The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1871, Page 7

Bnd cetieshting to act tn subordifiation to idternationdl law Bhul the constitution of the United Staten, Therefore on the question of acquisition Teay nothing to. 4 ‘only alluding to certain polate invol: metimnes it ited thet emigrante will wy ip large numbers to this splcal ialand when ones annexed, and thus swell its moans; this allegation forgets that, according to the testimony of bistory, peasetul emigration travels withthe sun on paraltels of lauivado and bot on parallels ‘of longitude, maiuly fallo the iso Hine and not turniag off at right avules, her north or south, — Sometimes it 1g Insite that ft will better for t] of this island annexed to our re- on forgets th ‘Out of sight, in into » successful example ‘of we!f-government for the re- Songun. of race, pot ie ‘on the Cariboean islands, but on the Continent of Africa, ‘Then, arises that other question, er we will assume the in this business, as it of expenditures for war sh: ful anxieties, while the ivtens to the constant whisy udence. And there is sttil that other auestion of debts obligations, acknow- xd and unacknowledged, with au immense claim by Hayti an unsettied boundary which 1 have already culled @ These goertione atate only, Meanwhile to my mind there is something than belligerent intervention and acta of war with the menace of a. sorption at untold cost of treasure, sincere and humane effort on our part, in the spirit of » to reconcile Hayti and Dominica, and to establish Eanquaitty throughout the island. Let thi ‘and our republic will ‘an example worthy ‘and of the civilization which it represents while republican institutions bave men - The bl would attend such an elfurt; hor would tue sunile of Heaven be wanting. ‘And may we not expect the President to unite in such a mesure of Hod steed ‘will? He that ruleth bis apirtt ie than he that taketh @ city, and so the Preal- Gent, ruffng hie spirit in mubjection to. the humane principles of internatfoual iaw and the constiintion of his country, wil be greater than if he had taken all the islands of the sea, THE WAR SUIPS AT SAMANA, Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Rear Admiral Lee. The Right of the United States to Coerce St. Domingo. Captain Temp’e’s Letter to Ben Wade Overhauled. dre Americans in Hayti Liable to be Treated as Spica? WASHINGTON, March 27, 1871, ‘The fol.owing letter has Just been made public: fe Navy DEPARTMENT, \ WASHINGTON, March 21, 1871, To Rear Admiral 8. P. Les, Commanding Norta At- januc Fleet:— ApuIRaL--I herewith enclose @ copy of a letter which purports to have been addressed on the 24th day of February last, by the oficer commanding the ‘Tennessee, to the Hon. Lenjamin F. Wade, chairman of the Commission sent to St Domingo on Uhat veasel, and which was published in the correspondence of the New York Zr oune on the ith day of the present month, As the orders to the commander of the Tennessee were simply to convey the Commission on their ex- pedition to such points as they ;might desire, and contain nothing further of general mstruction or dl- - rection, I naturally feel somewat doubuul of the authenticity of this letéer; but as it has been pub- lished as authentic and contains much which 1s cal- culated to inistead the people and autuorities of Su Domingo as to the trne spirit and extent of the orders of the Executive to the naval vessels there, and “may pernips embarrass to some extent the officers in command of those vessel: lnave thought i rignt to correct the unfounde ideas therein contained through you, the command: ant of the feet tn those waters. You will perceive that in this letter the writer assumes in eflect that Mi any person connected with the Commission was taken prisoner by the opponents of the Dominican governinent within their Imes ne would bem reality @ spy, and might unuer the rules of civillzed war- fare be treated as such, because the Untted States has, in the opinion of the writer, through the orders of ‘its Executive to the naval ves- sels there, chosen to take part in the internal confitcts of the Dominican republic, This statement is unfouaded in fact and ference, and has evidently been made hastily, in ignorance of the real circumstances in the case, or in misapprehen- sion of their legal effect. The United States is deal- ing with the regularly constituted government of the Dominican republic in a manner and for a pur- pose not incousistent with international law, and though the night of revolution against constituted auibority for just and adequate cause inheres in every people, yet the constivuted government is, until it is actnally overthrown, the legal representa: tive of the nation 1 all its relations to other people, and the right of revolution does not carry with it to the revolutiontsts, pending their contest, their nght to treat ihe agents of ether nations as eaemies when notin arms against them while they are acting, as they hyve au iuternational right to act, ‘nu accordance with the laws of the exist- ing government, Such treatment without a formal notice is conwary to the rules of civilized warfare, and the notice, if given, is at the peril of the insurgents, and is Justified only when the dis- turbance rises to the dignity of a revolution, But neither the United States nor its Executive has chosen to take pari, or has taken part, in the in- ternal confucts of the Dominican republic. The situation 1s tiis ; The President of the United States has by the coustitution the right to make treatics, subject to the ratification of the Senate. The Con- gress of the United States in 1866 appropriated a con- siderable sum of money for the understood purpose of acquiring by lease or purcnase a part of the island of St. Dominga. ‘fhe bay and peninsula of Samana were considered most appropriate tor our purpose a8 a Naval station, and the republic of St. Domingo Atsell, with 1t8 Javorable position and natural re- sources, its friendly government and people, seemed, for the purposes of commerce and civilizauon, far the most desirable for us of those fragments of our continent whicil lie across the gateways of our domestic commerce and slut up the entrance to our great injaud sea. To imitate all treaties is the con- stitutional right of the President, and thus he had the constitutional power to negotiate treaties for the ce-sion of Samana and the annexation of the Do- minican republic. li, upon proper consideration, he thought it right and tor the interest of the coun- try, whose interests are to this extent entrusted to his judgment, it was his constitutional right if he did negotiate such treaties with the existing govern- ment of the republic, contessedly the govern- ment both de sacto and de jure. These treaties, of course, inchoate and subject to ve condrmed or defeated by the action of the Senate of the United States and of the people of the Stu. Dominican republic; but by such treajies and pend- ing such tinal action the United States acquired an interest in the thivg ‘negotiated, trom which we could not be. rightfully disturbed by any other Power, and it was the piam duty of th® Executive to protect, if need be, the ry my of this constitu- tionally acquired interest, so that the subject ef the negotiation might reinain intact ‘until final action oi the ratifying Powers could be properly had. This