The New York Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1866, Page 1

WHOLE NO. RUINOUS FIRE , Extensive and Destructive Con- flagration in Portland. 40,902. HALF THE CITY IN RUINS. All the Newspaper and Express Offices, Hotels and Banks Destroyed. ONLY ONE BUSINESS STREET REMAINING. The Custom House the Only Public Building Saved. Every Lawyer in the Place Burned Out. Ft TWO THOUSAND FAMILIES HOUSELESS Churches Thrown Open and Tents Ereeted to Shelter the Sufferers. LOSS TEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. AID FROM OTHER CITIES - TENDERED. he &e. &e. &e. Portiaxn, July 5, 1866, ‘The fire which began here at five o’clock P, M. yester- day raged with great fury, and at this writing (after- noon) is stil! burning, with one-half of the territory of ‘the city already laid waste, It swept through thecity from the foot of High street to North street, on Munjoy, _ destroying everything in its track 20 completely that tho . lines of the streets can hardly be traced, and a space of ene mile and a half long by a quarter of a milo wideap- pears like a forest of chimneys, with fragments of walls |, Sitached to them, ) BUILDINGS BLOWN UP TO STOP THS FIRE IN VAIN. Many buildings, perhaps ftty, were blown up to check the flames; but the inhabitasts could scarcely do more ‘than flee with their famitivs to the upper part of the city, saving such goodses they could carry, though every vehiclo in the city was employed with excellent effect in moving goods. ORIGIN OF THE DISASTER. The fire commenced a Kittle below the foot of High mreet ina boot shop. It next burned Upham’s flouring will, and then Brown’s sugar house, with all its surround~ ings, then Staples & Sons’ and Richardson’s foundries, Dut nothing else on Commercial street of consequence, 9 COURSE OF THE FLAMES, ‘It next swept what is called Graham’s corner, com- posed of small wooden buildings, clean. It then burned ‘up as far as the old Varnum House, on Pleasant street, one-third the way up Centre street, half the way up Col- borne street, completely up Cross street, Union street, Temple street and Exchange street. It swept down on the northerly side of Fore street to India street on the east, while on the west it moved along diagonally across Middle street and down to Cum- berland, taking the Elm House, but sparing the First Parwh church. Then from Chestnut street to North street it made a clean sweep on the southerly side of Gambor- land street, and the same was the case with Congress street and everything else to Fore street as far east as India street, The upper side of Fore street is swept clean to India, 4 except two buildings on the corner of India, Wood's marble hotel, the Freeman House, the American House, the Elm House, the International House, the Comfner- cial House, the Sturdevant House and Kingebury’s Hotel are all destroyed. Congress street, from Chestnut street to the Observatory, is cleaned on both sides, Not a building is standing on Exchange street. Federal street in entirely destroyed, as is also Cumberland street, from Pearl street to the hill, on both sides, Union, Plum, Temple, Lime and Silver streets are entirely cleaned, and Franklin, (rom Fore to Oxford. Al! of the wholesale and \, most of the retail shoe stores are destroyed, A VIOLENT GALE SPREADS THE FLAMES. ‘, ‘The wind was biowing a gale from the south, and a tremendous sheet of fame swept along before it, devour. ing everything in its passage, and the utmost exertions of the firemen, aided bya steamer and hand engines bi from several other places, could only succeed im pro- ‘Venting it from epreading in now directions. ‘THE HUSINKSS PORTION OF THR CITY GONR One-half of the city is destroyed, and that half in- clades nearly all the business portion, excepting the heavy busin€ss houses in Commercial street, BUILDINGS BAVED. ‘The Custom House, being fireproof, escaped, though gfeatly damaged. The court records in the upper story ‘are probably destroyed. The store of Emory & Waterhouse, hardware, on Miadle street, singularly was passed by the sea of flame wnscathed, though everything was swept on each side. BUILDINGS DESTROYED. All the banks aro gone. All the newspaper offices are burned, and there aro ‘only threo printing offices left. ‘The splendid city and coanty building on Congress ‘Street, which was nearly freproof, waa considered safo, ‘and it was piled full of furniture by the neighboring residents, and thon it was swept away, with oll ite contents. All the jewelry establishments, all the wholesale dry- goods stores, several churches, the telegraph offices, nearly all the stationery stores, and the majority of the Dusiness places are destroyed. Tt is useless to specify the dwelling houses, but among the fine ones may be mentioned those of Mrs, Wood, on ‘ s cress ; Billings, Chase Richarison, on Cumberland street, and others, VALUARLE HISTORICAL COLLECTION Lost. ‘The Portland Socivty of Natural History for a second time has lost its valuable collection—-« miafortane which ‘will appeal to the geucrowity uf other socicties through- out the country. THE Losses, ‘The following i# an approximate list of the lonses and insurance :— Charles Staples & Son, machinists; low, $40,000; in- + gored for $12,000 in (he Home, New York, and a Boston company. Upbam’s flouring mill; lose, $30,000; \osured for $6,000 in J. W. Monger's