The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1869, Page 8

8 BROOKLYN CITY. THE cocRTs. ED STATES “OMMSS ONER'S couRT. Another Tobacco Manufacturer in Tro Before Commissioner Jones. le. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. _ Jersey City. A Por Set Uron BY KovouS.—Peter Hanson, who is In charge of the yacht Jennie, wes attacked yesterday morning by John Scott, David Graham and ‘The raid ou tovacco manufacturers eti!l continues | Henry McCloskey, WHO, it 18 alleged, were detected in Yesterday morning israel C. Lawrence, who carries @o & Manufactory of tobacco in Delancey street, Akew York, but lives in this city, Was arrested on @ charge of not having paid the special ax. He was hei {a De sum of $2,500 to await €xauination oo ‘Tuesday vext. SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Deciatons By Judge Grivert. @eorge Halleck vs, Joseph Lover et a?.—Motion granted on payment of costs of action Leretofore Mcurred, and ten dollars costs of this motion and Sheriff's fees on execution. Jucgment to stand as Becurity. J P. Brown vs, Christina Brown, —JIudgment of @ivorce granted. We Rela Austin ve, Henry Austin,—Motion denied plantiit. Planum may renew motion on additional ev iene Same! L. Gardiner vi, Ebenezer J, White e! al.— De'endante enjoined from selling mortgaged prem- twa. Sherii! to sell. pursuant to judgment. BROOKLYN INPELLIGENOK, Tae HONTER’S POINT RAILROAD STRIKERS,—About @dozeu of the strikers.on the Hunter's Point and Prospect Parg Rafiroad were arraigued before Jus- tive Weich yesterday upon charges of riotous con- duet iw interiering wi'a the busineas of the com- Ppavy. The exXuiaina ion was set down jor toway, SrasbIny.—badward Brown and Jonn Woods cot mo & quarrel Opposite No, 201 Navy street, ata kate nour on Monday night, when the former drew a@hknifeand stabbed the latter in the sde, infiicting @serious Wound, Browa was arrested and held to Wali uut.l saturday, when the case will be tried. SEROUS ACCIDENT.—Yesterday morning, as a ley, med Mrs, Lynch was stepping {rom the pia‘form @f one of ihe Myrtie ave ars, her dress caught on some iron projection and she was turown vio- dently to the ground, by which she Sustaiued serious Kuuries, Sie was taken to the resideuce of ber 83 ter, near by, BuOOELYN MORTALITY.—The records at the ofice of the Loard of Health show the namber of deaths fa Brooklyn during the past week to have been 254, an iuerease o! 30 over the qwortuary of the previous week. Of tue deceased 20 Were men, 25 wou buys, aud 100 girls, Ihere were $6 deatus fram cholera Infantan, 12 frow,diarruvea, 9 from scarlet sever and Lo from weas GURGLARIE Mr. T, Greenwood’s residence in Marcy avenue, near Willouguby, Was vurgiarivusiy entered on Monday night and-robbed of $155 worth of prope: Tie residenee of Mr, John J, Perry, at No. 236 Carlton avenue, Was eutered by burglars on Monday migh!, who carried Oi $is¥ Worth of cluthing and silverware, Surrosep Svrciwe.—The body of an unknown man was found floating im the water at tue foot of Thirty-ninth street, Gowanus, yesterday. 11 is sup- posed the deceased committed suicide, irom the thal several iarge sloues Were found 1D lis pockets. He was a Geriuua, forty years of age. dve leet six Moches io height. He wore @ Manuel suirt, brown vest blue sack Cual aud gray panis, The body was Fewoved to tue dead house to await ideutidcauion, Favab Can ACCIDENT.—About one o'clock sester- @ay afternoon Catharine Graynor, a littie girl three years 0: age, residing at No. 16 Coles street, Soutn Brooklyn, Was run over aud instantly killed by car Ko. 39 of the Hatilton avenue line, ‘the bouy of Whe ciild Was iakeu to We home of its parents by @ficerJouuson, of the Forty-tnird precinct. The conductor aud driver of the car were arrested and held to await tue result of tne mvestigation of @oroner Jones. TNCENDIARY FIRE.—A stable in the rear of No. 2,001 Fulton avenue, owned by Thieman & Bahrans, and occupied vy T. J. Summers, was desiroyed by Gre avout hall-past ten o'clock on Monday night. Mr, Sucnmers lost two horses aud @ quantity of lay and feed valued in ali at $2,000. Insuied in the Com bxchauge insurance Company tor $1,500, Loss on stable 200. Mr. H. U. Adams Jost $300 Worth of Warket fixtures whicu he had stored in the piace. ‘le fire was the work of an incendiary, BURGLARS IN PLYMOUTH CHURCH—SERVICE TakeEN.—Burgiars got into Plymouth churen (Rev. Beury Ward #eecher’s) on Monday nignt and, no doubt, thougut they had got hold of a prize when Shey carried of the communion set, consisting of twenty-seven pieces, The set, however, 1s ouly @iiver plated aod of very Litie value. ‘The burgiars evidently mistook them for siiver, in which case the: Would fave been Worta carrying Of. The wuole set uly Cost $148 oriminaily, and, baving been in use some time, of course were not worth much as the present time. hey will be replaced bya silver set. ‘The thieves gained an entrance turoug the third wiudow on the west side of the church. INCBNDIARISM AT GREENPOINT—A ROPEWALK AND ‘Pwo DWELLINGS DESTROY ED.—The ropewalk of Jonn Debevoise, situated in Van Cott avenue, Greenpoint, ‘Was consumed by fire at an early hour yesterday morning, a8 were aiso two smail fraine dwellings @ijolulug. The ropewaik has veen closed up for geverai Weeks. but (he proprietor was avout resum- ing business when the occurred. It is believed Ubat tue fire was the work of an incendiary. The @weilings were owned and occupied by Messrs. P, Keily and Jonn White, whose joint joes is estimated at $1,000, The sum of $10,000 will scarcely cover the loss of bia aah by this fre. Mr. Debevoise was Fetal insured; but there was no insurance ou the jwelinge. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. he Proposed Excursion of the Seventh Regi- ment—Eatensive Preparations for Their Kee ception at Troy, Saratoga and Albany. Colonel Emmons Clark, oY the Seventh regiment, returned yesterday from @ visit to Albany, Troy and Saratoga, where he has been to make the Qnal ar- rangemegts with the municipal authorities of those Places, in respect to the excursion of tue Seventh regiment. The arrangements, as finally made, are materially diferent from those before agreed @pon, The programme, which will be strictly carried out, is as follows:—The regiment will Jeave this city on Wednesday evening, the 2ist inst., about seven o'clock, by the steamer City of Hartiord, Which has been specially chartered jor the use ol the regiment and a limited nuvaber of invited guesis. Grafuiia’s full band and the drum corps will accom- pany the regiment. Tue regiment will not goto Alhany direct, as @t first agreed upon, but wil proceed to Troy, where the visitors will be received by the Twenty-fourth regiment, Colonel steenvergi, and Paraie turough the principal streets of the city to the Court House, corner of Con- gress and Second streets, where the compliment of @ marching salute will be paid to Mayor Beach and the Common Council. After the parade the visitors wei be entertained at dinner and leave for Saratoga by special train at twenty minutes past one %. M., ufriving in Saratoga at three o'clock, .They will be Feceived on their arrival by the loeal mulida and a Comuittee of citizens and guests from Lhe lotels @ld escorted through the principal streets, On the March the honors of @ review will be accorded the President of the village, Mr. Waite. At haif-past six o'clock there will be a dress parade, alter wich the regiment will retara to us Quarters, the Union Hotei, were the grand vail in donor of the Seventh Will be held, Leginuiug at uine o'clock. The ball, for which the most extensive arrange- Meuts ure Making, will be one of the finest that has ever taken piace at Saratoga. The new valiroom ‘Will then be Lurown Open for the first time, and che Hotei grounds will be brilltanuy lummated during the entire night. The music will be by Gratutia’s f@nd the band of the bote! combined, making au orchestra of over one hundred p ¥ At nine o'clock on Friday morning the regiment ‘Will be reviewed by Governor Hoffman and stat, At eleven o'clock the visitors will leave ior Albauy, by pecial train, apa arrive al the Sute capital al one ¥.M. ip the aiternoon there will be # parade, and review by Mayor Bieecker, uader the escort of tuo Niovh brigade of the Natiouai Guard. At five v’clock there will be @ grand dinoer given to the Seventh vy the municipal auchorivies, at the Delavan Louse, gud at ulne o'clock they wil leave for this city, Which will be reached eariy On Saturday mourning. Sure oF A WELL KNOWN CITIZEN OF FLOR- ia.