The New York Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1870, Page 5

THE COURTS. Proceedings in the Yesterday. The Late Bank Defaleattons—The Mer- ehants’ Exchange Fraud Case and the Fourth National Bank Conspiracy— Surrender of the Parties at Large— The Surrogate’s Court— Health- ful Refarms—Seduction Case, UNITED STATES COMMISS.ONERS’ COU’,T, ‘The Bank Defalcation—Surrender of Oakley; Cashier of the Merchants’ Exch ange Bank. Before Commissioner Shit ada, ‘The parties to the late frauds in, the Merchante’ Exchange and Fourth National Exc mange Benks are M&ely to soon be put on trial for tb g charges against whem. Oakicy, the cashier of the Merchants’ Ex- change Bank, for whose arrest a warrant nas been.in the hands of the federal oificer f er several days past yoiuntarily surrendered nimself yesterday pede] ‘Mr. Vakley, however, made a co adition with the Com- malgstoner, through a friend, t! sat his bail should not be above $10,000, Distr! ec attorney Pierrepont fixed the ball at» $20,' 00, but Commissioner Shields, using his owa discr ction in the matter and for the furtherance of the er ened eames, consented ‘to accept $10,000 bail, whic A Oakley belt give came in and si red himeg@if. The exami- Ration into the case will be y held on Monday next. The Fourth Nation: 4) Bank Conspiracy. Gopeland, the alleged dmg conspirator in ‘the Fourth National Ban’ Conspiracy case, surren- dered himself yesteraa: ; morning and was admitted to ball in 35,000 to app jar tor examination with the other defendants on Mi maday next. COUP a OF APPEALS, Adjournment of | he Court Sine. Die—Causes Bubmitted. Before the adjour ament of the Court of Appeals sme de in Albany yesterday the following causes were submitied:—' fe People vs. Phillips; Goodrich ‘Ys. Russell; Mos’ per va, Fe: 3 Allen’ vs. Head; Hutehinsou vs." garket Bank, of ‘Troy: Beunet ve Morehouse; Bur! cuaker va. Erie National Kank in re John A. Duf ¢; Ellsworth vs. Lockwood; Gon- ceales va. Harie m Railroad; Gaskin vs. Meek; Frost vs. Warren; J deubleday vs. Warren; Emerson vs. Boost; i a Wunsch; Dennis vs. Crittenden; ‘tho! apson; Connelly vs. Brittain; Leon- ara vs. Buti go Magnetic Telegraph Company, b reapondent. graph pany, by ‘SUPERIOR COURT=-CHAMBERS. ‘Two “Juv oniles” Discharged:Irom the House of Refuge. Before Judge McCunn. ‘Two ‘‘}' sventles’ named James Nixon and Willam Courts . Moore, W hese .respective ages gre forty and sixty- ‘two yea! s, were brought before Judge MoCunn yes- verday on a writ of babeas corpus and their dis- eharge sought on the plea that they were detained Meal) y in tue House of Keluge. From the evidence eheile a it appeared tnat sney were. brought before Judge; Dowling, at the fombs, by a policeman who char jes them with beilg pockétbook droppers. They were touna toed of vagrancy and gent to the Mou ge of Retuge for sixty days. ‘he return Jailed to sho w thatany specitic act in violauon of law had bee proved against them. -Agsistant District Attorney Blunt opposed the dis- ebarge on the ground that had. they been sent to @ay other institution than the House of Refuge they Woould have to be seutenced for a term of one year, ‘mid the prisoners ought Lo congratulate themselves on the moderation exercised towards them. Judge McCunn was of opinion that the commit ment was wholly irregular, and that no testimony Jhad been adduced to convict the prisoners of any erime. it was @ usurpation of power, be said, to oonvict.on a charge without proof. The same charge might be made agaist any man who waiks ie streets, and if there was no luriher testimony than that which appeared inthis case he, wo, could be ‘Muprisoned, ‘he prisoners were discharged. Okarge of Seduction—Prophetic Soul, Mine Uncle. Tne case of Butterworth vs. Dowding, the particu- Jars of whjch have already appeared in the HERALD, and in which it will be remembered. the defendant, Mr. Dowding, is charged with the seduction of the pass, who 1s bis niece, was resumed yesterday fore B. V. B. Kennedy, referee. Mr. James ex- amined several witnesses, whose testimony tended to exculpate the defendant from the charge brought against iim, and their cross-examimation by Air. Grattan failed to shake It. ‘The further hearing was then adjourned to a future day. SURROGATE’S COURT. Healthful Reforms. ‘The members of the legal profession practising in the Surrogate’s Court and all parties having bust- Tess therein w#il.be glad to learn that Surrogate Hutchings will hold his court in future in the new County Court House. The room formerly occupied as We record room has been fitted up as the court room. ‘Ihe unsightly saies have been removed, and the clerks accommodated in the general clerks’ Toom, ‘his 1g not only an economizing of space, but aneconomy of outlay saved to the taxpayers of the county in ‘the dispensing with the rental formerly or a court room in Chambers street, Mr. utchings has for his action in this matter, and for Many reforms imtroduced into the working of the oltice and general order of court business, received the warmest approbation of the lawyers practising in hus court, One of the most important orders is- sued by him was that which direc‘s that no clerk in ‘his office shall act.as guardian or in any way have personal interest im matters brought to taelr official cognizance. Wills Admitted. The following wills were admitted during the week ending January 14:—Sarah C. Ostrandez, Maria HL. Frestel, Thomas J. Blanck, Minthorne Tompkins, dr., Morgan L. Livingston, Pierce Sanders, Edward Bmery, Cordelia M. ‘‘homas, Julta M, Proudfit, Leon Hart, Henry M. Vatenune, Jacob Brush, Samopel T. Sisdale, Almira Durwage, Louis Auguste Verpruggie, Jonn C. Hull, Peter Marshal, Francis Sohmer. st '§ COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS. Before Judges Dowling and Bixby. BEWARE OF LAND SHARKS. James Rowland, a respectable looking, elderly man, a sailor, charged a man named John Gilmore with taking from him thirty-four dollars. Rowland said he had been recently discharged from his ship after a long voyage, and he got into some of the low districts of the city, where he met the defendant, whom he had known some years ago, Gilmore asked him to take “a drink,” and he went with him. About five minutes after he had drank he felt him- self stupified, and on coming to himself found that he had been robbed of the above amount. Gilmore ‘was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of fifty dollars. Judge Dowling m sentencing him remarked very strongly upon the conduct of “landsharks like Gil. re.”