The New York Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1866, Page 4

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CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Ifoll, 4/2 Rroadway—Is A Vanimey or Laut any Lav Youn Tuas Wie ENTERTAINMENTS, CoKrs ve Banus, &c, VAT, TERRNAC agit acs @arpen Co HOOLE\'s OPERA HOUSE, Brooktya.—Rrewrian Mie WRRELSY—hA Ave BUMLI-QUES AND Paxroxixes. NEW YORK MUSE(™ OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— ‘Lecrvans HR Oxy-Hrpuoaen Mrcuoscorn twice New York, Sunday, August 5, 1866. "NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Ail advertisoments handed in untit half past nine o'clock in the evening will be classified priate head ugs; but proper ciassitica’ nedred efter that hour, under appro- cannot be EUROPE. ‘sy the steamship Moravian, from Liverpool on the ‘Sth and Londonderry on tho 27th ult., we are furmshed with nows five days Inter than by the preceding steamor, Athouch fiveday- anterior to the latest cable despatches. ‘The armistice botweon Prussia and Austria was to have expired on the 27th. The cable has since fernished news that ft was to be continued for iour weeks on the 4th. Previous to the armistice the Italians were very siocessful in the Tyrol and the London Times says that they would have had entire possesion of Southern Tyrol ‘aad the Prussians would bave been masters of the Dan- ube if the truce nad beon delayed a day ionger. ‘The British government has announced its intention of continuing thé suspension of the habeas corpus in ireland. The government has agroed to facilitate the Reforma League in obtaining a decision as to their right to hold public meetings in the Park. Another meeting was to have taken place there on the 30th, by am ar. rangement with the government. Some of the news- papers represent this concession as a discomfiture to the Mintetry. Our apec'al despatches over the cabie, dated July 30, and published August 1, give an account of the above meoting, by which it appears thirty thousand people wore present, and everything passed off quietly. ‘The Liverpool cotton market on the 27th was buoy- ant, closing quictly at an advance of 44. on American, aud Id @ lsd on other descriptions. Breadstufls evinced a downward tendency. By the Atlantic cable we bave the London and Liver- pool market quotations on Friday (August 3) im the afternoon. In London United Sistes five-twentios were quoted at 69 at the close, Convols closed at 87% for money. Inthe Liverpool cotton market middling up- (anda wero quoted at fourteen pence per pound, a de- ultine of one-fourth of a ponay from ihe previous quota- tions givon through the cable. ‘The Liverpoot breadstuffs or provieions market? have not boon reported through the cable. THE CITY. ‘Tue cholera exhibited mo signa of abating yester- day. There were twenty-five new cases and teu deaths reported. A visit to a honse in Mulberry etroet, where a group of cases vocurred, disclosed a terribie stato of ‘ith, Tho mortality from cholera in the city and adjacont islands for the past week is carly two hundred in number. In Brooklyn the epidemic is als» severe, On Friday thirty-eight now cases of cholera occurred in the Penitentiary. Measures aro being taken to get the epidemic under control. In the public institations matters rewain unchenged. About the average number of cases is reported. On Governor's {uland the disease appears to have somewhat abated, valy one new case being reported. Ou David's Island ae new case of cholera occurred. {n this morning's Haxato is given an article descrip. tive of some of the tenement houses of New York from the pon of au eye witness, to which bas been added an allusion to slaughter houses and tallow rendering estab- Hshments The reader will no longer wonder that cholera infects the city, but will have cause for surprive that a ingle one of the residents of certain localities has so tong endured the polluted atmosphere so many are com- pelied to inhale, A dercription of some of the principal buildings te oeatly crected oF in course of erection in the city in given in our lewne this morning. The metropolitans have @ right to congratulate themselves on the large nember, both public and private, that ere going up in there midat, A reviow of tho political situation in thir city e given at some length tn our columns thie n, ng, With some iatoresting details of removals, appointments and changes recentiy made in the burears and departinents Proceedings have been instituted iu the Si\th Dietriet Court, before Justioe Barrett, against the Third Avenue Raiiroad Company, for refusing to fell tere tickets ata comveniont point, according to the recou! Internal Reve. nue law, Another defalcation was reported in Wall «tree! yester. day. A salesman in a sugar establiebment, by (Le name of Dean, as is alloged, last Wednesday made his escape from the city, after the discovery of some very question able transactiona, in which hie employers were the euf- forera to a large amount, No knowledge had been ob. tained as to the whereabouts of the absentes, ‘The Congressional Investigating Committee will hold 149 nent seasion in this city for the purpose of invertiga- ting alleged frauds in the Custom House. Morrie Klein, who was injured by the steam boiler explosion thet occurred at Harris & Co.'s sugar refinery om the 294 wlt., died in the New York Hospital » day or two ago. Jp tho United Stace Commissioner 6 ofies yesterday, before Commissioner Betts, Henry de Fevre was charged with passing & $10ounterfeit bill in an oyster saloon. ‘The evidence offeéd on the part of the prosecution failed altogether t/ sustain the charge, and M de Fevre having produced idence showing that he bears an ex- cellent character was discharged. Charles Harper, alias