The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1870, Page 5

EUROPE. Spanish War News from Cuba and President Grant’s ' Diplo- macy in Madrid. American Securities on the German Boursce, with Danger of Overflooding. Mewspaper Speculation, Trade and Religion in Bngland. Onur special correspondents in Spain, Germany and Engiand supply the following exhibit—dipiomatic, Political, financial and religious—of the condition of affairs existing in the Oid Worid on the 7th of May. SPAIN. (Cuban War News and the Government Reln- sions to Cuba—Reuding the Coleuial Tele grams in Cortes—The Volanteers a Diin- eulty—Gencral Sickles’ Diplomacy—Ameri- ean aud English Interests. Mapnip, May 3, 1870. Another month has slipped away and Spain and her colonies continue in the same unsettled state as ever. Two or three times a week the Minister for the Colonics goes through the wornout farce of rea:'- ing important telegrams from the Captain General of Cuba to tne effect that insurrection is crashed ‘and stamped out, and that “almost” comp.e.e tran. quiliity reigns in the island, The farce has played withous interraption for the last ei months, in fact, may be considered as “played out,’? for the House appears to receive the news—if I may use the word—with the most marked indifference or unequivocal gestures of incredulity. Some of the members laugh outright. The members of the Bue Bench manage to muntain an atv of gravity while the recital is going on, which is done as a matter of form, and considering the false part they have to support they play their rdie re- Markably well. Practice leads to perfection. Some of the telegrams are exactly the same as others that have been previous'y read. This 1s too bad. Ast told one of the deputics, they might at least alter the wording or form, so as to give an air of novelty to their reports. Once of the last telegrams 1s some what altered. It runs as follows HAVANA, Apri 28, 1870. The operations give great results. The revels dis- rsed, Without chiet, they are on the coast trying escape. Several chicis and about seventy rebels have been killed without our troops sutering any Joss. Many rebels seek pardon. Yesterday liv armed rebels, with tucir horses and families, pre- sented themseives. Great panic in the cnemy’s camp. CABALLERO DE RODAS. Had the Spanish government to deal only witi the insurrectionists they would have enough to do; but they have another enemy to treat which 13 a3 for- midable as the insurgents themselves. I mean the volunteers and their supporters—the so-called loyal Cubans—the party that bundled Captain General Dulce off to Spain at a minute’s notice; that has over and over again threatened Caballero de Rodai, and only keep him there on sufferance—a mere toy they can sport and do as they like with. Spain has no Airect control over Cuba. It is governed by Spain nd the volunteers and their partisans, the latter having decidedly the upper hand. Now, there is the matter of the Lloyd Aspinwall, the American steam vessel the Spantards unlawfally seized and took to Havana, where she was con- demned as a prize. General Sickles, acting on goy- ernment instructions, at once demanded her release, and, after different interviews with Sagasta, the Secretary of State, and Geueral Prim, President of the Council of Ministers, a solemn oiiclal promise Was given him to the effect that the vessel should be given up and the injured parties indemnified. Your correspondent at once forwarded a telegram to the HERALD of the result of General Sickles’ demand, and on the following day the Spantsh goverument seut a telegrain to Caballero de jiodus, ordering him to give up the vessel and setule the consequent in- demnity. But the Generalissimo, who governs the island about as much as I do the Penin seat back word that the thing was impossibie, the Cubans Would not consent, ani so, upto the present time, the matter rests in statu quo. WHO RULES CUBA? "This gives rise to a question as to who really gov- erns Cuba—ihe Insulars or Peniusulars? The next question 1a, as to what steps the Unite Siates jovernment will take in the matter as it mow stands, and, coustdcriug that the Spanish government do not appear to seas moral or physical force suMcient to carry into effect their decree respecting the release of th Lloyd Aspinwall, who can wonder at the insur- gents demanding beliigerent rights when (he mother country has not even been able to carry out thelr order for the release of the American vessel? GENERAL GRANT'S ATTITUDE. Talking over the matter the other day with a nutleman We.l Known in New York, he to!d me that e Spaniards had better beware how they trifled with ident Grant, for if they once roused him he ‘would be down uyon them like the swoop of an eagio, and then they would find it “too late to mend.” ards ave of opinion that Cuba is lost. A few bbe ay) occasionally boil up about the matter; but the sober minaed part of the nation are of opin- 10h that the retention of the island does not compen- sate for the 103s of troops by sickness oniy. If 1 say anything to the Spaniards about the probatiiity of their losing Cuba they say—‘Moralmente este ya perdida” (moraily it is already lost). The other day the Zpoca published a long letter dated from Paris and written by Gutierez de la Vega, late Civil Governor of Cuba, The letter in question fills six columns of @ paper, Seflor Gutierez, it is ald, leaves nothing to be added in defence of the right of Spain to the posses- sion of Cuba, and his demonstration of the force, power and p! of the Spanish elements there is incontestable. It has also always been our {dea that to pacify was the first aaiaee be done, in order to legislate we!l afterwards. We do not agree with him respecting the power of the United Siates. It is pos- sible that they now keep up an insignifvant ficet in the Antilles in the assurance that nothing is vo be feared from Spain nor any other European Power. Neither will we discuss as to whether their navy 1s weaker than ours, But we must neither go to sleep nor puff ourselves up; for who doubts—knowing the immense resources of Ameriva, the state of its Trea- sury, its dockyards and arsenals, all of them in full wer—that weeks, nay, perhaps days ouly, woud Sufficient to launch forces upon the ‘waters equal even to powerful England? A siruggle would doubtless be disastrous to American commerce; but its consequences Would also be incalculable for Spain, that would surely lose in it all her colonies. Does this mean to gay that on account of our relative weakness that ‘We must always give in to the demands of a foreign Power? Gutierez de 1a Vega says that the population of f these inhabitants 764,750 Cuba ts 1,370,211 souls. are Whites and 605,461 blacks and mulattoes. Of the colored people 225,938 are free and 379,528 slaves, Of the whites more than 400,000 are mates and more than 300,000 females. Of the mates (whites) somy- thing more than 200,000 are Insulars an‘! a little less than 200,000 Peninsulars. GERMANY. nryeneypiettN re American Securities on the Frankfort Bourse—Oftcial Warning Against Flooding the Market—Symptoms of a Financial Panic—Jesuit Influences on the Bourses— The Relations to Prussia. FRANKFORT, May 5, 1870. The attempt to flood the German markets with a hundred million dollars of Northern Pacific bonds has had the result which every sensible man pre- dicted. AS long ag only bonds for a moderate amount were put on the markes our authorities, slow as they are, hesitated to interfere; but as soon as it became manifest that as long as there would be lenders there would be borrowers to any amount, things began to look more serious. The Chamber of Commerce at Berlin have, therefore, put