The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1866, Page 2

NEW. YORK HERALD, MOWDAY, AUGUST 27, 1866, 2 . of the last four 7 y the had beng cutting th FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. | Sehr the Exchange on etch Ssturday THE NATIONAL GAME. ALT AWFUL SUFFERINGS AT SEA. tral iags and cing tg es ween an fore aad 4. dug. 1. Aug. 18, Aug.25, Tax Nanionat Convewtion.—The National Executive algo pound wet rags toe sort pulp them, e __ Sospax, August 26, 1808 | gitnatc Mall.....o.-. aa AMOS ANKE on Atlantic vs. Gotham—Dfuma M Committee will print and elroulate five hundred thou- pia Med Aee ig Sis aivic @ speculation for a rive on the Stock Exchange con. | Alton & Terre Haute RR. 3446 = 35 86% = 8035 Friday last the muffins of the Atlantic Club played | sand copies of the oficial report of the proceedings of into rations, and ‘With knives and eater, I natal tinued rather active last weak, but the market fluctuated | Alton & Terre Haute pref 7 = OF 8 bs) their first match with the muffins of the Club | the Philadelphia Convention, \*Yau say the two sick men remained sick all trou at intervals rather spasmodically. The general tendeney seein, One Power. 2K «BO 33 813g | S24 Were defeated ine fine touffin game of fv) innings, Massacuvaerrs Surge Court.—The names of Judge and after rouae vd = ave ad eae iaeres ” of prices ts unmistakably upward, and this will be etill | Canton Comet Bi 208 524 a Muffin matches are becoming more popular tis season | John Wells, of Chicopee; Dwight Foster, of Worcester, forig i Bow dd you. g o Cleveland & Pittsburg, fa , 2 i =e meeneipeees by the extreme monetary ease re- Cleveland ‘& Toledo. 116 116 nes ne proabeatraraiime in pam a and it is but Tye tibet apn ‘are mentioned in connection My goad Ton seneminth tare riage sulting from the heavy disbursements of the Treasury in | Gentral Coal 47 60: 53 63 should, for {t ts in the muffin matchesthat the | with the vacancies upon the bench of the Supreme Court like we'd haveeaten them, It was just a w. redemption of thes temporary loan, On Saturday the R 104% 105% 10634 109° | weighty mem par excellence of the several jlubs are | of the Commonwealth, me we couldn’t have kept them, and we coulda’t bi supply of capital was largely im excess of Gilese & Egan von a s 36% | brought out, First nine matches may serve to show | Tump Massacuussrrs Disrmor.—Wm. Whiting, late So- given them to the sick men ‘lone; we'd have shad the demand at four per cent, and this con- d Coal but the | licttor of the War Department, is mentioned as the pro- Saws around all silks, T guess, 3B was. oot rather bable successor of A. H. Rice in Congress. Cmoumat.—L, A. Harris, Mayor of Cincinnati, re- signed the office on the 17th inst., and the City Council elected Chas. F, Wilstach Mayor in his place, Tas Missour: Trovsiss,—The fearful state of affairs in Missouri has alled for the interference of General Sher- man, who recently had a long interview with Govergor Fletcher. Subsequently the Governor tasued his prociama- vy true j py Adee the captain cut dition of monetary affairs is likely to be prolonged. canvas cover that had been around the ham into ti! ‘The speculation in government securities closed buoy- ant; but these have already advanced so far that they invite a reaction, The stock market closed firm on Saturday, and the quotations at five o'clock were as under:—New York Central 10276 a 103, Erie 7334 a % (after previously sell- ing 48 high as 7434), Reading 11524 a 3{, Michigan South- and who, when they join a clut, aro ready Dut who standby thelr orpulzations ern $534 @ 34, Illinois Central 12334 a 34, Cloveland and un- | tion, asserting that the combined power of the national ‘boats had po ater oe t three on the thirty-niuth day aud say Pittsburg 87 @ 34, Cleveland and Toledo 115% a 116, the | and State forces will be used to enforce obedience to of all han mas pat ob The ‘THE AWFUL ne agg inde Rock Island 1093 a, Northwestern 36% a 37—pre- national and State laws, until they are constitutionally | ono, “tne gay thay ost sail flow foo rae aromance at pete Sane so bare Seong ie. ther 2mm tole ferred 63% a 4, Fort Wayne 105 a, Ohio and Missis. 9 % | repealed of modified, forbiding armed and organized | allowed a small morsel of salt pork—or 8 little plece of | tn We ae ee arent erned about sippi certificates 203¢ a $4, Cumberland 47%{ a %{, Quick- 5 5 bands to appear at the polls or any peaceable assembly Zaey eniy Avena of - lote and ee one ps silver 5034 a 3%, Mariposa preferred 263, a 27, ‘Toledo except by his order, and invoking all order-loving cit! number as a possibility; but even when they were 4 and Wabash...... 39. 1 46: a 68 ‘and bone, boots, Ml, and hard oak wo The effect of tho disbursements in redemption of | Wostern Union Telegraph. ed 66% 58 ous 3 | sens to ald che constituted authorities in maintaining ney soem to ave stil Hels sites ties eae eee the five per cent temporary loan—the interest on which Government securities were quoted on each Saturday 3 | tranquility. eal Le same one te company mee Ole ore voases to-day—will be felt all over the country; as, a0- | of the past four weeks as follows:— 9 §) Rarmcanox Mere tf Panapstrm.—The City Toce Ganviagl thels bertuiaiomyoon ities were, pation cord ng to a despatch from Washington, they will aggre- Aug. 4 Aug. 11 Aug. 18, Aug. 25. 0 6] Executive Committee of Philadelpia has called a mect- Dut hungrily waiting for him. I wonder if thé ct gate more than sixty-eight millions, while only thirty- | Sixes of 1881. 100% «110%: 15 %& | 1ng of the people of the city on September 27, to ratify shone, suticinetione beet wiak they were shinies four milions of tho amouut willbe payable at the Sub- | Sixes of 1507 29% 100% «ISL «130 the prooeed:ngs of the late convention, potgetiarner ys atnilemad rig epg eae, ‘Treasury in this city, ‘Thus, tho Western money markets | SIx¢s of 1808 ai I a oe 4 uh OO, Mois | Waxpmt Puriurs wor Coxaueas—There is a clique in themselves, but not to each other, I think they will be largely supplied at the same time that the | Kive-twent 08% 109: 10% = 111 Gahan rea 1 1 io 46 | Boston which just now is strongly urging Wendell “He will Leadeeciiedit ol slut here is increased. ‘During the Inst week the de- | Five-twentios of 1664..1005 107106; 208% | 1, Malligan 4, Milligan inte Phillips for Congress, to succeed A. H. Rice. At eleven o'clock on the 15th of June, after sufferi mand for money at the Western centres to move the | Fiv0 wontios of 1865..106% 1074 =—108: 108; Fly catch—Atherton, 1. Tax Jack Hamrox Convanrion.