Howard, was ‘barged with passing two counterfoit $10 Ddills on Mr, Matthews, who keeps a ladies’ cloth. ing store at ‘245 Broadway. Some evidence having been given, the oase was adjourned to the 4th of Septem- ber, the Commissioner stating that ho would accept bail tn $3,000 fo’ the prisoner’s appearance. Judge MeOunn yesterday refused to grant an Injunction in the case of Joseph Schwarrschild, who keeps a bone boiling exablishment. This decision is made in accord. ance with the opinion of Judge McCunn published in yesterday's HxRALD, ‘The stock market was dull, but, on the whole, steady yesterday. Governments were strong. Gold closed at 20734 a 3g. There was but little business done yesterday. The merchants left the city en masse erly in the afternoon, and had very little desire jo do business in the forenoon, so that the volume of commercial transactions was very small. Groceries and cotton were dull but nominally uncbes6ed. Dry goots were quiet. On Change flour was dull, trreg- ular and decidedly lower. Wheat was inactive, Corn ashade eager. Cate heavy. Pork a shade lower. Beef steady. Lari wi Petroleum firm and 1c. a 2c. higher, Whiskey dull. Freight dull. MISCELLANEOUS. Our correspmdent in Dublin, writing on the 20th of July, furnishes: very important and most interesting statement respeting the condition of Fen‘anism in Ire- land; the exteni of the organization and the exciting causes, governmntal and social, which have induced the peoplo—it may te said, tho entire people of the country— to commit their political fortunes, present and future, to the keeping and guidance of Stephens and tho other leaders of tho boy. The extraordinary extent of the Fenian ramifioasons, in the face of the government and its proseoutions, is fully acknowledged, while its exist- ence is accounted for on the grounds of English injustice, ‘unequal lave and taxation, an unfair Parliamentary re- Presentation, British prejudice, and the exisience of a poor, pettifogging aristocracy, Our anecial fashions’ correspondent in Paris, writing on the 20th of July, makes the important announcement thata new style of crinoline has been decided upon in that city, and that aithough its cut, shape, and make up wore not generally known, at date the article was being manufactured on a large scale, and would s:on appear, It is described in the communica- tion given in our columns. The news is interesting, not only t the ladies, but to the groat number of persons engaged tn the production of crinoline in the United States. The latest styles provailing in headdressos, lama hoods, boleros busques, brlts, dresses—for the house, or riding or driving—are duly reported. ‘The copies of the diary of Mr. Deau, secretary of the cable expedition, kept on board the Great Eastern, were forwarded to Halifax on board the British war steamer Niger tor transmission to the press in New York. We are now told they have been turned over to the British Admiral in command at Halifax, who detains them, and it is intimated that the documents may not reach us at all; but at the earliest mot before Thursday next. Tho Nag- lish Adumralty have civen permission to the steamer Terribte to assist tho Medway in laying tue cablo across the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Tho statement of the public dobt, dated tho Ist of August, shows that the total dob: is $2,770,416,608, while the amount in tho Treasury is 137,317,932; the amount of the debt over and abovo the cash in the Troasiiry being $2,638,099,276. A decroase of $20,562,844 in the total debt is shown by the statement sinco the Iast Statement made on the Ist of June. The Treasury Department has issued a circular for the regulation of the customs accruing from cigars and to- baeco under the new Internal Revenue law, and also a ciroular concerning special taxes under the act of July 18, by which licenses wore abolished and special taxes substituted thorefor. Goneral Sheridan issued orders in New Orleans yea- terday continuing martial law in force until the public peace was fully restored. Interesting details of the recent riots from the city newspapers are given in our columns this morning These serve faithfully to Gill out & history reported somewhat meagerly by the telegraph. Four convicts made their escape from Sing Sing prison on Saturday while, guard at the quarry was asleep. Thiy possessed 11 ves of citizons’ clothes and doffod their striped uniform. They are still at large. A meeting was hold in Norfolk on Wednesday for the Purpose of appointing delegates to the Philadelphia Convention. ‘The old Moyamensing Hall in Philadelphia, which was recently taken as a cholera hospital, was burned yes- terday. An indignation meeting had been held the day betore. A man named Poole was murdered in Newark yester- day morning by 8 man named Ira Munn, the proprietor of abotel. Poole entered the house with some friends, and a dispute arose between him and Munn about pre- payment, when the latter stabbed Poole with a knife in the breast, the blade penetrating almost to the heart. ‘The victim lingered until. balf-past efeven A.M. Munn 13 in custody. An officer of the Freedmen’s Bureau, in Jackson par- ish, La., was mardered recently by highwaymen. Hon, Ezekie! Whitman, late Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court, died on the Ist imst., agod ninety years, ot East Bridgewater, Mase, ‘The Internal Revenue Law and the Tax on Agricalture. If Congress had attempted to legislate es pecially against the best interests of this coun- try and in favor of foreign capital and specu- lators, it could not have succeeded more triumphantly than in the new Internal Revenue law, a8 it stands. The “assembled wisdom” of a portion of the nation pretended to relieve the people of the enormous