The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1853, Page 7

, bmwperial eity of Mexico and planted upon ite capitol the . which so highly _ fogs ) in heart of'en reverted to whe scenes which now sur- + to contemplate it in its effects upon the public opinion of THE RECEPTION OF GENERAL QUITMAN, aT Red Hook, N.¥., the Place of his Nativity, JULY 18, 1863. ‘The arrival of Major General John A. Quitman having become known, citizens of the towns of Red Hook and Rhinebeck, formerly the town of Rhine- beck, assembled en masse, to the number of several hundred, at the hotel of Stephen Lasher, in the vil- lage of Red Hook, to welcome the gallant General at the place of his nativity. A committee was hastily organized, consisting of William Chamber- Jain, Jacob Benner and James B. Fisk, of Red Hook, and Ambrose Wager ‘and Gouverneur Tillotson, of Rhinebeck, to wait on the distinguished and gallant General, who in a short time returned and presented him in the large dining hall of the hotel, where he was received, on the part of his old friends and neighbors, by John Elseffer, Esq.,and welcomed in the following manner. A sketch only can be given. He said :— Sir—I have the honor, in bebalf of the citizens of the towns ef Red Hook and Rhinebeck, spontaneously asrerbled, to tender you a cordial and heartielt weleome to the of your nativity. The associa- Hous connected with the name of Quitman in this vicini- ty. owing to the high respect felt for your honored father, and associations of a more reosnt occurrenee conaected with the name of Gen John A. Quitman, make a visit from you to the place of your netivicy highly interestiog ‘us. There are mapy witnin the heariog of my voice who knew you persovally from your youth, and many re member broek ge when comparstively buta stripling, with a satebel under your arm, but with out heart ands Gxed determination, went out from among us, and €d the Alleghsoier alone and on foot, Stretching to utekirts of elvilizetion. you entered into the broad and fertile valley of the Wes, and, planting yourself in ‘the State of Mississippi, yon conducted an honorable fe sional business, acquiring, by your iadustr talents, such a ing that the people Biate cenferred on you the highest offices their gift, both executive and judicial. rejoiced at your success. We hail you this ¢ ing also pidier ands patriot, who, at s sacrifive of doniestic private evjoyments, has defended the henor and dignity of our beleved country. The country witngened pent military career with pride—the feieads of your yeuih looked on with great anxiety aud high hove, traversing with you the sandy plains of Mexico, uoner @ tropionl sun, passing through their mountain gorges, surrounded by an insidious foe, demolishiog the strong holds oxd fortresses of the enemy, scattering their armies and taking possession of their cities. Yes, sir, aud it was Our joy that the volunteer brigade under command of Genera) Quintman first entered the city of Montecey, and bore the heat of the battle at the storming of Chepul tepec, first broke down the Belen gate, and that your foot, sir, was the first American foot that entered the city of Mexico, and that by your orderathe stars and stripes of our glorious Uniod were unfurled from toe Hails of the Montezumas. (Cheare) Sir, we are proud ot the fame you have won—we love the mea who love their eountry—wo love to honor the men who stand by and Fonor their couatry. He paid there were many sub- jeote to whien he would like to advert. During aa ab- sence of thirty four years many changes had beeu wrought in his native State-—the unparalleled growth of our cities avd villages—the works of interval imp ovements car- ried on mainly by individual enterprize—the progress ia sgricultuse, churches aad rchools, those great nurseries of freemen—all must convince him that the geatier arts of peace had not been neglected at home while he had deen abroad rearing for him-clf a world-wile fame, We apain weloomed bim as a citizen by adoption of w Southern State, snd though petty jealousies iight arise | for a time, yet the intelligent men of the North, and the ebivalrous men of the South. with an hy to the peo interests of each sovere'gn Stats, and reserved rights of each, would preserve the constisution aad the Uxion. (Cheers.) When the enthusiasm subsided, General Qurr- MAN responded in substance as follows: — He expressed the deep emotion with which he now, after | £0 long an absence frum his native place received els | ome corgratulations of the friends of his chiidbood, aud of those whove fathers had been the frieads of bis honor. ed fat The tide of esrly recollection which over. wheimed bim rendered him unable to respend to the gon climentery address whish had just beea uttered by his honored friend. the playmaie acd companion of hia easly dsys The allusions of his friend had beon so person- al, that he would be excused in adverting for a moment to himelf. He bad gone forth fcom his native plare thirty-four years since a portioniess adventures, armed enly with the storn energies, the uptirieg industry aod per- severance ard the goed priacigles which the fathers of this od old county of Dutchess pad imparted to their chil en. Sues vad crowned his efforts, as well ia his | profersions! as in his oivil aud militery career. Through the vieissitudes of aneventfal life in his eontest for pro- fea ional reputation, for civil distinction, aud for military fame, his evergies had been aroused, bis aabition stiau- Javed, and bis heart nerved by the fond hope that his mame would be honorably mentioned arouad the firesides of thoes who now stood ebeut him. Ie at his wander rounded him—‘o tnis fair lend, unsurpassed ia the beauty of its quiet rurel landscapes, rkirted by pi Fe:que Mourtaio outlive whieh bounds the westera hori- son. No where was there a fairer laod or a beiter peo- |. He then aéverted to the late war, in which he had em part Glocious as were its results, he preferred ether coun'riee. I: had been said by thore who prafeas | to distrust the efficiency of our free and libenal system of government. that while it mast be admitved that it was well adapted toa state’ of peace it would utterly | fail in war. Well, we bad been compelled to waze | ar aggressive war with « wolastecine peopie the ‘mall standing army which it had been the policy of the government to retain was imadeqnate to theemergency. The President ed his call for volunteers. At once two hundred thousand men, from all parts of the ceantry, (fered their services, Tas contest was, who should be permitted to go aad who obliged to remain. Less than one-tenth of this cumber were required acd accepted into the They wed themselves not only men Dut soldiers. Ha smut it ee tan Miu let to goed prine!pally voluuwers @using the war, and {; gave him pieasue acd pride to say that on many cegssions they had shown themselves not inferior to vereran regulars. I; was a volunteer brigade that bad burst through the strong defences of Monterey, and it was the volunteer division, associated with a brigade of regulars, thet hed Grst eatered the 3 Herions stars and stripes of our country. (Cheer 0 will now say that our institutions are not a toa ntate of war au wellas of peace? We have « the respest of Europe, even our great commercial rival Fogland—that great power upon whose empire it is enid the sun never sews—uow treats un with respectful ci- vility. (Cheers) Yes, besaid John Bull is pots to Young Ameries. (Three cheers.) Ihe valor of our citizen roldiers has secured peaes with al! nations. We are ra’e kom dargers abroad. He uext alluded to other dangers hat mensced our «ystem of government. To