The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1870, Page 8

& Cn eae ae ae eee Zmportant Yetter from ‘Zix-Bfin- ister Reverdy Johnson on the Alabama Claims. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEKT. Fanos premigms, and thas such claims belong to tbe ment; and tbat the ‘Btate, 1n EUROPE. Hey Re oy im ——, we the leust foun- ‘The French trausatianuio mai steamship Periere, ation $0 inaon or in law. proceed briefly 0 | Captain Daure, from Havre the 17th and Brest the Fi st—The act of 99 was to effect a wise | 19th of Nevember, arrived at this port yesterday and constitutional purpose. 1% would be mixchiev- | afternoon after an excellent Passage, made m the ous to permit individual citizens to interpose iu any negouation between eur own and any fore! v= ernment. ‘To do 80 waa, therefore, properly ie a mis iemeanor, pun hable by fine and impriscament, ’ The sm Howonee, was _ peg te agi ad. ministered the government ey knew what-ite Wow Insurance Companies May legitimate powers are, and that these were intended fad say protection ef Individual rights, not their de- etruction. Be Atfected. ‘They, therefore, American Claims, Thirteen Mil- lions of Dollars. ‘Advice to Underwriters That They Make Direct Demands on Great Britain, The following letter has veen written by Hon. Reverdy Johnson, ex-Minister to Great Britain, in weply to inquiries addressed te nim by John A. Parker, Eaq., President of the Great Western In- surance Cempany:— My Dear Sin—Your letter to me of the 5th inst., and copies of your letiers to Secretary Fish end Nr. Frelinghuysen, dated respectively July and Au- were duly received, Before procevding to conaider the points stated in ‘this correspondence it is proper to a cleor appre- Bension of tuem that I state succinctly what was the oondition of the negotiation between the two gov- ernments regarding the Alabama claims at tke tur- minauon of my mission te England. Soon after the commencement of our civil war ‘the British goverament, on the 13th of May, 1861, recognized the Confederates as belligerents, and the | Alabama and several other vessela of the same character were from time to thme built m that coun. | ary for the use of the Coniederates and were periit- ted to go to sea, rere renee contrnyed, American, ships and car- goes 6 value, it Is stated, In the aggregate, bg mae hope nd dollars. ws ian god ese depredations the British government ‘was advised that she was responsible, wg N Under instructions Mr. Adams, our then Minister, made the demand, and supported it with great zeal and ability, and, with a view vo its adjusiment, pro- Pye 4n arbitration siinilar to the one provided for y the convention between the twe countries of tie ‘Sarl Hassel then at the head arl Russel, then at the head of the Fereign OMce, promptly and decidedly rejected the proposition, poecreny h ged nd ph ae Was 80 clearly irre- 8 it could net with proper respect sud- Mit the quesiion to arbitration. Ps Peet st When Lord Stanley succeeded htm Mr. Adams re- newed the propositien, and his Lerdship agreed to submit the question whether Enzlaud was liable ‘because she had not fulfilled mer neutral duty in the premises, but firmiy refused to submit the ether question of iability, from having accorded « belil. grreney to the Confederates, holding that every u: poe aes an absolute right to decide for itself sach a This appears in hia Lordship’s despatch te Mr. rd, then in charge ef the British Legation at | Wasmington, dated the 16in of November, 1867. His language is this. I quote:—“To prevent any misapprehension on this subject, ner Majesty's gev- ernment think it necessary distinctly to say, bok as regards the so-called Alabama claims brought for- ward by citizens of the United States and gree the general claims, that they cannot depart uly Or indirectly from their refusal te refer to a fereign Power te determine whether the policy of Secegnizing the Confederate States a8 belligerent Power was er was net suitable to the circumstances of the time when the negotiation was made.” Our government insisting upen the submission, she negouation failed. And this was communicated to Mr. Seward by Mr. Adams in his despatch of the 4th December, 1867, and that gentleman having afterwards stated to Lord Stanley that he censidered the negetiation closed, M eek ward, in his despatch of the 13th of | AbDproved this statement, His words as follows:—'Thet the negotiation in regard to the so-called Alabai 4 1s now considered by this government to h closed without a pros Dect of its being reop So This was th je state of things when { arrived in WEP Aine, 17th of August, 1868, a 4g successor mat. * My ir struchons, dated the 20th of July, 1868, @8 the clainis were that before entering upos the sti fect I should first obtain a satisfactory adjustment j dene the proms. that nothing tn the act “shail be construed to abridge the ri: nt of individaal citizens of the United States to apply, by themselves, or theirfiawiul agents, to any foreign government, or tie agents thereo!, fer the redress of any tnjuries in relation to persons or property which such individu- als may bave sustained frem such governmeat or any of its agents, citizens or subjects.” tis neveven open te doubt that the claims in question are within this proviso, They belong to individual citizexs, aad eriginated from mjuries to their property “sustained” by the action of Great Britain, er its agents, citizems or sub- jects, and, being such, are, by the very term: the previso, embraced within is ‘The Abts, censequently, have a right to apply the British government fer redres¥. They were, in the first instance, under no oviigatien to solicit the aid of the have applied directly te Great Britain, Butas things then s:00d they deemed it advisabie to ask’such aid, sad with this view filed their claiins in the State Department, Suppose they had applited directly to the Fng- lish yoverninent, and twat government had fuily paid them, would this have been a violation. of | the act of ‘#oy Can It be possible that the pre- sent administration will couthue to hold the | Opinien that ibe recovery by @ citizen of a dent | due bin by a foreign government is a crime? | Independent of the previso, such a docirine *would shook ceiravn seuse as being utterly untena- ble and grossiy unjust. Are the claimants in a worse situation Jo this respect from their having Inveked the aid of thegovernment? In undertaking ima government, They ceuld at once, | face of strong westerly gales and a heavy bead sea. ‘The Periere landed @ mail file of Emglish newspa- pers, ‘The London Standard of the 16th tnat., speaking | Of the war crisis and the Gladstone Cabinet policy. say! Prince Gortchakoff's despatch Brunnow, 1m which the aanouncement is vaacia eta the Russian Gated the 19th October, | f Lord Granviile’s answer | @ppears to have been despatched en the 10th inst. On the 9th inst, her Ma, ‘8 Ministers, including the Premier and the Foreign Secretary, dined with the } Lord Mayer atthe Gulidhall, How is it that not a | word escaped them on the question raised by the Russian government—a questio! the proposed armistice between France and Prussia, aud one on which af this moment depends the issue | Of peace er war? ‘The Berlin correspondent of the London Times, | writtn; agitatien of the Eastern question by Russia, says :— Prussia is Indeed aware that the