up a bill in the Exchange to the effect that, it having come to their knowledge that large issues of unsound Mortgage bonds in the German markets were con- templated in America and Eugland, they warned the public against the purchase of all such bonds as were not guaranteed by the United States govern- ment. Brokers were prohibited to interfere in such transactions, and the official quotation of such bonds as had been previously issued was stopped. A heavy fall took place here yesterday, and prices receded five per cent whenever sales for a small amount were pressed, only those bonds which were supported by the houses who put them on the market, as both Missouris, Califor- nias and Central Pacific, were firm, as holders did not take the alarm as goon as they were aware that they could readily sell, There were, besides the American mortgage bonds, other reasons to throw a gloom on our market, The swindling concerns of Jase years begin vo tumble down, The large finan: NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, pt get rome of Langrand Dumonceiu, at le, Whose bonds and shares are spread over all Bt are, 1t is alleged, on the brink of bank- Tuptey, the interest on their mortgage ponds falling due on the 1st inst. baviny not been paid. Vast rin wiil thereby penpread over Belgium, and the people there have of thank their credulity for it, a8 they invested their money in the same @ the recom- mendation of the Jesuits, who supported La a as one of their party. Yh: od Prince of arn and Tays, brother-in-law to the KBmperor of Austra wud to the @x-King o: Naples, loses for the sauce reason some tweniy mil'ions of franes by it, and Various Austrian banks are involved 1a theae #Win- aiina wrankaoilons. acount waine roloxtant countries Langrand cou'd never: A ‘urthing, as they bad a nataral iustingt to abstain from anything sipportet by Jesuits. Then there is the Lombard anway, wach has caused uqpens dis. ‘@pp. mitment. ere the Waile people were rea reports about the doings of Fisk and afiaire they did not ime@sing ‘hat something very similar was brewing in thelr immediate neignbor- hood, for six year dividends were paid on the Lom- bird eNares which had not been fairty earnea, and those colored reports were signed by whe Rothselnids aud some of the | firms of Vienna and Paris, 1n oraer to keep up the crealt of the company as long a3 they had to place their mortgage bonds in the markets; now the lines being all boi t, the mask has been tiken off and the trath haa transpived that at no time they cou.d afford to pay more than five per cent d vidends, ‘The price of shares has receded during the last two mouths from 640f, to 390f, and even now holders are kept in the dork, as the report read at the a-sein- bly of shareholders has as yet Lot been reported. Peop'e are highly incense] aga'pat the Rothschilds and ther associates. and I ings Wil be taken against them for fuise s atements, 8 those against the Pereires for sim!\ar reasons have been successful, AS & natural consequence of such explora ions, peo- ple turn away from shares and doubiful values altogether, an) American six per ceats are again in good dem ind and eagerly buight up by investors. ‘There ts very litte floating stock In our market, and We are thoéfore in & postion .o Wan: a .ew suvply. South German also re } wel!. and Russian and Span- ish command a good market. Money remains pleutitui; discount at 24 per cent, _ Our corn miiPsets are looking up, the weather con- tinuing cold and cnseasonadle, 80 that at ail eveats the harvest will be delayed sora month longer tan generally 13 the o: TAR POLITICAL ASPECT. Wrth regard to polliies the utinost iranqnility pre- valls. ‘The Zo raramenc has thrown oub by a large majority the Increased duty on coffee, while tt has agreed fo a'l rednetions proposed in the duties ontvoa and rice, They wil briug home to the gov- ernment thereby t eir conviction that there 18 no neressity tO Mcrease as ho mihtary establish- ments, wiieb. t: 2 time of profound peace, are con- s dered already too large. The only things that cause auxtety in tats country ae the eternal strikes of wor peo le, but the ‘ear thut extreme measures might beco ne necessary agus: tien has consite- rabiy abated, as the work peo;ls themselves have Degn to to reason. Most of the trades are now aware that they will uot be betier off by enforcing higher wages if others will exact tie game. If the tailor has to pay more for his boots, for his bread and obner necessavies, he might just as we 1 have things as they are. Besides the law agalast vioient acts to prevent other people irom working are too strong against them, and those who tried it have io take the consequences, The strike of the taliors in our town 1s at an end, part of their den.ands having been granted. Ta the South, the deciamations of orators agatost the treaties with Prussia have nothing changed; vie ~ eyes en fast to the hig nied alliance, which is their only support against foreign aggres- ston. Iti; @ pity that so much talent of highly gift- ed men, which could be brought to bear on the im- provement of the laws, shouid be wasted on a ques- tion of might, which cannot be settled by oratory. There is no doubt that tn ail the countries of South- ern Germany heavy quarreliing ts at hand between the governments aud the Chambers: but that all will end in smoke, as the party leider can never compel the government to disband the army, and riotous acts would, only strengtiien the government by bringing on their side all those who wont risk the welfare of the country by party strife as an object, which for the present has no practical bearing whatever, my Gould in Frie ENGLAND. Death of the Morning Pell Mall Gazette Sickly and Fatal Imitation ef a Grent Newapaper=Moncy but No Brains and the CousequencesMen in Fomale Dress—A Mysterious Case in the London Police. Lonpon, May 4, 1870. The morning Pall Mal? Gazette ts dead, and its brief and sickly career calls to mind the affecting coupict inscribed oa the tomb of an unhappy infant whose life was cut short after three little months, into which were crowded "the sorrows of tecthing, measies, hooping cough and scarlatina:— If no soon I must be done for I wonder what I was begun for. On the Ist of 1ast January the Pall Mall Gazette ambitiously took upon ttself the important rdle of a London morning daily, and made its appearauce with a loud flourish of penny trampets and a quad- ruple sheet, afier the fashion of the London Times. t was filled with bogus advertising. This was not after the fashion of the London Times, On the last day of April—it ought to have boen the first—it gave up the ghost. Into the four months of its existence were crowded an unlimited amount of self-laudation, heavy pecuniary losses and as much literary aish- water as can be found during the same period in any coatemporaneois publication, The Morning Fazetie had its origin in the necessities of the original Aven- ing Gazette, which, in spite of good paper and Trea- sury aid, was a losing concern, and eventually got so deeply involved as to render a bold stroke aa- visabie as a forlorn hope to recover a portion at least of its losses. The Evening Gazette had reduced Its price from twopence to one penny, and still tts ledger showed a deficiency week after week. The idea of turning Itseif into a morning paper had at least the merit of boldness; but, as any person might have antictpated, with such material it has proved a deplorable failure. It now sinks back into a small penny afternoon sheet, which wiil exist fora short time like the last sputtering fame of a tallow candle burned to the socket of the candie- stick, and then die out altogether. ‘The fate of