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party in New York have too much to do to get their house in order to wait till the 4th of October before they begin the overhauling of their furniture, carpets, gas pipes and plas- stering, and in this opinion, likewise, we con- eur. It won't do for the New York democracy ‘to depend upon the row between the so-called Tammany Hall republicans and Custom House republicans; for this quarrel, all about the Custom House spoils, may yet be settled detween the high contracting parties over an oyster stow. Beach—Adams— McLean, The Rev. Affred B. Beach, D. D., rector of “St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal church, in West Twentieth fitreet, near Fighth avenue, is aman of medium size and build, florid com- plexion, and is now rapidly passing the middle period of life. He possesses a mixture of the nervous and phlegmatic temperaments which gives him an evenly-balanced mind and style in the pulpit and ont of it. He is one of the oldest city pastors in the denomination, and is, herefore, well and widely known among Epis- copalians here. But his relation to the Tyng trial, in 1868, ag chairman of the court which found the young minister guilty of violating the constitution and canons of the Church by preaching in another minister's parish has, given Dr. Beach a fame and reputation which he had not known before. Certainly under the circumstances attending that trial he showed very great coolness, and, on the whole, good judgment. He is considered by his brethren in the ministry as a sound theologian—indced, one of the best and most learned in the city—and is Jooked up to by many of them as a wise counselior jn the things of God. da the walpie the Doster mean cloe peices ‘practical Curistianity, and eiiforog, both ibd examples drawn from the Scriptures and the ecclesiastical history of the Protestant Episco- pal Church. He takes great personal interest in the religions culture of the young, and bas one of the best Sunday schools in the cfty. He has the happy knack of talking long and interestingly to the children, by whom he is greatly beloved, and whom he loves also with paternal affection. The Doctor is a firm believer in the Protestant Episcopal Church as “the Church of the futnre,” but be is not so dogmatic as to deny to other religious bodies the good which they possess and their right to spread their own theologic views as may to them seem wise and proper. On the “high” and “low” Church controversy he may be set down as not pledged absolutely to either side, but awaiting results and minis- tering the truth in love to his own people and toas many strangers as choose to worship swith them from time to time. The Rev. John Quiney Adams, pastor of the East Baptist church, in Madison and Gouverneur streets, is one of the most re- markable Christian ministers in the city. He is a firm believer in and pro- fessor of the doctrine of sanctification, which Methodists so peculiarly claim as theirs; bat Mr. Adams, unlike other ;professors, acts out his profession and faith. For more than thirteen years has not made a contract with «Christian congregation to give dim one dollar or one thousand, but has ‘rusted the Lord from day to day for his bread and his water, which have been provided abundantly, though, it must be admitted, some- times a little too late. If he wants a coat or a hat, a loaf of bread or a ton of coal he asks the Lord for it, and it comes, if not to-day then to-morrow, but always in the time of greatest need He is a man of great faith, and hence is mighty in prayer and in the supply of the Word of Life, and great success attends his preaching, And, trusting himself to the Lord, his physical vigor seems to be re- newed day by day, so that he is able to accom- plish more pastoral and ministerial work in a year than any four ordinary ministers. The life that he lives, he may truly say, he lives by faith in the Son of God. - He is known and loved by his brethren in the ministry of every denomination. The Rev. Alexander McLean, pastor of the Thirty-fifth street Methodist Episcopal church, is also a professor of and believer in this way of holiness, but he has not developed it so far, wor in the same direction, as his brother Adams. Mr. McLean is a New Yorker, and in early life was what might be calleda ‘‘fast” young man, but far off in California a pious mother’s prayers followed him and brought him back to his bome and to the Church of Christ. He is a good singer and a ‘‘hallelu- jah” preacher, and his ministrations would readily affect emotional natures, but intel- Jectual audiences would not flourish very greatly on his words. But his preaching is not unattended with some rich fruits, and be has been popular with the charges to whom he has ministered in this city. But it may be said of Mr. McLean, as of many others, ‘‘A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and among his own kindred.” There is too great a longing among our city congre- gations for strange and foreign preachers, and a city man has very little chance here. And it may be considered a distinction of merit to find such a man as Brother McLean keeping cily appointments one after auother so long. He is now one of the pastors of the City Mis- sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A Cuanoz For Our Brrapsturrs.