The New York Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1869, Page 11

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1869.—-TRIPLE SHEET. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. 1 Another Leeture by Professor Golawin Smith. ‘The address of ‘Professor Goldwin Smith upon the occaaion of the anniversary of West India emanct- pacton was delivered at Case Hall, Cleveland, on Saturday evening. His remarason England’s recog- nition of -belligerency and the Alabama question were'ns foliows:— Bidg truce to your prejudices agatnst Byevana. then, for a moment, py ie | say a few concluding words on the subject of England with regard to your late wat. She 8 charged with having in this, the most momentous crists of the long st e agaiust slavety, betrayed her anti-slavery principles and cast her moral iniluence, and not only her moral in- fui but, in a furtive and dishonorable way, her material aid into the scme in favor of the slave power. Allow me, in answering this charge, to speak freely, though ny sentiments as an Englishman may not entirely accord with yours, Liverty of opivion is, that great hberty without which all other liberties are at once valueless and frail. Let the opinion, even of the smaliest ae cease to be free, and on the threshold of the repub- lic-fatts theshadow of an emptre. There are many Englishmen who could state the case better than I can, ‘There is not one, I wiil veuture to say, who could state it witha more hearty desire to do justice 10 the American people, Whatever bitter things may have been said ugainst me here for op) what'l believe to be the extreme statements and de- mands of your advocates, more bitter things have been said against me by the organs of the tory aris- tocracy of England for pleading the American cause. Had the abolition of slavery been the proclaimed the war you would have had to expect ‘that Engtand, as the great anti-slavery nation, should be a unit on your side, You would have bad a right to say to all Engitshmen, * This 1s your standard, the standard which you have unfurled, and which you have fol- lowed 80 long. We call upon you to come to it, and to give (he support of your sympathy to those who are fighting for it, under puin of being pronounced recreant to your own cause, and false to your own honor.’ And itis my firm belief that Hngland would have responded to the appeal. Whatever thougnts may have lurked m the breasts of some of the reac- tionary party, the allegiance of the whole nation to the antl-siavery cause was so rooted and 60 tlxed by the memories of past efforts and sacrifices that no one would have ventured to declare hunself on the side of slavery. Asit was, whenever any one spoke in favor ol the South, any one at least who spoke soberly and seriously—for I take no account of such a wandeene star as Mr. Carlyle—he thought it necessary to render homage to English opinion by pace is speech with a disclaimer of any sym- ny with slavery. Once the London 7emes published, by way of a feeler, an arucie half defending the in- slitution. Bat the reception with which the article met aid not encourage the editor to repeat the ex- periment. Unhappily, however, not only was the abolition of slavery not a@ proclaimed object of the war, it was proclaimed not to be the opject. Mr. Seward expressly instructed Mr. Adams tn lite inter- course with the British government not to accept its #@ympathy on the anti-slavery ground, On the con- trary he has to declare that the apprehenstons ot the slave-owners byclaveane | ‘the safety of their insti- tution were utterly unfounded; and that the consti- tution of society on this Continent placed the aboli tion of slavery, as an object of the action of your government, utterly out of the question. 1 do not mean to lay too much stress on this despatch, but I believe it may be stated as a broad fact which cannot be erased from history that, though there was an abolition party irom the outset, the war was not at the commence- ment, nor for some time after its commencement, an anti-slavery war. As events unfolded themselves, as moral sentiment was developed and strengthened, and as legal scruples were overridden by tue stern law of necessity, the determination to abolish slavery gained ground, and at last the emancipation procia- mation went lorth, Such at jeast was the course of events as it appeared to us; and such is human na- ture that, supposing this to be the true account of the matter, history can still point to few revolutions in whieh the motives of the actors have been higher or more wnailoyed, Those who have followed the shifting phases of the struggle with close attention marked at a furearlier date the gradual prevalence of the anti-slavery sentiment, and rejoiced and sympa. thized accordingly, Bul the opinion of the masses had been formed at the outset, and once formed it conid not easily be changed. In the absence of any moral cause demanding our allegiance as a nation it was patural that we should be divided according to our pohtical sympathies; that the people should be on the side of the government of whe people, and that the aristocracy and the class which it lmfuences should be on tue side of the aristocracy of the South, Jt was natural, also, that our bigh churel clergy should be, as they were, on the side of those Whoin they took for representatives of the cuvaliers, and who, they hoped, would set up, with a privi- leged nobility, a privileged church. Could you rea- sonably expect thac we should be a unit, when you were 80 much divided among yourselves? Could you reasonably expect that tie Eng- ish artustocrats and hierarchs would sym- pathize with a republic which they felt to be, and which proclaimed that 16 was the embodi- ment and the missionary of principles, the progress of which would cause aristocracy and hierarchy to perish {rom the earth? ‘Tue division of English sen- ument was, 1] submit, natural and mevitabie; and there were a number of secondary iniluences quite independent of an apostacy from principle wuicn inclined the balance rather more than would have been-otherwise inclined to the side of the South, ‘The Southerners had taken their measures very skil- fully to bias English opinion beforenand im their fa- vor, and the work of Mr. Spence, presenting a con- sistent and plausible theory of the conflict Just at the critical moment when opinion was being formed, produced a greater effect than from the uiter unsoundness of his views you would sup- pose. ‘The constitutional question as to the righe of secession was uot clear to those who had not made a special study of your constitution, and President Buchanan, whose opinion seemed official, pronounced that though secession was unconstitutional, the constitution made no provision for coereton. There were other matters Which it 1s not agreeable to recall, but which, if we wish to probe tue matter thoroughly, it is necessary to remember. In the Gays of the Ostend manifesto, tie American government had assumed an attitude cf aggression very irritating to other nations; and people who were remote from American politics faiied to percetve that the offend. ing government was not the one then having its seat at Washington, but the one which, having before had its seat at Washington, had then itsseatat Rich- mond. Threats of annexing Canada nad been ut- tered Hy organs, which, from their great circulation (though I believe they lad no other real title to attention), were taken to represent the tendencies of this country. But besides those whose feelings were lier ‘adverse to you or undecided (aud the latter was the case with a great mass of our people), there were many wnose hearts were ‘with you, but who were sincerely opposed m what they believed to be your interest, as many of your own citizens were, to the prosecution of the war. They belreved that there would be Infinite waste of bieod and money to no purpose; and that from the prevalence of the mililary spirit and the pressure of Inititury necessity the free instituuons of the North liself would be placed in peril. Ihave but little doubt that such was the view of Mr, Gladstone, who was then one of the most powerful members of our government. ‘To suspect him of