The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1869, Page 3

—. EUROPE. Relative Wealth of Great Britain and the State of New York. The English Report of the American Fire Department. ther Hyacinthe’s Position and Its Consequences. ‘The German mail steamst:ip Deutschland, vaptain Neynaber, from Southampton on the 28th of Sep- tember, arrived at this port yesterday afternoon, bringing our special European corresponaence and & mail report in detail of our cable te:egrams, dated to her day of sail.ug. Mr. Giadstone reptied to an address from the Irish Total Abstinence Socicty on behalf of the Fenian prisoners, saying that, while he cannot pledge the government to any particular course, he is bound to render testimony to the “soundness of judgment’? which the memortalists exhibit in characterizing tbe offences of the prisoners as ‘crimes which do not admit of any justification.” ‘Tne Edinburg Scotsman of the 27th ult. says:— Nothing further has transpired in convection with vhe death of the Lord Justice Cierk, The Procurator Fiscal having examined the body, permission has been given for its interment. The London Star of the 28th of September saya in ite city @ticle:— ‘The panic in the New York gold market has sub- sided, The government sold on Saturday $2,500,000 in gold at 133, but no public sales took place, A purchase of $2,000,000 In bonds was also made by the government at Friday's quotations. ENGLAND. ‘The Materia! Wealth of Greac Britain a Little Over That of New York State. {From the London Star (John Bright's organ), Sep- tember 27.) The marvellous prosperity of the United States is very oe, shown in @ return of the assessed valuation of the real and personal property of the several counties of the State of New York, which has been furnished by the State Assessor to the New YorK HERALD, and published in that paper on the 10th of this present. month of September. taking the dollar to be worth three shillings of our money, which ig about tts currency vatue, that valuation amounts to the enormous sum of £279,013,115 103, sterling. ‘The population of the State of New York was in 1806 3,831,777. Dividin~ che sum above given oy this latter figure we tind ..at the taxable wealth the State equals $72 les. 4d. for every individval in the population. The amount of property and profits assessed to income tax in England, Scotiand and Wales for the year ending the glst of March, 18 62, according to the “Statesman’s” Year Book" for 1869, amounted to £301,380,739, or in round numbers to but £22, 000,000 more tnan that of the State of New York at present. Injury to the Atlantic Telegraph Cable. [From the London Star, Se pt. 27. A fresh injury ts reported to have happened to one Of the cables of the Atlantic Telegraph Company. The accident which haa caused the parting ot the eaple has occurred bout seventy miles from Heart's Content, near the locality of the former fractures of the line. The injured cable is the one laid in 1868, and witich has alone suifered from casnaities. The present ts the fourth fracture that has occurred in tue 1860 cable on the Newloundiand side, About six weeks since a fault was also discovered in the same cable a short dis- tance from Valentia. A steamer has been tor some time past lying off the harbor, waiting for fair weather to proceed to the spot where the fault ex- ists, to repair the damage. The cause of these fractures has not yet beeu distinctly stated, Lut there ig reason to believe that the course taken in laying the cable—tue latter portion baving been laid in a heavy fog—was over rough sunken rocks, and that the cabie has been injured by chating upon them. The first injury to the cable off Heart's Content had every appearance of being caused by av iceberz fettling down upon it. ‘Ihe second injury bore traces of wilful damage, and suspicion attaches to a strange craft, which, during the time of the excitement about the Feutang, was seen hover- ang near the spot where the rupture took place. The 1865 cable remains perfectly sate, as it 1s jaid in @ channel that was carefully surveyed. This ig the cable which was lost in the attempt to lay it by the original Atiantic ‘Telegraph company. When the Anglo-American company took up the work in 1866 they were successiui in their task, and having laid tne cabie which they had on board the Great Eastern, they returned to mid-ocean and grappied with and raised the lost cable of the previous year, which has ever since continued to work upinterruptediy, while its younger brother haa suffered {rom not jess than five mishajs. But for the singular good luck of the Anglo-American com- Fe , Which enabled them to picx up the lost cal fom the bed of the Atlantic, communication with America would have beey interrupted on tive occa- siong, and each time for a considerable period. In order to provide against contingencies such as these which have just occurred, a quantity of surplug cable has been stored at Neart’s Content, which may be put on board ship there and at once made availabie, go as to render unnecessary the delay and expense of ero the voyage the whoie distance across the Atlantic by the repairing ships. Fortunately, the communication between the two countries has not been interrupted for a moment by the failure of this 1866 cuble, and we are informed the number of messages sent through on Friday last Was larger than upon any day on which the line bas been open for measgaes, The Peubody Statue—Letter or mr. Peabody to the English Committee, The London journals of the 27th of September publish the following letter, addressed by Mr. George Peabody to the committee of the Peabody Statue Fand tn London:— To Sir BENJAMIN 8, Priuiips, CHARLES REED, Eaq., M. P., JOHN FINLAY, Esq., RUSSELL StURGI Esq., WYLIAM FREDERICK ROCK, E3q., GEORGE Singer, Esq., CHARLES GRIMWADE, Esy., HENRY Harris, Esq, E. BREFFIT, Esq., THOMAS SPRECK- LEY, Esq., and Taomas HUBBUCK, Esq GENTLENEN—I bave the honor to acknow your communication of the 28th July, announcing tue Mauguration of Mr. Story’s statue of mysel! near the Royal Exchange by the Prince of Wales, and [ have to express to you, individually and collectively, my warmest and kindest thanks for the Geep inter. est you have manifested in the underfaking from its very inception, aud iy gratilication at learning that the assiduous attention which you have devoted to it has been so perfectly crowned with success, The international character which was given to the ceremonies has been especially gratifyimg to me, as everything has ever beea which could tend to connect more closely the two great nations of Pug- land and the United States, botu uf them very dear to me, and never more so than at the present ti I feel under the deepest obligations to tue Prince of Wales for the cordiality with which he accepted your invitation, and for the graceful manner and kind expressions with which he accompanied the ceremonies of unveiling the statue; and it has given me great pleasure to learn that ou that occasion my friend Mr. Motley, the American Minister, addressed, aa I believe for the first time tn public, an English audience. Aud it has been a source of great satis- faction to me that an eminent American sculptor should have so well performed the task you gave him, and that your choice has been sustatned by the verdict of the London public, Who have manifested 8o kind an interest and approval in the result. I notice with much gratificati .n among the list of eub- scribers that a large number of tbe working men of — ded the undertaking by their subacrip- T can but hope that the course of my life, now drawing towards its close, may