’ ' " .. \\ ' !f'. ? •'• , ; ■" | f '■■ '/i 'v.-“- ; - GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. , VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 77. ntOH CAPE MAY. Vbe Hon Laiit N((lil~I«Ke Assemblage ( of Uuests—The Bash to the island, Ac., ■dse*'■■.■■■ • (Correspondence of tlio Phlla..Evonlnn Bulletin.) Cape Ihi.ani), July 9, IB6o,— “The inaughral ■ball’' given at the Stockton House last night,has : been pronounced “a. complete,,success”, by. those who profess tohave proper comprehen sion of the requirements of. success in such matters. I suppose a hop approaches perfect •xcellence in ..proportion to the greatness of the multitude present, the beauty of the ladies, and the gorgeousness of their purple and tine linen and other toggery. ..Certainly,there was a very large crowd in the magnificent ball room'last evening,, and. it was,of a .some what higher character than crowds generally arp at such places. There were plenty; of .nice; people, male and female—pf the pest people, in ' the ordinary sense of that; badly-mtoused ad jective ; and then .there/were - .commonplace, people, doubtful people, deliberately disagree able people, and unknown’ people with un known qualifications. The general average of the crowd was high, for among those upon the ;l floor were recognized worthy gentlemen for whom nil Pbiladelphihns feefia high respect, and beautiful damsels and matrons; Whose ap pearance gaveassuranceof thOir claim to high. esteem; So much by way of mnoothing down the roughness of the allusion to the less esti mable guests; Of course, every one of those who r«td this will class ■ himself or herself nmongtlie “best people,” and so feel self-com placent and happy. ' Of the toilettes of the young,. old, middle aged and debatable ladies I can say very little. Tam neither a natural branch nor a graft of the Jenkins family tree, and so it will be en tirely impossible tor me to say whether Miss SallicK had on a brown moire antique trimmed with velvet, or. a red calico deco rated wdtli gimp. Mrs. J-ns may have worn her hair a Ta. Pompadour. or she may have decorated her noble head-piece with a wig and purely fictitious back-hair. Miss S-r-h S-m-tn in all probability appeared to much advantage in yellow satin with flounces, and white overskirt with gloves and gaiters to match, or she may have more nearly ap proached angelic loveliness in a corn-colored wrapper with braid down the. middle; The Misses F-g-s-on may have been the “cyno sures of all eyes,” as they threaded the devious windings of'the mazy dance, attired in gor geous solferino poplins'with scolloped edges, or they mav simply have; pranced around, in wouWime ue table and jet ear rings. That fat.; old dowager, Mrs. Th-mit-on, possibly deco rated her robust form in black satin and bugles, but jus I as likely she wore velvet and a brass head-comb, or alpaca and a false front; I do not profess to know, any more than I do whether the fascinating Miss K-b-nson—the well-known belle of Wth and Kidge avenue had on a claret colored silk, cut bias, double back-stitclied, and made eu pamer, or limited her toilette to a pea green jacket over n. blue skin with bell buttons and loops down the side. ICo not know anything about such matters, and so I decline to make any attempt at such description, although every correspon dent!* expected todo so, I know, or at least ~‘to trv bis hand at a gentle burleMiu&e telling bow" the well-known litterateur Mr, H. £; ip-11-n was the centre of an admiring group, He wore a clean lioiled shirt, and convex -eye-; glasses. tt. I- Esq. also seemed to enjoy him self in pumps anil a gold headed cane, while p. p, jf f Tr„ had a first rate time in a nicely ■fitting 'umbrella and wristbands. Little Miss L.'s usual elegance and grace were more per ceptible than ever in her charming manner of wearing a cent hemstitched handker chief, and frilled pantalettes; and her elder | sisters spread themselves forcibly, and with an unusual amoun t of spirit id frizzes, sandal wood tans, and bronze gaiters tied with pink strings. But this kind of stuft would not answer for a tip top tall, which was attended bv the elite, the cremate la crime, the bon ton, and others of that class, and I, of course, re frain from indulging in such untimely levity. X will onlvsav that there was a multitude of toilettes, magnificent, gorgeous, bewildering. I could no more describe one of them than i .could pav for it. I left the ball and went home to bed withthe colors dancing past my eyes, in such brilliant confusion, that I dreamed that the Mount Cento tunnel was, a gigantic revolving kaleidoscope with my eye at the the dry goods,and the frippery', and the fluinmerv, and the jewels, and the hack hair, and the lace, and the powder, and tlie ■paint go,undescribeil,tothe imagination of the reader I will only say that it looked well,and frightened every bachelor into:a fresh resolu tion to stick to celibacy. There was music. It was evoked from a good orchestra by the magic wand of Dodworth. It was capital music. The ball was successiul, the hotel is noble,and everybody was pleased with the affair. the committee and themselves. L. [ For the Philadelphia Evening liulktin-’fileof' JO'ITIMiS BY THE SEA.* r ' C] »b ' . Atlantic Citv, July 8.