Russlavs, partly | from @ naturat dislike to the Germans and partly because they do not relish the idea of having 80 very formidable a Pelghbos, have sirongly sympathized with the French in the present campaign, and wiil probably vent their spite against her at no very dis- tant date, Prussia, therefore, has no interest in strengthening the Russians, and will certaimily not ; be directly iustrumenral in helping them to acquire # More Infuential position than they already enjoy. MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN ITEMS. ‘The Ear! of Desartis preparing a comedy for the stage. preparing iy | the duty the gevernment only acted as their agent | Or trustee, and, from causes for which the claimants | are not responsible, 118 efforts have proved whoily | unavailing. The claims are still unsatisned, aud | there is LO present prospect that they will ever be Satisfied threugh governmental assisiance, | i 19 i$ concrlvable that such an impotent agency is To continue against the wish of the principals? Are their righis to be sacrificed and rendered valueless by the rufmous delays caused by the agent? His fallure to obtain redress for the claimants 1a evi- dently referable to the fact that he has associated with the clains demands of his own, He has re- jected an agreement that would have resulted in | their liquidation, because it did not provide for de- | Mands of his own, The government, therefore, is | Using individual rights growing out of individual Wrongs wo recover semething for itself arising from The “Diary of a Besteged Resident in Paris” is Bald te be written by Mr. Henry Labouchere. Itappears that the British government has post- Poned sine die the question of the adoption Oo! tue mitrailieuse in the Kngust army. Father Claret, the famous confessor of the ex- Queen of Spain, died at the Fout-Froide convent, uear Narbonne, on October 4, The bleach works of Messrs, ‘horley & Son, Riv- } ersiown, lreland, were destreyed vy ire Nevember 17, A large aumber of wen have been thrown out | of employmeut, Among the regimental flags captnred by the Ger- manus at Metz, and waich are deposited in the arse- | nal at Berlin, are several bearing the inscriptions of | Marengo, Wagram, Lutzen and Solferino. alleged public wrougs. This ig virtually appropriating private property | “for puolic use without compensation,” which 18 | express!y promibited by the coustitution of the Uni- | ted States, The government bas no right to pursue sucha course. It is bound, I think, in justice, in law and im hoaor, te permit the claimants to see! redress for themselves. No part of what 1s due them belongs te the gev rnment. It has no More right to seize upon it, to accomplish some end of its own, than it would have if the British government was to transmit ‘he amount claimed to the State Department, for the benefit ef the ciaim- ants, to rei to pay it over and appropriate it to some purpose of its own. Whatever the government may do in the matter, the public sentiment of the country cannot tail to sustain the claimants, The conduct of Great Brituin, out of which these claims originated, in- volved @ wrong to the United States as well as te the claimants. Snould the latter be redressed by Great Britain that will not condone the injustice overnment, Or satisfy any pecuniary de- mands arising from tt. ‘These will still be open for adjustment by negotia- tien. But to prohibit the claimants from proceeding te obtain satisfaction for their individual losses until the geverament shall succeed in effeeting a settie- ment ef their asserted losses, would be the height or Anjustice, ana, in my judgment, would be without a semblance ef legal authority. If the British govern- ment should now ey, the claimants, would this be an Offence te the United States? The claims are due because of the miscenduct of that govern- ment, Willthey be guilty ofa further misconduct if they satisfy the individuals who were the sucer- fe a8 unjust as to do wrong—a proposition too absurd to be entertained by aay sane mind. iB ie Second—Do the claims agreed of the ‘underwriters belong to them or the United States? consideration, The vessels and their s destroyed by the Alabama cruisers were | the paturglization aud the nerthwest boundary controversies, My first interview with Lerd Stanley was on the loth of September, 1868. We lost no time in dis- | cussing the questions invelved in those 44% cent \ versies, and the result was that we agreed ape the terms of their settlement by dated respectively the 9th and 17th days of the fol- lowing month. We then commenced the cousider- ation of the Alabama claims, and on the 10th of vember agreed to a convention fer their settlement. For reasons not necessary new to be given, overnment was not satisiied with that convention. iverwards, on Lord Clarendon’s accessien to the Foreign Oftice, the negotiation was renewed and concluded to the satisfaction of our then adiministra- tion by @ convention dated the 14th of January, 1869, Under this convention I have not the shadow of & doubt that all the losses of our citizens, m- ficted by the Alabama and ether vessels fitted out asshe was, Would lung since Gave becu fully dis- | charged, ‘The public sentiment of the people of Great Bri- | tain, exhibited to meon visits by invitation to all the large towns in England and Scotlaud, ebviously | favered such payment. As far as I had an opperta- nity to learn it, the opinion of Parllauweut was to the same effect. Under this convention the question of te recog- nition of Southern beiligerency, as well as any other question which either government might think pro- per to raise be.ore the commission, could bave been | of both Loras Stanley presented, ‘rhis was the (ep ldgeretit § and Clarendon and myself. No attempt on my part was inade to dejude them in this or any oiher mat- ter, Such an attempt would have been equaily fov!- ish and futile, ‘These siatesmen possessed great ex- prerience and consuminate ability, And while the were both solicitous that the mosi friendly reia- tions between the two countries shouid be es- lished, as important to the prosperity and good name of each, they never ould have consented to or could Bave been deluded ints ‘by aryangewent which would have surren- dered any fiaterlal right or injuriously affected in the least degree ine i Arner of bret bythe The cony yas fal pay she Se tnen Procical sh the 24 or 34 of AbageR, 3800, but was Snot tnaily acted upor nnill the 19th of Apiil ekows ing, When it pa relea uteneaise Eo oaily uring the fntérval between its transmission to and rejection by the Senate J was not advised by any member of the body or by the State Department what were the objections to the conveation, or that there were any. J celiected, however, trom articles in our press, brought to my notice in London, that the main, if not the only objection, was that it did not provide for the settlement of claims which eur gov- ernment then ara ithad, to its own right, upon Great Britain, Up to chis period [ had never heard that the United States contempiated such a demand. My instructions, as did those to Mr. Adams, looked exclusively to the adjustment of individual claims, and no alleged cemmiss:on or omission of the British government, of her duty to the United States pend- ing the war, was given in any part of the corre spondence between the two governments, as having any