The New York Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1868, Page 3

EUROPE. Tue Railroad Disaster in Wales and | Fax aa Fearful Scones by Fire. Lord and Lady Farnham Burned to Death. Lord Stanley to Mr. Seward on the Naturalization Question. The Luke de Montpensier in Protest to Queen Isabella. ‘The Canard mail steamship Java, Captain Lott, from Liverpool the 22d and Queenstown the 23d of August, arrived at this port yesterday evening, bringing @ mail report, in detail of our cable tele- grams, dated to her day of sailing from England. After a long drought rain had become general all over France, and especially in the South, “In the neihborhood of Lyons,” says the Salut Public, ‘‘the wet, which has come on at last, continues at inter- vals to the great satisfaction of the farmers, who were complaining of the great heat and dry weather. ‘The vines were losing their leaves on some hill sides, and the grapes were being burned up by the sun, The present change will not repair the harm that has been done, but i¢ will prevent a further extension of it.” The five new Senators of France appointed by Napoleon are thus sketched in a Paris journal:— M. Conti is a native of Corsica, who succeeded M. Movqu as Private secret: tothe Emperor. M. ae risarich manu!actcrer of the Moselle. As a dey he was one of the seven sages who voted avainst article oue of the bill on the press. M. de Montjoyeux is member for the Nidvre and a consist- ent supporter of the government; he was the inti- mate friend of the late Duke de Morny. Count de Sartiees is Ambassador at Rome. As to M. Nélaton, he is not only one of the greatest medical celebrities, but it was he who last year attended the Prince Im- perial during his illness, In the Norwegian elections to the Storthing, which is to assemble in October, the number of public functionaries chosen is less than on preceding “dcca- sions; Out of 111 representatives returned there are but thirty of that class; thirty-eight peasant deputies have been elected. ; A decree dated Thun, where the King of Holland is staying, orders the suppression of the two Min- istries of Public Worship, Catholic and Protestant. Religious affairs concerfting the former faith will be attached to the Department of Justice and those relating to the latter to the Ministry of Finance. A despatch from Constantinople announces that Yaver Pacha, who belongs to the Catholic Armenian Church, has been appointed director of the Post Office in Tarkey, From Bucharest it is announced that the opening ofthe annual session of the Roumain Literary So- ciety, which had been fixed for the 13th of August, has been indefinitely postponed. As is known, tho nominal scientific character of this society concegis a Political object, or, in other words, revolutionary projects against the territorial integrity of Turkey. General T. Corbett, an Irishman by birth, but a dis- tinguished officer of the French Imperial Guard, adorned with ther ibbon of the Legion of Honor, ar- rived in Ireland a short time since on a visit to his rela- tive, Mr. Lyons, of Mayfield, near Cork, but was soon arrested as a Fenian sympathyzer by the police. As the General speaks English very imperfectly he was detained in custody for more than an hour. The event produced quite an excim2nt_in the South of Ireland, ‘The advices by the Cape of Good Hope mail tend to coroborate the previous accounts, with regard to the existence of extensive gold fleids in the interior, about eight hundred miles from Natal, ENGLAND. The Railroad Accident in Wales— Vatal Collision and Fearful Scenes—Passengers Burned to Cinder—The Earl of Farnham aud Lady Farnham Killed. ‘rom the London Globe, August 21, evening.] rhaps the most fearful and extraordinary acci- dent which ever occurred on the railway is that re- ported this morning, and which happened ‘on the Chester and Holyh line, near Lianddulas, yester- day, about a mile and afhalf from ag oo A tele- ‘The Irish ited mail, graphic despatch say! jeaving London at a [Sgr past seven o'clock, passed Abergele station in safety about one o’cloc! A goods train had passed half an hour before. Beyond Lianddulas a portion of the goods train to Hoiyhead seems to have become detached and ran back down the incline, meeting the mail train going at abont forty miles an hour. There is a curve near, The driver of the mail train, Arthur Thompson, of Stagord, seeing that a collision was inevitable, yunped off and escaped slightly hurt. The stoker, Joseph Holmes, of Stafford, remained. ‘At the back of the goods ‘train was a wagon laden with petroleum oil, and when the collision occurred the petroleum exploded. The engine, tender and three first class carriages were smashed up together and burned with petroleum. Twenty-three passengers for Ireland were all burned so badly that none could de recognized, A watch was found, with an inscrip- tion showing it belonged to Lord Farnham, who was accompanied, it is supposed, by two daughters. Lo- comotives, cranes and men Were sent from Chester and Crewe, and the line was cleared about half-past five o'clock, The wires having been broken pre- vented earlier messages for assistance. ‘Twenty-three bodies have been brought to Pres- tatyn station and placed in coffins and taken to Abergele church. ¢ passengers hurt are distri- buted about Prestatyn, Abergele and places near. ‘Their names cannot be ascertained at this late hour. it is feared that none of the bodies will be recogniz- able by friends, they are so fearfully charred. Four doctors from Abergele and Rhyi are waiting upon the sufferers by direction of the railway company. Toe body of the s‘oker was picked up under the broken engine. Thompson, the engine driver, is at a cottage near the scene of the accident and able to give some account of what he saw. The inquest will probably be openea hte a be immediately adjourned, ‘The Duchess of Abercorn and family, Lord Castie- rosse and family and Mr. and Lady Seiwin-[bbetson poem passengers by the train, but ali escaped un- hart. ‘The Duchess of Abercorn and Lord Hamilton have proceeded to Ireland, Burulng Carringes and Charred Bodies. {Abergele (August 31) correspondence of London Times. Certainly anything hke so awfala railroad acci- dert has never occurred in this country. Persons who witnessed the collision from the bank state that for a considerable time the line for some di: tance was as if covered with a sheet of flame. Ul an immense quantity of water had been thrown on it the fire was not extinguished, and when put out atone spot ft broke out in another. All this time the bodies of the passengers in the three first