The New York Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1866, Page 8

he oa 2 hla sve and evnnli“h Tne raiiod on the ord system of THE SHIPYARD OF JONN ENGLIS AND SON, eanvase propulsion cannot but reeolt advantageously to ‘This well known shipyard, where most of our large our shipping merchants, as well as benedcially to our | sound and river steamboats have been built, has nF yee ship carp-ntors and machiste Sulng coesele are well | once ceased work, and the prospects are that’ thes g ‘wilt | and probably best adapted for Tong *6yMics, but Lor eoaskt. | he enough work to keep them. steadily CIPI ged until | Ing perposes we need many more uners to keop pace | tne Dey season commences, A short Ui ge since Mr, Pritt our growing commerce and increasing travel along | Englis suecessfully Jaunched the fine “gamer Evening four eastern seacoast, which sietches a distance of Stay from his yard, aud he bas HOW gp the stocks and “nearly threo thousand miles, | almost ready for launching the ¢easort to this splendid | ‘The daily imcreasing fulercourse between this tountry | vessel. She will be neatly Uszeo hundred feet long, with » aad Europe also requires additional steamers to be placed | a depth of hold of over ele-en fect. She ls to be a sde- ‘On the lines already established, aud it ts, not at all im. | wheel steamer, af ubon!, one thonsandttons, and will be probable that before the expiration of another two years | handsomely (wrnishwd.” The engines aro building at the there will be regular daily steam packets plymg between | Morgan [ron Works, ana aro to be of the walking beam New York and the sovera! leading Huropean ports. Nor | syle. Tho vessel will ran between Boston and Gardi- is it alone on tho Atlantic that our steamers are multiply | nex, on the Kennebec river, tng co rapidly, The Pacifte Ocean bears upon its broad | ‘The eiher shipyards in this city are ballding no new | waters many Of the finest models of onr merebant steam | vessels e te marine, tradivg along the South A’ jean Paciiie ol | - ~ and making San Francisco the depot from ch | Clty Intelligence, hey, radiate west north and south, wud now, that our | cuaciry Bau—Porwe Reieiatioss—For the instrac- ! / persons attending the Charity Ball t the Aca. of Music this evening, we publish the following | : | Notice of the regulations as regards coaches, &e Pwenrysixmn (Urry Haut) Pererer Porter, ders of the age i New Your, Ja a nsee jouy to the Charity Ball this evening will be ad- ‘ THK MAMMOTH STF ausiive, \tat the mam ofitrance, on Irving place, Coaches he vessels in quesiion are now building uf the sir in will opproach from Third avenue, through Fourteonth wens , 8 —_——— THE i seemitaaal bilge pumps, seven apd a half by seventy-two inches stroke, will be driven from air pamps. THE SHIPYARD OF WILLIAM HM. WEBB, ESQ. Besides the large steamer building at this yard for the Pacie Mail Steamship Company there are two large steamers now in frame, and considerable progress has already been made in their constraction. ‘The two steamboats now on the stocks are building for e@ Merchants’ Steamboat Company gi pre, ode ‘sland, and are to be in avery respect fest glass vessols. ‘They are intended for the Sound service, aud aro to be ealled the Prov dence and the Bristol. Tl are ander. stood (o be Mr. Webb’s first eture jn the of alld. tng Sound steamers, gnd thef will mo=t undoubtedly prove @ eredit to their experienced constructor, The peculiar feature about the models of these vessels is, that, being fuller, hey are better calculated to give greater reliability and comfort under all circumstances, while they are at the same time admirably adapted to withstand the rough-chop seas and inelement weather to which they will be subjected during the winter sea- ‘on on thelr route. Concerning the fratne and timbers, are much larger than is generally the eustom with SHIPYARDS. The Shipbuilding Business of New York. Work New in Pregress---Nothing but Steam Vessels Building. Two of the Largest Wooden Steamships Ever Built at Present on the Stocks, veescls, and the side timbers amidships are carried up to the ht of the second cabin, and this novel tion, together with th y “hog frame, h and security than is usnal with class Both aro to be precisely ali las a tendency to give greater ssels of this im every par- THE VESSELS AND THEIR MACHINERY. county. inches in diameter and twelve feet bore, and is a wonder- ful piece of workmanship, It was cast without a flaw, and some idea of its immense siz’ may be obiained from & &e. ke. ticular as rds size, appointments, accommodations a . - for passengers, and will, judging from what already has 7 been done and that which is contemplated, prove to PRS: BR be splendid spee mens of mariue architectire, The Ras ‘ue various shipyards in and adjacent to | dimensions of each are as follows:—Extremo length on the city ally reviving; bat sti this brane of | deck three bundred and sixty fect, broadin of beam . © ye covered » pros | forty-eight feet and depth of hold sixteen fee industry has not as yet fully recovered from the pros- ) fT CE inery for hese vessels 18 how building at the tration that followed so soon upon the close of the war, | Pin iron Works and consists of one cylinder for each From the co neement to the teymination of the | s'camer, measuring one Dope paces ture, yur shipbuilders hat cork with uwelve stroke of piston. e machinery is great revellion our, shipbeliders 1A Te ee of more than a pi notice from th D tact May cout ntly attend to, and were often come | eyhnder, which was recently east for the petied to re wl their patrons to E more, Boston | winer Bristol, is the largest piece of marine machinery and Mystic to have their work perfor unable | of that particular Kind ever su-eessfully east hn this | tend to it themselves, from the fact of already bay anamoun! of work on their hands that utterly pre- | possibiliiy of their recelving more orders | Many of our ex searcely laid the | to in eluded the thon they could fil ina gven time, tepe.ve shipbuilders at that period h table placed in its centre would thirty people comfortably; and if Specie ve a keel of one vesvel before they contracted to buitd ano- | 00 its ide fully as many persons could be seated. The steam condensers for these v-ssels will be proportion. ther one so soon as the first should be launched. Atthe | Stely lurue. Thy will each welgh twenty dhtoe tons prevent day they can hardly find enongh work to ke»p | and will bo cighteep feet long, twelve fe thelr men employed, and in some few inctances the | U Uhigh, FPS RR ecm * igbtly cloesd-—e eure: iudieatio THE KAM DUNDERBERG eaten of the yards aro tightly cloged—a sure indication ‘ain Duuderberg lies alongside of the pier at, the that work in thai quarter Ts Very dull, | toot of this yard, and is fast approaching completion. SHIPBUILDING MATERIAL | The workmen at present engaged upon her are busily fk ee ee nat | ewployed in adjusting her