duty is plain, and In every case of valuable acquisition the exe- cution of it will be expected and approved by tae people, It wasin the discharge of such duty tat, in the early part of the present century, President Madison marched the arinies of the United States into and actually took possession of the territory u known as West Florida, including what is now the State of Alabama, for which territory negotia- tions were then Pending, and afterwards con- cluded and settied with Spain. ‘This action was approved by Congress and the people not as an exercise Of War power, but a8 the protecting of an interest constitutionally acquired, and which the Executive was bound to maintain intact wale it re- mained in use. In the present case the President has hitherto only pursued, in relation to the republic of the st. Domingo, this same recognized policy of our government, and, under the treaty and by means of an appropriation by Con- gress for such purposes, we took possession of the Bay and Peninsula of Samana. This possession Wwe stil hold, and while our flag flies there we must protect from every interference the interest which it presents. In carrying out this recognized policy the government of the United States has not dred a shot nor landed aman in hostile attitude on the island of Si. Donungo, and has neither interfered in the in- ternal conflicts of the Dominican republic nor co- erced any other Power. lt has simply announced to all people generaily, and particuiariy to such as appeared in a threaten- Ing attitude, — its determination to protect unui finally disposed of the interest it had acquired dn that republic from all attacks from without its boundaries and from the interference of any toreign Power, so that, in the event ol the treaty being ratified, there would be left the thiug coutracted for with no hostile possessions intervening to destroy our right of pre-emption. To do this 1s certainly not to make war, or to take part in the confiet of a country, nor to coerce, nor tw attempt to coerce any ewer. ‘It 1s but the simple performance of a duty to Cougress And te the nation, in the preservation in its exist- ing condition of what we have constitutionally en- dered into negotiations constitutionally to acquire. Under the orders of the Executive 11 is part of the duty of those ships of your fleet which ure ai any me cruising In the waters of St. Domingo to maiNLalD this: status against every Power, and while we would not yield the right to interfere with i to the most powerful government we cannot cencede tbat right even to the Weakest. Very respectfully, GEO, M. ROBESON, Secretary of the Navy. LOUISIANA FINANCES, The Sate Debi—An Licrense Opponed by tue Business Men of New Orleuns. N&W UBLEANS, Mareb 26, 18% 1, The Times this morning published a card signed oy nearly four hundred property owners and tax- Bene amoog then maoy of the most prominent nginess men of the city, declaring they will use every legal means to resist the payment oi all addi- Hons to the State debi over and aboye the $26, 000.000 alreags incurred. mae NEW YORK HEI CONGRESS. Senator Sumner’s Great Speech on St. Domingo. The President Denounced as a Ku Klux, TART REJOINDER BY SENATOR HOWE. Seward, Chase and Sumner the Buttresses of the Dem:eracy, Labor Reform Movement in the House. SENATE. WasminoTon, March 27, 1871, Long before the hour of meeting the galleries and corridors leading to the Senate were deracly thronged by an immense audience, eager to hear the speech of the Senator from Mus- ‘sachusetts, who had been announced to address the Senate on 8t, Domingo. The diplomatic and Indice’ galleries were almost entirely monopolized by the fair sex. At twelve o'clock the spectacle was one of the mort ani- mating ever witnessed in tne Senate Chamber. Mr. Sumner’s appearance on the tloor was welcomed by the galleries with ‘applause. nm the conclusion of the reading of the journal Mr. Sumner took the floor and msked for the reading of the reso- lutions recently submitted by him, and already published, against the use of United States naval forces to uphold Baez in an attempt to sell his country, In violation of its constitution, and threatening the integrity and existence of the friendly Power of Hayti, The following is the additional resolution submitted by Mr. Sumner to-day, to come in as the seventh of the series :— Resolved, That, whatever may be the title to the terntory under an unratified treaty, it is positive that after the failure of the treaty in the Senate, all pretext of title ceased, so that our governinent is {n all respects a s:ranger to the territory, without excuse or apology tor any interference against enemies, forelgn or domestic, and. therefore any beilizerent intervention, oF acts of waron the coasts of the island of St. Domingo, after the failure of the Dominican treaty in the Senate, is unauthorized violence, utter!: law or reason, and rogative which ts States, ized violence, utterly without support in peeling directly from that kingly pre- owned by the constitution of the United Mr. FEnTon, (rep.) of N. Y., called attention to the fact that in the pressure to gain admittance to the galleries hun- dreds of Indies had been excluded. He therefore moved that the cloak rooms and corridors in the rear of the Senate chamver be opened for their accommodatio: ‘Where being no objection the Sergeant-at-Arm# was di- rected to carry out the motion as the order of the Sen: Mr. THURMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, hoped that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Sumner) would not be interrupted at the expiration of the morning hour, but would be allowed to pro- ceed regularly. It was o ordered. Mr. SUMNex, (rep.) of Mass., then aroze and addressed the Senate at length, apeaking from the seat of his colleague, Mr. Wilson. During his speech, and while enlargiug upon the declaration that the President had placed himself at the b of amore powerful and costly Ku Klux thao tho proceedsd:—Had the Presid as to bestow on the Southern Unionists, white Kk, one half the time in zeal, will, personal attention, personal effort and personal intercession, which be has be: Stowe upon his attempt to obtain haif an island in the Caribbean Sea, our Southern Ku Klux would bave existed in name only, whule tranquility would have reigned every. where within our ders. (General applause in the a leries and hisses.) sd i ‘The Vick PRESIDENT—Tho Chair cannot consent that there shall be manitestatious of approval or disapproval in the galleries and he reprehends the one as promptly na. the igther, “Uf they are repeated he must enforce the order of the jenate. Mr. SoMNER proceeded :—Now, an I desire the suppression of the Ku Klux wherever it shows {trelf and the elevation of the African race, I insist that the Presidential scheme which instals the Ka Klux on the coasta of St. Domingo and which, st the same me, tnanite the Africaa race in the ‘back republic shall be fairly represen speak of that Ku Klay of which the President is the declared Head, the African raco whom the nt Has tramp Ia there any Senator in earnest agalnst the Ku Klux Let him arrest {ton the coast of St. Domingo. Ie there any Senator ready at all times to seek the elevation of the African race? Here ia the occasion for bis best edorts. After apeaking for three honrs and quarter, Mr. Sumner, at