—The Massachusetts | agonies of thirst for four ong weeks! all that men may suffer and live for forty-three das crops has boca quickening, anda Ught drain from the | YandSlotead eiceiosse 1008 HOE 1eGse | piubarer Me, Gavigau, of the Mutual Club, Radical State Contral Committee has appointed one | gop ssvan aayst reeds boat, on a scorching tropical sea, one of the Kast hag set in, At Chicago first clase paper is dis. | TandSloibead seriex idee 108° + 1083¢-—«osee || Time of game—Two hours and twenty-five miouts, hundred delegates, ed by Governor Bullock, to-attond | men eat theis fragment of biscuit aad mele morsel of | eer outed, tho, glad idly an ee counted freely at ten per cent, but inferior grades are ‘The total imports at Now York for the week ending Ent. Ga we fc. the Jack Hamilton Convention at Philadelphia, raw pork in the morning, and hungrily counted the | Whatdo you suppose they did? They said ih August 24 compare as follows with the two weeks pro- 4 ‘Vanaonr.—The. Congressional nominations are com- | ‘@dious hours until noon and night should bring thoir | beon cruelly disappointed over and over again, and ti not in favor at the banks, which are pursuing a couserva- ; The match between theso clubs, played on Saturday tive policy in order the better to prepare themselves to afternoon at the Capitoline Grounds, Brooklyn, was @ repetitions of it, And in the long intervals they looked kind. a ceric . to risk another experience of the — district—Frede: viously plete, First rick E. Woodbridge, repub- faces, or turned their wistful | could not bear it--they lay still where they were. meet the drafts of their country depositors during the | | Week ending Aun. 10. Aug. V%. Aug 24. fine and well played ‘Tho ficlding on both | tican; Samuel Wells, democrat, Second—Luke F. | eyes across the wild sea in search of the succoring sail | said they would not trust to an appearance that Dry goods. $ $3,897,057 g2,071,161 | VOry “ne wom esmes eae bd - that was never to como t be land after all. They would wait. nxt thirty days, These are already checking to @ con- | General mdse 2,193,303 | sides, with few exceptions, was first class; but tho bat- | Poland, republican; Charles M. Chase, democrat, Third— | ““niant you talk” T asked one of the mon. "eshortly tt was proven beyond. question that they siderable extent upon their balances there, Exchango on deste ting of the Enterprise excelled that of the Peconics. Of | Portus Baxter, republican; Waldo Brigham, democrat, “No; we were too down-hearted—that is, the first week | almost to land. ‘Then there was joy in the party. One m New York varied at tho close of the | Total..........$4,558,139 $7,47,572 $4,264,464 | the Enterprise, Cook, Hall, Richards, Patterson and | gore js a dispute about the nomination of Portus Bax- | or more, We didn’t talk; we only looked at each other | is said to have ewooned away, Another said the sighd Murtha deserve notice; and on the Peconic, Chap and over th 9? Wilcox, Hartman and Wright, ‘The score is as follows:— over tho ocean. the green hills was better to him than a day's ratior ‘And thought, I suppose; thought of home, of shelter Kk 50c. s ’ a The im, of dry goods 5 week from 50c. to $1 10 discount, buying, with excep. ports: ry goods compare with former re- ter, in the Third district. He was opposed in convention strange figure for a man to use who had been fasting tions at par, and 60c. a $1 10 premium, selling with | turns as follows:— ENTERPRISE. vrcome, by a Mr, Hoyt, whose supporters charge the adherents | from storms, of food, and drink, and rest, forty days and forty nights, exceptions also at par to good customers, If we add to For the Week, 1864. 1885, 1866, Players. of Mr, Baxter with voting more than once. Several The hope of being picked up hung to them constantly ; Entered at the port. $1,093,237 $2,632 703 Marthe f wi it to th bh the ainount to be disbursod on account of the temporary | Tiirown on market, SL140,523 “Bsoiara *sowies | Raerwon, articles have appeared in the Burlington papers, stating | Munger ‘And’ in tho captain's wind war ehe hap at SAD CALAMITY AT HOLYYOKE, MASS. loan the interest ($10,950,000) due on the Ist instant on Since Jan. 1, ne & in pretty plain terms that Mr. Baxter’s nomination was oe Entered at the port. 58, Thrown on market. 60,421,571 45,342,826 Tho business transacted at the Sub-Treasury in this city yesterday was as follows — tho soven-thirty loan, we flad that the total amount of 51.530 40,463,206 currency payable by the Treasiry this month is about A portion of this will be in national bapk notes; but these will occasion no inconvenience, as they can be as readily employed in the West as legal eighty millions, Rrecepetroes) Sy! erewimeenes Bl wacesomen® Total ........esceeee 2 Sl onormncma® at oF: |. Tth. 8th. 9h. Totale. ‘The gold market was unsettled and somewhat excited o 4 nh oO 6 daring the week in consequence of the operations of a clique formed to make gold scarce and run the price up three or four per cent. The modus operandi was obvious A few firms agreed among each other to buy gold and not to lend it for a ceriain time. They also borrowed gold largely, and locked it up in the same Gold as a natural rosult became scarce in the and the rate for loans advanced as high In many cases the ‘The Tennessee National Rank o* Memphis.proposes to increase its capital $400,000, books for snbscription to which amount are to be opened in this city.“ wok §1 ny Bad 3 Fly es—Enterprixe 16; Pe 6. Out on ove py hain 5; Peconic, 5. Passed balls, z TA. COMMERCIAL Umpire—Mr, Derby, of the Excelsior Club. Sevorpay, August 25—6 P, M. Pot continued scarce and Eureka, Jr., vs. Carro! A match was played between the above named clubs ‘on the Star grounds, Brooklyn, tory for the Carrot] Ciub, after a game of eight innings, The score 1s as follows;— Asurs,—Receipis none. firm at $8 50a $8 75; pearl were doll and nominal. Bareavsrvrrs.