mfuence upon other than individual claims. ‘As soon as I discovered, in the way just stated, that our present administration and the Senate, or some of its members, were of opinion that the gov- ernment had a claim of {ts own for alleged peca- niary losses, caused directly or indirectly by the conduct of the British government, I propesed vo Lord Clarendon, first ina personal interview, and afterwards in an efficial note, dated the 2th of March, 1569, the signing of a supplementary conven- ton, which should only so far modify that of the 14th of January as to provide for the settlement of any claims that either government might nave upon the other. ‘The answer of his lordship, dated the sth of the ensuing month, induced me to belleve that iff was expressly instructed to make such an offer it would be acceded to—a belief which I still entertain. Feeling most anxious that the entire controversy should be closed I telegraphed to Secretary Fish on the 9th or 10th of April that I thougnt I could obtain such a medification if instructed to propose it. Bat that gentleman instantly replied by telegraph that the convention being betore the Senate the President did net think it advisable to cuange it—a reason, the force of which I dia not then nor do | now perceive, if the administration really desired an amicable set- uement of the controversy. Since the termination of my mission I do not understand that any effort has been made en our part to renew the negotiation. And, indeed, it 18 rumored that we will not renew it until Great Britain shall first offer a more acceptable mede ol settie- ment than was contained in the rejected convention. That no such offer will be made 1s apparent from the subsequent correspondence between the two governments. Great Britain seems to be of the opintom that she has ytelded as much as her honor will permit. The whote matter, therefore, as far as the private claim- ants are concerned, Is ended, and without a reason- able hope that they will at any time obtain indem- ufty through the action of eur government. Their Josses gre most severe, and are increasing in amount by delay. Justice demands that they be satisfied, ‘The parties are new informed, and believe, that ‘an application made by themselves directly to the British government for such sausfaction, will be pei W our government shall interpose no ob- chon. ‘This, you write me, has been made known te the President and Secretary of State, and that they have Metonly not sanctioned it, but said thatif the claim- ants attempted it they Would be prosecuted for a misdemeanor under the act of Congress of the 20th Lgperiestt 1799, nd what is, if possttile, yet more astenishing, that the President lias said that the underwriters, ‘who are the hoiders of the greater part, If not of ail, of the claims, having paid the losses to the ongtnal owners, are DOt eviiled to tiem, on the grownd of ahew bpving + Ae he Conyelyes, bY tek Ae separate protocols, | ur | barge insted faralnys Jone by capture—the war risk was assuméa by thé underwriters, ana they, having paid the original 6Wfers the full value ef the pre. perty destroyed, if seems te be but just that they sheuld tecetve whatever may be saved. i ‘0 principle of law is ketier gettied than that, in suck 4 case, the Underwriter 18 subrogated te all the | rights of the assured, He is esicemed as a quasi | purchaser of the property, and standing In all | ! respects te it in the place of ie assured. This doc- | | trine Js s6 obvioysiy rigut and so familiar tg all who have the least knowledge of the law that Torte | authorities in its suppert would Aéem to be tdie, | But as it appears that there is lamentable ignerance | upon the polnt, they who are thus ignorant will find | the principle stated in clear terms in every work on msurance, and in every Adjudicated case la which the prepesttion was involved, * Not to réfer t ay ether adjudication, 1 content | qyself with that of ‘The North of ingland Insy ance Association vs. Armstrong,” decided in t present year in the Queen’s Bench, and reported mn 6 Law Reporte, 244. In giving the opinion, Lord Chief Justic ockburn stated the principle | in these words:—‘Now I take it to be clearly | established, in the case of a total loss, that whatever remains of a vessel itn the shape of | salvage, or whatever rights accrue to the owner of the thing Insured and lost, they pass to the | underwriter the moment be 18 called upon to satisfy the exigency of the policy, and he does { Satisfy it.” “It has always been considered as a | settied rule in insurance Jaw that where there isa | total loss the underwriters, Who pay upon @ total loss, Whether It is actual or whether it is censtruc- | tive, are entitled to anything that remains of tne | vessel, and to anything which would otherwise have accrued to the owner of the vessel by reason | of his ownership.” I suppose that dulness itself could hardly main- tain that the original ewners of the property would | not have a right to demand satisfaction ef the British government if they nad not been fully in- | demnitied by the underwriters, Then if the underwriters are not pubatitnted for | the insured and ealitied to whatevér may be re- covered of the Claim, who else is? It cannot be that the right to the Ly a insured was extin- guished by its destruct: £ For, if it was, the Sueipal OWnérs, had they been Tine, Sh, Fotld Have Had no claim to indemnity, Can It Be that their having beea paid in full by tho underwriters annuls the right and éXonerates the British government? All intelligent men tmust answer this question in the negative. The right, then, net being extinguished, and Great Britain not exonerated, she is bound to pay the underwriters. i What cenceivable tite haye tne United States? | They wee not the original owners of the pro- perty. They nave never paid a dollar on account of It, nor do they propose to pay a deliar to the | underwriters. It would, consequently, follow that if, on any ground, the underwriters are not the owners of the ciaims they are without an owner, and there is no one who can call upon Great Britain for satisiaction. But the gevern- Tent, from the first, have been requiring such satis- factien for the benefit of tue claimants, and have never, on this oat mad pel Meee nhs | Taman Yes is there the slightest foundation or Hee Teale view ‘tnat the waderwriters are | not entitled to the claims becatise they were satis- fied by the premiums they recetved? ~*> » The underwriters have paid the entire value of every vessel and cargo destroyed. 1 de not cer- tainly know what the whole amount w: ut the folly and injustice of the preposition is sags illustrated im the case of your company, ‘1! list you have sent me shows that your company, during tne insured against war sk twenty-feur vessels with their cargoes, and that the premiums charged were from half per ‘cent to five per cent—the average being two and seven-tenths per cent. ‘Ihe amount ef losses pald ‘was, in,the total, $834,10, ang the premiume received $8,867, being @ loss to the company Of $325,942. ‘The rates of insurance charged by yeu for the war risk, you informed me, were the same as those of all underwriters in New York and Bosion. ‘The average rate, therefere, upon the entire losses through the depredations ef the Alabama and her associates was two and seven-tenths bad cent, and the losses being, it ts said, $15,000,000, the premiums received in the aggregute were $151,000, being a loss to the underwriters of $12,649,000. ‘These facts demonstrate the utter absurdity of the Proposition, If Secretary Fish is right that the opinion ex- Dressed by the President on this poinyis “iargely en- tertained in Washington,” it can only be because i war, ers by it? . Tuat would be to hold that to do right | Notwithstanding the kigh official authority which | yan judgment, ver: oa 4 'y safe.