The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-09-17
The document is one Of great moment in the pre-.
sent crisis of Mexican Affairs.
NIsCHLLANEOUs NEWS.

| vered very interesting narrative of the travels
and experiences of Captain Spoke and himself to-
wards the source of the river Nile, which we pub
lsh IN our paper to-day. The explorers found
slavery existing in almost every kingdom in the
interior OF Africa. Captain Maury. Of the Confe-
| derate Navy, made some remarks on the subject
| OF Africa and its products
| The emigrant exodus from Liverpool in August
was larger by l,7SS than in July, whilst, compared
with the corresponding month Of last year. there
IL an increase of 1887, the respective numbers
being:-ls62, 8 ,49S; 1868, $3.50. The total num-
Der Of passengers which left the Mersey during the
month Of August the present year are 9s,a04, the
majority Of whom came to the American States.
| The arrival of the steamship Eagle at this port
yesterday from Havana places us in possession
of three days later news from that city. Nothing
of Importance had transpired since the sailing Of
the last steamer. Troops in large numbers are
leaving for st. Domingo. A war with Hayti is
| considered not improbable. Several fires have oc-
Cured in Havana, but none of any magnitude
| The steamship Locust Point will leave pier
| North river at twelve NJ. tomorrow, with the
mails for New Orleans.
The following silly report about the movements
OF the United States steamer Michigan appears in
some of the Western copperhead journals
unlteQ states steamer MChgaD lying at anchor
in the river opposite Detroit. with steam up watching
Mr. Vallandghams movements, to prevent. il possible
his making his appearances in the United States She has
already owe hauled several suspected craft among which
wa the steamer Morning Star, lew miles below tho
| city, on her way to Cleveland.
Vallandgham considers himself martyr, out
of whioh his friends are making political capital.
and nothing could induce him TO change his location
until after the Ohio election; and we are inclined
TO the opinion that the government does not now
care button whether he remains where he is or
returns to his home. Mr.. vallandgham has re.
| turned to Windsor, Canada, and on the 18th inst.
he was sercnaded by party of his friends.
Pendleton Muryah is the uccessfuI candidate for
Governor of Texas. Mr. Murrah is young man,
having graduated at Brown University in Is4s.
He is a native of Alabama. He was a
poor boy, and was supported. partly at least
by the charity of women who were members
of the Baptist church, with which he was con-
nccted. He displayed more than average ability
in his collegiate career. One of the candidates
elected to the rebel Congress is Philip T. Herbert.
who was representative in the Thirty-fourth
Congress from California. and while in Washing
ton made himself noted by killing an Irish waiter 4
at one of the hotels.
There have recently been some additions to the
number of travelling newspapers in the South,
which now, together with the wandering execu-
tives and itinerant State governments would
make respectable caravan. The following are
the names and present locations of these migra-
tory Journalist Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal, at At
lanta Ga; Chattanooga TENN Rebel, at Marietta,
Ga; Knoxville (Tenn) Register at Cleveland. Ga;
Huntsville (Ala.) Confederdcy. at Marietta Ga.
The Charleston papers will next join the itine-
rancy. and probably locate at Columbia. The
capital of South Carolina.
The democratic vote for Governor Of Vermont
in 1860 was l4,O30 This year it will probably
reach about IL, 900.
Mr.. Samuel Sterrett. citizen OF Baltimore has
been found guilty OF treason in that city, and
| fenced to be confined at Fort Warren in Boston
| harbor, during the war;
The draft in Albany will commence on Monday
| Seventeen hundred names are to be drawn to sup.
| ply quota of eleven hundred and thrty-four.
Widows with ''ony sons' and Jagged and narm
parents" appear to be very plenty in Bristol
county, Mass, as the following from the report
| of the Board of Enrolment in that district will
| show:--
| Exempted as the only sons of widows. man. 10i
Only sons of aged and nfirm parents. ...... l0l
| Governor Seymour has gone to Utica, to attend
| the State Fair.
| The Board of Supervisors met yesterday
| afternoon. The Riot Claim and Relief Com
mittees asked for power to send for persons
and papers, which was granted to both The
Committee on Riot Claims reported that they had
/ passed upon four hundred claims; that they had
objected to paying claims for loss of wages, for
closing stores during the riots of rent for des
| tructoa of property. The report winds up with
resolution authorizing the Comptroller TO pay
the claims reported on by the committee, amount
ing to sl2 900. The claims not allowed amount to
1880. The committee allow the actual value
Of property at the time Of its destruction, and not
| its original value. The committee request the
Board to extend the time for presenting claims be-
yond three months indefinitely. The report was
| adopted
The Board OF Education met yesterday after
| noon. The trustees Of the Seventeenth ward
| asked authority to establish a primary school in
| Twelfth street, near avenue ID. After considerable
opposition motion was made to authorize the es-
adjustment of the school. DR.. Gibbs Professor Of
| Chemistry and Physiology in the Free Academy,
sent in his resignation from Cambridge, Mass II
was accepted. The other business which came up
was entirely Of q routine character.
In pursuance Of the Presidents new proclama-
ton, Judge Clerke, in the Supreme Court, yester-
day discharged two writs Of habeas corpus, and
remanded the enlisted parties for service. Judge
Belts, In the United States District Court, holds
another application over for consideration on the
points raised by Mr.. N. 2. waring. that, as the
relator was in the hands Of the authorities before
the proclamation was issued, he could not be af-
fected by it's dictum, and that ii was not retro
spcctive.
In the Court OF General Sessions Yesterday, be.
fore City Judge McCuvn, the trial Of Bridget Hef.
fern. indicted for arson. was postponed, in conse.
quencs Of the indisposition Of the prosecuting
ofaccr. Assistant District Attorney o. l.. Stuart.
The Grand Jury handed in q large number OF
indictments, and, after receiving the thanks Of the
Court, were discharged for the term. The Court
then adjourned until this morning at eleven