The New York Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1860, Page 2

THE AMERICAN BONAPARTE FAMILY. Our Paris Correspandence. Pais, March 26, 1860. AZave We a Bourton Amongst Us ??’—Discussion of the | *Gubject Revived in France—Origin and History of the dmerican Bonaparte Family—The Prince Jerome's Ad went in New Tork—Marriage to Miss Patterson—Return fo Burope and Subsequent Marriage to the Daughter of the King of Wurtemburg—M. Jerome Napoicon Bonaparte, wf Baltimore, the Offspring of the First Marriage—His Claims to Royalty—Deorée of the Emperor in Regard to Firtt Marriage, dc., dc., kc. Te recent ponteation of the 17th yolume of Thiers’ “History of the Consulate and the Empire” has revived Whe discussion of a question which may yet lead to no ‘Mitle trouble in France, and which, directly affecting, as it sMoes, the rights and hovor of the descendants of an Ameri- can family, cannot fail to be of interest to American citi- wens. We allude to tho question of the right of the mem- ers of the American Bonaparte family to be considered ‘ex belonging to the present Imperial family of France—a right which has been denied by the present Emperor, but ‘one which, perhaps, at eome future day, may be acknow- Jeiged by the French people, when they get ready for a ebange. Probably ali of our readers are aware that there je.a family of American Borapartes, but few are probably Jamiliar with the simple fwets. which constitute their eclaim—a claim which, under certain contingencies, in- Yolyes the posseesion of no lees a prize than the Imps- ia) throne of France, J the year 1800, Jerome Bonaparte, the youngest of he brothers of Napoleon, and who had, a year previous to this, entered the naval service of France, was given a ‘Meutenancy by Napoleon, and ordered to join the expedi* téon commanded by his brother-inlaw, General Le- ‘lere, which Napoleon was about despatching to St. Domingo, then in a state of servile insurrec. tion, the negroes being commanded by the celebrated Touseaint L’Ouverture. Soon atter his arrival, however, at St. Domingo, General Leclerc sent him back to France ‘with confidential despatches for the First Consul, and af- fer fulfilling bis mission in command of the frigate B’Epervier, to which he had been promoted, he hastened go return with troops. The result of the expedition is ‘well known to the reader of French and colonial history. Bs coss the life of the brave General Leclerc; and hostili- ties baving recommenced with England towards the end of 1802, many French officers were taken prisoners, and Jerome Buonaparte was obliged to leave or share the game fate, as the English had sent such s superior naval Poree that it was useless to contend against them. He pre- ferred the former course, and went to New-York. During bis sojourn in New York, as well as in Philadel- phia and Baltimore, he was treated with a great deal of yespect, and was the guest of the best families of those ‘three cities; apd as all Americans at that time felt an in- terest in the fortunes of France, which had so recently yendered us such essential service in our struggle (or in. @ependence, the brother of the First Consul could not fail to attract a great deal of attention wherever he went. On the 24th of December, 1808, being then in the twentieth year of his age, he was married, after mehort courtship, to Miss Elizabeth Patterson, a beautiful young isdy, belonging to a wealthy and distinguished family in Baltimore. In the month of April of the following year, Jerome, with his young and beautiful wife, embarked on the sbip Erin on a perilous voyage across Mee ocean. Tho ship was several times chased by English cruisers, but succeeded in escaping them, and toward the end of May arrived inthe port of Lisbon, whence Jerome, im his anxiety to apprige the Emperor of the circumstances of his marriage, took post horses and urged them with all peed to Paris. Here a terrible reception awaited him, ‘and be learned upon his arrival that hig marriage had een annulled by the Emperor. Jerome endeavored to @hange the purpose of his brother, but all his efforts were wemavailing. Meanwhile the Erin, on board which the young wife remained, sailed for Amsterdam, where Jerome had agreed to join her and from there take her to rance. But upon arriving at Texel the commander of She vesze] received a peremptory and formal command to @epart, the "mperor having ordered that the wife of Jerome should not land. She remained on board, and ‘went to England, where in the following month, on the ‘Wm of July, 1805, she gave birth to a son, the present Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, a resident of Baltimore, It is not our purpoge here to follow up the history of Jerome. After the conferences of Tilsit, by the terms of ‘which the territory of Prussia, from the left bank of the ‘Babe, was joined to the kingdom of Westphalia, Jerome ‘was placed by his brother upon the throne of that king- om, and was soon afterward married to Frederica Cathe- rine, daughter of the King of Wurtemburg. by whom he hhad three children, two of whom, the present Prince Na- poleon and the Princess Mathilde, are still living, as is also their lather, the ex King of Westphalia. ‘Such are the simple facts necessary to a complete un- @erstanding of the claims made by M. Bonaparte, of Bal- fimore, and which in several forms have been urged since fe accession of the present Emperor to the Imperial ‘@hrone of France. The volume of the “ Consulate and Empire” referred to above, and which has boon jast pub- Mshed in Paris, contains a note which M. Bonaparte, who gtvles himself “a French citizen, residing at Baltimore, of