The Sun (New York) Newspaper, September 2, 1865, Page 1

eee \ wer rhe President b TH Number 10,336. | sepenciee Sree tn the Confederate service, tosti- e a es ews fied that tm Augut, 1464, Wire semt thirteen men to him to be ironed, They were brought by « provost marshal, attached to . Winder's headquarters. By Telegraph te the N. ¥Y. Sum. THE NATIONAL FINANCES, NO LACK OF MONEY. The Pardon Applications. hisecent. The man was discovered u pistol was vome down, The mau asked that the d tected hits when he trevented, cities st bis tac im when he drace a ene. w aor, bat did net the honnds off pot in the chain gane man died or not, the man, there being ladies in the court-room. mode of the men were troned. One at him, Wire comman: might not The dora, however, at- call He reoeiteaie4 of £ con being 6 did not knew w er the He did not like to tell what sailed itz could have taken the prisoner, Jadse Advocate Ch pman eaid the witness could ly tell w bat aved the man, The witners then said the man had the diarrhcma, nd those with whom he wae chained, said ther al “would be daraned if they would be fastened to such aman.” They bad to travel at the entme time to the — same place for the same purpose, namely, to the sink, The witness had seen the prisoner koock down 9,000 Now On File. WORK FOR THE FREEDMEN. A Call For 1,000 of Them. The Wirz Trial. MORE CRUEL PUNISHMENT, A MAN DIES IN THE STOCKS. The Sick Chained to the Well. Another Railroad Tragedy. STAGE STRUCK BY A TRAIN. One Person Killed---Several Injured. SHOCKING SCENES AND INCIDENTS, THE LONG ISLAND DISASTER. vidence Take Yesterday, TERRIBLE AFFAIR IN MASSACHUSETTS A Woman Shoots Her Husband, Her Daughter And Herself. & Cos &e. Wasirnetps, Sept 1 The Secretare ofthe Treasury represents that the Department is easy as to funde, The receipte from fevenue have been fully equal to the calculation heretofore made; those for the month of August Q™ounting to over $94,000,000, The Hon, Geo. Harrington, with ble farnily, has left Washington for New York, to take passage for Bwitzerland, there w enter upon his duties as U. 5. Minister To-day's National INTELLIGENCER sare | ~ tre asenred, from the highert source of knowledge on the subject, that the government cannot, ia any event, be a loeer to any considerable amount by the Norfolk ewindle, or by the operations of any of the Officers of the entire pay department.” So far as possible, the President is desirous that every application for amnesty should take ite regular course through the Attorney-General's office. Those who file applications now will find about 9,000 ahead of them. Among the many mail routes recently restored by the Postmaster General are the following: From Nashville to Jobneonville, and from Nashville and in- termediate pointe to Chattanooga, and from Wart- race to Shelbyville, all daily service; from Columbia, B.C, to Greenville and all the intermediate offices, three times a week, The several courte-martial which have for monthe been In eossion in this city are gradually being dis- solved. The one of which General Sweitrer was oP resident has just gone oat of existence. ‘The President to-day eppointed Francia A. D. Bre- | mon as Chief Engineer in the revenue cutter service ef the United States, Application was made to the Freedmmen's Barean to-day for Ite eanetion to the employment of about one thousand freedmen, at fair wages, in exten coal inining operations to be commenced on Jam River by a rtock company of Northern cavitallete. The Raleigh Rroweren learns that Governor Holden has received a dispatch from President Johnson, in which he states that if he should visit Richmond, he will extend his journey to Raleigh, North Carolina, Col, Flagler, ordnance officer of the War Depart- ment, has just returned from a tour through the Bouth, where he has been engaged in disposing of the ordnance es of various fortifications captured from the rebels during the war, An iinmense ainount hae been shipped to nalaat the North, and a large amount, especially on the Mississipp!, has bocn found useless, and consequently condemned. It ie anid that Geveral Bother ts to be associated with the Attorney General as a public prosecutor of Jew, Davie, in the trial which is likely to occur, as stated, before a civil court, at an early period, The efforts of the Government to arrest the rebel General McCausland, ander indictmgnt in Pennayl- vania, have pot succeeded, He Bas left for parts unknown, appointed Victor Beaubocher ud Asa Caldis, of Vermont, Consul at Jerusalem Consul at Nice, Swe THE WIRZ TRIAL, Righth Day’s Proceedings. Washington, Sept. 1.