The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1869, Page 4

4 TRADE AND FINANCE, The Commercial Prospect—General Dnl- ness of Trade and Tis Causes—The Feeling Among Wholesale Dealers— No Occasion for Nerveusnes Se Some few croakers in the bustness world, sec onded by the sensauon dailies, seemed a week or two ago to be bent on the evolution of a panic, though without any real reason in point of fact. Should gold sink during the pre- sent month Jaulures must of necessity result, since the imports for the ycar 1969 have exceeded those of 1868 by $11,005,000 and those of 1867 by about $5,000,000, On (ue otler hand, the shipments of ecie this year have Jailed $40,000,000 short of last year’s tgures, and he: there ‘is a double reason forthe Gownward teudency of gold, The duiness tn financial circles oxceeds anything in the experience of tue past four years, but 18 not fairly attributable to the Sepiember paule in Wall street. In fact, a general reaction against speculative exccases Bees to have setin ailong business men, wao now limit thelr transac. tions more magidiy to legitimate trade, mostly in gnticipation perhaps of a severer siringenoy-in the money market for the current month, The ques- tion to be solved 13 wasther business can bear ‘he Strain of a further ten or twelve per cent depression in gold without danger of a general col- lapse. Thus far, saving the great speculative com- bination in Sepiemoer last, the year has been one of Weady reaction agaist speculative excesses. The sendency of capiial io desert the haunts of specuta- Mou and embark tn legitimate commercial and in- dustrial pursuits bas beon quietly asserting itself for she last twelve mouths—in fact, ever since the great October stringency of last year, occasioned by a similar specui@uve combination, though one less formidable and jess exiensive. Leading dry goods tuoporters complain considerably; but there is no prospect that tbe goverument will shift lis policy unless the risk of collapse should become imminent, 1a wick case Dogacial wisdom woula dictate the discontinuance of the gold sates. The people at large are beac aad tutent on resumption and @ converubie currency, and the steady decien- sion of the gold premium is very generally inter- pretéd as @ step in the right direction. The current of popular opinion 1s, in fact, in favor of the down- ward tendency of gold at aimost any expense and will not probably be disregarded unless the danger of a crisis should joom up imminently in the course ofthe month. The part of sound wisdom for the commercial classes 1s, therefore, to contract credits and wat quiety. A few weeks’ dulness in business must be accepted and prepared for whue values are adapting themselves to tae new state of things. The wisdom of the present policy need not be dis- cussed, since tue policy itself is already an assumed tact, though it 48 duMcult to understand wnat prac- tical advantage 1a to ve galued by the forced reduc- tion of the gold premium. Tho average per capita of curreucy m England is twenty-five dollars; in France, thirty-ve; iu the German States, about twenty-turee; and, as wherever wages are high the Volume of tie circulating medium must be large, in tue United States the average ought not to be under forty, Which gives at ieast $1,209,000,000 needed; @gainss the $70y,000, 000 now in circulation. To con- tract the volume so as torender specie payments practicable Wonid, tuerefore, render the country baukrupt and result iu a second and more fatal euspeasion. Oa tie otver nand, it 1s argned tuak convertibiity or resumption, liberating gold, Would aud at least $100,000,000 in specie to the cir- cuhung Mediu, whica, bowever, is only theorett- cally true, Siiee specie 18 NOt likely to appear to any great exsent in the actual circulation. ‘The fact is commerce at Luis age cannot be made to rest upon the metalic medium, iis volume being radically in- Sufliciens, to Say HOLINg Of 118 INcouventence, and some WiChetaly Bystem must be developed in which the ideas of the last century shall not be perumitied to embarrass Wwe Wore extended and colossal com- mercial 1d of the present. Lowever the advo- cates of specie may struggie, the next century will Witvess a complete aviogation of their theories of Pnance and BLEW system Ol political economy ww NEW YORK HERALD, berond the limit at which the two arms of the balunoce adjust Guemseives without friction. Sup, pose the Cost of producuon fo be 100, the cose of travsportation being ve, and the expense of rent and interest on money invested, with incicentals of expense In sale, five more. This realization of the joober may be put at 125, which aflords a profit of Liteen, ‘To depress values beyond the absorption of this profit 13 to disturb violently the balance between commercial value in the maiket and tue cost of production, and to put 4 stop to all manulac- Curing at the giveu cute of wages. Leaving a small margin of profit to jobbers, therefore, it 1s obvioi that any depression of values exceeding ten per cent during the interval of & Season cannot but prove disastrous, and ordinarily six per ceut aepression per season is all that can be ventured upon with saiety, in isd66 a depression of twenty-one per cent proved measuraply Gisastrous; m 1367 a depres. #lon of ninueteen per ceot imvoived an un- usual number of failures; tn 1564 business went on quietly under a depreciation of fourteen per cout, Tuis year the average bas been Ngured av eleven per cent, and up to Vetober busivess Was pever heulibier and more normal. Add to this ten per cent ior the month of Vecember, aud the aggregate will be founa to equal the aggregate of 1800 Wilh tts long list of suspensious aud dully extensions. In 1868, that the panic was Was due mostly to the good sense of the commercial C.asses in reiraining to force cusiomers Wuen eL- barrassed to suspend, in decliniag to lived specu. reapect Wo them. Itis useless to quarrel with the lube vitable lugic Of events; the world wili move, and it {a always beer to stand from under than to be ground to powder by Ingisting upon trying to stop 1. Aver all these experiments have been tried tae day will come when gold will be regarded simply a3 @ commercial commodity— The ciroulating Mediu proper beigg based directly upon the credit of tae governie! In the meauume Were Is nO ¢ sion for croaking and no real appreiension 0: acrisis, The teadency of prices 18 GoWuward, aod Us Wl of necessity Dring buyers imo ike warket after a few weeks, ‘rhe Western dewand is just now very dull, owing to crops Unsold, BSlae Of Mings partially occasioned by the replemuer speculation. This iy ony a reped- Sion of tue pliewomeuca of last year (occastoued by tue Getober specwiation), Which worked ® partial paralysis in the same div oD and need not orcusion any very serious apprehension, Tae Southern de- mand, On (ue other Land, 13 Uncommon active and brisk present, aod wall be more 80 There i# no doubt, at uring the early spring months, however, that trace is dauer than it was at corre- sponding date lust year, thougtt tors is owtng to the sailing Off Of ai) Speculative demand, and has been felt by auction houses more severely than by the legitimate trade, Last year there wa’ a great deal cl spectiative ouylug early im the winter; and, coun- iy dealers having vought more than they really wanted, tne (alilmy off Of demand tus season may o counied lor. Furthermore, an extensive com. bination of Hirst Class LOuses faa Oppose! the auc- tion trade lor a coupe o1 years past, and the oppo- silion is beginning to lel seriously upon its pros. pects In loud tue auction trade Was stroag enough so rule te market, especialy in dry goods, and Wholesalers viewed it8 extensive operations With some acu. The next year # com- Diuation was rainer tacitiy