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EUROPE,
FRANCE.
Ramon f War Their Truth Officially
Denied.
Front Le Moniteur OJflcM, July 29.
Various organs of the French and foreign
press pnbllBh, as well founded, statements which
are of a nature to curry doubt and disquietude
into the operations of commerce and Industry.
Our international relations, it Is persistently
alleged, are strained, and justify the presenti
ment of a war, more or loss close at hand.
To give an appearance of probability to these
assertions, the formation of two new corps on
our eastern frontier is announced; preparations
are said to be actively suing on in the War De
partment, and it is also said that the effective
of the army is maintained at the strength which
it had attained towards the end of April last.
Those r amors are totally destitute of foundation.
They can only be produced and propagated by
hostile passions, interested speculations, and a
highly lamentable credulity. The truth is this
there is no diplomatic question before the Em
peror's Government of a nature to modify its
peaceful and irlendly relations with the various
rowers.
The Cabinet of Florence has taken the most
energetic measures to protect the Pontifical
frontier against every attempt, and the Conven
tion of the 16th of September, 1864, will be
resolutely executed. No new camp is to be
established either in the interior or on the fron
tiers of the Empire. The soldiers belonging to
the classes of lbGO and '61 have been dismissed
to their homes since the 1st of June. The
active army comprises at the present moment
only the lour contingents belonging to the
classes of 1862, '63, '64, and '65. That of 1866
will be incorporated, towards the close of
August, but the intention of the Government
is to dismiss the men of 1862 at the same period.
From the 1st of September, therelore, the active
army will comprise only the contingents of four
classes out of seven. The effective of horses
has been Eensibly increased in consequence of
purchases made in April, but the Minister of
War has decided that eight or ten thousand of
them shall be placed in the hands of agricul
turists, and that measure is in course of execu
tion. The Government leels confident that
these precise declarations will dissipate the
doubts which have taken possession of tho
public mind.
ITALY.
Proclamation of the National Insurrec
tlon Commlttt ea.
Romans ! The general desire, the wish of all
those who love honor and their country, is to be
realized. No more dissension, no more divi
sions. All the friends of the Liberal Party, not
withstanding their political creeds, have joined
hands; they have united their strength to over
throw, and forever, the little remaluder of the
Papal temporal power and to give Borne to Italy.
The National Boman Committee and the
Centre of Insurrection are transformed into a
National Boman Commission, which will lead
all airs. Let us rejoice In such concord, and let
us strengthen it with unity of faith, discipline,
purpose and sacrifices. The Boman fasces is
now found; let us never break it asunder, and it
will soon give us the victory.
Romans I The respectable citizens who repre
sent the National Boman Commission are worthy
of their high mission, but they could do nothing
without your co-operation. In good faith
second them, and the undertaking will be
crowned with success. It we are all of one
sentiment, some twenty-five millions of Ita
lian brothers will hail Rome as the caoital of
Italy. Il Comitato Nazionalk Romano.
Il Centro d'Inscrezione.
Rome, July 13, 1867.
AFFAIRS IN TENNESSEE.
Personal Difficulty Between Congress
man Uaynard and Ills Defeated Oppo
nent for Congress The Teachers' State
Association Suicide by Drowning.
' Knoxtille, August 14. A personal difficulty
occurred to-day on the street between Hon.
Horace Majnard and his defeated opponent tor
Congress, Colonel John Williams. They had
already had some trouble during the canvass.
Maynard spoke to Williams, touching his hat
and bowing, and bidding him good evening.
. Williams, who had refused to speak with May
nard, struck him with his cane, when both
parties grappled and damaged each other con
siderably beiore they were parted. Parties pre
sent say that Williams, after they were parted,
attempted to draw his pistol. Nothing further,
however, was attempted. Mayoard's friends
threaten to indict Williams for an assault.
The Teachers' State Association is now in
session. Bev. Thomas Humes presides. They
are organizing for active work under the new
BCD 001 law.
An Englishman named W. Hasklng threw him
self into the river yesterday and was drowned.
He was seen the same day with a large sum of
money in his possession. Nothing farther is
known of him.
NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC COAST.
The Steamer Sierra Nevada Aground
Near Point Isabel Death of tho Ameri
can Consul at Guaymaa,
. Bam Fbahcisoo, August 14. The steamer
Sierra Nevada, hence for Mexican ports.
grounded, on the 2d of August, at the mouth of
the Colorado river, near Point Isabel. It is un
certain whether she will be got afloat. She has
nn board stores for Fort Yuma and coal for the
United States steamer Suwanee, now lying at
La Paz without fuel.
Edward Connor, United States Consul at
Gnaymas, died on the 16th of July. His body
is to be brought here for Interment.
Blnrderona Attack by a Jealous Lover.
At fi o'clock last evening Joseph Duany, a
young Spaniard, stabbed Miss Emma Olt In the
back with a knlte, at the residence of her father,
Mr. Henry Olt, No. 35J Greenwich avenue. It
appears that Joseph had been boarding for
some time past with the Olt family, although
his own parents reside next door. He bad been
paying attention to Miss Olt, and was engaged
to he married. The wedding was to have taken
place next month. Last evening about 8
o'clock Duany entered the house, and, without
saying anything to Miss Olt, seized her by the
throat, choked her, and threw her on the floor.