—Judge D. RK. Vunhaw, an vid and prominent cliizen of st. Augustine, committed suicide at that Place on Thuraday, the istinst. ie lef lis home uring the morning apparently as weil as usual, but Mot returning at his dinver hour bis sou weut to ‘Bis office to Bee What Was the cause of his absence @ud founu the oMce locked, After inquirtug at ther places he returned to the oMce, gained access Shrough 4 rear door, when he found his father lying ead On the Moor, snot through tne head. The pistol With which the fatal shot was fired waa stili in his Band. A note was found writter py the deceased Fequesting that his body should be conveyed from the office to the burial ground privately.—Jackson- Wile (Fia.) Union, July 5. FInst APPEARANCE THs Season oF THR BOSTON BAY 58A SEKPENT.—The pllot boat No. 4 saw the pea serpent on the evening of bn ? 4, off Cape Ann, ut tweive miles from here. He was from sixty gay feet in length, lifted himself wp out of the water @ good length and took things very coolly. It ‘was calm at the time, and those in the boat are sure that it was a T egp id monster of the serpent echod—a Phe ic specimen, perhaps. The old Salta Who saw it believe it a living thing, but vave Feirained from reportiig the same lest jt might be | w dai rd the Siaasea erFfaud anya among fap stories.—Boson Post, July 13, the act of sleaing some articies of furniture (rom the yacat. They bad been indulging In “mountain dew" during the night on the bo Scott, tt is fur- ther alleged, drew a kulle and atcempted to slab Han- son, ihe prisouers were heid wo bali by Justice Cuamoers. Tue CeNPRAL RAILROAD NvtSance.—The com- mittee appointed at the indignatiun meeting two weeks ago to confer with the Central Railroad author'ties in regard to the pet at J of garbage on the borders of the Sit, report thut they bad an tu- lecview with the acting present oi ihe railroad, WhO promised tbat disiniec'ants wonla be used ib orser to destroy the siench arising from the garbage. ‘The committee visited the locality coiu- piained of, and so Loiwome Was the steneb that they Were obliged to make their visit very brief. The comimitiee conviude by’ cailiag on the Common Jouucii of Jersey City to luke acuion even at the eleventh our u they Would save the city from pests- lenee, ANNUAL EXWIBITION at St, PeTER’s ScHOOL.— Grand Street Hall was the seeue of avother scnul- actio eximbiuion yesterday. The annua dis- tribution of premums to tne pupils St. Peier’s school, im charge of the bis! of Charity, toox place im preseuce of several clergymen aud the frieuus and relatives Of the cuitldren, The programme was carried oul Sauisfactorily, especialy ta? dialogue * jelity to a Masier,” by J. Kyau and T, Kelly. The euiluren, Who were neatly aivred, demeaned themselves in @ most edifying Manner aud suowed by their com portment thav uple and precept combined are tie most desirable quaiilications im leaguers wie Would wake religion tue basis of educauoa, a8 tie Good dIsters do. Bergen City. Tor Mosnis Cavan BaipeR at Communipaw ave- nue is such a rickesy conditiod that tae Common ve at taken up the complainis of the yacshou Wil De the suoyect of debate Counc ettizen ut T has been 80 far abated that the committee report there 18 no fartier jusi ground ol complatnt. They fouud that the charges made ag. wockyard Company were of wo iniyolous 0 entertain them, jon ELilt, RIOTING aT A Picntc.—The North Hoboken Be- nevolenut Association of Gertnans held their annual picnic on Monday. The festivities had hardly com- menced when a fight took place, ani many retreated from the field with bruised Geads aal buckened eye: Through the intervention of tue meiubers of the committee qitet Was restored, bat the picmie finaly broke up in a bght, which uined larger propor- tions than the tirst 01 Several arcests were made and the prisoners wil! be brought up for examina- hon ths worgime betore Juslices Weuschelier aud Reinhardt, ° Newark. COMMERCIAL.—The Board of Trade heid a meeting on Monday eveuing, when Colunel G, N. Abeel, the Secretary, sentin bis resignation. It was accepted and Colonel R.S, Swords appolnted in hus s' A communication from the secretary of the Inver: asking for general iniory Was read, ‘the Boara a velober. ANOTHER PROBADLE HOwuicrpe.—Four or five days ago a boy named Joseph Rieder was discovered lying on the sidewaik near Baier’s brewery in a state of unconsciousness, He was removed to the station house. After remaining there two days he was taken home to his iather’s house, No. 36 Richmond street. It now appears that he’ has been toully beaten and is sick nigh unto death, so. that the attending physi clan has notified the county plyetcian, who will hold an ante-mortem examina- tion to-day. ACADEMY COMMENCEMENT.—The second annual distrivution of prizes, otherwise cailed Commence- ment, of St. Mary’s Academy, in this city, took place yesterday, in the nail of the Catholic Inst late, On New street, in presence of quite a large aitendance. The exercises, which consisied of chotce selected musical and literary picces, were well executed and to the eutire satisfaction o all present. ‘The first honor, a handsome gold medal, presented by Fatner Hickey, of Orange, was awarded to Miss Lizzie Quigley. Miss Hannah Me Nair, a fair rhetorician, carried off the white rose. Amon: the “clergy present were Fathers Doone, Riley, and Dr. jarvey, Sgriovs FaMILy DistURBANCE.—Yesterday about noon a serious disturbance took place in the house of Mr. James Galbraith, a floriat, on Higa street, in tae course of which @ son of his was shot and one or two others reriously injured. It seems Galbraith has not been living with bis wife lately, but having — effected @ reconciliation he was removing hig furniture home yesterday when some of the rising generation of Galbraith evinced decided opposition. Hence the row. The excite- ment that ensued communicated to the ueigibors, who managed to keep things from assuming a dangerous aspect in the couunued absence of the police. Trenton. CovrT OF ERRORS AND APTRALS.—In this court yesterday opiaions were delivered on the cases argued during the June term, but, as an unusual circumstance, they were invariably of an uninteresting character. In the ca:es of the Raritan Water Power Company vs. Thomas Hope and Thomas Hope vs. the Raritan Wa- ter Power Company, the only important ones argued Guring the term, opinions were reserved til! the next term, to enable the court to properly confer on the importance of the question involved. The court ad- journed for the term 1n the afternoon after a session of seven weeks, Unirep States DisTRicT Court.