The Sun (New York) Newspaper, August 3, 1865, Page 1

THE Number 10,310. The Latest News By Telegraph to the sh Y. Saa, OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES ‘The _Public Debt. STATEMENT TO JULY 31, Total Amount $2,757,253,275. Coin On Hand $35,338,000. THE PRESIDENT STILL ILL. NO VISITORS RECEIVED. The Mysterious Prisoner. HE I3 NOT JOHN H. SURRATT. Colored Meeting at Alexandria, AN ANGRY DEBATE, _LATER NEWS FROM MEXICO. Important Military Movements, THE LIBERALS VERY ACTIVE, &e., &e., &e. THE NATIONAL DEBT, Statement to Aug. Ist. Waehing’on, Aug. 9.—The ofheial statement of the public debt, as appears from the books of the Treasury Department on the Stet of July, shows the amount outstanding to be $2,767,253,975 85, divided thus, viz. : The debt bearing interest In coin is %4,108,669,641- on which the inte.est is $64,691, bu. he debt bearing interest im ‘awiul money ie phe anal on which the interests is $74,740,- The debt on which interest has ceased ts $1 627,120, The debt bearing no interes’ ie #357,9\ 6,069, The tora) interest both in cuin aud lawful money is 140,264,464 28, The legal teuder notes tn circulation are as follows ; One and two year 6 per cent. notes 839,054200 Unitod Stators Notes, old issue... . 4763 United States Notes, new issue. . 439,667,005 Compound Interest Notes, Act of March | PRP sess 16,000,000 Act of June seeeceeeeeceess V9T,121,470 Total Legal Tenders in cireulation.......€056,936,260 he amount of frectional curreocy is $25,760,000, © ancalled-for +, Teqaisitions and miscel- laneous {tems of the War and Navy Departments @mount to $)5, 756,000, he amount of coin in the Treasury is 835, 338,000 ; Teas- and of curseney. $*1,402,000. ‘Tota: amount in T ry, $116,759,602 69, Washington, Aug. 2.—The statement of the public debt, as sppeare by the returns and ‘Treasury books on the Sist of July as compared with that of the Bist of May, two men‘hs ago, shows an inerease of $122, 000,000 during Lhe intervening period, owing, in part, to the extraordinary sums required to pay the arrearages due to the army; the entire public debs Deing $3,625,205,753. The amount of legal tender motes now in circulation .s $(85,236,909, or an in- Grease from the 31st of May of 26,075,700, General Washington Items. Washington, Aug. 9—-The man brought hither from the West, whom some supposed to he John H. Barratt, is said, in quarters where the truth is known, to be some other Individual, His real name is thas far kept s secret. The Stan says: At twenty minutes past ten o'clock this morning, the train from Baltimore brought im the prisoner reported to be Jobo H. Burratt, in charge of Capt, mith, of the Becond U. #, Artillery, and Provost Marahal of Memphis, Tenn., and under guard of a serpeant and three men of the 190th Lillnols Regi- ment, Hewar heavily ironed, and on his arrival at the depot was immediately escorted to a ca: @ and riven to the Provost Marshal's office, when Colonel raham ordered him to be committed to the Old Capital Prison, He was arrested in Memphis om Wednesday, July 19th. by Capt. Smith, not on picion of being Jobn H. fBurratt, es has foan intimated, but om the charge of hav- ing been engaged in the conspiiacy, and it is said that the evidence againss him is very conclusive, He giver his name as John 8, Ryan, an tes ¢isfrom Texas, and hee been « captain the ederate service, He bears @ slugular reeembiance in features tothe Burratt tanily, but thore who knew John BH, Burratt whea here are itive thet thieman ise not Lim. The prisoner is Sreseed io grey, with alight colored slough het, and is ehont five feet seven inches in height, rather dia and seuder frame, Jicht sandy bair, ie:r complexion, glighily treckled, ny bt bue cyes, sharp noee, rather ) and has the the konekle of the little Ginger of tue right hand shot off apparenily by @ ball, The Fic dent still coutinues too ill te receive vial. tors, and aitends to but little public business, His bealih however is gradually improving, ‘There ls no truth in the report tn circulation in gone parts of the country that she five doilar note of the Nationa! Banks hed been counterfeited. After the firet metallinent of notes had been issued to some five or #ix of the banks firet organized, a slight change was made in the lettering, and minor detalls of the five dollar notes, which accounts for the variation now seen betwcenu the fives first issued and subsequent ener, Brig.