The Sun (New York) Newspaper, September 7, 1865, Page 1

THE | | | | TAMMANY HALL VICTORIOUS. heir Delegation Only Admitted. ——_ SUN. Number 10,340. The Latest News ches By Telegraph to the N.Y. San ae 00," when Wirz continued. “I'm going tot (UN WASHIGTON SPATS |S: =e Military Railreads in the South. | drs" HOW THEY ARE T0 BE DISPOSED OF. lt him in the stocks tour daye longer. fi pene ape a oo eiwere fraened in the stocks, hie back oa the Progress of the Choleray |r ea'inntits'vethom've bed” aivempted oe - — — cape, He knew personally about the hounds REPORTS FROM U.S. OFFICIALS NEW Ik, In the hoepital the witness been ehockinaly bitten In tho d who died soon after. ONY OF THOMAS N, Wart. Thomas N. yar belonging to an Ohio reetment, i tle at Andersonville, he was punished fer 15 nates by being tied up by» the thambahis toes bare- ly touching the «row ile attempted to eacape.and spiuiel. Encouutering Wirt, the latter said you're back again ." the witness replied, © The wit or this wae over, “iL bad iather be carried than k." when Wire re- pled, “You trod a de of a t h, if you give ine any more Of your lip, Vil shoot you." Wirz then } Ae ho had been coptured three or four times by them. A young fellow usamed Freddy, 17 yeare old, was eaugbs by the foot and afterward torn all w pieces by iL doxs. The witneatand another of the ay | Paty climbed yt they were cat, 800 Deaths at Ancona, Italy, | Piccnitmcn thie was inthe ister part of Ausuat, Ivet Turner, who w CASES IN FRANCE AND SPAIN, a or you to, Bi “bucked,” and did not know but he deserved it, for with the hounds, ea teood 4; I wish the doge had tora The wituee said he wae ea” rt . an ri: being late at roli-call, He expiained at some long th | ] 1e W 11% | Vii il the “bucking” and “eaceing,” aod gave hie exper- 4 « . @uce tu the chain-gang, In Sepiember, i964, while forming ling, a sick man could not tiud lis piace, and Pup wthe head of the line, where he waemet by Wirz, with the exclamation, “You td d—d Yankee sou ofab—b} uf you do et into tho ranks I'll He struck tb nwith bie revolver i him some feet, ‘The man was too «oak Thies was the ouly time he saw Wie ness woe tu bail and chein, atempting to make hie escape, enty-five days. THETIMONY OF JOILN TL STEARINA, Jobin H. Stearns testified that shote were freqnent> ly tied tnio the ade by the reutry; he raw, io neuet, five neo who Lad received gun-shot w % aud were sent to the horpital, ble deses bea the shocking condition of the pritonere who were pluced in tho hoepnal, owe wese ai} 1, wad he remembered one care erpert otfeceive fiith had rot bet wees in, causing him the mt intense at from his aetione; the man wae delirious, and Many others became Geiirious from disearo periormed, reeulling Testimony Taken on Wednesday AN ACCUMULATION OF HORRORS. Sufferings Worso than Death Itself. NEW YORK POLITICS, Democratic State Convention. DETAILS OF THE ORGANIZATION, died Atupatation wae frequently, mort h riably In deato. care of recovery whete® ainputationy had been per formet, ‘ib eHeets of the Vaccination wae eyphilis in some cases asimarked iu ite character as that dis omse over ie TEATIMONY OF WILLIAM WILLES. William Willies scott testified to the cruelty of Capitan Wirz. In ihe later part of Ausurh @ elek mau sitting oF @ bank aeked Captain Wire to be sent to the boap hen the latter cuceed the invalid and bit bun woverthe head, The man went to hia tent, dauday or two after, The another case: one of the guard abricktatand struck Wiz iu the eboulder Wirz, wi stopping to make inquiry, drew his Tevaiver shot @ prisoner, TESTIMONY OF ABNER A, KELLEY, Abner A. Kelley, 40th Ohio, testified that when he and his {¢ ow prisoners were taken to Andersonville, ere robbed of their bianketr, can‘eens aud which were removed to Captain Wirz's beatquarters, They were never returned to the owners. wae asked why octing r orders ot Capt, Wirz. beng @ by a prisoner whether man to live on such rough and unwholesome food, re- plied: “It te good enough jor you d——a Yanke Loe witness in August, 1sd4, saw a sick moan at the ate With & sore on fim ‘ae large ws the crown of his nat filled with wu, ihe man had been asthe « 24 Louis, reeanl eked Capt. Wirz to have the man carried to the le 4 eaid Wirz, “let him be there and die." ‘f was aiterwarde carried out & corpse, TEBTIMONY OF GODTELDT BROMMEN, Godfeldt