—In this court yesterday William Brown, of Philadelphia, who pleaded guilty to having passed a counterfeit na- Hlomal currency note of the denomination of ten wollara, was sentenced to ive years’ hard jr in the State Prison. In the case of aries Evers, of Hudsoa City, who haa pre. viously pleaded non vult to an indictment for selling 5,000 unstamped cigars, prisoner's counsel Said that bis clent was tectinically guilty, but that there Was no intention on his part to Violate the law. Alter relating the circumstances of the case in support of the defendani’s real innocence, the District Attorney said be was not scquainted with tue facts, The Court said if what was advanced by the desendant’s counsel was true the detectives were the guuty party. le Court consented to post- pone the case for two Weeks to give tbe District At- sorney @0 Opportunity of ascertaining the true state of aifairs, or ation about New Jersey journed till the m.duie of THE VANDEAVEER WILL CASE. ion by the Chancellor—He Decides the Will Valid. Chancellor Zapriskte, sitting as Surrogate General in the Prerogative Court at Trenton, yester- day pronowuced his opinion in thia long. contested and interesting case, A large number of the most promment Jawyers of the State were present and much interest was menifested to hear the Chancellor's decree, br. Heury Vanderveer was a man of ninety years of age aud resided on his estate, called Vanderstad, near Somerville, in his last will and testament, waich was framed about three years prior to his death, be bequeathed 4@li his property—vaiued at $300,000—to the Rev. Dr. Corneil in trust, to spend ail its income at his «fiscretion in improving nis ( Vanderveer's) family estate, with power to em- ploy whosoever he maigit cavose to ald him, and to pay the balance to ove of tue testator’ neplews during hus life. If this nephew Jett issue surviving him tue eésiate was io go to them; If mot un iv went in fee to the trusiee’s son, Frederick, dhe will was disputed on the ground of fraud on the part of the trustee, Dr. Cornell, aud the draugutsian of the will who Was Frederick, @ partuer in business. It was con- tended that at the time the instrument in question Was executed the testator was Of unsound mind, io addMion ty being blind and deaf, and consequeatiy Unable to devise or compreiend the conditions of the Will, Which immediately went into the hands of Dr. Cornell aad reiuaived in hig possession till after the testavor’s death. Alter reviewing und commenting on the voluminous testimony taken in the case the Chancellor considered there was abundance of proof of the capacity of Mr. Vanderveer be(ore and after the execution of the will, He iived three years after ‘he instrument was framed, The Chancellor thought bis sight Was 80 delective a8 to prevent lis seeing the will, but it was clear he was now deaf, ‘The Chaucelior also maintained that there Was No proof of an undue exercise of infuence over him by Dr. Cornell, Where a testator ia blind he inust Know the contents of a will beiore it 14 signed, This Will Was read over in the testator’s presence. He Was 4 man of education and inteligence and physician by profession. He inherited ove part of the estate from bis father and the rest he purchased from tis uncle. He always manifested @ wish to reser it in hig diood and famiiy, to keep it in the Vanderveer name, yet this will jeaves ail the estate to Dr. Cornell, during hia life. Mr. Van- derveer died @ bachelor. His family servants, for. Merly his slaves, were provided for in other wills, Dut not in this. It is exceedingiy dimeuit, though not eee believe be made the provisions wet fort the will, A large proporiion of the wit- nessesareo{ undisputed character. Dr. Cornell is a man of good reputation. He is the son of a clergyman, and hia brother and brother-in-law are clergymen. A pure and elevated character ia thus guaranteed to him by his family, Yetif te will is rejected the veracity and character of Dr. Corneil and White are compromised. After descanting on the probabilities and possibilities of the uature of the testimony the Chancellor said be did not feel at ioerty dence of Cornell and no be Dec White, 1t was poesthte or probable. The Chancellor dis- approved of the introduction into New Jersey of the law as pracused in New York ani Engiand, where one part of a will cau be admitied to pro- oate if the other be rejected, He thereiore felt con- wirained, alter a care(ul siudy of the case, to admit the will to probate entire, The Chancellor conciaaed @ long and aile document by remarking that since tits case caine inte court a law had been passed which gives the power of an appeal from his decision to the Court of Errors and Ajpeais, where, 1 his ruling be aot sustained. the New York statute cau be adopted by @ majority of the meubers ud that court and part of will adinitted to probate, LONG ISLAND. Coroner’s Inqucat in the Whitestone Homi. cide Case, ‘The investigation into the cause of the death of James J. Doyie, of Whitestone, alleged to have been killed by a party of Wilietv’s Point soldiers, was re- sumed yesterday by Coroner Hieka, of Hlusing. The case occ: pie} a greater portion of the day, and at the coaciasion a sligat demurrer was evident on the part of oue or iwo of the jurors as w a decision, owng to the great amount of coafhicting testimony adduced, ihe most ma- terial testimony was tat of @ soldier named Thomas Lunn, of Company ©, who tetifed tuat be saw a fellow soldier, bamed Michae! Mo\e- han, throw the stone which ts supposed to have fractnrea the skull of Doyle, b owas ity tempted to prove that the assault was pro- voked by @ nuuiber ui citizeus who preseniod pistols at the souliers; but @ literat faiiure was the resu't. The jury finally agreed upon a verdict to the eitect that “the deceased Caine to its death frou airacture of the skuil, caused by @ stone at the hands of Miehvel McMahan.” The latter, ultioaga not aumitiug his guilt, Was not disposed to invKe an absotute denial. Corocer ticks arderet lum to be remanded, aud cousiable James W. Smith conveyed him to te common jail of Quesos couniy. ‘fie Coroner repriaaaded aif Confederates very Severmy, tehiug tacin also that tiey woud be required as witnesses wuen the Grand Jury (ook eounizance of the ca They prowised » ‘ally ueve barbance in the neigivoriood, MeMaban Aas bc four years in the ary, is about CWealy-four yoars of ace, and was iorweriy a resideut of Vorlauc, Mate, We wo ywsit Whitestone again, or cause apy cd EST/R COUNLY. WESTC DEArH OF A VALUABLE Horse.—A brood mare, worth $2,000, belunging to Veter Lorillard, with a foal about three months old, was Ou Sanday morn- mg being taken to Westchester, having been brougat the night oefore from Vougukeepsie, Wile passing througo Mott Haven te mare was so adfected by y heat that when led under ‘the shade of some ‘ecs Ou Concord street sie feli, and lay in intense agouy until Monday morning, when sie died. STABRING AvPRAY.— William Price, a youbg man living in Moit Haven, was arraigned before Justice Fuller, of Melrose, yesterday worning, on a charge of staobing Thomas Peacock in the faco with a knie, destroying the sigat of the lett eye, Both men were — vogecher vo Whittock’s Po.at, where @& dispute arose, aud the assault was committed, Peacock was auuble, trom his inary, to be present at Lue exain- uauoU LMS morniug, and Price Was remanded to “he pia defauit uf $1 POUGHKEEPSIE, WATER AND SEWERAGE.