cle rriages next the engine and tender were burning literally to ashes, In some cases an inch or two of a dress are ali that a found in a heap of charred remains to show that they are those of tady. In several cases even cinders of the bones have not been left. What were buman forma had been gathered up like so mueh black dust, The body of the stoker, why lay uader the engine, was almost the only one that presented the appearance of a dead man. The flesh was burned off, but a calcined skeleton, with i) visible, was left. The name, “Prince of is still to be seen on the locomotive, which is now standing on its wheels close to the Abergele station; but the tender made a tremendous somer- set and went right over the engine and its funnel; it is smashed to pieces. Of the carrii in which the passengers were & nothing exists to show that they were carriages but the wheels and axles; ~what were the bod! lie in thousands of pieces iike small firewood that had been reduced to char- wal. “tt is believed that twenty-seven persons have been killed. ‘The smoke, enti black, as from a funnel, which the petroleum emitted intercepted the view of the carriages in front, and it was only after the sides iad been burned 80 that the interior became visible, und tie numerous outlines of calcined human forms were secu in various attitudes, that the awful trath waa realized. The heat and stench were wer- ing. The liquid fire burned up the grass and hedge of ‘the embankment, the ig poles and sleepers. Ties ae rely ewept the carriages: rivive in minutes an rally #8} one window and out st the other, and jucing & heat #o intense that it was impossible 0 Spproach within a considerable distance the in, The Eee tye ay Sig ce stig ed escal wi a J 1e 1 welgit and — veloeity of the engine having prevented any serious rebound, hited from their carriages immediately after the Hlision and vied with each other in endeavoring to render waat ald they could, The country people in vicinity and a las@e number of workmen from anarry near the spot, Who had been alarmed bY the roncneion were alsa eam eathaved nn the ‘ie was a “dfages could be heat thrown out by the fr mass ing embers, and. when search was for the sufferers little more than remains of human bodies could be discovered. in most of the cases the bodies were headiess, and in many it was tmpoanble to discover whether the sufferers were males or females, Every particle of ed on all the re also traveling Mary Ann lady’s maid, Outen, his jordship’s valet, and Charles Buckingham, footman in the same service, all of Whom are lost, Lady Farnham, before going to Buxton, last month, called at Hunt & Roskell’s and took from their care in a smal! bag more than $6,000 worth of her own jewelry, with which she 13 sup- posed to have been relilig on ‘Thursday. ‘The engine and tender the mail express had fallen over on the down ride of the railway, burying Holmes, the stoker bencath, but the firat guard’s break fell over the up line, to the clearing of which active efforts were @pphed early. before five o’clock the up line was suiticiently cl to allow the up lrish express to pi and shortly afterwards the down express, which had gone back to Abergele station, was sent forward to Holyhead, conveying all the London passengers, except a gentleman named Murray, who preferred delaying his journey. The Distinguished Dead. While the Duchess of Abercorn and Lord Castle- rosse escaped from the buring train uninjured, Lord and Lady Farnham and Sir Nicholas Chinnery were burned to death, Lord Faruham was the seventh baron of that title in the peerage of Ireland, and was born in Dublin on August 9, 1799, On December 3, 1823, he was married to the Hon. Anna Frances Esther, youngest daughter of the twenty-second Lord Despencer., This lady was sixty-three years of age at the time of her death. His lordship, who was for some time one of the repre- sentatives of Cavan county in the House of Com- mons, succeeded his father in the title in 1838, and in the following year was elected one of the repre- sentative peers of Ireland. The deceased peer, who was a knight of St. Patrick, leaves no issue, and his brother, the Hon. Somerset Richard Maxwell, who is now in his sixty-fifth year, succeeds to the title. The Rev. Sir Nicholas Ghinner ,» Who also was & passenger in one of the front carriages of the ill fated train, was born in 1804. He was educated at Queen’s Coliege, Cqmbridge, where he graduated M, A. in 1829. Sir Nicholas, who was formerly assistant min- ister at Trini hapel, Conduit street, Hanover square, succeeded his father as third baronet tn 1840, and was married in 1843 to Anne, daughter of the late Rev. John Vernon, of Cavan. In default of an heir male the title becomes extinct. New Voters Go with Their Old , “Masters” ? {From the London Times, August 21.) The election campaign bas now fairly begun. Candidates and canvassers have taken the feld, and every day brings from different quarters fresh intel- ligence of operations in the enlarged constituencies, and presents various forecasts of the manner in which the newly enfranchised multitudes may be expeeted to behave at the ensuing election. One of the many eaten 1 roblems that will be worked out in the course of the next few months is the extent to which intimidation is likely in future to prevail. Will the ey ee hopes of the conservatives. be realized that a fresh era of dependency ia at band, when the household voters, # servile host, will be driven to the poll before the great landed proprieters of the country, and the two—the highest and the lowest— coalesce to crush out the liberalism of the middle classes? Or will the new voters, conscious of their strength and proud in the first exercise of their rights, break out into rude ant m and repudi- ate not merely the interference, but the just influence of the classes above them? We fear neither of these extremes. We are satisfied that the great bulk of the people, while exhibiting a characteristic inde- ndence, will /oyally serve under their recognized Traders and will co-operate with the classes who began the great work which is now to be continued on @ broader basis. The Anglo-American Naturalization Question. We find the following important despatches, ad- dressed br doce Stanley to the Brittsh Minister in the United States, reiating to the imprisonment of Messrs. Warren and stello, all Fenians, among Parliamentary papers issued in London August 21:— FonRIaN Ovrion, June 16, 1868. Sim—The United States ¢ d'Affaires bus inquired of me, by direction of Mr. Seward, whether her Majesty's gov- ‘ernment were prepared at once to