—Euro- pean telegrams represent that the wheat crop in Great Britain is disastrously deficient. We learn also that the crop in France is much below the average, though that of oats, rye and other cereals is pretty good. In the case of the British crop the deficiency arises chiefly from an unfavorable season. {n France it is the result of the war and interruption of agriculiural industry. Unfortunate as this is for the people of these countries it will be an advantage to the United States, for there will be a greater demand for our breadsiuffs, Hap- pily we have enough to supply the wants abroad and to spare. Tne Jxwisa New Yrar.—The religious ceremonials of the Jewish new year, the Mosaic anniversary of the Creation, which ceremonials began in onr various Hebrew temples and synagogues on Friday evening | last, and which on Saturday were particularly imposing and impressive, were continued and goncluded yesterday in the orthodox churches, althouzh they were closed on Saturday with the reformed congregations of Israel. According NEW YORK HEKALV, MUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET, upon the year 5,632 since the Ureation; and ag there has yet been nothing produced in the history of any other people to upset the re- cord of Moses its authenticity is universally accepted throughout the civilized world, and it cannot be set aside without setting aside the | Christian dispensation. The New Testament is but the fulfilment of the Old Testament, and | thus Jews and Gentiles bave a common inherit- ance from the great lawgiver of Israel .and the divinely appointed founder of the Jewish code of laws and religion, The Steam Boiler Inspection Question. The Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steamboats and Steamboat Boilers is to be called in extra session in Washington as soon as Mr, Boutwell returns from his electioneer- ing tour in Ohio, and then the question of im- proving the present mode of inspection will be discussed, and the present very inadequate laws in regard to the protection of life on steamers will probably be revised. In the meantime the trial of Jacob Vanderbilt, Superintendent Braisted and Engineer Robin- son will probably be commenced in the Court of General Sessions. The Inspector, Matthews, who certified to the safety of the boiler which hurled a hundred souls out of the world, is not, we believe, under indictment anywhere, and has only been censured by one coroner's jury—that of Brooklyn. In the pop- ular clamor for vengeance that arose immedi- ately in the wake of that terrible Westficld disaster, the arraignment of Vanderbilt and his superintendent and engineer and the In- spector was vociferously demanded, and the three first were indeed hurried off to the Tombs, and have since, been arraighéd at the bar of General Sessions. Now, however, that the popular frenzy is over, a cool judgment will see that Vanderbilt was certainly not pete sonaily to biame for any of the causes that ee ae a FRANCE. Petitions for the Dissolution of the Assembly. Victor Hugo Sick—Marshal Canrobert’s Head- quarters at Bourges—Pacific Disposi- tion of the National Guards at St. Etienne. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Panis, Sept. 17, 1871. Marshal Canrobert has established his head- quarters at Bourges, THE NATIONAL GUARDS AT ST. ETIENNE. The National Guards at St, Etienne have quietly delivered up their arms. Many petitions for the dissolution of the assembly are circulating in Lyons, VICTOR HUGO’S COMPLAINT. Victor Hugo is sick. His complaint ts pleurisy, and his condition is such aa to occasion alarm. ENGLAND. The Strike at Newcastle Said To Be at an End. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, Sept. 17, 1871. It ig reported that the employers at Newcastle have agreed to an increase of wages. THE SMALLPOX AT WEYMOUTH. The smallpox 1s disappearing from Weymouth. SPAIN. King Amadeus in the Frovinoos, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. MADRID, Sept. 17, 1871. Don fAspartero has placed his hotel at Lagrano at The dis, osal of King Amadeus during his progress throug! the province, - per a ET led to the expidstéi. No more ¢ moni Y pacers proof of this can be had than that he truste ; ROUMANIA. himself and his family on board the ill-fated boat frequently, and that he had even been aboard of her a few moments before the disas- ter. The parsimony that is so freely charged against corporations is never likely to lead the President of such a corporation into keeping a rosten boiler on board a boat upot which he travels. It may lead them to risk other peo- ple’s lives, but not their own, The great re- sponsibility seems rather to rest with the In- spector, who, of all implicated, was the only one who risked no precious bones of his owo on the soundness of bis inspection. Personal Intelligence. Juage T, W. Bartley, of Washington, fs at the St, Nicholas, A. D. Barber, of Utica, ts staying at the Metro- politan Hotel. Rey. Dr. Dalzell, of Shreveport, La., is domiciled at the New York Hotel. Colonel C. W. Lowell, Postmaster of New Orleans, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas. Dr. J. Bigelow, of Boston, is temporarily residing at the Filth Avenue. Generai Sutton, of Salem, is quartered at the St. Nicholas. John R. French, of Washington, is sojourning at the Filth Avenue. Dr. Winslow Lewis, of Boston, is stopping ‘at the St. Nicholas. 