justify, when Mnighed, ail the honors which have been so freely ‘bestowed on me, of which cuis is one Of tue greatest; andi not more strongiy express my feeling than to gay that Ido not ve there Could be found in the whole Kingdom a of any rank, however bigh, who would not feel honored by such a noble fesumonial as you have just dedicated toa humbie American citizen, With great respect, your friend and humble servant. GEORGES PEABODY, BALTIMORE, August 31, The English Report of the American Fire Department, (Prom the London Herald, Sept. 28.) We announced yesterday the return of Captain Shaw, the cle! of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, to London, from is tour of tuspection of the working of the tire departments in the principal cities in tue United States. $ He eulogizes tn the warmest terms of gratitude the very cordial and hospitable reception he lad met with i ail the cities which he visited, but he could not disguise his extreme disappointment at having taken #0 long, laborious and expensive a beuiring 0k absolutely no result whatever beyond @ knowledge of the true condition of the several tre departments. His hope had been that in ach of the great cities he would have had an oppor: sunity of discu: Hag ith practical men the detaiis ef organization, inlaog, discipline, driiis, econoin; ical appliances and ali the other fntesest to those who had their profession, but he to do this except on t in consequends of the ‘was of opinion ‘vat th raph makers had done much for the fire departm and that the steam fire engine builders lad also done much, but that the offict had done very littie for themselves, either by instructing the engine builders and makers Of their appliances generd Uy as Lo the real require- ing arrangements, He by exercising and practising themeelves in the use of such SEP aneee 84 ta a mos ea and inconventent in_the extreine; and what is still more y ir new ones are im almost every point precisely the same as those first made many years ago, It was impossible to doubt that the buiiders who originally showed so much ingenulty in the design and construction of their machines would have been able to alter them to suit the requirements of the service, had they been properly advised by practical persons as to what those require- ments.were; but it appeared to him thatthe intro- duction of politics into the fire department, particu. iarly in the setection of their principal executive ofm- cers, has been the means of preventing many of tle most Ser pes Lag promising Karn oe remamin, charge long cpoi wire Bud Knowedge of the det 14 ti ie Bo iP 16h ds to enable them to point dut to the makers of their appli- ances what was really wanted, and to instruct their men in the use of them when made. It was perane not generally known in Engiand that the chief om- cers, or, as they are called, chief engineers, of most of the American fire departments, and the principal assistant engineers are elected, not promoted, and that political influence is commonly paramonnt in the elections, In some towns the chief and bis assistants were appointed by the mayor, and this was probably the better mode of the two; but in whichever way they ob- tained their places the appointments generally were only temporary, and varied in duration from one to about three years, according to local arrangements. It was hardly to be believed that in the midst of a practical nation like the Americans the chief of an important department, requiring @ considerable amount of skill and special training, sould be obliged every year to enter into competition with his Own subordinates and others, and either to stand continued fresh elections or to lose his place. Such was, however, the case, and the eifect of the system is, of course, fatal to the ad- vancement of the professional work of the fire departments, Nothing could exceed the cordial and Misadly nature of his Intercourse witn the municipal authorities, boards of fire commissioners and execu- tive officers of the fre departments wherever n@ went, and in reply to their inquiries ne had been compelied to stace his opinion freely, that although he considered them pertecily justified in boasting of any institution in which ail concerned take a very great interest, and also perfectly justified in placing political partisans at the head of instituuion they pleased, he could see no possible justification for combining the two; on the contrary, that if they Wished to boast they would have to abandon their political appointments, or if they wished to continue their elections they would have to cease boustiog. He had also told them that he had found among the chieis some useful, active and intelligent men, but that, go far as he could judge, those men nad sdvanced themselves, Mot by the system, but in spite of it,* and wherever he had stated thoge opinions he had not heard so much as one dis- sentient voice, He had, therefore, on the whole, come to the conclusion that the present system was doomed, and would be one day altered; and when that day came he had nodoubt that the great ingenuity 80 characteristic of the Americaus would be brought to bear on the machinery and appliances of the tire departments, and would have the almost immediate etfect of raising them from their present dead level to a much higher position. They had now powerful and weighty machinery and appliances drawn about by large numbers of horses, and worked by enor- mous bodies of men, but it could hardly be supposed that the cities would long continue to supply fuuds for the payment of heavy expenses rendered neces- sary chiefly by the want of skill and practice on the part of ‘those concerned. It was a very singular and unaccountable fact that the Americans, in their admiration for steam fire engines, had forgotten or ignored the use of hand- worked engines, and had abolished them altogether, thus absolutely depriving themselves of the means of instantly extinguishing fires at their own doors, and 80 leaving themselves in this particular point far behind the most backward nations of Europe. He had asked in every city why tius had been done, but he had not received as much as one reply giving the slightest reason; on the contrary, the answer generaliy was that hand engines were of no use—a statement quite without meaning in the face of the fact that some of the principal cities of the world are sul entirely protect by them. He was clearly of opinion that no city of any description, and more particularly no large mercantile city, should be without both kinds of engines; that the manual or hand-worked engines should very jJargely predominate in number, and that, as @ general rule, every station containing a steam engine should be provided with at least one manual engine in addition, as the latter could be got to work in about thirty seconds by one man, whereas it is almost impossible to get a steam engine to work In less than three or four minutes from the receipt Of a call even when there are plenty of hands pre- sent. He found the American fire departments of both kinds (paid and voluntary) formed on a military basis, being composed of a number of bodies called companies, to a great extent independent of each other; making their own promotions separately, but, like several regiments, working together, when called on, under a superior head. This seemed to be understood by ali concerned, and to work, on the whole, rather well; but he was convinced that a inilitary organization was badly adapted for such a purpose, and that both economy aud increased em. ciency Would result from substituting his simple organization for