While she was in that prostrate condition
Duany seized a knife, and made a lunge at the
young lady. The blade entered her back, and,
striking against the spinal column, glanced off
without Inflicting a dangerous wound. Duany
then fled from the house, and succeeded in
making bis escape. Dr. Doming was called in,
and dressed the young lady's wound. It is sup
posed that jealousy was the motive which
prompted the commission of the brutal act. The
guilty man appeared also to have been drinking
Ireely. Duany is known to the Ninth Precinct
police, and he will probably be arrested to-day.
i-JV. Y. World.
A Tremendous Storm. The Journals of
Champagne, France, give accounts of a violent
ptorin which broke over that district recently.
The church of the Ilar-sur-Aube was seriously
damaged, and all the stained glass windows
destroyed, the loss amounting to BO.OOOf.; at
Arcis many trees were torn up by the roots,
and a part of the roof of the prison carried
away; the fields and gardens in the neighbor
hood of Troyes were greatly devastated; a
house and outbuildings at St. Parras-aux-Tertres,
and a stack of corn at Culoison, were
struck; U JJgLtaUig and comyUteJcoBaujawU
'Wendell Phillips and the Johnson-Stan
ton Rupture.
From the Anti-Slavery Standard of thit week.
Johnson hns challenged Stanton. The recen'
Becretaryof War accept the challenge. The duel
monopoi lr.es the attention of the whole land.
Nobody but the President doubts the result;
unless, possibly, Seward may be equally
deluded.
8H1I, though the result is eertatn, the country
Is naturally anxious as to the path by which
the poal u to be reached. Ktantou submit, and
resigns under protest and to the consternation
of the country, Grant takes his place. On this
precise point we forbear comment until events
show their course more lully. Meanwhile the
Kebels murder negroes and Unionists at their
SI ensure, Texas Is given up to anarchy, and
entucky Is a den of assassins.
How anxiously Union men, North and Bouth,
warned Congress against the folly of adjourn
ing after tinkering that single flaw which Btan
bery bad Invented in the Koconstruetlon Aot,
assuring Senators that another would be In
vented the moment It was needed I The Presi
dent picks this flaw in the Civil Offloe Tenure
act, rendered bold because he has no Congress
to tear till November.
One can hardly blame the President for this
subterfuge. Beualors refused to impeach, and
tried instead to envelop him in a net of limita
tions. He naturally tries to And a break or
dropped stitch In the net. Knowing the whole
movement was more than half a sham, he is
too old a gamester not to see the trick. They
aff ect supreme anxiety about violating the Con
stitution by any attempt at impeachment. In
reality they are scheming for a Presidential
canditate. Are there foxes In the Senate cun
ning enough to hide their tracks from Key nard in
the State Department T When Johnson reads
Senator Sherman's speeches he probably quotes
bis own words, "When you hear a man prate of
the Constitution, spot him; he is a traitor."
When Seward reads Pessenden, he remembers
Avonmore's portrait of Clare, "one wno stickle
for the letter of the Constitution with the
affectation of pride, and abandons its princi
ples with the effrontery of a prostitute." Do
such men make the White House traitor afraid?
No, indeed. A Capitol full of them would ba
only popples and mandragora to medicine him
to sweet sleep. He fears a House of Represen
tatives full of radicals a Senate whose fore
most men demand his impeachment. What
be needs is an overseer while he remains in
office, and to be thrust out of it as soon as pos
sible. Meanwhile, see how Rebels grow bold and
Unionists fly and hide themselves. See how
each mall brings fresh news of negroes hunted
and murdered. Whence this new courage In
Reoels? It comes because, for the nour, the
President, unchecked, represents and wields
the Oovernment: because that Kebels see that
Johnson has tools enough in the Senate to
strike out that provision of the House's bill
forbidding him to remove the district com
manders, and, by adjourning Congress, take
the clutch of the radicals from the nape of his
neck.
For every broken heart and desolate home in
the South, for every murdered black there, we
bold Kessenden, Wilson, Edmunds, Conkllug,
and their clan, responsible. We will not be told
that by such a course this man's chancis for
the Presidency are strengthened, and that
other measure is sure to be advanced. The
Eollcy which stalks to its purpose over bloody
earths and murdered men is devilish. No
garnets admissible where the counters are lire
and death. Heartless men shall not sit in the
Capitol playing with the lives of negroes and
Unionists, and escape rebuke merely besause
they style themselves politicians. Their pro
per style is murderers. We know that we use
stronK language. Let the reader put himself
beside the hunted Unionist of Texas let him
stand under the desolate roof whose owner has
just been shot in presence of his wife and chil
drenlet him think of the negroes ruthlessly
murdered by hundreds and then ask himself
if the strongest terms we can use do not halt
and linger far behind the truth?
If Stanton is removed, those Senators did it.
If Ilousseau goes to New Orleans to take Sheri
dan's place, they sent him there. To get places
for their families to leave national flnauce
wholly in the bands of capital to engineer
Grant's nomination those men opposed im
peachment, and voted to adjourn Congress,
leaving Johnson free course all the summer,
only that they might carry on their plots. It Is
unfair to single out one sinner, joiiusou oouiu
do little harm without the aid of these raeu,
bis satellites and tools in the Penate. If John
son dares to-day to challenge Stanton, it is not
because Kentucky and Louisiana llsbels Mil his
ante-chamber and Seward poisons his ear. It
is not because the World and Chicago Times
bluster in his behalf. He dares to challenge
Stanton, because Henry Wilson, Grant'sjackal,
consents to carry the challenge, and Fessenden,
in return for a dozen offices given to bis kin
dred, acts as second in the fray.