3 Sw Francis Pakentam, of the British Legation, yesterday returned from Niagara Falls to the Claren- don Hotel. WEAIHER REPORI. SS Wan Derantagyr, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OPFICER, Wasninoton, D Sept. 17—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. ‘The barometer has tisen since Saturday mght on the Pacific coast. Av area of high barometer which was in Wisconsie has moved eastward, fol- lowed by a rapid fall im that State and westward. The high barometer in the Ohio Valley has moved slowly south and east and the pressure has risen rapidly to-night in the Middle and Eastern States. Northwesterly winds have prevailed with tncreasing force from New Eng- Jand to Maryland, and southeast winds on the upper lakes; light winds and calms on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Cloudy weather has prevatled tor a short time on Sunday in New England, but clear weather ts now expected at nearly all stations east of the Mississippi Raver. Local rains have falien in the immediate Gulf coast and in Georgia. Probabitities, Clear weatner is provable for Monday from the Mississippi to the Atlantic, with falling temperature in New England and the Middle States, and possitiy Ught frosts to-night. The con- ditions will remain favorable for local rains on the immediate Gulf Coast, and falling barometer, with southeasterly winds, for the Upper Lakes and the Northwest. WHOLESALE EXECUTION IN LOUISIANA. Three Colored Men Hanged—Colorea Officials Condacting the Execution. NeW ORLEANS, Sept. 17, 1871. Jonn Williams, Alfred De Carraux and Noel (alias Maaison) Hampton, all colored men, were hanged yesterday In St. James Parish for the murder of Frank Monteath, May 10. They were executed on the spot where the murder was committed. The Sheri, executioner, jatior and guards were ail cole ored men, FIRE AT ST, ALBANS, VT. Several Buildings Destroyed—Loas, $300,000. BURLINGTON, Vt, Sept. 17, 1861. A tremendous fire broke out ac three A. M. on Lake street, St, Albans, and raged wntil eight A, M. before being checked. The entire south side of the street from Farran's block to St. Alban’s House is in ashes, Among the buttdings barned are Barnes’ block, Moritor biock, Driscoll’s block, St. Alban's Foandry Company warerooms, Gill- more & bBrainard’s livery stables, besides various other = stores, = shops and_—stenes ments. Fifteen families are rendered homeless by the fire. Loss, $13,000; largely insured, One man was Injured. The firemen could do nothing for want of water, The oMices of the St. Albans Tran- seri/pt and the Freucu paper, La Frotecteur, were also destroyed. ‘RAILWAY LITIGATION IN CINCINNATI. CINCINNATI, ONTO, Sept. 17,187 ‘Thomas A. Morris and Metville E. Ingalls, receivers of the Indianapolis, Cincinnatl and Lafayette Rail- road, filed a petition yesterday im the Hamilton Court of Common Pleas agalast Henry C, Lord, to recover $250,000 in bonds aud money belonging to said railroad company, Which they charge him with having converted vo lus OWN nse at various umes while President of the company, HR YELLOW FEVER IN CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON, S, C,. Sept. 17, 1871, There were two deaths from yellow fever here during the twenty-four hours ending Saturday at noon, and one death for the twenty-four hours end- ing to-day. The general testimony of the physictans is that the disease is dying out. The number of persons sick at puis time is very small, and they are generally doing well. THU WESTERN UNION MONOPOLY SWALLOW- ING A SMALL TELEGRAPH COMPANY, PHILADELPHTA, Sept. 17, 1871. ‘The Bankers and Brokers’ Telegraph Company closed their offices to-day. The business has been transferred to the Western (Union Telegraph Com- pany, who will probably buy Out the former com- to the Hebrew record we have now entered | pany's mterest. x Satisfactory Settiémont of the German Claims. Lene TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Sept. 17, 1871. The Odserver has a special telegram from Buchar- est stating that the German bankers and the Rou- mantan Treasury Department are ready to settle, and a satisfactory adjustment of the flnanctal dif. culty is now considered certain. GREECE. The Queen of De: mark Expected at Athens. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ATHENS, Sept. 17, 1871, The Queén of Denmark ts expected to arrive here Shortly. THE MONI CENIS TUNNEL. Formal Goats rane ae and Italian Ministers—A Trial Trip Through the Tunnel. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Panis, Sept. 17, 1871. The Mont Cenis tunnel was inaugurated to-day by the French and Italian Ministers and local au- thorities of both countries. After meeting and congratulating each other, the party embarked mm a gaily decorated train at Bardoneche ana passed through the tunnel to Modane, making the transit in twenty minutes. THE LONGCHAMPS RACES, A Large and Brilliant Attendance—The English Aristocracy Represented—The Duke of Hamilton the Winner. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. a Panis, Sept, 17, 1871. The races at the Bois de Boulogne commenced again to-day, and were weil attended by all classes of society, A great number of Engiish noblemen were present and personally tnterested in the race. ‘There was lively betting all day. Some of the most renowned English horses have taken part in the race, which, against all expectation, has turned out to be a very brilliant and successful affair. ‘The Duke of Hamilton won, THE PACIFIC COAST. ~ . A Ship Ashore on the California Coast—A Strange Phenomenon at Sea—Celevrating Mexican Independence. San FRANCISCO, Sept, 17, 1871. The United States steamer Narragansett has ar- rived from New York. A fishing boat reports a ship ashore at South Farallon this morning. Itis conjectured that she is the American ship St. James, which sailed yester- day for Peru, or the St. John, which is due here from Neweastie, Australia, with coal for the Pacific Matl Company. The wife of Captain J. H. Blethen, commander of the steamship Nevada, died yesterday, ‘The ship Transita de Alvarse reports a cloud of ashes, supposed to be volcanic, having failen on her deck September 10, wien eight miles oif Col um- bia River bar. Five ousand dollars were contributed by Mex! cans at Los Angies for the avornment of a ti- umphal car and fignres representing America, the United States and Mexico, the occasion being the avniversary of Mexican independence. The Wrecked Ship Annie Sise Gone to Piecerm Terrific Powder Explosion in Nevada. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17, 1 The ships St. John, from Newcastle, Austraiia, and Osccola, from New York, have arrived, : ‘Tte steamship Wyanda has returned from the Farallones. She reports that the wrecked ship An- nie Sise, which was reported yesterday by her cap- tain and sold at auction, has gone to pieces at Point Keyes. She did not break up until late last night, sixteen hours after being abandoned. ‘An explosion of powder occurred at Pioche, Ne- vada, yesterday, and tne whole business portion of the town was destroyed. The loss 1s estimated at Irom $200,000 to $300,000, THE M'GEHAN MURDER TRIAL. of Murder in the Second Degree Kiendered by the Jury. CINCINNATI, Sept. 17, 18’ ‘The second trial on a change of venue of TomMe- Gehan, at Dayton, Ohio, tor the murder of Thomas 8, Myers, in @ gambling saloon at Hamilton, Butler county, last Christmas eve, resulted in a verdict of murder In the second degree at five o'clock this morn- ing, the jury being out twelve hours, McGeban killed Myers Calitornia fashion, by shooting him with a re- volver in his coat pocket to smother the report, The case acquired great public interest through the con- nection with the defence of Mr. Vallandigham, who Jost his life at Lebanon while iliustrating the absurd theory that Myers accidentally shot himsei! in the melee with his own pistol The finding of the jury ai Dayton is not final, as the case will be taken to the Supreme Court on & question of jurisuiction of tye Court at Lebanon to send 1t to Dayton. A Verdict WHALES AT NAHANT.—AS & party of gentlemen were enjoying a sail he yacnt Lilie, & few daya since, they sighted two fin-back whaies when about two miles outirom Nahant, each measuring from fifty to sixty feet in length, Being curious to ob- tain @ nearer View of the big fisn the party fol- lowed them for half an hour, approaching 80 near at one time that when they rose to blow the spray flew in the faces of those on board the yacht. These huge denizens of the deep seemed to be enjoying their visit to the bay very much, amusing them- selves with some pretty tall spouting, throwing the water to a height of fifteen or twenty ieet. Those who saw them say that they might have been easiiy captured lad the proper apparatus been at baud, WASHINGTON. The Defaulting Paymaster and His Temptations. Lax Enforcement of the Reg- ulations. Meeting of the Supervis tors of Steamboats. Proposed Changes in the Present Modes of Inspection. The Ku Klux Reports outh Carolina. from SENATOR SCOTT’S REPORTS SUSTAINED, A Horrible Case of Probable Ku Klux- ism in Georgetown, D, C. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 1871. The Case of Paymaster Hodge—Gross Negli- gence of Government Accounting Officers. The controversy between the Paymaster General and various ofiicers of the Treasury, relative to the responsibility for the failure to detect the long-con- tinugd embezzicments of Paymaster Hodge, ts beau- tifully revealing the working defect: oh the account. Ware es yz My. Daeeil ing system af thd Bovetament, und une ease with which @ disbursing officer who ts fortunate eaough to gain the confidence of his superiors can have the laws and regulations designed for the protection of the public funds, inefficient as they may be, set aside so as to gtve him the clearest pos- sible fleld for frond and pecularign, Undgr aN ve Fe Oe oa ge these laws “ahd regulation” “as Applied to 1038 Triigied officers, Major Hodge should have closed hig accounts to date and made an actual transfer of all his balances to some other oftl- cer when he renewed his. bonds, in 1867, a3 well as last April. He should never have been permitted to have in his possession er on deposit larger sums {han were needed to meet his average current dis- burSements. He should nave veen reqgired to number his checks on each depository whete is funds were kept 1u reguiar successions and account for numbers not appearing in his crrrent returns, Nor should he have been allowed to draw cash (rom the depositories except u small sums to pay the comparatively few claims and demands that did not exceed $20 apiece. Had Paymaster Hodge been required to settle bis back accounts and transfer his cash valances when filing his new bond, on his transfer from the volunteer to the regular pay corps, in 1867, the embezzlemenis of the past four years would have been prevented by the cer- tain discovery of his defalcations to that date, and a compliance by the Pay Department with the rules at the time of his periodical renewal of bonds, tive Months ago, while it would not have saved much to the Treasury, wonld have brought an earlier dis- covery; lad the Paymaster General not habitually, and contrary to rule and custom, honored his calls for large sums not required for imme- diate disbursement, the means of carrying on his Wall street speculations would nave been wanting altogether; had he not been granted vhe unusual privilege of tssuing checks without numbering them in a regular series he could not have used his blank checks to obtain public funds for his private purposes, and had he not been per-4 as the