—The Wir’ trial was re- sumed thie morning Nazareth Allen testified that he war foratime in the Confederate service at Andersonville, and was e guard there, attached to the Third Georgia Reserves, He knew that Capt. Wirz was commander of the Prison, Ho had een men in the stoeks, and in the chain-gane, One man died in the stocks, He was thas punished for trying to escape, On one occasion, & prisoner stepped out of the ranks to ask Capt, Wirz to transfer bim to another mess, when Wirz immedl- ately ordered bim back, cursing him, and threatening to shoot him. The witness testified at length w the filthy condition of the Prison, The stench was so bad, while he was on duty in the stoc bat be was sick pretty much all the time, He and others made complaints to their officers on the subject. A man ho was aick, lying on the ground, calling in hie dis- * trese tor his mother, asked the witness for tent- materials, but be cou the articles, as it «i wasagsinet orders. ‘I we Bacuars wore deprived of vegetables, insloding o we which they had pur- bh: atthe gate. He knew that hounds were kept Tison, 0 cent those who had escaped Croas-examined by the defence--Witness was con- scr#pted into the Confederate service, He had never seen any of the persons shet, nor did he shoot any of them, hie never bad orders t© shoot persous who erossed the “ dead line.” lantation dogs, and net Ee bad never seen a man The hounds were common icularly ugly or savage ; ten by them TESTIMOWY OF CAPT. J. HEATH + Capt, J, Meoth, whe had besa on dais in tha Am two of thiee persons. the prisoners commenced, because one of them tried to get out of @ squad to which he did not belong tion to an article which appeared in yesterday'r EVENING STAR, as follows: by Gen. Wilson, and furnished by the War Depart- ment to the expedition rent 'o Andersonville by Bec- retary Btanton, to lay out a ceinetery, and mark the graves of our eo diere who died In the prison in that pines, have turned up missing the party, one ef the clerks of the Quartermaster’s Department, who accompanied the expedition, and in whose hands the records were last reen, has been made of therm. records were stolen instead of Wire, of being tried by Court Martial here. fairly, and therefore askod whether it was true that the records had been lost or stolen registry of deatha, with one exception, were io charge of the clerk t the Commission, what the article in the Brau was based, The Giovern meut intended to introduce the records at the proper time. the newspapers. couneel Onee when the movement of Gen, Thomas, a member of the Court, called atten- The records of the Andersonville prison, captured Since the return of laced under arrest by the military authorities until 6 can give a satiafactory account of the disposition Itie thought iy? some thas if tho joat, it wae for the reventing their use as evidence against irz, the beeper of the Andersonville prison, now Gen, Thomas said be wanted the prisoner tried Col, Chipman replied the hoepital records and the He did not Know on Co!. Chipman remarked that the allegation in the Brae was oo indefinite, that it was impoeribie to tell whether the papers allnded to have ever been in the pasession of the Government or not. He repeated the | hospital and death regisrers were not stolen and would be introduced at the proper time, knew nothing about the statements tn Hie had read them. Bo far asthe © prisoner was concerned, they would be happy to have produced all :ecords bearing upon the Audersonvilie prison, He asked that all the prisoner ever did be laid before the court, Col, Chipman said the article could not relate to the papers in bis custod r. Baker asked, if not ineon with the Judge Advoe « duty, that the record ould be placed where the counsel for the defence could have access to them, Col, Chipman—TIf yon ean convince mo that I am not capabie of taking care of them [ will do eo, Mr ker.We mad request with the proviso that {t conid be done consistently with your Soy Col, Chiyman—It is not sow consistent with my duty to produce the pape mr Baker We made the request civilly for infor- mation. We need all the papers very mach, TESTIMONY OF CALVIN HoNrYoUurH, Calvin Honeycuth, who wae in the rebel service