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OQCONNOR'S TOBACCO. An Irish Claimant Under Washington Treaty, eed REBEL BONFIRES IN RICHMOND. + 4 British Speeulator Asks the United States to Pay for Confederate Smoke, the HIS GROWING ACCOUNT. oe Three Hundred Thousand Dollars manded for Property Which ( One Hundred Thousand. De- ARE WE RESPONSIBLE? Is the Foderal Government Bound to Maintain Order and Liable to Penalty for Failing !— An Offset for the Geneva Award. DUBLIN, Oct. 7, 18) Pursuant to instructions, I have placed myseif in communication with Mr, Valentine O’Brien O'Gon- nor, Deputy Lieutenant of this city, and learned from documents and afiidavits which he has placed at my service the particulars of his claim against the government of the United States, Mr. O'Connor is esteemed one of the wealthiest men in this city. He has conducted for a great number of years one | of the most valuable mercantile concerns in the country. He is engaged in all the great under- takings of the day and takes an active part in Irish railway and banking business. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Royal Bank, Chairman of the Cork and Bandon Railway, a director of the Patriotic Assurance Company,@f the Great Southern and Western Railway, of the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexiord Railway and of the Limerick and Foynes Railway. He describes him- self as a “general merchant’ of every class of American goods—cotton, tobacco, rice (from In- dia), tallow and oil, He is also au East India ship- owner, Mr. O'Connor's offices in Beresford place, opposite the Dublin Custom House, are not im- posing; they are, indeed, dingy and old-fashioned, and the passer-by has but small notion of the great concerns directed from behind that ricketty desk, at which Mr, O’Connor’s burly form is wusually to be found, AN UNPROFITABLE SPECULATIO! That Mr. O'Connor had lost a considerable sum of money by transactions which fell out badly during the great civil war has been long known in Dublin; but his resources were also known to be immense, ‘There was no sympathy, because none was needed, The story was current asasimple fact. Immedi- ately after the Court at Geneva had pronounced their award Mr. O'Connor forwarded his claim to the Commissioners appointed under the Twelfth article of the Washington Treaty of 1871, On the 28th of September he made formal deposition of the facts before Mr. Shapland Morriss Tandy, a Com- missioner under the Irish Court of Chancery. The United States Consul and Vice-Consul were present, and Dr. Boyd of the Irish Bar, instructed by Mr Mill, attorney, examined Mr. O'Connor on behalf of Ghe United States government. The depositions were signed by Mr. Tandy and forwarded to Washington to the Secretary of the Mixed Com- mission. A PLUMP CLAIM, From a perusal of copies of the affidavits, Iam enabled to state the details of the case which Mr, O'Connor advances in support of his claim for £45,192 188. 9d., and £15,000,eleven years’ interest on the same. Tbis gives a total of nearly $301,000, The ctaim arises solely out of tobacco transactions. Mr. O'Connor begins by proving that he is and has been a British subject; that he is sixty-one years old and has never sought to be naturalized im any other country. In March, 1861, he ordered Mr. K. kh, Dibrell, a German, a merchant, then re- siding in Richmond, Va., to purchase a quantity of tobacco and ship the same to Dublin. r. Dibrell, between April 18, 1861, and February 17, 1863, pur- Chased $25 nogsheads of Virginia leat tobacco, and made payment therefor by drafts drawn upon Mr. O'Connor to the amount of £21,664. These drafts Mr. O’Connor paid. The 825 hogsheads consisted in part of 643 hogsheads purchased between May, — 1861, Februar 5 ln a schedule to his “case Mr, O'Connor ex- hibits the invoice, and shows that they were stored in the Public, the Shuckhoe, the Mayo and Direll warehouses, all in Richmond. The warehouse number, the mark, the shipping number, the tare, the net weight, the price and the cost of each hogshead were all duly set forth. ‘These 643 hogsheads ‘were utterly destroyed by fire on the morning of the 8d of April, 1865," and were totally lost to Mr, O'Connor, He affirms that they were destroyed in obedience to an order is- sucd by certain persons acting under the Conied- erate government and that these orders were given in consequence of a belief that Richmond was. about to fall into the bands of the United States government. In addition to these 643 hogs- heads there were 64 hogsheads purchased between May and October, 1361. They were stored in the public warehouse in Richmond, and they were to- tally destroyed by fire on the night of ihe 10th of of March, 1863, Mr, O'Connor believes the fire to have been accidental, but to have “occurred in consequence of the distururbed condition of affairs at that time existing in Richmond.” In addition to these two lots Mr. O'Vonnor claims for twenty-one hogsheads sold to pay the tax levied by the Confederate government; for one hogshead thrown into “the Basin” at Richmond on March 2, 18¢3, for experimental purposes, and for seventeen hogsheads stored in Randolph’s warehouse, in Farmville, Va., and lost or destroyed in a manner not known. The total number of hogsheads lost is thus stated at 746, At that time each hogshead was valued at £59 lis, 9d. Mr. O’Convor had meantime (April 30, 1861) despatched the ship Queen of England from Waterford for the purpose o/ taking off the tobacco, She arrived in the Hampton Koads late in June, was warned off by an armed vessel of the United States and compelled to return to Dublin, Mr, O'Connor claims £800 on this count. THE GROUND OF HIS CLAIM, fle charges that his josses are solely attributable to tue ‘dailure of the United States of America to maintain and enforce the authority of the said United States in the State of Virginia and the city of Richmond, and in consequence of the failure of the said United States to suppress the civil and military disorders that at that time existed in said State of Virginia.’’ Mr. O'Connor pleads that he never attempted any Violation of the laws of the United States; never attempted, directly or in- directly, to violate the blockade, and never engaged with those at enmity’ with — the United States. He has never received any sort of compensation for his losses; Ml., £15,000 interest and he pays for £49, f Ai, thereon, and reason Her Britannic Majesty's ag shington, under date March 26, 1872, say “Thereby with- wso much of this claim as is for property leged to “have been destroyed by the so-called Coniederate authorities.’ [need not point out the effect of these three lines upon Mr, O'Connor's case. I should have mentioned that Mr, O'Connor admits the receipt of 70 hogsheads, the diference between the number destroyed and lost (746) and the quantity purchased «by his agents in America, The ship Hiawatha with 22 hogsheads, was captured in May, 1861, by the admiral of the United Stutes government, and subsequently released. | ‘Ihe remaining fifty-seven were brought me in the Queen Victoria in July, 1808, the Ame: n gov. erument having granted a memorial forwarded by Mr. O'Connor, Mr. Howard, A SWELLING CLAIM. It is not quite clear from Mr. O'Connor's case, as fubmitted to the Secretary of the Mixed Commis- sion, how he raises the sum claimed to £45,192, He says in one place that the 825 hogsheads, purchased by drafts on him, cost him £21,664 In another he puts the value of the 746 hogshearts, alleged T tind e been lost or destroyed, at £2 in one place a date, “April 51," there bein thirty days in the month. Other discrepancie: discoverable, PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S DIPLOMACY. Perhaps I may conclude this note as to the only Trish claim yet advanced against the United States government by on anecdote given me by Mr. O'Con- nor himself. In 1862 some tobacco got out of Rich- mond in the Hiawatha, The captain was not very civil to thevadimiral, who seized his cargo and his ship and sent both to New York, Lord John Rus- gell was then retary for Foreign Aifairs, and Mr. o'connor addressed His Lordship as to his loss, The Foreign Secretary hoa Lord Lyons and a busy correspondence running over twelve months en- sued, Atlength Lord John Russell informed Mr. o’Connor that he had utterly fauled to obtain de- livery of the cargo; and Mr. O'Connor, almost in deapatr, indited a brief note to President Lincoln himself, By return of post he had a letter from the President informing him that he could have the ship and goods whenever he pleased, The story js suggestive in more Ways than one. . NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. SANDY POINT, STRAITS OF MAGELLAN Patagonia, August 17, 1872. The United States steamship Ossipee, third rate, eight guns, Commander J. N. Miner, United States Navy, commanding, arrived at this place on the 16th inst. from Payta and Valparaiso via Smyth's Channel, and will leave to-morrow for Rio Janeiro en route from the Pacific fleet to New York. The Ossipee has been employed on the Pacilic since April, 1867; has been flagship of the North Pacific squadron, and latterly (in 1871-72) was flagship of Commodore D., McDougal, commanding South Pacific squadron, who, it will be remembered, vin- dicated the honor of the American flag in his at- tack on the Japanese forts and vessels at Simona- saki, Japan, in 1864, In May last the vessels of the South Pacific squadron separated from their ren- dezyous at Callao, Peru, for different points, the Ossipee being directed to proceed to and survey the harbor of Chimbote, Peru, which duty being completed she sailed for Payta, arriving there on May On the morning of June 1 everybody was sur- prised and pleased on hearing the news that the Ossipee was to sail forthwith for New York. On June 6 she sailed from Payta for Valparaiso, and everything was propitious for a pleasant and favor- able passage until June 20, when, at about seven o'clock in the morning, the alarm was given—“A man overboard!” The life buoy was let go; a boat was manned in the short space of two minutes and pulled towards the man, who, unfortunately, could not swim; and one of his shipmates, Janes Ben- son, jumped overboard and gallantly risked his own life in the attempt to save that of another man. All efforts to save the poor fellow proved un- suecesstul; and after a vigilant search the boat re- turned to the ship, picking up Benson on the wa; The name of the drowned man was John K, Smith native of New York. This accident, occurring, «8 it did, on the passage home, cast a givom over the ship which did not soon wear otf. Nothing of further interest occurred, and the vessel arrived at Valparaiso on July 6, alter a fa- vorable passage of thirty days, only remaining in that place just long enough to take in stores, sail ing from there on July 13 for Rio Janeiro, After leaving Valparaiso head winds and bad weather were experienced, and it took eighteen days to reach the entrance to Smyth’s Channel, which, under more favorable circumstances, would have only taken ten days, Smyth's Channel is agencral term applied to the diferent straits and channels lead- ing from the Gulf of Pefas to the Straits of Magel- lan, between the coast of Patagonia and tne islands to the westward; and, although there are but two really dificult places for a vessel to pass through during the entire length, yet it would not be advisable for a vessel of small steam power, or one of any great size or length, to attempt to go through it in the winter months, unless in charge of a person having a good local knowledge of it, on account of having to make an anchorage every night, and the days during those months being very short. weather is also a great drawback, heavy snow storms and thick ther prevailing, together with severe gusts of wind, which are often encoun- tered, called williewaws, It took the Ossipee tf teen days to reach this’ place from the northern entrance to the channel, the distance being only six hundred miles, Anchorages were made wien possible before night set in, and some of the oill- ecrs went in search of game at places where it was reported to abound, but returned empty handed, either because the game was scarce or the shot too scattered. Others obtained some fine speciinens of ferns and mosses, and in one or two plas some s were found which proved to ery cat- The scenery is simply magnificent, the land rising to a considerable height, the hills being thickly wooded on the lower parts and covered with snow on the peaks, Several glaciers were aiso seen, but none of apparently great extent. ‘The vessel was twice visited by natives, who (if they may be taken as specimen Patagonians), do not sustain the old theory of Patagonian giants, They are below the medium size, copper colored, very lean, with hardly any sinews, and of moderate inteliigence. Their dress, male and female, con- sisted of sealskins thrown over their shoulders, with no covgring to their lower extremities, They live im canbves, having their whole family with them, the canoe being about twenty feet long by two feet wide, with a fire burning in the centre, and_ their food consists prineipatly of shell- fish, The Ossipee will leave here to-morrow for Rio Janeiro, where she expects to arrive about the 10th prox, Her oficers are: Commanter—J. N. Miner, Commanding. Lieutenant Commanders—Fraacis Morris, Execu- tive Officer; Horace Elmer, Navigator. Liewenant—Frank Curtis. i B, Adams and Gottfried Block- Inger. Ensigns—U, R. Harris and Herbert Winslow. Midshipman—M. D. Hyat. Assistant Surgeon—Noimes Wikotf. Past Assistant Paymaster—J. Porter Loomis. Engineers—Chief, A. J. Kiersted; Assistant, H, E. Rhoades. nt of Marines—J. C. Straller. Lieute Pay Clerk—Samuel Jenkinson. FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, A GrRMAN SqvapRoN.