— A4,.: V osieut visit to tlie sea shore at this early portion of the' season has proved the truthfulness of the old adage that “it is the early bird that catches the worm.” Those who come before the rush of the gay season can make their arrange ments for'ckoice of rooms, as well as obtain terms much inoreeconomical than those who come later and have to depend upon a selec tion from rooms rejected Fry the earlybirds. The waiters are more attentive, because they have fewer to wait on, and, though blunders are made through their imperfect drilling, yet these mistakes generally afford something to laugh at in the serious reprimands from the aristocrats.of the dining-room, the head waiter and his assistant. The drilling of the men is effected at an early hour each morning, long before the boarders are roused by the first gong, and takes . place in the dining room. Each man is assigned certain duties, and woe be to the one who has committed any faults the day previous. He ia 'lectured at great length, and sometimes with as much dignity as if the speaker was the ruler of a nation delivering a message to Congress. A party of gentlemen partaking of ail early breakfast at the Surf House recently, were en tertained bv a scene'of this description, in which, after rehearsing occurrences at another house, the waiters were told by tlieir head that such things, would never be per mitted under “his administration ot affairs, and they were all cautioned in high-toned language to avoid even the suspicion of simi lar faults. The second in command followed in a similar strain, until perceiving that the breakfasting-patty were. enjoying the scenes, the mgeripg44lburned,'rather :hasffly. - ’ ' up, hut the population Of the city is quite largo, from the large number of .cottages, which, of course, are occupied as early in the .season as pos sihle. ' ' ' ‘ E, —S. A. Heitel, a manufacturer of embroid eries in Leipsic, raised a large American flag on Ids factory when the news of the comple tion of the Pacific Kailroad had . arrived by telegraph. It was greeted by - the cheers ot and business i was suspended .tor some time on account of the news. “ <—A spliool for tho practice of music is to he founded in Berlin in addition to the school tor musical ' compositionsalreadyin existence.- The instrumental department trill he in oharge of Herr Joseph Joachim. \ —Snails in Kentucky have learned to chew tobacco, and are rapidly. diminishing the sup ply for their human exemplars. - i j' THE KEH YORK DEPAECATIOS. Tlio Caviller of the Central National Bank Absconds nitb 8100,000—Jhater ~ Par ticulars. , . . . ; The.New,York. T.ribvne saysc i Financial . circles were somewhat startled yesterday bvthe rumor that Mr,: William.H. Sanford, the Cashier of the, Central; National Bank, had disappeared, taking with him a very large amount of funds and securities be longing to the;.bank., The amount was, va riously estimated at from 5100,000. .to, 5600,000. The rumor as to. the disappearance of Mr. Sanford; proves ,to he true, and the. amount, taken by. him is alleged by the President of the Bank, Mr. William A., Wheelock, to be not more than 5100,000.. Frpm what can be ascer tained it appears that Mr. Sanford has for a considerable .time- past .been specu-. luting in stocks, and has lost heavily of late. The property taken by, hinreonsisted of about 5100,000 in United; States bonds, -which, had been forwarded by country bankem as a, deposit, in case creditwaa demanded,by them, or*in the event of,an pmergenoy for raising money % their,sale. Mr. fSanford would often sell a quantity of bonds sent by a.bank, imme diately oh .their receipt,.and when that hank ordered them sold would dispose of those be longing to another bank, which might not vet have ordered a sale. In this way he has for a considerable time avoided discovery, hoping that a turn of fortune would en able liirn to make good : the amount. taken. An unusually , heavy loss brought mat ters to'a crisis, and, satisfied that he could not retrieve his fortunes, Mr. Sanford decided on flight. He lived in Flushing, L. 1., and was in the habit of going out there at night and coming into the. city, each morning. On the' Ist inst. he left the hank, saying ,he intended to visit a sick child at Westport, Conn. He did not return on the following day,and finally Mr. Wheelock, the President, sent a yotinger brother of Mr. Sanford’s, a cletk in the bank, to Westport, to ascertain the cause of his pro longed absence. The brother ascertained that Mr. Sanford was not there, neither had he or his pretended sick child been there. • Alarmed at this information and-suspeetiug that some thing was .wrong, Mr. Wheelock gave orders to have Mr. Sanford’s box broken oneny and there was fonnd. a . letter- addressed: to . Mr. Wheelock, containing an acknowledgment that the writer had appropriated the 5100,000 in bonds, and squandered them in gold and stock speculations, and concluding with the words: “Pray forgive me. I have taken nothing with hie. God bless my poor family! They are destitute.” Mr. Sanford bore an ex cephonablv bigli character previous to the dis covery of liis defalcation. While a mere boy, lie entered the dry- goods,store of Clark, Par dee & Bates, ot this city, and worked his way up to the position of junior- partner.- Five years ago he entered the Central National Bank in" the capacity of book-keeper,was soon advanced to the position of assistant cashier, and ultimately to that of cashier. So highly ilid the firm with which he had been con nected esteem him" that they became his surety iuHlie sum of 525,000. He'' was very economical in dress and style of living, and was considered by ail who- knew ■ him, possessed of a modest competency. But a few weeks ago he was apjiointed an executor of a wealthy gentleman who was making'las mil. Where*Mr. Sanford lias gone to no one seems to have any idea. It is not believed, however, that he has left the country. Apparently the hank officers have no intention oi prosecuting the fugitive, for they have not as yet lodged any information of the aflair with Superin tendent Kennedy. The following card from the President was printed in the afternoon papers: TheCketralNatiosai. Dash or the City of New York, New York. July S, 1*9.