at Andorsonville, said he saw Capt. Wirz draw his pistol and threaten to shoot aman who was rick, for not starting up in line, Prisoners attempting to eecape were ented by bounds. He eaw one who was torn in the leg by them. Another man was whipped ov the bare back with a stick, because Le biscked his faee and attempted to escape with a gang of negives. TRYTIMONY OF JAMES MAIIAN, James Mahan. who was also in the Confoder- ate army, and on duty at Andersonviile, testified that he aud the Assistant Provost Marshal tess thirteen mem to the blacksmith ab iron collarsand chains fastened on them; he his verbal orders from Capt. Wirz, throngh an or- derly sergeant, One of the men named “Freachy,” however, made his escepe; Cpt. Wirz said, when he beard of it, ‘That damoed Frenchy hae escaped agein,’ and he sent for the dogs, which goton the trail of the man, who wascepiured near the etream Wire got off bis horse and went alongaide of the dogs. The witness judged that it was Wire who filed the pistol at the man; the man's trousers were torn by the dogs; he did not know whethethe fh was in- jured, Witness had heard Wire remark (hat he wished all the prisonere were in hell, and he with them, The witnesses above named we poss-exatalned at leneth. The lest one ssid it w porlous aud vex- atious (ask to take c ers, and he didn't think that any one would be ambitious to have the situation, Mr, Bake TEATIMONY OF JUDGR MALL, Judge Danie! Hall, of Georgia, residing ten milee trom Andersonville, testified: He fre- quently visited the vicinity of the prison, In Pocember, 1804, the place wae 0 crowd- od thet there really seemed to be no room for more: over Lap ain Wirz's olllces was a alien bearing these words—"Commandantot he laterior Preon ;* whiie there be -aw him draw requisiions for rati ne the act of the Confederate Congress re jal ed one- tenth of the farm » oducts to be delivered to the gov~ ernment and paid in as tac; the act was gencrally complied with; the euppilee were gathered at Ugle- tho: pé, which is ten miles fiom A Mr. Decker in his cross-examing nese whether he » how the prison came crowded, The witness rep. that he only knew frota what Gen, Wiocer toid him, viz; that the pri- sou was built for ten thousand on!., but that the rushing of additional prisoners from Libby, Beile le- land and other pointe nearer Bichmond in con quence of Dabla:en's and Kilpatrick's raid over- crowded the prison ; Gen, Winder was proceeding to enlarge the prison but be found be could not procure sufficient timber and labor, Th Yd mea him that he had [mpreseed all the sawmille he could and was unable (to turnish ail the prirome:+ with ehel- ter, The witness was asked by Gen Winder, cou- tract for two houses at Orletborpe, in which to piace pone of the sick trom Andersonville, but be could net succeed in renting the piemwises. At 4o'clock she Court sdjourned until Saturday, HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. A Weman tn Massachusetts Shoots hor Husband, her Daughter and Herself, Boston, Sept. 1.—A horrible affair occurred in fouth Dedham last night, a man, his wif and daugb- tor being shot dead, Dr, Carlos Marston, « bomc- pathic physician, and his daugnter, an interesting sirlof ten years of age, were shot by Mre. Marston, the doctor's wife, who afterwards finished her dread- ful work by shooting herself, Mrs, Marston has been tick fora number of weeks past, and bas at times given evidence of mental derangement, For several days past abe has been growing worse, STLLL ANOTHER RAILROAD DISASTER Struck by « Railroad Train One +a Killed and Several seriously In- jured. Hoaton, Sept. 1,—Yeaterday afternoon, at 1 o'clock, & stage-coach, with a party of twelve ladies and gen- tlemen, neighbors, was on its way from Lovell's Cor- ner, South Weymouth, whore they all resided, to the beach at Cohasset, the party proposing to stay some days at the Inst named place, In crossing the South Shore Railroad track at West Hinghain, where the county road and railroad croes each other obliquely, running almost parallel, the two horses shied a little at the approach of a freight train, and ove of the coach wheels caught between the raila and the wooden planking of the road crossing. At that moment the cow-catcher struck and shattered the wheel, turving the coach over on Mr. Lovell and killing bim iustant- ly, and seven others out of the party of twelve were Dadly injured, One