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WASHINGTON. Secretary Boutwell’s Rights as a Dealer in Gold. The Government Refuses to Sell at a Lew Price. Excitement in Secretary Cox’s Office Over the McGarrahan : Land Claim. The Fvederal Buildings in New York. Progress of the New Post Office and the Battery Sea Wall. The Building of a New Custom House Recommended, 4&otion of the Cabinet on the Jewish Appeal to the Czar. WASHIGTON, Dec. 1, 1869. The President’s Message. At two o'clock this afternoon the President de- clined to receive visitors, and, with a shorthand reporter and two transcribers, resumed the dicta- tion of his annual message. It is expected that the President will complete his message to-day, subject, however, to such additions, changes and modifica- tions ag may be required by events between this and the meeting of Congress, Tho Last Gold Sale in New York=The Bankers After Their Coin—Government Interests to be Protected. Mr. James B. Colgate, of the firm of Trevor & Golgate, bankers, of New York, arrived here ths ‘morning on business with the Secretary ef the Treasury relative to the rejection of his bid for six hundred thousand gold of the mullion ordered to be sold on government account yesterday. Mr. Colgate had an interview with the Secretary this morning and called his attention to the facts connected with the transaction, insisting ‘tlrat he believed their frm was entitied to the gold ‘at the amount bid—twenty-one twenty. ‘The Secre- ‘tary'tn reply calls Mr. Colgate’s attention to a circu- Jar published last August, prescribing certain rules for the purchase of bonds and the sale of gold. Among tbe rules ig one setting forth that the accept- ance of all bids shall be subject to the interest of the government. Mr. Boutweil construes this to mean tac ne reserves to himself the right to accept or reject bids for gold or bonds as it may seem proper to him, This is tue only justification he has for refusing to accept the bid of Trevor & Colgate, Mr. Colgate contends that this a mere technicality, of which nobody but a thimbierigger would take advantage. He bid for the goldin good faith at what he judges was its Tarket value, and he thinks the Secretary has no rigut to refuse to deliver it. The Secretary, on the other hand, does not think 121.20 is the real market value of gold, even though that may be its nominal price in Wall street. He is of opinion that it should bring more, and he therefore refused to sell at that price. Mr. Colgate admitted that the Secretary was tecunically right in falling back upon the rules of the department about the sale of gold and the purchase of bonds, though 1t appears the circular referred to did not appear in the newspapers at the time it was issued, and has not accompanied the usual advertisements of the Assistant Treasurer at New York. So at the same time fie insisted that it was not such an excuse a8 an honorable business house would put forth-to save it from carrying out its contracts. The result of the interview was that Mr. Boutwell refused to rescind bis order forbidding the gold to be delivered at ihe price bid. What course will be pursued in the future is not decided, Dutit is evident Mr. Boutwell does not propose to sell gold for less than twenty-three, and he rather inclined to the opiuion that it would bring twenty- five. Messrs. S, B. Chittenden and George Opdyke, who were here yesterday, unqualified/y approved ‘My. Boutwell’s course in this matte! Sumner’s AntieCuban Manifesto Answered— Reasons for Recognizing Cuban indepene dence. A pamphiet has just appeared, adopted and approved by the Ventral Republican Juntas of Cuba and Porto Rico, in which Senator Sumner’s speech adverse to the recognition of Cuba, delivered at the Republican Convention of Massachusetts Seprember 22, 1869, 13 very freely analyzed. The pamphlet states that it would be impossible to under- stand Mr. Sumner’s speech in view of his liberal ideas. Cubans cannot think that the United States sympathize with Spain. Mr. Sumner wishes to restrain public sentiment, The American .doc- trine means the exclusion of Europe from America. ‘The two paraliel questions of Alabama claims and the recognition of Cuba can be certainly maintained Without apy inconsistency or contradiction. They do not consider the Alabama claims their own; they consider Cuba a de sucto government. The pam- phiet then recounts the successes at Puerto Principe and Las ‘Tunas and tite victories of Barre, Jigerana, the heights of La Cruz, Las Minas, Sabana Nueva, Puerto del Padre, Manati and Ramon as evi- dence of successiul belligerents. Fhe precedent of the fag of Texas admitted to tie port of New York in 1836 ts quofed. They covsidered that after re- Cognition, in sixty days the tag of the “republic”? Would prevail throughout Cuba; that the American Nation ts not neutral in the struggie; that popular sympathy has already pronounced in favor of struggling Cuba. A mass of testimony is then in- troduced, not only showing that slavery has been ebolished by the republican government of Cuba, bat that Cubans have generally been opposed to the institution, and measures, at different umes, were taken to prevail npon the Spanish government to suppress the itliegal trate. ‘They thivk it strange that the repubiic of the Unitea States allows every- ‘thing to Spain and nothing to Cuba, The paaphiet 49,8 concise and well susiained plea for the cause of Cuba and points out in many particulars the unten- Abie posiijon held by tne United States. dhe Jews in Russia—The Czar’s Liberality Despatch to Minister Curtin. M. Catacazy, the Russtan Minister, denies that teere is the slightest ground for the appeal made yesterday dy certain Jewish gentiemen of this city on bebaif of thew coreligionists in Russia, So far from persecuting the Isractites, M, Cavacazy declares that he knows of his own knowledge that the Czar bas treated them with marked Kindness, that not long since the Czar, from lus own private means, had erected a fine synagogue in the elty of St. Petersburg tor the better accommodation of his subjects of tho Jewish persuasion, and that befor tas time only ope tem- vic of that Kind existed in that city, On the other hand, the Aelegation whieh waited upon the Presi- dont yesterday are quite positive in their statement regarding the Czar’s reported persecution of the Roasian Israelites, aud assert that President Grant Yepterday submitted their appeal to bis Cabinet, When it was unanimously agreed that Sec. retary Fish should send copies of the appeal to Min- ister Gurtin at St. Petersburg aud Minister Catacazy in Wasuington, urging both of these distinguished Stplomats to recommend to the Czar a revocation of his ukase e@xpatriaiing the Russian Israelites, They gay further that President Grant himself dictated a Geapatch to be sent by cable to Minister Curtia, directing him to bring the subject without delay to the attention of the Russian Court. Marringe of a Son of John ©, Breckinriige. 