ball-past three o’clock, concluded. Mr. MORTON, (rep.) of Ind., said he did not propose to reply to Mr. Suiuner wt this time, ae that would require time and preparation, but almply to show that the sole object of that Senator's eiavorate 5 wasto charge the President and at least two members of his Cabinet with the commis- sion of bigh crimes and misdemeanors, ‘This was more learly shown by the Senator's own express admission in the ning of his remarks, that he did not to arsue the question of annexation, He had presuied an indictment against the Preriuent with many counts; but it would be impossible to follow him through his great mass of details, nor, in bis (Mr. Morton's) opinion, was it necessary. He could say that the most of f¢ was not’ unfamiliar to the Senate, and was no surprise. Mr, Morton) bad no o make for oragainst St. Domingo elther to- Orat this session, It had veen decided, in order to sete differences of opinion on the subject, to send a Commission tothe island, who should report to the country upon the pro- riety 0! annexation and the questions therewits counetced, houh personally in favor of annexation, he had agreed to duspend | his judgment nut that’ made. It hat a thou; best the matter from politica unth that was made ; but this course had not been followed by some, though he bad declared, for one, his willingness to drop the subject Af the Commissioners’ report was unfavorable. It had aulted certain men to keep the question before the country and pre- sent it constantly inan exagcerated ‘and distorted form, as if fo anticipato the report and prejudice the public mind against it, Whatever might be its character, taste and Propriety requfred that “the Senator from Massachu- setts should have deferred his specch until that report was made, White he did not know anything of he (Mr. Morton) felt confident that many chi President and a large part of the Senator’ wered by that report, The vindication of the Wresident upon all the charges here made out would be complete upon a statement of ali the facts, We bad heard to-day of a war made by a usurpation of the President's power; it was the most al war ever heard ot; been fired nor an act of violence committed n. So far ne ‘not upon ‘a single a ar the evidence went (and there was po evidence of the slightest complaint by Hayti) not one word of complaint had ever come from that country, and it bad Femained for the Senator from Massachusetts to bring in & complain! Mr. Morton then had read by the Secretary a despatch to the United States Minister (Mr. Bassett), rom the Secretary of Foreign. Affairs, assuring Bim that Hayy had no disposition or desire to mterfere with the free will of the Dominicans, As a further reply to Mr. Sumner, he reminded the Senate, as evidence that’ the administration bad not proposed to take any immediate action upon annexation, that the Commissioners had no power to. negotiate a treaty, and no one went with them who could take a single step 1n that jou. ‘The Haytien government, in violation of the law of nations, had given free passage’ across its territory to abra!, and furnished him with war vessels to attack Do- miniea, and the United States had merely notified Hayti that while our negotiations were pending with Dominica we would not allow her to make war on that isiand. This the United States had the undoubted right to do, because our gov- ¢rnment had information that organizations were on tout in Haytt to defeat the annexation. No one need tell him Mr. Morton) that the Senator from Massachusetts wat a. riend of liberty or of the colored man when he so industri- ously spent his time in the effort to put the deniocratic party power. The Sevator could not strike a blow. at the Presi- rae without at the same time striking at the republican ila : Mr, HowR, (rep.) of Wis., cited various historical instances in which pabile men who had been regarded with uuiversal esteem by their countrymen had, by subsequent acts ot mts tided zeal ant passion, fortelted that coutidence and re- psed nto obscurity, or assumed positions at utter varianc with their former de ferred to the prommence and influence of ex-Secret: Seward, Chief Justice Chase and Mr. Sumner in. Ibi. ‘The last meen of the first of this great. triumvirate, he bad turned his back upon the hopes, lessons aud friends of his better years, and wat acting as’ a master oi ceremonies in a political pageant wherein an itinerant Presi- dent waa the principal tizure, ‘The aecond had empioyed the authority of the great office ot a Chief Justice of the United ‘States to undo and annul the moat beneficent act of hr civil administration., To-day the republican party. experience some of thatangnish which’ swelled in the breast Cwaar when, having already been struck by Uasca and Cassius, he saw s third dagger upuifted by the hand of @ dear friend,'and there was wrung from his agonized bosom the oxclai ion, “Ht tu Brute.” For to-day we had heard the remaining member of that great triumvirate, that Senu- tor, who had so earnestly urged upon reluctant Senators the purchase of those rigid, far-olf regions of the North Pole, how ‘turning a deaf ear to the echoes which back his own exultant prophecy that our could be nothing less than the whole Continent, with ber cates upon” all nding seas, To-day the Senator arose not only to nnexation of an island at our very doors, but to criminal a President who had ventured in the Jotly constitutional prerogative 10 advise its le (Mr. Howe) had esd the privilege of en- wearance here Yor that illustrious respondent, no demurrer nor interpose any dilatory pleas, jaytien brought country American exercise of acquisition. tering an a) He would file but preferred the general issue. At this point in bis remarks Mr. Howe yielded for an ad- Jouroment, when, at half-past five, the Senate adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WaAsutnGTon, March 27, 1871. SILLS AND JOUNT RESOLUTIONS, States and Territories were called for bills and Joint reso- lotions for reference only. Aimoug thein were the follow- ing: By Mr. Twrowrtt, (rep.) of Mase.--A joint resolntion of the Legisiature of Massachusetis n favor of the shipbuilders of the United States, By Mr. PENDLETON, (rep.) of R.T.—A_ bill to inereane the duty on manufactured machinery imported trom toreign countries. By Mr. Cox, (dem.) of N. Y.-To repeal the duty on matches. By Mr. STORMS, (dem) of Pa.—For the reduction of DOT tho le of Utab, without distinction of race, vex or previons condition of servitude, By Mr. MYeRs, (rep) of Pa.