? He said there was no occupation in life so arduous as that of 2 satlor, and fellows like him wait around to clear men like the complainant out o1 their hard earned, honest wages. MISCELLANEOUS CASES. John Thompson, charged with stealing an overcoat Valued at forty-fvee dollars from Charies Williams, No. 6 Park place, three mcnths imprisonment; James Nolan aud WilMam Varley, charged by Henry Hoffinan with stealing a chest of tea from 240 Cham- bers street, six months in Penitentiary; Charies Breckenfleld, chargea by officer August riezzen with striking him on the forehead on election day in Fourth street, fined twenty-live dollars. PRESENTATION T0 JUDGE KELLY. . Interesting Scene. Yesterday Judge Kelly, the respected ex-Judge of the Court of Special Sessions and Yorkville Police Court, was taken quite by surprise by being asked to meet Judge Dowling at the Judge's private room at the Special Sessions Court. On entering be found Judge Dowling, and after a pleasant chat—the morning court having adjourned—Judge Bixby and all the attachés of the court flocked 1, and with a cardial shake of the hand of Judge Kelly did something towards showing the warmth of their regard. It was evident that there was a conspiracy of some sort, but what it was was not very clearly revealed unt Judge Dowling arose and sald:— Judge KRLLY—I am selected by tho attachés of this cour to present you with a token of the regard and esivem they all tertain towards you, and the great respect felt by them wards you while acting as Justice in the Special Sessions. They take very great pride in doing it, now, because you are hot in the same ollelal posteion now that you were last year, Any little outward show of their regard would have looked Alike seeking for favors. Now no such constriction can be put upon thelr motives; for you have retired from public life, Sind none of the attachés of this court are under your super- viel fore they feel that they can make his present witha yey feed grace, and that it Will be understood to be, what it really is, a free will offering .of thore who hope always to deserve to have the privilege of your friendship, Judge Dowling then handed Judge Kelly a Apis watcl and chain, and said to the Judge in handing Mt, “You will please accept this Jittle token as com- lug from the attachés of the coart and myself.” The walsh was a Raymond watch, from G, O, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET. ties cn monaratamesetmow nee. per Tgiogg INTELLIGENCE. Presented to Hon. RICHARD KELLY, By Justice DOWLING and the attachés of the Special Sessions. ener. Court of anne near en tev cree nei ee Tt is @ seli-winder. oy baiting f & liv deepring the exact time can be" “% minute, witout looking at the face of We watch The tarts that the hour, and ‘shere is no necessity to look at the face of the wate! Ivcertaiuly ta, whether looked wt from the orn? mental or the ical polam of view, little igo Ke PONE, wes evidently quite surprised tae wnexpected gt, ana words did not seem quite at higcommand at arst Presently he sald:— Aira oiee GENTLEMEN—I thank you very kindly, but I know imper- are concerned, for this very handwome As Justice Dowling bas ssid, the present does come "Duriagihe time that’ ‘have Rud te hence ae auth ve Ss justice our relations one with the other hone teat! kindly nature eepecially Ives 1 Tagisteate, remember with a pleasant memory, uo matter how long saballlive. Lean only say again I ik you--though I do it imperfectly I do it heartify—for this manifestation of your regard forme. I hope that { aball do nothing in the future Leh bys oe you behyed Lees pee of me, and cel cay nee remembrance o! ‘morning's event suiivient to prevent me, PERU. Chinese Immigration—Political State of Peru—Railways—@eneral News. A Lima, Dec, 22, 1869. ‘The recent negotiations in the United States rela- tive to the introduction of Chinese labor have not been ignored by the planters and government of Peru. It 8 well known that for many years past the extensive estates along the Peruvian coast, pro- ducing large quantities of cotton, tobacco, sugar, Tice, &c., Lave been almost totally worked by cooltes imported at great expense by private enterprise; and even after the system has been in operation for so long a time, the eontinual quarrels between the planters and coolies, arising equally from the cruelty of the one party and the lasiness and stub- bornness of the other, have caused a general feel- img of discontent and a universal desire for some new arrangement by which an ample supply of la- borers couid be secured on terms more advantageous to both parties. As it 18, a coolle costs the planter from $200 to $400, with a contract of eight years, at four dollars per month; but owing to the lack of mutual interest tne investment rarely proves profit- aple. Still this class of labor is the only one by which the planters can hope to secure the cultivation of their estates, from the fact tbat the Indians of the Anterior are occupied on their own Utile farms, and the Indians of the coast exist in too limited numbers to be of any positive service. Now that Mr. Koop- manschap has been so successful in the United States, a vigorous effort ia to be made by this coun- try to make some arrangement by which equal advantages may be gained for Peru. It is proposed to send, in the first place, a diplomatic agent to China, who by effecting a treaty will: prove to tne authorities at Pekin that the cruelties alleged to have been practised upon the coolie iabores here will be prohibited in the juture, and assuring to the Chinese the same privileges and advantages in Pera that they are to enjoy in the United States. More- over, the situation of the Peruvian planters will enable them to offer better terms to the coolies than those effected by the Koopmanschap agent, and it is hoped that @ supply of lavor may be secured that will enable the planters to redeem the vast extent of immensely valuable lands now lying idle for want of meuns to cultivate them. The director of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company has offered to establish a line of steamers from Callao to some port in China i @ reasonable subsidy can be obtained from tne government, and the advantages to be derived are so evident that it is probable the pressure which will be brought to bear on the administration will termi- Tate in the accomplishment of the end. Rumors are sull bemg circulated that the Presi- dent proposes culling an extraordinary session of Congress in order to finally decide the long vexe Dreyius question. ‘1his matter has been resolved b’ the Supreme Court, the decision being that a new oiler for proposals for the loan be made by the government, and that the most advantageous bid be accepted. But so much money bas already been advanced to the nation by Dreyfus, his con- tract having been signed and approved by the gov- ernment, that it appears to be tue President’s hope that Congress will support him in the measure and enable tue Lreasury vo proceed in its affairs without farther circumlooution or delay. Tnis negotiation, already fully explained in. the HERALD, 18 so appe- tUzmg to the national capitalists here that every metuod Las been adopted .o secure it; and Dreyius, supported only by the Lresidcut and opposed by the people, the Supreme Court and the stand! cum. mittee of Congress, is not particularly anxious to proceed uniess some good guarantee be given him in return for his money and dratts, This resistance of the Executive to the legislative power is the strong ground of complaint at present against the Cont guceee @ud may resus in very serious trouble. in countries where epidemics and hydrophobia are predominant stringent health measures are adopted and energetic crusades are set on foot agaiust the canine race, So it is in Peru, where revolutions anc political outbreaks have become chronic, every possivle precaution is taken vw pre- vent their recurrence. So far the present auminis- tration has been rewarkably successful in bert Re tue dangers Of @ revolt; but the eternal anxiety a: dread manitested by the government clearly show how thuroughly the ir is appreciated. in Lima oue of tne signals for revolution has always been the toiling of the church bells, thus calling the Peopie together and disposing them for action. Now tue Minister of the Interior has prohibitea the ringing of these bells in any case, save on prean- nounced’ religious occasions. In the event of fire only one bell can be sounded. Tis mea- sure has greatly excited the ire of the population, since they justly tmagine that