The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1865, Page 5

Paroled Prisonets to be Pormiite. Exile Themselves. GENERAL LAND OFFIC arrains. 4 The cash receipts from locations of public lands at ‘Wade Hampton Reconsiders His Determina- Marysville, California, for the quarter ending 30th of tion to Dio in the “Last Ditch,” and Ask 5 same period, $6,771. A survey has just been received at sto be Pardoned. the General Laud Office of the rancho de Novato, om- bracing 8,870 acres, which were conferred upon the ag- signees of Bozar & Simmons. A case is now before the General Land Office Commis- sioner on the application of the parties for a United States patent of the land which is situated about eighteen miles, northwest of Benicia, near San Pablo Bay. The title for part of the land reste in a Mexican grant by Goveraor Alvarado and for the residuo ina grant by the Mexican Governor Jiminez. STATISTICS OF MANDY AOCTURES. In the manufacture of clocks New England has the following interests by the returns of the last cousug:— Annual value of productions, $1,085,250; capital invested, $605,000; value of material consumed, $446,756; om- ployes, 896 males, and 40 females; labor compensation, $372,600; number of establishments, seventeen, ‘The manufacture of hemp and Manila cordage in tho United States is set forth in the following proportions by the returns of the last consus:—Numbor of establish- ments, 190; capital inveated, $2,938,289; cost of mate- rial consumed, $5,665,320; number of employes, 2,860 males and 618 females; cost of labor, $966,216; annual Production, 40,846 tons of cordage, valued at $7,843,339. NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Our Fortress Monroe Correspondence. Fortres Monros, August 25, 1865. ‘THY DISABTER TO THE STRAMER GRORGE LEARY. Thore has been great anxicty here all day to learn tho particulars of the disaster to the new line steamer George Leary, Captain Blakoman. The frat news of the affair reached here on arrival of the old line steamer Georgi- anna, Captain Piorsou, The Goorge Leary, when about five and a half hours out of Baltimore, and nearly opposite Cove Poiut, collided with a steamer whose name was unknown, but as noither blew alarm whistles, or gave any indication of requiring assisiance, tho Georgianna kept on her course, Thia was all that could be gained from cither officers or passengers af the Georgiauna. It was supposed the disaster was not serlous, and it was bolieved the George Leary would soon arrive. At eleven A. M. the tug Mosa- wood was sent to look after her, A telegram has been: ived since stating that the Sea Gull was the colliding but giving no further particulars. It is now d that the George Leary wont back to Baltimore, in which case the full particulars will have reached you before this oan. ARRIVAL OF THR RIVES QUIK. The Presidont’s special steamer, tho River Queen, Captain Bradford, arrived from Washington this morn- ing. It proves to be only a pleasure excursion of the President's family and Majors Knox and Longof his personal staff. The Presidential family consists of two sons and two daughters of Presideot Johnson and five grandchildren. On arrival they passed inside the fortress, where they met with a most pleasant and hos- pitable reception at the hands of General Miles, After looking through the fort and satisfying what of curi- osity existed as to the construction and armament of this military stronghold, they visited the Navy Yard at Portsmouth and the Rip Raps. Allare highly delighted with their excursionary trip and visit thus far. The steamer leaves at six P, M. for Washington. THE STHAMER CASK, For th Fey! thers ig an end tothe pursuit of the steamer Effort, heretofore mentioned as having beon spirited away from New York and takon refuge among tivo inlets of tho Eastern Shore counties. The steamer Blackbird, Captain le, sent after her, ret last evening. R mM. T. Hunter Seeks Permission to Leave the Country Forever, ‘Probability of the Release of A. H. Stephens. {Internal Revenue Receipts Since the Ist of July Over Forty-eight Mil- lion Dollars. DEATH OF BRIGADIER GENERAL CROCKER. &. . &e, &, ‘Wasmuarox, August 26, 1965. DEATHS OF GENERAL CROCKER. sBrigadior General Marcellus M. Crocker, of Iowa, ex- Pired at Willard’s this afternoon, from tubereular diseaso Of the brain, after two weeks’ lingering confinement. Dr. jan, staff surgeon to General Grant, gave him mitting attention and medical consultation. Gene- eal Crocker leaves a wife and three helploss children. Mrs. Crocker’s arrival is hourly expected. PASSPORTS FOR PAROLED PRISONERS. ‘The following order bas beon issued by the Dopartment Of Stato:— Execonvs Orrics, Derartuest or Stare, August 22, 1365. Paroled prisoners asking passports as citizous of the Onited States, and against whom no special charges may be ponding, will be furnished with passports upon appli- lon therefor to the Department of State in the usual form. Such passports will, however, be issued upon the dition that tho applicants do not return to the United without leave of the President. Other persons cated in the rebellion, who may wish to yo abroad, apply to the Department of State for passports, and seen will be disposed of according to the morits of e several Cages, By tho President of tho United States. ie WILLIAM x SEWARD, Secretary of State. * ALEX. H. STEPHENS. Yt is stated that the President will probably shortly order the release of Alexander Hv'Stephens. H's case thas beon under consideration for some time, and has been again urged by his brother, Linton Stephens, who bas had several interviews with Mr. Johnson. SB. M. T. HUNTER ASKS TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY. Mrs. R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, is at Willard’s. It is stated that her husband, now confined as a State pris- ‘nor in