monster machinery, and tin: pe Merely used in the: constrat | isbiug the joiner work in the officers’ quarters, She is everything » during the con- “by alarge nuinber of persons, Who survey tinuance of the war, asos almost doubled. be evident astonisbment peices pronosticns, and | | Whose curios mp to examine most Yellow pine, that formerly entered so largoly into the | ymwotely: the massive leon paces, that ences her one construction of every description of vessel, w ng to | s des, rance tothe interior of the ram fs eflected the blockade of the Sonthern poris, a very scarce artiels | WXOiIgh one of the after portholes, and is accomplished . Wiihout the slichtest inconvenience, So large are these in the Northern markets, and could but with the greatest | ports thata very shght inelination of the bead is the difficulty be purchased at any rice. It has, however, | only th to allow the easy ingress end egress wie r tunding In an upright position, It is onl wince the opening of the poris, been pouring into the n standing ib an_uprigh aa, erik market so fast that it appeared at ove time as if the Sb One Stites ie apeh so aking market we t to be flooded; bat, the shipbuilding busin mproving a little, the demand was equal to the supply, and the Kly bought up. that $0 many v gaged in carrying from the South to the » anticiy pine | and live ik will soon be selling at the ol With ption material has advanced about forty per id ion of vessels, li preciat to comprehend | devised thi » of naval warfare. 2 RD OF J. SIMO: IN. f this popular shipbuild wey ‘The hipyard at the Lot time presents a very animated pi , situated ture of life and ac cent on the old prices; bnt there is just « bare possibility ps ; dk ro poss | tivity, Mr. simoyson is at present engaged apon four of aelight decline before a great white. | The wages of | jargo stoamer-—tireo in this eity and one nt Greenpoint, been shghtly r ow Fee sand three dol. | %,month and the others in a short time afierwa I thing, two dollars and. fifty eray thin ; The voscels will be exact counterparts of each other, jars per day | and will be similariy fitted ap pon will be capable of BARKED INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF STEAM | Accommodating Lhe Zame number of passengers, The! VESSELS. | are to be turn shed in the most Inxurious style, and each ‘The most not ceable featurg presented at tye shipyards, | Will be supplicd with all the modern improvements and They will be named respectively and the one showing the d rection that our latge shipping } convienc: mervbants are drifting in, is the unprecedented number | Petersbar of steam vessels that are now building. Out of all the | map diag nrg * vessels al present on the stocks or about to be com. | fiity-six feet; bread menoed in this ity shane is not a single sailing vessel to | pole departs ee ay ain “pee the vessels will found among tl . in the combined shi hal vhile ¢ Petersburg, \ a New rl Brooklyn, Williamsburg ang Greenpoint, eos oon: Will carry the ontinary steamboat wheel, the Wenn possible (0 find above HBr etx of thoi clase, #6 demand | Wil be Kummished wath what is known as ihe “Mauly very clearly being in-favor of steam-rs, During the past | Wheel.” This wheel is seid ig be an improvement on four years there has been built in and ayound this eily ‘Horgaii w ab English invention, and dit jast twice as many steamers as sa lug vessel: heel by having revolving buck: aAteamers to every ten sailing craft, and tric, instead of the ordinary etation- | moving on a e have now reached a pomt for the first time in this busine. o | ary oues, The machmery for these steamers is now rary ve el, without a single exception, that isnow | building at the Delamater Iron Works and at Fletcher & ballding i f FN Harrizou's, his city: (0 be propelled by stea yards of Messrs, Webb aud Steers, an will be the largest merchant eb wountry, and pernaps the larg in the World. The keel of the ‘was Iaid about three weeks ag ing by Mr. Steers is som will probably be ready for launching fit resting on Fifteenth sure nse th coaeh at the door, jar cout assenger, without ed by inspection. ‘This cylinder i one tiandred and twelve | the fact that if this eylinder were placed on end a round accommodate about um or storn that one is enabled to fully ap: | prodig ‘ul size of the floaiing leviathan, or the marvellous ingenuity that lirst ast Twelfth street, just at the present | Two of them will be ready for lavuehmg in the course of the Norfolk, New York and Rchmond, and are | —Longth, two hundred and | below this the earth is thawed about ten inchs find be: of beam, forty feet, and depth of | Beath frozen soild. a | and 07 : Fare in all cases will be il to distanee | hee wilt be allowed fu line but euch | THE RUSSO-AMERICAN TELEGRAPH. Int u He) of Colonel — "The. Howto ‘Adopted and the Work Bio: ares a The Secret of the Western Unior, Telegraph Com- y, Colonel Palmer, has just received from San Fran- pany, cisco the detailed Colonel. Bulkley, i neer-in-chief of the Russian Tel oa ex} ro fe | Publish the repore a3 9 mattér of interest to the public, looking With anxiety to ae p: of the work of uniting by telegraph the two continents, With the roport are complete maps, raade by Colonel Bulkley, showing the route surveyed aad the location of the points named, This report must fully confirm epes of the friends of the Russian Tetegraph for its speody comple- tion and successiul constraetion ;— j SAx FRANcisco, Dec, 18, 1865. Since my last report, dated at Victor, ‘our ships have been engaged in transporting materi , supplies and parties for exploration of the country through which our lines will pass om both continents, examining harbors and coast lines, locating cable crossings, and, so far 1s possible, determining the route of these lines, ’ Mr. Cou- way, in charge of the Fraser's river division, has boon delayed in building, owing to late arrival of materials, but has finished four hundred ard Atty miles of line. I believe that the exploration committed to him, with the establishment of depots and distribution of ’ supplies, bas been tully and. satistactoril pleted. In a brief message he statesthat “up to ftty seven degrees north latitude there is nothing to prevent building the line.” The reydezvous of our vessels at Sitka was necessary in order to distribute supplies, which were in the Clara Bell; also to divide and dispatch our parties or their destinations. The far advanced summer left no other course; andin order to examine the most northern points myself, 1 determined to take the steamer George S. Wright and assist the other veesels, by towing as far as possible, ut the same time furnishing them orders in re- gard to future movements, in ease wo should, acci- dentally be separated or 1 should designedly leave them. M nicott, dividing his party, will explore whe } cou Detwe the Kvichpak, in latitude sixty-five | devvees north, and the head of Norton Sound; at the