—An imperial German squadron 1s now lying at Plymouth, England, whence it is to sail round the world, as an exercise in navigation for its officers and men, and is not expected to return before the Spring of 1874. It is composed of one iron-clad frigate, the Prince Fred- erick Charles; a corvette, the Elisabeth, and the gunboat Albatross, built orivinally for the protec- tion of the German flag against Asiatic pirates and | since converted to heavier armament. ‘The squad- ron is to be strengthened in South American waters by two corvettes for the purpose of practising the new sailing orders, The Weser Zeitung holds that distant parts of the world should occasionally see that the German flag can at need be protected by eficient ships of war. DANISH PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.—A telegram from Copenhagen, published by the Cologne Gazette, states that the Danish War Minister is preparing plans for the fortification of Copenhagen and seve- ral other points in Denmark. According to the Hamburg Correspondent the fortifications of Copen- hagen will cost from nine to ten milltons of rigs- dalers, and the chiei points tt is ipered to fortify are the heights of Frederiksbord and Vigersley, as also another height near Uttersley, upon which two forts will be placed. While thus making ready for war the Danes do not neglect more pacific means of securing whit they want. that a deputation from the inhabitants of Sonder- burg has arrived in the Prussian pital to present to the Chamber of Depu' @ petition asking that assembly to support the views of Slesvig in regard to the filth article of the Treaty of Prague. INCREASE OF SUICIDES IN ENgLANn.—Suicides have increased of late years in England. In the six y th tailed returns extend, i period to’ which de- annual average was th nearer to 68 than 67 in 1,900,000 of the population, In the first six years the suicides of a year only once reached 70 per 1,000,000 of population; in the last three years, 1868, '69, ‘70, the rates were 70, 73 and 70 per 1,000,000, The range in the twelve | years was [rom 62 per 1,000,000 in 1867 to 74 in 1860, Comparing the last period of six years with the first, we find that the suicides by drowning bear a larger proportion to the whole number of suicides than they did; but there is a smaller proportion of suicides by hanging than formerly, though that is SUill the most frequent mode of seif-destruction. ABOUT CHAMPAGN Bad news for champagne drinkers comes from France. The vintage this Autumn is said to be little more than one-third that of average years, and, unfortunately, follows | two years by no means remarkable for the abun- a e of their yield. Very little wine remains in stock, as the sales during the last two years have been unusually heavy, especially of the first brands, At Epernay alone more than eight millions have been sold in the last year, the champagne mer- chants, in order to meet the demand, selling, it is said, wine only one year oid in botti Keeping it three, four or even five years before ex- porting it, as they were in the habit of doing. In many districts—notably in the valley of the Marne and near the village of Fismes, Where nothing but cheap red wine was made a few years ago—the de- mand for champagne has cansed the owners of vine- yards to make nothing but white wine, which has risen in estimation every year on acvount of the deficiency in the general crop, Toe LAvRIUM Mivrs.—Greece is ingenious in in- venting pote complications to an extent alto- wether disproportioned to her size, and it is curi- ous to ind her old poetic names cropping up fre ume to time to give a pleasant aroma to ve mean things Indeed. The mines of Laurium, his- torical to the old Greek chroniclers, have hence- forth become a@ historical by-word of which Greece Will not be proud, but ashamed, The story may be told in very few words. A Frenchman’ and an Italian discovered that the mines were by no means exhausted, purchased them, and received from the Greek government a guarantee for their n | safe possession on the payment of 10,800 frances, ‘They found ail they expected and more, and the once deserted Laurium beeame one of the main fountains of Greek prosperity. From it spread ships, roads and every channel! of labor and trade, ‘The government, which enjoyed all these indiree: benefits, became greedy for the source, of which it had already disposed. “They clatmed an exorbitant tax on the company, and 2,000,000 franes for back payments legally undue, The company refused to ay, and the diplomatic agents of France and Ital, interfered. At last, amid the pressure of Frenc difMculties, the owners of the mines offered to sell them to the Greek government for £14,000,000, This required legislative sanction, Which was re- fused, and the Minister in consequence resigned. His successor proposes to refer the matter to the Judges, 4 course obviously meaningless and absurd, Tn the Interests of the company it is satisfactory to know that France fs recovering her dipiomatic im- portance, and that Italy is quite strong enough to make herseif heard, Greece needs a few lessons in commercial morality, and the case of the Lanriam mines offers an admirable opportunity for iustruce | tion,—London Glove The | We learn from Berlin | nstead of | | SOUTH SEA SLAVERY. Fiendish Atrocities of the “Labor Cruisers” of Australia and Fiji. {From the Melbourne Argus.) Joseph Armstrong, master of the brig Carl, a British ship, sailing under the British fag, was, on the 16th of August, brought before the Water Police Court, Sydney, to which port he and the brig and some of the crew had been sent from Le- vuka, Fiji, by Captain Douglas, of Her Majesty's ship Cossack. The charge made was that of murder, Dr, J. P. Murray, who was ap- pointed by the Victorian government local health oMcer at Sandhurst during a recent outbreak of smallpox there, and who is said to have discharged the duties of that office courage- ously and well, gave evidence at the Police Court to the following effect:—In June, 1871, the Carl was owned by himself, and was mortgaged to a firm in Melbourne. During the month named she left this port for Levuka, Dr. Murray left in the Carl, ship- ving as surgeon, and, on arriving at Levuka, the captain, who brought her there from Mel- bourne, having left, he appointed Armstrong, who had shipped as mate, in his stead, Arm- strong, a8 master of the brig, obtained authority to go on a “labor cruise’ from Mr, March, the British Consul at Levuka, and the brig then left, Dr. Murray going with her, They proceeded on a kidnapping cruise among the islands scattered about in that part of the southern seas. After visiting a few without obtaining any “labor,” they anchored off the Island of Malakolo. A boat was despatched there to look for better ancyorage, whereupon some of the natives discharged arrows atthe men init, Some canoes with natives who were trading with the Carl were round about, and on these that vessel opened fire, “partly in retaliation’? for the arrows. Nearly all the natives jumped overboard, and one of the brig’s boats picked up twelve or thirteen of them, who were