enter into a treaty with the United States on the subject of naturalization. reminded Mr. Moran in reply of the statements which come weeks T made in the House of Commons, and which were recat as I believed, with gene: ‘that iajesty’s gov: Srantent were prepared o enteriain in principle the question of a naturalization treaty and no longer held doctrine of indefeastble allegiance. But I observed to Mr. Moran that, with ev dieposition om thelr part to contribute 16 Will the setting at rest a question which, as {t now stood, was calou- lated to interfere with the maintenance of good, ‘understand- ing between this country and the United States, her government fond it was inexpedient not to aay to proceed hastily in a matter which legal difficulty, and might affect the interests not only of per- sons now in being, but of persovsstili unborn. It was neces- sary, therefore, to consider how British law bore on the quea- thon, and the similarity, between the laws of the two coun- tries need scarcely be insisted npon in support of the statement that there are many legai points to be con- sidered and determined before either a treaty can be ciuded or legislation attempted by this country. Her Ma- jesty's covernment, T aad, have oat no. time, in seek: ing to elucidate ‘the questions to be considered. A royal commission, composed of very eminent persons, had been appointed and were now engaged in investigating thore questions; ft was hnporsible to say how long the iu: quiry would take, but even apart from the question of (he inexpediency of antictpatin, ort of the commission. ere, thought it right to remark that, in the actual state of public affairs in Parliament, and ‘considering the Anxiety felt to restrict legislation to what was absolutely re- quired with a view to an early dissolution, ft would be tm- Practicable, even if the report of the commission had been agreed upon and published, to introduce into the House of ‘Commons, with any chance of ite immediately becoming law, a bill for giving elfect to the recommendati rt. Tt could not be ex to ‘and for this there was not now time. It seemed to me, there- fore, inevitable that legislation on the subject muat ‘be de- ferred tl the meeting of the new Parliament, and as the treaty must he made dependent on such legislation, it was ‘useless to conclude it at once. Tam, & STANLEY. To Mr. THORNTON, Foursan Orion, Jul 25, 1868. 81n—The United States Cha: {aires at this Court has communicated to rar a despatch which he has recetved fro Mr. Seward, hearing date the 22d nit., in which Mr, Seward al- ludes to the frequeut remonsirances and exportulations which have beon addressed on the part of ited States gorern- ment to her, Majesty's government against the imprisuntnent of Messrs. Warren apd Costello in this country, and compiain- ing that the judicial severiiy maintained by ber Majesty's government Int tends to embarrass the friendly relations between the two countries and to protract the polit- ieal excitement which has unhappily for some time disturbed the peace of the British realm and the British provinces nt to the United States, Mr. Seward, in the same des- alluced to his having on many occasions urged on the ernment, though without #uccess, the necessity of ffcation of” the inws of tbe. Briiish realm’ in the case of subjects of Great Britain who have become citizens of the United States under thelr uaturaltza- Moran also cor ted to me, by Mr. of 1 pn of the House of > ate eftish a modi 8 the two questions espatch that which re- Jates to the naturalization laws hns been already treated of by me in the deapatch which T addressed to you on the 16th ultimo, reporting the substance of hich Thad bad with Mr. Moran. To the rea a immediate conclusion of to add, and T cannot dy: ut into wil satisfy th United States of the ain Ktalesty's government to dispose of this. question In @ man ner which shail be satisCactory to both eountr jesere. Wi comin ited in the United States—reste on a total misconception Of the (actaot the case, These prisoners were convicted of treason felony at the Commission Court for the county of hold in October last, the most prominent overt act insisted npon and proved against them being that they bad come over to Ireland and erul long the const with {at to effect nding of men and a 6 in ion againat the Queer Inst these prisoners in the conrse of the trial, of words spoken atid acts committed by them in the United States, was fren in atrict accordance with the rules of law, as part of festimony connectiog them with a Fenian conspiracy whi had existed in the county of Dublin, in which county the Commission Court sat; and whieh, conspiracy had for itt ob- ot the subversion of her Rajers "a authority and the estab- ni republic in Ireland. Tam, &c., Dublin, STANLEY. SPAIN. The “evolutionist Exiles—Protest of the Duke de Montpensier. ‘The following is the protest of the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier against their exile from Spain, alluded to in our cable telegram’ as published in the Courrier de la Gironde, The document is ad- dressed the Queen of Spain:— L1spox, August 3, 1868, MapaM—By the direct instrumentality or tte Cap- tain General of the Andal royal order of the 7th July, which enjoins us to leave, with the least possible , the veninsula, grapato. despt hen subsequently a jou ie - ‘tila de Maaria in which make our compulsory v: leaving us the choice of the our exile, ‘We shall not attempt to seek out the first causes of the diMiculties which met us on our landi Pot |, When we were threatened to be de; of the liberty at first accorded of selecting the place of our exile; but in the aah ition pre- pared for us as regards Lisbon, as well as in the dia- Fespectful reception given in the port of Cadiz to the royal colors flying upon the frigate which conveyed us, the signs of @ useless persecution Sane a be ignored. Until] nuw we have conside Mtv to remain stlent rosnesting the mesenre toon as —_———— ‘shou! B te now one Coroute A Simca coals with all our soul), we are not the of it, Elsewhere must be sought agitati ain (etch we dep! rating cause to our protest they add nothing to the injustice com- mitted, and the latter must be forgotten in presence of the arbitrary act which exiles us without any in- direct intimation. We do not consider it consistent with our dignity to mention them, Solely in the name of our ents. in our character of Spaniards placed under the protecuon of the general laws of .the country, do we now protest before your Majesty against the violence which drives us from our beloved Spain. We wait for the repara- tion