The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1872, Page 5

JAPAN AND CHIN ‘The Japanese Mission tothe United States—Its Organization, Or- ders and Official Duties, United States Minister De Long’s Diplo- macy and Its Successful Results. ‘The Eastern Ladies—American Consular Repre- sentation—Legal Investigations, Clerical Mis- sions and the Cause of Christ in Contempt— Warning to Pious Old Ladies and the Mrs, Jellabys of the Union—Fatal Fire—Provincial Rebellion and Farmers in Arms—Diplomacy, Education and Religion in the Central Flowery Land. By mail steamship at San Francisco and thence by overtand mail we havo our special correspond- enceand newspaper Mies from Japan and China, @ated Yokohama the 22d and Shanghae the 11th of December. The information from both sources is of considerable importance and interest in deta) of our news, telegrams already published in the HERALD. JAPAN. Youon ama, Dec, 22, 1871. By the steamer to-morrow the most important maitasion that has ever left Japan takes its departure to visit the United States ana all the European Powers with which the Empire of Japan has entered imto treaties. It is the most important mission that Bas ever left the country, for two reasons—first, on account of its scope; second, on account of the Aigifsocial and political status of its members, The Mission 1s, as you ure perhaps aware, com- posed of twenty-six members, besides interpreters, clerks, &c. The Chief Ambassador 18 lwakura, late @hief Minister for Foreign Aifairs, and of the rank of Unodaijin—the hignest now in the empire, Then ‘here are four Vice Ambuasadors, of the rank of Sangi—privy councillors, These five really consti- tute the chief diplomatic part of the Mission. Next oome eight chief secretaries, representing tne fol- Jewing eight departments, which are to be te ebjects of tneir careful investigation, and which & ame in thelr order of precedence :— First—Keligion. Second—Foreign Affairs. Third--Finance. Fourth— Education. FUih—Puodlic Works. Sr —War. Seventh—Navy. Bighth—Agriculture. Besides the eight chief secretaries there 1s a sec- ond toeach department, and to tne first five de partments mentioned a third is attached. These secon? and third aiternates, as they might be termed, may have to remain at certain places where it may be supposed they can investigate anything connected with their respective departments more closely; but the eight chief secretaries accompany the Ambassadors, Besides these offcers several sons or neirs of the old Daimios are t) accompany the Mission, but will be dropped at different points to be placed at school, aad last, though not least, a few young Japanese Jadies will aiso leave their nauve country (the first that have done so) and will be placed at a female serainary in the United States. MINISTER DE LONG’S NEGOTIATIONS AND POSITION. Mr. De Long accompanies the expedition, He ees along in his capacity as United States Minister, Raving no other connection with this Mission. But ‘mere are several reasons to consider the aeciston he has come to in accompanying it a wiseone. In the frst place, the formation of the Mission is due tea suggestion made tothe Japanese government as far back as May last by Mr. De Long; secondly, tm the teeth of considerable opposition from his Drethcr Ministers he has succeeded in tn- ducing the Japanese to visit America first, and it is of the utmost importance to American interests in the future that the Embassy be favorably and Pieasurably impressed by what they see and the’ treatment they receive in the first country they ‘Visit—a result which cannot but be facilitated by the Presence, at their first introduction, of the United States Minister; thirdly, it 1s of the utmost im- portauce to the United States that, when the re- vision of the treaty between that couatry and Japan comes on the (apts, there shalt be some one present who will ve able, from personal ex- perience, to adyise the State Department as to the requirements and necessities of United States resi- dents ia Japan. During Mr. De Long’s absence from Japan Col- one) CG. 0. Shepard, now Consul at Kanagawa, will be leftin charge of the Legation, aud Mr. G, N. Micheli will preside at the Consulate as Vice Consul. OFFICIAL DUTY, Mr. De Long has closed the investigation into the eonduct of the Hakodate Consulate, but defers Making his report thereon until he arrives at Wash- ington. ‘The evidence is very voluminous, covering ever une hundred pages of tooiscap, and neariy one bondred documents have beeu handed im as docu- mentary testimony. From a careiul perusal of the ase as adduced, and which was placed at my @isnosal by the Minister, the conviction Is forced upon the mind that’ the conduct of the Hakodate Consulate for the last twelve years reflects no credit whatever upon te incumbent. espite of Mr. Kice being repre- sented by legal counsel, which the prosecutors were not, his Own testimony corroborates many ugly things, though he justifies his act under the plea sbat, although he was @ consul, ne was allowed to Go business in trade, The excuse 1s probably strong enough to save him from any legal prosecution. Mr. Rice still nominally holds the appointment as United States Consul tor Uakodate, but is now in te United States. His son, late of San Francisco, 4s acting Consul-in-Charge—a man who has hitherto @scharged its duties honorably and creciany, Willie P. Mangum, United States Consul at Naga- Saki, has been placed on trial here before the United ‘States Ministerial Court on three distinct charges of faise imprisoument, malice and livel, preferred against him by one G. W. Lake, citizen of the United States. Aiter hearing the testimony adduced Mr. De Long dismissed all three cases and in his opinions expressed his conviction ‘that Mr. Mangum bad acted throughout in good faith, and that the suits brought against hun were groundiess and vexatious.’ . MISSIONARY TROUBLES AND MISSION LAW, The United States Consul at thts port has also had his bands tolerably fuil of law cases daring tne last month, two of which deserve some mention, namely @ resort to a legal tribunal upon trivial money mat- ters by two ministers of the Gospel. The plaintif, vbe Kev. J. Goble, is an pods peatant missionary, has oeen here a great number of years (be came oul in the United States man-ol-war Mississippl as @& Marine), aud devoted his time to teacuing the heatnen the Gospel, to Loin ae and to house Duilding, as occasion required, The defendant, Rev. James H. Ballagh, belongs to the Presbyterian Mission Board of New York, and has also been out in Japan several years, Plaintif’ sues defendapt for $300, which he claims to have earned in superintending a bailaing for tne private Fesidence of the deiendant, and also for superin- tending a butding for church purposes for defend- ant. Ballagh denicd indebtedness, admitted par- Wally the services rendered by platntif, but clatings tnat said services were periormed as friendly offices, for which he never expected and Dever intended to pay. When we quarret first arose attempis were made by mutual friends to settle the question by arbitration, urging, in the language of one of the witnesse: “the disgrace such a trial belore & public tribunal ‘would bring upon the cause of Christ in Yoko hama.” but the reverend gentlemen woul brook No interference, and insisted upon law. The testimony brought forward was remarkable, and deserves to be recorded in the HERALD. HOW THEY WORK FOR THE LORD AND DO A LITTLE FOR THE LARORER, In the first place, it was shown that the suit itself, although founded on actual services rendered, ‘Would never lave been commenced but for the atiempt of defendant to force the plaintit to seve some claims that Japanese workmen had against nim, It appeared that Mr. Goble had by no means hesitated to take all advantages that his position bh him two get on “the weather side” of the Japan- » Undoubtediy when Mr. Gobie performed the Services for detendane, for which he now claimed cUdiary remuneration, no agreement was made Weer hae wie least for part of them—ani | could va infer that his origial imrenuon Was to perform said services in payment of some tavors formerly received from the defendant; but when the jatter took up the Cause of the vapanese he felt that his obitga- Uons in that direction were cancelled. It was roved that piaintil, in the presence of several peo- Menad used the {duowlng Corisiian language vo efendant:—«You he and you knuw you le, and t can prove that you have lied.” How mach more Impressive this language would have sounded from the pulpit! It was proved that both plainud and Gefendant bad devoved most of tuelr time Willy im NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 1872.