put inthe hold, The natives wno were not picked up escaped to the shore, some of them wounded, The brig then sailed to the Solomon Group, and off Santa Anna some natives came out to trade in their canoes. When these canoes were alongside heavy pieces of iron were thrown into some of them by the captain and crew. Of course the canoes were thus upset, and the brig's boat be- ing again lowered twelve or thirteen nfre natives were captured and putin the hold. The pieces of iron were not wasted, as they were fastened to the brig by long ae This occurred about half ora quarter ofa mile from shore, to which the canoes and natives not destroyed or taken returned, Oi the Island of Isabella other canoes came out trading and were upset in the same way, and about ten more natives were caught. “They came on board almost voluntarily,” says the doctor; and | “in throwing the iron care was taken that none of them were injured.” All these natives were put into the hold, and if they showed no disposition to fight they were allowed on deck in a day or two. At the Florida Group four or five more men were captured in the same way, and then the brig sailed for Bougainville, an island densely inhabited by warlike nati There® eighty men were canght, but, unlike the others, they “resisted very much.” The whole of the natives were then put into the brig's hold, and some oy hours after the capture of the Bougainvilleans they all commence fighting about seven o'clock in’ the evening. Some of them endeavored to set tre to the ship; the others tried to prevent them, and that appears to have caused the fighting, “Every attempt was made to pacify the natives, but no white man on board knew their language.” In about a quarter of an hour wey were fired ou with guns and revolvers by the yhites, who had behaved inhumanly enough ‘ore, but who now thirsted for blood like wild beasts, he firing,” says Dr. Murray, “was di- rected to the natives under the main hatchw: Guns and revolvers were used, Everybody fir 1am not sure whether Vite Armstrong fired. I think he was at the wheel, Ido not think he fired, The firing and fighting lasted all night. When the natives stopped in the least every effort was made to pacify them, The natives succeeded in loosen- ing some of the bars of the hatchway. The fight- ing was kept up at intervals alf night. The firing could not be said to have ceased until the morning. The firing was carried on voluntarily by the white men. No positive orders were given by any one. The general alarm bemg given, every one took his firearms and proceeded towards the main hatch. Some of us carried arms with us, but most often arms were kept in the cabin. During the night the friendly natives had been admitted on deck through the fore and aft hatches. Some few of them that could not be got up remained below, In the morning the hatches were taken off, and the killed and wounded were taken out of the hold and put on deck. The captain was giving directions. Abont seventy dead and wounded natives were brought on deck. All the Bougainville na- tives, with the exception of ten or tweive, were either _ kilie or wounded. The dead natives were thrown overboard. 1 could not say definitely who gave the directions, The wounded natives Were algo thrown overboard. 1 never could ascertain whether positive orders were given for them to be thrown overboard, I think 1{ was done with the general will of the wiites. I endeavored to get their lives spared, and suggested that they should be put on an island, but the general feeling was against doing that. Th about filty Killed, and about twenty were thrown overboard while the, alive. My attention was not di- rected particularly to the prisoner Armstrong. I saw him with the general mass. 1 could not swear positively what he was doing at the time the dead and dying were thrown overboard, I was desirous of saving the lives of the wounded natives, Tappeated to the mass, not to Armstrong specially as master. The amass, which the Captain was one, all appeared to be en- gaged in one common object. I could not say with, certainty that the captain heard my appeal to say the wounded, He was in a position to hear me. spoke loudly. I Everybody seemed excited, and did not appear to Know exactly what they were doing. No one appeared to take the lead, The throwing of the wounded overboard was the joint action of all, Idid not look at the wounded as a medical man, but TL looked casually at some of them. It took but afew moments. They must have been on deck a quarter of an hour or twenty ininutes belore they were thrown overboard. The wounded and | dead were not mixed, There was no discussion as | to whether the wounded should be thrown over- board. It was & spontaneous movement, TI heard the wounded were to be thrown overboard, and I went forward that I might not see it done. It was the general feeling that that was the best way to | dispose of them. There was a general cry for them to be thrown overboard. [saw some of the wounded thrown overboard. They made no resistance. Some of them were tied, They were tied when they were brought up. Their legs were tied together. I could not say how many of the wounded were tied. Ido not know tor what particular ob- ect they were tied. They did not resist, The hold was cleaned and got in order. It was whitewashed, and efforts were made to obliterate the powder anc shot marks, The hold was whitewashed by the captain's directions, We were probably, twenty miles from land when this occurred.” In ‘another part of his evidence Dr. Murray states specifically that he assisted in the firing, None of the islands at which the brig touched are under an; Enropean State or Power. In the cross-cxaml- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, I8 | clusion very nearly three thousand blac nation oa behalf of Armstrong the witness stated that he had been dangerously wounded by an | arrow, but that his mind had not been affected m consequence, and, in answer to the Bench, he | | stated that ali the crew, e) he captain, had | aninterest in the laber yo; 5 esides their wages of £64 month, the seamen got per head for every native they brought on to the vessel, the mate and second mate receiving 38, 6d. more. The venture was his own, and he paid the capitation allowances. ‘Head money is one of the recog- o t! | nized forms under which the labor trade is car- ricd on. Sometimes the seamen get no | wages, but 108. per head for the natives | captured.” On the brig’s return voyage to | | Levuka, Dr. Murray, another white man, and | | twelve natives landed at the island of Apia; the | | brig then went to Levuka, where she tynded six | more. These eighteen seem to have been the only | survivors of all the natives captured during th trip. The brig, Armstrong captain, again left Le vuka, duly authorized to continue in the labor trade by the British Consul there, and picked up Dr. Murray at Apia, in January last, Some Other islands were visited, and 100 natives weve cap- tured by much the