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10 THE SPANISH-CHILEAN IMBROGLIO. The Case of the Alleged Priva- teer Meteor. INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS IN COURT. Motion to Release the Vessel on Bond. COUNSEL, ao. ARGUMENTS OF ke. de. CTnited States District Court. Before Judge Betts, Mancu 14.—At the opening of the court this morning the cage of the }\civor, postponed from the previous day, was called on. MOTION TO RELBASE ON BOND. Mr. Choate—May {t please your Honor, we move in the case of the United States against the steamship Moteor, which was seized in January last for an alleged violation of the act of 1818, known as the Neutrality Jaw, for the appointment of an appraiser to report the value of the vessel to the court, with a viow of having 4 delivered to its owners on bond. The motion is made on the part of the claimants, representing the entire ewnorship of the vessel, the Messrs. John M. Forbes and RB. Forbes, of Boston, through their agent, W. F. Oarey. We did not anticipate any opposition to this motion, which we thought would bo taken asa matter of course; bat your Honor will remember that the learned District Attorney appeared here yesterday to oppose it, as be suggested, under instructions from one of the de- partmonts of the vovernment, and he was proceeding to state his objection to our motion when he was inter- rupted by other proceedings which caused the adjourn. ment of the court. The learned gentleman is now pre- went, and will perhaps proceed with a statement of his ebjections, ARGUMENT AGAINST THE MOTION FOR RELEASE. Mr. S. G. Courtney then addressed the Court. He sald Uhat after the most thorough examination he could find no authority upon which this motion to bond the steamer Motoor could be based, except it was to be found on the com Be supposed that this bond- the rule of the court are based and jer the revenue act, and that where d and allowed it must be in a case d inand by virtue of that act. Inde- on there wer others, which he be- joved were fatal motion, This vessel (the Meteor) ‘was seized by the United ttates government under a pro- svision of what is termed and known as the Neutrality act—the act of April, 1818. The libel of informaiion was filed under the third section of the act. After the Jibel had been framed and due service made, the Messrs. Forbes, claiming to be the owners, appeared ‘Sbrough their provior in this court, and by their agent, Mr. Carey, and put in their answer. Your Honor will perceive that the claim is put in by Carey, and not by the owners, the Messrs. Forbes. To this unswer exceptions ‘were taken by the United States, which were duly served, have been noticed for trial before this court. Now, he would submit that while the question of ownership is at Seaue and undetermined this motion is premature, if no other objections existed. On this point learned counsel referred to the case of the Struggle, 1st Gallison, page 416. He submitted, therofore, in the first place, that there is no as he understood the decisions and practice of the court, to bond a vessel seized under the rircumstances and m the manner in which this vessel appears to be, as taken from the libel; that the power t bond vessels is derived entirely from the Revenue law of March, 1799, eighty-ninth section, and the rulos of the vourt are based upon the Revenue laws. This act has no “pplication whatever, in any shape, manner or form, to ® case of the nature and description now before the court, Lat the case be looked at in another | gnt. What t* the object of this Neutrality law? It isto prevent wrmod vessels leaving the ports of «a Power at peace with another Power that may be at war with other nations. Suppose, for the sake of argu- meant, that the Meteor should be bonded. She immedt- alely leaves this port, goes tosea and reaches some other, where sho 18 fited out, and at once froin there proceeds on the predatory cruize to put a stop to which she was first soized here, He would ask whether that was carry- ‘og Out in good faiih the Neutrality laws of the United unded ent rely a. # bonding is permi! where a vessel is pedentiy of this States, He opposed this motion of release not only be- couse he deemed it his duty in his official capacity to do wo, but aleo from the instructions which he had received trom the State Departinent, which be would read and make part of bis argument in the case. It would seem that information had been sent to the ich Minister ‘hat an application to bond the vessel would be made in shia cou! How that information was received he did not know; but he did know that it was not sent from the adice of the District Attorney. It was, however, suf- ficient to know that the information got there, and on ‘he 6th of March the Spanish Minister sent to the Secre- sary of State a letter acquainting him with the fact and ne ng his interposition. In consequence of this tier Wo the secretary of State we received a communi- cavion from the Secretary, of which the following is a apy 4PUWR OF INSTRUCTION FROM RYCRETARY SEWARD TO UNITED STATHS DISTRICT ATTORNEY DANINL 8. DICKINSON. Deravtwxnt of Stare, Wasninaron, March 10, 1966. i give you herewith & copy of a note which’ T have tho honor to receive from his Excellency Mr. Taa- © Mintsier of Spain, in which he states that he ts 4 that the owners of the Meteor ha ch @ proceeding. “That the Executive authority finds is for interfering with the due and the sree of the administration of justice.” pected, therefore, that you will take such course tn regard (o the present question as siall be best calculated to matniain the Neutrality Inws of the United States in thelr fores and virtue. ect, wi, WH much res} our obe- at. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. Danie. 