The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1870, Page 6

bid NEW YORK HERALD 3ROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Volume XXXV.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux BonGLaks OF New Yorx- Dra Fuewonurz, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st—MaN anp WIFE. : * OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—OrERa BouyrE— Lartix Faust, BOOTH'S TALATRE, Wd at,, beiween 6th and 6th avs.— Rur Van WINKLE. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—BLAK Ey'D BusING—CAMIILE. : WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ana 1th street.— BUxRIDAN’s Comzpy oF THE Rivas. NIBLO’S GARDEN. Broadway.—Tux Naw Domrstio Drama or Heawr’s Eas. GRAND OPERA HOU Wd s—OreRa Bourrs. WOOD'S MUSEUM A) ner Sub st.—Performal GERIE, Broadway, cor- afternoon and evening, NEW YORK STADT T RE, 45 Bowery.—Orzna Borwo—La Vir Pauisi MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya,— Guy MANNERING. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—EpWIn ForRest in King Lear. 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Pacer. of Strasbourg to the German LD al Report of Bazaine’s Two Severe Engagemenis N day and Saturday; The French B ¢ pulsed Their Attempted Escape Frustrated; Orleans Ccecupied and Tours Threatened by the Prussians; The British Cabinet Considering the Q ou of Intervention. f Paris, its Environs and Fortifica' Loss of the steamer Galatea at Sei Chilean Miwister—The ex-Minister to C The Iron Bar Homicide—Episcopat Coayen- tion—The Briaze of Sighs. 5—Ei Interesting Mai) Details of Events in im, Gormany and £ngland—Financial wmercial Reports—Advertisements. Leading Article, Progress of the rope, the Attitude of the Neutral vowers— al Intelligence—Yews from Vashington- @ Steamship Hermann. 7—Teiegraplic News from all Parts of the Worlad— Movements of Pre-tdent Grant—Yachting : Re. guita of the New York Yacht Club: the Con- test for the Ashbury and Douglas Cups—Ke- duction of Taxes—News trom Cuba—Running Down a Circus—Business Notices, S—Marviages and Deaths—Advertisements. 9—Advertisements. 10—New York Courts—Preparations for the Obse- quies of Admiral Farragut—Shipping Intel ge Advertisements, y1—Ad ments. 12—Advertisements, Goop ror THE BookmaKrrs.—At the late trade sales in this city the books brought an average of fifteen per cent more than last year. Warre Stookines, 22; Mutuals, 11—Equal in base ball to the victory of Woerth, though not quite up to the capture of Strasbourg or the Italian occupation of Rome. But where are the Red Stockings? . Tne Cares oF OrFicE go hard with Super- intendent Jourdan. Notwithstanding his out of town trip for the benefit of his health, he is still in a dangerous condition. Yet he persists in attending to his official duties as usual. Why do the Police Commissioners not grant him a six months’ vacation? The public does not want to sacrifice so efficient an official. Kossurn Gives it Up.—Kossuth has declined to serve as a deputy in the Hunga- rian Parliament. The affairs of Hungary, Aus- tria, Italy, Rome, France and the world in general have taken a shape which completely bewilders Kossuth. He finds that the cause of ‘‘the solidarity of the peoples” is getting on very well without him, and he retires in disgust. Goop News From Rome—The news that the Holy Father is pleased at having the Ital- ian army to protect him, free of charge, in the place of his expensive foreign mercenaries. We knew he would like the change, and we are sure that in being relieved of his temporal kingdom he will become stronger in his spir- itual kingdom, and nearer the example of St. Peter. God be praised! ANOTHER ACOmMENT occurred yesterday in the Brooklyn bridge caisson. While James Rooney was tamping powder for a blast in the rocky bed at the bottom of the caisson an ex- plosion took place, and Rooney and another laborer near him were badly injured. The bridge is progressing slowly and disastrously, and there is no estimating how many lives may be sacrificed before it finally spans the East river. Ovr Cusan Corresponpence, which will be found in another part of the Herarp this morning, is both interesting aud important. The particulars of the shocking execution of the young patriot Ayesteran, who died nobly, and even in death triumphed over bis Spanish executioners, and an account of the cruise and successful landing of the expedition of the steamer Salvador, form the prominent features of the correspondence. A Srorexpovs Jos.—The authorities of the British War Office, it is reported, are in con- sultation with the Board of Works for the com- plete fortification of London. If this is true the same idea, doubtless, is at the bottom of the enterprise that led Louis Philippe to the huildiag of the fortifications of Paris, and Louis Napoleon to his boulevards—namely, the idea of protecting the city against the inside revolutionary reds, We apprehend that the late republican demonstrations in London have given more alarm to the British government shan the investment of Paris by the Germans. