Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-07-29

'hc NAVAL bourts OF inquiry now IN session IN
this city. 1t being evidently the omtR"g under
which they are written There are three such
Courts in session here, and the Herald employs
ono reporter to obtain sketches of the proceed
lngs before all Of them, in connection with his
other duties; which latter occupy him during
mne-tcnths of the time he is engaged in his
business, daily. Thus, he does not spend half
an hour daily in or around these Courts. His
reports, therefore, are simply second or third
hand versions from memory mot notes written
down as the evidence is being taken) of the tes-
timony of some of the witnesses, wherein it may
make for the appellants; not unfrequently col
ored by the feelings of the narrators: showing
also, the Heraid's correspondents evident bit
ter hostility to the late Retiring Board, and that
he Is disposed to make those ''squirm" Ito
quote his own language) who desire that fair
play shall be done to the action of the late
Retiring Board in these Investigations We
submit to persons Of common sense and orii-
nary integrity of purpose, that the brief extract
we publish above accounts satisfactorily for the
general condemnation of the entire inaccuracy,
insufficieney and apparent purpose of creating
popular impressions concerning the character
OF testimony in these cases not justified by it,
which mark the publications on which we are
commenting Reports in such cases should be
designed to preserve and promulge accurate
accounts of the trials; not to make any body in
particular "squirn.' Newspapers, properly
conducted; are, indeed very useful institutions;
but when made the vehicle of personal preju-
dices, passions, or griefs, OF to compass any
other sinister objects, they are standing nui
sances to society.
NAVAL Courts OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
before Court No. /, Commander NJ. c. Blair,
[. S. N, and Mr.. Gideon, a citizen of New
York, were examined on the Governments be-
half in the case Of Ex-Lieutenant Dulany.
Before Court No. 2 Captain Nicholson and
Lieutenant COrbin were examined for the Gov
eminent in the case of Lieutenant Harrison.
Before Court No. 2, the evidence in the case
of Commander Long was closed by the introduce
ton of the affidavit of Commodore APP Catesby
Jones in Commander L. 5 favor They then
adjourned, to allow time for the preparation of
the defence.
TO-day.-BefOre Court No. l. Messrs Gun
nell, Thrift and Thomas, citizens of Fairfax
county, Va, were examined in behalf of exit
Dulany- The Court then adjourned until Fri
day, on account Of the death of Commodore
Newton.
The other two Courts on meeting this morn
Ing Immediately adjourned over
And then the members and Judges Advocate
Of the three Courts in joint meeting assembled,
Commodore Storer in the chair, and r. p Lit
10 III
preamble and resolutions
Whereas, IL has pleased divine Providence i'm
this inScTuta5le dspensation, suddenly Ia remove
from our midst Commodore John Il. Newton, the
presiding officer OF the Senior Court of inquiry
now in session III this city therefore
RsSOErsd. That in this aftlictinI Il spenSatiOn of
Providence we recognize the truth that i'm the
midst of life We are in death >
That in the sudden demise Of Commodore John
Il. Newton the Navy has sustained the loss of
valuable and gallant oftiCCr-*Ociety that OF Il
worthy and accomplished member-and his fam
lily bereavement eliciting our sincere aud heart
felt sympathy.
That in token of our regard for the deceased,
ana our sense Of our loss sustained by ourselves
as his friends and brothers in the service we
wear the usual badge of mourning on the left
arm for period of thirty DAYS
That copy of these resolutions be forwarded
by the President of this meeting to the family of
III deceased.
And thereupon, on motion the meeting ad-
journed
AMERICAN AND BRITISH SHIP BUILDING
The ship building and ship owning interest in
Maine-the great business interest of that State
is rapidly coming to realize the necessity for
an entire change of its system of construction. if
1t Will in future compete for fair portion of the
Trans Atlantic carrying trade According to
facts presented by the Portland Advertiser,
iron propellers are far cheaper and more pro-
htable than wooden clipper ships, in the long
run. The former cost twice as much as the
latter originally. They make the Liverpool
voyage In twelve days while the latter require
from thirty to forty days The latter last bat
an average of ten years; while not one iron ship
so far constructed has been condemned by the
underwriters, though some of them have been
IN service for twenty-five years. 1t stands to
reason that the passenger and light goods bust
ness-the paying business-will seek the iron
ships even at greater cost for passage and freight
under such circumstances and il is no less
clear that we must speedily adopt the iron ship
if not content to be driven off the field Of COM
petition on the ocean.
CANNON The telegraphic account published
by Us yesterday. as having come by the steamer
Illinois from Nicaragua, that the Chammorist
party there had sent urgent requests for the re-
turn Of Walker to that country, was made out
of whole cloth, evidently for the benefit of the
sunken fortunes Offiibustersm The idea that
any natives, except professional thieves and
robbers who desire the opportunity Of plumber
ing, On his trail, what may escape his plunderers
on larger scale, can long for his return to
Nicaragua under any possible condition of their
affairs, must necessarily be secuted by every
man Of common sense who is aware of the ter
rble sufferings he and his followers so recently
inflicted oDthe whole population of Nicaragua;
to whom he proved as dire scourge as Tanner
lane proved to the victims of his similar law
less rapacity.
The TRAGEDY ~ GoLDsBoRoUGH, N. c.
From all the information in our reach, we are