their property may be barned to the ground without any alarm to the tremen being given, and more especially as the first steam fire engine seen in Peru was received from the United States by the last Packet they look upon their case as bard. The in- stauce is merely given as @ curious proof of the tumidity engendered by such continual outbreaks. Mr. Garcia y Garcta, go well known in the United States during the time he represented Peru in that country, has just perfected the arrangements tor the line pf railway he nas been proposing to bulid for some time past. The road runs from Kten, w port about 300 miles north of Caliao, to the little town of Ferriiiafe, saurty milies in the mterior, through one of the inost fertile aud well cultivated districts of Peru. The taeilities offered to planters for transporting their produce +o the coast, together with the opening of @ saie port, will render Mr. Gar- cia’s enterprise & very profitable one. ‘Tne materials; ‘will be principally ordered from tne United states. Another competitor for the telegrapn line from Ltma to Panama bas appeared in tie shape of a re- guiarly organized Kuglisn company. As a privilege and subvention are requested py this company 1t 18 . almost certain that the government will aecept Mr. Paz-Soldan’s plan, already communicated to the HERALD, 1n which notuing 18 asked from the gov- ernment. That so many individuals and companies should be seeking this ilne 18% semt-proof that the enterprise Will be @ success, Without a une from Cuba to Aspimwall, however, the proposed line Would rather be of a tantalizing than of. benelicient nature. As @ proof of the manner in which the administra- tion protects the interests of the country the follow- ing Inay be cited as an exampie:—Mesars. Schutte & Uo., & Very large business Louse of this city, have the contract for consigning guano to Germany, and have increased their wealta greatly by the negotia- tion. A short time since the government ordered thal they, in common with the other gaano houses, should submit their Recounts to .a certain mercantile firm, acting as government agents. Schutte & Co. refused, and the next day the official newspaper contained a decree annulling their contract, order- ing the debt due to them to be paid, and their stock on hand in Europe to be immediately handed over to the guano inspector there. The two important raliroad limes between Are- quipa and Puno, a town on the famed lake Titicaca, on the Bolivian frontier, and between Lima and the Peruvian head waters of the Amazon, are about being given under contract to Mr. Henry Meigs, our indefatigable countryman, who has done 90 much to raise the American name and interest in Chile and Peru. The first of these roads will open to commerce an immense extent of fertile country hitherto almost totally abandoned from the waut of proper communication with the coast, and the second will be the Pacific Central of South America, connecting with river navigation, aad forming a high road across the Continent, traversing the richest valleys of Peru, and making the interior, now de- eertea, one of the most inviting sections of the world. ‘The cost of the two roads is estimated at $60,000,000, and Mr. Meigs accepts negotiable bonds of the gov- ernment, bearing seven per cent interest, for the amount, a sufficient quantity of guano being guaran- teed to render the sum safe. By commencing these roads another element of peace and prosperity is secured for Peru, by giving lucrative occupation to many who now only think of revolution, and by 80 increasing the value of the property of others that revolution will be their last thought. There are sixty-two books in the Bible, written by forty different men. Some were writien by states- meu, some by Kings, some by shepherds, some by herdsmen, some by vinedressers, some by propneta and apesiles, some by physicians, The auchora lived in different countries and wrote in diferent ages of the world, there having been 1,500 years from the writing Of the first vouxk to that of the last. Yet there are no special contradicuons, buta won- derful harmony through the waoie, and ye to which we were all amoua- a wore tarete "3 pened beiry feast . er a Ve 4 Religious Services To-Day. and glorious d Opon this platform only can Bishop Snow will preach in the University, Wash- | the world stand in the light of perfect freedom and. equality, each mdividual soul a swimmer in tue great Sea of hight, depending on its own right arm only, for whatever shining shore it wins. In view of the Jaw of eternal progression there can be no degree of know! absolutely unatcanable; aud hence the lmpossiblity of an individualized suy e being; for place him at concelvaple point of excel- lence and knowledge and we him on the way, Ali grades o1 being, then, how exalted soever, are clearly attainabie; aud he who harmonizes himself with the immatable princrples of justice, love and truth shall sweep the spheres with eagie wing when *| he “shufties off this mortal coil.” Still, though, ‘dark with excessive light,” he must througout the endless ages of evernity be obscured by compara- lve ignorance and suade; for were the ultimatuin of ull glory and knowiedge once attamed his future Were Dut @ soulless biauk and all his past @ worth- Jess dream. ington square, this afternoon, at three o'clock, on “The Prophecies of the Roman Antichrist,”” The Onurch of the Puritams will attend divine ser- Vice to-day in Apollo Hall, orner of Twenty-eighth street and Broadway. Preaching vy the Rev. Dr. Cheever, at half-past ten o’ciock, on ‘“‘Dispostiion the of Characterin Time and Eternity.” Rev. R, N. Bellows will condact the free services at Brevoort Hall, No. 154 Bast Fifty-fourth street, between Lexington and Third avenues, to-day, at half-past ten A. M. and half-past seven P. M. At the Forty-second street Presbyterian church Rev. Dr. Scott preaches morning and evening—‘‘Tbe Idolators Punished.” Rev. G, L, Chaney will preach in the Church of the Messiah, Park avenue, this morning and evening. Subject in the evening—‘Wnat Hands Were Made For.” Rev. Moses Hull will speak befose the Society of Spiritualists, at tue Everett Rooms, tnis morning at balf-past ten, and this evening at half-past seven o'clock. AtSt. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church, Forty- first street, near Sixth avenue, preaching at haif- past ten A. M. by Rev. Dr. MoClintock, and at half- past seven P. M. by Rev..John Emory. At the Free Church of the Holy Light, Seventh ave- nue, next to Thirty-fourth street, services will be held at baif-past ten o'clock A. M. and half-past seven o'clock P. M. Rev. Eastburn Benjamin will preach. Rey. Chauncey Giles this morning preaches on “Sectarianism not Christianity,” in the New Jeru- salem church, on Thirty-fifuh street, between Fourth ‘and Lexington avenues. At the Washington Heights Methodist Episcopal church, 153d street and Tenth avenue, Rev. J. Millard ‘preaches tuls morning, and the Rey. A. J. Kynett, D.D., this evening. Rey, Wiillam P, Corbitt wil) preach in the John street Methodist Episcopal churcn at half-past ten o'clock A. M. and seven o'clock P. M. Atthe Church of the Heavenly Rest, Fifth ave- nue, above Forty-fifth street, services at eleven o'clock “A. M., half-past three and half-past seven P, M. Sermon im the evening by the Right Rey. A.C. Coxe, D. D., Bishop ‘of Western New York. At the Chapel of St. Augustine, Trinity parish, 262 and 264 Bowery, between Prince and Houston streets, services at half-past ten A. M.and half-past seven P.M. The Rev. J. B. C. Beaubien