4. Cabell Breckinridge, a son of tie ox-Vice Preal- dent, aud Miss Sallie Johnson, daughtor of Mr. Re NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. M. Johnson, were united in matrimony to-day in this city. The ceremony was unattended by any particular display, and the happy couple, soon after 1ta solemuizauion, left here one bridal tour to the North. The MeGarraghan Land Claim—Exciting In- terview Between the Claimant’s Attornucy and Secretary Cox. The McGarragban case scems destined to be a per- Petual source of trouble to somebody or other. The other day Secretary Cox, by his counsel, moved to withdraw a motion to quash the judgment of the District Supreme Court ordering him to issue forth- with @ patent to MoGarraghan for the lands em- braced with what is known as the Paroche Grande Rancho, in California, containing valuable quicksil- ver mines, now being operated by an alleged com- pany of equatiers under the name of the New [dreaa Mining Cor pany. This motion having been with- drawn Mr. McGill, one of the attorneys for McGarraghan, waited upon Secretary Cox to-day and asked him whether he meant now to issue the patents for the disputed lands to McGarragnan? The Secretary is reported to have said that he never intended to give McGarraghan ‘he patents; that his reason for withdrawing the motion to quash was that he had ascertained that the District Supreme Court intended to affirm the judgment in favor of MoGarraghan; thac the action of that court in the matter was utterly disgraceful, and that the mein- bers of that court ought to be impeached for their scandalous proceeding. The Secretary 1s further alleged to have stated that he m- tended to apply for a writ of error to carry the case to the United States Supreme Court, where it would be returnable next Monday, when he would move to have it advanced on the calendar, 89 a8 to secure a speedy aud final judg- ment about the whole matter, McGarraghan’s attorney remarked that his only reason for getting the writ of manddmus was because the New Idrean Mining Company were using every effort to have the Secretary issue patents to them, contrary to an agreement not to take any action on the question before the meeting of Congress. Secretary Cox is sald to have replied thas MoGarraghan’s counsel ought to be proud of their feats; that before the mandamus had been appiled for the Cabinet was agunit in favor of McGarraghan, but that now the President and all. the Cabinet Ministers were united in condemning Mr. McGarraghan’s conduct. The interview between the Secretary and Mr. McGill is sald to have been altogether highly exciting, terml- nating in each party almost giving the other the lie direct. The case is reported to involve property worth inthe aggregate millions of dollars, which may be some explanation of the extraordinary in- terest and excitement it occasions. Imports During the Last Fiscrl Yenr. It appears by the oficial report that the aggregate amount of imports during tne fiscal year ending June was $437,000,000, of which there were at Balti- more nearly $16,000,000; at Boston and Charleston, $44,600,000; at New York, $295,000,000; at Philadel- phia, nearly $16,000,000, and at San Francisco, $15,000,000, The New Assistant Attorney Gencral. The President has appointed Thomas H. Talbot, of Maine, Assistant Attorney General in place of Mr. Dickey, who resigned several weeks ago. Mr. Talbot was formerly connected with the office of Internal revenue, but for some time past has held an oficial position in the Attorney General's ofice. Supervisor for Ohio. Joseph C, Dwyer, the newly appointed Supervisor for the disirict of Northern Ohio, will leave this city next week to assume the duties of his office. His headquarters will be at Coshocton, Ohio, Indian Commissioner’s Report. The annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs has been completed and will be transmitted to Congress with the report of the Secretary of the Interior. Commissioner Parker's report js lengthy and cuters fully into the affairs of the Indian policy of the government as executed by the Indian Com- missioner and the Quaker agents afd superin- tendents, whicn it is found has been satisfactorily administered, The report will be much larger than any of recent years and embrace @ number of reports received from military and Quaker agents now on the frontier, Ganugers Appointed. William H. H. Crozier has been appointed Gauger of Internal Revenue for the Twenty-third district of New York and Edward Barton for the Bleventh dis- | trict of Pennsylvania, Supervising Architect Mallevs Report—New York Court House and Post Office. The following is taken from the report of the Supervising Architect, A. B, Mullet, to the Secretary of the Treasury, for the year 1869:— COURT HOUSE ANP POST OFFICE IN NEW YORK. The enclosure of the lot on which this building 1s to be located was commenced on the 9th of August last, all efforts to effect an exchange of site as pro- vided for in the act approved March 3, 1869, having failed. The excavation was commenced on the 17th of the same month, and has since that time, in spite of the extraorainary difficulty experienced, been pressed forward rapidly. it was deemed of the utmost importance that the retaining and founda- tion walls should be completed at the earliest mo- ment, not only on account of the great risk neces- sarily incurred by excavating so far below the level of Broadway in @ bed of sand, but in order to inconvenience the city of New York as littie as possible by continued occupancy of the entire sidewalks adjoining the property, the use of which, and of a considerabie portion of the Park has been Kindly granted by tne authorities of New York, to whom I desire to express my obligations, and -partcularly to A. Oakey all, fhe Mayor, ana to George W. McLean and William M. Tweed, Street Commissioners, for these and other valuable favors, It was therefore determlued to continue the work night and day, by means of reiays of hands, This bas been accomplished at a very slight additional expense by meaus of caicium lighta, Contracts were awarded after due advertixement to the lowest bidders for excavation, stone and cement. The two former contracia have been cancelled for non-tulfil- ment according to their terms, and purchases made in open market at more satisfactory rates. The work is being performed by the day, under the im- mediate supervision of Mr. 8. T, Hulburd, whom Jam unable to praise too highly for the manner in which he bas pertormed his duties, and the vigil- ance he has exercised in guarding the public inter- ests, and who bas been ably seconded in ail his ellorts by the disbursing agent, General P. H. Jones, for whose cordial co-operation and constant efforts to promote the success of the enterprise I wish here to attest wy appreciation and express my thanks. | cannot too SSOnEY, urge the Importance of grantiog sufficient appropriations to enclose the building during the coming season, which I am satisfied can be done if the necessary means are provided and no uaforeseen obstacles arise, APPRAISERS’ STORES—PHILADELPHIA. It is much to be regretted a suficient amount was not appropriated at the last session of Congress to complete this butiding this season, which might easily have been done and the building now occu- pled, the rent saved and an income derived from the portion to be devoted to storage, The exterior walls are now finished and oniy require the roof to have the building entirely enciosed, It 18 one of the finest Warehouses in the world, and will, when completed, be second to none of its class within my knowiedge. Jtis greatly needed for government, and I cannot pee strongiy ree the importance of tts early com- pletion. BARGE OFFICE, NEW YORK. The work on this improvement has progressed very slowiy and under great disadvantage, not the least of which was a Jack of funds to enable une de- partment to contract for.an entire sea wail Unis sea- son. The appropriations asked for have been ro- duced below the amount necessary for its comple- lion. From the pecnitar location of qe work tha operations are carried on with great dimiculty; the work being under water and necessarily performed by divers, Which, of course, has rendered its progress slow. It is hoped, however, tt will be so far ad- vanced this season as to prevent injury irom ice and spring floods; otherwise considerable damage will probaoly eccuy. No appropriation has yet been inade for the erection of a oullding, preparations for commencing which must be made before the completion of the walls aud at @ great saving of expense, NEW YORK APPRAISEN'S DEPARTMENT, ASSAY OFFICE AND CUSTOM