this pretentious journal is not without amoral. It Was & newspaper without news, a critic withont experience or judgment, 9 politicfan with- out earnest principles. There was no ueed for its existence, it had no object in life, and there is no et at its death; for it may be considered dead in fact, as the littie eid evening concern, although still lingering on, will soon.be extinguished altogether. Its fate should serve as a warning to those slily and imexpertenced persons who think that a newspaper can succeed in the pre- sent day without being iully up to the intelligence, earnestness and enterprise of the age. No journal that depends upon factional support or upon some imagipary ability in 1s self-complacent projectors for its success cun expect in this day of electricity and steam any other end than that which the Pail Mall Gazette has reached, Tals is the moral, and It will be well for those who feel that journalism is their “calling” to lay it to heart. GERMAN TRADE «The North German Lloyds Steamship Company have just declared a dividend of twenty-one per cent for the past year, Of this sixteen per cent has been divided in cash and five per cent has beeu placed to the credit of the reserve fund, PERSONATING WOMEN—A MYSTERIOUS CASE. ASI lar case has occupied the aticnuon of the Police Court this week. ‘Three young men have been arrested at one of the theatres, two of whom were dressed in female attire, and the case, although at first set down as a “lark,” has assumed a mysterious aspect as it is reprinted anderneath:— An examinaiion of the articles discovered tn the house No. 13 Wakefield strees, from which the accused persons were seen to depart forthe Strand th: , and in the lodgings of two of the prisoners, ratier increased than removed the doubts belonging to the case, inasmuch as there have been found inter alia a silver-inounted gentieman’s dressing case, an eie- ganily fitted phocogrepnie album bearing the ini- Uais Of the prisoner Boalton, filled with portraits of young men apparently of good birth and be: appearance in Many cases of university men, other personal property denoting a fair amout good preeding, cone with an immense wardrobe of female attire, muck of it dirty and con- siderably the worse for wear, but, at the same time, exhibiting the most perfect completeness, even to minutest arttcies of woman’s underciothti When brought together there were for to be between thirty and forty rich silk and other dresses, all of fashionable patterns, and some elaborately trimmed with lace, furs, &c.; a large ermine cloak, well stocked female glove boxes, more than a score different wigs and headdresses, chiefly of the pre- vail iden hue and some of them having plaited hair fais trom twenty to thirty inches in length at- tached; @ great nuraber of girtis’ hats, variously trimmed; ladies’ white kid boots, Balmoral walking boots, richly embroidered; atarge quantity of bizarre jewelry, with some bracclets and necklaces of a bet- ter class; caps, feathers, garters, &c., and the usual toilet Te amg 2 of ladies of @ certain cl such as rose bloom, violet powder, &c. Among all this property there is not more than one or at most two costumes bearing any affinity toa mas- querade or party dress, All the remainder are arti- cles of 01 female wear, and with the head- gear have been found an assortment of white net caps, neatly trimmed with fancy ribbons, a8 worn by household servants, The inquiries that have been made into the case, although not as yet confirming existing suspicions of the grave charge under which two of the accused persons stand remanded—‘‘that of being found per- sonating women forthe purpose of inciting to acts of immorality,” have not been satisfactory. The landlady of the house in Wakefield street, where the prisoners kept te Dortion of their feminine wardrobe, when qi ed in the first mstance assumed 4 virtuous indignation, and protesting that the occurrence would destroy her reputation among ®@ large circle of friends who were ail highly re- ligious, she declared that the accused persons had never left her residence in female attire previously to the night om which they were taken into custody. The fact bdcing that it was well Known at the time fo certain persons that this woman bad been cognizant of the malprac- 28 Of her Jodgers for & long period, and hal, moreover, @wigied Lem in the pre- occu 5 pation of their unnatural toilets. The prisoner uiton, alter techy, Apart some nommes da querre, eve, an Ot Padd ngwon, where be said hig fatwer might be found, and inquiries wore ansiered at this piace by a person who represented bunself as bading that degree of relationsiip vo the acoused; but there were attendant circumsiances which have led those be:t able to judge 0 beleve that Boulton has no father resident in London, bub ‘that he 18 & young man of independent income whose rr are peop.¢ of position 1a @ Lorthern county. He is rather tal and good looking, with an expces sion of conuienauve Which wien surrounded by fo- male acceasones might, as the magia! pro- nounced at Bow street on Friday last, deceive one a9 to his sex. The prisoner Park hal Tvom the arisiocratic neighborhood of Bruvon street, where he occ! furnished rooms in Berkeley Chamvers--a grand piano and other articles of luxury decorating his apart- ments. It has been stated that the cartes de vieite found in Boulton’s albums were chiefly those of young men of apparent good breeding. It Biowd be wlded that in ove group Bouiton is iound resting his hand upon the shoulder of Mr. Fredericx Hodgea, formerly remarkable in London for Is inuate love of fires and dre evgines; aud tu anothe. bots Bouton and Park make up @ posvure, of which Lord Arthur Pelaum Clinton, Whose recent experiences In Basg- hali street have brougit nis name prominently beture the public, fords the conspicuous centre. It is pro- per to add that none of the photograpis found—and Were are @ very large number in tie books—have anything approacuing an indecest leadency, They Appear, irom imprints, to have been chiely taken by amr Fpaieny in London, Kaluburg, Oxfoid and chester. The perfect completeness of Boulton’s and Park’s femimino ges up may be understood from the fact that when the boxkeeper at the S:rand theatre was arked by one of the oilicers whether be was aware who it was be hid in the rivate box the ren persons tn a egtaren 1@ Oillclal promptly replied, “Ofcourse Ido; oue of them is the Duchess of Manchester!’ This was Boulton, wo reatiy makes up into a tail and atirac- tive looking feraie, though bearing uo more rescin- blunce to the Duchess of Manchester than her Grace dves Lo & box kesper. Park 1s of shorter build and sterner feavures, but he also makes up capliaiy, The habits of these young meu were not econoii- cal. It is known that wituin a lew days wey have filled private boxes at the S.andard theatre and the Surrey theatre. They were at the Strand on Thursday night, and walle being ce- nuded of their genuine habiuments at the House of Detention on Friday the vouchers for a pb BOX Abbie Royal Italian Opera, at Coven: Garden, dropped from the folds of Bou.ton’s elaborate costume, Bott the accused persons, Boulton aut Park, appear to have been prepared for accidents. Waen first ad- dressed by Mr. Superintendent Thompsoa, la the re- freshment saloon of the Strand theatre oa Thursday noght, in terms which were Wumnistakad y emphatic, Park tarned rouud sharply and exclaimed, “How dare you address a lady ia that inanner, st And when they found it was of no avall longer to en- deavor to preserve their disguises, and that thy Were on the high road to Bow strcet, they tried the SppOnte, tack of bribery from well! file! purses, with