Brummer, of the 14h Connecticut, tenti- d that the prison were treated weil until Cap’. ire assumed command of the prison, Wirz used to ade every morning, and i) one eus would be deprived of food until be was eccounted for, The wituess, being sick, wee not at roll call « morning, Co, c&c. &e. Wasttnaton, Sept. 6. General McCallum left Washington last wook for the south t, to turn over to the Boards ot Hablic Works in the States of that eeetion the various rail roads which bave been ured by the Government dur- ing the war, Arraogemente will be rade by which ling stock furnished through the War De- ent will be sold wo the respective Companice on There are now four Courts Martial or Military aiesions iu session in thie city, One of them t the Old Capitol to try the cases of the sixty Prisoners at that place Ko far, about iorty witnersos have been examined in the Wirz case. The record makes eleven or twelve hundred foolecap pases of testimony, At tho rate testimony war taken to-day, four or five days more will auffice to clore the case for the Government. The prisoner continues to occupy & place at the table with bis counsel, and in writing and making suggestions fo them as to the cross-examination, The President has made the followieg eppoint- mouts : Levi P. Rose, Postmaster at Yonkers, N.Y. and Morris 8. Wood, Postmaster at Clinton, N. Y, and John ©, Wright, Secretary of Agriculture at Berlin The State Department isin receipt of advices from the United States Coorul stationed at Palermo, date d Aucust Lith, He epeaks of the serious spread of the tholera at Ancona, Italy, where some eight hundred people have died Isolated cases have also occurred fo other towne of Italy, France and Spain, ‘The Coneul at Lawthala, Fiji, informa the State Department that the Captain and crew of the Ameri- ean whaleship Viover, heretofore reported lost, were saved, as wo'l as a creat part of ber cargo, by another whalerhip in her company, Mie. Mallory, wife of the rebel Secretary of the Navy, nily appeared at the Stare Department and took the atanesty oath, in order to poasess her- % ofsome property which she helds in ber own bt. ‘The latter on Dy man fe Ww him on the epot, The witness lied thas it be better if Wirz would kill b kicked aim out ot bed, Some ladies Died at the gate, asked our meu Ww thereto fight tor? One of the prison yade them a epeoch, at which they became augry. tz, COMMMNE Up, anid, ev away, you damned Yankee; I've gos enough powder and bell to kill aii of you. " TESTIMONY OF THOMAS It HOWE, Thomas H. Howe, testified as to biaukets, conts, watches, money, ete, having been ta from the prsouers, and handed to Wire, t oner artived at Anderronville, it was difficult him to finda piace to lie on, the ground being e thickly covered with prisoners; he coud oot at firet sleep owing © the cries and groans of the ack; when be waked in the moruing he saw dead wen ali ground bim. ‘The Court at 4 o'clock adjourned until to-morrow, THE WIRZ TRIAL. Eleventh Day’s Proceedings. Washington, Sept, 6.—After the record of yester- fay bad been read, Mr, Baker remarked, that on looking over the testimony, bo was so much impres- ed thet agrest teal of it waa illeral, that he now ansk- od the Court, when they came to examine It, to treat cordingly. This applied to twe-thirds of the ter- ne, and arotion in acivil court to strike {t out would be granted, But ae nothing could be stricken out of the recordot o tery court, he would ask this th thet ‘ From Mexico. Aveother Batch of Keports. Neve Orleans, Sept. 4.—The Texas correspondent of the New Orleans Tres, under date of Krownavil 6 Aucuet 26, sage: The Matarmoras Moscron, of the preceding week, announces the arrival of Beauregard at Vera Cruz. The Liberals on the border are quiet, but are recruitine a large force for future action, A force of Imperialists, with « wagon train, op the route from Monterey to Matumoros, was mit by Liberal scouts, attacked, and driven back to Monterey. A colonel of the late Confederate army was killed, Re- inforcements from Matamoras were met by Cortinas guerrillas and driven buck.” POLITICAL INT JIGENCE, New York Democratic State Convention. Albany, Sept. 6.