—Receipis, 6,954 bbis. flour, 2,105 do. and 1,500 bags corn meal, 31,807 bushels wheat, 120,824 do. corn, 14,852 do, oats and 20,161 do, malt. The mar- ket for State and Western flour continued quiet, the de- mand being confined to the immediate wants of the trade, and a deciine of 1c. a 15c. on the common grades was accepted. Sound qualities, wi unaltered in valuo, the market closing quiet at our re- vised quotations, at which 6,500 dbis. were disposed of. Southorn flour, though without decided change in value, favored the buyer. Sales 300 bbls. tinued dull, and in tho absence of sales prices were en- tirely nominal. Rye flour was firm and modorately ac- at $5 408 36 50. Of corn meal we notice sales of 250 bbls. Brandywine at $6. We $5 70a $775 6 60 » on Fri atternoon, which ranted ina vi as one per cent per ‘uiem. gold at all, ‘the price touched 151, but beyond this there was no at- tempt made to enforce it. The bull clique began to lend a portion of their gold at 4 a 1 por cent per diem, and this continued until Friday morning, when the “oorner’’ turned, the clique having sold out, and om Saturday coin ‘was so abundant that loans were made without interest and the price declined to 147, the late buils having meanwhile accelerated the fall to the best of their ability, with a view to buying tm again and ropeating tho The daily range of the market is thus ch are scaroe, wore 33] wrormecrwce® | en mononno® Bl cecmemanin® Canada flour con- tee =: ° 1 8 Uinplre—Wm, {Tagerty, of the F1 in id Ci tive, with sales of 300 bbl:. Scorers—Messra. Greenburg vs. Athicte. ‘The Greenburg Base Ball Club, of Dobb's Ferry, and the Athlete, of White Plains, played a match game on the grounds of the later on Wednesday, Angust 22. to some delay the game was not be, past four, and only seven iunings were pinyed lowing is the sco » 5 ss FSSaae Sssass vere BEESo Faasss ‘The demand for custotas dutes at this port amounted to $3,167,000. The export of three-quarters of a million was chiefly in gold and silver bars. The telegraph has advised us of tho shipmont from England to thiscountry of £100,000 in specte by the Aliemannia and £110 000 by the Scotia, but these importations are probably inade for speculative effect by the bears in gold and are not likely ‘or the reason that they are not justified by the actual condition of our foreizn trade. Moroovor, the drain would very soon receive a check on tho other aide Dy the refusal of the banks to discount for houses engaged in shipping specie, or if 1t threatened to become serious by an fadvance in the Bank of England rate of The abnormally low rates of exchange, resulting mainly lative export of five-twonties, render importations of specie profitable to the extent of nearly two per cent, there being that much difference between the price of ‘ills and gold, and the telegraph facilitates operations oa a trifling margin or profit between tho two countries. ‘This condition of things can hardly be of long continu- auce, and the more gold we import and the more bonds we export{ the greater will be the subsequent drain of specie to which we shall be liable. securities on so large a scale is rife with elements of danger, which should not be overlooked. For bills on England at sixty days the leading drawers asked at the end of the week 10734, and for those at short sight 108; but second hand good bills were quoted at 106!¢ a 107 and 107 a 34, respectively, A seousational cable despatch from Paris to the Asso- ed Press was received yesterday stating that ‘“‘an im- monse demand has sprung up in this city for United States five-twenties, and heavy orders for supplics hi boen telegraphed to Avnerican agents,” &c. clearly a telegram in t Rye flour (superfine) . Corn meal, Jersey, » meal, Brandywine. Corn meal, puncheons, only a moderate business t 6 50 460 6 00 Raeo 33se ransacied in tho of inferior qualities were prime grades, however, ruled The transactions were 25,000 bushels 2 80 a $2 85 for new ambor State, No. 1 Milwaukee and $2 75 for fair white Southern, Corn was in moderate demand, and a deciine of 1 conceded, with sa'es of 70,000 bushels at 82c. ‘ed Western, 83c. for high mixed and 79c. a 60i<c. for inferior. Oats were in limited deniand at unchanged Sales 40,000 bushels at 60c. for State, for Chicago, 58c. a 60c. for Jerse; Milwaukee and 5éc. a 56c. for Towa, and in fair demand raled firmer. for Canada and 92c. 9 96c. for Wisconsin. Barley and malt were dull and nominal. Corton continued in active export and good home de. mand at full prices, The sales comprise 3,15@ bales. Receipts only 4 bales. Thebale of new mid land cotton from Memphis was sold to-day at 45c. per Ib. to Morida, Mobile, N.O.4T. 23 238 no cacatstensvene® searcoly so firm, wh! Joseph Tweedy, BS] eeccenccemte® Pl enmwueace® $2 25a 33 for pire—Townsend, of Friendship Base Ball Club. Scorers—Mr. Watkins for Athleie, Mr. De Witt (or Green- "Thine ye being scares | Tuite of grme—Two hours and fifteen minutes. Greenbarg vs. Palisade, ‘The Palisade Base Ball Club of Yonkers visited the Grocaburgs of Dobb's Ferry, on Friday, August 24, and played a match game, resulting in a victory for tho be shipped for Havre. Ordinary......... The following is tho acore: The export of our Good middling. Correm was steady but quiet. <n wore heard of outside the usual trade in smal! ol Freicats were dull but unchanged. The 220 bales cotton at 36. 37 No sales of an: Bl ssssomrersmmns™ Umpire—C. Horton, of Athletes. Scorers—Mesars, Tweedy & Fawcett. Fly catches—-Greenburg, 8; Palixade, 7. ‘Tine of game—Three hours and thirty minutes, tobacco 32s. t Island, Cal., coal $11 tor orders, or a direct in the United Kingdom, £3 10s. ; a brig to mage eg back, lumber mid back, cca $0 87 363 50; & hi] : to Ne onemat id 3, two ships low anda bark from Pensacola to Sagua, lumber, on private terms. Motasses was nominally unchanged in every respoct. No cargo sales, ~ NavAL Stores. —Spirits turpentine was without decided change, though lots in bond were gold at a slight dectine, 62c, having been accepted for about 260 bbis. Moderate raies were made on tho spot at 67 xc. were made of 1,200 bbia. at $3 for common, $3 26 a $4 for strained, and No. 2 and No. 1 at $5, at our last quotations. O1rs.