of coursé a similar rest't, It 18 more than suspected that there are others besides those in custody who have for some time past been engaged in personating females in London. In fact 1t 15 stated that an assocuiion exists which numbers nearly th riy of these 1oolish young men, and that recently u ball Was: fiven at a well Knowa hotel in the Strand, at which twelve of the party represented fewales, and twelve of their companions the opposite sex. Opinions may Jatriy difler as to the degree of culpab.tity attaching to the prisoners, But fortunately it 1s one of those cases ta Which the accused, if innocent persons, will have an opportu. nity, as they will have the power, of expluining away some of awkward feaiures of the case by frankly hen where and with wiat ject they have been uccastomed to parade themselves in petticoats. if they are amateur actors, and have indulged in this dangerous and highly improper folly in pubiic on a few occasions oniy, probably the magisterial remand of seven diys in the Hous> of Detention may be considered sut- Acient atonement. But if, as the magnitude of their feminine wardeobe and tts weil worn condition ap- pee to indicate, they have made a practice of visit- Ng casinos and other pubilc places of resort for Many months past, and it should prove to be correct: as alleged by their co-accused, Mundell, that they have made the acquaintance of strangers and under preteace of being Women ii maje attire nave in- Velgied them to keep appointments, the charge may certainly assume a towlly duferent character. Up to last evening tie police had no: succeeded in capturing the fourth person, who accompanied Boulton and Park from Wakefield strect to the Strand theatre, and who escaped in the confusion of apprehending the o:her three accused persous. & The Conveuts Inspection Bill—Declaration of the Catholic Ladies of Great Britain. The following is the declaration of the Catholic ladies of Great Britain on the subject of the Con- vents Inspection biil:— We, the undersigned Catholic ladies of Great Bri- tain, having heard of the proposai for a Parliamen- tury investigaiion into the manner of life 1ollowed in Convents throughont the country, desire to make known our mos solemn protest against this proposal and to declare that we consider the sue as an attempt to revive persecution of our religion, and to be au tniringemeut of oar iberties 1n the most odious and insulting form. We learn with the deepest indignation that it 13 sug- gested that the Legislature to which we have been accustomed to look as the guardian of right, order and social propriety, should violate ts, 118 recognized duty, in the case of those so dear to us as our daughie.s, sisters, relations and friends, whom we have seen with joy and thank. fulness, though at the costofmuch mutual sacrifice, devote themselves to a life of retirement, prayer and works of chart'y. ‘‘And as the religious life in community i3 an invariable feature of Catholicism, if English’ women are to be deemed to have forfeited their common nd natural rights becauge they have embraced this ife, then is the Catiolic reigion no longer tolerated, but persecuted in this country.’ “The English Legislature Goes not intrade its inqut- ries into our homes hnd family life. We theretore feel the assumed necessity for an inquiry into the private Iffe of our relations and friends in convents to be a deep and gr.evous Lusult to ourselves, an extreme crucity to them, and a gross violation of their righ*s as English women." ‘The following ladies have signed the declaratiou:— The Duchess of Norfolk, the Duchess of Buccleuch, the Duchess Dowager of Argyle, the Marchloness Dowager of Lothian, the Marchioness of London- derry, Lady Victoria Hope Scott, Lady Mary Fitazalan Howard, Lady Philippa Fitzalan Howard, the Coun tess of Denbigh, tie Countess Dowager of Buchan, the Countess Dowager of Newburg, the Countess of Portarlington, the Countess of Kenmare, La:ly Gertrude Dougles, Lady Florence Douglas, Lady Alice Kerr, Lady Alexander Gordon Lenuox, Lady Henry Kerr, Viscountess Norreys, Viscountess Castlerosse, Lady Gweadoline Petre, Lady Stuart, Lady Harriet Jones, Lady nes Murray, Lady Catherine Petre, Lady Ellen Browne, Laay Catherine Rerkeley, Lady Georgtana Fullerton, Lady Vharles Thynne, Lady Camoys, Lady Stour- Louisa ton, Lady Petre, Dowager Lady Arundel, Li Arun- del of Wardour, Lady Uliffo: Lady Dormer, Lady Herries, Ludy Lovat, Lady Milford, Lady Herbert of Lea, Countess Torre Diaz (née Wilcox), Hon, Mrs, Alfred Stourton, Hon. Mrs. William North, Hon, Mrs. Fraser, Hon, Catherine Stonor, Hon. Lady Smythe, Hon, Mrs. Agar Etlis, Hon, Mrs. Pereira, Hon. Mrs. Dongias, Hon. Frances M. Petre, Hon. Margaret M. Petre, Hon, Catherine M. Petre, Hon. Mrs. Bretherton, Hon. Lady Tichborne, Hon, Lady Doughty, Hon. Gertrude Arundell, Hon. Mrs, Kavanagh, Hon, Marcia Maxwell, Hon. Wine- frede Maxwell, Hon. Lady Mostyn, Hon. Lady Sausse, Hon. Lady Simeon, Hon. Mrs. Lewes, Hon, Mrs, Herbert, of Lianarth: Hon, Mrs, Wodehouse Currie, Hou, Mra. Alired onigomery, Hon. Mra. Albert Stourton, Hon, Mrs. Wiiliai Stourton, Hon, Mrs, Philip Stourton, Hon. Mra, Henry Petre, Hon. Mra. Dormer, Hon, Mra. Charles Clifford. Hon. Mrs, Clifford, Hon. Mrs. Marmaduke Maxwell, Hon. Mrs. Riddell, Hon, Mrs, Henry Max- well, Hon, Mrs. Edgell, Hon, Mra, Alister Fraser, Hon. Mrs. Daly, Lady Gerard, Lady Blount, Lavy Bedingileld, Lady Macdonald, Lady Bulkley Wil- liams, Lady Douglas, Lady Chichester, Lady Oiif- ot Comtesse Boycott, Vomtesse Dormer, and 600 others. ROME. Pope Pius the Ninth to the Council—Third Session of the Assemblage—Papal Hint to Napoleon—“Vain Confabulations from Ont- side?—Voting the Chapters de Fide—Tho Opposition—Infallibility. RoE, May 8—Evening. Your readers have already been apprised by teie- gram of the result of the third public sesston of the Ecumenicat Council. That message mentioned tho omission of the Papal harangue which was cx- pected before te hymn Vent Creator Spiritus, but his Holiness made a brief Latin speech after the publication of the decrees, and as it has not been reported in the official journal of Rome I send a translation of it here, thus:—‘You see, very dear brethren, how sweet and important it is for you to walk together in the way of the Lord and in peace. I, the unworthy vicar of Jesus Christ, give you peace in his name, as he formerly gave it in person to his apostles. This peace will dissipate your apprehensions, and render you deaf to vain confabu- lations from outside, May it accompany you all the days of your life and be your consolation at the moment of death and your eternal joy in heaven.” In warning the fathers against the vain talk of outsiders the Pope is considered to have alluded to the memorandum of the French government, drawn up by Count Daru before he left oMice, and read by the Marquis de Bannevilleto Cardinal Anto- nelli on the Friday preceding the Sunday session of the Council, This document has been already al- luded to as a bone of contention tn the French Cabl- net, and before M. Oliivier, as Count Daru’s succes- sor ad interim, authorized the French Ambassador, which he did on the 22d inst,, to communicate it to the Holy See there is no doubt that he modified its tone copaiderably. The Pope complained to some of , the bishops around him that whereas a communica- don, which be considered to be of a confidential na- ture, had been made by the French government to himself and the Council, the text of the memoran- dom was published in the Augsburg Gazette on the very game morning that it was read by the Ambassa- Gor to the Cardinal Secretary of State. i. | It was evidently etiher the intention of the Freneh government