-Gen, 0, O. Howard, late Major-General tn the Volunteer forces, haa been bieveted Major-General fr the Regular Army, to dete from the deth of March, for gallant and meri‘orious services, Colored dvleesies, to the numter of fifty, from va- rious counties of Virglula, metet Alexandria to-day, their object being to sec. ro the right of suffrage and otber bene its, 1) proceeliugs were varied by o long, angry ani th.eatening debate, on the subject of excluding three colored men, from the District of Columbia, who uppe.ced as deiezates in behalf of their Frecerickshurg brethren, They were finally adiuitted to ce The spectators numbered forty or Gfty, including a few white persons, and among the latter several ex-rebel officers, A public meeting was held to-night at Alexandria, and was addressed by Kev. Highland Garland, of Washington; Rev, J. M, Brown, of Baltimore, and Fielos Cook, of Kichmond, al! colored, At the late Presidential canvass, aman named T, W. Fuller perpetrated a series of frauds by pretend- ing to be an agent of the Republican Executive Com- mittee, and collected money from various cffice hold- ers throaghout the State, amounting in the aggregate to $45,000. Gon, Baker has long been tracking him with his detectives, and has jnet succeeded in arrest- {ng and bringing him to Washington, The Commissioner of Internal Revenne has decided that produce brokers are required to pay a tax of % percent, on their eales, aud are considered brokers onder section 9, This tax is additional to the license tax, ee Twaive hundred bales of cotton passed Cairo, 1, yesterday, mostly for Cincinuatl, Havana and “Mexico. Arrival of Jadah P. en | and other Prominent Kebels—A in Mexico Occupation ef Monterey the French —OUutrage spon an Ame Vomel— From layti aad San Domiage, Etc. Bteamehip Earle, Lawrence, from Hievana, July Mh, 1 P. M., arrived here this morning. (Correspondence af the Sun.) Harana, July %9,- Judah i’, Benjamin, late Secre- tary of State of the Southern Confederacy, arrived in thie city om the %th, fromm Neeean, A mythical story is told of his escaping from Florida, being picked up by a British schooner, wrecked on one of the Bahama Islands, and finally finding « refuge in Nassau, which piace he soon left in ibe Britich schooner Britannia, The truth is, he got out of Dixie somehow, and arrived her from Nassau in the aforesaid rchooner, The Barceiona arrived yester- day from Vera Crus and Sisal, Among her passen- kore to this city were, Gen, Kirby Bmith, ex-iovern- or Thomas Reynolds, and Capt. A. F. T. Beauregard, whe was Secretary to Dr. Gwin. ‘The Stonewall is being prepared for delivery to the United States authorities, The U. 8, frigate Oneida, Capt. Stevens, arrived at 9 o’cloek this morning, and leaves again at 5 P.M., forthesea. Atthe Tacon Theatre we are promised @ new dramatic piece next week, entitied “The War of the Nerth, or, the Fall of Kichmend.” The health of Havana ts pretty good. MEXIOAN MATTERS The Inga Limenat, of Puebla, calls for « convocs- tion of the whole people, to decide either for the em- Dire o: the republic, and thinks that by this means all risk of a war with the United States will be evad- ed. Monterey was occupied on the 924 of June by French troops under Jeanmingros. The commander bad issued several orders to the effect that all arms in the possession of citizens should be delivered np ¢ noue abould be allowed to carry arms without special license ; at tattoo all shops should be closed; and no one ebould attack @ French soldier ander pain of deatb- and for a crime of this kind the city should also be muleted. Fifteen refugee rebel familica from Texas, had arrived at Monterey. Mr. Bhanahan, correspondent of the New York Hema.o, who had just arrived in the country, died at the Iturbide Hotel, in Mexico, on the 15th of July, The Constitutional Governor of Lower California, who was supposed to favor the Empire, had resolved to retire to Ban Francisco, leaving the government in charge of Don Antonio Pedron. A Franco-Mexican expedition was preparing to go thither aad look after the state of affairs there, Letters from Teplo say that the Mayo and Yaqui Indians bad rebelled aainst the Juarist Governor of Sonora, Pesgacera. Military operations against the rebels in Sonora and Sinaloa were to be commenced directly