HOUSE, Mr. Muilett says:—“I desire to renew my recom- mendations that immediate steps be takea for the erection of a suitable fireproof strueture for th e of the Appraiser’a Department im the city of Ww York. The butiding at present occupied, though the best that can be obtained, is not well adapted jor the purpose, and, being of ordinary construction, the risk froin fire 1s of course great. ‘The rental at presenc paid 1s $75,355, to which sum tt hag beeu increased since the date of my last report from $45,000 per unaum, and will provabiy be again increased at the expiration of the present lease, if any opinion can be formed irom past experience, the rent having been increased from §: in [864 to the sum at present paid, 1614 evident the present rental would in @ few years repay the coat of @ suitable building in which could be provided facilities for the trans- action of public business that cannot be obtamed under the present system. In this connection I Would suggest no bet location could be selected than a portion of the battery, and ag urge the importance of obtaining the whole or a portion of that property as a site tor a new Custom fouse and other ouildings comuected With the revenue depart- ment, George W. Blunt, of New York city, has been authorized by ythe Commissioners of the Sinking © Fund, in whom ia vested the control of the property,” to negotiate for its disposal to the government. He informs we that iby ta willing to wake Libera! seraneemenie in regard thereto. The present Cus- tom House 1# crowded to its utmost capacity, and whl, im afew years, become entirely inadequate for the transaction of the customs business of the port of New York. Indeed, it is already so, 1 would also suggest the removal of the Assay Office to the sameglocality, It couid be effected at a comparatively smali expense, The present building 1s too small, the business 18 annually augmenting, and, it appears to me, must continue to do 80, not only from the increase of business incident to the geowth of the city of New York, but from the pre- Kent and prospective facilities for the transportation of bullion from tne mines. ‘The Assayer strong!y favors the change, The present Custom House an: Assay office buildings are sttuatea on the most valu- able property in Wall etreet and could be sold for jum nearly sufficient to erect the proposed buildings. The new revenue duck atthe Batcery is progres- sing as rapialy as the limiled appropriation at the disposal of the departinent will permit, and would have been completed this season had a suficient appropriation been made at the last session of Con- gress. It 1s to be built entirely of granite, and will, itis believed, prove cheaper in the end thao any temporary structure, and it is hoped it wiil be but the commencement of caer wharves and piers for the city of New York. If the Custom House is erected on the Battery J see no reason why the proposed barge office ‘building cannot be dis- pensed with, which would of iseif be a saving of not less than $500,000. THE ROSTON POST OFFICR AND TREASURY: Work was commenced on the excavation for the United Siates Post Office and Treasury at Boston, Mass., in May last. Proposals for making the exca- vation and for a supply of sand and cement had pre- viously been invited, but no satisiactory offers could be obtained, and contracts were made in the open market at much more favorable rates, Tne work has been done by day, under the personal super- vision of Mr. Gridley J. F. Bryant, supervising architect, and has been pusied forward as rapidly a8 the means at his disposal and the nature of the work permitted. Unusual aificul- ties have been encountered, but the foundatiens are finished, and 16 1s believed the entire basement story will be completed this season. The contracts for the supply of all materiais have been made at most advantageous rates, and the work performed at satisiactory prices. It is, however, believed these can and will be reduced on the superstructure, ar- rangements having been made that will greatly faci- iitate (uture operations, and if suificient appropria- tions are made, insure an early completion of this important structure. ‘the main court room of the Court House at Boston has been improved and a new one constructed, which has added greatly to the convenience of te building. It is, vowever, unfit for the purpose tor which it is used, peing neither convenient nor fire proof, The building is now in very good condi- tion. THE PHILADELPHIA POST OFFICE. As to the United States Court House and Post OMice at Philadelphia, Mr. Mullet says by late orders from the Past Office Department six of the sub-Post oifice stations have peen consoli- dated with the main ofice, rendering it necessary to make some changes and an addition to the build- ing to provide the accommodation required, It is estimated that $20,000 will be required for the pur- pose, which amount I surongiy recommens to be ap- propriated. CUSTOM HOUSE AT 8T. LOUIS, I cannot retrain from again calling attentton to the unsuitable character of the Custom House at St. Louis, Mo., for government purposes, and wonld strongiy urge the importance of ert lu mediate steps for the erection of a sulpabie building in some eligible locanty, NEW CUSTOM HOUSE NEEDED IN CINCINNATI. I desire once more to call attention to the inade- beers size and general unfitness of the Custom House building at Cincinnati for the business of the government. The accommodations for the Post OmMce and United States courts could scarcely be more unsuitable. | would strongly urge the erection of a building of sufficient capacity to meet the de- mands of the public service, Some improvements have been made in the Post Oftice during the past year to meet the rapidly increasing wants of that important branch of the public business; but the re- lief is only temporary, and as the space ia now made available to its fullest extent it Is evident the erec- tion of a new building or the removal of some of the branches of the service to other quarters cannot long be delayed, UMTED STATES SUPRENE COURT. Land Titles in Wisconsin—Collection of the Cotton Tax in Mississippi—Liability of Mu- nicipal Corporations. WASHINGION, Dec. 1, 1969. The following cases were argued yeaterday:— No. 234, Richard H. Magoon, Plaintig’ in Error, vs, S. H, Scales—Error to the Circuit Court jor he District of Wisconsin. —This was an action of eject- ment brought by Magoon to recover a portion of a section of land tying in Lafayette county, Wiscon- sin. ‘The case was twice tried, resulting both times in favor of the defendant The proofs invoivea great number and variety of conveyances, a3 de- clared in the record, ruuning back to 1858, to the date of the entry of the land by one Perry, and the questions of law turn upon the stati of Wisconsin in relation to uses and trusts, title vy sheriti’s deed, service of precesa, distinction between actions legal and equitabie, &c., &c, The writ of error bringing the case here is based upon exceptions taken to its ral- ings below, and the questions presented are mainly of fact. The action is intended as a test of ttle of neighboring lan |s resting on a sim State of facts. Messrs. Synde, Cowuren und Magoon for plaintiffs in error; Senator Carpenter lor defendant, No. 206, Julius Hornihali and Alerander Kuhn vs, Martin Keary, Collector, éc.—Appeal Jrom the Cir- cuit Court for the District af Mississippt.