The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1870, Page 1

i * WASHINGTON © Fight Over the New York Ap- ‘) pointments at an End, Murphy aud Grinnell Confirmed Alnost { Unanimously, ft i { . = “, | ’ Si a. ui] Ny * y oe The Naturalization Bill Passed } Both Houses. ‘gentgoxy and Virginia Election /, Cases Disposed of. t" — anand jaa to Prohibit Coolie Immi- - gration, “nt es Wasuinaton, Inly 11, 1870, ‘he New Yerk Appointmentse—"xciting Debato fo Executive Session ou the Cellectorship— Murphy Confrmed=Mr. Grinnell as Ravel QMecr and Mr. Hillhouve as Arsiut. and, Treasurer. The Senate went into executive session at two Yolock this af erneon, As the New York appoint- ments were the special order the name of Mr, Mur- why was taken up at once, Mr. Fenton, who is opposed to the confirmation, took the floor and vegan hfs remarks, which lasted for very nearly “ree hours, When the o of Mr. Murphy was gnder consideration fi aattnittes Mr, Fenton de. «Moed to present his case of opposition, pre- ‘efring to make bis fignt in the Senate. This ig mainly owing to the ‘fact that “Mr, ooking, his opponent in was et tn tng fae, + myehasee sabyiné cominitiee. Mir, Fenton's remarks were Wmbraced under three head ‘iret, Mr. Murphy’s army contracts; second, his volltical record, and, third, various newspaper com- nents opposed to Mr. Murphy. In the first part of us remarks Mr. Fenton repeated in @ niore elaborate ormthe statements made by General Foster before he committee on last Saturday, The substance of these was thatin @ contract for caps Mr. Murphy ‘ad not complied with the terms of his agreement ond had defrauded the government by furnishing an oferior ariicle, The polat of the second ground of ‘Ppesition taken was that Mr. Murphy had sold out he repubiican party to the Tammany faction, The newspaper articles constituted the burden of Mr, Fen- on'a remarks, It 18 stated that he reaa from thirty- sve newspaper paragraphs and editorials against ve confirmation, in order to show that the press ‘as in opposition. A few minutes before five the snaie, entirely exhausted, took @ recess until half. \st seven o'clock, when it was understood that the gestion would be resumed. Just before taking tho \vess Mr, Conkiing got the floor with a view to t plying to Mr. Fenton. Referring to the Tribune, Senator Conkling said jet the course of that journal towards Mr. Murphy in {seit was one of tho moat cowardly, malignant and (iter assaults that could be made upon any citi- ,e—was only tn keeping with the whole course of kat journal’ to every member of the republican arty who did not bow down to his will or how his whimsical, absurd policy, or had in any vay croesed his ambition. Mr. Greeley had never ceased to preach sedition, disloyalty aud party inf. deity whenever it suited his own purposes, He ‘ad bulted whenever he could gratify his revenge = bls anger by bolting. He had disobeyea he will of the party whenever he could eratify @ selfish instinct by doing so, and he jaa in the course of his long life contributed more ‘© destsoy the integrity of the party than all the Murphys on the face of the earth, Mr. Fenton pre- vnded to eupport the integrity of the party, and ‘et he himself, for personal purposes, to punisha man who claimed to exercise his con- setentious duties as Senator, hal in a republican district, at a time wien the control of the State was hanging in the balance, or- ganized @ bolt which defeated a republican Senator and gent a democrat to Congress. Yet for doing what he did himself he attempted to crucify and de- etroy @ man who had been a@ republican since the days when Fremont was nominated and who mever nesitated to make any = sac- viftce for the party. It 1 stated that Senator Sumner pronounced Mr. Conkling's speech we very eloquence of invective. During the early hours of the controversy in ex- ecutive seraion the corridors by the main entrance © the Senate chamber were fillea with knots of politicians, with an alr of great confidence, busty engaged in talking over the asitua- ‘ion and the prospects of Murphy’s confirma- tion or rejection, Judge Folger, General arthur, oflugh Hastings, Ben. Field and Charley Shaw ere the principal representatives of the Morphy faction in the third house. Wagstaff, Pol- namus and Mullen led the opposition. The scene about an hour was quite animated. Judge Fol- was flying about in a most vigorous mauuer, ringing up the doquments and organizing the back- | ers of Murphy. The Murphyites were decidedly mn the ascendancy, both in point of numbers ana post- ‘on. The opposition got quite wrathy at their own Jack of decent show of strength. Muilen sang out very enthusiastically during the excitement tat ‘hy One who said that Murphy did not sell out to weed was a liar, but no one paid any attention to 14s observation.. Van Valkenburg was around offer- ing to bet at odds in faver of Murphy, but vould get no takers. Fenton's lengthy remarks were too much for the ardor of the gentlemen of the iobby. By fur o'clock the corridors were deserted, “nd not a friend or foe in the controversy was to be seen. At the evening executive session the scene about ‘he Senate was quite as lively as that witnessed during heday. The corridors were filled with Murphyites nd Fentonites, and the interest in the result was atepse. Senator Conkilug resumed the floor imme- ‘ately on the reassepsbling of the Seuate, and made powerful speech’. ply to the statements of his olleague, Senator Fenton, He denied ali the state- ents of the latter with regard to Murphy having efrauded the government on any contracts. He xhibited official documents, copied from the re- ords of the War Department, to show that ry. Murphy had been honorably acquitted ' the charges preferred against him. with gard Ww the statements that Mr. Murphy bad gone » Albany a8 a member of the convention that nomt- sted Governor Hoffman, Mr. Conkling said that ywhere in the records of that conventton could it : shown that Mr. Marphy was a member of tt, ov In y way connected with it. He chatlenged his col- gue toa proof of his assertions with regard to T. Murphy’s participation in that convention, As the statement that Mr. Murphy had votea gainst the rosolution instructing the New York senators to vote for the Civil Rights bill vor President Jobnsen’s yeto, Mr. Conk- og ead that other republicans ibe des Mr. Murphy had voted against this solution, There, for instance, was Mr. Andrews, Ley voted againat it because they belleved that the ew York Senators did not need inetructions, and a result showed that they were right. Senator onkiing answeved the charge that Mr. Murphy had sriicipated in a Hoffman meeting in New York and 12d resolutions adopted by that meeting, * Saying that the records of that meeting, as re- ‘ted im the public press, did not show that Mr. phy had anything to do with it. The truth is, was not there at all, “It wag unfortu 19,” eaid Mr. Conkling, “that my” culieague