after the rainy season ceased, The Mexican Government at Bisal,on the 6ih of July, seized the American sphooner William Craw- ford, owned in Brooklyn, N. Y., on suspicion of smug- cling. Her Master, Btevens, and all the crew were taken eave one. This one managed to got away, and arrived here in the British schooner Florida. The others were taken to Merida and confinod there, The whole cargo, valued at $40,000, was discharged, and all that could be foand against the vessel was « fow pounds of powder. FROM 6A" DOMINGO, By the steamer Pelayowe have received lator news from San Domingo, Nine women were among the prisoners made by (ieneral Gandora, on evacuat- ing the capital, and held as hostages. Of those the Misses Talreso, and other ladies of good families,were exchanged on the 17th for Spanish prisoners held iby Dominicans, It was agreed to hold a general ex- change of prisoners on the 2%. THE REVOLUTION IN MAYTI. In Haytl, eo far, the rebels appear to have the ad- vantage. President Geffrard, although he had bom- barded and demolished the fort at Guarico, and killed the rebel General Schaumonon, in an assault, had not yet taken the place, The rebels fortified the fort with sand bags and earthworks, and raised entrench- ments, and beat off every atrack of Geffrard with loes to his troops, A message had Leen sent to Geffrard by the rebels, making as @ condition of peace, that he should sign « treaty to allow only five yeaisase presidential term. In Jacmel the circula- tion of newspapers was prohibited, and the whole town was ander arms. Maximilian Expected at Matamoras. Cairo, Aug, 2.—The steamer Ruth brings New Orleans dates to the $7th ult. Maximilian is expect- od mt Matamoras soon. General Mejia hes forbidden all persons leaving Matamoras without « paas, or cross- ing into it from Brownsville, Cortinas bas been panishing robber bands and pro- claimed all communteation and commerce between Matamoras and other ports closed. New Orleans, Auguet 1.—-Ths Houston Tetegrarn mentions the arrival of the officers of Shelby’s party. Shelby was eucamped near Monterey, with five hundred men who were quiet and orderly, end had vot been disturbed by the authorities, Blelby sold his artillery and other plunder, and was trying to get a grant of land and other inducements, to col- onize, ie ened. From the Rio Crrede Frontier-A Procia- mal by Cortinus—Ille Troops Near Mat Fae. The mer Evening Star brings the intelligence from the Kio Grande Frontier that De Leon, the civil Governor of Tamaulipas, is at the head of about five hundred men im that State, doiug the enemy no in- jury, but refusing to recognize the authority ef Cor- tinas, who ie @ regularly commissioned Brigadier- General,and astigued w the command of all the Liber- ai troops operating on the Rio Grande, by Negrote, the Min‘ster of War aud (ienera! In Chief of the republican armies, Cortinas compel.ed Lopez to evacuste Camargo a few weeks seo, aud now bolds them so fast in Matamoras that they driv not slow thelr heads outelde the iortificat.ous except in for- mivabie bodies, Cortinas’s men are pow, end have been for months post, within f.c Matamoras, and Me ia hee ne ettack, Cortinas has the date, * C-mp of Chantaneila, 15:h July afforume @ car liy to thos deciaration under wtutional Aimy, “tbat ‘for the pur- That all armed forces found in the nor here disticts of he State, bearing the character of i epublica: who have uot the legal authorization of ti © gener government o1 of Cortinss, will be consideied ban. dite, and will be apprehenued end punished in con. formity with the laws, And for the more exact een. piiance with these orders, thoro who are without this credeatial or authority will pope for and obtain is within the peremptory period of three days. Cortinas bes aleo issued a prociamation to the citi- rens of Matamoras, “in accordance with ins! ructions from Gen, Negrete, Secretary of War and General-in. Chief of the army operating against invaders and traitors, and to give an opportunity to all loyal Mexi. cans to depart with security from thore points and places occupied by the common onemy.” The proce. mation, in effect, is as follows, All communication herwee : the port of Matamoras thie plate ia cu * Ag On aie Tae who vay be found going to or coming from said port will be epprehended and tried De ALi gongs martial ae traitor to the tert and