—Soon after 12 o'clock the Con- vention was called to order by Peter Caccer, on whose motion Hon, C, H. Winfield, of the County of Orange, was choson President pro tem The list of delegates was then called, the names of the contest- ants being omitted for the present, On takine the chair, Mr. Winfeld anit be would noi de ain the Convention with any extended ie x You have met, he eaid, to clecharee & important as any that hae devolved upon the Democracy formany years, The party of one ides, which has for some years past bad control of the pen, eral povernmer has adminietered the aituire of own ptate, soon to Pp into oblivion, he work of ‘reconstruction and of resoring replied that he sony where th aie ? sees after thus replying n umors or hearsay, which with ule case, or an affect or “no, Anott to the hadt court conetitut what was and W Mr, Baker eu was wrong, and to exercise the same privilege he q@ould in acivil court Lhe cMficial reporters made a minute of Mr, Baker's Sugg ection, TRATIMONY OF JOSEPH ADLER, Joseph Adier testified as to instances of snffering of ‘ similar to thoee heretofore narrated by other He mentored the care of aman who had ailed by the dogs: the throat had been torn ‘& and the blood was running from the wounds, . Doctors White snd Stevenson, and others, near at the time; th ey did uot seem to have envy compassion for bit Whiz sald ft eerved man dd right, The tan cled on the spot the #@ | peroiony must theretore devolve upon shat ¢ v dey. Some of the pilrovere had been digeiuy @ tun | which has adininietered the governinent of ou) coul® bel With Aview bo escape; one of their number be- try through 40 many years of ite procperity. He took traved them, saying to Caprata Wirz that be | fy’for granted that an abiding love ot whe (nion anda iid communicate «00d newa Sf the Cop | Geverinination to maintain ib ab any sacrifices which would give bi something to eat Woe whi const . salways beon the ceed of our prt t to do so, and came with eix others to haa 4h C3 yok es a ak at ail uf tute the pasform the tunnel, W ire ca ried @ loaf Of corn] oyriic functionaries, it will be to aay 8! so tar ae Tunder his crm to ¢ive tothe informer, A ian | qhey mein tavor of maintaining the rovernmens ost dead with the 1 alice eceing Wirz, got UD | withthe rightsof the Btalee wnlinpasired, #6 & yall the ground an 1 id, 'v'ieeso give me some: | end hem, Astotheq fon o; suffrage it must eg toent; have o too sick to go for 1, 1 ot wi ty belong only the States concerbed, -whip in hie bend, with w he | and thote who have rhed marred and it. Lhe man weat into tal, and two days at er een Men su r unable to followed thove pursuits from whtc b ie of our country called them, they shall re- thet pension the } ceive at the hands of the Devers Ottbe 71 men who accompanied which is their due, to support and cheer their declin- to she p allexcepting 12 died, On ono occasion | ing days. Mr, Wintield #ald the Convention would he saw Wirz with o el; @ man having crossed now proceed with the business of the day. TAMMANY HALL, Mr..J. B. Haskine eaid it would be remembe red that the claims of the contestants fro New York the dead line, Wire the eentinel why he did » abd instructed him to Ore whether the , -line or not, He farther ead if ot ho would have him pun- ! then shotthe ian, the ball Feflect inthe breast. ‘The prison near by | were cons at the last Democratic dsate Con- d the wounded man to the hospital The vention, and efter mature cousideration the Tam- rning the | many Hall delegation was recognized as \2e only regular representatives of the democracy of New York, In order to save the time of the Convention, n of the resolution he had the ne fol- hicamauga;" by the counsel for the de- TESTIMONY OF W, H, JENNINGS, b oa ike eiaohl William H. Jeaninga, a negro eoidier, belonging to | 2° Tan ved the enepin % the bth | uited States colored reciment, testified that | honor to ofier at the last Biete Convention, the wound whie a © recelvad on his left thigh wae | jows: pot dressed aller he was taken to Anderecnville, He i - eee whippat in the month of March, 154 for He | Reaolved, That the oreanization known as the Tim. coing to work, having caught ® heavy cold by work. | M@Dy Hal) organization, is the regular organs «i y of ihe democracy of ‘New York,aud that the de hd Se te er ned Ray eh won bee caanes claiming eeats here under that organization have bn the bare back. He was then put m thirty lashes | Deon regularly elected as delegates to this Conven- s night aud @ day, with