agoney. N. P. Richardsoa & Co,, stove foundry—Ilnws, $50,000, insured, $25,000, The Pree: oMice—loas, $12,000; insured for $7,500 in the Internationa! and Protcetion companies. Brown & Thurston's job office—loss, $20,000; in- sured $6,500 in the Dirigo and Maine Matual, and Keleft ‘and Republic (New York) companies, ‘Wood's Hotel-—losa, $75,000; insured, $20,000. Masonic Hall, with ali ite contents waa destroyed, partially insured. Fight charcties are burned—the Second Parish, the ‘Third Parish, the Pearl street (Universalist), the First Baptist, st. Stephens (Fpiscopal), Bethel, Swedenbdor. @an and the Catholic chapel with Bishop Bacon's resi. Grace and convent sebool attached. The doesn Moung nsuraucg CombEn. Lom MASH, insured from $8,000 to $10,000 in the Howard and Loril- lard Companies, Charles F, Thrasher & Co., loss $17,000; insured for $8,000 in the Metropolitan and Niagara Companies, Judge Fox's library, loss $2,000. Judge Clifford's library, loss $12,000; no insurance. Morrill & Small, wholesale clothing and trimming, 145 Middle street, loss $15,000; fully insured’in the Lorillard and Hartford Companies, Churchill, Browns & Manson, loss $150,000; weil in- sured. It is estimated that about two thousand buildings are burned, and property destroyed to the amount of ten milliong of dollars, which is probably insured about one- haif. ‘The State valuation was twonty-cight millions, and the Yeal valuation must be over thirty millions, Fully one- third must have been destroyed. The loss of John B, Brown & Sons must bo at least a million, they owning ® largo amount of real cstate ia every quarter of the city, They are insured about one- half the value, THE HEAVIZST LOSERS. Among the prominent firms who are totally burned ‘out are the following :— W., Jr. Kent, Reuben. Anariwe' Kilber, Wak bo, Set oer: Bee. Bailey & Noy. Land, J. P. Burn P. Leach, AQ Bailey, Lane & Little. Barbour, J. & C, Lewis & Cook. Breed, GB. & Lowell & Teutie. Baker, J Lunt, J. R. & Co. pase R rai & Co, ian Lipa de “4 Lewis, J. J. & Co. Iowit Rollins & Bond. Lufkih, &. B, & Co, Lacas, ‘Thomas. Lewis oe Cole, Lorenzo D. aes niel, Carr, W. W. & Co, Litule, Wm. D. Crockext & Hooper. Levy, Joseph. facet. Bueesn™ man & Co. m q Carlton, U. G. Morse Larop & Dyer, Cobb, Winthrop C. Merrill & Co. Cleveland & Co. Moulton, C. P. Clark, Daniel & Co. Me. 8H. Cushian, Ava & Co. MeMill, John. Cooper & Morse. Marriett, Poor & Co, Crock Leonard, Murphy, Jobo H. Currier, James M. McCarty, Charles. Call b ed bi Merrit. 2, 'wombly. . ©. Chea }, Samuel. Merry, George A. eels vie. 4 win Colby, B. J. Mitchel, N. J. Garg: Chas, Jed Nutter, Ramund, ce, J. M. & Co. joyes, i. Doow, Hilas & Nast, 0. M. & D. W. Deering, Milliken & Co, Olney, A. G. & Co. Dealens, H. E. Owen & Barbour. Davis Brothers. Perry, FE. N. Durau, Charles F. Packard, H. Darau'& Brackett, Patten, Edw. M. Davis, A. 8. Pearson & Smith. Dopree, J. H. Peckard & Knight. Darling, A. B. Plummer, Moses J. LNB. Payson, Henry M. Dow, John E. & Son, Proctor, Jolin C. vown, ©. J. Pearson, Moses. Dyer, Alfred, Perry, Charles, Dyer, Christopher. Phinney, H. M. Dow & Libby. Paine, W. Dunyou, A, Philips, W. P. Dow, J. & Son. Prince, Albion. N. & Son. Quincy, Wm. A. . Henry. rs Robinson, Aarostos oO ans Sects, ‘te v Fit & Hodson. Rich, Samuel 8. & Son. & —_— precast A Co, Fose, Charies W. wyer Felt, A, E. Stewart C, H. & Co, ag Le Short & tating. * a njamin, rague, Jame Fernald, J. x Bhort w. FE. Fate, Coftin,& Swan. Sin Fak Som Felt, Jesse 3. Sm: n & Co, Tretia Semen apt reewaD, Grabata. Ekin fe Co, Srmithe we Greenleat, Sawyer & James, Baphecs, Haskell & Chase. Goth, EF. Seagel, Wil Gribbon, Wesbay. Sawyer, Sam. H. & Co, Gerrish, Oliver. Sisk, James F. Gale; Stephen, Sawyer, J. H. Greenough, B. & Co. Smith & Burnham. Gowell, Andrew. Shaw Brothers. Gordon & Dow. Shaw, Joun L, Grant, Joseph. Shaw, Edw. Grant, 5. Susekraut, &. Gordner, N.S Striachcomb, John. Gold, Nathan arren. Gilinan, — Smith, J. & Co, Howard, W. A Schumacher, C. T, Hastings, N,V Shaw, George C Hillman '& Atkins, Todd, J. M. Turkey, Benjatnin. Tucker, David. Tucksberry, J. & Co. Thayer, Loring. ‘Thiese, Gustave. Taylor & Boothby. Tharston, Brown. ‘Thompeon, E. M. Vickers & Bowen, Vandersandts, L. Whalen. 1. V. Walker, C. J. Whitmon, 8. Wail, Peter. Wehster, R. 8. & Co. Webster, BE. & Son. Woodinan, Trot & Co. ood, Henry. de We Be Som Welker & Mikchoil. Haynes, Smith, & Cook Harris & Waterhouse. Barris, fH Hazelton, Job P. Harding, Geo. M. Howe, Geo. M. ale, F. W. Hatch & Frost Hanson, V, ©. & Co, Howell, A. B. ra, & Co. Jobnson, A. H. W ilie, Henry. Jones, John M. Wishwell, Henry. King & Dexter. Webb, Albert E. * Kaler, F. W. a fare x bbe York, Augustus F. Many provision dealers not named, all the express offices, the Oriental Powder Company's vlfien and every larcyer in the city were burned out, besides innumerable Aces and email places of business impossible to meon- tion, The offices of the Collector and Aseasor of Internal Revenue, the Dirge and Ocesn Insurance Company, the Merchants’ Exchange are gone ae well as those of every Bewspaper in the city. There is nota power press left in the city to strike off « paper upon. Every bank in the city is destroyed, though the con- tents of their vaults are all eupposed to be safe. INCIDENTS. For some hours daring the conflagration communica tion waa cut off between the front and