made by lead. img hous*s, with @ View to crush ont the business, or, rather, to reduce it to its origmat triou- tary position. she alcewpt was, on the whole, Buc- cosstul, aad May account for the general duiness complaimed of by anctioneers, at least t a great measure. The nuwber of fatiures reportuu for No- vember is rather jess (wan last year, with lavilities considerably less; aud if dealers contmue cautious there is no reason Wiy the year should not close avorably, Except, possibly, @ too great depression In commercial Vu.ues occasioned by heavy gold sales, Tue month of Decew ver passed over ia sa ety, it ts ed On all hands Las tae prospect of # heavy ing iTade Was never more favorable, A minute comparison of the sales of the month of November us compared with Novemoer iast year, exiibits an average Iauung off of about fiieen per nt in the receipts of Jeading dry goous houses. the other hand, collections are easy, losses aro final 24 Compared Wilh last year, and exteusions $ frequently asked—facta Which prove, be- ab if no imminent danger of any very extensi Stull a deciension euspensions, of ten or twe.ve in the gold preminm for a single month, a8 i4 gnticipaled for December, neceasi- tating & corresponding depression 1n commercial yaiues, i8 too rapid, aud cannot but operate Aisasirously tos grealer or less extent, especially Bpon Noaporters, When itis remembered wnat this depression of values tas been going on since 1405 wich sufficient rapiiity, having been once or twice so uccelerated by contraction as to reuder a pantie imminent, A generaiiza-ton of thia depression for four years, gathe irom the best commercial 2uchorities, is expressed in she tabie;— Average Depression, Per Cent. 1066 1867 1908 1300 Total, gold for the four years bas been ut twenty, or possibly a trifle less, proving that a fait of one per ceut in goid 19 equal to the pulling down of cominmercial vaiues an average of thiee per cent; af which rate, with @ fail Ip gold of ten aaring tne thouth of December, the depression 1a dry gooas equai to thirty per cent, which would on Numerous suspensions were It to cur at the Lusiueas season, and wilt entail heavy es Ad it 19, Af & depression of twenty-one per cent in 1806 shook busluess sensibly—aud @ year of be failores lik: has not occurred since the great 1657 Crisi#—It Is Apparent enough that a depression 0; thirty per cent (ne nth of Decomber will occa- sion a larger number of suspensions than 19 com- patible with the commerctal interests of the country. On We other band, tiere is no excess of goods in Uie market, as there wad in 1466, Lse7 and 1868, and hence the deciension of gold n either 80 Budileniy OF 80 rapidly, im prices Wiii be fully equal to the fall in gola; vut shere are Lo Cau at work, if Commercia! men keep cool, Cause It to Excced Lhe fall in goid, and bask ness men May, Wiih prudent management, suceeed in navigating the Hnancia) rapids obviously sv near et band Without acrious damage, The experiment on the partoi the governinent is unsafe and hazardous, but not Hecessarily ruinous; and, should it appear likely to prove AO, Can be disconucued at any vim ‘There will be some Ductuation, of course; but, on we everage,the premium on gold ought not td be lessened more than one per cent per month, and cannot ve Jessened more than that compatbiy with comimor- ¢iai prosperity. Im fact the ucreased resources of the couniry from year to year should be permitted to absorb the premium gradually, ana thus the ao to convertibility Would be brought about ly and without undue disturbance of com- merotal val Nor 14 14 it consistent with sound economy to distarb the balance between the coat of A hot affect values inevitaviy the fall latively and ta contracting credits judiciously. A simula policy Would operate 10 @ simular manner agalu; and no fears, thereiore, need be entertained. A compiete reconsurnction Of Lie monetary syscem Wil have to be entered upon before ihe periodical danger of pante can be ooviated wholly; but, in the meautime, the commercial classes cauno: afford a crisis, and Will avert it aus they have beiore by the Practica, Common sease Of standing from under aud Jettmg the world move, even tiouga It soonld insist upon tnoving the wrong way ‘Tho jeweiry business, wlich is always first to feol the strain, tas bvea very dutl tor a couple of months, but no failures are suticipated, Several of the lead- lug firms have p aly suspended manufacturing, but intend to resume in full force beiore the boil days, curing which the demand is always heavy; Willie In the clothing business several new tirws, with first class stocks, have opened within the past two weeks, aud old tirms make no coinpiaints of failing custom. The teudency of prices is down. ward, though a part of this is to be referred to the Jact that coid Weather Nas not yet set in tn earnest. Dealers generaily anticipate a busy month, and manufacturers are at work under & fu.l bead oF Steam. The tremendous excess which embar- Tassed the trade tm 156)-67 has been worked off by Southern gud Western shipments, and while in the winter of 1s67-63 manufacturing Was limited, as aiso last winter, the winter of 1os¥-70 opens with greacer briskness of manufacture than hay marked way season siuce the end of the war, with the ex- ception of 1su5-86, Prices are drin aud resist the downward teudency at every step, while the specu- lative and. auction-nouse tenuency, wuich has marked tue business for several years, has been wholly eliminated. ‘To the vacancy of numerous stores on Broadway, between Fulton and Bleecker streets, no 1mportance 1p tiis respect 18 Lo be attributed, Last spriag there Was @ geceral stampede of lasuionabie retail dealers to Union square aad viciuity, which 13 now the cen: tre of the retail trace. ‘This was occasioned, no doubt, partially by the bigh rents demanded, tuougn only partially. ‘ihe progress of the city northward has correspondingly arfected the sho ping promenade, ‘Ine condition ot the city bas ita southern hmit in Four- teenth street at present, and, naturally, the shopping prowenade 18 bounded on the south oy Union square, Again, Firth avenue southor ‘fweuty-taira street 1s gradually yleiding 1s brown stone froats to busl- ness, wile 51Xxth avenae and Eightn avenue are pe- coming tue Leavy retail \norougiiares Of the west side. ihe tux of the retail trade up town leaves Broadway, south of Bleecker street, comparatively vacant, Lhe resuit will be, of course, a fall in rents tuis spring and the occupation of this portion of Broadway by the wholesale trade. The [uct 18, how- ever, tuat owing to Broadway rents business bas developed a tendency to spread inte oross taorougi- fares aud adjacent lovaitous. Of the great puuviisa- Ing Louses Ouce scastered along that thorougniare oay two or three are lefi; bail a dozen of the large whoesaie houses have moved elsewhere, and aozens of Well Known retail houses bave imitated the example. 