the United States,’ requested the isher to insert, and which, after sta‘ing fact and date of Jerome’s marriage with Miss Patter- gon, proceeds to say that ‘the marriage was celebrated ty the Bishop of , according to the rites of the (Catholic Church, and that it was duly registered ; that Je- ome Bonaparte, then 19 years of age, had attained the age Fequired by the French law to contract a valid marriage; that his ‘being dead, his mother, Letitia Bonaparte, did not within a year, as required by the French lev, de- ‘mand that the marriage should be declared null an‘ \ oid; ‘that on the contrary, Madame Letitia called M. Jerome Na- poleon Bonaparte, the issue of that marriage, ‘her dear son,”’ and signed herself, in a letter to him, “‘his very affec- tionate mother;” that in 1806 the Empsror Napoleon de- manded of the Pope a bull annulling that marriage, and that the Pope replied there was no reason to annul the mar- riage, and that were he to do a0 he would be guilty of a ‘most abominable abuse of his sacred mi ‘y before the ‘wibunal of God and before the rch. Such is ‘Me statement of M. Jerome Napoleon, tue son of Miss Pat- ferson. The Prince Napoleon, the son of the same fathor Dy Catherine of Wurtemburg, sent to the publisheran ‘qnswer to this note, which is annexed. The Prince sa; that Madame Letitia Bonaparte did jon the third ventose of the year 13, as soon as she heard of the marriage, protest degaily as ‘That in order that her intentions ehould be well known, and that at no future time ber silence should be interpreted in a manner contrary to her real sentiments, in order to express her will on the offence eommitted by her son against the Jaws of maternal digui- ty, declares, first, tbat her consent was never domanded by her son, being a minor, and tbat she would have refused it from motives which the law authorizes hor not ‘to state. Second, That she solemaly protests, by the pre- pent act, against any marriago contracted by herson Jerome Bonaparte, in a foreign country, without her consent and im contempt of the forms prescribed by law. Third, That ghe expressly reserves to herself the right of appealing thus, and before the compe‘ent authority, as son as she @an procare a copy of the marriage certificate, in order to Dave it declared null and void.”” ‘The annniment of the marriage was pronounced by the Exmperor Napoleon, by a decree of the 1!th ventose, year 18, and was approved by the Council of Stats. The fol- Sowing are the terms of the decree:— PALACE OF THE TCILERtEs, March 2, 1805. ‘We, Napoleon, Emperor of the French, having seen the document received by Raguideau, a notary of , the ‘3d ventose, year 18, containing a protest of madame our mother agalnst the pretended marriage of her son Jerome Bonaparte, ® minor, contracted in a foreign country with- out the conset of his mother, and without previous publi- aw; that it is the right of the Chief of the State to inter- I Se ee Genity apd yi the majesty of the throne, decree— That the officers of the Civil State of the are forbidden to receive on their registers the ‘twanecript of the act ofthe celebration of a pretended mar- riage that M. Jerome Bonaparte had contracted ina for- eign country. Article 2.—The present decree shail be in- @erted in the Bulletin des Lois, and the Miniater of Justice @harged with its execution. This decree was soon followed by one of the officialité of Paris, which in October, 1806, declared thet no marriage hhad been contracted; and it appears as if the partics moat interested had not been without their doubts as to the as- Kwowledgment of their marriage by the French govern. ment, for the marriage contract itself contains the fol ES ne — ‘1.—In case of any diMoulty being raised rela- tive tothe validity of the said marriage, either in the Btate of Maryland, or in the French republic, the said Je- rome Bonaparte engages at the request of the said Eliza- beth Patterson, and of the said liam Patterson, or either of them, to execute any deed necesgary, to remove i the difficulty, and to confer on the said unioa all the ebaracter ote valid and perfect marriage according to the reapective laws of the State of Mi and ofthe French ary’ republic. Article 4th.—That if the marriage should be seaenst, either on the demand of the said Jerome Bons Parte, or that of member of his family, the said Biz. Eoeth’ Patterson shall have a right, in any case, to one third of the real, personal, and property of her fa : ture husband. Up to the time of the restoration of the Bourbons, Miss Patterson received from the Emperor Napoleon s pension ‘of 60,000 francs. When the Empire was re-established under the present Emperor, M Jerome Napoleon proseed- ed to France, and attempted to establian his claim as a member of the imperial family, bead grounds similar to blished ia the reoentiy ia- sued volume of the Consulate and Empire ” If, however, he were the ‘true Prince,”’ the Prince Napoleon and the po emt ar octeatin; and 80 they ap. ale ‘a family cou: to “forbid Jerome reson Steribute to himself, under the name of bic ry 4 Won which does not legally him case was Delong to ably 4 pro and con, dad on the Fourth ofa u She femily counoll maintained the right of Mesos e: abe name of Bonaparte, but without granting the NEW YORK H'¢RALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEETS! ts of affiliation and succession to | te ‘of the imperial family, This judgment ‘was sanctioned by the Emperor, and when co Napoleon submitted to him the pote detailing his deci- sion of the above stated fact, he appended to it the following -— e “His Majediy the Emperor, by his conduct towards the descencants of Miss Patterson, since tbe judgment was determined, thought it right to prove that he did not con- sider them as ever belonging to his family civile’’ Such are the principal set forth in the notes of M. Jerome Bonaparte, and the Prince Napoleon, inverted by the publisher in the last published volume of the ‘Coa- sulate and Empire.”’ It certainly appears by them, that aoe ts little a the claims of the American mnapartes jowledged by the present dynasty. ‘The Prince ee ‘who o2cupies the position to which M. Jerome Bonaparte considers himself entitled, is but the third remove from the imperia! throne of France, his father, now in bis seventy-sixth year, standing only between the Prince Imperial and him. M. Jerome has « ‘son, vorn in Baltimore and educated at West Point, woo, at the suggestion of hig grandmother, went over to France curing the Russian war, and received an appoint- ment in Ul army from the Emperor. He served gallantly in the Crimea, and more recent in the war in itly, and now holds the rao ofcaptain. He bas beenoffered a title, it is satd, if he ‘will renounce the name of Bonaparte and receive it un- Ger that of Patterson, This, however, he bas refused, preferring to be a simple untitled officer with the great name cf bis father’s uncle, than to barter it away for a title without it. We sball not here enter upon the abstract question of the right of the descendants of Miss Patterson to a mem. bership of the imperial . Certain it is that the present acknowledjed members of that family wil never allow suchaciaim. But strange events are in store for France; and who can tell but that at some future day the French people, tn their love for novelty, may call to rule over them some descendant of Miss Patterson? It is quite as likely as it was twenty years ago that the exile Louis Napoleon would be now sitting on the throne of local and dictating terms to the crowned heads 0 Ope. The State Taxes. {From the Albany Argus, April 20.] ‘The people of this State will be compelled to pay in 1860 heavier taxes than have ever before been imposed upon them since the en of the Siate goverumeat. ‘The Legislature wi bas just adjourned passed laws Jevying State taxes to the amount of three milis and three- quarters upon every dollar of the property of our citizens; and, even with this immense taxation, there will be a large deficiency to be carried forward and provided for in the Tax bill of next year. During the palmy days of this State such a thing as taxation for purposes was unknown. The people had only to provide in their towns and counties for their local expenses, while their State officers and the Legisia- ture at Albany, by an coonomical and judicious manage- ment of the resources of the State, were able to carry on the government without taxation. only after William H. Seward came into power as Gover- nor, and Samuel B. Ruggles proved that to incur a forty million debt was the most economical mode of completing the canals, and after this ‘speedy impulse” policy, under the lead of Sewardism, had broken down the State and stopped the progress of public works, that it be- came neceseary, in 1842, to resort to a tax. This was continued until the credit of the State was, in a great measure, restored, and then gradually dimiaished until the restoration of the run-in-debt policy under the nine million loan of 1854, when, as borrowing, squandering and stealing progreased hand in band, taxation again in- creased and continued to increase, until it has culmi- nated in the before unheard of imposition of three and three quarters mills on the doilar. The following interest. ing table will show the progress of this matter from 1833 to the present year:— Application of Tax. For | ate on Gow Yr Fe oe | sue _ jovernor. Year.) $ eae | 4 met Canals, | Total 3-1 ——|-— oH ae $886 519 =| $595 519 230 563] 280,588] 861,126 (565 034) 64.903) 621.583 291,085) 58,217 349.302 305'966] 61,193} 367,159 292,829) =| rs 814,776 ’ 324 352) * 352,622) 563 812| foo era] ear. 991,049 a 1,431°717] $20,000 118s 258] 1,368 or 15817 600) "685 000 1,575 0°0| 876.009 18,606,979] $4,707,189] 18,212,188 ‘We wish we could add that the year 1860 brings us to the climax of this ascending taxation. But the Canal debt of $26,000,000—the legacy of Sewardism to the people of the State—remains, aud we fear many such taxes will be wrung them before they will beabie to forget erie ec arena and the ‘“‘new impulse” ayatem of Such are the fruits of bad State policy and of the finan- cial management of Seward and ths politicians who have been his aseociates and advisers and co-workers for twenty years and more. ‘On the contrary, the democratic policy of Bouck, Bron- Son and their associate democrats, who commenced tho Erie Canal Eplargement, of completing thet great. work out of the surplus canal revenues ‘without resorting to new loans,’’ would have given us at this time completed canals, and left us free from debt and without taxation. The following interesting taBle, compiled from ofilviai figures and showing the net proceeds of the canals in each year and the cost of the canals, will prove this position: Bpense of collec- 2 Grows tolls in ence’ and ‘rdina- Net proceais car. cach fis.year. ry repairs. each year. 1836.......... $1,698,455 467,599 1,180,856 + 1,825 608,993 716616 si 622,027 843,24 : 504,757 1,161,028 ‘ 506,020 1,031 /806 ‘ 514,517 1,476,169 3 642,584 1)164,879 : 531,145 Yanai ‘ 686/857 1,751,590 a 738,106 1,637,427 i 639, 2)169,496 643,768 2'810,044 855,880 635; 835; 907,730 1,049,045 1,098,476 1,287,806 980,792 786 sf 970,463 1,078,878 Deduct estimated cost of Canals, vis:— Erie Canal Eniargement year in 1868, and shows that the democratic policy would bave completed the Canals without debt at that time, less ly $85,000. br * following table, showing ths Of the bor- rowing process and the steady and stealthy accumulation of debt, is exceedingly interesting in connection with this subjection t Bor | Paid. [0h Sept rowed. leach year — = = — | 1.78% [Dem...o. & 8, Canal bust,| $877,000] 270,000) 7'Se4170 = — 94-815) 7,760,158 21,000} 20,000] 7:940,155 £7,000) SEL 42) 7706 013 HO goo} “oo git] 75 pe el 95,787 6,673 000 980,00) “Sen oe] Fate 999 — | 706,43) 6.323.066 (650,000) 651,249] 6.326 806 810,920] 971,644] 6 166,082 8,493 061] $61,038] 9,908, 120 $45,000) 67.800] 10 785 890, 'S.478,658] 187,736] 14,126,647 2.318.491] _$3'770]16.306 874 - 8 411,618} 143,6.0]19 574,302 ~ 1,002,700} 184.768] 0 392'34 1i4..