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WASHINOTON. Reassembling of Congress— ' - ‘Return of Members. The New Party Movement Flat- tened Out. DECLINE OF AMERICAN COMMERCE, Zncreased Compensation for Gov- ernmoat Clerks. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 1870, Reaseem ling ef Congress—The New Party Movement Flatiened Out. The trains from the North ana West to-day brought a large number of Senaters and members, and the indications are that at the epening on Mon- @ky a majority of the members of both houses will be present, Among the arrivals to-night are Sen- ators Sumner, Merton, Harris, Speaker Blaine, Jus- Nelson, of the Supreme Court; Judge J. F, wan, of New York; Senator lenton, Judge Kelley and many others. The Senators and members, as a general rule, do not seem to know much about what ‘will be done ut the coming session, There is a gen- eral impression that tie session will be a lively one. Governor Morton says that the new party move- ment is practically dead im the West, and that he does not thiak the revenue reformers will jot the democrats, The Presiden?s Message. All manner of arguments were offered to the Pre- sident to induce him to send his message to New York in the hands of a special messenger of his own Selection, but he positively refused to allow a single copy to pass from the Executive Mansien Until General Porter should have left the premises on Monday with the document addressed to Con- gress. . Decrease of American ‘Counnge. , The Regtster of the Treasury has just completed ‘the statement of vessels sold to foreigners during the year ending June 30, 1870, amounting to 17,080 tons, the principal part of which consists of vessels Condemned In foreign ports and soid because of un- Seaworthiness. The following table shows the ton- Bage of American bottoms disposed of since 1850, In that year the number of tons sold to foreigners Was 19,488; in 1861, 15,247; in 1862, 17,921; in 1853, 20,085; in 1854, 40,033; in 1855, 65,887; im 1856, 42,168; in 1857, 52,619; in 1858, 26,305; in 1859, 30, 850; in 186u, 17,418; in 1861, 26,649; in 1862, 117,766; In 1863, 222,190; tn 1864, 400,865; im 1865, 133,832; in 1866, 2,217; in 1867, 98,000; in 1868, 13,757; in 1869, 19,063, and in 1870, 27,080, Itappears that during the late war we sold abroad 774,652 tons, and avout 150,000 tons were captured and destroyed by rebel privateers, while during the forty years preveding the war we sold Abroad only 671,377 tens. The registes also reports he tonnage of vessels lost at sea and wrecked at 184,098 tons; also foreign vessels wrecked in the ‘Waters of tle United States and afterwards docu- Mented as vessels of the United States, 4,744, Increased Pay for Government Employes. Washington is considered—and, perhaps, justly too—an expensive city to live in. The Proprietors of the dally papers complain that the rates paid for Composition are thirty per cent higher than in Bal- Cimore, with nothing to justify such an extraord!- Bary demand. The clerks in the employ of the gov- ernment are conunually finding fault in proportion {0 the amount received, and live in hope during the Fecess of Congress that the national law-makers will take pity on thcir poverty and remember the scriptural advice, “Whe giveth to the poor lendeth fothe Lord.” But Congressmen do not read, asa general thing, ancient literature, espectally the in- spired volume, and in order to make their Wants better known the clerks here have 0 more than four vocasions appealed te the rea- ‘son Ut Congressmen, setting forth im strong peti+ \ ons and persistent lobbying their actual claims for fan increase of ‘twenty per dnt; but, strange to say, even in this rationalistic age the argument has failed. Now there appear extra helpers, who pro- pose to try what Congress will do for the heads of bureaus, and, that the injustice of expecting con- stant labor at the present fixed salaries may not stare the assembled wisdom of the land, a tabular statement has been carelully prepared, showing the Tate of pay for all the officers and clerks of the gov- ernment since the day when the constitution was adopted down to the present day. By comparison it appears that Congress has not failed to increase the pay of its clerks and officials, even in some instances 300 and 400 per cent above the pay allowed a half a century ago, while the pay of several beads of the bureau remains to-day as fixed in 1520, The same is true, also, of the pay of clerks at the Capitol and in the departments. The salaries of the former have been steadily increased, while those of the latter remain with scarcely any variation since the present system of grading clerkships was adopted. Secretary Boutweil, im his last report, did recommend that the pay of heads of bureaus should be increased, and, encouraged by this endorsement, the auditors and comptrollers have asked him to renew that recommendation in ‘his annual report tis year. It is believed he will do so—at least the agitators hone he will—and to sustain their claim they will have the tabular state- ment above referred to for their argument in favor of increased rates of compensation. : Tonnage of Digerent Nations. The following statement shows the tonnage of the various commercial nations of the globe, according to the latest returns that have come to hand. The immense preponderance of Great Britain in the com- merce of the world is apparent. It appears that during the last ten years her tennage has increased _considerably, while that of other nations has decreased. The erder of magnitude, nationality and tonnage is as follows:—Great Britain (United Kingdom, 5,780,530; British possessions, 1,456,386), 7,236,916; United States (home trade, 2,729,707; fo- Felgn trade, 1,616,800), 4,246,507; France, 1,008,084; Sweden and Norway, 705,898; Ilaly, 678,603; Hol- land, 588,676; Spain, 395,270; Hanse Towns, 381,026; Prussla, 374,616; Austria, 302,592; Greece, 280,542; Russia, 180,992; Denmark. 