nothing to eas or drink, | 42. Alter being released he was again pus into the s\ock- » Upon this resolution be ealled the previous dues « | thail be re He did now remember any | ‘A crazy man baving been shot the sentry | States exist with all their dignity, equality he did so, when he replied he was Bane unimpalred; that (he citizens of ail the Bta‘es, " he expected the | eral Government Wirz came into bie tent and called hin @ Yankee | The fou of a b—, drew his revoiver, end threatened to at wo YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1865. | tion, which was then ordered by # vote of 60 yeas to $1 nays, and the resolution was adopted. The Chair appointed as the committee on contest ed eoate for Kings conaty the following : District Second, Saxton Smith, Samuel Frost ; Third, 8. L. Mayham, C, P, Colliery Fourth Hunter, D. H. Pareons, Fifth, Pelos be Weif, 3: Earle; ih, 8. M. shaw, BE, K. Apgar, Seventh, Jarvis Lord, James Peddie; Kighth, W. Williaues, L, 8. Jenks, The Chair appointed tho following committes on Pertnanent organisation : Mosers, J. A, Green, Jr,, Chairman; Emanuel 8 Fart, Homer A, Nelson, Joba BK. Holler, D. A. A tell, W. D, Purple, C. Race, W. G. Wateon, On motion of Mr. 8. M. Shi & recess until four o'clock P.M. Albany, Sept. 6.~The Convention re. sssemblet at 47. M. ‘The galleries were crowded with specta- tore: Mr. 8. M. Shaw, from the Committes on Contested Seats, from Kings County, reported in favor of the | admission of the delegation headed by Tunis G, Ber- fen; and Wm, M. Tweed, of York, moved the adoption of the report, and on that morion, called for the previous question, whereupon the previous quees- tion was ordered and the report adopted. John A. Green, of the Committee on Permanent Oresuization, subsnitted the following, which was adopied unanimously : For Presideat -Hoo. J, M. Humphrey, of Erie Vice-Presidente—Fir. tT Yet Win. M. Tweed and Wm, Dodge; Second Dietriet—J. 11 Frost and W K. Knapp; Third Distnet—J. 8. Freer and Horece Hartinstow; Fourth Pistriet—D, Megoon and 1). A. Sinith trie-O.M Allaben and ©. A Ko- her rict—J, Mel#an i Me N, Boy ou strict--L. W. Thayer and Z. A her Secretaries EK. O. Perrin, Thomas H.Fer- iW ris, George Sanford and Henry Thaft, On taking the chair, Mr. Humphrey eaid: Gentlemen of the Convention: When I glanced over the list of do gates to thie Convention, and saw | the name of Horatio Seymour, 1 had supposed that he | above all others would be called to the chair. In his abeence, I . to the beet of my ability, dise duth ja position imposes, We are a erthe cali ot a time-honored political orcantsa- as representatives of of our citi- who are and alw lent te the r for nat erful insue, it is our duty ae American citizens dress ourselves to the work of restoring the of this terrible contiick and the bless civil goverument to the poop.e in all sections common couuiry, ‘Yo that end, it vital importance to the Eimpire State ¢ ehould stand in the front rank fu the etrupele for the taney of constitution mili+ domination, The w: point are deliberately and malic faction which asserts chat the Bouthern mere territorial depeudenciee; thus sot onl lishing that recession if an accomp! proposing an amendment of the Com 0 second this taleehood in (he organic act o far asthe policy of President Johnson toward the people of the Bouth has teen deveioped, it te im accordance with Democratic prine'pies. He holdewith us that the Union has never been dissolvet, and thet the pre- tended acts of secersion are null and youd; th “ who acknowledge their allegiance wo the Fed have the rikht from thelr conatitutions to regulate for (heinselvce the elective franchise without inte, ference by the United States Authorities or Northern revolutionists; to be repre- sevied in Congress; and, in fact, to assume their oruper relations with the general foyernment The esdent holds further with as that an attempt to force Hogro Cyuslity upon the people or the Staves ie ind rogation of @ constitutiounl rieht which they have exercised from the formation of the govern- ment to the present time, In these positions Lres!