—American linseed continued firm at $1 85 for lota, Engtish was moderately active and firm. to arrive per sailing vessel, $1 15, gold. Perro.evw.—The demand was tolerably active, and 1 prices were realized for all kinds. The sales were 3,800 bbls, at 280. for crude, and 44c. a 46c. for bonded, the latter price for standard white. Provisions, —Receipts, There was but little activity prices were without essential change, new mess closing sales on the spot were new moss, $30 50 n $31 $28 50 a $28 75 for prime; also, for future 100 bbis, new mess for October and all the sellers’ and buyers’ option. lemand and firm at $16 a $20 for new 20 a $24 for new extra do., with sales Beef hams were dull bacon we have no sales The match between the above named clubs, postponed from Thursday, was played on Saturday afternoon on the grounds of the Harlom Club, at Mount Morris square, Hariem, and resulted in the success of the Mutual Club, ‘The playing of Waterman, on the part of the Mutual, aud of McKellar, of the Harlem, deserves notice, ‘The following is the score:— interest of speculators for a rise (n government secur. ies on this side, and probably also desirous of making a out their stock in consequence to botter advantage. #leader foundation which the telegram bas in truth may bo judged from the fact that five-twenties have not yet been admitted to the Paris Bourse, and such is the pres. ent condition of affairs there now that if they were “an mense demand’? would hardly be tant of their introducti our bouds will be allowod on the Paris Bourse before but this affords no excuse for misleading the public here, especially when tho motive is obviously one of No sooner had the telegram reached tho cily on Saturday than five-twenties advanced from the price at which they sold at the rogular board, ® 44, apparently under the influence of whose agent in Earope had caused the telegram in ques- tion to be sent, and who are sanguine that prices can be At the present price of the Vonds here and in London, however, their export would bo unprofilable, and they must either advance abroad or docline at home or gold must rise before it can be made Of rosing, sales ee) likely to ariso at Probably dealings in S| covesnseeececes = Si ewe 176 bbls, beef and 31 do. lard, the pork market, but poraonal profit. 2 ee 28 NES. - Oth. 6th, 71h a wn, year, at $29 a $2 was in moderate plain mess, and of 360 bbis., within the rai and nominally unchanged. Prices, however, were unchanged. meats were steady. Sales 300 packages at 190, alc, for shoulders The tard and heavy, Sales 400 bbls. Rutter continued quiet at 2c. v for Weetern, and 30c. a 45c, for State, moderate domand at 160. 2196, for common dairy to choice factory maito. SVGAR was in fairly active demand, and prices miled a shade firmer, thoagh not quotably higher, closing steody on a baxis of 10%e. alle. for fair to good refining ogsheads Cuba at from 105) 148 hogaheads Porto Rico at 1c. a 14%: ana, mostly No, 13, at 130. ‘wo houre and forty minntes Umpire— Mr. Humphrey, of the stimulated still higher, Seovers—Messra. D, M. Doughty a Pioneers vs. Engle. A match game between the above nomed clubs came oft on the grounds of the former at Englewood, N. J., on the 24th, which resulted in a well earned victory for the Pioneers, with the following score: — for hams, and market continned ‘The Bank of Montreal, according to a Montreal journal, consented to accept the conditions of the Canada national currency act, and will assume the whole of the of $*,000,000 of notes authorized by that act, and e a farther sum of $1,000,000 in « ernment need such. By this arrange- ment ib expected that an end will be pnt to the crisis. debta of the principal countries of the wh excepted, and the proportion of debt per head of the population, are thus shown:— Wational Dew. ma... £790,000,000 Cheese was in = ‘The sales were 1,400 hi Aetcemesmcome ig} Heewecnens SreAWINE continued steady, Sales 26,000 1 Also 15,000 Ibe. grease at 10),c. ‘TALLOW was without decided change. a £3) awuriecs™ ra oe ig) s4aweecces Th. Mh. 9D, Tota, 7 Cy of The market continued aa 1 Seorers—Mesers, Homy nen. Umpive—Mr. ©. Demeres' Palisade Bose Ball Club, Albany Live Stock Market. [From the Argus, August 25.) ket opened somewhat better than it Tt was evident that the suppiy wo he lighter than last week, and the balk of the rece being then light stock, the demand for firet quality cof 8. Pettey Th pared with last week, Excelsior va. The game between these clubs, played on Friday lact the Excelsiors, after eiglit 1 resulted in a victory for closed this week, innings, by @ score of 90 to 1 Cedar vs. Key These two junior clabs played a well contested mateh at Hoboken on Wednesday last, which revutted in a we. tory for the Keystones, iu a game of five innings, by » score of 60 to 39, extra beever wi and these brought vO Weight, as com Thie cireumsiance helped the poorer grades to some extent, bat the advance on that class settled down to about te. close sales were slow at that, ces for their stock in the Wi them admit such an advance as we quote; bat we think that, taking quality into consideration, our figures are Tb., and towards the of the sellers paid Suscersososcouss Banner ve. Venture. A match was played between the above named clube on Wednesday last at Hoboken, which re: victory for the Banner Club by a score of 45 tos 1 1 1 The following ix a comparative sintement of receipts at thie market over the Central Railroad, estimating 17 Yankee Notions va, Hardware. A match game was played on Sacarday between ihe ry Smith & Payne and Willie, Cornel! & Carey, on the grounds at Meserole’s orchard, Green. | point, Which rewulted, after agame of seven in} _— of the J. H. 8. &®. clerks, by a score of 26 w The Agra & Masterman’s Bank, according to the eatimates made up to the 7th of June, thy failare, had liabilities to the amount of £7 900,000. but from this may be deducted £200,000, estimated