pressure of taxation, and made a great parade of articles exempt from duty—some hundreds in number. But it is a curious fact that the articles so declared exempt scarcely ever have paid the expense of collecting the revenue upon them; and as for contributing to the relief of the people, the amended Internal Revenue law adds to instead of diminishes the load of taxation. Tuking, for example, the tax taken off the articles here- tofore taxable, we find that the revenue will not be lessened by that means, while the tax of three cents per pound on a great agricultural siaple, cotton, will increase the revenue some twenty or twenty-five millions. The Internal Revenue law is, therefore, worse and more onerous than it was originally. This pound tax on cotton is a most unn>ces sary and grievous burden to the entire popula- tion of the country—to the planters and cultiva- tors in the South as well as to the consumers in the North. It is a tax upon an interest that has hitherto received lenient consideration at the hands of legislators all over the civilized world—the agricultural; and it seems that it has been left for the Solons of enlightened aod liberal America to inaugurate the sys- tem of imposing a serious and crippling tax upon a staple product of their own soil. During the rebellion the American cotton growing interest became almost paralyzed. It is now straggling for new life, and, instead of retarding its growth by the infliction of a heavy tax, it was the plain duty of Congress to encourage its resnacitation in every way pos- sible, We had hardly got well into civil strife | before foreign nations began to cultivate the staple in their own Indian and South American dominions, England, particularly, stimulated its cultivation in her Egyptian and East Indian possessions ; in short, wherever cotton could be grown with success or prospective profit, its culture was commenced. English capi- taliste went largely into the business, and NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5,° 1868. was that it would leave but the sorry wreck of an exhausted and impoverished nation. To eave themselves from 8 commercial and social revulsion consequent upon the failure of the supply of cotton, British manufacturers, capi- talists and speculators engaged heavily in these cotton growing enterprises. Banks were es- tablished on the strength of the cotton income; large commercial houses sprung up, based upon 8 similar foundation; even gigantic railroad undertakings were contemplated and laid out on the strength of the supposed enormous yield of cotton, the growth of other countries than America. But our country survived. She came out of the tremendous conflict a little weak and weary, but within a space of time marvel- lously brief she recuperated her energies, went grandly to work again, and is now once more upen the high road of prosperity and grestness. In the meantime British speculators went by the board. Already smashed-up British capitalists, or the living débris of suspended British commercial houses, come here to mend their broken chiua, to patch up old fortunes recklessly squandered in some dazzling cotton growing, blockade running, or American railroad scheme. Whatever may ocour in this country—whether we have a ter rible war, a stupendous enterprise, a famine, a pestilence, or a season of great commercial and agricultural prosperity—there is always an itching on the part of British capiialists and speculators to make something out of our good or evil fortune. {n this philanthropic labor we have seen by the action of Congress that our radicals are ready to assist the British money- mongers and cotton spinners, By placing this atrocious tax upon cotion, the greatest and most valuable of either of our other agricul- tural products, Congress not only cripples our own resources, but encourages cotton growing in rival countries. In reality the radicals have accorded protection in favor of foreign cotton growers and against those of our country to tre amount of twenty-five millions per annum. The loyal people of the North, being the principal consumers, have to bear this enor- mous burden in addition to the many others arising from scandalous and unequal taxation. This is a fact that cannot be denied; and if the destructive legislation of the radicals continues in the same manner, exempting taxation on articles that do not come into general con- sumption and increasing it upon an article that does, like cotton, the people must come to their own rescue, and by their ballots in every Con- gressional district show that they are deter- mined no longer to endure radical, or, in words more appropriate, tyrannical, plundering and job legislation. Neepiess Arann Anour tnt Caotnra.—Some silly people are getting alarmed about the cholera in this city. Provincial newspapers, like those of Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and elsewhere, make a great parade about a few deaths reported to be cholera for the pur- pose of preventing country merchants and -pleasure travellers from visiting our city. We stated from the beginning of the cholera re- ports that the disease did not exist in an dpi- demic form, and the experience of the past five or six weeks fortifies us in our opinion. By scientific and ‘crodible authorities we are assured that the Asiatic cholera in malignant form scarcely ever scourges the eame locality beyond a consecutive period of forty days. Furthermore, we know that the real malady is frequently confounded with others which are less fatal. These diseases are called sporadic cholera, cholera morbus, cholera infantum, &c., and are generally confined to adults and children who live in impure localities, or to those who partake of un wholesome food, indulge in unripe trait, wilted