148,280; Hanover, 125,140; Chile, 67,090; Belgium, 39,729. : Transter of Infantry Officers. It is understood that several of the feld oMcers of infantry, the excess of officers of those grades above the organization oetng specialiy of that arm, are to be transferred with rank to va- cancies in the artillery and cavalry, cansed by the recent retirement of several officers in those arms of the service. This is to give places to as many of the field oficers of in fantry as possioly. It will, however, prevent Promotion, for the time being, im the artillery and cavalry. These transfers are considered just if good selections are made, as it would not be proper to muster out of service infantry oMcers in excess of the organization when there were places vacant of Corresponding grades in other arms of the service, and would not be fair that the infantry should alone auger the reduction required by Congress. Indian Affairs. A despatch received at the Indian Omice on the si Anstant from Superintendent Viall, dated Helena, Montana, on the 2d instant, states that he had just returned from the Crow, agency where he had dis- tributed the annuity of goods to 117 lodges. The Indians were weil satisfied and all well disposed and anxious to act in good faith, The rest of the Indians ‘would arrive iu about three weeks. Ali the chiefs ‘were present but two, who were represented by messengers, Personal. Senator Harris, of Louistana, arrived here this Morning, accompanied by his bride, and took quar- fers at Wiliard’s. His term of office expires witn the present Congress, but his re-election is con- ¥ildered certain, unless it becomes prejudiced by gvason of contemplated removals of federal oftice- hobders in that State. Governor Warmoth is un- Gerstood to have succeeded in nis mission to effect these remevais, the resuit of which may have some bearing upen the Senatorial election. Senator Os»prn, of Florida, returned to-day from. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Senator Brownlow, secompaniea by his son, Colonel J. B. Brownlow, arrived this evening from Knoxville, His health t# much improved. Senator Spencer, of Alabama, and Senator elect Farrow, of Georgia, are at Willard’s, A letter recently received in this city from Berlin states that ex-Senator Grimes and family are at Giyon, Switzerland, and are undecided as to where they shall spend the winter, but have conciuded te Teurn tothe United states next July. General Hovey, late Minister to Peru, is here for the purpose @! closing up his accounts. Secretary Delano left here to-night for New York, ‘on account of the iiness of his daughter in that city. He expects w return om Monday evening, The New French Minister. M, Tretthard, tne mew French Minister, has re- ceived his credentials, His reception by the Presi- dent will take place early next week, M, Berthemy leaves on Monday for the North and thence for Europe, Second Auditer’s Report for 1870. ‘The report of the Second Auditor to the Secretary of the Treasury, whose office is charged with the Anances o1 the Army aad Indian Departments, in- cluding claims of aoldiers for pay and bounty, pre- sents the folowing summary :-— Advances in favor ef pay, Adjutant Gene- Tul’s, Ordnance, Medical and Secretary of War Departments, aud claims paid on account of Sperseiaians for sald departments, kucluding Quartermasters and beneficiaries of special acts of Con- ress and United States Treasurer ior plernal Kevenue fumd,...........+++++ $29,150,682 Paymeuts to National Asylum for disa- vied volanteer seluiers ..., + 1,630,172 Payments to Soldiers’ Home, 91,870 Total........ $80 sisbuhiihan kasanoacses+ «SHORES RERUNDING ACCOUNT. Deposits under appropriations of pay, @ Adjutant General's, Ordnance, Medical, Secretary of War, Quartermaster’s aud Indian Departments Total on account et req APPLOPTHAUONS....... See eeese cree eeees In the Payimaster’s division the amounts of setiiements madé on paymaster’s BCCOUNTS WAE......+ teseeeseseeeces 141,498,680 The ameunt of dines and iorfeitures col- jected and set apartasa fund for the Nauonal Asylum for Disabled Volunteer & So diers is... 932,533, ‘This amount has been patd to the asylum, care of Majer General B. F, Butler, president, py requisitions on the Treasury. . ‘Total amount ef fine forfeitures collected ter the support of the Soldiers’ Home at Washingion, LD. G, and paid to Sur- eon C. H. Lamb, United States Army, fy requisition on the Treasury, is...... $3,410,534 36,359,651 01.8 to aajust $67,001 The setiement of accounts in the ord- nance, med.cal and miscel’aneous di- vision shews the disbursement of the sum of..... . 8,571,107 Of whieh the Di mt Was = 2,267,562 Of which the Medical Vepaitment was. 821,499 Of which the Quartermaster’s tunds we 761,022 Of which tae army contingencies were 178,688 Of which the secret service was, .... 1,440 Of waich the comfort oi sick and dis- charged soldiers Was........... . 25,971. RECRUITING DIVISION, The amount ¢@isbursed for expenses in recruiting regulars............. ++ $147,999 Bounty to voluateers and reguiars 1,470 Incidentals... toa Total... ++ $165,673 0) RECRUITING Celiecting, drilling and organizing vol- unteers .. rr tenes Bounty to volunteers and regulars. Drait and substitute funds Relief ef draited men. Medical and hospital. Total..-....... AND) Wy Amount involved in disbursing accounts audited. ° $1,726,743 Amount mvolved in ¢ 1,307,083 Gtghwcs k= spas cabubecarecestesasiners’ S0GB ORT SOLDIERS’ BOUNTY, ‘The number of original claims examined of white soldiers for additional eunty under act of July 28, 1866, and amendments, was 12,880; of which 4,159 were found correct, and 2,373 rejected; 1,302 were found te be duplicate applications. Of suspended claims the total number was 16,877, of which 5,362 were completed, 1,058 rejected, and 9,968 requiring additional evidence. The number ef letters written in this service was 40,034, In claims for arrears of pay and bounty 30,143 were examined; 5,234.