} do. = ‘658,000 20,713 1845.:] do - 245,000 1846..} do. = 800,000 1ed]..| do. |W. Con. Bink’e F'd.) 1848. | Whigs] - 489.819) 1849.) do - 180,e00) HBSt::| $0: |stopped payment..|1,000,000 1ss3. fem. armen 00 000 1854. ||Rep..| Amend. Con........ [2,280,000] 1868..] do. = 'S.750, 000] Hee] ool esopped payment ..\a fee ay. pr “ iets: [Dem Lg 2,200,000) The addition to the above table of the $2,500,000 loan of 1859, to pay the floating debt, swells the canal debt above teabiyy he muilione of dollars. ‘above exhibit is appro} at this time—at the clore of the St as Nereheare financtal management for the season. It shows what these politicians have done for the canals. And it shows what they-woald do for the ratiroads, could their recent efforts to take them under their tender guardianship have proved successful. The people have had enough of these politicians and do ‘not care to trast them further with their public works or their finances. {From the Troy Arena, April 19.] | | Under the ewindling system of legislation in vogue at | Albany this winter tne people will have to pay the largest | State tax ever Impored a them. The tax bills of the | sersion are, for is, three-quarters of a mill; comple- tion ofthe canals, half a mill; interest on the two an1-a- | haf million loan, quarter of a mill; for support of gorern- ment, a mill and one eighth; interest on new canal debt, | aml oud ne aight. Ths makes the total State tax for | the year three mils and three-quarters—tho largest tax evor levied by the State in a single year. Reneve'aer county will have to pay a State tax { For 1860,........ } Amount paid in 1869 Increase over 1859... ses eee ee +$36.616 28 ‘We should not wonder if some of the farmers in the raral districts would be found hereafter looking after the | white men King are greed a | mata! enatent instead of having their gaze exclusively rive on the colored gentleman in the fence “down South.” re Lt 5 erenade to Oat. F. W. Lander. “ ‘The’ sumercus friends and admirersef Col, Landof, the Dluch.y second of Potter tm bis late aflair with Mr. Pryor, tev dered him the compliment of a serenade on Thursday Dight at the Metropolitan Hotel, where he was stopping during his sojourn in New York. Dodworth’s band was in attendance, and after repeated calls, Col. Lander appeared on the balcony and addressed the crowd in the following speech:— Fellow Citizens—Out of the great heart of this city, the centre of the intellect, the enterprise and the energy of the country, springs that impulse which has brought you here to-night. When we think of all that has been done and {s now doing in this metropolis to night, this simple ovation seems to bea slight thing. The press, teeming with the news of the day, is being made ready for tho departure of the California steamer—that golden Califor- pia, toward which pr piesne fre now directed. In @ thousand ways, in this great metropolis, human intellect is directing human destiny, within thesaemall nours of night. Feeling that here even the stones speak, for tho crash of vehicles is hardly silent upon Broadway, I am inspired to thank you for this com mt and this ovation. Geo- dlemen, what is it for? Why is it, at this late hour of the nigbt, you come before me, and call me forth with such strains of music as would haye charmed in the olden days? rd 4 Vowcn—Because you've got pluck. (Chvers.) Te it that I have endeavored todo my humble duty as an explorer ‘of the Rocky Mountain passes? No, genile- men, that is impossible. Our nation isa nation of expl)- rers. There is not @ fastness of the Sierra Novadas feat has not been tracked by the hardy | miscr and the bones of American explorers are bicaching a! along the Pacific slope. It is not as the explorer that you welcome me here to night. Perhapa, gentlemen, {t is ny services in connection with the Pacitlé Railroad explora. tion, the tact that I have given time, money, earaest pro festional labor, without recompense, for the grana object of an overland communication. Or perhaps, gentlemen, it ig because I baye built your overland wagon road and brought home some money to the govern: ment which cntrusted me with the supervision it. It may be only that social friends—men whom I respect and admire and meet as more than mere ac- queintences, have greeted me with this compliment; or can it possibly be, gentlemen, that you tender me the ovation to-night simply because [ have served a friend? (Cheers.) A true and noble gentleman—(A voice, “Taree Cheers for Potter’’)--as emphatically honorable and honest ag any man upon the continent. Can this be because [ have served a friend who called upon me in a strange olty, far from his own home—who, differiog from me in itics-- (for I believe I am as rank # democrat as you can 0—(cheers)—placed himself in my hands for life or death? Can it be that you tender