—The citizens of Pough- keepsie yesterday, at the largest special election ever held here, decided by a heavy majority to 1m- mediately .wtroduce water and sewerage into the city, Last night there was general rejuicing. salutes were tired, fireworks displayed aud the sireets were filiea with people. MATTERS AT . Remarkable Reports—Criminal Lack of Dis- ciplineAn Lustant and Tuorougb investiga- ton Needed, PouGHKEEPStE, July 13, 1869, The rapidly occurring escapes from Sing Sing Prison are commanding general attention and the people here are wondering at them. So often, in lact, do they occur that the matter has become a gerlous one and an immediate investigation 18 demanded. In the case of the escape of the convict cvuok on Sunday last peopie ask why that cook was in the agents’ house, Tue reference to tue case of the negro con: viet Peterson, in the HERALD a few days ago, does not haif teiFthe story of careless manazement, if all reports be true. A geutleman, who is looked upon 43 @ relble man in Sing Sing, and who resides in the littie village of Sparta, haif a mile from Sing Sing Prison, gives a very remarkable statement relative to the unhindered roaumiug of convicts to that village. He saya tat on Saturday night, the 3d ot Jaly, convicts were engaged in re- veiry in a drinking faloon in Sparta, aud yet sparta ia halt a mule from any guard house. He says that the notorious Jack Kanter, confined for the third time for forgery and counterfeiting, and who is aclerk in the main ailice of the prison, was \n Sparta on Sunday in the drinking saloon named, and that Kanter often frequents tie residence of @ Mr. William Bell, doing chores about the house. He 1s certain that Kanter was there on Monaay, the Stn of Juiy, as was also the negro con vict Peterson, commonly cailed George, who is in the habit of playing the banjo in the drinking saloon. ‘this George conveyed two bottles of wine to Bell's house on the 6th and then assisted tn drinking it. On the afternoon of the 6th @ fight iwok piace there between the convicts. During the méiée Mra, Kanter was knocked down, receiving o Diack eye. Aiter the row one of the prigon guards coaxed the negro to go back to his quarters, but he Would not. He said ne had a pass to stay as long as he had a mind to, He extmbited this pass to Charics Johnson, saying that he asked no favors of Netaon, the warden, ‘The pass was signed by Mr. Childs. the chief clerk of the prison. William Bell, of Sparta, states that le has see convicts going towards the prison, from Sparta, carrying iugs of ram with then and, fighting over them, the jugs being broken in the mélee. The entire commamty of sparta—a Place of about 400 inhabicants—is worried over the State Of atiairs there, and so great is the indignation thata lew propose to close up their houses and move away. NEWBUREG, . Sap Drownina Casvatty.—On Tuesday evening, at six O'clock, two lads, named respectively George ‘Turner and Charies Rodgers, the lauter the gon of the superintendent of the Newburg Alinshouse, were drowned while bathing in Dickson's pond in this culy. They were, with @ number of companioas, enjoying themselves in the sport, when young Kodgera got beyond his depth aud called for help. Turner was tue only one of the party who could swim and he at once weut to the rescue of Modgers. ‘The later in lis stragyles for life grasped Turner and actually drowned the chila by keeping him under water. When Turner had gone to the bol- tom hodgers rose once or tWice and tien sank, Soon aiterwarda the bodies were recovered, bul ail at- tempts to resuscitate them were im vain, The lade Were each of the age of ten years. A coroners in- quest Was heid aod a verdict of accidental drownlug rendered. LAST SUNDAY'S STOAM IN MASSACHUSETTS, Destructive Lightning. (From ihe Boston Post, July 13.) The elrctvic Suid appears to have ‘been unusually acuve duriug We abower oa Sunday alternooa. Tue house of a ir, Snilivan, oa hiaverick square, Chel- Sea, Was struck by lighbuing and sec on tire. ‘Tue electrical current traversed the chiuaney and struck sou of Mr. Sullivan, tweive years of age, Rilling Mo) instant ‘The passengers awaiting the train in tue Oid Colony station Ia this city were seized With paiic durtag the shower, the elecuric fuid enter- lug by tue Leleyraph wires aud Lung tue structure with @ dacciing yellowish light. The dwelling house of Captain George P. Clark, on Beacoa street, Newton Ceutre, was struck by hghtaing aad things were disturbed generally, Mra. Clark Was descend. ing the suits at Lue iuolent of concassion aud Was Made inseusivie for a suort ume, bab Boul recoV- ered. ‘Lie damage to the house amounted to abo $400. A large tree Was demolished om ile road be- tween Waterlown and Wailsam, and ® gebuenan Walking on the matu strect of the Last Maud Lowa felt 4 shock, but was agreeaty astonished, when he recovered, to ind thatthe on'y injury caused was to Lis apparel, Which Was somewhat reat, A louse on Fein street was damaged about $10. Fresh Pond Hotel, at Cambriige, wag struck by lightoing, which -passed down tne chimoey to the kitchen, striking a ketUe in the hands of the cook aul tunbliog Her upon the floor, and sbuualng other persons who Were in the kitchen at the Umue, he Hgntning en ithe front door of tue resi- lence of E. F. Low, in Longwood, m wa through toe bali aod iviuowed Peis. fA througo Ove of the rvows Lo the side door, where It passed out, The family, who were scattered through the house, were paruiaily stunned aad consideraviy fnghtened, but nove were hurt. The Urtmodox church, in Cobasset, was struck by lightatay ad damaged to the extent of $1,000. The same fash also shattered (he fagsial on tie prewies of Mr. Joho- The steepie of the cuurci was utterly demoal- ished. The woodwork of tue steepie caught dre, but was easily extinguished, although the Fire De- partment was caifed out. “fue cuurca waa struck at oa fortunate tue, when there was hot @ person —— TOR SKIXNER MoRDER IN On10.—Two more of the gp tein of Lewis Davis in the morder of David . Skinner, gear Cleveland, Ohio, were tenced last Friday. it may be remembered that last sutamn @ conspiracy was formed in Uleveland by Lewis Davis, Thomas Mulsall, Joo Kilfoyl @ad one or two others, to rov the house of Mr, Skinner, seve- ral miles from the city. During a fight that ens Mr. Skinner was shot and died soon after trom the effects of his wounds. The trial of the murderers attracted much attention all over the country, and though Muihall aud Kilifoyi were convicted they se- cured @ second trial. ‘This was closed last week and om Friday Judge Paine sentenced Mulhall to be WATERING PLACE NOITS. No gamblers at Newport, Lords by the whoiesale at Saratoga. ‘The first families of Boston have fed to their dear, exclusive Nabant. All Philadelphia seems to have emigrated to Cape May. ‘There is “more atyle” at Newport than other seaside resort m the country. Sevavor Trumbull 18 geing to Yosemite Valley, At the watering places ihe ladies attend church in short dresses and jockey hats. Seaside suits of striped percale are now al) the rage. ‘The Grecian bend is prevarling alarmingly at New- port. Horseback riding ts fashionable for ladies at the seaside and springs this season, Quaker City fashion is betier represented at Cape May than at Long Branch. ‘Ihurlow Weed and family are at Congress Hall, Saratoga Springs. Mrs. George Francis Train is probably the most elezantly dressed leader of the fon at Newport. Mr. George Peabody is at Newport, wiiere ue will Tewata jor some time, ‘ine Arabian bend will be the seashore freak, Morrissey keeps a livery aiable at saratoga, A trip srouna the worid is coming to be we fash- lonabie excursion, vie are Jewer boarders at the botels at Green- 1. L, Uni8 Seagon than usual. axon at ihe Tip Top House the number ssed the Might to see the sun rise averaged about six @ WItl be more this year, hey. Dr. Chapla will pass the summer at Pigeon Cove, Cape Ann, This has been lis vacation resoré for uiany years, dacixels of white flannel, trimmed by pinking, in- terined with back on edge, collur aud culls