conspiring against ireedom would be ns unreasonable as it would be to suspect Washington of the same crime. Our people, moreover, could not belp being deeply moved by the prospect of acotton famine which threatened miliion’ of our operatives with starvation, and has, in fact, dealt a heavy blow to the prosperity of England, But on the highest moral grounds was it uniriendly to say, “If slavery 15 nov to be abolished it a better that it should be cut loose and sent adrift, and that the free North should have done with tt and ita influences forever, Compared with the blessing of this deliverance the preservation of territorial greatness 1s a secondary concern.” — For my part I can declare most sincerely that if Scotch or Irish were tncorrigible slave owners I would heartily vote fora ey on of the union with Scotland or Ireland, with the firm conviction that by so do- ing | was adding to the happiness, and not only to tie happiness bu> to the real greatness of my coun- try. ‘The more extreme portion of the aristocratic pirty would giadiy have embraced the proposal of the French Emperor for intervention in favor of the South, but the English nation put its veto on that step, ‘The English gov- ernment also, in accordance with the sense of the nation, steadily retused to receive the South- ern envoys or grant political recognition, It seems to me that in refusing political recognition after the battle of Fredericksburg, our government went as far a4 international law would permit. I think it probabie that the claim would at least lave received more attention had tt come from any other than a siave power. Not that I doubt the Jegal soundness of the decision (as you were still continuing the con- test), but I think it proved that our government was determined not to give the slave power more than it could strictly command by law, That the English government intended faithfully to preserve com. plete neutrality 18 a fact of which I feel as firm), convinced as I of any fact whatever. The cabi- net contained men whose sympathies were strongly Northern; but even if it had been otherwise, British statesmen after all are men of honor, and they are trained to control thetr personal sympathies in the dischar, of their oMetal functions, The more closely tae case is examined the more plainly the recognition of beiligereacy will be seen to have been an act done, whether judicially OF not, at least in perfect good faith, and without any sinister intention, [t should never be forgotten that it was virtually simultaneous on the part of France and Engiand. The other Powers soon fol- Jowed, and 1: 9 scarcely reasonable to say that Rus- sia—A great Power very adverse tous and fendly to you—would have committed an act of hostility against you merely for the sake of following our ex- ample. A recognition of belifgerency 18 shinply a recognition of the existence of a regular war; and it appeared (0 us then, as it appears to 08 still, that from the very outset there was a regniar war, and one of the most gigantic in history, between the two reat groups of States into which your Union had for the time been go sharply and com: pletely divided, and that all tne rules, for- malities and courtesies indicative of a regular war were observer by both sides from the ntoment when the fitst shot was fired, Inno tnstance, I be- lieve, was there the silentest hesitation abont ac coraing to captured confederates all the rights of prisoners of war. The decision of your Supreme cae coesiegs seems to point distinctly in the same direction. 1 really do not see how our govern ment could have decided the question otherwise than it did. It was called upon to decide early, be- cause We Were A great maritime and commetoial nation, having vessels on every sea, and our com snanders in thia atat\en anvlied to the government Sreoehany ary at once ni the restraints incident to a Mr, Forster, one of the most ardent and pow- friends of the North, for rency by tand and peliigerency by sea. failure of our government to draw that distinc:10n is cited as a Mf of the.worst designs. It remains to be shown that the distinction ts either tenable in general or applicable to this particular case, If the poris of Confederates were blockaded still they had ports, If they had.no ships at sea ships from their coasts might at any time have got to sea, ‘The Mer- imac, in fact, did get to sea from a Confederate port. Gould you or could we have treated the crew of that vessel as pirates while we wi treatmg the same Power as lar igerents on land? But at all events, Tbeiteve that Tam right in saying that such a course @s that of drawing a distinction between the two elements and refusing to recognize one a belligerent ‘Who was recognized in the other, was up to that tume practically unknown in international law, and if this was the case, though you may think that our government was mistaken in omitting to observe the distinction, you can hardly say that the omission was proof of criminal ifitent. I have atways thought that the English government was to blame in not ‘waiting for the afrival of Mr. Adams, Their answer is that they could not have been guided by the wishes of Mr. Adams or his government, but that they would Nave been obliged, even if he had protested, to act upon the facts, I still hold it would have been better to communicate with him, even at the risk of having to act against his protest, But tt must be owned that he was somewhat tatdy in mn aud that Mr. Buchanan's coming, ambassador was ‘allowed to remain as your repre- sentative somewhat too long. Mr. Adams, as ioe will see on reference to tus despatches, though e demurred to the recognition of belligerency, did not regard it as indicative of an nathan, spirit, much less as the enormous wrong which it 1s now asserted to have been. He describes his own re- ception in England as pettctly satisfactory, A question had been mooted-in the diplomatic world— and had apparently caused him some anxiety— whether he could be received as the representative of all the States, when he was at the time practi- cally competent to treat only tor those of the North, But this question the Eugiish government at once set at reat by recelving him without hesitation as the representative of all the States. Let me say in passing that a more dignified and more courageous or wiser representative the United States could not have had, and I doubt whether any man tn our generation las rendered ‘greater service to his coun- try. [teel, uhen, in a position positively to deny the assertion 80 injurious Co the honor of England that the Queen’s prerogative was abused for the purpose of a conspiracy inst the integrity of a friendly Power, and that anotuer step in the same conspiracy was the launching of the Alabama, On this question of the Alabama, I stand before you as an Englishman, with tolerably clean hands, ‘It was to denounce the Alavama that I came im the first instance into pub- lic Ife, and 1 will venture'to say'that no man feels more deeply than I do the suspicion which her buud- ers ana abettors have cast upon my country. But the truth is serious enough witnont rhetorical exag- geration, Iv is now insinuated, or rather asserted, that she was an English ship, and that the English nation and the English government connived at her escape and were parties to her depredations. Sne was butitin England, and, in that sense was an English ship, just asa rifle ot English manufacture in the hands of a Federal soldier was an English rifle, But she was built by ‘the Confederate government in a private yard and commanded bya Confederate officer, now a cilizen of the United States, who if you quarrel about this matter, will be, with his fellow Southerners, in the singular position of making war on us for not having been successful in preventing him from breaking our neutrality. Her English sea- mea were taken on board for a feigned voyage. Besides which, every great maritime country has a hamber of roving sailors, like the companions of Watser, the fillbuster, who are ready for any enter- prise, under any flag, and in no way represent or commit the nation, ‘The Alabama did not venture, ag she would have done if the English government had favored her, to