-To place the mission to Rua- sia in ai reapects on a footing with tbe missions to Great Britain, France and Germany. ‘Numerous bills were Introduced for the removal of politi- cal disavilities By Mr. ARMATRONG—A Dill to establish the territory of Penibina and to provide a government therefor. Ri NUE REFORM. Mr, HinnaD, (de N. H., offered a series of resoln- tions declaratory af what the Snanclal policy of the govera- mient should be; that the tax_shonld be for revenue only and not for the benefit of cies interests at the ‘Sev raised only ralsed on! intereat, the that economy requires there should two bundred and fifty milliona of reven' ‘aud twenty-five millons towards pa} cipal public debt, and that in oase the ¢ ry “Means sball not be appointed at the present seasion, a special committee of seven be appointed to report a reform of the rene tariff without discrimivation in favor of particular intereats. The House by a vote of @ inst 88 refused to second the demand for tbe i question. Mr. BLDRtpeR, (dem.) of Wis.,to test the sense of the Houne, moved to Iny the first resorution on thetable. This Brooks of Mass. was disagreed to—yene 2 (namely, Messrs, and Maynard), ways 108 ny 1 dn was then referred to the Committee of W: and Means when appointed. Laie ‘The bi thus referred in aa follows :— cial policy which aims merely at a ‘ations, In this connection he re- | of | 4h SHEET. the that rapid extinguishment of the public debt by perpetuatin burdens of taxat on 18 inexpodiont and impolite, at it of the govern jepend on the de- of the country aud their relief hese resolutions are the same as were offered by Mr Cox on last Monday. ‘The question occurring on the second resolution. Mr, Cox moved to adjourn, saying he wanted to see whether St. Do- mingo was sironger 10 the House than relieving the people from taxation. ‘The House, at fifteen minutes past one o'clock, adjourned, UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Decisions—State Jarindivtion of an Island in the Mixsissippi—slave Contracts Mace Prior to the War Valid—Proccedings in Federal Courts Not to be interfered With by State Oficlals. Washixeron, March ASTI, No, 2. Original. Missouri's Kentucky Repetition.— In this case it was prayed the Court to establish the Juvisdiction of Wolf Isiaud, in the Mississtppi river, about ten miles m length on the West side and five on the east side and about ten miles wide. The Court now disinissed the bill, sustaining whe title of Kentucky, a3 derived trom the Virgmia Company, out of a share of watch the original territory of the State of Koutavky was formed. Mr. Justice Davis delivered une opinion. No, 354. The New PBngland Mutnat insurance Company ve Dunkam,—Certiticate of division from the Cirewt Court for Massacnusetts,—The questions certified in thls cause are auswered in the aftirma- tive, the Court holdiug that a policy of marine in- surance {3 a maritime contract and within the cogut gance of the admiralty courts, Mr. Justice srad- ley delivered the opiiuon. No, 10U. Swanship Fannie vs, Schooner Elen Forrister—Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland.—In tvis case the court below entered a Gecree against the sceamship for a collision. with the Schooner ia the Chesapeake Bay. The case Was brought here upon the allegauon that the schooner deviated {rom the course contrary to the rules Of navigation and thus caused the accident. ‘This Court affirms tne decree below, holediug tat the steamship was at fault in not keeping out of the way. Mr. Justice Strong <leiivered the opinion, No, 99. Smith vs, Sac County—Error to the Su- préme Court‘of Iowa.—In this cage the court below decided that certain bonds issued by Sac county, for the purpose of building a court house, were irregularly issued and void, This court afirms that Judgment, holding that the Irregularities were fatal, Mr, Justice Milier delivered tte opinion, Dissenting Justices, Messrs. Clifford and Strong. # No. 100, Ginieres vs. Campbeli—lirror to the Cir- cuit Court for the District of Louisiana.—In this case the Court below sustained the contract of a promissory note giver for slaves in April, 1861, and the judgment was for the holder of the note. ‘This Courc affirms the judy. ment, holdiug that, as the consideration of the note was legal atthe date of the contract, the instrument is Valid and the rights of the paries must be decided by the laws th Any oiher rate would impair the obtigatios ntract Valid when made. Mr. Justice Swayne delivered the opinion, No. 98. Arny v3. Burkholder--Error to the Cir- cuit Court for the District of Iowa.—In this case the Gourt below sustained a plea to an action imaking the defendants in error personally lable for certain bonds issued by them as Supervisors of Des Moines county, setting forth thas they had been pnt under bonds by the State Gourt to obey its injunction not levy @ tax to pay the bonds, as di- rected by writ of mandamus issued {rom the federal court, This Court reverses the judgment and reinanas the cause, holding tnat the plea was iusuilicieat and ¢ the process of the State Court was unwarranted, the Court haying no authority to interfere with tue process or proveed- ings of the courts of the United States. Mr. Justice Swayne delivered the opinion. No. 73% Farr vs, Thompson.—This was @ certifi- cate of division from the Circuit Court for Wiscon- sin, The Court In this case answered afiirmatively the question certified of, whether an action can be maintained against a city council for negiectiug to levy a tax to pay certalu judgments as directed by & writ of mandamus, Mr. Justice swayne delivered the opinion. No. 362 Bagler vs, Wallerwal—Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Virginta.—Io tuis case it was ordered that the appellant have Jeave to file a new bund Yethin ten days, otherwise the case to stand dismissed, Mr. Jusuce Clifiora delivered the opinion. No. 107. The Phenix Insurance Company vs. Gardner—Error to the New York Court of Appeals.— Writ of error dismissed. Opinion by Mr. Jusiive Bradley LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Trubuer's Record reports tuat Dr. Trampf has on hand @ gramunar o! the Sind language and one of Afghan. Madame Anna Bishop. at present residing in this city, is engaged in prepurimg the material tor her autoblography, which, on dit, will be edited by a member of the New York press. Signor @fovanni Pratu, the most ceiebrated of living Italian poets, has just completed a poem, dedicated to Frauce, in which he telis, though nut propheticaily, of the fina! Geieat of the Emperor of Germany. A young lady of Alsace, whose real name has not transpired, 18 about to publish “Lucie’s Diary of the Siege of Strasbourg."’ The literature of the Franco. German war bis fair te surpass the literature, such as it is, of our rebellion. The first volume of Professor Mading’s “Adver- saria Critica” has just appeared. It contains a treatise on Conjectural Criticism and .a large number of emendations of Greek authors. Next year a second volume will appear, containing emendations of Latin authors, Signor Gustave Strafforello, the trauslator of Smile’s “Seli-Help’ has just published a work en- titled “Shakspear and His Times,” in wich, says the London Atheneum he has attempted to give a sketch of the poet in the midst of the romantic scenes of the events of Queen Enzabeth’s reign. James Anthony Froude, the historiav, proposes visiting the United States Curtng the current year, for the purpose of lecturing on “Ireland Under the Penal Laws.” Although one of the most entertaining of historians, we doubt if Mr. Froude will meet with sympathetic audiences in America. He is a dis- ciple of the schvol of Carlyle and feels a holy horror of republics Among the recent autographic acquisivions of the British Museum are the “Lay of St. Cuvhbert” and others of the famous Ingoldsby Legends, in the autograph of the Rev. Rk. H. Barham. Miss Edy worth’s autograph copy of her “Helen,” as printed in 1834, is also umong last year’s purchases, as well as Bishop Percy’s correspondence with Shenstone nd Dr. Farmer, and the old printer Berthelette’s accounts for primung stavutes and other books for the King, CAUGUT BY TRE CABLE. Alleged