- deat Johusen should be unheritatingly sustained. While we thus endorse the President not of our choosing, we abate mothing ef our previous de tions of Democratic principles, ® sand for supremacy of the civil over military rule ; for the ine a ie richte of trial by jury, aud of Aabess cor- 6 trecdom of all religious opinion, opposed to tions of power and fntracsions of priv e has created that national curr, @ A tonal dele; and to the end that ihe pub- je ith wey be kept and the public credit preserved, we demand that the expe of the go rument ehall be reduced; that it shall be adimin- ed honestly and economically; and that the Jens of taxation shell be tiade to bear equally upon all the property of the country, Congiess® nould provide that the permanent financial policy of the country ehoula iptionsa tiom the eb- ligation to pay ta ¢ the support of the govern ai the return of peace, we ly our ike mre duc lots the it pee all usur ide of blow! end They are pre-e itled (o our conth dence abd to Our pr Vith the close of the war, iseucs w lich conservative mnen become ¢ been overs { ito s@eulte, paver b Recoyuizing thie duty of al! true luv tion © unile 1 the Brotherly love and mutuas confideace, without which 0. the mission of the republic can uever be accomplt Mr, Haskins called j.oin the table the resolution for the appointment of acommittce of one fiom exch judicial district on resolutions, The reciusion was amended by making the commit'ee tro from oach Judielal dirtriet, aud adopted, named the commit bar. fb tion endorsine the platform sacptr of Maine, Penus,;ivania, Olio and New Jderrey, vd to the nm Kesoiutions, Mr. 8. W. Shaw moved gator tor each Judicial district be direeted bo the Conveu- tion the names of the meu h dietrict, to act as the state Commis @ueulny ) oar; which was axieed to. The Conveution then took a recess until TPM. and, upon re-assombiing, the Cou vee on Kesolu- tions not beiug ready to report, the Couveution ad- journed until to-morrow morning Ma)j,-Cieu, Slocum, now in service at Vietsbure, is now spoken of and will probably be the candidate for Secretary of Btate, A letter is here, setting forth bie political ylews, and stating his willingness to accept the nomination, provided the plattorn of the party coincides with them, Tiew views are understood to be, in substance, she endorsement of Vresilens Jobneon's policy of reorga: ization, The New York delegations are ury! tion of John B, Haskin for Attorney-General, but the chances are strongly in tayor of Samuel J, Tilden, John Vao Buren is talked of by some, oO sepor from » lor ¢ the nomina- Vermont Filection, At the State election in Vermont yeaterday, the vote was unusually light, Ibe candidates for Gover- por were Paul Dilliughaim (1 pion), ©. N. Daven- port (Opposition), Fuil returns trom about twenty five towns, about one-fifth of the State, give Dilling- ham 5,076, and Davenport 1,004 ¥« indicating the election of Dillingham by 8 m0) arger than wae received last fall for the Uuion tiecet. Forty-eight towns elect forty-three Union eud bye Vemocrats to the Legislature, Califersia Hlectious. San Franciaco, Sept. > pe anoual State elec. ton wakes place to-uor/ow tor Sui meibers of the Legislayure, #0 wii Cech & eucceR. sor to Senator McDougal). ‘Phe contest le confined principally to rival divisions in the Republican party, favoring different Sens rial candidates, In | San Francisco three tickets ae running, vi4.: The regular Democratic, the regular Kepubilean, and the independent Union ; the latter reperenting the in- terest of the People’s I’arty )% regard to local logi#iative affairs, ‘The contest ls very spirited and bitter, me Judge and A very exctied stave of fecling exists between | the whites and bliucks as Chattanoog® Tenn, Trouble is expected. Tas snnusl commencement exercises of Brown's University, at Providence, R. 1, eeurred yeoter- day. The graduating class vumbered forty, Nows Items. {Dy Telegraph & the New York Bun.) Tre brig Nellie has arrived in Norfolk, Va, from This is the rk'eTaland with s cango of salt. T | fires arrival of the kind since the war, Jere. Davis has so far recovered from his attack of ery pelas aa to be able to resume bis accustom @) wakes Jaily. Kira Texae. Tum National Assoctation of Wool Manufactur- jd ite frat annual meeting, fo Philadelphia, yenter lay, at the Board of Trade Rooms, The eral Association numbers two hundred members, Gan. Lacnons has made ® temporary treaty of peace with the Apache, Camanche and Kiowa In- nd ceased hostilities against them untile diana, permanent peace Pineae C