govern mitted to draw from the Treasury here sums rang- ing from five to fifty thousand doliars in cash and Ppayabie to bearer, he would, early in his career, have been brought face to face with such an array of fictitious names to be invented and endorsements to be forged that he would have turned aside from his projects in despair, That observable tdepend- ence and absence of co-operation and comparison of books and papers by and between the various officials and subordinates to whom a disoursing officer is made accountable becomes an element of discussion in connection with the case of this de- faulter, It was at all times possible for Major Hodge, while he possessea the confidence of his superiors, to report without detection, as his weekly balance for any one week, one amount to Paymaster General Brice and a different amount to Treasurer Spmner. At the end of the calendar month he could, in Ils account current, report the balance due by him to the United States to be a sum aifferent from that just named in his regular weekly report, The upshot of the matter, apart from the personai disputation, ddliy waxing hotter, is likely to be a stern and radical reform of the system and practice of accountability by Con- gress at its coming session, and a weakening of the too prevalent custom among the permanent office- holders at Washington of retaining pet subor- dinates apd granting them a license that they would not think of using themseves, Paymaster Hodge was specially excepted from the general order changing the station and duties of army oficers who had been long on duty here a year ago, and the reason advanced by his chief wus the sane twat had covered prior exceptions to general regu- lations—an alleged public exigency and the posses- sion by the gpicer of ubparaileled fitness and tiedlily in his place. Boutwell on Specehmaking by Government om i. Secretary Boutwell has telegraphed Acting Secre- tary Harvey that he will reach bere on fuursday next, and after remaining here a few days will leave for Ohio to make one or two speecies in that State. A year since old John Covode, then Chatrman of the State Central Commitiee of Pennsylvania, tele- graphed to Mr. Boutwell that it was all-important for him to make some speeches the Keystone State, or the republicans might lose several Con- gressmen. Mr. Boutweil’s reply was in effect that he had been selected to fill the office of Secretary of the Treasury and could not at tue time absolve hin self from the responsibility of the office, Tms year he has treated the Pennsylvanians the same way, although he can find it convenient to address tue people of Ohio on the political afairs of the day. ‘The Ku Kiux Reports from South Carolina. Senator Scott seat to the Attorney General on Sate urday the following documents sustaining his pre- vious position as to the affairs In South Carolina, United States Commissioner Poiner, of Columbia, S. C., Whose name was the first aflxed to the state- ment of the 7h inst., declaring that martial law was not necessary in Spartanburg county, seut the tol- lowing to Senator Scott:— My attention has just been called to an editorial in the Charleston Cour er of the 7th instant, in which a jewer trom Spartanburg, addressed to Senator scott, in relation to the condition of affairs in that county, and signed by myself, with others, is made ing Inspec- ; ourcagea, think the prompt arrest and speedy trial, although Prat to ocon- viet, had a good etfect, and the active part taken by some of the men of property to show the Tolly of such deeds, and the harm it wrought the county has created a feeling against it. In addition to this the fear of marilal law being aeclared suddenly and the probability of their being arrested under it has run the desperate men out of the county and hence the quiet which has prevailed for tne past. How long it is to last it would be Impossible to say, but I do pelieve that property holders are willing and anxious to do anyining to prevent a recurrence of it, | have had submited to Me affidavits {rom parties in reiereuce to the fear they hat of puntsiment for testifying before your commitiee, Many of them did come tw town to remain for @ greater or less length of time. I promised and could have given ample protection to all, white and black, but it was never demanded of me. There are a large number yuntain part of bis and sell. se, and they give a great deal of trouple and will do so until they are thoroughly cleaned out by some power, 1 am, Senator, your obedient servant, M. A. RENO, Major Seventh cavalry, commanding post. The quietude of the neighboring city of George. town was disturbed this afternoon by the announce- ment that a terrible case of Ku Kluxing had been perpetrated upon a colored man, The report at first received no credence from the citizens of Georgetown, as the deed was spoken of in such horrible language, but farther develop- ments compelied them to believe the report. It Appears from the facts obtained that a citizen of that vicinity, while rambling through the woods near the Reform school, three miles trom George- town, discovered, suspended from @ tree by @ leather strap, the body of a man, He immediately informed an officer of the police force, who made an examination of the body, and found that the legs and arms had become decomposed and the fect and hands had entirely disappeared, His pockets were examined and tn them were found seventy There they cents, but no letters 6r ‘papers, In consequence of the horrible stex$h the oficer could not make fur ther search, “On the back of the head were seen