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, .1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Pregrese of the War in Eurepe—The Attitude of the Neatral Powers. While Paris holds out and while the patriots talk magniloquently Prussia marches on, adding victory to victory, and making herself perfectly at home on the soil of France, While Jules Favre and his associates in the provisional government encourage France to hold out and fight the fight to the bitter end, and while M. Thiers wanders wildly from capi- tal to capital, seeking help and finding none, Strasbourg, France’s proudest fortress, has fallen, Metz is in despair, Paris itself is in an agony, clinging feebly to her last hope, and the Crown Prince of Prussia, under the shadow of the statue of Louis the Fourteenth, at Ver- sailles, distributes rewards to the honored brave of his army. | The situation has become such that no man not blinded by passion or prejudice or ignorance can doubt the final result or encourage France to prolong a strug- gle in which blood will be vainly shed and in which she cannot hope to win. The attitude of the combatahts is by many misunderstood, and by some who ought to know and do better wilfully and wickedly misrepresented. Prussia is blamed because she will not halt in her career of conquest. Bismarck {s abused because he was not all honey and deceit to Jules Favre. King Wil- liam is abused because, having been com- pelled to sacrifice millions of precious lives and millions of treasure—for all of which he and his family must give good account to Prussia, and, indeed, to the whole German people—he will not foolishly fling away all that he bas won and make the grandest of all campaigns the greatest of all absurdities. What isthe actual situation as between Germany and France to-day? War was wilhout good reason, as we have again and again told our readers, made by France against Prussia. If France had been success- ful the French legions would have marched to Berlin. Napoleon the Third, aftér having ridden in triumph under the Ljndens, would, in the royal palace of Berlin, have repeated all the sins committed by his uncle after the battle of Jena. Germany would again have been humbled. German unity would have been made impossible for at least another half century. The Rhine provinces would have been annexed to France, Waterloo would in part have been avenged. The ill- omened star of the Bonapartes would have shed its baleful light on the nations of Europe, and progress, genuine civilization, would have been sacrificed on the altar of certain Napo- leonic ideas. Butthe tide of victory has rolled in the opposite direction. Germany, this time victorious, has poured her legions in upon France. The northern hordes, after some centuries of comparative weakness, have again risen in their might and rushed irresistibly southward; but on this occasion the northern hordes represent civilization, modern ideas, modern force. Alaric, Attila, Genseric, while they are yet strong—stronger, in fact, than ever—are no longer barbarians. Because Germany, not France, has won, mandlin sen- timentalists all the world over rave about humanity and civilization and barbarity, confound the true with the false, justice with injustice, and howl against the victorious Prussians as if they were a very pack of wolves. Let us look at the situation calmly. What can King William, what can Bismarck, what can the German generals do other than they are doing? Bismarck has told us he is willing to make peace, So has his master, King William. The Crown Prince has again and again expressed himself in terms which prove that war for its own sake has no charms for him. But France has no government. The government chosen by the French people is not to be got at. The government now in power is a government without popular credentials. In other words, the government de jure is without power, and the government de facto is without right. If King William treats with Napoleon or with the Regency France may repudiate. If King William treats with Jules Favre and his asso- ciates France may repudiate. King William has some six hundred thousand men on French soil; he must feed them; he cannot lead them back; they will not be led back until peace has been secured. Bismarck has seen Jules Favre, the acknowledged representative of the present government of France. He has stated the terms on which his govern- ment is willing to grant an armistice. He has made it plain that the Prassians have no desire to force upon France any form of government; that they want no more than to be satisfied that the government with which they conclude peace is a government faithfully representing France, and that its deeds are binding upon the French people. With the present government they cannot make peace. With Napoleon or with the Regency they might legally make peace ; but a peace so arranged would be a farce. It would be worse; it would be an insult to the French people; and neither King William nor Bismarck nor any sensible German has any desire to wound un- necessarily