theirs. He admired beyond mea- sure the pride and enthustasm of the Americans about all the institutions, and "se among the rest; and although just now the fire departments present many subjects for criticism to a professional ob- server, he was bound tosay that in many of the principal cities they were much improved of late years, and the spirit which seemed to animate all concerned was one which, under altered circumn- stances, must lead them to eventual success, He should never be weary of speaking with most Sincere and heartfelt gratitude of the great kindness aud consideration he iad met with on his journey. SPAIN. British Opinion of the War in Cuba. {From the London Star, Sept. 27.) While Spain is vainly prolonging a hopeless strug- gle in Cuba and fovilshiy prating of war with the United States the blood of many of her bravest citi- zens 1s Nowing in the streets of an important pro- viuclal city. At Tarragona, a few days ago, the Governor's secretary, who with rash temerity pre- sented himself at @ republican meeting, was mur- dered by an excited mob. Now a telegram an- nounces that in the same town the voluateers have erected barricades, and engaged in hand-to-hand fight, which lasted the whole of Saturday night. The volunteers, it 13 said, had manifested republican tendencies, and were therefore ordered to disarm. = sight have been expected, they refused com- pliance with this order, aud the result has been a Sanguinary struggie, which resulted in their defeat. Many lives have been lost and the prisoners con- fined on board the ahips in the harbor. The plague stricken colony of Fernando Po wili probably be their destination. In the meanwhile the prospect appears gloomy enough wit nout the additionai nor- ror of @ Cuban insurrection or a forelgn war. FRANCE, Lord Clarendon’s Visit to Paris. A Paris correspondent, writing to @ London jour- nal on the 25th/of September, says:— I must not allow the all-aba orving interest of the Pautn murders to prevent me from mentioning a plece of political news wiich, if true—and subject, of course, to the inaccuracies which inevitably beset revelations of diplomatic secrets, I believe this to be trae—ts of very great importance. Lord Clarendon, Tam told, had @ mission when he lately paid a visit to St. Cloud. The prospect-of the deatt of Napoicon IIL, which a few weeks ago everybody was'brougut to consider aa a more than possibie proximate event, led the great Powers to consider what might be the consequences. And if I am rigatly informed, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and England came to an understand- ing as to the course which they would pursue under given circumstances, the object being to preserve peace, check the contagion of a revolution in France, and as @ means conducive to those ends not to thwart German unity. Lord Ciarendon’s delicate task Was to make tie French Emperor aware of this agreement between the tour Powers. The announce- ment was received, as was to be expected, by many assurances that nobody could be more desirous than tbe Emperor was to preserve the peace of Hurope. Should the advice really be taken in good part the happiest reauite may be expected. Divested of diplomatic compliinents, 1 believe the intention of the Powers has been to tell the Emperor how his hands are tied, far as regards any attempt to combat opposition at home by the diversion of war. Coincidently I have no doubt that every eifort will be made to induce Pruséia, whetlier on the Baden or any other question, not to give any provocation to France. Provocation would be a godsend to the war party. I am happy to believe that, whatever may happen tothe French dynusty, the good sense of the world wiil prevent @ general war. ROME. Element in the Ecumenical Council. On this subject a German paper—the Weser Zei- tung—say: The Curia is doing everything in its power to pour oil on the dre and to defend Hire ‘division of Catholics into real and liberal which was first made by the Civilta Cattotica, This paper, after having some time ago stigmatized the Germ: IsBhops ‘German heretics,” how deciares ti 11 liberal Catholics are rebels. Prince Hoheniohe'’s despatch, which first called attention to the threatening ger, the con- suitation of the universities, the Regotiations of the German governments and ‘the addresses of the Catholics in the Rhi the. option: ct ord Province, are all, in b Jesuit editors of the Civittd, unquestionabie signs of @ liberal Catio- ie conspiracy to exercise an influence on the Council. The programme of the Catholics of Bonn and Coblentz who signed the addre: and | who certainiy cabot be accused of heresy and scep- tucism, is condemned by that paper with a traty ridiculous passion; because they hope that the infai- libility of the Pope and the Syliabus may not be approved by the Council, and place as the alm of their endeavors the separation of Church and State, the participation of the believing laity in the exter. bai administration of the Church, and a reconstruc- Uon Of the existing ecclesiastical organization by the reintroduction of the reguiar National, Provin- cial and Diocesan Synods which have the sanction of centuries, They are also mach biamed for wish- ing the index of prohibited books done away with, The Gerur sipernagyrremmaneecpereencnmentongirint sn achatinie <n as opposed to the spirit of the Church and the pro- gress of science. Father Hyacinthe’s Letter—Britieh Opiuion of its Effect. (From the London Telegraph, Sept. 28.) Pere Hyacinthe’s letter to the Father General of the Barefooted Carmelites bay failen among the Ultramontane party with the suddenness and force ofa bombshell, From one end of Europe to the other the eloquent preacher is the subject for eulogy, remonstrance, denunciation and curses both loud aap. M. Veuillot, of the Univers, has saluted him with aii the wealth of anathema whicb dis- tinguishes the rhetoric of that meek scribe, and has summarily unfrocked the rebeilious fatuer through the trependot 98 Of siyine Mim by his cular nging Pi aod bh Hanation at iy i Lot by nis religions de- Yacinthe. Seeing the full importance of the letter, the Papal Nuncio at Paris is said tu have telegraphed a textuai copy to the Pope. the more that we consider the cireumstances which the manifesto was written and published, the more notabie does it seem, Before being given to the world, it is said to have been laid betore the Arch- bishop of Paris, and, with one or two slight excep- tions, to have received his sanction, Moreover, the document was intended to meet the eye, less of Rome than of the world, * * * In the mean- while, it 18 clear that all the conciliatory refine- ments and dramatic dehortations of the Hyacinthes and Montalemberts will exercise litte in- fMuence on the course taken by Rome, The Counci!, it 18 understood, will be invited to ailirm @ dogma aud a protest—the dogma that the Pope is personally infallibie, and the protest against such modern pollticat doctrines as the principle that the State should tolerate all re- ligious creeds, Hi.herto the Roman Church has heid two distinct doctrines of Papal infallibility—th one, that the Pope is infallible only when he speaks as the organ of a general council; the other, tuat he ig infallible when, on bis idividual authority, he issues religious decrees. Two hundred years ago the conflicting dogmas were flercely debated within the Gallican Church. While Pascal and Bossuet re- corded their hostility to the doctrine of personal infallibility, that dogma found peculiarly able cham- pions in the Jesuits. ‘Their party now wields au- thority in Rome, and at the Council the renewed battle will probably attain a decisive issue, And the same party will also seek a fresh condemnation of the doctrine that the civil power sould tolerate religious ‘heresy.”