rar of the city, except by over a mile journey around. Almost alt the hose tn the city has been bursted, and some engines used up, A steam and band engine came in from Saco, and band we from Biddeford, Gardiner, Brunswick and Hai- The Lowell Base Hall Club, of Boston, rendered gal- Jani assistance in saving property. THE HUPPRRERS. Nothing can be done in the city to-day except to take care of the bomeless, and that i sctively being done. an teas “lateh string out," and a cheerful on ‘auriog "ie fre. Rvery one was Sourtewne sod all work: or, The fire- families ate rendered homaleas. and many other edifess are thrown the homeless, aud committees are appointed to has telegraphed for fifteen hundred to accommortate tur homelvas inhabivanus is almost impossible to tell where the people lived, de struction ia ro complete. Ala for ine DOSTON TENDERS PROMPT ASHIT AN Bowron, July 6 ih to purchase are being recei' or Useda. who will see it 8 properly ured. ADAMS’ BXPRESS COMPANY READY TO TRANSPORT CONTRIBUTIONS FREE OF CHARG e Naw Youe, July 6, 1966. The Ademe Express Company offer to take [ree of shores, any contrivations for ae enforems by the Port- |, Me., fire, AID FROM WAAHINOTON. ‘Wimeworos, July 5, 1968. The following despateh was rent to the Mayor of Port. Grand a Gogeur fr of the Soldiers! and Satlors’ Orphans’ - Draw om ot Ahh for Qe pom oe ead tol NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1866. lars for the immodiate relief of the sufferers by the disus- trous fire in your city this day. Ry order of the Mana ging Directors, WILLIAM F. MORE, Secretary. Sketeh of the City of Portland, Portland is situated on a peninsula at the western ox- tremity of Casco bay, and it is one hundred aud five miles from Boston. The present population is about thirty-five thousand, The city was regularly laid out and handsomely built, particularly \ts more modern por- tions, which were noted for their elegant buildings, It ‘was lighted with gas and well supplied with water, We speak of the city as something that was, forthis calamity seems to have well nigh destroyed it, Many of the streets were planted with elm and other shade treos. The principal public buildings were the Exchange, an elegant structure, with handsome colonnade and 1, containing the post office, custom house and United States court rooms; the Cily Hall, built of brick; the old Custom House, of granite, and ‘twenty-four churebes, Its public school system was one of the in the coun- try, and the school buildings were structures of subétan- tial elegance. There were also numerous private schools and an Fone jp The Athenwum, incorporated in 1527, over six thousand volumes, The Natu- had a valuable collection of minerals, © natural advantages of the city were and bad been improved by @ wealthy and cultivated lation until i, was known a8 one of the most beautiful pees in the whole country, All its elegance of public and private buildings has been swept away, and there remains a barren waste of ashes and ruins, It was an important entrepdt of Canadian and domestic commerce, while it exported in large quantities tee, lumber, fish and provisions. Manufactures had lately attracted much capital to the epot, Ship building was extensively carried on, The enterprise abd public spirit of its citizens are notorions, and we cannot but Pape ‘that it will in a reasonably short time surmount the Ripert misfortune, rebuilding the city as beautiful as re, FIRES IN THIS CITY AND ELSEWHERE. The Fire at Pier No. 25 East River—New Havem Freight sheds Destroyed—The Steamboat Baltimore of the Bridgeport Line Burned and Seuttled—Several Per! sons Burned—Total Loss $300,000. The fre which broke out in the freight shed of the New Haven Steamboat Company, at pier No. 25 East river, yesterday morning about three o'clock, was very destructive, Before the flames could be subdued the fire spread to the office and sheds of the Bridgeport Steamboat Company, which, together with two days? freight, were entirely consumed, The flames spread so Fapidly that a colored man name Solomon Jackson, who who went down the pe a short way for a pail of water, bad his retreat cut off, and in passing through the smoke and heat to the street he was 80 severely barned that he was taken to the New York Hospital A coal barge lying at the end of the pier also caught fire, her captain, Benjamin Lawn, bis wife Catharine, and bis brother Charles were each severely burned about the face and bands. They were finally taken from the barge into a small boat and their lives saved. The steam. boat Baltimore, chartered by the Bridgeport Company, aleo caught ire. She was towed into the stream hy & tug and burned to the water's edge, She sank in shoal water near Governor's Island, The pier itself is very much burned, Tho orig of the fire i# unknown at present, The amount of property on the pier could not have been worth less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, There was two days’ freight, and a much targer quuutity than bas been on the pet fora year, It was owned by many persons, and it ls supposed not to have been in sured. There is forty thoueand dotlars’ inenrance on the Baltimore, and the love will be abont fifty thousand dol lars, The loss of the Bridgeport Company will be about ten thonsand dollars; not insured, The damage jh pier is about ten thousand