bunches of wool, which led to the beltef that it was the body of a colored man. Further inquiries revealed nothing, and the name of the ma 8Q4 Where he belonged 1s not known. The Coro- ner was notified and will hold an inquest to-morrow, when the particulars will be ascertained, The Ku Klux as Revenue Defeauders. Supervisor Perry, of North Carolina, who ts here On business, reports to the Commisstoner of Internat Revenue the seizure of four large tobaccg fagtor!es i} in that State. It has been known for some months } past, ‘hye Hitelt trade Was cartied on by pediers who ‘ae mainly im the interest of the Ku Klux organization, and who have been for the most part recognized ag such by thelr attempts and practives to defraud the government of revenue, Uniea States detectives have been at work ferreting out the factories furnishing the tobacco, and on the strength of information filed the selzures nave been made, These will be followed by others equally as important, and a general raid on all éstablishments in the Southern States engaged in manufacturing tovacey may be anticipated. Nae The Luspection of Stenmbonts aud Steam- ~~ bout Boilers, on, Ttis understood from oficial sources that on te return of Secretary Boutwell he will convene the Poard of Supervising Inspectors of Steamboats in this city without delay. The object of this session will be to examine the work done by the inspectors At their session last summer, when the new rules and reguiations framed under the act of February 28 were submitted and approved by Secretary Rout. well, Since the adjournment of the Board there have been within the time more appalling disasters on steamboats than ever before in the history of the Steamboat law, excepting the terrible al. on the Missi-sippi just at the close of war, When boats were run very carclessly, and often without inspection at all. The subject of. condemning boilers after being in use eight years, of proportioning the pounds of steam to the length of Ume in use, the more efficient examination of hulls and inspection of boilers, together with many qnestions of great importance to the public as well nt, Will be laid before the Boare us consideration, Again it 1s stated that the rules and regulations atready adopted and approved are not in many respects what the act of Congress m- tended they should be, This, too, will be a matter of consideration, and more time will be given to the framing of rules conforming with the spirit of the law. The United States and Commission. ‘The United States and Mexican Clatms Commis- sion is expected to resume its session this week. There are over one thousand three hundrea cases op the docket, nearly equally divided between the two countries. So far elghty cases have been de+ cided against Mexico, Invoiving about four nundrea thousand dollars, and thirty or forty cases against the Unitea States, involving one-fourth of that amount, Cases nave been decided determining va- rious phases of citizenship and tne jurisdiction of matters of contract favorable to the views of tne Commission. A large number of the pending Claims deciared in the opinion heretofore delivered. One hundred and fifty cases have been submitted by Mexico against the Unied States, claiming in the aggregate four millions and a half dollars damages m the sack of Bagdad, This subject is expected to be disposed of in a week ortendays, One hun- dred and fifty similar cases also are pending, claiming in the aggregate $11,200,000 damages in the sack of Piedras Negras in 1856, the town having been invaded by the United States troops in pursutt of hostile Indians, The United States took much pains in procuring off-setting proofs, having seut au agent to Mexico especially for that purpose. the basis of an article endeavoring to show that there 18 no necessity for the declaration of martial’ law in several counties of this State. While, so far as my knowledge ex- tends, the Jacts stated im that letter are true, yet | belleve that the county is quiet at present suinply because the United states civil and military authoriies have been for the last «ix weeks riding throngh the county making arrests of all those whom they could fd who nave been heretofore en- paged in committing outrages, Since the Investt- gaung Committee left L Know that outrages have oc curred in York and Union counties, and may na curred 1 Spartanburg coanty during iny absence of three weeks at the United States Court in Green- ville, and no doupt they would have continued in Spartanburg county 1 it had not been for the active measures taken by the United States officials. | L believe that martial law is the only permanently efecuve remedy for these troubles. SAMUEL T, POINER, United States Commissioner, HEADQUARTERS Post SPARTANB! SPARTANBURG, 8, ©., Sept. 6, 1 Hon. JOHN Scort, United States Senator and Chair- man Congressional Investugating Committee:— KNATOR—I have been requested by some of the citizens of Spartanburg to write you in reference to Ku Klux outrages im the county during the time L have tb in command. 