? os [Paris (Sept. 25) correspondence of London News.) * * © If all that Pere Hyacinthe taught was true, what was the Jesuit teaching ? If Kome was Justified in her encroachments, not only what were the errors of the Pére Hyacinthe, but what were those of all the Christian fathers and doctors since 1,800 ,years? What Rome, governed by (Jesuits, is aiming at, 1s in reality the subversion of all the principles whereby the Church is ruled, It is the substitution for a republican government of a purely personal power—the putting im the stead of the Church universal the single person of the Pope, which is absolutely contrary to all orthodoxy. The Pope is primus iver pares, and nothing, absolutely nothing, more. For many months the Episcopacy of France has been sorely agitated aod alarmed, but no one has yet ventured to put his perpiexity into 80 many words and say, ‘The danger 13 this.” A few days sluce Pere Hyacinthe did this in tbe letter to the General of his Order, which 13 now made pub- lic and is the theme of all-absorbing comment and conversation. The effect is tremendous, aud will increase with every nour, The Epfscopacy of France and of every Catholic country sees now the banner raised round whicu tt may raily; and it is to be Loped that Papism pure, used by the Jesuits to their own ends, may yet be worsted in the battle. THE SAFE BURSTERS AGAIN. Shrewd Operations of Burglars in Pough- keepsie—They Play Tricks on a Bank Watchman and Blow Open a Sate—§65,000 in Bonds and Securities Stclen~Arrest of one of the Supposed Crackemen in This “City. This city of Poughkeepsie was startled yesterday morning at hall-past two o’ciock by an alarm of fire, the cause being the burning of a barn in South Clover street, near the corner of Union, aud ciose to the residence of private bank wacchman Samuel H. Miller, The firemen, citizens and police hastened to the scene, and duriug the burn- ing of the builaing a for different scene was being enacted up town, in Market street near Cannon, in the office of the Dutcheas County Mutual insurance Company. Burgiars had eniered the office through a back window, well supplied with a good set of burglars’ tools, powder, &c.—in fact everything necessary to ‘work’ a safe. Private bank watchman Miller, spoken of above, ascertain-. ing that the fire was close to his home down town, left his beat and proceeded to the spot, which movement was without doubt fully planned by the burglars, as his departure from his Market street patrol gave them a clear fleld. About three A. M. Mr. W. H. Nase, who has a desk in the insurance office and who resides up sairs, was Startied /rom his sleep by an explosion, and hur- riedly dreseing himself hastened down stairs, but the burglars had fled, Upon entering the office the work of the villains was at once visible. They had found the Key of the outside door of the safe (Her- ring’s) and thus gained access to the inner doors easily, but were then compelled to use powder, wiuch they did, blowing the bolts loose. They then took from the saie about $65,000 1p bonds, securities and stocks, The losses are as follows:— W. H. NASE’S LOS! One United States coupon bond, sixes of 1881, $100, 2. (0. 4,227. One United States coupon bond, sixes of 1881,,$100, No, 4,228, ~ One United States coupon bond, sixes of 1881, $100, No. 19,859. One United States coupon bond, 8:xes of 1881, $50, ). Gd. One Unitea States coupon bond, sixes of 1981, $50, NO. 2,023. One United States coupon bond, sixes of 1881, $100, 0, 3,052. . 3,052. py Unitea States coupon bond, sixes of 1881, $100, 0. 9,975. Oné United States coupon bond, sixes of 1881, $100, No. 16,682. One United States coupon bond, sixes of 1881, $100, No, votes Total $80 Nase also had $382 worth of Dutchess Turn- pike stock stolen. MRS. C. LYONS’ LOSS. One five-twenty coupon bond of 1868, $100, No. 18, ‘One five-twenty coupon bond of 1868, $100, No. 1,319. One five-twenty coupon bond of 1863, $100, No. 1,320. Total $300. ; LE GRAND DODGE'S Li 49 Shares Merchants’ Bank stock. 55 shares Farmers aud Mauulacturers? stock. 260 shares Poughkeepsie Gas Company stock. 104 shares Dutchess Turnpike stock, 20 shares Panama Raliroad stock. 40 shares Pacific Mali stock. 19 shares Kome and Watertown stock. None of the above stock is, however, any loss to the owners or of vaiue to the burglars, a tie corpo- ratious Will cancel the certiicates and issue new ones. DUICHESS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY'S LOSS. Four thousand doliars ia coupou bonds of the sixes of 81, two New York State bonds, and about $60,000 in registered bonds and bonds and mortgages, Of course the registered bonds and bonds aud mort- gages are not really jost and are of no value to tie burgiars. There were four tin boxes in the safe, owned by the insurance company, Mr. Nase, Rev. J. L. Cora ing and Le Grand qodge, ‘two of theni, owned by the company and Mr. Dodge, were found in the Methodist churchyard in Cannon street at daylight, and by the side of them lay a skeleton key. The contents of the boxes were gone. The burglara pre- vious to commencing their work darkened the win- dows with biack muslin, The barn destroyed was owned py Cotlee & Suicitff and was valued at $250, AKREST OF ONE OF THE BURGLARS IN NEW YORK. A8 soon a8 the burglary had been discovered a Warrant was issued by the Recorder of Poughkeep- aie and Captain Caitrey, of the Twentieih precinct, was telegraphed to to arrest four young men who were seen to leave the place on the eariy train, one of whom had @ black bag in his posses: This functionary, knowing the desperate character of the men he had to deal with, detailed detectiv McConneli and one policeman to the depot to await the arrival of the six o’ciock train yesteraay morning. Upon the arrival of the train at the depot ia Thirtieth street, the four men were seen to leave the car together. McConneil and the officer mi rush for them, the former seizing hold of the one carrying the bag, When his accomplices, discoveringstue ation of affairs, took to ther heels and ran, leaving the officers in the lurch. McConnell neld fast to hia Dian, Who showed fight and d him (McConnell) several stunning bows, and Snaliy succeeded in conveying him to the station house, when the bag Was examined and found to contain @ handsome kit of burglars’ tools, The prisoner, who gave his naine as Waiter Williams, being somewhat worn out in Gouseqnance of Dis night's work, was placed in acell, the treasurer of the company, Mr, L. G, Dodge, telegraphed for and arrived in the after- noon, with the Chief of Police of Poughkeepsie, tho latter having @ Warrant issued for the arrest of the burglars. In the meantime the friends of the untortun burglar had not been idle, and, securing the services of William F, Howe, a writ of habeas corpus waa procured and served on Sergeant James, of the Twentieth pre- cinct, compelitng him to produce the prisoner belore Justice McCunn at ten A. M, to-morrow, Upon the arrival of Mr. Dodge and the Chief of Poughkeepsie, in the afternoon, the prisoner was taken before Justice Ledwith, at Jeiterson Market, who, learning that a writ had been served ou the sergeant, committed the prisoner to the station house until ten A. M. to-morrow, when be will be produced before Justice McCunn. None of the stolen papers were recovered, but in the possession of the prisoner was found two private letters belonging to Mr. Dodge, which hag hea’ qakeu from the oMce of the company. Bank A number of capitalists from the East arrived at Omaha on Friday, with the view of investing Omaha and in tue Northwesiern Railroad, a Which they iatend buliding this year, in rt of AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB. FIRST DAY OF THE FALL MEETING sixth and last hurdle, and these three horses made the jump almost simultaneousiy—they were all in the air at the same time, When they landed, Harry Booth and Mitchell were under full headway quicker than Lobelia, aud having more run in them than the mare, they left her and came up the homestretch under whip and spur, Harry Booth wieeine the race by half @ length, Mitchell second, Lobeila a very good third, Eminence fourth, and Julius ich. Tine OF the dash, 3:30, The following is a SUMMaRY. HURDLE Race, purse $409, for all ages; $100 addi- tional to the secona horse, If three or more start; one mile and hd, Gy ig over six hurdies, H. B, Todd entered b, b, Harry Booth by Lexing- ton, dain Blonde, 6 years old, 146 iD8......