Forgery on 2 Father-in-Law. Ata late hour yesterday afternoon Deputy United States Marshals Crowley and Kennedy, aymed with a warrant issued by United States Commisstoner Kenneth G. White, proceeded down the bay to ineet the steamer Silesia, coming in from Hamburg, and ‘upon boarding her, at once arrested one Gustave Adolf Boden, a fugitive frem justice, who stauds charged with the crime of furgery. Boden was arrested, and, arriving in the city too late to be brougnt before the Commissioner, was committed to the County Jail to await examination, He denies all knowledge of the crime of forgery, but states that ne was vuilding a house at Brestnicht, ayn and became indebted in the sam of two thousand dollars, for which his father- in-law went security; that not being wble to pay tne same at maturity be came away, intending to go back whea his father-in-law had paid the money, and that the charge of forgery is only trumped up w afford an excuse for bringing him back; that his fatber-in-law no doubt supposed he intended te de- sert his family, Which Was not the case, as he 1s willing to return at once and face ail tie charges that cun be brought against him, An exammavion betore Comuussioner White will take piace at an early day, ‘THe UBIQUITOUS FORESTER. Forrester, the Nathan itiurderer, Secreted in Memphis—‘frustworthy Pale—The Police ut Fault. St, Louis. March 2 A special despatch, dated Memphis, 26th, says:— Forrester, the suppose Nathan murderer, made his appearance anu was recognized in inis city some three weeks since, but the parties recog- nizing him «did pot know he was the man wanted. He disappeared from the city afew days afterward and simultaneously with the arrival of a St. Lowis detective, and it 18 sup- bore, he is now concealed somewhere im thrs city. St. Louis detective 1s Dow working the case, but ‘with no success, as Forrester’s pals will not make kuown his whereabouts. It is rumored before leav- ing the city he said if a pardon could be procured for the twelve years he is wanted in the Minor Penitentiary he would deliver himself to the ofivers nd stand trial for tne Nathan murder, he baving NO fears as to the resuit of that investigation MEAN BEATS, Worse Than Sneak Thieves—Mecaner Than Youy Larceny Men—Heow a Young Man Can Get Good Clothes and Part His Hair in the Middle. On Saturday afternoon last a young boy named Charles (©, Scofleid was accosted in Fourteenth street by a fashlonabiy dressea young man about twenty-four years of age, whose ambrosia! locks were parted in the middle, and on whose fingers were costiy rings and in his shirt front some rich jewelry. He said to the boy:— “My son, do you wautto make fifty cents?” “Of course Lo,” said the boy; “what do you want? “l want you to take a note to w person in Sixth avenue who will give you some money for me. ‘The boy decyned taking the note, and the young fashionable then patronizingly asked bim what was his mother’s Bame and address and where she traded for groceries. This was naively given by the lad, whereupon the young gent took oui an en- velope and wrote an address on It. Hail an hour afterwards a lad delivered to Mr. Charles Tilford, of the firm of Park & Tiltord, & note, written in a neat, lady’s hand, of which the following Is a copy:— SATURDAY, Murch 25, 1871, Menara. PARK & THLFORD—Will you please he kind enough to Joan me twenty-tive dollars? 1 wish to. use kome money very particularly and have not suilicieat, If you will obli.e me you can enclose ft in ap envelope and give it to th bearer, Respectfully yours, ELIZA J, SCOFIELD, Mr. Tilford questioued the tad as to who gave bim the note, and suspecung that all was not right, called in ervices of oMcer Gaffney, Who arrested tue enterprising young gent. ‘On being searched ten similar notes were found tn his possession, three of which were addressea— one Wo Messrs, Pope & Weildman, 13) 8 avenue, sighed “Sirs, De Banks, 67 Fifth avenue;’ another to Mrs. Lonza, signed “Mrs. Gunther, 239 East Four- teenth street,” and another to Mr. Lewis Keliy, Signed :/ihosan Hayward, 243 Bast seventeenth street. A On the remamder of the notes there were no ad- dresses or siguatures, the young gentleman evi- dently awatting more extended information. Adonis Was brougit belore Judge Scott, at Essex Market, yesterday morning. He smiled as he was undergoing examination, and seemed to take the whole thing as an excellent aK He ga his name as Wiillam Smith. ‘This, however, is said: to be only an assumed name, and that he belongs to a very respectabie family in Brooklyn, On tne aiidavit of slr. Titford, and the testimony of Mrs, Scofield and her son, he was com- mitted for trial at the General Sessions, FORGERY MADE EASY. Ao Adroit Young Man Hambugs Sharp Mer- chauts=Threo Complawis Against Him~ Lovked Up io the Tombs. A young man, giving bis name as Frank L. Myles and his residence as 144 avenue D, was arrested last week vy Detective Tilly, and was yes: terday arraigned betore Justice Dowling at the Tombs on three separate charges of forg- ery. The first of these was effected on the Lith inst, and secured twenty dollars from Nelson H, Leadbeater, 659 Seventh avenue. Myles Drought to Leadbeater a check for $100 on the May rine National Bank, payable to the order of E. K, Willard, a broker doing business at 30 Broad street, and by means of a card purporting to be written by Mr. Willard Lo the effect that he (Willard) had forget- ten to supply himself with cash during the day, Persuadea Leadbeater to give him all the money he then nad about him, the aforesaid sum of twenty dojlars. ‘The second charge was preferred by Emue Vatette, cashier for the firm of Acker, Merrall & Co., of 162 Cuumbers street, to whom Myles went en the ith imst. with @ check for seventy-tve dollars on the Natioual Broadway Bank, payable io KE. Willard, and the cashier, Knowimg that it was after bank- ing hours, aud seeing Mr. Wiilard’s signa. ture to the check at once gave Myles the money. The third forgery = was emected on the 15th imst., when Myles called upon Charles ONeill, of tue tivie of Bond & O'Neill, 830 Broadway, With a check, sigued by E. C. Kellogy and drawn on the Nationai Broadway Bank in tavor of EB. Rt. Wil- lard, for the sum ot tifty dotlars. in this case a bogus note, signed by Mr. Willard, accompanied the check and stated that he (Mr. Willard) was quite unwell that diy and uvable tw rewrn wo the office, and asker that: the fifty dollars would be given as an accommodation, In each tne stance Myies succeeded without any dificulty in Passing olf all the for; names and getting the money. When asked what he tad to sa to the charges against hun be ansa noting to say.” Justice Dowhng tial in default of $5,000 bail on each complaint. PRURIEVE PROTESTANTISM. The Rev. J. G. White On Romaniaxm, Protest. nntism, the Press and the Pope. About seventy-five persons assembled in the lec- ture hall of Cooper Institute last evening to Hsten to a lecture by #e Rev. J. G. White, devoted to the ‘Exposure of Romanism and the defence of Protest- ism." His lecture was entitied “sigus of the Times,’ and was made up to @ great extent of extracts trom the writings of Catholic divives, accounts of the diificuity of interesting Protestant ladies and gentlemen in lectures of the nature of those he was engaged 1n delivering, and the reasons for their in- difierence, and of wholesale denunciations