all his 6 fects will be coufiscated, AU tahabivante of Metamoras and those places ite Jnriadiction, which unfortnoate! fran tH ander the fiag and dominion of the eo-called empire, will be allowed the wr of tweive days © depart and earry their effects at loast +) ee leagues dtstens city. Ail thoee who fullow the so-called imperial be tg bpd of show!ng that they are lov 1) Will be consivered traitors and their go for the benefit of the nation's treasu The , conceded will expire on the 25th instant afore! oy time bo person can leave Matamoros without iucu;. ring the penalties established. To counteract the influence of the Proclemation, General Mejia has erderod that no person be ® lowed SUN. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1865. to leave Matamoros under any pretence whatever, | without first obtaining @ pase from the military au. thorities, From Newfoundland. Steamers Intercepted—(rewds Gath rag —o Content..The Adiantic ¢ al Hearts Content, N. F, Aug. 1, via tepy Ray, Aug. 2.—The steamship Hibernia, from Glasgow on the 22d July, for New York, was intercepted of! Capa Race at 2 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, and the City of Dublin, from Liverpooi 22d, via Queenstown, for New York, was intercepted off the eatme point an hour later, Their news le anticipated by the Asia, at Halifax, Crowds are beginning to gather here from all parts of the island, to witness the landing of the Atlantic cable, The weather is unprecedentedly fine. The Great Eastern was to leave Valentia Bay on Monday morning, July 94th, The favorable weather encour. ages hope that the cable across the Gulf ot St. Law- rence will be cot in working ordor in « day or two, Aepy Bay, N. F, Aug. 9.—The steam yacht Clara Clarita, with Engineer Everett's party on board, arrived bere this morning, Tho weather ts fine, and the elements are most favorable for the prosecution of the work of anderranning and repairing the tele- Graph cable across the Gulf of 61. Lawrence, Kows Items (Dp Petagraph to ths How York Bema Tree steamer Lillie, with 700 bales of cotton, was recently burned on the Misstesippi River, No lives were lost. Gov, Hamittom reached Houston on the 2th ult., on route to Austin, He is meeting with « Warm reception, Hox, Braos Dimam, formerty Governor of Rhode Island, died at his residence in Bristol Tuesday evening, aged 70 years. Tue Washington street Baptist church, at Pet- ereburg, Ve., was struck by lightning last Satur- day night and entirely destroyed. 4 COLORED man was murdered in Eastville, Mi., on Tucadgy, by two Confederate solviiers, One is arrested and is in jail, The other escaped. Tha ladies of New York and Brooklyn have presented to chaplain El’. Roe an elegant Bible end sot of prayer books, also @ boautiful f. + for the soldiers chape! at Hampton, Va, Hospital, Sursnrerenpent Conway reports less than 35 freedmen malutained by the Government in Loul- siene. No rations are issued, except to the sick and helpless. It was reported yesterday that Gov. Brough, of Ohio, was dead, A despatch from Cleveland, bow- ever, reports bim as having slept comfortably Tuesday night. Tus steamer Joseph Pierce exploded her boiler twenty wiles below Vicksburg early this week, She subsequently caught fire, and burne! to the water's oige, Six persous wore killed and twenty- eight wounded. Tux steamer Dove was boarded by robbers on the Yazoo River Sunday afternoon, who took $20,000 and other valuables, and opened an {nilis- criminate firo on the passengers, wounding the mate and one passenger, The passengers were stripped of their valuables, A rine Tuesday night, at Atchison, Kansas, destroyod the grocery store of J. Holt, the house of F. Bock, the queensware store of 0. Book, and soveral scua!l stores, and seriously damaged the new block being erected by Dseback & Lees, The loas on the goods is very heavy, Om Tuesday even!ng » railroad collision oocur- red, six miles thie mde of Havre De Grace, between two freight trains, one of them loaded with Gov- ernment horses om the way to Wilmington, Dela. ware, One man waskilied, A number of horses are missing. Gov. Pravront, of Virginia, ha ved a notice to the justices of county courts in that State, say- ing that he has reason to believe various officers have recently been elected who are disqualified, by the clause excluding ali who have been members of the