to be as public and as solemn as the insuit which we bave received. May Heaven preserve your life for many years, MARIA LUISA FERNANDA; ANTONIO. FRANCE. Political Sentiment as Expressed in the Elec tlous—The Anti-Dynastic Feeling. mm Galignani’s Messenger, of Paris, Aucust 22.) ‘The government organs have been reproactied by the oppoaltion press with maintaining an e1mbar- Tassed silence with respect to the result of the elec- tion in the Jura. The Constitutionnel now departs from that mutism and publishes observations which are not destitute of weight. Replying to the Débats, which had accused it of regarding the election of M. Grévy as anti-dynastic, the first named journal refuses firmly to admit that the 22,000 votes received by the author of the celebrated anti-monarchical amendment were given en masse against the empire. The writer tu the Constitutionnel says:—We know it only too weil, and the election in the Jura once more confirms our conviction, that many persons who would be in a state of despair to see the impe- rial dynasty full take pleasure in voting for the can- didate of the most advanced opposition, either to satisfy their relative antagoniam, and becanse they aay ae that no danger can arise from thus acting, or from personal sympathy with the person who seeks their sufrages, We find no difficulty in admit- ting that this jast named motive must have had great influence in favor of M. Grévy, who enjoys much consideration in his native de- partment and whose election as Batonnier of the Order of Advocates at Paris gave him an increased’ Most op} june as regards his political caudidateship, No, we aflirm again, nothing in what we have said implies that the 22,000 electors of the Jura who voted for M. Grévy should be, (pso facto, anti-dynastic. No, there are not 22,000 anarchists in that department;’ such a no- tion 1s beneath common seuse, jong those who who shouted in 1848, * Vivre la Reforme!”’ there were, a8 we well know, very few republicans. This 1s for us an additional motive to warn those benevolent electors aud say, ‘‘Beware of illusions and weak ness, for they cost dear.” As to the means of auc- cess att le to the use of electoral coaiitions we have judged it, aye, and most accurately. Let beet mm then cease to speak to us of the morality of the means which it resorts to. Their morality, forsooth! What, that of a coatition in which M. Grevy is patronized by M. Berryer! The temporary agreement at the bullot box of parties who are prepared to rend each other in pieces as soon as they achieve a@ victory, what is it if not the absolute negation of political morality, the theory of success at ts price, a melancholy instrument of rewlutiony If—but this will not Le agp ma- nouvres should frequently triumph, let our readers be well convinced that not the government alone, but all France would have to pay the cost of the victory t The € eutionnel is in the it. How many honest citizens of Paris shouted “ la Resorme!” and “4 bas Guizot'!” in 1848 without dreaming that they were preparing the way for the republic, aud immediately afterwards turned round against it. FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. ‘The Paris Post office has fifty-five branch oMices in ao and 643 boxes, There were seven deliveries ys The Vicary Egypt has selected the plans of a palace to be built at Cairo, the estimate for which amounts to two and a balf millions of dollars in gold. The chief restaurant of Homburg, Germany, em- ploys 215 persons, among which figure thirty cooks and seventy-five waiters. The carriage road and railroad over Mount Cenis, Italy, have recently been partially destroyed by a fearful storm. Communication was suspended for several days. Another accident is chronicled among the tourists in Switzerland. A yor English iady while climb- ing up the mountain at Chamounix was crushed by a huge block of stone rolling down, The Dutch papers report abundance of fruit in Holiand. Large baskets fall of piams sell for fifteen cents, or about One cent for two hundred and fifty plumes. At the viliage of Graulhet, France, a man recently sold his horse and his wife together for the sum of and the wife duly ratifed the contract by administering @ sound thrashing to her degenerate better half. Switzerland is not behind in the general armament question; for recently about 105,000 breechloading rites have boen ded to her stock, and the general expenditure for war material reached the sum of $875,000 up till Inst June, A fif® recontty took place at Northumberland House, London, by which about $50,000 worth of pic- tures and rare objects of art were destroyed, espe- cially a collection of Sevres vases given to the Nor- verland family by Charles X. of France. The inauguration of the monument to commemo- Tae the lon > «rra@vie sustained by Poland against Russia took ac: reee'y near Zurich, Switzerland. The memo > iserec’ on the battle tleld where the Rusetana were defeated .y Massena in 1799. The Paris Figaro meutions that a curious sale will shostiy take piace in that city, namely, a collection of autographs of celebrated conspirators. The bist incindet a few names, that, If published, might cause a communication from neaiquarters; sv further par ticulars are deferred, ‘Three distinguished persons of title recentiy sat down to a private dinner in one of the principal hotels of Ostende, Beigiim, and on the walter enter- ing the room to serve the dessert he was astonished to find the three corpses lying on the floor, Prussic acid was found in each champagne glass, whi partly explained the tragedy. A FEARFUL CRIME. A Fawily Murdered=Their House Burned and Other Property Burned, From the Detroit Post, August 31,] Avout midnight on Saturday three or four pistol shots were heard coming from the Willett lumber moll, on Belie river, Ontario, and shorily after the buildings were found to be in flames, burning to the ground before the fire could be checked. The watch- man at Van Allea’s, another mill on the beach, about three hundred yards down the river from the Willett mill, on seeing the flames thought they came from his house, and went there to save his goods. While one flames broke out in the buildings watched over y him, irst appearing on the side furthest from the Willett mill, and they too were totally destroyed. ‘h mill, with machinery and stock, cost about 000, and there was no insurance save two poll- 1e8 of $1,000 each on the Willett mill. pe On examining the still burning ruins of the latter mill the charred and partly destroyed bodies of Mr. Van Orden, one of its owners, his wife and grand- son were found. Mr. Van Orden’s age was about sixty years, his wife's about fifty and the grandson was seventeen years old. Beside the wi found Mr. Van Orden’s gold watch, @ locket belong- P| to his wife, a small piece of gold and a five bar- relled Coit’s revolver, The revolver is strai to all the people thereabouts and ts not Van ‘orden's, for his is known to have been a six shooter. Leda oye anes = two pistol shote— one ree, another four—were heard coming from the mill ‘occupied by the family as their house, and when the flames a red it was in an entirely different part of the ‘mut |, at least ‘an Orden’s room. fifty feet from V: deceased been for some time in ow ts e 3 eat but ra their postness alley Mave i Fae “F petiel NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNHSDAY TEMBER 2, 1868.