avoid them was our duty, to preserve our institutions in their purity. The great feature of our system, which Gistirguiehes it frow former republic: is its federative prine'ple; it ia not a consolidaced goveroment, and he trusted it never would be. Is consists of sovereign States, by whom as soversiga communities the powers delegated in the eonstitution have been con- fened upon the general govervment aud no other. Ap abserption of the rights of the Sistee would ag certainly destroy that eonstitution, and with it the Union whic it eatadlisbed, a5 would the separetion ef the States. We of the South have domes te institutions dissimilar from ‘hose of toe North; we now that in tho federal systera we arein tha winority; we cannot entrust the ecniro! of ovr peculiar policy to those who do not urderstanc it, aud therefore may have prejudices agwinst it, as you would pot eutrusc yours to us, Weask not ‘o interfere with yours; we demiad only that we shon'd be permitted t> regulete our own. Our safety, #8 we are in amioority, requires usjlue-ef sre, im acecrdunes with the irue prinsiples o° the coustitu tion, upon the strict €d rights ef the 5 ater. A sagred rege plen will aloue preverve the Union ;a sy of them may destroy it. Le: us wysvem stic disregard everve our glorions Unien. Standing bere among his countrymen, a native pize Bt yet owiag his s#liegiance to, and ¢xt, inclination, and gratitude to a pobla fant Southern State, in whose bosom he had cast his lot, it was his duty as a candid and hocorabie man to say bere to the men whe rule the desticies of this mighty Stato, tha this Union can only be preserved by a fared edherence to the mutual engagements entere! into betwen ihe States in the formarion of the cousti tation From what he had seen and heard he believed thir to be the prevailing continent in this, the honored county ef his birth, and emong “how stern freemen who surrounded him who knew how to defend thelr righis as wellas to ob+tein from violaiing the rights of ochers. ors) Tie coveluded with again retoraiug his thanka this Lesrty weleowe (Eothuriastic cheers.) When tbe gallant General had concluded his re marks, of which the above is but a meagre outline, Nelson Barnes, a velunteer in the New York regi- ment, was introduced by Mr. Elseffer to General Quitman. The General gave hior a shake with both hands. ‘Their congratulations were hearty and earnest. After @ personal introduction to all who had come to testily their reapect, Rev. Dr. Strobel submitted a few congratulatory remarks, alluding to his position as successor to and pastor of the cong gation of ihe honored Frederick H. Quitman, D.I to the fact that he had succeeded the honored guest of the evening in his early instruction through several schools, it was true, about ten years his junior; and, as if to increase the interest between them, he had become a member of a literary sooi- ety founded by the General, ali which rendered the present meeting ay interesting; and in every re- tion in which he had heard his name mentioned the same gallant, noble, and honorable bearing lorns his mature years was accord- ed to Lim in youth. Gouverneur Tillotson, Esq., on the part of a de- legation who had arrived from the village of Rhine- beck, was introduced, who alfudea to the distinguish- ed civil and military career of Gen. Quit claims that the citizens of bis native place ‘held ng him, and the they bore for tis name and fame, and that though he had by adoption become a gallant son of the’South, their confidence in him was unshaken, inasmuch as he asked only constitutional and civil rights—rights guarantied ‘by the mujual compact; it @ asked less their confidence would be ‘Decause he was true to th | son observed, that on ¥ pired. tifying interviews that has ever been had cae tread The Farmer# Club. On Tuesday at noon the semi-monthly meeting of the above Society was held, at their rooms in Broad- way, Mr. Tinelli in the chair, when an interesting paper was read by Judge Meigs, the secretary, onthe “Earth, Plants, and Man,” extracted from a work by Joachim Frederick Schonw, Professor of Botany in the University ef Copenhagen. This paper con- tained much interesting antiquarian infomation. The plants disclosed in the ruins of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabise, enable us to judge of the alterations in them during the long period of nearly 1,700 years. Among other articles there dis- covered was a glass jar containing olives, which still retained their flavor. With respect to the cotton plant, Professor Schouw observes that its history can be traced, with a tolerable degree of probability, to periods before the birth of Christ, when its applica- tion was confined to India. Cotton is supposed to have been introduced into China in the ninth cen- tury, before which time silk was the general cloth- ing, while now the poor clothe in cotton and the rich in silk. Cotton stuffs were of very limited use in the middle ages, There were cotton manufacto- ries in Granada, Spain, in the thirteenth century, a Venice in the fourteenth, in I'landers in the sixteenth, in England in the seventeenth. It was ditticult to make the manufacture pay in Europe, because the Indians and Chinese had curried it to a considerable degree of perfection, and labor with them was very cheap. Machinery has now reversed all this; ove man with one spinning machine spins as much yarn ina day akan Indian does with the distaff in a whole year, Respecting sugar, he says that the Greeks and Ro- Mans were unacquainted with the general use of it; it is, however, of great antiquity in China, and per- hapsin India. Cochin China and India are usually cited as the native homes of the sugarcane, and where it is found growing wild. The crusades ex- tended the knowledge of sugar in Europe. Prince Henry, the navigator, carried the sugar-cane from Sicily to Madeira, towards the year 1,500; it went to the Canaries, then to St. Domingo, and thus through the West Indies. ‘The subject for diseussion was, ‘ The Benefit of Railroads to Agricultu: in which Mr. Solon Robinson, Judge Van Wyck, Mr. Judd, Professor Mapes, andjother gentlemen, took a part. Much val- uable information was elicited,and Mr. Solon Robin- son, who gave the initiutive, presented a mass of sta- tistics upon the catt e trade between New York and the Wesiern States, which showed the vast impor- tance of railroads to our city a8 a means of supply ing us with our food. Our tellow-citizens are little aware that in the Spring they would have suffered from want of meat it it hud not been for the accom: modation afforded by railroads in transporting to our seaboard the produce of the distant Western States. It would be rare to find a hundred head of cattle in the New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Vermont markets at one time but for the droves that come from the West. By means of railroads cattle are brought from the farthest parts of Illi- nois, by way of Chicago, within a week at the ut- most, while it would require from fifty to nincty days to bring them on foot from the western parts of Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and Arkansas. Asan instance of the cattle trale, and of the distant lo- calities from whence ea were brought, Mr. Robin- onday week past there had been offered for sale a lot of cattle raised originally by the Indians of the Cherokee Nation; west of Arkansas, marked with their hieroglyphics. These cattle were bought by an Illinois drover, and pas- | tured upon the grand praries of the West for one summer, and fed through the winter upon the abun- dance of corn that grows in Southern Illinois, Ther were this