ia far from being prepos sessing, is im prison awaiting a formal complaint, which, it is expected, will be preferred against him this morning before Justice Hogan. . Another elngular cirenmstance connected with this case is the fact that the clerks of the St. Nicholas Hotel bad not been made awere of the alarming mistake committed by them in deuverin the bonds to the wrong man till informed of their ious nbstraction from the safe by Captain Jourdan iy afternoon, seeroed to think it impossible that such an error could have oc- curved. The Ketch: Fri The lovers by the recent defalcation have not yet made out the complote statement of their losses. Mr. Charles Graham, however, has positively ascertained that the Habilities imposed apon him by the flight of young Ketchum will not exceed one million five hundred thou- sand dollars, of which nine hundred and fifly thousand dollars are in forged gold checks, ‘Tho whereabouts of the defaulter in as yet unknown, ‘and it does not seem as if search were being made for him, It — : _~ Su ; ao oak oH called upon, but on inquiry made it was pret clearly ascertained that no detective oMocers are on his track, Thre stands the case at present, and it is ve doubtful that any further dovel onta will be likely to appease the mental hanger of the community. WHERFAROUTS OF YOUNG KRTCHUM. The following rather unreliable nate came (o this oMco in an envelope directed to the editor, — Naw Yorn, August 21, 1965, Mr, Krtonow:— Sie— Your son is secreted ina little shanty apon the Bloomingdale road, and if you will give me a suitable reward I will tell here he is, ANONYMOUB. P. S,—1 will comply with my wishes by publishing the same in he eee The Phenix Bank Defaleation, CASE OF GENKVINVE LYONS AND BROWN AGAIN POSTPONED, Genevieve Lyons and Charles Brows, with their counsel, Judge Stuart, wore before Justico Ledwith, at the Jof. fereon Market Police Court, yesterday afternoon at two o'clock. A decieion in their case wan to be given at that hour. Mr. McKeon, counsel for the bank, was not present, Jastice Lodwith read a letter from Mr, MeKeon stating that in consequence of urgent busines# it was impossible for him to attend or band in the additional pointe and anthorities of which he spoke on Monday. He therefore Tequested a postponement of the ease until twelve or vane ebook to-day. ° Goge Siuhtt rosearked that Ke. McKoon's application ‘NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, A street, for The Captain soon obtained a minute description of Gladwin, and, hearing that he bad returned to New Haven last Thursday with his travelling companion, Emma, despatched oMcer Wooldridge after On reaching New Haven detective Wooldridge UGUST 23, 1865: was, to say the ivest, very wns that counse) 204/60 fad ac decision or statute which could boid the prigoners foray ine ant Justice Ledwith sain he would positively give a lecision im the cause today, whether or not Mr Mcieon was present. He theretore povtponed the matter antil to-day ‘i one o'clock. THE ARROW DISASTER. racions Ho was positive Testimony of tne Government Inspector. Forty-five Millions of Interaal Revenue ‘The investigation into the cause of the death of John T. Westlake, one of the victims of the explosion on board the steamboat Afrow, was resumed last night before Coroner Lynch, of Brooklyn, The following is the evidence taken:— Alexander D. Douglass, sworn—Reside at 213 Weert Seventeenth street; have been av engineer by profession for the last twelve ycars, 1 am at present a United States Thspector of Steamers; have been in that position about five years; there are four inspecters, two for bulls and two for boilers; we inspcet boilers at least oace in every year, or as often as wo find necessity to dose; I in- spected the boilers of the steamboat Arrow on the 26th of July; the hull inspector whe is my associate is Ap- drew Craft; the first inspection was made on the Zist of July; on the first inepection 1 put on forty six pounds of pressure, and found that the steam dram leaked so badly that I could get Ro more pressure, I told them to bave the dram mended, and they told me that they had not time to do the re- pairs, and Itold them that they could go on their trip, but only not earry over twenty pounds of steam; this was ov the 26th of July; I asked the boiler maker to come with me, and showed him the patch that 1 wauted him to puton the steam drum; I told the engineer vot to puton more than twenty poande of steam until the repairs were made; after the repairs were made I en- dorsed the certificate for twenty-five pounds of steam; Mr