ty have been drawn ont by depositors at Caleutta juet before the Sloppage, and £200,000 which was paid to French cred) tors hy the Paris branch, making the present total £7,600,000, oh which adividend of 6a. in the pound will probably be paid 17th September, The entire number of creditors ls about 10,000, of whom more than 6,000 will take dividends in London. of the leading stockg sgl pt the first seg employes of J. Mi Receipts baw: Ye 4,045 ‘The following Were 5 106, ¢ ruling quotations at the “4 A Nrono Wowas named Sarah Miller died in Colnm. bus, Ga, on the 6th instamt, The deceased was five fort eight inches in beight, and mensured five fect acroes the W Her weight was seven hundred a pounds, and it required the efforts of six str remove the body from the npper floor of io which sho died to the hallway where she o--= vane 23st dishonorably secured, and members of bis own party do not hesitate vo style him “the whiskey and corruption candidate.”’ Tux Naturat Coxsequence.—The Boston Evening Com- mercial reports the following story :— About a year ago two clergymen went down South to preach—and to better their condition. How one bas rospered we learn by a letter from the other to a friend fr this city, His brother, it seoms, has-been afflicted by asottening of the brain, whereupon the sympathizing friend writes: —‘‘Brother —— hasagottening of the brain. Really, poor fellow, | sympathize with him, and by no means would 1 care to laugh at his calamity; but no one could expect to carry ‘nigger on the brain’ so heavily and persistentty as he has done without a softening, that is, supposing Lim to have been endowed with a brain,” Micmaax.—Radical Congressional Conventions have been called at the following times and places:. Second district, Niles, September 5; Third district, Jack- son, August 29; Fourth district, Grand Rapids, August 28; Fifth district, Pontiac, August 20; Sixth district, Flint, August 28. Micmcas GuperxatortA, Coyrest.—Henry P. Bald- win refuses to allow hiz name to be used in the repub- lican convention in opposition to the re-nomination of Governor Crapo. - Sourn Canouna.—The Governor of South Carolina has been called upon by a public meeting in Sumter to con- vene the Legislature in extra session to devise measures for the relief of the prevalent distress, and the Camden Journal eays that an extra session will be called in a fow weeks. Iraaxors.—William H. Logan, brother.of the General and a democratic member ot the State Legislature, has pronounced in favor of the constitutional amendment. William O'Brien is mentioned as a probable candidate of the democrats for Congreseman at large. A Cairo correspondent of the Chicago Times says:— Responsibie and well known citizens of (Cairo offer the following wagers to Genoral John A, Logan's friends :— $10 that Jonn A. Logan cannot name three revolu- tionary generals; $10 that he cannot give the names of three revolutionary battle flelds; $10 that he cannot name the thirteen original colonies; $10 that he cannot name tho present States in the Union; $10 that he can- not name a single battle in which Goneral Washington personally participated; $10 that he cannot name the three most populous cities in the world; $10 that he cannot namo the capitals of ten States of the Union; $10 that ho cannot compute the intorest at seven por cent on $165 for six weeks; $10 that he cannot give the date, birth and death of Genoral Washington; $10 that he cannot correctly ponctuate his own signature, and $10 more that no man who is intimately acquainted with Logan dare accept any two of the above propositions. New Jersxy.—Tho Newark Advertiser gives the names of the following prominent New Jersey politicians who attended the Philadelphia Convention, only four of whom—Mosers. Orowell, Kemble, Swayze and Wilson— have heretofore beeu kuown as friends of the adminis tration: — Ex.Governor Parker, General Runyon, General Mott, A. K. Hay, A. J. Rogers, Alexander Wurts, John P. Stockton, Theodore F. Randolph, N. T. Stratton, Robert Hamilton, [. 8. Allison, C. Meyer Zulick, J T. Crowoll, Daniel M. Wilson, Jacob K. Swayze ‘M. R. Keinblo, Atanima.—General Clanton declines the candidacy for Congress in the Montgomery (Alabama) district, Kaytvcxy.-A Covington correspondent, alluding to the Kentucky election, say: ‘There is one point connected with it which clearly shows that oppression never succeeds in the long run ainong an intelligent people; it ts this:—Some two years back Judge Duvall was nominated for an office; but the General (in command at that time) ordered his (Duvall's) name to be stricken off the tickets, and that no votes should be received in his favor, This was done, and of course Duvall was not clected then; but now Duvall runs for another and better otfico, and his competitor proves to be the general who ordered his name to be stricken off the tickets at the former election, aud Duvall is now elected by a majority ranging between fifty and sixty thousand, not ten to twenty thousand, as the radi- cal correspondent of the presé in Cincinnati despatched to New York. Every Congressional disti i» Kentucky lias gone democratic by ttmmonse majorities. £0 the McKees, &c., will have to quit at next election, PeNys¥ivanist.—A mass convention of radicals is to meet at Pittsburg August 27, General James 8, Negley will be chief marshal, On0.