Spring started upon their travels eastward, and were finally butchered in New York. Ten miles per day is the average journey of a drove, wnd, Therefore, if it was not for railroads New York could | not support its population. As another instance of the benefits of railroads to agriculture Mr. Robin- son entered into the statistics of the mil trade. Milk is brought daily by the rail- road from as far as Chatham Four Corners, 130 miles distant. The country bordering upon the Camden and Amboy Railroad was formeriy a desert, but since the introduction of railroads through that district it had become one of the best portions of the State. As ancther instance of the benefit accruing from railroads, he instanced the tran: ion of blackberries to the New York and Philadelphia markets, which would otherwise have been eaten by the birds, and so great had this trade become that | there was a blackberry train. Still it was extraordi- nary that the farmers in general were opposed to railroads, Professor Mapes likewise furnished much valuable information upon the same subject, and alluded to the benefits that the farmers derived from railroads iu the cheap transmission of fertilizers. With respect | to what had been said by Mr. Judd, of farmers being stockholders in railroads, it would be found that the capitalists of Great Britain held by far the greater | port. The farmers had originally opposed the Hud- son River Railroad; perhaps they were now of a different opinion; but it was found difficult at first to induce them to join. The cheap transportation of lumber was likewise an advantage obtained | by rail- roads, another was the transport of fruit; there was more fruit conveyed into the New York market in a month by the Camden and Amboy Railroad than was consumed altogether in Great Britain during a year. Eleven hundred dollars had been re- ceived on that railroad for the Paee of fruit in one day. Milk was brought by the Erie Railroad from a very great distance, and mauy deal- ers in milk in this city sold $100,000 worth annually. Mr. Judd who had, at an earlier period, previously to Mr. Mapes, stated that farmers were generally in favor of railroads, now explained that the furmers in the western part of New York State had advanced the cay aie, for starting them. Bir. Solon Robinson proposed, as the subject for the next meeting. “ On soiling cattle, the best kind of plants for the purpose, the advantage of soiling over pasturing upon small farms. Police Intelligence. Stealing Catile —Wm. Gately, « butcher @ g business yesterday arrested, ebarged with stealng two cows, va Joed at B40 from the yard of Jaumes Planagen, at the corver of Fifteenth street ard teuth avenue. 'He was taken hefore Justice Stuer’ ard held to bail in $300 to aa erthe charge. He sta’es that he sents man ior two other eo#s which re embied the sbove in appearance, and thet thoce belonging to Mr. Flanagan were taken by mis teke, Charge of False Pretences —Patrick Maher, a liquor desier ci Albany, was yesterday beought to this eicy in stody ef tergeapt O'Been of the Pours ward po vo anewer a charge of false preteases, preforcad 1 him by Robert Connelly, a! quor mere*ant of t cuy. Mr. ©, makes affidavi’ that im December Inst as. curd called at his store end desired to purehase liqnoca te the yaine of $383 for eueb, promising to meat him ia te evewrg of whieh the goods were fold, at » house on mo stieets. and then were shipped to the sto-e ef the acensd in Albac a! the appolnted time 2. revaired to pate receive hie pay for them, but failed to app Previous to shiping + arked his 64 7 questions relative to ape wae told by he own uated on the corner of Quay and and was free from debt be fatso, and further, th oi the corper of Sixteenth strect and Tenth avenue, was | HA” houee bus did not mane to go Wilkens ray sare | i | “a bought te goods, promising to" pay { m the sane | doy, he cid it wih w view of defrauding the cvller, He woe taken defo Bogart, and beid to dail ia five bondéred col the eharge. Arrest for vony~A wan named Chiles A. Joupen vas yealeriuy arresced, cha ith stesling’S320 is pold com: the property of Ans A. Fleoager, residing Rector atrest. 1 tie occupied fa room to gether, ord the money was placed fits ovcer, ¥ho om awakening the (oll foand that‘ had been stolen accused tad left the room about two hours pie it as susvected of atentiag The preimiren were searcbed and $160 of 1t found sa. ernled in the cuthousa Too bateves ia stil misting, The prisoner was locked up by Justion Wood, for exsor ration Luerderly Characters. ~Txo yong wen were arrestel for herseen 32 aud 1 o’clock on Wedowsday night, naking & disturbance in the viewity of the € Felace, Thay represented themselves to be polis atiacied tothe Velsoe, and b worn by tha® body, and Th» cups hed been left a: er house keot by the faiber ef ene of thom, at the eorrer of Forty-see mt sticet ond Math aveoue, Is is sep ried that they kaock: ed down réveral person» ard broke op n a dvor ia sixth avevue. They were taken before Justion Stuart for ex an ine ion. Faulkner, the Counterfeiter.~Jvlivs F Weir, elerk in the jesetry store of Mr. Clark, No 804% Canal street, yesterday appeared before Justice Welsh und creferced & wpleint againas the man, Faulkner, who waa reeen'ly arrested for Buvk pared at the store of M. Clark the Cuizens’ Bank. Beltimere, $20 countorfait bill on , {a payment for a gold . The prizo committed for tri | spi aerererdstettcelpenbivd pel ha | dew Sine day for me. Oh, they measur: Samuel Browne, of Whitley county, Ind., on 19th alt., while working in a well, at the depth of twenty-four feet, struck through a rock which let out a stream of water and gas. The gas Gey en Belen aeeg blowing off. much re- Sinoutar Dratae sembling the noire made by the off of steam. It continued for :ome minutes viol , then grada- ally abated. 8 after it he a be- for the men at the windless to draw him up, fore reaching the top he.was suffocated, | glad to ree yor | dong so. The next day I felt very bad, and did not know PUBLIC EXECUTION IN NEW JERSEY, William Cating Hanged for the Murder of Two Children. SCENES AND INCIDENTS OF THE DAY, &e., &e., de. Yesterday, at Hackensack, Bergen county, New Jersey, William Cating suffered the penalty of death by hanging, for the murder of Mary and Daniel (’Brien, the former eleven and the latter nine years of age, children of Timothy O’Brien a laboring man residing at Kinderke- mack, Washington township, Bergen county, situated about five miles from Hackensack. In order that our readers may understand the facts and circumstances connected with the matter which led to the awful tragedy of the murder of two poor, innocent children, we will relate a brief history of the affair, ob- tained from an authentic source. William Cating is fifty four years of age, diminutive in statue, being less than five feet in height, and not very prepossessing in appearance. He was born in the County of Tipperary, Ireland, and brought up to the age of man- hhocd aad educated a Catholic in the family of Mr. O’Brien, the grandfather of the murdered children, At the age of about twenty five years, Cating went to work in several Protestant families, and soon after he re nounced the Catholic religion, whieh seemed to have given some offence to the O’Brien family. About five years ago Catirg and O’Brien, the father of the murdered children, came to this country together, Cating paying all the expenses; anden arriving at the Quarantine, O’Brien became sick and was sent to the hos- pital. Here Cating left him and went to Baltimore, where he worked for two years, saving out of his earnings enough money ‘o defray his expenses