—*'We certainly prefer our perers oe me:tions they do mot seem to me to | pregent Shaneéilor Of the Confederation yowbe ‘wise administration’ of a Cardwell, or even a Gladstone. if England thinks that she is safe under their benedl- fie j & | matrimonial apiance with royal blood. | of that House. Baron Ricasoli, as we learn from the I allan jour- nals, announces his intention of retiring trom pub- | lic life, at an age when Knglish statesinea are b - ginning to reap the highest honors and rewards of @ laborious apprenticeship. 41n London, on the anniversary of the “Soldters’ Battie” of lnkeriman, the surviving officers aad men of the Grenadier Guards who had feught at that battle dined together. Tne regiment was 400 strong ‘When it went 10to action just sixteen years ago, aud of that number ouly thirty remain. A Prussian company having escorted sore French ; | ae to Munich, was entertained at the Koyal ‘alace and by the mosnlepeliy. At the munic dinner Professor Supf, formerly ap ultramontane, awid universal applause, propesed the toast, “The Pressian Emperor of Germany.” An ingeniens English statis‘iclan has been calcu- lating Mr, Gladstone's Aagnence during the past session of Parliament, and finds that he spoke 178 verpment’s repudiation of the Treaty of 1566 18 | 80 far as this | country 1s concerned, of far more impertan’e than | ig On the 15th of November on the subject of the | NEW YORK CITY. General Localisms and Metropolitan Nows Items. a ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuvs Phar- macy, GERALD Eating, corner of Ann street:— 1869, 1870, 1369, 1870, 3A. M.. + OF 4h » 6 Ef 55 40 see 44 LNG | 65 42 OP.M, 4. 41 112 Mo.sesee, OL OL 12 PLM. eeee cd Average temperature yesterday. oe 7 iz date Average temperature for correspondin lastyearn _ ‘The Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon, but, a suMcient number to pass any general orders not being present journed after disposing of some | routine Dusiness.” be ee Comptroller Connolly was engaged yesterday in paying off the stocks and bonds of the city and county falling due December 1, The whole amount to be pald 13 $2,855,483 80, ‘Ihe funeral ef Father Trainer, late pastor of the ' Roman Catholic Church of the Transfiguration, in | Mott street, took place at nine o'clock yesterday | Morning, and was attended by an immense number of persons. The funeral sermen was preached by Father Hassaa, of Peekskill. ‘Ihe procession to the outuedral Was very long and imposing. Colonel Gardiner stated to a HERaxp reporter yes- terday that the story published in an evening paper of a conspiracy and attempt to break out of Ludlow Street Jail, by a party of prisoners there confined, ‘Was a falsehood and had no foundation in fact, no such conspiracy or attempt having taken place in bis knowledge. On Saturday evening last a herse and wagon, worth $320, were stoien from George B. Walter, at Astoria, Queens county, and all efforts to discover them on the island proved unavailing, Yesterday afterneon detective Finn found @ man, whe gave his Dame as Charles Chiverton, endeavoring to sell the property to one Peter Keily, in New Chambers street, and arrested him. Chivertoo was arraigned | In the Tombs yesterday afterneom aud committed for trial, The Board of Assistant Aldermen met yesterday afternoen, at four o'clock, the President in the chair. A pumber of resolutions were adopted dl- recting the Commissioner ef Public Werks to adver- lise for bids for paving streets in Harlem with the patent Stew wooden pavement, It was ordered that the following streets be paved with Belgian avetnent:—Bayard street, from tie Bowery to Baxter street; Seventieth street, frem Fourth to Fut avenue, and Filty-second street, from Kighth to Nimih avenue, The Board adjourned til! Menday, An examination im the case of George Marshall, Who was en Wednesday arrested for having at- tempted to purchase bonds with a check for $11,342, said check having been mailed in station D post oftice on Saturday evening last by Mr. Horace Leland, of this city, for Brockfort, Mags., took place esterday afternoon in the Tombs, betore Justice jogan. Full particulars of the ease appeared ia yesterday’s HERALD, and the testimony taken deve- loped nething new, The examination will be re- sumed on the 13th inst. Marshall says he Is a grocer times and that his speeches occupy avout eight: columns of the London Times, As & charac- teristic climax we are told that those eighty columns Would reach to the top of tae Londen Monument, The candidates for the editorsnip of the Lon ‘on Morning Advertiser nambered eighty. The Let has now (November 17) been reduced to fie, in whi-t are included Mr. Berace Mayhew, Mr. Walter Wood, ef the Standard; Mr. Camero 1, War correspo..deat of the North British Daily Mau; Mr. Barnett, and @ sub-editor of ene of the Glas ow dailies. ‘The Princesa Imperial and Count d’£u, of Brazil, prevented by the state of the continent irom paying their proposed visit to Germany and going to {tay for the winter, remain with the Duc de Nemeurs at Twiekenham, England, and were a few days ago received at breakfast en cone ty the Prince and Princess of Wales at Mariborough House. The Deutsche Pos!, the German organ in London, has the following, Which may be accepted in the light of a nint that England is not, according to Ger- cial rye we are the very last to tind fauit,’? A letter has beem received by the Pope from Gene- ral Trochu, which was sent from Paris In a balleen, ana afterwards forwarded by courier. In this epistie the general expresses “his sympathy for the Holy Father in the misfortunes which have failen upon him, and jaments that the present condition of Frauce prevents her frem coming to Dis assistance, bat hei persuaded that this diswbiilty will soon "A Gurions case has passed through the Queen's | Bench, Londen. An old Jady ef seventy, having a | life interest 1s some property which, if she married, Would go to her yrandcitidren, became baakrupt, and not wishing he relations to lose the money married a pauper, 80 as to forfeit it te them. ‘ibe creditors contended that the marriage was collusive | and fraudulent, but the Judges confirmed the de- islon of Mr Baron Martin, Who held that they Could not récover. Mr. Macfle, Member of Parliament for the Leith burgbs, Scotland, in reply to & question pui to him ata meeting of his constituents whether he was will- | ing that the Princess Louise should receive a dowry from the nation en the occasion of her marriage | with the Marquis of Lorne, said:—**That precedents for such gifts already existed, and that it would be invidious to show less appreciation of their country- | man than of a German stranger.” This reply is said | to have been received “with rounds of applause.” The Edinburg Review has the following:—The Marquis of Lorne is not to be allowed to remain the | only member of the aristocracy who can boast of a | ui ‘The yeung | Duke of Norfolk ts about te be advanced to a similar dignity. Itis true his bride is @ foreigner ana an exile, but in the present uncertain state of France who knows what there may be in store for the House of Orleans? But whether they are restored to the throne of the Bourbons or not it seems that the Duke ts abont to espouse one of the Princesses In that case, waatever may come of her brothers, the future lot of the Princess will be cast Iu England, > © “LOUISIANA. i | | Extensive Covflagration in New Orleaus—Loss $250,000—Governor Warmouth Making War on Federal Officials. New ORLEANS, Dee. f, 1870. An extensive conflagration eccurred here this merning. The Varieties theatre, Jonn Hawkins’ Store room, Schiller’s coffee heuse ana Liner’s sta- ble were destroyed. The fire originated in the pro- perty room of the theatre. An adjoining building was badly damaged. Two firemen are reported to | be under the fallen walls. The losg 18 $260,000; in- suranee $100,000, in local companies. Richard A. Hebrard commnitted suicide this morn- | in by shooting himself through the head witha pistol. It is asserted that Governor Warmouth will visit | Washington to effect the removal of Postmaster Lowell, Marshal Packard and Assesser Joubert, who, with Lieutenant Governor Dunn, stand in the way ef the Governor's schemes, NORTH CAROLINA. Kirk's Militia OMicers Discharged—A Consti- tutional Convention to be Called. RaLeren, Dec. 1, 1870. Bergen, late entenant colonel of Kirk's troops, who has been imprisoned here for some time by order of Judge Brooks, was to-day discharged by | Judge Bond, on the ground of want of jurisdiction. Two of Kirk’s officers were to-day bound over by the Mayor to appear at the Almance Superior Court, charged with assault and battery in arresting and holding, contrary to law, citizens of that county last summer. Kirk’s case comes up to-morrow before Judges Bond and Brooks in the United States Circuit Court, new in session. The Senate has passed a bill raising @ committee to consider the calling of a constitutional conven- tion. A restricted conventien to amend the present muddled and bungling constitution will no doubt be et im that city 18 more partizan than judicial. I cannot believe that this is the case, or that the President, or any other sensible man wis holdssuch @ doctrine, will hesitate to discard it when he sees the iniquity vo which it ieads. My advice to the underwriters is that they with- draw the claims they hold from the State Depart- ment and seek satisfaction of Great Britain. This, I can hardly suppose, will be refused them, or that the administration, 1f they will consult their law officer, will not be advised that to refuse would be alike ilegal and unjust. Iam, with regard, your obedient servant, REVERDY JOHNSON. BaLvisORe, Nov. 28, 1870, A NARROW ESCAPE, Explesion in a Newark Dentistry. About three o'clock yesterday afternoen a some- what singular explesion took place in the dentistry called. The reforms aeeded will be beneficial to the whole peopie, apd no advocate of a convention de- sires in any way to abridge any right of any citizen. | brought to light by the lens and the prism, y | by occupation, and does business at Monticello, Sullivan county, N. Y. SCIENTIFIC TRIUMPHS. Lecture by Professor Doremus Before the Young Men’s Christian Association—In- genious Experiments, Lucid Explana- tion and an Interested Audience. Professor Doremns delivered Jast evening, before the Young Men’s Christian Association, corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-third street, the first of aseries of lectures announced on “Tne Triumphs of Modern Science.” There was a large, fashion- able and intellectual audience, including many of the Professor's former pupils at the Free College, Frequentlyjthe lecturer ventured into paths wher’ mosi of his hearers had certainty rarely, if ever, strayed; but the lucid manner in which he displayed the traths he wished to convey made him always interesting, while occasionally, at some of the more striking experiments, the most rapt and absorbing attention was exhibited. Afier a few introductory remarks, in which the Profeaser akuded to the comparatively feeble inte- rest shewn by our rich citizens in the claims of science, and the smallness of the pecuniary aid yielded to our colleges, he said he should confine himself in the present lecture to the discoveries and the instroaments which depended upon them for their power and value. But he wished first to briefly sketch the bistory of the development of know- ledge with regard to celestial objects, Strange to say, although we had such perfect records of the work- ings of the hutman mind in other fields, we did net know the authors of some of the grandest achievements in connection with astronomy. Natu- raily, we should conclude, the first object of atten- tion would be the Sun and the second tne Moon, ‘These were evidently the means of indicating to us the hours of the day; for, in the beautiful words of Everett, “To every natten, tongue and clime, each in its meridian, the eternal sun strikes twelve at noon, and the glorious stars, farupin the everlasting belfry of the sky, chime twelve at midnight.” Aas a time measurer the Sun was the first object of attention. It was then probably observed that the shadow of the Sun lengthened and shortened, and thus we had two periods of the year—the period of the longest and the shortest day. Next came the observation of the Moon, and then of the Stars—their movements, magnitude and grouping, especially these constellations through which the Sun and | M passed. The Prosessor then detailed the varions discoveries made by Pythagoras, Copernicus, Galileo and Kep- ler, saying in regard to tne latter that astronomers of all Jands had agreed in awarding him the proud and well-earned titie of law-giver of the heavens. His discovery of the elliptical movement of the planets was one of the greatest achievements of science. In regard to Gailteo the lecturer said, ‘Let ‘us not forget the painful termination of his splendid career and the extraordinary and infernal vice of the buman brain to humillate this great champion of truth; who, though assured of the reality of the revolution of (he rie Wus obliged upon his knees, and with bis han upg te Sacred Scriptures, to swear the arth did not Move. T have never seen a more infernal vice in history.” ‘The lecturer then advanced to the discoveries of Arago and Leverrier, and gave several instances of the marvellous accuracy with which mathematics had been applied to astronomy. in 1846 Leverrier redicted the locality where the new planet that ad been previously observed, and had then disap- peared, ougnt to shine, and his friend in Berlin ex- amined the firmament on the night announced, and, lo! there the new world was found. Dr. Dorémus concluded this portion of his lecture by showing how vividly the discovery that our whole solar system revolved round @ sup (which some nud supposed te be Hercules), which again in its turn, with its attendant systems,‘rotated round yet another central sun, impressed us with a sense of the voandlessness ef the universe. His remarks on the prism consisted chiefly of a clear and interesting oe eate tte of spectrum analysis. He said that probably the prism would prove even more fertile asa means of discovery than the lens, Several new metais hed