1 arrived here and assumed command of the forces’ in the county on the 19th of July, a very short time aiter the departure of your Committee. Since that tume there has not been, to my knowledge, any out- range committed in the county, The man Quinn who was Whipped, although a resident of Spartan. burg, Was on w visit to Union at te (ime of Lis being ‘Khe Coaveation of Internal visors. The Supervisors of Internal Revenue yesterday i their conference with Dr. Kimball, Chief bacco Division, and W, P. Shearman, Chter of the Stamp Division. They considered the com- plaints of numerous tobacco manufacturers of Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and especially of Nortn Carolina, who say tuat violations of law by other parties seriously injure their business, and ask that it be strictly enforced against oll manu- racturers, It 1s belleved the conference will have a good effect in that direction tn connection with the counsel of the Commissioner, Kalistwents in the Sigal Corps. ‘There will be no more candidates examined for positions as observer sergeants tn the Signal Ser- vice, Untied States Army, except where the number now employed shall be reduced by casualty to less than the present number. Hereafter all applications for examination before the board will be made from enlisted men of the Signal detachment, United States Army, Who Shall have performed the daties of assistant’ to an observer sergeant on station, or similar duty ab the Chief Sigaai OMce im tus city. Revenue Super. HAVANA MARKETS. HAVANA, Sept. 17, 1871. and Matanzas, 235,000 boxen, 2, pts week at Havana, and Matanzas xports of the week Ir Havana and Matanzas 15,000 boxes anu 590 hda., ineluding 15,200 boxes for Unived States, Demand fair and market firm; No 12 Dateh standard firm ut 10% reals; No. 15 to 20 Duteh standaré Ti'g 8 13% reals, Molasses, clayed, fi reals. M sugar, fair to good retin me 8 a 10% real Bi Sugar-—Slock a tie’ pero $13" Sper ‘Amertean ya ape Lart-kes, # tal; in tins, Bhs #18 96 per quit ds per quia: 1» $60 $6 ina, 4 i pitch pine, #40 per 1,000, Preighin x 10 Northern ports, $1 12.'a 81 2; per hogshead Of suzar to Northern ports, #4 a $4 2; to Falmouth and orders, 208, 6c. # 25 Exchange—On United States, sixty days, currency, from par to 4 premium; on United Btates short sight, currency, ‘a 21g premium y States, 6 ld 13 a L3G olay 1d premium ; on United States short a! tajum; on London, 25%4 & 25% premium, VIEWS OF THE PAST, aly pre: SEPTEMBER 18, 1870—The Italian troops invested Rome. 1772—Poland partitioned between Kussia, Austria and Prussia. 1i14—George |, arrived In Eagiand to assume its crown. MAILS FOR EUROPE. The steamship Aolsatia will leave this port om Tuesday for Plymouth and Hamburg. The mails for Europe will close at the Post OMce at half-past eleven o'clock A. M. Tux New York Heratp—Euition for Burope— will be ready at half-past nime o'clock in the morn. ing. Single copies, in wrappers for matling, six cents ‘elon a OME AGAIN. Homeward Flight of the Birds of PFashion—Pretty Faces and Pretty Costumes on the Avenue—Autumn Shopping, H Life jnst now fa a very serious business with out fashionables, and will be for the next three or four weeks; for this 18 a transition season, and invoives travelling, unpacking (to say nothing of the pack- ing), getting settled and shopping to an unlimited extent, Everybody who is “not ac home” 1s thinking of coming home, aud the pretty heads of all the pretty girls are full to overflow ing of the gay season now so rapkily approaching. A stranger who visits the city during the hot months is generally Surprised to leara thatevery body is out of town; for tohiseye the same steady stream of life flows through the noisy streets im summer as in winter, bat co the ratttated THE CITY 18 A DESERT from the Ist of June tll the middle of September. ‘To be sure crowds of men and women of all grades, ages and conditions go htuier and thither, working, scheming, idling; they buy and sell, they fil the fac tories and shops, they bend over endless taska, they write, they preach, they go on trips during the day, and sometimes get blown up; but who are ail these? ‘They are nobodies, evidently, for isa’t “everybody out of town?” Of course he ta, and to prove it one has only to go to the fashionable uptown streets and avenues and lv! he shall find whole blocks of housea with fronts: as sombre and impenetrable aa if they were family vaults, with ali the in- mates coolly and comfortably sheived inside, stand, these brown stone palavcea, silent and alone, with their soft, gay carpets and Magnificent drapings and furnishings, sacred to darkuess, Watting till thelr owners shall return from coimury haunts or from tours across the seas and bring to them ligt and gayety. And then the initiated also miss CERTAIN CHARMING FACES } on the promenade, and anybody with the slightest pretension to knowledge of fashionable life knows very well tnat novody of the slightest consequence in the eyes of Mrs, Grundy is at home in the sum. mer. Mia bIR OSS: Whai the city loses tn beauty and fashion ts gained by the mountain aid the seashore, and through the long bright days thére is much rambling and sitting on rocks, and flirting and cooing, and quarrelling for the sake of tue sweet making up, and surf dipping, and cilmbing, and many are the strangers who meet at the summer resorts and are no more strangers thereafter, bat find eacn other tu the browa stone fronts when the “season” reopens and the gay Worid reassembies for the winter's festiviti Most of tis is over, however, and all summer deiiglts are nearly at an end, and every train as tt rushes linpetaously to the terminus of 18 route brings dozeus of tourists from cWory part or tke country—(rom arm houses nest ling In the midst of their meudows; from lake-side retreats; trou BIG, BLUSTERING, SWARMING HOTELS, * © and quiet, injand boarding houses, all glad to get’ back to the city that tuey so Wearied of early io tue season, and to the homes that they know how to ale after tae mourolul experieuces of Lgtel . at im aly one Of the best results of summer he zost that it gives lo home, ‘Tae ott mit