The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-03

evening from Washington. They travelled rom
the capital in company with General Scott, who,
however, left them at Elizabeth, New Jersey, his
| place of residence.
| The Eighth regiment of Connecticut left Camp
| Buckingham, l.. L., yesterday, and proceeded to
| Washington, via the Camden and Amboy Railroad
| The following members Of the Fifteenth Massa-
chusetts regiment arrived in this city yesterday,
all of whom were wounded at the battle Of Bax's
uff:-Samuel T. Smith, Matthew Creelman
Henry Kinny and Briggs M. Daboll, all Of Com
pany G, and Frank Gracher, Of Company H. They
were kindly cared for at the residence Of Colonel
Frank +. Howe, No. "a East Twenty-hrst street.
and sent home to their friends by the eight O'Clock
train to Worcester last evening.
BY the arrival of the Karnak at this port yester-
day we have advices from Nassau, N. r., to the
26th ult. The papers are altogether barren OF
news. From Turks Island we learn that the pros
pect of any further quantity Of salt being gathered
this year was very small. The frequent squalls,
with the high wind, which had prevailed Of late,
having dissolved nearly all the salt that remained
In the pans, and the cool season being 80 near at
hand, made it more than probable that not another
bnshel will be raked. particularly at Grand Cay,
where more rain had fallen than at either Of the
other ports of the colony. According to the
Standard, 48s ,240 bushels Of salt were ex-
ported In the last quarter of 1860, and there
is now on hand about the same Quantity to begin
the corresponding quarter for this year, with
considerable difference, however, in the prices
that Of the former commencing at s1l to 10 cents,
while cents is the maximum price at present
The London Shipping Gazette of the 18th ult.
says:-Two batteries of 6-pounder smooth bore
guns were yesterday withdrawn from the depot Of
the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, and ordered to
be prepared for embarkation in the Black Eagle
transport vessel, Mt Deptford, for the use OF the
Artillery Volunteers in Prince Edward island
Three batteries of 12-pounder Armstrong guns
and equipments were ordered to be got in readi-
ness for despatch by an early conveyance for
Quebec.
The European Times reproduces the following
somewhat suspicious statement from Greenock
paper:-The steamer Fingall is announced to have
cleared at that port recently for Madeira and the
West Coast of Africa" with a cargo Of munitions
of war valued at f49 000 1t is difficult to believe
that IL 34l riaes 400 900 cartridges, 500 sabres,
"a quantity Of wrought leather BELTS" seven tons
of she'll, four pieces Of artillery, and FORTH
| destined for negroes. African "trade guns'' are
not usually rifles, and it is just possible that our
Greenock contemporary has, by slip Of the pen,
substitute! Madeira and the West Coast Of
Africa" for "the Southern States of North Anne
| rica."
| The British schooner Blanche, from st. Pierre,
Martinique, arrived yesterday, brings to this port
$50 hogsheads and fifty barrels of sugar. which is
the first cargo of the kind ever brought to an
American port from the French possessions.
International Steamship Company, and which has
been on the ST. John, N. B., line for several years.
has been sold to Messrs. Aspinwall Co., of Bos-
ton, agents Of the United States government, for
! $4,000. She has been thoroughly overhauled and
| put in fine running order, at an expense of about
| SIS, 600. The steamer has been coaling at Port
| land, Me. Negotiations are in progress between
the same parties for the purchase and sale Of the
| steamer Eastern City, of the same line.
| The current monthly pay, subsistence and al
| lowance OF Lieutenant General Scott were, and by
order Of the President continue to be- while he il
| upon the retired list, az follows
| Pay, per month. 1910
/ RatiOns, per month ........... $50
| Allowance for servants, per month ....... 80
Allowance for horses, per month. ........... SO
Total monthly pay. .s77O
which makes an annual income of 1920.
Lieutenant Colonel Friedlander, Of the Black
| Horse cavalry regiment, at Troy, has resigned.
He applied to the Military Board at Albany to be
Examined, but failed to receive any recognition.
| He then asked his commission from Governor Nor
gam but his application was passed by unnoticed.
/ In this humliating position he had no alternative
| but to resign.
| Ina speech made by John c. Breckenridge in
| the United States Senate, on the occasion of
moving from the old Senate Chamber to the new
| one he said:-"Is there an American who will de-
ride his countrys laws, pervert her constitution or
! ALLEVIATE her people? II there be such man. let
his memory descend to posterity laden with the
excavations Of all mankind" There is such man,
and his name is John c. Breckenridge.
Great numbers Of the citizens Of Kentucky who
Joined the rebels are now leaving their camps and
returning to their homes, half starved, half clad
| thoroughly disguised and much wiser men.
/ The Union men, after the battle of Frederick
| town, Missouri, buried two hundred and thirty
eight Of JEFF. Thompsons rebels, whose bodies
were left upon the field.
Three hundred men, one hundred and eighty
horses, twenty eight mules and four wagons
| belonging to the First regiment Of Nebraska
cavalry, arrived in St. Louis on the 30th nit.
Some Of the Western papers insist that the New
York editors, who published the accounts of the
naval expedition while it preparing to sail
shall be arrested. as traitors and sent to Fort
Lafayette.
| Hon. John S. Watts, the newly elected delegate
| to Congress from New Mexico, arrived at st.
Louis on the 3oth uIt., with important dispatches
/ for General Fremont.
| Albcrtine Flaum, Polish woman, who was
arrested on Friday on suspicion Of being concerned
| in the robbery and murder of a foreigner named
] Sigismund Fener, committed suicide by hanging
herself to the grating OF her cell door shortly after
her incarceration in the Fourteenth ward station
house. The Coroner held inquest on the remains,
and the jury rendered verdict Of Suicide BY
hanging report of the evidence together
with some additional particulars relative to the
robbery and murder, may be found in another
column.
Business still continues light down at the Custom
House. The crowd of applicants for Office how
ever, suffers no diminuton but we believe no