back to Ireland, having promised Mr. Anderson, one of his former employ- ers, to return and live with him again. During his ab- senee in America Mr. Anderson had died and Cating finding that O’Brien’s family had left for Amecica, concluded to return again to New York, arriving here about th-es years ago. He found out the whereabouts of 0'B:ien, und went to live with him, at Kinderkemack, New Jersey Cating brought some little money with him, ané during the last three years accumulated one hundred dotiars, ybich he gave +) O’Brien for cafe keeping, aud O’Biien made a daporit to his ewn account in oue of the savings banks in New York, stating that Cating gave him tne money for the benefit of bimself aud two children, This money bad been obtained by Cating, who worked on the different farms in the vicinity, lodging only at O'Brien’s howse on Sundays, or at times whea out of em- ployment Ultimately a dirpute arose be,ween them and the mensy given by Cuting to O’Brien was demanded back. The request was sefused—O Brien coateoding that the money had been given to him for a coasiserstion, ia tokivg care of Cating—a* least so aleged by O’Brien. A right or two before the perpetration of the marder a dispute arose between Cating and O'Brien, the former named wishing to go to Ba'tinore as he could get nine d Mara a month there, while he could only get six dollars here. Mrs. O’Brien said the thirty or forty dollars then on bie perron must be taken, O’Brien’s brother then in- terfered and prevented any violence being ®&sed towards | Cating. ‘The loss of the woke however, seemed to affect the | reason of Cating, and brought on a temporary ubs:ra- tion of mind, andon Friday, the 31st day of Decsmber last, in the day time, he atten.pted to destroy his lifeby cutting his throat with a «msl pocket kuife—the wound in | his throat was not of rufficient dep*h tocsuse death, and while under that excited state of mind, he siezed hold of the girl, eut her throat with the saue ‘kaife aud subse. quently billed ke boy by ioflicting blows with an Aiter despatcbivg the two poor children, as ts believed te wreak vergeance on the parents Cating locked up the beure, and put the key into his pocket, and then sought refuge in the wocds located in the immediate vicinity, where he remained from Friday night up to the Mouday morving following the 3d day of January, without food. | He then came from bis placs of ambush into the rozd, and was immediately apprehended and conve ed to jail. At the April term of the court, the prisoner was triod before Chief Justice G:een. and the jury found him guilty on the 22A day of that month; the convict was sentenced to be hyngedon the 28h day of Juse. A respite was granted by the Governor until the 2i-t day of July, and yerterday the jndgment of the Court was carried inta effect by Shenff Terhune. PREPARATION FOR THE EXECUTION—APPEARANCE OF THE GALLOWS, ETG. The dsy before the execution the Sheriff caused the gallows to be erected in full view of the public, facing the road, within the enclosure of the jail. that being sur- rounded only by a low picket fence, which did not in any way obstruct the view. The instrument of death, in its mechanical construc: tion, was the same as the one used by the Sheriff in the Tombs, consisting of two uprights and a cross bar, only op a smaller scale, having been made more in coaformity | with the diminitive proportious of the prisoner to suifer death on it. This gallows was erected on a platform of about fou feet, axcending by three or four steps, thus allowing the spectotors at & distance still a much better view of the lenin ceremony. Quite a number of persoas were con exated arcund the euclosure, ‘ome vere heard to protest against the proprioty of public exhibition being made of ths hanging, contending that the meaning of the law was to hang the convict within the enclosure of the jail, and that encloeure to be boarded up. thereby preventing persoas from viewing the execution, except.thore admitted by the Sheriff to the SCENE IN THE CELL—THE CULPRIT’S VERSION OF THE MURDER, ETC. On the evening prior to the execution, befere sundown, athe wretched man, in the presexce of M. M q., District Attorney, Sheriff Terhune, and one or two other persona. The prisoner was in bed, having a great finey for retiring early, and, indeed, some days be would occupy his bed nearly the whole of the day. Oa entering the cell, the prisoner kept his right haad mor- ing vp end down in & bowing mauner, exclaiming, “Oh! you are »éleome~you are welcome, geatlemen—I am and to conversation directed to him re plied as follows:— “1 hope to weet all my friends to morrow. It will bea fine day for me. I never wished any bad t> any one, aud the Lord k sit. 1 chal soon be with the Lord, and may the Lord bless you all. [wish to part with all ia ace. I would like to chake Tim by ‘he hand (meaning \10 O'Brien, the father ot the murdered cbildren,) and ark bis forgiveness; ond I want hia to forgive me, and I want to part invesce, On! Lord, Ido. I want to see ail my irienés. but don’t Jet any Iria come near me—what | | itnesstog the erection | muck The reverend then ! leet ores tion and prayer. MORNING OF EXECUTION—GREAT EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE JalL. At an early hour people began to flock from the adje- cont villages and the neighbering counties; wagons loaded with whole families were driven hurriedly into the town, and took up their position om the green op- posite the Court House, in full view of the gallows. Among the spectators were a large number of gelored people of both sexes, who appeared to be dressed in their “Sunday go to meeting im.” As the time advanced towards half past ten o’clock there must have been near two thousand people present. Among them were the small crying baby im its mother’s arms, upto the old maiden of sixty. Ev window, house top, shed, bern roof, and trees wit aight of the gallows was filed with human heads, The frovt of the fence, opposite the gallows, and e other available po-ition, was crowdea up with men ai boys. Timothy O’Brien 'and his wife, the parents of the murdered chi'dren, occupied a position by the fence, di rectly in front of the gibbet. Mrs. O’Brien appeared much sfilicted and shed tears. O’Brien expressed’a strot desire to bave an interview with the prisoner before be- jug brought out for exeeutiin. The request was commu- nicated to Ceting by the Pheriff, who refused te see O’Brien, remarking at the same time that ©’Srien had his forgiveness, but that he did not wish to see him. Between ten and eleven 0’ @ band of music an- nounced the ar’ival of the Highwood Guard, Capt. Hat- field, from Hoboken. who had very kindly volunteered their services to Sheriff Terhune, there being no organ- ize volunteer company in Bergen county. enliven- ing sounds of the music and the dashing appearance of this elegantly uniformed and well drilled company, in- fused vew life into the multitude congregated in front of the hotels and their vicinity. The colored females, young and old and the aged darkies likewise, began to dance and sing, beating time with the mule ‘Tee Turf, UNION COURSE, L. I—FLORA TEMPLE AND TACONY— FLORA MISTRESS OF THE TROTTING TURF. Tunspay, Jaly 19—Purse $1,000, two mile heats, im The time of the frst heat is five seconds faster than was ever reached before by atrotting horse im harness. Lady Moscow, a few years ago, trotted two miles in 5:04; Ripton, in Philadelphis, made » heat in 5:07; aad Lady Buffolk performed the distance in 5:09; but the time made by Flora Temple so astonishingly excels any before made that we are relieved of the task of comparison. Tacony, from his many triumphs, and particularly from his beating Flora, mile heats, last week, was stontly backed in this race, and before the start had the call at 100 to 80, The result proved, however, that Flore is too much for him, and that his success in the mile race, as we raid at the time, may be attributed entirely to his having the pole. Place him on the outside, and Flora can beat him every mile they trot. She is now mistress of the track. First Heat.