The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERA. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, THE DAILY HERALD, pubtishea every day in the gear. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Price 812. Volume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—KEL.7 & Leon's MinstRzis, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.— MAOBINE GIRL—THE uzzADs. ERR CER ARWTIO WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ‘ances afternoon and evening—DoNn Casau DE BAZAN. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 28d st, between 6th and 6th ave. — Livres NELL AND THE MAUCHION ESS. WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and Tuk MORMON, THE MAIDEN AND LittLR M11 TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSF, No. 201 Bowery.— Tar Turkr Rip MEN—N1OK OF 4 Woops, MRS. F. 8. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— Unpes Tar WiLLows. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. SouuER NiGuTs' Concer: TERRACE GARDEN, 6th street, bet 3d ava.—JoLiEs's CONCERTS. Reena -THEOpORE TUOMAS’ BROOKLYN RINK, Clermont avenue, near Myrtle ave. Que.—SUMMER EVENING ConoERTS, — == = <= New York, Friday, Angust 18, 1871. as aoa CONTENTS OF TS-DAY'S HERALD, vertisements. 2—Advertisements, 3—Journalistic Notes—advertisements, 4—kditorials: wet Article, “The Productions, Fmancial Conaition, Trade and Prospects of the Country”—News from Wushington—? sonal Intelligence—Yachting—The Brookly Caledonian Club—The Winchester Centen- nial— American Scientific Association—Amuse- ment Apnouncements. S—Evangelization: How the Evangelical Delegation was Politely Snubbed by Prince Gortchakot?- The Pope: Encyclical of Thanks and Congratu- lation from” Pio Nono—The — Tricoior and the Green: Banquet Given by Municipal Authorities in Honor f the French Deputation—News trom France, England, Spain, Italy and Mex co— Reported Destruction by’ Fire of the Steamer Henry Chauncey—Base ‘Ball—Cricket—Mlscel- laneous Telegrams—Business Notices, 6-—Saraioga Races: second VD: of the Angnst Meeting—The Sing sing Camp Meeting—Tae Morristown Camp Meeting—Speech of senator Morton in § Melancholy Matricide— ‘The Queens Mystery—The Murderess of Oflicer McCnesney—Department of Decks—The City Finance: celdent on a Race Track at New- burg—Yeliow Jack. '7—The New Court House Controversy—Proceedings in the Courts—fimancial and Commercial Re- ports— Domestic Markets— Marriages and Deaths, @—“Siipping” Sing Sing: Daring and Successful Flight of Jail Biras; A Dozen Desperadoes Escape on a Tugboat—Nearing the End: Ar- Test and Arraignment of the President and Superintendent of the Staten Island Ferry and the Engimeer of the Westfield—Irish Confederation—Shipping lutelligeuce—Adver- tisements. Tue Porg bas published an encyclical letter thanking the bishops and the faithful for their sympathies on the occasion of his jubilee. Our special cable despatch from Rome gives a very interesting synopsis of the encyclical lett Tar MiLtertres have ciphered out this time that according to the prophecies of Daniel the world will come to an end and we shall have “‘the second advent” about the 3d of September. Consequently among the faithful Lelievers in this calculation Wamsutia cotton for ascension gowns is in great request. Gexerat Hancock, from present appear- ances, will be ‘‘Pennsylvania’s orite son” in the democratic Presidential Convention, and he scems to be the favorite among the Southern democracy inclining to the ‘‘new de- parture.” the Southern old departure leaders think, with Mr. Greeley, that it is too soon yet to talk of the party candidate for the succession, and he is “waiting for something to turn up.” Anotuer New Departurt.—The African is rapidly increasing in favor in the old slave Btates. At a political mecting in St. Louis yesterday, when General Grant was spoken of as acandidate for re-election, his name was received with some tokens of disrespect, and one of the crowd cried out, “I go for a nigger!” This shows a great change of senti- ment at the South. W rth are not yet prepared to support a negro for the Presidency. ite mea at the Generar Brain's Canpipats for the next Presidency, it appears, is Governor Gr | Brown, of Missouri, whose bolt, with Carl | Schurz, against General Grant's division of the federal spoils in Missouri resulted democratic Legislature and the election of General Blair veby to the United States Senate. ‘One good turn deserves another but still we fear that as a Presidential cand date Governor Graiz Brown will have to ‘tarry at Jericho till his beard be growa.” Tak Frexou Depuration in Dublin are being feted quite extensively. According to our special despatch a banquet was given last evening in their honor by the Dublio Municipality. There was no lack of speeches and mutual compli- ments. A toast to the Qneen was received with a storm of hisses. British roy- alty, it appears, is decidediy unpopular in Ireland. The Prince of Wales has but recently been hooted out of Dublin, and now the Queen comes in for her share of hisses. This will give