and indigestible vege- tables and other natural sources of illness, from the attacks of which a large per centage recover. It is different with the genuine Asiatic cholera. That dreadful scourge does not stop to select its victims, but, as it were by at- mospheric electricity, attacks and prostrates alike the high and low, the cleanly and the squalid. As a correspondent has remarked, against such a calamity all precautions are powerless. The poisoned column crosses its allotted space at its caprice, sowing death and desolation in its path. The recapitulation of a few facta will demonstrate to the intelligent reader that there is really no cause for appre- hending that the genuine cholera has ap- peared or will appear in the city the present season. No diagnosis of what has been report- ed to bea fatal case of cholera has been made which agrees with former experience of what the malady really is. We find in some of the public hospitals and barracks mere tyros in information and experience respecting the real type of the scourge. They treat a simple case of cholera morbus as they would the giant dis- temper itself, and make up reports the burden ot which is something about “rice water dis- charges” and “ collapse,” and there is the end of the subject. It would be well for the Board of Health to examine into the competency of some of the physicians who report cases o]- leged to be cholera, in order to ascertain whether they know what the disease really is. Much anxiety and needless alarm would be prevented if the public fult assured that those doctors who make these reports were persons in whom implicit reliance could be placed. We repeat the expression of our belief that the genuine Asiatic cholera has not appeared in the city the present season, or if it has that its period of prevalence as an epidemic has al- ready passed. Tar Case or General. RKovsskav.—As we anticipated the late constituents of General Rousseau bave nominated him again for Con- gress, and he will, no doubt, resume the seat which he recently resigned upon being repri- manded for punishing Mr. Grinnell. Goneral Rousseau bas just issued an address in which he ridicules the whole affair in Congress, and describes the scene of his receiving consure as like “Pope's description of an excited spinster.” He says that he dodged the Sergeant-at-Arms by walking up to the bar alone to receive his punishment. He concludes his remarks on the subject by saying:— would do it again to-morrow under similar circum- stances. No man shall over insult, with impunity, my People or myself, aud on (his issue I submit the cass to Foor bende . This whole affair shows how one-sided Con- gress can be, and how very like a farce it is to inflict punishment upon an offending member which is sure to be followed bya reward at the hands of his constituents. How much better would it be to have an efficient Speaker in the chair, who would check the use of violent lan- guage, and prevent the necessity of a resort to physical forge out of doors. Tae Muzose ow West Cansres.—The wanton murder of Miss Hicks by a United States soldier, in the town of West Chester, on Thurs- day morning, presents a case of no ordinary interest. According to the testimony five soldiers belonging to the military post at Fort Schuyler, two of them non-commissioned offi- cers, got into a fight with a man named Elliott, for whom some of them appeared to have had a grudge, and after violently assaulting him, breaking his arm with a bar of iron, and hunt- ing him from the public house where the alter- cation commenced to his own home, burst in the doors upon his mother and family, and finally, driving the wounded victim of their indignation to jump from a window, some of the party pursued him, while the others pre- sented their bayonets and pointed their guns at the aged woman, and another, more determined on blood than the rest, shot dead young lady, cousin of Mr. Elliott. Mr. Elliott, it seems, only escaped with his life by swimming a river with his unbroken arm, and seeking shelter ina friend’s house. These facta are startling enough in them- selves, but the affair becomes more alarming when we consider that these men were soldiers of the regular army, forming part of the garri- son at Fort Schuyler, and yet were permitted to run riot through the country at midnight, with the United States uniform on their backs and United States muskets and bayonets in their hands, What has the commanding officer of the fort to say to this outrageous breach of military discipline? The question first sug- gests itself:—Were these men on duty out- side the post? If 60, how came they to be drinking and gaming ina public house? If they were out on furlough, how came they to have their arms with them, one of which, at least, was loaded witha ball cartridge? But it now turns out tbat the actual murderer deserted his post to join the party who had beenatlowed to leave the fort by Sergeant Doran, their com- panion in crime. Who commands at Fort Schuyler? Sergeant Doran or the commandant of the post? Whoever is in charge, there seems to be no military rule observed there, but @ disgracefal condition of anarchy. These points require to be cleared up, and we hope that the military authorities will invostizate them while the civil authorities are taking charge of the alleged murderer and the accesso- riea before the fact. The man charged with the murder admitted gn examination that he in- tended to shoot Hlliott, and seeing, as he enp- posed, man and a woman standing in the doorway, he fred and shot Miss Hicks through the body. This is a clear admission of murder according to law, and no doubt the confessed criminal will be duly dealt with ; but there is sométhing of more importance to the commu- nity