—1KIPLE SHEKY. » H : WASHINGTON THE TREASURY DEADLOCK. The Commissioner and the Secretary in a Wordy Discussion. NEW TREATY WITH NICARAGUA. The Transit Route to be Free to the United States. Movements of Our Foreign Squadrons. PIRACY IN THE CHINESE SEAS WAsnineTon, Sept. 1, 1868. Increase of the Public Debt. It is estimated that the forthcoming public debt ‘statement will show an increase of several millions— _ probably five or six millions, The disbursements during August on account of the War Department expenses have been very heavy, which, taken with the Alaska payment and disbursements on account of the public debt and other accounts, will swell the total. Interview Between Secretary McCulloch and Commissioner Rollins, ‘The promised interview between Secretary MeCul- loch and Commissioner Rollins, from which a legion of ofice seekers have been drawing large draughts of hope, was held to-day. The conversation at the meeting would probably be more appropriately de- scribed by calling it a discussion rather than an in- terview, for the whole time was consumed in argu- ing the justice and propriety of deciding the dis- puted question in exact accordance with the wishes of each other. Nothing was accomplished in the way of appointment, but the result of the discussion is that the Secretary and Commissioner will meet daily if possible, or at all events as often as their other oficial duties will permit, for the purpose of continuing the discussion. The name of each man nominated by the Commissioner will then be taken up in regular order, and his merits and deseris canvassed, ‘Thus it 1s supposed that several of those already nominated will be rejected, and others agreed upon who are more acceptable to the Secretary. Whether the list of Supervisors who shall be appointed at these meetings will contain a majority of democrats or republicans seems to rest altogether upon the earnestness and persiatence with which either of the oficial advocates shalt present the claims of his favorites. One thing, how- ever, is very ciear, which is that the whole number of Supervisors cannot be agreed upon within the present week, as the warmth of the contention over each name will necessarily restrict the number ap- pointed to one or two at each interview. Incousistency of Commissioner Rollins in De- ciding Revenue Law Points. It has been several times stated that the President, becoming somewhat impatient at the unreasonable Jength of time consumed by Mr. Rollins tn his efforts to find a successor sultable to himself, has been col- Jecting the odds and ends of charges and complaints made from time to time against Mr. Rollins and his subordinates, and is engaged in putting them to- gether, It is understood now that the President has an “ugly rod in pickle’ for the obdurate Commis- sioner, and among the mysterious matters on file waiting to ve explained away 1s the following account of Mr. Rollins’ decisions on revenue law points, Messrs. Swift & Courtney, match manufac- turers in Wilmington, Del., wrote to the Com- missioner inquiring in regard to the legality of their method of stamping matches, to which the Com- missioner gave the following reply:— TREASURY DErAnrMENt, OFFICE OF INTERNAL REVENUE, WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 1567. GENTLEMEN—Your letter of the 20th inst. ha received, in which you state that friction mat are put up in boxes holding leas than dfty mat each, and that two such boxes are glued together and stamped with @ one centistamp pul on where the boxes are joined together, so that one stamp only 1s amixed to both boxes, aud you inquire if matches thus put up and. stamped are properly and lawfully stamped? In answer I have to say that the law re- quires that there shall be piaced on every parcel or package of friction matches containing one hundred matches or leas @ one cent stamp, and where the arcel or ‘age contains more than one nndred not more two bundred matches a two cent stamp, and for every additional one hundred or fractional part thereof an addit one cent stamp. The iaw in this re- spect is plain and explicit. The stamp must be put upon each parcel or package, no matter what num- ber it contains, whether more than one hundred or leas. The practice of glueing together two or more single percela or packages does not make a single parcel or package, but a bundle of parcels or pack- ages, and the law requires that each parcel or pack- age of such bundle shall be stamped. The stamp is to be affixed to the parcel or package, and the law defines what the value of the stamp shall be, ated according to the number of matche: therein, when such number exceeds hun- dred. Matches put up in boxes in the manner described by you, and the boxes giued together, with but a single one cent stamp so attached as to partly cover diferent parcels or packages, are uot properly stamped a# provided by jaw; and any pariy who manvifactures and sella, exposes for sale, sends out, removes or delivers matches put up and stamped in the manner described is liable to the penalty imposed by the 213th paragraph, compiled edition of the in- ternal Revenue law, for evading a part of the duty chargeable apon such matches. And any person who offers or exposes for sale matcles thus impro- perly stamped is subject to all the duties, labilities and penalties imposed by law on domestic articles sold without the use of the proper stamp or stanyps denoting the taxes paid thereon, under paragrapt 210, compiled edition of the Internal Revenue law. Yours respectful E. A. ROLLINS, Commissioner of Luternal Revenue, This firm, Onding (hat the Star Match Company, of been Portland, Me, was putting up and stamping matc in precisely the same manner they tuem- selves had been doing, catied the attention of the Commissioner to the fact. Upon the reception of this