Fort Pulaski, asks for his release, with the privi- Aoge of leaving ‘his country forever. WADE HAMPTON APPLIES FOP PARDON. The rebel ex-General Wado Hampton has reconsidered ‘his sanguinary doterminafion to die in the last ditch of the Southern confederacy, and now bellows lustily for pardon. His petition was received to-day. Who next? * §uoh applications for pardon as recommend them- @elves to the judgment of the Attorney General are ‘gain ablowed to be forwarded to the White Honse. Among them the President occasionally finds an indi- ‘Widual entitied to immediate pardon. All others have to ‘wait. GQEDRMPTION OF CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS AND CURRENCY. The amount of certificates of indebtednces for the week to-day is $6,821,100, and the amount of muti- lated fractional currency for the same period redeemed ‘qnd destroyed amounts to $400,200. INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS. The receipts from internal revenue since July 1 to over forty-eight millions and a half. The re- ecipts yesterday amounted to one militon two hundred and sever thousands eight hundred and forty-eight dol- tars. THE VERA CRUZ IN THE LATA GALE. By the new side-wheel steamer Vora Cruz, Captain Gregory, arriving to-day from Havana, news reaches us of the terrible soverity of the late storm. Off Hatteras the Vera Cruz encountered a fearful storm, but she man- aged to outrido the gale, and, getting short of coal, mado for this port. She took on board three of the crew of the English vessel Villafranca, wrecked on the 22d inst. on her Passage from Sagua to'Now York. It is belioved several vessels were wreckod in this storm. On the trip to Vera Cruz, as will be remembered, she had among her ngers M. Eloin, one of Maximilian’s ambassadors to Europe, MUSTERED OUT. The One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania regiment, Colonel Kephart, was mustered out of service to-day. Ed ren ynent has been for a long time on duty in Religious Intelligence. SERVICES TO-DAY, At tho Pilgrim Baptist church, Thirty-third streot, wost of Eighth avenue, there will be preaching at half-past ton A. M. and eight P. M., by the Rev. J. 8. Holme, late of Brooklyn. ‘The Rev. R. A. Holland, of the Georgia Conference Methodist Episcopal Church South, will preach in the Hall of the Union, Cooper Institute building, entrance on Eighth street, at half-pnst ton o'clock A. M. ‘The North Presbyterian church, corner Ninth avenue and Thirty-first street, will be reoponed for divine sor- vice to-day. Preaching by the pastor, the Rev., Thomas Street, at haif-past ton A. M. and eight P.M. Scandinavians are informed that the reverend pastor, &. A. Prous, will preach in the German Lutheran church, corner of Ninth street and avenue B, at four o'clock P.M. ‘The Forty-second street Presbyterian church, Rev. Dr. Scott, pastor, is closed for one Sunday for repairs and improvements on the building, Services resumed (D. V.) ‘on the first Sunday of September. Ella F. Hobert, Chaplain of tho First Wisconsia ar- tillery, will deliver 4 Christian lecture at half-past ton A, M., at Metropolitan Hall, Sixth avenue, near Kighth Street, She will speak under inspiration. ‘The New England Soldiers’ Relief Rooms, 194 Broad- way, being about to close, the concluding Divine services will be held in thom this afternoon, at balf-past throe o'clock. Sermon by the chaplain, the Rev. Aloxander R. Thompson. AtSt, Paul's church, Hoboken, the rector, the Rev. V. Bruce, will hold to-day the appointed services. Subject of the morning sermon, “The Pharisee and the Publi can.’ Subject of the evening discourse, “Evidences of the Saviour’s Resurrection.” Dr. Wescott will preach in his church, Forty-second strest, near Soventh avenue, in the morning, at half-past ten o’olock, as also in the evening, on Joshua's conquest of Canaan. There will be baptizing in the evening. A discussion between Orthodoxy and Spiritualism will take place this afternooa at three o'clock and this evon- ing at eight o'clock, at Metropolitan Hall, 95 Sixth ave- nue, Subjects;:— Is Spirituayigm Truot “Is Joma Christ the Only Begotton Sa of Godt" &o. A Mysterious Mardor-A Woman Patsony Thece of Her Guests. | EIT _ Prevanuea, Pa., Augnat 26, 1865. Our otty has boon thrbwi Tato Mtondo oxcitement for the fiast two days by the discovery on Thursday morn- ing, on Boyd's Hill, in tho Righth ward, of tho re- maius of = man with bis throat cut from oar to ear, and hia body terribly mutilated by numerous wounds. The most active exertions have failed to give any clue to the perpetrators of the awful deed, nar has the body yet beon identified. It was imierrod, Sevorat persons are under arrest on suspicion of committing the crime, but the proof against them is wight, . Yesterday the excitement was rendersq more intense, if possible, by the arrest of a Mra, “rinder, oharged with “persistent and quiet poisowyg 1’ apparontly without Motive. Three persons Wo wers guests in her house at different times have &',¢4, supposed,from tho offbols of poison, and snother Mow iiea in & critical condition. ‘Tho poisoning, jt is supposed, has been going on for soveral montly, The investigation of the aiipir ta still pending. mee 2 @ . g? News from San Francisco, é «& San Fravomoo, Auguat 16, 1868, No news of importance haa transpized aluce the éth iowtant:— : ye The following ships Save agrived und departed :— Arrived Auguat 4, sui Honry Britton, from Now York; Sth, shir, faze, George Griswold and Mendorn, PERSONAL. ‘The President's family and their guests arrived this morning from Norfolk and Portsmouth, on the River ‘Queen. Mr. Harrington, former Assistant Sccretary of the ‘Treasury, Intely appointed minister to Switzerland, has ‘heen detained in Washington by the dangerous illness Of aon. He now hopes to sail on Wednesday. THE MUSTER OUT OF GENEBAL