I)o not let us so disgraoe t he American people.
and discredit their intelligence and virtue, as to
tell the world that an exposed ana an but con
victed Rebel of Johnson's calibre can mislead
them and Jeopard their future. Having sur
vived Lee and Davis, who bad, at least, ability,
let us not show this nation trembling before a
clumsy knave, with neither character nor
ability. Let us not admit that our lellow-citi
zens are overawed by a Cabinet like that at
Washington. Few of its members ever bad any
reputation, either for honor or ability, to lose;
and no one had any reputation which in the
eyes of an intelligent people could endure keep
ing such company. No, let us tell the truth.
The nation watches this duel in anxious bus
den, and their fellows stand behind the Presi
dent; because they stab the Secretary of War.
Wendell Phillips.
THE FORMOSA DIFFICULTY.
Cause of the Trouble Treatment of the
Crew of tho Barque Hover, Ktc.
The following is the account of the surviving
sailor, taken and certified by J. C. A. Wingate,
United States Consul at Swatow, and interpreted
by the Eev. William Ashman:
STATEMENT OF THB CHINAMAN TEK-KWANO.
I shipped at the United States Consulate,
February 28, 1867, on the barque Hover. Sailed
from tbe port Saturday morning, March 9. At
about 11 o'clock on the night of Tuesday,
March 12, we struck a rock on the larboard
side. Had seen Formosa the evening before
and were keeping off. When we struck we
at once backed the sails and slipped otf tbe
rock; went a little distance and then struck on
the other side. The captain shifted the helm
and she began to move. The meu were set at
the pumps but no water came; they would not
draw. 1 think they were iniured by the blow;
they were in good order before, the captain
sent the first mate down into the hold and he
found that the water was already over the
ballast. The captain ordered the boats.
we an got mvo two Doats. Tne captain's
boat had six in it himself, his wife, and
second mate, myself, another sailor, and the
cook. There was taken in the boat a bed-quilt
and some clothing, some water, a little food a
small quantity of spirits, a compass, and a sex
taut. Mrs. Hunt took a buiall box. The second
boat had In it the first mate, the cabin boy, tlve
sailors, and the sailors' cook. We pulled off
about 1 o'clock, and kept lu company until day
light. At daylight we saw Formosa. We rowed
in until about 4 P. M., the tide also setting us in
When we landed we saw no one. The captain
told us he thought we need not fear, and must
get ashore to save our lives. We lost sight of
the other boat about 10 o'clock. We pulled the
boat upon shore. Our clothes were wet and we
took them off, wrung out the water, and laid
them out to dry. iue captain sent rae to find
some fresh water; I found it and brought back
a bucket full. The place where we landed
was a sand beach at the toot of a mountain
very densely wooded. While we were drying
our clothes the savages came out of the ltmle
to the number of fifteen or sixteen. There
were one or two women among them with lone
dresses and ear-rings. The men had no clothinir
but the breech-cloth. They were armed; some
had guns, some knives, some had bows and
arrows. The captain called out to take to the
bush. At once some of the natl Ves ran tn
where our things were; others pursued us into
the bushes. I hid my3elf and heard them pur
suing. The lavages wide a great ole calling
out. I heard several guns fired. I do Dot
know certainly whether they got any one or not.
After a while 1 saw tbem como back and divide
the plunder; then they went back the way
they came, After all was still I came out and
called the names of the captain and others
several times, but got no answer. I then
found some biscuit which the savages had re
jected. When niirht came on I started off.
making my way westward. I had a moon until
10 o'clock. The next morning at davlwbt I got
to where some Chinese were. The Chinese set
tlement was not more than nine or twelve miles
awav. I got to this settlement, and told what
had happened, and cot a man to go and beg tbe
savnees not to kill them, but let them be
ransomed. I had no money to hire this
mnn, but the kind people contributed
about three dollars. Tbe man was a
Chinaman, the only one who ventured
among them; he is a Chinaman's son by one of
their women. The man went, and came
back the next afternoon, with word that
five of the captain's! boat were murdered the
afternoon of the attack. He ado brought word
that tbe other boat had arrived in the nlsbt,
and the next morning two of them were killed.
After three days I came on to Takao. I went to
the English Consul, and he sent a man to matte
inquiries about the other six men. The men
came back with a report that two more men
had been killed. The English Consul sent a
steamer, and I went along with it.
There were no arms in the Rover's boats. The
man-of-war broucht me to Amoy. 1 ariived in
Amoy the 31st ol March.
Swatow, April 9, 1867.
A true copy. J. C. A. Winoatb,
united states consul.
THE TURF.
The National Iloi-ae Fair at Bufralo-
Match Against Time Dexter Beats his
own Best Time, and Trots a Mile In Two
Minutes Seventeen and a Quarter Se
conds Dexter Purchased by Robert
Bonner.
Buffalo. Aucust 14. The entire population
of this city are in a whirlpool of exciiemeut
over the races of te day, which were wituessed
by over citht thousand persons. Tbe day was
everything mat coulu uu acsireu, aiuioupu ram
was threatened lust night. Every kind of vehi
cle was brought into Ube iiom an early hour
this morning in tmnsporting the vast army of
sportsmen who are here in attendance. Private
equipages, crowded with ladies, weie to be met on
the oitlerent streets leading to the course, which
is situated nearly three miles from the city.
A number ol the prominent business men of
Rochester and of this city were to be seen with
neat turnouts, which were superior to manv ol
those that are on exhibition daily in the New
York Central Park. The stands erected on the
course six in number were crowded with
spectators long before the hour named by tbe
judge tor tbe completion of the unfinished 2'3J
race of yesterday. Numbers of private stands
nave been erected by a few of our wealthy
gentlemen lor the accommodation of themselves
and families, which were crowded with ladies.