Hopper did not make the inspection, IT took bim there myself on account of some remarks the engineer made; tuese remarks were that he (the engineer) did not think that it was necessary to cut outa certain piece of the boiler and have it repaired, be (eugiveer) said that he could mend the lead part by putting in I then calied Mr, Hopper and asked hi at the boilers; be (Hopper) met the captain on the deck afterwards and said that the engineer would bave to apologize for what he had said; 1 reinstated the map, and allowed the vessel to carry twenty Ove pounds of steam, Mr Hopper never bad avgthing todo with in- apecting the boilers; I had thirty-seven pounds of prevs- ure on the boilers when the flues becan to leak; I did not think it judicious to allow the boat to carry moro than twenty pounds of steam; the botlers were perfectie) safe to chrry twenty-five pounds of steam after the re- pairs were made, [heard that the boat came down the day previous with one boiler; the cause of the explosion Was that the stop valve was shut on the port boiler; I think it would take from fifty to seventy pounds of steam to lode that flue; we have had some fifteen witnéSses at our office, and from all the testimony taken F am perfectly satisfied that the re valve was down, which accounts for only eighteen pounds of steam being indicated on the guage; the vessel came down the day before witb one boiler, and the valve connecting the boilers must have been closed or the steam would escape through the fracture in the exploded boiler. ‘The testimony of the witness at this point went to show that after the exploded flue of the day before had beet: repaired, the firemen puta fire under each boiler, and the engineer neglected to open the stop valve be- tween, which caused the explosion The witness {llus- trated this theory by making a diagram wing how the boilers were connected, and gave it as his opinion that if the valve bad becn open so as to admit the steam from one boiler to the other the accident could not have taken place; when the stop valve is down the steam guage is of po possible use, and will not indicate the amount of steam actually used; the vessel! bad the full complement of hose required by law; she had donkey | 4.5 cutee among the maukers and brokers Of your city pumps and deck pumps that could be used in ease of {Tre; the fracture in this case was not near @ seam—it was in the middle of the sheet; if the valve had been up the explosion would not have taken place; the average amount of steam allowed for » good boiler. js thirty-five pounds, but we sometimes give them as hich as forty- tive or fifty pounds; had the boilers of the Arrow been pine plugs; | gompleted in business hours, free from the annoyance im to look is new boilers I would give a certificate for forty pounds of steam, there were none of the owners prevent when the inspection was made; the captain was there, the doors of the two furnaces under the exploded boilei blown from their positions by the force of the ex were oion ; if the boibors bad twenty-one pounds of steam when the boat left the dock it could not have fallen pounds of steam when the explosion took place. Adjourned tll Thursday morning, at ten o'¢loek. VIRGINIA. the Decapit cighteou mteer Officers—Re- ducing Them to Their Rank in the jar Army—Further Discharge of Troops—Twenty-nine Thousand More to be Sent Home, dc. OUR RICHMOND CORRESPONDENCE. ‘Ricuwonn, Va., August 20, 1865, GREAT FLUTTERING AMONG THE MILITAKY. An order hag just reached here from the War Depart ment directing that all officers ,of the regular service who have been assigned to army corps with the rank of lieutenant colonel sbali at once revert to their rank ip the regular army. In ease they do not hold commissions in the regulars, all such lieutenant colonels are by this order mustered out of the service from its date. This random shot at this particular grade im the service hae ; unearthed an immense brigade, 80 to speak, of lieutenant eolonels, who now feel all the keenness of the pangs incident to reduction in sank and involuntary retirement from the service There has been, pernaps, no rank in the army throughout the late war that has been so characterized by a speciesof genial masonry ae that of Hientenant colonel Standing between the upper mill- | stone of power (the colonelcy) and the lower gradations of the service, they seem to have been an sdiosyneratic mil- r Asa class, the lieutenant colo: army have ever been a genial, and in the majority of in neces a glorions set of man. by reason of the commu- nity of feeling herewith