+.+ +++ ©, Littlefield entered b,c, Mitchell, by Micke, Free, dam by Sovereign, 8 years old, 120 lba.... James ‘I hompsop entered v. tn. Lobelia, by Bonnie Scotiand, dam Capitola. aged, 143 1b3.....00..++ R. Shea entered br. h, Eminence, by Lexington, dam sister Vandal, 4 years oid, 136 iba....... D. McDaniels entered bv, b. Julius, by Lexington, data Jutia, aged, 146 ibs. ya Time, THE SECOND BRACE. This was a andicap sweepstakes for ali ages, $50 ch; play pay, and only $10 if declared, '3500 added; the second horse to receive twenty-five per cent of the staxes, one mile and a quarter, For this Tace there were twenty-four entries, eleven of which came tothe post. These were Mr. O'Donnell’s cheat Dut colts General Duke and. KR. B. Connolly, Mr. Littlefield’s chestnut mare Hira, Rk. W. Walden’s bay mere Sieety, and chestnut colt Metairie; Hunter & Travers’ black ware Nemesis, M. i. Sanford’s bay filly La Polka, and bay colt Northumberland; D, Mc- Daniei’s bay mare Aibuera, Purdy & Withers’ chest- hut tilly Tasmania, and A. Belmont’s bay lilly Attrac- tion, O'Donneli’s stable were the favorites against the Meld. The horses had @ capital start after two break-aways, and they came dashing up the home- stretch, kicking up such @ dust that it was impossi- bie to distinguish any of them save the leaders. As Bx passed the stand R. B. Connolly was irst, La Polka second, Nemesis thira, the Duke fourth, Sleety fifth, the otherg close ether, with tle ex- ception of Albuera, who was far behind. ‘They dashed rapidly around the upper turn, and as they passed under the bluff R. B, Connolly was sull on the lead, La Polka second, General Duke third, Tasmania fourth, Metairie fifth, the o.bers in @ ruck, with the exception of Albuera who was entirely out of the race. RK. B. Conuolly held the lead around the lower turn, but was pressed so hard by Nemesis and Metairie that General Duke haa to go to the rescue, and as they came into the homestretca the Duke was on even terms with Nemesis, and it was but @ moment more before he left them and came up the homestretch in hand, a winner of the neat by two lengths, Nemesis second, a length in front of Metairie, La Poika fourth, Kk. B. Connolly fifth, Hira sixth, Tasmania seventh, Sleety eighth, Attraction ninth, Nortiumberiand teuth and Aibuera last. ‘tbe time of the race Was 2:14)4. The follow- ing is a FOUR SPLENDID RACES. Harry Booth, General Duke, Glenelg and Remorseless the Winners. Yesterday was the first day of the fall meeting of the American Jockey Club at Jerome Park. The affair was in every respect a brilliant success. The day was clear and still, the roads were smooth, and a capital programme of races splendidly carried out made the occasion one long to be remembered by the members and friends of the Jockey Club, ‘The scenes of the road on match day were fine, but those of yesterday were superb, Eariy in the day every street above the great commercial centre of the city was tributary to a stream of costly equipages steadily pouring up Fifth avenue and out towards the Park; while at almost every angle of the winding road were groups of people watching and cheering the pageant ag it passed by. The unciouded sun made every knoll look warm and pleasant in its russet robes; the mottled oaks, the orange tinted maples and the elms and scarlet vines dressed the woods and thickets in gorgeous hues, and the streams were scarcely more radiant than the smiling meadows they dowed among. From the ewinences of the Park it was exht- larating to look down the drives and watch the ever shifting pictures of the road, Far away among the shrubbery burpished panels and gay trappings flashed in the sun, and fluttering robes and ribbons flecked the current with many colors. Princely fours-n-hand, aristocratic family carriages, rolling along with patrician grandeur, phaetons, tandema, dashing dog carts and little open wagons, with spanking teams, swept past in a grand torrent of vehicles, and as the day wore on whiried along, unbroken cloud of dust from one park to the other. It would be impossible to enu- merate the splendid eguipages, as they filled the road and gave no time for general recognition. Among them were the fours-in-hand of J. B, Fellows, Simeon Leiand, G. G. Gray, Hiram Cransion, E. W. Stoughton and Mr, Vyse, of Westchester; Leonard W. Jerome's bays, Frank Work’s Lady Kerne and mate, L. P. Morton with phaeton and blacks, A. C. Kingsman, light wagon and blacks; G, L. Coleman, mail phaeton and light bays; A. B, Cole- man’s light bays, J. M. Constable, phae- ton and gray and black team; Dr. Mains, phacton and bays; C, Stillman, phaeton and light bays; David Jones, phaeton and egorreis; Isaac Cowell's bays, Henry Hariey’s black and iron gray, David Stewart, phaeton and sorreis; Charles O’Conor’s phaeton and bays; H. A, Bartlerv's black and gray; W. R. Travers’ bays; M. Bates, phaeton and blacks; W. Martin, phaeton and bays; D. L, Pettee, phaeton and bays; W. Toel’s black and bay; A. P. Fisher, phaeton and blacks; Francis Skiddy, new phaeton aud bays; W. Cooper's sor- reis; Judge Shandley, phaeton and bays; Mr. Vail’s brown team; Mr. sweeny’s phaeion and biacks; TT. OC. Havemeyers tandem, wazonet and bays; Bu ton Mansfieid’s brown and bay tandem; McDonald's dog cart and light bays; H, Colton, phacton and light bays; A. Wheeler's dappled gra: dark bays, P. Bruner’s bay tandem, C. thony, landau and dark bays; W. landaulet and grays; M, Fanshawe’s taudem, a’ * Sheriff Campbell, W. Constable, Police Commissioner Brennan, G. W. Bartiett, Samuel Ward, Mr. Oliffe and a host of others with equally handsome turn- outs. Commodore Vanderbilt’s Mountain Girl was Cs out, but the Commodore rode with Mr. Frank Work. An immense crowd went out in the excursion train, Although two trains were advertised, the first was delayed so long that it was incorporated with the second, which left Forty-second street at twelve o'clock. Special cars were reserved for ladies, and vehicles were in waiting at the station to convey people to the races; though most of the passengers chose to walk and moved over the hill to ‘tne park like @ small army. ‘The scene at the race grounds was of the most animated description. Tue balconies of the ciub house, whereon a band was siationed, were crowded with fashionable ladies, Whose elegant attire gave the building tue appearance of a vast banquet, and the slopes were glistening With carriages, Down in the meacow, within the track, the incomparable four-in-hand of J. B. Fellows and other elegant eqaipages with livery moved about, and scattered here and there were splendidly mounted equestri- ans. The grand stand was