arm in an English port; she went out unarmed, at the risk of capture, and met her armament at a port in the Azores, from which port, not from any port in British territory, she sailed forth on her career of depredation. Whien she slipped out of Liverpool the order for her arrest was on its way. She was pursued to Nassau, which was supposed her destination, and she would have been arrested there, but having put into a port belonging to auother nation and there equipped herself for warsne was, according to the opinions of the legal advisers of our govern. ment—an opinion which I have not the slightest doubt was given in faith—out of the british jurisdiction, so that she could be pursued by us no further, The English government stopped her con- sort, the Alexandria, and it stopped the steam rams; though in the case of the rams the evidence, accora- ing to our law, was 80 weuk that the government had to pay for thein out of the public purse. For Jour years the Confederates were doing their utmost to violate our neutrality and to entangle us in the war, aud the only case in which they were successful was the case of whe Alabama. ‘The escape of the Alabama was due to three causes; first, the defective state of our municipal law, the framers of watch had never con- templated either this peculiar state of things or the novel device of bullding shi in one port and arming them in another; secondly, the fll- ness at a critical moment of the legal adviser of the crown; and tati , the treachery of a fd oiMcer, who was no doubt bribed by the Confederates to give them notice of the Intended seizure of the Ala- bama. For all these things, for the defective state of our law, the tnability of our legal adviser fo at. tend to his duty, and the misconduct of our official ‘at Liverpool We are responsible. but it does not fol- low that anyone would be justitied in making sweeping tmputations against the honor of the British government or the British nation, For me mode in wnich the Alabama carried on her warfare, by burning vessels at sea, detestible as it was, mani- fest as ts the duty of © keen an end by some com- pact among civilized nations to the ibility of that warfare for the future, England is not re- sponsible. If the Alabama, alter going into the port of Tercetra, was out of our juris- diction, as, she was held by our law officers to be, our government could not control her opera- tons. We were obliged to leave her entirely in your hands, She put invo our ports; and there was no rule of international law by which our government could prevent her from doing 30; but the idea that any sort of favor was shown her by our government or with its cognizance is, I will undertake to say, en- tirely unfounded, “ was welcomed by her rti- zans, especialiy in the West Inaian ports, thoagh not more in the ports of British colonies than in the French colony of Martinique. Bat the British goy- ernment, a8 a free government, has no means of preventing mere manifestations of feeling on the part of private citizens, A good deal of the sympa- thy was probably not poittical, but such as would have been bestowed on any daring and successiul adventurer, a8 Dick Hatterrick or Byron's Corsair. Our government, Warned py the escape of the Ala- bama should, in the judgment of some ol us, have at once proposed to Parliament to alter our municipal law. — Perhaps Lord Paimerston would have been more willing to do this had he not been smarting under the recollection of the over- throw of his government in conseqnence of his at- temp? to alter, at the instance of the Krench Em ror, the law reiutiag to political refugees, On this oint, however, @ practical question arises, since the Briuush government aid contrive, under the existing law, to prevent the escape of auy other vessel from our ports, If we go before an arbitrator there will no doubt be a long and tough debate between the lawyers on the two sides, ‘The fnglish aavocates will cite the case of Walker the filibuster, of the Fe- nian invaders of Canada, of the Cuban expeditions. International Jaw is, with reason, indulgeat to neutrals, on Whom the onerous duty of prevent. ing violations of their neutrality by beiligerents is cast by no act of their own, and Without their own consent, in addition to the loxs and annoyance gen- erally infitcted upon them and inflicted on Englind im the highest degree in the present case, by the existence of a war. I do not feel sure that the legal papas of England, even on the Alabama question, is so untenable as if 18 generally assnmed to be. But, for my part, [ have never wished to see this question treated merely as a legal question, Ihave aiways wished that itshoula be treated as such a question would be treated in private lite among fiiends and men of honor. The Alabama ought not to have escaped. ‘The escape led to consequences at once most serious as regarded the destruction of American property and most irritating to the feel- ings of the American nation. She, in fact, though not with our approbation or con- Mivance, made our shores tne base of her operations and carried on a@ war of devastation from our ports. ‘The-favor shown her by British sympathizers with the Confederate cause, botb in Eogiand and in the colonies, though mercly that of private and irresponsible partisans, did, in appearance, somewhat compromise the nation, And ali this took place at the moment of your national agony, When wrong was most pitterly ielt an@d when your resentment was naturally most keen, Under these circumstances if I had any voice in the mat ter, L would do the same thing which I would do under analogogous ctreumstances In private lite, would, without discussion, and, if possibie, without the intervention of an arbitrator, pay the whole of the Alabama ciaim, [have always advocated this course before by countrymen; | am advocating it now, Bat it is diMcuit for such counsels to fina their way to the heart @ proud nation, when it is being at the same time loaded with be bape reproaches ana threatened with un« limited demands, and when it has now to appre- hend that reparation might not be received in @ kindly and gederous spirit, DUC with a burst of ex- Uitation over its prostrate honor, While the war Was going on 1 heartily supported the great Engiish liberals who were trying to do justice to Amert 1 try to do justice to England now, I was told the other day that Lwas sitting between two stools and that { should come to the | sath 1am not a poit- tictan and have no party objects in ylew, and I wish hot to sit upon any stool, but to stand on my own feet, and to uphold, as tar ay | can, what is true and Just in the case before me, If 1do not utterly mis- take the principle of freedom is is the best Lomage Which i cam rguder to a tree people. THe RAPLMR FAILURE AT PRNN YAS, N. Y.—Th latest reports trom Penn Yan make the latiure of the Rapiee vanking house appear as one of the worst of its cla’ bi ornits Itabutttes of Raplee are $13,000, of whioh over $90,000 belong to depositors, ‘The worst foattro im tie caso ie that this banker hold @ large amount of fodoral bonds as collaterals THE MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOAT RIOT. Full Particulars ef the Afair—Tho Killed and ‘Wounded—Nawmes of the Leading Rioters. From the Davenport (Iowa) Gazette, July the most fearful and hoon series of mi ever perpetrated on the upper Mississippi river, and of a character never before Known on a steamboat an these waters, were committed on the Northern line steamer Dubuque, John B. Rhodes, Captain, at and near the levee at Hampton, Jl, seven miles above that city, on ‘Thursday morning, a brief ac- count of which we have given by telegraph. ‘The steamer left Davenport at about seven o'clock in the morning. She is known as one of the finest packets in her line, Her deck crew was composed of some thity hands, some of whom were white, but the majority were negroes. When she left there she bad over 200 deck passengers on board, a third of wiom were raftmen, the remainder being harvest hands, She also nad over 100 cabin passengers, THE DEADLY RIOT COMMENCED ‘A little after eight o'clock, as the steamer was near- ing Hampton. Mr, Jones, second clerk, went on deck to examine