The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1867, Page 3

WASHINGTON. Dea@tock in the Judiciary Committee on the Impeachment Question. SURRATT’S LINE OF DEFENCE. The Threateued Revelations Relative to the Seerctary of War and Judge Holt. Wasumeron, Juty 6, 1867, ) 14:30 o'Ciock BoM.” f ittee—Deadiock on the Impeachment Question. ‘The latest bulletin from the rooms of the Judiciary Committee isto the effect that in all probability im- peachment will not be pressed this session, if at all. The members favoring the :dea have concluded, it is mid, that the proper moment bas not arrived for press- ing it to practical enforcement, and that it will be ac- complished better by a postponement to October or December. Reports, however, will probably be made to the House by Boutwell and other members, and the voluminous testimony taken will doubtless be given to the public in the interim. The committee bave agreed ‘epen a reconstruction measure which will be reported to the House on Monday, There is positively no truth 4m the sensational paragraph that Mr, Woodbridge, of Vermont, has become a convert to impeachment. He remains as firm as ever in the opinion that the testimony taken is not sufficient to warrant so important a 1 to be Pursued by Sur- Braw’s Counsel—The Expected Damaging Revelation of the Doings of Public Oficials. Rie waid that the tine of the defence in the Surrait ease will be genérally to cast discredit on nearly all the @hief witnesses of the prosecution, and to attack Secretary Stanton, Judge Holt and others concerned in the mititary trial of the conspirators. The testimony of Bergeant Dye as to the calling of the hour by Surratt, wi be met by that of three members of the theatrical Company, who will swear that one of their number called the time to the others who were waiting the moment when they would be needed on the stage in patriotic chorus, i@ be sung at the end of the piece in honor of the’ fall of Richmond and the visit of the President, The barber's testimony that he sbaved Surratt that mornjpg, and that Booth ‘was.with bim, will be met by the fagtimony of Misa Beane, who will, it is said, swear that Boottt breakfasted with her at the National afew minutes later than the time named by the barber, whose shop was between onth and Fourteenth streets. Did Booth go up Gerd to gar shaved and come back that distance to breakfast? The haydkerchief at Burlington is to be thus accounted for. One Mr. Hallahan, who had boarded ‘at Mre. Surratt’s, accompanied Woichman and the de- tectives sent after Surratt to Canada. He had a hand- kerchief of Surratt’s, and showed it on the train to his companions, When they reached Burling- ton they went to the depot, but the train was @elayed several hours, Hallahan lay down there on a settee, where the handkerchief wasffound by the keeprr of the depot. The parties went into Canada, and a telegram reached them there that a handkerchief of Sarrati’s, with his name im the corner, was found at Burlington. McDevitt, the detective, went to Hallahan and told him of the telegram; Hallahan searched and found he had lost the handkerchief. McDevitt upbraided him, saying, ‘‘It will make them think Surratt was there.” The testimony of Weichman is to be met, it is tid, by proofs that he said in Carroll prison that ‘‘as much of the President’s blood was upon his hands as ‘epon John Wilkes Booth’s.”” The defence will also offer @vidence t© prove that after bis first day's testimony ft tho assassination trial Weichman waa brought to Winders’ building; that ho was told te had not testified as he had promised, and that if he @od not they would hang him too. An alibi will be attempted to be established and at the close the Intelligencer letter, described in yesterday's Herat, will be introduced to show who were actually in the easassination conspiracy. That letter terminated with the line “men who love their country better than gold or life,” and was signed by John W. Booth, Payne, Harold and Atzerodt, , The absence of Surratt’s name from this document will be held by ‘the defence as strong prescriptive proof that he was not of those directly active in the work of murder on that might, The attack on the War Department and Bureau of Military Justice will be chiefly based on the testi mony of Wm. P. Wood, who is expected, if allowed, to swear that ali the proof of Surratt’s innocence of the murder was narrated by him to Secretary Stanton. It remains to be seen, however, whether the defence can prove all this. Matthews’ testimony as to the Jntelli- gencer lotter was given before the Judiciary Committee on Monday last, and is now there on file. The Bar of Washington on t! Judge Wayne. The bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Colum- ‘Dia this afternoon passed suitable resolutions consequent em the death of Judge Wayne; one of them is as fol- lows :— Resolved, That we honor and admire the eminent oop qualities, the great learning, spotless integrity, een sons) of justice and signal urbanity which distin- guished the deceased daring his long judicial career, Qnd the devoted patriotism manifested by bim at the most critical poriod of the history of the country. Hon, Caleb Cushing, Mr. Bradley and Chiof Justice Cartter pronouncea brief eulogies. The last named ald — One of Judge Wayne's characteristics was his unfalter- ang belief in the perpetuity of this nation, and he ever looked forward through the gloom of war to the ultimate triumph of the nation, To the Criminal Court this morning, before proceed- img with the Surratt case, Chief Justice Cariter being on the bench, Mr. Carrington announced the death of Associate Justice Wayne, of the Supreme Court, and aid he thought it due that this bar should pay a tribute of respect to so eminent a jurist. He therefore moved the appointment of a committee of five members to prepare suitable resolutions to be presented at a meeting ef the bar to be held this afternoon. The motion was ‘agreed to, and Judgo Cartter appointed Messrs. Carring- ton, Cushing, Pierrepont, Bradley and Merrick the com- mittee contemplated. Decisions Relative to Internal Revenue. The following decisions have been rendered by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue :—Monuments of all kinda exceeding one hundred dollars in value, except those erected by public or private contributions, to com- memorate the services of Union soldiers who have fallen im battle, are subject to a tax at the rate of five per cent ad valorem. Manufacturers do not lose the benefit of the exemption in section 93 by reason of employing ap- Pren tices or journeymen, provided they themselves per- sonally engage in the manual labor of their business, Boot and shoe lasts are liable to an ad valorem tax of five percent, Wooden bandies "or ploughs, and for other agricoltural, household and mechanical tools and im. plements, are exempt from taxation, bat’ there is no general exemption of such tools themetives, Harness when made and sold, or used should be taxed upon its entire value, The cost of