same time prish his little steamer up the piver until lopped by ico; then with dogs and sledges reach Fort Yucon, and penetmat» te the southward, forming a june- tion with the British American explorationa, To insure his sa‘ety in this last work, I ordered Mr. | Conway to establish a depot on Babini lake, which is | done. Es t, Michaels we found reliable testimony in re- | gard wo Kvichpak and Yukon being the same rivér and a | large navigable stream filled with islands. Sand bars block its p ge in many places to all except light draft boats, bot this was probably observed in only one of the j Many passages in which this great river winds through the islands in its course, gy pe os 2 | From sviaends aluce Teccived it is certain -that | thd most southern mouth of this river has an entrance from the sea, with ten feet of water on the bar; and everything indicates the existence of still better channels through which sucha large volume of water must be emptied 1nto Behring Sea. From St, Juizhacls the Russians £0 in ite Most northern mouth with boats drawing four feet. Large quantities of drift wood come down with its | current, landing on the shores of Behring Sea and Nor- | ton Sound, furnishing the trading post of Si, Michaels | with their only fuel. | This part of Russian America ts low and rolling, but in the south aro high mountans, spurs of the great, coast range that stands like a wali on the whole coast, following the poninsula of Aliaska, and forming the Aleutien Islands, North of this island chain Behring Sea is (ilted with allnvian poured into it by the rivers, making it comparatively shallow, while the southera side falls abrupUy into the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The harbor of St, Michaels is exposed to the north and i from that quarter, ‘The coast ard is jow, rolling and withoat timber np to Cape tof thir, precipitous, but not high, whch continues to near the entrance of Port Clarence. his fine bay has a good entrance, with ten {athoms of water and mid bottom; opening into its eastern side is | Grantley harbor, amallet ip extent and completely land- locked, ving a good landing for our cable, and the only practicable and safe one on the American side of Behring Strait. The country is of the sanit general character as that bounding Norton Sound on the Cast, witho:t tmber and covered with a heavy. growth of moss, thrown up by the frest in large bunchy my, iy | \ | | i Small stanted bushes, ' rive like wild currants and whortleberring” are the only approachs to trees in {his region, St. Lawrence and Mechigme ' coast, proved unsafe for our pi ane! oct watey weitere posure to sontheast galer driving ico packs in dec faye were full of ners Sonid destroy any eable; both | pays wore fall of oF ¢eo, which oxtenied in broken tines with consider... 4% through which we worked our wav “atbl> difficulty, Sen‘avin Strait offers alt “aton accessary, with good bottom, dep water y Penkega Gull or Abolesher bay, and this strait to Grantley harbor the bottom of Behring Strait is mnd, sand and gravel, «veraging about { thirty fathoms in depth, and distance between proposed | land'ngs one hundred and seventy-eight quiles, The Siberian side Is more mountainous, withont timber and but littls moss, except in the valleys. The great masses of slenite that rie in sharp, rough outline at their sum- mits are tora and poshed ‘by, the congealing water in | every crevice until the avalanche of comes thun- dering down to the valley, and Hes a gentle slope against the mountain side, and 1 this way these mountains aie | sinking to hills and the masses crumbling to atoms in the intense cold, Vaileys wind between them, some- times partially filled with this debris, bat througl! which | we find paseage for our land line, The ground is thawed | to an average depth 0” three feet, probably owing to the { oe of the thick moss covering of the American side, In Port Providence, or Plover bay, wetound our bark Palmetto, from whieh verse! wo coated, and ordered her | direct to Fan Francisco, On September 26 the Golden | Gate arrived from St, Michaels, reporting all of Mr. Keu- nicott’s men, eupplies. &e,. landed, and the party, | good spirit, about staring up the Kvichpak river. I ordered Captain Seammon 10 Petropautski, to commont- | cate with Mr. Abasa, 6 should get frozen In the Anadyr river, a8 winter seemed fast approaching. Al ready the lower hills were covered with snow, and ice was | closing the upper part of the bay. ‘This is a good harvor, bounded by mountains, with deep water and wud bottom. The coast line west rises in perpendicolar cliffs, witt serrated and revged outline, and ‘no availabic harbors cast of Cape Spauberz, The har- bor that we find divectly west of this cape has i entrance between perpendicular cliffs, bot at its head a good beach slopes intofthe water, with low, roll. jug connitry stretching to the eastward. ‘In the distance ; north, high, mou vover d with snow show gust next, Both veeve expected tobe in proper | | . i" their ragged oui nd mud bottom, with condition for making Uveir regular trips between san Captain aud inspector-et Hackuey Coaches, | Water averoging. about thoms in depth, con Francigeo, Kanagawa, Japan, and Hong Kong, China, | tinves across Anadyr bay to the month vr viver, about the first of ne: the round voyage, from the | TH® Tose Yacur Cucm—Among the most plewsant re- | and there is a good landing m the bay near Cape Obser. time of Jeaving the port o San | Franc > until return | vnioms of the present winter sewson will ba the tet am: | vation, well Protveted {rom ice 10 the same, occipying about two months, They ai . “ ¢ schooner Milton er Was here, having innded to be constructed of the best rials, and. will te in | S28 bailof the Tone Yacht Clab, which is to take place | y/'RtcRen and party, tho were cagaged In peepaiton ter every t superior vessels, They are to be supplied | 0a Wednesday cvening, Febrnary 7, at the Everett | winter. It being too late fog bout explorations of the ‘with all the modern improvements and will each have | Rooms, Browlway, corner of Thirty-fourth street. The | river, they will commences with reindeer os soon as the vont, when ready for sea, over 4 million of dollars. They will be divided into four water tight compartinents and strongly braced with iron bars running diagonally | throughont the entWe length of the vessel. ie iwo steamers correspond with each other in every particular, | ith this difference, thut the one buthiing by Mr. Webb has forty seven feet breadth of beam, while that at Mr. | Steers’ yard measures fully fifty feet. With this trifing | exception in the width the two steamers ure precisely -| alike in every particular as rds xize, appointments, codtliness, &c.: and the one deseription ‘eill power for. Both vex THE DIMENSIONS OF THE STRAMERS. Both vessels will be adewheel steamers, substantially braced with irov,wnd will be about five thousand tons Durden, carpenter's