The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-07

No transactions in pork worth reporting 100
barrels Of good clover seed offered AT ~ cents
Another lot not quite good was offered at We
50 barrels common, sold at cents. The article s
| very dull.
! Sugar and molasfes are rather dull; some arrivals
OF small lots continue from New Orleans
No improvement in rice. Large amounts Of real
estate have been sold in market within week past,
and considerable more is coming in. II brings gen
orally full prices
No alteration in foreign exchange More freight
IL Offering. Flour to Liverpool ranges at about 2s.
Sd. Cotton remains the same to Liverpool and
\ Havre stated yesterday
| The packet-ship Waterloo is in from Liverpool,
sailed Goth December
Yours truly, sc,
MORGAN.
STOCKS
s.lG'-Esg Yert, February s. ls4S Fr.,Vsosrd. 1000
Psnnsy s. Iot i2oOo Ohio 6s lsoo Ss LOCO Ohio
bonds 3d. Morris cans aOi do 2Oi 100 do gO
Reading railroad 90 100 do s9i 1000 Reading railroad
scerd BaG,d aso Reading railroad cot 100 MOul. Ca.
nal, 2oi
SHIP NEWS
CLr,aro.-shiP Patrick Henry Liverpool, barqus Ada.
RIO Rio de JaneirO, briggs Commerce bT) LIVERPOOL Wild.
oW. (BrJ ST. John ~ Lady ofthe Lake obj Bermuda,
Matilda Belize, Honduras ChaireS Gibraltar; Phiua, sa
LsSina, Vera Cruz Convert, CsrdsnAs.
AsSIED-Pscket ship Waterloo. from Liverpool ships
Boston, n
from Charleston; barqucs John r. Gardiner from
Ire Honduras Leoness from ST. Croix bound to New Ha
yen Baltic rom New Orleans Austrian brig Airons l3s
from Rio DE- aneiro Dec l5th Lowder 20 days from Cuu
days from Matamorss (NrNieoD Iowa from New Orleans
sArLEn-shiPs sheridan, Liverpool, Brooklyn Oregon
Castor, Manellesi b. brig Widow, 81 sohn n B.
New YoRK, Feb G, 1886.
| There was considerable speculation on change to-
day relative to the charterng of of the best and
swiflest Of the New York pilot boats to proceed 10
Liverpool with all possible despatch.
The fine saucy looking boat called the William
J. Romer, Of about "a tons, is the craft chartered.
Two ofour superior New York pilots will man her
viz: David Cochran and James Wilky-who take
in with them four boys and one cook. besides one
navigator They are likewise bound by their char
ter TO carry two passengers only; and letters or
other packages TO he put on board by any other
party than the person ehartering the boat, whom,
learn, is a certain Mr.. Be, Of this city connect
ed with English trade or European trade at least The
pilots are on the alert, and to-day putting stores
on board, with a of new sails &c. They are en-
guged 10 sail on Monday, the 9th instant, precisely
at IL o'clock, TO proceed with all possible speed 10
Liverpool, and to return immediately with oil sail
set They are 10 receive $50 per day from the time
they go until they return. These hardy and ad-
yeniurous sons Of the ocean expect to make the
passage in fifteen days going out, and TO beat any
thing carrying rags in coming back. They are
bold and saucy boys when at "home on the ocean
wave" and have no doubt they will give a good
account Of themselves.
There ore many idle rumors aAoat relative 10 the
nature Of the dispatches which the "Romer" is to
carry out. Some think she goes on English gov
eminent account; some that she goes on "Uncle
Sans" business; and others some commercial
errund.
These are only gutssss, as imagine the object OF
sending her out is not known beyond the circle Of
the party or parties engaging her to go.
The Nsic York pilots, once mOrt.-Only one point
remains to be set right in this controversy. When Mr.
Tunure stated that a commissioners pilot divided
his fees for the privilege Of carrying vessel to sea
gave his name authority Mr.. VIM. p Tu-
nure will not deny his having so stated in presence
Of myself and other gentlemen. IL there is false
hood" discrepancy in the statement, it rests with
VIM. p. Tunure, and not with Morgan" and the
Courier" went beyond what due to cour-
tesy and good breeding when it said "Morgan" had
uttered "falsehood," and had then "withdrawnit."
morgan" is as incapable Of ufrng "falsehood"
as the "Courier" is Of writing without misrepre-
scntation. IL turns out that there is some dscrepan-
cy between what Mr. Tunure declared to be the
case and that in affidavit produced by the pilots,
bearing on the point ut issue. For this discrepancy
Morgan" is in no way responsible. Even had
Mr.. Tunures story been entirely fabulous he could
in no way have been chsrgeable with it, Mr. Tu-
nure is at present in Washington, and can speak
for himself. Having thus explained, we will pro-
coed to give the affidavit leaving the opponents of
the pilots to make the most Of it.
"To all rhom Il doth or may concern This is to GER
tify that the day and dote hereof personally ap-
peared before me, Josiah NJ Clarke, public notary
Fleet who deposeth and saith: That on or about the
9th day of December, 1S45, the said Van Fleet was
in conversation with Martin Gray, who has
license from the merchants commissioners Of the
port of New York to act as pilot; that the said
Martin Gray stated to deponent that he had paid
III, Ava rant nf hIa r,Ipp
ges, secretary to the board of commissioners
"HENRY s. VAN FLEET.
"sworn to, this the I'd day of January 1876, be-
fore
JOSIAH N. CLARKE,
"Pmblic Notary"
Captain Sturges is one of the commissioners, who
may have also acted secretary to the board The
pilots say he owns piot-boat or So which he lets
to pilots created by the board; that Martin Gray,
the Swede or German, who was apprentice in
one of their boats, stated that he gave twenty-five
per cent for the hire Of boat IL this be added to
the fee of thirty-fve per cent, it would swell the
amount to sixty per cent, leaving forty Der cent for
himself. On vessel drawing Ia feet, at 80 per
foot, the plotage would be about S2S for coming in
or gong out. According to this estimate, Gray
would have received Sll 90 for his services, while
SIC 80 would have gone to the other parties
That the New York merchants and under
writer's, well as the New York pilots in seeking
the repeal of the State law last year. $50 much COM
plalned Oh did give assurances that the whole
system of pilotage for this port should afterwards
remain free and open, clearly appears from the 70
lowing extract, taken from the report made to the
New York legislature by the Judiciary comm ittee
on the 18th March, ls45. (See Leg. Doc. No
1867
"Ths shipping interest and underwriters of
New York (say the committee) concur in favor of
an open and unrestricted competition; and though
doubts may be entertained on the subject, their
views are entitled to great weight and respect :"
1.-THE repeal Of our pilot laws seems to be the on.
~ means OF settling this question by actual expert
ment &c.
"Jushce (they continne) as well to the worthy
corps of New York pilots, to the commerce of
our chief city, requires that the experiment should
should have fair trial"
Now, appeal to the candor ofthc public to say
whether the course at present pursued towards the
New York pilots is consistent with the sentiments at
tributed to the ship-owners and underwriters when