tickets and recelye fares, and sta- tioned a colored deck hand named Moses Davison at the stairway, to prevent deckers from going above while he was thus employed. Soon a raftman, well known as “Pock-marked Lynch,’ attempted to ascend the stairs, Davison stopped him, and after a brief quarrel blows were passed. The mate, John F. Sweet, interposed and stopped the fight. ‘Then, save loud talking among many of the raftmen and by Lynch himself, there was no trouble for ten minutes or so, At last the raftmen formed o kind of ring on the forecastie, with Lynch in. thelr centre, and Davison was hustled alongside of him and commanded to fight it out. Lynch did not like the looks of Davison, and calling him a d——d nigger, went for him with a chunk of coal, In an instant, as if the matter had been 8 many as twenty-five of the agreed upon, raftmen joined in the assault. The BLOODY WORK began. Some of the raftmen ran to the shore and armed themselves with chunks of coal, with whioh they stormed the colored men, But Lynch and one ‘Ted Butier, with a dozen followers, commenced hunting the negroes on the boat. In the méiée, Da- vison escaped and ran up to the hurricane deck and secreted himself under the lifeboat aft of the Texas. ‘he Lynch gang went sweeping through the deck passages. ‘The negroes scattered, some legping to the shore, and some rushing for up stairs. Two of them were caught aft the engines, terribly pounded and cut, and hurried to the stern and made to leap into the water, The passengers saw them stnk im- mediately, and that was the last of them. The ‘water colored with their blood as they went down. ‘Their names were William Olmstead and Clayton Jones. Both were from New Orleans. ‘One negro was pee along the starboard guards, across the rear of the boilers, to the larboard guards, where he was hit on the head with a plece of coal, caught, and beaten till he was nearly senseless. ‘Then a half dozen villains seized him, ran him to the stern, and jumped him into the water. Jt was said by two lady passengers who saw him as he sank, from the windows of the passage in rear of the ladies’ cabin, that his throat was cut from ear to ear. His name was not ascertained. ‘The fourth negro who was murdered was pursued up stairs, along the cabin rds, .and across the hurricane deck to the other side, down to the guards ‘and the stairs to the deck again, He fled toward the peat ba caught and plunged into the river. As he struck the waler a great piece of coal struck him on the head, and he went to the bottom. About ten of the negroes escaped to the shore and ran away unharmed, although several shots were fired at them from revolvers. DAVISON KILLED AT LAST. After the murder of the negroes mentioned above the flends made a hunt for other negroes. At last Lynch spied Davison as the latter lay curled up under the lifeboat. He eried ont, ‘ifere'’s a — son of ab——.” Davison heard bim, and turning the boat up, ee out, and ran with a knife in hand towards the cabin stairs. Lynch cried, “That's the one we want,” and with three others pursued him. Down on the deck went Davison. There Ted Butler tried to stop him, and Davison slashed his bowels with a Knife, The negro then fled to the piace where four of his fellows had met their death, and on bis way was hit with a chumk of coal. He jumped in the river and paddled with his hands for a witie and kept his head out of water. Two men set out from shore With a skiif to rescue him, but before they could get near him he ceased his efforts and sank. Thus five negroes were murdered outright. PASSENGERS’ EFFORTS for the saving of the negroes were numerous and successful, Several negroes were locked up m state rooms in the ladies’ cabin. One instance is men- tioned particularly. Rev. D. C. McCoy, of Macomb, Il, was in his state room with his wife, A negro, nearly covered with blood from a cut in his throat, fairly bounded through the open outside doors and cried, “Save me, do save mne, Missis 1’ ‘The lady im- mediately closed tue doors. In an instant, almost, she heard the tramp of men outside and the cry “Where is the hellion?” But he was saved from the fiends. Several of the hunted hands were secreted in the Texas rooms by the officers, A DAVENPORT NEGRO, named Marshal White, was severely wounded, He had taken deck passage to McGregor, in com- any with one William Alexander, oi East St. Louis, and another colored man, whose name he did not know. The three were standing near the machine known as the “nigger,” when the hunt began. Immediately six or seven scoundrels made for them, -White jumped over some boxes and ran forward, and as he did so he was slashed with knives across the sides of his head and in his left thigh. He went on up Stairs, however, and was hid in a state room by Bill Henderson, the barkeeper. Alexander escaped with but two or three bad brutses on his back, caused by heavy chunks of coal which alighted ou him with foo much force. What became of the other negro is not known. It is more than probable that he was killed, as he has not been seen Since the villains came upon him. THE OFFICERS POWERLESS. © Not one of them was in possession of a revolver, and to have interfered would have been foolish in- deed, All eg Ra do in opposittof to scores of raftinen was secrete the negroes when possible. THE MATE WAS SAVED by araftman. On the deck a villam went rushing at the mate with a large knife. At the mate's stae stood a Mr. McKinney, who gave the knife man a shove and a kick that sent him staggering. When he reiurned to the wifack the mate wasn’t Where he “used to was,” and Mr. McKinney was oif some- where else, IN TWENTY MINUTES the steamer had not a single co'ored deck hand on board that was visible. ‘ne kilimg was ended in that time, and only when there were no negroes to hurt. Indeed, several of the rioters volunteered to act as roustabouts, and actually did work on deck. THREATS TO BURN THE STEAMER, The boat swung out from Hampton, and had pro- ceeded but afew rods wien she went Into shore again. ‘The idea was to await the arrival of a force trom Rock Island, Captain R. secretly telegraphed the Sherif of that county for help, but the murderers saw through the strategem and threatened to join togetner and fire the steamer if she was not quickly moved up the stream. So the steamer was soon swung out again and continued on her way. At Camanche Ted Butler went ashore, as did also Pock-marked Lynch. Butier was captured, as will be seen hereafter. . THE LAST ATTACK was made on a porter, who, aiter the boat ie Hampton and when all was comparatively quiet, went to empty some water on the guards. He stepped ont cantiousty, but was discovered and se- verely beaten by three raftmen. ROCK ISLAND TO THE RESCUE. As stated above, the Sheriff of Kock Island county was telegraphed to for assistance in arresting tne murderers. Jie tmmediately placed the matter in the hands of Depity Sherid Payne, Superintendent Cotton, of the Western Union, placed a train at his disposal, ond at eleven o'clock some sixty men, mostly armed, were on thelr way north- ward, On they went till Fulton Junction was reached, The force then went over to Clinton, and in fifteen minutes the hg aay came in sight, This was between three and five P. M. As she threw out her staging, a dozen men, with revolvers in hand, stepped on board and forced every raftsman to go ait, The MURDERERS WERE COWRD. Refore reaching Clinton they were (nil of talk of exterminating the d—d nigger, But when the posse showed determination to arrest them, dead or alive, they just wiited, Over twenty of them were tied atthe wrist and their feet shackled. Captain Rhodes had decided to land the prisoners in Rock Island, and the boat was turned southward, Nothing of note occurred on the way, save a brief stoppage at the island where it was at first determined to land the prisoners. Bat this was given up. The DURUQUE ARRIVED AZ’ ROCK ISLAND at seven o’clock. The whole city seemed to be on the levee, while hundreds were on the Davenport levee, hoping We steamer would torch on this side, Under direction of Deputy Sherif Payne ropes were stretched about & good sized piece of levee, and t ople ordered to keep outside of the square thu Prineas ‘The