ould say that Tammany was in favor of *. Murphy’s confirmation, ‘There were a greatmany emore in New York about Tammany. For instance, * (Mr, Conkling) had heard it stated that Tammany 4 raised one hundred and twenty-six thousand jars tO get his colleague(Mr. Fenton) to signa ovtain raticoad bill when he was Governor of New ork, Of couree be (Mr. Copkiing) did not believe jg; bat it was ope of the Tammany romora. It was Tamasred bat Jamwaoy bad sent @ ¢ era i NEW YORK HERALD, ieee umber Of members of the Loginiatare w Albany to vole for Fenton for Senator, and that they Were amply rewarded for so going. These were among the Tammany ramors, though he (Conkling) dtd not believe them,” The following is @ correct Ust of the vote on confirmations— Yras—Abbott, Ames, Bayard, Eeeuen, inghum, Cameron, Catpenter, Casserly, © Cole, Conkling, Corbett, Oragin, De' Fowler, Gllbers, Hagrie Ho Howe loge, Lewis, MeOreery, Maine, Morrill ot Vermont. Nye, Osborn, Ramacy, Rice, Rot er, Thayer, Buek+ Spencer, Stewart, Nn Trambull, Warner, hess Wiliams, W: Nays—Fenton, Harris, Tipton. Absent or not voting—Anth Brownlow, Cat- tell, Drake, Ferry, Flanagan, Hamiltou, of Maryland; Hamilton, of Texas; Harlan, Morton, Norton, Pat- terson, Pomeroy, Revels, Koss, Saulsbury, Sebura, Sprague, Sumoer, Vickers, Morton went home this evening on account of sicknoas, but was patred with Pomeroy, and had he been present he would have voted for Murphy and Pomeroy against him, NAVAL OFFICER AND ASSISTANT TREASURER, The Senate then confirmed the nominations of Moses Grinnell to be Naval OMecer and Thomas Hill- house to be Agsistant Treasurer. ‘The friends of Mr. Murphy are holding a celebra- tion to-night at room No, 36, Witiard’s Hotel, which has been their headquarters. A large number of Senators and Congressmen were present and con- gratulated Mr, Murphy's friends upon thetr success, ‘The Kuodiag Bill. Tho conference committee on the Funding. dill have agreed to provide for the issue of one thousaud iiltions of thirty year bonds at four per cent, three hundred millions of fiftcen year bonds at tour and a half per cent and two hundred millions of ten year bonds at ftve per cent. ‘The section allowing gold de- posits in the ‘Treasury limits the interest totwo and a half per cent. Aji national bank hereafter organized ave required to take the new bods, ‘The other main points agreed upon areas follows:—The clause au- thorizing foreign agencies is stricken ont. All the interest is to be paid in the United States. New banks are to accept these bonds as a basis for bank- in, . bus old Wanke are not compelied to exchange thelr bonds, The intorest co be paid on gold de- posits is fixed at two and a half percent instead of three, as in the House bijl; one Imlf per cent is to be pald tor negotiating the now bonds, Pasengo of the Naturalization Bill. Iudgé Davis, of New York, ufider a suspension of tne rules, took from the Speaker’s table today the bill to amend the naturalization law, and the House coneuited Tn thé Senate amendments by a two-thirds vote. It now goes to the President for hia signature, ‘This bill was introduced in the House by Judge Davis, bur was amended In the Senate by having what was cousidered its most arbitrary features stricken out, It stil retains those gections whieh are intended to punish election frands committed under the cover of naturalization papers. The State courts are allowed to Issue naturalization papers as heretofore, but the Untied States courte are authorized to appoint special agents who ate to supervise all votes cast upon the strength of naturalization papers and to overhaul the papers themselves. Where these agents decide that the papers are fraudulent, or have been optained under false pretences, the votes cast by those holding them are to be thrown out, The bill is to appiy to ail cities of 20,000 inhabitants and up. wards, though tt is'specially intended for New York city. ‘This is regarded by the republicans as the cli- max of a series of measnres, beginning with the fif- teenth amendment, which are to cripple the democrats and augment the power of the Tepnblican party. The bill to enforce the Gfteenth amendment was a part of this legiaiation, The measure which pasked to-day is to take effect wt once, and will be appited 79 the fall eloctions, The War Cloud in Eurepe and Cuba~Excites ment in Diplomatic Circles—John Quincy Adama’ Views in 1523. Diplomatic ‘les in this city appear to be pretty Well shaken up by the war rumors from Europe. It ie the subject. of conversation hourly among them, and itis easy to perceive that the general bellef ta that hostilities will speedily follow the threatening attitude of France aud Prussia, Many of the foreign representatives who were of ruati- cating bave returned here in no iittle agitation. Baron Lederer, the Austrian Mints- ter, and Baron Geroli, the Prussiam Minister, had interviews with Secretary Fish to-day, and en- countered each other m an amicable way in the auteroom of the State Department, M. Berthemy, the present French Minister, shrugs his shoulders and says very little on the subject. In this threatened clash of arms in Enrope Cuba's fate is considered to be involved in the resuit. In 1823, when a war was about to occur between France and Spain, John Quincy Adams, our then Secretary to State, wrote as foilows to Mr. Nelson, our Minister to Spain:— DEPARTMENT OF STATR, Wasnineton, April 28, 1823. } In the war betweea France and Spain now com- mencing other interesta, | arabs hh ours, Wiil, in alt probability, be deeply involved. Whatever may be the issue of this war, as between those two Eu- ropean Powers, it may be taken for granted that the dominion ef Spain upon the American continents, North and South, is irrevocably gone. But the islands of Cubaand Porto Rico still remain nomin- ally, and so far really, dependent upon her, that whe yet possesses the power of transferring her own dominion over them, together with the possession of them, to othera. ” ‘These islands, from thelr local positton, are natue ral appeudages to the North American continent, and one of them, Cuba, almost in sight of our shores, from a inultivude of considerations, has becoiwe an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union. Ita commana- ing pee) with reference to the Gulf of Mexico and the West India seas; the character of its population; its sitiation midway between our southern. coast and the island of St. Domingo; its safe and capa- cious harbor of the Havana, fronting along Hine of onr shores destitute of the same advantage; the na- ture of its productions and of its wants, furnishing the supplies and needing the-returns of a commerce immensely profitabie and mutually benefictal—give it an importance in the sum of our national interests with which that of no other foreign territory can be compared, and little inferior to that whieb binds the different members of this Union together, Such, indeed, are