1t 19 @ very superdcial Observatiogd, therefore, Lo attribute this desertion of brovdway to Stagaation of business. Partiy it hag beeu occasioned vy exorbitant rents, to be sure; but the greaier part of it 18 due to the shifting of trade centres, which occurs frou year to year to @ greater oF e383 extent, Broadway lauuiords have been too greedy, having beea guilty to an extent ot kuling tue goose of the goiden egy. Broadway, like cotton, Was ouce king, and oppressed ita suujects in every Way; but at preseat a portion of Filth avenue and Fourteenth stree: dispute its supremacy as Jashion- able suvpping promenades. ‘rade has ¢ ested for itseif other Centres, aud Brogdway owners must be couens to aoate reuts & lite, especialy souta of Union square. Disuuissiug this topic as irrelevant, notwithstand- Ing sts irequent quotation as proof of commercial dullness, it reinaius to be remarked that, on tue Whoig, Ousiness Was Dever heaitmer, bas not lor Jour years couciafed & seasou with fewer failures ahd iore facie prospects. Suvuld there occur & WOO Tapid depression of Values disaster must ensue. OD the ower tana, 4 the sale of tae $11,000,000 of Gold sHouid Ho! reiuce Laat commodity beyond five OF SIX per ceMt—icnviug 1% Bt 11d say—there 1s no special Occasi0o (or Uucasiness, though it ia not Worth the trouble to tase tid risk Without the very best of reasons. Fiaanctal Wiis on auybody’s part vugaot Dot co ve Indulged Bt extravagant ex pouse to commercial interests; and 16 would be better to begin toe year wito gold at 120 than in tae midst or Ob 1ue-bring of a commercial earsuquace, FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. The Festival and Its Observance in This City. To-day in all the Catholic churches turoughout the world will be held solemn service in honor of the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Motner of God. Each of the countries in which Catholicity bas at any time pre- vailed has been placed by the fatners of the Church under the tutelage of some of those persons who bave been Immediately connected with the inauguration or propagation of Christianity in sucb countries, ad who, by their lives or deaths, had given evidence of their having been chosen by Gad as His special messengers to mankind, and whose stewardship on earth having been faichfully performed are geacratly believed to have been ra- warded by the Creator with seats before the Throne of Grace. In such countries the Catholic popu- Jation seek, mm their prayers, the imtercession of their patron paints, and ceiepraie -the days set apart im the Church caleadar as tue Special days on which to hogor the aforesaid patron saints with feasting and festivities of various kinds, America not having any sainied Catholic Nero con- nected with her bistory, bas been placed by the fathers of the Church uader the especial guardian. ship of the Mother of God and the festivals of houor to the blessed Virgin, are, theretore, regarded as of more than ordinary Importance in this country, Unuer exisving circumstaaces, thereiore, it way not be out of place to reer oriedy to the ductriue of tbe Immaculate Couception wud the pracuce of Lonoring it. BiJEP IN TER IMMACULATE CONCEPTION bas prevaiied in the Cuureh trom the earhest ages as tue carly liturgies would tend toshow, but it was not until The year 1864 that the dogma of the Lumaculate Conception was made an article of faith. in the Lite urgies of St, James, St. Mark, St, Basil and St. Cnry- svstom the terms “immecuiate,” “most holy,” “ever virgio,” ave frequentiy applied to Mary, apa Dr, Pear- son, Bishop of Norwich, Whose Work On the creed vas been generally adopied as the text book in the seml- hares of the Anglican Church, saya:—"We believe the moter of our Lord to have peen, notonly before aud alter His nativity, but aso tor ever, the most immacuate and Biessed Virgin.’’ St. Thesipbon, the Aisciple Of St. James, attests tuat “Mary never knew sin” (Maria non teligit peccatum), and that ifebe had been conceived in gin the angel never would have said to her “ifall Mary, fuil of grace.’ Origen, in the third age, calls Mary “/mn- macuiatam immaculate” Lbese are some of the many authorities quoted by Catholic theologians in coulirination of the belief in the Immacuiate Con- ception, And {twas tn accordance with the beltef founded on these authorities that Pope Pius iX., scUng &8 Lue Mouthpiece Ol the assembied prelates of tue world, issued the decree:—"'It Is a dogma of the faith to@t the most blessed Virgin Mary, from we first iDsiant Of her conception, by @ singular privi- lege and grace of God, im virtue of the merits of the Saviour of mankind, was preserved y free drow all svain of original sin.” THE FESTIVAL Immaculate Conception was, it ts as ‘eurated in Egypt in the second age of the ¢ nd thatthe Kgyptlans received the idea from St. Merk the Evangeist, The Ethiopic Abyssinian Church is likewise said to have had tho Tealival in the same age. ‘ihe celebration of the Jestival Was introduced irom the Kast into England, @nd thence into France and other parts of tue Id. In the prayer hooks of the Anglican 1Vai if Inarked In the calendar for the Sun day oJ December, and on tbat aay the Oathone Church also celebrates it. in this city, While the feast will bo be duly cele- brated to-day, the principal exercises in commemor- ation Will be deferred uvtti Sunday next, These generally consist of processions by the sodalities or Teligious sooreties Connected with the cuurcnes; parieking of the eucharist; sermons and hymne of praise and thanks by tue clergy and inity, ‘The crowded condition Of the sirecw and tue pressing demands of business render the postponement of the pubic exercises necessary 12 maoy qnarters, and on the quiet Sabbath, when ali are free to actend their religious duties, the featival wii be commom- Orated wits all posaibie eciat, int snor of the Geyepat Sinmipan's Hwasru.—General Sher. dan, though much better, i# still confined to bis be and is wii be fome time before he will be about agalo. Fis sickness hag been extremely severe and is called by medical mien cerebro-spinal meningiis, 1t 18 & type of the typhoid fever and requires skill and constant care to relieve the patient. Lr. Asch has veen assiduous in his care of the General aad wil B00 have the satisfaction of seeing him avout as usual. In the absence of General Sheridan, Gene ral Harceu? is in cuarge Of headquarters,—vhicayo production aud ine market yalue of that pagduction Post, VEO he WEDNESDAY, DECEMBE THE RICHARDSON-M'FARLAND CASE, The Voice me People, Censeaion the Kile ing of Richardson and the “Marriage Coro- The Richardson tragedy has evidently taken o "8. Why, then, not make free-!ovisty « solemn rice? Then this sboosing wil all be done aw: advocate murder, But dered Richardson, did not Richarason more than murder McFarland? In my estimation the crime is Kichardaon's. He ts accountabie for itail J. G, S. R 8, 1869.—QUADRUPLE SHEET: YACHTING. with. We do not Bu McFarlana mur- © ask, Raco—Leuer 10m the Owuer of the Enge lish Yacht Cambri. The Proposed .Anaio-American Atlantic Yacht have forgotten what sotnally om the 7th of Auguss we find bim Fs to—not Aaccepung irom—Mr. Bennets ‘res Iy-enoughy coustscting tuo ‘ijection ade Gree, co. i ol ja by Benuett, of the Daunt would q | tWo days aiter the date of the letter. Iwo of these challenges were for iniand races, which Mr. Ash- bury, it seems to us, Ought net to have tried co force deep hold upon the great mass of the people who read the papera, and who have thus been enabied to fo!low the case in all its detalis since that fatal night when McFarland shot Richardson in the Tribune office, The mock marriage ceremony, which ushered the soul of tno dying mau to judgment beyond the grave, has especially aroused in the Christian portion of the community a feeling of the moat Intense ta- Gignation against the ministers who took part in what they cali the “farce” of matrimouy. ‘The fol- lowing communications bave bee received, in which the writerg express themselves very froely upon the tragedy:— BECHER A ORERD TO TIMSELY. To THY Epiron OY THE ABRALDI= 1s ts my decided opinion shat tbe mitisters who took part in thas farcical marriage between Richard- son and Mrs, AcKarland were not over particular as to the technicalities of the law which stood in the Way of its legaiity, Every one who has read a news- paper for the past year must Know tnat ex parte al- vorces obtained in Indtana by parties who do not give the defendant notice to defend himself, are worth nothing in any State outside of Indiana, and when they are procured by persons who ste not actual resi- denis of the