the amour propre of the proud and sensitive people of France. An armistice, however, is a different thing, and that Prussia is willing to grant at once. If France will not now accept Prussia’s terms for an armistice France must suffer, although longer to hold out is, by universal consent, madness. There are those who blame the neutral Powers for not interfering. Russia is blamed. Great Britain fs particularly blamed. The inaction of the great neutrals is ascribed to selfishness, and selfishness only. All such reasoning is based on false premises. The neutrals can only advise. They cannot afford to fight, for the simple reason that there is nothing to fight about or for. It is well known that Russia and Great Britain have already advised, and advised in vain. Sir Henry Bulwer, an old fogy of the Palmerston school of politics, rages; but Sir Henry forgets that the moving, active world isa little younger than he. Carnarvon is young, but he is too young to be relied upon in a question of so grave importance. The fall of Strasbourg, necessitating, as we think, the fall of Metz, gives Russia and Great Britain, the two great neutrals, their long desired opportunity ; and, unless we greatly mistake, intervention, which is now all but certain, will have some mean- ing and not a little force. Much, however, depends on the wisdom of the French pro- visional government. It is for us to remem- ber our own civil war. and our. persistent efforts to make victory certain and peace secure, before we too much blame the victo- rious policy of Bismarck, the pride of King William or the stubbornness of the German hosts. DLS “OER NBR ‘The Military Situation in France=The Fall of Strasbourg and the Raid Through the South. 4 The surrender of Strasbourg is essentially the most important success which the Prus- aians have achieved since Sedan. The pos- session of the city gives them the whole line of railway from Strasbourg to Paris, thereby shortening their line of communication greatly and rendering it more secure. In addition it releases the large army under Vou Werder, which has been operating against the city, and which is now free to operate with the armies at Metz or Paris if needed. The late desperate attempts of Bazaine to escape from Metz are reported somewhat in detail by our special correspondent in his camp. The attack on the 23d was made against the right of the Prussian line, and was @ severe one, the Prussians being saved from defeat only by the arrival of heavy rein- forcements from another part of their line. The next day another vigorous attack was made on the left with the same effect, the French in both instances being compelled to return to the protection of their fortress. The movement of Prussians south appears ‘to be a grand raid of cavalry, accompanied by batteries of flying artillery, and is under com- mand of Prince Albert. Orleans has been captured, but the troops do not seem to have made any preparations for holding the city, being evidently unsupplied with infantry enough to make a formidable garrison. The movement may be compared with Grlerson’s raid through Tennessee and Mississippi in 1862, Stoneman’s raid into the neighborhood of Richmond, or John Morgan’s raid through Indiana and Obio. In the case of the Prus- sian cavalry, however, the force is larger, the country more productive, the opposing forces less formidable and the distances not so great. There seems to be nobody to oppose their advance except a few panic-stricken gardes, who fly before them at the first fire. They have carried such consternation into the gov- ernment at Tours and the country people that all are fleeing southward, the government crying loudly for the organization of the whole population of France to repel the invaders. The government, it is thought, will assemble at Poitiers, a point about sixty miles south of Tours, where they will have close communi- cation with the seaboard at Bordeaux and Rochelle. ii Mr. Tweed’s Purchase of Croton Water. It is pretty well known that the city came very near running out of Croton this summer, which would have been a sad calamity indeed. We are just informed by the statement of Mr. Tracy, chief engineer of the department, how we were saved from that misfortune. It appears that the supply of the Croton river was failing, but it was discovered that certain lakes of pure, transparent water in Putnam county could be diverted to the use of the city at a moderate cost if the appropriations in the city treasury were sufficient to purchase the water rights. But, as is usual in too many cases, there was no money in the treasury for that purpose. In this emergency the engineer laid the matter before W. M. Tweed, the portly president of the Board of Public Works. Some- thing must be done or the city would run dry. So Mr. Tweed, as the chief engineer alleges, advanced the money himself to pay for the water rights, with the intention of delivering the deeds to the city whenever the proper legislation could be procured for their pur- chase, Ji seems that the purchase was made accordingly for twenty-five thousand dollars, and from fifty to sixty million additional gal- lons of fresh water were thus poured into the city daily, saving us at a very critical time from a drought. There are said to be jobs at the bottom of everything in which a politician is concerned. It is the common saying and the common thought. It is not surprising, then, to find people suspecting that Mr. Tweed’s purchase will probably result in a handsome thing for himself. But there certainly is no fact in evi- dence to justify such conclusion just now, and when the deed is transferred to the city we shall know how unselfish was the object of the president of the Board of Public Works, Sm Henry Boiwer's Orinion.