‘uid correct; incomplete and suspended, 12,95%; gyiectea, 7,027; daplicates, 4,991, Of suspenwe TORS 16.95.6272, _ 3 Suuuaed, 8,312 completed by additional evidence, 18,792 again suspended, 3,333 rejected, making a total of 60,580 claims examined, requiring 66,746 letters to be writ- ten, Of colored soldiers original ciaims 4,912 were ex- amined, 619 found correct; incomplete and sus- pended, 2,897; reyected, 771. Ot suspended claims 20,718 were examined; completed by evidence, 6,392; again suspended, 13,979; rejected, 1,342; mak- ing @ total ef claims exammed in this branch of 26,625, requiring 25,479 leiters to be written, The amount Mvolyed in settling white Soldiers claims Was......... Hi $3,130,906 The amount iavolved in settilag colored soldiers Claims was. . ++ 1,029,869 Total. $4,160,776 The total numbe' cases received wa eee 41,402 Allowed seston, 30,961 Rejected 22,865 Disposed of. 53,826 6 198, 943 36 454 $4,160,776 Namber of | written. Number of certificates issued. Amount involved and settled, DIVISION OF FRAUDS. In this division 3,044 cases have been examined, and the sum of $24,010 recovered and paid back into the Treasury on account of frauds discovered and traced. The total number of accounts on hand from all the departments, settling with the Second Auditor, the North, as well as Seaatoy Morrill. pf Vermont. 1s 161,587, of which 64,450 were received during the fiscal year; 102,786 have been disposed of, involving the amount of $157,113,779, requiring a total of 228,953 letters, Besides which 363,556 letters have been written relating to miscellaneous subjects. The grand tota) of amounts involved and settled from June 30, 1861, to June 30, 1870, in the Second Auditor's office is the enormous sum of $1,424,329,- 702, and 1,895,154 letters have been required to be written. Report of the Sixth Auditor. The report of J. J. Martin, Sixth Auditor for the Post Office Department, to the Secretary of the Trea- sury, shows the following creditable summary for the past fiscal year:—The postal accounts between the United States and the foreign governments have been promptly and satisfactorily adjust- ed to the latest period. The number of corrected quarterly accounts of postmasters examined, copied, ré-settled and matied 1s 31,852; of accounts of postmasters examined, adjusted and registered the number is 105,734. Two hundred and five thousand seven hundred and sixty-one letters were received, endorsed, and properly disposed of, 284 of which contained money to the amount of $4,989, which was duly deposited 4n the Treasury. One hundred and twenty-two thousand twe hundred and seveniy letters were answered, reached and mailed, and 15,373 drafts were issued te mail con- tractors and others. Five thousand one hundred and fifty warrants were issued to mati contractors, and 4,690 certificates of deposits made by postmasters, amounting to $648,181, were examined and regis- tered. The pbumber of follos post pages of corres- pondence recorded was 4,252, In the money order division 87,620 money order accounts kaye been settled, amounting to $62,928,206, and 1,374 letters relating to money order affairs were written, eopied and mailed. Inthe pay division 24,981 mail contractors’ ac. counts were adjusted and 87,773 cellection orders were transmitted to mail contractors; 349 mgscel- laneous accounts were adjusted and reported for payment, 447 special agents’ accounts were audited and reported for payment, and 5,385 letter carriers’ accounts were settled; 6,000 special mail carriers and 9,000 mall messengers’ accounts were settled; 4,732 accounts of railway postal clerks, route agents, Jecal mail agents and baggage masters’ accounts were settled; also 76 accounts of United States attore neys, marshals and clerks of United States courts Were reperted for payment; $385,103 was collectea from special and mail messenger oftices, Aggregate amount of drafis to mail con- tractors, $2,388,804 Aggregate ount a Contractors ANd OLNCTSs..++0.---see sees 8,857,203 Received by mail contractors from post- masters on collection orders... + 2,681,560 Paid to letter carriers in cities. + 4,281,840 Paid for advertising. ....... +) 68,571 In the collection division 28,492 accounts of pre- sent posimasters and 8,061 accounts of late post. masteys Wore presented aud examined; $25,084 ‘Was collected from mail contractors oy cokectfon Graft for over collections made by them from post- masters, The amount of internal revenue tax col- lected by postmasters, and withheld frem other per- sons and paid into the Treasury, 18 $74,078; 126 suite were instituted for the recovery of balances due the United States, amounting to $146,686, and 110 payments obtained in favor of the United States. ‘This summary shows the detall of the entire fnan- cial business of the Post Ofice Department. The labor ef the Sixth Auditor's office requires the ser- vices ef ene auditor, ene chief clerk, 161 clerks, two messengers amd eleven laberers, and involves the settlement of about $80,000,000. Currency Statemea ‘The receipts of fractional currency tor the week were $813,500; siipment of notes, $2,412,686; ship- ments of fractional currency, $719,037, Treasurer Sptuner holds in truss, as security for national bank circulation, $345.567,050, and for de- posits of public meneys, $15,884,500, Mutilated notes burned during the week, $499,245; total amount 10 date, $84,245,483; bank currency issued for bills destroyed during the week, $452,130; ‘otal amount issued therefor, $32,103,495; balance due for mutilated notes, $1,141,988, Circulation eutstanding, $303,716,494; fractional ourrency redeemed and destroyed during the week, $816,245, Internal revenue receipts to-day, $865,590. Grand total, $76,680,904, Exchange of Coupon for Registered Bonds. ‘The amount of coupon bonds exchanged for regis- tered bonas—four issues—to date, under the act of March 3, 1865, is $176,918,800, The great bond rob- beries within the past year has made those holding: coupon bonds fearful ef loss, and the exchange made this year has been very large. Estimated Receipts trom Internal Revenue. Secretary Delano left here to-night for New York and will be absent several days. He finds the busl- ness of his new eifice mgre irksome than the one just vacated, In the report of Mr. Delano, as Com. missioner of Internal Revenue, he estimates the re- ceipts from this source durmg the present fiscal year at $126,000,000. The amount of the receipts to date are $76,000,000, and as there are nearly seven months yet to run it is thought that the receipts will far exceed Mr. Delano’s estimate and foot up at the end of the year not less than $145,000,000, The Darien Expedition. ‘The Nipsic, it 1s expected, will sail from here in ten days for the Darien expedition, Paymaster Bar- ton is now actively engaged in shipping the stores, Attempt to Aesassinate an Army Officer. Governor Warmoth, wile here, received a tele- gram from Captain