-lit reply to the rumors respecting the defalcation on the part of Mr. W. H.liaii-. r'ml . l!it(-Cashier of this hank,you w.lt please announce that the character of Eiicb defalcation is the misappro priation of bonds (not assets of the bauki placed in the hands of Mr. Sanford for safe keeping. The amount of “uch loss will not exceed 5100,1X10, or considerably less than one-thiol of the actual surplus, alter paying the recent semi-annual dividend of fire per cent. By order of the Board of Directors. WH. A. WIIKhLOCK^ The capital of the bank Ls 53,000,000. 1 STVTEMENT OFTHE VICE I*KEBIDE2fT« Mr. Wm. Foster, the Vice President of the bank, savs that the defalcation was known to the officers' of the institution on Friday, the 2d inst. On the day previous Mr. Sanford had complained of feehng unwell, saying that he licid a vtrv bad. beadaebe, mid asked to be al lowed to take a day’s recreation. Permission was readily accorded, and he left ill the after noon of that ilav,‘ ostensibly to visit his wife and children,who are spending the summer at Westport. Conn. The next day, I< riday, the brother of the defaulter, a messenger ot the Bank, announced that he had received a let tor from the wile ot his brother, jdainlj showing that her husband was not with his family in the country. This, and the fact that lie dicl not present himself as he had promised, at once aroused siisjiicion, and, upon search ing his desk and a trunk in. which was kept the United States coupon bonds, of. winch he had exclusive control, the fact of his guilt was corroborated. His accounts and memoranda were found to be complete and regular, and at once showed the amount of the bonds taken to be 5100,000. The cashier earned the key of the tnink in which the bonds were kept, winch were nearlv all from country banks, either tor. safe-keepiiig or for sale. He might easily have taken several times the amount stolen. It is probable that lie has purloined small amounts from time to time, by contriving to substitute newlv-received bonds for the older ones when it was necessary-to produce them.-The Public Examiner inspected the bank the last week in Sanford was born in Connecticut, is about 48 years of age, engaging, in maimers, aiitl very popular among his business asso ciates. ‘He has been with the bank since its incorporation, five years l ago, and for three years past has occupied the position ot Cashier, lie vv.as so much esteemed that the President, Mr. Wheelock,. had made hiswill only a few days before the occurrence, appointing Mr. Sanford his executor. He Tcsuled at . F lush ing and had a wife and three.children (one very sick), to whom he was apparently devoted. He attended the Congrega tional Church, and was connected With a Sab bath School. Ho is known to have speculated in gold, and it was undoubtedly a desire to cover his losses that prompted the crime. The worst part of the story is that Mr. Sanford.left his family without a word of farewell, and in a destitute condition. This fact has led some to suppose that he has committed suicide, hut Mr. Foster and those who know him best think it improbable. No detectives have been employed to work up the case. A Oreat Oil Strike. On what is known aa the Jamison flats, about one mile above Tionesta,,on the Allegheny river,; there.wass-Stoucki,on iTutodayjjff last week, an oil well at the depth of twohimdred and fourteen feet 1 . Since then it has been steadily pumped, producing on an average twenty-five barrels per day, ot. light green oil of 47 gravity. Considerable excitement was occasioned in the neighborhood, inasmuch as the locality may he regarded as a new flow, although several highly producing .wells were operated in the neighborhood in the early part of the oil excitement. Some eight or ten leases of adjoining property have Been made, and high figures'have been offered for sites m feesimple. -Some of the leases have been takop in the borough of Tionesta and, Tubbs Bun, which flows Into the Allegheny, directly oppo site the well now producing. Other leases have been secured farther back on the hillSj on. the Tionesta side of the river. ;; . .. . The “Sowers Farm,” containing ; ono hundred and twenty acres, and which at tained considerable notoriety some years ago, from its large producing wellsy.adjoins the ‘f '■> Jamison flats, and' lias suddenly found new < value. Hie wells' upon < it were 1 abandoned' ; it lien the price of oilso materially declined as ' tb render unprofitable the operation of any-, thing less tliani hundred barrel wells, and • since then have received no attention. This tract Is considered as one of the finest and riiost desirable sites in the oil region for ope ; rating,- hits the advantage" of covering the centre of the belt, and is crossedby a railroad, :ind fronts on the river. It has both high lands and low lands suitable, for boring. The. ■ < “Sowers li’arm” is owned exclusively ~by the Pittsburgh Gazette firm, who have not yet either leased or disposed of any part of it as > has been announced in the oil regions. > ■; Shrewd oil operators seem tor egard the new •territory with favor,and are busily engaged in 'leasing and buying in the neighborhood. The • exhaustion of the old regions'has forced them ■tb findnew fields, 1 and we should' not besur ■ jirised if other great discbveries should follow in places now little