same method as that employed 80 successfully on the previous voyage. Some of | the men who were not picked up were drowned. These 100 natives were landed at Levaka, The above is an epitome of Dr. Murray's evi- dence, and he was the only witness examined as to the proceedings on board the Carl Armstrong was committed to take his trial on the capital ge at the next sittings of the Criminal Court in Sydney. James Clancy, one of the brig’s crew, has also been committed to take his trial for murder, This crime was all Dr. Murray to | have been committed at the Caroline up during the second voyage. He says that Claney got into a canoe there which was alongside the vessel, and in which there were four or five natives, One of these approached him with, as he says, a hostile intent, Whereupon he shot him with his revoiver, killing him at once. He also fired a bullet into the thigh of another native. Four others of the crew have been committed on the charge of unlawfuily a saulting, beating and wounding one of the tsla ers, The description given by persons who have visited these islands Since the cruises of the Carl of the lamentation of the relatives and friends of the killed or captured natives is harrowing in the extreme, At Fiji the natives taken there by the Carl have been sent temporarily to a plantation until the British authorities have determined what to do with them, After Fiving his evidence in Sydney Dr, Murray telegraphed to Sandhurst that he intended to re- turn shere to resume his position as local Health OMcer. The local papers have hinted that if he has any regard for his own health he had better stop away. Many inqutries have been made as to the A Jeasons of ids being still at large, but it is sup- { ed by some that in consideration of his giving ieen's evidence his personal freedom has been guaranteed, Indeed, it is said that he holds a certificate of protection from the British Consul at Fiji, In our Assembly, a few days ago, the Chief Secretary stated, m reply to a question, that the government, “with the view that justice should be done to all parties, had taken steps to ascertain the full facts of the case. The police and the law oficers were put in motion, and the mat- ter was still in their hands, Every etfort would be made to clear this colony from the foul stain it might otherwise contract in connection with tiis matter.’ All the information that the govern- ment has obtained has been communicated to the Sydney authorities, who have been assured of the desire of the goverhment of this colony to co-oper- ate with them, and of its willingness to bear a share of the cost of the proceedings neces- sary to turther the ends of justice. It is scarcely necessary to say that the evidence given by Dr. Murray has kindled a deep and universal feeling of regret, indignation and horror throughout Austra- lasia, Our only consolation 1s that the colonies are in no way responsible for the atrocities committed, The Carl, it is true, Was Mortgaged to a Melbourne firm, but when she cleared out of our port it was not suspected that she was about to engage in an illegitimate trade; and we utterly repudiate Dr, Murray. She was transformed into a slaver at the capital of Fiji, and it was for the plantations of un- scrupulous persons in that bastard, disreputable kingdom that she kidnapped these islanders. None of them were brought to any Australasian port. FREEDMEN EMIGRATING TO AFRICA, tite DAE A Party of 175 On Their Way from Savannah to New York—Captured Slaves Anxious to Return Home— Large Emigration to Liberia. A party of freedmen, consisting of several fam- ilies, numbering about one hundred and seventy- five souls, will sail to-day from Savannah for this city, en route to Liberia. They have been gathered from Florida, South Carolina and Georgia, under the auspices of the American Colonization So- ciety, Who pay the travelling expenses of the em- igrants. These peopie return to Africa of their own choice and on their own application, satisfled they wil do better and be more happy there than in the United States, The emigrants on their ar- rival receive grants of land from the’ Liberian goy- ernment, and they are provided before leaving with agricultural implements and other neces- sarles to enable them to make a favorable start in their new homes, ‘There ts, it is stated, a strong desire among many negroes in the South to return to the land of their ancestors, and the Colonization Society aids all willing togo as far as their means permit, It seems that there are still living a con- siderable number of blacks captured on slavers by American men of war who remain in this country. Those found on the Armisted, Wanderer and other ships were not all sent back to Africa, An Ala- bama clergyman, writing to the African Monthly for November, says:— Tam familiar met in the city formed an organiza tiot they should meet once in their power to return fo thei of the captives landed on our shor ago trom the slaver Wanderer. rec then whose name is Peter, an honest, man, He married one of the captives of the Wa ently saw faithful € derer; has a little daughter eleven years old, well educated and ver told Air bac e intelligent. He was almost wild with joy when I him that there was a possibility of his returning to ca, and said that if L would procure them a passage K to their homes they would make me a king. rted there are over one hundred of these people in the counties ot Montgomery, Lowndes, Dallas and Mobile, ‘The American Colonization Society was organ- ized in 1817, and at first received appropriations from Congress. Its hoadquarters are Washington, It is now sustained by private contributions, be- quests, &c, The first shipment of negroes was made by it in 1820, in the ship Elizabeth, from New York, and every year since a party has been sent to Liberia. The last body sailedin November, 1871, one year ago. During the war the operations of the society were circumscribed, but since its con- 3 have been forwarded to Africa from the United States under its direct supervision, The President of the society is John H. B. Latrobe, of Baltimore. Rev. John Orcutt, D. is the Travelling Secretary. He visits the diferent Southern States to receive ap- plications from heads of families desiring to emi- grate. The emigrants who leave Savannah to-day will sail for Monrovia Wednesday next, 20th inst. a one-half of the party wil settle at Cape Pal- mas, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Progress of the Popular Movement for Territorial Secession—A Governor Seri- ously D1—Diamonds—The Wool Supply and General Markets, By mail from Africa we have received our files of Cape of Good Hope papers, dated at Port Blizabeth on the 27th of September. The journals supply the following interesting 7ésumé of events to the latest moment :— PROGRESS OF THE TERRITORIAL SECESSSION MOVE- MENT. A special correspondent of the Cape Town Stand- ard, dating at New Rush on the 25th of September, describes the progress of the territorial secession | movement thus:—"*We had some hearty laughs as we slipped along in Cobb & Co.’s coaches at the | separation placards stuck up in all sorts of places, Where there were no walls, boards on poles were erected; on the boards were these separa- tion posters. Barrels, rocks, walls were all pressed into the service, and it is said that His Excellency the Governor, when he reached Clarke's, the first stage from Port Elizabeth, was so overcome that he proposed to the Acting Attorney General that they should go in and sign the petition. Mr. Jacobs replied that he had already done so, and @ hearty langh was the result, It will am you if I give you the wording of some of the petitions:—If you want yoo] roads and bridges, vote for separation.’ ‘Re- imember that by Cape Town law you can be pun- | ished for protecting yourself from native theits; then sign the petition.’ But the most emphatic one of all was the one headed, ‘The Cape Town Robbery. £800,000 for the Cape Railw: Sign the petition.’ We fairly screamed when we came across this petition first. There were hundreds of these posters, across one of which we came about. every quarter of an hour all the way from Port Eliz- abeth to Colesberg.” PRESIDENT BRAND SERIOUSLY ILL. The Eastern Province Herald of 2ith of Septem- ber says:—Sir Henry Bere with true gentie- manly feeling, has written a letter of sympathy to Mrs. Brand (the wife of His Honor J. H. Brand) ex- asing his grief at the tliness of the President, and the loss that free State sustains in being “teim- porarily deprived of his invaluable services.” WHAT SOCIETY DEMANDS. The members of the Chamber of Commerce had an interview with Ilis Excellency the Governor by appointment on Tuesday last to discuss the follow- ing subjects:—First, the gun trade with natives; J, the relations between this Territory and A. and M, police; third, postal arrangements; fourth, telegraphic communieations; fifth, the land question, DIAMONDS. The Port Elizabeth Mevald of September 27 re- ports as follows:—"Mr. John Murray received a line parcel of diamonds by last post from the | flelds, comprising 2,100 carats, and valued at be- tween £4,000 and £7,000, Among thein were a number of very fine stones, of good shape and lor, wid ultdxether w& very fine lot. Mr, W. J. u, Of the firm Gau, Sonnenberg & Co., has ved a very fine diamond of 106 carats. It is of good shape, and without speck or flaw, but | off-colored. For its size it is the finest stone we have seen, A family of diggers, forming a party at Du Toit's | Pan, have been perhaps the most successful of any that have figured at these flelds in the search after diamonds, The following ts the result of their finds, seriatim, within the last six weeks:—H. Towns- J. Rothman—his son-in-law— Rothman’s sister, 30; Sebas- lo., 13; J.J, Rothman, 10; H, Making a total of 430 carats, tian Rothman, Townshend, 45!5. Mr. Longland’s parties found seventy carats on Tuesday ven carats, weight of diamonds at welders Plant, last. The largest stone was of twenty COMMERCIAL REPORT. The Port Elizabeth Herald of September 27 sup- plies the following report of the market quota- tions:—During the past fortnight the wool market has been very firm, and prices of certain descrip- | tions have had an upward tendency, but any large business has been checked by the small receipts from the country districts. " Our quotations are consequently to & great extent nominal, arrivals having been on too limited a seale to test the market, |Scoured snow white has been in active demand, and the small Paotd sent in by the Uitenhage scourers have veen immediately placed at higher rates than those last reported, and it is probable that other classes of wool, if here, would also participate in @ corresponding advance, more especially considering the satisfactory position our staple at present holds in the home market. Several orders are in course of execution, both tor London and the Contiment, and in the present short supply even smgll odd lots are eagerly bought at full rates, to make up parcels lor shipment, Grease wool, suitable for scouring, is in steady demand at the extreme limits, which will allow of @ remunerative return. The skin market has slightly improved since the date of our last report, and sound, weil-cured parcels are freely taken at full rates, Several par- cels of ostrich feathers have been sold at public auction during the past fortnight, chiefly consist- ing of pluckings irom domesticated birds. The de- mand is fairly maintained, but prices are decidedly lower. There have been no sales of ivoryduring the past fortnignt. diamond market has been dull lately and business is almost ata standstill. The number of diamonds offered at public auction during the past month was not nearly so large as in previous months, and of those gifered barely one-nalf has been sold. 2—TRIPLE SHEET. TUREEY. Official Ups and Downs at the Golden Horn. ———— Midhat’s New Ministry—Mahmoud Pacha in Retirement Using the Argument of Gold—A Sacerdotal Intrigue—How a Greek Bishop Reduces His Family—Consular Author- ity in Roumania—Disastrous Fires. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 12, 1872, Your “own correspondent,” after a freshener on the plains of Troy and the breezy slopes of “many- fountained Ida,” comes up to time “smiling.” In the month’s interval what has passed! Some ot the square men have been shifted from their round holes in the Ministry and thrust into less uncom- fortable berths; but the policy of Midhat's govern- ment, so far, has been anything but sensational, and he appears to be feeling his way with an amount of caution in which we scarcely recognize the impetuous character either of the Midhat of Bulgaria, who hanged a batch of thirty Russian revolutionary agents one fine morning before breakfast, or of that Midhat of Babylon who led the nomadie Arabs of Mesopotamia so hard a life of it that they threw up the game, folded their tents and settled themselves as a pastoral people, Midhat has changed the Ministry all round; the set he has got about him now are more or less states- men, which their predecessors were not, But the object of the Grand Vizier has been to sink Mah- moud Pacha so low in the imperial opinion as to damn all further chance of his again floating to the surface of public affairs. Now Mahmoud is a shrewd man and a rich one, and when he was in power he made to himself friends aiter the manner of the unjust steward, and at the same time so warmly feathered his own nest that he is well able to Weather the cold blast of Midhav’s hostility. He has bought His Imperial Majesty's mamma, the Sultana Validé, and that excellent old lady pours Mah- moud's praises day and night into the Sultan's ear. He has tikewise, by means of judicious financing, obtained the co-operation of Their Higtnesses, the palace eunuchs, and, by means of equally skilful flattery, that of His Imperial Highness Yussuf Izze- dise, the soi disant hereditary Prince of Turkey. There remained yet one personage to be bought— the highest in the realnt—and who has not yet been tampered with in hard cash by any one but His Royal Highness of Egypt, the future Emperor of Arabia. THE EX-MINISTER PAYS TRIBUTE, True the ruMed spirit of this potentate has oft- times been soothed with gifts of parrots and his temper sweetened by an offering of cocks and hens; but no Grand Vizier, either in or out of omce, has tempted him with the chink of filthy lucre or made him a particeps criminis in that noble work of na- tional spoliation which constitutes the statesman- ship of the class of Oriental public men of whom Mahmoud is the type, Mah- mound has, however, belled the imperial cat. Yesterday, through the gentle persuasion of Her Highness the Validé, added to that of the neuter negroes of the imperial household, Abdul Azis accepted a round sum of £900,000 from his ex- Minister, in consideration 61 which His Majesty sutfers bygones to be bygones. In this one fact may be summed up the mouth’s internal politics of the Ottoman Empire. A BISHOP's “CoUr.”