Confederate Congress or Legislature. He directs new elections to be at once held In all such cases, Gax, Geant arrived at Brunswick, Me., yester- day, from Portland, Te was received at the de- pot by the officers, the alumni, and the students of Bowdoin College, and enth: aiastically welcomed, Gen. Grant, fam! y, aud staff attended tho closing exercises of the Commencement at the church, where the degree of L. L. D. was conferred upon Lim, The General leit for Portland last nigh. STRAMOns have just arrive! at Fortress Monroe, | | SSS SSS sssesstS with forty-two caunen captured from the rebels, Among them {ea Whitworth gun, that during the | ipent. latter part of | }muomer end fall played upon Genera) Butler's sigue! tower on Jams River, The gun beara the fl owing inscriptions *—''Whit- worth Ortinance Co, Manchester, 1960," and “Richmond Arsenal, Aug. 224, 1864."" Genera! Intellizenoe, Uy Math te the Now Tork Bum.) self to death with ea Sport, op Binday, Parnion Burru coughed b bit of food in his throat, a L Lrevr, Jonvs, of Norws!*, Conn. @ good-hearted talented young wan, coum-tted suinde the other day, Wuikey did it, A rruociovs bull drove his horns into the breast of Mrs. Geer, in Clintor, MCh last week, and killed ber, Sue bad «red shawl on, Naswvitur, Teno, cereymen preach in the “ variety" saloons on Sunday. Bmoking is pro- hibited during prayers. Evorwre, Emprees, isdnving ® light pony cars riage this summer, with ponies dyed, to mateh her toilette, and every day 4 cliange. Tus Swiss rifle match wiich the German schut- eu corps of thimeity Las gon@ tO attend, opened with speeches, on tC very e:mbusiastic charaeian in which the 00d results of guch matches as this were duly set forth, Goy, Purr, of 8, C, bas issued his proclama- tion for the aseem|iing Of ® Convention next month, Those who Lave #008 I pay it calle upon ell the civil officers of the State to forthwith ro. suroe the various functions of their offices Last 8 inday, a counterteiter named Maloney at. tonded religious services iu the Troy jail, and when they were ovcr, prasad out with the riembere of the Christian As cciation who held the meeting, and mace good bin escape, Tae Travelers Ineurance Company of New York ived mivices Fr day that a man named Potor Yr, Of Peoria I), waa bitten on the back of bie nock by « povsenous bug, and died tn twenty four h ure, tle was iasured in the Travelers for 2, 000, Tun Seeretary of the Treasury hae decided ad- versely to the appiicetion of she Now York brokers for a Pottponement of the collection of the ‘sx on sles pending the decision of the Supreme Court on its constitutionslity, Tosiructions ! ave therefore been issued to the assessors to collect the tax, A § ono fell into s gnage dock in Richmond on funday. The water waa 4) lily drawn off, and the apparently inanimate body of the nevro wae brought) to light. It was taken out and the Proper restoratives being applied, he recover- el, alter being under the water ot least five tm outes. Mas. Kritaoes, of Rosston, Pa, wan recently at- fecked on the highway, and aiabbed to death afier ® learful struggle, in which her earatropa were torn trom her ears, ber arma and chest iacerated, and her clothing rent into shreads. Robbery not the object of the murder, as valuable jewelry which she wore was let untouched, Taw assancination conspirators arrived at the Dry Tortuges on the 25th ult. Dr. Mudd has been placed in the hospital. Arnold is so be mades clerk among tho prisoners. Bpangler is to return to bis trade as @ carpenter, O'canghlin will also ae some work, The i10b N.Y, Vole are on duty ere, Tun negro slaves are numbers that leaving Kentucky In auch there will be hardly any left to be freed by the new constitution, when {tis adopted in that Btate—supposing it is adopted, The mill- ‘ery autborities grant passes to thie effect: “In Fureuane of General Orders, No 49, Headquarters ment of Kentucky, July 10, 1865. ~~ — (colored,) 1s authorized to pass as will in search employment.” The consequence is, the nexroes pass out of the Siate, to return no more to Savery. A eraTaurnt whieh Pecently appeared in a Ra- leigh (N.C ) pape, to the effect ‘that the native element, including the aristocracy, legrowing more defiant every day, and more openly threaten to bang Union men and negroes, as soon as the troops are withdrawn,” was calculated to do ao much