Myers, commandant at the post of Baton Rouge, that an attempt had been made to assinate Licutenant Bandy, who testified against the Baton Rouge rioters at New Orleans, THE JERSEY “FROG” FIGHT. The War Transferred from the Tunnel to the Courts—An Injunction Against Morris and Essex. In the Court of Chancery at Trenton, N. J., yester- day, Chief Justice Beasley granted the Erie Rail- read Company an Injunction against the Morris and Essex and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroads, compelling them to refrain frem all fur ther attempts to make a crossing or otter connec- tion between the rails of the Boonton Branch Rail- Toad and those of the Erie Rallroad at er near the western terminus of the Bergen tunnel or elsewhere. The Morris and Essex Company was also ordered to appear before the Chief Justice ef the Supreme Court of New Jersey on Monday, the 12th instant, and show cause why they had taken their recent actien, without waiting, as they had agreed to do, for the decision pending in the courts; and also to show cause why an injunction should not be enforced against them restraining them from any future attempts similar to that made by them recently ia Bergen tunnel, The following is the in- Janctien granted yesterda; ve. The Morris and Essex, The Delawarry Lachavanna and, Wetern Rai road Compantea.< ‘This matler being opened to his Honor the Chief Justice, to whom it had been referred by the Chancellor by his order duly made on the 2d day of December, 18/0, and. the bill of complaint ana the affiiavite thereto annexed has Ang heen xead and considered, it is, on motion of Edward of counsel with said complainant, red 01 this Sd day ct December, 1870, that ‘the defendants do show cause betore the said Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, at the State House, in the city of Tren- ton, on Monday, 12th inst.,at ten o’clock in the forenoon, why a writ of injuuction, to be to them directed, should not be granted as prayed for in said bli. And it’ is further ordered that until the argument upon’ hei the said defendants—to wit, the satd Morr road Company and the Delaware, ory Western Railroad Company, und each of them, their and each of their agents, employes and servants, be enjoined and restrained from making or causing to be made any other or further connection between the rails of the sald Booaton Branch Railroad and the rails of the Mor- risand Kssex Railroad and the Erie Rallroad, at or near the western terminus of the Bergen tunnel, of elsewh than where existed the lat day ‘of now st past; and that they be further restrained and enjoined until the time aforesaid from altering in any way, manner or degree whatever the present status of the said Boonton Branch Railroad or the Morms and Vasex Railroad, so far as the same in anywise sballor may aifect the road of the Erie Railroad Company, and from in any- wise disturbing, interfering with, or changing or removing the rails of the Erie Railroad Company. And it is further or- dered that a service of this order or a copy of the same upon any oficer of th companies, either fn the State ot New Jersey or in the State of New York, shall ba good « wervice thereof, M. BEASL, hief Justice and Master in Cha Lagga w on Decembe TRE CUBAN BOND ROBBERY. Traces of the Missing Property—Eleven Thou- sand Dollars Said to be Recovered—Import- ant Arrest. A mysterious robbery, it wiil be remembered, was committed about four months ago, when $250,000 in Cuban and United States bonds were stelen from the office of Signor Castello, private secretary of the Cuban republic. The most energetic eforts of the police authorities were for the time ineffectual, and after a vigorous though fruitless effort the case was avandoned as a hopeless one. Not long sine however, intelligence was received from California that one of the missing bonds had been passed there, and that almost one thousand dollars had been patd on it, It appears that there was another of the bonds feund in the possession of a man named Chapman, This was apparently the end of it, and tne robbery was again plunged into its original mystery. During the forenoon of yesterday one Captain J. A. Pellitierre was endeavoring to negotiate for the sale of three bonds, one of $10,000 and two of $500, to Mr. McNeill, a broker carrying on bust- ness at No. 79 Cedar street. cording to McNeill’s statement, it seems that Pellitierre was introduced to him by R. G. Bennett, said to be an attaché of the Custom House, and that immediately upon hearing the story in regard to the negotiation of the bonds he proceeded to the Custom House ‘Treasurer te ascertain what course he should pur- sue, observing that the parties were to be at his office in the afternoon. MeNeill further states that, the parties returned according to appointment; that Peillitierre had a $10,000 bond which he destred to negotiate and which had evidentiy been altered; that suspecting fraud he sent for detective Sampson and had the parties arrested. Mr. Bennett asserts that Pellitierre came to him and asked hin whether he was acquainted with any one who would purchase bonds at a discount; that he intro- duced him Mr. McNeill and that while they were conversing about the sale of the bonds the detective entered and made the arrest. The ES were taken before Justice Hogau at the mbs Police Court yesterday and committed for examination. IRON FERRYBOATS, =, A Novel Feature in the Local Steam Marine. The Messrs. Murphy, of tae Quintarad Iron Works ef this city, have contracted to make two iron boats and machinery for the Union Ferry Company to be Tun on the Fulton ferry. The cost of the boats will be about $200,000, They will be very large and sub. stantial (700 tens), and calculated to ran through ice witnout danger. The boats will be bait at Greenpoimt and the engines at the Quintard Yorks in this city, They have to be completed in six months. ‘These boats will have water-tigkt compartments, similar to those on the Atlantic steamers. The size of the en- gines will be forty inch cylinders, with ten feet 8treke of piston, with one boiler in each boagof the drep-flue kind, thirty-two feet long and ten feet di- ameter of shell. Tiere will be sixteen flues in each voller. The boats will be lighted with gas and have Wrought iron tanks, holding a