—This action is brought to restrain the defendant from procecding to enforce the collection of the internai revenue tax assessed on cotton, which the respon- dent tureatens to collect by distrait of the complain- ants’ gooas, and which, they allege, is not due. Tne injunction prayed for was granted, but subsequentiy dissolved aud the bill dismissed, The tax was im- posed by the first section of the act of july, 1866, a8 amended by the process of section 1 of the act of March, 1867, bow of which acts are an amendment of the Inter- nal Revenue act of 1864. Tne government insist that this 18 not acase which @ court of general equity Jurisdiction will take cognizance of; wud that ali the parties being citizens of Mississippi the court has ho jurisdiction, and the bill must ve dismissed, Submitved by the Attorney Geuera! on printea vriels, no one appearing for the appellants, No. 287. Tne United States ex. rel. Thomas Butzs, Plaintiff tn Error, vs. The Mayor, dc. af Muscatine, and Nos, 288 and 289—Error from the District of Jowa.—These cases are considered together, as they present precisely the same questions, In the first case, Buizs, the relator, recovered judgment against the city of Muscatine for $67,600 16, and execu- tion was issued and returned unsatisiied. An alternative writ of mandataus was issued to compel the le’ and collection of @ tax to pay the judgment. The return set out that the city required all the taxes it could levy under the laws creating the corporation for tne pur- poses of its government. The reiator demurred, and the demurrer was overruicd, aud that ruling is assigned as error, The argument is that the city will not be allowed to contract debts which tt 1s pro- hibited from paying, aud that a peremptory manda- Tus should issue directing the levying of # tax suf- ficient to pay the judgment. This is one of the oid cases from the West, involving the lability of mu- Ricipal corporations on bouds issued by thein in aid of public enterprises. in several other cases pre- viously decided by this court the mandamus bas been ordered. Cases argued by James Grant for relator, No one opposed. THE CARR'S ROCK DISASTER, Sults for Damages Aguinst the [rie Rali- way Company. Inthe case of Stephen Sweet against the Frie Ratiway Company to recover $20,000 damages tor injuries sustained at the Carr’s Rock disaster, which case was on trial at the November Circuit Court at Newburg on Monday and Tuesday, the jury founda verdict for the, plaintit, awarding him §10,000—haIfr the amount sued for—to which the Court added five percent, The defendant was aliowed thirty days for the filing.of a vill of exceptions and moving for a new trial. In the suit of Arthur C. Bigelow by Merritt ©. Bigelow, his guardian, agamst the Erie Rallway Company, to recover $50,000 for injuries sustained at the same disaster, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff of $15,000. A bill of exceptions wiil also be filed in this case by the Erie Company, and the suits will doubtless eventually reach the Court of Appeals. The plaintif® in this action, & lad of eight years, had his mental development arrested by brain tajuries sustained by lum im this accident, and his lather brought suit agaiust the railway company to recover $25,000 for loss of the lad’s services until he should become of age, tuciuding also expenditures for fees of physiciaus, &c. In consequence of the serious tn of the plant this case bas been postponed. In the cases tried negligeace on the part of the com any in jailing to keep their track in order was, at Keone to the satisfaction of the jury, indubiiably made out. No atiempt was made on the part of the deience to strengthen, their cdse by adducing evi- dence relative to the man Bowen, who was charged With placiag Obstructions on the track of the brie, and thereby causing the Carr’s Rock and other dis- asters, although the wife of Bowen bad been sub- poenaed as a witness, and was in the city and reaay to be called upon, ‘The counsel seemed to feel that the introduction of such teatimony would be too risky a proceeding on their part. THE EXPATAIATED JEWS. In relation to the deputation of Israelites wno on Tuesday waited upon the President to solicit the interposition of this government on bebalf of the Jews recently expelled from the Bessarabian pro- vinces under an imperial Russian ukase, the follow: ing despatch was received here yesterday from the chairman of the committee by the editor of tue Jewish Jimes:— WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 1869, The President and Cabinet yesterday considered our appeal favorably, and it was ordered to be for warded to the American Minister at St. Petersburg, ‘With instructions to present It to the Russian gor erninent, with expressions of the sympathy of rhe United States with tne objects of the appeal. It wase also agreed that President Grant would transmit on jtograph letier to Alexander I], of Russia on the Bame subject. NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE. Cordial Reception of the Board by the People—Large Attendance—Speechcs and Addresses—Prompt Despatch of Business — The Subjects Discussed. RicHMonD, Dec, 1, 1869. The Nattonal Board of Trade commenced its aes- sion here to-day. The greatest possible interest was felt by the community in the proceedings, and the hall of tne House of Delegates was filed with the members of the Richmond Chamver of Commerce anxious to hear the discussions on the questions prepared for actign by the body. So far there is but one sentiment in regara to the debates, and that is that they have been characterized by great ability in every point of view. Genera! Walbridge’s address was listened to with great attention and seemed to produce a marked effect, To-day the Board made rapid progress in the disposiiion of several of the subjects before tnem. The questions of trade statistics, exchange of reports, uniform inspection of flour and grain, measurement of grain, tares and short weignts, uniformity in executing conveyances of land, uniform tax, United States District Courts and local trading licences, were either referred to committees or disposed of by @ divect vote of the Board. An animated and deeply interesting discussion Look place on the question of local urading licenses, in which certain prominent Northern, Western and Southern dele- gates took an active part, and their respective in- terests were advocated in a trank but friendly spirit. After a debate, which took the widest latitude, it was almost unanimously agreed that the Legislatures should be re- quested to abolish all State legislation restricting free commercial intercourse between the States, If this 13 carried into effect certain prohibi- tions against the free sale of commodities by parties Jrom one State in another will be materially changed for the beneilt of tue commercial interests of the country. The iceling of the people towards the visiting members and their lady friends ts of the most cordial and sincere character, The most amicable spirit pervades, and the most happy results are already manifesting ,themseives in the visit of the National Boayd. ‘The address of welcome of Mr. Burr was most warmly applauded by the whole deiegation. Proceedings of the Convention, KicHMOND, Dec. 1, 1869, The National Board of Trade met at noon in the Capitol, Frederick Praiey, of Philadelpita, president in the chair. PRAYER AND ADDRESS OF WELCOME. Prayer was olfered by Rey. Charles Minnegenode, of the Episcopal Church. Thomas McCauce, of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, submitted an address of welcome, The address is as follows:— Before you proceed to the regular business ,which has con- vened this Hoard I beg leave to perform a ‘most agreeabli duty on bebalt of the members of the Richmond Charaber of Commerce, and, I may add, of thiscommunity, We desire, in & few sincere and earnest Words, to express the gratitication with which we meet you here in the Capitol of the Old Dominion. We receive you with a warm greeting and tender you a most cordiai welcome, It shall be our endeavor to inake you feel at home in our midst. We greet you, not only persouuliy, but ay the representatives of many ‘communities of gr