aireaay been discovered by its aid, and we had now some- thing like proof us tothe real nature of the sun, which probavly consisted of metals ina highly iacan- descent stace, ‘rhe lecture was illustrated by some interesting experiments, which were conducted with the care and delicacy ot manipulation jor which the Profes- sor is famous. He gave among others the weill- known experiment of @ bedy of oll suspended ina globe of slcohol snd water, which, upen bein; Inoved upon an axis, gradually threw off bodies o! morphous but eccentric forms. The motions of the universe and the results of spectrum analysis were displayed by the aid of dissolving views. SCTHE TIGERS.” THE FISHERY QUESTION, ‘The Rescue and Recapture of the American Sehoouer Clara ¥. Friend at Charlotte- towe. Cuakvorrerown, Prince Edward's Ietand, Nov. 30, 1870, The cases of John Howe, Edward Moar, John Welsh and Michael McCarthy were disposed of in court to-day. They, with five others, who escaped ‘when the vessel was recaptured, rescued the Clara. ¥. Friend from the Marshals of the Admiralty Court, at midnight of the 2itn. The three men on guard at the time made ne resistance, but helped to get the vessel under way, under compulsion. They now allege that outside of the harbor they got into the boat and came back, having been promised & Present if they would leave the boat safe at the wharf, The vessel then went to Port Hoed for sup- Piles; and In going through the Gut, of course, met the Plover and was retaken, The charges against the parties In the police court were of assault, riot aud the rescue of a vessel, The charge of riot had to be withdrawn and the evidence ef assault and rescue Was very weak. The case which they tried to make Against the men for stealing cargo slgnally failed. Mr. KE. Palmer, Queen's counsel, and Wm. McLeod denounced the attempt v6 subdivide the offence as harsh and oppressive against strangers, All the Parties Were committed unul the January term of the Supreme Court, but were discharged en bail, which was at once given ny the owner, in $2,000 for himself and two sureties of $1,000 each, and the men in $200 each and sureties of $10% The bung- Ung of the Crown oMcers was in faver ef the ac- cused, Though not approving the act, nearly all ‘Wished that the vessel would get off. Mr. Friend speaks in very complimentary terms of the Kindness of the captain of the Plover, Bellicose Feeling in Canada. ‘Toronto, Dee, 1, 1870. ‘The Glove of this morning, im reference toa New Yerk repubitcan paper's remarks, urging the Imme- diate and peaceable settlement of the fishery ques- tion, sayi We, in Canada, have the impression that there Is | very littie to settle, We already have granted very reasouable concessions, but we cannot allow Ameri- cau fishermen to steal eur fish. American fisher- wen cannot plead ignorance of our regulatiens, trom the fact that their own government, at the commencement of the season, warned them of the existence of these regulations and of the conse- uence that would ensue if they were disregarded. if @ reckless schooner or two from New England chooses to infringe upon our domain we cannot en that account set about tinkering old treaties or patching up new ones, YACHT B' UILDING. Mr. Ashbury’s New Vessel Livonin. [From the Bampshire (Southampton) Advertiser, Nov. 16.) The new yacht Livonia, now being built for Mr. Ashbury by Mr. M. Ratsey, is being rapidly pro- gressed with, and will, no doubt, bea fast one. Many persons on first looking at her have thought that her model was very similar to tnat of the American yachts in certain points. This is correct but in one especial instance, and that is her water line; there is not only @ difference but just the re- verse 1s being carried out, as tne American yachts are hollow on the water line, and this one is round- rT We hope that she will turn out equal to the ho which have been entertained of her by the builder and others who are interested in yaonting. The Cambria was evidently overmatched by the superior dla of the American yaehts; but itis very doubtful, if she had been of the same size as the Sappho, whether she would not have turmed the tables on her competitor, and depth versus beam have been conqueror, Mr. Ratsey is also laying down the keel of a yawl of ninety tons for Colunei G. Lloyd, to be called the dream. Colenel Markham is also to have @ schooner of ninety-six tons built, to be called the Harlequin, Mr. Ratsey has also received orders to build & mahegany for his Highness Toussom Pasha, the son of the late Viceroy of Egypt. Altegether the rard is full of work, and bids fair to employ a num- T of mechanics for some time to come. AN UNWILY FOX. Attempt to Pass a Forged Check—A Fox Caught by Wall Street Sharps. A little swindling operation was attempted in down town business circles of this city on Tuesday afternosn, in which, as the sequel shows, the “biter was bitten,” notwithstanding the fact that the meshes were well laid. About half-past three o’cleck on the afternoon in question a well dressed, smart, business looking man walked into the importing house of William Haleey, corner of Barling slip and Water street, dealers in indigo and miscellaneous East India goods, He pnrchased fifty pounds of shellac, the bill for which amonnted to $29 50, He asked to have the bill made out to John Fox, as that was his name. Mr. Fox sald that he would send the money by a cartman, who would cart off the stuff and pay the bill, About four o'clock a cartman drove up in front of tho store and took charge of the sheilac, ten- dering in payment tnerefor a $100 national bank Note to the cashier and asked for a check for the balance, the change due, amo ‘nting to seventy dol- larsanda half. The caster of the firm, Mr. Allen, complied with the request and gave the check, with THE SIGNATURE OF THE HOUSE, whereupon the carman took his depar.ure. During the interval which elapsed between that hour and half-past two o’clock on Wednesday alter- neon Mr. Fox was not idle. At the latter mentioned hour the gentleman of the foxey patronymic “@ropped in” at the business house of H. Silverman & Co., gold brokers, Wall street, Here he presented a check for $7,656 50, bearing the signature of the responsible firm of Halsey & Co., and asked leave to THE EQUIVALENT OF THAT CHECK in gold. ‘the check was on the Seventh Ward Bank, corner of Burling slip and Water street, Be- fore paying him the gold, however, the brokers sent their messenger to the bank in question to ascertain whether it was cerrect—the amount be- ing rather large. Mr. Fox went out after the messenger and standing off at a respectful dis- tance awaited the result of the cer creer Upon the presentation of the check to the paying teller, Mr. Grady, that oMcial thought proper te commu- nicate with Mr. Halsey as to its correctness, and immediately despatchea the porter of the bank to the store ef Halsey & Oo. ‘The porter injormed the cashier that sald check had been presented for certification, and asked if it was correct. Mr. Allea at once pronounced it to be a forgery, as NO SUCH CHECK HAD BEEN ISSUED. This capped the climax, and put an extinguisher upon the hopes of Mr. Fox, who upon observing the suspicious movements going on between his would- ve victims ana tne Seventh Ward Bank officers, “made tracks” for parts unknown. He has not since been seen. The check had been handsomely