mewsurement. They will have three | promise to soaks revelations of « character yery int fall decks, and will be full ship rigged, and will all be | mg to taxpayers, The convention will have @ principally constructed of yellow pine. | The timbers are | sentati first to be braced with diagonal bars 0” iron, over which | wards, and dhe firet planking of yellow pine will be laid. This | tions will be planking Will next be braced im the same inanner as the timbers, and over this again an éxtra planking will be placed, which wili cousist of pine and oak, two-thirds of the bottom being oak and the rewainder of the pitch pine. ‘Their dimeusion:, with the exception of the difference im the width of beam before noticed, will be | craft in our harbor, was promises to take ‘posit the New York squadron. ganized last September, Its ofttec or’ Weaver. beneficial to the nse of education, onrmitted warcide at the foot of Seventteth st Eleventh avenue, by shoot as follows:—Length between perpendiculars at loud line, | Ben three hundred and sixty feet: breadth monided, sorts: | learned tin retoalne were convered te, the The fee | ht and a half fet; breadth extreme, including prectu®h police stat’on and ihe Coroner wotiied iene | king fifty feet of spar Rech ver. an orlop deck nt each aud engine bulkbeads: also # ive corge and coal, The wod the sides piteh | y | am tnquest | Tae Cosrronesees,—About one handred and fifty jour cone body nnton of the journeymen into one body should be effect ber, extending below the keelsons to above t will be ten inches thick amide thick at the ends of the vesels, amidebips thickness well towards | Rach beam op the orlop deck will to the beet mode of effeeting such» union. The mom have two kness securely fastened to the timbers; thove on the berth deck will have three, and the main deck the sum ber. They will be fastened with not lees than sixt 5 | ganization were wnwilling {0 diksolve their own organiza bolis to cach knee, driven on trom bevelled rings through | tion. They proposed a anion means of a central com- the beams and timbers in diagonal directions. The | mittee, composed of delegat a elected by each society, planksbearing will be of white pine, and even inches , Mr. Bararaih presided, aud a long discussion took thiek, the guard facings of oak fastened to the beams, | place, which, however, led to nothing definite. The and the stanchions of yellow pine, fitted jnto the plank | ohject of the propoved coufeetionors’ union is to regn. ehear The balwarks will be of white pine, and amid- | late bowed vp ‘of inbor, a= there appeared to be no regan. ships the frame timbers wilt ran ap to the rail, where lar standard of wages paid te the journeymen, the pre- the rks will be of yellow pine, both inside and sent renge being from $12 to $20 per week. About one Dulkheuds are to be thowsa One abalt the ebain loeker, one for Lot boiler, one abatt the engine, and one forward at ba aft, and each will extend from Bottom oF vere! to berth deck; all to he built of two | thicknesses of two and a hull inch pine, with tarred felt | Between aud fietened thoronghly together with tree. wails and aorew boils and Urmly secured to bottom and sides of veene! the seaue are to he well cantked, Out, thos making them solid, TI Jocated as follows ward of for and Brooklyn. Pollee Intelligence. CAPTURE OF A WAGON THIEF. rity The machinery for the welty Iron Works, sod wil) wa lding at the No- following daven- sions :—A beam engine of « and five inches | ® boree and cart near Mr, Sherwood's premises, and then pay ose A op it : yoke of piston, to Benet ot cners, sae frees tia, Cove ties ith balanced poppe! \alves ay 5 ae ' aeeaen & ! aod Allan's adjust. | them if cart. weds ya A | away with hie er with compressed wood pplied with condensing ap, driven by a pair? | clad, which is a recent addition to the flotilla of pleasure and on among the “crack” elibs of are as follows:-- | President, Willian H. Cornel: Vice President, Geo. W. | Osborne; ‘Sceretary, Joe 1, Malone; Treasurer, Jos, A, MEKENG oF Senoot TROsTERS A convention of the | Ward School Trustees is to be held on Saterday evening next, Febroary 3, in Grammar School No. 4, Rivington | Breet, near Ridge, at the call of the Thirteenth Ward | Bowe. Trustees Joseph B. Tooker and Win. H. Tracy | (the latter alsy member of Assembly, Righth distriet) terest: of KX members from each of the twenty-two ig expected that the result of ite " Sovoroe of ax UNKwown Man.—Yesterday morning | aman abont thirty.five years of age, dressed ia United | States military pants, check shirt and Wack felt hat, near himeelf hroogh the hewd hey men Confect oners, who for some Lime pact have been trying to effect « protective organization, held a meeting terday at the Germania Assembly Rooms, with the tonite the English, German and French journey. inon, who ure represented by soparate @rganizations, into A revolution War parsed to the effect that a ed, but there anpeared to be some difference of opinion as bers of the Englich asso lation advocated the formation of one grand roclety of the joarneymen tonfectioners, while those repreventing the German confectioners’ or. pertons are working at the trade in this city ‘Mr. Charles W, Sherwood, doing basines® at No. 750 ( Greenwich street, yesterday lodged # complaint before Justice Dodge, agains: Thomas O'Brien, but better known | as “Deaf Tom," charged with stealing two barrels of au- gar, valued at $75, from in front of his store. Tom drove is in sofficient quantity, Three hundred of pais were on the gronad, belonging the the vicinity, with whom eT peony “ety oe Mr. MeRae will proceed to al Gays’ jourmey, and thence towards of Ghyinsk Goll, oy antil ‘oramunicating w th Mr, Abusa, tg whom he is ordercd to ith » Doat 1 ascenibed the rivet to about thirty above Cape Tolstol, and fount» fine navigable stream, with banks, and the country in the distance gently undu- ine and without timber. ‘The waters at this point ebb flow with the tides of Behring Sea; but the indica. sof sreshets on ie banks now a rise of about len t, which lenve considerable driftwoed, of large «ize . this northern region, Some of the logs obserced ryt more poo hand pee = in — The Indians © above, and represent the river crooked, ny currents and rocks some distance ap. From 1 Give ‘St forse . covered with moss, and thawed about | depth. Low, sornbby pines and alder, not over three | feet in height, grow in ebeltered places. On the 19th of | October new ice was making go fist that we were obliged | to leave the river, and on the following day large seals | were climbing on its ed. and lyiag there above water, | coriousty watching ut. Snow lind already covered the |) gtound, and it was probable that Mi ve could soon , Commence his winter explorations At noon on the 1th the «um was seventeon degrees above the horizon, and for the first three days of passage ‘southward ice was continnally forming on the ship's | sides and decks. | ‘The coast from Apadyr river soutnward, so far as we were able to examine it in stow squalls, was very moun tajnous and offering no inducement to look for another cable landing, and ove, too, that would increase the dis. tance, besides, the interior roule via the river Will uvoid these cowst mountains. The proposed cable rontve across Anuiyr bay is two hundred and nine miles, whieh can only be avoided by ‘ building # land line north, und crossing the Gulf of St. Croix, ‘That conat is a most inhospitable region; trom Cape Behring could see rough, <ow-covered ranges | etretohine far towards the head of the bay on the eastern | shore, but the western is not so Wigh and broken. 