to give it publicity in order that the ‘ document snould not be ignored by the Fathers of the Council, or else some of the German govern- ments, to whom, in common with all the Catholic governments of Europe, Count Daru had communt- cated bis note, inviting them to act upon it in com- mon accord, simply sent it to the editor of the Augsburg Guzetie, which has now gained immortal fame by its anticipated publication of ao many doc- uments relating to the Council. ‘The tone of the French note ts too respectful for the Pope to take offence at, but at the same time too firm to be ignored by the Court or the Council in future definitions of the reiations between Church and 3 80 that the discussion of the schema de eco'e which treats of those topica as well a4 of the infallubility doctrine, is probably as far off as ever, ‘The Fathers will resume cheir work with the “hte catechism,” one of ths our sciemata in the cosageey of discipline already submitted to prelimi- Bary discussion, ‘The Holy See desires the whole Catholic world to ad. pt oneaniform vatecuism, which ig now to be drawn up in Latin by the Council and will afterwards be translated in various lant under the superintendence of the Proy ada Fide authorities, Thus discrepancies in form as well as doctrive will be avoidet, and the Pope’s supreme Jur.sdiction will _b2 more insisved on thun 1s now the case in some of the Orient! catechtsms. At the public session of the Council on Sunday 667 fathers were present, all of Whom voted iu favor of @ogmatic consthiution, commenctug “Dei Filius,” aud consisting of a prefaco, now much modified from tie insulting one which so irritated the Protestant sensitivencss of Prussia, four chapters on “God, the Creator of All Thiigs—Revelation— Faith—Fuith and Reason;” and eighteen canons de- rived from these chapters, eavh coacluding with the formula “anathema su” agalust whoever shall not believe uh recedh ug proposition, Thus the frat canon {3 as foliows:—“It any one shall deny that there is one true God, the Lord and Creator of things visible and invisibie, let bim be anathema,?’? ‘This is certaiuiy beginning from the very begin- ning, and it does not seem strange that wianimi'y of opinion shou'd prevailon such topica, But this unanimity Was Lol qu.te so complete as stated by the oiiclal journal: for sixty fathers, without reckoning th. se a sent from Rome or really sick, dit not take part in the sess ou. We are not lo suppose that these D.shops are inclined to favor ‘he heterodox opinions condemnga iv the canons just decreed, but they were not in avcordancs with ali the expressions of the entire sehenia and did not wish to vote against tt in the Pope’s actual presence nor to show their feebie numbers against a stroug mnajorit of 667, But although they protested in this silen€ manner they were obliged, as Catholics and faithiul sous of mover Church, to embrace the new dogmas a8 soon as de- creed by the Po, e and Ecumenical Council, Thts minority or opposition dwindied down con. siderably between the last general congregation, on the 12th, at which the fathers voted preliminarily on the same scnema, and the pub'ie session on the 24th in the Pope’s pi @. At the former meeung there were elgiity-three members of the opposition sufil- ciently moderate to give their conditional approba- ton, While ninety-two, more determined, abstained entirely from tie assembiy, The government must have used some persuasve arguments to induce 115 of these 175 malcontents to change their opinions and give an vicoudittonal placet after the short in- terval of tweive days. A difference tn the formula with which the Pope published and sanctioned the decrees unanimously voted by the ‘athers present on the 24th from that contained in the crgantc regulation of the 27th of November has been remarked and commented on. After stating that the canons just real had piecased the fathers, no one dissenting, tue Pope went on to say, **Nosque, sacro ap robante con chlo, Lila et tas, Ita ut lecta sunt, detlaimus, et apos- tolica auctoritate confirmamus.”” Instead of the last r five words, for:ula preseribed 1n the organic regulation is only ‘“decernimus, statuimus, et sancimus.” The expressed used by the Pope gives the idea of a greater assumption of wuthorily over the council by him than would have been conveyed by the lust quoted words. ‘this 1s another instance of the very inferior position with respect to dignity aud iudependence held by the bishops assembled in the vesent Vatican Couuell in comparison with that of heir episcopal predecessors at the Council of ‘Trent tree centuries ago. Your readers wiil be anxious to know what tactics the paritsans of the de ecclesia doctrines and the re ibility dogma tn the Council will adopt, now nat the French government although 80 respectiully, of the con- mn that would attend thelr proclama- by the Ecumenical Assembly. The pro- posed declaration of relations between Church and State 18 too much in harmony with the doctrines of the celebrated Syllabus to have much chance of success against the decided disapprobation of tae most influential Catholic nation on the Continent, Whose example will no doubt be followed by that of Tnoat other countries. But it is possible that a middie course may be adopte! to save something of the Pope's decorum and some fragmen: of the tnfallibility dogma apart trom the other portions of the de ecclesia schema, At the Counsil of Trent, in consequence of tie long- ragiug polemio beiween the Franciscan anit Domini- oan orders, for and against the dogma of the Irs Maculate Conception of the Virgin, the fathers de- creed that thenceforth the dogma should not pe spoken or written against. Its definition was re- served for the reigaing pontiff, Pius IX, It is hinted that a similar Ralloy may be adopted in the present emergency, and that without going so far as to defiue the dogma of the Pope’s personal Infallibiitty the Ecumenical fathers may prohibit pe from opposiug it either tin speaking or writing. has spoken 80 = ITALY. Cabinet Opinion of Greek Brigandage—“Ouly Forty-five Bands” of Sicilian Brigands. A mail telegram from Florence of the 2d of May reports as follows: In to-day’s sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Count Visconte ta, in reply to an interpeliation, confirmed the news of the murder of the Italian Con- sul Bawres, and stated that the imputations on tye consul were calumnies. The Minister consented to lay before the House the papers referring to the case, aud also to the Greek tragedy at Marathon. Signor Lanzi, in answer to a question, said that brigandage in Calabria was no longer of any impor- tance. The few bands which still existed in Sicily num- bered only forty-five. Count Arrivabene called the at- tention of the House tw an allegation made by Mir. Moens, an Engitsh tourist, who fell into the hands of Neapolitan brigands near Salerno in 1864 He pro- tested with indignation against Mr. Moeus’ allega- tion that the Italian government had connivea at the outrage in question. Signor Lanzi replied that Mr. Moens had been most ungrateful in making such assertion, and stated that he had been urgently re- uested at the thine by the British Minister, he (Signor Lanzi) being at that time Minister of the Intertor, to permit the friends of the captives Moens and Murray lo treat with brigands as to ransom. The govern- ment, he added, treated the matter rather from a cee. ag point of view than froin that of lawful au- thority. = OLD WORLD ITEMS. It appears that there are more than a million pau- pers in England and Wales, The standard of Engligh metallic tin has been raised three pounds sterilig per ton. ‘The German population of Bohemia