me a compliment for this? Would any of you have vetrayed such a trust? {No no.”) Would any of you have refused to tender 8 Ife, and more than nis lie—bis sacred hoaor— in such a cause? (Cheers.) If you would, le- men, you are a the wan , Yorkers Song I have been in the habit of (Cheers. ) m % Imyself have known what it is to need a frien! | I re- member once to have crossed the whole American conti- neat with five men, for I had not the means to hire more. Out of those five men I am the only survivor; hardship and privation killed the rest. trip was tagen to survey that Pacific Railroad route, since atopted by the convention of the Pacific States and Territories, aad favorably reported as the choice of the Railroad Commit. tee of the United States House of Representatives. I mean the Northern route, eo called. Wheal came to ‘Washington with the Ly aed of this survey, made at my own expense, | was wi houtafriend. I made a few—so few that I can enumerate them now. First, Hon. Jo. Lane, ef Oregon, who bids fair to be the candidate of the Democratic Convention at Charieston. (Jheers.) Second, Thos. H. Benton, whois now at pease beuveath the sod of Mvgsouri. Third, Jas. McDougal of California, alive anc awake to the interest of his noble State. Fourth, Chas. W. Upnam of Gentiemen, if you could only know what | through tw that terrible year in ‘Washington which preceded the publication of my report to Congress, you would never compliment me for servi a friend, although it was at the risk of life, (Cheers. You are of the great body of the people. Here in this great mart of the nation, you send forth to the shannels of traffic throughout the world, the fruits of your industry and your prosperity. Long may this great city exemplify by iis purpose the vigor aud the energy and the earnestness of the American public, and, moviag from East to West, still go on tae old battle with the ‘Wiloernese—the blow that breaks the sot! aad perforates the movntaio—iabor rising in tae digarty achieve. ment, its own proof of its own right to be heard in the councils of nations. But, Lapeer ye IT am wearing away tbe night ip idle talk. Itisthe time for rest after the cares of the day. I am to leave you to-morrow, per- bape never to return. Let me thank you once more be- fore we part for tis compiiment; it will be the incentive to future exertion; and it I needed aught to keep me self-sustained, this would be safll- cient. Citizens of New York, I trast that I may yet look you in the face again with the coasciousness of duty done. So let us stand steadfastly in the present and gaze into the future; yet ciaim, as my friend Potter only claims, a clear, a pure and a decided record. Vain as the assertion may seem, let mine live in my acta. The Colonel retired amid a storm of applause, and gub- fequently entertsined his friends with true Californian hospitality. He sailed yesterday for the Pacitic coast, and carries with him the cordial God-speed of an army of en- thusisstic admirers. The Balloon Ascension. NARRATIVE OF PROF. WISE— PERILOUS DESCENT—THE BALOON IN THE WATER—NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING OF THE AERONAUT, ETC., ETC. ‘When I gay this is a precarious world, I ought to add that my aerial trip from Palace Garden on Thursday after- noon became more interesting than I bad anticapated. ‘The firet remarkable feature of the affair occurred when a height of several thousand feet was attained. All of a sudden, as it were, my ears were greeted with the most unearthly noises that could be imagined. It seomed as though all the Calathumpian bands of the United States were in grand concert below, assisted by the strongest powers of Pandemonium, interlarded with artillery from a thousand big guns, and garnished with all the shrieks of infernal population, according to the brimstone theory of that place. I must use strong language to convey faint idea of this. horrible discord. I did involuatarily ejaculate, ‘ Is hell beneath me!” and my hair bristled up with astonishment. Why this remarkable hideousness ‘was obeervable on this occasion, more than any previous one, I cannot divine, unleas it was the southeast breeze beneath me, which came freighted with the city clangor between that point and the Battery, As I rose, the din and discord melted graduatly into cadences of melodious intonations, and the mind, sym- pathizing with the sounds, was tuned to sweetest harmony. Such are some of the peculiarities of balloon voyages, My main object in the trip was to make an effort at local current sailing. It was quite practicable to sail over ‘New Jersey, or up Manhattan Island, or over Long Island. After sailing a few minutes in the southeast breeze, I went northward straight over the iength of Randall’s, Island, There I rose higher, and struck a breeze from the west, and made for Flushiog; there I descended, with the intention of lanaing at Whitestone, on Long Ieland. The southeast wind was strong at the surface of the earth, but did not extend in height over a thousand feet. In coming down that thousand feet the balloon made three miles in five minutes, and I struck the ground near Bi- ninger’s cottage mansion; but the grapnel, striking into a gravel walk, failed to secure a fastening. In the concus- sion the balloon careened so much asto tilt out of the car @eandbeg. I was on the ground in front of the long enough to bave ® man run up to me and clap his hand upon the cur, but as soon as the Gany mode recover- ed her perpendicular she made a bound over the cottage, Swinging the grapnel into the caves of the roef; but tne ig Stronger than the part where the hook took effect, something