colored deck hands (who had been picked up on the way) formed tn two lines, The posse commivatis stood auara with drawn revol- vers. The chief rioters were marched off the boat and to jai, Then all the remaining raftmen were marched between the two rows of negroes to be Iden. titled, Some twenty-nine of these fellows were jointed out as having participated in the negro hunt- iny business on the steamboat. Some of these were known to be innocent by the officers of the boat and the passengers, Neyerthetess all were jalied. The following are the NAMES OF THE LEADERS in the killing business, who are under arrest;—Joln Cailiger, John Tone Andrew Frank, James Thomp- son, Thomas Jones, dames Cochron, David Daws, A, W. Frebble, Frank Gilmore, James Quinn, George ‘Traey, Joun Hait, Wm. Blair, Thomas Jones, Jonna Campbell, Win, Hatton, Holsey Hammond, Dennis Fagan, Niek Setulta, Oliver Shandamols, . wit! SES WERE HELD from among the deck hands, a dozen of whom were taken to the court house as a lodging place; second clerk Jones and mate Sweet also remained toyive evidence, TH TIMA OCCUPIED in landing tho prisoners Was more than two hours, ) to the careful of the megroce, At half. mine o'ciock the Dubuque started for the north Trlal"of the Rioters. 1 {From ‘the Davenport amet Evening Democrat, Jul , sLJ ‘The trial commenced at about three o'clock yester- day. The first witess called was J. F. Sweet, mate of the Dubuque, who testified to the culars of the commencement of the fight, At Sweet tu- fered and Lynch seized a piece of coal, which he wards threw away. He then retired to the rear of boat, but he soon returned with three or four companions, Lynch himself brandishing a large knife, With the exclaination that he would geteven with Sweet for taking a ni "3 part he made a \ at witness with the knife, Witness seized his’ wrist, called for help, and was soon dragged backward to the steps by his friends, A general fight ensued between the rioters and we negro portion of the crew. There were enough of the rioters to quell three or four times thejnumber of negroes. Lyneh and others declared that they were “going to kill every nigger on board @nd run the boat themselves.” They were armed with knives, chairs and pleces of coa!. The duration of the fight was about an hour and a half, At the beginning several shots were fired; ou nearing Haupton the pilot ran the boat up to Heagy’s land- ing and sixteen negroes lost no tame in leaving. Thi ‘withers saw two negroes cut by the rioters and af- torwards saw them sink in the river, a number of the rioters went on shore and threw stones to pre- vent the negroes in the water from landing, All but five or six of the negroes went ashore at Hampton. ‘The balance were concealed by the ofticers. The boat was then backed out into the stream, but an- other negro being discovered and attacked, the boat ‘was run ashore at the upper landing. The witness then pointed out three of the prisoners—Dolan, But- ler and Scheltz—as being engaged in the riot, but Was unable to positively identify any of the others. A long cross-examination followed. There were a large number of raitsmen and harvesters on the boat, Who took no part in the me Did not par- ticularly notice that any one bi ch had any- thing to do with the murders, He last saw the latter on the shore at the upper ianding. A PASSENGER'S TESTIMONY. Charles Jordan, a Fulton county farmer, who was @ cabin passenger on the Dubuque, testilied that he did not see the fight at the gangway, but arrived in time to see the deck passengers form a ring for Lynch and the negro to “fight it out.’ ‘Yhe negro went toward the rear of the boat, followed by Lynch, who was handed a kuife while amidships, with which and accompanied by a number of men he returned forward, A “gauntlet” or single line was formed by the moters amid cries of “Clean out the d—d black sons of ——.”’ ‘The boat touched the Wharf and the colored men rushed off the boat, and as they did so there was a shout of “Shoot the d—d niggers.” Wiliam Blair, one of the prisoners, discharged four shots from a revolver at the retreating deck hands, Almost simultaneously the witness heard a reas ait and saw two negroes sink in the river, Shortly afterwards an- ower struggle was heard and 4 ‘third negro was seen by the wituess swimming tn the river, while shouts were heard of ‘Kill him !? “Kull him!’ and pieces of stone and coal were thrown at the strug- gling man, who soon sank, When the boat left Heagy’s landing Mr, Jordan helped to secrete under a boat on the hurricane deck a he who had been badly cut with knives. Two of the rioters came up on the hurricane deck in Search of the wounded man, who leit his hidipg place and ran down stairs. A few minutes served to show Mr. Jordan this fourth colored man in the water, and again cries went up of Kull him,”’ “Drown the d—d nigger,” and coal and stones were thrown to seal his fate. Two men pushed a skiff from the shore t) rescue him, but a shower of stones and coal prevented them from succeeding. ‘The affray seemed to be participaced in very generally by the deck some, gtd The fourth negro drowned was the one attacked by Lynch in the first place. The rioters ‘at one time exclaiined “Let's go up and clean out the cabin.” The witness then identified Blair as the man who had done the firing, and Butler as taking an active part. He also thought Doolan and Toomey looked familiar, but could not swear to them, the court then adjouraed to eight o'clock this morning, after having discharged George Mann, Joseph Gilmore, Michael Lague and E. K, Brayton, the men whom the deck hands and passengers were ‘unable to identify. TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. The court convened at half-past eight o'clock this moraing. Four more of the prisoners, Patrick Roach, William Muntz, James Jennings aud James Quinn, were discharge: ‘The tirst witness testified as follows:— Thomas Adair, sworn—Am a resident of Adams county, Ill; have been out harvesting; got abourd at Quincy; took cabin passage; at Hampton went outside; saw the negroes running ashore, pursued by the rioters, Who threw coal at them; saw two negroes in the water at boat’s stern; tie rioters sald, ‘Let them drown;” as the boat pushed ont saw another in the water, swimming out into the river; saw no one throwing anything at the negroes 1n the river, but heard them say, “Let them drown;”? the rioters came on deck armed with mis- siles and using rough language; recognized Blair as the one who did the shooting, which took piace at the first landing; the negro was shot while on the bank; feli at first shot, but got up and ran, the crowd hallooing ‘shoot the son of a —.” J. D. Biood, sworn—Live m Ohio; was in the cabin when the trouble commenced; went outside when shooting commenced; three shots fired in direction of @ negro On shore; saw a@ dozen rioters asirore throwing missiles; there were about fifty of them in all; Saw a negro in tne river struggiing to keep above water; rioters throwing rock and c al at nim from the shore; sav him sink; a man (Butler, accompa- nied by Lynch) rashed up stairs; saw a negro rush down trom back hurricane deck, followed by rioters; soon afterwards he jumped overpoard, when there was a shout of gratification; one man sald, “The nig- 4 gers are cleaned oif the boat, and we are satisfled;”? witness recognized Biair as the shooting man and Batler as the an who rushed up stairs. George A. Scott, sworn—Live i Dubuque; was & deck passenger; first maa I saw was Lynch; he was bleeding from the head; satd niggers cut him, but another man said he was thrown back on iron and cut; when the row commenced Lynch ran back and got two pieces of coal, and the rest stood around to assist hin; some men on shore cried to those on board, “Chase them off,” meaning the niggers, and most of them had rocks and stones in their hand: the niggers jumped off the boat, and were met by shower of coal and rocks from both parties; saw a nigger sink in the river, and a skiff set out to rescne hin; the mop yelled out, “Let the d—d son of a b—h drown,” and kept shonting, ‘Go for the biack devils,” &c.; heard four reports of pistols, and a man dressed in black coat and black hat stood with his back towards