—¥lora won the pole. She took the lead on the turn. Tacony, from his long stride, not being able to round a» nimbly as the mare, and she had a gap of bree leng’hs open at the quarter pole in thirty-seven seconds, Tacony. on the Deckstretchy closed finely, and was but a len, behind at the half, in 1:13, con- tinued to brush around the lower turn; but Flora had the advantage from her short rapid step, and she came on the homestretch three or four lengths clear—iaceny uy He bru hed again as roon as he got into straight aes aud would gain on Flora ; but before he could reach her scene now began to be very lively, the effect of the visit to Tartounding erroons to devel, oj elf, Loud talking, aud nationalities were subjects of discussion. A Jersey Dutchman, having imbibed a dram or two of lager beer, was busily defeading the laws of the country, impressing on his hearers that every man must sustain the officers of the law, and the law must be sustained any how, ‘The military, soon after their arrival, marched to the jail yard and’ took up their position, forming » guard aiourd the gallows was now manifested Much iegiah by the peop! All eyes were fixed intensely on the dan- gling rope and mechanical stracture which in a very short period would deprive a human being of hie earthly corer. Iv the crovd were a number of well dressed young girls, who appéared to feel deeply interested in the affair, People bad travelled that morning forty or fiity miles for the purpose of witnessing the execution, Two women— one carrying & chile—walked from Hoboken that morn- ing, for the purpese of gratifying their euriosity. The colored population were quite numerous sand all ins very merry mood. Tables were spread unde: the trees on the grass plor, for the sale of oysters, cake aud fruit; in fact, the whole place exhibited the appearance | of a graud town weeting or gala day; and bad a little gunpo*der been introduced in the fora: of fire crackers, the Fourth of July could have been easily imagined, CEREMONY IN THE CELL—DRESSING OF THE CUL- | PRIC FOR THE GALLOWS. From ten o’clock up to half-past eleven the wretched — wari was visited by a number of persons, with whom he | chook handy in a most fervent and friendly manner, The Rey. Alexander H. Warner, of the Dutch Reformed Cbureh, sud the Rey. Mr, Adams, officiated as the spirit. | ual advivers. Mr. Warner has atteaded the prisonor | since his convistion, Several hymns were sung, appr priate tp the position of the coomed man, aud praye: were made by the two clergymen, in whica the unfort nate man joined in a devout and penivent manner. At a few minutes after eleven o clock the jailer eate-ed the cell, and dressed the prisoner in a white muslio suit, | made somewhat in the furkish costume. Mr. Warner asked the prisoner if he bad put his trust in Jeaus Christ. “Ob yes,’ replied the | prisoner ; “I ain satisfied ho will take iny poor guilty soul, washed of all in the blood of Christ.” ‘Tas prisoner red to Mr, Warner, © Oh, no! I wilnot ery it is a fine day for me, by the blessing of the Lord; I feet my eins are great; one sin damus the soal.”” Mr, Warner—William, you had able counsel to defend you on yourtrial but he lost the case. Now, if soa have chosen Christ for your counsel, and are truly penitent, you are safe, HALUK-PAST ELEVEN O’cLock —Mr. Ackerson, the County Clerk, entered and aunounced that all must Ivave the cell, ur der the direction of the Sheriff, and the prisouer be left alone with his spiritual advirers. After the prayer, the cell door was opened, and Sheriff Techune en-ezed dressed with chapeau. sash and sword, and addressed the prisoner thus:—Billy, the time has arrived for your exdcution ; you must now commend yourseli to the Lord. Billy rephed, *\ Tam ready; may the Lard bles you ”” The prisoner’s arws were now pinioned at the elbows with cord Assisted by Mr Van Saun, the jeilor, and Mr. Dewson, the wretched man was led from ‘the the gallows, preceded by Sherif Terhune and Sheriff Hogencamp, ot Pa-siac county, aod Ex Sheriff Lane, ‘The Sheriff ascended the pla form, and the prisover welked up with a firm step, and was placed under the fatal beam. fhe clergymen ascendeaths platform, and theRev Mr. Warver made an impressive prayer, fol weed by Mr. Atame, Me Warner chen shook bands with th bidding him good bye, requesting bim to rep olf the prayer he hea tanght bim some time »go. The prisoner said he would Mfr. Adams then ook bis leaw aid several others who were oa the vistform Mr, Robert Simyson, of New York, ad | justedthe ‘stel noo-e, and attached ii to the pending rope. ‘The spectators at this fostaot were avmost breathlessly quict, awaiting the resul: Tae black cap was drawn over the culprit’s face, the sheriff his sword—that beimg the sigoal-the rope wa: and the revolting spectacle was exhibited to the pabliz— @ homes being dsogling im the air by the neck—-truly a horrible sight. The instant the body assended, necusly the seresm of several women was he+rd. who had gazed evidensly on the scene up to the last instant and 1hen gave vent to their feelings. The urforturate men re* to suffer bot list'e_» few convulsive struggles and nil seemed to bs over. The polsotion in the wrist, how vee continued some fifteen minutes. The body remained hanging for upwards of half av hour when Dra H. A Hopper and Caries Carll, prouonnced the body lifeless. It waa then lexered iato ap cak wood erflin and conveyed back ints a cell, fram where it will be taken by the Poorhouse Commissioners and buried. . At the close of the execution a fight ocearred betwaen an Irishman and x Jerseyman, upon @ ational topic, in which the former received some rough handling. Sub- sequently another disturbance ‘tock place, he: vee. a black wen and a white mao, in which the block man assavited. Sheriil Orrer, of New York, and his deputy, Mr. Simp- son, al:odeputy U.S, Marshal Horton, were preseat né the execution | In eonelnsion, we return our thanks to Sheri(f Ter | hune, Mr. Ackerson, the county elerk, and Mr. Knapp. | ole distrietetiorney, for their kind aid rendered during the occasion. CRIME IN THE COUNTY DURING THE LAST CENTURY. Imes, not eny Casholic Irish; Idon’s want to see them; I dread to jock at them; I would tarn my head asay. The Lord knows thst Tim bas brought all this on me. If he had let me bave my money it would have never heppened. Bat 1 got ro crazy and sd because they | kept my money, that JI did not know what I was doing, | ‘The night betore I killed the children, whom I loved as wel a I did my own Ive. O’Brien and his wife wanted to take the eight pounds I had on I wanted to lev | Cucjoe, some twelve years ago murdered a white man Mis, O'Brien raid the money siiould be taken from me, | Vihey would have token it bat for the ioterterencs of srien’s mother, who was present, and prevented them vbat todo. O'Brien was goue off to work, and Mes, O'Brien bad gu. e to New York. 1 then felt +o bad, and baving a +mail knife in my pocket, I thought | woutd kill myseit, ard with the knife cus a gash in my throat; | 1 while ip the house the li girl came in, at the time when I bicedmg without knowing what I vas about Ise hold of her person, and cat her throat, I then sent in rearch