dollars, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Genenat Orvicn New Haven Sreamnoat ComPany, } New Youx, July 6, 1806. | j Ta connection with your account of the burning of freight sheds on our pier will you please state that the Joss of the sheds will not interrupt the departure of the ‘boats at the usual hours’ Yours, truly, HB. I. WRIGHT, Fire in Thira Avenue. Shortly after eight o'clock last night a fire orourred in the photograph gallery No. $1 Third avenue, owned by Paul Rosenacker. It originated through the carelessness of James Burns, who bad charge of the promises, He had a piece of lighted caudio in the chernical roo ad while Toskies for an article he upset a bottle of alcohol and then dropped the light upon the floor, and in an in stant the whole place was iu ablaze. The alarm being given, the firemen were very promptly at the premises oe ey the te ty it —) the ss oor. to the raph gallery wil! about $1,000, raid to be eee the second floor is 00- cupied ag a dwelling by Jobn A. Ritzler, who aleo has a barber shop and bathing rooms on the drst tt ‘wine saloon in the basement. The damage to ture by water will be about $200, and w the barber shop about $50; no damage in the basement. Insured for $3,000 on furniture, saloon and improvements in the Astor and Poter Cooper Insurance Companies, aud $2,000 on wines in the Tradesmen’s Insurance Company. Tue building is owned by Harilton Fi and is damaged about $500; insured ior $5,000 inthe Bowery and Green wich Insurance Compan Fire at Uttea. Unies, N. ¥., July 6, 1866, The extensive machinery works of Rogers & Co., five mile souths of this city, were totally consumed by fire with all their contents early on Wedndsiay morning. ‘The fire was clearly the work ofan incendiary, The pro- perty was insared in thirty companies to the amount of $100,000; but the lowe » uearly double that amount. A fire at Lawrenceburg, Ind., yesterday de Pryant & Lord's foundry, Nevitt & Major's warehouw, Lewis & Echeberger'# malt howe, Stockman'® sawmill, Cheek’s techouse, and Uiree private residences. Lom $00,400 ; partially’ insured, Fire in Newport Kentucky. Conerevams, July 5, 1466. ‘ns drug store im Newport, Ky., was des Bro yesterday. Lows about $10,400. You troyed Fire in Phitadelphia. Precapmirna, July , 1866 McFadden & Baker's saw mili, in. the'rear of’ Fourth, below Ruco street, was burned this afternoon, The walle, #ix tories high, fell to the ground. It is reported that several perrons were baried in the reins. Two fre men were ‘off severely injured. The loss iy $20,000; insured one-half. Fire in Toronto, Canadu. ‘Toronto, C. W., July 6, 1806 A destructive fire occurred bere last evening on Yours street, by which five houses and other buildingr were destroyed. One of the firemen, named Chariton, was seriously injured by part of one of the stores falling on ima, MEXICO. Official Reports from President Jaarcs— Probable Removal of the Seat of Gov- ermment to Monterey, &e. Wasmxotox, July 5, 1866, Mr. Romero, the Mexican Minivter, received to-day official news from Fl Paso up to the #th ultima President Juarez, his Cabinet and the government were te leave there on the 10th for Chihuahaa, It t# thought tkely that when they hear of the capture of Matamoros the seat of the government will be removed to Monterey. The nows received at Bl Paso from the Woatern States of Mexico was satisfactory, Tho French held only Quays may, in Sonora, and Mazatlan, \n Sinaloa Obituary. MADAME COMTH BORCHARD. ‘Wo regret to learn the death of this excellent artirte, which took place in the city of Mexico on the 28th of May last, She was originally « pianiet, but early devel oping Vooal capnbilities of a vory high order, she took to the lyrical stage, and appeared with great saccess in comic opera in Brussels and Paris, Sho was rubsequent ly permuaded to accept an engagement for New Orleans, where she became very popular, and at the termination of ber contract came to New York. During the first brief season of the Castle and Campbell opera troupe abe sustained the prominent soprano riler, and ale) eppearet twice in Italian opera. She then went to Havana and Mexico, in the latter of which cities she har been rewid- ro-pheumonia, & divease I vietime im the Mexican climate, Madame for chard, though —s & vole of but limited com of the was one mont scrompliehed the No one could reat muse or lear a rile with greater ity, and she was ever reaty to aawiat others lowe ex with her advice, Bing b peor equal facility in Enyliwh, French, Italien, Spen- ahd German, she more varied ry Bhe wae atl! erst at the asband was the well Known Preach the tage io CANADIAN AFFAIRS. The Confederation Scheme im the Cana- dian Parilament—Provisions of t Bill—A Ministerial Crisis Looked For— liament—Trial of Supposed Fenians Toronto—Movement of Regulars in Canada—Ge: 1 Bank’s B for the Admission of the British Provinces Into the Union—Excitement Created by Tt, de. Orrawa, July 5, 1868. The government has submitted the Fesolutions pro- viding for the loca! government of the provinces of Canada to Parliament, These provide, as already intl- mated in this correspondence, that the Legtelature of Lower Canada shall consist of two houses and a Loevten, Ant Governor, the Governor to bo appotnted by the Governor General, and the two houses, with the exeep- tion of the Speaker of the upper house, who shall be