OFYICERS. ‘The War Department to-day issued an order honorably ‘mustering out of the service a number of general officers, ‘their services being no longer needed. There is but “Aittie difference between this order and the one which ‘was published in several of this morning's papers. The ~difference ie General Bragg, who is serving on the Wirz Commission, and General Joha W. Sprague. Neither of ‘these are mustered out. General Erastus B. Tyler is ‘among those who are. DECISION IN RELATION TO PRIZE MONEY. ‘The Fourth Auditor has decided that whore powers of attorney are given by a seaman for the assignment of “prize money or wages they must be duly attested by the commander and paymaster of the vessel to which the said seaman is attached at the time the instrument is ‘executed. This decision is in accordance with the re- quirements of section ten of the act to regulate prize and the distribution of prize money, ap- < proved Jane 80, 1864. DECISION OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE COMMIS- SIONRR. ‘The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that the amount of personal property subject to legacy tax, under section 124, is determined by the clear value of such personal proporty—that ia, the amount remaim Ang aftor payment of debts and expenses of administra- tion, When such value does not exceed one thousand dollars no legacy tax should be assessed thereon. NEW YORK PENSIONERS. Up to the 16th of July there wore 6,820 penstoners on the rolls for the State of New York alono, 2,709 of whom ‘are drawing full pensions. SXAMINING SURGEONS OP THY PENSION fi AU. The following mining surgeons were appointed by sthe Ponsion Bui to-day :—W. H. Dunham, of Juck- aon, Ohio, and 0, A. Rahter, of Harrisburg, Pa. OABRYING THE MAILS IN MONTANA. ‘Tho Postmaster General has made a contract for carry. ‘fing the mails from Virginia City to Holena, in the Tersi- “tory of Montana, one hundred and Ofty miles, thrice or ~ofvener a week. oe toute. RECOGNITION OF CONSULS. ‘The President has recognized Adolph Rosenthal as Con- v@ul at Milwaukee for the Duchy of Dessar, George Cosar ms Consul of the Hanso city of Lubec at New York, N. Y. ‘Mr. Plolscher as Vice Consul of Sweden and Norway for ‘Wisconsin, and Alexis de Stouts as Vico Consul of tho Swiss Confederation st San Francisco, for the States of California, Oregon and gNevada oud the Torritory of ~“ $HR WIRZ TRIAL. | +. Major Goneral J. H. Wilson, commander of cavalry in Boorgia, is in the city, report says, as witness in Wira’s trial. In connection with this subject it may be stated that tho Commiaaion will pfobably issue an order exclud. ing ladies, as « large mass of the tostimony to be given iis of a charactor too Gud indecent to admit of their . - " i, -% Soren oY THR ANDERSONVILLE PRISON BLOODHOUNDS ARRRSTRD. ‘Harris, tho kooper of the bloodhownds at Andorson- ville, wag rocontly arrested by General Wilson and for- averdod ugder guard to this city. He is now in the Old 1B B38 Rrotincarns. » lie aka Moca froma ‘The Penbidghs ypde the fojowing eppoiutments his Sa Pveronlic yg ead tae, Bailod August M Taylor, for Nicara- se, wih (our bunirel osogete = Raped ship Byron, for Parker's Istand. Sailed A sieainer Sacramento, for Pasama, carrying four hundred passengers and $946,000 in trea, Mts Lawrence. , Afraruaom, Romecuh gad eawnas erapde ace orectet om | PW>"aory wore antes we ~ SHRALD, SUNDAY, ADGUST oo festimony Corroborating the of the Terrible Sufferings vt the Union Prisoners. Dead Bodies Left for Days Together in the Stockade. TWO HUNDRED DEATHS PER BAY, Wasurnaton, August 26, 1865. The Wirz Commission mot this morning, and foading of the record of yesterday, Dr. A. W. Burrovs, who having’ heretofore been sworn, idontified a certain paper offered as in the handwriting of Josiah H. White The Jopae Apvooats accordingly moved to amend tho first chargo on which the prisoner is. arraigned by sub. stituting the namo of Joseph White as one of the persons with whom the defendant is charged with conspiring to cause the death of Union prisoners, ‘Mr, Baxur objected to tho motion to supply the misno- He arguod that the prisoner was arraigned on these charges by order of the President, and that until tho original authority should supply the deficiency no further testimony could be received affecting Dr. White and the prisonor at the bar. The Court overruled the objection, when the name of Dr. White was corrected. Mr. Baker said that tho namo of John H. Winder also appeared ag one of the alleged conspirators, Tho fact was, however, notorious that Windor is dead. Therefore this commission is sitting here trying 4 man not He moved to strike out the name of Winter. The Jovas- Avvovatk—Do you appear for Winder? Mr. Baxez—No. The Court—Do you hold that Winder is on trial? Mr. Baxax—I hold that Wiuder, who ia dead, cannot be tried for conspiracy. Tho Juvaw Apvocats—We have not been informed that Winder is doad. Mr. Bakre—f is a notorious fact, of which the world has taken cognizance. The Jupae Apvovarx—Booth was dead when the other conspirators wore tried; yot in that caso tho counsel for defence made no objection to Booth’s name in the contrivance by which damp, inseots and vormin aro of- foctually shut out of buildings new or old. In crocting house or building according to this invention # shoot of glass, eithor plateor glass of any suitable-size, is fixed by cement or mortar against the interior of: the walla running the entire longth of the building. tmfact, every apartment bas a glass wall, whioh can be ornamonted or Paperod aa may be roquired. In the caseof a honse already built the glass is bent and tnsertod at. the top of the room, mocting the glass which t# inserted from the room above and overlapping oach other. By this means there is no possible entry or escapemont ofther into tho apartment of from the