food for thought to the sovereign Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, and all | The Productions, Financial Conditi Trade and Prespects of the Country. Business in New York indicates always the condition and trade of the country generally. This great commercial metropolis is the barometer that shows unerringly the actual and prospective state of things. Through this port pass the greater part of our im- portations and exportations, It is the centre and regulator of a large portion of home trade, It furnishes the money for commercial movements and most of the great enterprises throughout the republic. It regulates ex- change, and establishes values according to and in connection with the financial condition of the rest of the world and the currents of trade. To form an idea, then, of the pros- pect before us, let us glance at the commercial movements of New York. By our Washington telegraphic news pub- lished yesterday we learn that the receipts from customs for the present month to date— that is, for fifteen days—amounted to nearly ten millions of dollars, a larger sum than any ever received before in the same portion ofthe month of August. Of course our merchants know what they are about, and the extraordi- nary importations, which yield such an unpre- cedented sum for the Treasury, show that they are calculating upon a very active fall trade, and that they have no doubt as to either the demand or means of the country. An easy money market, the reduced premium on gold, compared to what it was for some years previously, and the comparatively steady price of the precious metal for some time past, together with bountiful crops, have caused the merchants to increase their im- ports and the country traders to extend their orders, Country buyers begin to come to the city, and there is every reason to expect an unusual number of them as the summer season closes, Then, in addition to the necessities - and inducements of business, and the usual attractions of this beautiful metropolis, there will be this fall and the coming winter a number of the most inviting amusements to draw people from all paris of the country. Our retail merchants, hotels, tradesmen and business men generally may look forward for a prosperous time. There has not been since the war such activity in trade thus early in the season and with such a promise for the future. is is particularly the case in the dry goods trade. The grocery merchants, both whole- sale and retail, evidently anticipate a brisk business, for we notice that the foreign impor- tations of wines, fruits and other things in this trade have been heavy. It bas been stated that nearly double the amount was imported last week over the importations for the corre- sponding week of last year, and that larger and unusual quantities are on the way. The clothing manufacturers and dealers, the hard- establishments, aod merchants and traders in other goods, are in a similar expec- tent aud prepared condition for the opening trade. © The promised abundant productions of the country generally are the basis of this activiay and hopeful prospec Among these cotton stands first, for this is equivalent to golé in paying for the vast amount of imported Inxu- ries and necessary articles we consume and in reyniating the balance of trade and exchange. Our gold and silver mines, particularly the furnish a considerable for this purpose; but the cotton plant, that beau- tifal and valuable product of the South, is worth all the mines of precious metals in the The product this year will not be as large as last year. The planters found that they received little or nothing more for a large crop than for a smaller one, the market price fiuciuatiag with the supply, while at the same time they had to buy corn and other provi- sions, which they could have raised had they not planted so much cotton, This year, con- sequently, they have had a less number of acres in cotton and have raised more provi- ware former, sum world and heir apparent of England. Rexicion Run Mapv.—A fanatical ex-priest of the Roman Catholic Church, calling himself Baron de Camin, advertised himself for several lectures in Ogdensburg on the iniquities of the Church, This aroused great indignation among the Irish Catholics of that city, who attempted to mob the Baron and broke up his meetings. The excitement in Ogdensburg among all classes caused by this affair is intense. The Mayor yesterday issued a pro. clamation calling upon the citizens to preserve order, and the Common Council determined that the mob should be put down at all hazards and the right of free speech main- tained. The rioters are resolved that the Baron shall not be permitted to speak, while the authorities and citizens are equally deter- mined that he sball be heard Are such sions. Still, according to the Bureau of Statisties at Washington and from other sources of information, there is reason to believe the cotton crop will yield three millions of bales or thereabout. T will make the crop worth, at the present price two hundred millions of dol- lara