alluded to, and now phattbey afl go down into the vasty deep of oblivion together, after 80 mueh and prolonged patriotic service, one eanuot re- The mem< of the B armies main green in the hearts of thos rious aod historic traditions pe the visit ef Governor o this city, a was got accom. valle, PBCHARGE OF THK TRIOPS—OFFICIAL. ‘The following numbers of troops are <o be immediately of the | lever re- | familiar with its gto- | of the | igen evasion of the inw whieh the pub'ic health of ibs city hae come | to be modified,.and a great deal of malarial disease pre- | any of the institutions mentioned in ceetion 120 of the WASHINGTON. Arrangemeats for Disposing of Patare Ap- | plications for Pardon. Receipts Since Jaly 1. Letter from General Hitcheoek om Rebel Treatment of National Soldiers. Important Decisions by the Zaternal Revenue Commissioner. &e, &e, &e. Wasmscrox, Augost 22, 1865, RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY APPLICANTS Fort PARDON, Arule was adopted this morning by Mr. P'easants, pardon clerk im the Attorney Goneral’s of: fice, limiting the hours of receiving personal applications on business connected with pardons frem nine to eleven in the forenoon. Mr. Speed wilf receive | visitors from eleven to one After these hours all persons will be denied admission. The crowds that daily ev gate in the rcoms and ante-rooms of the Attorney ral’s oMce are increasing instead of diminishing, without some such restriction, bid fair to monopolize business hours with long and unnecessary explanations. Hereafter the clerical work of the Pardon Bureau can be avd solicitations that have constantly embarraserd it. A new leaf bas also been turned over at the White House. Acertain feminine Aabitue of the Bast Room and lobbies, who is generally understood to haye been engaged in the pardon brokerage business, was to-lay refused permission to ascend the stairway or further im portune the Prosident, Visitors to the Presidenteal mao- s‘on have not missed the familiar features of the fuir literoteur a single day for many weeks, The rule that gives every one daily access to the White House will, in her eaze, be more honored in the breach than the ob- servance, PARDONED. ‘The President thls morning granted pardons to Jozoph Henderson, of Tennessee, aud P, R. Dickinton, of Wil- mington, N. C. INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS. ‘The internal revenue recoipts since July 1 amount to within a fraction of forty-five million dollars, It 1s esti- mated that the receipts for the quarter ending Sep- tember 40 will exceed sixty millions. i INTERNAL REVENUE DECISIONS. ‘The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has addressed the following to Sheridun Shook, Collector of the Thirty second district’of New York:— Wasmixctox, Angust 22. 1865, Sm—I have been informed that the opinion prevails to that the provisions of the third section of the act of March 8, 1865, which requires collectors to deposit daily } caves have come under th snvention wh tabled. ub uuder the same Ex eoutive authority. PRBSON AL. The State, stuce his return from Cape May, ha of ai} the business which accumulated is absence, aud is aiieading to the duties of the department as before the sad oogurrence which f tune deprived the coautry of bis cervices. His be: wae gever better, and bis tedieal advisers are sanguine Of a perfoct recovery from his late injuries, MMe, Fred- eriek Seward has y apldly recovered since his trip to ¢ with the exception of Mise Pauvy Seward, who will remain with her friends at Cape May for Major General Whiard’s. Major Genera} Meade arrived in the elty to-night, and stops at Willard’2. AKKIVALS OF SOUTHERNERS. The revisters of the hotels indic that the arrivals of Soutberners ip the ety contin oat’ the eume as here tofore, the greater proportion of thet being from Virsi« nia. No premivent names appear ov the lists for to day THE INDIAN DELEGATION. Advices received at tye Indian Bareau today frem + Todian delegation that left for Fort smith on fhur last, state that the attaches of the delegation have ar- rangad to rendeaveus at Council Bluff op the ath proxime, or at Sioux City op the 10th, at they may beresfver elect. 