apartment, Mr. Bakur—A military commission could do many things not common for a civil court to do; but thoy could not try a dead man. ‘The Court overruled the motion to atrike out the namo of John H. Winder. DR. BURROWS EXAMINATION CONTINUED. Dr, Burrows further tostified that at Andersonville prisoners were arrested for buying green corn, which tho uard took away from thom. in oases of scurvy, and is a useful dict; the slops of the cook house were thrown into the stroam wheih rau through the prison, the exbalations fram which were terrible and very unhealthy; besides, the stnks over- flowed, owing to the rains, rendering the premises still human bodies sometimes lay un- buried for three days; the stench was terrible, sensibly affooting the atmosphere, and was worse than that from room; complaints of these things wore jin high quarters; dead men were in found among the living; hs in the stockade for ono 1864, Soriastechemenri ~~ seven; she in of the prison when he went there, and left him there at the time he made h ;, Fations wore cut off from tho entire number of the thirty thousand prisoners to the alleged offences of afew others; the wi 4 membered that Wira raid to him that he (Wirz) was of more servieo 40 the Confederate government than any of the poor rebels in front. Cross-oxamined by Mr. Baxwr—Was o medical studont at Amburst, Massachusotts, at the breaking out of the war, and had been licensed sinos; he was mustered out on the ; the witness had never seen our {ing a ball aud chain, nor had be in any other way than ‘by detention house; ho bad seen mon in our hospitals philfs, but.none of the cases wore wo bad | gaged in a series of oxperiments for constructing the surface of streots and roads subjected. to heavy traffic, inthe rebel prison wore sooundary, as a general | 44 is about to lay down a spociman of an invention of his in London. Mr. Mitchell formerly had the charze of the Parliamentary roads and bridges in the northern countios of Scotland, and has had many years’ expe for Ni abcd Rad petohioel Koowiedge et ai Galjeck? Me] Co eee See te ee wrotched state to which the streets and thoroughfares of adit Aasmaan te Denton, wien 6 itcudenace vodnse:in a:wat dup-tp/tand cidaind wigs tte ne i vaerenenteii Gested the possibility of adopting a.material which, while it should be impervious to hoator-wot, would retain suf. ficiont resistance for the tragic: brought upon it, Mr. Mitchell, thorefors, contemplates constructing a solid, rocklike road of » composition of broken stones, Roman and Portland cemont, and sand, forming a complete roads, Ait for trafic in twenty-four hours, and not liablo, it is he had asked tho witness with what | alleged, to any disagroeable: chango from wet, although | Philip Lynctx, omployod as errand boy inthe fur and hat manufactory-of Mr. H. L. Silverman, southeast corner of Broadway and Spring street, fell through the batchway to the subgeller, and was almost inatantly killed. Coro- Bourbon 60 Cents, Clhaice 75 Cents Por ner Colliashold an inquost on the dady, “hen Theodore | Wile Taquore by Saint st RTE BASS: A wy Mr. William Ogio, M. D., makes public somo facta re- | H. Tilton, Bsq., connected with the. firgn, testified that street, uertheast corner doceased:had been in the habit of\ridirg up and down on Saget tae in danger warping, and while descending led; as stated. The jury ron- pdeaih. The d ‘Corn is an anti-acorbutic any dissecting frequently made ii %th of Decembor last men in tho arm: aeon them pun Ville; our cases were primary, while ‘The croas questioning was furth@r continued, to dhow that the rebel hospitals wero deficient of medical remo. ies, Tho Court then, at ono o'clock, took a receas tll two that Mr. Baker did not voluntarily. ‘or the defence, ag has been stated ; but entered upon the duties of counsel after a consultation who had just retired from the case. ling of the Court the cross-examina- tion of Dr. Burrows was rosumed—Lying owing to insufficient medicines and diet, the chances for recovery were ageinat those who had syphilis. Tho questions and answers were numerous on this point, involving the treatinent of the disease, ‘Assistant Judge Hoswrr here said that he did not see the relevancy of these questions, appear aa counsel hi” Judge Hugh Mr. Bagge repli disease the patients suffered, and how the diseases mani- fosted themselves after the patients wore seat to the hospital; and whether syphilis was owing to the vaccine matter used upon them. He was cross-examining the | flght to his invontion by patent. witmess on this very point. The Covrt—You don’t ive the witness an opportunity to answer. You frequent ly put words into his mouth. Mr. Baxer—I have a right to thus draw from him any Gosneeie are disposed to be very liberal, but at the same time that we will not take exception as to the manner of examining witnesses, Mr. Baxsr—I will pnraue the crows-oxamination ta the If 1 do not, the Court will excuse me. Covrt—The witness must answer in his own you must not su; Mr. Baaer—tI must pursue the couse laid down in the books, or must-— ‘The Court—Go on. The cross examination waa further continued, whoo tho Court intorrapted counsel by saying ‘hore is another r unbecoming aid neailed for, Mr. Baxur—I beg tho Court's pardon The Courr—-You pardon? It is granted. Mr. Baxex—I hope you will not hold mo strictly to ‘Tho Coort—Say nothing more about that, but go on. The cross examination was then resumed and finished. lecture," altoget force at Andersonvii threo and five thousand mon; the fuel for them were axes enough to su Tho witness gave as had beon pfoper food, gary suyplies, from eevensy five to cighty deaths might have beon prevented. ho Lad seen some supplies which lad oo of Richmond, such as dried heels, awy two or three hun- dred pounds, and some Bologna jothifig at tho depo the ly our mon for