appointed by the Governor General, to be elective. The upper house shall be called the Legislative Connell, and the lower Legislative Assembly. The couvell shall contain twenty-four members and the Speaker, and the lower house sixty-flve. The Legislature of Upper Canada shall be composed of a Lieutenant Governor appolbted by the Governor General, and a House of Aseembly of olghty- four members, It will have no upper house. ‘The con- sideration of this subject has been set down for to-mor- row, and brisk opposition is certain, As yet the other business taken up by Parliament since my last despatch has been unintoresting. Tho budget has not yet passed nor does the government press it. The opposition ig already dangerous, and if they do not modify the propositions contained in it a ministerial crisis is almost certain. If they do the opposition, under the good leadership of Holton, may justly Ministerial crisis, «uch ax the one would give the death blow to confederation, whieh ia unpopular with the majority of the Canadian people, who really regard it as a scheme got np for personal ag- grandiement, and not in the interest of the Provinces. If the men who have all along opposed it now como into power, as they will in the event of a crisis on the budget, the prospects of success to the confederation prospect will therefore be slim indead, This may be well understood from the fact that Brown, in speaking on a question before the Honse today, took occasion to sneer at the grand seheme, and produced a goueral laugh at the expense of the Minister, Ina day or two Mr. Morris will ask the government when aud how tho Fenian prisoners aro to be tried. Orrawa, ©, W., July 6, The opposition éried to forea the governm mit the budget and bring on a discussion, Messrs, Holton and Frown demanding that tho whole fnancial scheme should be eubmitted before any portion hould be con- curred in, and also why there should be any objections to this course, The government members replied that the object of the opposition waa to delay and impodo progress; but the opposition retorted this charge, After considerablé debate the House at length concurred i some of the resolutions, It 4 now certain that the most important propositions to alter the tariff will be modisied before being adopted, ortho Ministry will ran every chance of defeat upon them. There are delegates here from all parts of Canada ‘urging conflicting views apon the question of the aliora tron of the tari! The Fiuance minister brought up the question of lav ing the provinces represented at tie Puri exhibition, and suggested an appropriatig d fuch ropresentation, Bi Wotton 0 iPored that at the Dublin exhibition Canada cut a sorry figure. D'Arcy McGee rose to explain the wlvantages derived from the Dublin exhibition by © pean »peculations in land, amonnt three thousand Pounds, and calling attention to the productions of the Provinces in competition with the United States for emi gration, The opposition ridiculed tiie, and argued that thy evcouragemntof manufactnres would bo more ben- ofirinl than exuibithig Todian chiefy abroad and seuding wore brought The discursion on thin ¢ sult pending a A cas explosion took place ta the parliament buiidin this afternoon which seriuinly damaged « portion fe hecotning general that the Fentens will at cher and more wvarioa than the —— Towoxro, ©. W., July 4, 1866. ring of Ue case of the two prizoners enpposed to by Vepians, David KE. Hamil and Pairick Sheridan, who applied for writs of habeas corpus, hax becn post mtil Friday next. ve hundred American excursionieta from Lewiston, are and other Leighboring towns visited Toronto to day, ‘The Forty-seventh regiment regulars received orters thie aflernvon te bold thomeelves in rew: “ato leave for Mall'ux. The Seventoenth, from Queer, are ordered here th their stead, mtnpaL, July 4, 1866, The answer of Jndge Coursol to the report of Commie of Torrance in the St. Albans raid caso bas been pre- sented to Parliament, . There is @ project looking to the establishment of « naval Follege at Quebec, which is said to find favor with the imperial governiment The Dill of Mr, Banks, inthe United Stotes House of Representatives, setting forth the nijesion of the British North America And in two instances ar Territories of the fe creates mach feeling and Fenian invasion, the alli of the neutrality Inw this bill ral Bi in @ compound sweat , Galt's tart, and Kooy the Canadians heated term. Mowrurar, July 6, 1860 The new Caundian tariff went into effect to day AQUATIC. Boat Races les River. Bowto, July 6, 1800. The boat rates om the Charles river were among the Aliractive features of the celcbration yesterday Tho single seull race waa very easily wou by Walter Browa, of Portland, Me., in the George Thatcher, b ating fonr others. Time, LT minutes 10 seconds, Distance two miles, The double ecall race was won by the John A. An drew, of Boston, in twenty-seven tninutes aud forty-nine seconde, distance three miles, beating the (. HL B., also of Rorton, The four cared race was wou by Thetis, of ®t Joh: N.B. Pime twenty minu tes and thirty-nine seo The Young Neptons, also of Jonn, took the second prize, The Geo. ©. Wiggins Joon; the Frank Quinn, of New York, and two boats were beaten & long distance ‘The contest war mainly between the three Mt. Jobm crews, and a good deal of money changed