country “men scattered over every part of this beloved ‘and now hnppily peacefulland. Itisa double pleasure to have this opportunity to cultivate with them that spirit ot fraternity which should animate this whole people —the descendants of a 3 trade is to come, and might as well be accepted now. Tae resolution was favore! by Messrs, Opdyke and Chictenden, of New York: Ropes, of Boston, and others; and opposed by Messrs, Gano, of Cincin- losses sustained by the ravaces of war, will tax of about p11 20 per head, and the tax of @10 70 per heat, ‘this estimate exclusive of county levies and other corporation taxes. At- tention fa called to the fact that these sums of il 20 and ‘women hildren—in Cac he nok eae loaeae and filo The Scene a hati; Dore, of Chicago, and Hastie, of Charieston, an entire | popniation are about 110; multiply, | & C. It waa adopved—tl to 12, therefore, the ebove figures by ten, and then re- | Adjourned tll to-morrow. member the other taxes wich are necessarily imposed, and some ade yuate idea of the vurdens of the people may be bad, There tremendous oblizations have been, without premoni- The Board got wron OD its programme to-day. nearly half of the business tion, thrown apon ® changimg and restive people. I ask, the citizens give a ball in their honor on Friday with the deepest earnestness, Will this debt Cepalis Can | Bight, this debt be paid? Uaquestionabiy, yes. gh bas The excursion to City Point and return by way of already tranapired since the inauguration of t national administravion to guarantee this result; seven months the wise and sazacious poltcy of ‘th distinguished Secretary of th Petersburg battle Gclds takes place at the end of che week, ‘There are fifty-four members of the Board present, Yepresenting te Board of ‘Trades of — Philae Rational debtover seventy 1 7 “s devement, without.» ’parallat ts’ Mhaneind delpiia, = Wiimingtou, (Del.), Portiand, St. been effected without violence or derangement in mone- | Louis, Charleston, ‘Dubuque, Detroit, | New tary circles, and indicates the prosperity of the nation | York, Boston, altimore, Buffalo and Chi- and the confidence of the people in the administration of thelr tiscal affairs. The present public indedteinens of the American people will be paid lous before the close of the prerent century, In this declaration 1 do not Itmit cago; the Chambers of Commerce of Milwaukee, New York, Richmond, St, Paul, San Francisco and Cincinnati; the New York Produce Exchange, the my meaning to the national debt—I mean that the entire | Norfolk Merciants’ Excnange, the Philadelpeta Com- Btate debts of every description must be paid to the ‘tter- | mercial E auge, the Baltimore Corn and Flour mom farthing. the iutereat of bondbollera—it | Exchange aud the Boston Corn Exchange. alike th of every State and of ry individual eltizen, wa age of m: nb; the civilization of = nation tx measured by Ie ta! THE SPANISH MOSQUITO FLEET. terial wealth ; money is power: millions of men and milhons of money are'the factors which, multiplied together, make the product which measures our advancement. Commercial intevrity is the basis of wealth; without {ta nation, a4 weil as an individual, must become baukrupt, Commercial integrity consista in'the redemption of every tion. No calamity more dire to the people of every section could happen than the dishonor of repudiation. Tat profoundly convinced that the best interest ef the whole poopie, as well aa the sentiment of the century, demand that all our debts should 0 1 ain aware that demagogues popular mind to the idea of repa- Giatfon, and that these “birds of evil omen” are now watching for the moment when this question, in sone of tts formas may be spring upon the country. ‘Tey insisi that our deots cannot be paid by the historle methods of ation. Such means, they axsert, must fail, a who relies upon them is, wittingly or unwistu ‘The great pra The Moving Pupers Served Yesterday on Judge Pierrepont—The Hearing of the Case Postponed to Next Saturday—The Papers Not Yet Complete—The Adwinistration Still Undecided. In tbe case of the Spanish mosquito fleet, now detained by the United States Marshal at Delamater’s wharf, foot of Thirteenth street and Norsh river, nothing of @ startling nature—at least nothing that the authorities were willing to communicate to the schemes of the repudtat then recura--how arewe to pay our debts! Tunawer im one | 2@ Public—transpired yesterday. It was ascer: brie? sentence, let us grow up to 4 | tained, however, that the papers, on the allega- atatesmanahip’ and a vigorov y this result. t us bury the de past. reat revolution has been consummated, and we should bring oursaives 1a harmony with it. That’ revolution has constituted the na- tional government, almost without limitation, the sacred re- pository of the honor, the integrity and the futtire prosperity Of ull the States. The centralization of this federation ia now an accomplisied fact, It ia the part of wisdom for this gene- ration to accept the inexorable logie of eventa and to conform to the situation. Tn order to grow up to the present debt let the national government exert {is vast power and wealth to produce a de: ment 80 rapid that the demon of repudiation may be ‘ore {thas nttained (ormfdable proportions. of the South are, by devastation, almost mitive state, while the mighty West stands tions in which it 1s proposed by the claimant’s counsel to insist upon the discharge of the boats and the dismissal of tne libel, were yesterday afterifoon piaced in the hands of District Attorney Pierrepont, Who took them home with him in the evening for careful eXamination. Upon pressing mquiry the fact was conceded that the general import of these papers was quite correctly foreshadowed in the HtRaLD yesterday Morning, and that in regard to tie detail in averments, paraseology and, relerence, ie counsel for the Claimant do not yet consider Wat ‘he documents handed yesterday to Judge Pierre- ™ pont will be those ultimately relied on for a basis of y for the altar, Incifinate, | Lie motion to discharge the Vessels, The set origi- yn of staples no equal portion of the | pally prepared has siuce been Chanzed twice, a it paeds Dik tbe e in are OF aod as & postponement of tie argument, aireamn {uni how sleeps within its inighty‘hear, | Wulch | Was to nave taken place before peraoundant capital and labor are now lying idle turougn- | Judge Blatchford this afternoon ut three o'clock, ull out Europe. That continent cannot even avail itself of the | Saturday next Was asked (or, aud from the remark labor-saving {uventious of machinery, thereby cheepening | of one of the counsel for the defence that te papers Veh ett Ne ttre Hacer (eigen ee served were ouly “substeutially” correct aad were employment, shou! reduced to pauperisn aris | not yet it for publication, it is Out proper to veileva 4,000,000 of stalwart men are now taken from productidn and a Kept'an soldiers to repress the revolationary teudeaciea re- | iat the autuorities are not far from tue trath when sulting from the pressnre of subsistence upod apply. ‘thos, | they iuclibe Lo the opinion that these papers will be white Europe is unsetiled and revolutionary from a redun- | Caaoged again and Olbers substituted in their place daney of population, America languishes for its want. This, | before the case comes up for arguiuent before Judge When the hitherto broad Atlantic Is bridged by telegraphic | Blatchford. reed GeOteal: Bin Diet witianle showid ce: tence: Judge Pierrepont, up to the time he left his office, Temedied, Capital hd homan muscle should be willzed, | as'foo7 otolock yeateraay aiternoon, received no inti. mation from Waslington that ie administradon had resolved upon any more decisive course i tae should migrate fo fhose points where most demanded BEY herd nitat