barness leather and trimmings sboald not be deducted, although a tax may have previously been paid upon them;. but when » party purchases haraess coliars upon which the tax has beeo paid, and selis them again with and as part of har. ness of his own manufacture, he should be allowed to Geduct the cost of such collars from the gross amount Feosived for the harness, Medicines which, if sold by Graggista, dealers, agents, &o., would be subject to the stamp tar st be stamped by a physician when made by him and kept for general sale, Such sales cannot be regarded as physicians’ prescriptions, Every pedier should be prepared to produce a special tax receipt in his ows name upon the demand of an Internal Reven officer. It is not sufficient for Bim to produue a receipt issued to another person, even though that other may have been employed by the same party, ana upon the same wagon, Kc. Another National Bank Voluntarily Discon- continued. The Georgia National Hank of Atlanta, Ga, has, on {te voluntary application, been discontinued as a de- pository of pulvic mosey and a Geancial agent of the United States. EB: nation of the Treasury Vaults by ‘a Committee, Thore were no receipts of fractional currency from the Printing Bureau, by the Treasury Department, for the to-day, and no shipments, Thir was @nused by the fact that an examination of the vaults of the Treasury is now in progress by & committee ap- | Pointed py the Secretary for that purpose, and it was Death of NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDIY, JULY 7, 1807.—T thonght inexpedient at present to have any money de- livered from the Carrency Bureau. This is the first examination of the Treasury vaults since the spring of 1861, Before that it had been the custom to have ap examination once in every six months, National Bank and Fractional Currency. ‘The Treasurer of tae United States hoids in trust for national banks, at this date, as security for circulating notes, $840,607,500; as security for deposits of public money, $39,008,450. Total securities held, $577,615,950. | The amount of national bank .currency issued to date is $303,045,726, from this 18 to be deducted the currency returned, including worn out notes, amounting to $4,370,847, leaving in actual circulation at this date $298,665,879. The amount of fractional currency re- turned and destroyed at the Department during the The Commissioner of the General Land Office has re- ceived information from the Surveyor General of Colo- rado that a contract has been entered into with an experienced deputy tor the survey of the standard and township lines on the South Platte river, and subdi- visions on Terrapin creek. These surveys are all that can be done this season in the direction of the Pacific Railroad and South Platte, bn account of the Indian troubles, The townships to be subdivided will include a number of settioments on Terrapin and Coal creeks, Receipts from Internal Reveaue. The receipts from internal revenue were $788,333, and the total amount for the week, which is also aggregate for the fiscal year, is $8,351,822. Registrat! im Alexandria. ra ‘The registration in Alexandria, Virginia, shows a total of 2,603, of which 1,404 are colored, showing a majority of 205 over the whites. Rapid Progress of the Pacific Ral! ‘The President, on the 5th inst., accepted the eleventh section of forty miles of the Union Pacific Railroad, and ordered the bonds and patents for lands to be iesued to the company. The previous section of forty miles was accepted by the President on the 10th of June. Within one month this company has received from the govern- ment bonds to the amount of $1,280,000—the subsidy given for the construction of eighty miles of railroad. have completed a third list of rebels that have received pardons, containing those who were pardoned in the States of Mississippi and North and South Carolina, The report will be sent to the House in a few days. New National Bank in Tenneasec. The Natioual Bank of Chattanooga, which was char- tered at the last session of the Tennessee Legislature, has just been organized and gone into operation. Wil- liam H. Harris, formerly of Toledo, Obio, but for some years a resident of Chattanooga, is the President of the new institution. Fs Mistake in a Name—Shanks, Not Schenck, Author of the Mexico Resolutions, The resolutions sought to be introduced in the House yesterday, in reference to Mexico and the execution of Maximilian, were offered by Mr. Shanks, of Indtana, and not by Mr. Schenck, of Obio, as published in the Now York papers. The similarity of names Jed to the telegraphic mistake. Contemplated Issue of New Patents. The Commismoner of Patents will issue on Tuesday next two hundred and forty-eight new patents. TRE LATE MURDER AT NEWARK. The Coroner's inquest—Further Developments of the Afinir—The Murderer and Accomplice ly—The Evidence. As stated in yesterday’s Heraxp, the evidence offered atthe Coroner’s inquest over the remains of Patrick Tormay, so cruelly murdered on Thursday night last, was very conclusive as to the perpetrators of the deed, and led to the arrest of two men, named Bernard, alias “plug” Farley, and Jobn, alas ‘“Codger”’ Welsh. Tho county prosecutor, fearing that the men would crcape if the evidence offered at the inquest was published, re- fused admittance to all persons, but now that the alleged murderers are in custody it will not be detrimental to the public weal to publish the facts olicited from the several witnesses called by the county. As will be seen, the foundation of the charge against the men above named is tho testimony given by a iad named Thomas Clements, who testified that he witnessed the fatal oc- The Coroner’s inquest commenced on Friday morn- ing, and by noon Michael Tormay and Mary Tormay, father and wife of deceased, and Patrick Riley, brother- nego myn ty Meme had tap creer bat pico and aang yesterday important evidence Newson testified that he heard the cry of Rear the scene of the murderon the jeceased standing in the middle ofthe wount man he was told that two men committed the deed, and that they fied down Chatham street. Ow to the got of the man no ‘escription condition of be procured. Other assailants could officers were aroused, who remained with the injured man, and the witness hastened to ure the may was services of a physician; upon his return dead ; witness was told by a Mrs. Brady, who keops a store in the vicinity of the corner where the murder ‘was committed, that she heard the cries of ‘“Murder!”’ and “Wacch !” and, opon looking out of a window, saw the shadows of two men going down Chatham street. The witness gave descriptions of the meu Farley and Welch, who had been arrested on the charge of murd he also testified that he heard considerable noise in the direction of the corner before hearing the cry for ald. Thomas Clements, above referred to, testilied that on the night of the 4th of July, in company with his mother, he went r bis sister, who was spending the day with bis uncle; his uncle resides near the corner uf Chatham aud Warren streets, where the murder was committed; while in the house of his uacle be heard the noise of am affray, and looked out of the window; ho saw three men, two of whom wero hastening towards Chatham street, and the other followiay m, crying “Watch,” witness heard one of the men say “You it me;"’ the man who said that was “Codger’’ Welsh; his Farley! he te called “Yiug’ Parlay? his name ts Beroand ley ; he “q ve ley ; name is Bernard Farle: “en! said to the man who was following him, “Go back, or I'll kick h—Ii out of you;” the man who was following said he was cut, and that they bad killed him, witness testified to knowing Farley and Welsh by their names; be bad known them for six years; he had lived near them; the ‘ight had just commenced when be reached his uncle's house on the night of the Fourth; he heard a man say, ‘that is enough, let me up, fam cut; and he thon saw the man get ap aud ery “* Watch ;"’ witness testified to seeing Welsh with a large knife on the night of the 3d instant; Farley and Welsh are bad men; Welsh was in the Siate Prison once; knew Weish and Farley by their voices. Witness Vestified that a.man named Gray, whq lives in the house of bis uncle, was also a spectator of the occurrence. Bridget Duffy testified that she resided with Mra Clements in it street; that about half-past ten o'clock on Thursday niht Mrs. Clements and.ner son Thomas went out to cail on Mrs. Clemente’ sister; her sister resides near the corner of Warren and Chatham about fifteen minutes, and told her that « man had been knew who did it; it was and “Plog” Farley; his mother told him that a named % as he did; witness asked what harm there could be in Thomas telling it, and Mra. Clements yo that her boy would hang those men; sho said she did not want it done by bim when there were older ones saw it done as well as he, Thomas repeated what he said before, and added, “Oh, how Codger’ Welsh did go with his knife; the boy afterwards seemed frightened and would not sleep rh room, but crawled in the bed with the other F In addition to the above evidence, Catharine and Ma Sherry testified to having witnessed the struggle, bat Roth ng important was elicited from them beyond the fact that the two women recognized one of the assail- ants as the man Welsh. pe a workman upon the canal boat of Weish, test! and came to the boat on the morning of the Sth instant, and that Welsh Lad on a different hat from the one he wore the evening previous; that a large knife was missin, from the boat, and he knew n0 one besides Welsh cou have taken it. ‘The foregoing is the evidence upon which the two men “murder he occurrence the alfair was wraj io mi 3 ‘the Injured man bad died with egy rome woes Bis lips, and the few witnesses of the t ly were Joath to become the instruments of the Iaw in bringing the culprits to justice. Detectives Brant — ay were wo to ha up the they have succes: in that duty in Creditable ‘manner, The prisoners have very he denis having seen it before, On scratches are viable, evi- the coroner's inquest was this mornit There is no ears Of ngs; the nabs side, THE ESTATE OF THE CORPORATION. Extraordinary Task of the New Commise sion—Partial Anticipniion of th Work— Interesting Legal and Historical Fatte—The City Government ny Squai We presented im the Urra:p of | teresting facts connecte: | commission to antay some in 1 with the appoipiuuent of the inquire into the rivht and tite of the city government to its real estate, The subject, it will be seen, is Of more than historical value; for if the gentlemen who are to investigate the facts report that the Municipal Fathers have no just claim to all, or any Portion of their property, and the solons of Albany repeal the statute of limitation, the Corpora. tion will be deprived of its vast rental and appear in the unenviable position of official beggary. Its bonds and stock will rank with those of bankrupts, and the Prestige which its immense wealth has given it will bave passed With the loes of its broad acres. It is a pity that the historians who chronicle the dis- covery and progress of a city do not assume tbe office of @ register, in order to prevent the reckless exercise of squatter sovereignty. 1f, for instance, Sir Josiah Child, or Smith, who wrote successively about Manhattan Island, had given us more about the proprietary rights to the land and less of its picturesque character, who will behevo that they would not have conferred a more Practical benefit on its residents to-day than has resulted from therr works, which are full of worthless generali- ties, But we must pause here to defend the scribes who lived under the English régims in this province. If Bradford, the firet printer of New York, whose monu- ment now adorns the graveyard of old Trinity, had writ- ten that Lord Cornbury, when he ruled the island as its Governor witb the eceptre of a despot, had been cuilty of gross spohation on the Knickerbockers, whom he treated as slaves, how long would he have walked the small proportion of Broadway which then existed? Not an hoor. The menials of his lordship, who im- itated Caligula, would have cast him into @ dungeon, from which, like hell, there would have been no redemption. We are told by candid historians that this scion of royalty wandered through the streets in the flaunting dress of a harlot, to show bis reckless contempt of the civilization of the age, and there ts Nittle doubt that he was equaily recardiess of the rights of property. It is unnecessary to dwell on the gross acts of his ad- ministration, and we will charitably leave him among the dead whose lives wore infamous. It is a notorious fact, familiar to every student of the history of New York, that property was taken from some of the wealthy Knickervockers, by the approval of the British Governors of the province, and leased to the favorites of the administration who were ready to cheer for King William, Queen Anne, or the roya! Georges. In some instances the grants were deemed so extravagant that they were annulled ¥, the sovereign of England. Indeed, at that time New York migbt have been deemed the Ireland of America; for the Saxon ruled it with the same iron severity which marked the presence of the governing party in the Green Isle, With this pretace, we will to show that the claims of the Corporation to {ts rea! es'ate, should mm equity and justice be based on a purchase or transfer noe oy Paton anh ana not on 4) indefinite Cased made in the charters jougan an iT ‘0 appreciate thig fact thoroughly it is Be ea ed , 8 LOCATIONS OF [IF PRIMITIVE FARMS OF SEW YORK. at ay Of the old maps of the city, we nearly all tho land m the City Hall ith street, was divided into prominent farms about the close of the seventeenth century. The old “Vineyard,” for instance, occupied the site of the Heratp office; Beekman’s farm absorbed & portion of Park place; Rutger’s took in the Swamp, which still bears its ancient name; Trinity church held tne Jans lands, from Warren street to Christopher; Jacob Lvsier owned the