suspected of containing pe troleum. The Jamison well cost sixteen hun dred dollars in its sinking, is located , on a twenty-acre lease, and owned by Messrs. Knapp, Dnnliam & Gleason. - ‘ ; : The vicinity of Parker’S Landing is attract ing much attention, and many new wells ate being put down. The daily average yield •of that district has been about two hundred ~ ’aiidfifty barrels during the past fortnight. ’ Much new development is going on in that section. - 'V , , The, monthly report of the Titusville Herald will appcar either next Saturday or Monday. This journal Is the recognized organ'of the oil interests, and a faithful one it is too. Its Com mercial Editor, Samuel Blakely, Esq.y is a gen tleman whose integrity, fairness anti honesty of purpose have never been, questioned By those who best know him. He devotes nearly t: all his time putting in liard labor, in gathering i data for the monthly report which is a leading feature of the Ileratd. It is generally thought that the forthcoming report will developan in- I crease over May, but a decrease of several hundred barrels in comparison %ith April; I however, no one can teU in advance of its pub -1 lication wliat .result the. figures so carefully 1 gathered will produce when the balance is struck and the truth made apparent. JIOMMEST TO FITZ GKEESE MAI.- Fortnnl Ifeilientton of the Monument at Guilford, Connecticut— Interesting Cer- monies. Vesterday the formal dedication of the mon ument to 1 itz Greene Halleck, the poet, took place at, Guilford, the gem of the shore vil lages of Connecticut, and was attended by sendees of an interesting character. The trains from New Haven took over a delega tion of several hundred persons, among whom were several invited gnests from New York. The New Haven- Commandery and • St. Albans Lodge, No. 38, of Knights Templara, attended by Wheeler & Wilsoirs .hand, of Bridgeport, were also present. Tlmjnvited guests sat down to. a fine dinner B. Chittenden’s resi dence iii Guilford, and at two o’clock.the,' Knights Templars marched to the beautiful cemetery on the edge of the village, where an audience of about two thousand people were lound gathered before the stand erected for the occasion, near the tomb of Halleck. S. B. Chittenden presided, and in calling the meet ing to order made a few remarks, briefly re ferring to the settlement of. Guilford ana the pohle sons to whom she has given birth, after which a short sonnet was read by Mr. George Hill, a warm personal friend of the poet. The poem “Connecticut” was then read by Sir. J ohn Cotton Smith, of Sharon, whichwas greetedwithapplau.se. General Janies Grant Wilson, of New York, read the following poem, written by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, of Boston, for the occasion: Say not the poet dies! Thousb in tkodust he lies. He cannot forfeit liiamelodious breatu tmsphered by envious death! . I Life drop? the voiceless myriads from its roll. I Their fate he cannot share, I "Who, iu-the enchanted air, 1 Sweet with the lingering strains that echo stole, I lias left Ids dearer sell the music of his soul! Wc o*er lus turf niay raise Our uotes of feeble praise, Anil carve with pious care for other eyes The stouowith: ‘‘•Here he lies. He for hininelf has built a nobler shrine. Whose walls of stately rhyme Poll back the tides of time, . . While o’er their gates the gleaming tablets shine 1 hat wear his name unwrought with many a golden line. Call not our poet dead, . Thangli on his turf we tread ; . Green is the wreath their brows bo long have worn. Tlie minstrels of themoraj Who, while the orient burned with new born flame, i Caught tlmt celestial fire And struck a nation’s lyre : .. . These taught the western winds the poet-s name; - lli». the first opening buds, tliemaiuea s flowers of tame, Count not bur poet dead! The stars shall watch hished. - The rose of fame its fragrant life renew, Ilia blushing mound tostrew, ~ Aud all the tuneful throats of summer swell With trills ascrystal clenr v As when ho wooed the ear , , . .. Of tin; young muse that haunts .each wooueddell With songs of that rough land he loved so long and well.” He sleeps ! he cannot die! . As evening's lontrdrawn sigh,. Lifting the rose leaves on his peaceful mound* Spreads all their sweets around. So. lad* n with his song, the breezes blow From where the rustling sedge Frets our rude ocean’s edge To the smooth sea beyond the peaks of snow. Jlis4 soul the air oushrines and leaves but dust below.. • Mr.. Bayard Taylor then. delivered an'..elo quent address appropriate to the occasion, after which a choir sang the hymn beginning witli the words: I -would not live ulwuy; funk hot to stay. Where storm after storm rises dark o ur the way. This closed the exercises, aud the audience slowlv wended their way from the grounds through the ancient village—very beautiful amid its summer foliage—to their' homes. Letters were received by Mr. Chittenden, expressing their regrets at not being able to attend, from Messrs. Geo. /\V\ Curtis, Horace Greeley, 'William C. Bryant, Win. B. Astor, General Jewell, Francis Cozzens aud others. The grave of the poet is enclosed by a fence in the form of an ellipse, and in the centre is the monument of granite—the obelisk, shatt and bases being about fifteen feet high. On tlie frontfnee is the inscription: “Fitz-Greene Halleck. 