The first race was the completion of the 230
race of yesterday, which was called at 2 P. M.
There were nine horses entered, but six of them,
not having won heats yesterday, were ruled out
by the judges. The following are the entries
tor th 230 race: J. Duerey's b. m. May Queen,
8. Kobbins' g. g. Melton, Dan Mace's b. h.
McClellan. At 2 P. M. the horses were brought
out tor the hrst heat, which was won by May
Queeu In 230,. Melton won the second heat in
233, and the third in 2'32. The trotting was
splendid and all the heats close. Melton was
some time since sold to a woman In Detroit for
$800, in gold, on condition that he made 222
thi RPHoon. which he did to-dav.
In class thtee were the lollowlng entries:
Clats three premium, $1000; $700 to eo to ihe
first horse, $200 to the tecoud, and $100 to the
third; mile heats, best three in five, in harness;
free lor all horses that never beat 240. J. II.
Phillips' b. g. No Name, B. Reumer's e. m, Fau
nie Lawrence, John S. Steven-on's b. g. Ditch
man, A. W. Keith's g. e. White Bird, J. U. llinch
man's Belle of Pateison, Wm. Ming's g. m. Lady
Hamilton, owner's b. g. Bonnparte, 0. W. Dim
mick's b. g. BrigRS, F. Laverty's b. m. Josephine,
Dan Mace's grey gelding, Thomas T. Brown-s
c. h. Grantham Chief, and William Brown's b.
m. Cuyahoga Maid. The malority of these
horses trotted yesterday. Mace's gelding won
tbe first heat in 235, and the second in 2-374.
Dutchman won the third heat in 234, Cuya
hoga Maid took the ionrth in 2304, and Dutch
man the fifth in 2-35 and the sixth in 2 34J, win
ning the first premium.
Tue greatest excitement was manifested in all
parts ot tbe course when it was aunounced that
Dexter was on the ground and going to trot
against his own time the best time ever mudo
in harness, namely, 219 whleh he accom
plished, notwithstanding that heavy bets were
made against him, with tew takers. Dexter
made the mile on his second trial in 2174.
beating even the unexampled time under saddle
which he made at the races here last year.
The first trial was made about three o'clock,
and afforded a beautiful exhibition of clean trot
tine, without a break or skip from start to slop,
although it was evident that bis effort was held
in reserve. Tke quarter was passed in 34 seconds,
tbe half in 120, and the mile in 220. The
second start was made about four o'clock, amid
great excitement, as it was seen that the horse
was making terrific speed. He turned the quar
ter in 33 1-5 seconds, the half in 107, and tbe
mile in 2174. The announcement of the time
was received amid tremendous cheering. Three
cheers were given for Dexter, and three for his
owner.
IJlearn from Mr. Robert Bonner that he pur
chased Dexter for over $30,000, the horse to be
delivered on the 10th of September, Mr. Bonner
permitting his owner to keep his engagement
for the races at Chicago, which commence Sep
tember 3.
Choked Pheasants. The gamekeeper
serving under an English gentleman who has
during the last six weeks lost upwards of three
hundred young pheasants, from no apparent
disease, has at last discovered the cause of the
evil, which is as follows: The young phea
sants had been placed in a meadow in which a
large number of sheep had preceded them;
while there the sheep had shea a quantity of
their wool, and the pheasants had swallowed it.
The keeper writes: "I have opened forty or
fifty young birds and found the gizzards quite
full of wool, and the passage stopped up so
that no food could pass. After the birds are
dead they turn quite black. I never had a
better lot of young birds, and now I have lost
nearly all of them."
TheScltan's Physician. Marco Pacha, phy-Bioian-in-chief
to the Sultan and director-general
of the medical department of the Turkish
army, is a Greek, educated in France. He
speaks the language with the purest Parisian
accent, and is thoroughly acquainted with the
details of military medical administration, lie
holds the high rank of general of division, and
it is understood is much iu the confidence of
the Sultan.
Destruction of Oame. A letter from Tou
lon says: "It is impossible to estimate the
enormous quantity ot game aestroyed by the
late fire in the forest of the Var; for an
extraordinary thing was remarked in this, as
in other similar cases, that the animals aud
birds were so magnetized by the light of the
flames that they remained as if paralyzed
and without strength to escape the danger."
TURKE Y AND THE UNITED ST A TES.
Arrival of the Turkish Minister First
Kmbtniy to the United States.
Blacque Bey, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary from the Sublimo Porte to
the United States, arrived in this city on Tues
day, and, with his Miite, is stopping at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. This Is the nist Minister
that has been sent to the United State by the
Turkish Government. Contrary to expeotation.
the Turkish Minister is not a Musxulman, ami
the curious who yesterday paid their respects to
the Envoy of the Porte, were rather disap-
f pointed in not finding in the M mister the popu
ar idea of a bearded, turbaued Turk.
His Excellency Mr. Blacque Bey is a Catholic
and a naturalized subject of the Porte, having
been born or French parents In Constantinople,
but living roost of his lite among Christians and
in Christian countries, he has none ot tue
Turkish characteristics of physiognomy, except
peculiar oriental eyes, nor distinguishing Mus
sulmnn traits, being suave and affable, and not
by any means grave or reserved. He is accom
panied by his s -cond wile, a French lady (bis
first having been a daiehter of Dr. Valen
tine Mott, of New York), the Secretary
of Legation, and two Nubian negro ser
vants, who wear the fez. He has been for
many years at' Paris, that centre of the diplo
matic world, as Charge d'Aflaiics, and In 1800 was
sent as Minister to the Court of Naples, where
he remained until the expulsion of the King
(Francis), and recently, from bis vast experi
ence in diplomacy and intimate knowledge of
our language, country, and its institutions, he
was appointed first Minister to the United States.