than fhe punishment of the parties impli- cated in this transaction, Suppose that thig loose military discipline is permitted and that. a portion of the garrison at Governor's Island should fancy to come over to this city some night and got up a row for their amuse- ment, bringing loaded muskets and bayonets with them, or that a similar thing should hap- pen at any of our garrisons around the city, what would be the consequence? It is not one life, but probably hundreds that would be sac- rificed. We call upon the proper military au- thorities, then, to ascertain by what rule or breach of rule these soldiers of Fort Schuyler wert permitted to carry their arms outside the post and use them for the gratification of pri- vate revenge, which seemed to be the motive in this cave. Public safety demands the closest investigation into the conduct of the officer in command of Vort Schuyler. Tax Insencrioy Mania.—No beiter evidence can be furnished of the decline in the standard of judges in this country than the numerous injunctions issued on all sides and on the most trivial questious. Our judges at one time considered that an injunction should never be resorted to except in a great emergency and upon questions of great moment affecting the interests of the people. But that rule now seems to be reversed, especially im this city. Injunc- tions have become as plenty as taxes; but in- stead of being issued by the judges to protect the snterests of the people they are issued for the special benefit of a few men, such us spec- ulaiors, jobbers, monopolists, and those conducting business injurious to the public morals and health. If a speculator in Wall street finds that he cannot make all the money he desires by complying with the laws he at once applies for and obtains an iajunction setting the law one side in his case. The corner groggeries, finding that the law compels them to submit to certain regulations, at once obtain an injunction, thus secur- ing the privilege of overriding the law. The Legislature, at the demand of the people, enacts a law to abolish certain nuisances which are known to be detrimental to the health of the neighborhood, breeding diseases of all kinds, The moment that aa effort is made to enforce the law the parties engaged in the business thus specially marked and condemned apply for an injanction that will enable them to continue their nuisances to the imminent danger of the health of the metropo- lis, Three or four jndges come forward and grant all the injunctions asked. But we have not yet heard of any injunction being granted to protect the people, to stop the ravages of the cholera, or in aid of any movement to protect the bealth, lives or interesta of the people. Owing to some eause—we will not pretend toauy what—all these injunctions are issued in favor of the party who has money to spend to wet them, and to assist parties in increasing their wealth at the expense of the mass of the people. This is a singular circumstance, We do not wish to give the inference that the judges share in the profits arising from their course, but the way the power of the bench has beea used of late leads to many suspicions, We are pleased to see that the agitation of the ques- tion has caused a change of front by some of our judicial officers, Judge McCunn has at last become convinced that fat melting and bone boiling establishments are really a nuisance and dangerous to the public health. This is certainly progress. Bat it would have been much better if he had taken the course adopted by Judge Barnard at the outset, and had ex- hibited more respect for the Iaw than he did for nuisances. The latter does not seem to be anxious to make himself ridiculous by declar- ing every law enacted as being unconstitn- tional. But McCunn and Cardozo appeared de- termined to make themselves famous as judicial officers in showing their disrespect for all law. Cardoso carried this mania so far that he has found it necessary to leave the city to escape the effect of his own malady, while McCuon has taken the back track, and is endeavoring to seoure the good will of his fellow citizens by undoing what he had done. But we fear that it is too late. The cholera is upon us, and its progress is materially aided by the presence of the nuisances that he tried to protect. It seems strange that while these judges were is- suing 60 many injunctions they never thought of iseuing one against the cholera, but always in its favor. The numerous deaths throughout the city are constantly reminding the people of this peculiarity of our judges, CITY INTELLIGENCE. Fara, Acoiwent.—A carman in the employ of Mezers, Beebe & Son, paper merchants, in Fulton street, while attempting to cross diagonally the horse car track in Chatham street, near the park, yesterday afternoon, was thrown by the agitated movement of hia truck from his and precipitated upon the ground in such a manner thet ane Porsenna over his breast, producing tnter- nal bemorrh: An officer of the Fourth precinct had him conveyed in a carriage to the City Hospital, where he shortl, ‘The Coroner was notified to Acceny mv 4 Kixoima Woop Facrory.—Mre, M. O'Keefe, of No. 511 West Forty-fourth strect, while passing through the kindling wood factory of Henry Rico, No. 363 West Forty-fourth street, was caught the circular saw while in full eperation, and out 13 suc! a shocking manner as to cause death almost immediately, Accrpant on THE Naw Haven Rarueoap,—As the halt- past five o'clock P, M. up train of the New Haven Kail- road was passing up Fourth avenue, when near 120ib street it ran over a woman named Mary Downing, killing her almost nine ‘Tas Stapnixg or Danxrs Comancs—Ho Straraxxsr oF Tae Occurrence.