are Worn at the seaside. ‘she ladies at West Point are wearing ebony Watches, With lueir initials tn sliver on the back, excursioulsts from this ety over the Pacific Railroad arrived in saa francisco Ou Friday. “rlirtation Walk” at ©; lay is largely patron- ized, It ts uslke the “ioug walk,” told about by the autocrat. tivating capital—the helresses batiing at Long Branch. at any e Douglas Honge, at Cottage Grove, was asuntly opened jast nigat aad promises 10 be a C Jt cost about $0,000 and’ ias tifty-four rooms for guests, With special accomimodatious tor travellers, At Newport the ladies of fashion carry neat little velvet meuiorandul books for noting down ali en- gagements to ride, dance, or for excursions and pic- lic parties. At Narraganset the pretty Rhode Isiand giris sensibly perambaiate in suort pique suits, large straw hats, white pougee uibreilus, stout shoes wind gauatiet silk gloves. fhe President and family will leave Wednesday for Long Branch, ‘he Presideat will retura afer tea days’ absence, without his fa:nily, and wii determine his future movements accordiug to cir CUMISLALLCeS, You imay all talk about the seaside hat, but we envy the \adies’ possession of tei this hot Weather. General McViellun tatends to make a tour through Canaca and the Northwest during the summer, A party of four of the jeading young ciuzens of Troy start ona camplag expedition of a Corinigat’s dnration this morning. Chetaguay Lakels the ob- Jeetive point, Summer travel is beginning in good earnest and the scorchers that July wil give us ere tong will cause @ grand stampede for those sections where snot Weather 18 supposed to huid tue valance of power, ‘iss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. Gage are now at Congress Hall, Saratoga. A seaside hat of Enutish leghorn-+has a cluster of bluish roses on the ieit side, with # iong, wile scart of blue gauze @ t¢ Donna Maris, wuich can be wound around tie brim, velling the ace. Toe price of the hat is twenvy-five doilars. At Saratoga ap advauced female gulps five glasses of Congress water in quick succession Without any dificulty, aud auother autamnal creature absorbed four giusses and then remarked “sue would walk through the park belore driaking any more.’’ At ueariy ail the seaside hotels the marriageable ladies inv: bly wear jockey hais at breakiast. and frequently at ihe dinuer tuble, to hide their crimping bins. ‘The jauaty sailor collar is much worn by the young ladies at the seaside, and walking suits of but! linen are quite fasiiouabie. A writer on the wing tous sails inv fashionable foibles at Saratoga:— Of course everything is done tn “style” at the S| uw rain eoOd" woulety Here fou anert total ae fe; you mast waik in ‘style, talk In atyic, anit laugh in style; in other words, you must pe Abibg ‘oUt your own litte self, It will noi do to ve nu- aturaluess i un‘ashionable, We visited some of the principai hotels, and the most superb combinations of sottness and 6 and broadcloth, in the shape of men and wor tie aur piising What respectadie rottenness gathers at our fashion: ably watering places. It is an oulrageuua cel an the \.od of ure to find humanity ao bumteaed with cruel distortions, and all the beauty of naturaivess lost in the mannerisins of what is falaciy cailed good #. We make but little doubt that more than three-fo of the visitors at these fashionable resoria come not for recovery of health but to spread themselves in all the extravagauces of “high lire.” GHEAT CHANCERY CASE IN ILLINOIS, Tho Funk Trial. {From the Decatur ({il.) Magnet, July 8.) ‘The bi) now pendiug in our Circuit Court is @ bill in Chancery, flied by James Funk, as netr-at-law of the late Isuuc Funk, deceased, praying for a divi- sion between himself, his Hay brothers and oue sister, of about 33,000 acres of improved land lying within ten miles of Bloomington, tacluding the fa- mous ‘unk Grove,” which embraces 5,000 acres of perhaps the Auest forest in the State. The land ig of unsurpassed fertility and tn a high state of culti- vation, and in every respect equalling, if not surpas- sing the far famed ‘Blue Grass” region of Kentucky. ‘The chiidren named as derendauts have filed their answer, admitting that their father died intestate and of having seized of the lands above uescribed, but alleging the bastardy of the complainant as a reason why he should not share the estate. The case has been pending in the McLeun Circutt Court for more than a year, and has finally been brought to our Circatt Court under a change of venue. There ig but one question made, either by the pleading or the evidence—that is, the question of tue legitimacy of James Funk, If pe is found to be legitimate no reason 1s urged why the estate sould not be divided according to the prayer of the bill. If he is found to be tilegitimate, then no prevence ia urged for further adjudication tn the case, The history of the case 1s briefly this:—Apout the year 1816 isuac Fuak, then a resident of Unio, be- came acquainted With ap orphan girl in the neigh- borhood, by the name of Prudence Washburn, The acquaintance resuited in au intimacy and the birth of the complainant, James Punk. After bis birth the intimacy continved, aud a daughter was born, Upon the birth of the daughter this intimacy between. the parents ceased, and there is some evidence in the case looking to prosecution of the father for bas- tardy and a settlement of the liability. After this, for about two years, the parties seem to have nad little communication with cach other. In the meantine isaac Funk's mother died, leay- ing @ husband, several sons and an ‘unmar- ried daughter. When Prudence’s second ciild was born, she was employed by Isaac’s father to keep house for the family, and about three mouths thereafter Isaac’s sister married a respectable gea- tleman living in the neighborhood, Pradeuce re- mained in the family about fifteen montus, during which time she and Isaac cohabited together as man and wife, which resulted in again becoming en- ceinte, About this time isaac and his brothers bought @ Grove of stock on crelit, and drove them over the Alleghany Mountains to market, On their remurn Isaac tound that Prudence, about s1< days previously, had been confined with her third chiid, and that a female cousin of ais was attending her m her illness, On their retuen, being embarrassed, the brothers got their drafts cashed and secretly left the country at night. The nigat wey ieft was a rainy ohe, but, notwithstanding this, Prudence left her sick bed agalnst the remonstrances of jer attendant, and packed the clothing of Isaac and his brothers for their secret journey. When the time came to start isaac went to the bed of Pradonce and bade her an afectionate farewell. He aiso went to the bedside of his son, the contestant in thia case, whom be found crying, and whom he addressed thug:—Jim, sou, Wiat ais you?" told hin to be a good boy, andina year or two be would come back and gechim. He then left the house and countr, meto Lino and setiled In what is known as ax’s Grove, About ten days after his departure Prudence died from ex- posure in assisting him and nis brothers of. Fank returned to Ohio afew years aerwards, paid lis debis, and brought lis son James back home with hin, having married in the meantime, proceeded to raise him with the rest of bia children, ali the time ackaowledging him as his son, As Is natural to be expected the case has brought together some of the most distinguished Jawyers in the West, viz.:—Counsel for complainant, Major Genera Jobn T, stewart, Messrs. Leonard Swett, L. Weiden and R. 8, Williams. For the defence, Messrs. Kichard Harrison, of Ohio; i. S Green, of Spring- fieid, and Mr. Hanna, of Bloomington. Mr, Swett ituiod the case co the court yesterday afternoon in a speech of two ours and a half, after wteh be moved aa adjournment until this morning, and he completed his argument this afternoon, Tue remaluder of the counsel wil follow pro and con, and the case will occupy the remainder of the week Af not longer, Destavetive Locomorive Exriosion.