hoad of n be arranged. died! at&t. Louls, Mo., yesterday. ‘Tire vote on the adoption of the new State Con- stitution of Colorado wae cast on Tuesday. A des- patch from Denver says that the returns indicate Constitution has been carried by « large that majority, A pirrioutay occurred at Kooxville, Tenn, on Monday, between W. 8. Hall, Clerk of the Cireult 4 Knoxville, and #® young man naced Baker, late of the rebel ermy, remiting in the Baker was comnutited to jail, but the citizens got him from the sberiff sud bung Court death of Hall. him tn the atreet. A Texas correspondent of @ Now Orleans paper “A grand! ball waa given on the night of the Mth, ia moder date of Brownsville, Aug. 26th, saya: honor of Maximilian's minister, which was at- tended by Gon, Steele, and ether United Sates offi- cere who bad dined with him on « previous occas- fon. Gen. Btoele toasted the Emperor." Toe New England Agricultural Society trotting matches commenerd yesterday at Concord, NH, There was ® large number of persons tn attend- ance. Bevesal matbes will come off to«lay and on Fridsy, in which some of the best trotters of the day are engaged to take part, trot, yoaterday, At the stallion Honest Old Fihan Allen won the fires heat; Earragut the three next end the race, General Intelligence, (By Mail to the New York Sun.) Revert Gen. Gordon, who figured eo prominently in the Virgimia campaigns, is now keeping ® gro- cory store, in Atlanta, Ge. Tne Rey. Charles Finoey, the celebrated revival ist, has resigned the Presidency of Oberlin College on account of advanced age, Tur U, B. gunboat Florida has eailed from New- port, R. 1, for Annapolis, with the lass of the ef- fects of the Naval Acacemy. A vary is gaining ground tn Georgia which aivocotes @ general repudiation of all private indebtedness incurred during she rebellion. “Art morning Ditters bave @ heating tendency or etfect,"’ sail @ doctor toa young lady. “You will except» bitter cold morning, won't you, dec- tor f' inquired the lady, Tus only public amusement ¢ have at Charleston, & C., is the occasional co ‘ation and exile of at ancone! rebel furniture, which ts gener- ally of a superior quality, An effors ia now being made to organize o “*Workingwoinen"’ Protective Union" in Chicago, similar in ite objects to that at present tn such sucorsefu! operation in New York, “Hasauan'" Foor, the rebel Congressman, who hes Leen sojourning to Canada, and whom the Prosident Lew pariooed, passed through Cincin’ nati on Samrday, en route tor Tennessec, Ir a; poare that Major General J. C. Robinson, of New York, wae mosterel out by oilstake, The error Las been corrected, To has eeon much ser- vice auc lost a log at Spottsylvania Courthouse, Since 1715, when grape-vines were introduced into Calitornia by the priess, the wine crop bes been known to fail, The yield in 1864 was: wine, 4,000,000 gallons; brandy, 200,000 ga:lons, Firvy Baptist ministers, who met at Booneville Mo., "2 convention, on the 19th and 2ist ulte., passed a rnotion coclining ro take the oath required of clergymen and tachers Ly the new constitution of Misaour, ‘Lwetve lines of steamers are now running be- tween New Yerk and the various porte of the Bout, coupraing in the aggregate one hundred aul twenty-one vessels, which cover a tonnage of Coronreten, the spiritualist, whose rmanifesta- thond # Rochester jury lately decided come proper- ly within the pale o: the Juggler's tax, bas aoe ce: pted the decision so iar as to tako cub @ license ee a Wirard, ior which he paid $20. ‘Tor “lead Contre" of the Fenians of Mlinotr, an adiress in which itis affirmed that te are projected for establishing @ Governmens im Ireland acon ; aaid sent to be backed up by 200,000 men, Ges, Jexnkino, indicted for the burning of Cham- bervurs, and for whom Governor Curtin, of Vonn,, has wade a requisition on Governor Pierpx of Va., died severs! months ago from the effecu of wounds received in the western part of the Siate, A Man, bathing off Orient Point, Conn, on Sinn day lant, wee seived round the waist by « shark, Alter a severe struggle be succeeded in putting bi finger into the shark's eye, when it made off, and the man was picked up ina state of exhaus tioutrom loss of Lived, MH» may recover NasavILee, Tenn. exchanges are jubilant over the present an’ prospective commercial prosperity of that city, sud ssserts