a like 3 houest opinion that i Jothing, quarters and echor neces. | M. Runge found that the palsonous principles had not es- capod without absorption, but had been taken up into the animal's body. Now the belladonna gtows in just such places a4 rabbits love to haunt—in shady nooks aud doverted ruins, {¢ may be found ig bloasom there in thy month of July—the vory monsh, that is, in which ¢he disaster took place. Wha, tnoro likely than th 4t tho rabbit whieh furnished, os abundantly on (his pant, and that its Mesh Yas impreg- usted with the Pesonous principle? . ody in h's Ward Dg. 0 or twice a little of f was brought in, but it did not afford each in the ward half an onnco. Tho wi'noss did not know who used tho romatuder of the beef and sausages, ToT. KBLLOGO RX AMINED. Robert H. Kellogg, sworn—Ho said tha mouth, and with about four hundred othor ora was taken to Andersonville; this was the 34 of | Mowrs “Antau & Platt, of Mnchostor, has bem, at WOr'< for some Weeks at Cardi browory, iD Wales, in 1984; the only other time were those d and destitute of clott, ‘and totally unprovided wi cept tattered blankets; the men wonors there af the browght frou condition; there was a poor wore in a aithy there was very little soap; the ine fire while gang remove the stainr vee ee, vensoly * au not; there wore t * 4 of Jane; ag, and for Want of soap s off; the nights were o eee ae cae polar days | an oblique direction, and then falling on a mass of stone ‘Wore not sup- to go out * av with a0 wood | trash f dhe hole te rogulated surface, Tho diameter of the holo ia rogu' y ing on the dead line was re bered seeing @ man who was shot for sentinels; if any one crossed from the he wonld be shot at; once he step and he soom got v 2 cook; the penalty fc death ; he remem! ered. this cause by the to the brook to wash his hani Fisegeee Mr. Baxtn objected to a queation asked by the Judge Advocate, saying Somebody was hurt, not killed; and therefore somebody must be hung." The Court rebuked the counsel, tomarks wore excessively im remedy to prevent their repetition. objection of counsel was hot sustained by the Court. Tho witness said Vhat he did not remomber whethor shot for drawing water out of the brook was ity an tare thes get illowsate, full quantity, anch a they of ninety mon to to stand when or’ | to out of the reach of iy ‘waa ii some shors thero was wo out of tho be was attacho| were jored to form in line prinoipall limbs wore contracted, their sure for Naw York, and $400,000 Cor Kngiaud. ri pan Reeth aes f and, therefore, Gimking of the Stopfacr Spartan to tne ; the brook running through roa nithy; ee of 1 be uot four hundred who days after they were ‘nearly annihiiated at ane Yomumiaggy 2" ediournes Poa bo an gy 1965, with the famous Athletic Club of | Tho Spartan in rubining tho Laob ine Rapids 7 next, at two o'clock Inthe | to-day sy a rook and commented ainjing Hor Scientific Intelligences “= ie “>= letier im the Londgp Times, ud Mr, ©. J. Richardson, uw “ss shown thag 5 ”” Gays bis boiler at Woolwich Dockyara u— hee troleum is Ofty per cent more powerful than the bes coal as steam fuel, that {t can be burned with perfect ease, and without the slightest danger. ‘Thore is at present in the possession of Mr, Alexander Mitchell, birdstuffer, Leith Watk, Edinburg, @ Dorking chicken with four legs, four wings anda double neck, The iittle monster was alive whon batched, but was acci- dentally killed soon afterwards. Mr, Richard Beard, Jr., of the Panonia Works, Clap- June, amounted to $8,416, aud at San Francisco, for the | The Horrors of the “Black Hole | *™, 2 Mr. Walter Downing, of Lachmere, Battersea, of Calcutta” Outdone. London, have obtained letters patent for an invention for improvements in the manufacture of artificial leather, and in coloring, dyeing or finishing the same, which lat- ter improvements are also applicable to the coloriug or dyeing of the ordinary leather cloth. Tho Ordnance Select Commies have reported in favor | Maximilian’s Envoy to Wash- of the Fronch gum as the most accurate, aince their al- trations of its projectiles, and that some of the now orduance are to be rifted with a gaining twist upon their Fecommendations, a# soon as they have settled tbe depth and number of grooves, This now gun will bo is- sued to the navy with all despatch, sad is to be callod the “Woolwich gun."’ Captain James Whitley, of Anglosea View, Kingstown, Proposes, for the prevention of accidents in blasting, that the sand or fine dust used in tamping should be put in lightly, instead of tight a6 usual, the fuse being at last paseed through a woodem plug, with whieh the hole faclosed. The suggestion is admirable for quarries or places in which the hole is vertical, or nearly 80, but fre- quently doss not act well in a horizontal hole. Another sew process of engraving is thus deserted :— of photograpbic-carbon printing, who has already ro- ceived the medals: of tho Fronch and Scottish photo- graphic societies, has just boon awarded the modal at the International Photographic Exhibition at Berlin for his Photographs in pritter’s ink, Mr. Pouncy gave a de-- monatration @ few weoks since bofore the Professor of Photography, the Demonstrator of Chemistry, and « so- lect party of savands, all of whom exprossed their un. qualified praise and approbation of Mr. Pounoy'’s method, which Sir David Brewster, before 4 numerous audience in Edinburg, at a mooting of the Photographic Society of Sootland, designated one of the most interesting and tm Portant ever submitted to the institution. A patent has recently been taken out in Eugland for a Anumbert of scientiiic gontiomen have boom wttnessing oxperimouteat Mr. Willing’s premisos, King’s cross, Lon- don, with @new fire extinguishor, thopatent of Dr. Carlior and Mr. Vignon. A hage firs was lighted throes times, cash more poworful than