plot bounded by Frankfort, Vandewater and William; Groppel Bosch held the adjoining land boanded by Cliff and Vandewater, on the Swamp; the ground of which Chatham, Oliver, Roosevelt and South streets are the boundaries, formed the old Roosevelt tarm, derived by Webber and Lockerman’s patent; the adjoinii Hot, surrounded by the Bowery, Division, Clinton an: Hoos: ton streets, composed the farms of the De- Mancey Bayard’s West Farms absorbed an irreg- ular section, running obliquely from the Bow. ery, at the point of Elizabeth street to Macdougal street, with Grand street as its southern boundary, ond Amity sireet on the north; [eller’s property extended from the northern section of the Park to Duane strect, and the new Court House occuph portion of ‘tho pict; it was focated near the Kolck or Fresh Water Pond, which once furnished ample exercise for the Knicker- we ehall fing ¢! Park to Docker sportemen; it was used befpre tho present cen- to ‘emoterf for nogroes; the Kolok Hook took in the sq bounded by Duane and roadway, Contre, Lispenard streets; next this was the Little Pond, which absorbed a small circular section, with Elm on the west, Anthony on the north, Duane on thi ) ae and Chatham Stroots on tho east. The old Powder House was next this piace. We have thus accounted for the region between the Park and the greater portion of the lands extendi:y toa part of Priace street on the west side. The section bounded by the Bowery, Houston, Stanton and Ludlow streets belouged to Vs landt by ind brief; the adjoining plot, { \y wurro Ludlow, Hous- ton, ‘Wiliet, a FO, aaguiarl, een ap ly to @ point near the commencement of avenue B, was the farm of Laendert the Laendert Farm: the section forming an isoscelos triangle, with Houston on the south, a line parallel with Amity on the north, the Bowery on tho west and avenue B on the cast, was the Farm; and the sections adjoining eastward extending on south to Rivington street, next the der: Farm, belonged to Peter Stuyvesan' in Lewis, Joho Flack, Brown & Eckford and Abi mond. THE PROPERTY OF THE CITY LOCATED ON THOSE FARYS, We have thus given the location of the oes rg farms on the island in Kotckerbocker and Colonial times, They were so closely appropriated that they trod, as it were, on each other's heels. We could, if necessary, by additional, but even more lavorious research, account for the landz on the upper mn of the island, and show that they were appropriated to farming purposes over one hundred and fifty years since; but the task is happily unnecessary in this article, as the principal property of the Corporation is located on the plots which once composed the farms we have enumerated A close observer of the list, whose curiosity or antiquarian ambition may lead him to examine the record of the lands we havo referred to, will find that they absorb all the property on the strects and ayenucs within the whoe region on which they lay; aad that the Corporation could not juatly ciaim a single lo\ on any of tho sections without proving that the city derived ite tive either puret or transfer from the original owners, The onus of proof thon devolves on the city goverment, to show that thoy are entitled, by equity as well as oy the statute relating to adverse possession, to the lots they hold on these old estates, Should they fall to do thie, the inference to be drawn from tho omission will bo suggestive and ominous. Their real estate, so far as it covers any portion of these olf Farms, is derived from the spoliation of their pro- vine.al predecessors, and their right and title thereto are exciusively embodied in a mere statute which might be repealed in a week. This is rather an awkward ‘ion for the Corporation of the first city in America, Whove assumed wealth bas created the eupidity of thousands of “scurvy politicians” for balf a ceptary. The charters of Governor Dongan mery, made respectively in 1686 and 1732, to the yor, Aldermen and Commonaity of this city, Telied on as the legal source of title to ther esiate. latter instrument conferred on the Corporat! fl wast vacant and una} lands on the island. But it ig @ notorious that in some instances the City Fatbers only took possession of the ground supposed to have been given ny the charter over a hundred years after it was Signed by the donor. There is aremarkable section In the Montgomery charter (the ae ae whit would of itself myalidate the indiscriminate mdefinite grants thus made, It consists of th» foliow- ing important restriction :— rs awTAL OF THR CORPORATION LiMiTZD To £5,000 Pan ANNUM “So a the manors, messuages, lands, tenement hereditaments, rents, and other wsions and real estate which the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of New Ys shali and may have in thelr session at any ono time, exceed not, fn the whole, the clear yearly rent or value of three thousand pounds per annum, money of our realm of Great Britain, beyond and above all charges and reprises.’ Now, if the title of the Corporation to its real estate stands’ on this charter, by a fair, if not legal interpreta. tion of this section, the rentat should not exceed the sum stated. Murray Hoffman, the eminent defender of the righte of the city to tte “coy hoped obtammed, hoidg different views on the subject; ooh ol was merely his citeat, bis opinioe may that of a lawyer, not a jndge. Any faterpretation of the section hostile to the muni goveroment would have placed it in an awkward dilemma, and so Cbancel- lor Kent came to the rescue by deciaring, wid more “The Timitation of the amount of lands to be held by the Corporation nae only that the valne be within the sam prescril Corporation. If the pans ten eves ha —~ value management or ox! aoy HT oem ‘the title of the orporation ts not theroby effected. The yearly value at the time is ail that Imitation requires. Tas a tule of on the comma construction is Meee - scion with a the force its importance demands, sl ind that , the donor, differed at jeast from Chancel. Us suppose a case, If tue rental derived estate of the city increased one hundred fifty, im 1733, @ year after fhm @ igned, who will be presumptuous enous! sient. would have permitted. such « Violation of the charter to go unpunished or unrebuked’ There was evi- deutly @ purpose designed to be effected by the section; for Montgomery did not hold wits Kent that it was of idle or inoperative words. To su Otberwise,would be to revoke the whole charter, by the ordinary rules of legal or logical consistency. The titie of the city to its estate, hogever, was propped up by this convenient decision, wh! re to have been made to avoid the consequences of the endless litigation which different views might create. Hollman quotes & Jodge of the Supreme Court to sapport his own inter- pretation of the section, The Judge said, in the case of The People Lael geiko ny well will be joned wi ‘ quest! ether, under from pounds, or 14s rout and estate. may bo ‘aw, but it is Bot co! w IF tO the tact Lo show the ment which is supposed t jority to Lold tne property. L LAWS IN