of the Tress. Alter offering up a prayer the lecturer made the discovery that he had left his glasses benind nim, When he made the announcement that, through some mysterious oversight, HE HAD FORGOTTEN HIS SPECTACLES, several old gentlemen in the andieuce offered him the use of theirs, Alter accepting a pair he went on to say that Romanists and Protestauis are antagonistic, an irrepressible conflict is waged between them, It 1s the great contitet of the nineieenth century, and it will con- tinue to Wage as long us there 1s a struggle be- tween right and wrong, itberty and des- pousm, Christ and antt-Chnst, “Eternal vigi+ lance om the price of —iberty’—(this very origmal remark was warmly applanded)—tor his iccuure nu apology was onered, no eulogy was asked. {£aint applause.) The Catnoitcs had vo re- spect for the 4th of July or the of February. in- deed, only @ short time ago, in a public hall, in Burfato, ne hei rt from Pretestantisin to Catholicism speak In derisive terms of those great ays. Not long since @ simmons was issned trom Reme, @ council of bishops, osten- sibly te delin 1 the miathyuity of the rope, DUT Te tberate about the sup} schools in Austria aud Norn Amer s the dogma was issued Catholle Franc claved War agumst Protesiant Prussia. planation of the casus belié between those two countries was received with preat applause.) Mr. Harper, of this city, had a happy conception, when he printed in tus paper a carvoon where you saw the Pope up a tree, SAWING OFF A LIMB which was marked Jesuit, (Here the lecturer moved his arms in @ lively manner, (0 show that he knew the way nm which a saw should be used.) The Pope was oi his throne and was not going back again. (Here the lecturer was interrupted by an old irre- essible old feilow, in # dirty coat and with matted rt, Who disagreed with hin). no objection to tie alihough in 1848 Dr. Hughes preveuted his: coming here, by saying that he woul! sooner assign hit an island in the Mediterranean one milein cr- enmleren because, if he came here, one half the people would listen’ to dim with their hats on and their feet in the air, while the other half would use nim ior the purpose of making political capi- tal (another interruption from the irrepressivie, who creates considerable amusement among those around him). He read an extract troma monthly whick contained an article from the pen of Rev. d. 1. Hecker, whieh showed that one-nith of the (Here the ‘opinion that Hecker did not drink, This remark was re- ed with laughter and cries of “Put fim our Dow't put him out!) He expressed an unwilling- ness 10 believe in THE TRUTH OF NEWSPAPER REPORTS. he betieved that all the papers ta this country, with the exception of about twenty, were controlied by Catholics: a Protesiant slengyman has great dini- je of this conntry were Carnolr ‘ome interruptiontst gave it as n h culty even to obtain a public hal if he wishes to deliver @ lecture against Romanism. If a dog fight or @ cock fight take place there will be half a column in the morning papers describing it; but, let a mau lecture on the salva- thon of his country and he will hardly be able to get a report, or, if he does, 1¢ will be in some out of the way corner and hard to find. A man publishing a paper has lite bread and less butter, and that but- ter spread thin, aud he dare pot make an honest re- ort. He was glad toshow the audience one man who Was not atraid of the oe press, and he took their neglect apd abuse as the Irishman did tne kick from. the jackass, remembering whence 1¢ came and the nature of the beast, (Here the lecturer worked himseif into sucb a state of excltement the reporter Mought It prudent to reuir RAVAL ORDERS. Lientenant Commander Robert Boyd, Jr., bas been ordered to an examination for promotion. Commander 8. P. Quackenbush has been detached from the Norfolk Navy Yard and ordered to com- mana the Vandalia, at Portsmouth, N. M. Surgeon BH. M. Stem has been detached from special «uty under the ‘Treasury Department and is wailing orders, Oup anv Youne,—Danville, Il.. furnishes a mar- rica girl whose age'ts twelve Years apd sx woniRe, ‘The husvabd is Jorty, BRYANT AS “ BONIFACE.” ‘The dientle N Bryant Takes a Hotel and Keeps It-The Mistortunes of the Metro~ politan=The Guests Ordered to Leave=="Out in the Street.” Mr. Neil Bryant, of this city, has filled many posl- tions in his eventrul Mfetime, but yesterday he ap- pearod in anew and strange role, For some ume past rumors have been floaung about in the air of the metropolis that the proprietors of the Metropolitan Hotel were about to be dispos- sessed of their large brown stone caravanserie aud that the hotel would soon pass into other bands, ‘The nawe of Leland has hecome almost synonymous for that of hotel keeper, and yet two butchers in Washington Market, who have had the honor of serving the hotel with ut, have felt very shaky for months past as to the credit which they had given the Metropolitan for porterhouse steaks, jolnts of beef, fancy veal cutlets and choiwe vegetables. ‘The person who had been in the habit of furnishing the Lolands with canned,tomatoes lately got hidig- nant; and people who are fond of that FRAGRANT AND NOURISHING VEGETABLE, had to ask for tt many times at the dining table of the Metropolitan before they were told that tt could not be served to titillate their palates, Then the ser vantsin the kitchen had become dissatisfied at the way thelr wages came i the aabit of receiving ¢ Ol late Weakened yery muc! murequency of the’ app stamped slips of white papel Now Nell Keyant 14 & merciful Man, and ts bosom, to use the words of a member of the old Fire De~ partinent, is ‘Just jammed with the MILK OF HOOMAN KINDY-NESS.”” Consequently when the order was given by Sheri Matthew T. Breanan tw solt-hearted Neil in the tol lowing words:— “Mr. Bryant, go down with an adequate lorce to the Metropoitan Hotel and take possession of the house and furniture. Let the guests leave the hous and seize the building and all therein for salisiac- tion of judgments.” Nelt Bryant, felt very bad and BRINY TEARS POURED DOWN His MANLY © and ghistened on bis superb diamond bre pia hike the dew drops on agrass plot of a May morn- ing. Calling upon two of lis adjutants to help him on with his gold badwe, which was very heavy, they fastened it Lo lis mascullue chest, and Nea said to them : — “Boys, this is rough—but it can’t be helped. 1s the orders ef the Chief, It all comes of that dinner of Pat Cutl’s having taken piace at the Metropolitan Hotel. Tae Lelands couldn’t stand such anoth fhe heavy wine supper busted them ciear off Uy face of the Earth. 1 told Pat Cutt how it wouid be. And the tickets were all prited im green and gold, So mice,” Deputy Sherif Bryant having arrived at the Metropolitan, he formed is infantry a hollow square sist oarders,” and after deploying his they eniered the botel, and Nei note the 390 guests in detail that t invest up their trunks and leave the “rancne.’ ce ted pack It was a piteous spectacie to see the poarders, par- teularly the able-bodied ones, marching along the corridors, looking like Barpey Willams lo “Irejand As (t Was,” when the forty shilling freeholders are distressed for the “‘rmt.’’ “Some of the bourders 4 web wild, L suppose, but 1t can’t be heiped if they CAN'T STAND GRIEF. “Its nove of my funeral,”’ said the kind-hearted Neil, as he sited his imu: ge from his Jefe to his right breast. Many of the guests had todind ew quarters ac short notice, and th pressed their sentiments very freely U0 a minions. During the day a lary brandy and water was consume by the discouso- late ones as they sought new quarters, in this mitt dissipation, however, the Deputy Sherits, of course, reused’ to participa. Among the many visitors who called during we day to mingle tears over the rum of departed prosperity Was Mr. Charles O’Gonor, who stood with a heap of wunks encircling bis body, like Martus among We ruins of Carthage, Mr, Bryaut wil remain in possession of the hotel wutii the Jurniture is sold, When Mr. Kichard ‘tweed, who has bougit the lease, will take charge and fit the Metropolitan up anew. A Mansard root will be added to ihe building, and mapy otner improve: ments will ve made—new carpets, new furniture, so that there are yet hopes of better days tor the once proud Metrepolitan Hotel, au A CHEAP E‘ROPEAN EXCURSION, On or about the 1st of June the steamship Aus- tralia, of the Anchor or Glasgow line, will leave tuis city with about two hundred and fifty selected pas- sengers, Wbo intend to make the tour of Scoland and Northern Europe, in a round trip, the tickets to be sold for return passage. Kdinburg wili be made the headquarters of the tour- isis, the steamer stopping at Glasgow, from whence conveyance will be, had by rail to Edinourg. The tourists will have a chance to see the Mull of Cantyre, the isle of Arran, and Ailsa Cratg, with a sail up the beautiful Clyde; then there will be visits to famed Holyrood, Abbotsford (the home of Walter Scott), the Trossachs, the Royal Castle of Stirling and Loch Lomond, Aberdeen, Dun- dee, Montrose, Berwick-on-Tweed, Arbvrouth, Dunkel, or any other place in broad “Scootland.”” Romantic young ladies will have a chance to look at the isles owned by the Lord of Lorn and hide over the broad acres of his father , the mighty McCailum Mohr. The round trip from Edinburg to Paris via Loudon costs only twenty- five dollars currency, and will require only seventy- five hours’ travel. ‘Those who wish to visit the beau- tiful lakes, historic pictures and charming scenery of Ireland can do 80, as the return tickets will be made good for tweive months. From Glasgow, on their return from Edinburg and the Scottish lakes, the tourists will take @ steamer up the Baltie—the moxt poetiy of seas—and, crossing the North Sea, will land at Gothenburg, in Sweden, taking passage by the Ust Gothic Canal, and thence to Stockholm, passsing through the sluices of Berg. ‘This voyage is between beantiful hedges of berries and flowering terraces, giving the traveller an idea of the Sccnery of Holland. — Troll- hattan, the Niagara Falls of North Europe, will be visited, and a number of most picturesque water and lake viewswill be encountered on the route to Stock- holm. The old university city of Upsala, with the masnificent cathedra} built by the architect of No- tre Dame de Paris, on the same plan and nearly about the same period. From Stockholm tt is tree days’ distance to St, Petersburg, in Russia; to Copennagen, in Denmark, one day, to the deantifal city Christiana, in Norway, two days, and north 19 Avasaxa, where is seen the wondrous spec- tacle or the midnight sun, three days. The manager oi the excursion, Mr. August Petersohn, will fol- low the plan of the renowned Cook, in his Con- Unental tours, taking accomplished couriers with nim, who will uuuertake the entire charge of transportation. ‘The trip will take te tbree months of June, July and August before it is finished, and in North Kurope these months are very cool and healthy, bracing the travellers nerves and imaking his step elastic and free. 1t is calculated by Mr. Petersohn, whose office is at No. S Bowling reen, that the expense of making the trip will pe jess than one quarter of the cost of similar travel in the United States, Those who wish to secure passage will be required to furnish references, so that all unpleasant company may be avoided. Applications must be made personally or by letter to August letersuhn, No. 3 Bowling Green, New York city, before the first of May. The cost of the trip will be as follows, it being understood that travelling expenses to and from the points named below—inaking Ginsgow the place of embarkation and debarkation—are included in the gross fare, 1ood and accommodations only being furnished while on the steainship:— Currency. $1 Fram New York to Edinburg. gow and Edinburg, a week at St. Petersburg and about two weeks at Stockholm and in its environs. The table proviried will ve an excellent one, and every a mmodation possible will be afforded the tourists, “TRENTON (N. J.) AFFAIRS. Capture of the Escaped Convict—The Last Kick of the Jersey City Charter—Legisla- tive Proceedings. TRENTON, March 27, 1871. Jacques, the convict, who escaped from State Prison on Saturday night, was captured to-day at Perth Amboy, through the notice that appeared in the HERALD, and is te-night safely lodged in his old quarters, THE JERSEY CITY CHARTER. Bumstead’s brass band, to the number of about 100, are here to-night lebpying, trying to strengthen the weak-kneed republicans, so as, if 7 FIRES IN THE WOODS Long Island’s Semi-Annual Lame ber Conflagrations. Scenes at the Burning—Description of an E: Witness—Ploughing Across the Line of Fire—-Sparks from Locomotives and Systematic Negligence the Causes. Again has the fre demon been at work in the straggling woods of Long island, So many eontra- dictory and exaggerated reports have circulated con- cerning the last visitation that it became necessary. to set the matter right before the public, The in- habitants of Long Island (of course those back of Brooklyn are alluded to) seem like persona just awakening from @& Rip Van Winkle sleep. They are not #0 sure yet that rall- roads are @ blessing, and the general apprecia- tion of a railroad system 13 such as would urive & Jerscyman mad. They think, for instan that a one-track railroad ts better than a double track, be- cause there is ieas likelihood of accideuts, In the same way they seem very much astduished that any one outside of their village should BOTHER ABOUT THEIR woons, Whether on fire or not, The south side of Long Island has a very sandy soil; large quantities of manure are shipped there to make it arable, and hay, turnips and potatoes are the best, even then, that can be got out of it, The country rolls ina suce cession of contemptible sand hills almost from one end to the other, These are covered with scrubwood or chaparral, over which, here and there, an adoles- cent pine, chestnut or oak tree lifts its head, ‘There are no woods at all, in the Western sense of the term, but A SUCCESSION OF SCRAGGY SHRUBBERIES. The stunted oak predominates everywhere At this time of the year the — pros pect over these sand his is) very une inviting. The red and yellow withered leaves which still cling to the oak shrubs, are rarely re- leved by @ spot of green. ‘The ground is strewo with them, and the bare poles of the shattered chesinut trees iook very dismal as they form the only background to the scene. At intervals of @ mile or two along the lune of ratiroad Long Island villages are scat tered, The shruts and chaparal end, then come a fled or two, and then a few frame houses, more fields and more chaparal and shrubs. Tlius