witness firing; saw the porter of the boat knocked down as he was passing by with a pail of water; a man knocked him down with a cane, but got into the cabin and was saved; the captam went out to try and quiet the men, and gsked them to let the boat go on to Clinton; witness identified Jom Gallager as one of the men standing on shore at Hlampton with two rocks in his hand; did not see him throw the rocks, but a good many of his com- panions were engaged in the riot; identified another prisoner named Dick Scheltz as rushing about among those on shore; saw Dick several times, and saw mm knockel down by the same man who struck the porter of the boat; identified Ted Butler as the man who struck the porter and Scheltz; heard Ted say that he knockee down one nigger, anyhow, bost- ingly; this was at Hampton: le was cut, and was showing tis wound to those around him, A MYSTERY, Disappearance of q Steamboat Engincer and His Assistant. {Fram the Savannah Advertiser, July 31.) ‘The steamer Islander, Captain O'Keefe, plying be- tween this city and the intertor towns and’ planta- tions on tie coast, left Coosaw on Sunday morning Jast, with # freight for this piace; shortly alter leay- ing the cog wheels broke and the steamer was headed back for Cocsayw, where she rematned until Wednesday, When she was towed to Beaufort by the steam Jaunch Ossabaw. Prior to the Islander’s leaving Coosaw, Captain O’Keefe had the ireight transferred to the Pilot Boy, and came on with it to t city. Upon reaching Beaufort the crew of the i vier was discharged by the engineer, John Wheeler, and they came on here in the steamer Oa- sabaw. On Thursday night, Wheeler having engaged the services of the Pilot Boy to tow the Islander to this ¢ he employed a negro man in Beaufort for the purpose of assisting him to steer h Some time alter the Prob Boy had started with the Islander in tow, the latter steamer began to tow very hard and worked very unsteady; she was therefore hat-ed several tlmes to know what was the cause of her working 80 badly. No reply being given she was boarded and a thorough searca made, out neither the engineer nor the negro could be found. man from the Pilot Boy was then placed on board tor the purpose ofsteering her, and whe was towed safely to this city, Therevis some- thyng most mysterious about the disappearance of these men; as yet no Cattse can be assigned for The clothes of the engineer were all found on boar even those that were last seen upon his person. ‘That the engineer had been lying down, and finding the beat working badly had gotten up and had some aistlenity with the negro, during which bott fell overpoard, seems to be the opinion of many, while others believe that the negro may have thrown the engineer overboard and then swam ashore himself, The clothing of the negro was on board the Pilot Boy, as he was coma to Savannah for the purpose. of going out on the M&con and Branswick Ratlroad to work. ‘There were no traces of blood observable about the boaé, and the whole affair is as yet wrapped ain mystery. STRANGE COINCIDENCR.—The Syracuse (N. Y.) Courier wells of @ singular colneidence which hap- pened in tie famtly of @ respectable citizen of that city:—"Phe birth of f little child occurred some nine months since. Its mother was ill at the time of con- sumptiou. Since the child came tnto the world it nas followed the physical condition of its mother with marvelous precision. Would she be taken with vomiting the child would. be attiteted in the same manner; (id her neaith improve for a few weeks mnarked improvement was noticed in the child; when her health declined the child's wontd also begin to decline at nearly the same time, A short time since the mother was taken munch worse; the: symptoms of the child were Of @ sitatiar character, Finally the mother died, and only @ few seconds atter breathing her last the child followed into eternity. The ca: 18 a strange one, showing how great indueace conscious sympathy may exert over physical condl- fons.’ Tre WEAR AND TRAR OF CURRENCY.—An OX- change says:—The total amount of currency annw estroyed in the course of circulation id more than sufticient to enti Geiray the cost of printiag and issuing i¢ from the"lreasury. The loss of amall fraction currency 8 greater than that of the iarger denominations, aud the loss of curremcy greater than that of the Jege! teaned; but the entire agareate ‘eitorethan eufichent to defray the cost of printing and ‘both the curreacy and legal venders 1a circulation. ANOTHER EXPRESS ROBBERY. Nearly Five Thousand Dollars Stolen. {From the eae Chronicle and Sentinel, Cy 1, ‘The last express rob! ‘whitoh has ocearred took peace in this State a few days ago, and the Southern pices Company has been the victim. The boo! ured on the occasion was considerable, as ward f ‘MWe dishonest enterprise and industry. “ine rae oF the case are as follows, and tt may be proper to pre- nie nat er beg peer from the very best au- . aay relied vl eC in oreey patticnine pon a8 perfectly correct ere i in the employ of the Southern Express pany & young gentieman, a resident. of this county and of the best family, Mr. Buter B. Mays, who had @situation as messenger, and ran in that capacity on the Central Ratiroad, between Savanna and Macon. A few nights since he left the compa- ny'softice in Savannah to goto Macon, recetpting for and on board of bis car with bim a quan- tity of express ireight.and one of the iron chests in |, Which the inoney forwarded by the company is usu- ally transported. Entering his car with the money all right the train left Savannah for Macon, On the portion of the lime between Savanuah and Millen we understand that Mr. Mays went to sleep, leaving his money and freight all right, On arriving at Millen he awoke and found a package contataing $4,900 had been stolen from his possession while he slumbered. Not knowing what else to do tne horrified messenger immediately returned to Savannah and reportea the loss to his supe. rior officers. We are informed that Superintendent Dempsy and General superintendent O’Brien, were, fortunately, im Savannah at the time and at ouce took the matter in band and endeavored to fegret out the ropber or robbers. Up to this time, however, their efforts in that direction have been of no avail, and the affair still remains ensirouded in mystery. Mr. Mays came to this city a day or two since and was closely examined by both the officers of the ex- press company and the Chief of Police, but was un- able to give any information by which a clue to the guilty parties could be obtained; but we are glad to hear that no criminality attaches itself to Mr. Mays, ‘Three men, Who were on the train at the time, a1 suspected of being the gulity parties, but suMctent proof has not yet been collected to warrant thetr ar- rest. One df these men Is said to have come to Augusta, and the police hére are on his track and are busy en- deavoring to get a clue by which he may be nabbed. In Savannah the police are also busily engaged in working up the case, The most reasonable hypo- thesis seems to be that these men followed Mr. Mays trom Savannah, where they had probably seen him and planned the robbery, and had watclied him on the train until ho slept and then bagged the booty. A LOST CHLO. His Reappenrance After Thirty-Three Years of Savage Life. [From the Sandusky (Ohio) Register, July 23.) ‘Thirty-three years ago there fived in Lewiston, Logan county, a farmer by the name of Harris Hop- kins, who nad a child, a boy between three and four ag ofage. One day while the farmer was at work in a field some distance from the farm house, the boy started from the house across te fields to see his father. The last seen of the little fellow was when he left the house. Hundreds of people turned out to search for the lost child. The river was dragged, the woods searched, rewards of- fered, but all to no HAIN nad After days of weary and anxious search the little fellow was given up by the parents and sympathizing friends, The few Indians living in that neignborhood were friendly and peaceable, and no suspicion ever attached to ‘them, and the affair was forgotten or only talked of as a myscerious disappearance, The Hopkins famuy atlength left