—Sir Henry Bulwer, looking at the present aspects of the war in France, says:—‘‘If, standing in view of an immeasurable calamity which threatens to afflict the world, we are wrapped up in an unchangeable resolve to remain motionless, then I cannot refrain from expressing a most mournful apprehension that the day is not far distant when God will withdraw from us a power which we have not known how to use worthily, and that a policy so cowardly will be fatal to our future greatness, our national character and our national interests.” This means that if England persists in her present narrow and selfish policy of ‘‘masterly inac- tivity,” doing nothing for the cause of peace at this crisis, she will live to repent her folly ; and Sir Henry no doubt speaks the popular opinion of England. A Sore AFFLICTION FoR TAMMANY is the terrible threat of the ‘‘Real” democracy that no candidate who accepts a nomination from the old democratic mother, Tammany Hall, shall receive a nomination from the fledglings who had only three votes in the Legislature at Albany and not a vote at all at the Rochester Convention. There was once a donkey, we are told, who terrified a great many animals by putting on a lion’s skin and assuming the dignity and fierceness of the lord of the forest; but the poor fellow grew so proud that he could not restrain himself from uttering a vocal pronunciamento, when, no sooner did he open his mouth than the bray of the jackass betrayed the absence of the lion, and those who feared before now laughed. sop’s moral requires no glossary. Tue Reporr that the German steamship Hermann was captured by the French gun- boats off our coast, or that she was being chased by them, seems to be a canard. Wall street, hard up for a speculation, is responsible for the sensation story. Tue Pexsivent left Boston yesterday, and | is now in Hartford. ‘The Capitulation of Strasbeurs. The old Alsatian city has lowered its flag to the invading Germans, the armistice granted at five P, M. on Monday last, the 26th inst., having terminated in a formal surrender of the place, signed at two o'clock in the morning of yesterday, the 28th. Thus within forty-nine days the chief stronghold of the French in the vicinity of the Rhine has been compelled to succumb, after a siege the fame of which will live so long as the history of our time sur- vives. The period of its terrible probation—a few days beyond one month and a half—has more than sufficed to span the brief respite allotted to the empire of Napoleon III. after the serious operations of the war. That ponderous organization died weeks ago, and Strasbourg outlived it as a French city just twenty-four days, the republic having been declared upon the 4th of September. .By this event France loses seventeen thou- sand valiant fighting men in the ranks and four hundred and fifty-one officers, the capitu- lation apparently including the ten thousand National Guards and Gardes Mobiles who ral- lied to assist the ‘original garrison of seven thousand regular imperial troops. The er- mans have thus about eighty thousand men, or the effective of the two army corps which were charged with the siege, set free, with the exception of a moderate garrison, to rein- force the main body of King William now un- der the walls of Paris. Moreover, they get rid of the last important obstruction on their direct line of railroad transportation from the French capital into Germany, and acquire un- trammelled access to the navigation of the Rhine, and, to some extent, of the great canal running from that river totke Rhone. Steam- ers ply up and down the river; on the one hand to Baslé, in Switzerland, and on the other to Rotterdam and London, via Cologne and the intermediate ports. The enormous advantage of this opening to the invading armies is strikingly apparent, especially when we consider that it at the same time lays all Alsace and Lorraine prostrate at the feet of the conqueror, the fortresses of Toul and Phalzbourg having already surrendered, and Metz being utterly isolated and in its last agonies, An additional heavy concentration of experienced spadesmen and bombardiers will now be brought to bear upon the latter place, and we may expect soon to hear of its fall. i In the meantime Strasbourg goes back to the possession of her German claimants, and will once more become ere long what