protlable, lnatter tuan has hitherto been made known. ito thelr p remit! a y endowe | virgin, re The hardy Norwegian, the honest Swede, the thri‘ty Ger- mau and the enterprising Dane now struggle with an lah itable climate anda sterfie soll, while the broad and rich elds of Ainerica lie open before them. Hut it §s not alone to Europe that we may look. Our cotton fields, our sugar lands and oyr swamps, designed by nature for the production of rice, mvite the redundant population of Asia, The longing eyes of that people are now turned toward our Pacitic coast, The imagination siaygers when estimat- ing the colo wer of this nation should these contuent streams of wealth meet within our borders. It wouid fail to our ot to realize the mythological riches from a union of the Orient with the Occident, With the now buried wealth of our extended territory thus developed, the debt of the nation, the Staies, aud the cor- porations would become a bagatelle. ‘To secure the influx of this ‘capita: and labor initme to arrest. the tendency to repudiation the national government oust develoye the country by aiding (o build the leading lines of canals and railways which the geography of the contiaent indicate, aud by Improving the riversamd Lurbors with whic nature has furnished ft. Before, however, invoking the Gov- ernment to discharge such high ‘duties we shonid accept the national unification which the recent revolution has estab- Used, The day of abstractions and of tat political philoso- phy based upon a universal negation bas passe:. Special pleading arguments, vased upon so-called constitutional uples, are oli! inventions to try and throw obs.acles in the ‘of the national government; for it 1s yet remembered that not many years have passed since men 4 AX “CLD CURIOSITY SHOP. eR Sale of the Baron de Riviere’s Antiquities, Trophies and Trinkets. Hamlet, as he poised the skull of Yorick in bis band and thought of the character of its defunct owner, sald, “Alas, poor Yorick, I knew hii weil !’? As an auctioneer’s audience looked at the Baron de Riviere’s many trinkets last evening and thought of his Many hairbreadth ’scapes and peculiar ’ventures they might—alas! tor his poor dupes—they might well add to the apt soliloquy, “He 13 a fellow of iufnite” variety, Since his first appearance betore the public as a lecturer on the “War in the Crimea” he has occupied many very peculiar positions. First, a3 the hero of the Blount clopement case, in which he wade @ guilant effort to retain the person of his “fair Inamorata;” next, as belay connected wilh the t 0 that while the constitution permitted the yene BNO OODiTaae MATER? 7 ts of common ancestry, the possessors of a common heritage once r ot e1 on guano contract “didiculty” wilh the governments ot more moving together toward a common destiny; and we bid | t©.construct works of improvement ou salt wacer rivers) It 1 Por gud Bolivia; ugain, as deleudant 1a tne Dine for the catke and the work in which you are engag hese United States, thongh of such rapid growth and arrived at such high prominence among the na- ons of the earth, are yet in the fresiness of youth. As they mature questions of commercial and dinancial policy are con- stantly arising, vituly important {a their bearing upon the general weilare, and requiring combined wisdom and iriotism go to decide them asx to subserve the highest yterests of the people. No labor or counsel can be of more value at this day ¢ is devoted to the wise direc- tion of pubiie sentin ction with these measures, Commerce and int ui neers of peace aud plenty. As they advance prosperity foliows; aud discord and strive diswppear on their aid. spirit of enterprise and auity which shall break down the in Ors natural and artiticial barriers now dividing the States into sections, force the strength and endurance of thous ves which should unite the whole people in the bonds of peace and brotaerhvod, aud for the {uture weult) and power of the natioa. ‘Th4 address was received with applause. REPORT OF TRE EXECUTIVE CoUNCIL. business men. Among the most prominent ques tions to come up, tt states, are weights and meas. ures, conveyance of real estase, regulation of joint ocK companies, legal rate for use of money and the relations between debter and creditor, Ja the report was a tribute to the memory of James k. Branch, of Richmond, one of the vice presidents of tae National Board, who was accidentally Kiiled last summer. At this point the members of the Board Tose and heard the tribute read in sileuce. ELECTION OF PRESIDENT FOR 1870. The Board then proceeded to elect officers for the ensuing year. Frederick Fraiey, ol Philadelpiiia, was elected President. In taking bis seat he said that he had aimost known the commerce of this country from its infancy aud bad watched its ipl to Its present proportions, It was so great thac no man in public ite could afford to overlook its claims or to ignore the action of such a representative body ag this, ie thanked the Board for the great honor done him. VICE PRESIDENTS. ‘The Board then proceeded to tie election of vice presiaents, with the foliowing resuit:— K. A. Kirkland, of Baltimore; Avery Plummer, of Boston; G. 8. Hazard, of Buffalo; George Opdyke, of New York; W. N. Kagan, of Chicago; J. A. Gano, of Cincinnati; George F. Bagley, of Detrot Tay- lor, of St. Paul; J. J. Porter, of Louisville; E. D. Hallen, of Milwaukee; D. J. Burr, of Richmond; J. U. Brown, of Portiand; L. R. Shrirock, of St. Louis, aud W. L. ‘'renhola, of Cuarieston. ADDRESS OF GENERAL HIRAM WALBRIDGE. General Hiram Waloridge, of New York, then delivered the following address:— MR. PRESIDENT AND GRNTLEMEN—When addressing » body such as I see before me, called togetier to consider the commercial relations of the whole nation—men repreagnting not individual interests, but assembled to confer upon that mout Vital interest, th -being und prosperity of thie corn: self — persone skii all that pertains to our material development —1 would be faise to the occasion and the assem- blage if Ltd not at the outset recoynize the duty of laying aside political partisanship tn every sense. meut of the country ; 0 enlarge our conceptions as to look beyond the coutracted horizon which purty prescrives, Piifs vast continent tems with vircin wealth. lift ourseives to an elevation from watch ite wide 1 may be sven, and, party prejudice aside, look with an eye Magle to the best means of discovering the jewels which the lavish hand of nature bas strewn broadcast over its surface? ‘Nothing in the past iw like the present. History is barren of precedents to guide the public men of this gencration. No such responalbility has, peruaps, ever fallen upon a peor pie an events have cast upon this nation, These responsibili- ties should be met bravely, feariessiy and honestly. It is the high duty of thia Convention to suggest some means by which the hidden treasures of our vast territory may be rendered avaiable, I believe the fortunes of the re- publte greatly depend upon the speedy development of the material wealth now buried in the land. But, before looking to the resources of the government, it ia proper first to ascer: tuin its existing obligation The public debt of the United States on the Ist day of No- vember, 1809, ia oilicially given :— Debt bearing interest in coin. Debt bearing interest in lawful On demand and pension... ... A total of interest-paring Add to this debt on whivh Debt bearing uo sateres! Total. mouey, debt of. joterest hi Vrom which deduct o rand leaving the whole amount of p e 495,074 decrease inthe debt from March 1to Noveraber ‘1, 1889, of 264,882,070, and the debt, at th ing, been sil. further reduced to ov ‘The annual interest cannot f add to this xpens. of administering the govera- men which jast year was hort ggeetd and we have $04,010,088 as the