—Coroner Gover yesterday took the ante-mortem deposition of Dennis Cummings, living at 357 Madison street, who was stabbed in the neck by Bon- jamin Mulleny, as previously reported In his affidavit Cammings sets forth that at one o'clock on Friday morn- ing he was lying asleep on the stoop of house 118 Monroe street, when Mallerry came along and wok him up He arose, aftor which they walked quictly to the corner of Rutgers and Henry streets, when Mulleny stepped bark and sald, “There, take that!"? at the same time stabbing him in the right side of the neck, The injured man cried “Murder,” where-pon Mulleny ran away. Cummings states that no word? passed between them, and thot not the slightest provocation was given for the commission of the murderous ageantt. They had a dilfl- cuity last Christmas, after which Mulleny said to Com mings, “‘T will take dirty chances on you."’ The case was then submitted to the jury, who found as follows:— “That Dennis Cummings came to bis injuries at the hands of Benjamin Mulleny, by having been stabbed tn the neck bythe said Mulieny, on the night of Avuenst 2, 1866.’’ On th's verdict Coroner Gover issued a warrant for Mallony’s arroat, Narwow Escare rrom Drowsme iv Sneeweauny Riv- mt. —On Friday afternoon last, about four o'clock, as a bevy 0° young girls, whose parents are among the euests at Thompson's hotel, at the Navesink Highlands, wore bathiag in Shrewsbury river, near the steamboat land. ing, Ralf a dozen of them got into the deep water and four of them -voutd probably have been drowned but for the timeiv assistance of a brave deliverer. With tho alarm given this dehverer promptiy appeared, in tho person of a young gentleman of New York, Slr, VP. J. Cullman, who, without waiting even to take bis watch from his pocket, plunged into the river,*bringi up first one of the young ladies, and then one in each hand, who were lifted into boats brovrht to the rescue; but the fourth of the girlt thus saved had gone to the bottom, and was secured by Mr. Cullinan oniy by diving aud prinelog her up by ngth. When brought to the shoré sho was dompletcly insonsible. She was a daughter of General Hendrickson, a soldier of the Union artay in the late war, who bears something more in bis TESA ke "Raa the sumes of ‘he Bids are Miss Isabella Adame, of New Orleans; Mies Elia a Miss Emma Birkbeck, of New York. Angther of the party, Miss Henrietta Wallis, daughter of Dr, B. W: thie city, being abie to awim a litle, not only Bat erself but a companlon, Miss Mary Dodge, of New York, 4 pulling he? 5 and was instrumental in saving the others by instenUy running for relief. In the restoration of the young ladies the services of the Rev. Father Ryan, of the Bar- clay street Catholic cburch, were also invaluable. As for Mr. Cullinar, it is the sscond fostance in which this season he has been instremental in saving human life in these waters, Tickers on Crry Ranoaps —Tt is ascertained that a gentioman dolng business down town has instituted pro- ceedings against the Third Avenue Railroad Compeny in the Sixth District Court, before Justice Barrett, claiming that the company has refused to sel! him tickets ata “convenient point,’? according to law, and expreer a dosire that others may follow bis example in bringing these corporations to a sense of their duty. The law which requires the city railroa¢ companies to charge no more than the original fare, with the addition merely of the Internal Revenue tax, has gone into eifect, but many of the companies, from some cause or other, were on Sa- turday not ready to meet the wants of the occasion. That difficuity bas been partially jag the public :--The ith Avenue has tickets for sale at its up town office; the avenue line will supply thom at its office in Sixty. sixth and report has it at Harlem also; the “belt” road, two |i extending from the Battery to Central Park, tickets can be procured at No. 1 Battery piace, and the Sixth avenaue at ite up town oMca, The Ninth av- enue road charges only five cents all rouund. ¥au. raox 4 Hovsn Tor. -—About four o'clock yesterday afternoon a man by the name of Robert Bonnell, aged twenty-seven, residing at No. 76 Charlton eres Toof of the building No. 76 South street, taken to the City Hospital. as Desrrction asp Negiect.~A heartronding case of Reglect and destitution has been brought under the no- tice of the police. It appears that a woman nemed Margaret Boyle, of No. 337 Kast Sixteenth street, who is the mother of five children, 1s addicted to intoxication. On Wednesday 1a3t the youngest of the children died, and the unfortunate woman, who has been drinking pod) or efpert age taken no steps to have the body removed. The neighbors, fearfal of bad results in consequence, brought the matter under the notice of the police. The children were taken from the house, aud the corp: re- moved to the Morgue, Coxanesional Invasncatma Cowmrrer.—This Com- mittee holds its next sersion tn th 's city to examine into alleged fraudulent transactions said to have transpired at the Custom House, The members of the committee ex- pect to be summoned at aa early day. The following is ‘& list of the members ;—Chairman, C. T. Hulburd; mem. bers, J. M. Bromall, A. W. Hubbard, R. H. Rollins, M. — @ C. Smito, 8. 1. Warner, T. A. Plants, Fa . A. Nicholson. It will be remembered that the ‘an Wyck Committse about five years since first brought to light the grossest corraption existing in the Costom House, After the labors of that committee ceased due power war conferred by upon the Committee of Public Expenditures to make annual invesugation into tho manner of doing business, &e , at the Custon House. The results of their labor hae been the revelation of many fraudulent transactions by the connivapes of out- side and inside parties, The iovestigation will be gene. ral, as there are no specific charges. Srarence or tae Doo Pouxo.