she was for many generatigns, a city of the German Ty pune gelsueye re? empire. In other columns we have rapidly sketched the importance, business activity, social rank, and architectural, monumental, literary and scientific value of the place, with some outlines of its varied and remarkable history. It teemed with mementoes and asso- ciations of the past and with the opulence and wealth of ourown period. In July last it was a gay, beautiful, thriving, money-making centre of lively manufacture and international traffic— a growing mart of commercial opulence and a great resort of tourists, attracted thither by its wonderful history. Its matchless Doric church alone made it interesting to all mankind, Now many of the edi- fices, monuments, libraries and museums that enriched it are forever destroyed—an irre- parable loss—and some of its finest streets and squares are but heaps of blackened ruins. Its population, originally about eighty thousand, was increased to one hundred thousand just before the siege by crowds of people flocking into the city for shelter. After the terrible overthrow of the French armies under Mac- Mahon at Woerth the place was invested by the Germans on the 10th of August. On the 19th the heavy artillery arrived, and was planted on the north of the beleaguered strong- hold, the country south of it all the way from the Ill to the Rhine having been inundated by the French. From that period the bombard- ment was almost incessant, and the slaughter, havoc, anarchy and terror within the city were indescribable. The 24th and 25th were particularly awfal days, and conflagrations broke out on all sides. Famine and fever increased these horrors until, amid the frantic shrieks of the perishing townspeople and the crumbling walls of his citadel and forts, General Ulrich, the commandant, having done all that the most rigid duty could exact or the most sensitive honor claim, terminated a resistance beside which Magdeburg, Rochelle and even Saragossa might lose their military lustre, aud gave over the city and all its vast material to the victorious Baden and Saxon besiegers under General Von Werder. Thus the native city of Kleber and Keller- man, and near which stands the proud ceno- taph dedicated to the heroic Desaix and his army of the Rhine, passes under the banner of a people whose language she speaks and whose Protestant creed she owns, but to whose brotherhood she still prefers the French nationality that has cost her such fearful pur- gation with fire and tears and blood. By this surrender the bounds of France are made to shrink and those of Germany are morally and physically widened by the measure of a long day’s journey and the number of some millions of souls. Too Muon For tHe Croton Boarp. —One of our fellow citizens complains that the Croton water supplied to his family and his tenement houses ‘‘is filled with tadpoles and animalcule of all sizes and kinds.” We submit, however, that while the tadpoles of a large size might be strained off, there is no remedy for the animal- cule but in a constant supply of fresh water to the Croton reservoirs; and this supply cannot be furnished by the Croton Board until the returning rains shall have replenished the nearly exhausted fountains from which the Croton aqueduct is supplied. As it is, our Croton feeders have so well held their own against the long drought that New York city may be regarded as very fortunate in its con- tinued supply of Croton water, notwithstand- ing the tadpoles and the animalculx. What we wait to purify this water is rain, and for this we must look to a higher power than the Croton Board. A Liperat Hevpine Hap should be given by our humane citizens of all nationalities to the French and German fairs in progress or soon to be opened for the relief of the wounded of the armies of France and Germany and for the relief of the unfortunate people left desti- suteand stacving from the war. of our civil war will take place in this city on |’ Friday. sented. The First and Second divisions of the National Guard will turn out, the great mili- tary and naval officers at present in the city, the Governor and his staff, great masses of citizens and the President of the United States, will appear in the procession to do honor to the memory of our great com- mander. Altogether the obsequies will be a fitting expression of the profound respect with which all classes in the great metropolis re- garded him and his glorious record. to grand and showy funerals, Dickens, it will ‘be remembered, expressly stated in his will that he wanted no gandy display of gloom, no lugubrious grandeur of mourning at his funeral. He looked upon it all as heartless and cold. Yet who will say that there would have been one heart following the wake of his hearse unshaken with sorrow at the great preacher’s death? He was wrong for once, at least, When a traly great man dies—a great and. good man—who has exercised a wholesale charity by his great actions, grand ceremonials in his honor at the last are not empty shows. The great illustrator of human