17 and they recently took part in the Corpus Domini .procession, in full Court splendor. Three hundred thousand persons kneltto re ceive the Blessing of the Host as it passed, and behind the dais came the Emperor and all the Archdukes, and even the Protestant Chancel lor, M, von Beust, ftfllowed by tho Empress and all the Archduchesses in Court robes and diadexns, ns in great State ceremonies. OUR WHOIiE country; PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1869. LECK. EUROPEAN AFFAIRS. fl3v Atlantic Cablo.) ESOtASB. c • Probable Conflict Between the bnmh nnd tbe Commons Over the Irish Church BUI. LoKnosj July 8, 18Gfb—The action of the House of Lords on the Irish Church: bill has created intense excitement,- Messrs. Bright and Gladstone are daily it* receipt of letters offering a recommencement of, the Iteformi League agitation, but they rogressiives,in view of the probable failure of the passage of the Irish Church 'bill, through the opposition of ■ thftHouse of Lords:— , Hir: In view of the probable failure of mo - Irish,Church bill, through; the, opposition of the House of Lords to the government, the , Commons and the country, you are requested to inform the Secretary of the Reform League whether you; are 'willing that your name shall he used, in the event of a defeat of that measure, to a public call for inass-meetings to consider the best • constitutional method.of getting rid of this obstruction to legislation based upon the ex pressed will of the people. THE PKISSIAS NATT. The New Military Port of Wilhelms Uaven The Prussian military harbor .of ■•Wilhelms-, hayen. -formally opened by King William in J une, has an interesting history. A corres- S undent of the London Times, ■writing from ierlin, says: “In a few months the total of the federal marine force will have reached 6,000 men, among them 5,000 sailors. This figure admits of an eventual increase of 30,000,; Northern Germany having a seafaring population of 78,000, of whom about 48,000 are regularly em ployed in the merchant service, Of ships ready for active service we find in the official list three ciurassed frigates,two cuirassed batteries, ten corvettes, thirty-six gunboats and four de spatch boats; all‘these screw vessels, mostly armed with the heaviest Armstrong or. Prus sian cannon. In addition there are of sailing vessels three frigates, three brigs, thirty-two gun-sloops, and some smaller craft, the whole mounting about 500 heavy Titled guns. Some more wooden and iron-cased ships ', are in course of construction in Prussia as elsewhere. With the exception of the iron-cased vessels; nearly all the snips hayeheen built in Prussia, and now even the highest sort is being at tempted, as the dockyards of Bantsie can, testify. • _ “Less developed than the arrangements for creating a navy, have hitherto been those for repairing it, and to this day if a ship'requires to he placed in dry dock it must either he sent to England or to Sweden. . Tp supply this do-; fieieuey.and also form a military harbor where her fleet mav be safe from a superior force, Prussia, as far hack as 1854, acquired a Strip of land oil the shores of the North Sea. This valuable ground, situate on the western shore of the Jade Bay, ip the Grand Duchy of Olden burg, was acquired for 500,000 thialers.' It has since been the scene of gigantic labors to lit it for therequired purpose. Though deep and sheltered from winds, the hay is yet too large, and perhaps, also, a little too wide at its en trance—tliree miles—to make a siiitable har bor. "What, therefore, nature had hot supplied had to be done by the hand of man. “Immense excavations were undertaken, proceeding from the shore a considerable dis tance inland and branching out in various di rections. The work was of the most difficult kind. It was a low, uninhabited coast, liable te be inundated byJhc spriiig tidesr-Tlie soHr eonsisting of loose, shifting sand, fell in wherever touched by the spade. There was no drinkable water to be had for miles, and malaria prevailed to such an extent that some times one-fourth of the workmen were laid up with it. The first tiling to be done was to raise dams to protect the site of the future harbor from the encroachments of the sea. Strong and extensive as the dams were, they did not always suffice, and many 1 a time the tide rushed over them, deluging the works, and leaving all to he done over again. Then, fresh water had to ho obtained by bor ing artesian wells 800 feet deem At length man triumphed Wer nature. Now that the whole is completed, with the exception of a few details, it presents to view five separate , harbors, with canals, sluices to' regulate the | tide, and an array of dry-docks for ordinary and iron-cased vessels: As you approach by ; skip, vou first find yourself in an artificial ba sin, Hanked bv immense granite moles.respec tivelv 4,000 and 0,600 feet long. This basin, calleil ‘the entrance,’ is 700 feet long and 350 wide, and leads to the first sluice, 133 feet long ami 06 wide. “The next basin, or outer harbor, is'GOO feet long and 400 wide; the second sluice, immedi ately behind, as long and as wide as the first. Then there follows a canal, 3,600 feet long, varying in width from 200 to 108 feet, and having about halfway another liavbor for dredging-steamers amt similar eratt. ..This leads to the port par excellence, consisting of a basin 1,200 feet long and 750 wide, with a smaller special basin for boats to the right. At the back of the principal harbor there are two drv docks, each 440 feet long and 84 wide; a tlnrd dry dock 380 feet long, two shipyards for the construction of iron-cased frigates ot the largest size, a dockyard, an arsenal, a number of steam-engines, and all the other parapher nalia of a naval establishment. As to depth, the Jade, when the tide is out, is still 26 feet deep: the sluices at, high tide are 27 feet, at low tide 15 feet