their oid home and settled ia Linois, and up to ten days ago none of their old neighbors in Logan county had expected to see any members of the family again. The astonishment of the old settlers in and about the neighborhood can be con- ceived, when, week before last, a tall man, browned by exposure to sun hud storm, and speaking the broken English of the half civilized Indians, made his appearance at Lewiston, and claimed to be the child missed thirty-three years ago. He stated that a Cherokee Indian, wandering through that section, had enticed him from the fleld as he was gomg in search of his father and had carried him to the Far West. The old chief had treated lim as his own son, and having been taken away at so early an age the memory of his parents and former Ue had faded from his mind. Kor thirty odd years he lived as an Indian and supposed tiat he was the son of the old chief who ‘claimed to be his father. A few months since the chicf, then high in rank in the Cherokee nation, and very advanced in age, found himself on his deathbed. “Shortly before he died he called his adopted son to his bedside and informed him who and what he was. As soon as the old chief ‘was dead and buried Hopkins came to Logan county in search of his parents, whom he found had moved to Campaign City, {ll He, however, re- mained last week at Lewiston to gratify the curi- osity of the old settlers, who had aided in the search for him thirty-three years ago. His reappearance has caused quite as much excit ment in Logan county as did his suaden and mysicrious disappear- ance a third of a ceatury ago. ‘SENTENCE OF A MURDERER. [From the New Albany (Ind.) Ledger, July 30.) During the present week the counsel for Ollver A. Morgan, sentenced to sutter death for the murder of John Petri, near Terre Hante, have been trying to secure a new tfialin the Vigo Criminal Court, but the Judge failed to see suffictent reasons for gra ing it, and overruled the motion. As it has been several years since a murderer was sentenced to be bung in this State we will give the scene in court on the occasion of pronouncing sentence, as described by the Terre Haute Xxpress:— The prisoner was thea ordered to stand up, whereupon he rose and walked calmly and deliber- ately to the space in front of the bench and stood facing the Judge, who said:—Oliver Morgan, a jury of your countrymen, ufier dne deiiberation, have found you guilty of murder in tne first degree, and that you suffer death. Have you any- thing to say why sentence should not now be pro- nounced?” At this point Mr. Mack, who sat near the prisoner, whispered to him a moment, and: he then said:—“May it please the Court, I ask for a new trial,’ or words to that effect, there being so much noise at the moment that bis words were not dls- tinctly heard, This request took the court by sur- prise, and in the confusion that ensued tie prisoner sat down. The Judge, alter a little reflection, de- cided that the request was not in order, and directed the prisoner to ‘stand up.” Morgan arose and the Judge said:—“‘Have you anything further to say ?’? The prisoner replied:. jay it please the Court, I have nothing further to say, except that the case has been hurried from the first, and tuat, too, amid oe excliement, so that a fatr trial was hardiy posstbie.’’ These are his words, as nearly as we couid catch them amid the noise that prevatied. The Judge remarked that this objection had already been advanced by bis counsel and had been considered by the Court, and he woul’ proceed to pass the sentence, which he did in these words:— * Jt is the judgment of the Court that you, Oliver Morgan, be taken from the jail vetween the hours of nine o'clock A. M. and four P. M. on the Ist day of September next and hanged by the neck until dead." ‘The prisoner received his sentence without any de- monstration of unusual emotion, and, turning Irom the bench, was immediately removed to jatl. ANOTHER FATAL M.STAKE OF A DRUGRIST’S CLERK, A Little Child the Victim, [From the Hartford Beg: Post, August 2.) Ou the eventng of July 13 a girl called at the honse of Dr. Wilcox and requested a prescription for a littie child of Mr. Burns, living on Front street, who was troubled with the suminer complaini, The doctor wrote the following prescription:— R. Aqum Calois, ounces, {,; Tinct. Opli, twanty drops; Aque Cinnam., otinces, xx. This he gave to the girl, instructing her to give it to the child, half a spoontul at a dose. The prescrip- tion was taken to tne drug store of Dr. Braddock, on Norih Main street, and given to a boy, one of his clerks, who compounded it as follows:— R. Aqum Calcis (limewater), two ounces; Tinct. Opil, (audanam), twenty drops; Aquie Ammonia, About seven o'clock a dose was miven to the sick child, which, a3 soon a3 it had swallowed it, strangled, and soon commenced vomiting blood. Dr, Wilcox was-catted, and arrived at the hottse at ten o'clock, but could give no relief, ana the child died at about two o'clock on the following morning, The suferings of the child must have been terriple, as the throat ana stomach were badly scaided’ by the ammonia as they would have been had melted lead been swallowed. Dr. Wilcox cailed at the store of the druggist, who stated that ammonia was used, and tiat it was re- quired by the prescription. This was found on the fioor of Mr. Burns’ house, and has since been taken to several physicians and druggisis, none of whom have had any dimiculty in reading it correctly. Ctn- namon ts generally used in medicine (or the summer complaint, while ammonia 18 rarely used at all, and never in so large a quantity, ‘There is no doubt but that the carelessness of the clerk who compounded the medicine caused tne death of the child sit ew York or Jersoy |. FERRERA, Dey 1 Chi; ize of shop, 0x10. Ad- Street House, New York, \NGINES, BOILERS, STEAM PUMPS, TOBACCO CUT. TG" tora, Bocardus Mills, Bolt Cutters, Lathes, Drills, Serow Prossvs, how and sevoud hand, bongit ‘and sold. Machinery Depot, [49 Centre street, corner Walker, W000, ¢ MANNS IMPROTED PORTARLE AND STA. tionary Engines, Saw Mills, Burr Mills and Boilers of all kinds send for our Hew pamphlet, HAMPS' DOPELAND, 43 Cortlandt street, tr —A 8 HORSE ENGINE, WITH BOILER AND jaections, Address B, F. P., Herald olice ASTROLOGY. 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Cont hnita brovatel Pacior Suits, Velvet, Brussels, Medallion Carpets at public auction, this dy 10 ovciock procteely, al tbe th 2 earior Sulta eovered with. the rlebest deaseip arlor Sul rleheat - Brocatl varet ‘and reps Sixth avenue, tion Frene! Lact lands, Commodes, Spring and Hair Muttressea, ‘liows, Linen, Turkish Loi fi ‘Atin Chairay Side Extension Table, Fy Dining Ol re. ae joe Len Tee yisnennr Casters, Butter shes, ce ‘orks, Glass, on Wenn ake aera omni eet antes wetting to or eet Uuls sale take Broadway or Sixth avenue cars or stages, XT TELEGRAM CARTOON, THE VERY BEST OF ALL. THE THEATRICAL MANAGERS AND THEIR IDOLS THE NEW REFORM. LAYING THE TRASH ON THE SHELF. ARISTOCRATIC PERAMBULATION EXPLAINED. SEE THE GREAT CARTOON OF FRIDAY. DON'T FAIL 70 SEE IT, UCTION NOTICE, GREAT TRADE SALE OF BOOTS AND SHOES, We stall welt, ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 10's o'el at ‘elocl © THOUSAND CASES Tw OF VE BOOTS, SHOE: iA) IN VARIETY AND SIZE, just received, and comprising the weil known manufacture of Cox & How, Thayer, Hayward, Peters, b. Mann & Bo with many other popular styles famillar to the trade, whic! will be offered in lots to sult purchasars. AARON CLAFLIN & CO, Auctioneers, 18 Murray street aud 2 Park place, Catalogues on morning of sale. yes NOTICE.—J. M. TAYLOR, AUCTIONEER. Magniicent Household Furniture. Drawing Room Suits, Pianoforte, Bronzos, Paintings, Statu- ary, Books, Mirrors, Velvet cuepetay Chandeliers, Silver Piate at public auction, this day (Wednesday), 4, at the elo- fat brown stone mansion $7 West Fifteenth street, between ‘com ‘nt 103 o'clock. Bra ing Room Suits, covered crimson gold, blue gold brocatel of t! richest description; Marqueterie bois de rose Cabinets, Ktas Rolety Tables, rosewood Bookcase, Enoolgaure, Lace and Brocade Curtains, bronze Clock, Statuary, Paintings by eminent artists, ‘Serres Ornaments, superb rosewood anoforte, Btool ahd Cover; Music Bland Hatsland, rose wood and walnut Dressing Bureaus, Bedsteads, Wardrobes, Commodes, style Louis XIV.; Hair, Spring Mait Bea: ding, Dining Koom Extension Table, Buffet, elegant sets ruby, crystal Glassware, silver Casters, Turcens, Pitchers. Dinner Tea Service, Shefleld Table Cutlery, Chins Dinner Ten Linen, Lounges, Reclining Chairs, Basement and Kitchen Furniture. Sale’ peremptory. N. B.