continues calm afd firin and will not participate in the 'I'zech agita- tion, Austria and Russia have abrogated the extradition treaty hitherto existing between them for the sur- reuder of military deserters, Count Andrassy ts to be appointed Chancellor of the Austrian empire, and Count Beust will go as Miu- ter Plenipotentiary to England, A treaty of commerce has been conciuded at Guatemala between the Austro-Hungarian empire and the Guatemalan republic, Tne Austrian Court is In great consternation. The daughter of the Emperor, the Archduchess Giselle, is dangerously ill with scarlatina, ‘Tie number of persons who emigrated from Liver- pool during April Was 24,152, or 2,886 less than in the corresponding mouth of last year, Euugration from France and Italy to Algeria is greatly on the increase, and the French colonies are pressing daily farther the intertor. The Danish government is about to address a pro- clamation to the inhabitants of the West Inales, set- ting forth the nezotiations between it and the United States, The exquisite attractions of Nice, the loveliest summar retreat in the South of France, are greatl: conan for the present year by new gardens an hotels. ‘There is @ Journal in Paris published in the Japa- nose language. Lt ts in the shape of a memoranduin book without backs, and ts edited by M. Rosmy, a professor of Oriental tongues, A case of triple birth has just occurred at Brussels. A woman named Hnygens, “l twenty-seven, and already mother of two is, living in the Rue des Epingles, gave birth to three boys at a time, In Cheltenham, England, samples of sugar have been found 80 fearfully adulterated with chromate of lead that itis a wonder how any of the unfortu- nate partakers of it survived to tell the tale. The independent thinkers of Gratz (Styria) have collected the necessary funds for the creation of a pupertar pohoot fre oftua a _ ous: Eee eo It e made in Austria, Mee id “ two shocks of an éarthquake were felt at Comrie, Scotiand, on Friday night. They were ac- com! ‘with ® rumbling noise. The vibration was from west The wind was westerly and tho night Tae em The ee i No Lap om this year at Madrid! The Spanish sane has hitherto been suppliedywith that delicious ult from Valencia; but this year the prices offered for the Spanish strawberries at Paris Nave carried every crop to that market, Europeans who hav3 gone to Buenos Ayres to seek new homes are writing back very discouraging apcounls, but cluehy because they had expecte w | settles, amass sudden wealth by finding gold an’ diamonds, Agricul ural setilers fare better. » A omens velocipete 4 : ra ps tate ta “arts, so arranged that » OF rathe: inmate, can see all around him, and eltner rise or descend in the water at will oceup.cs a hort | zonal position and is supplied with pleaty of von- densed air, ‘The quantity of British proof apirite consnmed in the United Kingdom Syringe was no less thon 21,621,590 gations, of which England drank 11,500,000, Scotland $,250,000 and Ireland near) Em} gal- jonas. ‘The amount of duty paid on the whole quan- tity was £10,860, 79, Rueata,gwhich hitherto has been in the habit of buying her arttilery abroad, partienlarly at the Ger- man works of Krupp at Basen, is now In possession of @ factory for war material in no way inferlor to those of other nations, This manufactory, situated aterm, is on the same Plea bak of larger propor- tions, as that Db longing to Rhenish Prussta, and soine enormous pieces of cannon are now being cast there for the defence of Cronstadt, Bencler, Nikola- Jews and Kerth. Tho Opinion Nationale gives a curious account of the manner in which the writing of Flourens, in the letter seized on the pers in of Beaurie, the French conspirator, was discovered, When the former left for Fngiand he amused himself by sending his card to Pletri, P.ef-ct of Poltve, ani he added the P. C, of departure usual among friends aid acquain'ances. On a pi of note paper in which the card was wrapped he wrote “/artant pour PAngleterre.” The Prefect compared the papers, and at once ascerta ned the inden ity of the handwriting in cach, The British Post OMlee savings banks continue to rosper, and the business done increases rapidly, he.@ Was not a Post Ollce bank in the United King- dom until the 16th September, 1861, and at the end Of 1869 there was £15,524,209 due to dep: sitors, The interest pald to depositors, or added to the credit side of thelr accounts, how exceds £300,000 a year. ‘The amount paid inand the amount d awn out 1 the course of a year are very large; in 186) £5,787,218 was received from deposito's, ant £ 656 Wis paid to depositors, The chargesof mang omeat and expenses incurred in 1369 amoun ed to £62,050, Political excitement 1 prodacing at Madrid a Pleatful crop of caricatures. Que of the best re Presents Prim dancing on @ slack rope upon the points of swords, which he weora as stitts, while the republicans and partisans of the various candid ites: for the throne looK on, in expectation of a fai. Itis called “Kquilibrios del Inte taidad,’ Another con sists merely of a sheet divided into thirty squares, each square containing a comic poriralt .f so:e one of the claimants of the throve. In the host of others the “Auction” and the “Duet” are worthy of notice, The former pes. Prim knocking down the crown to the highest bidder; the latier depicis h.m as engaged in a mortal combat with a friar, while a bishop acts as second for each of the oppouents, THE RED MAN. To THe Ep:ror or THe Heraup:— If Mr. Greeley is wrong in his conclusions apon the capital question and the reduction of the army, he is singularly so in his treatment of the Indian problem. He upbraids General Sherman for writing to the Indian Commission the following letter: — Lhave your note of May 13, and regret I cannot be present. Idoubt not the generous fevling of good people interested in this meeting, but itd. es seem to me that they accomp'ish little or no good. Our Indian question 18 a practical one, and not one of mere feeling: and, 80 fir as my observation extend: the wild [odlans ure rather damaged thin benefite by the confict of extreme opinions which these public meetings engender. The real question can on’y be discussed fairly where the Indvans are, and af you will adjourn your meeting to Fort Sully, where you can see the indians themselves, I will feel Strongly tnclined to attend the adjourned meeting, W. T. SHERMAN, General. In our judgment General Sherman has seidom done a better thing than this, It is absolutely im- possible for men to sit in New York and intelligently diseuss a question of which they Know litte, if any- thing, from practical observation. No great question is more generally misunderstood at the East chan this—invo'ying the character, claims and treatment of the red man. Im the name of humanity and Christianity there has been a display of ignorance and misrepresentation absolutely shocking. At every meeting such as that convened in New York, men, Whose motives we will not impugn, have com- mitted the grave error of discussing what they do not understand and making chargea which cannot be sustained’, The Indian character 1s not noble or grateful, but low and treacherous; and while the red bilan may, in instances, have been wronged by the whites, he has ever been, as he 1s to-day, his own worst enemy. For one outrage perpetrated tn return for unfair treatinent he has been guilty of a dozen, con- ceived in an unprovoked bat natural thirst for plun- der and blood. At this writing he ts, in almost every Territory of the Union, commiting the most wanton and brutal depredations, murdering in cold blool defenceiess traveliers and setters, who have raised no hand agalost him and