man was thrown from the top of the ovech on the engine tender, and was not injured. A lady was thrown on the cow-catcher, and carried on it till the train stopped, losing one of her oyes and being in other respects badly injured. Mr. James Wendell was very badly hurt. Mr, M. Holbrook had bis head injured, and was considered worse this morning. Mr, Austin Poole had bis leg shattered, apd) wasamaniaiad, It was thoushi this memins NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPT that he would not live through the night. Mre. Lor. ells lower limbe are paralyred, she having been in- Jared in the spine. Mrs, Poole is seriously injured The other passengers were none of them dangerously injured. a Ta LONG ISLAND RAILROAD COLLISION, | Centinuation of the Coroner's Inancat. The coroner's jary empannelied to investigate into the cause of the catastrophe on the Lone Island Rail. Toad, met acaia ot Remron's Motel, Jemaica, vestor- day, at 1 P.M., Coroner Hendrickson presiding Robert White, Acting Baverintendent of the Lone Island Kailroad,te.'ifled thet he received hiw app t ment frew Oliver Charlick, Prosident of the how was at Honter’s Port when the mall tra o atarce Monday ; the train was behind time lo starting, ie uevally behind time about thrice a w ; the down-train is behind time about pe: li twice a week; the vard master filled witiess tion when he war absent: the emplo,es are ep.n od by the President, on consultation with wi'n « ood the m e ter machinist ; it was the duty of the conductor to seo thet all his passengers aie seated; if | he had not room for them on the ears | composing tho train, it was bis duty to take | ap extra car for thet purpore; extra cure! were provided by thecompany; it was the duty of the conductor of the mali train woremai W infield, Knowing that he wae behind time; he should no° have attempted to Jamaica before the express train pareed the Winfield Station, ML nag 3 Cooper, ot Brooklyn, a Cu @pector, who wae ae passenger on the erprose train, testitied that there waa nots sufficiency 0} seats to Senin the passengers on Monday morning: the exproe train was goliug at the ra‘e of fifteen miles per hour; It was generally up to time, but the other trains neraliy behind ume, aries Carpenter, of Laketown, L. I, « practical engineer, testified that had he been in the pace of the conductor of the express train, he would have pursued the same couree as that officiai did, as he had he Febt to road on the occaswn, The brakes are the old fa: ed wooden brake, er used now on well regulated roads; tent brakes were used, the train night have eo stopped within a distance of Yu tet. He would not considers man of one year's experience competent to manace @ railroad; believed the prevent manager bad not wore han one year's experience The e ahowd be telegraphic communication with exch station, im order to render travel safe; one of the brakemen on the train wasa¢reen band taken out of be yad, George Wood, an gaginecr on the Brooklyn Cen tral Kaliroad, testified that he could nor have ei either traip in a shorter space than from sont yards, considering the rate of epoed at which theex Diese tralia was volng; that the worning train wort was generally an hour behind times ing Jamaica. To ensure safety, on all tr should be ome regular brakeman to James Donaldson, of New ¥ ork, Mai! train, testified that he hai traveled on the ro during the past #ix weeks, and that during that time the down train left ii | | | jom Toure In- yea who in- solaty in case ub help te ensure ol emergency Mr. A.J © ew York, @ passence e ol the bralem told him t M insutheency of help, he hichard Weske a < on that tran ni « * brakeman on the exp i. testified that there was but o: raked Uiar brakeman besides hunsel! employed on he express train. thas the baygace master helped on the brakes, and aso essisted the conductor in the coection of tickers he otien found the brakes ous of e:cer, ou an average twice a weon. Williato Bruah, of Jamaica, cons!derod the general management of the road very pour ‘here was o freat scarcity of cars and locomotives: not enough of then to supply the wants ot travel, Henry Tacterall, agent for the Long Island Expreas Company, who was on (he mail train, testified that as rae the trains starting trom Mun er's Point were betiind time, On the day of we co.i.sou the mail train was going atthe rate of trom tive to eight miles per hour, ichael