4 Slates Army, is at APPLICANTS FOR PENSIONS. plication for a pension vas made in bebalt of a at An wounn living in Obio to-day, # in it appeared tha she had had eight cons in the Upion armies, threr whom were killed ip batiie. dt is sisted twat m supervision of the Pear ow Boreau nearly as remarkable as tho above. PENSION AGEN! AT LL! LE KOCK. James W. Dewhey today received the oppoimume my of pension agent in Lite Rock, Ark. THE NEW COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS. Hon. Jos, Theacker's assamption of the duties ef Com missioner of Patent many, Ais protrs ining Board has felt Wn the factions of bis new 4» Tho appotatmeat of Chiet ¢ has not yet transpired, aud p several days wo come, THE FOROS THRATRE rRorerry, P. Taitaval & %. Grilts, lessees of the estan Joinug Ford's theatre, aad the property of Mr. Fe fuse to give up their apartments to the government, they having a four years? lease, and claiming that cir building was not mmetudod in the lease of the thent)o property by the auihorities, Judge Hughes has been tained by the partios as ronuzel to contest the exe. THE SIXTEENTA NEW YORK ARTILLERY EN Lori rOk HOME. York artHery, oumbering 4 Ofty-six men, com eneral J, J. Morrison, are must ing. ARTILLERY CON NIES. netlerion In tie vieltitty ¢ plion of two: from each rein rs to mect the ace as Chief of tue Ex wply qualified to perform ait pprobation of sp. tion, in the Patent Bureat a phabiy will uot be-made t nt a The sixteenth Ne one thovsand four hundre by Beevet Brigadier oat, and left for home this aray Yesterday the rege ington, with the ex and th, wot in the Treasury ali moneys received by them tor internal duties supersede the provisions of section Prrty-four of the act of June 30, 1864, which authontzes the Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue to remit, refond aod pay back all duties erroneousiy or illegally assessed or col- lected, or unjustly axscased, or excessive ia amount; and therefore that it will not be in the powsr of the Com missioner of Internal Revenue to pay back at a fataro time the taxes which may be ‘held by the Supreme Court to have deen illegally avseseed and collected. A brief examination and comparison of the two scetions referred to will show this apprehension to be without foundation. The act of March 3, 1965, ie an amondatory fot, und repeals only such provistons of formergenact- ments as arg meonsistent with the amendment. (See section 16, to require daily deposits of all collections by each collector, and not inconrisjent with the provision authorizing tho refunding of taxes Megally fig ay manner improperly collected.) The authority ried upon the Commissioner to refund such taxes, by draw~ ing bis draft upon the Collector of Tuternal Revenue, is inconsistent with the provision requiring such Collect ors to deposit ail collections in the Treasury. It became necessary, therefore, not to refuse repayment In svch but to substitute another mode; and taxes col- lected crroneeurly are now refunded with as much promptness as before the act of March 3, 1865, took effect. The same section 44, which authorized the Commissioner to draw against’ moneys in. the hands of collectors, authorized the secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations under which taxes erroneously colleeted could be refunded, and there regu lations have been changed to meet the reqrirements of the amended law, The Commissioner is now requir make applicatien, from time to time, to the Seere' to have the necessary sims pliced to his credit with the Assistant Treasurer at New York, upon which he draws ip like manner as if the moneys were in the Hands of ctors It will be seen, therefore, that neither the pay, nor the facility with which sveh pa ay be made to tex payers, has been impuired in slivhtest degree by the operation of the act of March Very respectfully WILLIAM ORTON, Commissioner. The Commiss' mer of Internal Revenue this morning made the following decision :— Vessels are not regarded a meuning of section 99 of the act of Jun’ 20, 186d, and the tax of ap eighth of one per centim imposed by said seetion upon the sales of merchandise is not to be imposed on the es f vervels, ‘The following decision was made in regard to the gale of photographs :-— say three dolars and seventy-tive trea wm five cout 4 worth but twenty. ‘ree a twa eat stamp, wart be tolerated, In regard to d'vidends the Commissioner has teadorod the following decision’ — It ts held by this office that all dividends declared by rth wh 'le each of tha rem five vents, and consequently req’ divetiarged the service from the several departments | named--—Middle Department, six thousand; Department | of be a, eight thoneand; Kentucky, five thou- sand; Worth Carolioa, cight thousand; thonsand. WROIMENTS OF INPANTRY, CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY. ‘The following named regiments of theseveral branches | tryin increased value given to horse shoes pari Of the service name