of the bey; fouod him near cy amd k lteo him too, with the knife; I chen b the door of the beuse ard put the key ie my pocket, aud went int the wooos, woere I remained uotd Monday morning, and then caine out on the read aod wes sxrested ‘Un the Sunday [ray che funeral of the con Terind ab ut then when they pussed alovg the rond, Cor I loved them as much as! oid my own life; on that night I :at ard mourned over their graves; nil the trouble hay beso brought in me by Tim O'Brien; he isa ole avdlam out, Tdon’t think I silt shake haods with Tim et resting well aduvt the mousy ; I dons want for the Lo.d's seks ke ish away don’: Yet ene 0° them come near me.” sire: Attorney —Why, Billy, I thought you expre aed vith a few moments ogo, to see U'Lcieo aod shake with him, aud ak his forgiveness, and to give him eny Catbo'ies toe me near me; th ot Uhirk £ could now see Lim; I think [ kim, he is end IT don’t want for the Lord's cake my Lord they ane ann made m ad and crazy; it was they killed the chiidree. al ough (* war gy hauds that y.vand others prevent their leave of ih Yor the night the | |. Pressing a desire that the Shei would permit tup with bun all bight, aud the Sheriff dosigaated Mr. | Faun, & résdent in the neighoorhood of tne j | the culprit, and tonk her leave, ing coanterfelt $6 notes on the Case) ghim with bavicg on the 6h ult, | Semuel Dawson and two others for thst pricorer, who ix familiarly eatled Billy, sho those pre The ok bands with , ad bace them goed night ‘The prisover & B Je1y nervous state of excitement both in miai aad | ney APPYEARANCE OF THE PRISONER ON THE MORNING OF EXKOUTION. Between even and eight o'clock in the morning, with Sheriff Terhune, we vivited the doomed man in hin call. | ‘The wretched old man was still in bed, and coatinued bis bowing sith his right arm, resting himself on the left elbow. Ho expressed himself pleased to see us, and | to questions put by the Shoriff, hs remarked ; = ith the Lord's biessing, IT slept wll, aod they mule @ ‘ake my breakfast thie morning Mr. Dawson war ne hind to me, be stopped with me all pight.”” The prison then shed tear+, and said, ina trembling voice, ‘ Oh, by the blessings of the Lord I hope to die happy! It will me for my ecffin ‘ast night! With the blessings of the Lord, I ia- tend te walk out to “he gallows, and act like amen” One of the deputies here entered the cell, and informed the Bheriff that he withed to take the measure of the as the other measure bad been lost. The ech oe became en ht and excited, when the eri raid, — lay dewn straight.” Billy complied immediately. and bis height was again taken, by passing a string from hend to foot. After taking the measure, The privoner then resumed his former position, oon- tinuing to beressh the Lor . The Alexender H. Warrer. of the pow entered the cell.p The | jmpnyoved in the Stave prison for ten’ years. eo (did: bal he brousht ali the t-oubie | | N. H, onthe 15th, from Bostoo, bar ey ‘The records of the county are within the remembrance of the eldest inhabitants during the last ceo‘ury. Wa. Catirg is the first white man known to have been hinged in this county. The previous execution was a negro named Harry Ceeco, who, with an accomplice cvlled Harry named Al'red Meyers, a tailor, residing at the English nexhbborboed = The roes broke into the st re, stole rome clothing, ard murdered Mr. Meyers. They were beth arrested for the crime, and at the ‘rial the ac complise, named Henry Cudjoe, was admi ved as a state evideves sgainetSiseo, Jie juvy found che latter guilty of wurder and sequitted Cudjee tly tried for rhe burglary, and sentenced to the Stace pri on for ® term of ten years. CENTREVILLE COURSE, ' | on Buildings and Repairs. came off victorious, we he had been the firat party | he would have to make another turn, which would throw him back again.” Flora croased the soore, in 2:27, about three lengths in advance. Tuoouy trotied nobly from leaving the stand, gaining on the mare at every utride, untile yoked her after passing the half mile pole. desperate struggle ensued; Flora struck her quarter and broke up, swerving to the right, accidentally toncuing Tacony; be became unmanageable, aud broke up also; a Chught quickly, and dashed away from him; and in the effort to force him alovg, ery step told at this siage of the game, he broke up twice aore, and gave up. Flora came home easily in 2:32, maklog the heat in 4:51 Second Heat —'weony looking the worse for wear, Flora ax lively axa cricket. 100 to 40 on ker, and no takers, She led tothe quarter pole half a dozen leugtha, in thirty-seven seconds; but the roan weat down the back- atreteh much than she did, and was clo:e to her ai the halt, in 1:13 On the'Jower tura they were locked, avd in that way came on the howestreteh, up which they hud sn energetic tussle for the lead, and Flora was half «length in froot at the sco-e in 2:28 14, the was a length clear et the quarter pole, ond then Tecony began to fal! off, snd uotwitnatanding every exer- tion on tue part of hie driver he was doomed to defeat. Flora wou by about one huodred yards. Time, 5:0133. L. I.—CENTREVILLE AND BLACK DOUGLAS. Tavrspay, July 21—Trotting match, $500, milo heats, best three in tive, to wagons, & F, J, Nodine named br. g Centraville 733 92 W. King samed blk. g. Black Dough 21212 Time, 2:84~-2:32 - 2:35—- 35—3:52. . E77 Bourd of Education. Erastus C. Benedict, Esq., President. APPLICATIONS. By Dr. Feit, of school officers of Righth ward, for r3- pairs at ward school No. 23. Referred to Committe By Dr. Beapx, of school officers of Fifteenth ward, for alterations at ward school No. 20. Referred to Committee on Buildings and Repairs. By Mr. WaTeRmAN, of school officers of Twentieth ward, for an appropriation to purchase an additional lot for a school site on Thirty-seventh street. Re- ferred to Finance Committee. By sundry inhabitants of the Twelfth ward, for an evening school at Carmansville or Manhattanville. | Referred to Committee on Evening Schools. REPORTS. The report of the Executive Committee on the By- laws and Regulations for the government of the Free Academy, was taken from the table. The By-laws were stightly amended and adopted. The report relative to the salaries of teachers in ward school No. 14 was taken from the table, and a resolution directing the payment thereof adopted. The By-laws reported by the committee on that subject were taken from the table and adopted. RESOLUTIONS. | By Dr. Hinnarp—That the President be requested | to apply to the Common Council for permission for Atkinson & Eveleth (at their own expense) to lay their iron pavement in Grand street, from ae to Centre, and on the side of “ Trustees Hall” in Elm street. Adopted. By Dr. Hiprarp—That the Committee on Supplies be authorized to advertise for books, stationery, &c., for the schvols. Adopted. APPROPRIATION. On motion of Mr. Murruy, $7,265 73 were appro- priated on account of the annual apportionment to | the Public School Society. MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Monanp presented a communication from the schoel officers of the Thirteenth ward, nominating S. H. Feeks as Inspector for said ward. | On moticn, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That Stephen H. Feeks be, and he is hereby, appointed Inspector of Common Schools for ol mye ward, in place of Charles L. Stickney, | resigned. The Presipenr laid before the Board the follow- ing resolution cf the Faculty of the Free Academy:— | Resolved, That the students of class A, composed of the tollowing individuals :—George W. Birdsall, James R. Brant, George Clark, Alfred G. Compton, Edward T. Corwin, John H. Donahue, Giles H. Gray, Thomas