filled, and the club stand crowded with aristocratic families. A dense mass of people covered the greensward between the stand and track, the judges’ stand was sur- rounded by bankers, merciianta and the chief patrons of the turf, and on every hand, bounded vy tue autumnal foliage of the groves and arched by a glorious sky, were pictures of beauty and enjoy- ment. The track was in magnificent condition and the list of horses exceedingly fine. Ail the races were brilliant, from the taking of the hurdles to the last homestretch, and every one entered into tue sport of the day with an enthusiasm seldom equalled at any course. The only accident of the day was the dismounting of one of the riders in the third race, and this was buta trifling affair, which oniy atforded amusement to looxers on. Bacon's illly, ridden by Miller, bolted across the track at the start, and was run over by Morris’ Violet, ridden by Hennessy, unhoraing Miller. Neither the rider nor the filly were hurt, and the latter, after following in the race a short distance, was caught and taken by her rider to the stabies. There are, however, notwithstanding the nigh degree of exce!lence to which everything 18 carried by the Jockey Ciub at Jerome Park, a few pomts requiring the attention of the ciub to perfect their arrangements and the coinfort of the public. First, is the necessity of having larger characters wiih which to announce the result of the races. The smati figures on the biackbourd are entirely undis- Ung able from the stand without the aid of opera giaswes, aud the only means by which the public can decipher them is to crowd through the narrow gate and across the track to the bulletin, Another very timportant feature is neglected, when 80 many horses are entered for a single race, In the failure to announce by a herald at the stand the names and colors of the eutries imme- diately preceding each race, and the resuit at its termination, This has been repeatedly urged, ana in view of the great satisfaction it would atford there seems to be no good reason why it should not be adopted. It is impossible, even for the ex- perienced, to promptly distinguish the horses by lmeans of the programme, and it 1s not only ver; inconvenient to the public, but annoyjne to the oui- cers of the course for every one to flock about the judges’ stand with LS teh inguiries as to which horses win, A herald would obviate ali tuis dim- culty ana elevate the committee of arrangements very considerably in popular favor. Great surprise 13 manifested at the absence of pos @ mga facilities. A Wire extends frow the rail- coe ow Ly SUMMARY. Hanpicar SWEEPSTAKES, for atl aves, $50 each, play or pay, and only $10 if declared; $500 added, the second horse to recelve twenty-live per ceut of the stakes; one mile aud a quarter. J. O'Donnell entered ch. ¢, General Duke, by Lex- Ington, dam Lilla, 4 years oid, 106 ibs...... woe F Hunter & ‘Iravers entered bik. filly Nemesis, by Eclipse, dam Echo, 4 years oa, 101 1b3.. ae 2 R. W. Walden entered ch. h. Metairie, by Star Davie, dain Bavonah oscars old, 110 Ibs....... 3 4 M. H. Santord entered b. [. La Poika, by Lexing- ton, dam Dance, 4 years Old, 100 108............ J. O’Ponneli entered br. h. R. B. Connolly, by Lexington, dam Lucy Fowler, 6 years old, 7 Til 1b8. 2. .-005 ne evan shag iive €. Littlefield entered ch. m, Hira, by Lexington, dain Hezira, 5 years Old, 107 Ibs............ eee 6 Purdy & Withers entered ch. f. Tasmania, by A’ tralian, dam Matty Grogs, 3 years old, 67 lbs... 7 8 9 R. W. Walden entered b. m, Sieety, by Rogers, dam Angeline, Vinee old, 106 lbs......... eee A. Belmont entered b, f. Attraction, by Balrownle, dain Maud, 3 years old, 87 Ibs............. seesee M. Hl. Saniord entered b. c. Northumberland, by Lexington, dam Novice, 4 years oid, 103 Ibs... D. Mci/aniels entered b. f. Albuera, by Jeit Davis, Time, 271434. THE THIRD RAC. This was the Champagne Stakes, of $200 cach, half forfeit, §.,500 added, for three year oids; the second horse to receive $309 out of the stakes; mile heats. For this race there were thirty-eight entries, but all save 81x of thatnumber declined starting. Those that came to the post were Mr. Litteil’s biack colt Onyx, Mr, Belmont’s colt Glenelg, Air. Cameron's bay filly Inverness, L. G. Morris’ brown filly Violet, Messrs. Purdy & Wither’s chestnut colt Vespucius, and Thomas G. Bacon’s chestnut filly by Bulletin. Glenelg was a great favorite with the betting frater- nity, Inverness being the next choice, Onyx the third, Vespucius fourth, the others in a fleld not seeming to be much thought of. First Heat.—the horses had avery good start, Onyx taking the lead, Violetsecond, Vespucius third, Bacon’s filly fourth, Inverness tfth aud Glenelg sixth, ‘They ran around the turn without changing places, but as they came down under the blutt Onyx was closely pressed by Violet, Glenelg third, Inver- ness fourth, Veapucius fifth and Bacon's flily sixth. Onyx maintained the lead around the lower turn and into the homestretch, but as soen as they got into straight work Vespucius. ran to the front, and, Gleneig and Violet dropping off, Inverneas soon passed them, and coming with arush disposed of Onyx fity yards from home, and landed at the string so Close to Vespucius that it Was almost diilicult to say Which was the winner. The judges, however, awarded the beat to Vespucius by a head, Inverness gecond, Onyx third, Glenleg fourth, Violet filth and Mr. Bacon's filig 81 Time, 1:48:44. Second Heat.—Glenelg was still the favorite and Inverness second choice, the others asa field. Just as the horses were going to start, aud wien under full headway, the jockey on Bacon’s ily turned sud- denly im front of Vespucius, and tue latter horse struck the other with such force tuat he knocked him down. The other horses went on with the race, Glenelg getting a fine start, Inverness second, Onyx third, Violet fourth, aad Veal es fica, Gotng around the upper turn, aud when near the quarter pole, Vespucius doited and lost consideravie ground. Glenelg Was still leading as he passed under the bluff, Inverness second, Onyx third, six lengths abead of Vioiet, who was about the same distance in front of Vespuctus. When the latter passed around the turn to ‘the half-mile pole he ran very fast, butit was evident that le wad no chance of overtaking the others. He passed \iolet, however. Glenelg disposed of Onyx on tie lower turn, and although Inverness tung to him pretty well ail the way up the homestretch, it was more by the permission of Gleneig’s jockey than by ner ability to Tace with him, Glenelg came home au easy winner of the heat by two lengths and a half, Inverness sec- ond, haifa dozeu lengths tu front of Ouyx. Violet, Mr ee and Bacon’s filly distanced. ‘Lime of the eat, 1:43 34. Third Heat.—This race having been made before the new rules were adopted of ruling all horses out of a race of heats who have not won a heat, the three started. Gleneig was a greater favorite than previousiy, but there were few to (ake the tempting offers of his backers. Onyx liwd the best or the start, Inverness next. {t was but a mowent, how- ever, becore Glenelg ran to the frout, and taking a jead of two lengths stayed there to the end. inver- ness passed Onyx at tue quarter pole, but with all her etforts to approach Glenelg sie was unsuccess- ful. Glenelg Won under @ hard pull in 1:49, two lengths anead of Inverness, who was ten icngtus ia advance of Onyx. The followiug isa SUMMARY Tak CHAMPION STAKES, Of $200 each fh $1,600 added, tor three year 8, receive $000 out of the stakes; mile heats, A. Beimount entered b. ¢ Gleuelg (imported), by Citadel, dam bapta. foresee @ 1 2 R. W. Cameron entered bf. IMverugss (iu ported), by Maccaroni, dam Elirida.. ies | M. A. Little entered bik. ¢ Onyx, by Eclipse, dai by Revenue... se sees 3 3 3 Purdy & Witners entered ch. c. Vespuc Mt forteit, horse to road to the stand and only needs ao mstrument and by Planet, dam Columbia.... 