damage to the cause of emigration, that the Gov- ernor (Holden) of that State his been applied to, to Know if it is true, Ho replies contradicing the statement, and encour: ng emigrants to er shere with perfect confidence in iuture. A counTrYMAN upon bis first visit to Roston, tells how to play billiards: “The belis are punched with long wooden rararods, with wax on the lithe end to save the wood and Irather from Wwoarlag out. You © your ramrod aud chalk it, then you lean over the table; then you squint; then you lit be lef lex ; then you fiddie a little on your left hand with your remrod ; then you punch your ball, If your bell hits the other man's ball, ry have dove a big thing, and you poke a lot of puitons that are strung on @ wire. This is all there is to s game of billiards." Tom Montreal Wirngse telle how, on Saturday night last, some triend# of Geo. N. Bandera entered bis house in Place Bte. Soxbie, in that city, and fluding the tanily away, made theinselves at Nome one of them being Dr. Contri, a son-in-law of Ban- ders, Dy and by the doctor went down to the cel- lar to obtain some ice, where he saw two men con- cenle’. Ho immediately grappled with them and calied for bis frieud in the parlor above. The struggle was severe for a iew momenta, when the ruthans succeeded in shaking bim off and making good their escape, Ta the meaatime the gentleman Up stairs hoariay the noise, presumed that it eman- siod froin the back yard, and started in that direc- tion, but bad scare ly got out of the door when be Was so} upon by several men and severely beaten, The whole party afterwards succeeded in making good their ei there Leing no police in the nelyhborhood me, The Werarss says: “It is ob) ct was the abduction of Mr, G eward of $26,000 not yet Having leen Withdrawn by the United States au- thorities.'' George is terribly frightened about 1s, The Cholera tn Egypt. The Alexandria correspondent of the Boston Av- Ventisen, under date of July 9th, says: ‘The ravages of (he cholera continue in though) there has been some abatement in tho finlly number of deaths reported in Alexandria, ‘These attained thelr maximum ou the 24 inet., when the number was two hundred and twenty-eight : two days afterwards the number had fallen to one hun- dred and eighteen; yesterday it had increased to one hundred and forty-two, "rho American commu nity whieh bad happily been spared during the firet three weeks of the prevalence of the d ane, has ceased to enjoy immunity, . died at Cairo, the wife of the Rev. Gulian Lansing, ihe mabie American missionary, The lamented lady hassealed with ber Lif lone ead uncfal service with her hneband in foreign lands, On the 6th, Mi. A, ©. Pango si died, a Greek by birth, a cltizen of the | nited States by natural!zation, who bas b resiient of Alexandria for the lart ten y lie ware man of intelligence and ot b acter, Neither of those deatns, I belle to cholera, yet, as the Egypt, al- in aealaned occurred afio. short aod eud- den iiluesses, itmay be auppored that the dinease, whatever it was, was rezrivated by the stete of the atmosphere fncivental to the pes. of cholera, liv miselcunry, the Mr. Laed From the inte. the mos, © Wie deaths daily thee tal re- to pumber five, eix a: hundred, and of the inland vilms where the m lation ie without a‘tendan trie ttal, A @trong north ing (he present week tas the improvement at Alexo the mor announces tue ree ofthe Nie in the uppe strong bopes are entero thas when reaches the Delta, a favo. atle ofluct may be produced by thooding the low and rim nant ground, More than thirty thousand peop.e bave ieft Alexandria, and the cepariures contin be every gs eamship. But one Cun Vensol the Canada, of Bath, iemaine in pot, and ahe clears tomorow to Breland. | am allie to ald, for bp peal by the Piench steam py that the aumber oi doathe from cho.eswiu Avexanudrla May, Wae only 9), whCh gives much Oncuurege= AD umeiloreuion le reported at Cailo, The Manchester YWarder—Additionn!l De« tails. | The Harttord Tits, of Tuesday, contains some | particulars rerpe » the horri murder #& the villece of Oxklan’, Coun. on * eht of Monday Thourh the victime were murdered with an axe. they were aleoe able revere: places with a butch. | The woihetts face w ecutin two with o blow from the uxe, wheb divided the nose wiee, aud cut open the tace en*trely nerve C:nehing throue! the