8. Dickwsos, United States District ork. motion on the grounds T will merely add to what { the jurisdiction of ‘this of the case. ¢ Neutrality n shown 1, and not. a sbip-of-war, tease. If kbo came un: vue laws of the country But here is a vessel, vat this was @ merchrut i would be an en f der the provisions on a predatory cruise against # mation with whom “at amity, sored by the government for an alleged ‘rotation of the’ Neatraliy law. ge Bette—Io this sot forth in the afdavitet Kvarts (counsel for the claimauts)—No, sir; the Cock @ that (his vessel is & merchant vessel, aud not a abip of war, Mr Choste (also for the claimants)—Thoy do not as- wort chat ebe is an armed vessoi, but they expressly om. to ray 60, If she had boep armed they would have ead wo Retts—How Is abe described in the pleadings? ir ate—She ie morely described as armed in the words ot the statute. Mr Kvarta—the might have “been confiscable, but not = an armed vessel; she never an armed vessel, ‘ourtney—The libel shows that she was to be used for warlike purpeses. The vessel was built at Boston, win hers, for the express purpose of golng after and saponeg (he Alabame. In couclusion, be would say that to bond this verre! would be an encouragement to we of the Neutrality act of the United States be ae sure bis Honor would not sanction, COMERT IN SUPPORT OF THE MOTION. to uw The clam for bonding the Mage wns A meng yo ip lying in ta ia ‘Boston. und that the elermant. are Bot the owners. is andeniable— vs are the clair ants here. Counsel does not ex- form in which che owners come in through ehair acer’ OF eommignes not in the least; but he ex- that the Messrs, Forbes are not the owner, Now, owners then the proses yo —that exception could not be made, becaus : e9 of & shin repres of forfe.ture application te take from the custody of the court the res iteel! shetitate for it ite value in bond. That ‘x all, Now, tmost the court needs to took at in deciding by the process of the court puis back the rer where t wking a bond aa representative of a if the bond of the principal and he stipmlators are sufficient— has been de- the shi t iw least touch the ud. These are familiar sug- Honor bas comedered many we claimante are orbes, of the China and they ask your wel on their bond. Stare or Preset. having anythii sabjert, your Hott very well knows t the ecutive Will or purpoRe, te : by letsers of by official presence throwal the Attorney, are hot matiers (hat the Judiciary of # onende to ta the o acy aininiatra. of e jud clary of the United States, actin ton ieee the law ‘aad the constitation of the United Saar See ne final inier. ‘arbuers of the law, and the wishes of + PA} the President of the United Stator kind, po more to be regaried than & newspaper oF fader L will say here, however, do ot the PMbretary of Sista be atempt ‘a wish, Waive en oy of your Honor in coart without aay ‘of jast' be writ thet te NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1866.—SUPPLEMENT‘. Dy statute and by the vessel setzed. ts motion, must re- {he coverament as able to make out the Mbet: that the vemel has been and equipped, furuisied and fitted out, of atrempted to be so arized and fitied out, &e.. to effect ber forfe'ture under the neutrality laws of the country, This is the first time, after a great many years’ practice, lever heard the right of a claimant of & sbipto substitute @ bond of vaiue for the vessel questioned. Im the case of » to repress the stave trade and Blavers, where the object setsure froetm proceeding on the to prevent vessels on slave trade, the vessels seized are always given up on bonds, and there i» no rit or power in the court to Prevent #, none whatever; end no ingenuity ean draw @ distinction between the purposes of the Siave Trade act ID tle Fee ect— to wit, to prevent slave trading—and the Neutrality act im thit—to wil, to prevent an infraction of the neutral.ty laws of this by furnishing crusera in aid of one belligerent agaist another. Why, is it that @ slaver fails under the ordinary rule that itis @ pare quertion of forfeiture to substitute a bond for the sbip, and that it ts denied tn this case? i The Dotr ct Attorney treats the claim ar if to it it would be equivalent to a licease on a purchase of the bond for the vessel to go cruising against Spain on behalf of Chile, argue that fo the same a 1 suppose he would a slaver admitted to bond and released might proceed Africa in 8 slave traffic, But this is a mere confusion ideas. It is not more than four or five years vessel delivered bond under a libel for the infraction esr -_ and was seized and bye & charge of attempting to go out of voyage. This was fectly right and fact that this veal haa "ye0n and prosecuted, and had been rel nary course oa the conduct of forfeitures, ni vil ii re t i substituted in her place, put ber back as y in the possession of her claimants and owners; if hereafter they moved @ Ginger towards fitting her out for actual departure from the port for the the slave trade, she was im seizure, new forfeiture and to new bonds, of th’'s question, of its being on the part of tho government to hold a vessel under —. culiar acts, against the right of the substitution of a 2: fe Lond, on the idea that this would b® permitted in pur- suance of the alleged illegal voyage. Now, what reason can be given why a vessel seized under the circumstances attending the seizure of the Meteor should not be de- livered on bond under the same rules policy and duty im dealing with us that the courts have recognized and the statutes and rules have established? None whatever; and the argu of the learned counsel for the prosecution rests on mistaken notion that we are buying from the court license to cruise against Spain, as the slave trader would be alleged to be purchasing a license from the court to carry on the siave trade, Nothing can be more mistaken, The learned counsel then submitted authorities to t court sustaining him in hiv argument, and resamed:—If the Court please, the power—as I think the statutory ob- ligation —c.rtainly the power, being ascertained, I see no escape from the proposition that it is obli; ry on thy court: but, treating it as a matter of power, having » rightful view of thoysubject, I submit it wou!d be oppres- sive to refuse to deliver to responsible and respected clti- zens their vessel, they depositing, in the form of a bond, its value n this court, It was claimed that she was an armed vessel, furnished and equipped asa sbip-of-war, Bat my learned adversary knows that sbe is not in that condition, and never has been. It has been said that this vessel was built to aid the government in its efforts, not to destroy the Alabama—our government had ships enough tor that purpose—but to catch the Alabama, That was what she was bullt for, You would not fit out a war ship tocatch the Alabama. If that had been the kind of vessel wanted the government had