? An incident which has lately occurred at Aghi- asso, a town ii the island of Mytelene—ancient Lesbos—reveals a scandalous mode of life among the upper ranks of Greek ecclesiastics. We do not know whether the eek Church grants licenses tor prelatical irregularities; but it appears that, with or without sup Aghiasso had for fifteen years past kept a mistress in the Episcopal Palace, by whom he had had a numerous progeny, all brought up on the premises, Either from a desire to return to respectability, or from pure ennui of the lady's soci: he at first delicately suggested a separation and a removal to other quarters; but she, with true Greek apprecia- tion of the value of dollars, refused all parley that. Was not based on the solid foundations of gold and silver, Another bishop—a sympathetic spirit— happened to be staying in the town, and the two rignt reverends, putting their heads together, re- solved on a coup de main which would bring them out of their dilemma in a cheap and satisiactory manner. This was to have recourse to the police. ‘They accordingly despatched a number of zaptiehs (armed policemen) ta the Episcopal Palace, with instructions to expel from thence the mother and her children. They found her prepared for battle and determined to hold her ground to the last. One of | the zaptiehs, thinking to frighten her into submis- sion, fired off his rifle at random. The bullet struck her eldest son, a lad ot sixteen, and killed him on the spot. AN INDEPENDENT CONSUL. Another incident, also of a somewhat sensational character, has arisen within these last few days to ruMe the monotonous piacidity which has sur- past. Pepeatedly disregardea the “invitations” of the Hellenic Vice Consul, Mr, Andonopouious, to pre- sent himself at the Vico Consulate to answer cer- tain charges, of which the particulars have reached us, upon which Mr. Andon seeing Ws Vice Consular at nought, sent forth his his rebellious — subject — and him under arrest in the Consulate, police, however, interfered, and, claiming to be the only competent executive authority in suclt cases in the Principality, demanded that the arrest should be made’ in due form through their instru- mentality, To this Mr. Andonopoulous, who has been long enough at [braila to appreciate the efi- ciency of the Roumanian police, demurred; and, having his bird in hand, which was all he wanted, declined to see the advantage of letting him flutter back into the bush for the sake of being recaptured more artistically by the machinery of the Prefect of Police. ‘This view of the case on the part of the Greek Vice Consul appears to have considerably irritated His Excellency the Prefect; at all events, his judgment, if not his temper, gave way under the trial, and, apparently losing sight of the fact that the consular officers in that Principality act under exequatur from the Sublime Porte, ordered the arrest of Mr. Andon poulous, who seems to have been more successful than the Prefect in maintain- ing his equanimity under this indignity. He com- municated promptly with @onstantinople, through the Hellenic Consulate General of Bucharest, and the matter is now in process of ‘arrangement, the execution of the order of arrest having been mean- | while suspended by the Roumelian Minister of Justice. EXTENSIVE CONF LAGRATIONS. The late disastrous fire at Konskounjuk, on the > an area of a thous Bosphorus, lata ba It had been pre other equally large conflagration at Scutart; and as I write now [hear the booming of the alarm quns and the wild shouts of the tonloumbadgees, announcing that the sacred precincts or Kyoub are | being invaded by the devouring element THE WRECK OF THE ISA. Captivity of an English Steamer’s Crew erlor sanction, the Bishop of | A The Roumanian | | rounded dipiomatic existence for some months | A Greek, resident at Ibraila, had, it appears, | | 913 The Sheik had tried to keep our presence a secret from the man-of-war, and I believe he intended to make away with us by starvation or by sending us in a bungalow to tne coast of Arabia, Hearing of the presence of the man-of-war, he and his men escaped to the mountains, donbiless in the fear of punishment for their inhospitable treatment of ua, We then hired camels, and at nine o'clock the 8a night were safely taken on board HM esty's ship Briton, where we were received with every hospitality and Kindness that could be shown to ws, both from omcers and men, Her Majesty's ship Briton sailed next morning for the scene of the wreck, and on arriving took on board the first mate and men, who had been seut for the Isa’s lileboat,”? 0 en en eB ere rer ee ae a Re ae een PROPOSALS, (yomosian SECRETARY'S OFFICE, Cuancortérows, Oct, 22, 1372. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS, Tho government of Prince Kdward Island will, until 19h Deceinber next, receive Tenders for the Construction and Equipment of the Kas of the Railway (ot Steet 6 inches gauge) fr distance of about 33 miles sion to Tignish, a distance 'ot aby ayment will be erni able halt ye ° Plans arid specifications of the be seen atthe knyineer's Ofee, Charlottetown, atler Ist November next, and of the Western Extension alter Mie November next. ‘Tenders will be received for both extensions, or each v. der will be recognized untess made on ms, Which may be procured at the Engine i tes themselves to accept the ATS. rn Extension may No printed diNiee LBERT | SLEY, Colonial Secretary. OTICE TO CONTRACTORS.