—The keqper of the dog pound, at the foot of Twenty Oth street and Kast river, gives the account of dogs taken in, drowned, re deemed and sold, as follows:—Dogs taken in since the 18th of June, 3,900; drowned, %,100; redeemed by own- ere, 106; sold, #4. During the firet few weoks that the und was oponed business was very brisk, as many as hree hundred dogs being taken ie in one day, The Price paid for every dog waa fifty cents. Since the Lat of August, however, this has been lowered to forty cents, which may account for the falling off in bnetnese. As boys are not paid anything for dogs there are dog broker who pay the boys from thirty to forty cents and pocket the remainder. “The pound cloves about the Lith of September, PARK CONCERT. In apito of the rain yosterday there was s large crowd of musicloving people assembled around the marie stand in the Park. No jes than twelve thousand people were present. Every five minutes a heavy shower seat. tered Mr. Dodworth’s audience in every ditectiou, and 00 the Torrace aad Casino were crowded lial drenched Groups of ladies im light sarnmer attire. The programm was certainly very attractive, and, considering that many members of the band had tw attend to their um breltlas as well as their inetruments, it wae very fairly rendered. The two overtures, // Ba biere and Lurline, wore the best pieces on the programme, and were rece|red with enthoviaem, um. dampened by the frowns of Jupiter Pluviue. The Green Hilt Nocturne is 9 very tame affair, Ditto, Kiihner's Forward Galop, The grand selection from Verd'« Attila was a very lucid and spirited sketch of the raid of the barbarian Huns, and portrayed the scourge of God in strong colors. Tho reed and brass instruments in Mr. Dodworth's band are so admirably balauced that every orchostral effect can bo given toa piece, The Park band this summer, although a bastity got up organization, tas so far answered fully the expectations of the public, and And reflected considerable credit on its excellent leader, NEWS FROM NEW ORLEANS. New Onieans, August 4, 1866. There have been heavy shipments of gold from here during the past week, part on government accoaut, Lieutenant Butts, of the Freedmen's Bureau, has been mardered by highwaymen im Jackson parish, ALLEGED DEFALCATION IN WALL STREETY Sudden Disappearance of u Salesman ia Sugar House—It is Alleged that He C: Away Several Thousand Dollars that Net Belong to Him—Statement of the Presio dent of the Company, &c. ‘Wall street is not Wall street unless it can have «& sensation, and no sooner has the memory of one great robbery become dimmed than another looma into sight, to startle the community for awhile, until it fades beneath the rising sun of a fresher sensation. Indeed, Micawber-like, Wall street is continually waiting for something to “tarn np” and be the nine days wonder of the city. The Lord robbery case was a rather extensive uAdertaking on the part of the sharpers, and consequently the sensation arising from it was of an unusual duration. The people had, however, recovered their equanimity with the discovery of the thieves, and for nearly three months have boom anxiously awaiting the startling intelligence of another eigantic affair of some kind, That intelligence was made known yesterday, ‘The New York Steam Sugar Refining Company is the victim in this instance, and the alleged successful ap- propriator, Mr. Isaac Whittemoro Dean, !s employed as @ salesman in the office of the company on Wall street. ‘The President, Mr. Peter Moller, is a goatleman of wealth, his last annual income being given in the reve- nue returns as $115,852. By what means a mere sales+ man was allowed so extensively to handle the funds of the company no one cau tell, as information on the sub- juet ‘a peremptorily refused by all pecuniarily interested in the matter, Itia, however, evident that the departed agent did hold » position of trust, for a very large sum is missing, and in all probabilities mever will be recovered. HOW THR APPROPRIATION WAB COMMITTE::, It appears that Mr, Dean, being the salesman of the company, was the sole medium through whom orders for goods were given. If Messra, So and So required oo@ thousand barrels of refined sugar, Lig order was necessary to obtain it from the refinery, and nono othor could be obeyed. The plan adopted by him under these ctreum- stances, it 1s reported, was to order moro goods tham were nesded, and the surpins thrs obtamed was shipped and sold on bis own individual account. ‘This would have been no easy task to perform had his sunoriors care. fally examined his books, but they probably had great confidence in his honesty, and neclected this prev caution, But whether from indifference or from a too implicit confidence in the fidelity the saleeman it appears that he was seldom questioned reapectin« the transactions of his d-partment of the bus ness, And so months rolled on, and week must have added to tue lows of the company and the income of the employe, False orders were sont in, and the surplus engar sold for his perzonal benefit, and it is very probab'e that as time paseed on, and no sign of his guilt was discovered, the bold “speculator’’ com. menced to grow indifferent ts detection. The sale of surplus sugar could not bave convented his desires for riches, and he performed the Inst fatal act, which, being discovered, compelled him to fiy the country, and tous pe Wall street in the very throes of ils periodical senaa- tions, HOW THE DISCOVERY WAS MADR Ashort time agos urocer on the cast sido of the cil porchased a bill of goods from the salesman, amounted to $3,000, ov thirty dave credit. Instead nocepting the bill the abscut sa’eaman persuaded the Driver to cash the bill ata heavy