suMicient quantity of fresh water to supply the boilers. These boats will be @ great acquisition to the Fulton ferry, SQURNALISTIC NOTES. The Sunday Morning Pressis the title of a lively Weekly newspaper published at Albany, N. Y., by John H. Farrell, Myron H. Rooker and Captain James Macfarlane. The Press is ® member of the State Associated Press, and is a spirited and enter. prising sheet. Mr, Farreli was formerly the Albany Correspondent Of aeverai Of the Metropolitan papers, Another Chapter About Newark’s Double Murder Mystery. A Berios of New and Interesting Facts in the Case—What the Doctors Say on the Subject— Fresh Developments in the Engelhorn- Freitag Feud—Tho Chloroform Theory Exploded—Other Singularly Mys- terious Cases—Alleged Gross Official Negligence. ‘The excitement occasioned tn the city of Newark, N. J., by the exclusive publication in the HERALD two weeks ago to-day of recent develepments of a most extraordinary character in the case of the two girls, Rose Wittell and Frederica Koegel, who were murderedso mysteriously in that city seven years ago, lacking a few months, is still kept ap. Among the German people particularly the subject js still the theme of general discussion. The authorities are quietly working and carefully watch- ing every new develepmnent, however trifing, with @ view to terning the same to account at the proper ume; but no action has been taken further than alrcady reported regarding the singular atfdavit made by the woman Barbara Frettag, the text of which has already been giyen in these columns, Yesterday a Haxay representative made a further examination into the particulars of the strange atfair, and saccceded in unearthing a series of NEW AND IMPORTANT FACTS, Facts and the evidence showed clearly that the theory of their having been smothered with chloroform was most absurd, perfectly ridiculous. The external appearances presented by the bodies as they lay in the chamber @f death on the morning of the 21st of February, 1864, le(t no deubt on his mind but that they had been POISONED WITH CHARCOAL GAS, orcarbonic acid gas. Dr. Eyrich, who was his as- sistagt in the in igation, also stated yesterday to the HERALD representative views of a like charac- ter. His theory is that a charceal fire must have been brought inco the room while the girls slept and removed @@ soon as they were dead. He remembers distinctly that the podies showed no signs of having struggled in the throes of death. The feet were not even moved. At the time of the occurience the then county physi- clan, Dr. William O'Gorman, atter making a careful post-mortem examination of the bedies, toek the stomach of one of the murdered girls to Professor Doremus, ef New York. After a careful analytical examination the Professer reported that no evidence whatever of poison was to be seen. He suggested the girls might have died of SPOTTED FEVER, but Dr. O'Gorman scouted such an idea, which, in- deed, considering the circumstances, was regarded as preposterous. Dr. 0’Gorman yesterday, in con- versation with the writer, said that he had no hesi- tation iu declaring that the girls met thelr fate throngh foul play. Had chloreform been used the room and clothing would have been impregnated with the odor ko as to be readily discovered, One of the girs, Rose, had vomited, while the face of the other Was covered with a mucous froth, part of which was tiaged with a pink shade, caused by the bursting the capillaries. All these sigus proved that the girls were positively destroyed by charcoal or carbonic acid gases. Another strange phase of the matter 1s the report, Which passed current at the time, to the effect that THR CORONER'S PAPERS WERE STOLEN. In order to ascertain whether the statement, never contradicted, was really true, the writer visited last evening the wen Coroner, Dr. Zeh. He said there was such a report, and for a time he believed it true himeelf, The fact was, he says, that he could not find for some time an important part of the testi- mony, Which had disappeared irom his office, He even went to the man Engelhorn and questioned him on the matter, Finally, however, he found the missing papers in his desk, He had mislaid them, he says, The Doctor said he was glad even at that late hour to have tne HERALD give the truth ip this matter, THE KEPPLER HOUSE appears to.have been uvfortanate in matters of mysterious doings, Just before the murder of the girls @ man died there under circumstances nearly as singular nor haa this mystery been solved yet either. Beal later a fire broke out there.in a most gee “le wey, suid while it was being put out. the roouy of a boarder was entered, his trun broken open and @ considerable sum of gold carried off. ‘Ten or twelve days age John Hngelnorn gav that if it cost him every cent he was wort thirty thousand dollars—he was bound to clear his skirts of THE FOUL SUSPICIONS that were entertained about his connection with the girls. He was especially severe on is sisi Freitag, whom he declared be would se State rrison. He was going to have her ar on @ charge of perjury fortuwith. Up this writing, however, she is still at tare Indeed, for reasons not stated, the idea of prosecu- ting her has jallen trough, although the vest crim- inal connsel in Newark was employed in the mavter. ‘The impression still prevails that there is “SOMETHING ROTT 4 AS to his having the remotest motion of commenc- ing @ suit for libel against the Journal, the canard, a clear lie-bel on truth, Was simply the emauation of some silly Bohemian, jealous of the HARALD having the matter exclusively. Mr. Engeilorn has more sense, lis counsel 8, Ulan to think even of such @ ridiculous proced: OrnEs THRIES UNSOLVED. Besides the Keppler Hotel mystery there are several others on record that proved msdiuble to the New- ark authorities, A remarkable one ts that in which, some fifteen years igo, & Woman named Catharine Schnellin was the victim, She was on her way to orfrom church one Sunday night, when she was struck In the head with a brickbat, and her sku caved in, The body was then flung over a fence hear the corner of High and Neabit streets, where 1t was found by a colored man. He was arrested on suspicion, but subsequently discharged. The derer was never discovered, nor the true c! stances of her