violated no treaty stipulations. ader such @ state of affairs it isnot to be won- dered at that General Sherman should deem it bet- ter for tue Commission to ineet upon the frontier than in New York. The Indian must be se:n to understood, and his habits must be studied be rightly appre-iated, It is the misfortune of the Com- misslou that its agents go to the Indian country, if ata‘l, so much prejudiced against the whites and 60 bent upon glorifymg the savage, that their reports are seidom impartial or reliable statements, however consctentiously made, Indeed, no correct idea of the Indian citracter or the dificuities with which the whites in the Territories have to contend can be Jormed from hurried visits and superficial observa- tions. Loug residence among the Ladians ts essen- tial to this, and couciusions put forth by those who have not had sucn experience shou'd be cautiously received, espectaily by those whose desire seems to be to do eyual justice to all, The fact about the Indian business is that there are tribes who are disposed to peace und with Whom Inild ineasures are desirable and proper, wile there are others with whom war is inevitable, and the more promptly anil severely it 13 mide the better will the interests of humanity be served. This dis- tinction should always be borne in mind tn discuss ing the Indian question. PIONEER, To Tae Epitor or Tae Hera In your report of the meeting held at Cooper Instl- tute, to consider the best Indian policy, you say that the president, in his remarks, said “he regretted to have received a letter from Genera! Sherman suggest- ing that the convention should adjourn to Fort Rice or Sully,’’ &c., and that he (che president) looked on that letter in the light of a sucer, &c, General Sherman is right, and such meecings as that held recently can cali forth nothing but sneers from any one who has had experience ta Lodiaa affairs ia the far West. To give you an example:— ‘Two years ago this spring a party of Sioux Indians were camped at North Platte, Nebraska, drawing government rations, Every few days a war party Was organized at that very camp, and committed some most horrible atrocities in the immediate vl. cinity and under the very noses of the Indian agents, attacking and Killing parties of wood cutters, sec- tion men and other employés of the Union Pacific Ratiroad, and yet these miserable sneaks (Indian agents and interpreters) will represent to the people of the States that the Indians are badly treated. could vite & hundred similar cases to these and am willing so todo. Let Wendell Phillips stick to aboli- tion and let Indian affairs alone, and let Generals Sherman and Sheridan ani Colonel Baker and suct men pursue their policies and we shall have an ead very soon to all Indian troubles. W. H. CAMANCHE. To THE Eptror or THe HERALD:— Your editorial observations upon the proceedings of the Jate convention for the reform of our Indian policy conclude with one to which, asa member of that body, I beg the privilege of a brief reply. Re- ferring the prosperity of the Cherokees to the fact that they have been upon @ reservation you so “But all the tribes go upon reservations and keep their treaties and there is no probability of trouble,” Precisely 80, and it ia the earnest aim of the United States Indian Commission to promote this most de- sirable end. But are you aware of the reason why the Indians, now tureatening war, are not peaceably on their reservations? Let me beg your attention to tt. The treaties of the Peace Commission, under Gen- eral Sherman, in 1967, marked out a reservation for them and promised that the government would pro- vide for establishing the tribes upon tt. Those treaty rovisions, though subsequently confirmed by tho jenate, the House now refuses to recognize and to provide for, Congress will not set apart the land and confirm the Indian title to it; wili not furnish the implements of agriculture and other m civilization for which the This unjust negligence, not cl a& harsher name, provokes and oxa: Indians, They have waited for two years in great suspense and anxiety; they complain that we are not dealing fairly with them, and the more restiess and excitable are commencing hosiliities in retaiia tion for this gross _unfaithfuiness of ours. Both the President and the Secretary of the Intertor have re. monstrated against this violation of faith and urged the appropriation of the requisite funds. Our ofie cersatthe West declare themsctves ashamed to meet the Indians, who say we have “lied” to them, And yet Congress does nothing. It seems as though nothing but @ war would arouse our politicians at ces to a sense of their criminal dereliction of duty. More than it would have cost to carry out our treaties must even now have been expended in tramferring the regiments which Lave already been sent to the Platns. May I not beg, Mr. Editor, that your Valuable ald would be given to the diffasion of truth on this sub- ject, and that you will join with those who deprecate War in urging a ly and fair di of every obligation which our treaties impose toward the tribes of the West. Those tribes are not only willing, they are now for the first time anxious, to enter upon a civilized life, Let us aid and not thwart them. Let us whey secure them the and implements necessary to start them in their new carecr, and our settlements wi no longer be de- vastated nor gur Plalug reddened by the blood of the BN. MARTIN, 5 A FLOATING SAFE, A Novel Idoa in Naval Architecture—New Style of Vessel—Impervious to Rams, Shell or Shot— Method of Construction and Advantages Claimed for It Mr. L. H. Dunkin, @ naval architect, bas ¢on- structed a model of a new styie of vessel which be calls by the apparently paradoxical term of OCBAN STEAM PACKET AND GOVERNMENT CRUISER, The hull and spar deck frame ave to be iusepa Tably connected, moulde’ in two sections of any darable thaber, molern type, composite atamp or malleable iron pattern, at tue option of contractors. Its unique shape of exterior, with the small inereas@ of expansion ty subinersion at the water iine, will confer on the huil of tie steamer full power to oat upon the surface and restrict any cy to roll quickly or deep, An interior cliiptic frame covers the jointure and angle of the exterior, acting asa preventive to @uy transverse sirein and pro} dictive Of the most substantial connection between the deck aad hull, The internal form of the archi tecture 8 spheroidal, secured under the spar deck with an endless cordon to extend over the extrem ties and connect wit the side and bilge keelsons, to obvinte any fore and aft movement. Jis peculiar m rits the constructor sums up as follows:— All tie sails are to be cut on TUE FORE AND ArT SYSTEM, with the bulk of canvass near the surface, to insure the weather gauge when close hauled, and in the bratling, ree‘ing or making sail the usual routine of work can be @ complished on the spar deck with reduecd complement of furee. TUE MASTS ARE HOLLOW, and are to be Composed of rulied iron plates, which canbe usd for pilot house and for access (0 the lower part of the vesel, while the interior, above deck, With an clevator, may be converted inte the customary look-out, o¢ as @ place of observation, Without exposare daring action. THE CASEMATE 18 TRUMANENT AND SOLID and built of the same m a! ws the frame of the hull, with elevation no! je4s thaa nine fect, fifty feet In breadth and 300 feet in length, furnished for com- mercial s rv: a superb style a) a inagniticent din- tng saloon, A flotilla of this character 18 not only pertinent for the rapid. transport of the mails out in accordance with th» requirement for coast de-ense, withoa’ eon- Voy und -r