executed, the original figures, $70 50, being com- pletely erased, and the noumericals $7,556 60 {n- serted Instead. ‘The fellow, who 1s described as about five feet eleven inches in height and of sandy complexion, is, of course, the loser in the transaction to the tune of $70 50, as the $100 note given in payment for the shellac was esas ‘The police were notified of the swindle, and are looking for the unfortunate Fox, THE BROOKLYN ORPHAN ASYLUM, Laying of the Corner Stone. The corner stone of the new Protestant Orphaa Asylum, which is to be erected on forty- four lois bounded by Atlantic, Brooklyn and Hudson avenues and Herkimer street, ‘was laid yesterday afternoon with appropriate cere- monies, A leaden box, containing a copy of the New YORK HERALD and other New York journals, was placed in the stone by Mayor Kalbfleisch. THE ASYLUM is to be the English-Gothic style of architecture, and will be of Philadeiphia brick, with Ohio and Hastings stone trimmings. It will be 167 feet frent on Atlantic avenue, inclugmg two wings; the depth of the main building will Be sixty feet, and each wing dignity feet. It is in Presentation to an Old Court OMcer—Captain “Judge” Davin Gets a Badge. Quite a pleasant little affair came off yesterday in THE MOBILE HORSE FAIR, MOBILE, Dec. 1, 1870, Horses are arriving daily to contend for the pre- miume at the fair; the city is fast filling with stran- gers, and it promises to be a great success. Captain Meore's and Messrs. Roach’s, Cottrill’s, Tyler's, Shawlan’s, Myers’, Taylor's and Williamson's herses are already here, and others will arrive to-day. ‘There will be an extra purse ef $200 for the best double teams driven by their ewners. FRENSH BAZAAR. ‘The fair in aid of the wounded ef the French . Bunting, on Broad street, Newark. Tne dec- | @tmies, which has been going on for some time Pen reprint Mr OW. b 8, Harvey, was | 4 the armory of the Seventy -first regiment, Thirty- in the act. of removing some part | fifth street and Broadway, has probably realized in of the steam appiratus when it exploded | pecuniary results the fondest hopes of its warm- with a terrific report and with rather serious effects. | hearted lady originaters, aamirers of the pluck and Mr. Harvey was sbeckingly, though not fatally scalded. * part of the apparatns just cleared his Bad i ptruck him be wouit purely bave been \ sympathizers with the cause of the soldiers of la belle France, | ‘Che auction sale o° the articles which the fair ones have faiied to dispose of wil commence ‘thie evening, and be coytaued to-marrows the office of the Court of Common Pleas, after the business of the day had been despatched. The occa- sion was the presentation of a bandsome and elabo- rately executsd geld badge ef the Americus Club to Captain Edward A. Davin, chief eMcer of the court, who has for a period ef nincteem years been the faithful and efficient servant of the court. The clerks and officers assembled in the office at four o’cleck, when Mr. Themas H, Landon, deputy clerk, made the presentation in @ neat speech, which was happily responded to by Captain Davin. ‘The badge is of solid gold, representing a tiger's head, around whose neck is a esifar fastened by feur diamonds, surmounted by a wreatn of lau- rels, and evertopped by # screaming le. It 1s elegantly enamelied and beara e fol- lowing inscriptio :—"To Captain Edward A. Davin, from the clerks and officers of thaCourt of Common Pleas, asa token of their esteem and ef his long and faithful services.—1870.!" Afier the presentation a sumptueus repast was pa taken of by the participants in the aifair on imvita- tion of Captain Davin, at which he gave a grand in- 1 strumental solo on his harmonicum, ‘The entire ‘ way nugagd off most aureeabiye calculated to accommodate $00 children. The cost will be $200,000. Speeches appropriate to the occasion were made uy Mayor Katbfleisch, Rey. Henry Ward Beecher and others. ‘The children now occupyiug the limited quarters in the Asylum in Cumberland street will be trans- ferred to the new building about the Ist of May, 1872, A SCENS IN THE VEDERATE SENATE.—Ben Hill was the so-called “Union member ef the Con- federate Senate’ im Richmond. In secret session he was bitterly and personally denounced by Yan- cey. Seizing an inkstand, with broad disk-shaped ewter base, he flung it some twenty feet with such Fore and accuracy a8 to hit his adversary on the face, cut his jaw to the bone and prostrate him. A. H. Stephens, presiding, a8 Yancey rese to leave, re- marked that it was ‘executive or secret session.”’ ‘A comiittec of three was appointed. A precedent was found in “Hansard’s Debates,” and the Senate decided that unless both parties would pleage their word of henor never to take action in the matter as long as either retained their position in the Senate they would be at once expelled. Neither was allowed to say a word in explanation or defence. Boul finally acceded. ‘Thus the fire-eating Yancey ‘was quelied, and died belore he had any opportu- nity of obtaining satisfacuon irom Ben Hull, whe i was quite prepared 4 mect Mim, POX. dif SMALL The Diseace Spreading in the City of Churches. Action of the Board of Health—Wholesale Vacci+ nation at the Exponse of the City—A Detachment of Police Aid the Physicians, —_— It was hoped that by the usual precantions taken’ by the sanitary inspectors, under the direction of Health Officer Cochran that loathsome disease, the smallpox, might be prevented frem spreading 1 Brooklyn. Physicians were noufied that they must in sil cases notify the Board of Health of the existence of the disease, 80 that, if necessary, the patients might be removed to the smallpox hospital and every precaution taken to prevent the contagion from stalking abroad, The penalty for neglecting to report the cases was arrest and fine of twenty- five dollars. SUPPRESSING INFORMATION. Many of the physicians were prevailed upon, however, by their patients to keep their own coi sels, they promising to pay the doctors’ fine in they were brought up for a non-compliance with the law. Those who were affitcted witn the disease had } A GREAT TERROR of the smallpex hospitals, and it was often neces- sary for the sanitary oMcers to use force in remov- ing them from their homes and the care of their friends, _ Nevertheless, such acourse was highly necessary for the preservation of the public health, tears and entreaties were unavailing. Owing to the neglect of parties to reports the existence of the disease the sanitary Jnspectors Igbored under considerable disadvantag: m ierreting out the cases. Frequently, on kearin, that there was a case of smallpox, the Health Omi would at once actail an ipspector to look after it immediately. ‘The friends of the patient would i | Tae) way get information of the intended visit, ‘and yy the time the inspector reachod the house the pa- tient would be somewhere else, it was only @ short time since that a livery stable: keeper in the Eastern District was hauled up for iet ting his coaches to parties for the purpose of cen, veying persons who had ‘THIS LOATHSOME DISEASE either to the hospital or other sections of the city. It was found that immediately aiter noe patients had ridden im _ these coaches a were let for other purposes, and in no doubt, spread ta an henever @ for the disease was, ng extent, W: Berson, w und guilty of suppressing information in te the