The Sultan had long contemplated despatching
a Mmitter to this country, but a favorable
opportunity has not occurred to enable him to
do so, until now, when the affairs of the empire
are in a comparatively quiet condition.
Tbe motives on the part ot the Sultan are to
cultivate to a greater extent the friendly rela
tions existing between the two countries, and
to make a return, although late, for the pre
sence lor the last thlrty-tive years of an Ameri
can Ambassador In Constantinople. Mr. Blacque
Bey states that a str.mg democratic sentiment
pervades Turkish politics and society, caused in
a great measure by the peculiar condition that
Turkish women have hitherto imtintatned, and
from beine slave they Bud themselves
to he mothers of Sultans: consequently,
in the present light of even Turkish civiliza
tion, they most naturally inculcate liberal
principles in their otlspring. Then, again, the
grand future of the United S ates has thrown a
perceptible shadow beiore, and renvrte coun
tries Icel an anxiety to cultivate with it the
most liiendly relation". The Porte ha3 sent
Christians to all or nearly all the courts of
Europe since 185G, wneo the celebrated hatti
8tierif decree was published, giving all persons
ot whatever birth equal rights and justice, aud
libcity to embrace whatever religion they choie;
consequently the Turkinh diplomatic corps
consists mainly of Chritiana. Mr. Battozzi,
the Secretary of T.etation, is also a Catholic,
and a naturalized subject of French de-cent.
He Is the brother of tue Turkish State Trea
surer, and has served some years in the diplo
matic corps.
Mr. Blacque Bey expresses a sincere desire to
do all in his power to increase the commercial
relations of Turkey and tbe United Sia'es. He
stated that the American merchauts resident in
Turkey are very enterprising, and many have
come to Constantinople and are there accumu
lating vast fortunes; and the increase of tbe city
in prosperity and population is in no small
manner due to their energy and commer
cial enterprise. Constantinople has now a
population ot 1,200,000, and last year 26,000
ships anchored in its port, whicu is more
than all the shipping of France. Before
tbe accession of Abdul Aziz to the Turkish
throne, the diplomatic relations of tne Ottoman
Kmpire were limited to a lew of the more im
portant among the great and minor powers of
Europe. The embassies from Turkey have
hitherto been despatched to these powers from
the urgent necessity that imminent war, defen
sive coalitions, and tbe aggressiveness of neigh
boring nations required; but this to the United
States has been jone of tbel few despatched to
toster friendly and commercial relations. Our
trade with the Bospborus and the Levant has
assumed respectable proportions within the
last ten years, as the presence on our business
marts of many Greek firms will bIiow; and the
foreign commerce of Turkey is carried on
chiefly by Greeks, the Turks, tor the most part,
couhning their attention to the internal traffic
of the country. Under the wise and liberal
administration of the present Sultan, Turkey
bids fair to resume, in part, a measure of its
former greatness, and, though the harbors ou
the Atlantic are pcor, there are some superior
havens on the Black Sea and the Bosphorus,
and in tbe course of a few years its commerce
and shipping will be greatly Increased.
Now, a u umber of young Mussulmea are
studying shlo-bullding and civil engineering in
large workshops of Englaud and Scotland, and
tbe knowledge they have thus acquired will
undoubtedly be ot incalculaole service to a
country that has a coast line of thirteen hun
dred miles, and must eventually become a great
maritime nation, eepecially as this vast extent
of coast embraces many of the best harbors in
the world. (It present taxes continue Turkey
may yet build ships for the United States.)
Agriculture is Deing pursued on more
scientific principles, and the implements and
culture that have continued in use for the last
three thousand years have been, within the past
few years, generally discarded for modern
methods and Inventions. Notwithstanding the
imrerlect cultivation, the crops of rice, grain,
cotton, tobacco, Ac, owing to the fertility of the
soil, are very large, yielding from twenty
five to one hundred fold. Tbe exports are also
largely on the increase, and consist prin
cipally of raw materials, as silk, cotton, to
bacco, wheat, maize, wool, goats' hair, meer
schaum clay, wax, honev, sponges, drugs
and dye stuffs, opium, madder, gall nuts, gum
arable, valonia, and vurious sum resins, figj,
currants, raisins, wines, olive oil, etc., with
some carpets and red cloths. The exports to
the United States reach to aboaW.eoooe, and
the imports therefaom to $750,000. The Gov
ernment is becoming less despotic, and in 1867,
by the inauguration of a Turkish Parliament, will
mark a more prosperous era in the Sultan's do
minions; and the spread of Catholic, liberal
minded ideas, fostered and assisted by a progres
sive and astute potentate, must work a grand
change If tbe introduction of these radical re
forms can be accomplished without recourse to
civil war; and if the great powers adhere to the
treaty of 1841, guaranteeing the Integrity ot the
Turkish Empire, which will enable the Porte to
repel the incursions upon its territory by aggres
sive Russia.
In a few davs the Minister and suite leave for
Washington. New York World.