will oMictate. Subject of the evening sermon—“The Struggle 10 Life between Man’s Will and God’s Will.” “Fallen Women.” The Rev. Dr. Morgan, of St. Thomas’ church, will repeat his sermon on this sub- ject in Trimty chapel, Twenty-fiftn street, this even- ing, at nalf-past seven o'clock. Rey. Thomas S. Preston will lecture this evening at the Cooper Institute upon ‘* The Catholic View of the Public School Question.” Rev. Juitus L. Dauner will occupy the pulpit of the Sixth avenue Reformed church at balf-past ten A. M. and half-past seven P. M. Lyriste—Watts, Wesley and Faber. To THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD:— ¢ The name of Isaac Watts ag @ Christian songster, as far as has travelled the English tongue, is a name that 1s spoken of in terms of love and affection. The great requisite of poetry, sacred or profane, is that it should seem to breathe the breath of inspiration, and Watts bas this quality in no ordinary degree. Believing in evangelical Protestantism and receiving ‘is theological inspirations, as it were, from the feet of Luther, he sung out from his soul the hopes, the aspirations and the trials of @ Christian life, as de- fined and developed among the Reformed Churches, With the religious opinions embodied in his verse I have little to say. His hymns mse and swell and flow away in melodious sound, raising up the thoughts from earth and turning eyes heavenward. They excite religious faith and tead men away, by their sweet harmony and pious aspira- jon, from the every-day practical worid mto the realms of Coristian thought and.feeling. And 88 a religious poet, for beauty, harmony, melodious Versification abd the presentation of intellectuat routine, religious thougnt, as embodied in Protestant doctrine and belief, and developing and applying that doctrine in the form of sacred lyrics, to start men forward in the Christian journey, Watts stands alone. But that bis hymns embody the higher re- ligious feeling, viewing them from his standpoint, 1 cannot admit. They shadow forth hope, taitn and rellance on the Saviour, but not true holiness and spirituality. And now let nie speak of Charies Wes- ley. John and Cbaries Wesley are identified with that great sub-reformation in Engiand in the last century. John composed the doctrine and Charles the psalm of the Church, John asserted primi- tive simplicity, earnest preaching, evangelical lite, and a firm belief in Jesus Christ, with an improved morality and a pure life, 4s the requisite of the Christian, And enthusiasm apd excitement were to be the oluef means of success. The Episco) Church was lost in temporal profilgacy, and the Wes- Ls started Methodism as an improved faith. Charles esley’s hymns, as well as Watts’, are sweet and melodious, but not so reflued or orthodox. By the Tapid repetition of holy names ip lyrical mony to excite the souls of men to higher thoughts than earth and raise in them a wild, disordered and un- defined feeling of religion, momentary, but not abiding—to step up from the slums of earth at once into the contines of heaven, seems to be @ point in Wesley's verse—beautilul to the ear, sweet, plain- tive, and carrying you away in a rapturous enthu- siasm, but when the excitement is gone the soul is a# earthy as ever. It ts animal excitement, not spiritual i holiness, devetion—true Christian exis- tence and life. Methodism has considerable success and has done good, and Charles’ songs, more than John’s sermons, have carried it along. But only ® rough animal Christian feeling Charles Wesiey’s hymns develop. But Freaerick Wi! Faber, that late Catholic writer and poet of England, that true, noble, saintly mi he develo} qualities 48 @ religious writer which Watts or W oannot hope to equal. When we come to think ofa man Whose life was spotless, who gave bimsel’ all that he was or could be to Jesus Christ; that wrote out from his pure heart those eweet, holy songs, 10 tor heaven and aspirations toward @ saintly | in, sweet, devout, heaveniy—attuned aimogt to angelic harps, we may gay that his hymns stand as far, in hristian spirituality above those Evangelism—Abduction of a Child Upon Pre- tence of Promulgating a New Gospel—Pho- toaraphs of the Enthusinats. A short time since an article appeared in a Mil- Waukee paper giving an account of an alleged child abduction case, from which we take the following:— ‘The scene of the occurrence 1s dated in Washing- ton city. The little girl, st appears, had been left in the charge of an itinerant doctor and wife, who Were stopping at a public boarding house, while the parents made a visit to Bostop. On their rewurn, after a week's absence, they found that the doctor and wife had absconded from the boarding house Unree days previously; taking away the little girl and all the effects left in their charge. they were notuced ¥, @ policeman at the depot buying tickets for out eat. Since then, ior five weeks, no trace of them bas been founa. ‘The gurl 1s {our and a halt years old and 1s repre- sented as @ prodigy of beauty and loveliness, She ‘has @ most affectionate disposition and is a pet with everybody. She has light lair and large hazel eyes, with @ most animated and spiritual expression. She has fine singing talents and many songs, such as * Captain Jinks,” &c., and * me, Mother; kiss your Dariing,”’ with brilliant effect. She had a plaid cape cloak, black velvet hat, bound with plaid vel- Vet, @ plaid red and black dress and auother of plain rel. Her name is ida Fiora Burnham. Her fatber’s name is Newall and mother’s Abby N. Burnham. ‘Phe absconding doctor's name is C. 8. Manchester, He had been in Washington about @ month, but had generally fluated about New England. He is uf me- dium size, dark complexion, dark grayish curly heir, dark, penetrating eyes, dark full whiskers, straight nose and not @ very full face. He basa free tongue aud & “taking” manner, He wore a dark overcoat, biulsh coat and # jockey hat. it appears that the father and mother of the child have been Industriously searching tor her, They spent two weeks in Philadelphia consulting spiritual mediums and engaging police sagacity, but to no purpose. They then visited Cnicago, giving notices 1D the papers and employing ail the agencies, spiritual and human, with the same barren result, The next visit was to Milwaukee, but with no bet- ter success, There seems to be a spirit, or a mortal humbug in this latter city, who bears the name of “Mohawk Chieftain,” who has great fame for nunt- ing up mysteries, but in this case he failed to throw any light upon the subject. 