nature misun- derstood that one phaseof it. The multitudes, who never personally knew the man, can and do mourn with as heartfelt sorrow at the death The Obsequics of Admiral Farragut. . ‘The final obsequies of the great naval hero WASHINGTON. the Northwest Coast—Regulations for the ‘Transportation of Bonded Goods—The President's New Commercial Policy. An imposing ceremonial will be pre- Wasuixarow, Sept, 28, 1870. ‘The President’s New Commercial Policy. Itis stated that President Grant has originated and 1s about to inaugurate a new commercial policy, of his own, with reference mainly to the South Ame- rican States, which it is expected will result in transferring to us the bulk of the trade and com- merce of that country, and thus filling our shipyards and workshops with labor. It is promised that this new policy will place every brane of our national Industry in @ prosperous condition. This ought to sausfy the grumblers and croakers that guy Prest, dent ts looking to the prosperity and welfare of the country at large. wy t New Seal Fisheries Discovered in the Okotsch : Sea. 2 ‘The Collector of San Francisco has forwarded to the Treasury Department certain payers purporting to be the aMdavits of the officers of the Hawatian bark Manaloa, which recently arrived at that port, setting forth that they reached Jones Island, Okotsch Sea, in April last, indicated between lat; tude 52 and 53 degs. and Jongitude 145 and 146, which they found uninhabited, but a remarkable rendezvous for seals. They remained there till the early part of Augyst, during which time they cap~ tured 11,500 seals, which were brought to San Fran- cisco for sale. The collector, not knowing the locality of the island, whether in American or for- There is a general sentiment abroad adverse of Farragut or Dickens as his own immediate friends. They have a right, then, to attend his funeral—to pay in person the last respect they can pay to his memory. morrow. The grand war record which the old Admiral left behind him—forts Philip, Jack- son, Mobile and the masthead—are all so closely interlaced with his peace record of simple faith, pure honesty, strict integrity, hearty zeal and uniform good nature—so touchingly intertwined with a sad story we have all heard of his country’s neglect—that no American, whatever his political com- plexion, now or during the war, can fail to feel a deep personal sorrow at the great Ad- miral’s death, energy displayed on the republican side in the present contest serves to show how deeply the republican leaders regard the struggle. The Saratoga Convention showed very plainly that harmony was lacking throughout the rank and file of the party. In order, therefore, to coun- teract the bad influence of such a state of affairs it became the determinatién of the leaders to restore such a degree of harmony as would secure efficient working. may be regarded as the keynote of the present republican campaign. view few or no changes have been made in the government offices in this city. Since Mr. Murphy has been appointed Collector he has evidently worked towards the securing of that end, believing, no doubt, that harmony among the factions of the republican family is the best way to secure political triumphs. Such will be the cause of the outpouring to- Ovr AppRoacHiNa ErgorioN—REPvBLicaN Tactios.—As the campaign advances the This, in fact, ith this object in Conkling, Fenton, Cornell and the other leading spirits are firm believers in the harmonizing policy, and on this line of action will the approaching republican campaign be carried out. Ovr Bonps ix Lonpon Buoyant.—The Lon- don money market was in great agitation last night over fresh complications connected with the war between France and Prussia, but the details were unknown in Wall street beyond the effect upon the Royal Stock Exchange, where consols suddenly fell from 92} to 91§. Curiously enough, however, our five-twenties in London were firm and yielded only an eighth per cent in the midst of this excitement, The gold market here was strongly affected by the news, the price of gold rising last night to 1143, ; ANOTHER AccIDENT on tHE Erm Rat- RoAD.—This time it wasa circus train which wasrun into by the regular express train at Turner’s station; one man, the director of the circus, being killed and the other members so badly injured that the show will probably not exhibit for a long time., Meanwhile the Grand Opera House, a sort of rival establish- ment, progresses successfully under the im- mediate management of the Erie Board, safe from ‘aly collision, except those between managers and directors, which will sometimes occur in the best regulated establishments, A TERRIBLE COALITION against the unac- climated Spaniards in Cuba is that of the cho- lera, the yellow fever and the now aggressive insurgents. Spain would do well to sell out and leave. PERSONAL INTELLIGENC2. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. General Bruce, of Pennsylvania; Colonel R, Bowles, of St. Louis; Rev. N. C. Perkins, of Ohio; J. Sisson, of Mexico; Colonel H. B. Smith, of Penn- sylvania; Colonel H. Gallagher, of Virginia; E. C, Clark, of the Umited States Navy; J. A. Le Rue, of Mexico, and Colonel Flournoy, of Mississippi, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. W. E. Doane, of Savannah; Thomas K. Cummings and Frank Kersh, of Philadelphia, are at the West- | minster Hotel. Professor $. B. Duflicld, of Virginia; ©. W. Payn- tor, and Captain J. W. Mills, of the United States Army, aré at the St, Charles Hotel. Dr. Macauly, of England; Captain Shutleworth, of the Fifteenth regiment, English army, and ©. Belcher, of New Orleans, are at the New York Hotel, Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes, cf Montreal; J. D. Bigelow, of Washington, and G. J. Prentiss, of Cleveland, are at the Everctt House. General Merritt, of the United States Army; Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts; R. H. Pruyn, of Albany; E. O. Tuit, of Boston, and J. A. Griswold, of Troy, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General John G. Hazen and H. L. Bloodgood, of Providence, are at the Albemarle Hotel. P. M. Carmichael, of Albany; B. S. La Farge, of Connecticut; G. We Norris, of Baitimore, and Alfred Ginnett, of England, are at the Coleman House, Juage R. Hitchcock, of Ohio; Lieutenant Com- mander G. W. Pigman, of the United States Navy, and Colonel J. M. Scoville, of New Jersey, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General J. Dimick, Surgeon Charles Smart and Jas. Pratt, Jr., of the United States Army; J. Godoy, Minister from Chile; W. G. Fargo, of Buffalo; W. Crockett, of Washington Territory; Bradiey Barlow, of Vermont; R. A, Bartlett, of the United States Marine Corps, and T, H. Talbot, Assistant At- torney General, are at the Astor Honse. Colonel A. W. Merriman and H. C. Folger, of New Orleans; Professor Holmes, of South Carolina; J. G. Davis, of North Carolina, and H. K. Bliyson, of Richmond, Va., are at the Grand Central Hotel. Prominent Departures. Colonel Pomeroy and ©. E. Tucker, for Providence; Dr. Sanborn, for Calliornum, and Dr. Fay. lor Beste eign waters, was unable to decide whether or not duty should be imposed on the cargo and has sub- mitted the matter to the Secretary of tho, Treasury for further instructions, an examination was. to-day made at the Treasury Department of the maps and charts of the Alaska purchase, but no such island as Jones’ was found. The islands of Sts. Paul and George have here- tofore been supposed the only islands of any importance where the seals congregate during the summer months, but the captain of the bark states that another vessel is due at San Fran- cisco with a larger cargo of seal skins and will be able probably to give the government more definite information on the subject. Should it be found that the island is in American waters the government will take measures to possess itself of it forthwith, andthe Alaska Commercial Company, which re- cently leased St. Paul and St. George for twenty years, may find they have not the exclusive control of the seal fisheries in Alaska waters. The island is described as about half a mule in circumference, but swarming with seals, pat The Funding Bi ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has had under con- sideration for some time the subject of the Funding act. The war in Europe affecting financial matters, especially in that part of the world, Bas caused a postponement of putting the law into effect. Hopes have been held out to him that tnere will soon be atime when he can negotiate the new bonds at par. Whenever such time shall arrive the Secretary will be prepared to furnish the bonds as promptiy as they may be required. Trausportation of Merchandise in Bond. *; The Treasury Departmeht has just prepared rules and regulations concerning the transportation of merchandise from the ports of importation to cer- tain ofher ports in she United States without ap- praiscment or liquidation of duties at the port of the first arrival, under the provisions of the In- ternal Revenue Act of July last. The privileges of the act extend to the ports of New York, Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, Savannal, New Orleans, Portland, Me., Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnat!, St. Louis. Evansville, Ind., Milwaukee, Louisville, Cleveland, San Fran- cisco, Portland, Oregon, Memphis, Mobile, and to importations from or to Europe and from or to Asia or the islands adjacent ghereto, via the United States, We a csigid ad cable astedgee ete Wine, distilled spirits and perishable and expla } sive articles and ali articles in bulk are specifically * excepted by section 219 of said act froin its provi- sions,-and no merchandise except such as shall ap- year by the invoice or bill of lading and by the mani- fest to be consigned to and destined for some one of the Sporto tied can be entered for immediate transporf§tion without being subject to appraisement and liquidation of duties at tne port of first arrival in the United States. The law requires that merchanalse entered for immediate transportation shall be only delivere] to and tranafe by com- mon carriers, who are to be responsible to the United States as common carriers for the safe de- livery of merchandise to the Collector or other pro- per officer of customs at the gly destination, and. that such merchandise must be conveyed in cars, vessels or vehicles securely fastened with locks or seals, under the exclusive control of the oficers of customs, and that such merchandise must not be upladen or transshipped between the ports of first arrival and final esti paon, and belore any such carriers shall be permitted to receive and transport any such merchandise they must be specially desig.’ nated and authorized for that purpose by the Secre- 17 of the crveeay aoa become ee the United States in hoiids as heretnafter provided, and that all the requirementg of the act must be compiled with by all conkers . EN nee The security bond of a common carrier is to ve $200,000. Only such common carriers will be desiz- nated as are known to possess and have exclusive direction and control over suitable and sufficient cars, vessels and means for transportation of such merchandise to the oe of its final destination, such as are required by law and regulations, and for the transportation of such merchandise from any | of first arrival, mentioned in twenty-ninth sec- ion, to any port of destination designated by thirty- fifth section of said act. No car, vessel or vehicle shall be used except steamboats in use carrying freight and passengers, making regular trips be- tween the port of the first arrival of such merchan- dise and tie port of its final destination, and rail- road box cars, known as freight cars, the cars and vessels to be of such construction and provided ‘with sach means of fastening that the merchandise can be conveyed therein, securely fastened with such locks or seals and in such @ manner as may be from time to time prescribed and directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the route aud transportation must be such that the merchandise can be conveyed without being unloaded or transhipped between the ports of its first arrival and final destination. The same ex- amination and appraisement shall in all cases be required and had at the ports of destination as are required and authorized at the ports of its original importation, on entry of merchandise for consnmption or ware- house on arrival at such ports; it being intended, and 1t is directed, that on the arrival of all the mer- chandise mentioned and described in each triplicate entry and invoice received from the port of first arrival and the delivery thereof to the collector or other chief officer of the customs at the port of destination, and{thereafter such merchandise will be dealt with in the same manner, and like pro- ceedings shall in all respects be had in relation thereto as are prescribed by law, and regulations made in pursuance thereof, pertaining to the cua- toms and to the tmportations entry, examination and appraisement, care and custody of dutiable merchandise, imported from foreign ports or places. at ports of original importation into the United States, except as may be herein otherwise provided and directed, In case an entry of merciandise shall be delayed through any cause for more than twenty-four hours after the report of the arrival of any portion thereof the merchandise will be treated as unclaimed goods and stored in pubile stores or bonded warehouses authorized for the recep. tion of that class @f meichandise, at the risk and ex- pense of the owner or consignee, provided that, with the consent of the owner or consignee of such goods, the "collector or other cluef officer of customs may — the same to be so stored immediately on ar- rival. Full instructions are given under the heads of “common carriers,” “The entry and immediate transportation of merchandise without appra‘se- ment and liquidation of duties at the port of their first arrival,” with the forms of entry and imme- diate transportation bond, which latter must be in a penal sum of at least double the Invoice value of the merchandise. There are various other forms and bonds connected with the subject and miscellaneous provisions relative to returnsand accoun's. The rules and regulations will be in force iminediately. The Rumor of Her Cinse and Capture o Canard. The statement published in one of the morning journals yesterdayjtnat the steamship Hermann was chased at sea by a French man-of-war, and that the officers of the Scotia witnessed the chase, was a sheer fabrication, Captain Judkins never sighted the Hermann at all, but passed a French gunbvat, which $s at present lying oif the Battery. 16 Stute~ ment was false on the face of it, for the Her- mann, steaming at ae ordinary speed, must have been 140 miles ym Sandy Hook, instead of tort, miles, at the tine the Scotia neared the lightship, rumor that porveued in Wall street yesterday after- noon that the Hermann was captured at sea and iy a into port is equally without foundation. <n now well on ber way to her port of destina-