between the interests of that island and of this country, the geographical, com- mercial, moral and poiltical relations, foruled by nature, gathering in the process of time, and even now verging to maturity, that, in looking forward to the probable course of events, for the short period of half a century, it is scarcely possibie to resist the conviction that the annexation of Cuba to our federal republic Wui be indispensabie to the continuauce and integrity of the Union tiseif. it is obvious, however, that for this event we are not yet prepared, Numerous fand formidable objec: tious toe the extension of our territorial dominion: beyond the sea present themselves to the first con- templation of the subject; obstacles to the system of policy, by which alone that resnit can be compassed and maintained, are to Le foreseen and surmounted, both from at home and abroad; but there are laws of poititcal as well as bed cr cs yan aud ifan apple, severed by the tempest from its native tree, canuot choose but fail to the ground, Cuba, forcibt disjoined from its own unnatural connection wit Spain and incapable of sel-support, can gravitate only towards the Nort American Unton, which, by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom,—Azecuitve Documents House Representa- tives, $d Congress, 18¢ Session, Vol, 12, Dov. No. 123, page 6. The Prostdont’s Summer Movemente—Snra- toga Not bo Visited. A statement laving been dade tn certain news- papers that the President would attend the races at Saratoga, soon to take place, it ia proper to state that there is not a word of truth in it. The Prest- dent has no Intention of leaving Washington at all until after the adjournment, and then will proceed With his family to hia seaside cottage. He expects to remain there for some time, and has made no ar- rangements to go elsewhere. He will privately Visit his estate In Missouri, near St, Louw, some time duripg the summer, but the time has not been fixed. The Amicable Adjustment ef Question. It is well known that before the reciprocity treaty was concluded there was a disagreement between the United States and Great Britain in regard to the extent ofthe British maritime jurisdiction in the waiers of the Nori American provinces, under the treaty of 1818 and mternational Jaw, Without aban- doning the claim which they have heretofore made to jutisdiction within three marine miles of the coast and a line drawn from headland to headland, the British home government have adopted instructions to the naval officers employed in protecting the fisheries which are practically in barmony with the claim which the United States have heretofore made—that is, they have ordéred that United States fishing veseels shall not be seized unless It can be proved that they have been engaged in fishing with. ap three miles of jahd, @nd unless they are at the the Fishery qo ea TUESDAY, government bave a@ivieed te authorities of the Dominion of Canada that they have issucd auch in- structions to the naval authoriMes and counselled them to give similar tnstractions to the oMcers of the Dominion maritime police, Of course no United States vessel will be interfered with for dshing within the three mile limit on those parts of the Coast opened to them in common with the British fisherman by the first article of the treaty of 1818 So long asthe British authorities pursue the liberal and fmendly course above indicated no trouble need be appreliended from the fishery ques- tlon. Nomivations Confirmed. ‘The Senate in executive session to-night confirmed the following nominations:— Postnasers-aaeay L, _ Hapgood, Claremont, N.H.; James Scofleld, Addison, N. Y.; Wm. R. Reuntugton, Canton, N. Y.; Benjamin Badeau, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Charles B, Myers, Treasure City, Nev.; Dantel 8. Carswell, Edwards, N, Y. " Wright, Charles City, Jowa; Robert Alien, Austil Nev.; Joha Fogle, Cadiz, Oblo; Hester A. birdson; Bellair, Onto; John W. Hays, Barnesville, Ohio; aay Stooce, Ironton, Ohio; Moses Messer, Hud son, Ohio; David A. Cook, Mendota, IL; Adam N. Keser, Newberry, 8 0.; Jon H. Brinkerhor, Wam- pun, Wis,; John Taylor, Richmond, Ky.; E. Diliman, Toledo, lowa; George Weller, Boonevitie, Mo.; Wil: liam ©, Wiley, Washington, Pa.; Frederick K. Ren- ner, Nebraska Otty, Neb.; John H. Kellom, Omaha a 4 Neb.; William A. Stafford, Little Falls, N. Y.; O. B. Mitchell, Hamitton, Mo, ; Joun J. Abrigg, Bruns- Wick, Mo. ; Johu Gibson, Carrollton, Mo.; B. K. Scott, McKeesport, Pa.; John Roberts, Hastings, Mici:.; Geo. W. Brown, Marton, Ala.; Royal Eastman, Great Falla, N. H.; Henry ©. Adams, Hyde Park, Mass.; Lewis Merriam, Greenfield, Mass.; J. L. Skinner, Am- herst, Mass.; John McDuffie, Cambridgeport, Mas3. Samuel A, Duncan to be Assistant Commissioney of Patents; John M. Thateher, of Virginia, to be Daler in the Patent OMe, vice Fessen- Marsh Giddings to be Consul Gen- icutta, vieo N. P. Jacobs, recalled; F. Da- of Sania Martha, Colombia, uow Consu- lar Agent, to be Consul at that place; Charles L, Fisher to be Consular Agent at Nagasaki; Dulce Atwa- ter, of Connecticut, to be Consul at Tahatl; 0, B. Web- ater, of Connecticut, to be Consul at SheMeld; Enoch G. Adams to be Register of the Land Office at Van- couver, Washington Territory. Saniuel M. Brown to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Vancouver; Dexter ©, Bloomer to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Coun- cil Bluff, lowa; George W. Kingsbury to be Asses- sor of Internal Revenue for Daootah, Nominations by the President. The President to-day sent the following nomina- tions to the Senate:— Consuis—O. B. Webster, of Connectient, at Shef- field, England; F. Davela Garcia, at Santa Martha; Charies A. Brayton, of Rhode Island, at Cork; Dor- Tene twaier, at Tanith; Heury W. Dernop, of Rhode Istaiit, af Lisbon. Charles L, Fisher, to be Marshal of the Consular Court at Nagasaki, Japan, Vernon H. Vaughan, of Alabama, to be Secretary oo be of Customs—Oharies A. Waldron, at Dri: tol aud Warren, R. L; James Shaw, Jr, at Provi- dence, R. L; L. W. Macey, at Newport, Rh Contcated Election Casts Disposed of. The Honse spent most of the day in considering centested election cases, and decided those of Rice of Kenmicky and Segar of Virginia. «Rice, who is a democrat, was contested ou the ground that he had, durmg the war, given aid and comfort to the rebdel- Hop. Jt was shown, however, that he hud been offered ana aeciined prominent appointments in the Confederate service, and that he had generally been a Union man, Under those circumstances only seven votes were cast against him. Segar was elected to represent the State of Virginia at large, but the House ruled that that State 1s not entitied toan additional representative, About seven contesied election cases are still on the docket, among whict’ there are five, at least, which will go over tili the next session, partly for want of time and partly because