canvass, to cruts? for an md -Anive period, With sietm a3 an aaxia) it woud als) prove @ bold avtaronist without armament by the thrust of culwater, ron the gauntlet through a hostile flect, eude al peut With the speed of abont sou miles {n twenty-four hours, and, with the ald of a propeller, make Ufieen knots ab hour, LIGUY DRAUGHT OF WATER 1s procured through an increase of Hoor surface and the enlaivement of breadth, when ec!enty of nove- ment under canvass or stean the augmentation of length tha: wii usual sharp and extra fine water line. NO VERTICAL EXPOSURE from every quarter of at presenting a sold obliqve, Uaper Wiatever the direc- tion of approach, uuder co f armor. The charactertstic feature 1 the any of the side of the missile and bids do ated fissnre trance of any plunge of stem from ance t ollkh any vessel that mignt a The elevation and moaid of the stern separates the 1€ Sea, furnish 10 RUDDER AND PROPELLER, eck from being swept at any proof against any style of projectile, between the spar and gun deck affords MANIPULATION OF THE MOST POWERFUL ORDNANCR and adapied to the exercise of crew in a tropical ciime when in the service of goverament, or, a3 & mercaniile steam packet, ample stateroom accom- modation on each skle and extensive ballroom or palace hall through the centre. TUL DIMENSIONS OF THE VESSEL are—500 fect in length, 90 fect in breadin al the water line, 40 feet in depth amblships and has five masts, On deck the ¥ide will incline thirty degeces with the pank shear, Tae constructor has received the following lester ayor Westervelt on the subject of the ine from © vention:— Crry or New Your, May 6, 1870. Sim—I have fnspected with much care and’pleasu'e your model of ocean steamer lot at my residence, as converted {nto an impervious and formidable war ship by the introduc- tion of plating and armament, After a o examination Of the principle upon whieh you build th ture I am con- Vineed that you have obtained the best design for modi naval warfare that come tuder iy observation. peculiar form of hull would contribute much to the subs Lal connection of the side and deck nd well adapied for the support of broadsiae 1 am very favorabiy Impressed with the entire symmetrical proportion and genera’ mabraced%n your plan throngb- out, to warrant very good speed under canvass or su) steam power. To obtain extra velocity and rapid movement T would suggest a reduction of breadth with an ineresss of depth, which would not produce any derangement in the figure of midvhip section. Your marine fabri postens all the sea-golng qualities’ the mont apy ic mercantile steam packet, with more dosiral cious accommodation for first class passenger: livery of ‘retght and safe transport of the ial; fully, yours, JACOB ©. WE! To L. H. Donxr, Ewq. THE PERILS GF OUR MERCHAVE MARINE, The Cupidity of Insurance Companics a Bait for Adventurous Men=—Three Blind Mice Nearly Destroy a Ship, Cargo and Crew. Since the days when naval architecture was first introduced by Father Noah, down to the period when Spain sent her invincible armada to invade the shores of England and annihilate the navy of the Maiden Queen, disasters at sea have been chronicled until the vocabulary of accidents has been exhausted tn defining them and describing hair breadtn escapes from death at sea in all varie- tes of form. One of the most singular causes of marine disaster, however, is developed in the sworn testimony of a case now before United States Com- mi-sioner Osborn. It appears that on the 3d of April a man named A. Lange, of Wililam street, in this city, a dealer in picture frames, caused to be slipped on board the steamslup George Washington, plying between hero and New Orleans, @ box about four feet square, con- tents not described, and marked “handle with care,” “keep dry,” and addressed J. Rohrig, Esq., New Orleans; the box was then tnsured in the name of A. Komp, by Lange, whose son, a youth of six- teen years, paid tie premium of one and a half per cent on the alleged value, $1,660. ‘Phe Lox was duly receipted for by the clerk of HL B. Cromwell & Co., owner of the George Washing- ton, and on presenting this receipt duplicate bills of lading were given Lange. A few days subse- quent to the satiing of tue steamship Lange called at the office of Cromwell & Co. and requested the box to be returned to hint 09 1:8 arrival at New Orieans, all Be as @ reason Ubat Mr. Rohrig was not in New Orleans. A few days after the dopart of the steamer from this port, and while tn anticipation of a sne- cessful and pleasant voyage, the appalling alarm of fire Wes given, seeding consternation and terror in the stoutest hearts, In this emergency we pre- sence of mind of Captain Gager did not forsake him, and, ordering the hose from the engine room, cut & space through the hatches and poured a plentiful supply of water through it, When the flames were sufficiently subdued the hatches were tak n off, and It was found that the smoke was issuing in deneg volumes fiom the lower hold. By well directed streams playing on this part the flames were fnally subdued, and efforts were made to asceriain the cause of the fire. It Was found to proceed trom the box which Lange had shipped and tnsured. It was taken to New Oricans and the facts togetier with the box placed in the charge of the Deputy Collector of this port. On the return of the box to tnis city the case was handed over for prosecution to the Digertct Attorney, and Lange and Komp, the alleged shippers, were arrested. When all the eyi- dence was offered on tt tof the defence, Komp was acquitted, as it wagshown he kuew nothing of the box or its contents, lis name being assumed by Lange for some unexplained cause, An ¢xamina- thon of the contents of the box was made by @ pro- feasor of chemistry, J. G. Pohle, associated for twenty-five years with the American Insfitute, He found the box to contain @ gation can of spirits of | turpentine, a soda water bottic fled with gasoline, a can of al oholic fuid, two cigar boxes containing nests of wlite Inice, straw and sawdust; and ip addi- tion, a highly explosive compound, chloride of po- tassum, and in order to corroborate hia testimony of the dangerous compound, Mr. Pohie took two grains of it and exploded it by friction in open court. The exposive ingredients were valued at ten dollars. On this state of facts the Commissioner held the accused to bail vo appear before the Grand Jury. JUSTICE CHEATED—CUST 4 of large calibre, would the HOUSE MYSTERIES. The readers of the HiraLp will remember that some weeks ago detalia were given in these columns of the manner in which one George Mayhew, alias George Taylor, forged the name of Rev. Dr. Tyng and got an appointment in the Customs House; how he advanced himself over others by forging detallments to which he attached the names of the Collector and Surveyor and finally came to gricf, after bong charged with hway robbery upon a Statcu Islander. A few days ago a HERALD reporter saw him ch About she Twentieth ward, where he laughs at the clever mannor in which he beat the ‘Twentieth ward police ani regained his liberty. It is said that when he was arraigned before an United States Vommissioner, officer Houghton was in at- tendance with the man who was assauited and robbed; the hearimg in the charge of forgery was ad- foarned, and the officer ordered to appeur hex! day. When he did appear le learned that immediate y after jus departure with the witnesses, the case Waa called on and Mayhew discharged. A few nights acy he vaunted his good clothes and @ gold waven in u face of the ofliceron Eighth avenue, Ounnot Supea | intendent Jourdan secure the reatrest of this feliovy | @ud cause & legal luvestiganon?