hands om tie result of the race, beating the Pi a, of Riot, Me., four or five lengthy. ‘The water was vailed, The rowing was witnessed by o to compete the rerult is not of general interest The wind was #0 #trong that most of the boats split their salle of met with some other seed The bmg any prem y Seulling Matches, Sporteman, June 23 Hamill coptioues to take bia practice twice a dey to bie pe —) bot all ag hy Fog fe both of him je never (gives way ight, but simply paddies shout between the bri and withio ogee ‘tenes hia uraal erereiae. colors are being freely bought ap here, but whether with view of winning anything upon them @p@ae mere matter of curiomity, we will not determine, Kelley's colors, which are veey chaste in dewgn and Beautifel in appearance, also woot With on tensive , and there ie quite a rage fOr any thing intormat from braces tw shitt ties ant bandier chiefs, ail ped, white nud blue—etripes and tare ont AGgiMt T, Gow allowing fur ex penne ‘one stipulate that they shal eretend in a (nstead Of the venal \werty-fonr feet rng are to deliver thotr men af (he reratch and them ‘get vat the ring,” only revere at ont § f =: Between Vreedmen and Soldiers at Atlanta. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. Preparations for the Sailing of the Telegraph Fleet. nner The New Cable Completed and Much Superior to the Old, Its Shipment on Board the Great Nasterm, and Scientific Appli- ances on the Other Vessels, The Route and Work From ireland to Newfoundland. &e The Cable fe be Laid {From the London Times, June 21.) ny Silustration Wax ever needed to chow the nn ing determination of Eriglish enter vr « . J example could be pointed out th contly aud almost yearly efforts rv manent electrical ‘communteati and America. Witbin expedition organized for ‘ &o. date the fifth wve England, when about ‘ed miles from the Irivh in attempted, with the t stowed in the Niay terride hurricane doubt, a the non, and the met with then. 5 the astonish: was ‘not only laid, but act for some days, wh rambling with y anintelhginie, and y how unhappily the expedi this day it ix ‘n whether th wd by acid o's Insulation t or wanton ally 11 instrument emails not only ean a alight fault be disregarded if tat it iy even easy to work th © with a foot of bare to the water as it may for some days board the re than 1,700 holo Atlantic cal Out of a length of taken from reat Rastern, miley, a col hi oppo cond a toot ip tong thir the clearest signals hav as at one time to raise the q be worth while to grapr rlakd, and, with sere ny throw cot. Nothing, in ® whieh has’ come it pay pettor idea of thy of nub he three eablea of 1848, year have beon constructed. The actual constituents of each is as follows — coxpreran: Conductor in 1858 —A copper strand, consisting of seven wires (six laid round one), and weighing 105 Ib per nautica! nile. Ditto, 1865. —Copper strand, consisting of even wirom and weighing 300 1b per nautical hatterton « con) 18 gauge. strand °144- ordinary No, 10 gang Ditto ia 1866. —Same, IerLaniow, Insulator in 1858,—Gutta percha laid on in three coy rings, aud weigtong 261 ib. per knot. Tbeulation in 1865.-—Gutta percha, four |i are jaid on alternately with four thin ton’s compound. The weight of the oni 400 Jb. per nautical inile, Diameter of core camference of eo ’ Ditto, 1804. — Aare. RXTRRNAL PROTHONOW. External protection in 1864..-Righteen atrands of charcoal iron wire, each strand compored of wee (six Inid round laid *pirally round latter was pre iy padded with a serv ‘The separate wires were an No. 14 gauge rawn from Webster and Horefall'« b h wire surrounded separately with of Manilla yarn, saturated with a preservative c and the whole laid epirally round the core, fe padded with Jute yarn, saturated with preserva mixture. Ditto, 1866.—Te fas Ditta, 1805 Ditto, 1806. of equal Lo TE timew tte t@ say, the cable will rea , Witte, 1864.8 ton weight in water ay Knot; that is Ww say, tbe cable will bear is own weight ia 12 miles depth of wor DREN KHT WATER TO We RNOOU WTI Deepest water to be encountered, | sos Ditto, 1865—2,400 fathorns Ditto, 1866— 2,400 fat 400 fathoms ‘ Contract strain 1 455 timow ite weight per nautical ttle ia Ditto, 1966. —Equal to 11 times its weight por nautical mile in water. Ditto, 1864 -Eqaal to 12 times ite weight por nautical tm !0 im water. LexaTt OF Canin finerED Length of cable shipped, 186%, 2,174 nautica! miter, Ditto, abipped, 1866, 2.300 navtiond mi low Ditto, be shipped, to complete both lines, 1866, 2,730 mallow. From the improvement which these comparative ca biew show, both in the Increased strength of the rope, ite increased conduetivity by the enlarged copper wire, and above all by te increased and more carefully guard @4 (nealation, eny one will be able to sen ot & glances what girides have Leen mode towers tiimate porter tion, Bat tt is chety in what camot be senn, nor even eanlly explained to the genersl reader, in the instromenta for detecting feulta, and for working throagh them when they are detected, that the rai progreee has been made, and ip this’ the expedition Which will wtart nest week ie a¢ perfect as the presen: high condition of alectrlea! acienee can make it. The Great Eastern will leave Bheernem: carly on the morning of Gatrdag next, During the past winter Captain Andersvm and Mr Haigtn, bis chief otheer, have worked almost