J. Grout, John Hardy, Charles L. Holt, Charles W. Hubbell, Benj. S. Raynor, Isaac Selig- man, George Sparrow, James R. Steers, Elij Ward, and James 8. Wightman, having completed | | the full course of study prescribed for the students of | | the Free Academy, and equivalent to that pursued | in the colleges of this State, are hereby recommend- | ed to the Board of Education for the first academic degree in the arts. On motion, ordered, that a sufficient number of the diploma certificates be printed for the graduating class, with a certificate that the said students are | entitled to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and that | it will be duly conferred whenever the Board is pos- | sessed of the proper authority. Adjourned. Coroners’ I. quests. Tue Scvicpe oF MR. WiiLers --Coroner Hilton held an inquest on Wednesday, at the East Broadway House upon the body of Mr Lawrence C Wille's, who committed suicide by taking an overdose of strychnine, Franklin Wa'erbury, Exq , of No 85 Hoster street, tes- | tified to having known the deceased for abont fifteen Jeers, and that during ‘hat tie nw had occarioaal fits {Uf despondency. and bad brea heard to theeatan nis life, About a year since he attempted to drown him-eif, but | wae prevented by the witness. ' Soup after tekting the poison, Drs Cuasuman and Leve- | ridge were called, and did sil'in their powsr to cave bis | life, bot witheuteucoess. He ioforaed shea that he had taken strychoine for the purpose of self destruction, and | that he Fad purchaced it at the corner of Chatham and William streets. ‘The decoared was a native of this elty, thirty of Of age; for many years he was book-keepey 1a e large down town houre, but he recently made an engeremeot The execvtion of Sisco took place on the S0th of April, | 1641, since which lime until the present period the couo ty has been free from capital olfvnces, As far beck an fifiy years, & negro was publicly harged for the” murder of white man, and prior to thet, two negroes, named “edd and Paro, were convicted of rape and maiming, ani senteneed by each, to be in the Court to reccive Ove hundred }. ficted at different po taned the flogging, but Paro expire i the sume time another negro #os ¢ through t pate vite tin Jad a-ieep th bed, the lite daughter of tne deceased war anskered by t es of her fath a saw the xegro in the room fastened the crime on the neg: nis never fa > punishmen' he neg o exstai este the newro’s body wa edafter the bure sore enough, the beart wa, moist, and a going on wishin special fire | w We purpose of destroy is heart, they © rcovid burn ttup. ‘it would least ro goes the ctory—' It wouldn’t ourn’’—aad thivis belie many of the o'desy inhaditoats, to be true arda Gred feet, and they have a right aiuly to a belief of their opinion. One thing is sure. the body was burnt, and that setisfied the outraged community of thet cay, and the juégment of the court was carried out. f Naval I: telligence. Tha U.S +bip Decatur, which urrtved at Portsmouth, pleted the qvedyon about to rwl for the b uks. lowirg is a list of her officer: :~ Win. ©, Waittle Co: may eer in J. De Haven, Cornelius Vie Alsiine James M. Duncen, Lieuteponte ho V. Bb w, FP J. U'C Barclay, Passed ‘Assistant Sorgeon, J. M. Bead ford, Actiog Raster; &, P. Willtone, L. A Kimberly, Posed Mioshiomen, Francis pperd, Cherles i Peck. Mid-bipmen; Arthur Whitue, Captain's Olerk; Zachary Whitmarsh, Boatswain; Wm Harcourt Gunner; Wm Bev.ne't, Ssilinaker; Joseph Saith, Carpenter; Asa Fri: bee, Ceast Pilot. U.S. frigate Columbia, Commodore Newion, the flag ship ofthe Home Squadson, was at Penwicola, 11th inst. She will probably sei! sbout 20:h for Yan Juan, Nicara- gue, with ex Senator Borland, the ne vly appointed Min jeter to Ce: 1 america, who is now at New Ocleans awaiting the arrival of the frijare | Commodore Shubrick, who is to command the fishing | rqvedron, arrived at Portsmouth on the 18th inst. He Das his sailing orders with him but it is thought that the accident to the Princeton may detain him, The crown plates of her botlera were blistered on the passage to Portsmouth, and she did ro! make a reepec'abie rate | of speed. It will probably be necessary to put in new boilers, her present ones being de‘ective in construction. Naval Exgiveer Watson has been despatched to Ports » outh to examine them. United States steamer Vixen, Commander Swartwout, | ‘war at Tampise on the lst inst, all well. She was await. | ing the return of Major Mordecai and bis companions, of | the last boy id investigation commission, who were expected to Mrive within a fortnight. Fishing The fol- he proprietors of the Kast B ay House vheca | werved in thet capacity. He was ® manot extensive quaintasce, and ba: lef: » large je of friends to | | moun bis untimely cud. The eocouer’s jury readered w | * | verdict of death by suicide. | _Farat ACGENT AT 4 Brewery. —. o’e'ock on | Wetnecdsy evening, @ young man oxwed Lawrence | MeGioness. “im the ecopioy of sva Childs & Co, brewers, at the corner of Tenth ave. ue and Tofr'y-ninth treet, was amusing himelf ia the b:ewery, when he ac cidentab ! » Jarge cistern containing (gain in a | ' tation, and bout seven feet of beer | €0 Patrick Derioe, wax peasant and with the assistance 0 (avs of attaching a hook to they surcrmded in doing this in A when taken erday beld an in the bud anda accidental deatn the jary. The deceasea wasa native o teen youre of aga xp D@ap tw A Sur's Carco —W: on io d ied bica ous by : but wlth A Soro (¢ men vere ergiged yesterday afer some ol the ear of the ship Colambus, lyiog at the foo; of Yeskr sheet which arrived 2 Liverpool on the 71h izet, they found the body of @ maa xmong bales, ‘be main hatch. It was much decomposed, ‘9 reteip none of its natural features. The ed sa) about thirty years of age, ead from + dress he wore i« thovah ha view « to have been @ soldier, wi t add stowel himself away while the veacel was taking in her cargo, orior to her sailing on the dh of Juoe Tis atso enppoved hat some of the argo was pat inatier he had hid himself. The hatch baving been cesured corked, aod the ship crowded with inmigran’ passengers, the cries of the decensed could vot be heard on deck, and be undoudsedty died from enflocatron or starvation. Coroner O'Docuell held an inquest upon the body, and a verdict to the above effect was rendered by ‘he jury. The deceasod was drevs ¢4 ipa white jack-t and Dive pants, with stripe down the Ir d the following figures aad lettara npen No. (80, Ju'y Ist, 1861, E. Russell, XXII Regi. Founn Dxap iy a Sink —The body of a female ehili, ap parently about two months old. was on Wednesday found inesrink in the rear of house 203 East Eleven’h street, The body was recovered and tuken to tie Corone:’s office, where en inquest was held upon it; bat decomposition had ‘aken place te so great an extent that it was impox- 5 ble to ascertain the cause of death, and the jary ren- dered a verdict of death from causes to them unknown, Sap.