four hundred or five hundred war ships, The Metcor was to be a saving ship, a ship that, by her sails and steam, could catch the Alabama. The power of the Alebama was against unarined ships, not armed ones, But it is a mis- taken idea that this vessel was built expressly to catch the Alabaina. That scourge of the seas was fortunately destroyed before this vessel was at all pre- pared for sea. I again say it would be a most oppressive act to reiuse the claim of these wealthy aud loyal citizens to deliver to them their vessel ou bond--a vessel seized in her regular trading be- tween the Northern ports and New Orleans. Previous to that she had been used as a transport for the govern- ment, and then she had no more than the ordinary euns of a merchant veseel, bufsince then she had no guns at all, Tle trusted, im conclusion, as an act of mere right and justice to the claimants, that the usual course in similar applications would be followed, and the vessel delivered on bond. REVLY OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Mr. Courtney, on rising to reply, said that as the learned counsel on the other side had discossed the matter thoroughly he to make a few remarks in reply. He had not in- troduced the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury with any view of attem wo {influence the Court, or to prejudice the ie in his Honor's mind. merely introduced that letter for the Purpose of show.ng that those gontiemen had deemed it their duty to present this the United States, and to ask the'r favorable action on it, The letter shows that such action was taken, and th government had declined to grant them the relief they asked jor, It is to be presamed that they pro- sentod their whole case, and laid before the government the strongest reasons they could adduce when asking that their vessel be released. Having failed in this they come here and make this motion. Counsel a1 that all these parties had to do was to give a bond lease of the vessel. Ina certain case that was al the circumstances provided for in that case have no bear- ing on the statute and no application to the section of tho statute under which these proceedines are bad, ‘The act in that case simply provides that the owners of an armed vexsel fitted out shall give a bond to the gov- ernment, He did not see what bearing that section had with the question now before the Court. The question here is, whetver this Court has any nuthorty or will think it within its discretion or authority to bond this vessel under the circumstances, The executive depart- ment of the government having the pow:r to release this vessel independent of any judicial action, and bavi declined to do it, that fact ought, he thonght,to have some bearing on the question now before the Court, a great dea! more than a speech of the President or the utterance of a member of the Cabinet, for it is an official document showing the action of the government on a certain matter and the result thereof, He contended that the rules of the Court in regard to the question of bonding were made in view of the revenue acts and no other act whatever. He detied th side to cases, a vessel seized ernment for an alleged violation of the third the Neutrality act was ever bonded by this or any other government. The inference was strong in this case that it was the intention of Congress not to permit a vessel seized for violation of the Neutrality act to be bonded, be- cause there are provisions made for the bonding of ves- the gov- Mw esccien of sels in other cases. If it bad been the intention of Congress to permit 4 vessel of this kind to be bonded, it would be specifically provided for in the act itself, Mr. Courtney, in the course of a very lengthy and able argu- ment, prsented the following points to the Court: First—The motion of the claimants cannot be cnter- tained now, because the exceptions to the answer of Mr. Corey, the agent, are undisposed of. Until they are pacsed on, the alleged owners have no more standing in court thay a person who had fied no claim whatever. (See rules 74 and 94, District Court; rule 30, Supreme Court, and Betts’ Practice.) Second—Even if the Court should hold that the claim already filed and excepted to gives the party sufficient standing in court to be beard on the motion prelimina: to bonding and delivery of the vessel to them, it is stil not obligatory on the Court to grant their motion. It is already within the diserotion of the Court, and the Court should deny the motion. The allegations in the libel are that the vessel in custody has been fitted oat for. the purpose of and ts intended to be used for hostile par- ‘poses against o nation with whom the Un'ted States ts at peace, These allegations aro denied only by an answer unsworn to by either of the claimants whose nght to tn- tervene is contested. Third—The purpose of section Sot the act of 1818 (Neu- trality act) was to prevent the departure from the United States of such vessels as thie. The allega- jons against the vessel are that she has been tied out and was about to depart in viola- tion of this act of Congress, and on the prayor of the United states the Court has intervened its process to: prevent ber departure, Thiv mode of prevention on the ee of this veaset is manifoatly proper. So long as she is in the custedy of the Court the power conferred on the President by section 8 of the act, and which should only be availed of in extremo cases, need not be exercised. FP urth—-The Coart should not lend an indulgent ear to this application aniess peculiar ground has been laid therofor, (See opinion of Judge Story, én re brig Strug- gle, let Gallison, page 476.) —The act of 1709 only relates to vessels seized for violation of the revenue Jawa, and has no application whatever to seizures under the Neutrality act. (Same citation. ‘Seth There is a common desire among all nations, Including England, that ness a poe hel ees “a stringent as possible, in order to prevent all en a0 ofa Hostile tendency not inspired or controlied by the governments themselves. S -venth—There is a disposition manifested everywhere, not only to give to the laws already euacted a construc- tion in the interest of noutrality, but even to adopt more stringent provisions, If the Court holds that the pond- ing provisions of revenue laws apply to and become part ‘of the act of 1818, the vitality of oar Neutrality act, fo far as hoatilo vessels are will be de. stroyed. A decision by the Court to the extent claimed ‘by counsel will of @ seam in the act of 1918 through which a whole navy of either bolligerent can go to sea, Having submitted these points he left the matier in tho of yh od a Mr. * y replied. Judge Betts took tho papers, and stated that he would render his de ision in & fow days. Notices of New Pa The following is a complete list of the new publications received at the Haraip office to March 10:— Stories Told toa Child. By Jean Ingelow. Published by Roberta Brothers, Boston. eo Capture, the Prison Pen, and gre Recape: givi ae covets ‘of prison hfe at the ae a By Wiiare we Glazier. Published by 8. Gray, Albany. DeBow's Review for March Littel!’s Living Age for February. The London Qharterly Review for Jaonary Tho Wentm inster Rev iow for January " The New York Magazine and Hiustrated Journal o Fashion for March. iy Court Calendar=—This Day. n Strexwe Coonrt, Ctecerr.—-Part 1-—Nos, 1031, 1047, 1151, 1145, 1168, 1008, 1095, 1111, 1169, 1175, 117%, 1181, LISS, L187; 1189, 1101, 1196; 1 1208, Part 2 Ady ‘10 Monday noxt. Part 3—-Noa 746, 098, 862, To, a, ; 103, tS 670, 308, 1044, ‘882, 800, S876, 1019, PVR ton COURT. Now. » 5 1968, 1 2517, 1217, 1418, 1778, 1073, 1977, 1! Avs my 2 Nos. ¥ ue’ 2696, id, met ross, 134, a, Mt M49, 1119, 11 ra Part 4— ni 1488. 1908, 1 murder was commit heard no unusual noise or high words. raetaeass found near the door of the di the witness never saw it before his atien- tion was called to it first by Mr. Collins’ son. The in- vestigation is still in progress. REAL ESTATE. Extensive Sales During the Past Two Dean Sa—Your letter of yesterday is received. Days. My letter of the 24th ult., in answer to yours of tho The sales of real estate for the past two days were samo date, was so altered before it was published as not | more numerous and the bidding more spirited than on to indicate the person to whom it was addressed, and had | ¢ho three or four days previous, The approach of moving no other object, and, I think, had no other effect, than to | day seems to add new zeat to purchasers of house prop- simply express my objections to your Loan bill. I do erty, and sellers who have been holding back now put in ‘not see any impropriety in my giving publicity to my | a strong appearance, The duction rooms on Broadway dissent from your views of public financial policy. In | are always crowded during a sale,‘and each person pre- accepting the office I hold I did not surrender my inde- | gent seems to have a personal interest in the bidding. OUR NATIONAL FINANCES, Sharp Letter from Comptroller Clarke to Serretary of the Treasary—Who is the Chief of the Treasury Department! have made no concealment from you or any one else of posted on the value of property, which is mainly decided ‘my views in regard to the bill from the time it was firs! | on its location It is not likely that the prices will Proposed by you. fall to any perceptible extent, as the stock After a lapse of twelve days you notice my letter t¢ | on hand seems inexhaustible, and the sales do not you of the 24th of February, and quote my statemen} | promiee tostop until every inch of Manbattan ee therein, that “I suppose there must bo at that time, in- | been auctioned ‘off, Yesterday and the previ cluding deposits in national banks, at least ono hundred | bidding was Ne, ant mee cabarets Sa nes and fifty millions of dollars in the Treasury of the United cm ‘building on Second Cipeorpplpe pyr then ” 1 ‘was sold for thousand Sites,” To this you now reply that the actual amouni ‘Washingtonie Seecusarears: ae ae Gasaml oe money ‘Treasut dollars. goes to prove ieee oer aea a the Ts cma mained here for a short time subsequent to the battle of of special gold deposit Harlem Heighta For a revolutionary relic the price Icannot see any valid reason for was small, as in other countries a yy. associated Unction between gold deposit with the name of go great a man we brought an Both alike are stated {1 fabulous price. The remainder of the perty, Vabilities and assets, auctioned brought tm some cases very: igh, sums. use a portion of the ‘The following is a list of the real estate sold:— BY A. J. BLEECKER SON AND CO. Prepared by having a Warren st., house and lot Nos. 60,-60% and 62, at calle of depositors. In the n. e, cor. of College place, the buildings are a re toe the four story Mercbant’s Exchange Hotel, on S$111,109,683 29. The College place, formerly known as the Franidin ‘our statement of the first day of th Honso, No. 23 College place; the lot are 64.9 RS nee SOO, Yala aftet to on Warren st. and 75.4 on College place....... was in the Treasury, &o, F. 18th st., Masonic Hall building, 114 and 116; lot, snake $198, 717,986 20. ; 108.3 building 60x80; rear 20x50... 60,000 Giving you the bonefit as I have of gold deposits, swell. | W. 23d st.," house and lease of lot 67 London ter- Ing the aggregate of money on hand, T now unhoeitat-"| race, 22x117; hovse 22x58....2....0secns0+2~ 10,760 that your statement just made to me, as well | “Washi Blots and house ly ington’s Headquarters as your published statement showing the condition of | on 2d av., 51 ft. 8. of Bath ‘st. ; house 30x40; lot the Treas iry and the public debt on the first of this | 25.6x101.3.......- deseeetess 8,000 tontb, is inexcusably erroneous. 86th st., house and lot, n. side, 232 ft. w. of Tth av. 5,750 You state the amount of coin in the Trensury to |. 65thst., 1 lot, n. side, 125 ft. 6. of 8 25x100.5 6,500 + $55,730,190 12 | Oak street—House and lot 44, n. side, x 6,758 ; 7 12 | James stip—House and lot No. 11, 18.9x40... 6,000 Fast 14th street—House and lot 167, n. side, 6th avenne—House and three lots, n. 8., 51.5 feet 8 Of 57th 8t., 26X100.....cceecsccecersessesees By 56th street—Two lots n. 8., 295 feet ©. of 6th av., each 25x%block.... ABS ir BRI 9th avenue—One lot n. ¢. cor. 62d st., 25.2x100 ‘One lot adjoining, 25.1x100..... 5, 8th avenuie—One lot next to s.w. corner 66th gh, ° \. + +$116,018 957 24 Your monthiy rst of this month, shows that you have retired $6,466,850 of compound interest United States legal tender notes, — This amount must have paid before the date of my letier, and as there is no law authorizing you to retire any of the compound interest notes in any other way than by converting them into five-twonty bonds, and no law authorizing the retirement of any of the United QRIZIOO Ao tere tee ann. anaerctececasactoces fii FAM States seat tender notes in any other way than by con- | gth avense—Two lots, ©. 