in gold. While it may be to the interest of the people generally of this country and of mankind everywhere to have raw cotton abundant and cheap, we cannot blame the Southern planters for looking first to their own interests. Then, the South having raised more necessary supplies in consequence of planting less cotton, it will have more money to spend for luxuries and for many needed manufactured articles which New York furnishes directly or indirectly. Tobacco, wheat, corn and other products of the soil promise a good yield. We hear of few complaints of the crops, and these only as to limited localities. The average product, no donbt, will be abundant, For fruit, vege- tables, hay and other thiags the season has also propitious. Our manufacturing ablishments of almost every kind, too, have felt the general impulse of prosperity and have been doing a good business. In what- ever way we turn we see the country blessed by Providence and carried onward in the way of progress by the industry of the people. It isa spectacle of prosperity which no other country presents to the same extent, and one which the American people may well be proud of and thank ful for. Our financial condition, both in a national point of view and as to individuals, is not less gratifying. Within a few years after the most exhausting and costly war in history the gov- ernment has paid an enormous floating debt and several hundred millions besides of the established debt. Although the cumrent ex- penses of the government are enormous and much greater than they ought to be, the reve- nue exceeds them by a hundred millions or so a year, which surplus goes to the liquidation of the principal of the debt. While the gov- ernments of other great nations hardly know how to make both ends meet and stagger under a load of debt which they have no hope of removing, ours scarcely knows what to do with its surplus revenue, and is rapidly pay- ing off its indebtedness. Thea, look at the colossal fortunes many of our c' ¢, at the growing wealth of the middle at the vast accumulations savings banks of money placed there by the beeu ilizens are ag- gregating the classes, in scenes of strife the emanations of a truly Christian spirit? working people, at the prosperity of our farmera aud surprising increase of lauded pro- prietors, at the astonishing development of railroad and other eaterprises, and at the gen- eral well-being of the masses. All these things present unmistakable evidence of financial prosperity as weil as the abundance of our products. Bat glorious and happy as is our great coun- try at present, its future must be far more 80 if we be wise enough to preserve the institu- tions handed down to us and to remain at peace among ourselves. It would be hard to realize, even in imagination, what this republic may be in a quarter of a century, or what this great commercial metropolis of New York may become in that time. With peace at home and abroad, with no entangling foreign alli- ances or European complications, and pursuing our own destiny with a single eye to the per- petuation of republican liberty and the greatest good of all, this nation must stand first in wealth, power and influence in the world. Our national debt will have vanished like mist before the sun; taxation for the support of government will amount individually to a trifle ; eighty millions of citizens, probably, will cover the vast area of the Continent and make it blossom as the rose, and the city of New York will rival London in population and wealth, This is not an exaggerated picture of the future. It is the present condition of the country and that prosperity which has begun to dawn upon us so soon after the close of a frightful and devastating war that give a strik- ing impression of the coming time. No other people have such aninheritance or prospect. What Becomes of the Pablic Funds. The First Comptroller of the Treasury has prepared a statement of cash balances due from collectors of internal revenue on the 15th of this month. One hundred and seventy- eight names comprise this formidable list, of whom seventy-nine are actual defaulters, the balance having unadjusted accounts. The lia- bilities of the defauliers amount to $2,750,176, while the aggregate of unsettled accounts is $424,112. Of the defaulters forty were appointed by President Johnson, thirty-six by Mr. Lincoln aud but three by the present administration. Mr. Johnson appears to have been peculiarly unfortunate in his selection of revenue officers, his forty defaulting friends having embezzled $1,745,427 of government funds, leaving $930,117 for Mr. Lincoln's men, while President Grant's appointees have been obliged to content themselves with $64,581. Louisiana appears to have been the paradise of revenue rogues, that State having furnished ten defaulters, who stole over twelve hundred thousand dollars; while New England is without a representative on the list, all of her revenue officers having adjusted their accounts, But three defaulters are from New York—J. F. Bailey, $132,642; Masten, of the Thirteenth district, $64,221, and J. B. Halsted, of the Twenty-ninth district, $18,879. This is a most creditable exhibit for the Empire State, especially when the immense amount of revenue she annually pays into the govern- ment Treasury is taken into consideration, The entire amount of internal revenue col- lected up to the close of the last fiscal year was $1,685,865, 543. Reportep Burning oF THE S1rEAMSHIP Henry Cnaunory.