—A des ach of July 8, from Kankakee, lil, to the Chicago epudlicin, gives Vie following account of a serious raliroad disasier:—About hali-past two o'clock this Morning the boiler of engme 122, train 19, Lilinois: Ceutral Katiroad, expioded two and a half miies north of here. Jawes Farquhar, the engineer, had his head, arms and jegs burned off and was killed, Herman Bradshaw, a brakeman, is badly injured and is not expected to live. ‘Colburn, Areman, acaided, but will recover, was, engine was totally Gestroyed and cieven cars Burned, esterday oa ay Appointments in Middle Teanessee, He was met at the depot by a number of gentiemen. Colonel John Wiiliams accompanied the ex-Presi- dent. On Mr. Johnson's return from Middie Tenues- see, which will be some time in the latter part of this month, he will address (he citizens of Knoxville han, on the 26th day of 4 ngust, 1d jd. try, at _ fd ged f- Buel, Bd Kifoyl wo ve j an en ding coun ry, hy this piace, Knew imprisoned Msteen GENERAL NOTZS. oe claims to be receiving 1,000 new settlers a wane ‘Trade League has been organized in Bul- The Ohio Legislature is asked to put up a suitable monument on General larrison’s negiected grave. Judge Trimble, of Atascoco county, Texas, re- cently died from the effects of a snake bite, A sas reader of the Declaration of Independ- ence un July 5 began with “Know all men by these preveuts.” Fifty-three women clerks have just been placed on duty as copyisia in the Patent Oiice; salary $iu per annum. : A young circus rider won @ horse at Louisville the other day by turniug tweuty-flve somersaulis in suc- cession, The people of Oregon are again talking about the separaiiog of the eastern and weslern portions of the State, Albany has become one of the great lumber marts of the country. ‘the lumber business of last year aggreguied (he suin Of about $14,000,000, A man in Hlinots has been fined fifty dollars and costs by @ juslice of the peace “for attempting to steal & kiss trom & Mrs. Slippery.’” James Croxton, on trial for several days at Louis- ville for ine murder of his partner, Benjamin Muver, was ou Saturday last acquiited, Rev. John Long, of Thomasvilie, N, C., a Methodist clergyman, was recently stricken dead with apopiexy waile iu iis pulpit preaching a sermon. An uninjured whiskey bottle was the only thing capable of idontication about a poor fellow wie was run over on an Vitio rai road the other day. Shdck’s mil!, on Barren river, near Glasgow, Ky., was blown up on the 6th last. wo men were Kiled Lastanuy and twe others seriousiy if uet fatally lajured, Canada has a new patent law. It excludes from its benefts ail aliens and Non-residents, A person may secure a patent only by a resiieuce of @ year in the Dominion. A wedding took place near Dry Grove, Miss., a few days since, it wich the bride had scarcely reached her tenth year, the groom being over six feet high and thirty-eight years of age. Thege is a lady in Sutton, this state, who was mar- ried at twelve years of age, who 13 the mother of sixteen chitdreu, weighs 210 pounds, und is “iair, tat and forty.” Joun Tyler, Jr., son of the ex-President, is reported tobe wriuny aseries of essays on “fue Course of Commerce during the First iiistortcal Cycle of Hu- man Wventuaities.”” A few days ago a colony of sixty Swiss immi- grants arrived at Goldsboroaya, N, U,, to settle in tue neighboring counties, On the day of thet laud- ing there were three marriages amouz theta. Aman and wWite hamed Fink, of Springfield, Ohio, have both been sent to the insane asyiumn at Payton, They ieave a family of seven children, the oldest not over tweive years old, at home, ‘The German tavern Keepers of Pittsburg are going to Work in earnest to insure the rigid ento. nt of the Sunday law. ‘Their object ip to muke the law odious, anct to secure its repeal. Chicago has never seen the time when she con- tained so many perons out of employment as at the present, it 13 computed tuat no iésq than 10,000 men, boys, women aad girls ure out of work in that city. Observations by physicians in some parts of Texas show thai while the natural growth of ‘he white race has beea unimpeded, te colored people have diminished by mortality and emigration about ten per cent in four years. The flood in the Arkansas 18 subsiding. So far very little damage has been done, though an addi- tional inch in the rise would lave submerged many of the nice farms and Weought great destruction, Five thousand salmon, two aud a half incies long, have recently been piaced in te vemimigewasset river, New Hampshire. A centary ago Uns river Was full of salinon, but the nets aud the dams aloug thertver had so completely exhausted the supply that we doubt if a singte saimon has been seen there for five and twenty years, The State has ow undertaken to stock this and other rivers with salmon and shad, Hiram Wade, an old and respected merchant of Sandy Hill, vhio, committed suicide op Sunday morning last by hanging himseli in wis bara. Mr. Wade Was »1Xty-four years of age, aud was highly esteemed wp all the relations of Hie, He was in Casy circumstances and able to meet all obiigations at maturity, but the tear that he would not be abie to pay asinallsum soou to become due induced the commission of We rash act. At Adrian, Mich., on the 3d of July, aman named Gillespie, eighty-six years old, comuitted suicide by takiug laudanum and juinping or falling ous of his chamber window, He had selected nis best suit of Clothes and laid them aside, with a paper pinned on thei, on which was written, “These are my grave ciothes.” He was @ Spiritualist, and said in the let- ter that he should visit his friends on earth from time Lo time. ‘Tne Council Grove (Kansas) Adverttser states that nearly tue whole of the Kaw tribe of Indians, braves, Squaws and pappooses, and 300 Warriors of the Sac Indians, accompanied by their squaws, passed through Council Grove on the 4th inst., on their way to the piaing, buffalo hunting. They made a body of over 1,200, The Sacy hud been on a visit to the Kaws on their reservation for over @ week, to induce suein to go on the coveted trip, ‘The Burlingame (Kansas) Chronicle says the tor- mado that passed eight or ten miles west of us, through the eastern portion of Waubunsee county, a week or two sifce, gays an eye witness, was in fuauy places not over ten or tweive feet wide. The ass and vegetation louks exactly as though a iire faa passed over it. In one instance a smaii frame house was carried some sixty feet without injury to the inmates or butlding, while a wagon box sotting alongside of the house was torn to atoms. Aman tn Adair county, Iowa, has invented a can- non which he beiieves will send a@ ball fourteen mules. The pecullarity is in the ball itself, wich is in seven sections, with six fases. The powder of the canuon sends the ball humming two miles from whe muzzle, lighting fuse No. 1, which burns to the pow- der in the ball in the time the ball travela two miles, when an expiosion takes place which sends the ball two miles further, where fuse No. 2 does its duty and propels the ball two miles further, and so on Lo the end of the fusea and the fourteen intles. A Cincinnati Pad 1s responsible for the follow- ing:—Recently Jephtha Smith, @ young man of eighieen, living near