8., 100 ft. 8, of 116th Bt., verting them into compound interest notes, and no ap- each 25x100, each, a et 2,000 propriation or provision made by Congress ‘other than | 115th street—Fivo lois, 1. &, 300 feot, that now mentioned, I cannot understand why these each 25x block, each. Piso end 875 compound interest and United Siates notes should not | 116th street—Five lots, 8., 300 feet ¢. 8th av., be counted and included as ourrency on hand. You | “each 25x3gblock, each...... + 1,075 have just as much right to reissue them as to pay out | sth avenue—Four lots s. 6. corner 136th st,, each any otber governmont notes, and no right or authority 25x100, each ........+06 Ab Sel see 1,650 to cancel them, bth avento—Four lot adjoining, ea. 25x100, each 1,625 It also appears by your last monthly statement that 185th strect—Four lota, 8. 8., 200 ft. @. of 5th av., you have ald durmg the month, without any authority each 252100, CaCh ....5 sesccccocrcecces 650 of law, $10,672,709 of five-twenty bonds and purohased | §th avenue—One lot, @, &., 75 feet n. of 133d st., his 25x100, “ae 7 $11,958,000 of seveh-thirty notes, making your purchase q 1,282,300 more than your sale,’ This sum should also | 43d street—One lot, 8, be included as money on hand. "I will remark in passing, |" 18.4x1,block. . that, while you bave the right to convert seven thirty é notes into five-twenty bonds as the former mature, you have né right whatever to buy or sell them. You have omitted entirely from your statement of the Ast of March, as you have un.formily omitted from your monthly statements for several months past, the @mouni of money on deposit in the national banks, ‘The BY A. JOURNEAY. ird avenue, bet, 93d and 94th sta., lot 25x100, th st, near 9th avenue, 6 lots, 25x66 to 100, 123d st., ‘near 10th av., 2 lots, 25x100, each 123d st., two lots adjoining above, each Broome st. (522), bet, Sullivan and Tho amount so held on the 24th 0’ February, the date of my two story wnd attic brick house and lot, 20x75... 9,250 lotter, must have been about $28,000,000, ‘Taking, there. | Goerck st. (21), cor. Broome, two story and atic | fore, the amount stated by you as on hand on the lat of frame house, . . by March in coin and carrenoy. ........++++$116,018,959 24 ‘st. (607), ps ee Add tho amount of United ‘States and brick house on lot 22.0x60.1. .. 5, compound interest notes retired....... 6,466,850 00 | S4tl: #t., bet. 4th and Sth avs, 1 J 3,750 Also add 730 noies over the BAth st., adjoining, lot 25x04. 2,200 amount of %-20 bonds sold. seers 1,283,200 00 | 46th st., bot. 9 and 10-nve., 2 lots, . 1,195 d als» amouut on deposit {n national Gist i., lot 575,,e. of 1ith av., 30.6x176.7 and i = Rapaeappawenpnoia 1a + 28,000,000 00 | 1.724x179.6. 2,000 oa acoila de dons co > B&OOOH arene lot 25.6575... You must have had a total acwal amount PO oe coe dan, Ou at OF oo aac eves eai cence s SUS TORO 24 | Add to this the premium on the balance 20,10 4x76... + 208 unci 805 Greene wt.—Two 2 story of the coin on hand, after deducting the Dk Houses on lots 18.0%x75, onch............ 7,450 pon Ollie bye cree ‘and 209 Greene al,—-Two Housos similar to Making the total currency value of { BY MULLER, WILKINS AND CO, money in your eusiody ou the Ist of 1 Jot n. #. 190th #t.—S257t, 0, 6th av,, 25x91.7.... 228 March Iaste.s.s...- 0. - $188,708,944 2% | 1 lots. &, 140th st. 24 9x09.11, 300 This is manifest from your own showing, in your pad- | 1 Jot and gore & # 140th st.—-575 ft. 8. Oth ov... 275 lished statement of March 1, excepting the item of de- 1 lot and gore s, #&. 140th st. —675 ft. ©, 6tb ar . (305, posit in the national banks. The report of the banka | 2 gore lotsa, a 140th st,—725 ft. © 6th ay., eact 240 Will show that I have not overstated the amount of those | Building and lot Nos. 19 and 21 Leonard st.--25x01 14,950 4 lots xs, Alst st,—100 ft, €. 3d wv., 25598.9, cach 2,950 ta. wil now state the amount of money that T suppdse was in the Treasury and on deposit in the banks, ax set forth in my letter of the 24th of February, deriving my wledge from other sources than exhibits from your 3 lots w. #, 46th at —146 ft, ©. 6th a Houres and lota, Nos, 25 and 627 G ning through and fronting on Henry at., 45ft. 6 in, on Grand at., 65 ft. Tin.on Henry st....... 11,050 BY D. M. SEAMAN. nt ‘The regular report of the Amsustant Treasurer in New Houses and lots 41% and 415 Pearl st., ¢. 26x73... 10,075 York, published within three or four days after the date | House and lot 62 Rivington st., ¢, Kidridge, 20x78. 11,450 of wy letter, shows that the amount 0 money on hand | Moise and lot 311 ay, A, 19.4x04 seeee 4,200 in his oifice, at that time, was over. . $109,000,000 | House and lot SiS ay. A, 19.4594. 4,200 Ic is fair to add to this amount the compound Houye and lot 313 av. A, 19.4x94. 4,200 interest and United States notes said wo have been retired, as they must have been paid for before that dute...... ‘ Toatimate the amount in the Treasury in Washington, and in the hands of Aasistant ‘Treasurers in Balti. wore, Philade(phia and JAM KENNELLY. feet west Oth ar Lots. w. corner 4th av. and 120i ish basement house and lot 3 % swory brick house, store and lot, 228 Water st... 16, M do...., 16.900 6,466,350 Boston, and in the Pacific States and the = — eleven Southern States, and in the various re AiR Booneveli st 16,508 depositories in other States, aside, from | rae 11236 | do... 16,000 Danks, at the very moderate Kum of!..... 12,000,000 | corner of 2d av. and 56th st.. 4 lots ad- Outdaaty Valea e the quid ores ta robes jominy on 24 av, and 2 frame buildings and 2 vale... teseceessseesesess 15,000,000 lots, 100 twot ©. 2d av, all, deecesce aoe 4,500 +4 — — BY BE. H. LUDLOW AND CO. TOU. eee ceeees cece cceeee eeccee eves. $170,406,850 | 564 and 566 8th av., 2 brown atone hoased....... 30,200 It seemis io me to be apparent that this amoupt which | 21 Brevoort place, brick house and jease of lot, Is to be available in the Treasury on the 24th | — having 20 years to run, at $450... 