gum to be annually ‘raised by the pene- Tal government. To be, however, entirely within limis, I will suppose that reduce this eum sure is certainty with! reney; economical administration may 00a sum which T feel But, in addition to this, the obligations of the several Slates should be considered: The fifteen States (including West Virginia and excluding Delaware) in wiich the slaves were emancipated an aggregate devtgof 8157,714,60%, on which there is an F he cost of adminiatering the im tO $820, 000,00, a ‘The remaining , the annual ine mt 485,022; add to ‘this the other expenses you will not bave less, in round numbers, than $25,000,000 the sum required to be raised annually’ by the hitnerto free States, But this ie very far from being the real indebt- eas of the whole country. It abould be borne tn mind hat the counties, cities, towns, villages and other corpora: ons in ail the States are very largely indebted, and in mgny necevsary to meet these Habilities excted To enter more {nto detail in entioned indebtedness would rescribed to myself. The simple Suggestion must, therefore, suftice. ‘Toe pensions, the bounties and other unsettled claims which ioliowed the wi of 1776, 1812 gud 1846, far exceeded the actual expenses of the war {hemseives. Should we not expect thi to happen again? No economist would be juatil- ing this source of indebtedmess in estimat- ities of the whole Ww 'e estimated ulation of the entire A simple calculation will show that the country is hational government must | aire oputation of ihe tivee ¢ population o 0 att nated ‘at 18,104,554, TI Annually, directiy or in- mn gach individual. ‘slave States before referred to ‘must levy an annual free biates must alter thie It can thus bo seen thes the people of the South, notwith- : We must mainly rely for that jort of the Executive Council for the past year was received. It shows that the National Board consists of thirty-seven constituent bodies and 16,000 was Unconstitutional to expends dollar upon fresh water communications. It may not be improper forme to remark that the public men who now talk loudest about the preserva:ion of the con- stitution are the very men who secretly concemplate the grossest of ali violations of the constitution of any country, Hamely, the repudiation of ite just debis, With these tne, Iconfess, | bave no sympathy. The natioual government, led by @ party of advanced ideas, has completed, with aa energy something Ilke commengurate with the demands of the age, one railroad Mng connecting the io with the ‘This is but a beginning. A Southern and a Nortu- must be establisued. ‘The climate, the topo untry, its commercial wants, and thetinan- of the governinent demaud at least the three lines referred to. Theextreme Upper Mississippi vailey is now supplied with water communication with — the Atlantic by the river St. rence, the {ree use of which Should be secured to us by proper negotiations. Another water line should be constructed through the centre of the country, connecting the heart of this great valiey with the waters ‘of the Chesapeake. Stull further south the rivers sould be rendered available 4 commerce wud harmiess for jnry to riparian agricaiture by the appliances of art and Side by aide ‘with these great thorouzhtarea, do- nigned for heavy freight, lines of railway siould be eon- structed, direct, without eu nd Subsidies to ‘nutiunal lines of ocean granted until we rezain our former positi Such i# ® general cescription of ta trade demands, 1 believe that our national credit depends upon their speedy completion. Private and Staie capital cannot finish these iines In time to meet the exigencies of the crinia. I will recapitulate, ‘To render {t possible for the national flovernment to pay ite debt foreign capital and iabor must be jnduced to come ( us. To attract promptly thi capital and lavor factiities for the ready transportation of the fruits of Private enterprise cannot in any reasonable time furnish these facilities, an conse: quence the united efforte of the whole nation suoud be evoke The amount of the national debt has already been stated. ‘The cause which created the debt destroyed property to an amount fully equai to the indebtedoess. These considera- tiona will be urged by designing men as excuses for repudia- tion, At such a time @ backward step is ruin, Such fs the condition of the national government. It could now appropriate $20,000,000, 4 aun more than sufficient to compiete the works which I have outlined, und the additional tax would scarcely be fet, In tact, the Influx of capital and labor would begin simultaneously with the commencement of the works, and long before apy direct profit could be realized from their completion the general government would be more than reimbursed by the additional breadth that would be given to the basis of taxation, The doctrine of strict “construction and political ‘negation hitherto been fostered by the want of homoxeneity in the sections. A recent revolution has been con: summated by which great peopie have been mad one, Should we vecome prosperous and rich, the heart- burnings aud the hater engenciered by the recent struggle will, in the nature of things, soon vanish. ‘Tue voice o hoinogenevus peop'e will grow louder venr after year, while the voice of sectlonal feeling and sentiment wili, tice the echo, grow faint and yet more faint, until it dies nolsiesaly i = id distant shore. In such a policy @ real peace may ¢ foun T trust, Mr. Presicent and gentlemen, that no State will be so unwise a8 to devy the ampiest rigits of way wnitherso- ever the wants of trade may demand. Leaving the dead past, the general government, should enlarge ita conceptiona to ‘the sphere of tts dytics, ‘The time and circum) #could pot be more auspicious for taking this new departure. We have an Executive who has been broadly educated by the greut eveuts through wich he has passed and the great history which he bas made. He is disenthralled by these eventa, by this-bistory and oy this entarging education from the prejudice and narrowness that circumscribe tho states- men whose in{luonce has atiained by a lWGeloug pupllage y trammels, These are the conditions which have already rendered go succeastul the atatesmanship of military heroes. Our President owes to bis own strong head, his own strong heart and his own strong arm the vast laduence which he now commands, ‘Seen A soldier, with a fame commensurate with clvilization, he 1 in the interests of peace. r ‘ Grant to see that tne highway to real and enduring peace in the road that suit of Helen C, Stille for seduction, swindling, aud pow he appears as an antiquarian, @ collector wud abstracter ol rarities, jewels, Ac., an art connoisseur. He taust, however, have become dis- ted with the amusement of being an antiquarian icker-up-of-suray” rarities, ior last evening his collection, embracing “Works Of art, articies of verti,” &c., Was soid at auction by Megsrs. Leeds & Miner, at No. 817 Broaaway, The gale Was opened vy the putting ap of a num. ber of pieces of anuique Peruvian eurluenware, ex- hibited by the Bolivian government at the French Exposition. After these were sold a uumoer of an, Japanese and Clinese triukets, apparel, &c. decorated chinaware, Venouan and Goleman glassware, aud a Spanisit rapier, with an iu upon Its blade bearing tue date of 1532, Me realized Brieen dollars, minus saie commission, by the sale ol the Weapou. A spieudid brouze Dore au Mercure clock, Which Was represented to be a fac simne of one now in the bouavir of the Empress Kugenie, waa sold for $210. Alter this was sgid an Egyptian ciock, of biack marble and porphyry, mounted in bronze and ricaly chased. A Sévres dinuer and dessert service, decorated in garnet and gold, made for Count Koushelei, of Russia, and a very cari us old German clock, with