—Parties wishing to t+ tend this sale take Fifth avenue stages or Sixth avenue cara. UCTION SALE—J. WILDEY, AUCTIONEER—OF+ fice 48 Broad. street.—Large and positive sale of mag- nificent Household Faruiture, superb rosewood seven octave Pianofore, Frenen Pier Mirrors, Ac. on this day (Wednen- day). August 4, commencing at lig o'clock, at the large brown stone residence 134 East Nineteenth street, near Third and Fourth avenues, consisting of elegant French satin bro- catel, and fine reps ‘Sui nire Tables, &c, ; rich Dining Room Furniture and Table Ware, magnifiesat Bedroom Puraiture, in Eaely carved walnut; Horse Hair Mattresses, e Carpets, &c, Fall particuiars in catalogues. UCTION | NOTIC! —AT LESS THAN AUCTION prices—Two magnificent brocatel Parlor Suita, alsa two. wWainut rep Suits, a lot of Parlor, Chamber, Library and Dining Furniture, cheap for cath.’ 55 Bleecker street, near Broudway. (AT AUCrON-OmL PATIRINGR By PHILIP LEVY, At Artists’ Salesroom, 8) Nusvan street, this day, 4 commencing 19% o'clock A. M. Over 100 choice Works Art, by eminent Buropean and American artista, B ARCH. JOHNSTON, AUCTIONEER, Ofice and salesroom No, $i Nassau street, opposite the Post office. Handsome Honsehold Fumiture, Mirrora, Carpets, dc. JOHNSTON & VAN TASSELL will sell at auction, on ‘Thursday, Angnst 5, at 10) o'clock, at the private residence No. 393 West Twenty-second street, between Eighth an Ninth avenues, all the Furniture contained in said house, viz, in green and gold rep ‘abies, marble tops; Tripod Tables, oak n Dinkig Table and Chairs, Lounges, in leather an Lace Curtains and seps'Lambrequins ts, Velvet, Brua- #e's and Ingrain Carpets; Oticloths, Refrigerators, ‘engra- vings, Carled Hair Mattresses, Feather Bolsters and Pillows, &c., together with the Kitchen Utensits, with which the saa will commence. Catalogites at the auctioneer’s ollice, ST Nassau street. Y ARCH. JOHNSTON, AUCTIONEER, . Salesroom and ‘Otice $7 Nassau streot. Elegant Household Furniture, belonging to a family going to rope, JOHNSTON & VAN TASSELL will Angust 6, at \0ly o'clock, at their Salesroom, 37 Nassan strech, an elegant ‘assortment of Honsehoid Furniture, consisting ta partof Aubison and Velvet Carpets, Ruga,’ Staic Carpets superb carved rosewood Parlor Suits, Inlaid covered fn maroon satin brocatel, with an ele re to match; Centre fab! with stata: h suit; Easy Chairs, In costly satin brocatel Curta Clocks and Ornaments, Carved rosewood Music Canterbury, carved antique Fabies Yor statuary, carved Parlor St and orange satin brocatel, with Curtains to m: artains, carved walnut Bedroora Suits, a4 Table, statuary marble top, with plate glass back; valnut Chetionier, with ten draws octave rose. wood Piano, twith cover; walnut Bookease and Secro- ary Library, mahogany Bookcase, Wardrobes, Extension Tables, Dressing bureasis, single walnut Bedsteads, pained 3, Feather Bex Bot- en Furniture, Kelriger- ttage Suits, tine Bedding, Nattres and Pillows, &¢., €¢. Also i: ators, Manglea, ke, &e PX ARCHTRALD JOHNSTON, AUCTIONEER, ‘Oftice and salesroom , 87 Nassau street. JOHNSTON & VAN TAS: L will # li this day (Wednes. day), Angust 4, at IL o'clock, at their salesroom, 37 Naxsag ‘a larg Je of Books, new ‘and second now ready. hia day ast 4, xt 103 o'clock, at 105 West Thirteents street, near vente, the entire Fnrniiare of the houses comprising Velvety Tapestry, Brnssela and other Carpet Olicioths, Parlor Shits, in rosewood; elegant breakfast an extension Dining Tables, marble top Dressing Bureaus carved Bedsteada, centre and card Tables, Beds, Mattresses, Bilver and Silver Plated Ware, rich China Tea’ and Dining Sets, Paintings, Engravings, Mirrors, Cartains and Cornices, and in fact everything in the house, Catalogues early this morning. BY UGHTY, AUCTIONEER, PEREMPTORY SALE THIS DAY (WEDNESDAY), August 4, at 10'% o'clock, at the salesroom, 79 Ni ing Parlor Suits, covered in brocatel, reps, and satin; Chamber Suits with marble tops, en buite and separate; Lounges, Library and Secretary Bookcases, hair Mattresses rors, Wardrobes, ladies’ Parlor Desk: r pees, Mocks, Buifete, Dintng Tables, the whole for abso- ate sale and worthy of those desiring to purchase fine {ural ture at half cost, COOK, AUCTIONEER. easy Sey This day, at 1 street, near Broadway, «fine lot of Household Furniture, &e., removed tor convenience of sale and sold to pay aivances, embracing the usual assortment of guods found in private dwellings. Also Desks, Safes, éc. FIFSE, DREHER & Hors Thursday, Angust 5, at 10s i's ante of contents of grocs ees, Sal , AUCTIONEERS. ck, at 18 Bowery, Mare ry store, Soap, Starch, Soday Vermicelli, Corn Starch, Tea, Coffee, Oil, 5 ‘Grelic, Seales and Weights, Pailé, Brushes and Bi Vinegar, Stoves, Counters and Pixtur ge Bar Cor varbie bed Billard Tables, Balle and plete; Whi + 2,000 Iba White Lead, tte. KE. LIPPMAN, Marstial, bare ey, Claret, Rhine Wine, Old } ENRY DREHER & HOPSON, AUCTIONEERS—NO. 19 Bowery, thia day, at 10's ofc! Contents ot & Lager Beer 1ce Box, Bagatelle Table, F do., ko. SAAC WOLF, AUCTIONRER—WIL ‘At 104 o'clock, the entire Stock and Fixtures of U cery Store 402 Eighth street, enue D, ‘oni Sugars, Teas, , Soap, Cai » Starch, Brooms, Pails and other ) ail the Fixtures of éaid store. Sale positive. BOGART, AUCTIONEER. . Marshal's sate, Fancy Goods, ‘This day, Augtist 4. By virtue of several execntions and by order of the Mnr- shai 1 witl sell Angust 4, at iLotelock, at the auction rooms, No. 1 North William street, the entire Stock of a Fancy Store, consisting of Ribvans Laces, linen Handkerchlets, Gotta Bnttona, Jewelry, Snspenders, Velvet Ribbona, ladies’ Cus, Musing, Gimaps, Fringes, Trimmings of all kinds, Showenses, Fancy Goods, &c, JOUN H. HILLIER, Marshal, ‘Also, at LL O'clock, in front of the store, one gray Horse. PARNBROKER'S SAGE —W. S: INGRAHAM, 59 NEW Bowery, wiil sell this day, at 11 o'clock, 600 jotw men's and women's C'othing: Coats, Pants, Vests, SUK Dresses, Remnants, Shawls, B Shoes, Bedding, &e. By order Fe Feely, #6 Front atre DINGER, AUCTIONEER, WILL SELL WITHOUT oserve, Thursday, August 5, Ih at 2 P, Moy on the Sew and handsome Cottages and 3 fine Buildin attkillon the Hudson, opposite the new Prospect Hotel, on Prospect Hiil, commanding tine views of the Hudson river and Catskill M ains, Train leaves via Hude son River Railroad at® A. M., returning at 5:30 P.M. Fure ther particulars at ollice of tire auctioneer, No. 9 Pine streets QMITH & LANE, AUVCTIONERRS—SELL THIS DAY, SAAC Ho Svclook, dt 889 Second , near Thirtieth street, entire Stock and Fixtures of a Cigar Store, Showcases, Couns GQHERIFE'S SALE. TRIMMINGS, | AC RICHARD SY WALTERS, Auetionoor, will welt (hit dy, Wedneaday, at To’ at 2t Bast Broadway, « quantity a¢ Trinny Braids, Buttona, &e. Also Oilice Furniture, Lron Sates, &c. JAMES RYAN, Depa JAMES O'BRIEN, Sherif, BRIFE'S SALE WATERING TRUCK, HORSHS, RICHARD WALTERS, Auctioneer, will gel this day “inesday), at LL o'ctock, at 27 Bass Hroadwi one Water ing Truck and team of Horses, JAMES O'BRIEN, Sheri, fous BRIOR, Deputy. FILLIAM WITTERS, AUCTIONEKR, SELLS THIS Wiiiky tt d ovcinek, nt 454 Canal atteet Pariotond Chane ber Suits, ine Bedding, French Plate Mitrors, China, Glass Silver ant other Wares; Stoves, 30 or 40 tine gecont baad Carpets, Oijclotba, being the furbiturey &e. of a iady’s bouse lots fo Lousekeepers and dealers, Goods packed au ped. $100.000 Tiecetiesteure a remorat te whol of ¢ large stock of elegant Furniture, range of the beat Mality and finest workm: a ‘of Parlor, Bea: fom, Dining Room and iby et a will be wold at @ reat sacrifice from now aatil the dd of August, at the od ¢ ablished furniture warchonae 230 Hudson street, street, corner eee eee sane ereostty requested Va eal nlers and hoteckcepers sre particuls sadermine ‘2. LOWENBEN & OO.