inoeaantly to get her into perfect seageing trim and eho will rtart next week In better condition than abe has ever befor commenced & foyags ity & very eimple apparatus, invented by Captain Anderson, every part of tie bottom of the ship has been thervaghiy serubbed i bow moch thit war wanting may be jodged from the fart thet in many parte the mussels were je Clusters of more than two fi thick epen her. Getting rid of thin rough polo meen from wader her entire length will e44 a6 Knot an hour t the veasele epeed. All the be been thoroughly cleaued and tepasred it the paddle engines, by & very simple cmirivance, can be disconnected in lew than four mautes, eo that by going abead with one and astern wyh the other, the Great Kastorn can be turned in Ler own length, ae on & pivot. Ip picking op of grappling for cable thin faiity will be of the very last itmporiance to the operations All the cable \@ Bot yet on board the gral «hip Che Atmethy paging mis (he flerrncet tank, and aii able abe has will be collet way this evening The Init, which aft Greenwich yraterday with the ant inetaltnent of chentrical rope, will wich her lank hh day there will be te lem thaw om board the Great asters, of «teint «0'8 cathe of lant your The three immense (rob \anke, Bone format, One em deh po and one aft of the we The erlght ¢ Gee tenke and the water in them te Upwards of 1.000 ton®, and tn AA. em the Great Kamers Will carry 4 09 Lone Of emi, UO tne Of telegraph Hopen and me binery, and ¢0nb tone of cabin 6 dead or hcargo af more than 16) exclanive of engines, rig and oll abep's eh will amoumt 4 nearly os merh more however, only brings the veuml éown W her {hip joad Hine fart, toto the perfect trite tn ‘bebe left last your when the wimont wwell of an emery Atlan tie em omnid Ao bitle more (hae make her 4p onwnoe Aly scone ite rugged forrows Tt bas been Visei * however, considering the Great Rastern's teptl ie the wet, oad the someebat shalive channels the will hare (6 pase on ber way lo the firers month, pet to pot all the come ip her before abe leeves Mheernen At Bearhaven, therefore, 1°) wre OF) te taken ow beard before the warts for ‘aier (ie wed afler jorming the SbOre One Canmore AWAY VD LOT Mt em iorous Tureen ReraNe beast 8 ore have ry part, and ballt up from the mals tone in 32 PRICK FOUR CENTS. 6 Atlantic HI teay Amoug of the most powerful kind that ¢ She ate matter of coaly ta fl grappling rap made, and ea carries dem with quite ae qual to 4 strain of buoys, «ra pes, ke. Be te And storn are fitted two pe Vite er . mato by Mesra. Penn, each of which works up to #uty hors» power, These are connected with the payin oue and bauling-in apparatus, Both these latter lave be slightly improved since last year, and have been mote aa light ax posible consistent with the work they hava to do, Certainly the hauling-iu powers of the engin of what ta required toh Hi short of what wax day nox’ will and the Hach of are likely to be much in exe done, commary, Laat year their efforty With the Great vorry, Albany aud M way thene vessels is nearly 1,800 tons borden, and all, wit vet . RAAPHLIDE Fopes and grappling on board the Thea ndred Atteen miles o€ miles of the masace the exception of the Terrible, will be amply ® with buoys, buoy rop trons similar to tho» Medway will ake also three b dant "s cable, with ninety rope to be used in crossing from Newfoundland ty ‘ba ehore of the American continent The William Cory “ the treme pus iron coll which js to form t Trt hore end, w i no less than thirty miles in lengli, oud Weighs more than two hundred aud fifty tons. vt about eight tons to the mile. The programme of operations now deeded upon is brietly aa follo Kasrern if, ae wo have #aid, to proceed to mm Saturday next. Thera ho will take on t and wh la so wcoupled th Foilhommeram Hay vam Corry. When th cow ploted—and the o iw hy to iw at | ° dayre-the Great I s will come round to Valen and after baving tade the at obc™ corn the great work of laying th n cable, Laat y 4 funciod that the speed of the Great Kastorn was ov castonally too great for safely paying out the rope. Tht Uierefor F rate af going Will be absolutely Hn ited to below sx knot. AL thin « it will ovcupy eleven or twelve days ta complete her labors from Valentia Hay to Heart « Con tent During the whole time of the operation the new struments will be able to sand through to Vale Ua at every hour, stating the latitude and longitude of abip, the weather, amount of cable pald wnt Ordinary. news and messager likely to inter’ thove wt yea and Inolated fron tof the world ara also to bt vont in reply from Ireland to the lrexs ny Vestels have already been sent out to New. dwith three thousand Wms of coal, and, ape expedition to be euecemful, the Great Kasterm thee on do and return to the spot where the cable was go unately broken last year. Thin it to be erapp! if six w applet eke or two months are for ll found, If the of course the oxnal eptice will he portivos whieh are now stowed on board the Great Farts @ru and the William Corry, when the big ehip will agoim return to Heart's Coutent Hay ond lay the retnainder oa her pa ". Thos it all goes well the month of Beptember at latort Will gee us With two lines of telegraph to Arr ‘ both of which, when once down in deep wat key to remain in order for yeark te The arrangements made for re of lat Year are aa portect ak can