3253 32 | | / We Parrived at Petropavisk) Oct. 21, and found the Golden Gate lying in (he harbor. Mr. Abaga and one of | his party started from this place iste in August, moving | northward through the peninsula of Kamehatka, in- | tending to arrive at the head of Ghyinek bay in time for snow travel towards Anudysk, 6: westward, as his con nection with MeRne may decide Finding ‘the subordi. Hate officials ready and willing to assist, without positive orders from the Governor of Eastern Siberia, at the mouth of Amoor river, bé@ las chosen the proper couree to expedite his Work, and is pushing forward with com ™ energy and a determination to succeed that ' eine & countrymen, From information received 5 ‘tween Ochotsk and Port Aiaa, extending far inland, ond so precipitous on the coast that even the narrow winter trail cannot be carried along the base. foal road aions the cou, connect a connect! Avan with Obetsk, which does not contin the tour statement iv to this ge J Its the cl whom 1 dae bis infor- ‘com, we ite from Nowerd g Fy tion of telegraphs. Th: will have the of, with safe landings, and performance doubtful The jan tines droaly plant- " 08 i nes te enon cath Wl sna if morod fm rock; ‘asharmed unmolested; besides, with reindeer and dogs, the winter Bening wat be com} ively casy. The Behri is one hundred and seven- bay two hundred and nine nantical with water of such depth that icebergs alone could injure the cable ; these are unknown in Bebring Strait or south of it; the northward cur- rents preventing any drift of deep masses south; even when the surface corvent is changed by strong north winds the lower water still moves horthwar!. It has been argued by some that the terrific gales of high latitude opposed insuperable difficulty in keeping up lines; they are not fabulows, yet no more violent than the gales your temperate zone. The Esquimaux builds his insecure skin tent on the most exposed place, so that the snow may blow away from it, and ther? it stands, his shelter and home through all the biasts of the long winter. I have seen no Esquimaux on the Asiatic side inhabiting underground winter houses as of old; the excavations and ruins remain, but the people are gone long since, and the present races occupy the ground with their deer skin hab:tations. ‘The Indians of the sa coast are misrepresented; we found them friendly, honest and exceedingly hospitablo, never manifesting on any occasion, nor about any of our vessels, the least disposition to steal; but they beg, thinking, probably, that the white man, who has so much, can freely give. Those people can be made useful with {proper management; moreso in the future than in the beginning of our work. Game is abundant during the summer, especially water fowl, andthe Indians catch considerable quantities of salmon. Reindeer, rabbits, grouse and foxes (the three last white), seemed plentiful, also seal and walruses, Reindeer are used for beasts ‘ot burden on the coast and in the interior of Northeastern Siberia; in Russian Awerica, dogs alone. With these animals some of our short inland transportation must be accomplished during the winter, especially that over the thick moss covered region, We intend to nse every available means of water transportation, and locate our lines so far as possible to Sayor the plan, a‘ ‘Yo suppiy maf4tial and stores to parties on both conti. nents during next summer ‘Wo more sailing vessols will be necessary and another steamer “ greater serenity and power than the Wright, especially i it 13 decided to lay the cable; besides, I believe it will be necessar’ 1@ sond the Wright into the Ochotsk sea. I propose to build here two small stornwheel steamboats, about forty feet long, of light draught, to tow barzes or small flat- boats up the Kvichpak and Anadyr rivers. These will be always necessary 10 transport our supplies into the nerior Y sieioe ye ashe. ey a Should the Navy Depatiment give us a steamer that will not sail without steam, and leave us to provide coal, it will be doubtful economy to accept, Steamers for our service should be, like the Wright, either a sailing yess] or steamer, as circumstances require. This steamer has proved 2 valuable vessel, both economical and serviceable; with two blades on her propeller she steams well, and performs admirably ander sail alone. Since leaving San Francis:o her keel has gone through eleven thousand miles of water, and of this she towed some one of our vessels twel Iundred mites at sea, In the furious and meessant gales after leaving Petro- paulski she lost’ her smokestack and sails, be. sides being somewhat damaged in her ‘upper works. ‘The other vessels returned in good condition, but the Milton Badger 1s so destructive to sails that I recommend her sale, to be replaced with a square- rigged vessel. The Gold -n Gate’s equipment was simi- Jar to # vessel in the revenue service, and she bas been ttagship of the expedition, The show oi power and the nationality that Captain Scammon represented with his flag was necessary to insure the respect and kind oflives of a people who expect this, especially in an enterprise that interests the world: Our general military organiza- tion too has its good effect, not only among strangers, savage or civilized, but among the members of the or- ganization. * In natural history the collection’ have exceeded the expectations of the most sanguine, and do honor to the liberality which has permitt:d tyis work. No oor duty hus been neglected for aig Object, how r, but when recreation was wecesSiry or conyebiént this has proved | S Pleactag aiid instructive source, DAF soundings werg Sande with a now instrument, which brings up a s.:ffictent quantity of any other bottom than rock for satisfactory test, aud which, during the Jrogress of our work, has added many interesting speci- mens from the ocean beds to our collections. ‘The general health of all connected with the expedi- tion has been good. No serious sickness has been re ported, uo death has occurred, nor any serious casualty befallen any person. Q The exp 'd tion was delayed so late that 1 was obliged to abandon say plan of exploring the lower Kvichpak and its mouth, wad the thorough boat exploration of the Aways river, bat the Winter parties now in the fleld