death. Subsequently, several years later, @ well knawn bruiser’s ‘Heart was pierced with @ knife one night in @ scufie on Broad street, opposite the First Presbyterian church; but by whom or under what circumstances is not known to this day. There is sttil anetner yet re- markable casé which demands particular attention, inasmuch as it 18 now engrossing the atiention of wark authorities. This is THE HOFPMAN-O'ILGEN CASE. On the morning of the 16th of last November there Was found dead tn a room in the top story of No, 112 North Canal street, Newark, under very strange circumstances, @ middie aged man, who went by the name of Hoffman, but whose real name has since turned out to have been O'ligen, It ap- pears, for some Cause unknown, he left hts wife In ew York during the month of August and went to reside and work im Newark. He was of the bet- ter class ef Germans and a person seemingly of steady habits and excellent heaith, The night prior to his dec he retired quite early to his room, where he was keeping bachelor’s hall, He was found dead next morning by a shee- maker who lived in the adjoining room. Thie coutity physician, Whose prerogative and duty dt is to order the coroner to hold inquests in cates where the cause of death 13 not clear, was notified, and that worthy satistied himself with looking atthe corpse and then granted @ burial certilicate, Scarcely was the dead man WELL SETTLED IN HIS GRAVE when up turns his wife, who, it appears, bad his life insured for $14,000 in a New York company. She said ner husband mad desarted her and that his whereabouts were unknown to her until after lis decease, when @ friend informed her of the event. Since then facts have come to the ears of the {usurance company aad the authorities which in- duce @ strong suspicion of foul play. The shoe- maker before mentioned has net been seen or heard of since Hoftman’s death. THE BODY OF THE DECEASED has been exhumed and the stomach sent to an analy- tical cheinist. His opinion has not yet been give In this, a3 In @ dozen other cases which migat b cited, the action of the ae physician i# regard: on all sides as being grossly negiigent to say the least. This is the opinion of even the other anthori- ties, and it 18 not improbable that the matter will be fully Investigated ere long 1n the proper quarter. LADY THORNE PERMANENTLY DISABLED. [From the Rochester Union, Dec. 1.) This famous trotting mare has been in this city ever since her accident on the 4th of Aug’ quietly at the stables attached to the 1 Hon. N, ©. Bradstreet, She has been carefully watched and everything done that human ingenuity could devise to restore her te the turf. All remedies have failed, and the most sanguine have abandoned the hope to see her again on the ceurse. The point of the bone cf the leit hip is four or five inches lower than it should be, and she throws her fvot, or ratner drags it, when she walks, much like a man who has suffered from paralysis, The condition of the mare otherwise is excellent. Her keeper informs us that ane was never in better nealth, She rus at freedom over @ st-bie foor upon sawdust, and re- celves company with an apparent relish. She is a very kind, docile animai in the stable, and is the subject of regret by ail who sve her. She will leave Rochester in @ day or two for New York. Dan Mace is expected here soon to take her away. She wil! be devoted wo breeding, and may yet give the American turf @ descendant that will beat her time. Lady Thorne is now fourteen years old. She bas trotted a mile tu 2:1734, and is thought by those vest informed tbat but for this accilent she woul! have beaten this time and that of every other horse at the Builalo races, Sue ts owned by the Mace broticrs, and cost therm $35,000. Twice that sum would not have bougat her before the agcideah ms CALIF OR NIA. New Democratic Organ iu S10 Francisco Deuth of a Pioneer. SAN Francisco, Dec, 3, 1870, One hundred and fiity thousand dollars bave been raised tojestablish a first class democratic paper in San Francisco, “I'he company offered $100,000 for an old established city dally, 1a order to get into the telegraph combination, F, B, de la Casa Seca, a California pioneer and son of an exiled Spanish nobleman, bora in Massa chusetts and long connected with the Post odice here, died of consumption to-day. William Donoavan was to-day convicted of the Murder of George Winchell at Martinez, Coutra Costa county. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS . FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD The Alabama Claims and North American Fisheries Questions—A Timely Reminder. Cotton Cultivation Decreasing in India. ILLINOIS. The New Independent Ports of Entry—The Law Practically Nallified=Important Suit Agninst tho City of Chi azo. Cuicago, Deo, 3, 1870, It 1s very generally known that the recent act of Congress making Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnatl, St. Louis and other interior cities “independent ports of entry’? bas been practically nullified by the stringent reyulations issued by the Treasury Depart- ment. In consequence thereof a large nuinbver of importers, merchants and business men generally hoes Joined in & memoriat to Congress asking the pi@sage of an act whereby the unnecessary restric- ttons contained 1m the Treasury regulations may be removed and the plain object ‘of the original law May be carrie! out, A committee of importers and merchants will go to Washington for the purpose of having the evil comptaimea of removed, Asmt has boea filed in tae Coirt o° Chancery by Rolin Wheelea, against the city of Chicago, wo de clare $5,000,000 Worth of bomis, Iaued by the Comptroller between the date of the adoption ot the new State constitution and the ume of its taking eifect, null and void, and also the bonds prevtousl issued lor deepening the IHitnois and Chteago canal. The bonds thus issued and sold are water loan nds, sewera: nt bonds, set Lunpel bonas, Tae bul says tle bonds Were issued to evade the new consiliation and for the purpose of aceamulating & Jarge funy in the city treasury, to be used tor un- lawiul and suproper purpo ENGLAND. The Alabama Claims aud North American Fisheries Que:tiens—North German Loans and the Means of Payment. - London, Dec, 3, 1870, Mr. Thomas Hughes, member of Parliament