discount, The grocer did not question hie right to dispose of the bill at such @ diecount, and the bargain wa: closed, to the apparent vatic’'action of beth pariies, When the bill became dae a collector was eent from the Treasurer's office of the company after the money, and on the grocers exhibiting aflir came out, aud yLEEK BOLTED, “ad: of his vouchers the whol ToK De Of course when on tloned fret wax discovered, the head buyer and cont- deutial clerk charg-d the salesman with having de- frauded the company. Overwhelmed at this sad- den disclosure of his eu'l, Mr. Dean implored the bayer, not to mention what he bad learned to tho Pret dent, and he would make the inoney good on that day. But after having appropriated the funds the sales man cold not recoacile his mind to yielding «up his*ill-gotten booty, Instvad therefore of do as he romiacd, the salesman took a coach, in which be dri fo his house, at No. 141 West Twenty-first streo’, instantly packed up his trunk. The steamer was abortls to leave, and having no time to make any explanations his wife he meroly bade hor goulby and advised her to take care of herself. After thus parting he entered the gurriage and was driven gf, Was He GONE To? If the driver of the coach can be relied upon, Me, Dean has vone to California, the man having stated thas he dreve him to the deck, where a San Francisco steamer was ready tostart, This statement, however, mus’ be received with many rrains of allowance, for it is harily Probable that an alleged defauitor would fabseond te any point inthe United Stater where a telezram could reach in advance of him, aud cause his arrest before he can land. [tis quite likely that he bas gone to some foreign TUEAMOUNT APSTRACTED, It ia stated by some that the loss is not less thaa $120,000, but there are reasons to believe that it will aot #xoeed $86,000, At any rate whether it be the Grn! or last amount, if, a6 has been stated, he has carrind off $50,000 with him he need pot feel the least apprehen- sive of being reduced to want at an early date. AR LRAVER A PAMILY, Mr. Desn has left in this city a wife and an interestiag family of five child ives are on the track of Dean, and with some hopes of successfully tracing him to his present abiding STATEMENT OF TUR PRESIDENT OF THR COMPANT. It is apparent from the reticence of the members of the firm with regard to the subject of the embezzlement that they are pot desirous of baving it become a matter of great notoriety. Au interview with Mr, Peter Molier the President of the New York Sugar Refining Company, at alate hour last ey Prem berg to the fol- or his whereabouts at present. He denied that he defrauded the company to the exteot Se eee amount of the TWE PRESIDENT OF THE TRAVELLERS’ CLUB AND VICUNA MACKEN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New Yorn, August 4, 1968. Merew!th you have a document printed in Spanish, entitled “Two Lettcra to Don Abelardo Nuney upow Haman Vanity, or Ambassador and Criminal. Printed expressly for private circulation in Santiago de Obile.”” ‘These letters are dated New York, March 10, 1866, and signed by Benjamin Vicuna MacKenna, They ceutain sixteen pages, filled for the most part with indelicate caricatures of our citizens who received Senor Mac- Kenna with kindness, and tulgar, indiseriminete abuso of the country generally. These letters are the originals from which were taken the ‘extracts contained in your Chilean correspondence a few Jor ncreng and whieh give only © faiut ides of the silly sions of this fainons Chilean special ogent, diplomat, aml or whatever he may be called. You will pst the document is printed in New York aud ia a ‘orm for convenient and extevsive circulation I presume no individual mentioned by Senor Mac- Kenna will take bis remarks very serionaly to heart. Judging from bis letters and performances generally, he appears to be the embodiment of a silly vanity, to gratify, which be prostitutes lis accomplishments, ignores the pope of gratitude, sacrifices his honor and disgraces is coun I first met Seior MecKenna in thie city in company with the Minister from Chile, Sefior Asté-Kuruggo. I knew the Senor’s mirsion to thie country, and | had heard him spoken of ax a member of the Chile House of Repre- sentatives, distingnistied for hie patriotiem and clo- and a3 such | introduced him to the audience om ‘oveasion of his 'retnre bef Travellers’ Chat His story about the pile of hooks i* almost wholly 9 fab reation, and his entire accomnt of the affair isa tho- rough exaggeration. To add piquancy to this correspom'ence and asa movin | sequel, I beg leave to ofter the followme nove, reveir from the Sedor the day of his ¢eparture A in express me rendered 10 1B ipacion. ood baptng tle,” (tae MACKENN 4 try cowething Nike diuary specimen of @ Li Porhaps that on leaving th contrition came over thie extra Chilean diplomat when he rete had served me and the foatitrtion of which BF lew honor to be President, in that same “Santiago de Chile”! to whieh be ate ant a breach of ¥ to notice, except for th Chileno, Sehor Dow Via Kenwn, to the United States will stn *. inemt Reapeetfally, ee ae HOWARD F DUNBAR. ATH OF . be Me, Auguet 4, 1866, Kvokiel Whitman, 1. a graituate of Browm Coiversity in 1706, and Chie( Jastier of the Supreme Court of Maiue from 1841 to Oetober 2%, 1848, when he resigned, died at Last Bridgewater, Mers., on the Ist inst, aged ninety sears, Hie Cumeral took place tht morning, attended by the members of the bar andag large concourse of citivems, DEATH OF COLONEL JOHM RUTHERFORD. Ricuwown, Va, Acgust 4, 1866. Colne! John Rutherford, who presited at the recent meotings of the Stats Central Committee, died euddenty last aight at an advanced age. He @as for several yeare ‘Laoutonant Governor of Virginia