bores of the uppor jaw end Ove, tue ritht © @ wae ano her gash trom kine through the skull and Into the bisin; auother, wich cut o,en the mide aud od, ord a80 4 geal gah near the right Besides thee wounds, there were oth temple, ere wade ivy @ buteher knife—one through the lower part of the chin, the blade peavtrating keep into the throat; one deep into the riebt breast ; and another deep one in tho left breast, F ia, the daugh'er, preronted a otill more abocking sich Her right (+e was entirely gone, The axe had ¢ terrible ¢aeh across the brow, oge and cheek, evider ly at one blow, letting out all of tho eye, bicaking in the #kull, and cleaving down to the cheek bone. Above the right eye, near the top of the furchead, was another feartul gash trom the axe, rinkiny inte the brain ; and she was etebbed shrouch the bosom with the butcher knife, ‘The first information of the mur ders was givea by the sun, Albert Starkweather, até o'clock. He came to Mr, liorscu While's a ueigh- bor, rattling, or rather ialling heavily against the back door, and Arousing tho inmates, Mr. White ran over and found A'bert's room full of smoke aud the bed on fre, He took the bed out and put |: out of the window, Then he went up to the wo- men's room, On getting into the chamber, Mr, White found the bed all ino blaze. and the bedroom Covered with bioud, tie Lilved Wy debly and found ber ot F floor, | Thirty-Third Year atil! alive, thongh bathed {n blood and prese shocking sight. As he !' ed hor, a blouly ax off upon the floor, Hu .uxt got Mra. Star’ of the bed, and finding her dead, placed ber wpom “is he carried im bis arma to fhe dyi ® back win A the adjololog room, order to five her freau alr, and then sent bis hired inan (who with others bad arrived) at once foradoctor, “ut the poor girl died ina few miputes. Her blood cov- frou the windowsill on which she rested and the nh near by Beveral cireametance induce the b hat Albert wae the murderer, Another the- Ory le Chat as Mre, @, wore witness againet the ne fives Jane Puller, of that village, in the poisoning fare lvely tried abe was murdered out of revenger Dut this ineks plausabili iy. AMERICAN OCEAN STEAMERS, The Pioneer of Vankoe Ocean Steame! Mevival of Our Maritime Rights. The Messrs. Loary announce that on Batarday, Ane gust 19, thay will diapateh o © stearoship Circassian, with Captain Fd. Cavendy in command, t Bremen, via Boutharpton, and thus opea our ocean steam service, which for the last four yoars has not beem Teprovented in Atlantic transportation service, Fo some time previous to the war, our malls and the inajority of all passenger trac was car cled under tho British flag, and when tho rebellion began to aa- sume large proportions the Germans and Frenchmen came in and became the competitors of tho avart- cious Englishmen, who gloried In the fact that now one American ocean steamer could be fonnd to vene ture out, leat it wonld be seized by an anglo-rebe® Pirate. Their avarice, seconded by their impudenes, soon made them miaetors of the eltnation, and they have beon reaping tho benefits of our disasters. Bue hOw appears a practical proof that wo are soon to con-: teat thie business; and again our flag will cover our malls, passengers, anda fair portion of the froleht. This now line begins without any ald from the Gove ernment, and will endeavor to baild itself ap on a true mercantile and popular basis, Everything will be done to insure comfort, safety and speed. Thie first step towards the re-establishment of American ocean steam cotnmuniention will no doubt attract feneral ationtion and alarm the Europeans, but |t ie high time the oountry began to assert its rights oa, the ocean; and it is, indeed, only necessary for our mercantile community to aerve itself up to the work to establish the supremacy of the American over foreign stoam vessels. OUR OOARTING TRADERS, The new scrow steamer H. 8. Hager, Captaim Wadeworth, sailed at 3 o'clock yesterday for New Orleans, with « large passenger and freight list, The Lager is 1,115 tous register, Bho has three decks, and «carrying capacity of about 1,600 bales of cotton, The screw steamer Monterey, Captain Furber, aleo sailod for Now Orleans at the same time, She le 1,300 tons registor and « fine vessel, and took a large freight. The scrow steamer Constitution, Captain Greeamang also loft at the same time for Savannah, Bho