that nota vacant house exists within its entire limits, and that the cermand f on ami iwellings has never been so grout © history of the city. Tae Havtien steamer Getfrard hag arrived at Roaulort, N. C., where she putin for coal and wa- ter on the Istinst, ‘Lhe Jetlrard is manned by e veryre crew, though capieu and chief engineer are Freneb, Tho Gettrard will proceed tw Fortress Monroe and this city, Sbe bears dispatches for our Government, A LAboRLKa man, residing at Eneseo, N. Y., went home the ot! er evening, and found that his daughter, aged 17, was out ting at the house of a negro named Crawford, Becowing incensed, he wok @ bayonet, and proceeding to Crawford's hous’, attacked hie daughter, stabbiny her in the aris, and aso severely stabbing bis wife, who followed bim and interiered, On Saturday last, as & farmer named Dalton, with his daughter 12 years of age, was atiempting to drive acces @ railroad track, pear Darley, | Se the wagou wes struck by o train and broken to jeces, himseli and daughter being throwao ovst, r, Dalton was not seriously injured, bus she girl wes taken up \ifelem, No yruluey beiaw ivuad oo OK Waa expected to arrive at New+ ark, N. J, last evening, to take the stump for the the Convention took | Republican candidate for Governor, Tum troops mustered out under the late order of Hheridan bave nearly all gone home, bute large force still remain os guards for the tnterfor of vraav, Jr, for many years atthe American Fur Company, and one of the first retilers and oldest citizens of the city, Thirty-Third her person it is presumed she was ectually killed by fright. f Onn of the most destructive rain storms wh has ever cocurred in Philadelphia, visited fer sity on Monday last, For an hour the rain poured down in one continuous, blindmg sheet, which fou overfiowing the sewers and culverts, flooded) the streets trom curb to curb with » rusbing tor- reah bearing with it everything of @ moveable na oe. lo many localities the water rose above the a ae sot running Into the stores of cellare and houses, created the mest intense excitements among the sorupante. Newepaper presses wore mopyed ¥ the flooding of prese-rooms; the culin- ary dopartn ents of the numerous hotels, includ the Continental and Girard Houses, were tnvededs, and the fires extincuished, and the basements of tenement houses w tenants driven forth, Meoed, ond the effrighte® iret floors even were deluged, and property of every value of thousands of doilere, ceareveas’ pA. 4 on the horse care was for a w , doep was the water in many Wocalitiga, that betners amused themselves b: itnmrng about the streetad THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH FLEET. Joba Bull and Jona Crapeaa Hobsebbings ‘The gathering of the Engiteh and French flees am Brest, and the anticipated naval review at Porte mouth, England, was, at last accounts receiving thay undivided attention of both these nations. The late est English exchanges give full details of the recep Hon of the English fleet at Brest. The fleet arrived at Brest on the morning of A 2st, and had splendid weather for its ontennes inte the harbor, For several hours previous to the time. at which the fleet was expected to arrive, thousands of pe lined shores and peer ‘Toss the mass of wate jesory the “iron and wooden wails of England.” 8 o'clock in the morning a black line was Just distine Upbatle hich proved to be the Admiral's shi 7f in the wake of which were « number be ypir' im mm like sea birds over the water, A@ the Admiral'’s ship neared the harbor of Breast, she commenced to salute the French flees. The firing of the first snluse was the sigual for all the ships te man the yards; the drums heat, the led, the air rang with enthesiastic h and Vive U Bmpereur ; the echoes of cannonad the rocks, she rushing and shouts of the multitude assembled on tho cliffs, the music of the os re 4 bands, the hurrying to and fro of belated caval a serae. ‘The suenmuresing of the Ruglioh fe . vering 4 joet w aplondid ; describing, one after the aber an inmonse seni-eirel Shey posses in the most beautifal order before the French squadron, side by side with whic thoy anchored, the various movernents being execut- edwith admirable precision, Hesides the Kugliste and French equadrons some twenty io vewela wore lying ta tBe roadstoad, the whole of which wore ‘aily dressed with fings of both mations, “ Yes," corresgon emt of the London Laity News, ke in hope ef fint joalty over, the feeling among me EET bee was oon, of ry vx ogee 6 nae #pece tacle consists, after all, in ‘Ave Boglish iron~ clads, and one woolen two-decker, eceompanied couple of dtepeten boate and s a“ steam into Harbor, -— thre pg remain for pee eway in by themeolves."