RELATION TO CITY GATED. fact wh OPERTY ABLO- There ia another hn shold be vorue ia mind | cbarter on which it relies to show its title to | ! H when tne assumed titte of the «il torts real estate is sidered, On we om of December, 1828, ub are passed a law declaring that ho flatute passed by the yovernuent of th. colony of New York should be considered a taw of this State, ‘Thos statute will add to the tnt es of the que-ton and rendeg is solution on favor of (he Wnowipal autao- Tities a task of exireme difficuity, Inere are other dit Heulties which surcound the subject, but the above will suttice 10 show that the riguts of tue Corporation are afected by ail Lhe sources of 118 Ostepeibie ile to us property, | AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. Thore is no detinite Utle presented by tue city fer the principal portion of its lois, Ibis. mevely claimed that ‘twas @ part of the waste lands appropriated by the carter of Dongan as confirmed by Montgomery. might show, if it was necessarry to iliastrate tne tact, Ulat Luere Were parcels of jand held by the city which rignifully betonged to adjoining farms, avd which were taken because they were unfenced. for instance, the plot of ground im tho Fourth ward, bounded by Rose, Chatham and Vandewater, aud runuing to a point of Frauklin street, An examiuation of the old maps will convince any one that it was a part of the old Leisler farm. or that 1t was absorbed thereby. Tue city took possession of it, however, on the ground that it was ‘waste land” If the statute of limitation was re- pealed ‘he descendants of Jacob Leisier, in the absence of @ legal transfer, might justly recover pussession of the plot from the Corporation. VALUABLE PAPERS IN PERIL. The Commission, however, appointed to investinate all facts of this characi doubuess, ut an in- teresting report on th et, which will be imvalua- ‘le for reference, and perhaps load to extraordinary liti- gation. They vill experience considerable difficulty in Procuripg the necessary papers; for the carvlessness with which the records of tue old Chancery Court were removed a number of years since to the Register's Department will. doubiless, make a complete fuifiiment: of the task almost impossible, We may state here, en pasiant, that there are at present rec rds of wortgages affecting property worth seven hundred millions of dol- Jars in this city, wuich are deposited on wi ry ahelves of the County Clerk's Office, ihe destruction of which would result in destroying an immense umber Of titles to property in New York, the value of which is e@stimaced at five byggred millions of doliars. it is to be hoped Hat the Commiaston will commence fis work with vigor, and relieve, if possible, the City Fathers from their extreordinary dilemma. THE SECOND ADVENTISIS. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF TRE HERALD. Grand Gathering of Millenniumites in Con- necticut, Waresouss Pot, Conn., July 6, 1867. Since the time when William Miller se confidently Predicted the genera! and eternal smash of this terrestrial ball and all that live and move thereon, there bave been numbers who believed in the speedy coming of tho Millennium. Miller proved to be a false prophet, how- ever, and many who had placed implicit faith in his pro- dictions were. by a series of disappoimtments as to the foretold result, Jed to disbeliove everything pertaining $9 the second coming, even as laid down in Moly Writ. From having been blind followers of a crazed enthu- siast they went to tho other extreme, and lapsed into blank infidelity, From among these the ranks of atheism and materialism have been greatly strengthened. If one were to trace back the religious history of most of those men who are Prominent in the infidel schoo! im this country, he would find that little more than a score of years since they were furious advocates of the Millerite doctrine, Sad- dening instances are oven yet existing among us, too, of persons whose mental pow became warped and weakened by the hold that Millerism had on their and our lunatic esylums could cach bear tes- tumony in a groater or lesser degree of the deicierious effects of the doctrine preached by this prophet of evil. The olden Milieriies always bad the Dies /ra reckoned out for them, and tremblingly awaited its advent, when they contidently expected to see the “crack of doom.’? t -repeated disappointments in this particular. however, brought them back to their senses, and diss!- pee their pe Ce he ppmediens decent of pings terrestrial, The great buik of them, however, sul believed in @ pear ap) ing advént of is Megsiah ; and although it was not thought advisable to fx the date of the event, for fear of such mishaps as bad character: their past predictions, they formed themeeives into a religious organization, denomination- ally knowa as Second Adventists, and had as their car- dinal doctrine of faith that the Lord was svon to visit the earth and reign with his saints Eh period, and then should come the grand finale, bulk of these Sdvontisus are to be found im New England, and more especial: jut river valley a iy im that part of tne ‘which les in the States of Massachusetts and Con- ectiout. bay suite: ate -wantone ‘the Setvansinte ave farina and gitering ot camp. meet War jouse Point, in racer and are carry! os Te- their exercises with a saintly vim an ligious fervor. 1m musical terms, they appear to be acting in conc.rto, their movements being mostly con spirito, aad the routioe shout the day ay ihe meds st ae oda classed cou lal under the ational —psalmistry, Their exertions, physically speaking, however, immense, and there are several in the camp wo long power is such that if the Angel Ga- briel sbouid by any mishap be unable to pitch the proper key on the everlasting tramp would have oniy to piace horn in the bands of any one of them and such a blast would go forth to e the » would play the hills of old Connecticut yesverday bas to some extent ini Ciseg of the camp meeting, bat althoug! Witoin We laat twelve hours poured down plentifuily on the suiuts and sinners hereabout alike, it bas not damp- ed the ardor of the more enthasiasctic expectauts of speedy milleniuro. Tae jomny cated in & very shady and thickly wooded crore, about one bundred yards to the casiward of the Waretouse Point Rajiroad depot. Here a num- ber of tents are py , mn which tne faithful eat and sicep, there being numbers of boca sexes whose devo- tom ig #0 great that they will not leave the ground for cliner parpore. The exercises commence early ia the morging, and are continued, with slight intermissions, jong pier night has wrapped her #able mantle over biil and dele, river aud woodland. The locale is aboat mid. way between Hartford and Springfield, so that a balf hour's ride by rail wili take the visitor to elier piace. Larg@ numders,of young men fiom both the above named cities vi-it the eg B but whether shey all come here for tue purpose of listening to the Adventist ex- planation of Damel’s vision, of the ‘time, times aod half a