A Wet Policeman. An amusing story is
told of Godard's balloon, which went up from
Paris the other day, and alighted in the vici
nity of Cologne. Because the balloon flew the
French Hag the aeronauts were badly received
by ill-disposed patriots, who mistook their
meteorological instruments for something
dangerous, ana were on tne point of seizing
them for spies. The tempest had just been
allayed when the police intervened, and of
course a zealous offiolal proceeded to search
the balloon for maps and plans, and threw out
a quantity of ballast. This lightened the
balloon of a sudden, and It went up, muoh to
the terror of the Prussian and the surprise
of all. 2 the latest accounts we learn that
the unhappy policeman accomplished the
descent into the Zuyder Zee, and was saved
from drowning lj some fishermen,
SECOND EDITION
FROM EUROPE THIS P. M.
Financial and Commercial Report to
'Noon.
By the Atlantic Oablt.
London, August 15 Noon. Consols, 94J ;
United States Five-twenty bonds, 74; Erics, 45J;
Illinois, 78.
LivunrooL, August 15 Noon. Cotton quiet
and steady. The sales will probably amount to
10,000 bales.
Breadstuff's The rain checks the bnsioess.
Corn declined to 38s. 6d. Other articles are un
altered. The Weather In England.
London, August 15 Noon. Since the last
depateb,coplous rains are now pouring through
out England.
Two o'clock Report of Market.
Liverpool, August IS 2 P. M. The market
for articles of American and other produce
both here and at London, is generally quiet, ani
prices are without material alteration. Tallow
advanced to 44s. Od. per cwt.
At Antwerp there are no markets, the day
being observed as a holiday.
Yellow Fever at Pensacola.
SPECIAL DEBPATCn TO TUB FVENINQ TELEGRAPH. 1
Pensacola, Fla., August 14. Lieutenant H.
Y. Glisson, United States Marine Corps, formerly
Assistant Paymaster in the United States Navy,
died here about 5 o'clock yesterday morning, of
yellow fever. Lieutenant Glisson was a son of
Commodore Oliver S. Glisson, Commandant of
the naval station at League Island, and hnl
served at the Union Barracks here about one
year.
The Crops in Alabama and Florid.
Charleston, August 15. Advices from diffe
rent sections of Alabama are favorable to the
corn and cotton crop3, the former, however,
promising the best yield.
From Florida we learn that the caterpillar
has appeared in some of the eastern sections of
tbe State, and that they threaten to reduce the
crop one-half.
Arrival of European Steamers.
New York, August 15. The steamer H am
monia, from Southampton, has arrived at this
port. She has on bosrd the body of the lite
Governor Wright, Minister to Berlin. Mrs.
Wright and two children accompany the re
mains. Also arrived, the steamship Denmark, from
Liverpool. The news of both steamers his been
anticipated by cable despatches.
Reconstruction in Louisiana.
New Orleans, August 15. In a few days
General Sheridan will issue an order calling an
election for or against a convention, in accord
ance with the terms of the law.
Tho Affairs of Bfellen, Ward &
Co., of
Boston.
Boston, Mass., August 14. Tho creditors of
the late firm of Mel leu, Ward & Co., of this city,
held a meeting to-day, at which the following
claims were allowed by the Insolvency Court:
James Pryor, Leicester, $2095; Chas. T. Yerkes,
Jr., & Co., Philadelphia, $2006; First National
Bank of Marlboro, $5416; E. Jones & Co., $3583;
Deuiing J. Hastings, West Med way, $157, D. B.
Liveimore, $1093; George H. Ward, Newton,
$495: Brood & Ward, Boston, $202. All the
above amounts, with tbe exception of the
second, were placed with Mellen, Ward & Co.,
on deposit. D. W. Jones, Receiver of the First
National Bank of Newton, which suspended on
account of the failure of Mellen, Ward A Co.,
presented a claim of $17,360, but It was not
allowed. The further hearing of the case was
then adjourned. '
Snake-Poison. Professor Halford, of Mel
bourne, has published a paper in the British
Medical Journal upon the subject of the poison
of the cobra-di-capello, and indicates some
important points in regard to the action of the
poison. He has found that the immediate
result of the poison is to develop in the blood
a number of corpuscles of living "germlual
matter," which increase in great numbers, till
at length they constitute the bulk of the blood.
These cells appear to be of a vegetable growth,
and by their number they so completely
absorb the oxygen of the blood that the person
poisoned may be said to die of asphyxia.
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
Office or thi Evbnino Tkleorafh,
Thursday, August IS, lHtf7.
The general aspect of the Money Market has
not changed. We quote "call loans" on Gov
ernments and other acceptable collaterals at
lrom 4J to 6 per cent., the former being excep
tional ca-es. There is but little mercantile
paper being created, owing to the stagnant
condition of tiade, and the rates range from 6
to 94 per cent, for that of acknowledged sta
bility. 8ccond class obligations are universally
rejected. The transactions at the Stock Board
this morning were of an exceedingly limited
character, but without material change in
prices. There was an evldeut unwillingness to
enter into any speculative operations.
The closing quotations for Government loans
were: llliQHH tor the coupon 6s of 1881;
113A113Vfortheold 5-20S, 1862; 10M109 lor
1861; 1104HO for 1865; and 108j108i for the
Policy. Slate and City loans were steady at
yesterday's quotations, with sales of the latter
at 07i lor the old, aud 101J for the new issues.
Slate 5s, past due, sold at par.
Reading Railroad was firm, and closed at 52 j,
whl h is a fraction ot an advance over the
closing quotation of yesterday; Pennsylvania
sold at 63J, a decline: Camden and Amboy at
127J aa advance; and Philadelphia and Erie at
281 on time; Catawissa is nominal at28; Elmira
preferred at 42; North Pennsylvania at 354;
Philadelphia end Wilmington at 53; and North
ern Central at 45.