otate they are void even in indiana, The minister who married thia man may only have been negiigeut in ob us! acrubiny a8 to those he married, but how is it with Mr. Beecher who Kuew all the particulars and all the t A mipister of & Catholic, Episcopal, terlan or Methodist churoh would nos such a tuing. Bui Mr. Beecuer belongs to no sect or creed. He is the pastor of Plymouth chureh—what- ever that means. its creed ia (he sermons (a mixture of ethics and politics) which be promulgates weekly in Orange street, Brookiyu. He 18 @ law unto him- seif ; is too big & gun to be trammelled with the old fogy resirains of bishops, councils, synods, presby- series, &c. If ho vhinks himself amenable to no chured, law or government, publio’ opinion will be hus judge, He and the parties ho married were well met, ‘1uey hold the modern and seceding views on the old subjects of marriage and divorce, and had become believers in the we doctrines of spiritual aMuities. &c, The minister who matried tuem is ove of the modern seceders among that class of Protestants wo are daily setting up new creeds and building dissenting caurches. It appears that Air. McFarland Kept his marriage vow to his wife—to love her to the end ~and if he broke one of the com- mandinents be did not break & as to her. Can she Say tue Same? JUSTICE. PULPIT ELOQUENCE AND PURITANICAL DEMAGOGUE- 13 Me To Tis EpiroR oF THR BEBAL! The coumns of your journal detatiing and criti- cising the acts of the so-called clerical divines who have acted 80 conspicuous a@ part in the Richardson- McFarland tragedy, calls forth a hearty approval, end all, with one accord, prociaim, “serve them right.” One mother of a family of interesting young Jadies exclaims, “To what are we tending?’ Would it not be manifestly dangerous for one of my daugh- ters to visit the sanctuary whore such unholy and blasphemous principles are promuigated? Iv is pre- sumed that a good per centage of the worshippers of Plymouto church go there with the purest iuten- tions of serving their Creator in humble and devout prayer; otuers, fascinated by the eioquent language Of @ preacher Who can pervert religious trutns to political ends, aud others with no higher aim in view than serving the God of Mammon by a vain display of tinselied Duery and aristocratic gew-gaw- ism. Truly we are standtng on the brink of a dan- werous chasm, and we naturally trembie for the tute of Our wives and Gaugoters when such men as Beecher and Frothingham, clothed with tue garb Of sanctity and prolessing to follow in the footaveps of our Redeemer and teach His moral precepts, cail dowu aad tnvoke the blessing of our Heavenly Father on two guity law-breakers who opealy vio.ated the commandments, In this nineveenta century, when civilization is making such rapid adveucement, it is to be regretved tuat Communities should suffer from the teachings of such demagogues, whose minds have become villated by the taint of freeioveism—and that canonical law dggs not come to our aid in Buencing taem—and Choreoy preserve our homes from becoming demoralized by their blasphemous Partisans—Action of the Government Based Upon the Representations of the Minister of Peru—The Boats to Be Used asa Guard Around Cuba. The foliowing is the full protest of Mr. Delamater against the further detention of tne Spanish qua- boata: Uniled Siates of America, State of New York, City and County @f New York, 88.:— ‘To all to whom these presents shall come—t, H. | J. Begiey, @ novary public in and for the State of Ly York, duly commissioned and sworn, sead greeting:— Know ye. that on the 20th day of Novembe: the year 1869, before me appeared Cornelius H. Vel miuter, and being by we duly sworn according vo law, Voluntarily, rely and solemuly declares and deposes as follows—that is to say:— #irsi—Toat the undersigned is a citizen of the United States, tor wany years resident iu the State of New York, and 18 engaged in the city of New York in the business of manuiacturing engineer and ehip builder. Second—Ibat in the ordinary course of his busi- ‘Desa, he, On Or about Lhe sd day Of May, in the year Isov, undertook and contracted with Captain Kaisel de Aragon, Ou the part of the government of Spain, 40 cousiruct, buiid and completely turuish thirty sieam gunboaté ready for sea within elghs moutus from the date of said contract, Third—Tuat by tae express terms of such under- taking and contract the aloresaid boata remain tne property of the und ed until all paymenw therefor are compleved, aud that es yes large sums amounting to more Lae $800,000 in gold, remain unpaid therefor, whereby the undersigned bas great pecuniary interest therein, Four:t—That be is informed and bel that certain partisans 1p this city, of the insurrection in the w#iand of Cuva, are plotting tue annihilation of tae #oresaid sbips of war by Ure or other means, and the consequent destruction of the large amount ol property wuica the undersigned has therein; tuat the crowded and exposed condit.ou in which the sald boats Dow lie in the Aarvor of New York excites serlous apprehensions on the part of the under- signed; that suck threata cau and will be put into practical operation, and tue more so in vi f ihe desperation of these Cuban partisans in the United States, of their persistent disregard and violations of soe laws Of the United States heretofore, in te matters of 1ecrultment and mibtary expeditions trom this port agaist a nation with which this gov- ernment 18 On terms of peace and amity, aud of tue policy of incendiarism which Dow 19 said to charac- terize the acts of the insurgent Cubans in Cupa. Fith—That inghe monti ot August last the under- ined Was informed by Generat Karlow, then Mar- shal of the United States for the southern disirict of New York, that he had been empowered and directed by the Presiaent of the United States to seize the aforesaid boats, whicn seizure he thereupon pro- ceeded to make, but subsequently permitted the work thereon to proceed as before, and that the uodersigned was at that time iniormed and now believes that such action on the part of the Execu- tive was based on a representation of the Mipister of Peru, resident in Wastington, that the said boats were to be filed out @ud armed wivnin the limits of the United States to crulse and commit hostilities in the gervice of the government of Spaia Aguinst the subjects, citizens or property of the gov- ernment of Peru, which representations the under- signed has reagon to know Dad no basis on fact, the aloresaid boats having been ordered, constructed gud adapted, as the undersigned haa been informed aud believes, to be used a3 guard boats around the jand of Cuba im protection of the autnority of the government of Spain in that island, and for no other purpose whatever, and are so peculiarly constructed by their light draught of water, amail size aud in- capacity of carrying the suficient amount of fuel, Provisions and stores as to render then unsuited to nake @ vovage to veru. Sizih—That in making the seizure of the boats aforesaid, Marshal Barlow mneituer exhivited our pretended to have any process or warrant of atvacn- ment issued by any court of the United Staves guthorizing him to make the said seizure, Dut justi- fled his couduct upon the executive order transmitted to him ag aloresaid, by order of the rresident of tue United states, Seventh—Toat although the aforesaid seizure wai made many months since no judicia! proceedings, to the knowledge of the undersigned, have been begun in avy court of the United States, to enforce or dare "io HE execute tne probvitions and penalues of the Neu- he duleears A FATHER. | Talisy act of Apru 20, 1618, the provisions of which RICHARDSON'S DEATHRED—A FEW SUGGESTIONS. the Minister of Vern asseried to the govern- To THs Epiror or THR HERALD:— The