deep; the docks and principal har bor are 20 feet. x ... , , “To inaugurate this great establishment King 'William set out a few days ago, accom panied by Count Bismarck and General Moltke, his principal, civil and military ad visers; General Boon, the Minister ot Military and Naval Affairs, and a brilliant suite of other eminent and distinguished officers. The King was completely overpowered by cordial manifestations of love and respect. In somfi of the replies he waa called upon to ipake, he, in his manly, modest way, graciously acknow ledged the deserts of those who had co operated with him in reaching the desired goal. He publicly thanked Count Bismarck and Baron Moltko, said that he had novqr an ticipated being chosen to satisfy the national erayings to the extent attained, and hoped tliat a coining generation would see the fumf ment of; the work' so happily begun. Then proceeding to Jade Bay by a railway which, the late King of Hanover, to spite Prussia, would, while he reigned, never allow to be built, the King on that desert shore assembled' his leading warriors and Min isters round him and celebrated the, completion of the new The ceremony was performed at the head ot the northern pier, and ivas very simple.' General Boon' read a short account of the origin and progress of the harbor, proclaimed 'its hew name,‘Wilhelmshaven, ana ordered the usual number of guns to.be fired. In reply.tbe King tbanked God, who liad enabled him to uo all that was in his heart, and acknowledged his obligation to the Grank. Dukes oleleoklen burg-Scbwerin and Oldenburg, standing; by.hls side, the former of whom was the nret to suc cor him in 1866, while the latter kad(JQ^l(idthO necessary, territory at a time when ■ Prussia's prehtij/e was less than now. - “As the dams and dykes, raised in firont.of the new harbor,, to protect it while iraoourse of construction, have still to be demolished, it is not expected that the basins will be filled with water before the beginning of next spring. By then Witt be likewise finished the batteries to" be erectedon the western and eastern shcscs of Jade Hay. Thus far the expenditure in curred in the construction ot the liarbov amounts to 10,800,000 thalers.” ESOUSH SOBII.ITV IV A . EIGHT. The Hoinij'-CMilnßtoii Bow. The New York World eaves tUe following particulars of a disgraceful row in London, of Which we had an account by cable: i, :n ;; ■ , A scene in onie of the London , police courts, for a parallel t» which oil : this side of the water we must gw back to the hal-r, cyoa happy days when Mir; Griimell (how Col lector of this" port) and his pipe-laying friends caused a battle-royal to be delivered before the Mayor for the purpose of capturing sundry papers held by the Recorder.. Lord Carring ton and his friends had qtuite a pretty fight in court over a; box ot papers (alleged to have been stolen) with Mr. Gren ville, Murray and his friends. In the course of the melee a magistrate’s furnitnre, if notthe magistrate himself, would seem: to have been damagedj’ and the majesty of British justice received an undoubted“black eye.” How Lord Carrington (who is a harmless sort of peer enough) cause to be moved to such dire wrath by Mr. Murray does not yet appear. But the presumption is that Lord Carrington must have heen the injured party. For Mr. Grenville Murray is one of a class of official Englishmen who go far to wards making our own slouching diplomatic and consular service decent by comparison. Mr. Murray was at, one time attached to the embassy of Sir Hamilton Seymour, at Vienna. This was duringtlie Crimean war, and Mr. Murray, we have heard, was more than sus pect edof making merchandise of the ambas sadorial despatches, liemoved oh the strength; Of this suspicion from the diplomatic, Sir. Murray, alter abusing the Foreign Office for several weeks in the press, was, by Lord Pal merston’s influence, transferred to itlie con sular service of England. He was sent as Consul-General to Odessa, on the Black Sea From that post, in tnm, he was last year, dismissed, after a full correspondence, by Lord Stanley on charges of malfeasance and. extortion. Upon the advent of Mr. Gladstone and tlic Whigs to power; Mr. Grenville. Mur ray put in a claim for the reconsideration of his case and for a good-service pension. After much tribulation, Lord Clarendon has just been forced to confirm Lord Stanley’s : deci sion, ' and r to “decline further correspond ence with Mr. Grenville Murray.” ; Bnt Mr. Grenville Murray was not to he so easily fobbed oft’., Ho established a vitupera tive paper in London called the Queen’s Messen ger, and began a new fight for a place. Why be quarrelled with Lord Carrington does not yet very clearly appear. But it is just as cer tain,we take it, that Mr. Murray, before'his dismissal, must have bad some good reason for believing that no official peccadilloes of hm would ever be brought to light, as it is that a similar affair happening to Americans of simi lar rank would be quoted the world over as an irrefragable evidence of our political barbar ism and corruption, and our want of practical social sense. ~...