2 20,000 of Febrnary is far short of the reality and excesds what | 210 Fast 18th st,, brick house and lot + 12,400 you declared it to be in your last monthly statement by | 164% 2M av., brick house and lot.. 2 8,000 more than $54, 25 North Moore «t., brick house and ‘tot. 8,250 I will add that I can show to the satisfaction of any | 198 10th et,, brick house and lot......... 900 one that neither of your monthly reports for the iast few months has shown within $50,000,000 the amonot of money in the Treasury or on deposit in national de. tories, An acearate statement of the condition of the Trea- sury is not merely a matter of interest to the public; tt is Of grave consequence that Congrers should be con- stanfly informed as to the actual resources of the gov- ornment, that it may legislate intelligently and appro- SEIZURE OF THE WIISKEY DISTILLERIES. Ten Warrants Issned—The Cases to be Heard on Friday Before United States Commissioner Betts—Names of the priate wisely. Ketablishments Setzed, &. I Mg call your atiention to another matter. In your The interna! revenue authoritres are energetically pur- avnual ‘ C $112,000 000 nibre than your curreut fecimato curry | Suing thelr investigations snto the alleged whiskey ve through = a of the — Sny year, | frends, Ten warrants in all have been iswued for the Togrot to differ with you so widely as regard | arrest of partics charged with bribing revenue officers, witht aduntuatraiion of yuur pavutces sou wilt haves | AB:itis expected that they will have a hearing before ——_ i ine at the close —_ thé fiseal year ondi United States Commissioner Botts to-morrow (Friday) June 30, nearly or ly $200,000 000, morning, when the government will be represented by of being short $112,000,000. ‘The difference between my catienaxe and Yours is more than enough forthe te. | Assistant United States District Attorney Samuel @. gitimate requirements of the government for the entire | Courteey and Mr. Hamilton Harris. The next fiscal year commencing the Grat day of Jaly next. Fepresenting the government were in consult at No. Itisonty from a sense of duty that I have gone into this | 4 Astor House yesterday with a large number of persons: discussion to which you bave invited mo; and, aa there | interested in these alleged frauds, and it is anticipated are various and contradictory statements in regard to | that some extraordinary ments may be looked for the difference between us of measures and estimates, feel that no harm will be done, and indeed that it proper, to make public this letter. If I have erred any of my statements or estimates, 1 shall be glad to corrected and to have the public advised of the corren- tion. Very respectfully yours, FREEMAN CLARKE. Hon. Hoan MeCuis0cn, Secretary of the Treasury when the casos are brought to trial. NAMES OF THR KSTARLISUMENTS SRIZED. The following i# @ correct list of the establishments which have been setzed:— ‘DIFTHL.! BETES ae . Thirty-minth street, near Ninth avenve. Davis «* Hantou, foot of West Thirty. uinth street. —-Lateats, Thirty-ninth street, near Ninth avenne, , Twenty-sixth street, near Ninth avenue, Kahowield & Goodkind, Bevontecnth street and Bev. isr- Brooklyn City News. ‘Tae ‘Lowonnonemen's Stain, —The strike of the 'Long- shoremen of Brooklyn, which commenced on Monday, | **\\ arene. | Re pe stil conttanes, employers sult holding out agataat the | glsnnn® Co. Sightecnih ctvect, between ‘Teuth conts per hoar for labor. Yesterday some of the em- ] Simms & Brother, 42 Pint avenue. ployers, who were in immediate want of workmen, sent J. Rooney, Fifty second street, near Ninth avenue. to New York for them, when twonty or thirty, found im | | Richard Deary, Broadway, between Fifty-fourth and the Feutth ‘ward, wet brenght over cad. emme.guees geyser coves, ent Forty-dfth street, near Eleventh work at Woodruff & Robinvon's stores, foot of Harrken atrest, When this fact became Known a party of | —~ {ulna J01 Laurens treat the “regulars” went to that vicinity, ‘bat nto se | eaey td yt ry) ition to ini ere wit! the operations © ° outaidors, probably from the fast that ® detachment Rowror & Collins 10 Cedar stret of the Forty-third precinct polos were on hand te Cons preserve the peace. Another gang of the * regulars” congrecated yesterday morning about Commeretal wharf, , Atlantic dock, where they stoned a paryy of outenders; the jp interfered and the row ceased. There is cor tainly great justice in the demands of the “strtl - but arictd adherence to the observance of the lawn do more to accompliah their object than arts of rowdy- ism. Two arrests wore snade during the day, titi ‘Thomos Clifford and Jobn Sullivan, on» charge of aaing WCU VING ROT ALARM A Hemmer, Thirty-ninth street, near Ninth atenue. threatening lang! ; they wore bound over to keep the fran private partion peat See ont be es ee Sey oy ane Goes the 0 A a tt mon from New York wil put to work today " ous empleyern ¥ elated, 1h ie desirable that they should communicate with Mr Richards, at room No 4 Astor House, at the Gaeaxwoon Camerery Covrssy —Tho annual meeting | ear ext opportunity. of the lotholders in Greenwoot Cemetery took place Pienpe yesterday noon in New York. The ani report of the 10 can aneedl TUN MERALO Comptroller was read, from which wo tern that the FO wesning should be done to protest our citizens from oaipts from salewof lote, intermente in public lobe, interest, Whenever inbor, kc, during the’ past year p= Aas aaah | the sovages of plekpartom epee the core vf tm tad, $919 06; making a grand total of "RE, | car overcromand it teoomee & signal for pickpockets Xpenditnres or, improvements, contingent | (who sem to stroll through Our streets in trive) to leap | count, real oetate. investments in United States sour ion, $290,680, ‘The aceeta, of the. Compan yen Whe platform, ant by grodecing & great proneate to © pinion their viotlms that they can abstract whatever United States bonds, are $252,976 07. £3,427 07 are held in trust for the care, they may have im their pockets onknown to them, or, the possibility of efectunl resistance, Preservation and renewal of monuments and enclosares of lows of several without owners There being ne other basi “ee ‘This ta practiond oceasionall: ef the company being found ino prowpiroes city. [be more frequently aterm, of the meeting adjourned. ‘Tae Earrens Distarct Mcapee.