information the Commisstoner ordered the seigure of the goods thus put ap and sent out from the Star Company. The company then employed a brother of Commissioner Rollins, who practices law in Portland, to proceed to Wasuington and defend the company from the charge of fraud. The visit of Rollins, the attorney, resulted in the following letter to the Star Company:— TREASURY DEPARTMENT, ) OFFICE OF INTERNAL REV WASHINGTON, April 24, 1% ) Sin—Upon the verbal representations w: vy you to this office relative to your mode of putting up and stamping matches Tam satisfled that you honestly entertained the belief that you were sully complying with the requirements of the’ law when you nad affixed a one cent stamp upon every one hundred matches, though the same were packed in two boxes giued together, each containing Ofty or leas matches. This mode of putting up, or rather of stamping, is deemed and held to be insufficient. Nevertheless, aa there was no intentional fraud in this case, but merely a misapprehension of the requirements of the law, [shall order @ release of the matches which have been seized and allow the sale of the matches which have passed out of the possession of tie com- pany, Without requiring any additional stamps to be aftixed and without rendering parties holding these “ matches liable to a fines, penalties or forfeitures on account of such sale and exposure. The com to make use of this letter in any way which their in in the sale of their matches already put upon the market may demand. Respectfully yours, E. A, ROLLINS, Commissioner. J. BE, FRRNALD, general agent Star Match Com- pauy, Portland, Me, Supervisor for New York City. Commissioner Rollins has recommended to the Secretary of the Treasury, for appointment, Spencer Kirby aa Supervisor under the new Internal Reve- nue law for New York city; but the Presi ie tn favor of General T. W. Eagen for New Trade Regulations and San Francisco. — It is understood that the Treasury will to-morrow issue new regulations eoncerning the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific coasta. The principal object is to prevent smuggling, which has grown to an enormous extent since the adoption of our present internal revenue system. Special agents, with a Corns of Sasistonte will he stationed at Waw York ‘ork 3 and San Francieco, with suthority to examine all | they destred the pirates shut the captain of tho bark paekages, which must previously have been corded and sealed and manifested. Warehouses will be established at New York and San Francisco for the storage of goods under seizure, and our custom officers now on the isthmus by permission of the New Granadian authorities will be withdrawn. Colonel L. B, Grigsby will have charge of the main office at New York, and B. C. Coden, of New York, will exercise similar functions at San Francisco, It is thought the new system will save many thousands of dollars, The New Treaty With Nicaragua—Important Advantages Secured. The President has issued his proclamation an- nouncing the ratification of the treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between the United States and the republic of Nicaragua. There ts to be a re- cfprocal freedom of commerce; but by this the privi- lege of carrying on the coasting trade is not under- stood. Among other provisions, the republic of Nicaragua grants to the United States, and to their citizens and property, the right of transit between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, through the territory of that republic, on any route of communication, matural or artificial, by land or by water, which may now or hereafter exist or be constructed under the authority of Nicaragua, to be used and epjoyed in the same manner and upon equal terms by both republics and their respective citizens, the republic of Nicaragua, however, reserving the rignts of sovereignty over the same, The United States agree to extend their protection to all such routes of communication as aforesaid and to guarantee the neutrality and innocent use of the same, Tiley also agree to employ their influence with other nations to induce them to guarantee such neutrality and pro- tection; and the republic of Nicaragua on its part undertakes to establish one free port at each ex- tremity of one of the aforesaid routes of communica- tion between the Atlantic and Pacifle Oceans, At these ports no tonnage or other duties shall be im- Posed or levied by the government of Nicaragua on the vessels of the United States or on any effects or merchandise belonging to citizens or subjects of the United States or upon the vessels or effects of any other country intended bona de for transit across the said routes of communication, and not for consumption within the republic of Nicaragua. ‘The United States shail also be at liberty, on giving uotice to the government or authorities of Nicara- gua, to carry troops and munitions of war in their own vessels of otherwise to either of said free ports, aud shail be entitled to their conveyance between ‘and bie men into the coal locker forward, and clos- ing the hatch put on the sheet anchor and cliain, aiter which they scuttled the ship, stove the boat and sailed away, intending that all hauds shoald vo down with the sinking ship, The captain and fils crew managed to break out and get ashore, leaving the Chinese passengers to their fate. The who'e history of this case, says Commander Cushing, ix one of disgraceful cowardice, and he was glad io find there was no American in the crew. Com- mander Cushing after a long cruise failed to tnd any of the pirates, and in obedience to orders sailed for Yokohama, Waiting Orders—Resignation. Commodore C. 8, Bogzs has been detached from the command of the De Soto and placed on wait- ing orders, Paymaster George Plunket, of the United States Navy, has resigned. Business of the Pension OMce During August. ‘The report of the Pension Onice shows that the whole number of claims received during the month of August, 1868, original and increase of widows, &c., was 1,164; of invalids, 34; total, 1,098. Number of claims admitted, 1,636; original and tnerease of widows and invalids, .671; total, 2,’ Nuinber of claims rejected, original am! incr &c., 183; of invalids, 183; total, 366, Number of cases disposed of during the month, widows, &c., 1,819; of invalids, 854; total, 2,673. Returns on review, widows and invalids, 339, Letters written, 5,013; circulars sent, 12,364, Clalins awaiting evidence irom depart- ments, 1, sims awa'ting evidence from clain- ants, 50,2 sk, original and inerease of widows, &c., 35,882; of invalids, 20,715: total, 