Kyan, baggage master on the mail train, feetitiod thas tt was part of bis duty to atiesa the brake on the bagengh car; that the train senving Hunie.'s Point in tho morning wes generally halt an hous behind time. in couseyuence A the uou-ai rival of the Jates’ elip feriy-bout. A. 5. Corwin, bagyave master on the express train Nestitied that he bad also to mtend the brakes whon Dol @ogaged in a4 Other aut, ; thas he »asin & rear car axsleting the vonductor when gue cous took piace. Two youd Diacte would (@ autlicent to bod any train of he alee of: the exp.ces tran any - whes0 ou the road. Thus eaded the afternoon testimony, aud the jury took @ recess until 8 o'clock. LATER, Jamaica, L. 1, Sept. 214. M.~The Jury, in the case of the Long Iaand Kailrond disaster nave been io de iberation eiuou & o'ciock last evening, and there is not the loast prospect of thelr agreviug apoo * Verdict, From Fort Laramie, Tho Wagon Lead &xpedition. Port Iasamte, srt. 1 under Col. Bawyer, {.o10 Sioux City, arrived at Fort | Corner, on Powder Riser, after many bardel ips, in @ destitute condition, report the route by Mimerazoand White Rivers tupractionbe. They were rometimes twodaye without wae, The In dians attacked them several times, but wore diiven off, The party Jost three killed; among them Col Bawyer's brother. The route to Moutuna, to thie place via Fort Conner, Powder Kiver and Clark's Fork, following the east base of Ile Hora Mountains, is reported practicable. It cutectf 450 miles of the distauce by the old tiail, Plenty of wood, water and @raas are dald to be on the rou'e hich is very direct, The post for Powder River is lorated on this route, South America. Battle Between the Brazilians and tho Pp wayaus— ‘ibe l’aragunyass De- feated. The latest news received here from South America announces the departure of the Hrmperor for the neat of war and the disbanding of Urquiza's troops, Fur- ther detallsahow that both of these events had ex- cited much comment, The Paraeuayany are ip pos- tession of Bouth Borja, which place they are fortify. ing, Acoluma of 11,000 men i» om the march to attack Itequi, in front of which town, and op the other bank of the Uraguay, they have 6,000 men, An engagement has taken placo Lear South Borja, be tweon the vanguard of tho Varaguayan army anda brigade under the Lrwzilian Colonel Fernandcs, which had received reinforcements, sud compelled the Paraguayans to fal! back, leaving 700 men o@ the field, besides 3,000 horees, mostly eadd ed, some arms and baggage, and two flags, Tbe ctlicial report states that the Brazilians bad 161 menkilied @ud wounded, News Items. (By Telegraph to the New York Sun.) ‘The wagon rosd party Hon, Hawwrmar Hawcis, ihe newly appotnted Collector of the Revenue Customs at Boston, took Po@session of his office yester Jay Tax Undertaker of Newbern. N C., reports only six deaths in that city among the white population during tha present month. Tue interest of the City of Baltimore in the Northern Central Railroad, was sold yesterday for 991,000, It is understood that the Northern Cen- $ral Railroad Company were the purchasers, A Bkoreme of Alexander H. Siephens, in com. Pany with Col, Johnson, « friend of both brothers, Went to Fors Warren yerterdsy, With ® permis to Visit the late rebel Vice P ssident. Tan first cargo of cotv»: received st Providence, BL, fram Baw Qrleane snes the euilirenk of tha EMBER | Marine divers, employed t | ebiid 2, 1865, rebellion arrived yesterday in the Ere. A telegram from Rolla, Mo. aaye that Colonel Baboock and his entire command have been exover ated from all blame in the matter of killing Juige Wright and bis sons. by the Grand Jury ;and that the Clreurt Court bas released Babcock, Ma. Baoon, of Boston, ono of the principal aub- y the Phi adolpbhia, Wil- > — schooner Argus t a © owing t Tue the Gove ngton and Biulumoe R sot ng ther briage, at Have thered to « Je ¢ ving d » Md. wes s yestoiday, in hie a defect in the air pumpe istrouchtto light at Maltrmore, upon ment, by means of fraudulent muster rile ei upon forged Captain D, 8. Bookwith, Musters, prom seas to «asume | Ansistant Comm sary of proportions, Bo kwith and a number of hie alleged accomp! cos in the fraud, are now in close confivem nt at [lti- more, The accomplices of Rockwith, t is stated, would personate different parties, going from one boapital to ancther, assuming to be sick, obain thelr discharges,»nd then draw