—The radical Congressional convention of the Seventeenth district passed a resolution condem. increase of pay for Congressmen, and requirin, didate EK. R. Eckley to pledge himself to use all i Wath efforts for the repeal of the act authorizing it. Wiscoxets. Walter D, MeIndoe (radica!) of the Sixth Wisconsin district declines bemg @ candidate for re- election. THE SOAP BOILING AND FAT RELTING RUISANCES. YO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Can you inform us, of the west side of the city, if we hay Board of Health among us? If so, is it purely an ornamental body? In the early part of the season we jearned daily of its existence, in its apasmoric efforts in getiing rid of Injunctions issued by the courte restraining the Roard from interfering with the soap boiling and fat melting nuisences which abound between the Eleventh avenne and the North river; but since the courts dissolved all of these injunctions and have thus left t field wide open for the Board to exercise the powers with which it ie clothed by law for the extirpation of these poste, the Board seems suddenly to bave gone to sleep and to bave forgotten the duties it owes to the suffering population of the west «de, thas leaving the proprietors of these vile establishments clear masters of the sitoation, Indeed, the matter seems worse than before the Board commenced opera tions, for then the wretches who conduct this business well knowing that it amounted to a public nuisance, And ae such gave every citizen the clear right to abate it, and fearing the just indignation of the population, graduated and subdued to a limited extent the offensive character of the business; bat having worried out the Board of Health, or having adininistered to it an ne, and naturatly emboldet by the immunity far enjoved, these same men now perfectly deluge that part of the ety with the vile and loathsome odors which arive from their businesa. ‘the Boar! of Hea th has ments to be publ.c nul. eion or removal from ppre: city nite, and the courts, which for a time seemed to take the side of the cholera in this contest, owed ly cetarned to a recognition of the duties th to the community, and promptly vacated the injan ve which had been unwittingly granted, aud Teft the Board | of Health, with the police force of the city at its com. mand, free to carry ont ite own adjad ications, Now permit » inquire why the Board of Health does not abate these nuisances, and why it permite the population of a Inrge district of the city to be thus aiflicted ? s-uire the Roard the people have waited long enough © fulfilment of their Just expectations and that | ce js becoming exhausted, and that if the | Bourd do not act soon the people wilt, 'y man who enters into society surrenders some of bis notural rights } and among them is the right to create public nuisances pidernie into my premises; and if, in f public right, he do either of thowe things, 1 ri rr et the mischief This is common conee as it is the common inw of the conptry, ax clearly laid down in th inion of Judge Brady, recently pub- ablic health and the public voice de. e demolition of these iferous establish ments, treat the Board of Health to act promptly in the and ff it will do nothing, then T propose that a be held im the section where these y protest against thom. Who : WES FS} P uhe ham boue, as Uish Was gated .o7 making the Clarion Islands, and he clung to it many a ‘A The nights were very dark. They had no lantern and could not see the com and there were no stars to steer by. Thomas said of the boat, “She handled easy, and we steored by the feel of the wind in our faces and the heave of the sea.’ Dark, and dismal, and lonesome work was that! Sometimes they got a fleeting glimpse of the sailor's friend, the north siar, and thea they lighted a match and hastened anxiously to soe if their compass was faithful to them, for it had to be placed close to an iron ringbolt in the stern, avd they were afraid, during those first nights, that this might cause it to vary. It proved truo to them, however. SUMPTUOUS FARR. On the fifth day a notable incident occurred. They caught a dolphin, and while their enthusiasm was still at its highest over this stroke of good fortune, they cap- tured apother. They made a trifling fire in a tin plate and warmed the prizes—to cook them was not posal Averill divided them equally among all bands and cat om. Ou the sixth day two more dolphins were caught, ‘Two more were caught on the seventh day, and also a small bonita, and they began to believe thoy were always going to live in this extravagant way; but it was not to be; these were their last dolphins, and they never could get another bonita, though they saw them and longed for them often afterward. RATIONS REDUCED. On the eighth day the rations were reduced about one- half. ‘Thus—breakfast, ono fourth of a biscuit, an ounce of ham and a gill of water to each man; dinner, came quantity of bread and water, aud four oysters or clams; supper, water and bread the seme, and twelve large raisins or fourteen ‘small ones to aman. Also, during the first twelve or fifteen days, each man had one spoon- ful of brandy a day; then it gave out. ‘This day, ag one of the men was gazing across the dull waste of waters as usual, he saw asmall, dark object tising and falling upon the waves. He called attention to it, and in a moment every oye was bent upon it in in- tensest interest. When the boat had approached a little nearor it was discovered that it was a stall green turtle, fast asleep, Every noise was hushed as they crept upon the unconscious slamberer. Directions were given and hopes and fears expressed in guarded whispers. At the fateful moment—a moment of tremendous consequence to these famishing mon—the experi selected for the bigh and responsible office stretched forth his hand, while bis excited comrades bated their breath and trembied for the success of the enterprise, and seized tho turtle by the hind lez and hauled him aboard. His delicate flesh was carefully divided among the party and eagerly de- voured, after being “warmed,” like the dolpting, which* went before him. THE BOATS FEPARATE. The cighteonth day was a memorable one to the wan- dorers on the lonely sea. On that day the boats parted company. The captain said that separate from each other there were three chances for the saving of eome of the party, where there could be but one chance if they kept together. : ‘The captain told the mates he was still going to try to make the Clarion Isles, and that they could imitate dis example if they thought best, but he wished them to freely follow the dictates of their own judgment in the matter, At eleven o'clock In the forenoon the bouts were all cast loose from each other, and then, as friends t from friends whom: they expect to meet no more in if’, all bands hailed with a fervent “God Mess you. bed Bap bel the 3 — verges away \ppeare e longing gaze iol- lowed them £0 sorrowtully. "UE Axorugn cai Sen son On the afternoon of this eventful day two ‘boobies’ were caught—a bird about as large asa duck, but all bones and feathers—not as much meat as there is on a pigeon; not nearly so much, the men say. They eat them raw, bones, entrails and everythi no single morsel was wasted; they were carefully apportioned among the fifteen men. No fire could be built for cook- ing purposes; the wind was 60 and the era ran so high that it was all a man could doto light his pipe, AN INCIDENT. On the morning of the twenty-firet day, while some of the crow were dozing on the thwarts and others were buried ta roflection, one of the men suddenly sprang to his feot and cried, ‘A gail! a sail!’ Of course, slug- gish biood bounded then and eager eyes were turned to week the welcome vision. But disappointment was their portion, as usual. It was only the chief mate’s boat drifting across their path after three days’ absence. In a short time the two parties were abreast of each other ond in hailing disance. They talked twenty minutes; the mated reported “all well’ and thon sailed away, and they never saw him afterward. FURTHER REDUCTION OF RATIONS, Ov the twenty-fourth fey J Captain Mitchell took an observation, and found that he was ia latitude 16 degrees north, and longitude 117 degrees west—about 1,000 miles from where his vessel was burned. The hope he cherished so long that he would be able to Clarion Isles deserted him at last; he could oly go before the wind, and he was now obliged to attempt the best thing the southeast trades could do for him—blow him to the “American group” or to the Sandwich Isl- ande—and therefore he reinetantiy and with many mis- givings turned bis prow towards thoes distant archipela- goes. What these men suffered during the next throe weeks no mortal man ‘ay hope to describe, Their stomachs and intestines felt to the grasp like @ couple of stall tough baile, and the gnawing hunger pains and the dread. fal thirst that Was consuming them in those barning Jatitudes became almost insupportable. And yet, as the men say, the captain said funny things and talked cheer: {ul talk until he got them to converse freely, and then they used to spend hows together describing delicious dinners they bad eatep at ‘ome, and earnestly planning interminablo and preposterous bila of fare for dinners they were going to eat on shore, if they ever lived through their troubles to do it, poor fellows. The cap: tatn said ploin bread and butter would be good enough for him all the days of hie fife, if he could only get it. But the saddest things were the dreams they bad. An unusually intelligent young sailor named Cox ‘said :—-"In those long days and nights we dreamed ali the tim: not that we ever slept, L dow't mean—vo, we sort of dozed, three-fourths of the faculties awoke and the other fourth benumbed into the counter- feit of a slumber; oh, no—eome of us never slept for twenty-three days, and no man ever saw the captain aleop for upwards of thirty, But we barely doxed that reamed—and always of such feasts! bread, nd meat—everything ® man could thiuk of, tables, and smoking hot! And we sat epon the first dish in our re ravenous woives, and carried it to our lips—and awoke and found the same etarving comrades about us, and the vacant sky and the desolate sea!" ‘These things aré terrible even to think of, MATIONS STILL FURTHER REDUC It even starties me to come across t heading «0 often in my note-book, notw have grown so familiar with its sound much With these unfortunate men, ‘On the twenty-eighth day the rations were spoonful of bread mie and about an oun One t for the morning a spoovful of bread cratbe alone for the evening meal, and one gill of water three times aday. A kitten would perids eventually under suet sustenance, THY CAPPER A Pmiee, Four little flying fish, the size of the sardines of these latter days, flew into the boat on the night of the twenty-eighth day. They wore divided amony the hands and devoured raw. On the twenty-nnth day they enaght Another, and divided it into fifteen pieces—tqes than a teaspoonful aplere. ‘On the thirtieth day they canght a third fying fish and gave itto the revered ol captain—a fel of the xame poor little proportions as the others, foor inches long—a present a king might be proud of under such circumstances, @ prevent whose value, in the oyes of the men who offered it, was be foond in the Rank of England-—yea, whose vaulta were not able to contain it! The old captain refused to take it; the men insisted; the captain enid no—he would take his fifteenth —they must take the remainder. They said im substance, thou not dn words, that they would see him in Jericho firet! 80 the raptain had to eat the fish, ‘THE Last Ri TION, On Monday, the thirty-eighth day after the Mitaster, “we had nothing Jet,” said the third mate, “bat » und anda haf of ham--the bone was a good deal the wieat part of it—and one soap-and-bnlly tin.” These ngs were divided among the fifteen men, and (hey ate it all—two ounces of food to exch man. 1 do not connt For come at day A Bont with Three Men ‘Carried Over Molyoke Dam—One {Man Saves His Life a Fenrful Leap. ‘From the Springfleld Republican, August 22.] me calamity which occurred at the Holyoke dam Monday, by which two men were killed and ano severely injured, was by far the most serious accid that bas ever occurred there during the seventeen ye since its construction, The men bad been at work ten or twelve days, repairing the iron combing along’ crestand wooden planked surface just at the extre limit of the dam, and had nearly finished it before accident befell them. The work had been prosecuted with an unusual di of water flowing over the dam, andthe men full; alized the danger they incurred, and oa Saturday of week Mr. Hadley spoke Licoh dogg f of the need speedy compiction om account the rising On Monday they went out for the last time, as expected, and too truly, as the fatal result Dey They fastened their boat, which was a large, flat-b tomed punt, directly on the crest of the dain in twenty-two mches of water, by an anchor attached sixty feet up the stream, and proceeded favorably their labor till shortly before eleven