for Frome, Somersetshire, in addressing bis consutuents last evening, referred to the recent capture of an Amerivan fishing vessel by & British gunboat. He “deplored this as adding a fresh difficulty to the Alabama imbroglio.” He cited his late American experience, and described the sentiments of the Americans en these questions, He conéluded by expressing the hope that both the Alabama and the North American fisheries questions would soon be settled amicably, The Economist tn Its issne to-day, referring to the German loan, says “the security 1s excellent, as no population is better able to bear @ tax and nove is taxed ko little,” Anglo-American Union. Lonvon, Dee, 3, 1870. A marriage arrangement has been concluded be- | tween Algernon Sheridan, third son of R. Brinsley Sheridan, of Hampton Court, and Miss Motley, the daughter of the American Minister. Sis PENNS YLVANIA. ITALY. nner nancies wnnnnnnnennanne | The Chitadeiphin and ZL verpool Stermsbip Parliamentary Organization, Line—Telegraph Company in Trouble. FLORENCE, De 1870, Signor Yorriano has been appoluted President of A the Italian Senate, PuLapeLrata, Dec. 3, 1879, urge meeting Of merchants and others held at | the Exchange to-day appointed an executive come mittee to obtain $402,000 by suDseription to am American steam line to Europe, im order to secure the offer of Une Pennsyivania Raiiroad Company of $400,000 and 10 guarantee the bonds of the company toward building foar iron steamships on the Deli ware river. Great enthusiasm ws manifested, and. the subscription doubtless will be very soon secured, ‘The Girard Pube Lron Works, on Filbert street, uear Senuyikill, w: burned last might, The loss is $175,000, and insuted for $100,009. The upper stories wer occupied by Thomas beardwood, W Welsh & Son and Lawlor & Brothers. Three hundred and fifty workmen are deprived of employment by the disaster. ry “ ee The Attorney General of Pennsyivania has been Ocean Race Between New York Steamers= | OfMlcially notified that several foreigu corporations, among Which is the Atlantic and Pueific Telegraph Movements of Count Valmuseda, Company of New York, have entered the State and HAVANA, Dec. 3, 1870, occupied territory without legisiative authority. Tue The steamers Columbia and Merida sailed at noon Jasi Legislature declared tt to ~ the duty of the At- torney General to prosecute such companies, for an ocean race to New York. Little interest is sail ba Pi Manifested in the result. Count Valmaseda left Santiago de Cuba yesterday for this ety, NEW YORK CITY. 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 Hudnows Puar- macy, HERALD Building, corner of Ann street:— iyo, 1870, 1969, wo, 3 Cotton Cultivation Decrei Lonpon, Dec. 3, 1870, Despatches from Bombay to the Cotton Growing Association Offices in Manchester and this city men. Uon a serious decrease tn the number of acres under cultivation in India this year. DOMINION OF CANADA. The Cian Campbell—Wedding Gift for the Bride of the Marquis of Lorne. Orrawa, Dec. 3, 1870, ‘The papers this morning contain an advertisement | ihe x = 2 inviting ail the members of the great Clan Campbell | g 4” la in the country to unite with theu fellow clansmen | 12 M.. 47 in Scouand for the purpose of presenting a wedding | AVerage te Me «- 48, . verage temperature for corresponding date gift to her Royal Highness Princess Louisa, on the Amt ycad: wae 28 occasion of her marriage with the Marquis of Lorne. ‘the Campbelis tn all parts of the empire are invited to contribute to this wedding gift, mich will doubt- less be an heirloom in the great chief's faraily for ages to come. Fearful Collision the Grand Trunk Rail- road~Three Persons Killed. TORONTO, Dec. 3, 1870, Two freight trains co#iged on the Grand Trunk Railway, near Brighton tien, early this morning. Three persons wers kiNéd ontright ona severa? Ine Jured ‘The births last week were 390; deaths, 476, and marriages, 178, Fire Mal last week, aud insur al MeSpedon reports twenty-four fires pon Which the total loss was $132,115, nce, $294,960, Mr. G. D. Cardozo, Chief of the Ordinance Bureau, makes the following weekly report:—Complaints of Violation of Corporation ordinances received, 806 if witich 178 have been settlod, and the balance re: us | Terzed to the proper departmeuts for remedy. No sames have been received, The tral | ade uk. { Marshal Hart auring the past week granted the } following licenses:—To secoud-han! dealer, 1; junk | cart, 1; stage couches, 2; bourding-house, 1; coach transfers, 18; ders, 45; a j porters, 5; dog car Total amount re Recovery of Stolen Express Treasnre—Dis- | honest Lawyers Neatly Trapped. SALr Lake, Dee. A tew days since T. F. Tracy, the 1870. | agent for Wells, Fargo & Co. in this city, received a despatch fr EB | shea of the coal and weod yard of Kanth, Hide. ko, Nev., stating that two lawyers, named Bonna- | pranat & Co., corner of Ninth avenue and teenth, fleld and Rand, of Elko, said to be employed as | It was caused by wood taking fire trem the counsel for Dan Taylor, one of the Central Pacific Se ie Ar een The etig was $1,000; tatlroad express car robbers, had, after a | a a ad a ee er $3,000, consultation with Taylor, suddenly gone east. | ward, Mr, Tracy put the matter into the | hands of the police here, and as soon as Bonneflela | j and Rand arrived on the train they were tracked by detectives and followed west from this city to a | to place near where Taylor was captured, aud arrested | Com in the act of digging up the stolen treasure. ‘The | Ch detectives took Irom the lawyers forty-tive ounces of | ance. gold dust and 00 in greenbacks, and, digging | Bear the At two o'clock yesterday a don the third Engie, No. 112 upant was rnoon 4 fire was dis- oor of the dwelling house of Pluzabeth street, damage trifing. Insured in Stuyvesant tinage to building, owned by Sunskop, fifty doll by insar- fre Was Caused by a stove placed wo ‘aul. 4e3 Th W: further, they re: ed $300 in gold coin. Bonue- | ats . tleld and Rand are now in jail here. They sav that | 4@mes Donahue, Superintendent of the Free Taylor told them where the treasure was hidden in | Labor Bureau, Nos. 8 and 10 Clinton place, order to induce them to act as his counsel. | makes the following report of business for Soa ama PRE the week ending December Number