■ ....... ...j; UIAI/IKEATMFJVT OF ISDHfiRAJfXS. ' Horrors of a Trip on an Emigrant Nliip -•-Vliildren Starved to Death. Tlio New York Herald says: : The recent trial, conviction and sentence of some .of the officers of the emigrant ship Jas. I Foster, Jr., for brutal and inhuman treatment of immigrants on shipboard has notyet passed, from public attention when a new and some what less important case of maltreatment of immigrants is brought to public notice—the present ease—that ,of suffering ,on the ship Alexander Marshall, of the Black Ball line. The following statement of Mr. Carpenter, of x n pi; Wnrren street, near Hoyt street, Brook lyn, explains itselt: STATEMENT OF Mlt. CAItPENTEH. We came to this country on the .Alexander Marshall. All we had to complain about was the coarseness of the food and the very bud accommodations for cooking. There were two small galleys, about large enough for a ship s crew, to do the cooking for live hundred and eighty passengers, besiues'the crew. Those who could not get up at four o’clock in the morning to get ready their food for breakfast had often to wait until twelve. I would get niy breakfast sometimes at seven, sometimes at twelve; sometimes I bad to go until one meal a day; sometimes got two. bometmies the food was half done, sometimes it was burned. There Was constantly a crowd around the galleys—there was one on each side of the skip—and thev would often tight to get nearer, so that they could have anything done. There were enough passenger cooks picked out to cook for the rest, but the galleys were so small that they could not get the food cooked. Many of the passengers had to pay the cooks to get anything done. Those who could not pay the cooks would not attend to. Of this I sa\vseve ral instances. One party of live could always get their f ood cooked,no matter how often they came up. The meat and rice were always cook ed right for them, and they did not have to wait. Those who could not pay had to take, their own chances and light their way through It was the worst sight 1 ever saw. \\ e heard of the James Foster. It was not like that. We had no fault to find with the captain. The officers were kind enough. The doctor was very - good to my family when they were sick, and twice gave‘my wife a bottle of wine. The only difficulty was the small galleys, which were entirely too small for the passengers. I could not get proper nourishment for my wife and seven children, and We could not get things properly cooked if we had enough. The meat and things were not weighed, but a lump was cut off. Those who. objected to this had to wait until the rest were supplied, and then we could not tell whether the scales were true or not. The meat was served out to passengers, who prepared it for cooking, and took it to the galleys, where it was boiled in salt water. Passengers often had. ta wait three hours or more before they could get the meat put on to cook. The beet wns often so unsea sonably cooked that, we could not eat it after it was done. The boilers looked as if they were never cleaned. There was always lighting around the galleys, and those who were weak had to wait. We were so weak from want of food that when we landed we were scarcely able to walk about. We started from Liverpool on the first of May, and arrived at Castle Garden threo weeks ago. , We were six weeks on the pas sage. We did not think anything wouldhap pen to the children, but one died on the Tues day after we landed; another died on the next day, and then the next week two others died. The doctor who attended them said he had never heard of siich a case where ohildmn were brought so low for want of proper nourishment. Only one death took place on board. I read in the papers that it was the healthiest ship that ever came into New York. The ship was always kept very clean; the only fault was there was not enough booking' accommodations. Many ’ a time I bavewaitedthreehoursby the galley, often in the rain, for a chance to. got our food on.theflve to he cooked, and then it was a I gneadon when it could.be got pff. ' —-Eueenle displayed her patriotism by CiU inc upon Princess Matilda’s neck un'l kissing Eer when the Qrond Tm; was won by » French, hors®. :^ F. I. FETHERSION. PnhWfo’, PRICE THREE OBto' FACTS A9DD FASCIEK. ..■■■ —Briglioli, vfJPK liis Opera'ttoiipej'ltSß'ftiSMßi ; performing with success in Minnesota. ; : —Geo. Ellis, of’Oincinnati/. ".holds '.fher."llißtr''- ' greenback, marked Ckiss A, Sfo! 1. —Bismarck's two/ sons' are. /coming,, fo the/ 'States. ' ; Madame Anna Blwliop is on; her-way fronts a M elbourne to London. : —The' 'oUtiride of vM&rk -Eemottrs: endffibois A /issaid to fte marred by Che motto:/«Whatfsfthw odds, so long as you're rappee"' —Some, of the Cliinesdin* Cailforiii£i‘aitO» • ‘making their fortunes by manufacturing g(rf* .. .dust.-. / , ” ’ • “1 t _ * —“GoriSftaPiS the title of ad . fully produced in-Milan- by a .new composer) - named Saiigennann. " r —Walker, the Governor jjfefcri-bcd as. having va, piercing.black, eye./ "The color of the other, or whether he has any: .other, is not stated, . r : —A new mezzo-soprano/singef has >bee», creating shine stir, in Paris; : - The lady’s name: ‘J> is Mile. Rosario Zapateiynnd she is a nativiSsoC * Spain. , a ■ ■ —Tlie bishops and'archbishops who are tb'- - have seats at the (Ecumenical Council number nine hundred and twenty-tvvo, of-Whom six* hundred belong fotheLatinmeesi • - • ...A. —The acoustic properties of. tlie ; new opt,Ta , house af Vienna- are' such' thafthe. pro- - eminence : is‘clalnieci'for if Over ’ail ' opdra , houses in the world. 1 !‘ —Among the papers of Giacomo Meyerbeer lias been found the score ol'-an unfinished-/, comic opera, which is said to abound -in ' th»- most delightful melodies. —A quarrelsome couple in Jersey: threw their children at each other’s heads until that ammunition was exhausted,- when the wife a floored the hiisbaud with a coffee-pot. ; / —Robert—“ Mary/ what do you mean By jH-culiar fitness in marriage Mary (simpers nig)—“ When your wedding gloves are just » , shade too small, but must goi bn* I’.’ .1 —An abandoned city 'with fine buildings, , evidences of high agricultural prosperity and - extensive facilities-tor milling, has been found on the northern border/of the State of Sonpra. r< ; —A man being awakened by the. captain of ’ a passenger boat, with the announcement that - he must not occupy his berth', with Ids hoofsoiq 1 very considerately replied: ‘‘Oh, it won’t hurt ’em; they’re an old pair.” . —The Duke of Genoa, has written a letter to the President of, tlie Provisional.Goverrimjeht,. expressing his willingness tojaccepfthe throne of Spain if it is unanimously-ottered to liiih by the Cortes.- ' , - - —Major .Eeison.' a distinguished /Russian officer, who lias led a warrior's-life in many coimtrieSjreceutly.ett'ected a,miraeidoqs escapee frbih the dungeons of Paraguay, and fully con firms all the stories in regard to. the cruelties of Lopez. . —A double wire land line of , telegraph .is being erected between Boston and Duxbiiry to meet the requirements of- the hew French _ cable when it lms been landed.- It will tluis be ‘ connected with .New York by the Franklin line.: -. : ■/'-.- > . —La Fontulnede Bertry is the latest opera -at : the Comique, Paris. ../Die words are by M.. Alberie, and the music. by M: Kibolle. It is both pretty and funny, and contains muchu satire on the fashion of. Visiting mineral springs. —A determined: advocate of' the rights of maii insists that “if any man wants tobe air ! old bachelor, and get.sick at a boarding tavern;. and have a back room in the fourth story, ana - have a red-haired chambermaid. bring, his gruel to him in a tin wash-basin* be has got ». perfect right to db it.” - —A knowing traveler, out West,, who bad chartered half a bed in a . crowded hotel, and was determined-to have the best half, buckled'' a spur on his heekbefore turning in. His un fortunate sleeping partner bore the infliction as long as lie coilld, and at last roared- out:, “Sav, stranger, ‘ -ifi you’re, a -gentleman, you ought to cut your toe-nails.” : ): —-The Algerian steppes occupy millions of, acres between the Saharaand the Tell; bnd.it is suggested that tliis vast tract, carpeted by . wild thyme and alia grass, is well adapted, for,. sheet), grazing on a large Scale. Ah explorer ; goes so far as to declare' it equally suited to agriculture as the Tell itself; while' the- alfa grass, St ipa tenacissima; can be profitably used ' in the manufacture of .paper.-. —According to the Memorial Diplomatique, , the Empress is really tobe at Suez on the 17th of November. The ceremony was postponed for some weeks, for fear that Her Majesty should suffer from the,heat, which; in October, - is perfectly unbearable. There is another Im perial excursion on hand—the family visit to Corsica,'-the cradle oftlie Napoleonic race—on the 15tli of August. —ln answer to the question as to what the Ritualists are going to do, the Rev. Mr., . Mackohocliie ot St. Alban’s, Holborn, replies‘ “We are going to tight as - long as we have ~ breath in us for the full acceptance in the Church'.of England of the 'Catholic teaching which she has received, through her-'fore-/ fathers, in a tradition, of IS centuries, from Our- Lord himself. —A few days ago, a.tall, lank specimen of a. man walked into a store in San Antonio, and . '' asked to be shown some shirts. A number of hexes were taken down for his inspection, and ■ one attracting his eye more than the otKors,h©< asked wliat kind they were. Tho. clerk an r swered, “They are the Royal- Eagle shirt, sir.’’ “The .Loyal League shirt! The devil! I fit. for the Confederacy, I did,” and, the indignant customer walked out of the store. —The Rangoon Times describes a Burmese festival called.the“NgaThoobPwai”—the flsh-> liberating feast—winch: occurs every year. The Burmese believe it highly meritorious to , save all kinds of life, ami during the month otr April they go through the bazaars and buy up. ail the live fish they can. find, as well, as fowls, ducks, goats, qows, turtles anil other animals- The fish are set free in/a large lake in tho neighborhood of Rangoon, and the birds? and* •. beasts are turned loose in the jungle. —No opera succeeds In. London this- season.' unless either Patti or. NUssen. is in. the-cast;. . and some of the critics deplore the ffi.ct tlhitf-/ the music itself, of an opera, has no, / weight:!;,s with the public, but that everything, on the popularity of a female singer, ema London Timet*- musical., man says /that;‘‘sU||sl this merely'tends to establish the twre wnJy|| a conviction we have long two operas might exist and flouwh, TCavbfed,,;? one of them would devote itself solely to- thO/r production of thoso master-pieces which necessity outUve singem, and the otliet works best .calculated tor exhibiting *he*| _ tnioits of the accepted primal donna of tfaffil ' hour.” "■ ::: —The Duke mid Duchess of Saxony, Wh£gijj driving out in the neighborhood of SmteMßSm ' were lately made pnsoners by the band, r terrible Fnoeo. formerly one of the a jymaßMß Naples’ forest A few i jmiin.tea ► the capture the chief arrived,and the prisonei-s, who had beeh- made to alighta|WH asked them whom he had the honor dress. The Duke stated who; they werflyjßSi the bandit immediately taking off Ins hafc-pjM litely handed them' to their carriage,’- civing a five-frano prece to the with afinal bowv Willyonr highaeaa deigriMfj " excuse the audacity and msolenco Of my JaOTjfi andcarry away with you a favopbje reooHMM tion of the poor Neapolitan Shioco? , ?-;,jHHI Duke Is said to have sent to-hi& capi®r fenaaCT niiicent gold watch and oligiai, -valued atjHlpß francs.- 1 f * * r | f t- -* > t < t ‘ I ’ , *'w