the money from the Paymaster, and divited the spoils with Beckwith. General Intelligence. (Dy Mail to the New York Sun.) Ture are nearly 11,000 negroes in Nashville, Tenn. Pat's opinion of the recent Long [sland Ra'lroad slaughter—“A rale murther " Is Louisiana, the rice cro;, which bids fair to be On extraoriinary larve one ie being rapidly cus tod prepared for market, Tae enigration from the port of Cork alone of persons whose destination is the United States, is at least one thoussu! per week Tar vicinity of Lewieton, Ma infeated with They bring with therm children in almost ees numbers, aud worry the people by beg- dd sealing, Tum regular artny fe rapidly filling up. The Sixth revuler cavalry haw received five hundred bew recruite in two montha. They are wen who have aready served as volunteers Pre ofl excitement has reached T. nnessee inv 18 being evervetically prosecuted in vari calities among the mountains of Curmberiaud m inery is arriving daily Tar Grand Jury of the Clreult Court fof Camp- deli county, Ky. inst week, returre) upwards of hundred tndictinents agatost milite flivers others, charzeu with luterrupting the full ex- ercise of sullrage wt the election on the Iv ia sald abat the Dot allow the Prince esa in the or- dioary w jlestions drawn up by himeelf, are put by ihe fasher-confeasor to the Prince in the presence aud hearing of a third person, No other questions ae allowed, Os mor N. Sanpees now goes armed by permis sion of the suthoritios of Montreal, and wears a belt or girdiein which are siuog uie revolvers and bowle knife, while in bh de pocket he carries his snail revolvers, making bis person quite an arsenal. A tapy, walking with her husband to the sea- Dor us lo- New side, inquired of him the difference between ex- portation and transportation, ‘Why, my dear,"* he replied, “if you were on yonder visvel leaving tan, you would be exporied and I should be Wransported.” A naALoony at St. Paul's, Min, on which « num- ber of ladies were ssandiuy, tor the purpose of wit- 1g the proceaston tn honor of Gen, G suddenly gave way and precipi them upon th Hewalk below, wounding tuirty persons ; eight of them sericusly, aud turee fatally Gan, Fran has been inspecting the condition of the free!nen in Georgia and Eastern Tennessee, Ti the lat. ace, the condition of the freedmen be re: orted bighly encouraging, but in the former, ther condition ts anything Lut fl .tier'ng— difficulties dally eccurring between the freedmeu aml their late wactern, Asimariam foeident occurred in England a fow daye before the sailing of the last steamer, The cutacoml veulta oo the weet aide of Kensal Green ey were found on fire Five cofflua were destuoyed and s great many seriously burnt. The origin of fire ia unknown It is at Kenas! Green C roetery that Hood, Lereh, Thackeray and otber era nent meu are inierre A Lovistasa paper deck that the town of Natchitoches bae fleas that can jum, higher, ker, tie har-er, outedodga, run faster, than otLer fleas, Tcoy are laryer, fatter, #) user, rto rope, than any other fleas, It takes two and @ walle | oy to tree one of them, and Siguests aa a leat resort, to have them bung, or ebos with a Bharyp's r'%e, Tax Columba Joous al announces that the oath of offi @ waa ality y Chief Justice Brink- otf, of Oulo, t ov, Anderson, ov the 80sh ult, ve following ia the Constitutional line of suces sion: Charles Ander ot Dayton, Lieut.-Gov- ernor, sicceets Jobn boough @s Governor, and 8, Humphr of Medina county, President pro tem of the Bevate, la now Lieut-Governor, A pispstonto the Cincinusti Gazerrm announ- | ote of Keniuck ofc Trea | follows: @ Cc rvative, 42,240 Union, 42,082, rtar.‘a majority | i 16S. The Hove will stand: Opposition, 64; Union, 42, The &oaie: Oppositivo, 183 Union, 13, It ie maid thas Lous, vernor Jacuva favors the amendment, If my nis casting Vote will carry it in the Senate, Tua late Museum conflagrat Protuced st Mountsinash, B. A caravan, sting of « large vollectioy bird , monkeys, wild Kafr Chi Mcy while on exhivition eat nthe Ish ult, was acei- | ection, including | . as burned to cinders, Two | b of the proprietor v O tornitly burus, | one tly. The fire orig nated fom the exploaion of @ jar of campbene, from which the idietic Kafir Was endeavoring bo repluuiah w lighted laup, Tom last mai! trom Eugiand, brings @ report on goo eubborits, thatthe Great Eastern will be at once dispatched from Sheerness to