2 All this time the doctor, his wife and child were in ‘St, Louis, and altogether ignorant of the human and diabolical sleuth-hounds on their track. ‘Tne fact seemed finally to have veen suspected by the parents of te child and information was sent to Captain Lee, chief of police, with the requegt to arrest the passion if they proved to be in that city. Omicer arrigan, of the secret service, was entrusted witir the matter, and very speedily procured the de- sired iuformation. fhe doctor and his wile and chiid were found in a house on Soutn Eighth street, and yesterday morning Dr. Manchester was arrested and brought to the office of the Cnlef of Police, Vogether with the child. He proved to be an exceed- ingly odd character, and in fact from his state- ments, which furuish a sort of history of the case, the whole business lias aa Oudre and remarkable as- pect, and all the persous concerned have an invest- ment of the grotesque and peculiar. ‘The doctor and child, a& they appeared at the office of the Chief of Police, were certainly calculated vo excite-curiusity. The latter is probabiy about five years old. Her tace is singularly pretiy; more par- ticularly remarkable for its extreme pallor and the unusnal size and lustrous depth of her eyes. Her mangers are curiousiy self-coniident, and an expres- sion 0; serious Composure pervades her feavures. As indicated in the above given extract she sings wit extraordinary correctness for 80 young a child, and her voice, aithough thin and weak, is yet ex- ceedingly sweet, and Ler repertoire of songs eppa- rently exhaustiess, Buteven when singing in per- fect tune the lively strain of “Captain Jinks’ no trace of animation lit up the marble-nued face, and the strange, dreamy eyes, With steady lids, seemed fixed on some strange spectacie in space, Invisible to others. But let us introduce our readers to Dr. Manches- ter. Tall, pale and thin, he stands before us rovea in black, with @ white tie and a black stovepipe hat. His face ls not wanting in regularity of features, put is destitute of ail color. His eyes are brown, viva- cious aud sparsling, and he 18 exceedingly glib of tongue. The history he gives of himself accords with the idea one gains of the man from his appear- ance. He is a self-constituted peregrinating preacher of anew gospel. He has a special mission to man- kind, in which he states his wife participates. He denies any abduction of the child. He says ne and his wife, for about two years, have been teaching the peopie from city to city, and in March last ne met Mr. and Mrs. Burnham in Boston, and they em- braced bis doctrine, Mrs, Burnuam, he avers, had been a Spiritualist, but accepted his demonstration of tue delusion of Spiritualism and with her husband determined to join with the doctor and his wile in their crusade against evil and the promulgation of the new gospel. At Was! deg some weeks ago, they ed company, it being understood that the child Ida was to remain with the doctor for the pur- Bere of being properly developed under his training. fe states there was no idea of abduction and that tne cnild came with them of her own free will and with the consent of her parents, and that he knew nothing of the search for nim by the parents until the time of his arrest, ‘rhe child apparently corroborated the doctor's story, for a! he pas, ‘Papa Burn- ham and chester”? and seemed pertectly content with the eres Of the latter. The doctor said he was perfectly wiliing togive the child up to the Chief of Police, and this surrender ingly wok place, he giving the later a writ- ven statement to the effect that he voluntarily re- signed all control over the child. Ingthe afternoon he was didt! . Colonel Ferd Meyér, Police Com- missioner, touched by,the beauty and helpless con- dition of the litte girl, took her under bis protection and will afford her a home at his own house until she can peng under the wing cf her parents, During detention at the we of the Chief of Police Dr. Manchester gave various particulars about his doings to an admiring audience of detec- tuvés and others. He sald he and his wile travelled without means, fer Cole a on the voluntary Modern Christi: true Watts or | contributions of peopie, ey lad never wanted for Wesley as heaven stands above the earti, Of | anytning during two years, and had given away a aed descent and taking his faith from er more money in charity than they spent on Ww tings of Calvin, he, afver his arrival at eee Ps in the yearnings of his poetic soul, sought dut a faith which would harmonize more wise the feelin; and thoughts. He went to Rome Ld Stat at the feet of the Father of Chrigtend, ir recelving his blessing went to . He became @ Catholic, noble, pure, saint Lic—a true follower of his Master, His works or snle- hem,” **All for Jesus,” &c., and Cp zie will ever make the naine of Dr. Faber sqoet holy in history. Tothing of bim is to think of o saint. How many hearts in England, by his sweet, pure hymns have been turned to the true faith taemselves. He had @ boll on his back, which hé gaid he acquired by taking on himself the dis- ease of @ man whom he had cured. This sort of thing he had done frequently. He says fhe preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ pure and simple and purged from the errors of the churches. An imfluence, he avers, comes over him at times, and he is not responsible for what he does. He adinitted he and his wile nad visited the room Where the body of Mr. Heitkamp pe? In a state of supposed suspended animation. Life could have been restored, he said, condittonally, provided there was no opposing imfuence and sufficient faith forever | He was a living example of what he taught. | among those present. He remembers having sald to Some may be satistied with the ‘igtian fecliug | his wife, “What we do we must do quickiy,” and evoked by Watts, and others by the spiritual excice- | then they proceeded to @ manipulatory process of ment of Wesley, but to eater, sweet, heavenly, | reanimation, he (os doctor)eing under the influ- sainted poet, singing with the iaspiration of heavel ence and partially unconscious, They were inter- must be given the palm of vietory, for his song) confirm us in faith, lead ps to heavén and take us out of the power of flesh. WESTERN CATHOLIC. rupted by a burly German, who cuifed and kicked him out of the tag He was not hurt, he says, and didn’t mind it. This sort of thing he 1s prepared for and resigned to meet. His wite, he avers, speaks as no woman ever spoke, and those who hear him or her. are compelled, by a mental influence, to con- tribate a mite to their support. He said divers other strange things, and altogether, in appearance and talk, 18 as gingular a specimen of a religious enthu- siast as it 1s possible to concetve. He has a certain earnestness Of manner which at least leads one to believe that he is convinced of the truth of his own preteasions. In.# day or two, probably, his former companions in adversity will arrive to claim the Lit- tle gir), to whom it is quite natural they should be deeply attached. Catholic Intelligence. The New York Zabvlet (Catholic organ) of this week publishes the foliowing:— ORDES OF THE FORTY HOURS’ DEVOTION FOR THE YEAR 1870—ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK. JA. 16, Feast of the Holy Nume=Church of the Holy Linge sishand York. Jan, 28. Third Sunday afer Epiphany—St, Ma- thew’s church, Hastings. JAN, 30. Fourth Sunday afer Epiphany—st. Augustine's church, Sing Sing. DIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA. Jan 16, Second Sunday after Epiphany—St, Paul, Philadelphia. The Theory of the Government of Henven. To THE Enon OF THE HERALD: On the 14th December you mailed liberal colors to your mast on.the subject of religion. bis, on the partof a grest ‘dally,’ is calculated to make the timid doubter strong and the brave reformer more impatient of the trammels that beset him than ever. On the occasion referred to you were so humane and catholic a8 to counsel the adoption of some world- wide platform, capable of embracing and unifying all creeds. But neither paganism nor Christianity will give way, and, besides, if they dia they would carry with them two fundamental errors which Would render the compact worthiess—a belief in the existence of a supreme individual ruler of the unt- verse, wt ble of love and anger and other passions and sentiments incident to man, ‘This belief has been fraught with more disaster to the human family than any other connected with their history, because it encourages caste, generates Ppriestcraft and