-TRIPLW SHMET, Japan m lend building r Cenneen purest ‘was proved that a lot had ‘been obtained for missionary purposes which &@ church haa been built for worship cost a Shek yeby trial. @ vindictive feeling’ an and throt hatred were evinced rarely witnessed in Police Courts. Nay, one of gentlemen bold one of these pious ly asserted to the Court that “he did not consider that Chriat’s golden rule was at all admissabdle in this case,” and that only pecuniary dam; could give batm to mis outraged meek and lowly spirit. ‘The case lasted nearly three days, ending tn a verdict ior about one nals the amount claimed ‘being awarded to plainntt, In giving judgment the Consul delivered to the Utigants the following severe, but well-deserved Jecture:— ‘The conflicting and acrimonious nature of the testimony in @ decision extremely giain and dispassionate rezret at the inability ‘of Christian brethren to conduct business tr ns with- ‘ont appeal to legal tribunals, and would ask the parties to consider whether the causes leading to this strife have not deen chielly owing the on to eare of proj than strictly accords with pro! Missionary brethren. So long as any possibility existed or offered for an adjustment of this matter the Court can but Tegret its non-acceptance, and can only look upon its refusal ‘as indicating anything but the spirit of Christianity. Although without the province of this Court to discuss, it is impossibie to overlook and natural to seek a reason (or the great and astonishing discrepancy found to exist between the expend! ure for a “House of the Lo shown to ve heen made for « private residence. Again the Court was d to observe the uncharitable uring fe trial and anvonishod 10. hear from the lips of defendant an opinion that the rule of ‘‘doing as we would be done by”* did not apply to all dealings with our fellow men, and in this articular case had no effect whatever. By wnrepressed Remoustrations of doy, ,grnen, the evidence of one witness tended to charge piaintif with breaking bis pledged word, the animus ofdefendant was unpleasantly evident. Tt 19 hoped that the public scandal caused by the unfortunate spectacle of two Ohristian guides and preachers of the Gospel wrangling at law will bar future proceedings of a simil nature, and have @ less unfortunate effect upon non-pro- fessors of Christian life t han would now appear probable, RELIGIOUS CONSEQUENCES, The publicity given to this case will bear at least one benelicial result if it wilt only divert the funds given by innocent children and soured old maids irom the coffers of missionary boards to chariues What Christ Himself, were He now upon earth, wonld proclaim to have prior claims, Sure “charity begins at home,” and, to my mind, that ts at least questionable charity that can devcte its dollars to send missionaries to the “heathen” and reluse ils cents to the mitigation of suffering and crime among its own poor. Besides, I assert as facts, and challenge contradiction, that the Fd done by missionaries in China and Japan 1s infinitesimal; that the missionaries sent out here are not fit for their work, for, as a rule, they are men of third and fourth class mental calibre, and are unfit to cope in argument with the natives whom they are sent out to teach; and, further, that when they do come out at the expense of confiding missionary boards in America they are usually to be seen with the rest of foreigners in the race for dollars, ‘Tney live upon the fat of the land, and give nothing to the soil in return.” AMERICAN TUANKSGIVING, The 30th day of November was generally regarded by American residents here as a@ day of thanksgiv- ing, mM accordance with @ pubished recommenda- tuon from the Minister to that effect, CITY FIRE AND MELANCHOLY RESULT. Yokohama was visited by 4 rather disastrous fire on the night of the lzth inst. Tne fire occurred in that part of the native town mostly occupied by females who, under governmental sancuon, devote themselves to a nameless traiic. This part of the town, termed Yoshiwarra, is comp: of narrow streets with houses huddled together, in each of which resi from twenty to seventy poor creatures. Narrow canals intersect the streets at slight inter- vals, but this fact, ar from proving a barto the destructive progress of the devouring element, aidea it almost a8 much as if tt had been covered by the wooden tenements, and served only to pre- vent the escape of the inmates. In an incredibly short space of time two or three hundred houses were on fire, and the bridges across the canals also being tynited, escape from the flames was difficult in the extreme, HOW many women were burned up I cannot find out, but thirty-eight bodies were dragged ous ot the canais, the poor wretches hav- ing jumped from the fire into the water. As soon as aid irom the foreign settlement could be ob- talned it was promptly rendered, but although the fire lasted but a couple of hours 1 had time enough to effect & vast destruction of property and life. An effort 1s now being made to induce the native authorities, when the place is rebuilt—for there can be very little doubt tnat it will be repuilt, not. withstanding the character of tne business carried on—that they shall insist upon wider streets and Greater facilities for escape upon a recurrence of the calamity; jor these districts are wholly or partly de- stroyed by fire at least once In three years, NAVAL BOAT RACE BY AMERICANS. A boat race came off the early part of this month between the barge of the United States ship Colo- rado and a cutter from the Alaska, for the “cham- pion cock ofjthe Asiatic waters.” It was a five-mile tace, and in rather rough water, and was won by the former by only two lengths, Another challenge was sent, a3 the Alaskas claimed that they were pulling under unusual difficulties, from the fact that they only pulled twelve oars to the others’ fourteen, and claimed that the weather was uufavorable to their boat. Admiral Rogers reused permission for another race to be run, because he was going away. Asthe champion cock 1s eagerly contested for by boats’ crews of all nationalities, and as the cham- pion is bound to receive the challenge of all comers—that is, all naval boats—this decision|was somewhat unexpected. PROVINCIAL RIOT AND AGRICULTURISTS IN ARMS. News has just reached Yokohaina that serious troubles have broken out in a place calied Inko, in the province of Wambu, about tluriy miles trom Hiogo. Several huodrea farmers were in arms, and had destroyed a considerable amount of pro) , Including several government hous ‘Troops have veew sent from Osaka to the scene of disturbance, CHINA. Ratificntion of the Trenty with Austrin= Baron Hubner in Tien-tsin—Famine and