—SEALED PROPOSALS “will be received by the undersigned, at his office in nton, until the 22d inst. for making the rock eut on the Harsinus fork of the New Jersey Railroad, | | present ine, near “Suminit, Bridge,” thro eastern and sheelite at said office « ill. The profile ¢ btal Bi 1B WE Chief Engineer of Construction. Trestoy, Nov. 12, 1872, DANCING ACA DEMIES. —DODWORTI’S CLASSES FOR DAD Fitth avenue, will commence October d& prms send for vireular. and YOF DA AMAR: ACADE: ING, 289 BLEEC Classes for adults, Tuesday and Friday evenings; children's, nesday and Saturday, ati). M. For terms send for circular, DANCING DEMY, v J Fourteenth street, dN APPLICATION, ofurtes for salo runs, y low for cash Y CHRISTIE'S ) FACTORY—TH lt Janos mad MOST DUR- at the lowest Barrow 5 4 i Judson, A WKB! rice for cush or instalments. CARVED PIANOS, nthly payments; CO, 739 Broadway, PIANOS, BEST MAKERS, TO allowed on purchase, ‘Call 8 Union square (165 Fourth ay.) A PARLOR GEM 7) OCTAVE BRILLIANT TON Ps C R JA. tittle “us rented cheap. A. BARGE stoc rent or sell ¢ at M. M, MERR: OF eAp; rel rosewool Pianoforte, used 5 months, 4 round core ost $1,000, tor also Parlor and Bedroom suits, , &e., at 20 We: IN,—SPLENDID NEW itine ¢ overstrung buss; pat Mt arate ; pri 0; owner leay- , near Myrtle, ing city. Apply at 172 Clason w Brooklyn. ries MAGNIFICENT ROSEWOOD. PIANOFORTE FOR AA sale—Parlor grand; made order; city maker; cost $900, 75; also Drawing Room Pain $0, 087 $600, CHT forte, Stool ai Third street, be v ry overstraung be on Bowery and Se BEAUTIFUL PIANO, y $8—A WE 7 octave Pianoforte, richly carved legs, overstruug bass, every ae ement, cheap tor cash. J. BIDDLE, 13 Waverle near Broadway. TEINWAY SQUARE PIANO TO heap toan approved party. {. B. M., 445 West Twenty-third s| CARVED seven octa p pi for’ first class ton: street, betwee T BLUME AA rosewoo Second hand Pianos, $175, FREDERICK BLUM ANOS, MELODE 1 P most heautitul style for cash or monthly itistalments, or 10 481 Broadway, than DIANOS AND ORGA IL sell on easy te BALL’ & DE CHEAP FOR CA upright, and square Pian Y, 197 Kast Eighth street. to rent. . S ERAL FIRST CLASS SECOND HAND PIANO: SD in excellent order; good a warranted; will be gold very cheap, at FISCHE 425 West Twenty+ eighth street, near Ninth avenue, “LOAN OFFICES. T 77 BLEECKER STREET, NEAR BROADWAY, UP stairs, Inghest cash advances on Diamond: nes, Jewelry, Piatt pought; Pawnbrokers nt at 77 Ble rect, BROTHERS’ 89% BROADWAY, BETWE enth and ,, Diamonds, Pianos; private mildential MERIC OF FIO 4X Any amount loaned inonds, Jewelry, Si &e., or will buy J) HW, BARRING feth strects,—Money loa Jewe Iverware, Silks, parlor for ladies. Bi si ticularly etrietly © paticl pposiie Astor place 7 T OT BROADWAY, CORNE liberal advances on Diamonts, *s Hair Shawls, Laces and P ption, JAMES P. Broadw Bitks, Cay of every ¢ D. tensive esta Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Sil Shawls and ry’ description Also tor sale, large stock “ot ou MONEY LOANED ON DIAMONDS, WATITES. J MM ciry and Silverware and the same bought and sold COALLEN, SH Broadway, near Fourteenth st | NASSAU SITE POST OFFIC 39 ti Jewelry and soli. ‘The same t HAYMAN LEOP( CORNER AMIRY BROADWAY, 3 Moi libefally advanced on Diam pods, Ladies’ Furs and all ne same bought and so |. ROSEN BER BROADWAY, liable of | Watehos, Jewelry | prices. Or BROADWAY, OVER HERALD BRANCH, L267 ome Pattor tor indies, Branch 13g Pulte street, Brooklyn. Money loanat on Diamouts, Watele | Jewelry, &¢, Sane bouguvand sold, LANDD ¥ Among the Arabs of the Red Sea Coast, | A sad story has reached London, by letter from Aden, dated September 27, written by Captain B. | Garden, of the iron screw steamer Isa (about tons), owned by Mesars. Wilkinson, Watts & Co., of London, piving an account of the total loss of the vessel off the Island of Socotra, in the Red Sea, on June 23, A week after the ship went Sheik of the island, with 100 armed m shore » arrived from Tamarada, the capital, and he wanted to take | away the cargo of rice, Which the tain refused to aliow. He thereupon stopped the supply of fresh water and food, which had to” be brought four mil On the 28d of July, the cabin being no longer habiteble, they were compelled to abandon the ship. The crew lived in caves and holes in the rocks for fifteen days, sulfering intensely from the heat. The Sheik now came down again with 300 men (armed with swords, daggers and Lp ed and 150 camels, and told the Captain he had come to take charge of the ship and cargo. He then went on board the ship and landed all the rice and plundered her throughout, also demanding the Captain's money. Captain Garden gives ¢durther details in these words:—"He compelled me to go to Taimarada, saying he would find me provisions, and when the monsoon changed would Und a ship to take me and the crew to Aden, We arrived at Tamarada on Angust 11, all our shees worn out and feet very sore and biistered, as we had to walk the greater part of the distance, about thirty-five miles, over rocky ground, with ten bogs of rice for food. We had a rough stone building given us to live in, from whence the natives daily stole a good deal of our clothes and other things. At night they threw stones into our sleeping place, to our great discom- fort. We lived on rive, dates’ and an occasional sheep, which we had to purchase wita sheets and linen. Ultimately, I and the first mate were allowed to go to the ship for a supply of rice, but it was refused by the natives. The Sheik gave orders to stop the supplies, and I went several times to the house, but he sald he could give us none. ‘The rice being nearly exhausted. I sent the first mate and the six strongest hands of the ship for a fresh supply, to return in the lifeboat with it so that we’ could communicate with the first ship that hove in sight. On the morning of the 10th an Arab told us, in very good Eng- lis, that an English man-of-war, called the Briton, ‘was at anchor at Bander Delishi, and that he was her interpreter. and had been sent to bring us on board, as he accidentally heard the night before shat wn English suip's crew Were ab Laumarada, 500 | he | MARBLE MANTELS, =REMOVAL—SLATE MANTELS, GRATES, &C.+ arge and elegant stock at our new wareroous, and Seventecitit ¥, manntactarers 1¢ pd ornamental AND MARBL th stro: wnitte M rs, Me ¢ Mts, at prices that ble furnt i the trade. JTEWARTS SLATE MANT AND ELS " lace Work ol and ¥ 8 A Maniels, ‘ enty-third street, en avenne, larble and Marbleized Mantets, | &c., of superior Workmanship, at very le CLOTTING. 23 THIRD (late St Third a highest val NS; T ROSENTHA A Ni enth stree gentlemen can obtain the Clothing and Carpets by inquiring or addressing. attended to by Mrs. H. Rosenthal: T J. ANHAL if m $15 to $l $l. call or address ANHALT, where you will be d factior AVENUB, NEAL est. price bald toc i, Carpets, Furniture, ks, 1 high! Ladies’ and Gents’ Cast-off Clothiny Ladies attended by Mrs. MAN x OF CAST-OFF CLOTHING, CARP $50.000 &c., Wanted—For Chicago. ‘The high prices paid. Call or send note to 412 seventh ayeuuc. paiies attended to by Mrs, Ellas, G, BELLAS, B MEDL RON, cal and business spiritualist (late Fourth avenue) consultations. 247 East Thirty-first street. TTENTION,~MISS WELLINGTON, 102 WEST TWEN- -seventh street, near Sixth avenue, can be col sulted: Ml affairs of life; giv: ver LL PRONOUNOR THE REVELATIONS OF MAURIS, tie great Astrologist, Ww Consult’ him od A ge my LISTER, ASTROLOGER, HAS RG SX moved irom Leximcton avenue to vig Broadway,