will accomplish the purpose. All the vessels have rendered most éficiout service and are well adapted to the work. There have been but few listless moments or idle hands since our prows were turned fairly north, and, with scarcely au exception, all connected with the enterprise have engaged with in- terest in the service and zealously endeavored each 10 emulate the other in the discharge of their duties. The services of Captain Seammon have been of the greatest importance, vot only as a thorough seaman, but parti- cularly as an officer of the government of the United States carrying our nations! flag. ‘The Russians, sensible of the importance of the enter- prise, have neglected no opportanity to express the most kindly feeling and liveliest interest in our saecoss, re. ceiving us with unbounded hospitality. The officials have genero assisted Us. In regard to the British Columbia division, I will re- port immodiately afver Mr. Conway arrives, Tam, mos! eetfully, yours obediently, i BULKLEY, Engmerr gland Anticipate ing a Cri Over Speculation in the French Markets, {Paris (Jan. 4) correspondence London Post.) 1, appears (9 be @ general impression among our Bourse politicians that the year 1866 vill bring a fuanriad crisis in many of the foreign securities in which French capital it la-gely enga: In 1865 we had 9 large city loan; perhaps the only loan brongbt ont in Paris of Jaie which is really fully inthe hands of the public, Then we had the Mexican Convention, which was nothing more than « pew loam; a very large Austrian joan; and, finally, « oew Ottoman toan, In addition, French capital is very heavily engaged in Spanish interest, vow very considerably depreciated. A very large amount of the italian foan \s held in France; and» certain amount of Ottoman paper is in French hands, “France has — junto extensive foreign sprcula- tions during the last three or four years, and shows 4 Very considerable depreciation in al) quoted rhy, excepting the one or two sucessful credit societies, ‘These facis are perhaps better illustrated by actual I therefore give your readers a comparative ties quoted 10 Pat ree OU 1864, we compared with their value on December 00, 1965 :— Valur ow + De D6 Phar Mens, ws el = 18 8 am ~ € eS 20 00 - Crodit Agricole... 700. 6H ow =_ ‘ompt tu Com — 50 00 a —_ ow Comptoir UEscompie wo 1 wo = Credit Mobilier.. 2» 8 — oo Soointe Gener! . B50 ® ww - Mobiiler Expageol Ane 6i2 4 £ 3 - g 8 rit 1 sa 11 _ oe tf -4 vo a seu 00 w —- 2&6 Sat oh a2 am — . OD _ 6 6 - ' Ai 2 —- 6 e = 8 8 ra - Fal - 4 ‘am ih = in . mw iw ~ 2m 373 75 ee - ms wom cd - % A790 1,707 Bo - A Be 10 150) 30M 18.00 stl S88 55 - 20 0 mn Boctete Are Ouanlous..} 138 6 15147 68 = we , that most of the French prises have fallen in vaine twelvemonths, while the credit vometies show rive in the value of property. The French market terprises, and the temptetion of byth interests offered by the foreign lowe has caused nineh capital to leave old channels. The bolders of quoted property in France must be « great many millions poorer than they were a Year ago, ws the ubove While shows, The past year as absorbed untold sums im building, Here, agaiv, people wre prophetic about a considerable depre ciation of house property in Pars as regurds the magnifr ent hotels jany of Ue larger aod more costly apartments of the mew boulevards bave remained unlet daring Many monthe, while, on the other band, the more modest apartinents are eagerty worght for, Frances aust have spevt a fabuloas snm of money in 1865 in public and private buildings, jor it |« not only Paris Many warge Cities of the empire also, which employ thou sande of workmen, meny of whom are Germans aud foreigners, TNOREASE OF RANERUPTCING, [Pari (Jap. 5) correspondence of the Lnfependance Belge} The Tribunal of Commerce of Paris bus made public jn the month of December 141 announcements of bank! . This totul it somewhat but not mech terger then that of the previous month. ‘The Threatened Riot in Weehawken. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HRRATD. Vaxaxco Docks, Wrenawaes, N. J, Jan. 28, 1866 Under the head of Jersey City News, in your isene of | | | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1866.. SOUTH CAROLINA FREEDMEN. wre Improved Condi<!on of Labor The Freedmen Going to Work With Vigor. AN ENCOURAGING STATE OF AFFAIRS. &e. &e. &e. We are indebted to the Purser of the steamer Moneka, from Charleston January 25, for favors, Our Charleston Correspondence. Cuaruestox, 8. C., Jap. 25, 1866. THE CROP PROSPECTS for the coming year have, within the last week grown much brighter. The great cry of the planters now is for capital to supply the wants of the plantations and support thelr hands until the fall. Al! accounts agree that the negroes are pressing on their jormer owners to make contracts. Most of the planters who have arrived in the city lately report nearly all their old hands at work. Mr. William ‘Sinkler, one of the largest planters tw'St. Ste- phen’s parish, on the Santee river, has both his rice and | cotion lands under successful cultivation, Like others, however, he was here this week for the purpose of bor- rowing money to meet expenses. He has agreed to give his n groes one-third of the crop, General R, K. Scott, the successor of General Saxton, has arrived hore and is stopping for the present at the Mills House, It is believed that he will adopt a firm and Copcjligtory policy, He has already issued orders for- bidding negroes in the interior, who have made contracts, to visit the city without “pecla) agreement with their cinployers, Idle negroes will receive nd CUgguragement from him. its ‘The Darlington (8. C.) New Bra of the 234 inst. pub- lishes an interesting report of General W. P. Richard- gon, commanding the military district of Sumter. Gen eral Richardson says:— Having just returned from a tour throngh the northern aii@-wostern portions of my district, I have the honor to rt the existence of a very favorable condition of irs. Meetings were held at Bonnettsville, Cheraw, Chester- field and Camden, and were attended ‘by large ‘numbers of freedmen and many planters, ‘The freedmen are entering into contracts as rapidly 43 it is possible for them to do so, and are receiving, almost universally, much better wages than any one expected would be offered. The planters _gencrally are hopeful, and are exerting themselves earnestly and energetically in establishing between themselves and the colored pedple, by just and even generous treatment, mutual relations of confdouce age be cultivated - tton wi cultivated to an ev a or ex- £on to believe with 667-4 oF increased success, The only apparent Impedier nt to complote success is the want of suiflci:D) Capital by many of the owners of land to as extensively as they otherwise would. The propriety and necessity of educating the colored children is felt and was expressed by all with whom 1 came in contact, and I ‘fim satisfled the people will, wherever