of NORTH CAROLINA, | mutes applied employment, 194; females, 618; male help required, females, 613: $ = tions procured for 81 males and 554 fé e Personal Rencontre in Raleigh—Ex-Senator | Total number of situations procured for the week Clingman Attempts to Cane an Editor | ening Decetabor 3, Gos. Whole number of situ a q rocared for the month of Nove! ‘ aud? Gite, Whivind, tions pr or the month of November, 3,013, RaLeEIca, Dec. 3, 1870. Mr. Bernard Smyth, the Tax Receiver, reports as A personal rencontre oceurred this morning, at | haying 1 ed Ub ten o'clock, between General T. L. Clingman, for- | during the past week: merly United stat ‘or, and Josiah Turner, | November ms editor of the Sentinel, ‘The aifair, It 15 satd, was | November caused by severe strictures of the Senttnet on the | Noverb political course of General Clingman. As the parties | Decent were passing on Fayetteville street, near the south | December gate of the Capitol, General Clingman raised a walk- ing cane, and, using some! opprobrious epithet, — deait Mr, Turner a heavy blow on the head, felling ‘The annual meeting of the National Tobacco Asso him to the ground, partially stunning him and in- | ciation of the United States will be held at Rich- flicting a severe wound on the scalp, Mr. Turner, ; Mond, Va., on Tuesday, December 6, Messrs. Wm, recovering, felled General Clingman with anivory | 2. . Morphy, Secre- following amounts for taxes BOM e ccapsscevcee ae & } tar: rroli, 8. 8, Bamon- cane, breaking it in pi Seizing the large end | sion) M. Oppenheimer, M. Pappenheimer, Joseph Mr. Turner then struck General Ciimgman several | Hall, Jonn F. Flagg, Joseph D. Evans, W. Alex. times over the head and face, disabling him for the | Bass, Chas. Seidler, Lewis Maddox, J. H. “onnolly, time. General Clingman was’ carried Into a neigh- bering store, where his wounds were dressed by | Dra. McKee and Grissom, Mr. Turner's wounds | on the head and hand were dressed by Dr. F. J. Hayward, Jr. Mr. Turner {s attending to his duties General Clingman’s wounds are quite serieus, though not endangering his life. The democrats of the General mbly are cau. cussing nightly upon the subjects of tmpeaching Governor Holden and calling a restrictive coustitu- tional conveution. John Stratton and R. H. Arkenburgh are the gen= tlemen Who comprise the York delegation. They represent many of the largest houses tn the country engaged in the tobacco and cigar wade, ‘The delegation will leave en Monday moraing, A TRUCKMAN TRICKED, Tokiog “Tickers” by a New DodgeOne Way to Ge Into the Watch Business, A few days ago a truckman in the employ of Isaac | B. Crane, of South street, was tustructed by his employer to go to the Custom House and receive @ | case of silver watches, valued at $1,500, which had BALTIMORE, Deo. 8, 1870. | neen consigned to him, Just as the truckman Nad On Wednesday last Louis Diebie, late burgomaster 4 z | received the cas his track ec of the town of Kattewitz, in Prussia, had a hearing | eee schrmetbein cette Sees MARYLAND. Extradition Caso in Ealtimerc. " for sthe same, a youn; , bdarebe: l, before United States Commissioner Rogers, in this with bis coat of ine ‘a Mgr sake ts city, on a charge of betng a fugitive from justice fer ear, rushed from the Custom House and embezzling public money of that town, about ‘ 5 , $15,000, and escaping to the United States. The | formed the truckman that Mr. Crane had result of the examination of Dieble was hig being remanded to oe subject to the order of the | Prussian Consul at Baltimore, under tne extradition treaty with Prussia, Disble subsequently sued out a writ of habeas corpus before Tudae Scott, of the Balumore City Court, returnable to-day, on the hearing of wh. the writ was discharged and th petition dismissed. Dieble will now be handed ove to the Prussian authorities. He contessed the em- | bezziement at the hearing befere the Commissioner. EUROPEAN MARKETS. | changed his mind as to haying the ead delivered, to his store, and had sent him to resiip the case on asteamer that was ou the point of sailing. The goods were transferred from the tryck into an ex« press wagon, that had been hired for the purpose of effecting a more speedy transit, and the young man ordered his driver to proceed post haste to the steamer. ‘The truckman returned to his employer MINUS THE WATCHES, and was interrogated as to the cause, and related nis experience with the young man at the Custom ; House, mucn to the surprise of Mr. Crane, who | realized that his truckman had been imposed on. On Thursday a young man called into a Jeweey Store and offered several silver watcnes for sale odormow Monzy Manca. —Lonpon, Dec. 3-1:39P. a Dargain. ‘lhe proprietor of the place, thinking he ned at 92 for momey end the account. Aweri- | hadsiot ceme by the property honestly, gan nities closed quiet. Five: gsr Ae Cohen e] with him for the delivery of the watches on the fole 1865, 94 1887, 90; ven-fortion, 87 steady; Erie, Iulinois Central, Wiig; Atiantic and lowing day, at the same time taking the number of Great Western, 28. the watches exhibited. He informed Chief Detec- tive Living, of the Central office, of the fact, and in- structed him to detail an olticer to his place at the hour the young man hi mised to deliver the watches. Detective Tilley detailed to the place, and upon the arrival of THE DEALER IN WATCHES 2 took hin tn custedy and ascertained the watches were none other than those taken from Mr. Crane's teuckman, fe "eTON MALKET.—LiveRroor, Deo, 3 P. M.—Cotion opened cull. "Midaling upleads, 474d. w 9d.: middling Orleans, 9444. 09/4. ‘The saies of tue day tout up 10,000 bales, inciuding 2,00) fur export and speculation. The sbipments of cotton {rom Hombay up to yesterday, since the last report, have been 2.300 baica, LIVRRPOOL BREADSTUFYS MARE 8-1, M.—Wheat—-California white, 10s. 9d. lavenroor, Provistoxs MANKtr.—LIVERPOOL, Dec. pro was —LivenPoo:, Dec, 8. Td); red winter, Aen gave his uame as John Grady, and SGonvon Propvoe ManartecLowtox, Dec. s-110 | S8¥@ luformauion, when the balance et the property .M. ir, to arrive, opened trimer, was recovered. He was arraigned before Justica PETROLEUM MARGLT.—DMENEX, Dec, &—Petrolewm. | Shandley, ai JeTersnn Market, yesterday, and hel@ 6 thalers 34 croate, for examination.