gave way. The grapnel next took effect in a big tree between the cottage and the Sound, but the equall that struck her sent her reeling on the beach, with the side of the basket,‘or rather the rim of the wickerwork, cut through by the anchor rope. Here a very interesting acrostatic experiment occurred. ‘The balloon being nicely poised in the atmosphere, was kept by the rebound swinging to and fro in mid ai* between the water and land. A guy-rope was trailing on the beach, within the reach of a man standing there, with eyes and mouth open with wonderment; but in another moment my car wason the ocean wave The man cried out in most melancholy tone, 0, my God, now you'r in the water.” Lanswered, “Yes, sir, 1 am ducked; but I'll get over this little sea.’”” Ithought 10 myself, ‘I choose the ‘water to the air, for this reason: my grapnel ts lost, aad now, if I take the air and sail over to Manhattan Island, this strong southeast breeze will dash me into the tall trees and damage the balloon; while if [take to the water and drag the car through it, Ishail have time, before I reach the other side of Jordan—which was a mile off—to disgorge the gas and render the Ganyméte corftroliable I passed the stern of a ship, but it took no notice of me,and seemed to hurry out of my way. Tne squalls now and then became go violent as to careerthe balloon over until she touched the sea, floun- dering me ipto the water upto my shoulders, and Putting me through several hyd: ic exercises not Pleagurabie to contempiate, I was ‘the equails might collapse the air bag, but I soon found a remedy for this by banging part of my weight on the hoop above me, 80 a8 to bring the basket more up in the ‘water and ailow the aerial craft to make more headway. Iwas half an hour in going over the Sound, about 13 mile in breadth, and when within a haif mile of the open valve rendered the Ganymede so docile her to drag me well up on the beach with her ‘ated load. Wet and chilled, I reached the below "8 Neck, on the premises of D. Kindly comforts I'shall ever ‘Walter realy to ick me up, if the emergency of a total ‘ wreok’? rendered it necessary. Mr. Van Schaiok also placed => niagara im assisting me to reef the Gany- mede. Another reason for my preference for the sea bath was this. By that mode I could rescue the balloon in good order, but, bad I trusted to the land and woods, she might have beeen wrecked, as was the ill-fated Atlantic las: ear od Taking it all in all, the trip was a more instructive and entertaining than I had calculated, and it taught me eeme things practically that I had oaly known in theory. JNO. WISE. er York, April 20, 1860. Axorner Factory mx Vingrea.—A new woollen factory jg abc ut to be erected in Scottsville, and it is expected ‘bat i: will be in operation in the fall of the year. It will empicy forty hands. Usrzp Starss Arwy.—Company —, Second regimon} itd States Artillery, und \d of Major Hay aevved en Portree users ou the igwinses ne WiSIT TO THE OFFICE OF THE LONDON TIES. Our Iyndom Correspondence, ~ Lowvon, March 24, 1860. Howa Live London Newspaper is Printed-—Fhe Locality Of the Ofice—The ‘Pinishiny Beom’’—Composttors and Proof Readers—The Duplicate Forms and How they are |. Made—the Paper Koom—Qanntity of Paper Used and is Cov—The Wetting Maching—The Press Room—The American ‘Hoe Presus—The First Steam Pres—Mode Of Circulating the Londen Times—Stalietics, dc. ‘Through the politeness of the manager of the establish- ment, I was permitted yesterday to visit the mechanical portion of the office of the London Times, and tospend suf- ficient time there to get a tolerably good idea of this tm- meuse concern, and the manner in which business is done jai ‘The office, as almost everybody knows, is located ‘a “ Printing House Square,” and probably almost every- body has imagined that ‘Printing House Square” isa large and noisy place in some busy thoroughfare of Lon- don, and that the 7¥mes office would of course be in some locality where it could at least be easily found. Such, however, is not the ease, and without a map, and con- stant inquiry, it weuld be almost impossible for a stranger to find it, even when placed within a block of the office, Striking towards the Thames from off Ludgate Hill, in the vieinity of Biaskfriar’s bridge, I threaded half a dozen nar- row streets, and when near the river and satisfled that I had lost my way, I came upon a little triangular space, from one side of which rose « dingy looking brick building, over the door of which was a little sign, ‘ The Times office,’’ and underneath, the arms of England. It wasa perfect solitude, within three mi- nutes’ walk of ene of the greatarteries of London. Upon entering, I was shown into a small room, called ‘the finishing room.’’ Here, upon presenting my card, I was introduced to a very gentlemanly man, who informed me that he had been connested with the paper for more than forty years, and who offered te shew me over the estab- Nshmeat. In his room the ferms sre all made up, the gal- leys being brought down from the composing room, and the one adjoining, ferahat purpose. Here alone were the galleys of matter and advertisements left over, of the lat- ter of which my guide informed me there were oftensixty er seventy columns, for whieh space cannot be foundeven in the immense double shest which is daily published. ‘The day before, two thousand advertisements were taken in at the office, whieh is alongside of this“*floishing room,” and which is devoted exclusively to the reception of ad- vertisements—and about fifteen hundred difforent ones ge into the paper daily, making up from eight to ten pages ef the sixteen