is 94e tons register, Thus in one day three steamers, to~ fetber representing nearly 8,500 tons, left this port for places which ton years ago did not see a coasting steamer once in a mouth, and this soon after the close of the most gigantic civil struggle ever witnessed. To-day the Patapsco leaves for Mobile also, and om Baturday the Vicksburg will eall for the same place, On Friday, the Charles Benton will sail for Newbern, N.C,, and the following day the E. 8. Terry, Three steamers sailed for Richmond yesterday, The Chase: and Havana will sai! to-day for Savannah, end the General Sidwiek will leave for Wiluiagton, N. C., om Saturday, The following isthe numper of vessels in port yee torday :—Stoamers 49, ships 106, barks 131, brige 196, NEWS. LOCAL NEW YORK AND THE VICINITY, Reception or MAssAcnuserts Reanemwrs. ~The 29th and 67th Regiments, being a portion of the eld Ninth (General Burnside’s) Corps, which arrived bere on Tuosday evening, bad a grand recep~ tlon yesterday, At 10 o'clock the regiments formed in Moe at the Battery Barracks, under command of General McLaughlin, with Lieut, Cols, T. M. Tucker and D.C. brown, On the right of the line was the old flag of the Third Brigade, borne by a non-cem- mirsioned officer, and draped in mourning in momery of Abraham Lincolnthe mourning being ordered to continue for six months, Having been formed ae above noted, the procession started from the Bar- racks up Broadway, to Union Square, in the following order: Koberteon's Band; Band of the B: ¢; Drame ot Brigade; Col Howe, State Agent Mas; 67th Regiment; ¥9th Regiment, When thoy arrived at Union equare nine barrels of lager bier were found in proper position for each man to receive @ glass, and no doubt the march up Hivadway mode the men solish the coool beveraye very much, But ia the distribution of it there was no little fuo, The superiatendent or driver ot the cart was. Gorman, the distributor of the “bier” « true, geuuine “ould eon of the sod," named Danlek Buckley. Now Dan, although @ good fellow ia the niala, eet bis faco completely against lager, * Lageort"* said he, “lager! au’ what for at al, at all? Is it Inger to Lrishinen ? Pou me sowl, Hans (to his com. rade), i's the manest thing | ever seen, Blur au? axes, why didn't the, send down the whiskey." “Dan, py tar, you ls wrong; dis is for der Massin- chusetts tain; tis not for Liushmen, py tam,"S" Etboe tlory be to soe Lord, yer @ Hard, Hane, Isn't the general's name McLaughlin, an’ who iver heerd av oe bciangblin that wasn't ao Irishman, ant who the divi iver bourd av an Irishman quevehin' the dthrooth wid lager? Throth I’in ashamed o' them." Whe'ber Hans could understand tue logie of Dan's rownarks, or not, ho wrapped himself up in gloomy sleoes and proceeded to dispense the lager, without another word, In the neantime the officers and several invited fucele aseerobied tn the room of the Union League Club, end were regaied with old Bourbon, craclersand cheese After all had been atyeadod to, the line again formed and marched dewn Broadway to the Battery Barracks, Astley passed along Broadway. they were warmly welcoined by cheers from the meu and wave ing of handkerchlofs by “ fair women,” assembled on the sidewalk. Arrived atthe Barracks they stacked arms, andr omained for # short time!a converse tion, Buddenly General Burnside appeared within the gates, the men linmediately rosumed arms and gave their old commander adosen hearty cheers, which he repeatedly acknowledged by removing his hat. The brigade was then diemirs od and the men sum- moued to dloner, This took place in the large diuing room where (ables are laid to accommodate a thousand men, Col, Hovee prealded, and was Assisted by Majos General Hookor on bis right, and by Rev, Matthew Hale Smith and reveral others, om his left. The viande farnished wore excellent, belng provided by the Bavitery Commission. A large number of ladies were present, including one or two of @ “dark” cam. plexion, When the good things had been disposed o& Col, Hovee rose and sald : Boldiere of the Army of the Potomac and Ladies, We have with us to-day e(eneral whose dert’s ot wallantry at feokons Mountain aud other places Lave made hin famous io Aimerican history, and have wou for bim the glorious appellation of “Fighting Joe Llooker.” (Cheers) Allow me to introduce the “ (Comtuayd om the. Lest Page,