permitted, give such attention to this matter as their duty demands. ‘The quict and orderly conduct of the people through. ont th district, in the absence of the usual restraints of civil law, is truly astomshi The roads are as safe for travellers, by night or day, in any part of the district as in any portion of the country, either North or South. One case of destitution was brought to my attention in ‘the District of Chestertield, There are five paupers, very old and infirm, who were ‘maintained as a public charge by the citizens of the district prior to the military occu- pation of the country. Since then they have been de- Pendent upon the charity of the people in the imme- diate vicinity of the poorhouse and of the soldiers at that post, and are often without food, and are almost en- tirely destitute of clothing. Bekeving myself to be without authority to aflord relief, f promi © present the case to the general commanding. T enclose a copy of the- vd og of the Kev, B, F. Whitte- more, Superintendent of Education of colored children. ‘The following is an extract from the report of the Su- Perintendent of Education: My whole department consists of seven districts or counties, comprising those of Williamsburg, Mariou, — Marlboro’, Chesterfield, Samter and Ker- shaw, Since m crops of 1865, the formation of contracts for 1866 and consequent moving about, so that nothing permanent could be effected in the establishment of schools ia the om id places already fixed upoa in any plans of the it on bas been presented to the e snLject OT MHluCHtIC | white and black citizons of five of the foregoing districts | | } { bute! or counties in the various public addresses which have heen delivered by Brigadier General Richardson and my- self during a tour of inspection from which we have just returned. It is understood, therefore, by all Uuat for (reedmen will be immediately organized. Prelimi- nary steps have also been taken, and final action depends upon the removal of certain hindrances, which prevent the starting of schools in ceriain localities, prominent among Which is the impossibility of procuring houses or buildings for such a purpoee. In some sof my superintendency, I am happy to state that the residents favor the education of the blacks, and will put no obstacle in the way of such a benefit. But in others there is a disposition ty oppose it, and that ‘opposition comes in nO more insurmountabie a form than the prevention of the use of-even empty buildings for | “freedmen’s schools.” How far Iam empowered to overcome such difficul- ties I have tned in vain to learn. It would seem that private prejudice should not be allowed to subvert such a public necessity. The freedmen are not, though wil- i able to incur much expense, at the prevent, in the pe Seno ek of educational advantages, notwithstanding their desire for such privileges. In some instances, 10g bonuses will be constructed by the freedmen themselves, rather than be deprived of schools, No more encouraging f ature in the work to which I have been appointed is found than the almost unis ersal ery which comes up from the blacks, for the gift of schoolbooks and schools. It is with pleasure that I i the acts of the stale Legislatai » act coke bavi recetved the.r disapproval. Tu a conversation with Governor Orr his Excellency re- serded the new orders of General Sickles as wise and salutary, before publication, gestions as to certain modifications were adopted. the Gov- ernor disagrees with the opimton entertained by the News as above stated, and says the orders were iemed for the more harmonious working. and co- operation of the civil and sailitary an ies, Gen. eral Sickles and Governor Orr are uot only friends politically, but iy, and the former has assured the latter of bis earnest dosire to ageiat with all the means in bis in the complete restora. tion of civil cule, sud the entire withdrawal of the mili- tory. Governor Orr is very hopeful, and hie pr sence here is already taving # good effect. He is the guest of T. D. Wagner, Keq., whose residence every evening is thronged with beauty come to visit the Governor. { the act by Congress, giving the lands eneral Sherman's order to the negroes, ¢ Governor fears, will lead to serions Consequences, of land involved roes in the inte rior, Who will become dissatiefied and want to flock to the sea const, under the improesion of becoming land owners, It is hoped that thi ure may yet be stayed T ain glad to be able to , also, that (he Governor has reretved jetters from prominent men in the interior, al! testifying to the orderly behavior of the negre From Camden, §.C., where the strongest apprehen sions of disturbances likely to occar abont Christmas | existed, General J. B. Kershaw writes under date of the 17th instant consider the “Our negroes are all quietly at work. 1 ints ae over.’ THE MILITARY CommreeroN ced in the trial of the parties charged with ihe mur. der of three Union soldiers in Anderson district has been p Bg hey h week The ‘gore against F.C 4 prisoner on trial, i# strong, the second witness Penge Na be hs omy the accused as one of the patties who passed hie ise on the night of the rider minutes previous to bearing the disturb. and that accused had threatened to have the cotton which the soldiers were moved somehow, The evidence for Livaxroou— Heinemann, he steerage. eT Meper and Bas in Appointment there has been much to engage | the attention of the freedinen, both in the division of the | ools | —_— St. Patrick’s Day in Brooklyn. An adjourned meeting of the Convention of the Insh societies of Brooklyn was held in the hall of Father Mathew Temperange Society No. 2, No. 168 Fulton street, Brooklyn, at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, to make arrangements for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Brook- lyp, Alexander Campbell, President, in the chair. Up- Wards of fifty delegates were present, besides a large } { numbel of Pesta who were allowed the privilege of the room. ¢ following societies were represented :—~ Shamrock No, 2, St, James’, St. Patrick’s, St. Paul’s, St. Ann’s, AssumptionsLaborers’ Union, Father Mathew T. A. B. Society No. 2 and Father Mathew T. A, B, Society No. 5. Mr. John Mulvey, the Secretary, read the minutes of the previous meeting, which were approved after being read. The delegation from Father Mathew T. A, B, Society No. 5 reported that their society bad passed a resolution to take part in the proceedings of the Convention. The delegation then took places in the Convention. The Committee on By-Laws, appointed at a prev: meeting to make rules for the guidance of the Convention, were then called upon to report, when it was announced that, through some informality, they had had no meeting and therefore bad mado no progress, The res} dent then requested the committee to retire and discharge their duties. The then retired to an ante-room, whence, after an absence of fifteen minutes, they