carved wood case, gilt and jaiatd with columas, statues and ornaments in silver fiagree; antigue work, mounted with precious scones, all of which are guaranteed “real” by the Baron. This clock was captured during the thirty years’ war iu Germany from the ola imperial resi- deuce at Nureniverg. These, together with several uuniatures by ifolbein, bas-reliefs oy Thorwaldsden, @ statue guaranteed as the original modei of the cel- ebrated **Heve,"’ by the same artis:; bronzes, wea- pons, court costumes, furs, a richiy carved old oak bedstead of the style of the time of the Medici, com- pleted the collection and sale. During the saie the auctioneers took the precaution of occastonally stat- ing that each article was guaranweed by the Baron— knowing, of course, that with such security every purchaser would consider himself safe from imposi- ton or having @ “woolly horse” article thrown upon im. and on easy grades, ‘euiners, shottd b TdE SCHO.P?E MURDER CA re Aighly Interesting Letters from Professional Scientific Gentlemen—Dre, Horsfurd and Doremus Kefute the Theory of the Medical Testimony Adduced on the Trial. The following highly important letters were trans - mitted from tis city to Governor Geary on Tuesday in relation to the case of Dr. Schoeppe, now ‘under sentence of death for the murder of Miss Steinecke, at Carlule, Pa:— . New York, Nov. 30, 1569, His Excelleucy Joun W. Ggany, Governor of the State of Pennsyivani: My DFAR SiR—I commend to your most carnest consideration the enclosed jetter from Prolessors Doremus and Horsford in relation to the testimony which is said to have warranted the conviction of Dr. Schoeppe for the crime of murder. The gentiemen who sign this fetter have no supe- riors in their profession as chemisis. They have ex- amined the evidence upon which the conviction was based, simply from a scientife point of view, and without any interest in tne case other than such as is creditable to their humanity and to their regard for scientific truth, Our German friends in this city in part, leads most directly and most speedily to the development of | ali take a deep interest in this master, and they de- the material » And now, Mr. Presi- | sire that there should be conveyed to you an expres- dent, in conclusion, I wii! say that the political organization, | sign, from scientific persons in this city, of their by whatever name kt may be designated, that brings itaelf to harmony with the spirit of the age by following the lead of the Executive in the path so wisely trod by him will be the coming party, and the man who leads it will be the coming man-the reul hero of the nineteenth century. After the hearing of the above address by General Waibridge the Board took a recess. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. On reassembling this atternoon a resolution was aaopted limiting speeches to ten iminutes; aud datly sessions from ten o'clock to four o'clock were lixed upon. Applications for. membership were recetved from judament as to the weigut to be given to tne testi- mony upon which conviction was based, Lam, with great respect, your obedient servant, ©. A. SHWARD, New York, Nov. 30, 1869. Hts Excellency Governor J. W. Geary, Harris- burg, Pa s— ‘The undersigned, chemists by profession, have read in the papers that your Excellency has issued your warrant for the execution of Dr. Schoeppe, for the alleged crime of murder by poison. We have examined with care the chemical testi- the Kichmond Corn and Flour Exchange, Augusta | mony upon w: I conviction wa Ga.) Board of Trade aud tue Petersburg Merchants? crimoal’ ae te atieged to RAVE bees raver xchange. by the evidence of a chemist, who testified Perinission was given to the Boards of Trade of | to having discovered in the deceased indica- Toledo, Ohio, and Pittsburg, Pa., and tae Mercaants? Exchange of Peorta, lil., to witudraw froin conuec- tion witb the National Board. THE BUSINESS "ROGRAMME. *The business programme was then commenced, The consideratioa of the drst four propositions Was pustpoued. Proposition fifth, being the uniform measurement of grain, Was taken up aud 4 resocution was adopted that the number of pounds to constitute a bushel should be uniform in all States so long as bushels are used in trade; that the cental system should be adopted in transierring ail commodities usually sola by the oushei, and that measuremeut by buik should be aboitshed. The sixth proposition was tares and short weights. On this proposition resolutions were adopied recom- Mending local boards to adopt a rule that tares shail be the actual weight of the package at the tune of sale 10 Gil transactions, and to insist on fail Weigut or measure in articles purporting to be of a certain fixed standard, but which are soid by parcel or package. ‘The seventh proposition waa tniformity in exe- cuting conveyances of land, On this proposition acommittee was appointed to prepare and recom tions of prussic acid, This scientific wituess stated with precision the experiments upon which lis opinion was based. These experiments were con- ducted in such & Way that they would bave given evidence of the presence of prussic acid in any ordinary healthy stomach. Tue first step in the examination, that of treating the stomach with sal- pharie acid, precluded the possimitty of determin. ing whether the faint traces of prussic acid claimed to have been discovered existed in the stomach as such, or resuited trom the action of the sulphuric acid on the mucus Muids Which uiust bave lined the interior of that organ. In view of these considerations, In the interest of scientific truth and in tie interest of ® wise a istration of justice, we have thought it though personaliy unacquainted wita Dr. Schoeppe, to express wo you (his our opinion that the evidence of the presence of prussic acid, as Buch, in the stomach, apon which he was adjudged gaiity, a insudicient to sustain his conviction. K. N. HORSFORD, Late Rumford Professor in Harvard University, Massachusett %. OGDEN DOREMUS, M. D., Professor of Chewtstry aud Toxicology, New York mended to ali State isiatures a statute to be elie val Colley adopted for the form fad geneal requisites of con- er cae Foe nbs veyance of lands, ‘ sie waned pute, Cnt proposition was uniform practice in PLAYING FOR HEAVY STAKES. ‘ni wsurict Ci vi - a, te pointed to pre rt aap ig sarded 108 use in | _{ 8 reported that a boy in the employ of Mosars, pare all State District Courts in the collection of devis Stout & Dickinson, Wall street stock brokers, was where the les reside in different States. a knocked down yesterday afternoon in Wall street, The ninth proposition was for local ttade licenses. resolution was adopted that the Executive | between Nassau street and Broadway, lav. Council shall recommit to sll State Legisiatures | ing in his asion. the time securi- the repeal of all license jaws discriminating | ties and checks valued at about $30,000 and against non-resident traders, Tho jiscussion of | & bag containing $5,000 gold. The assault was tis resolution was animated, its opponents taking the ground that it was an effort of the large citiesof the Hast to do all the business for the smatier cites of the West and South without paying any tax thereon. its friends urged i it Was in keeping with the spirit of the age, to which these iocal license laws were opposed, and that it was tye result of an eulighiened commercial septunent, DLomesito free very sudden, and the assailant escaped. The re- markavle part of the atfair is that omy $100 was missing from the bag of gold, the remainder of the whole amount of property veing left, The boy bears & mark as of an abrasure oF bruise on his forehead, and for @long time subsequent to the assault lay Unconscious, and no accurate statement of the mode Of assault or robbery could be obtained,