56,147, Army Assignments. Brevet Brigadier Genera Baird and Brevet uri dier General Nelson U, Davis have been place snbdject to the orders of General Sherman, for asi, ment to duty as Assistant Insyectors General in the Department of Missouri, Statistics of Iumigration=Decrease During the Lust Year. The Director of the Burean of Statistics furnishes the following information relative tot! immigra- tion to (he United states during the fisea! year ending $a 0, 1 Total nu 3 of which 44 ber of passen's ed, citizens of the United States and 6,126 were foreigners not intending to re- main in the Untted States, leaving the uctuat faii- grants 273,657. These immigration returns, com pared with those of 166 aud 1s wi them without obstruction by said government or authorities and without any charges or toils what- ever for their transportation on either of said routes, provided said troops and munitions of war are not Intended to be employed against Central American nations friendly to aragua; and no higher or other charges or tolls shall be imposed on the con- veyance or transit of persons and froperty of citizens or subjects of the United States or of any other country across the said routes of communication than are or may be imposed on the persons and property of citizens of Nicaragua. And the republic of Nicaragua concedes the right of the Postmaster General of the United States to enter into contracts with any individuals or companies to transport the mails of the United States along the sald routes of communication, or along any other Toutes across the isthmus in its discretion, in closed bags, the contents of which may n&t be intended for distribution within the sald republic, free from the imposition of all taxes or duties by the government of Nicaragua; but this liberty is not to be construed so as to permit such individuals or companies, by virtue of this right to transport the mails, to carry also passengers or freight, And it is further agreed and understood that in any grants or contracts which may hereafter be made or entered into by the government of Nicaragua, having reference to the inter-oceanic routes aboye referred to, or either of them, the rights and privileges granted by this treaty to the government and citizens of the United States shall be fully protected and reserved, and if any sach grants or contracts now exist of a valid character, it is Turther understood that the guarantee and protec- tion of the United States, stipulated in this treaty, shall be held inoperative and void until the holders of such grants and contracts shall recognize the con- ceasions made in this treaty to the government and citizens of the United States with respect to such inter-oceanic routes or either of them, and shali agree to observe and be governed by these conces- sions as fully as if they had been embraced in their original grants or contracts, after which recognition and agreement said guarantee and protection shall be in full force, providing that nothing herein con- tained shall be construed either to amirm or deny the validity of said contracts, Naval IntelligenceLocation ef the European Squadron, Kear Admiral Farragut reports to the Navy De- partment in @ letter dated of Syria, August 4, tho following report of the distribution of vessels be- longing to the European Squadron:—The flagship Franklin off Syma, on her way to Smyrna; the Ca- nandaigua on a cruise to various ports on the Irish coast; the Ticonderoga on a cruise to porta on the coast of France: the Swatara on @ cruise; when last heard from she was at Cherbourg, where her captain had been authorized to dock his vessel for repairs to tho rudder; the Frolic, off Syria, on the way to Con- stautinople. The Guard was on her way to the United States, having leit Civtta Vecchia about the middle of Jui. Celebration of the Fourth of July in Japan. Rear Admiral S&C. Rowan, commanding the Asiatic squadron, informs the Navy Department, from the flagship Piscatuqua, at Yokohama, July 24, of the celebration of the Fourth at that port on ail the United States ships, with all the foreign ships of war in the harbor participating. The Japanese au- thorities on shore also joined in the celebration and fired a Salute from their fort in Kanagawa, hoisting the American flag in place of the Japanese tug during the salute. Distribation of the Asintic Squadron, Another communication from Rear Admiral Rowan, dated Yokohama, July 1, makes the foliow- ing report of the distribution of vessels belonging to the Asiatic squadron:—The Piscataqua left Hong Kong June 8 for Nort at Yokohama on Juno n Ching and Japan, arriving The store and hospital ship Idaho is stationed at Nagasaki. The Thenandoah was wnder orders to proceed to Yokohama. The Oneida Was still stationed in the inland seas of Ja- pon, With headquarters at Hiogo and ¢ a. The Iroquois was still at Yokohama. The Monocacy had left Yokohama, and was stationed at Shanghae, having relieved the Shenandoah. The Ashuelot left Nagasakion the i7th of Jy and was ordered to Tientsin for the protection of American interests in that place. The Aroostook is still cruising on her station, which comprises the ports of Amoy and Toochow, the intermediate coast and the Istand ot ‘The Vnadilla is sull engaged tneduties at ahe re. Formosa, Bankok, will retarn to turned with the Siam, upon completing which Hong Kong. the Maumee Commander-in-Chief from © ton to Houg Kong on the Sth of June, On the 10th of that month she left Hong Kong to co-operate with one of the English gunboata in searching for a feet of piratical vessels tn the viciitity. She is ordered to leave for Yokahama on the 10th of June, The Onwarl was at Yokohama ‘under orders to proceed to San Francisco as soon ag the surpina volunteers within reach could be cot- lected and put en board, and also a few invalid sea- men. A Bremen Burk Captured by Chinese Pi- rates=Disgracetul Cowardice of Her Crew. The Department has also despatches from Lieu- tenant Commander Cushing, commanding the United States ship Maumee, dated Yokohama, Japan, July 12, announcing that he had found at Hol-how ten Europeans, comprising the crew of the Bremen bark Leemona, which had been captured by pirates two weeks befote within sight of the east coast of Hai-nan, The Leemona had ten able bodied white men and 4 number of Chinese passengers. She was armed with two cannon and «@ number of breach loading rifes, revolvers, 4c, and yet was captured after a short chase by a junk carrying but two guns and a crew of twenty Chinamen. The Europeans did uot defend chemseives by @ single shot, hat surrendered in the most