its predecessor, and a man with one of the machines, it is said, completely mastored the conflagration in a few seconds. The machine is ‘owing | portable, and costs from £4 to £6. It ia always charged; may be slung upon 4 person's shoulders; and ean be soidiitz compound; and, the vessel being: air-tight and capable of bearing a pressure of 150 Iba. to the inch, the liquid containing the gas can be projectod\to a consider- able distance. Tho experiments were deomod satis- ry. Mr. Mitchell, G. K., Inverness, Scottand, has beon_en- always retaining enough. of dust to prevent slipping either while wet or dry, Me. Mitchell haa secured, the Respecting the Ashburtom poisoning cage, in Engjand, specting vogotable poisons, He says:—That theChalker family were potsoned by botladonna ts beyond xl! doubt. ‘That this poison-wag contained in a rabbit is als@a moral | mg certainty. But is.it necessary to suppose that 1b was put there by any human being? Both prosecution and de- fence soum to. have takon this for grante Noither saom to have knowa that though belladonn= ts a viru lent polson to. most anitaals, yet that rabbits oat it and othor poisonous planta of the same famity with perfoot impunity, Ht is now aome forty yours sinco this | 4% ® quarrol fact was demonstrated oxperimontally by M. Runge, Seo injery be of Rerim A rabbit was fod for ao leas than oight days exclusively on the leaves of belladonam byoscyamus and datura—all poisonous plants of the order solanacem, and at the end of the time the animal t unhappy dinner, fad fod The wleam qptesian well-boring Menino, bolonging tg order to procure water er cooling, &0. Day after day away willytt any signa of water, the huge ma- Ghine bringing Gip tons of folid rock. Aftor boring to the depth of two hundred and ninoty foot, an apparently in exhaustible supply of wator, of excellent quality, waa aot, Steam pumps arrived from Manchester, and one twolve hours. ¢ machiuo’s mode of operation ia by « circular row of chisols, with an innor row, standing in Pee ee Se a ‘ed focoivor, and the chisels are then made to work on & the circumference of (he socket hulding the chisels, The machine can bore a bole four feet tu diameter, but the ider the surface the force is the more diminished. in be progont instance the bore was only aighteen inches An average of twenty seven feot eight inches of well was sunk per week during the operation of the mack ‘ne. ‘Tho cost per foot was 10% 41. The coat of the machine and refited, wan £000, but it was lol, including bofler, at the rate of £6 ge In Yorkshire tho machine had bored | ing tho boauty, through forty foot of hard stone ured as millstones, Tn gave ® Doring for any great depth it was found choaper, after ‘Tho goason at boring threo buydred or four hundred foet, to reduce | One. tho diameter from eighteen Inches to fifveon inches. The machine has bored wolls of four feet in diameter and } eral fifty foot deop, as at Birkenhend. Tho cost was not to- since creased in the samo ratio as the diameter. If required sink « pit shaft twelve foot or eighteen foot in diame- ter, a sories of holes two fost im diamotor would be euyi, holt | an the practical lisnit of tho maghine ts regarded aa beidg two foot in making a single hole. . The Boston Post OMiee. Boston, Adgust 20, 1660 ‘Tho statisticn of the Boston Post Office for the fiaohl pred onding J 1696, show a not profit over hugo Foage Baton the gorau Oe | aut t Mery, ARRIVAL The Town of Zongolica Fi claims Against the Empire, THE vera cavr,| REPORTED FIGHT AT PCELA, Asrivat of French Troops and an Opera Troupe. ‘The Acverican aud Mexican Mail Steamship Company's steamship Vera Cruz, Captain Turner, from Ver@# Cruz on ‘the 14th, Sival onthe 16th and Havana 20th instant, ar- vtved last evening. She had fine weather out, and made the run fronr Havana to Vera Cruz in two days sixteen hours—the quickest trip on record. Returning she ox- A layer: of finely pulverized chalk is compressa and | portenced heavy weather betweon Havana and here, and’ smoothed! by hyaraulic power ona metal plate. The artis? drawa om this with an ink witich makes the fines hard. A soft brush or a piece of velvet rubbed over the plate lsaves the inky portion in relief, The whole plate is then saturated with a chemical solution, which turas the chalk-into stone, somewhat,analogous, it seems, to Cansome’s principle. From this irspressions may be taken, or stereotypos or clectrotypos obtained. Tho cost! of theae ‘‘graphotypes’’ is said to be something like oue. tenth the cost of wood blocks. wax obliged to pat into Hampton Roads for coal. Agahe steamed? oat'of Vera Cruz harbor all the forts and Austrian and French war vesae! lute, News bad reached there of a tight near Puebla, but no-particulars bad been received. wero firing a sm Our Vera Cruz Correspendence. Vura Cava, August 14, 1305 NXPRDEMION AGAINWT JUAREZ. While there is not much to write of affairs here in the Mr. Jobn Pownny, of Dorchester, England, the inventor | ompirs, there are somo things that seem peculiarly inte- resting. A party or force is-being raised at Oajaca to go to the Department of Chiapas to pacify aud clear it of By information from Durango we learn that the Jua- riat forces that have been threatening that town have di- vided, and part gone to Parral, Gaudaloupe and Calvo, and tho other part, andor Gartoral Carafal, has gone w LOSSES IN NNGRETR'S ARMY. Gé4neral Nogreto loft Guapequilta, not only haviag float half his mon, but all his horses im crossing the deserts, Soevtor J. M. Calvo, Maximilian’s Minister of the Treas- ury, imforms the Jeckers’ bondholders that on the 20th inst, hewill be ready to buy those bonds to the amount of $839,333, making known the fact that government will not buy any unless presented with a deguction of sixty-oox and two-thirds per cent. SONGOLICA PROOLAIMB AGAINST THE