much has been satd to give an ideaof the ground over Which these fires are looked on as RERULAR VISITATIONS to be expected, but no more tone prevented than the advent of winter or summer, They are, how- ever, Inall casea, the resulb of a systematic care- Jessness. In the fali wood fires are confidently looked for as 4 matter of course. The wood is nice and dry and the leaves will BURN LIKE TINDER, It is only wailing tor some one to set fre to it, When oif it Will start, smokimg, crackling, blazing, making clouds by day and pillars of fire by night, now carefully searching for the little valuable tim. ber around, dnd careiully kuling it, without reduc. ing more than the bark to charcoal, Again At will crawl over (he ground without much flame and not mene higher than the mean, neediess scrubwood. [t 1s the WIND MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE. The winter, wiih its snows and frost, necessarily robs the sand hilt Long Islander of bis only excite- ment; hence lie 1s obliged to languish until tue spring, when he has another chance before his lavorite scrub becomes green leaved and sappy. Each of the places in this section of the country hat had its fire, all separate and all on the same day— namely, Saturday last, Ishp, some twen'y miles cast, had a considerable smoke, too, and affected iv be 01 TROUBLE ABOUT ITS CLUB HOUSR, but they were evidently ouly trying to work mp their nerves a little, Along the line of ratiroad, commencing on the New York side at Baldwins- ville, about fifteen miles west of champion Babylon, there was a small attempt on some dead leaves which some malign water spirit had damped and so spoiled the sport. Merrick was @ little better, six acres looktng black and charred. At Ridgewood out double the extent was converted into aton- fire, and the the next seared spot on the map Is Bres- lay. On last Saturday a high northeasteriy breeze was blowing and at every favorable opportunity aiong the railroad a playful stoker would shake down A FEW LIVE COALS ON THE TRACK, or the engine itself entering into ube fun would send forth an eruption of sparks whichethe breeze would walt among the dead leaves, This will account for all the fires already mentioned. Whether there is any statute in the case or not the Long Islanders have an objection to setting other people’s timper on fire with @ match, but. ay sometimes sacrifice thetr own tmber with alike purpose, This was the case at Babylon, and a Dutciman was the self-sacrificing hero, The sufferer to the tune of about $700 In young oak trees, killed by the flames, is Mr, Elbert Uaril, of Babylon. This gentleman was GLAD THEY HAD A FIRB, ANYHOW. A HERBLD reporter alighted from the cars into six inches of Babylon slush yesterday morning ana floated down the main common—it was not a street— to the first and only hotel in tue place. He expected to find a look of GRADUALLY DISAPPRARING TERROR on the faces of the rusties seated around the stove in the barroom. To his astonishment the look was one of pure rural delight. He listened. “That was @ fine cow, George.” “Yes, sir,” “How much dtd yon get for her |"? ‘One hundred dollars.” “Say, Major, you was at that flre1” The reporter chuckled inwardly at the thonght of the revelation about to follow, and prepared to take mental notes. “Yes; 1 was down to the one to Bay Shore; \t was some.’” A mild gleam settled on the village squire’s wrin- kled visage us this comment was uttered. Inquiry of these Babylonian satraps resulted in unintelligibie allusions to local celebrities and their grounds, which were so much arrow-head Assyrian to the re= porter. He sallied forth IN SEARCH OF AN RYE-WITNESS. He found one with his boots outside his pants— ata mode Balylonienne, To the reporter's delight he spoke graphically:— “Up to Elbert Caril’s there isa Dutchman. He wanted to burn hi rub and he set it afire. He went home to work, and whiles he wasa his din- ner THE FIRE GOT AWAY FROM HIM and jumped his fence, It runs over Elbert ,Carll's ground an’ eat up his oak trees. RerortER—fhere were other fires ? “Yes, { was down to the one at Breslau. Thas was a locomotive spark. It was like to give some trouble once. It came near eating up Smith Powell’s barn. They was fearful excitéd. The surveyor of the road first found it out, and he signalled for help. All the men in the village, 500 of them, came down to put it ont. Then we harnessed four teams of horses and commenced PLOUGHIN OSS THE LINK OF THE FIRE. The smoke came down, blinding us, but we stuck fast to work in spite of it, and made furrow after furrow till the land was ali ploughed right up to the barn, ‘Then we waited, It was @ most awful to watch that FIRE COME SPLUTTERING DOWN to the first furrow, like as if it was going to makea jamp for the parn. But it Couldn't, and then it turned like a wiid cat and made for some fences right agin the railroad track, but it never got nearer than a hundred yards to them. Then it smudded and went out, for spite like.” REPORTER—Do you know anything about the Bay Snore fire? “That was a locomotive spark too, but there was never no danger from It.” REPORTER—And the one at Brentwood? “That was burning scrub, like up to Elbert Carll'3 in Babylon here, but it spread more and did more hurt to the lamber, They didn't have any river Jordan or Sampwums ereek to stop it, iey're always a-burning scrub, and, as I sald before, it gets awav from them.”? On figures the inteligent eyewitness was shakv. ‘The reporter, however, obtained a3 close an approx. imate as ble from a brother of the press, in the person of the editor of the Southside Signat. The following is a statement of THR PROBABLE 1L088:— ; Babylon, 300 acres burned; loss in fences and lum- ber, $100. Breslau, 400 acres burned; loss in fences and lumber, $1,000. This latter fallstprincipally om Mr. Millwood and the Breslan Building Agsoctation. Bay Shore, 450 acres burned, loss $800; Brentwood, 500 acres burned, loss $1,500. The entire less om Saturday’s amusement was, perhaps, over the en- Possible, to gain power for to-morrow te pass the charter over the Governor's veto. EVENING SESSION. In the Senate the supplement to the charterof the terson and Newark Railroad was passed. The supplement to the charter of Hoboken was ordered toa third reading. ‘The bill concerning the increase I> Io pean constables fees was laid over until roesday, No business was transacted in the House, THE GREENPOINT TRAGEDY. Coroner Whitehill commeaced an inquest yester- day afternoon in ghe case of Dennis MvCormack, who was shot aud killed by George Neef at Green. point On Saturday evening last. No par- tculars of the tragedy were elicited additional to Ure Island, about $10,900, ANOTHER FIRE FROM LOCOMOTIVES, Destruction of = Valuable Residence and Oatdulldi at Tivall, on the Hadson. ‘The residence and outbuildings of Mr. E. A. Lua- ; low, on the banks of the Hudson, a little above: mpletely destroyed by fire Tivoll, were stmosr a ely i y ced man is wile. O Bu mates horses and le, but the ture, riages and houses were destroyed. The loss ts mated at about $15,000 to 000, The bui were insured fer a small amount. This part those already published tn the HERALD. The inquest Was adjourned antl to-morrow evening. Neep re- mains in the custody of Captaia Rides, of the seventh vrecincs on Pee ee udess ane ‘oda, which exteyd alepg the 11 of four inues, ” 7,