the contestanrs prefer them to go over, The Case of Colonel Beiger. ‘The report in the case of Colonel Beiger has been printed. Jt appears that he applied for a court of ingutry, and asked for @ fall investigation of the business of his oMce—that of quartermaster in the City of Baltimore in the early part of the war. The court was ordered, and after a full and impartial trial by officers of the highest character, General Hitchcock being president, Colonel Belger was hon- orably acquitted of all the specifications and the charge. The Secretary of War disapproved of the verdict of the court, and instead of directing them to reconsider the proceedings, dissolved the court and dishonorably dismissed Colonel Belger, It is due both to Mr. Stanton and Colonel Belger to say that Mr. Stanton afterwards regretted the severity of his action and said he would be glad to see Colonel Belger restored to the army. Colonel Beiger made no effort, until his accounts were all setiled at the Treasury, through emi- nent counsel, for reinstatement. The President, after a careful examination, revoked the order of dismissal, but the passage of certain laws In reference to the Quartermasters’ Department ren- dered the revocation ineffectual. Colonel Belger ap- Plied to Congress, and the Committee on Military Affairs, by a vote of five against four, decided that the appointing power lay with the President alone. These facts have been laid before President Grant, and there 1s no donbt that ne will accord ample jus- tivein the case when empowered to do so by Con- grea, A Faithful Officer Rewarded. One of the joint committees of Congress have allowed $1,000 additional to the salary of the Chief Clerk, so long as the office shall be held by the pre- sent incumbent. Major W. J. McDonald, who has been in the employ of the Senate thirty-five years—— from boyhood—is the gentleman thus complimented, The Washington Police Court. The Police Court of the District of Columbia met for the first time this morning, Judge Snell presiding. There were @ number of prominent lawyers present, Who watched the proceedings with interest. A large number of cases are to be tried, as they have been accumulating some time, owing to the commissions of the pottce magistrates naving expired several weeks ago. Resources and Linbilities of National Banke. The following 1s an abstract of the reports made to the Comptroller of the Currency, showing the condition of the national banks in the United States at the close of business on the 9th of’ June, the aggre- gates Oo! resources and liabilities being $1,564,918,231, SOURCES. Loans and diseounts. United States bondi Due from banks Checks and other cash ftems.. Exchanges for elearing how Tneluding Clearing house Three per Capital Protites Bank noies Deposits Due to banks. Novel Report on a Novel Clatn—Rewards for Fieroes in Casemates, A report of @ novel character was recently made by Senator Pratt, of Indiana, from the Committee on Claims. The memorialist sels forth that he en- listed in 1862, In a Massachusetts regiment, and served eleven months as @ private and sergeant, Again, inthe year 1863, he entered the Sixteenth lght battery of that State as a private, ana was subse- queutly commisioned second lieutenant in the same. ‘The battery was stationed for the most part in and about the defences of Washington. While so en- gaged he devised a plan of monuments to be erected on the BullgRun battle (elds in memory of those who had there fatien, aud after stating all he had done in that business he prays Congress to award him @ reasonable compensatton “in accordan with the benefits received for his services, which would be a help @nd afford him means of support by his profession.” at the particular services were may be judged by the comments of the committee, who say it bas been a matter of curious speculation with them what style of monuments could have been erected. useful and ornamental, with the materials by the government—cement, lime, axes, pic! eis and sledge hammers, And then again the com- mittee have marvelled that the memorialiat should have been able to have wrought with a jackknife an inscription, ornamental and durable, bearing with Ot honor the memory of the fallen heroes to the distant future. The memorialist admits that he Wrought out these designs of beauly wiile nesting in the safe intrenchments that girdled Washington while bis hardier brethren were riorming deeds of immortal valor upon the great ‘ttle fleld of Virginia. The mighty roar of far off battles, softened by distance, did not interrupt his Pleasing, ic occupations, and while thousands of his comrades in arms were doing battle and dying for their country he was planning memorials for them and connecting lis name forever with their glory, through a pyramid of cobbie stones orna- tented by his ingenious jackknife. The commiuee, without wasting more time over such @ frivolous claim, recommended its indefinite postponement. Services of a Tennessee Guide and Scout, Senator Abbott recently made a favorable report on the claim of Elkan A. Sawyer, of Jefféreon county, Tenn., asking compensation for services a9 guide, scout apd recruiting offer, aud for property Uwe of keizure withid sree WAM OF abd, The Lome , taken and ured by the Feder pry, and forgrerviver ssa boo bg 12, 1870,—-TRIPLE in destroying the rebel railroad communication and securing @ large quantity of rol!ing stock to the Union army im 1863. Among oiher things, the commitice say:— Mr. Sawyer was directed to go to @ brid New Market, and to destroy tt at a give! the night, He proceeded oi his journey Persoual peril, and itis on proof that if he had been captured he would have been hung, He went through the lines of the enemy and at a designated hour burned a bridge on the raliroad, and destroyed the telegraph wiree, and thereby prevented the enemy from rnnning off into Virginia five locomo- tives, @ large amount of rolling stock, a3 well as @ large amount of machinery, mappline, &e., woich re thereby saved to the of General Burnside, and which, he says, secured the uso and occupation of the road through East Tennessee at a time when the same was a matter of vital importance, The claimant undertook @ long and perilous journey, penetrating the lines of the enemy for moye than a hundred m lew, aud saya he was compelled to go on foot in the night time, and through the woods to avold capture. ‘The committee recommend that Mr. Sawyer be pald for his property used by the enemy TY ear all of his services aforewaid the sum of 5, near hour of een Resolution Betore the House to Repeal the Cuban Telegraph Monopoly. The following waa to-day introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative Sandford aud referred to the Committee on Commerce:— A joint resolution to alter an act to encourage tele- graplic communication between the United States na the isiand of Cuba, and other West Jndia islands and the Bahamas:— Be it