1 dis, an operator. Last year this was attended to; but | L. G. Morris entered br. f. Violet, by Bal+ this season there is no means of communicating rownle, dam Verbena,. oe 13. intelligence of the races to New York auring the | Thomas G. Bacon entered ch, f., by Bulletin, day except by sending a messenger 4 long distance dam Seabreeze.. ds, Time, 134844 —1:48 g—1 THE FOCRTA RAC! This was calied the Nursery Stakes, of $50 each, Diay or pay, $1,400 added, for two year olds, second horse vo receive $800 outof the stukes; one mile, Thirty-four were entered for the race aud nine came to the post. These were Belmont’s chestnut filly Nellie James, Messrs. Purdy & Withers’ bay Milly Merry Thought, Mr. Belmont’s chestnut filly Finesse, Mr. H. Saniord's two bay fiilies, oue out of Novice and the other Miram; the Jerome stables’ brown colt Glen bush, F. Morris’ chestnut filly Remorse- lesa, Isaac W. Pennock’s chestnut colt and T, W. Dosweii’s bay fily Midday. The bulk of the betting lay between Remorseless and Mr. Beimont's entries, the latter having siiehtiy the odds in their favor. A more beautiful tield of two year oids never appeared on @ race track than those engaged in this race. Remorseless got away first to & good — Glen Bush second, Finease third, Nellie James fourth, the others ina bunch. Finesse took the lead on the upper turn, Remorae- Jess second, Nellie James third, Grecian Bend fourth, the others tailing om. The youngsters ran in this way under the bluff and around the lower turn. The race was sharp between Finesse and Remorseleas all the way up the homestretch, but Remorseless came in a Winuer by half a length, Finesse second, Midday third, Nellie James fourth, Grecian Bend fifth, The Nun sixth, Pennock’s colt seventh, Merry Thought eighth and Glen Bush ninth. Time of the Tace, 1:47. ‘The following 18 @ SUMMARY, THE NURSERY STAKBS of $50 each, play or pay, $1,500 added, for two year olis, second Lorse to receive $500 Out of the stakes; one mie, F, Morris entered ch. f, Remorseless, by Eclipse, dam Barbarity...... ccc A, Belmont entered ch, f. by Lexington, dai tm- ported Filigree,...... th eseeseseeees Purdy & Withers entered b. f. Merry Thought, oy imported Warminster, dam Varina. A. belmont entered ch. 1. Nellie James (import by Dollar, dam Fleur de Champs... wee M. H. Sanford entered b. f. Grecian Bend, by ington, dam Mirlam........s.ss. M. H. Sanford entered b, f. ‘the Nui ton, daM NOVICE... s.eeeeeee to the ratiroad station. An operator could go out to the park at uoon, taking lis instrament with him, and would oniy need to attach it to the wires to afford great accommodation to private individuals, to say Lotiting of the press, and, in the present era of American enterprise, the negiect of this matter ig Inexcusavle. For the benefit of visitors to the races It ig well to state that the field within the track 1s open to the carriages of those entitied to club privileges, and many who now withdraw their equipages to secluded places might enter the enclosure and not only enjoy an excellent view of the races from their carriages, but add to the brilliaucy of tue scene, There were yesterday atieaat 100 fine establishments lost to view in the great maas or ordinary vehicles whica should have been in the feid in front of the staud, « THE FIRST RACE. This was a hurdle race for a purse of $400, for all ages; $100 to the second horse; one mile and a quar- ter, over 8ix hurdies, There were five entries, all of which came to the post. These were H. B. Todd's bay horse Harry Booth, six years old, by Lextagton, dam Blonde, 146 pounds; Mr. Thompson's brown mare Lobelia, aged, by Bonnie Scotiand, dam Capt- tola, 143 pounds; Mr. Shea's brown horse Eminence, four years oid, by ms od dam sister to Vandal, 188 pounds; D, McDaniel's bay horse Julius, aged, by Lexington, dam Julia, 146 pounds, and C. Little- field's bay colt Mitchell, by Mickey Free, dam by Sovereign, 120 pounds. Harry Booth was the favor- tte, selling for $825, Eminence, the second choice, at $355, Lobelia $810, Mitcheli $100, and Julius $100. he betting was heavy on the result. The horses had @ very fine start and ran at the firat hurdle rapidiy, Mitchell leading, Ewinence second, Booth third, Julius fourth aud Lobelia fifth, ‘They then ran @round the turn sharply, and as they reached the second hurdle, which was on the lower end of the course, the horges were spread out a few lengths apart. Mitchell was first ovor tie hurdle, Eminence second, Harry Booth turd, Julius fourth and Lobeila last. They all jumped prettily, clearing ae ek betore them in good style. As they came up the homestretch the orses closed up nicely, and as they jumped the third hurdle Mitchell, Eminence and Harry Booth were in the air togetner, Lobelia following fourth and Juitus difth, As they came up evzrec 8 @& w& and passed the stand Lobelia made fast ran- | Isaac W. Pennock entered ch, ning aud soon went through the other | Josephine R. Rowen. horses, taking the lead on the turn. | Thomas Dosweii entered Julius then set to work in earest, and! dam Ninette....... sa he ran down to the blot he Dasacd | The Jerome Staples them all, and was first over tne fourth hurdie, ‘The ‘Trovatore, dam Cyclon 9 horses Were BOW on their mettle and bottom ad Time, dam Ninette, 4 years old, 93 lbs........... voocee IF WASHINGTON. WAsHINGTON, Oct. 9, 1869, General Badeau’s Return from London. General Badeau, Assistant Secretary of Legation in London, arrived here this morning, and has spent most of the day with the President and the Secre- tary of State. It is understood that General Badeau ig the bearer of important despatches from Minister Motley. For the present the nature of their con- tents cannot be ascertained. ExeSenator Deolittle Working for the St. Thomas Agents. Among thoso who called upon the President to-day Was ex-Senator Doolittle, late of Wisconsin, but now of New York, It is understood that Judge Doolittle has been retained as legal adviser by those interested in the purchase of St. Thomas, and his business here is to sound the President upon that subject. From What can be ascertained it seems that Grant is not 80 enthusiastic about the acquisition of St. Thomas as some other people—Mr. Seward, for Instance. He thinks St. Domingo would be a beter bargain, The Will of General Rawtins. George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy, accom- panied by President Grant, appeared in the Orphans? Court with the will of the late Generai John A, Rawiins, for the purpose of qualifying as executors under the will, General Jonn E. Smith, Colonet Eli Parker and Hon. Jacob D, Cox, who witnessed the execution of tie will, testified to the genuineness of the signature of the deceased, and the will was g@amitted to probate and record. Letters testamentary were issued to Mrs. Rawlins aud President Grant, the amount of the bond for the faithful execution of thelr trust being fixed at $20,000, He first bequeaths to his Wile and children his nouse and lot, situated at the southwest corner of Twelfth and M streeta, ag equal heirs, as also his land In Cheyenne and Golden City, Wyoming Territory; to his son, James brandon Raw- lins, he leaves his library; to his father and mother his property known as Rawlins Homestead, in the town of Guilford, Jo Daviess county, lil, at their death