Cassville, Barry county, Mo., slipped el fell over @ bluff ac Carlisle's mill. He first feil & distance of forty-five feet, alignting on his feet, Here he rebounded and fell another tuuirty feet, bringing up on his suouiders, and then by a series of fais Of ten or twelve feet at a time brought up against @ tree, making a distance of some hundred feet in ail, Stngularly, he sustained no serious injuries, and Was about as usual in» few days. THE NORTHE'N PACIFIC RAILROAD PARTY. Their Outht and Plan of Operations, [From the ines (Minn.) Tribune; July 9.) ‘the distinguished geutiemen composing the Northera Paciilc Railroad party will leave for St. Cloud this morning at forty-five minutes past eight, on the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, on a special traia placed at their disposal by Mr. George L. Becker, president of the roed, and will be accom- panied by Mr, Becker und other invited guests from St. Paul and this city. Their horses, wagons, bag- gige and supplies will be sens up on the reguiar eigat o'clock train this morning, 80 as to be in readi- hess to start from St. Cloud this afternoon. ‘the party expect fo go into camp a few railes above St. Cloud to-uight, and will continue their journey to- morrow. Governor Marshall, of St. Paul, and Hon. B. M, Wilson, of this city, will accompany the party, and probabiy will go through to the Missouri river with them. Upon arrival of the party at Pembina Goy- ernor Smith and @ portion of the party will continue on to Fort Gary, wilie Mr. Hotlines, the agent of Jay Cooke & Co., with the rest of the party, wiil strike off across the country wo the big bend of the Mis- souri, and, returniag overiand by auother route, will Teach (ils city In about Sixty OF seventy days. At Pembina they will secure the services of ten or twelve half-breed scouts to heared inf them, and at Fort Totien they wili be joined by the necessary military escort. ‘The expedition Is provided with a splendid outfit, Mr. George A. Brackett, who haa been across the plains before, has ad charge of fitting It out, and ts undoubvedly better quatified to ft out and Carr through au expedition of, the kind than any perso they could have selected, “He has been tnaustriously at work for the last few days, and altnough the tiwe for pn has been suoct, be has everything in readiness for @ successful start this morning. ‘The ouult will consist of ten double wagons and twen ty- SiX splendid horses. There are four two-seated pas- Senger spring wagons, two mes4 wagons and aix saddle horses. The camp equtyage consists of two large hospital tents and eight wail tents, with cots, lattresses and all other necessary conveniences jor camping out, The commis- sary stores have been selected with great care, and consist of everything that will be needed out trip of the kind, and are of suficient quantity tO° last sixty or seventy days. Two good cooks aud all other necessary attendants will ac- company the expedition, A good supply of Fant ammunition and fishing tackle has been provided, go that the Pig Will have facilities for rare sport in bunting and fishing while making their tong tri Across the Country, At this season of the year it will be @ pleasanc trip to inake, aud we hope to see them safely back again in the course of two months, bringing favorable reports of the country, and, be- fore the summer is over, #ee the work on the Great Northern Railroad commenced, Mr. A. H, Beal, of tuis a , has been appointed fess Oy her of the exper nin. He will accompany t to the firet camping ground, and will returo in & day or two with a picture of the first camp of the Northern Pacific exploring party. He wili send & Tepresentative to accompany the expedition, LARGR Fine IN Tennessee.—On July 3 the Court Houve of Decatar county, Decaturaville, Tenn., Was entirely consumed by fire; loss $100,000. The lawyers of town had their offices in the Court House, and their libraries were all consumed, to- gether with valuable papers which they had in their Possession. In the Couuty Court Clerk’s office there Was $40,000 in currency. The County Court Clerk had many valuables in his oMtce, which he tried 6, With more important county papers. He Wrapped himself up in wet blankeis and penetrated the building; but the Names drove him back and be was slightly burned tm the atremot = THE DRY GOODS TRADE. Prospect for the Fall Season—The Seuth in the New York Market—Credit of Southern Buyere—Effect of the Conservative Move- mont—Carpet-Baggers as Commercial Meu. It 1# almost the middie week of the tres messes Minflvuo, a8 the oid Castillans term the summer months, Business, the miilion-handed; Business, the million-footed and muilion-tongued; Business, the million-eyed monster Mokanna of the great metropolis, haa coiied himself up in a thousand separate coils and gone to sleep, or partially so, in a8 many different dens. His palaces are no longer bee hives, where bees of business buzz and bustle and make money. The bees of business themselves, quiet, wingless bees, only given to mathematics—and Uereat adepts—liave oetaken themselves to cosey country nooks for the summer, Business is dull, news 4s duiler and the demon of the doice sar niente holus dozy carnival and swills soda water throughout the whole length and breadth of the huge sea-turtle’s back of land upon which the metropolis is founded. ‘The world moves, nevertieless; that is, will move in September; and, in the weantime, one may make @ leisurely survey of trade tu retrospect and wade i Prospect, The year did not open auspiciously for heavy trade, but tue circulation of the blood tn the buikof the old monster Business—a granule none arque neverthe'ess, aud a3 despotic a# ever an Orentai Was--Was Heaiuwy ud uatural, As a gene- rai rule buyers 1a (he spring trade bought only what they Wanted, and Would uot bay more avany price. in a word, the cur of trade tas been heathy, natu. ral ant non-ap @uve; and, unlike previous years siuce the war, has recorded few failures of im- portance, ‘TY ‘tistics of suspensions thus far wilt pol excced 100, sual and great, and none Oi them have been adairs either of great wenzht or of iudicative moment. The geueral stringency of market has been met witha caution {ou the part of the commercial rule haviug bea only to buy what was r the reuiar course of 'y goods aris, Wien Were Mb A865 Ve bowl Coluiparativeiy deserted, For this, auction anid 186 however, (uere nas been another reason in the prevails ing tendeney of holders to hoid goods mstead of Uirusting (hom upon the market for speedy realize, tion al a Manufects who glutted tne 3 in (heir own hands, aud ts assumed @ firmer, less t ve toue tian has pre valied tor Ast four years, it way now, for Lue iirsc tine since the war, ba stated tuat trade bas got upon a peace fooling, Lav. ing settied toto normal currents without uneasy aud speculative fluctuation, The fuctuation was keptup longer than Was vecessuary, however; Orst, by a general resort on the part of the hoiWders ta auction houses, under tie Lupression, of course, that a rapt fall in prices aught be anticipated; pcondiy, by ab Uudue forciag of saies under reon the part of the auckon houses in queda The correcuve appiled to tie case has been exceedingly simple. Tue first work was to luminal the auction huuse from reguiar wade, to shear it of ity mighty influence tor the depression of prices, and tis was brought aboui by a geueral eifort on the part of jobbers and wholesaie wien, seconded by tha tendency of country custuiers to buy less and more safely. ‘thug several of the unvealthy tendencies pointed Out in the annual review vo! trade aud finance iast January have been corrected, aud