resolved, &c., That so much of the act ap- proved May 6, 1866, entitled “An act to encourage telegraphic communicauion between the United States and the island of Cuba, and other West India pandas. aa 1, rire oe rovides that the International Ocean Telegray ‘umpany, incorpo- vated under te Tawa of the State of New York, tele successors and aasigna, spall have the sole privilege for a period of fouricen years from approval of the act to lay, constrict, land, maintain and operate telegraphic or magnetic cabies to and over the waters, reels, islends shores and lands over which the United States have Jurisdiction from the shores of the state of Florida, in said United States, to the island of Cuba and the Bahamag, either or both, and other West India islands, be and the same hereby 1s repealed, and that nothing in said act contained shall deprive Congress of the right to grant to any other company or companies, person or persons, the privilege, for any period of tine, of laying, constructing, landing, maintaining and operating telegraphic or magnetic lines or cables In ana over the waters, reefs, isiands, shores and lands over which the United States have jurisdiction from the shores of"the State of Fiorlda, in the United States, to the island of Cuba and the Bahamas, either or both, and other West India islands; provided that guid International Ocean Teie- raph ib pany, thelr successors and assigns, may ave, exercise and enjoy the privilege for the uncx- pired term of the period of fourteen Jedfa, then- tioned in said act, approved May 5, 1860, of laying, Janding, maintaining and operating any of its sub- marine cables now in operation or that it may here- after lay between the shores of the State of Florida, in the United States, and the istand of Cuba and giher West india islands, The New Army Bill—Who Oppose Ir. lt i$ pretty fully understood that General Sherman and the staff of the army are opposed to the new Army bill at present before Congress. Sowe idea of the reasons for this opposition may be gained by the public from the following facts:—Dar- ing the administration of President Johnson Von- gr deemed it advisable. to curtail the powers of the President in such manner that al! orders and in- structions from hii to the army must pass through the hands and receive the approval of the General of the Army before they can be obcyed or have any valld effect with the army. In other words, the General of the Army 4s invested with almost abso- lute control of the regular forces of the country. His order to the army Is supreme, from which there is no appeal in military law. The passage and ap- proval of the present bill, whereby it wiil become the Jaw of the land, wiil remove this authority from the hands of the General and reinstate it upon its proper head, the President, Again, the present bill proposes (o reduce the pay of the General of the Army from $1,321 per mouth to $1,000 per month; a8 also to repeal all laws whereby he is allowed commutation for fuel and quarters, Then, again, the system of longevity rations will be abolished, whereby he will incur a further decrease in his mcome, at the rate of nine doars per month for every additional term ot five years he may have served his country in the capacity of an officer of the army. ‘Theze are the more potent reasons why General Sherman manifests so mitch antipathy to the present bill, and threatens to resign if it be- comes @ law. ‘ne primary and only reason the staf has for its opposition to this Dill is baged upon the loss of reve. nue which will accrue to every oMcer composing tt if itis passed, Under existing laws every omcer not serving in the tield or garrison, with troops, but on daty otherwise, and who is not furnished, “in kind,” with pubiie quarters at government expense, 1s allowed, beyond his regular pay, 80 much commu- tation momey fur fuel and quarters, to reimparse him for his private expense In house rent. This of course varies with the grade of the officer, and with the seuson of the year for which it is computed, it being, however, ata uniform rate for that portion of the year between the lst of May and the 1st of October, and ata uniform, yet higher rate, from the Ist of October to the 1st of May. This is exclusive of and in addition to tae reguiar pay of the grade in which he ranks, Now, if the preseyt bill becomes a law the lar pay of ail grades wil not only be reduced, but this system of commutation of fuel and quarters will be abolished, thereby causing a loss of hundreds of dollars annually to each officer of the staf on de- tached service. ‘There 18 a large number of this class of oficera, of necessity, on duty in Washington, and as no — quarters ‘are furnished “in kind” to them they are entitied to and all draw commutation therefor. Hence the Ce ie of the staff—each member of which serving in Washington feels him- self aggrieved, and resolves himself into a working committee to butionhole and argue in opposition to the bill with the members of that body of Con- ress where the bill 1 supposed to hang fire. ‘The following table will show the pay of each grade of the staff per year under the old law, in- cluding commutation of fuel and quarters, and what it will be if we have the new law as at present framed, It will be readily observed that the differ. ence on the side of the government is largely in favor of the new bill: PAY PER YEAR. Ol Taw, New Bill, Difference, Major General...... $8,910 $7,500 $1,410 Brigadier General.. 6,608 5,500 1,108 Colonel......--+.+ +. 4,078 3,500 572 Lientenant Colonel. 3,646 3,000 546 Major.. » 3,257 2,500 T6T Captain 3 2,000 | 503 Lieutenant 1 1,600 20 The pay and commutation recelved by the General and Lieutenant General are not contained in ihe above table, Nor is any uote jaken in this table of the ad- ditional amounts paid to each officer, at the rate of mine dollars per month, for every additional term of five years he may have served ag an oflicer of the army. From the above facts the public may obtain some explanation of the cause of army opposition to the new Army bill. The Mexican Clatnts Commission. The United States and Mexican Claims Commission toway dlainissed the cases of Baca vs, Mexico, and Armigio et al, va. Mexico, FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS, Second Session, SENATE. WASHINGTON, July 11, 1870 CREDENTIALS PRESENTRD, ‘The oredentiais of Senators Anthony and Cragin, re-elected for six years from whe 4th of March next, were presented, AMERICANS IN BRITISH PRISONS. Mr, CaSSERLY, (dem.) of Cal., presented a petition from citizens of California praying the interposition of Congress in behalf of American citizens impris- oned by the British government for political offences. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Re- lations and ordered to be printed. BILLS PASSED. On motion of Mr. BUCKINGHAM, (rep.) of Conn.