timo,” or, as is more probable, to spend @ few hours witn their sweethearie amid the forests, and on the banks of the Connecticut, Tam not futly pared to say. The screech of the iron horse, wh yasee bere almost hourly, interferes iu some de- gree With the pious efforts of the exborters, and very ‘often “knocks spots’? out of the peroration of the pre , to say nothiog ot the dissonance it creates when the pious sisters are raising the choral invitation, “Com®, repentant sinners, come,’’ The meeting will be of three days’ lager duration. ‘The visitor cannot fail to notice that the Yankee charactertstic of “«nrning an honest penny” is fwiily exemplified at this camp meeting, | Enterprising so the “Nowumeg state” bave erected bovths camp from which they dispense edibles, ginge 4 soda aud sarvaparilia; and to all appearances they are driving o flourishing trade, Ay are some the assemblage of pious expect- ants Who believe that it is poambie they may go up be- fore tho term of th xt meoting shall have expired. One & these bas informed your correspundent that if the calculation fails this time he despairs of seeing the mil- lonivm “while in the bar re _—_ Hing will event, be ni for about two a pom yoencouiag, him as to whether the Union ‘woaid be reconstructod by that time, he coolly answered thet he “didn’t care a ‘cuss’ whether ‘twas or not.” It is, of Gourse, your faithful correspondent’s oy to keep s faigye on this baod of believers, and, if they should go Up, to accom; them in their agcent and keep your readers posted, Should st. Peter, in the hap- pen! of any euch event, demar as to admitting me mito new Jerusaiem, I can easily satisfy bis scrupies by tail from the AgRatp estabdlisnment. veing my THE COAL TRADE. [Froto the Pbiladelphia North American. of anthracite coal this week by Phil deiphia and Reading Ratiroad is 66 536 tons; s kill Canal, 30,053 toms; total, 96,589 tons, against 108,149 tons the ling week-last yoar, showhg & doereaso. of 11,560 tons, The scarcity of ¥ at Port Richmona still continues, and very being forwarded to market, The w factory condition of freights this season has Ween decidedly injurious to trade; but this obstacl is about being overcome by establishing a system Thich ‘they can be regulated in a manner satisfactory to All in- terested. Present rates Providgice are $2 25 and $2 respectively, which are supposed t/ govern Fates to other Eastern ions at rth entirely , it being considered a geueral holiday by the mii and very few would consent to wrk on that Gay, ae in cases of great necessity; conéquently the tonnage this weok shows copsiderable fallyg Of as oom- With inst. Many of the collieries provadly will remain idie for several weeks, and coms ove longer, bey the bode becomes fd a > as general ) e Aouad tact to the miners 4iP And profuable fall bed 1s ye to be the ere opi a the trade, not only here, % nications are frequent from,4® leading fasvern dealers, sironaly recommending bf oad the for the safety trade. Prices itinue fair and unchanged, $4 50 fertor wnive acy @4.76.8 86 for ted tanyund $4.90 for brond tor ** * Quality, on board of vessel, “FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA, 1861, Purapeirma, J Ht mea jog Spe acseayina sea by water. on stock ia heavy, mostly | THE IINAY WAR. The Onaes Making Wav Acco Gi Intiousdieverner Orawterd Prompt t Mant © bis Ow Seow does net Prorect the fo Reaue Sr, Loi A Topeka despateh gays the Osage ‘ lovir reserva ion in the suuthern port of the in regulor war siyle, their rear picketed, aud allowed ao whites to appro vei camp. Latilg Bear, tne Chie of the Lite ©. says their ageot, _now, is never With them, aud ai \outes the preseut disaflecuon of the trib) to him, Little Bear refused to go to the Plains with bis band, and has no control over them, “They suid they were going to huat buffaloes, but they sluie eigity horses, and Brigadier General Kelly of themiitla, who Feports the above, believes they are on the War path. Governor Crawford has written a long lejter on the subject of Indian affair, to Senator Ross, inwhich be says that the oatrages will partially cease for a Week or two, ax the Indians who have been committing iiew are to meet Colonels Leavenworth and Wynkoop ut salt Plains, in the southern part of the State, to reevive on- naties, but as soon as they receive these gouds Uney wi' retura to robbing and murdering. The Governor depre- cates the Peace Commissioner's plau, and says that war is the only way to settle the treubles. He makes strong appeais to Congress for aid, aud charges some Tadian agents and traders with gross misreprosentation tm stating that their Indians are quie and peaceable, when it isa notorious fact that. they are murdering and sealping the whites wherever they are found: Lhe Gov. ernor farther says, five thousand persons have been killed during the past year, and declares if Conzress will Rot protect the cilizens, the Kansas railroad interests, and prevent the blockade of the routes of travel, he will take the matter into his own hands, An Omaha despatch says:—Several steainers on the Upper Missouri have been attacked by the Indians and five or alx men killed. A Wyandotte, Kansas, despatch says:—Thoinas Parks, contractor of the Pacific Raiiway, reporis six attacks by the Indians on the railroad laborers west of For! Harker within ten days, the last one at Wileon’s station, on Monday, Awhite <ettlement on the Mulberry tribu- tary of the Salina river had been attackad and the set- tiers driven away. Two women were killed and two young women taken captives, Increased Depredations the Upper Mis- uri—-The Sioux Overawing the Fricndiy Tribes. Wasuinatos, July 6, 1867. Private information received here represents that the Indian depredations on the Upper Missouri are on the increase. The hostile Sioux bave succeeded in over- awing to a great extent the {friendly Indians, aud the consequence is that the lives of all white men in that country are in imminent danger. Indit.n Outrages—Expeuses of the Govern- ment<Immense Indian and Army Ship- ison (Kansas) correspondont of a Chicago journal writes, under date of June 26, as follows:— The prominent theme of discussion among outfitters and the emi:rant community is the Indiag war, ana what ig to cone of it, The redskins remind me ot noth- ing so much raged hornets, except that the tgure 1s a light one for -he subject. A recent Colorado peper gives a listo: \-srly sixty outrages, involving loss 0 property and }.i 1 or pexr the borders of that Territory since December. 