houses with such entiustasoa th Bill Breavek snthusiasne, dud the brigut, auple, Yas. *Paruinenld of vue cy © home look cheery and iavitn, 1udged contrasved Witt the narrow, dingy quarter yf the wavering place hotels and the low, bot rooms yf country houses. Home never looks 50 inviting as When its couforts have been aanged tor what country people and landlords call comlors, which, by the Way, 18 an article diferent from What is name inpties. But to bring all this to a perceptible point, up- town New York is getting back to its Winier haunts, and the streets begun to assume the look of pril- laucy and gayety tat they never Wear at midsam- mer. All along the avenues and tie steels where dwell tie jor PURPLE-AND-FINE-LIN BN classes the graud houses are beimg opened one after another, aad here and there in the bright Sep. teluber sunshine are groups of promenadets look- ing tres and happy ana giad to be in tar be- loved look ‘rhe does New York very season? New York. And woeo so well as at suitry, breatiiess days are gone, aud uvough the clear, pure atmosphere every of beauty is doubly bewuliul, and even dutormities ate not 50 Wearylag to us as ducing tae heats of summer, The stately buildings sow att their woe proportions Lo the best advantage; sht faces grow iresaand gay i the exhuaranag clildven full of irolic romp We the parks umd wloug tie promenad aud lovely tall costumes, tue duost bewlening of Costauies, ure exhibited to ve witeh Ube suscepuble hearts of men und to orive the fortunate Women to despair. And Low, two, 13 the GRAND SHOPPING SEASON. Of course all the belics have come home, with absos lutely “noting to Wear,” “positively uot it w go into the streets,’? and so they wander from one dry goods palace Wo anotticr in search ot labrics rare and tufui, and then Lacy besiege the aparuaents of the modiste, and at last the periect result appears on the street, Over the couaters th lair Ones jinger gazing at bright silks aud eaquisite laces, as S01, WOulLenS abd piceuresque wraps, al gloves and boots and ribbons wand Lagerie til the Waste places tats of the summer have veew repaired ana the fall wardrobe 1s complete. if you walk up Fi avenue any of these charme cases Will be decided according to the principles | ing mornings you will quickly see tial somebody bs at Lome, for some Of the prettiest costumes imagin- able are already appearing in connection witha sume OL THE PRETTIEST FACES. Black predominates, as it always should for the street, and 13 retieved only by @ bright ribbon or piquant feataer in the hat, and soft drapings aud lace garniture are the rule. sight of the sage of o We seem vo be losing past suit days, ana woman of tae period is more 10 accordance with true than formerly, There ds room for improvement stil, however, and, exceps in rare cases, the ideal Is yet far from being at tuined, Soil, heavy silks and cashineres appear a% favorite materiais for autumn wear, and jaunty English turvans, perched on te tull heavy braids, complete the bewliching (out ensemble. On the whole New York seems glad to be at home again, and 18 quite coutent to remember summer pleas ures while it enjoys metropolitan delights. Many a sparg hour WL doubtiess be spent um living over the vacation idiing, but they will be spare nours for the pr too Inteuse to allow of much remem beriug or anticipating Wille the business ot acuve life is going on. the dress the — tasteful A.—Herring’s Parent CHAMPION SAFES, Boi roadway, cocaar Murray steae Av Vhaion’s he of and “W A.—A.—82 Saved on Fall Style Gentlemen: Dress Hats, Largest stock ever offered at retail. 0. D. HAT COMPANY, 16 Cortlandt street, Pius Ultea of a Fashionable Hat s1D'S fall syle, just issued, at 118 Nassau at. A.-Gentlemen’s “tlk Hats Seven Dollars. WABNOCK & CO., 519 Broadway, A Cool, Delicate Buirdrensing.—Uhevalier’s LIFE FOR THE HAIR, reconanended as the only vegetable preparation in the world’ for restoring gray bair, stops ite failing, increases ite growth, removes ail bad effects of salt batuing on the lair, Sold everywhere, Equal in the itis the satest and most reliable of any, Sold every- Cristodoro’s Hair Dye has m work if eres ilitary Vestival and Fete Champetres LN ALD OF UNION HOME AND SCHOOL for the Edueation agd Maintenance of the DESTITUTE AND ORPHAS CHILL REN OF SOLDIERS AND SALLORS. To Tar Pur. We, the Gilicera and Managers of the Union Home School, ask the assiatance of all benevoleutly disposed pe sone in aid of the Institution under our hi Through the Kindness of Major General Alexander Siaer, Hou, Join H. v VE. B. Lansing, George H. Purser, Benjamin jitehcock and others, a Grand MI Fossval Fete Champetre has been ar {to be her in Octover next, and we earoestiy invite the jc to patronize and assist the undertaking. Mrs. CHAS. P. DALY, Pros. Mra, VIRGINIA L. PARKA Mrs. R. JONSON, Gor, Vice Prewiene | dene, ey Vil ee dd, VAN DALSEM. "y. ™ L. UW, ROWAN President. Mrs, DAVID HOYT, Se ns of $1 each tor Sing on Tickeis (12 admissions), can be mailed Mra. C. My 10. Mra. J.C, FREMONT. Mrs. GEORGS F. HOPPER, Subserip! S10 each, for the unders vo ita the kind leitets of approval already received the pro- moters of the Festival feel sanguine that the undertaking will hot only prove & pecuniary success, but, as a testimonial heneht from the pubite, it will enlist a wide-spreat interest and be one of the most enjoyable series of entertainments ver given yn this country. ever LAJAMIN W. HITCHCOCK, General Manacer. (Store 29 Beekman street.) “Pike's Toothache ute HLLL'S HALR D Pure Stimulant, Drops”? 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