In Canal stockwe notice salesof Lehigh Navi
gation at 46J; in Susqueuauna Canal 151 was
bid, and 17 asked.
In Bank shares there was no change, and no
eftpaseeuger Railway securities are remarkably
dull, but no attempts are made to realize In any
large amounts.
Quotations of Gold-10i A. M., 140; 11 A. M.,
140j;12M., 140; 1P.M., 140J.
The Treasury Department has called upm
deposit banks tor their balances, by way of pre
paration for the compounds falling due to-day.
Holders of August Seventy-! birty notes will
not be allowed interest after to-day, and will
be required to pay currency Interest at six per
cent, upon the Five-twenty bonds up to the date
of exchange.
The most careful examination of the books
of the Treasury Department at Washington thus
far fails to show the oyer-luue of a single dollai
of currency or bonds. Tbe lepeated "alarmii
disclosures" are wholly unbounded, and it is to
be regretted that their authors cannot be placcf
In the Penitentiary.
The New York Tribune this morning savs:
"Money is had by leading houses at 36ai per
cent., and at 60 the street Is readily supplied
on mixed collaterals. In commercial bills no
change. There Is a moderate demand for cur
rency from the Interior, but not enough to affect
In any degree the supply for the street. The
outflow has commenced earlier than usual.
"Tbe extension ot thirty days to holders of
August 7'30s has probably been made to accom
modate the Treasury, which Is unable to fur
nish small bonds. As tbe funding of the
$451,000,000 of 730s properly precedes perma
nent resumption, the Treasury should at once
reserve its arrangements by which fund
ing of the second and third issues can
be made without cot of transporta
tion, and in addition give to brokers and.
bankers the extreme commission authorized by
law. Funding must proceed at the rate of
$41,000,000 per mouth to cl?ar the calendar of
7.30? on the 16th of July, 1808. If an offer U
pay transportation on 73ds to be funded does
not attract them fast enough, an additional
stimulus should be given bv offering for six'
months to holders of 7'30s an abso'uW ttenty-i
year six per cent, bond, a proposal which would
in a short time pluce the Treasury where no
obligation against it cull ng for currency at ma
turity would remain."
rHH.ADELPHM STOCK EXCHASflE SALT'.S TO-DAI
Reported by Dehaven A Bro., No. 40 8. Tblrd street
Fl RUT BOA Ull. '
jf!V0U U g l(MOfl..Cr 02
(500 Pa t, p due..... .UK)
Mo UHy s, Kew loi i
60O (lo. New.......IS
ioo do. New loi
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. 10 nh Cam fc Am..... 1271
tti Penna R.......C. 0)tf.
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2 iln..... Ki.V
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Messrs. Jay Cooke & Co. quote Govern
ment securities, etc., as follows: U. 8. 6s of
1881, 111JU14; old 6-20s,rjll3jail3J; 5-20sf
1864. 110il0; do., 1865, 110A0110; do., July,
10841(W; do., 1867, 108108J; 10-40s, 1024
103; 730s, Aug., 107107i; do., June, 107J
107J: do., July, 1074(1071. Gold, U0Ja140J. :
Messrs. William Painter & Co., backers,
No. 36 S. Third street, report the follow
ing rates of exchange to-day at 12 o'clock :
0. 8. 6s, 1881, immui; U. S. 6-208, 1862,
liigtmiidj; (10., 1HU4, lU'.iKtciluj; ao.. iftjft,
HOf SrI10j; do. new, 1083108t; 5s, PMOs, 102j
WiO'r; u. o. 7H)s, 1st sertes. I07l07i; do.,
2d series, 107.j(ai07i; 3d series, 1074 1071;
Compound Interest Notes, December, 1864, 1174
Messrs. He Haven 4 Brother, No. 40 South
Third street, report the following rates of ex
change to-day at 1 P. M.: U. 8. 6s of 1881, 1111
1114; dn. 1862, 113J2U3J; do.. 1864, 110(51)
lioi; do., 1865, llOJGillo'; do.. 1865, new, 108,
108i; do., 1867, new, 108J (a) 108 J; do 6s, 1O-40S,
1024102! do. 730s, Auk., Io7l07; do.,
June,10741071; do.,July,1074107i; Coeopoand
Interest Notes, June, 1864, 11940; do., July,
1864, 11940; do. August, 1864, 11940; do.,
October. 1804, 1184118j; do., December, 1864,
im117i: do., May, 1865, 116J117J; do., Aug. '
1868, 115116t; do., September, 1865, 116j
116 i do. October, 1865. 114I115J: Gold, 140J
140J. Silver. 1334135.
Philadelphia Trade Report.
Thursday, August 15. The lassitude which
has prevailed In the Flour Market for some
time past la still apparent, and there is no dis
position on the part of tbe home consumers to
purchase beyond immediate wants. Sales of a
few hundred barrels, including superfine, at
V7,)3H'H); old and new wheat extra at (8 25
lO-SO; Northwestern extra family at 10rfll-50;
Pennsylvania and Ohio do. do ; ana I ll-50ulU'50
for new wheat do. do. and fancy. Kye Flour
may be quoted at 7 758 -25. Nolhinst dolna in
Corn Meal.
Tbe Wheat Market Is quiet, bnt prices are still
maintained: sales of new Pennsylvania and
Southern at 82 28(5)2-40; and 1000 bushels Ken
tocfty white at J2 60f2 65. Rye ranges from ft 30
to ff-40 for new, aud from fl AO to $1 46 for old.