We ' deseribe them and other matt “ Hoebed with the expedition AL present we hay o gramme of action Inid down for ones y the Rogl SPIRITS AT A DISCOUNT. They Ave “Called from the Vasty Deep but Won't me—Abortive Sen we ‘olonel Goodwin's Headquarterr— eral Kow and Confusion, and « 1 Prodnced—The Potties Interfere, the Money Is KMeturned to the Pune Ite, de. ‘The noterions “Colonel Jwin, where farniiionty with the wpirite must by this time be elosely bordering on contempt, advertived, with a refrerhing admixture of bluphemy and impudence, that Miet Bila Van Wie, “the ehild of God, Hroadway tast ey bow the 1 give spirit masifestations at #1@ wing, the con equenee of which ane teen persons appeard unm ne of proposed action at the time advertinnd, the porpore of witnessing the manifestat aforerald. The room im which they were ts soko place at the top of the house; dark, dauk and npreposrersing, and is moreover ernamented by divere colgred placards and announcements, from which it would appear that Colonel Goodwin has @ good many in ow in the theo, When eight o'clock arrived the very small andien-@ began to grow feopaciont, and, having nothing n lable ta do, fell wo perutinizing each other, every man «uspe ting bie neighbor ot bona ‘49 with the npirits,”’ of, if in with them himeelf, wondering whether he bed come there for the express parpese of kicking ap a row. Atalittie afier eight ‘o'clock Colonel Good «im himeeif—the veritable usher in-ordinary to the spirit appeared, with coat pleeves rolled op, and toolt his pleow on the platform, and behind @ litte dewk. Preeenity, omneot war that some nine rising—apparently after having passed a few momen'a io silent communion with the ghost of bis grant- mother-—be commenced 19 sddreps the diminuti@ gathering im the emubdued tame of & man who kuew bis deep reeponmbility and who waa not goite ta “jet ap” on bis epritual clients it he knew it He formed thone present hat he did not want thelr moony ay, thereby, that money wae @ cous bad great objection Ww in geners|— pendent of their “quarters,” Me uth, and when the epeaker raid ooked tip to the whitewashed eniting as the found it at last and knew wher Hwan wanted. Me 1, tending to chow that be val manifestations, therefore, in the a lthers of inarderers gallant ¢ Mine Kila Van Renton to we Which chairman aut was a foare thin h pat his fing tthe Conk re of the & ved in mp epirituniiet, much & ho wae Th Lirected by the pr her Premining ths pe tho manaved t uch the erale ia abteona, ond jo! after & momont of two of raspense the two feet the instrament nearest the player whre lifted up bait @ doren times in rapid wureemion The pane ware very Hi ft not dette ‘As for the Cote hia countenance apd le Mine Van Wie then should get on tw wml several mew heavy owe, the med and the mm appeared #8 andience were nemplaned to grin bewpres thie being dowe U to the mon donows ho metum. Unfortanatey, however, ‘the spiriia’ « drew, and daring the Iatter experiment a—weil, net to pat Won fine & pein Upon i ah ankle, War mann to there th GBleOm wily the plano. 4 la bonne heure! the spirila, whe had @ Lbair epiriting by mo means gemlly were eaught im the act. A gentioman having sealed bimesif st the pane, iC was discovered that it Wan the easiest thing in the world to lift the teetrument ap end down with (+ knee, And the heart uf the colene! sank within him. let he waan't going to give it ap me. tart be with & Grovmemteent ware @ the hand thet woul * driven Brommell wild with envy, “eles your committee, and the medium ee. | os woval.”’ Aye, there wee the rub From thig moment unt! half-past wine o' lek the Colonel and the sudience eat ‘chaliag' each ther, the sudienes rege larly pom\oating « man every fy 0 minutes, and the Cor feel a* regularly objecting to him. Kome be objected @ because they couldn't Ue a knot, nd some becanse they euald , nome beowan he dein't know them, amd otherd weraus be dd After a long tine, @ weather beaten «! follow of the ( 8 Cuttie sehoot “pulled himanif ti “uenGemen qether,” and wanted Ww Know ins grocers! wey “wha cheer. The very tan, the sudience said, and «vom Gomiwio, Wimentt, bn Why the weather beaten centinn a7 ‘ other balf boor was epeet ine badgering— te Cov 1 alterosting between the miidnes of 6 dove & the fury of © tiger-and at lant = feporter coneem to act af the other committios man, Bat by Cr | tune the Colonel's patience wae gone, be instet on minute rine, which nobety ever heard before beteg complied with, and, beonese the reporter wowk bot sen owe a dirty Witthe sera of paper, be 7@ rts and bes |— be fetched » prt Here was s pretty “how 4do-you ww Ravey Camp The catone! deposited bis petal eth « beng tae otorend the money @ the deceived eudiene., ond man if ecat em Whith were mt guile of the charecter edvertuad Weanewtay © Hy Sed Accident at Madson twe Persone Drowned ” y 5 te Avedon enn’ bay 6 no Wile © party @ae proceeding to Mog ary Curren temall bonin, one of toe two milee tele Uuia city, on Freseron A Giltertty oy, « tee, Wh | tm respaete Frey Wasiwne men, and est caee © gement ee ed oor ered. ee mn of Reeretary Seward Weites. Powrems Mennot, J 5, 1908 The punbeat Arcotney, with feoretaries Wee A en eorte fort, teumter Deoltce there arrived leet eveniog (rom Washington on an Coreen rip Wo enjoy Whe ton remem The op Kisser river & hort ditance end eertored ee toe ee ed