endorses tyranny. The effects of the monotheism of tue Jews became apparent from the first moment they adopted the dogma. They laid Jan Third Sunday after Eptphany-—-St. Mary down asa postulace tha there was but one , and | Magdalen de Pazzi, Philadelphia. took up as a corollary that they only were His peo- Jan. 30. Fourth ‘Sunday after Epiphany—St. Mary, pie. This highly convenient position evidently in- | Philacelpbia. volved the right of their looking down upon and maltreating their neighvors, and that they availed themselves most religiousiy of it every line of their history exemplifies fully. All the mitres, thrones aud tyrannies of the past and the present may be attributed to this one great misconception. Man fires ee @ theory of she government of heaven, then based that of arth upon it, or vice versa. If a*god, why not a king? or, if @ king, why not a god? And go of other grades, until on both sides of the Jordan we have absolutely gos our squires, Here was the grand mistake, and at this precise point must all true re- form in religion commence. How different would the results have been if man in the first stages of his existence had hit upon the great central truth, that instead of an individualia supreme being, with passions such as ours, there Was but BD 1uADiw aiMmoephere of evesaal lie and DIOCESE OF ALBANY, Jan. 16. Second Sunday afer Epiphany—St. Josep, ‘Troy. DIOORSE OF NEWARK. JAN, 16. Second Sunday afer Epiphany—St. Peter, Belleville; St. Michael's, Elizabeth, JAN. 23, Third Sunday after Epiphany—St Peter's, New Brunswick; St. Mary's, Bergen Point. Jan. 30. Fourth Sunday after Epiphany—St, Mary's, Jersey City; St. Mary's, Clinton. Religious Notes. A New York correspondent of the Sacramento Union says of the New York HERALD:—“The HERALD usually gives @ showing of the Sunday dis- courses, selecting from all the pulpits, aud not dis- criminating particularly against apy. Not so, how- jen permeated with the tmmorta: principles of | ever, our ‘liberal’ Priune. Only the religion of freelovism has a fair shewing there.” The Christian Freeman states that Eugénte has purchased the burial place of the Virgin Mary from the Sultan for $4,000, Tne Empress probably has been “sold” and not che burial place of the Virgin. It looks very like a put-up job. Men are full of curiosity, but tt 1s no part of the Bible to gratify mere curiosity. Many woald know what Lazarus saw of the heavenly world while his body was in the grave. But ‘we are to walk by faith, not by sight.” Some would know if only & {ow ve amr 8 je ible answers, “Strive to enter in le straight gave.’” On the Paciic couse there is considerable interest manifested in the Metvodist Episcopal churcues. ‘There nave been many conversions, Ue attendance ig targe and sundsy schools are in a prosperous con- dition, ‘There ts no church in Ireland, Catholic, or Protest- ant, that numbers a8 many members to-day fa 5 did tfteen years ‘This is owing to the ide of emigration, which has, in that time, reduced the poputation eighteen per cent. The word “Ecumenical” 18 of Greek origin and signifies sometuing in which the whole habitable globe takes a part. It 18 unerefore equivalent wo the term world”? ag uaed tn World’ air,” “World's Convention,” it 18 said that North Falmouth, Mass., is & model town. ‘There is but a single church in we Village, and that is of the Von ational order. But what ig noticeable every iatily in tite place attends chureb, and worships with that church. 1t 18 doupt- 4ul Mf another such village can be found. Some object to the Bible because there are great "mysteries in it. ‘There 18 mystery in she growth of a biade of grass, in the nourshment and sirengthen- ing of the body by food and drink, in the volilions of the mind by which the hand can be turned up or aonh the feet step, and the whole body be put in motion, The body generally known as ‘Campbellites,” who call themselves “The Disciples of Christ,’ number 500,000 communicants, all of uiem gatacred within the last tity years. They have estavlished fifteen colleges, several female semiuaries aud one mammoth university, located on the Heury Clay es- tate, and embracing witnin itself six distinct co!- leges, with nearly 400 students. ‘They publisi one quarterly review, five or six monthiles, 1x or seven weeklies, two ladies magazines and severat Sunday school papers, The churches number about 2,000 and the regular preachers 1,000, Men are fond of the wonderful. The Bible can gratify in this. The wonderiul events of creation, the more wonderful of redemption are narrated. ‘The death of Christ was the greatest and most mar. Vellous transaction that ever Loox place so far as we know. The angels ‘desired to look inv it, and the earth shook, ‘The Christian Standara (Campbellite), published in Cincinnati, says:—We have good reasons for ui that the plea ior primitive Christianity 18 extending 4ts influence far beyoud what 18 generally known. it 18 leavening many vigorous minds among reilgious Veachers of various denominations, who are watch- ing us with interest and with a sympathy toat grows more cordial year by year. Faituiuiness, in- legrity, kindness, steady zeal, enterprise and har- mony Wil enable us vo aciieve great results in the overthrow of sectarianism and in rallying the God- fearing and Bibie-loving about the primitive stand- ard. It is a ume tor expending all the resources we can command for the dissemination of the trac. When we read the whole Bible we dnd one of its great aims Is to reveal vo us Jesus. The keynote ama strikes the whole is ‘Christ, and Mim cruci- , Religious Personals. Rev. W. Pike, of Newlane, has become pastor of the Truxton church, Cortlandt county, N. Y. Rev. Mr. Graves, late of Kansas, has accspted the call of the Nyack (N. Y.) church, to agaii become their pastor. The ctrurch in Greenpoint, N. Y., have secured Rev. N, Bennett, of Hartford, as their pastor. Rev. E. K. Fuller, late of New York, has accepted @cail from the Second Baptist church in New Lon- don, Conn. Rev, John T. Craig bas become pastor of the church at Newton, Sussex county, N. J. Kev. George Colesworthy has resigned his pas- torate at Agawam, Mass., and accepted the call of the Bapust church in West Boylston. Rev. Charles Y. swan has accepted the call of the Baptst church in Northampton, Mass. Kev. C. A. Votey has resigned the pastorate in the church of Castile, N. Y. Rev. Nathan Wright, lato of Manlius, N. Y., has taken charge of the First church in Deiphi, N. Y JEWISH REFORM. Lecture of Rev. Dr. D. Einhorn—The Belief in a Resurrection of the Human Body Has No Foundation Either in Judaism or in Reason. Rev, Dr. Einhorn yesterday delivered another lec ture in the Temple Adath Jeshurun on the sixth resolution adopted by the late Rabbinical Conference at Philadelphia, The lecturer, referring to Ezekiel Xxxvil., sald:—To those who are more than superfi- cially acquainted with the Jewish religion the doc- tine of bodily resurrection cannot disguise its foreign character. The Mosaic documents ao not contain the slighest germ of tt. ‘The continual spirivuat existence is emphatically expressed in tne words ‘God created man in His own image,” and al- luded to in the promise to Abraham that he shall be gathered in peace with Ims fathers, but of a bodily resurrection, not an allusion can be found. The Tal- mudists try very hard to discover such au implica- tion, but an examination of their attempts easily shows their untenavility. The say, God spoke to Moses, I have made @ covenant with the pacriarchs to give them the land of Caanan, and, as they