Sul- fering in the North—Visic from a Tartar General—Freneh Defence of the Christian Missions—Trafiic in ‘‘oolies for Cuba, Suanowag, Dec, 11, 1871. The treaty between Austria and China was raty- fled on Monday, November 27, at Shanghae, the sig- natures being We Fantail for China and Chevaiter Calice for Austria, Dinners were given by the Chinese authorities to the Austrian Minister and Consul, which was compliment returned py the Aus- trian Consul to the Chinese officials, Baron Hubner, of Austria, is at Tien-tsin. The Uhinese government has already sanctioned the expenditare to be incurred in the despatch of Chinese youths to European countries and America to Jearn Western sciences and arts, The youtns are te have a thorough foreign education first, and then to stuay for @ profession, ana the time of service has been extended to fifteen. years, A new Yamen will-be created for the entire management of this affair; two commissioners will be appointed, one to be stationed either in England or America, and the other at Shanghae, The al- lowance for each boy 1s stated at 400 taeis a year on an average, which shall include his private ex- Penses as well as the charge for his tuition, THE FAMINE AFTER THE FLOOD. The suffering of the people of the-northern prov- inces has created some stir amoug the lethargic Chinese oficials, but no extensive measures have been taken for their relief. .The Pekin Gazette pub- lishes an edict approving of a plan suggested by the Governor of the province that a certain amount of rice be given to the poor daily, and distributed under the supervision of the Mandarina, As usual, the edict aiso contains a clause pronibiting any *‘s queez- ing” on the part of the mandarins. But there are many ways in China to ‘‘wnip the devil around a stump.” The mandarins are obeying the royal com- mands by giving the allotted measure of rice to those destitute who apply for it. They give fall measure—but they first boll the rice | A TARTAR WARRIOR ON A TOUR, The foreign settlement of Shanghae has been hon- . Ored by a visit from Tseng-Two-Fan, the Tartar Gen- erai of the Province of Shantung—a high mandarin of the Chinese government, Tseng visyed all tue foreign Consuls and expressed nis willingness to do all in his power towards the improvement of the foreign settlement and to alleviate the destitution among several thousand Chinese both in the sette- ment and native city, of which every winter a large number depend entirely upon the charity of foreign residents. Tseng was treated with great considera- tou by the foreign officials, and he scems to liave lett the Lunpression that he is one of the few Chinese be aa Who possesses and induiges in progressive eas, FRENCH DEFENCR OF CHRISTIANITY. Count Kochechonart, Frengh Minister at Pekin, under dave of November 14, has written a reply to the Tsung-li-Yamen in respect to the celevrated missionary circular, He takes up the points seria- tim, ana ‘briefly, but pointedly, points out to the Chinese government their inadmiasipiliiy. While ad- mitting, however, that the missionary quesuon has always been the source of more or less troupie, he is contident that a proper understanding between the government of China and those of Christian nations willaliay those, le concludes his despaten by saying that “the examination oO! the eight arucies leads tne French government to the conclusion that not one Js acceptable; that not one even appears to it to be seriously proposed. The circular isa skirmish, de- signed to feel and to clear the ground. The French government beileves that the Christians do cause anxiety to the Chinese government, but it believes still more that they are used a4 @ pretext, ‘The sys- tematic adversaries of Lig bes jag make # great out- cry about the dangers which the Western sect causes, Skiliul men create by this means an agita- ion by which they profit, At the bottom, never- theless, the danger exists, It has increased within recent years; it might become irremeviatie, fain an understanding betweeu the two governments,’ BRITISH SA'LORS AFTER SiLPWRECK. The British bark Yang-tze, Captain Willlam Smita, of London, bound from Foochow to New York, Was totally wrecked on the 2d of October, enialling tue Jous of the captain aud siz men, Toe (EE PTR SE SEE SRE RS RS es Se Sa } through the surt and beacne others coog to the boats and arrived at Oaniwu on the 19th of November. ‘The lollowmg account of the disaster is gleaned from the chief —_ to ne being east-northeast, This course was M., when It was altered to west-northwest. seven minutes past ten P.M. breakers were abead and on the bor ly bumped heavily, aud’ at the third bump the mainmast snapped and went overboard. The master then ordered the longboat to be launched, and all hands to get into her. She drifted towards the stern, where a sea wi over ber, and all the hands, except the chief oflicer and four others, were thrown out. All who could do «0 clambered up the side and got on board the ship, but it was so aark that for some time it remained doubtiul how many bad been able to save themselves. After the chief oficer had called the men together it was found that the Captain and six men were missing. The rest remained on board all night, and at ait ext morning left the ship in the starboard boat, into which such provisions as could readily found were put. The ship was toen fast going to jeces; the previous night the main hatch was forced out by 1¢ rush of water from velow, ani cargo came floating out in all directions, Shortly after leaving the vessel those an the boat saw breakers anead, and attempted, by jumping ‘out and holding the boat, to prevent her «(rom 'golng on the reef; but the ‘curreut set them on it, and there was uo help’ for it but to go through the breakers and over the coral reef, Everythi was wasied out of the bo aud the crew had hang on to the gunwaie until the water had been baled out. With only a jib set they drifted vetore the wind for three days and two hights. On the morning of the third day land was seen ahead, and the boat's Lead was put in that direction. As they drew near | the beach a crowd was seen assembled to meet them, some of the natives beiag armed. They made signa, however, in- | Viting the crew to come ashore, anil boat’ was pushed Some nautical instruments, | the only things that were saved from the wreck, were taken possession of by the natives, but in’ other Feapects the shipwrecked men were well treated. One man, who appeared to be ot importance in the village, took them up to his house and provided them food and aheiter. fhe next day they were sent to Sing- , Where they were detained ten days by the ca At last, on the of October, they Were sent off in chairs to the next district, and in this’ man- ber, being passed on from one oiliclal to another, they reached Kiuazehow, in the north of Hainan, After remain: ing there wwe day they crossed over in a junk to the Lien- chow Pentnsuia, and, as before, the mandarin of @ne ais- trict fed and’ lodged them ‘and provided them with means of reaching the next place. Travelling oc- casionally by boat and sometines rs oF wheelbarrows, they eventually arrived in Canton on the 19th, ‘Where the authorities forwarded them to the British Consul: ‘They arrived with nothing but the clothe: then had on, but so far as food and shelter were concerned, they | Spenk very highly of the treatment of the ollicia's ttrougn. whose baids they passed, When our destitute condition be- came known to the foreign commualty at Canton many per- sons came forward with liberal offers of clothes and such things as the men stood most in need of, and in a short time they were mae comparatively comfortable, THE SPANISH SLAVE TRADE, During the