the property to be divided into eight portions, five of them to go to his brother’ Lemuel, who is to satisfy his sisters, Mary and Laura, and his brother Robert, and keep the place as a whole. Executive Appointments. The President to-day appoiated George W. Col- bath as Postmaster at Dover, N. H,, and Seth Hodges a3 Postmaster at Daneville, N. Y. Personal. Secretary Boutwell left Washington this morning for Philadelphia. He expects to return to-morrow. The Weekly Statement of Fractional Currency. The receipts of fractional currency for the week: ending to-day were $1,247,100, The following ship- ments were made:—Yo the Assistant Treasurer at New York, $11,000; to the Assistant Treasurer at New Orieans, $11,000; to the Assistaut Treasurer at Boston, $11,000; to the Assistant Treasurer at Phila- delphia, $50,000; to the Assistant Treaaurer at St. Louis, $50,000; to the Assistant Treasurer at Charles- ton, $25,000; United States Depository at Pittsburg, $50,000; United States Depository at Cincinnatt, $50,000; United States Depository at Chicago, $50,000; United States Depository, Mobile, $40,000; United States Depository at Louisville, $25,000; Unitea States Depository at Baltimore, $25,000; United States Depository at Buffalo, $20,000; to the national banks, $460,500; mutilated bank notes burned during the week, $270,050; total amount bursel to date, $16,807,224; bank currency issued for bills destroyed during the week, $107,230; total issued therefor, $16,527,600; bank circulation outstanding at this Gate, $299,625, 785; fractional currency reieemed and destroyed during the week, $190,509. UNTLD STATES SUPREM2 COURT, A Cotton Case=The Legality of Titie to Proe perty Acquired by Purchase of a Rebel. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct, 8, 1869, No. 269. John H. McKee, Claimant and Appellant, vs. The United States.—Appeal from the District Court for the Southern District of liinois.—The appellant was the owner of 169 bales of cotton and other valuable property stored in Alexandria, La., when the expedition of General Banks ascended the Red river an‘ took military possession of that coun- iry inthe gspringof 1364. He had purchased the property from A, A. McKee, a rebel, and paid him for it in United States greenbacks. It was in charge of his agent when Admiral Porter's fotula appeared at Alexandria, by which it was seizel and after- ward livelied at Catro as prize of war. McKee flied his claim, alleging himself to be a loyal citizen of the United States, and that he purchased under authority and by virtue of gra and licenses granted to him by the Treasury Department under Tegulations established by the Secretary of the Treasury aud approved by the President, and algo under permission of the military commander of the Guif, These grants authorized him to trade with citizens in the rebel districts of Louisiana, and gave him authority to priug the results of trade—cotton, &c.—froi rebel dtatricts to New Orleans. The trial of the cause resulted in the dismlasal of the claim, and this appeal is taken, the argument In ita support being that there was no violation of the non-intercourse act of July, 1s51, the trade having been in pursuance of authority granted by ; the executive department of the go nent, and that in a case like this the status of the citizen does not control and does not enter into the question. It was also contended that the iaw of naticns in refer- ence to prize of war does not apply and cannot be involved ip @ case seeking to condemn as such, Jure velit, the property of @ citizen of the Cnite ‘States found within tts territory. Nor ts the title of @ purchaser in good faith velore actual seizure affected by the political status of the vendor, The government insists that the pur: of the pro- perty was ia direct violation of the act of July, 1861, and no title was acquired by the purchaser. The parties were not competent to wake a contract because thelr permits were not law/‘ul, All lawful permits strictly prohinited commercial intercourse with locaifties beyoud the muitary lines, Nor had the et or license grauted the miutary com- mander auy more force tuan if it had,beea obtained from @ private citizen. But, independentiy of any question as to the character or validity of the per- muts, no tiie could be acquired of . McKee by the hase; for he was then an officer or agent of the Contederate States, and as such all property held by him was contiscabie under the fifth section of the act of 1562, and by the same section any such gale by him as a legal transfer was utteriy voll. Argued. by R, M. Cor for MeKeee, and the Attorney Gem: eral for the gov rament, The Rights of Commeveint Traveiters in Vire ginia. uel B, Paul vs, the Commonwealth of he case grows out of a presentment in the Circuit Court of the city of Petevaburg, V.a, against Paul, charging him witu acing as agent for certain tnsurauce companies of New York without @ license, The accused voluntarily appeared and pleaded not guilty, and the result of the trial was conviction, The catse was then taken tothe SI preme Court of Appeals of the State where the con- Viction was allirmed, and it was then brought here, ‘The Jacts ate these:—By a law of Virginia of Febru- ary, 1860, it is enacted that no insurance com) any not incorporated under the laws of the State of yirginia shall carry on its business within tiat State until it shail btamed a license; and that no such until the company making appil- cation siiail have deposited witn the Treasurer of the State six per cent bonds of the State, or guaran- teed by the State or Board of Residents of the State, pas for money loaned to au amount varying from 35,009 to $60,000, according to the capital ee ot and by & statute of the same State it is prov! led. that no person stall, without a license, act as an agent of insurance for foreign companies, under a Bont, of not less than filty dollars nor more than 500, The accused applied for a iicense, but tt was refused, because his companies had pot compiled with the law by deposit, &c. Thereupon he proeeeded to business ‘with- out @ license, and was tndicted. The writ of error !s based upon the proposition that tho>s in surance laws of the State of Virginia are u: ‘onstle tutional, in that they are expressly forbidde., dy the articles of confederation, by which it is p:svided that the people of each State “shail have free Ingress and egress to and from any other State, and shal enjoy therein the privileges of trade and com. merce, Subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the tuhabitants thereof respectively, '? and that they are in violation of articie tour of fhe constitution, it ts also urged that these statutes of Virginia are essentially a reguiation of commerce between that and other States, and as such are Unconstitutional. It 13 submitted that a corporation created by the law@ of one of the Siates, or ¢o posed of citizens of that State, 1s ae State within the meaning of the constiiutio tuat such is the rule of Internationa 1aWe eee n the part of the State of Virginia ali these fre coutroverted, and a lengthy argument rae mitted to Siow oat fuses laws are merely auch jeceasary police regulations as are requir Vang te of cites ¢ the State, pata tbs » M. Cariisie and J. D. McPherson for plaint! error; Conway Robingon for the state of V Taal bs WAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Lieutenant Commander Stephen A, McCarty is ordered to ordnance duty at New York, First Assistant Engineer W. G. Buehier and Seconda Assistants 0. W. Allison, J. D. Ford, J. 3. Barry, O, M. Breaker and Harry Webster temeenee are ordered 10 the