public press, in its strictures on the courss ment of the United States, as the undersigued is informed and believes, had been or Were about to be violated by the aforesaid guuboats, and therefore To rar Epiton ov Tux LONDON PosT:— During the Dest winter y,’0 gave great prominence to a series of chalienges wile. [ had the pleasure of addressing to America on tae 3d of Uctober, 1803. Firstly—1 proposed to sail in New York waters wo endeavor to regain tue cup won it? 1851 by the ceievrated America, secondly—I nad a longing de- aire to test by practical resuits, in a series of we'l contested races, the question of superiority of Eng lush schooners over American schooners, each country building on opposed principles, each be- heving in their own special torm; the latter building yachts of great beam and shallow depth, the former narrow and deep-raughted vessels, Luereby givin, as we conceive, great power of turning to wind- upon Mr. bennett, even though by saying that we challenges were “distinct” he apparently gave the option of any one of them being accopte: all events, to vue fuct of the three challel having been conveyed together is to be atiribuced iu sume Measure the failure of Che negotiation; for Mr, Bennett staiee that he considered the tacking togeiher of the’ three challenges as equivalent to refusal to accede’to bis express terma of sailung the Dauntless oaly in an ocean rice, and that coase- quently he did not reply at ail to Mr. Ashbury’ of the 7th of August, Here, according to the viows obtalalug mM this conmtry, Mr. bennett, on bis erred; ne suould oave sent a reply, owever short, ward, and which, to my mind, was conclusively | to Mr. Ashvary’s letter, Tne next step was taken demonstrated by the resulta of the Angio-American | by Mr. Ashbury. He wrote on toe 2uih of eet race of August 26, 1863, the Sappho having been | and assuming—wituout, a8 we have shown, any si liclent grouuds—that the ocean race was to come off, he suggesied that the; ould trst race round tue Jaie of Wight, and tuen “wail for New York on the jst of September.” He gave Mr, ennet twenty-four ours te repiy, and, fail- ing the receipt of such reply, he would, ne said, consioer it was nob conveulens for Mr. Bennett to accept hia proposals. Mr. Benuett did not reply Willun the specie time, as he had pot received tie lever sova enough to do so, But on the 2d of August ho telegraphed, suying, “I accept your Pm Position, aud, exercising tue recogoeed right of the chauenged , 1 baie the course from Cape Clear to the higbismp off Sanay sook, and the day.of siarling the 16tn of September. ‘I busten to reply by Lelegraph.” oe continued, “in order tuat you may @t once leara that your challenge is accepted.' Again We uave anotuer obvious mistake iv thus quains comedy of errors, ‘the cuaiuenze conveyed Oa the 2vth of August was to race round tbe Isle of Wight, aua afterwurds, on the Ist of September, to start ior New York. Yet Mr, Bennett ignored whe part, aud, sssuung the right of altering the date. “ppeciaily Damed in the chalienge, elected to race 10 New York on the loth Sepiember, and he calls this accepting the challenge, At the same time Mr, Ash- Dury ts just a8 Inch IMeérror in asserting—as he did in a .etier to Mr. Bennett on the 47th September, and again 1D the communicauon he has just ad- dressed to us, that Mr, Beunect bad challenged tum to an ocean race on tue ist September, and that he had accepted it. He seems to bave been quite mie taken on this point. 1, appears Lust Mr. Bennett assigned as a reason for lis Daning so late @ day as the 16m September ior the ocean race, that ne could aes have bis vessel prepared for it at an earlier dateo— noveven on the 7tu or sth, as had been suggested by Mr. Asubury. There is @ decided dillerence Qi opinion on this score between the rival yaché owners. Mr, Ashoury writes:—“On this point! quite. most unuistakably beaten, not simply by the wio ning vessel (Vambria), but by the Aline, Oimara and Condor, Tue winner of the unparalleled Atlantic race of 1866 (Mr, Bennett, now the owner of the Daunsiess) accepted on tie 6b December my chaiienge for the race irom Cowes to New York, aa acceptance objec tionable ln two respecis—Mrstly, because she was not witnin or about the limit of tonnage, act Bee cent, { defined; and secondly, assuming she bud been a good tea vesse: for the Calubria in polus Ol size, Lue main object I had 10 view would dave been deseatea, inasuiuch as the ocean race alone could not aod would not conciusively have sethied which form or mode was the best ou the whole for the general purposes o1 inland, channel, and ocean cruising, but three or four races of each side tus a vessel it vessel, with the ocean race in ng, wo be a8 intecesting as they Would be instructive, and with anytuing like a breeze 1p tae English iaces 1 am sausfied the best vessel would be kuown before ahd irrespeciive of the result of the At.antic one, A8 much misunderstanding exists as to why the races Gia not take piace, and an idea prevailed throughout the summer that a race io New York be- tween the Cambria and the Dauntless would take piace, I beg to trouble you with this communication and the enclosed correspondence, I confess I know Of nothing I have said or writlen whica would wud @ such conclusion, I had no desire or inten:ton for an ocean race withous the series, and from the jack thaton the 29h May and July 17 ietiers from me appeared tn Fuwid, Bell's Le and Land and Waiter, stating that I had no intention of giving the Daunt- less a challenge for an Atlantic race unless she came within about the terms of my challenge, which Srom the dimensions I then gave showed such could ‘not be the case, ‘Ihe first time 1 had the pleasure of seeing the public spiriea owner o! ibe Dauntiess viz., Jat August, he thep gave mea Chaliengs .oF @ race trom Cowes to New York or to the Azores and back; } duller irom you;" and AD eminent saumuker: On the 7th of August I anresar¥ediy accepted for the | saya Lis co ld have aitered ail your sails in forty-eigh' race 40 America, to sail on the 1st of September, no | hourt-And an equally competent opinion states the question as to tonnage and no restrictions in any | Masuicould nave'been reduced and the rigging set Way or shape. 1 extended the time to the 7th or sth op ie four dayi 0 this Mr. Bennett replieu:—""i00 of September, but the owner of the Dauntiess was | Wil permit ine to Bay that I claim to know better than any carpenter or sailmaker, or evea than your- sell, how loug atime! require to ft out my owa vessel for an ocean race.” ‘ihe returt was quite jua- tulled; for although knglish carpenters and gail- makers could unquestionably have aliered sir. Bea- Uett's BAUS Ud spars In @ lew days, still it did nos jie with Mr, Asioury to say 80; and, besides, be could not have kuown that other preparations were Dot possibiy required. ‘ Toe way the matier now stands Is this:—In his lever of September 27 Mr. Ashbury makes @ final propenticn for ee of the contest with tue aunties Hext year. He suggests tive races—oue round the sie of Wight, anovuer to Vherbourg and back, tue third from Cowes to New York; ese threa to take place in March next, the iret two being conducted by the Thawes ruies aud measure-_ ment, und tue ocean race without any question as 10 lume or tonnage, ‘Tue other two races to be run Jew York, in accordance with .ocal conditions. Mr. Asnbury Dow .says has received no answer to his jeter. But he must be aware that in October Mr. Bennet publisved a lester in which he deo!ined, @8 Of course Was to be expected, the inland race proposeds but, 0 save ‘‘auother oemancinanenh 8 accepted the ocean race, although ne thougat March would prove “svormy and disayreeavie,” and he suggested uhat the race shouid ve for a piece of plate worth £10,000, as @ -‘Lestimontal wortuy of the event,’ or, if that was considered too extravagant an idea, that “a set of colors’ suould be the prize. Taus it’ Will bo seek that it reste witn Mir, Ashbury bimse.f whether the ovean iacevomes off or not. If he wul not sali (ae ocean Without the tuland races, tue matier must drop, lor Mr. Bennett nas repeatedly and positively reiused—for reasous beat known ta himself—to sull except oa the ecean. Ali thas Mr Ashbury as to do to easure the ooean race cumin, ow isto writeto Mr. Bennett saying that he wi waive the question of the iniand coutesis, and to select Whetuer the prize snail be £10,0u0 or ‘a aet of co.ors.”” This 1s Lue simple way out of the sirange labyrinth of misappreneusions Known aa Uno ADgio- American Atiautic yacut race quesu0on, of opinion he could not be ready before tae 16tn. Notwitnstanding t¢ haa become clear no Atlantic race was intendea so lar as ] was concerned, Mr. Bennett’s medium—the Nsw York HeRALD—con- siantly referred vo the expected ocean race, and on the 29th of July one portion of @ jong article ran thus:—‘1t is impossible to hide the fact-that England has no yacht that could Bossiviy compeve with any hope of success against the Dauntless across the Al- lantlc, and notwithstanding ail tne bounce that is being said and written about the Camopria, it is manifest to every seaman that in an oceau race she would be ho match whatever against tue American yacht, Excuses may be made, but tuey will be merely excuses.’’ Again, on the 3ist July, in another article, a para- Graph ran thu: “Tho challenge of the Dauntless to race the cham- pion English yacht the Camoria, from Cowes to New York, on the 1st Septemver next, will offer a fair opportanity for judgngjwhether the pluck of the Engtish yacntsmen ig up to the occasion or whetuer they are willing to be left behind ina manly sport in waicn they have hitherto claimed to be leaders. if their courage should fali them. now their inland matches, channel races and lide pleasure trips Within naliing distance of the shore wiil seem like cnild's play beside the achievements of American yachts. The fact ts, the ‘“ewela’’. of the royal yacht clubs of Great Britain must make up their minds to extend their pieasure excurs.ons to the American coast unless they are content to v9 styled dry water yachtmen for tho rest of their Gaya. yt Mr. Ashbury bas been the boldest of British yachtmen on paper, public expectation points to ham ‘a8 wie fitting pioneer in these new and more ex- tended contests invited by Awericau daring. Let us hope that the zeai and confidence be expressed @ Tew months ago wil not have abated next Septem. ber.’ When, therefore, on the ist of August the Vice Commodore of tue New York Yacht Cinv made me a deliberate challenge to race to New York, aud treated Dursued by the reyerend gentiemen who figured around the deathbed of unfortunate Richardson, seem to have overioooked one great and important feature—namely, the total absence of all effort on the part of tuose ministers (whose only duty in that cusmber was) to prepare the dying man for that awiul ciibagal before walch he was about to appear, a tribunal on the decis on of which depended tue loss of saving of bis immortal soul for all overnity. No effort was made to excite the dying man to Prayer or induce him to humbly ask forgiveness of 0 offended and merciiul God. He died with bom- the undersigned tigation, suca as Jezed violation of Peru, and 60 detention of the Peru, to euforce 6 eady between the dates of acceplance and pee roriale, Siar roe aa mene Tnbateat tractor in Denals: of Nev gor ren of Spain. e cseaiaed time or rasveriue (1b or fn of ‘Sep- 1 he #hati hold the each of them respon- declined end, the one tung necessary—eternal saivation—was sites An losses, cous, yarn expenses, dam. |. cmUeth 7 cerned io start so Tate ay the I6ih, and lost signt.of, Mciarland will bave to auswer for the murders of bis body, but Messrs. Beecher ana Froin- migham are cuipacie for the loss of luis soul. A CHRISTIAN, SLAVERY, MARRIAGE AND TAR WIOHER Law. tion, of may berealver pay, sustain, lncur or be put premi CORNELIUS H, DELAMATER, ereof Ihave hereunto set my hand To Tas Epiton or THE HeRALD:— plier Throughout the slavery agitation, so terrible written. in tts consequences to the country, certain gentie- men warred—rightly, perhaps—against slavery as being an institution which set at deflance a higher thaa numan law. Now, however, when the slavery question has gone dowa to “the grave of all tho Capulets, “the advocates of the higaer law seem sirangely inclined to waive its prevensions. Else, how is 16 that certain clergymen, who at one time were very clamorous for conformity to tho higher law in the caso of slavery, have become of late so marvelously indifferent to itsrequirements in regard to marriage? Does the biguer law sanction divorce, legal or inegal ? CiVIs. To Tuk Epitor or THB HEexanp:— It seems to me that the acts aud utterances of two distinguished divines im connection with the Ricbardsoan trageay deserve the reprobation of in- dividuals, a3 well a3 of the more liberal portion of the press, ‘hat remarkable speeca la the chamber of Geath, of a man, Whose sphere of action ts the pulpit ofa Curistian church and whose simplest and sil- lest expressions are received by many with on- tuusiastic plaudits, seems to me 60 dangerous, so un- Just and abhorrent to the moral sense of the commu- nity that silence of the pubiio should not be allowed to mislead the speaker into the belief that bis action 18 approved. Uauer the circumstances were not tho marriage and the fuperal services alike shocking to the sefse of an enlightened people? Was there not an Indecent haste in these two gentlemen to justify alleged improper relations veiween the partied, or did taey attempt such justification in ignorance of all facta? Yet the speaker does form and express tho opimton that ‘in the main’ the cojduct of the dead and the living #o lately unived by him had been virtuous and rigot. Did he at the solemn moment and in that memorable scene feel that even he must offer @pology for his part ana place the and does he mean that ho willdefend whatever act, of any one, Who took the right part in our great national strug- gie, whettier he be the patriotic, unselfish soldier or Inereiy @ camp follower? 1s not his Christian mance of charity broad enough to cover the unfor- tunate wan now jn the prison cell whose sympathy in that struggle was ‘as earnestly on the same side? Did Mr. Becher forget at that impressive hour the alieged gulity connection, the jong, Unwer i eifort to win back the pledged atfec- tion of @ wile and tho custody of an idolized chiia; A motion will to-day to reiease that according ‘The case will interesting deve ‘The following perty destroyed — Hele: T—Ohieago, facto tory. . 8—Decatur, Mich. " ¥ t 13—Chicago, repub! ee bully, could scarcely forget its Own position and the of his expression’ as @ teacher in society. 23—Denver, Jol Mi thing were wanting to show (ne value of @ liberal and me dike ipbia, independent press it would be the just and impartial | $4— Pitsburg, Pa., comments of tue HERALD, while @ partiwan or secta- | 9%—Topeka, K: Tian press, ia advance of proofs, were biasing the public mind, when the only then known tact was @ #wiit and lerrmbie retribution for the sileged com- Bussion Of one of the greatest of crimes. VINDEX. NEW BNGLANDERS NOT ALY “1831 -iTeRS—CGUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?’ New York, Dec. 5, 186%, To Tas Eorron or Tus HexaLoi— In your editorial remarks of today upon the Richardson-McPariand tragedy, you speak of it heaving been all brought about by the teachings of New England. Ip tho main you are right. But I beg that you will not include her population in general in vhig remark; but let it be understood that there are law-abiding people in New England—people who ecu cling to Che eariy doctrines preached by ee notwitustanding tat a few of those ouce conside ir country should into the world to has tho excitement pro. duced by the publication of the Byron scandal by Mrs. Harriet Beecber cooled when we find her iliua- (rious browker mounting the rostrum in advocacy of “freeiovism. ave we not spirit and brains enough in this city to thwart these doctrines of aMnity aud free-lovitin, that are con- stantiy belng preached by thowe wiose alm it should 29—Northi Total for Janusry, ‘Lotal for February ‘Toil for Novemver ‘Tote! for gleven “away out Wi distance from toinking it a gr true i the aforesaid obtain said by an order of court, Whereupon the satd Cornelius H. Delamater docs by these prosents solemaiy and pubiiciy protest against the aforesaid seizure aud against tie lurpiec all persons interferin; erament of cue Untte prevent the delivery of the said boats to the cou- ages and injury which he, the already sustained, incurred or been put into execu- into by or on account of th tional law expounded and observed by all nations the relations between Spain and Peru are peaceful; } that the vessels being of light draught would not be capable of completing & voyage around Cape Horn, which they would have necessarily to, make were they to be employed tn @ Nostile expedilion against Peru on the west coast of South America. FIRES WN THE UN.TED STATES FOR NOVEMBER, Losses Twenty Thousand Dollars and upwards—with the exception of New York city, where the total loss is given—occurring in the United States during the month of November:— na, Montani a Maw ind latest, the clandestine and. anduieat divoroe? | le—-Nerion Contr, Wass, acho! koaid that of tie Cantoria, ate: Benaeseapparcuvly tguor: Did he forget ail these, only to remember the |g vadelphin wool ing. Mr, asuvury's distinc’ provieu,, accepyed. the changed cougition of @ lion living and @ lion dead? | 1% Kuriington, Towa, tobacco Y. cuallenge no far asthe ocean race wa concerned, Did, 1udeed, the reverend speaker know or remember 20-— Brookiyn, white lesd manufactory He objected to race on iniand waters, and the fact anything but the occasion aud the orator? Yes he aerate, SY eaeaiecpoe teat of Mr. Awhbury having on his part ignored this oo store and dwalilage. oe factory. al anzas, block of 29—Washington, N. J., five buildings ¥8—Worcemer, Mass. satine! m3) *, Nae total losses for month ‘Total for Marels, 1960 ‘Total for April, 1869. Total for May, 1869. ‘Total for June, 1869. ‘Total for July, 1869, otal for August, 1660, Total for eptember, 1669. Total for October, 1489. OCunrositias oF LitRRaTURE, —It of the law for quarterly returns, to certify on oath to the correct. neds of the same. One of these useful officials t,”? in the State of Jowa, living some sends the following to the department in justifica- tion of his delinquency In tailing to periorm this 80 lightly any races in the English Channel, I think 1 was Justified in concluding he said what he meant, and that in giving ine cuailenge le must have known there was @ possibility of ita being accepted, and if accepted, that the lat of September would and have found bim ready and wiling to race on that day, instead of which he found he couid not be ready before the 15th, a departure on waich date would insure the vesse! tung Into the equinoc- als, Whereas @ start on the ist of September would, under ordinary circumstances, have enabled the yacnts to be well across the Atlantic before the gales of that season commenced, aud knowing (rom expe- rience that there was time twice or turice over to has been unavie by @ judicial inves- is Usual In Cases Of seizure for al- ft muni 3, 60 show how un- on of the Minister of Of this property afore- said gunboats, and oe hereoy waras thereiu on benalf of the gov- States, or the government of the said seizure and detention, and neediessly subject two yachts, with sixty or seventy persons, to the great tnconvenience, Y not risk, which might thereby result, and tith (he knowledge that the result of such single race would not be satis- Factory and conclusive, Bell's Life of America (Sptrtl of (he Times) on the 28th August thus wrote of the two yachts, the subject id Delamater, has weal the day and year first avove | of this jetier:— H. J. BEGLEY, “The Jachis are to sail from the Isle of Wight on Notary Public State of New York. the ist September, and the public interest, as well be made in the United States Court the Spanish ganboats on the ground to the rules of war and of interna- as toe interest of yachtmen, will bs very great. We have several times promuigated the opinion that the Camoria is big enouga for the purposes of this match ad that her chance to win is not eo very smal!. jat toe Dauntless 1s @ very fast schooner we nave Do doubt, aud we can see nO reason wily she shoud not be just as good close to the wind as when she bas the wind free. But inasmuch 4s it has been gad that our Amert- can models are not calculated to work to windward when ciosehauled, it was extremely destrabie that the question should be practically setiled betweea the Dauntless and the Cambria. The former i, ad- mitted to be one of the best yachts, if not the very best, sailiag under the fag of this country; the latter 14 also admitted to be one of tho beat sailing under the Britisa fag.” Apart from the question of any races between the Davatiess aad Camoria there was a general expecta- tion and an intention on my part to go to New York this year to compete ior the cup won at Cowes in 1361 by the America, The necessary certificates as to measurements and a3 to the Cambria belug the representative veasel of the Royai Thames Yacht Club were duly sent to the New York Yacht Ciud, but 1 was officially advised by teiegrapb that | could not jail for 18 thia year consequent on not baving given a formal 81x months’ votive of my intention to do so, having, bowever, clearly givena notice ou the Ja October, 1868, I van only regret the reason that the notice shouid have dated frow the dates of the above certificates and (that tia should be the only cause why the Cambria did not go to New York tustead of Suen Canal. Cp to this time I nave not recetved any reply from Mr. Bennett to my leiter of September 27, and as much misunderstanding existe as to how waters stand In connection with the Atiantic race, about which #0 wuch has been said and written, Loeg to enciose the correspondence for the favor of wiser- tion, Yours truly, JAMES ASHBURY, Sumz CANAL, PoRt Baty, Egypt, Nov. 9, 1960. {From the London Post, Nov. 25.) The correspondence which appeared in our im- preasion of yesterda a3 the proposed An- glo-American Atlantic yact race, taken in connec- bh that puoi by Mr, Bennets in Octover, purposes as curious as itis vex: 1868, Mr, Ashbury, of the yacht Cambria, cualienged the American yacht- lpg World to @ series of races, consisting of ry ‘al iniand and one ocean competion. He supulated, vowever, that the v to run against bim should not be of a tonnage ore than ten per doubtiess be fully argued, and some jopments are expectea, ad Ups wards, 1s @ list of fires and the value of pro- mm which the loss at each waa $20,000 of Pr h Sree tte factory. . jh rie, planing mill and i ofice, Lee ', botel aud block of stores. ‘stores. Mean wigwam. ‘ote Territory, government stores. 