— Directing the Secretary of War to place at the dis- Posal of the President certain ordnance to be used in the erection of an equestrian statue of General Rawilns, late Secretary of War. On motion of Mr. EDMUNDS, (rep.) of —For the Temoval of causes in certain cases from State courts to United States courts, and for other purposes. On motion of Mr. TruMBULL, (rep.) of Lil.—To con- firm the title of purchasers of lauds gold for taxes in the late insurrectionary States. The latter bill was objected to by Mr. CASSERLY and Mr. BAYARD because it proposed to enforce the payment of all costs and penalties incurred 10 invalid sales of land for taxes ag @ coudition precedent for the lawful owner to recover, Mr. Bayan, (dom.) of Del., argued that the owner did not lose his property by due process of law, but in disregard of due process, and yet he was to be saddled with all these coats unlawfully incurred; that in the Southern Statea the proceedings to sell lands under the direct tax law had been notoriously irre- gular and fraudulent, the owners, never having had notice of these proceedings, had no means of avoid- be costs and penaities tucurred (or non-payment of es, Several amendments by Mr. BAYARD were rejected and ibe bili passed, dhe Land Grant bi), ip aid of @ rairoad from 2 Mh SHEET. bionx City, lowa, to Columbus, Dacotah Territory, Was discussed, amended and passed, THR BREAKWATER AT CAPE COD. Mr. WILSON, (rep.) of Masa, called up the joint reso- lution for a breakwater at Cape Cod harbor. Objec- tion being mode it went over. THR SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL. The Seuate,in Committee of the Whole, alopted the amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropriatton bill, reported from the Committee on Appropriations, appro raking to the National Assouation of Destl- tute Colored Women, of Washington, D, C., $10,000; for repairs of the old Custom House at Charleston, S.6., to ft the same for a Post Ofice, $20,000; in- creasing the aagrogate of Sppropriation 8 for work on the Appralsers’ Stores {n Pniiadelphia from 189,000 to $126,000; increasing the appropriations for completing tne Court House bulldin Port- land, Me., aud Madison, Wis., each $20,000; making @ new appropriation of $50,000 for pub'ic buildings at Omaha, Neb. and $100,000 for agBarge Oice at New York. The committee reported to add to the appropria- tion for the New York Post Ofiice and Court House baking the following, which was agreed to:— Resolved, That 10 provision beretofore enacted shall’ be construed to prevent the p oF to be come due under existing contracts; aad provi ireber, that the total cost of the building ahall not exceou the amouut of the estimates of the plans wed by the Postmaster General and the Secretary of the Freasury.” ‘The committee also reported an Appropriation of $300,000 for @ Hreproof extension of Winder's build- ing in the city of Waslington for the use of offices of the War Depurtment, Mr. COL, (rep.) of Oal., stated that the War De+ pariment was subjected to an annual reatal of over $61,000 for some thirty or forty buildings occupied ag oMices. These buildings contained records of the greatest value, but were lable to deatriction by fre ‘and to access by burglars. It was now proposed to consolidate these offices in one bulldiig. Mr, THURMAN, (<lem.) of Ohio, thought these oMices could be dispensed with if Congress would reduce the army and send into the fleld many of the alait ofMicers now lounging around Washiugion, ‘The amendment was agreed to—yes 82, nats er BXBCUTIVE SBSSION, Without Motshing the bill the Sena at two O'clock, went into executive session, and alter seve- Fal hours took a recess till evening. Evening Session. The Senate continued in executive session from haltpast seven o'clock till twenty minutes toten o'clock P. M. ‘The consideration of legisiative buat- ness was then resumed, Messrs. Morrill, of Me., Drake and Stockton were appoluted 4 committee Of conference on the Naval aGeoerietion bill. fe Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was then pro- ceeded with, and the remaining amendments re- po ee the Commutiee on Appropriatione were adopted. The bill amendatory of the act declaring the bridges of the New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad Company post roads was passed, and the Senate at nall-past ten adjourned, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIV 3. Wasuinoros, July 11, 1870 BILLS INTRODUCED AND REFRERED. By Mr. SraRKWRATITER, (rep.) of Conn.—To amend the act lupit ug the Hability of shipowners, By Mr. Mypis, (rep.) of Pa.—Granting an outit of clothing to men enlisted for three years in the navy. By Mr. Sanrorb, (rep.) of N. Y.—To alter the act to encourage telegraphio communication between the United States and Cuba and other West ludia islands and the Bahamas, By Mr. Stone, (dem.) of Mo,—o amend the act of 1810, incorporating the Turapike Road companies in the Disirict of Columbia. By Mr. Barny—Granting lands for railroad pur- pores to Missixsippl. ty Mr. MUNGEN, (dem,) of Olio—In relation to the protection of tne laboring and producing classes agains? Chinese Lmmigration, It vides for a joint committe to inquire into the danger threatening the country from Chinese tmmigration and to report the proper means for uarding against or averting it, whether by spectiic fegislaticn, by a change of the constitution, by limi. tation of the time of sojourn or by the number of Chinese arriving in the United States, by permitting each State to prohibit the residence of Chinese within its Limits, or to place such restrictions tuereupon as it may think per, or by a total exclusion of the Chinese from tne Slates aud territories of the Union, except as travellers and merchaiis, sy Br. STSVENSON, (rep.) Of Ohtlo—To preserve the pubiic faith aud protect rights under the laws aud treaties of the United States. By Mr. BixawaM, (rep.) of Ottio—To incorporate the Loomis Aerial ‘Lelegrapn Company, Also reorgauigzing the Court of Claim By Mr. MAYNARD, (vep.) of Tenn,—T purchasers of and sold for direct ta: rectionary States, By Mr. MovorMicn, (dem.) of Mo.—To refund the interest on money paid by te State of Missourt tor ‘War purposes. By Mr. Hamivron, (vep.) of Fla.—Granting lands to the Suwanee and Iniand Railroad Company at Florida. a’ By Mr. PLatrs, (‘ep.) of Va.—Ordering the aurvey of Norfolk harbor, Vin By Mr. Fitcs, (vep.) of Nev.— Granting lands for a railroad from the Central Pacific Railroad in Nevada to Hamilion, Nev. By Mr » (Kep,) of Kan.