have been mustered out on the dates mentioned :— Fiftagnth New York heavy artillery, August §, 1866; Fifth New York iufantry, August 9, 1865; Sixty Second Now York infantry, Auguit 14, 1806, Sixty.aixth, Now York infantry, Augist 14, 1866; Ove Hundred and Biyb- ty-sixth Pennsylvanm infantry, August 8, 18 Ninth Indiana cavalry, Anguet 10, 1865; Tenth Indiana caval ry, August 10, 408. TAR ORDER OF avCUST Circular No, 39, current series, office, relative 10 the discharge of ment of Texas, has ment of Louisiana THe RDM EN. Lieutenant H. 8. Merrell, of the Freedmen’s Bureau, was de: ed at twelve o'clock to-day by Colonel Brown, Chief of the Burean, to Goochland county, Va, on t business in connection with this branch of the public affairs of the State, Lieutenant Merrell will be absent for a period of three days. 1865, djutant General's in the Depart. Our Fortress Monroe Correspondence. Fontnras Moxnor, August 21, 1966, General Miles, aceompanied by Captain MeEwing and & squad of thirty soldiers, left inet evening on the Black. bird for the Eastern Shore in search of the propelleg Effort, etolen from New York some time since, whieb he had beer informed geen pasving into Watchapeaque inlet yesterday morning This morning the Wyoming lefl for the same piace Up to the time of sending thie, five P M., nothing bas been heard ‘rom either steamer The Edward Everett has just arrived frowo Richmond, ra) Terry :s said to be on board, and It is understood will pass two or three days here, THE MISSISSIPPI CONVENTION, An Amendment to the Constt ishing Slavery Adopted by the Conven- tion, Jaonson, Misa. Anguet 21, 1965, The following constitutional amendment has just Passed the Convention, by a vote of aighty-six two eleven: ‘The tnetitution of slavery having been destroyed in the | State of Missiaaippi, neither slavery nor involuntary aur. vitude, stherwiee than for the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall hereafter exiet in this State; and the Legisiatare, at its next seetion, and thoreafter ax the public welfare may require, «ball provide by law for the protection and se. curity of the perenne and property of the freedmen of the Btaty, and guard them ani thy State age ool apy evil that may ofine from their rudd on emaner ssiseippi, two | gated this morning :— j | { roops been extended to include the Depart- | suspension, the inhumanity of the rebel government, Excive law, since the Let of Srly, 1364, are sabjrt to the tax of five per centom, withont meard to the time when the profits upon which such dividends are baced were | earned, The following in regard to blacksmiths was promo! Where # blacksmith’s annual receipts, whether derived from new work done or from repairs (section No, 94), or ly Galsbed | by more completely finishing them (section No. 95), or | from all those sourees combined. @xcred one thoneand dol- lare, he requires a munufacturer’e License; but receipts derived from the mere act of shoeing Borees should not be included in the amount, since the mere ubocing of | horses is not a manufacture, LETTER FROM GEN, HITCHCOCK ON TIE SUBJECT OF BXCHANGE OF PRISONERS, Major General Hitchcock has published a letter on the subject of the exchange of prisoners, the canse of the and justifying the policy of Secretary Stanion. 6 Hitehcock, in this letter, says:— As long a* the cartel for the exchange of prisoners was respected iu the South it was faithfolly observed by our government, and there was no reason to doubt ite faithful execution by the goveroment until the | end of the war, unless properly revoked by compe. tent authority, if the rebel authorities had vot dis- tinctly violated’ ite terms under circumetances, indeed, of great aggravation. The day must come when every true American will be proud of the reflection that th government was strong enough t) crush the rebellion | without loring the smailest element of its Lamanity or | dignity, and st before the world unimpeached in iis | true bonor and glory. TUR DESTITUTION OF THE sovTiT. The Chronicle of this morning says:—From €he spe cial Provost Marabal of the War Department, who bas Jast returned from a brief trip through some of the | Southern States, where he went on official bu. | siness, we have full confirmation of the reporiy which havo recently como from those localities of the | utter destitution of the South, and of the desire ef the | people at large to sabmit cheerfully to the government | of the United States, From all accounts jt appears that if atait expression of public opinion can be obtained at | the coming elections in the South there