2) factor jection of Mr. Bennett's hi ag A helped wo produce the complication which bas unfortunately arisen, Wheu Mr. Ashvury discovered that the Dauntless was somewhere between fifty and & hundred per cent larger than the Cambria be Wrote to decline the proposed contest; but he aiter- Wards modified bis reiusal to the extent that he was content to leave the settiement of the tonnage ques. tion to the arbitration of some specified yachung authorities, Add thus the matter stood when t Dauntless arrived in this country in July last. Jt is to bo remarked here, that as the Danntiess is by the New York Yacht Club measurement raved at 262 tons, and by the Thames Yacht Ciab rales—which obtain generally in this couniry—~at 821 tons, the question of measurement is one of considerable im- oes pin and unquestionably the proposal of Yr. Ashbury to decide by the “Thames measure- ment’ waa open to serious Objection. When au the Vesela of A country are bulit somewhat same model, an arvidcial rule like What of the ih Yacht Clab may be very convenient and suMcientiy accurate. But when narrow and deep yachts are to be pitted againat broad and shaliow boats, no rule bat one that would give a very near approximation to the actual “displacement” could be sutisiactory. But itis only fair to Mr. Ashbury to stave that by jon he was, at tne time he made the propo! re of the diwadvantage at which tue “Tuanes 1weasurement” would place vesseis of ihe American build as compared with mnglish yacnts, On the lst of August, shortly alter the arrival of the Dauntiess in this country, Mr. Bermett had a conversation with Mr, Ashbury, in Whisk the latter proposed to have two iniand races, bu’ Mr. Bennett objected to anything but an ocean race, either vo Oddy wattle wholesale grocery. alidings. ac 1869. 1869. ry 1880. monthe of this yoar. & reqnirement postwasters, In making out their }, And evidentiy justice of the tgs] junt up that official, athardahip to duty. It is genuthe anu from the original, We sup- s ‘ew York, One f Coctedios tong to-hold sway. if Mr. Heecher beueves | PF¥#8 tho maine and ofice:— Tnivunderstaudings wos Uuk of “sin, conversation, tat the conduct of Richardson and bis paramour | , Dear sir | canta ford to gob or 6 miles to @ Justesand Pay | Mr, Bennett says be considere.; tuat the oriviually were bork moral and re igious, if they were actuated | 2,Cents for nothing it pant give oath edull, Won you Con | proposed races wore referred t's in iL; Whereas Mr. by pare and high motives, a8 he asserts, if such t4 tO | post 1 osn far the united states that 1 Cont think it pays to go | A8Mbury states gag consi dered, Mr. ae =e be preavhed by our ministera of the Gospel, WHY, | so far to adustes once im 4 years pm uull—iebouldbayeto | ON tho ist of August gualienged hia an tion, not do away entirely With the marriage F1VG? | Wier & horse 1 is up hild Mw On reco, Me, Avubury sppeara The Man Who Mode the White SSRIOTER” BURKE. forse—He ta Shot in a Political Brawl and Kefuses to Make a Complaint—An Officer Who Coulaw’t Pind the Man the Judgo Sent Him After. Another one of those disagraceful affairs that have So frequently transpired during the recent canvasd occurred in the Sixteenth ward at an early bour yes- terday morning, which may terminate seriously at least to one of the participants, @ notorious charao- ter, who has figured conspicuously in the police courts for the past ten years, Bartholomew Vonanue, @ member of the Twenty- firat ward gang, during the recent primary caucuses in the Eleventh Aldermanic district, received the nomination for Alderman from the Mozart Hall, emocratic Union and workingmen’s portion of the democratic party, and accepted the nominations, On Saturday night last he aunounced to his friends, for reasous best known to himself, that he was nota candidate, and declined to “ran,” which excited @ feelimg of suspicion in the mtods of sore of his cone stituents, a portion of them surmising he had sold out to the regular Tammany candidate. About half-past one yesterday morning, incom pany with three or four friends, Donahue repaired to the liquor saloon of James Dwyer, at the corner of Ninth avenue and Twenty-seveath street, for tne purpose of reiuting the stories put in circulation concerning his withdrawal from the contest, In the saloon he encountered @ gang of euzht or ten roughs, the majority of whom were intoxicated, under the leadership of #etcr Burke, more familiarly known as “Rioter Burke,” tho party who “rode a white horse” at the bead of the rioters during the duly riots in 1863, Donahue had no sooner entered the saloon than Burke and bis party commeaced @ War of worda, cuarging him With treacuery, oll Py Onally ter- minated 19 the entire mob, headed by Burke Taking an assault upon Donahue, wio revreated to Go inner room, In hopes to keep the mov at bay and prevent their attacking lum from beliiad. While Donahue was thus penned up in corner- at the mercy of the infuriated mob, Burke struck at him twice, aad in order tu defond himself Donahue drew @ seven-barrelied revoiver from hia pocket aad fired three slots in rapid succession at the crowd, Who separated, As the third shot was fired, Burke, who was the foremost of the gang, fell to the Moor, exciaimii “im dead.” After Burke hadfailen Donahue rus into the street and made his way to the Sixteeuth precinct station house, where he gave himself up to the sergoant In command, Ofticer Hugh Lynch, of the Sixteenth precinct, who was ou post in the neighborhood, hear- ing the firing, proceeded to the place and found Burke ‘lying on the fioor, bleeding profusely. With the assistance of some of hi friends tne injured man was taken to the station house, when 1t was ascertained the ball had en! his left side, just velow hts heart. The sergeant in command ordered Burke to be gent to the station house, but upon the latter desir. ing to be taken to his residence, No. 337 West Twen- ty-sixth street, he Was removed thither by the oifi- eers and » physician Was summoned. ‘The above are the facts as related to a representa-. tive of the HkRALP by Donahue and omcer Lynch upon the former being arraigued at Jeiferson Mar- ket Police Court, the oMcer expressing it as bis opinion that the “rioter’’ was fatally injured, noe withstanding which he made tue following amda- vis, which fs given verbatim, aud Doaahue was du- charged: pity and County of New York, as.—OMoer Hugh Lynch of the sicitents procitel boing duly’ avrorm, saya, heh. der arrsaton Bartholomew Dovahue, Dacemver 6th, 1969, charged by Petor F. Burke with laving shot him with ® pistol charged with powderjand ball, in side ; th said Burke, whom he ad that Barge informed depon: werk y hurt aud that be did not iotend to prosecute Donahue, uM LYNCH, Sworn before me this 7th day of December, 186%—WIL- Liam Dovak, Police Justice, Upon the omcer’s appeartng at court without the compiainant or & certificate from the atvending piy- sician Justice Dodge despatched the officer to pro« cure one or the other, but the omeer had probably been tainpered With on bis way to the station house in search of the rioter and returned with the above statement, This ts @ case that ehoud bo myonti= gated by the Board of Police Commissioners MORMONISM IN GxORGIA.—About one hundred Georgians, princiyally from the porshera part ol Wwe State, nave been converted to Mormoaisin andr moved to We lana of promise since laet apring. Fou: Mormon propliets have visited the State and have been operating & RS dea in Floyd, Henry aod Fayette counuga, ‘They have aied to the peopia principally oa the ground tah aod tts Lassen {ious Olfer them ® political Aud social repose Which the machinadons of the pegro equality party will nover permit them to enjoy in the Southern Stat Furthermore, there are already two iarge cot mills ia Utab, aud tho Mormons are anxious to bo. crease their home product of the raw mater sa), ‘Chey have already cotton piantations in the soata. Gasiern corner of the lerritory, east of the fagun= Vatns, aod require & greater Humber of expertenced cotton vuilivatora, ana tis necessity mainiy directed their alention to Georgia an the Souter Brates—aacon (Ga) Teieur api.