—A melancholy occurrence took place at the Blind Asylum, in Indiana, in Seok pee ofthe penu- rious and contemptible policy which closed that estab- lishment until April last lig or sixty unfortu- pate and almos’ helpless to shift for them- eelves. A young blind man of this county, who had been in the Poor Houre previous to being placed into the Asylum, when he heard of the inteation of the Trustees to close the institution, declared he would commit suicide rather than back to the Poor Honse, and at ey wey the house for the urpose, and was discovered just in time to prevent fin from hanging himself — Indianapolis Journal, | parties. THE CRYSTAL PALACE, OLEAN DESCRIPTION OF ARTICLES CONTINDED. Life of the Great Danish Sculptor; Thorwaldsen. EXHIBITION OF ANCIENT ARMS FROM THE TOWER OF LONDON, Bion ty Gite The crowd of visiters to the exhibition has experi- enced no diminution since o2r last visit, and the dis- play becomes more attractive every day. The hours of admission—from ten o'clock in the morning till seven in the evening—are still unchanged, ner have the public as yet received any intimation that the building will be thrown open during the evening so that the working classes may have an opportunity of seeing what it contains. If some sueh arrange- ment as this is not made soon we fear very much for the popularity of the exhibition. Under the present regulations the working classes are entirely excluded from the pleasure of seeing the collected products of the art and industry of the different nations of the earth. Let the Palace be thrown open till ten o’clock at night, so that the tradesmen and their families may have an equal chance with the moneyed classes. If gas has not been introduced into the building already the Association must haye it done as soon as possible, if they have any regard for the good-will of the public. Be- sides, if kept open till ten o’clock at night it will be visited by thousands who are at present deprived of the opportunity of seeing it without loss of both time and money. Bince our last visit an addition has been made to the United States department which attracts a large share of attention. This is a large painting, repre- senting Liberty in the act of crowning a bust of Washington with a laurel wreath, while by her side are lying the emblems of industry. it belongs, we believe, to some uther department, but thie is con- sidered the most eppropriate place for it. The paint- ing may be seen on the front of the gallery appro- priated to the United States, on the corner of the west and north naves. Lurge additions have been made to the works of art in bronze, among whieh the group representing a She,herd attacked by a Leopard is particularly deserving of notice. It is fall of spirit, ard has many excellent points about it, with very few defects. The chief fault we find in it is that the whole group ig not high enovgh for its length. However, this is a defect that will be overlooked by the publie. This statue may be ceen in the north nave. Some person, we perceive, has put timself to the unnecessary troy ble of placing an iron railing round the collossa equestrian statue of Washington, though it woull require no orfinary ingenuity to discover what pai ticular use it can serve there. SWORD TO COL. THAYER. Among the specimens of their handicraft anu skillj which are on exhibition at the Crystal Palace from the manufactory of Ames & Co., at Chicopee, Mass., is asword prepared for presentation to that venerable and accomplished officer, Col. Thayer, of the Engineer Corps U. 8. Army. The design and execution are both highly creditable. Still more se is the spirit manifested in the offering itself. On one | side of the scabbard is this ins :ription :— eoceocecocoooc ODD COCO CCC OOM ° His first clans of 1817 raduates of 18 0-21-22, to SYLVANUS THAYER, CORPS OF RAGINERR, SA Superintendent of the US. Military Academy, West Point, 1817—1833, eocoeccoscooe eco coo HCE CONS On the reverse side, within a wreath whieh bears the names of all the survivors, viz.:—Baker, La.; Walker, U.S. A.: Danelson, Tenn.; Courtenay, University of Va.; Dimmock, Va.; Capron, N. Y.; Wheelwright, N. Y.; Wallace, Indiana; Allston, 8.C.; Scott, U. S. A.; Morton, Miss; Henshaw, Kentucky; Bainbridge, U.S. A.; Wheeler, Mo.; Mansfield, U.S. A.; Bless, Md.; Morris, U. 8. A.; Abercrombie, U. S. A. —is the following :— “ Tho’ some have fullea Their memorier »till live in the Breasts of those who sur- G coL. pooccoeooe Whe witce for all this token of grateful respeet.’” The surviving members of this original class, (fifty-three in number,)—three of whom graduated at the West Point Academy in 1819-20, eleven in 1821, and four in 1822—determined, eight months ago, to have a social reunion, on classic ground, this summer, of as many as could assemble together, and to present to their former commander, able and venerated, a testimonial of their respect and grati- tude. The proposed reunion took place at West Point on the 13th inst. The individual members who composed it, after cordial greetings, indulging in animated reminiscences of the early past, comparing. notes with each other as to their own condition and prospects, and interchanging information as to the universal feelings and the various fortunes of their absent comrades, adopted this sword as an appro- priate memento, and appvinted a committee to ten- der the same to their former impartial and dignified superintendent, Colonel Thayer. The enterprising and skilful manufacturers peti- tioned for and obtained leave of the Committee to exhibit the sword asa specimen of their art before it should be placed in the possession of its futare worthy owner. Although not very costly, this sword, as we have said, is highly creditable to all the Upon the guard are seen the arms of the United States; the silver grip of the handle is sur mounted by a weil executed head of Calhoun, who was the Secretary of War under whose patronage Col. Thayer re-organized the institution, and whe sustained the new superintendent throughont in th establishment of an enlarged course of thorough scientific instruction and of a more stringent and judicious system of discipline. The scabbord is em hellished by two very good views ; one of that mag nificent view of the Hudson looking north from West Point, including the flag; the other a view of the library building, from the offices in which emanate all orders and mandates, and ia the chief ball of which, the library, are held i annually those tho- rough, searching exam'vations, (so much dreaded by some nervous subjects,) which constitate the peculiar pride of this academy. THE THORWALDSEN STATUARY. s oH OF THORWALDSEN'S LIFE. Foremost among the works of art on exhibition stands Thorwaldsen’s celebrated group of Christ and his Apostles. It deservedly attracts the marked attention of all visiters. We have already spoken of it, and it is now only necessary to allude to the admirable taste with which it has been ar- ranged, and the judgmeat Mr. Unalwehr, a pupil of the great master, is entitled to the credit of this. The group is the property of Mr. Beck, the Danish Consul, who has, ata great cost, presented them for the first time to the American public. Such generosity as this we hope will be thoroughly ap- preciated. . Mr. Frederick Carstensen, a countryman and en- thusiastic admirer of the great Dane, and brother to the architect of the Palace, has furnished us with the following interesting sketch of the life of Thor- waldsen:— In the commencem: Thor- wold Goteksiksen y, near . Jord, in Teeland, His son, Gotskslx Taor#aldsen, born ia vhe year 1740, acquired the art of carving in weod, and went to Copenhagen in order there to seek a living by thie profession. Here, in the capital ho married the daugh- ter of a clergymen from Jut:and, Karen Grouland, why on the 19th November, 1770, became the mother of artist whore life we shall briefly ak priae of ite, cht ‘The father, who then was i ‘ort himself and family by carvings ia arbre i carver ia he private stip docks of bsgen but sae by no mesos an artis". ¢ limited mians of the parents seemed not to have left apythivg for the instruction and education of the son. he, however, in his eleventh year dirplayed a talent for drawing, the father allowed hin. at J aest of fiend, to frequent Silet lee’ ie aa in