returned, and made a report through their Chairman, Mr. J, H. Farrell. The report embodied brief by-laws. The report was accepted, and the by-laws were adopted. The societies that did not pay their dues at the last meeting were called upon to do so, when the delinquents promptly came forward and paid the requisite amounts to the Secretary. The Enalrman then announced that since the last meet- | ing he had been unofficially informed that the Young Men’s F. M. T. A. B. Society No, 1 had withdrawn from the Convention, and would parade with the New York societies, A nominating committee of one member trom each society repregentcd was then ao gerege to seléct candidates for a grand warebal and aids for >t. Pat- rick’s day, The committee, after a short deliberation, brought in a list of nommees. The Convention then ‘weut into an election for Grand Marshal. Patrick Galla- gher and Patrick Casey were appointed tellers. Four candidates were named, The result of the balloting was | pee shatee of Uaptain Thomas H, Draper, of St. James’ ie Mr, J. H. Farrell, of St. James’ Roman Catholie Benev- olent Socicty, then rose and said he congratulated the Convention on the choice of Grand Marshal, as Captain Draper had served his adopted country as a private s0l- dier in the Forty-seventh New York regiment, and by his valor had won the sword and rank of captain in the field, These remarks were received with applause. Mr. Michael Gleeson, of st. Patrick's Society, and Peter ; McKiernan, of Shamrock Society, were elected as aids to | the Grand Marshal, A committee of one from ‘ gociety was appointed to select a route of march for | Paurak’s Day, to report ab the be ‘iting ‘A com- mittee of chee Was appointed.to wait on the Mayor, Street C jesioi@® and the police authorities in refer- ence ta tho route ‘of procession and the detailment of a see of police. ag re committe’ consisting of J. H. Farrell, Hugh Galla- gher and Joseph MrKenra were a to wait on Right Rev, Bishor Leychis # {9 review. thé procession on St. Patric '. The Convention adjourned to meet again in two weeks, when final orrangements for the celebration will be made. re ee Brookiyn City News. BorcLanies.—At nine o’clock on last Satarday night, Mr. R. D. Porter, of the firm of Scott & Porter, station- ers and printers, No. 46 Fulton street, saw a man enter his store, which had been previously closed, and lock it on the inside. Mr. Porter thinking this rather a remark~ able proceeding, immediately notified police officers Mas- terson, Fox and Turner, and they were subsequently joined by Captain Jacobs and roundsman lan, The two latter went to the rear of the building, and entered ladder, while the second rang window by means of a | the front of the building was thoroughly guarded. The interior of the building was thoroughly searched, when © burglar was found concealed beneath a lot of old straw | in the cellar, and who proved to be Charles Perrine, the foreman of the establishment. He was taken into cus- tody and locked up. He entered by means of a false key. ‘The house of James McLanty, corner of Middagh and Fulton streets, was entered on ¥aturday morning by burglars, who stole a suit of clothes, three hundred do! and a gold watch, in all about four bundred and fifty doliars worth of property. Some of the family were up re ga over the one in which the burglary was com- mit Coastixe AccipENt.—At five o'clock on Saturday after- noon, while. number of poys were engaged in the sport of ‘coasting’’ down hill on sleds in Joralemon street one of the number, named John Rourke, aged fifteen ears, residing at No. 24 Columbia street, was ron over | by a loaded dray and sustained a fracture of the leg | Several citizens conveyed the boy to his home. Arrests ror Orrerina Boaps Moxey,—Two young men, giving their names as Thomas Lovett and James | Phair, hailing from New York, were arrested yesterday afternoon by officer Green, of thé Forty-sixth precinct, for attem) to ws Bills. At the saloon of Theodore Blank, corver of Montrosé avenue and Leonard street, E. D., they offered a one dollar bill on the defunct | Commercial Bank of Perth Ainboy, N.d., and when it ‘They then went to another in payment for refresh- ments a good jmitation ten dollar bill on the State Bank at Newark, At this tine the officer, whe bad been fol- lowing the young men, took them into custody. On the way to the Station house one of them dropped a roll of ditis, which the officer picked up. On examination they proved to be dives on the Farmers’ Bank of New Jersey sg Holly), ingeniously aliered from another plate. ‘he bills are elegantly executed, and would deceive any bat experts, Sunnocate’s Court.—The wills of the following named Persons were admitted to probate in the Surrogate’s court during last week :—Margaret Van Nyse, of New Utrecht; Jacob C. Day, James Lock, Jr. Mi Woodock and George Sampson, all of Brooklyn, of adminis. { tration were granted on the estates of Archibald Hardie, Jos. W. Taylor, Geo. W. Benson and Edward R. F. Babre, | all of this city. | Fine Derarrwest Baw.—The oanual ball in aid of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund of the Brooklyn Fire De- tment will be held at the Academy of Music, on February 6. All who can afford it ought to con. day, bute to this charity fund hast Sct: he pea al Re sagen cme mil be = | an extensive 0 = ping no expen: spared to mal Coroners’ Inquests. Tax Acciwrxt ro Mr. Rosxna.arr.—Coroner Wildey~ yesterday held an inquest at 221 West Thirty-first street on the remains of Mr. Sigismund S. Rosenblatt, the gen- tleman whose death was the result of injuries received in Canal street, near Mercer, on ev in conse- qnence of Tun. over by car No. 71 eo ry avenue line, witnesses were examined, the prgeyatn orm etn ye emmee aden accident. al, avi to that effect was rendered by the jury. Mr. Rosenblatt was fifty-five years of age a e Died Ps a — N. 5. eaeee, Pogo Ow of Davia and | SS) S608 9 Tipur Other Deaths se Third Page.) SHIPPING NEWS. | Port of New York, January 28, 1806. , January Baville, Line : ARRIVED. ue Frethandel Beste Byemen, 2 dey. passengers, Co. Had st | y gules the entire aL, lost Move bul . Portland, with ore, and inet, vorween 4and 0 AD: was ‘carrying away bowsprit and =: BELOW. trom Jamaics. [Por addtial Ship New: we Third page.) | PRIVATE RYE AND BAR INI MAY & ! A found at 3% Clinton TA areas, “oe CADWELL, Principal and Operavy ‘< | frum en ea “attected tn RIGHT AND ' bey my: TE A" are daily treated and cured nis q h te ; Appiicants for inftrme tou hod and a TInet visit FREE OF CHARGE. City references always present Hours from to # THis SPECIAL | | { —DIVORCE.-AVING MADE A A, anders holde private consultations on the subject as to thie ose. P.1. "RING, Connselior at Law, 885 Broadway. CORA EG Ra Oe aoe UPTURED—SENT ., 1,19) Broadway, wiTHoUT free, Address ent on it of . Of mave *! ca the or -) 4 thieves property, oF ihe amorn @ WALKER, No. 3 Yntowequare committee _