—A letter from Norfolk, Va., dated the 16th inst., by the agent of the Sun Insurance Company, of this city, reports the destruction fire of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steamer Henry Chauncey. The Chauncey lefi this port on ‘Tuesday for Aspinwall, and on Wednesday, when off Body Island, was, ac- cording to the letter, discovered to be on fire, The ship was at once headed for shore, and, although every effort was made to smother the flames, they spread with such rapidity that, when the vessel struck the beach, the passengers and crew were barely able to escape with their lives. The report is very questionable, as no telegraphic account of the affair has been received. It is scarcely possible that such a disaster could have occurred so near Norfolk without the full particulars being made known within forty-eight hours. by Senator Morron is on a pilgrimage to Missouri, endeavoring to heal the ferences which have rent the republicans in that State asunder. Yesterday he addressed the St. Louis republicans on their party duties, and also gave his views upon political topics gene- rally. Senator Morton being considered the mouthpiece of the administration, his speech is entitled to much consideration, as it doubt- less foreshadows the policy to be pursued by President Grant. The ator expresses him- self emphatically against general amnesty, favors civil service reform and promises a re- duction of fifty millions of Congress. Tariff reform is also promised, with incidental protection of home manunfac- tures, The Ko Klux law an emphasis, declaring it to be one of the best acts ever passed in Congress, and says it has already saved hundreds of lives and pre- served thousands of men from outrage. The republican programme for the next meeting of Congress, as laid down by Mr. Morton, is, therefore, no general amnesty, tariff nnd civil service reform, reduction of taxes and enforce- ment of the Ku Klux law. Escare oF Conyiors FROM Sine 5 Yesterday twelve convicts made good their escape from the Sing Sing Prison in a singu- larly bold and novel manner. About noon the steamtug Dean Richmond suddenly landed at the prison dock, and was immediately taken possession of by the prisoners. ‘The boat was then headed down the river, and the prisoners landed on the western shore, near Rockland, four miles below Sing Sing, and the men fled into the interior. The affair was admirably conceived and well carried out. On board the tug was found the prisoners’ clothing, a num- ber of articles of disguise and several revoly- ers, showing that the escape wax planned by outsiders, axes the next session he endorses wi 5 Tae New Loax.—A despatel from Wash- ington says that Mr. Boutwell has not with- drawn auy portion of the new loan, and that his instructions to the various agents through- out the country were intended to suspend the offer of the four and a half and four per cents until he should have disposed of the first in stalment of five per cents. he will offer the balance of the five per cents only in his don connection with the four aud half and four per cents, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1871. The Westficld Horror—Arrest of the Culprits. The officials of the Staten Island Ferry Company, who have been branded by ten out of eleven jurors of exceptionally high character and intelligence with the guilt of murder, were yesterday put through a pre- liminary course of wholesome discipline. Mr. Vanderbilt, Mr. Braisted and the mulatto engineer were arrested early in the morning and taken to the Tombs. The Coroner very properly refused to take bail for their further appearance, and for several hours Mr. Van- derbilt, his eighty-five-dollars-a-month darky engineer and his superintendent were con- fined together in the same room. We can imagine the three bewailing their common fate. Mr. Vanderbilt can, indeed, now say with Sancho Panza, ‘Adversity makes us acquainted with strange bedfellows.” We are sorry, however, that a writ from the Supreme Court spared this wealthy gentleman the plea- sure of spending a night in one of the hideous, vermin-haunted cells of this prison. The few hours he would thus have spent in durance vile would have given him a valuable expe- rience of the treatment which poorer meu, arrested on the suspicion of crimes far less dark than that which casts a shadow over his own fair fame, are required to endure. Still it was a great moral triumph yesterday to have a member of the wealthiest family in America hauled off to a criminal’s cell side by side with a poor negro, It showed that in its general administration, if not in its every feature or upon