month of November three ships left Macao for Havana, carrying an aggrezate of 856 | cooues for that place. GEORGE BANCROFT AND HARVARD. The New Fellowship for Harvard College Letter of Hon, George Bancroft Found. | ing the John Thornton Kirkland Fellowship, AMERICAN LEGATION, BERLIN, Juty 4, 1871, Sim—it has lopg been my wish to raise &@ memo- rial to one of your predecessors, Jonn Thornton Kirk- laad, and to requite benefits received through him. During a long ie, in which I bave had the oppor- tunity Of seeing Many men, In divers lands, famed for mind and accomplishments, | have seen tew Who were his equals, and no one who knew betier than he how w deal with his teilow men. His manners were marked by dignity and beuignity; they invited conticence and repelled famuitiarity, A scholar and @ man of the world, he was honored and veloved in every circle in Boston and by all classes in the college. With severe reproois of misconduct he mingicd so much humaneness and so easy and natural appeals to the better ele- ments of character in those whom he was obliged vo censure, that his reproor acted like a benedic- tion, and they who received it left his presence abashed, nitent, grateful and attached, To those who showed aptuess tor jiterary pursuits he was an unlatilng friend, treating them with pater- nal regard wile under his care, and watching their career in life with never-ceasing imterest. There was not in his navure a trace of anything that was mean or narrow. He was always and everywhere devoid ol envy or discontent or repin- ing, and was throughout large and liveral ana gen- erous and genial in thought and tife. All who knew him well regretted that ne did not write more for the public, for 1t seemed to them that no one in America, of his day, understood ‘English so well, and that noone had, like him, the intuitive koowl- edge of human passions aud character. He was suited to any high patie office; was ever the hon- ored compauiou of statesmen, and tit to be the peer ‘Of the best Of them 5 but he was satisfied with bring- Ing the university over which he presided into a condiuion more worthy of the arts and sciences which it undertook to teach, and of the affecuon and benevolence of the community with wich it had grown up and prospered, He opened the ways Unrough which it has passed onward co its preseat emineut condition, aud tus noble iniuence suil sure Vives to assist you, sir, in bringing time-honored Harvard still nearer to the excellence which the present age hopes for and expects. A little more than tlity-tiree years aco Edward Everett, then Eliot. Protessor of Greek literature, n one of his letters to President Kirkland deveioped the idea that it would be weil to sead some young graduate Of Harvard to study tor a waile at a Ger- man university, with a view to his being cailed to a place on tue college board, ‘Tne President ap- proved the suggestion, and nis choice for this trav- eiling scholarsatp fell upon me. Accortlngly, in the early sumimner of 1813, being then im my eign- leeath year, I proceeded to Gottingen, Aiter re- maining tore than turee years in Karope Lreturned to Campridge, where I held the ojtice of tutor tor one year. ‘There being no opening for a perma- nent connection with the university I devoted a Jew yeacs to an attempt to tuireduce among us some parts of the German sysiem of edu- cation, so as to divide more exactly prelim- nary studies from the higner scienulic courses, and thus facilitate the transformation of our col- leges iuto universities, after the pian everywhere adopted in Germany. But it 1s not easy to change an organization that has 13 roots in the habits of the country, And the experiment could not succeed, for it was impossible to introduce the German usage which permits students to pass freely trom @ private place of imstruction to a public one, with- out the exaction of payments for instruction else- where received. I then appiied through the late Judge Charles Jackson, & member of the Corporation and @ Iriend of mine, for leave to read lectures on history in the university. At Gottingen or Bertin 1 had the right, alter a few preliminary formalities, to deliver such @ course. It was the only time in my lie that I applied furan office for mysel(, and this time it Was Lot 80 much an oftice a8 a permission that I desired. My request was declined by my ownaima mater, 80 that I had not the opportunity of manifesting my affection tor her by personal ser- vices, aud my liie has had in consequence unex- pected variety and independence, But wherever my lot has been thrown I have always preserved in freshness and strength the love which 1 bore to Harvard College in my youth; and now, in my old age, 1still gladly seek au opportunity of proving Uhat attachment, I wish, therefore, tofound @ scholarshtp on the idea of President Kirkland, that the incumbent should have leave to repair Lo a foreign Country tor instruction, Merit must be the coudition of the election to the scholarship; no one 1s to be elected who has not shown uncommon apility and uncom- mon disposition to learn. Oi course the choice should fall on some one who needs the subsidy, You, sir, as the successor of Dr. Kirkiand, may know the funds out of which caine the modest but saficient stipend which L received; and, if so, I leave it to you and the corporation to Impose any limitations that you think right. Otherwise rest- dence at the Univeratty, but not for more than three years, may be required, But the residence should have reierence to any of the schools oi divinity, law or meuicine, or of mines, or of science, or of any other scnooi that is or may be founded, not less than to the classes of the under-graduates. I think, in an exceptional case, there should be authority to name the scholar from any place, without any pre+ vious residence at Carabridge; and uf you and the corporation approve I wish it to be so established, ‘Lhe schojarship should be held by no one for more than three years, and during tat ime shoulda be renewed from year to year, but only on evidence Uhyt the scholar is fulfliling the purpose of the en- dowment. I leave to you and to the corporation to circumscribe, if, from the considerations already reierred to, you think best, the objects of study to which the incumbent should devote himself, But, for my own part, { am willing the scholarsuip should be given to any young person likely to «is- unguish himself in either of tue learned profes Sluus, or in any branch of science, or im architec- ture, sculpture, paintiag, music or letters, ‘to constitute the necessary fund I to devote the sum of $10,000, to be safely invesied, the income to be given to the scaclar. Having never accepted acy, inheritance, and having ever engaged in any lucrative pur- sui, I cannot at once pay mto the treasury of the University the whoie sum, of which [ yet hope to make aud complete the payment during iy life, But as life is always uncertain, aud the life of an oid man so surely near its close, 1 Wish You without deiay to have drawn @ paper for me to sign that shait bind myself to pay at least $2,000 a Year until tue whole sum of $10,000 shall be dise Chargew, and, in case of my death before the pay- propose “eats are completed, to bind my executors to pay the balance that may remain due, witira one year alter mv decease, ‘The interest that will accrue on instalments that May be paid from time to time ts not to be reckoned in discharge of any part of the principal, but 18 to be addea to une princi and will in so far entarge the fund. L wisn the scholar- ship to Lear the name of Jonn Thoroton Kirkland, Pray consult the corporation, and if you wiil thea send for my signature the paper that will bind me and my executors to what I have set forth it will be promptly executed and returned to you. One word more. The incumbents of the scholar- ship may, perhaps, be afterwards drawn into the corps of protessors at the University. Should they render no such service, and should they be pros. Ppa in life, I wish each of them so prospered to reminded, and, excepting always tnose perma- nentiy connected with the University as instructors and those whose moderate wants press upon their means, I thus in advance charge them to imitate my example in rendering «id, through, Harvard ane to the roan ie cree of science and lear! reyoain, sit, rs sincere! atipat GkoRGE HANCKOPT. Preaident Exion, President of Harvard Couege.