printed. About six columns of these daily are advertisements of servants wanting places. These are eharged eighteen pence each, and are limited to three lines, many of them being rewritten after coming to the office, and made te senformto the prescribed form. No ‘difference in price is made om account of any additional number of insertions. From here, we went into an adjoiming room where the ‘day cempositors’” were at work upon the second edition of the paper, which is printed at half past twelve o’clock, and contains, in ad- dition to the morning news, the letter of the Paris cor. respondemt, and such fereign matter as arrives in the morping mail. There are fifty compositors employed in this department, and who, after the evening edition is worked eff, go to werk upon the advertisements, while there are seventy compositors employed upon the night work, making in all one hundred and twenty compositors. ‘To correct their matter there are eniployed twenty-four proof readers, one half for the day ana the other for the night. From this composing roem we went into the foundry. The morning edition of the Timet varies from sixty to seventy thousand eepies, and in order to save the time in Printing, and the expense of setting up an extra form, a duplicate of the original form is made here to be worked upo one press, while the eriginal itself is on the other. ‘This is effeeted im the following manner:—The form being breught down here, a pulp ef papier maché, prepared by fome secret process, is spread on it, and beaten into it with a large beavy brush. This precess and the harden- ing ef the mould eceupies but a minute and a half, and ‘when it is taken eff the form it, of eourse, presents a per- feet fac simile of the form itself. It is them placed in @ sort of a prems, and while yet pliable is shaped in the circular form which it is neces- sary the forms should have to accommodate them- selves te the cylinder preases, and then the molten type metal is poured im, and in two minutes more it is cooled, and, being takem out of the mould, the imperfections which have eocurred in the casting are rectified, and in balf-am hour this form is ready for the press. It would require the werk of seventy men seven hours to effect the same purpose as this little piece of work—which is done Th paper mache Proceaa ding has der mac] of moul been in use in the James office al it five years. secret of the Composition is knewn only to the discoverer, an Italian mamed Dalegani, who lives in London, and who b: the prepared pulp to the Times office every evening. bas not been able to procure a patent for his invention, it being alleged tbat it is only an improvement upon the ancient method of stereotyping with plaster moulds. ‘They say they find the composition superior in every Tespect to plaster, it being much cleaner, and not injuring the face of the type so much. Six duplicates may be taken from one of these moulds before it is burnt through. The last page, containing the leading article of the Times, is sent down to the foundry ahout four o’clock in the morn- by = at @ quarter-past six the impression is off. om here we went into the paver room, which is by the side of the foundry, on the basement floor, prssing through a large carpenter’s shop, where half a dozen men kept constantly at work, and Jooking into several ‘neat Jittie bath rooms constructed for the accom! ofthe workmen. The psper room we found filled up with paper; and here Iobtained some interesting statistics as to the amount of the raw material consumod in the publi- cation of the Times. ‘Tbe paper is furnished from four paper mills, the pro. perty ef the proprietors of the mes, and is made entirely of jin During the Russian war, (asa great m: of the rags come from Russia, and there being, therefore, a fear that the supply might be cut short,) the pi ‘ietors offered @ reward of one thousand pounds aterling for the discevery of a substitute for linen. All sorts of material— atraw, vegetable fibres of a great many descriptions, abavings, &c.—were sent to experiment upon; but they found nothing which id answer the purpose, and ‘Dy some means a Fat Keep up the war. e rf sSERRES E2328 the end of the list. fo aged a and sell them for men order their papers the day bet are printed than they call for. The sents a row lively scene, The it ig in front of the counter, and here hundred boys waiting for They are counted from bebind by a young man who counts three hundred Zo BNA, SOEUR INR thete oa the tables in A few statistics and I am done with the mechanical partment of the London Times. The receipts for adver- be premarin any otha —s Lh oder dollars annually, an receipts paper the same. The receipts for the sale of the paper, bein cancelled by the actual of course t to pay four re two cm Parliament, to bring the pea eee ved! o getting on my ject, a we the edito of the office for a future letter. The Trial of Jacob S. Harden for Wife ra SPECIAL REPORT FOR THE HERALD. SECOND DAY—AFTERNOON SERSION. Butvipang, N. J., April 18, 1860, E.T. Blackwell, M. D., of Stevensburg, Morris county, was called—Have been a practitioner over eleven years; am acquainted with Harden, but knew his wife only by sight; was at Mr. Ramsey’s, March 9, 1869, about four o’clock in the afternoon; Harden opened the door; told him that I was there at the instance of Mr. Dorland: Harden invited me to see the corpse: told Harden that Thad heard his wife was dead and that be had poisoned her; Harden said that he thought one affliction should bave shielded him from the other, and asked if I could tell, by looking at the corpse, whether she was poisoned; T said that I thought I