all occasions, there is in this land of realized promise but one law for both the rich and the poor. As to the trial of Mr. Vanderbilt and his partners in ‘‘criminal negli- gence,” if the Grand Jury do indeed return a true bill of indictment, we hope that the pro- ceedings will be hurried on as fast as possible, The Foster case showed that the authorities can, upon occasion, be prompt in action. Let them be equally zealous with this great mil- lionnaire—whose lust of gold has tempted him into a ‘‘negligence” that has cost a hundred lives and immeasurable pain and sorrow—as they were with the drunken car conductor. We do not believe that Mr, Vanderbilt and his colleagues in guilt ought to be convicted of the first degree of murder; but we ought to know at once what is the exact legal character of the crime of risking ten thousand lives a day at ten cents a head. Prince Gortchnkoff tho Delegation of tue Evangelical Prince Gortchakoff, says our special cable report from St. Petersburg, has snubbed the Evangelical Alliance. At least he told the gentlemen of the deputation to mind their own business and not to meddle with what he called ‘the domestic affairs of Russi.” This cavalier-like answer will not greatly please the American people. Prince Gortcha- koff may be sure of that. Now it is the busi- ness of the Evangelical Alliance to see that Protestants should not be oppressed in any part of the world, whether it be in the Cannibal Islands or in China, or in the wilds of Timbuetoo, or, lastly, in Russia, where a despotic government, in- cited by a fanatical priesthood, has subjected all individuals who differ from the established Church to the most tyrannical laws, punish- ing converts to Protestantiem like common criminals. Religious toleration has become international law, and ail nations are equally bound to observe it. Russia is at present the only Power in Europe that refnses to and American Alliance. admit liberty of conscience, and where all persons not belonging to the Greek Church are looked upoa as_ aliens, and simply allowed oa — sufferance. Turkey, which it has been the fashion of Russia to point out as a stumbling block to progress and civilization, is far more liberal in this respect and in many others, than Russia. But in this aineteenth century of ours not even a Czar of all the Russias can long defy the sentiments of the world and control men Tue Firreenrn AMENDMENT is evidently considered ‘‘unconstitutional, revolutionary, null and void” by the Sonthern aristocracy of the “lost cause” gathered at the Greenbrier (West Va.) White Sulphur Springs. At a grand fancy dress ball there the other even- ing they bad the usual gathering of white men, red men, yellow men, Caucasians, Indians and Mongolians, but Sambo and Dinah were ruth- lessly excluded, and ‘‘no representative of negro character was admitted to the ball.” This means that while compelled to acquiesce in the civil and political equality of Sambo the dominant white society of th him distinctly to understand that still there isa line of social division between him and the white man which he cannot pass. We think, too, that this dividing line it will be wise on the part of Sambo on all occasions to respect, inasmuch as the distinctions and prejudices between the white man and the black man established by nature are stronger than human laws or constitutions, and as the social laws of a community, like the inflexible laws of the Medes and Persians, he obeyed. South wish inasmuch must Bustness AND Pieascre Compinep—In the gatheriog of the Brooklyn democratic ring politicians at the Saratoga horse races to make up a Kings couoty ‘‘slate” for our November election; but the idea is not a new one, General Grant has been a godsend to Long Branch in the squads of politicians drawn there from day to day all summer to grind their axes and make up their little slates in reference to the spoils and plunder. In these summer political cancusings “Long branch has been the general headquarters of the re- publicans, Saratoga has been the favorite ren- dezvous of the democratic wire pullers and pipe layers, and the West Virginia Green- brier White Sulphur bas been and is the favorite resort of the luminaries of the late Southern Confederacy. ‘Two or three weeks hence all these political birds of passage will be scattered homeward with the moths and butterflies of fashion for the active work of the fall campaign, Woman Surrrace in Urai.