1: in the minds and on the tongues of all. Every train heavily armed; in fact, thera will be po ciossiay Plains without escorts of the heaviest kind, 11 are well enough meide a fori fication, bat outs!" go can ride all around them ail, Company bave lost already $60,000 s, and what amount wiil pay the -lage companies is to be yet ascer- tained The Indians drive off their stock and attack ae stages whenever they can get no more profitable plunder. The military posts established along the routes which are to become the great national thoroughfares have been of little banefit—a mere pretext of protection beneficial chiefly to suttiers, contractors, Indian agents, and their partners in their swincles These posts cos: the government in 1864, $25,000,000, and in 1865, $57,000,000, of which $1,642,000 was expended far the payment of troops, while the Subsistence Department absorbed $51 523,820, and Quartermaster $28, 37: , 4 from present indications $150,000,000 will’ not vor the expense of the past twelve months. ' That your readers may have some idea of the immense amount of merchandise that has come to be led under the head of Indian annuity goods, let me to the now passing the 3 Thomas Murphy, Superintendent of the Central Indian Agency at tuis place. They weigh near! and fifty tons, and are of a total value of rise calicoes, blankets and various other useful articles, as weil as pony Sooo and such like extras, So re up ja xes, and make a large balk, these 876 Ibe. are destined for the ey 1070 ive, are fer the Diab, A; 'B: Norton, agent, A. B. Norton, agent, Albiquine, New Mexico ; 726 for the Camanches and Kiowas, J, H.’ Leavenworth, agent, Salt Plains; 9,611 lbs. for the Eastern Shoshones, Luther Mann, agent, Fort Bridger; 25,864 ibs. for the Geship shoshones, F. H. Head, agent, Salt Lake; 10 691 Ibs, for the Tabequache Utes, jayette Head, agent, Denver; 105,034 ibs, for the Apaches, Arapaboes and Cheyennes, Wynkoop, agent, Sait Piains; and 9,828 Ibs. for the Utes and Apaches, at the Cimmarone Agency. Th larger instalment goes to Sait Plains, because the government has directed the Camanches, Kiowas, Ara- pahoes and Cheyennes, who are now at peace with the whites, and who have not been engaged in the recent troubles, but have takon ref south the lime of division between tbe peaceable and the warlike tribes, to agsemble at Suit Plains in the Cherokee country, and receive their annuity goods, Not a dollar's worth of the goods, in any case, is to be distributed to the tribes that have ‘beep engaged in the recent scones of bloodshed, nor to thoee tribes who hold white prisoners and refuse to give them ap. The orders on this point are of the most stringent character, aod may result in delaying the distribution of the goods among some of the tribes, as they will only be distributed to thuse known by the military authorities to be at peace with the whites, and not in any degree inclined toward war. The goods for Salt Plains, amounting to 160,760 pounds, were shipped by ox train on Saturday last. The train consisted of thirty-five wagons, each drawn by four or five yoke of cattle, It goos io Topeka, and thence through Southern Kansas to the Cherokee coun- try, inthe Incian Territory. The distribution at Salt Plains will place as soon after the artival of the tram as the pocessary arrangements can be completed. ‘The enormous ex of all this national Yankee no- ton business, -— sige expenses of the Indis reau, salaries of agents, superintendents, tio, annuities, and other expenses make the cons of @ bere: breadth escape on a journey tl the Indian terr- tory, and the cost of an inferior itary protection at cértain ports on the great routes, one of the most ex- travagant luxuries that the government ever furnished for those who are compelled to seek {ts protection. As long as corrupt indian agents can coax tbe Indians into the belief that the troops are sent into their country tor the saree par of exterminating them, and that the protection the whites is a mere pretext for getting troops in their country, just so long will there be an in- cessant Indian war, and the small parties, stage coaches and trains will be hegg to suffer from In- Ove th of the government, in league with contractors and swindlers, forcing a war upon the otber on pny wake cp A om and re cuniary proat, It ts an easy matter to arrange plans for but it will be done only by war, and we shall fire men for every Indian killed from this time to winter, when the Indian agents, who have been storing theiyeupplies and taking care of the government arms they have for presents, will hold «grand council. The rubs will farnish them with all the they de- sire in exchange for greenbacks stolen, and furs, &c., whch, with the rations annually dealt out to them, will keep them comfortable under th eee rome of the military posts until grass 8 again, wheo another far will be inaugurated in onder to keep our vast army fmployed at something useful, and hem in an efficient state of drill and discipline, Had not the influ. ence of the Indian Bureau im #0 enormous, the Indians would now have been under the control of the ‘War Department, where they properly belong. Locality of the Forts—Conduct of the War=— The Question of Civilization. of the St. Louis Democrat writes :— Forming something resembling a right angle are ton forts on the great plains, built by the government, filled with valuable stores and garrisoned by some three thou- sand men; their names are, Kearny, McPherson, Sr wick, Morgan, Mitchell, Sanders, Laramte, Keno, Phi Kearoy and Waford. ‘Those forts, built at’ intervals of fifty miles, are garrisoned by infantry ; two of the prin- cipal forts have @ amail detachment of cavalry, and are expected to protect the piains from the incu of the savages. In peacefal times:these forts would be @ decided and valuable aéquisiton to the great uninhabited plains of the West, bot during the war, they are worthless as Protection to the travel- lers, They are fit for depote where cavalry could In their operations against hostile tribes. that they, managed as they ever afford timely and adequate aid to attacked By the time intelligence could be transmitted commanders of posts the attacking party have unex; ly te come diferent qoarien, that ‘obtuse will readi are useless iacumbrances. spdacaat”” 2 General Hancock, on his recont expedition, received aan fe that an indian war was about to com. mence, His | suddenly (amiliar to every denizen of the city, edition is issued at noon from the delivery office, No. 30 Ann street, where long in advance of that houra host of these literary gamin: assemble from all sections of the metropolis to seize upon and dart away with their quoia, woful want of prevision which our city surveyors exhib- ited in laying out our down town thoroughfares, is none of the widest, and consequently when several bundred newsboys, with that penchant for fun, mischief and practical jokes which seems inseparable from their na- ture, and, which indeed, forms one of their inalicnable attributes, are collected togethes within its limits, all animated by a most un-Job-like impatience to be the first to obtain the carly sheets of the forthcoming edition, the imagination can readily conceive that oppor- tunity is afforded for a most ludicrous scene. When the doors of the publication room are at length thrown open and the first graad made to get within the office, the picture refuses all attempts at description. The youngsters, who a mo- ment before were seated on the timber and débrie of the opposite building, which