o'clock, when, as they were removing the last of the flash boards preparing to vo ashore, they made the appalling di ery that their hold on the river bottom had given and that they muat go over the dam, down the fe thirty feet leap, among the rocks and seething wate: its foot. Mr, Brown had the presence of mind to sp for the stern of the boat. The others, who were in bow, ciutchod the sides convulsively for safety. Nef & word was spoken by either of the three men, and more than a minute els} before the boat went o As the forward part of the boat went down the fall Browa jumped for life and cleared the sheet of w Mr. Brown says that his last sight of bis two compan was of their bodies thrown headlong sevoral feet in air, and the next moment he fell sen-eless on the rog and was unconscious tii] nearly an hour afterwards, w! he was rescued from a ledge some thirty rods bolow. The leap of the boat was witnessed from Friak's velope factory by Mr. H. K. Pierce and another m work near by. They immediately gave the alarm, ‘as soon as possible a boat was procured, and manned Josoph Ely and Mosely Smith who proceeded to the where Mr. Brown was lying and brought him to sh They then returned and secured the body of Mr. Had which had lodged some fifteen rods further down, nock had probably instantly been broken by the fall upon the rocks, and there were no evidences of di by drowning. No signs of the third body were disq ered, and a searching party were exploring the river vain for it yesterday. Mr, Brown's injuries, though severe, will not be iil to be of serious il! consequences. th wrists broken, and he received a severe contusion in the He wont over the dam ten minutes before ole o'clock, and it was fifty-five minutes after before be rescued. the spectators on shore there seemed difference in the two men, one living the other dead! they were rolled along down the rocks by the cu It ie a singular coincidence that several years three Irishmen went over the dam in a boat, and all rescued several hours’ labor by Mr. Hadiey Mr. Ely, the latter of whom was the man to remove Hadiey’s dead tod. the rocke on Yonday. A HAUNTED HOUSE. [From the Albany Argus.) A house on Ik ji, Troy, has, for many years b the tation of aun apd as the past weeks have brought out new dev ita, we lay tl belore our readers. The house in question stands on Fourteenth stre litde distance from Christie, and is a plain two st brick house with back basement, and cnclosed stoops trom testy fo many strange thfags, both concarren wi ings, arren| and diverse. No buildings adjoin it on the south, but the north two ones, recently erected by Mi Cary, are with! distance of a few feet. A is on tho front door, and the same on the back, and ¢) yrseed trough to-go from one pert to the other, go one ¢ other. The owner of the building is a well known tanner, | Road, and he has owned the build) ing on the for about eight parchasing it far below its va on soooent ot ‘he tation it then had. The borhood is very quiet and orderly, and very few 6 turbances ever took place there, and as the families ;| not rich it is scarcely probable that any burg) would take the trouble to enter, even if be ku way was clear. The original owner of the piaco, it said, was killed in some unknown manner, and for thy or four years after the erection of the building famil could not be got to step in it for more than & month two at a time, The mother of the family up stairs, Mrs. X , hae kno the reputation of the house for a long time, and hax times observed strange things which could not bo counted for, but bas kept the information from family. The famiy down stairs, that of Mra. Y., also Known these things fora long time, but have sidered these disadvantages counterbalanced by the sideration of cheap rent. ‘The most remarkable manifestation they have wit sed was three weeks ago. Theodore X., who was in| health, bad gone to Saratoga to «pend » short time, usually slept at home in a small bedroom, off the ba| diazva, in a bed with his brother, Smith. The former about twenty-two years of age, and the latter ab eighteen, and Smith is moreover a stout and active b allowing bis mind to dwell on no nonseuse. On Sunday evening, when oll but himself and mot were atchurch, he went to hie bedroom, and turn) back, Mae | “Mother, I don't want to sleep io thy to-night.’ She, knowing no reason for his action, beg! ridiculing him, and he went again to bis room, soon t turning, however. She inquired what the master wi and be said he shouldn't sleep in that apartment dint of persnasion, #he induced bim acain to goo but on his return the third th other, I didn’t want to tell you before why don’t want to sleep there. The first time I went out met Theodore face to face; the second he was just god into our room, and the third he was lying down on tf bed." In accordance with quest, although L mother did not believe it, and tried to dissuade hi from the belief, a bed was made in another part of tt Jadice of the house came home powering, they floor of the kitehen, twelve and the an direction, the door ond @ Watke in with a slow and solemn Tar aroun, after he entered the room, walked to the fo wd on both of tt This of the bed and put his did very quietly and slowly, with Ove of the girls sald be had a gach in face, and the blood was flowing from it down bis der, but the other, who bad a bout and the fare of the win frightened before, floor and floated eighteen feet abe dup tr at a pout son bed moved and set down o the brothers was any Vistlor were Wo girle did not reser! Wits Of A than inarls The enine nicht, at Marat “ o'clock, the brother there saw a block fo istingdishable euape, movaout of th Apparent efert, and the window being ay #tanee above ground It te proper to state that this family le a well kno one in Troy, of nudoubied -eracty, and their word te good as thelt oath, The mother i« a member of the ( gress atreet church, and bas been for many years, «) the whole family beark the hiehest character They a personally known to the writer of thie, and their nam will be given to any one desiring to gratity a legivime curieity farther develo 4 are airon sual! not fait t aAiMt HUF reastere