—The late election in Salt Lake City resulted in giving 4,721 votes for the Mormon candidates and 920 for the Gentile ticket; but the suggestive point in these returns fa that more than one- half of the Mormon votes were cast by the Mormon women. Brigham Young and his wile, from number one to number forty-nine, we may therefore assume, cast fifty voles [gr the Moc. ————— LL mon ticket, and that each of the elders, apos- tles, &c., of bis saintly community cast from ten to thirty votes, according to the strength of his harem. But what have our women’s rights women to say of this illustration of the bleased effects of woman suffrage among the Mormons? Let them speak their minds upoa the subject, Tue PRovoneation or M. Txrers’ PowERS for three years, as proposed by the Left Centre, has been rejected by a majority of the Election Committee of the National Assembly. The Left Centre aims at the permanent estab- lishment of the republican form of govern- ment, while the majority of the Assembly is in favor of a a compromise, It wants to smooth roads toward a monarchy by main- taining the present nondescript government— with M. Thiers at its head—for an indefinite period. Hence the majority prefers to tem- porize. YACHTING. THE CRUISE OF THE NEW YORK YACHT SQUADRON. Awaiting the Arrival of the Yachts at Newport—Accident to the fleetwing— Treparations for the Coming Races. weorT, R. I, August i7—3 P. M. The harbor here looks extremely gay, as the vessels belonging to the New York Yacht Squadron continue to arrive. Throughout the entire day all the available small craft, trom the single scull to the good-sized rowing boat, were in demand, and the yachts were the objects of much avimiration. ‘rhe ladies were out in large force, pulling vigor- ously among the fleet, and, what with their pretty teeth and earnest efforts to rival each other in the commendable exercise of rowing, the scene was both picturesque and enlivening. Unfortunately the wind was very light, so that many of the yachts expected here from Vineyard Haven dtd not arrive. There was, nevertheless, a fine representation of the squadron, which, when strengthened by the advent of all the vessels, will rather take the residents of Newport by surprise. Not since the organization of the New York Yacht Club has there been a more magnificent exhibition of fast-sailing, seaworthy, and, withal, beautiful schooners as that which this year marks the cruise, Ever since the fleet left Glen Cove the yachts com- posing it have been most favorably criticised, not only for thelr number, bat more especialty on account of their splendid appearance, as well as for the enterprise of the yacht owners themzelves. To- day the encominms of those competent to judge were as justly merited as they were frequently be- stowed. The city 1s at present more crowded than it has been this season. for a wonder, all the hoiels are full; so that the in- terest in the coming RACE FOR THE CITIZENS? CUP will be much greater than usu: Little doubt ists that the course will be from dams to and around the buoy of Block Island; for itis the one that will afford the residents of Newport the best opportunity to wliness the manc-uvres and appre- ciate the qualities of the competing yachts, ACCIDENT TO THE FLEETWING. Among the vessels that arrived this afternoon were the Alarm, Mr. A, G. Kingsland; Addie and the Ficetwing, Mr. George Os¢ood—the latter yacht from Vineyard Haven in tow of the steam tender to the flagship. While rounding Pollock's Rin, otf Cape Cod, on Tuesday the Fleetwing inet with an accident which partly disabled her. It was blowing pretty freshly and as there was 1 good spread of canvas oi the vesse! the band at the head of the mainmast gave way, cansing the maingaff to fall and involving tue lowering of the ma‘ntopmast, together with split ting a portion of the mameail. She put into Vine- yard Haven, but as the necessary repairs could not be executed at that locality she was taken in tow by the flagshi's tender, coming to anchor here about four o'clock. ‘The following vessels also lett Vineyar't! Haven tn mpany this morning:—Columbia, Tidal Wav aungiess. Haleyon, Dreadnaughi, Tavolinta Gracie, There being scarcely auy wind, bat Inte headway was made during the day. ‘they have not arrived np 10 this hour, aad may not come to ancl until late 1m the night. THE APPROACHING CONTESTS. To-morrow morning a meeting will board the fagshtp, when th cr | approaching events will be arranged, y for ocean race,from this ta rv nO ati andy Hook fightship, will probably be fi This will he one of the ‘greatest c the season, as it will by eypated tn ablest and fastest sailing 8 of the sqt To-nigut the city very Ii lights on boara the pleasure mation to the scene, afts lend much annie Arrival of a Portion of Newport, August 179 1 ‘The Gracie, Colmubia, Dauntless, Tidal Wave and Dreadnanght ave just a} 1, in the order men- tioned, and the others ai ‘The entire fleet will doubtless be at anchor vefore ten o'clock, as the breeze lias just begun to freshen ‘he Coiumbia and Dauntless left Nantasket on ‘Tuesday afternoon and at sundown anchored otf cape Cod. y hed anchor at five o'clock erday morn «crossed the shoals, the eve biowing steadily (rom the southwest. The! ived at Vineyard Haven toward three o'clo the afternoon. ‘The weather belng very thick an foggy, they remained at anchor in Vineyard haven mis mourning, when, m company with the , they sailed for this port. © Fleet at Newport. M. Yachting Nates. The following yachts passed Whitestone yester- day: Steam yacht Day Dream, N.Y.Y.0.. Mr. Lloyd Aspinwall, New York eastward and returne| Sch r yacht Mystic, B.Y.C., Gr » Glen Cove for New York. Personal Intelligence. Untied States Senator Powell Clayton, of Ar- kansas, is at the St. Nicholas. General A. Von Steinwehr, of New Haven, is quar- tered at the Grand Central United States Senator family at the Fith Avenue, B. Manu of the United 5: is staying at the Everett House. General Joseph Roberts, of the Unired Army, ha 1 quarters at the Stur Horace White, of the Chicago 7riiune, ism town, atthe Breyoort House. Recorder A. Pollok, of Wasiington, D. ©., reauient ab the Fifth Avenue. Charies Turner, Chanceilor of Alabama, yester- y arrived at the Fith Avenue. 