KUPIRH. Newsarrived by courier yestorday, the 13th, that tho town of Zongolica, in the State of Drizaba, had pro- claimed ‘against the empiro. attacked it twice and beon repulsed. All the imporial forces at Orizaba had left to-attack Zongolica, and tho poople are foaring that duriug: their absence tha liberal party imsthe city will rise-and proclaim against the The imperial forces had |, can be compiled. AN IMPRRIAL PAMTE DRFEATED . Tho vory latest nows by telegraph this morning is thaty a Spaniad-by the name of Pancho Dosal was caught at Cotasoa, with letters addressed to liberal oflicers, and while under arrest and boing escorted by an imperiak } quested to remit thoir subseriptiong whomever practs dotachmont the Liberals stacked the party, took «ll! | camie, by Post OMice-Ontors. Mt is U 10 suseat mode of prisonors and released Dosak i AN ENVOT TO WaseNOTON. , wenecaitting money byyrosit. } Frons the Kelafelie, published in Mexico under Fronok: i that the-authorities have doterinined used by a child. Tho chargo simply conatsts of a large pageeae net teais, Ral ss Weshingionse luarn the attitude of the. United Stator towards this gov- ernmonut, remarking thas.“am open enemy ix bottor sham “a deceitful friend.'' Circulars and.drawings the Vora Cruz from:Havana to Vora Cruz. & a Pesulive a fry! a: y end: Rowe. ic ‘perf umere, 38d Whsiadle by LOVRIOV, 68 Pultou Street ‘Tho provision market is well supplied. Lard, 200. a 22c.; butter, 20. a Bt. ; hams, 226. FATAL HAQORWAY ACCIDENT IN BROADWAY. Yestorday morning «lad fiftoon yearsof age, named the holst rope, and , did not heed the the reye he fell aud was dered: a verdict of acci with. bis parents, in Brom) DEATH, PROM WOLENCK. Stephen Dunden, the young man who was struck on the head with » brick ia the hands of John Wallace, dur- ween them some days ago, aa reported has since died from the effeets of he receiv ed on that occasion. was notified to bol'é an inquest. THE ACCIDRAT IN SRVENTY-RIGHTH STREFT. Mr. Henry G6, Whoaton, the gentioman who. was run over by a Naw Haven train of cars at the corner of was ag healthy as at tho boginning Thore was not even | Sevonty-oigb ch atreot and Fourth avenue, on, Friday oveu- the slightest dilation of the pupil, which in other Animals results from a very amalt quantity of this plant, was cut. by a large force of colnved men; there | Had that rabbit boon made into a pio those whaate of it Pit these would doubtless have showm symptoms of poisoning; for and kil ded, was a woll known mewbeg of the bar of city. Ho ‘lived in Seventy-e street, between “ the occurrence was and 9.4 inquost will be beld, wont to te Coronor's off Mr. W'seaton was sixty-f Our Returning Vet ‘AMOMETION OF THR FIFTRENTH NAW YORK an- This regimont waa forpally réboived yostorday by anum- ber of its frieuds, shhong whom were sovoral old members They marched through Broadway aan early hove of the morning, headed by a band of musia, At Liberty Gardon, in the Bowery, rofroshment wore provided, aiter which the regiment passed dows 10 | wouyt My \atorta their customers that, having fa- new = of the organization, xe Battory, whore they took the boat for Hart's Ueland, | tel ‘THR FLETY-SHGQND LENNGYLVANIA (COLORED). Tho above rogiment arrived here yoatorday morning from Hilton Head and left immediately for Phitadel- phia, where thay will be mustered out of service, Thore are five hundrod men in the organization. ‘Jorsey ony News. Daare ov 4 Scicro#. Julian Boll dred and ' thousand gallons wore brought up in | hot himself on Tuowday might Int, at No, 114 Nowark | ples , the Germaa who avenue, diod yestorday (Seturday) afternoon of bis inju ries, Coroner Farrel held an inquest, and « verdict of death by suicide waa rendered. man, and had no relatives in thia country. last ho refused to aagign any reason for attempting to put an end to hia life, Deceased was a single Reopening of the Walnut Street Theatee, Purcananrnta, August 26, 1805. The Walnut stroot theatre of this city reopened night, under the auspices of Edwin Booth and aa Clarke, Tho ostablishmont has been entirely remodeled and ia now the handsomest theatre in "hile. Machitens " o imme audience Was present, aheod ry ‘ng tas bia , fain and intelligence of the city, and gatned by HE! uBoLDs grecting (0 Mr, Clarke, warm afd enthisiastic 7 nay oF ANTIMOMY. «A tine Lock to be vaiphacet of Gtationary Fire Department. + gaan cs tani Os of our Posy por snrene pt excitement, the obstruction of ~ steete from the fires, and the “ Panel Penne tho qireots for severm: vive... dangor {6 ives and limbs induce mo to Offer to Our my of Fire CommisMoners a plan which will, if put inope- ration, remedy some of these evils, t The present system oi portable steam fire engines, whether drawn by men or fiorses, although a vast im- provement on the band system, is inconsistant with the advan."cd Condition of engineering science. That the Board of F.¢ Commissioners of this metropolis should go on a tour of i thoir aystoms of extingpiahlng fires is an insult to the gogineors of New York. At the lato fire, at Baroum’s Museum these gontlomen would bi ¥ an extended Journey tiftrough t tha nection to provincial towns to examine qu gine of the t Gre the stationary pummping office performed more aetual gervice thaw four portable caginee, much as we now have, could do. To nearly every block in the lower part of the city Steam is used for manufacturing purposes, and if proper stationary pumping engines were connected with « auf- ficient number of these, stonun bollera, 60 thas hose could ba’ attached to them on the sidewalk, and ® standing contract made with sho owners to always keep a head of steam on to works them, we could, in ome month, have a hundred powert! Bot exceeding the price of of our fancy engines and ita necessary appurtenances This would only serve for the present