wholesomely 0, and the spring Closes with beiter prospects for the tt Tal Reason tha las been the case for four years. What September—wieu tne vees of business come ewariniag into their hives again after the sumwer hegira | may bring forth Temains to be seeu; but Luc tesilmony of leading men in the trade is unaniuvus, The prospect was never beter for a Vigorous, brisk and healthy re- sumption of tratic, Duriag the year Kastern mana- facturers have hau an epporiuuity to recuperate and estavlish Ulermse: Ves upon ad Boulder aud more nor. mal basis, In Which respect the year has borne good fruit, und the testinony uoW IB bial (he supply 18 dite, if any, in excess of the normal demand. ‘That mauufacturers every where, daviag learned a Whole- some iesson trom the fuctuations of the past, wil curb themselves within Uae Limits of just supply, 18 aitogeiler provable. ‘Lhe past four years have falien: too heavuy upon New iigiaud for tie proverbialy money-making Yankee noi to take heed and obey the uianifest laws of commerce, ‘fhe prospecr of the crop for the coming seagon ts reported flattering from ali quariers, and especially frow tue Souin, Were the past year has wrought @& very considerapie metamurphosis. Wholesalers and Jovvers testify that, geueraily speaking, the southern trade 18 shiltiug back into tue hands of old ume Southern custoiwers, aud vestity to the fact with a kindly appreciation of ihe honorable dealing of oid cusiomers, The forcimau of @ leading wholesale house in this city remarks that losses for the past four yeurs to the New York market have been mostly at the hands of the class aptly dubved carpet-bag- gers—men who, leaviug unliquidated board biils at the North, went South without either capital, morais or mauners, to recuperate, tf possible, their de- servediy waning foriuaes. Nine-tenths of the South. ern faliures in trade bovked during the peace period have been at the hands o/ this class of specu la- tors, who, being irresponsible when they emigrated mended not their morais after emigration, be added that this is the general testimony of - ing men in the New York trade, and that to-day the credit of tne native Southerner, oiler things etn, equal, 18 beiter ia the New York market than thal of the carpet-oag exouc. Again, asa general rule, it 13 stated that anti-war obligations have been Hquidated with the utmost readiness by the old time Southern commercial ciass, aud this has been pro-~ ductive of an exceedingly iriendly feeiing on the part of Northern dealers. An emiment gentieman tn the trade, Who did a heavy southern business before the war, estimates Liat more than seventy per cent of the old liability has been honorably arranged. In some of the Soutucrn stuces very few claims re- main unsettled; Wuile in others, owing to the anset- ued state of politics, the payment been ver; spasmodic, Virginia, Aluvauia, We Carolinas an the cotton-producing sections i general have very nearly erased the old score, and the prospect 1s that the whoie sonth will enter the market quite on the square uext spring. These are, of course, facts for the congratuiation of ali partica, Soath as well ag North; und the kindly fecilng which has thereby been engendered on the part of the Norihern cred- itor toward the late Soutuern debtor cannot be without its effect. ‘The carpet-bag commercial gue- rillas of the South have been mustly uprooied, and Dusineas men in the city speak o1 the fact with most evident satisfaction, ‘The Southern trader may this fall come into the New York market with all the privileges of the Northern customer as to time, terms and the like— viz., ten to thirty days on domestic fabrics aud three to four months on tisported. Tis metamorphosis has been mostly wrougat by the elimination ol Northern adventurers from Southera trade, the resumption of business by old time buyers im tae New York mar- kKetand the prevatiing disposition to inate old claus hoporavly and amicabiy. A disposition to buy sparingly bas not beea without its euect in the relabuitatiun of Southern credit, but the man Causes have been tha three preceding enumerated, In tact, in the way of liquidation of former Nabilte Uea, che South bas, it 1s geueraliy testified, done more than could naturally have been expected in so short & time and Will resuurces so crippled by the gradnal confiscation of a ioug aud desperute war. With this feeling in the asceudauy, the suppor of the New York market has been aiunost universally extended to tue conservative movement in the South, and this produced the general anxiety for its success manifested by the commercial ciusses, Virginia res deemed, disenthratied, rehabilitated upon a normal busts, the anccess of a suntlar policy iu the remain- ing States of the South 18 regarded, wita the adin! nisiration to foster and support it, asvnly a questior Of time; and then, again, av New York, as the great commercial mart, King Spindle, of New Eng.and, will shake bands With reinsiated King Ustton, King Business acung as mediator between the +wo. It will be seen, therefore, that in tie opinion of the commercial ciasses the prog. pect, or rather,, the realization of me prospect, depends intimately upou tue triampf of the Presi- dential policy throaghout the South, and, until thie desideratum to trade ix gamed, the question must remain ag {t is, im some measure, @ subject for speculation. The ping trade, aa predicted in the January re- view, has continued firm, wihout eed depression in the scale of prices; and unl was the case last fall, Wall street speculation in gold shall interfere, the prospect for the fail is fastening indeed. What guid, ot present the marplot of ale and Gnance, may bring about remains to be dey veloped; but, in the meantime, let importers tak Warning and omit to repeat their Octover error o1 yast year, THE FIRST VINEYARD §OUND WHALESHIP. (Prom the Vineyard (Mass.) Gazette.) In onr local history the 6th of July, 1516, 18 memo- rable a4 the day upon Which tite frst Whaleship ever owned by Vineyard poopie sailed Irom this port on a whaling voyage to the Paci cean. Probaviy every native of this town has heard of the old ship Apollo. We have been farnished with the following interesting particulars rejating to her firat voyage. She sailed a8 above stated (July 6, 1816), with the following named persons composing her cre in Jothro Daggett, manter; Peter Coffin, first mi aoe lace sesond poh Sohn’ Gs Godfrey, third im Bostalecrers-Martin Arey, Clement Norton aod. Lemuel Paase. Coopers Samuel ‘Worthman and Benjamin Hodge, Carpenter—Henjamin Sinith. Seamen—Abraham Osborne, Benjagin Worth, Isaac Dagyett, Gustavus lea, Jethro. Ripley, Jonathan Fi ad” Eddy Cofln, all of Edgartown; Hebron Crowell and George Luce, second, of Tisbury. Bd- muad O. Daggett, son of the master, eabia boy, Itt9 @ remarkable fact that nearly every one of the Apollo's crew who continued to follow the sea became masters of ships, viz.:—George Luce, Martin Arey, Clement Norton, Abrakam Osborne, Benjamin Worth, Isaac tt, Gustavus A. Baylies, Jonathan Fisher, Eddy Ooo and Edmund 0, D: tt. OF the whole crew but two are kaown to living, viz,:-—Captain Gustavus A, and Jethro Ri} ley, our respected fellow townsmen. ‘The ship wi gone twenty-two Lg pd during the e whole time and brougut d cargo of sperm oll, One thing is worthy of Bots 8s lilustrating the periority of the crew, The whaleboats were new id substantial, bus were mot fast; yet they had the name of beating every boat on the Pacific coast where they were whai ing. When mast of other vessels came op board the Apollo and asked, ‘Are these the boats that beat everything on the coast?” tae told “to look ai crew and not at tus rt