will be little | difficulty in the work of reorganization. fUR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SLAVERY IN VINGINIA. A Virginia State Convention, which aseembled at Alexandria some months ago, adopted the proposed anti slavery amendment to the constitution of the United States. It appears, however, from newspaper articled | and other indications that there ts total Ignorance on that | subject in the vicinity of Richmond, élse there would Hot be each earnest advocacy of # convention to do what has already been done, As Governor Plerpoint aud the eral ABOLISHING merchandise within the ¢ | rum over by th ifth artillery, turned in their 1s heneeforth be : npantes in the several per esaon that it wis ofthe regimens to rem’: The Fifth bax been ordered Youth. APPOINTMENTS. The President hav appoint d Joba If, Goodloe Un States attorney for che district of Louisiana, wi 1, Willameon attorney for the Western distrtes of Ton ne to the artilles Fourth was excepted for th APPOINTED CAPTAIN IN TILE REGULAR AKM The President bas appointed Jno, W. Bempre Captain Eighty-zecond New York Volunwers, and ve cently attached to (i Veteran Reserve Corpe, a say! inthe United States service, “The appointment i< for conspicnons galluntry in the firft Bull Kumbastle, and for stendfastgloyalty during a long imprisonment in the hands ofthe enemy. CHIEF OF THE DETECTIVE FORCE. Charlee Merrit, who for a year or two part bes been one of the most efficient members-of the miliary detective force attached to Colonel [ngratium’s offier, has been appointed chicf of the fqree, vice Capiain Jobn Potts, resigned. THE SALES OF HORSES AND MOL Returos made to the Qnertermaster General's offer show that government horses aud urilem exposed to public sale at the» towns du Penuaylvania, land ond Delaware commanded mach) higher prices than those sold in the larger cities, andama pamber of instances the animals bronght ae much as the govern ment paid for them. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFTOR. The new addition to the government printing office is so nearly alt of the eam: ah handred, et uy, 8 and will speedily be MANUFACTID or LK GOODT IN MASS ACHE Ssirre, ‘ the manatacture of silk gunds jn Ma thas extit ted hy te lastecnans —Numoer Geile, Oe, Kapital tuvenied, $20 60+, + of matecul aced, ‘ plover, three fifty femaiee; eort , $12,109; 8,000. RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. The Fa ville. POE BARLEM AND NeW AVES RATLROAD Com PANTES oY URED, Coroner Gamble vostentiy hold an inqocet at the Tweoty-third pres oot station heart aver the remsiar of Mr. John E. Desn, who was almost iostantly killed on Mon fay afternoon, by being run over by'@ trata of cara belonging to the New Haven Raileoud Compiny, Kighty eixth street and rth avenue, Several wi esees were exnmmnined, and niver the teatimony was in, the Coroner satan dered a ver tice ne follow: That Jonn BE Dewn struck by the i at nine mipot by boing first 4ity sixth stvert aud Coether, that he wos ew Haven down rata, due att time and plice, aad it ie oor op r caused by being run over by ibe New Haven down trato. Wo furtber censure the New Basen Salle for the rate af of # ‘og thie sta M form in toe eoutre of the tr jem Compavy ie a mot deazero Dee New was a butcher by occupation, aud did bagivess iv Market. Accident on the Chicago and North- western Rattroad. FOCR PERSONS KILLED AND THRER OTHRLS INIERED, Curae, Augpst 22, 1865. The night express train frem Iowa on the Dixon ond Fulton branch of the Chicago ood Northwestern Ratire ot te ran into a culvert, whieh lud béoh washed away by storm inet night, The engineer, fremen, expres senger and ope passenger were killed @M@ three passe } gers injured, though not seriously. Accident on the Southside (¥ TWO SOLDIERS ot ven miles bey the passenger curs vn fren? the rand by a oon dentally thrown upen tbe vdiors were killed and « me of the wotinded have died frown injuries The car thrown off contained no eitixens, but was flix with soldiers. sin Roston, BK OF ORDERS FOR 807 D FUR TRIAL RETURNING GALLAGHER, THE DABRS’ RATIONS, Ub SOLDLBES, 4 . Bustos, August 22, 1865 Luther 0 Gallagher, «lp wae arrested in New York charged With “forgive orders for the commutation of ratious. of. salWers utp,.bed been confined in rebel Legivlatun which assemble! at Alexandrm aro recog. | ? nized by tre loading man of Virginia as legal, it occasions | muck comment bere that (ey ehowld iquore the state | ment, whieh «aye that his command would probant fer Heston on Board tbe United om transports € 7 Thomas enc Genera Meigs ow the Slat.