emergency, ho eve", and the depart- ment should not storhere. ' New’ York is the groaloas, wealthiest and most intelligent ¢tty on the continent, and should haye the West and most complete Ore he cond ment in existence. The Commis voners should, t foro, at once proparo tieir plang for the laying in every street of cast iron pipes, connected with powerful ata- tionary pumping engines; owned avd oontrolied by the same; Fire fire engines, at a cost plugs should alse be located im the side walk every two hundred {eet Those on- gincs’ should maintain’ at all times a sufficient in the mae pipes, (so that, with TeKIUTC Kirohambers of sufficient size, any fire could be ox tinguished at almost a moment’s notice. We should thea require nothing but light Jose carriages end hook and ladder companies, The bessting of bose would be pre- obstru adozen Stes in different p wrt of the city gould be ox- tinguished: at one time will \ leas noise and excitement than is now occasioned by the burning of an old mat tress, Having airoady trespassed too much on your space, Lwill not enter iato further di wails, but will bold myself in readiness to lay the whole Commissioners, et any time, al tould they desire to make an investigation, ‘before the Board of Fire JOSEPH A. MILL. ER, No. 53 John street, A Wey to Take the Conses, TO THE EDITOR OF PHE HNRAGD. The majority of the inbabitan t* of this city must, f think, be convinced that the retu, "ns oblained at the laws taking of the census here are un, read) inancurate. That thia ia ao ia attr ibutable to the tnsuf ficte formation there caxbe no doubt if not grosaig of the meana adopted £0 « *Dhaln tha required im- ‘The most effectuat-way of obta inte tk eorrect returna to loave a carefully propared pap or, tuled in columns un- der proper headings, at every 4) velliug, with plaim instructions ag to filling up the aa me Printed at the head, requiring the head ofeach househ old dedill up auch paper with the name, ocoupation, &c., a f e\'ery individual wae slept ondor his roof oma night to] >¢ 4)089 being previously paased stating t he obje fixing a penalty for neglect. This act should be adver tised fp the daily pxpers for a month previously, by which moans all persoan would bo ‘ome asequainted wit the intention and take-an interost { 0 ita furtherance. As | to such districts where the imhabita uts may bs presamed to be illiterate, an office should be « established to ronder asnistance gratuito , & short act ip view and uslys ‘These papers ‘shoul d.be eolteoted ¥ Compptont persons, ! who should exaraine eaeh one as col ested, and ot same amended if necessary. From the returns ‘thus obtained § toliable information NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Our city aubgeribers will confer a Cavoeby reporting any of our city carriers.who overchat go fo the Hrnace Countey subscribers. to: the New Yi ux Tidmanp are re- Advortisoments should be sent to Lip» office before ane i o'clock in the evening, A Ready and Conclusive Test of ios oe ries of HELMBOLD'S FLUID | ExTracr y Li will be, with thowe set f orth in toe United States Dis Advice forthe Cure of ‘Balimess and ‘Aator place. The well known singow Scfior Biachi, just fromAow | gray Hair, at Dr, @RANDIBAN'S. 459 oars’ ppaction. No. Yorlg came via stoamor Vora Cruz, and by the French atoamor Olinde tho mesabers of his Italian opers.troupe All havo gone to the city-of Mexico. ARRIVALA.OF FRENOH TROOPS. | Gach French steamyr-that arrives brings, oman, aver- age, five hundred new: troops—portions of the one lan- LAK BON roa Weal th soot, bpeesee DN, a meet. one ‘Cigarholders at wi elail, = Pipcaout ve mounted with siver, and repaired. Adolphe Woamane bors cous Sinn All Prinses oe fe Le; Lotteries. J. CLUTE, 8) okon, 118 Brondwey, fad Compher tn anLa ates ail Pestillies de Florence A pall egal Lottery Prizes Cashea OMiciad Me aE PA YEON, 10 Wall slreot, Mew York. Batchelor’s Hair Dye=—The Beet in th sah Vaults 99 Wittiow. o ad Groat Nervous ansianee Pond yientes uae Chevalter’s Life for the Matr Restores hair to ita original color, st. ite falling out, Keope the fralsiean, stands above comparison with ‘auy "other hale dressing. Sold at th Loree Li Braden ORR f, CHRVALIRE, B.D —aemperaneeemyee Cristadore’s mi es we Preservative od w retail, No 6 Astor House. he Sycaprheed by akatat artias 53 nm Liver Truss Dr. Glover's New Champ! the retention avd cure of ts perfection Eiinatle for “ng gare af rupture, ie po Ann atreet on . Ni the old and well known fore- man, bas the entire supervision ‘of the ladies’ qnd children's ct ta, which Ie @ eufliciont guarantor for aatiaf ytiow. eae waals Enfeebled and Delicate af both sexes, use HELMBOLD'S RXTRA! bs aaa brisk and enorgetie Cceeliugs and ot wel f| to forty ray, ouo door bet Ooo aaa te Eaten 7 THA ¢ A Tae arigiaal Se eke pp Yaseen Hated o® feonived, three, five, G. ©. ALLEN, 45 Tactory and added largely to their ( Formanatesturing. they will (in a Fee mens thot ast eaporn tthe proved yo fon of heanget) for ete erednes the dat act: ‘kh © , Oe pia Otioe ond selacomn, ‘Wi Broadway, New Tort. oo oes Gro: Highest Premiuce Blastlo Wika tos Tne Stich Sewing Machines, 06 Broad — ee ne ' mbold’s Fivid Extract Buche te free from all iajurtows propar< “— sewi Machine Co.—Klias Howe 1 MOSS Sp Baty Ags wanted x —— ee ie and ate in ite Heimbold's Concentrated Bxtract Bas oHU 18 TUK GORBA: Ww) ic HRLMBOLD'S CONC! aah Wareacr GaRsara- 18 THE GREAT BLOOD PURIPTER nat” sha kre the tous uallve iat an be made.” mbold’s Extract Bachu Gives He aod vi to the frame aed bloom to the pe eoakment mabuilied v send es on ng @. y Lottery.=ee Omctal the Walnut promigos to bo @ very brilliaat | grawing of Angust 18, on another pags. TAYLOR & 00. Royal Hav neal seen anna red Constitutions Restored by ubeupono’s EXTRAOT BUC! 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