¢ MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. “Tne Veteran” wit] shortly be. produced at Wal- lack’s; first time after thirteen years, ‘The sixveentn Sunday Concert of the Ninth Regi- ment Band will have as soloists Miles. Fretore, Cas- tellan and De Try. ‘The third Philharmonic Concert takes place to- night at the Academy of Music. Mile, Corradt and Seilor Sarasate will be the solo teatures, ‘The Thirty-fourth Street Theatre, under the man- agement of Messrs, Shuttleworth & Co., nas opened auspiciously with a first class variety company. Matinées will be given at the following theatres to-cay:—Filth avenue, ‘Divorce; Academy of Music, “Don Giovanni;” Booth’s, “Julius Cesar; Ulympic, “Humpty Dumpty;” Niblo’s, “Black Crook;’? Aimee’s Opéra Bouile, “Barbe Bleue;” Grand Opera House, Union Square Theaire, Comique, Tony Pastor's; New York Circus, Bryanv’ Steinway Hall, Association Hall, and Thirty-fourth Street ‘Iheatre. The feature of the matinées to-day will be the representauon of “Don Giovanni’? at the Academy of Music, with the following strong cast:—Donuna Anna, Mme. Fabbri; Donna Elvira, Mile. Rosetti; Zerima, Mie, Anna Elzer, the young prima donna: Don Ottavio, Ar. Habeimann; Don Juan, Mr, Muller; Leporello, Mr. Carl Formes. Echoes from Other Lands. Anew opera, “Feramors,” is about to be pro- danced at the Court Theatre, Vienna. Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault come to America next August with a magnificent eight months’ engage- ment, The brother of Sir Richard Wallace has just mar- ried Mile. Daram, a popular artist of the Theatre Lyrique, Mme. ArWt-Padilla appears to have created a | sensation in St, Petersburg by ler singing in tne “Huguenots. M, Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliette’ has been per- formed in St, Petersburg, with Madame Patt: and Signor Nicolini in the cast. Herr Bulow has commenced a concert tour m Germany. At Leip@ic he will play nothing but the compositions of Mefdetssoin, M. N. J. Tourguenieff, a Russian author, who has supplied Mme. Viardot with libretu for her operas, died recently near Paris, aged eighty-one. It appears that *Lohengrin” really nad but a cold reception at Florence, and that Italian enunu- siasm is, on better acquaintance with its object, Tapidly cooling. An open-air theatre, on the Itallan principle, is about to be erected by M. Harand in the Champs Elysces, This report, however, is contrauicted by the Gazelle Musicale, Miss Catherine Lucette, formerly lessee of Sadler’s Wells Theatre, had her benefit Jannary 20, ou which occasion Captatn Morton Price made his first appeur- ance since his return jrom America, Among Mr, Gye’s new engagements for text sea- son at the Royal Itailan Opera are, we understand on good authority, Mile, Zimmermann, Signor Nico- limi, Herr Brandt and Herr Kobler( pass), Anew tenor, M, Trinquier, has made his appear- ance at the Grand Opera in “Il Trovatore,’’ ile is wivised by the French critics to forget provincial successes and set himself to earnest study. Owing tothe Paris Italian Opera being so long closed, and no prospect of its being opened the present winter, the distressed musicians of -the orchestra annuance a bevelit concert, at which Al- bon, Penco, Gardont and Verger will sing, L’ Heraido, a Madrid paper, heralds the “coming man’’ in the shape of a young Portuguese tenor Whose sonorous voice rauges {rom the bass lower 5 to D flat in alt. His address is “M. B. Maaria, Calle des Jardins, 31.’’ Messrs. Gye &Mapieson, please note, ‘There is a talk of erecting tn a centrat part of the city of Milan a tneatre capable of accommodating 6,000 spectators. ‘Tne estimaied expense 1s 600,000 lire, of which a wealthy citizen, Signor Ercole Pe- nelli, offers to contribute 200,000 lire. The remainder of the money will, it is expected, be raised without difficulty by spares, and there will, 01 course, be a committee selected from the body of shareholders to represent their interests. Clarke and Sothern. A Philadelphia paper thus speaks of two eminent American actors:— Mr. J... Clarke and Mr. Sothern, the two emi- nent American comedians, are now playing at the Arch Street theatre anu the Walnut Street Thea- tre, in Philadelphia, on aiternate nights. It is a curious fact that the remarkable abilities of both should have been firsy filly recognized abroad, though they had been plaved here for years beture they reached London. periormance, Mr, Sotnern was called velore the curtain and made a neat Mite speech of thanks. He announced that Mr, Clarke was beuind the cur- tain, having recently returned from London, where he was glad to say he had made the greatest success that had been made im that city tora hundred y ears, Mr. Clarke was then called for; but, he not being iu the havit of appearing upon the stage, failed to answer the summons, ‘The idea of two so emment actors playing at two diferent theatres on alternate Dights 13 & novelty in theatrical management, and, 1t 1s understood, 18 to be introduced in New York, where it will doubtless prove as great @ success as It has dene in Philadelphia, The London 7inws pays ‘the iollowing tribute to both these gentle. tien, coupling with it the name of Mr. Boucicault and) the American stage:—“‘An especial talent for making sudden aud what youy be Caled revolutionary ‘hits’ seems to be cultivated with remarkable success on the other side of the Atlantic, Mr, Sothern in tis parung , uough an Engitshman born, called New nis dramauc birtnplace, From New York came Mr. Boucicault, with his ‘Colleea Bawn,’ and from America comes Mr. J. S, Clarke, wo witain three years has completely chauged the politics of the most couservaiive tueatre in London, Mr. Clarke, by bis facial humor and wealta of faucy, gives to the single character of Pangioss an exceptional value which stands quite apart jrom the merits of the play.’ Pauline Lucca, From the Ménestrei of Paris we glean the follow- ing:— Une perfide d¢péche adressée de Saint Petersvourg & un azent de Paris concernant le prétendu tiasco de Mme. Pauline Lucca dans “Mignon” est venue cette semaine surprendre ia bonne tol de deux de nos journaux parisiens, qui ont immédiatement publie la rectification suivante:— Rectifions le pretendu fiasco de Mme. Panline Lucca dans “Mignon” « Saiut Fetersbourg, fiasco accompagne des mai- Yelllantes ins ions dont la cantatrice viennoise a ete Yoo jet dans Ia depeche qui est verue surprendre la bonne fol de Poris Jown. Renseignements pris aupres du regisseur veneral des theatres imperiaux-ltaliens de Russie, voici la jepeche contradictoire qui nous parvient ce m: “Lucca rappelee vingt fois obtenu grand succes dans ‘Mignon.’ Lettre avec detaiis suit, “MERELLL” “11 nest que trop tacile dentrevoir le mobile qui a dicte la miere depeche. La main qui aecrit le fiasco de Mme. ine Lucca est evidemment la meme malo qui au lende- main de immense succes de Mile. Nilsson a Londres dans “Hamlet” et plus tard dans “Mignon” telegraphiait a Paris un double fiasco.” D'autres journaux de Paris avaient regu la méme communication, mats ils se sont tenus en légiuime défianee coutre un aussi scandaleux abus des aépéeches anonymes de I’¢tranger, Une indisposition de Mme. Pauline Lucca avait retardé les représentations de “Mignon” @ Satnt Peétersbourg aussi n’a-t-eile pu y Chanter son rile de pri dilection qu’ ane seule fois, son congé se trouv- ant terminé, Mais son succes @ ¢té complet. C'est maintenant Mme. Bettni-Trevelil, qui va chanter le role de Mignon, et Graziani, celui de Lothario, Le tnor Corsi a blen chaute le role de Wiihem, et Mme. Simico bien joue ceiul de Fulina. L’orchestre Ardits @ été splendide, MLLE, AIMEE IN A POLICE COURT, Mile, Vernet, an opera singer performing at the French theatre, on Broadway, appeared at the Jetferson Market Police Court Thursday aftgrnoon, and informed Justice Cox that her employer, Mile, Aimée, had struck her a powerful biow In the face with her fist, on Wednesday night, during tne per- formance. A summons was issued requesting the celebrated opera singer to put in an appear- ance, At eleven o'clock yesterday morning Mile. Vernet appeared in Court about an hour previous to the appeatance of Aimée, and stated Uaat she nad been advised by a sriend of herssnamed Leon and othera to drop the case and give Almée no jurther annoyance, Punctual to whe hour, Aimée put in an appearance, and stated that Mile, Vernet nad violated te rules of the company by peeping \rough the scenes during a performance, and, observing her in the act, she slapped her face, he- sides imposing @ fine of $7 50 on her. As the com- plasnant failed to put in an appearance, Almee was allowed to depart in peace. SUIT AGAINST JANAUSOBEK, Ba.timone, Md., Feb. 2, 1872, Henry J. Broughton brought suit yesterday in the Baltimore City Court against Madame Janauschek, laying the damages at $1,000, Broughton alleges that he was discharged by defendanc on the 18th of January, in violation of a contract with Janauschek to assiat her in dramatic periormances during the present season, A TEBRIBLE MISTAKE, To THE Epitor oF Tup HeraLD:— ‘The fear or favor of no one influences me when conscious of the rectitude of my purposes, In your re- port of my testimony yesterday before the “Inves- tating Committee,” in this morning's HERALD, it appears that Lam made to state that our ‘“assocta- ton” ts @ political organization. I did state dis- tiuetly that fai ad notuing whatever todo with it, The badgering of Senator Stewart amount ed to nothing, and Il would suggest that he goon the stand and be examined avout his connection with the “Emma Mine”—that veing equally reie- vant. If you will correct the avove it will only render additional evidence to the reputation your journaj enjoys for correct reporting. New York. Feb, 2, 1872, SNe. eT oe A pleasing occurrence Look | Place a few nights ago, when, at the close of tue | THE CUSTOM HOUSE ABUSES. Startling Exposure of Official Corruption. THE NIGHT WATCHMEN AND INSPECTORS, Testimony of E. C. Johnson and Inspector J. H. Young. Yesterday was the twenty-fourth day of the inves- tigauon by the Senate Committee, now sitting at the Kifth Avenne Hotel. The first witness cailed | was Edward C, Johnson, warehouseman, who stated | that he was in the general order business under | Redfield, and afterwards under Barney; had it for @ while under Collector Smythe, but lost it, al- though no complaint had ever been lodged against him; the only reason he could ever assign for this was that he did not pay for the privilege of con- ducting it; afterwards secured @ small portion of the business for which paid $5,000 per annum; offered to give $40,000 @ year for the whole; the | business has doubled since that time; I offered Mr. | Leet the other day $60,000 a year for it under the same privileges that he now enjoys; in my time [ charged only the Chamber of Commerce rates; charged for dry goods fifty cents for storage; there is a large profit on cartage; some packages are | so small that fifty can be placed upon a cart; | the cartman will be paid perhaps five dolars for | his work and the merchant will be charged twenty- five dollars; there is also an immense profit on storage, because.a month’s storage 18 paid upon goods which remain only afew days; thelr places are then taken up by others, on which another months’ storage is paid, and so on until a loft in the general order store makes for its owner tive and six months storage tn one; I never heard of so much pilfering in the general order departments of cartage, &c., as there has been since Leet and and Stocking have had the monopoly of this busi- ness; all the control of charges is vested in the Collector of the Port; he has the power to shut up every Custom House and general order store if he Teeis so disposed; I suggested to Mr. Murphy that he should correct the terrible abuses growing out of the present general order system, representing to him the damage they were doing to the republican party; I told him that merchants were complaining on every hand (I come in contact with five hund daily), and that he must do something to alleviate the burdens, Mr. Murphy replied, notwithstanding his well KDOWN Control over the stores m general, that he had not the power and could not interlere with this part of the generat order business, Speak- ing of the Custom House, the ofiicers, the witness stated that they are assessed for political purposes; they are also appointed to control and cheat at | primary elections; there are large numbers of them still in the service Who are ignorant anc incompet- ent, such men as no merchant would place in his oMice; Ik .ow that there are twenty-five thousand men in federal offices now whose only recommen- dation to the posts is thelr ability to manipulate the rascals who control primary elections; the greater the scoundrel, in my opinion, the better bis chance of a good appointment, James H. Young sworn:—I was appointed Inspec- tor of Customs in 1869; I have been actively em- ployed as discharging officer during that tune; have given much attention to the general order business, and I regard its condition at present as very inimical to public interests; we have been more inumately connected with the general order business than any other Custom House oflictals; my experience leads me to believe that seven-erghths of the goods that go into general order would not be per- mitted to if the eight hour law were pat in practice, because merchants could get their entries through and pay their duties it the steamers were compelied to Keep their hatches sealed until the proper tine had expired; there is ait to prevent the mer- chant getting his goods divect from vhe dock under such @ system; it 13 understood that when ine steamship, which is put under general order when she arrives at Quarantine, begins to discharge, the eartman appointed by the Collector stanas ready to take the goods off to general brder; this 1s done for again, there 1s no encour- agement to inspectors to make seizures, because, ‘by the settlement practice in vogue, the oificer gets nothing but hard knocks and warnings for his trouble: | am opposed to the motety system, believe ing that the punishment of one defaulting merchant would do more toward effecting a cure than w thousand settlements unaer any circumstances. ‘The witness here told of an incident which occurred on a Cunard steamer; a corpse Was brought over 1D a case, and the hearse was on the dock to receive it; but in placing it in the vehicle the bearers shook it, and a ringing noise was heard. The case was opened and found to be fall of French clocks, Senator Bayard remarked. “That was a corpse for time, and not for eternity.’ The witness spoke of an incident on the steamship Ismalia, The storekeeper showed htm four cases ol Hiqnors, which he wished to deliver to Mr, Lucas; the storekeeper said the nigh man authorized the landing of it; witness seized them; Lucas asked that they pe not sent to the Seizure Bureau, but Witness refused, and sent them there; witness did not know whether they ever paid OB heel the liquor was secured on an order irom Henderson & brothers; it was addressed to “Deputy Collector,” he believed the liquor was for some one in the Cus- tom House, and it was certainly smuggled; the | oMcers of the ship had never been spokea to on the and the storekeeper Was the only one to blaine; Van Horn was the night watchman 1n charge; there were cases where the oficers in collusion with the merchant can select a particular package for apratsement; inspectors are employed to waten the transit of goods from the bonded warehouse to the vessels, while honest men could be got at a less rate of pay: brokers have @ monopoly of clearing goods, and Mr, Grinnell intended to break it; 1t requires nineteen che belore the invoices reach the entry clerk; the discharging oiicer has the power to cone test the delivery of goods at general order; witness nas frequently preveuted goods gomg to general order, and has been threatened with dismissal; the general ieeling among discharging oficers is that they are im danger of removal Uf they do not send goods to general order. E 1g Session. Colonel William S. Hillyer sworn:—I met Colonet Leet some tume before the President's inauguration, | and he stated to me that he desired to enter into. some business in New York;1 had a strong affection fof Colonel Leet, and when he came to New York he stopped at my house; | introduced bimto Mr. Bixby; he had no capital, and Bixby had; Colonel Leet wished to go into the general order business; I knew nothing of tue arrangement between Bixby and Colonel Leet; | never dreamed of it, and had £ known 0: it should nave strongly opposed 1t; | am also positive that General Grant Knew nothing of it; the first f heard of it “was in the tes. tiuony before the last Investigating Committee; I remember, also, that Colonel Leet wanted the labor contract; Mr. Maw, General Cochrane and others. told me that he wanted it; they thought thas Leet should not nave the whole of 1, but that the politicians of the city should also have u share; they therciore asked me if Colonel Leet would enter into & parinership with Mr, Haw; I saw Leet, anc he agreed to the proposiuon; shortly after 1 went to Washington, and on seeing Porter the latter sald that Leet was in Cuicage, and the President did not Wish him to have thing to do with the New York Cr ; Ltelegrapbed to Leet and asked c on to Washington; he did so, aud we versation about the matter; a8 It was & p01 xumination, saw no reason why Le should not come on to New York, if he made the lowest bid; saw the President, and having represented this to iim, he agreed to this view of the matter; the bid Made was higher than the others, and that was the end of it; shortly alter Lect: caine on to New York and went into partmership wit Horton & Co; 1 mei Mr. Murphy inthe street soon after, and he said certain parues had come on with letters from the Pr ent, and had got the general order busi- ness; 1 said to him that the President did not wish any one tu have anything in that way, and toat he would have fim reimoved it he Knew of 1; 1 saw Colonel Leet at Vicksburg frst. Q. How did Mr, Leet become a colonel? A. After General Grant became General of the Army; tis ser- vices were, 80 as I know, solely of @ clerical nature; | do not W where | first met Mr, Lind- say—lI Uiink at City Point, at General Grant's head- quarters; when | went there | was General Grant's guest, and Mr. Lindsay was, | think, the agent for some gun, Q. When did the intimacy between Porter and Lindsay begin? A. After the war; Porter made Mr. Lindsay’s siore bis headquarters when he was in New York: I do not know that Porter was ever inumate with him; General Porter was in New York several times soon afier Leet’s appoimtment and Mr. Grinnell’s appoinunent as Coilector; Ido not understand that General Porter's having made Lind say’s store his headquarters implied that they were intimate 10+ gether; 1 do not know General Porter very well; wa Never served Logether, as he jotued Grants stat afier the fall of Vicksburg. Q. Colonel Leet in bis evidence? A. Which as- the accommodation of the steamship companies and not for the merchants: I knew Inspector Wood when he was an inspector; soon afier Mr. Grinnell came into office a circumsiance occurred on a Cunard boat, and Mr. Wood was removed from the service, and he became dock clerk on pier 47; & general complaint was inade for delay of goods there, aud ‘going thither | became of opinion that there were very grave abuses on that dock; soon after going there Mr, Adains and I were with 180 bottles of brandy; we tound that th @steamship ring on the dock, by which arrange: were made with the merchant or his z keep the goots out of general —orde: Which in this instance they wore doing succe: fully; this Kind of thing can be done without the Knowledge of the inspector; in my opinion the steamship compautes are too strong for the imspec- tors, and, indeed, jor the Custom House; a practi has existed for years whereby tie steamship cou panies pay the Inspector “house money;” goods a discharged and rushed on to the dock for whi they say at night the inspector has a mass of mits and orders which he takes home; in the morn- ing 1} would be some hours belore he could get his books in such shape as to allow the steamer to go on to discharge; he must, therefore, get his books in order at might, for which the steamship company Bay, him; 1 is called “nouseé money; the National ce Line pays $15; inman, $20 or $25; Ounard, $12; xerman, $20; liqnors are served at the rate of t bottles a day lor two officers; Mr. Van Bus- kirk gets the same allowance put up for him for each vessel, and having been Chief of the Barge Ofilce lorty-two yea he mus: have @ pretty good stock on hand; there are sixteen European steam- ers @ week; on the Cunard dock there are rations of six or eight bottles of English ale and porter, with a decanter of lquor sent to the inspector's of- fice at eleven o’clock every day; this brings a crowd ol good-for-nothing fellows to the dock, which is hurtiul; the Anchor Line pays each inspector $25 “house money ;” an investigation was had in this system of payment by Mr. Grinnell, and it was found that so long as te vessels wanted to and were determined to discharge in their present manner, the men must work at nigit and take “house money; I afterward, with the consent of Mr. Grinnell, tried the plan of merely discharging the steamsmp Den- mark according to ljaw—that 1s, we would not work alter sundown, and of course she was delayed; we urled the same with Lhe Queen, of the same line, but the company just put out her cargo as fast as they could, an when | remonstrated, Mr. Hurst and Mr. Grab, of the company, told me that they would not obey my orders nor let the sStevedore desist; alter conversation with Mr. Grin- neil and Mr. Cornell I proceeded to seal up the vessel; then I was called aside by Mr. Grabb and asked what I wanted from the company to settle the difficulty; £ replied, “Nothmg,” but told him that 1 would seal the vessel up until the dock was cleared off; I finally carried my point; speakiag of the passage of baggage without examination, I don,t know anything very special in the matter; bus 1 can very well understand how @ man may be ine duced to PASS HIS HAND CAREFULLY under a lot of fine linen in a trunk without disturb- ing anything; for this care the gentleman accom- pei the