died out of it, the promise can only refer to the time of resurrection; farther, the Levites were commanded to give a tribute to Aaron, and ag Auron had died in the desert this command must refer to the time aftér resurrection. More untenabie is the proot which, In the gospels, 18 put im the mouth of tae founder of the Christian religion (Mark xit., 26), and as touching the dead, that they rise—‘‘Have ye not read in the book of Moses how, in the bush, God spake to him, saying, 1am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He 1s not the God of the dead, but the God of the living.” ‘Therelore the patriarchs must become again of the living, as if thoge spiritually existing were not itving in want of @ bodily cover and had lost their God, As to the proofs to be found in the other biviical writings, they date from the Babylonian exile, and originated ander the influence of a religion in which the belief in a bodily resurrection had its naturai soll, The passage in Ezekiel expresses distinctly that the whole vision 18 ap allegofical illusion to Israel a8 @ body, and so the passage im Isatah (xxvi.) has evidently no other meaning than the revival of the oppressed. people in contrast with its enemies, Even the words in Vantel (xit., 2), “And many of them that sleep in the dust shall awake,” allude, accord. ing to Ibn Bers, to the redemption of sufferers and to the reward or punishment meted out to.the good and bad. Of high iiteress ts tife proof furnished by the learned Kimenl, as showmg what pairs they took to find some tangible evidence. He refers to the vision of Ezekiel (xiilL., 20), where he is command- ed to-carry out the reconsecration of the tempic seen in his vision, As Ezekiel aled in exile and could never carry out the command, it was evident, ‘s Kimchi, it must refer wo that second existence. The rabbes, in their artificial proofs and Serene. of the reign after the resur- rection of the tes, are driven to many contradic- tory views. Some say that in the new reaim there will be no human kingdom; the others that a gon of the nouse of David will rule; some maintain that the whole ceremonial code will be abolished, others that every letter of the law will be oarried out; some dis- tinguish between the time of the coming of the Messiah aud the time of resurrection, others let {, pen at one time; some predict an eterhal life, some let men die over again; some say that only the Jews will rise from their graves, others that all human beings will. from all this itis evident that Ju@aism never knew how to handie @ docirine foreign to by. Wg with this second revised edition of humanity. doctrine had aiso tts ‘e = ty. opponents. solved; only the soul is immortal, eternal and re- joices in its delivery from the serfdom of the body. Maimonides but tlly conceals bis disbelief in a resur- rection of the body, and his flery opponent 1s jeast severe with him tn regard to this doctrine. It 18 evi- dent from the commentary of Maimonides to the Mishnah that he underscands by the doctrine of re- surrection inthe thirteen articies of faith only the Spiritual existence of the soul. Tue history of this doctrine in Judaism shows that from its very incep- Won it was destined to be but shortlived. The old- est teachers understood, under the term of “coming world,” the time afver the rising of the dead, a state in which marriage and food would be required. ‘The angelic, heavenly nature of risen bodies which are beyond all physical wants is ap invention of Chris- Uanity which could not harmonize bodily existence Without sin, ‘There arose, however, a great teacher, Abba, who enunciated, ‘‘in the world to come therd will be no eating and no drinking, no propagation, no hate, envy or malice, but the righteous will bask in divine majesty.” ‘The question had to rise, why these resurrections of the bodies if they had to die againy Yea, the words of the great ibn Esra sound like a satire When he says:—‘After the frat resurrection the pious will be regaled with the great fish, the leviathan, but after the second spiritual life there will bo no more physical nuurish- ment. The doctrine of bodily resurrection has not 1a root in Mosaism, but is of Persian origin; bat ag to the rabbes, the Temple at Jerusalem couid not have perished forever, so the body of man, the temple of his soul, could not perish forever, Pagan imagi- nations, in connection with antiquated views of nature are the sources proper of this doctrine, According to the doctrine of Moses, death is not the consequence of sin, but was from the beginning a wise mae of Providence and a natural law, by which the dust returns to the dust and the apirit to ite Maker. According to Judaism, man in des- Uned to eternal life with the Father; Judaism strives for @ progressive development of humanity, and fees in the succession of generations a clinving up of the human family to higher knowledge and moraiity, Whoever is filled by the true spirit of Judaism ts appaiied to search for the bloom or humanity in the graves instead of soaring upward to the heiguts which reach into the luminous and oving worship of God im heaven, 5 ee NASSAU, The Seizures of the Tweed and Violin— How They Were Brought About—Ac- tivity of the English Officials, Nassau, Jan. 10, 1870. The Governer of the Bahamas, Sir James Walker, Appears wo be very much alarmed since the arrival here of the filibusters of the Lillian expedition, fear- ing that the movements of the Cubans or Spaniards will compromise him with ms government, ‘86 great 1 his fright shat he offered to defray the ex- penses of the Cubans still remaining here to any part of the United States, and, in tact, made arrange- ments with @ person duly authorized, by which the Governor promised to pay for the neces sary provisioning and the charter of a ™ vessel © carry said Cubans to Key Weat or any other American port, provided the captain of said vessel on his retura produced a cer- tificase from the authorities of having landed all his passengers. Ingconsequonce of this arrangement the British schooner Tweed was chartered for $300, gola, and $300, gold, worth-o! provisions put on board. ‘The vessel was duly cleared aud sailed for Jacksonville, Fla., with @ixty-twe Cubans, on the 18th of December last. ‘The British schooner Violin, loaded with arms and other war matérial, had cleared snd sailed for St. Domingo on the previous day. On the 10th the schooner Tweed came across the latter and the Cu- bans then forced their captain to approach the Vio- lin near enough to board her, of which vessel they took possession against the will and in spite of her captain and crew. It is mpossibie at present to de- cide whether the Cubans, ou committing these acts, intended to go to St. Domunyo, instead of Jackson- ville; whether they intended to go to Cuba im the Violin, or, a8 reported, to go to some-pl ace on we south of that island to join a steamer with which to enect @ landing on Liat coas. The only thing certain is Wat her British Majesty’s steamer Lap- wing left Unis port on the ivta aod returned the might of the same day, taking vot scbhoouers, which had been captured ip tne vicinity of Southwest Keef. Notwitustanding the forcible possessioa of We Violin, after having compelled the captain of the Tweed, also by furce, to co-vperate, the passengers were released aiew hours after the arrival at tis port, but pot before tuey had been twice severely searched and every (bing that could be called equipment taken trom them. Nearly a month has elapsed, and not oue of the Cuvans Luat took part in these bree ch acts