The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-04


| executive. We take il for granted that the wsf
| known condition Of his health caused the AID mipis
tration thus TO p,ace him. for its restoration for
| some tame III climate wherein he could be saved
for the future OF his country. Yet mia health Il
of late much better, we trust that he will conclude
| To remain in Congress, wherein his services must
just now be much more advantageous to his countrg
than at Buenos Ayres. In the present state Of our
lations with that power.
BUSINESS IN TmR THIRD AUDrroR's OyFIos.--
| We understand that in tue Third Auditors ofise
such is the condition of business that all
counts are completely up except those OF quar-
termssters and engineers, which are also in suoh
| condition as that the account OF any one OF them
can be taken up, stated and settled ut q moments
notice Ii is ex9ectsd that, In all the month of DO
tober these tive classes OF business will no longer 10
| bebiD0hand.
VALINDA PINsEY The President we hear. do
cliDes to paroOD this wcmsn, who was convicted ut
the December term (of 1882 of the Criminal Court
for the District of Columbia of LARGELY and reoeiv
ing stolen goods. She is now serving out her sea
teDce OF two years confinement in the jail OF this
county. The papers on which her application for
pardon were based are understood 10 have embraced
no point to weasen the justice OF her conviction ana
| sentence.
RLvESUK MARINE RESIGNATION, PRo.
| MOTIONS AND APPoINTaBNrs.-Second Lieutenant
VIM. u. Randolph, u. s. II. M s.. to be first Leu-
tenant. vice first Lieutenant John McGowan. resign
ed. Third Lieutenant d. G. r. Gardiner, TO be 60
| cond Lieutenant. vice Randolph promoted. John
Il. Wilson, ID. c. (restored) appointed to be third
| Lieutenant, vice Gardiner. promoted.
| NAVAL ENGINEERS ORDKRED TO THg SrBAnE9
| ALLEGHANY PREPARING FOR SEA, AT NORFOLK.
ymGINIA.-Cbief engineer B. +. sherwood; fin4
assistant engineers M. z. Patterson and J. M.
Maury; second assistant engineers M. Fletcher and
J: NJ Adams; third assistant engineers G. W. Leo,
1 ii. Haines and G. Lindsey.
| PASSED MIDsHIPMAE ORDERED TO Tua Rs
| CEIvING SHIP AT B0sToN.-Passed MidshpmAA
IL. c. Blake, detached from the Observatory, Wash
ngton, and ordered as Acting Master Of the re0eiv
| ing ship at Boston.
NAVAL ENGINEER ORDERED TO STEAMSHIP
| HETzEL.-6econd Assistant Engineer 4. A. Ste
pbens has been ordered 10 the Coast Survey steamer
| Hetzel.
THE NAVAL SToREKEEPER We understand that
| +. McNerhany Esq, will enter upon his duties an
Naval St0rekeeper to MORO 2, and that he has a.
| yet made no changes in the clerical force Of his
| Office.
REGISTER OF LAND OFFICE ArrorNrxD.-Ed-
sparta Alabama, vice Nicholas staworth, deceased.
| CuANGRs IN THE WASHINGTON CITY Posi- Or
FIcE.-Patrick Byrns and John ". Mead have bees
appointed messengers In this Office, vice Joha r.
| King and Samuel Crown. removed.
| From tho Evening Star, Sept.
| DEATH AND SICKNESS or NAVAL OFFICER5.--
just before going to press this afternoon we learn.
by telegraph from Pensacola, that the yellow fever
is very bad at that place Pnrser Fauntleroy, o. g.
| N, and Captain Baker U. S. NJ. c., have died from
it. and Capt Tattnal, U. S. n, lies there 10 ~
| alarming condition indeed.