is now undergoing demolition or repair, dart to the spot with the rapidity of birds, 3 got to 8 ive me those » follow them,” and rdingly. who were spect ne 2 obeyed ace yenne:, Gomnnches are and the anprejadiced ios ‘solemnly entered le tribes 10 1966 with Only by the characterized our Onion, of the rebe'on, Upom m (hat treaties are Bot to pene fap povements tha. troops during the them hot aad heavy be trampled npon tv some weopie lament and are sorrowful over the idew that a vast expendiwire wili necessarily arise out of this war. Let the territories be permiued to defend ther own frontiers. They entroat tha: privilege; and we wilh wneer thot before two mnths the Indian war will have become a thing of the past. Regular officers, tl brave aud able men, capnot adapt themeelyes to t nemaric life and the wily manceuvres of the centaurs of the desert. It requires men qualided by experience and hard tite to become equal antagonists to these rang- a sbinvclites, pero are at present at Fort McPherson,six companies; ‘Fort Sedgwick, four conipanies; Fort Morgan, one com. pany; Fort Sanders, sx companies; Fort Laramie, tem companies; Fort Casper, one company; a new fort es tabtished on the La Prete, three companies; 3 new fors to be permanently established at the Black’ Hilly, four- teen companies; Fort » four companies; Fort Pbik’ bom tive companies, and Fort C. F, Smith, four ¢om- A\\ those soldiers stationed at the above posts fail im leg Vine peace or affording protection to the emigrant. ‘he Indian question ig regarded by different persons from different standpotuts. AM agree thas we must have Peace, but in the manner of preserving peace there are wild and ue opinions expressed, Seet |, the simple—the complicated Iodian war If we adopt war let it be sharp, short carily quelle and decisive. Send o avalry, volmveer cavalry, and in humbors equivaient to the arduous task undertaken. A thousand or two are not cnough, a Fifteen thousand cavalry sweeplog the country in fifteen different columbs may come across the Indians in some out of the way place; and, of course, once inet, the Indians are easily defeated, The regular troops ean fight Indians if they ever have a chance; bur the task which is exe tremely difileult is to find them—cateh them first, To h them we must roe send men who are intl irrerniar mode of warfare, is a long word, Duta longer task. To exterminate about one thousaad diderent tribes, the government must be prepared to call out five hundred thousand voiuntecrs——tiree hundred thousand of whieh should be cavairy—-tor active work. In ten we might hope to achieve the work, but at an awful sacrifice of lives, Civiiization is’ an efficacious remedy for this constantly recurring Indian question. Time works wondere, Formerly it was firmiy accredited that tne Cherokees were uitaweble, As carly TuU .ucy wanivested their hostility to the whites by the massacring of the buci: seclers im Virgiole, In the years 1776 snd 1782 they were at war with the colonists in Georgia, Tne general government at last atlowod them to reside in the country now known as the States of Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. The whites encroached on their lands, and contioually an noyed thei until it was decide to remove them west of the Miscissippl, This removal was effected in 1537, sine which time they have increased in population, ad- vanced in inteiligence and acquired wealth, Thoy possess a newspaper and priniing press, the Bible in the Cherokee language, almanacs, hymns and other books of instruction, They have written a, an organized government, a head chief, elected every four Years, and a Judiciary, consisting of a ha oar Court, Cireult and District Courte, also, the Delaware nation, or, as it calls itself, th now living on the Delaware reservation in the southwestern of Kansas, formerly the. most powerful nation, the mest ancient, and which the Iodiaus call the “Grandfather Nation,” now possess echools and conduct themselves as Civilized people. Beautiful farms, neat cottages, commodious schools and churches adorn their reservation. The Choctaws, Chickasawa, rhawnees, Wyandottes, Pawnees, Potta- wattomies, Kickapoos, Omates and Kaws, are rapidiy following in the train of civilized nations. evidences of their industrious habits and natural intelli- gence meet the oye. 8 the Sapo a igen ob _—— their country. ness, through the exertions of our indefatigable mis- sionaries, have seen the light of the gospel, and instead are ling in slaughter and biood, chant the praises nitou, Even some of the barbarous Sioux, whose voices have always been for war, are becoming Christianized, and make commendable efforts at adopting the customs of civilized life. The cross of Christ thoy bear with ad- mirable patience, vy wild Sioux, and their willingness to adopt ways the face is construed as degeneracy. But receiving twe kiad aid and encouraged by the z-aloas missionaries, they steadily persevere in their praiseworthy endeavors. & THE EVENING TELEGRAM NEWSPAPER. Seventy Thousund Copies Issued Dally. A scene which fails not to arrest the footateps of the busiest by-passer who comes near the vicinity of Ann and Nassau streets, and which would require the pencil of some Hogarth to transfer the bumorous features thereof to canvas, 18 daily enacted at the portals of the publication office of the sprightly little newspaper which has just been launched upon the precarious sea of metro- politan journalism, and which, in its epigrammatic itle— the Evening Telegram—affords an index of its compre- hensive design as a daily record of events, No incident in the chronicles of newspaperdom has excited so mach enthusiasm in that very volatile element of society, the newsboye, as the advent of this enterprising little sheet, whore name, through the efforta of these same energoiie individuals—not to speak of ite intrinsic merits as a concise telegraphic record of ali the passing events of the hour—bas become Its Ores The street at this point, thanks to the swarm into the apartment—where the dispenser of the Tequired copies ought to have the bands of Briareus to supply the demand—or baddle and jostle each other on Space at the same time, oftorts and of such-a contracted field for indi piration, eepecially during the sultry day, was almst serious in tte eager of there youngsters, themeclves from the stru, tate. La ©, to policemen Preserve tweed the aspirants for the first copies. mou Indasteto Ye The attontion'at least of Mr, ree —¢ endeavoring ar with « urebit whose wes detianes of all ‘wuthority vented oo the fight of steps, to the imminent risk of life and limb, while above another and a denser crowd crushes to the central pomt, entirely obitvious of the cal axiom that two bodies cannot occupy The offect of such weather of to some 2 of the of those useful mark tho initiation of ite career, A., ought to be o (he manor vainly endeavored . ‘ous individual, but he was not 1 3 i iff NEWS FROM. TWE PACIFIC COAST. of the Colorade=—The Reperted New Island Still Undiscovered.