1. H. % Anderson, Danish Consul at Galveston, 4, 18 stopping at the Grand Hotel. United States Senator William Stewart, of Ne vada, ts sojourning at the Hormman House. Jolin W, Garrett, President of the Kaitimore and Obi Railroad, ts at the Krevoort House. United States Senators S.C. Pomeroy and J. W. Patterson are domiciled at the ‘Astor House. General Charles Ewing, of Washington, ye arrived at the Tloffman touse. eneral G. M. Dodge, of iowa, is residing at the St. Nicholas. General A. Soriof, the Russtan Military Agent, at tue Hofman House. P AMERICAN SO(ENTIFIO ASSOCIATION. INDIANAPOLIS, AUUSt Li, ISTL. Forty-one new members were admitted to-day. Kighty-four papers on scientific matiers have been received by the secretary, Papers on the “Mechantsm and Extension of Birds’ Wings,” by Professor Cone, and on te ological Hustory ot the American Guif,” by Pro‘essor Hillard, were read and discuss Professor Morse gave an abstract, illnstrated by drawings, of his paper on the “Development of Cor- porat Bones in Birds.” Papers were aiso read by Professor Gill on the eharacieristics of primary groups of the class of mammals; by Projessor Cope on the primary system of fishes; by Professor Markwoou on the distritu- tion of the mean distances of minor planet Professor Elliott on the rates of interest realized to vestors in United States securities; by Professor ock well on inquiry concerning the pliysteal rela- tion between masses and mean distances of at ent planets; by Professor ‘Tillman on chemical equivalency; by Professor von Der Weyde. on invisible caloric m the extreme of the solar spectrum and non-caioric lines or bands in the same; by Professor Safiord on the relation between the distance and the proper motions of the star n fail in the United State: upon Egerta scoe Conkling 18 with his + Signal Service, Srates isa lerday ‘The members of the association to-morrow will visit the 1 fields and furnaces m Clay county Indiana, reaching Terre Tlaure 1 the evening an returgipa Wo Ludauapolls gm Ralurday CVU, Every cottage 1s occupied, while, | ve held on | programme for the | TT ‘aly,and the shining | ant House, | — enn e momentarily expected. | * | | for their subscriptions. a | hun the appomtment by mail at the Dales ox | brass band, paraded through several of the pri WASHINGTON. The Way the Public Funds Ars Misappropriated, Dishonest Collectors of Inter- nal Revenue. Mr. Brunot Declines the Appointment of [te dian Commissioner. WASHINGTON, August 17, LSTL. Defaalting Collectors of Internal Revenue. The First Comptroller of the Treasury has trans- mitted to Secretary Boutwell @ statement of cash balances due from collectors of internal revenue on the 15th of this month. The list embraces 17% names, seventy-nine of whom are actuai defaulters and ninety-nine have unadjusted accounts, The amount charged against the former on the 26un of June last was $2,767,977, Which amount had beeu re- duced on the 15th inst, $17,851. The amount charged against the unadjusted accounts was $460,561, whict has been reduced since June $36,449. Of che de- fauiters torty were appointed by President Johnson, and the amount of their defalcation is $1,755 ‘{turty-six were appoiuted by Lincotn, aud are charged as defauiters with $939,117, and three ap- pointed by Grant made way with $61,581, The amount of the collections of internal revenue to the close of the last fiscal year Was $1,603,8' New York State has che most creditable record, her defauliers only numbering three, viz ¥. Bailey, § William Masten, of the Thirteenth district, and J. B, tat- stead, of the ‘Iwenty-ninth district, $18,879, all ot whom were appuinted by Linculu. Consider the amount of revenue paid by the New York city dis- tricts alone and compare it with the report of des faications im the New Oriewns districts, whictt amount to $1,200,000, and which boasts of ten dee faulters in three districts, Seven appointed by Johnson pocketed or speculated with $1,140,000 of this sum, while the Lincoln collector were content with $50,000, ‘The defaulters are ap- portioned among the several States and Territories us foliows:—Alabama, one; Arkansas, two; Dela- ware, one; Georgi, two: Hlmots, five; Mdtana, four: lows, one; Kansas, one; Kentucky, thre Louisiana, ten; Maryland, one; Micmgan, thr Minuesota, two; Missouri, taree; Monts vada, Nebraska and New Mextco, one eac Jersey, two; New York, tree; North Carolina, tnvee; Ohio, four; Penasy! Virginia, seven; West Virginia, three; four, Ii will thus be seen that the New inglan