existence of the disease he was arrested fined, and the patients in all cases were taken the Smajlpox Hospital at Flatbush. Notwithstan all these measures it was found IMPOSSIBLE TO ROOT OUT THE DISEASE especially in the Sixteenth ward, where it has bee! most prevalent forthe past year, The number 0! cases kept gradually ine 3 the trips of THE 8 x VAN were more frequent to and from the hi pital, and the Bosrd of Health alarmed. One of the inspect for cases ef the di lying very ull with the contagion in @ small roo! lead! ig from a terto8 store, and the husband of t! woman was dividing his time between waiting ui the custemers, who, knew nothing of tha case, and tending upon his wife. He was manifes! he utmost ‘tion fer his wife, but showed NO REGARD FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH. This unfortunate weman was at once removed an the grocery closed and disintected. Yesterday tne Superintendents of the Poor, wha have charge of the county buildings, reported that there were now EIGHTY SMALLPOX PATIENTS ia the Smallpox Hospital at Flatbush, and that t! number was grad increasing. AS the majority of these patients came from the Sixteenth ward, & rtion of which is populated by Germans, tha Boura of Health determined, as a last resort, to \ VACCINATE ALL the men, women and-children known to have een’ in close proxies the disease and liable to taka it. Accordingly Health Officer Cochran neaded sanitary brigade, consisting of Doctors Fisk, Gilfil. lal , Strong, Harland, Newman, efficers Vay Saun, Hardy, Halliday, Powers, McKeon and Mr. Thomas Wilson, of the Water Board. The latter at« tended the party to } WASH DOWN THE STREETS and cleanse as far as possible the vicinity where th disease was most prevalent. Smailpox patients were found at 180, and Johnson street, and they were re moved to the hospital, the houses disinfected, and persons about the premises vacciated, Othe! places were visited with @ like result. A numbe Of tenement houses ware visited and about twen! cases in all were removed upon the ambulance, } ANOTHER PHYSICIAN FINED. Yesterday Doctor Baruch, of No. 226 West third teenth street, New York, was arraigned before Jus tuce Walsh on the complaint of Sanitary Inspector Fisk, who charged him with failing to report a cn ) of smallpox which: he had attended in the Sixteentt ward in Octo! The doctor was found guilty an fined twenty-five dellars. HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MUSDER, fk ‘From the Boston Transcript, Nov. aan } Mr. Joseph Linton, travelling agent jor C. E. Box worth & Co., four merchants, of 3 Lincoln streety Bostoy, was attacked by two desperadoes on thd ratiroéd track between Braintree and East Brain-} tree at nine o'clock last evening and robbed of $14' fn money and a gold watch. Mr. Lipton was oi his way from Weymouth to tuke the half-past nin o’clock train froin Boston and chose the rallrea track to gain time. As he neared the bridge al Kast Braintree two men approached from behind,’ engaged in earnest conversation, and when unde! the bridge Mr. Linton crossed to the opposite trac! to allow them to pass, as they seemed to b walking much faster than he was. When they cam up with him one made a sudden spring and seized. him from behind by the coat collar with one hau and by the throat with the other. The secon party then searched and rifled his pockets, appro. bag valuables and throwing boxes of flour sam: ples and sand into his mouth and face to preven outcries during the sev restruggle that ensued, When they had completed the robvery they an tor a@buse their victim, throwing him down, kickin; him in the chest and stomach, striking him, an dnaliy dragging him sowe distauce toward the river, evidently with the intent of finishing the: ‘work by murder; but they abruptiy ceased and fi before accomplishing their diabolical purpose, hav: Ing evidentiy been frightened by what they su posed were approaching footsteps, which Mr. Ling ton, in his half-couscious condiiton, was unable ta hear, The injured man slowly recovered, 80 as to proceed with difficulty to the raiiroad station, eighth of a mile away. He is this morning confin to his room, and, though suffering severely from th wounds, he expects to be able to resume his bush ness in a few days. He is confident of his ability tq recognize his assaiJants sould they be secured by the authorities. EXCITING MURDER TRIAL IN AUGUSTA, ME. Last September Edward H. Hoswell murder John B. Latin, of Hallowell, Me., whom he supposi to be gailty of criminal connection with his wit Hoswell was arrested almost in the very act of kil ing Laf_in, which he accomplished by cutting bi: throat with a common jackknife. After havin committed the deed Hoswell made an unsuccesstu! attempt te Kill his wife with the same weapon. Lafiin, the murdered man, was about forty years ot age, and was a barber, which business he had pur4 sued in Mallowell for about twenty-two years, He, ‘was amember of the Methodist Episcopal Chure} and enjoyed a good reputation as a citizen. He le a wife and three young sons, the o1icst net exceed: ing fourteen years of age. Mrs. Hoswell is about thi Sc meapese br ofage, She was born in Welling« ton, Me., and had been marricd nine years to Hoss well, who 1s her second husband. The prisoner, Hoswell, is about forty-four years of age. He | a strong, Muscuiar man, in stature about five feet six inches, and weighs about one hundred and sev: enty-five pounds, le s-ef dark complexion, ha black hair, hazel eyes, and wears a full jet blac peard. When brought into court he had on a dari suit of clothes and leoked very neat in his person.’ At the time of the murder he was employed as a cary painter in the paint shop of the Portiand and ra bec Railroad Company, 1n Augusta. Hs father ans mother are American: his grandfather on his fae ther’s side was @ German, whlie his grandmother on kis mother's side Was @ Spaniard. According to, bis statement his relatives are respectable and movi im good society. -It 1s now being tried at Augusta,’ and the trial wil) probably occupy a week. Nearly one hundred witnesses nave been suminoned to tes< tify—sixty on the part of the government and thirty five forthe defence. The trial excites Intense in- terest, and the courtroom bids fair to be packed{ daily with spectators during its progres. KENTUSKY HORRORS. One of the Throckmortons Killed. {From the Evansville (Ind.) Journal, Nov. 28.) By private despatch we learn tt Aris ThrocKy morton was shet and killed on saturday evening, near Owensboro, Ky., by Peyig Kincheloe. Throck morton was the ‘grandson of Colonel Throckmorto: and ef Robert J. Ward, fermer distinguished citize: of Louisville, The cause of the shooting seems te have been about this:—Several farmers of Daviesa county had posted notices forbidding persons frouy hunting or shooting on their farms, and some da revious Throckmorton had ordered Kincheloe o 8 lands. On Savurday erening: Kincheloe foun morton trespassing on his prem a aened er, not being prompuy; / ‘dered him off. ‘The ord Speyed, was enforced in the manner above cribed. “On Saturday evening two boys of fifteen years, named Jacob Miller and Walter Divens, had an aly tercation at Hawesvilie, Ky., when Miller Lest te Divens vo the heart, inflicting, It is sap) fatal wound. Divens stil alive when the eros passed Hawesville erday, but 1b was thought!te poseible for iim to recover.