Newfoundiand, pon the way the je, which, it is ered by means of grapne's and The promoters of t nlerpris®, pn Euy- land, are deeimined to lay another cable, uext year, Making Use or the recovered portions of the old one, Tar Wooly le (Miss,) Kervaticas, of the 15th fnwt,, Gtaiew (ues such a conics bas arisen between Gov, Sharkey, the wi..tary authorities and Becre tary Seward, as to give reason to believe the Ge veruor intends sending in Lis resignation. Tue military, it @ppears, refused to obey » writ of habeas corpus issued by Judge Merwin, of Warren County Jov, S .arkey telograpied to Washing- ton s statement of facta; Becretary Seward replied that Mississ.ppi was still under martial lew, and the military were supreme, Tar secular suthorities b been obliged to in- terfere in » village called Petrowjan,in Upper Hun- gary, to prevent the working of miracles, Several pereons, the Majority of whom were girls o! ender age, proiessed 60 seo tLe virgin with the Savior in her arms in the toliage of @ large tree. While some of teaensideus lay on the ground in oostary, the malo ‘steers’’ collected mon purpose of building # chapel on the «pet Was partially re- . the etove-namod to dentally fired, and the entire « the “wild m. th One d early this month no fewer than four thousand je fons rere pg tage he ouk, une which were o doseg whe eiher, or elected to beinewenm road Company in cons | eacriptice liste issued by | SUN. Thirty-Third Year! —====9 LOCAL NEWS. NEW YORK AND THE Vicinrry, Cestom Hover Matrers—Inavacnation oF THe New Cotteoton.—The Hon. Preston King, who has recently been appemnted Collector ef the Vort of New York, ontered upon his duties yesterday Morning, at 9 o'clock, and Moses F, Odell, the new Naval Officer, was also inducted into offlee, The | Ceremony 18 the cage of @neh—if ceremony it might | be called—wes short and eweet, In the case of the Naval Offieat, Mr. Deuison mado @ few remarks om resleuing bis ober, to which Mr, Odell responded, when tho usual laventory and receipts were signed, | end forwarded, with ox) decnments, to Washing- ‘ton, A number of frie set on beth gontiomen } and offere! thelr congratulations, At half-past 9 Oclock, Mr. Charles P. Church, Aaeetant Collector, with Deputy Collecto Seo W. Kim bres, J. H. Sted« ) well, BF. Mudgett, Henry Calhoun Alex McLaod, | N. K, Wheeler ani Albert tanveam Assembled in de | Coliecto.'s private offlew and having taken the oaths of office and of al egiance, woie presented with their | C@:tifleates, Deputy Naval (Officers Cornell B. Frank. lin, Wm. Usher and Joho J. Shaw wore aleo sworn into office, Mr. Barnes, who was private clerk under Messrs. Barney and Diaper, was also sworn in, having been reappointed. There wore very few office seok. ere around the building, it being believed that isis Urolews to waiton Mr, King, who is simply the oflice holde: hile the patronage is in the band of another. This may or may not be true; at any rato, it ls no re- perted, The patronage of the Collector is immense, and involves about half a million of dollars, Tho salary of tho Assistant Collector is $5,000: of the Second Assistant, @2,000; of the Auditor, @4,000; of the Cashier, $3,000; of the Deputy Col- Collectors from $1,600 to $2,600 each, and there are Clerks, Appraisers, Messengers, &c., ranging from $2,000 to $600, ‘The Naval Officer has some patron. age, but {t does not amount to more than from $20, 000 to $25,000. Lis office ls merely a chock on that of the Collector, Ho countermigns all peruites for deliv- ery of goota, and for entrance and clearance of versela, and certifies as to the correctness of the duties estimated aud collected by the Collector, In the meantime Mr. Weed hae been pretty well be- floged at the Astor House, Hoe appoare gratified at this, receives all applicants ktndly ® that he has hocontrol inthe matter, but asan Irfeh applicant remarked yesterday, “Be gorra, he doesn't send one away wid an achin’ heart any way, but hegives « Promise of somo kind or osher; au’ though promises, like ple crusts, are made to be broke, , Misther Weod's « gintleman, en’ [ know he'll keep hie promise to me? “What was chat? auked « a friend?’ “Och! faix he'd look out for me, and’ see ho's Keepin’ bis promise thie blewed minuit for he's lookin’ out o the wiudy an’ I know) ite’ for me The bondsmen of Mr. King are Andrew Carrigan aud KR. M. Blatchford, whoo security for him in the earn of $200,000 each, Thoy were certified before Judge Betts who also administered the oaths of office to Mr. King, Crawford C, Smith, President of the Naseaa Bank of Brooklyo, and Stephen Crowell, President of the Phosuix Fire Insurance Company, aa & bondsmen for Mr. Odell, in the sum of @10,000 each, They were also qualified by Judge Betts, but the oath was administered as the law roquires by the Collec- tor, Many of the Deputy Collectors and Clerks took formal leave of Mr. Draper. The weighors did so in a body headed by ex-Lieut, Governor Noble and Briga- dior General Sherman, formerly of Governor Morgan's staff, Mr, Draper replied in « few remake in which he complimented the weighers for their faith- ful services, A number of merchants also called on Mr, Draper and expressed thelr satisfaction at the manner ia which he had pertormed his duties, The Cotton Agency fs still in the hands of Mr. Draper, but it le not likely to last more than a month ort Ia the meantime, he keeps a room in the Custom House for the transaction of business. Itis understood that Mr. Draper contemplates the estab- Lishment of « banking house in the city, Deputy Collector Runkle who had charge of the Law Depart- ment, has resigned, 1t ie understood that it isthe first step tow reduction of the Custom House force, This office will probably be alweether dispensed with Certainly no succesvor has been appointed to Mr, Ruvkie = It is also rumored that the servicer bf @ jarge number of aideinu the Burveyor's office, who wore engaged w look after contraband trade inthe Bouth, will not be required after a few days, THe Kercnum Ronugey,—The creditors of the tirm of More's Ketchum, Bon & Co,, held a pro- tracted nieeting yesterday, at No, 49 Exchange Place, whore the business of the sald firm was lately con~ ducted. The object of the meeting was to make a dual se'tlemeut betweea the la-olvegt house and those who had suffered by ite failure, About one buadred and fifty persons, mainly bankers, assembled at 18 o'clock, aud organized by selecting as chairman R. W, Cone, of the Hartford Carpet Company, whieh concern ia believed to be the heaviest loser, E,W. Biatchford, of the Chicago Lead and Lron Works, was | chosen seciotary, A letter from the firm of Ketcham & Co, to thy investigators of the defalcation—Mlogars. Moses Taylor, Jonathan Sturges, Benjamin B, man, Joho J. Phillips end Fdmunad G, Hewe— then read, inviting an examination of the assets and liabilities, A letter from the said investigators waa also read recommending (hat @ compromise be effeot- ed between the firm and its creditors, on the barts of & payment of sixty per cent, on the liabilities, This Prop ition was discussed at length, and several of ‘ho creditors exhibited considerable sus- picion conceruing the relations of the firm with young Ketchum, and an inquiry wee made wh any provision had been made by the firm for (using ap any of the forged checks, On being positively assured that thore was no dangerof this kind, tho ‘iscussion cooled down, and when the yote was tekou on the subject of accepting sixty per cent, the proposition was uosanimously acceded to, The seonlor Ketchum thereupon convinced the creditors that they bad dene well to get the #ixty per cent. oa thelrciaima, as be and his partoers had oot fully do- termined, before the meeting, thatthey would under- tako to pay eo much as that, Hoe was considerably overcome by the generosity of bis creditors, however, end assorted that he would pay the said fraction even if it took bis real estate, worth $055,000,aud bis wite'e dower, The exact amount of the firms liabilitiea proveato be #5,956,0.5 05; aud ite @emete $5,.95,00uy This ends the great Ketchum failure exeitement, sp far a the firm is concerned, and It is understood thas they will immediately resume business, Iv's RerorTep that Governor Fenton gas suspended Colonel Wallace, Superintendeat of the State Sol ' Depot in Howard street, and thas the Colonel! is ordered to appear at Albanyo anawos certain charges which bave not transpired as yor Dears rRoM INsuRies Recrivep py Ke- rxo Gongsp wy & MAv Ox,--Yesterday Coroner Go- ver held an inquest at Bellevue Hospital, on the body of James Talbot, 15 years of age, who died from iu. Juries received on the 99th ult. at the corner of Srd avouue aud 24th strees, by being gored by « mad ox, The infuriated beasts caught the deceased on hig » (Cantinned ep the Las Pasa os o