cowardly manner, and were actually set to work breaking out the cargo for transferto the junk. Lieutenant Commander Cushing thinks each acase an encouragement to piracy and «oes not doudt it Will toad ta it6 all falling off during tie fiscal year just clos eal year 1866, total number arrived, al Year 1866, actual immigrants: al year 1867, total number acri al Year 1867, actual immigrant al Year 1N68, total number arrived. Fiscal year 1868, actual immigrants. American Vessels Visiting Turkish Ports. Secretary Seward sends to the Treasury Depart- ment a note from Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister, in response to a request from the State Department, giving information relative to the formalities re- quired by merchant vessels from American ports to those of the Ottoman empire. The communication encloses a letter from the Consul General of the Sub- lime Porte at New York designating the following charges, viz.:—For vising bills of health, 15 pinstres; for clearance, 25 plastres. CITY POLITICS. Political Gathering of Germans—Bedterd Ahead. ‘The question of the City Judgeship has been agi- tated for some time. if properly managed the man nominated by Tammany fs sure of an election, for it is useless to deny the numerical superiority of the Tammany organization over all others combined, and espectally since the “Big Judge” has buried te tomahawk and has gone in with his old cnemies. And yet they may be beaten, That case may occur when they, in their nominations, ran counter to the expressed and determined will of the people, and if that popular determination be pointing one way and the wirepullers of Tammany attempt to turn it the other way, itis natural to suppose that the most numerical party in the contest, the “people, will and must-win, Hence the movement begun spontaneously in favor of Gunning %. Bedford as the next candidate for City Judge gains supporters, and last evening number of German citizens assembled at 228 Third street, known a8 Bavaria or Deinocratic Hall, to consult together about the nomination for this par- ticular oflice. A photograph of Mr. Bedford, which was brought them, was greeted with coeers, and tt Was fastened to the wall before any one knew what the man was ahont, when on being disclosed for a secontl time cheers were s#gain given for the candidate whom they wished, Mr. Louis Kurz wi the meeting having been called to order, elected President and Mr. C. F. Klenck Secretary. Resolutions were then passed in favor of Horatio Seymour and F, P. Bialr, Jr., in favor of Hoifman for Governor, and especially in favor of Gunning 8. Bedford, Jr., for Cty Judye. These re- solutions were unan'mousiy and amid deaientug cheers adopted. Alderman Repper, Judge rus, Major Sauer and others made extended speeches, advocating the support of Seymour and lair, but in- sisting forcibly upon the true execution of the old maxim, that “justice” should be “tempered with me: M 7,” which was done in numerous instances by ford, as Assistant District Attorne; They, fore, 80 it 18 saui in their resolutivn, call upe every member to urge the nomination of Mr. ford for that office, and it would be folly to deny that a large number of Gesmans are of the caue opinion. Sixth Senatorial District Germans. At No, 114 Third street, near avenue A, the organ- ization of the Sixth Senatorial district, composed of Germans, met iast evening, Mr. Conrad Stein pre- siding. Several speeches were made, bot ao further acuiou taken tn regard to local ouices, oocause most of the members were absent at Albany. The Radical Soldiers and Sailors. The Radical Soldiers and Satlors’ Executive Com- mittee met at the Astor House yesterday, Vreseat— Chairman, General H. A, Barnum; Secretary, General N. P. Chipman; members, General J, Stannard, Vermon 1A. W. Davison, Maryland; General sy Vania; Generai J. br. Russing, ; Colonel Hira Appicwwon, Connecti MW. Grinshaw, Delaware, and several prominent soldiers from the neighboring States. A grand mass inveting of the radical suidiers and sailors was fixed upon at an early day, WESTCHEST:R COUNTY POLITICS. The democratic mass Organization of New Ji Colonel sting and banuer raising at Tremont, which were to have taken place on Monday, were postpe until next Monday, The democrats of kastchester expect to have a grand lime on Saturday evening next at Washing- fon Hall, Mount Vern A benoer will be raised aud speeches made by several gen teutea. ‘The republicans of Morrisania, Melrose; Mott Haven ant North New York are to assemble ab Mel- rose on Thursday eventug next, Several gentlemen of ability are to speak. LABOR MOVEMENTS. The Operative Plasterers. This society held their bi-monthly meeting iast evening at the Demilt Dispensary, corner of Twenty- third street and Second avenue. The business transacted was merely the admission of members and the consideration of various reports, lowing the election of ten gentiemen the Executive Commit- tee rep the society in its relation with the ention, and alter a debate of but little interest, only noticeable because of its ob- Jectionable features, the report was unanimously “a ted, ‘he treasurer's report was read, when it appeared that there had been received during we manne of daly and August $1,300, and frow contributions $985, making a total of $1,655. ‘The expenditure: Pricey | several loans, were $1,654 34, ‘eaving balance in the treasury of seventy-six cents, The was but little else of interest transacted, and the society adjourned with cheers for their organization, Practical Engineers. A meeting of the practical engineers of New York Was held last evening at the Cooper Inatitute, the President, Mr. James A. Whitney, in the chair. Previous to the opening of the regular busiuess of the evening a member exhibited a specimen of bell metal for which he cialmed superiority over any at Present used by manufacturers. It contains one- sixteenth of an alloy and changes ordinary cast fron into sonorous metal. The cost is one-tenth less than that of the cesinery, bronze vsed in the manufacture of bells and dies, When the imen @X- zen had heaie — ong 9 Secretary ir, Joseph A. 5 ead @ paper written by Dr. ©. F. Jenney, on the best m of cleansing and disinfecting the streets of the met is. The fn ‘einborate devence of the and an elal ; ‘Water ranni the ri across town to whie jose COU De attached, and steam eugliies at the wharves to supply the forcing power, were recommended as the best possible means of cleansing the city thoroughly. Pr. Hall also read a paper on | the subject of disinfecting compounds, and @ din- | v inferesting nature tolowed. cussion of a ve