The slOop.of war st. Mary's, ordered to be pre-
pared for sea, Cat the Philadelphia Navy Yard) .
few days ago, will be ready to receive her o1icess
and crew In very short time. She will then e
once be sent to sea, there being at this time almost
recruits enough in Baltimore and New York to make
up her full complement of seamen 1t ID not yet
known whether she will be sent to the Brasls or T.
| the Pacific
We take it for granted that wherever she may be
| ordered, there will be great scramble among tho
officers, now on leave, to avoid joining her, as, some
how or other, Of late years the contest with many
sea. No ea.6reading landsman WAS ever possessed
| with greater horror of going to sea than at suoh
times appears to take possession Of the minds Of .
considerable per centage Of naval officers enjoying
otiun cum dig. ashore.
The mission to Venezuela is actually the only d.
pomahc appointment upon which the new admins
tration has not yet acted defntelythat is, except
the French mission. As there were at least aver
age of ten gentlemen disappointed in getting each
one of the similar places given out by President
Pierce, we take 1t for granted that from two hun
| dTed and fifty to five hundred patriots are being
pressed on the administration for this last chance.
After it goes what will be left by way Of balance
wheel to steady the future motions Of the host Of
disappointed!
News FROM THE PARTIES OF LrEurENA~rs
WILLIAMSON AND PARKE-rhese gentlemen, il
viii be remembered, are engaged in reconnaissance
railroad route. They arrived at San Francisco on
the 10Th Of June, and after good deal of trouble in
getting an outfit they got of from Benicia on the
10th of July, and reached Fort Miller on the Gath
of the same month. From Benicia, where their
labors really commenced, the parties crossed the
Straits to Martinez, and struck south of Monte Dia-
bolo TO Livermores Pass, in the coast range. At
that place they spent some time taking accurate
and reliable barOmetric measurements, having taken
simultaneous readings at the entrance and summit.
and at the summit aud debauche. From that poat
TO Fort Mtr they took the readings at their severM
camps, the question OF practcabilty for railway
through the TauIe and San Joaquin valleys being
already settled, at least SO far as grades may be
ceIned
All persons in these two parties had kept quite
well up TO the date Of these advices, though the
weather was exceedingly hot, At Fort Miller the
river (San Josquin) is rapid, deep, and as cold as
ice coming directly from the mountains covered
with snow, even at that season.
Mr.. Beae had not been heard from on that side
at the date Of these letters. Senator Gwin and
these parties but had left few days before for
Walkers Pass. Lieutenant Williamson contemplated
making fixed camp on Kern river, or thereabouts,
from which il was his purpose to fecsnnOe the
fcult indeed to obtain reliable information concern
ing Walkers Pass until they may reach it.
The U. s. MINISTER TO CoNsrANTINoPLE.-Car
roll Spence Esq recently appointed to this position.
viii 60 out in some six weeks, via Paris He will
probably embark from a Mediterranean port on
national vessel for his diplomatic post.
The sloop-ofwar Albany had not arrived at New
York, at late hour last evening. She had been er-
roneousy reported day or two before. No uneasi-
ness need be felt on her account. We presume that
as soon as she can prepare for sea at the Brooklyn
navy yard she will resume her station in the Gulf,
without approaching the fishing ground, whittier it
seems to have been thought she would be despatched;
1t being apparently evident that the force now i'm
that quarter is amply sufficient for the protection OF
orr fishermen there.
The Hon. WIN. j. Brown, Of Indiana, one Of the
terrible oeres of the hour, Tin the estimation Of those
wanting the Office he holds, and their log-roIing
friends,) is in Washington
PURsER FROM OHio.--Thomas II. LOCKER, Esq,
Of Ohio, has been appointed purser in the navy.
If we ore not greatly mistaken this is the first in
stance in which purser has been appointed from
Ohio since the foundation of the government.
| DRAGoMAN AT CoNsTANTINoPLE.-Weh av We every
reason to believe that, after calmly reviewing all the
papers, pro and con, bearing upon the question Of
retaining or supersedng J. p. Brown Esq, so long
the dragoman OF the American legation ut Constan-
tinope, the administration have concluded to retain
him. This determination is a wise one as all Anne
rcan travellers in the East will testify OF all cities
in the world for ciepa,ers diadgStifs Constantine