The New York herald., 1869-05-10

for Cuba lately but he can produce no facts to prove
his assertions.
The Pacific Railroad celebration In San Francisco
on Saturday was grand affair. Military ana CIVIC
societies paraded salutes were fred congra'uatory
messages were receced and sent, and everybody
was out OF doors. At night the whole city was
Illuminated.
The workmen attached to the Washington Navy
Yard held meeting on Saturday and resolved to
work eight hours and demand the usual ten hours
pay, when if the pay was refused, they would carry
the matter to the courts.
The City.
Right Rev. DR.. GIL. OF Richmond, preached IN st.
Patrick's cathedral yesterday. In the First Presby
teran church, on Fifth avenue and Twelfth street,
the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions held a
meeting and the reports OF the past years operations
were read Rev. Dr. Thayer, OF New port. II. l., then
preached sermon. Rev. DR.. Chaplin having re-
covered from his illness, was enabled to preach
yesterday at his Church Of the Divive Paternity,
where he delivered most eloquent ser
mon on the 'Quiet Workings OF Nature"
in which he alluded to the completion Of the Pacific
Railroad. The anniversary Of the New York Bible
Society was commemorated at the Methodist church
on Seventh avenue. The American Female Guardian
Society ce!ebrael its thlrtyfth anniversary at the
Fourth Presbyterian church. IN Thrty-.ourth street.
An abstract of the annual report OF the lady man.
ayers was read. which showed that $40 women and
children have been sheltered in the Home for the
Friendless during the past year, and aoout 1000
women have been furnished with respectable en-
ployment.
The United States steamer Memphis was sold at
auction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday for
$4,000.
The counsel for the Haytien government having
become satisfied Of the innocence Of the three par
ties, John Rust, AHonzo Brett and William IL. Ii.
Jones, arrested on charge Of being implicated In
the extensive forgery of Haytien bank notes, made
an application yesterday before Justice Hogan at
the Tombs for their release. The Judge promptly
ordered the discharge Of the prisoners. Subse-
quenty statements were taken giving the full de-
lalls of the negotiations for printing the forged
notes which impcate an admiral and two subordi-
nate officers in the Hayten navy. Statements were
also made regarding other alleged forgeries of notes
OF higher denominations, which, in order to serve
the ends of justice, cannot be published at present.
All these statements to be forwarded to the Hay
ten authorities and criminal action taken against
the alleged guilty parties.
Prominent Arrivals in the City.
Colonel John G. Warren and Augustus Z. Costello.
the FenIans released recently from British prisons,
arrived yesterday, and are stopping at Sweeney's
Hotel
J. A. Garcia Garcia, Peruvian Minister is at the
Clarendon HOTEL
Colonel W. ID. Farrand, of Washington and DR..
Frazer, Of st. Louis are at the Westmoreand
HOTEL
Captain II. Roundy, Of San Francisco, and E. Ad
ans, of London, are at the Brevoort House,
B. Jewell, Of Hartford; N. Page, OF Washington;
Captain p. l. Pilloth aud Colonel W. Earl, Of the
English Army; General J. s. Fullerton. Of st. Louis;
Judge Comstock OF Syracuse; Ben. Field, Of Albion,
and Samuel p. Dana, of Boston, are at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel.
J. b. Middetown. Of the Uni ted States Army; Nat.
Mckay, OF Boston; Judge McCorke. OF Nevada, and
Colonel Clarence King, OF Washington, are at the
Metropolitan Hotel.
Colonel W. H. Wiege and Captain II. B. Hender.
son, OF Rochester, and DR.. II. Faukenburg OF Baden
Baden, are at the St. Charles Hotel.
Prominent Departures.
Horace Leland for Springfield, ILL.,; Major Drake
for New Haven; Senator Sprague for Rhode Island;
Colonel Coleman. for Lancaster; Ross Campbell for
Baltimore; Senator Dickson, for Hartford; Captain
Dickinson for Boston; r. II. Pruyn, for Albany.