Corn Is steady, and quiet; sales of 1500 bushels
yellow at 11-210122, and Western mixed atfl lG
fl)l17. Oats are unchanged; sales of 2000 busbela
at 8385o. for old, and 73rai75o. for new.
The last sale of Ho, 1 Quercitron Bark was at
143 $ ton.
Whlsay Common, In bond, may be quoUd
at 25(3300.
LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.,
-AUGUST IB.
STATK OT THIBMOMKTKB AT THI KVBNIKa TILXV
ttBAPS OFFICE.
TA. M....M....,78,11 A. U....Hi P. M . it
For additional Marine Newt tee Third Foot
CLEARED THIS MORNING.
Brig Cuban, Welsh, Bt. Jobn, N. B., a C Van Horn
Bobr W. V. Garrison, Lloyd, Boa to u, J, G. fc a. H. Keo
pller.
BcbrH. 8 Lee, Hilton. Boston. Blaklaton. GrafTAOo
bebr H. R. Samson, Uamson. Boston, Audeortod, .Nor
ton A Co.
Bchr Ann S. Brown, Flak, Boston, do.
Bclir Lady Ellen, Hooey, Boaion, tto.
bebr R. H. lilller, Anderson, Boston, Borda. Keller A.
MuUinx.
Bebr F. W. Johnson, Harts, Boston, Say, Huddell A
Co.
Bchr M. and E. Henderson, Yates, Charlentown.iio.
Bebr J. H. Allen, Beamai., Cbarleslown, UrlscomAOo.
bebr In Bliss, Hudson, Providence, Rommeli a Hun-,
ler.
Bebr L. A. Van Brant, Tooker. Newport, do,
Bebr J, H. Perry, Xelley, Hew Bedford, Suffolk Coal
Co.
Bebr It. P. Hndion. Buell. Balem. Rutnsr. Btlhn
A Welllnirton.
Bchr A. L. Maaiey, Donnelly, Georgetown, L. Anden-
rled A Co.
Bchr Woolsey, Loper, Fortress Monroe, Bancroft,.
Bt'r Plamoud State, Talbot, Baltimore. J. T, Rnon
Bl'r Vlneiand, Borden, sassafras river, J. D. Ruoff
Kl'r Leader, Mullen. Chesapeake, J, 1. Ruoff,
,, ARRIVE!) ThTb MORNING.
Steamship J. W. Bverman, Tultle. S days from
sbVmA Co.' cotion, eu., to Lalbbury, Wlcker-
Br. brl Naiarlne. Murphy, 11 days from BtJohn.
P. R.. wlih ausar and niolnases to John Mason A Co!
It,V0,r Jn. lor New lork la 5 days.
Bchr W. Towusend, Maxon, 1 day from Frederics,
With grain to J. Burred. xreuenca,
Pchr Windward, Cornwell. from Norfolk.
Bchr W. F. Harrison. Lloyd, from Salem.
Bchr A, 8, Cannon. Fink, lrom Halem.
bchr W. w. Marcy, Champion, lrom Gloooenter.
L'r ErLn,l,s- O'bhs. from Cobauiett Narrows.
ar R- b. Miller. Anderson, lrom Boston.
Bchr M. P. Hudson. Buell, from Boston.
2chr M nd K. Henderson. Yates, from Boston.
ct!r !;,Hv Allen. Beaiuan, from Boston.
S"? r W. Johns. Btreet. from Washington.
Bchr J. Buchanan. Kallaban. from GeorKetown.
S.i & M,T-' lrjnelly, f,.om Newark.
c hr B. F. Woolsey. Iooer. from Nw Vnrk.
Bebr L. A. Van Brunt, from New York.
bieamr R. Willing, CundlrT. is hours from BalU--more,
with mdse. to A. Groves. Jr.
StKam.M.. tt MEMORANDA
Bieamsnip H. Hudson. Howes, hence, at Havana.
,iu limn
Barque tJasiiUa. lor FhliadelDhla. sailed from Trlnl-
uaa list int.
i. , .. . - . ..... . .
u I" . J"m. nence. ai uronsiaai asm uic
BaBua "d uitrr(' 1'"'by ,or Philadelphia, sailed frorm
... e viurm, Aierriman, lor ruuauelphlA.aaiieai .
from Cardenas 8i h Inst.
Brig J. Cottlll. Comil, hence, at London 80th ult.
Il r s Wlullfld, Osgood, hence, at M atanxas 8th lost.'
Brig Lllla. Day, hence, al Bagua Dub ult.
Brig 8. V. Merrick, Muuday, hence, al Trinidad Mil
Ultimo,
Bebr Harriet Amelia, hence, at Barbados d irlt.
Bebr 8. and L. C. Adams, Adams, lor Philadelphia.
Balled from Trinidad 81st ult. . ..,.
Bohr K. F. Meany, Clark, from Portland for Phila
delphia, at New York yesterday. t .......
Bchr Vlrglula, Kden. hence, at Barbadoi l (.
Beun J. 6. ilvera, Elwood.aud Norlheru Light, Ira
land, hence, at I'rovhlonoe laid Inst.
Bebri Reading BR. No. . lloti nson, and U Hert,
Shoe, hence, at Pawluckel Uin '"'
DOMKfiTltJ PORTS.
Wrw To. Auto' it-Arrived, steamship City ot
Loudon, Brook, from Liverpool.
Bleamahlp Western Metropolis, from Bremen,
Bieamsblp Teutoula. Bardua, from Hamburg.
Barque biiawiuut, Lord, from BJu Jausiro,