—To enable soldiers and others to pertect titles to land under the Home> stead act in certain cases. Various bills were mtroduced and referred for the removal of political disabilities, and donating con- demancd cannon for sotdiers’ monuments. CAPE COD BREAKWATER. Mr. Keisny, (rep.) of N. Y., introduced a joint resolution relative to the harbor of refuge and breakwater at the entrance fof the Cape Cod Ship Canal and moved the previous question on its pas- the reltet of sin the Iisur- L, enge. ‘The previous question was not seconded and the joint resolution went over under the rule. Mr. Knarp, (vep.) of N. Y., overed # preamble and resolution reciting alleged frauds in the distri bution of stock for the Washington city market house and directing the Commitice on Appropria- tions to inpuire into the same. Adopted. Mr. Ferriss, (rep,) of N. Y., offered aresolution de- claring that the fourteenth and fifteenth articles of amendment to the constitution, liaving been duly ratified By the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, are valid to ali intents and purposes pd ne of the constitution, and as such are binding and obiigatory on the Hxecutive, the Congress, the jadiciary of the several States aud Territories and all the citizens of the United States. adopved—yeus 188, nays 32; a party vote, Mr. Cox, (dem.) of N. Y., offered a resolution de- pegs bead the resolution just adopted undertaking to limit the decisions and actions of the judiciury in relation to the validity of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution is foreign to the ony f legislators and mischievous in its tendency and effect. His previous qnestion was not seconded, and the resolution went over under the rules, Mr. Cox re- mnarking Unt the res@iution embodied the seniiment of the democratic side of the House, THE NATURALIZATION BILI. Mr. Davis, (rep.) of N. Y., moved to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate aimendmenis to the Naturalization bill, Agreed to—yeas 133, nays 53. The bill now goes to the President for his siguature, PERSONAL EXPLANATION, Mr, BUTLE:, (vep.) Of Mass., rising to a personal explanation, sent to the Clerk's desk and had read aragraph from the New York Wort charging him with having ejected several hundred negroes from his estates near Hampton, Va. He stated that the facts were that these negro faiilica had been turned Off from the estate of a rebel, where they had been Diaced in 1564, and that the representative ef that distriet (Mr, Watt) haying spoken to him on the sub- ject, he told him that as he then happened to have, by the foreclosure of @ mortgage, a pices of Jani near Hampton, it was at the service of the ne- groes if they choze to move on it, The negroes did move on to his property and wi there now, #0 that thls newspaper paragraph cy 3 near being tne as newspaper paragraphs about him asuaily did. Mr. Pi rified the statencent mate by Mr, Butler. TAX ON PROVISION DEALERS, Mr. AuLisoN, (op.) Of Lowa, Irom the Committee on Ways Ans, reported back the bill provid. mg that pork packers, lard renderers and those en- gaged in smoking bans, ring meats, and othe lon dealers khall not be lrabie to the on mannfacturers, aud remitting but not collectod. ~Paawsed. RCTION CASS. Mr. Burien, (rep.) of Tenn., called up the Ken- tucky coutesied election cage’ of Stogier against Rice, the conclusion of the majority being that Mr. Rice, the sitting member, is disqnaliiied, uuder the fourteenth amendment, from holding the seat, and any such the seat should declared vacant, and that Mr. Siegler should be paid the expenses of the contest, and the conciusion of the minority (Mr. Burt) being that M is justly entitled to the seat, The resojation reported by the nitnority was adopted wituout a division, so Mr. Rice retained his feat, THK NAVAS, APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. WASHBURN, (rep,) of Wis., from the Committee on Appropriations, reported back the Senate amend- ments to the Naval Appropriation bili, recommerd- ing concurrence in some and non concnrrence in others. The recommendation was agreed to aud a conference committee was ordered. The SPEAKER appointed as such commticee Messrs. Washburn of Wis., Scofield and Niblaek. INDIAN DELEGATION EXPENSES. Mr. Dawes, (rep.) of Mass,, from the Committee on Appropriations, reportedfback the Senate joint reso- Javon appropriating fifty thousand dollars to pay the expenses of the Indiau delegations io Wasi ton. Mr. FircH opposed the PEs rider of money from the public Treasury for the purpose of supplying champagne cocktalls, boxes at the opera, straw- berries and cream and all the luxuries of the season Uo a lot of squalid and murderous savages. He would rather bave that money expended in Tubal | rifes aud ammunition to the people of Arizona, whe are being scalped at (heir own doors even in the capital of the Territory. Mr. Cavanavon, (dem.) of Montana, asked for five Minutes to express his opposition to the measure. Mr. Dawgs declined to yield that tine. Mr. CavaNAvGn then expressed (he bope that the Tresolution would be defeated. Mr. DAWKs suggested to Mr. Fitch that his lecture should have been given to the Executive before the expense was Incurred, In wrich ease he doubted not that Red Cloud and Spotted Tail would have re. mained in their native lair Ull the jast syllable of re- corded time before the Exeentive would have sent Sor them, Be (ir, Mawen) was a supworter of tue Sore v eee Vik Sabet AEE eI ar abe administration, and did not mean to attack it unless such @ course Was necessary, ‘The joint resulution was passed—yens 92, nays 79, CONTESTED ELBCTION CASES. The resolution to pay air. Siegier his expenses for contesting the seat of W. R. Rice, of Kentucky, was called up. The House retused to give him $4,000 or 000, and iually compromised on $2,000, i. Paine, (rep.) ot fowa, called up, at three o'elock, the election case of Joseph Sexor, clang @ seat asa@smewmber at lal m Virginia, the conclision of the majority being that Segar ts not entitied to the seat and that of the minority betog that he is, After an hour's debate the resolution of the ma jority was agreed to without a division, THB AGRICULTURAL REPORT. Mr. Cake, (rop.) of Pa., from the Committee om Printing, reporied @ resolution for ene 225,000 copies of the Agricultural report for 1869, mn motion of Mr. Benjamin, (rep.) of Mo., the namt- ber was increased to 275,000 copies, and the resolus tion was adopted. THD DELAWARE BREAKWATER. Mr. DICeBY, (rep.) Of Fa, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported back the substitute for a Senate vill appropriating $226,000 to aid the Junction and Breakwater Railroad Company of Delaware ta construct a pier in Delaware Bay ator near Lewes, Del., with a subsiitute, hsped omer of order was made and susiained that the substitute making an sppropriation must be Orag considered in Committee of the Whole, Mr. DicegY moved to suspend the rules, Rejected. ‘The biil and substitute were referred to (he Come mitiee of the Wiole. Mr. Dickey then moved to go into Committee of the Whole an: to lay aside all specla: orders, $0 amt to take up the ill. Peod the inotion the House, at half-past four journed, PERSONAL INTELLIGENSE Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday, sudge Lloyd Bowera, of Mobile; Dr. D. W, Bliss and Governor J. L. Clobs, o: Washington; gE Waters, of the United States Ariny; Colonel Fernan- do Lopez, of Cuba; Lieutenant Colonel Hawkins, of the Engtish Army; J. 8, Miley and J, Hd. F. Hueson, of Kildare, Ireland, and Colonel- Charies Webb, of the Cuited States Army, are at the Metropolitam Hotel. General N. B. Forrest and Major M. J. Weeks, of Memphis; ius M, Clay, of Kentucky, and George R. Finch, of St. Paul, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Major S. Gear, of the United States Army; Professor J. Reynolds, of New Oricans, and Rey, Dr. Wiggius, of New Jersey, are at the St. Churles Charles Hotel. Hon, George Moncton, Colonel M. Hutton, Captaim W. F. Higgins and Rey. ©. 