—Coroner Lyneh te atill engaged in the inquest in the case of the murder of George Collins, who was murdered in bis store in the Eastern Distriet about ten days ago, The principal wit- ures examined yesterday was Mr. Dohrer, « German, who keeps a cigar store adjoining the late premises of the deceased. Hy testified that there was a thin board partl- gore ear mises rehesen the stere of neon heard be Qe = Ha qoa © bie sare ot the Mme the i : SE i i . ii f METROPOLITAN HEALTH BOARD. Meeting and Proceedings Yesterday— By-Laws Adopted for the Government of the w Board—Sanitary Reform, &e. The new Health Board met yesterday afternoon, Presi- dent Schultz in the chair. Dr. Srowe read the report of the committee appointed at the last regular meeting of the Board, to report on the duties appertaining to the office of Sanitary Inspector, which was adopted. ‘A number of dies for seals and badges were presented by Colonel Emmons Ciark, Secretary, as previously directed to be used by the Commissioners and Inspec- tors. A seal was ordered by the Board with a figure of the goddess Hygela, with the inscription, Metropolitan Board of Health, The badge adopted is of silver, and Dears the State arms with the words, Metropolitan Board letters, Saeco — epee that fifty copies of the street cleaning contract had been procured for the use of the Board as directed. Committee on By-Laws was then — fever exceptions, bite taken (0 the wording of certain sections, it was debated jon_by section, and after a number of alterations was adopted as fol- i i to frat 'cata . r of law and ordinance. 3 resolutions shall be submitted in writing, 4. All reports from the officers and employes of the Board, excepting the Secretary and his immediac subordinates, and the Attorney and Counsel, shall be made to the Sat ‘Su. ‘i and all communications {rom thom tothe rd ited throu, hall a "All reports and commu. Henin rom gmpbyer i eingetaey ot po wtiche oat the Sanitary Superintendent.” en ter rarily employ, until the meeting of the Board, any assistance which maf be from time to time needed. n six laid over. i eee ral the offions tn New York and Brookiyn sual be ‘on duty from nine o’olock in the morning tll the afvern’ 9, Expenditures, —Lald over, 10. Summary procedure. Acom:mun'cation was recelved from the Burean of Records and Vital Statistics, giving the mortality for the ik. wee! ‘Acommunication was received from the Sanitary Su- perintondent announcing the fact that the officers pointed by tho Commissioners for Brooklyn had duly reported, and had entered upon thoir several duties in that district, ‘A Setter from Dr. Harris was rend, informing the Board that burial permits were granted on his s gnature only, and that in his absence only those spec in. stricted are allowed to grant permits. Dr. H. H. Pooler, Police Surgeon, room 24, will issue such"pormits during 6 night, +A comrmunieotion from Dr. Dalton was received re- questing permission to publish in a daily paper a notif- cation to the public to the effect that all complaints and sanitary sugvestions are taken cognizance of at his office, and requesting such persons to address their com- munications to the Sanitary Superintendent. ‘A resolution was offered by Dr. Stone, requesting the Superintendent to report the best means for the removal of offal; which was adopted. A blank form of sanitary notice to tenants of filthy localities waa adopted. About two hundred fithy places were reported, apon which these orders to clean up were be ich is on Burean of Records, ‘subordinates whose duties are at required to be five o'clock tn = directed to be served. A communication from the Su ndent was re- ceivod, informing the Board that he had i tho ‘offal dock foot of Thirty-eighth street, which he had found im good condition. It wi boule apa preseanes are best suited to the removal night sorl, offal, &c. ‘A communication was received from the residents of Yonkers, asking that an Inspector be Appointed for that tor Laid on tho table, 24 Br. Panna aald in rogard to the object of the Health Board that it was their bounden duty toward He knew of one locality, ‘Fish Alley,” in this city where amallpox and all kinds of disease have long ex- isted, and that within the past cloven days six per- sons bad died of typhus fever upon one bed. ‘On resolution Captain Lord and squad were appointed special inspectors to report condition of nuisances in this ity. z Br. J. 1. Brown was on motion appointed inspector, vice Smith r vigned. ‘Attor transaction of other bus'ness of minor import- ‘ance the Board adjourned to Friday atternoon. BOARD OF ALDERMEN. St. Patrick’s Day—Sympathy for the Fenians—The Tax Levy for 1866—Dona- tion to the Patriot Orphan Home—Heat- ing the City Hall by Steam, dée ‘The Board, pursuant to adjournment, met at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, President Brice in the chair. A petition from the pastor of St. Vincent de Paul's Roman Catholic church, praying for a donation to enable the trustecs of St, Vincent's Asylum, a charitable inatt- tution attached to the church, to purchase four lows whereupon to crect a building for the better accommo- dation ef such institution, was referrod to the Commit- toe on Finance. Alderman Moons offered the following preamble and Tesolutio Whereas Satu next, the 17th day of Mai the wersary of the birthday of the patron salat of Ireland, Mein be enlcbrated by avgrand civic ‘and. military procession Of our fellow eltizeus of Trish birth, including thoae who are ng in an effort the most Iandable and patriotic, Tooking to the restoration of dowutrodden and unhappy Ire- land © that freedom which is her natural ri 4 which her sons, through canturies of | tyra oppression, have ‘striven and sighed for in Whereas In the opinion of this Common Counetl, “ on bebalf of the people of this ety, who sincerely symra- thize with the representatives of the oppressed people of Ire tea, the ope fi ni nild be given by them to encourage their efforts to drive the op- be ft, persone, 9 City Unil and alt the other ine until sunset on Presence to the dstno he contemplated , celtizens of Irish birth or Trish car tele g anniversary ef tke birthaay oF Ireland's patron ok. A motion to strike out the preamble being lost, the freaolution, a offered, war adopted. The tax levy aaa ar toll was then taken up for discussion adopted, the items of that docu- ment