States without a representative on the tsi while nearly half of the number were im the Southey ern Staies. Heavy Henry D. Cooke to-day Routweli $10,020,543 on account of the American Syndicate, Secretary Boutweil now announces that hereafter all private subscriptions to the new ioan will be made through ‘he Syndicate only, but the national banks have the privilege of subscribing we the ‘freasury Department for the 000,000 reserved: In addition to the depoatt riptions were aise recetved In regard to the disposs) of the four-and-a-hal€ ana four per cent bonds Secretary Boutwell to-day remarked that tt £e- mained to be seen what success attended the «is New Loan, of the Syndicate, subs amounting (0 $559,000. | position of the five per cent bonds before lie would be prepared to announce his financial programme iu regard to the disposal of the bonds bearing a lower rate of interest. There is no authority, how- . for the statement that he purposes withdraw- ing these bonds altogether. That authority ts not conferred by the Funding bill, On the contrary, | your correspondent is assured that Secretary Bout- Well has the most sanguine expectation of seeing the entire loan on the market before the close of Vresident Graav’s admiatstration, The Appoinement of Indian Commissioner Be- clined. The Acting Secretary of the Interior to-day re- stat despaicn from Veltx R, Brunot, dated Port- dd, Oregon, esterday, in which he thanks tre Prestdent for the compliment, but detines tie prot fered position of Commissioner of indian Affairs. Brunot has just recurned from tae Umatilla viion, having received the telegram tende: ces Raying in the Sasinaw Forests. 9 the Signal OMtce here from the ov- roit, Mici., dated to-tiny, sa ater in thus region, caused by great glug on both sides of Sagi Me waguaa Consul at ) The President has re Kmito Beyile as Cousal of Nicaragua at New Orleans, Vervonal. J.C. 8. Davis, Assistant S.cretary of State, haw been appointed Secretary of the American Board of ation at Geneva under the ‘Treaty of Waahing- GAY GAEL, mt Mjrtiv Avenue Park. edouian Club of Brooklyn Ay to the numb f about one ihe purpose of celevrating their fifth annual games. ‘Yhe members of the club were dressed in the fut Higniand costume aad, headed by McCormick's turned owe hundred for pal streets. Avenue ! already Vhey ten took the cars for Myrtle rk, Where a large crowd of people had to witness the games. In one end of the park @ large etrcle, of about one hundred and tity yards ia cireumference, was selected for xt In the centre there was ao ereeteal for broud otier purposes as mn handsome Scot high poles. ‘The exercises by an ont-fashioned Seater ul by pipers. bf judges awarded erican lag were displiyd were formully of reel to music play Tae lolowing commit THB YP Chief Jonn Wait, New Yor Boston; €. et Sinclair Duguta, of» k; Chiel Jon W. White. mong those present (rom abroad were Cilet Hug- gan, of Newark; J. P. Rovertson, dames Fleming, ot scotland: Mr, McAdam, of the Chicago Caiedoma Club, aud others, Though luie in taking up the order of the games it was disposed of with despatch. Ferrier, a Haurant Donaldson, of Newark; 1. Patune the Heavy Stone—Prize medal ant $5—James Fieming, 36 [eet 5 tehe: nets Robe feet 7 inches; Wm, Lai feet 11s, es, Seven other competitors. Standing Juwp—Prizes $6 aud $4—A. Hug@an, ark, 8 feet 7'; Inches; James Noble, 8 feet 7's nes; A. McAllister, 8 feet 6 inches, Three other competitors. 3. Throwing Heay: Hammer—Prize medal and vel 3 inches; Charles Kea Francis Robertson, 71 teet F. Smith, Jonn Reid, J. T edy, A. Tolenne. | 4. Short Race $7 and $4—Davi obin~ son, first: D. Keeler, second; Wm. Barnie, third. Other competitors were A. McAilister, Alexander’ Mitchell, James Noble. 5. Kunnmg Jump—D. Keeler, 16 feot 11 inchess, William Barnte, 16 feet 5 inches; A Mitchell, James ; Noble, —— Pollock. ‘ Putting Light Stone—Prizes $6 and $4—James Fieming, vet 6 inches; Francis Robertson, 35 feet 4), inches; Charles Kennedy, 85 feet 7 mchos; 0. F. ‘Smith, James Kennedy, William Laird. 2 broad-sword dance was engaged in by James Kenny. Robert Fosford, James Kennedy, Peter Resd, Jonn Wood. It was declare’ won in the following jeming, Fosford, Reid. The prize was a modi 1 $5. ‘At the conclusion of the games the Club returned to their rooms, and the gathering of spectators: separated, Well pleased with the entertainment, tis inches; W P, Robertson, WINCHESTER OBNTENNISL. Winenesren, Conn., August 1%, 1871, The centennial celebration of the town of Win. chester to-day was well carried out. The history was read by the Hon, John Boyd and the poem by Rev, ©. H. A. Buckly, of Malone, N. Y., and miscet- Inneous speeches were made by Governor Jewell, Rev. Dr. Blaridge, of Norfolk; Rev. Horace Wins low, of Whilimantic; Rev, Dr. Leonard New Haven; Rev. T. A. Spencer and one were many pleasant meeungs of old ve nave not seen each other for many years, ‘There Was a procession of the Masonic frayeraity, flremen, temperance societies and citi Tie site soorated Wilh fags, And allogerher uw liga been & greal gata day,