* wi py preity SOLE E | eeparati the'waad tgccae "the voraea of Sie Rotel from Cherbourg to have been little chequer- od; there no eather to test eee-coil fleet be lade went ato Se into A LJ cooet Stee feere, than aweek have it, W Disaster to the Flagship LLancastes One of the officers of the flagship Lancaster, writs ing home, gives us the information of tho disaster to the flagship, while eff the coast of California, whicty nearly caused the vessel to founder, Bhe was strack by a tornado, and before it ceased she became almoss & wreck, Our informant writes: “She that was looking so beautiful a week ago, is now ased np, Even the onkum between the seams in her decks hae been pressed out an eighth of am inch,so great was the strain, Bhe labored dreadfully in the sea, and seemed to twist to pleces at every plunge, but sho has safely delivered us, and we allean be thankful. * * We shall remain at Acopulco for repairs fora while, * @ This galo wasin the Gulf af California, 20 from land LOCAL NEWS. SEW YORK AND THE VICINITY: VAGABONDAGE is classed among the nuise ances in city ordinances bat like « «reat many othe® evils it is in no danger from official interference, The vagabonds of New York are that class who have nothing in the world except poverty, whose only beda are the curb-stones, and who apparently dies by mesmeric influence—looking at semubody elee eat~ ing. They pay very little attontion to style in dressy the only feature in this respect thas is specially no- ticeable being the facilities for bodily ventilation, They are in mont iustances fally competent to work and earn a respectable living, but they seem to have a constitutional dread of exercise and prefer idlences tolabor. It is « generally accepted fact that every< thing in creation ke designed for some good purport, but up to this time the advantages derived from vagae boudage have not been discovered, They certalaly are not usefuland nobody will ventare to eay that they are ornamental. It is aasingular fact that the neighbore hood of the Clty Hall le « kind of headquarters fos the vagaboud variety, but whether this results from magnetic attraction, the force of example, or sone inexplicable cause, has not yet been discovered. Ie iscertain, however, that the City Mall Park is @ general rendezvous of vagabondage, aud that about it congregate as motley anassortment of the genue homo sacan be found this side of the rwer Btyx. Yet they live. Day after dey thoy are seen in fa- miliar placos, filthy, squalid, repulaive, and slwaye wearing an appearance of good digestion, They are of all natioualities, all eolors, aires, ages, and both sexes; too lazy to work, deckiedly too repalsive for succersfal beggare—simply a nuleance. Thore are shouvande of euch characters in this city, with ne aim, no ambition, idle, lazy and filthy,living on wha they can pick up, sleeping where night finds them, thus dragging outs miserable and wretched existence, BALOON ASCENSIONS,—D’rofessor Lowe and one ortwoother gentlemen, who made @ balloon ass cension from Ceatial k on Monday afternoon, dew seconded near the Hackensack river, New Jersey,aftes having been in the airan hour and thirteen minutes, The journey of the balloon was nearly # hundred miles, Last evening about six o'clock, @ balloon contains ing two or throe men, parsed over Cypress Hille Cemetery, Long Island, close to the ground, and ap parently with the intention of landing beyond the boundaries of the grave-yard, ‘The men in the bask: et used their grappling irons very vigorously and soon made fast to the earth, landing @ little beyond the Cometery, and as far ss known in @ safe and sound condition, The balloon is supposed to be that of Prof, Lowe, which wae to etart on @ second trig from Central Park yesterday. Custom House Arrointments,—Two ap pointments have been made in the Custom House by Collector King, Both of the recipiants of the faver are returned soldiers, One of the mea, wounds (Continued ep the Last Pase