8. Palmer, of Bugland, and Frea. Billings, of Vermont, are at the Brevoors House, General Casement, of Ohlo; Captain Abbott, of Yokohama; Dr, A. Russell, of New York, and W. Se King, of Indiana, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Cap! J, Cotman, of Boston; J. A. Hill, of Santa Croix; 0. A. Brown, of Easton, Pa., and W. 8, Baste mau, of Mempitis, ave at the St, Denis Hotel. Samuel Bancroft, of Wilmington; ©. N. Pratt, of Chicago, and T. D, Pierce, of Philadelplia, are at the Westwinster Hotel. Major Russell, of the United States Army, and Abbott Lawreuce, of Boston, are at the Hotmag House. Proteasor R. 8. McCulloch, of Virginian; Finlay Munro, of Scotiand; Abner 'T. Smith, of Georgia; Je K. Emmet, of St. Louis; Nelson Clements, of New York; RK. A, Stewart, of Porto Rico, and Captain Kennedy, of steamship City of Brusecit, are at the New York Hotel. Colonel Pratt, of Connecticat: Capaia Charie@ Lioyd, of Phitavelphis, and Henry Nieber!, of Cine cinnatl, Ohio, are at tue Irving House. G, Hunt, of Albany; E. Tiffany, of Baltimore; J.C, Parker, of Indiana, and H, Crawford, of Chicago, are at the Coleman House, Professor Thorp, of St. Lonis; Captaun RK. Donalits gon, of Toronto, aud Dr. George Ingits, of Aberdeen, Scotland, are at the St, Emo Hotel. Captain G. B, Kaymond, of Princeton; Rey, Jona MeGovern, of Pulladelphia; 0. S. Sims, of the United States Coast Survey, and Surgeon DV. J. Simon, of tue United States Navy, are at the Astor House, Awericans in Paris. List of Americans registered at the banking office of Mesars, James W. Tucker & Co., Paris, for the week ending June 29, 1870:—New York —Geo. Moirés, Mr. and Mrs. David W. Bishop, John H. Auster, Mr. and Mra, Willlam 8." Mead, ‘adrian Van Buuieren, and family, W. 3. Burkam, Charles L. Anthony, Waiter, Carter and family, Mr. and Mre, Wile liam Scott, Miss £. H. Scott, Jol *. Cowan, dr., Henry R. Mivank, Charles KE. Milbank, Mie L. P. Jordan, Thomas B. Kerr, Mrs. T. B. Kerr, Cooper, Mr. Baldwin and family, Edward Matthews and family, F. Berly, Mnx Strakosch, Heary ©. Hoy- net, W. H. Munn, James T. Mann, Miss aly bd » t, M, Le Ronee, John B. and Mra. Borst, Mice Sarah Borst, Buita'o—Mrs, J. G. Hinckley, Mies G. Marvin Vincent. Thackley, Y.—Rev, Boston—Hagar than Maithewse, Jr. A. L, Collins, Mr. and F, Bailey, Mre ans Mre. H. 7 8. L. Ce ery Mi 1. Cox, Mise i NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, . The United States steamer Tallapoowa, McRitchie commander, (11th), for New York. The United States steamer Richmo R. M. Mullany, from Spezzia, arrived at hi 18, aud Was to leave on the 20th for Trieste, Athens and Malta, and return to Messina, Ali on board were well. The United States steamer Colorado, Rear Admiral Joun Rodgers, fifty-nine days from N: k, to China, via Cape of Good Hope, Janeiro June 11, and was preparing to day. All on board were well. Tne s:eamer Saiadio, which arrived at this port on Saturday, brought @ mail from the Colorado, DETACHED AND ORDERED. Captain A. G. Clary has been ordered to take pas. sage in the steamer of the 80th Inst., tu take com- mand of the Dictator at Key West. Liewienant Com mander J. H. Rowland, Chief Engtucer Charles KE. DeValin, Paymaster Arthur Burtis and Second As- sistant Lingineers J. Emanuel, W. i. Piatt and ‘Thomas W. Fite! been ordered ty tne Dietatur per the steamer of the 80th inst Second Assistant Engineer J. H. Diamond has been ordered to the Ossip Tieutenont Chapman ©. Todd has been de: from the Puiladeiplia Navy Yard and erdured te Dictator. The following also have beon detached from their present duties und ordered to the vic tenant Commander © D @ left Newport, yesterday duty at Boston; Lieutenant 0. , fom the naval station at Mound City; atant Engineer Joho L, Nelison, from the Severn; Virst Assistant Engineers Alexander V, Fraser and Jonn Van Hov- euberg, and ond Assistant Engineer James @, Barry, from the New York Navy Yard. Captain EK. R. Calhoun has been hed from the comand of the Dictator, upon the ing of yellef, and ordered to retuta home aud w orders; euant Commanders Edward A. Walker aud B. Clark, Assistant Surgeon M. 1. Ruth, and Uhief Engin icorge R. Johnson, fr the Dicta- tor, upon the reporting of relief, anc ordered ta return Home and wait orders; Paymiasier P. By Miuman, irom the Dictator, upon ihe report. ing of relief, and orde: to return Rome gol settle accounts; Lieutenant ynmander De Witt ©. Kells, Lieutenant H. W. Gw'nner, Masters W. 8 MeGuanegie and William Littic, Virst Aesist- aut Engines i. M. Olson and Second Assistant Enginecrs George M. Stevens, B. T. Wood, George C. Neilson and Alexander B. Bates, from the Dictator and ordered to return home and await ordere. Lieutenant Commander Cheater Hathell, vom the command of the Supply, and placed on watt orders; Passed Assistant Paymaster Danforth P. Wright, from the Bupply, ud ordered to settie accounts; Licutsnanta Charles M, Thomas and Dougias Rohen, Ens! T. N. Lee, J. A. Rodgers and ‘f. M. Btting, and Passed Assistant Surgeon 8. Bingham, from the Suppiy, aud placed on wating orders. THE BROOKLYN (HAMILTON MARKET) CALAMITY, Las: evening Coroner Jones continued the investi+ gation touching the cause of the fali of the Hamilton. Avenue Market building, which crustied Jeabelia Mul- len, @ child twelve years old, to death. The princi- Dal witness examined was Mr. Jarvis Johnson, one of the former owners of the stracture. He testified that the market was bollt about seventeen years 0; that the roof was tressel work wiih wooden pins, no iron being used; the buflding was 100 feet iu depth aud one story nigh: there was o slight depression noticeable in roof, extending from the rear wail to the centre of the building: 0. pression was about four inches in sixty or sixty-five Teet; witness did not regard such depressions as dangerous; could pot tell whether it proceeded from. the shrinkage of the timbera or not; was of the opinion that the depression was owing to the infe- rior quality of the wood used in the pins, the latter being of chestnut. The mquest was adjourned until Thureday night, ‘A VALUABLE RESIDENCE, Colonel Joun Tracy, of thia city, has recently dis. posed of the late residence of Mr. Benjamin 8, Pike for the princely sum of $127,000, The purchaser was Nr, Wililam Steinway, of the frm of Steinway & Sone, aud the property is located near Astoria,