ladies may pay the inspector a douceur; . P. Davis, a Custom House broker, has been in the habit of obtaining just such passage of pas- sengera’ goods and paying for them; | remember au instance when a number of ladies came ashore at Quarantine in the Doctor's boas, and aiterwards ex- hibited @ large quantity of diamonds and jewelry, which they said had been passed by the Custom House officer on board the steamer which was then lying in quarantine; there 18 @ very easy way of doing the business of smuggilng; a gentleman gog to Europe takes the |, easure Of several lady Iriends for wardrobes; on his return with them, the ladies for whom he has made the purchases come down to the pier when the steamer arrives; the gentleman then deciares that the ten or twelve trunks which he is landing con- tain the wearing apparel of these ladies, whom he represents as passengers; Mr. Terwilliger, when he vook upon himself the right to come down to the docks and grant permits to tudividuals to come on to | tonished me very much; he never told me that he had spoken to the President avout the geueral order | business; Genera Rawlings told ine that the Presi- dent had given him a tetter to Mr. Grinnell, q. Was that beiore Mr, Grinnell’s appotutment? ; Ae pression is that it Was alter, the testimony shows that it was vel Granv’s letter to Colonei Leet, Q. Did you know W. Whi'e? A. 1 used to buy clotiies of buin—that ts all; | Know Co'onel Leet | kuew him; J thought the suggestion that Leet | should go into pariaership with Bixby came from me, not from Wuite; Ll went with Mr, Humphreys, | Mr. Bixby aud others to‘President Johnson, whose | political supporter 1 was, aboat the general order | business; should nave permitted Cotonel | Leet it Leould have helped it to have made any ar- i ament with Bixby while le Wa concur in tbe opm very iMproD A. Yes, sir, and | know esident thinks 80 too, tor he bus said so 1a the service, that such @ ig W the Pr tom Q. When did Lect begin to tall to you about the lavor contract’ A, Inthe spring of 1370; 1 think I made Haw acqnainted with Leet; Ldid not know at tat time that he was receiv ne money trom Bixby; he stated to me at tint time that he wanted to retire trom the army and have the labor contract; [do not remember the figures of the contract; my recoliec- tion 1s that all the negotlations about the amount of the bid took place in Washington; Colonel Leet was my personal fricad, and 1 thought it weil for him to wke half and go ito partnersiip with Mr. Haw, who had Governor Fenton tor 1s irtend at that time; Fenton had promtsea to see the Secretary in his behalf and advance his interest as far ashe was able; I went to see General Porter to regard to this Haw and Leet matter, and General Porter told me that under the dictation of the President he had written a jetter to Leet, requesting him not to go on to New York. Q. Then Mr. Leet’s personal business had been a matter of Consulration between the President and General Porter? A. L suppose 0; | do not think Porter said anytiung about a Consultation with the President about it; it was ater that three or four days, and after Leet had come on to Washington, that I suw the President and explained to him that the labor contract Was not a matter of influence, and that it was a competitive bid; General Grant told me that under those circumstances he had no business to interiere with Colonel Leet’s bid- ding; but that he did not wish any one to go on to New York and get anything in the Custom House through the use of his influence; the partnerstip between Leet and Hor- ton was the first inumation I had of Colonel Leet having any interest in the general order business; Iknow Mr. Stocking first, iu connecuon with the cartage business; Colonel Leet’s family were not here when the Horton Ht lit ‘was formed; they came on long after and lived with me, paying their proportion of the expenses; I presuine that I spoke to Colonel Leet about the charges against General Por+ ter by Mr. Mudgett; Colonel Leet always told me that Porter had no interest with him in any way with the general order business; I had no idea at that time that Leet nimself had any interest im that business; perhaps three or four times since Leet nas openly had this business 1 have asked him whether Porter had any interest with him. The committee tuen adjourned unti) this morning, PIGEON SHOOTING. Apigeon match came off at Belleville, New Jersey, on Wednesday afternoon, between Captain Josephs and Mr. Bieuett for §250 a side, forty birds, twenty- one yards rise, eighty yards boundary, with one ounce only of shot, Captain Josephs was a great favorite vetore the commencement of the shooting, Mr. Bieuett won the match, shooung twenty-six birds out of tne forty, wulle Gaptao Josephs only succeeded in killing tweaty. CURLING, The annual match between the Empire City Club, the pier when a@ vessel arrived, ruled then that lckets of admission to the pier gave persons the privilege of going on board the steamer when the gangplank was put out, thereby affording smug- giers a splendid opportunity to operate; 1 have ob- served abuses and frauds of the most flagrant character among Custom House officers, which I +Feported to my supertor with VERY POOR RESULTS, ‘because the ‘Tite Barnacles” and other members of the Custom House Ring, ably assisted by Mr. Frank: itn—than whom I don’t believe these is a greater purveyor ot iniquity—fought againt the right and waved the accused, ‘Then witness told of the case of Lawrence, whom he had caught buying brandy av $12 per case at the steamer and passing them ashore without a permit. ‘This wan was a Custom House oMcer in “Wake- man’s Fiying Brigade,” and I reported him; alter all the work of time and investigation was gone though the case fizzied out; however, this man was found by Genera! Curtis to have been a smuggier ou the vorder; Lawrence's iriends, hearing of the Probability of his arrest, hid nim away untii bail was obtained for him; the Custom House Ring pulled him through fora tme, but he was finally dismissed; speaking of the NIGAT INSPECTORS, the witness stated that they were of no earthly use, go far a8 he knew, in the prevention of smuggting. Toe men who had been employed in this bg 4 On the docks of the steamships to which he I= assigned a8 day inspector were invariably om i the morning when ie came down to his duty. the fact, the sbips’ own private watchmen were beat exists faseauarde enous Uais Kind of aDUse. of New York, and the Paterson Curling Club, came off on Thursday at Lake View, New Jersey. There ‘was a large attendance of spectators who seemed deeply interested in the game, Tne Paterson clup ‘Won by @ majority of fil-een shots, ~ PUGILISM, Jim Mack CHALLENGES NeD O'BaLDWIN.—The Iriends of James Mace, wishing to see him appear once more in the ring, and Mace disputing O’Bald- ‘win’s right to the championship of the world, have staked $500 in the hands of Mr. Ed James, weil nOWn sporting man of this city, ag @ forfett om behalf of Mace to make @ match with Ned O’Bald- win, the Irish Giant, tor $1,600 a side and the cham~ jonship of the world, ihe fight to take piace in irginia, Maryland, or any suitable place wi can be mutually agreed upon, pucchtstesinoniteemelineen a.) FIRE IN WEST FIFTY-FIRST STREET. Ata quarter to twelve yesterday morning a fire broke out on the third Noor of the four story brown stone house 24 West Filty-first street, the property of J. R. Spratt. The place was occupied by Dr, D, ©. Van Norman as a ladies’ seminary. Tne je done to the property in the house amounted $2,000, and to the building § The fire waa by the clothes of Miss Lizzie Newton ¢atch- ing fire 10 her chest, ‘The house aud property were iuJv insurea, =