has been examined nor are wey even under the surveillance of tue police. However, this does not mean that the #ritish authorities have treated the affair with indi ce, On the contrary, they have taken the severest measures, Dut instead of punishing the only ones that are cuLty; they bave concluded to keep the Violin, wita her cargo of arms, velonging to a Britisn firm, and legally cieared for St. Dom the Tweed, aiso the property of a native of this city. Sucu conduct on the part of said autnorities is easily understood. This colony, since te end of the confederated War, does not offer any gains to certain officers of Great Britain, such as the Keceiver Geueral of the Bahatias—gams to wien they had naturaly become accustomed. ‘fhe Cuban revolution may satisfy their desires, and the seizure o! the steamer Salva- dor, and, above ali, of the Lillian, by which they promised themselves ® good harvest, has opened their appetites, In Of iast year the schooner Violin, on the plea that she vroushi some goods frou the steamer Yara, alias Comandivario, to Which vessel sve had carried a load of coal, with a permit from the authorities, schoouer and goods were sold at public auction; the said steamers Salvador aod Lulltun, the schooners Exceed and ‘iryphena, which schooners were loaded wita coal jor she last named steamers, and, finally, the unfortunate Tweed aud Vivlin, ‘he Keceiver General had so littie disguised is incense desire of Making selzures that he in person went in the Lapwing, and ordered the seimure of the Lillian, He was aiso ib the same man-ol-war on tug lun last, When the two schooners were captured. What has the Receiver General or other ofieers to do with tne guilt of the Cubans im janding with arms at Nurse Cay or the act of taking possession by force of the Violin? The only thing they cared about those persons Was to take from thea their private aris und other valuabie articles, of which they were despoiled. What they want is the vessels and cargo. ar There are two circumstances which favor the @bove officer in carrying out bis plans, The Orsi i the weakness of the Governor, Sir James Walker, who has been completety upse: by the events which have taken piace in this Baraiuria under his gover- norship since the breaking out of the Cuban revolu- tion. The second is the complicity of the Atworney General, who possivly may nave fad a share in the Spoils, and who, in the ause. from tais colony of the Culef Justice, depends in a great measure on the incompetence of the one acting. ‘This group of email oiiclals take advantage of the name and power of Great Britain to commit these acts of vandalism. Tous can all be explained, particularily the scandalous release of the steamer Lillian and the peremptory order to proceed to sea, without coal, witu the refusal to allow her to purchase the neces- sary luel to go away with—a disgraceful combina- tion, sald to be arranged between the Kecelver Gen- eral and the Attorney General, so as to be able to possess themseives of the vessel and cargo, and in Which Luey have so far succeeded. The Attorney General bas deciared the schooners Tweed and Violin as legal prizes under the Foreign Enlistinent act. Both vessels and cargo have been claimed by the owners, and, no doubt, will be re- Jeased, in spite of the efforts of Commander Scharp, of the Lapwing, Who made the capture, and under haces responsibility the prosecution had peen es- lished, Tue Spanish war steamer Conde de Venadito ar- rived in this port the last day of December, from Nuevitas. We have received no news by her of the War, Which leads us to believe that it does not fare weil with the Spaniards, : ‘This market isdull. Everything seems depressed. Cattie aud sugar are very scarce. Very few Ameri- Can families have come ‘o pass the winter montns 10 this city, Where there is # splendid hotel, but un- fortuately empty. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, A Defence of the Iron-Cind Miantonomoh, Boston, Mass., Jan. 13, 1870, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERAL As many statements have appeared in the newn, papers of your city in reference to the career of ae Miantonomoh since she was commissioned in "shila delphia, actuated apparently either by pol’ cieg) or ersonal hostility, and which have giv-;q %o thig vessel an unenviable notorsety, I Te aest space in your columns to make the followin reply, in order that the public may have possesion or the facts. There 18 no doubt that the Misntonomon is aitticult to handle—steers badly at, times and “holds her way,’ even with engines reversed, for a long period compared With ord qary Steamers; but these are faults not more +f construction than of the character of tron-clads generally; and tho present admunistra- ber Of the navy is in no Way responsibie for them. ‘he ship was built under a former regime. On the voyagg from Philadeiphia to New York the engines Werg Stopped for ten minutes to take @ pet on bg His boat Was ahead of the iron-clad. As “he came up she attempted to lu” across the bows; in doing #0 she touched the stern as you woutd tap anegg; the result was some broken planks. The | pen themselves did not impute any blame to the jautonomoh. Arrived at New York, the ship was moored well over on the Jersey shore, to be as much 48 possivie out of the way of river navigation. One night, rather dark and uuck, @ steamboat attempted to pass alead Of her in @ stroag tideway. She miscalcalated the distance or the force of the tide; @ slight collision, scarcely perceptible on board of the Miantonomoh, was the the steamboat was sunk. At the time of this accidenc there were four bright lights burning on board of the iron-clad, One in each turret and one on each end, and ber position was well known in the river, A few nights afterwa owing to a flaw in her chain swivel, increased wibiy by the jar of the previous collision, but not visible, and impossi- ble to detect, she broke adrift in gale of wind. ‘There was steam in two butlers at the time, By this eans she was managed through the feet of Vessels at anchor, and finaily brought up out of the tide in Gowanus without accident to herself or @nything else. A ship breaking adrift or dragging her Sochors in a gale of wind is not aa uncommon event in New York harbor. ‘The last and saddest affair—the sinking of the Maria on the voyage to Boston—wili hig be the subject of oMcial tn- vestigation. it is not improper, however, to say that no survivor of that unfortunate Vessel attrib- Uted the accident to the tron-ciad. Whatever may be tue faults of this vessel in the pecuharity of her construction, in capacity for sea service and in offensive and defensive power, there {8 no doubt that she 1s one of the best tron-clads in the American navy. A comparison with the Mon- arch may, on the one han, make her good quaiities: more prominent, or, on the other, her defects more Spparent. Neither ridicule, however, in the pubiic press, nor unreasoning condemnation will aifect the roblem of “iron-ciads” or lessen tne necessity of ‘aving them on our seaboard, if the country desires be in a condition of defence, or of sending them Qbroad 11 it desires to be respected. As to the man- — Of the Miantonomoh by her commander and Oilicers, there 1s @ direct responsibility to higher au- thority, to which they are at all times amenavie, aud which they have at no time a desire to evade, WARNE TRANGFERS, The foliowing 1s a corroct list of marine transfers from the 13th to the loth Inst, both inclusive :— De 1 Some Sioop) Harriet klizaveth, Sau. 19.|Sloop/deu. Hi Sunita.