boing as follows :— TAX LEVY FOR THE YKAR 1866. |, apeetiat eines - cuss: to-e Aqueduct repairs and improvements, B8s8 r By = §383238232325533553232 Cleaning streets under contract. Cleanii e SSSR ASR $e: v2) S2.28.8 £83355 seesirs: 2332383 333 80S SEE 838333335535 Eseee. Bo up Sesbeetsrsss ya $3232592392382 han Home a lease 1 ears at Oro xe Hae, for ninety-nine ¥ Third and Fourth avenues, was offered and adopted. ‘according lots in Seventy-ninth street, between The salary of the stock clerk in the Finance Depart ment by # resol tion to to two os hele _ lution to that effect, increased year. Subsequent to which the Board adjourned to Monday next, at two o'clock. OBITUARY. Jared Sparks, the Historian. We have by telegraph this morning the announcemess of the death of Jared Sparks, the historian, at his res dence in Cambridge, Mags., on the 14th inst., of pnoume- nia. For several years past Mr. Sparks has lived so a» cluded in his library at Cambridge that many on reading this announcement will be surprised that he has only juse died. He was aged 77 years. Mr. Sparke was born at Willington, Conn., May 1@, 1798, and graduated at Harvard in 1815, During his oel- lege course he taught for a time a small private school at Havre de Grace, Md., and while there served a ehord time in the militia called out to repel an anticipated ab tack by the British. He afterwards commenced the study of theology at Cambridge, and for two years, 1817-19, was colloge tutor in mathematics and naturag philosophy. He also became one of an association by which the “North American Review,” ostablished im 1815, was conducted. In May, 1819, he was ordained as minister of a Unitarian congregation in Baltimore, and the next year published ‘Letters on the Ministry, Ritual ‘and Doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church.” Im 1821 he established a periodical called “The Unitariam Miscellany and Christian Monitor,” which he continue® to edit during his stay in Baltimore, writing most of ® himself. In this work he commenced a series of letters to the Rev. Dr. Miller, of Princeton, on the “Compara tive Moral Tendency of Trinitarian and Unitarian Doo- trines,’’ which were afterwards enlarged and published in 1823, He also edited s ‘Collection of Essays and Tracts in Thoology, from various Authors, with Biograph- ical and Critical Notices,” the publication of which way complrted in 1826, His health becoming impaired, he resigned his pastoral charge in 1823, and after spending ane woeks cave went to Boston, purchased the “North American Review’? of the owners, and was ite sole pro} ‘and editor for seven years. In 1828 he pubilshea ‘a “Life of John Ledyard, the American Trav= eller,” drawn up almost entirely from materials never before published, io had for some time previogs formed the plan of publishing the writings of Washing ton, with notes and illustrations; and with this vi after oxtensive researches in tlie United States, he mad a voyage to Europe in 1828, remained there a yea) selecting and transcribing documents relating to Al can history in the public offices of London and Paris, an@ avter his return published “The Writings of Goorge Washington, being bis Correspondence, Addresses, Mea sages and otber Papers, Official and Private, sdlected published from the original Manuscripts, with a Life the Author, Notes and Illustrations.” During the prepae ration of this laborious work he found time to edit aa@ pablish two other works illustrative of American historye by plomatic Correspondence of the American Revoe Jution”’ and “The Life of Gouverneur Morns, with tions from his Correspondence and Miscellaneous ig 4 &e. if Ut the first ro) “The American Almanac and Repository Knowledge" was started by Mr. Sparks, an volume, for 1830, edited by him. He was also the editor of the “Library of American Biography,” of which twe weries wore published, and several of the lives in which wore written by him.’ In 1840 he completed the pablle cation of “The Works of Benjamin Franklin, conta Historical Tracts not included _ urope a xecond time, and tm im tho French archives dis- bridge, Died Jules Lan: We announced yesterday morning the sadden death, in the city of Mexico, on February 23, of M. Langtais, the Mitister of Finance sent out by Napoleon to regulate Maximilian’s finances. Wis history is not without te- terest. Jules Langlats was @ Frenchman, born at Mamere (Sarthe), on the 27th February, 1810. He was tho son of @ journeyman weaver. He received five years’ schooling at the expense of bis native town. Upon leaving college he entered the seminary at Mans, where he studied ology under the Abbé Bouvier. In 1829 he was deacon and profesor of rhotoric at the of Mamer. The revolution of July the current of bis ideas and turned from the eoclesiastionl profession. For some time he was tator in n family in the Department of La May after which (in 1883) he went to rn} bar, contributing artilor to several newspapers; questions of jurisprudence he contrib ited Lees! to the * Catholic Knoyelopmdia of the XIX. Centory.”" In 1940, throngh the influcuce of Mons de G tached to Paris tue La Preave, wich was then sustaialt the Guizot ministry, anc conducted the pleadings for yn) againet La Democrate Pacifique. A suit broaghe ¥ an elector of the Aube district, recarding a fraudulen® entry on the list of electors, was won by M. Langlais at ‘Troyes aod folly demonstrat d his abilities. ng mixed ap with journalism, and very well verne@ In the special laws conceraing the press under varioas administrations, he began an extensive work on the eab- Joct, when the revolution of Febraary opened the leaiata- a tive career to him. Siding with the new order of he ran as the republican candidate for the Department La Sarthe, and was eiocted representative over a dosem to juries, and in 1856 chairman organization, a deputy, came year tn order to lake 0 enat ia’ of their client. Mr. Bodford said that the ends of justion would be substantially reached by Cy oy jsoner pleaded guilty to the charge. Atboagh the othece wae aggravaied the did not elicit general public Interest. The inict e him in substance with having om the night the of November struck Peter McGeraty on the with an axe in am lodging house in iM inflicting a wound which — im order to enable him to show some extenuating clrenm- it 2 j H = it