could not, and wanted to make in- quiries; had conversation after this with other persons in regard to her symptoms; asked Mrs. Ramsey, Harden baving called her, about the symptoms; after this told Mr. Harden that be might answer or not, as he pleased, the questions about her symptoms, and told him it would be es well to bo frank about her complaint; Harden told me about hav! sent for his wife on the first of March; that abe arrived in time for tea, and about half- the same evening she was sick at the stomach, as th ight she would mi Miata ght she did oo? thou, ‘woul 5 com- plain Dain ia her site, and told Harden sat what he ‘was 60 Hl BEeey 5 5 3 5 E A : i eli é i s. 2 H 4 i z E + the enn oan Rermpeoen — pee in- filam mat specks and patches, from the size of peas to the smallest poesible object; these marks most nume- — at the pyloric orifice; mucous mem! thickened and wrinkled; lungs healthy, ce both cl nic and recent, about the loura ; ‘ound about half a pint of to ‘rows fiuid in the stomach; bo entirely empty, with no stain of fecal matter, but just at the rectum there was about half an ounce of museus; this was a sign of violent workings of the bowels; the appearances were precisely puch abs are attributed 40 arsectoal poison; it was my im- fie ‘that an irritant had been applied times, ut Icannot speak decidedly as to that; exhumed the body on the 2a of April, thistking that they could take out more of the body and submit it to competent analysis; found the veins which convey the blood to and from the heart in their natural state, and the liver sound; no 108 Of disease In the kidney; jer and algo the fandus showed into the stomach, as were ‘wounds in the body by which it could be absorbed. To Court—Noticed no men, ple body; Mr. Harden said the body was bloated, but I did not discover it; stomach, &c., and delivered it to Dr. Chilton, This circulation has, creased considerably within the past ten years. In thirteen millions of wore printed; in 1857, sixteen millions one hundred send; in 1858, sixteen millions eeven hundred and eighty-five thousand four hundred and fifty mabhy te tieeencanoe tne millions, or an average of fifty four laily, were printed. ‘The largest number ever printed of any ing! on the day after the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, when seventy thousand were struck off. At the further end of room is machine which is used for ‘‘wetting down,” the old process of ‘this by hand having been discarded about five years since, and the machine now in use having been invented by an em- Ployé in the paper room. The apparatus is very simple, consisting of a woollen apron, upon which the is fed, and which carries it under a cylinder and brush, the whole being wet, and the paper, twenty-four sheels of which are fed at one time, coming out thoroughly damp- eved. It is piled away in an adjoining room, and twelve hours afterwards is all turned by hand. Wy this machine 110,000 sheets may be wet down in sevem hours with the labor of three men—the same amount of work which, under the old process, required the labor of twelve men twelve hours. From this we went up into the press room, where by this time the evening edition was being worked off upon two of Applegarth’s eight cylinder vertical This is certainly one of the most beautiful pieces of machinery Tever saw. Four Of the circular forms are screwed. pages on to an upright cylinder, which forms the centre of the huge machine, which, in all its parts, is about thirty feet in oiameter. ‘Then ranged around a platform above are eight pairs of feeding rollers, which take the shest, and, conveying it to the cylinder, pass it round it, and then by: means of rollers and tapes pass it back directly under the feeding rollers, where it entered, and where the fly- b~ site to take it off. Ia this way eight sheetsare turned from the press each secoad and a half, amounting to twelve thousand five hundred an hour—the two presses in the morning, in two hours, printing fifty thousand sheets. These prosses have been in operation since 1848, and have never been out of order but once, waen a Prus- sian officer, whe was examining one of them a little too miputely, had the cepeof his cloak caught in the main cylinder, and would himself have tollowed it had he not retained sufficient presence of mind to unclasp his outer garments, which he must have done with lightning- like quickness. As it was, his cloak was torn into very smallrags There was no second edition of the Times that day, and the proprietora were subjected to a little Dill of repairs, amounting to £300. These machines cost £3,0L0 each, and are superintended by the brother of the inventor. Each one requires sixteen men to feed and fy it In the adjoining room are two of Hoe's ten cylinder presses. These were bniit in Manchester, and one has Deen in use for two or three years, and the other bas just been completed. tising peges, which go on at sevan o'clock in the evening, and the first ee) ews, which commences at two in the morning. “Phese machines cost £6,000 each. They throw off each 16,400 impressions an hour, and have been made to print 20,000; bat they complain of them that they bad them manufactured with the understanding that they woula print 36,000 an hour, but that they ound, when they struck off over 17,000, soms of the more deli- cate portior of the mechinery were leble to breakage. | they had another machine built at double the cost of their Applegerth masbives, and thas John Bull re homage to the raventive genius of Young America. it was in the oftice of the London Times that in Novem. | ber, 1814, the first steam press, a two cylinder mashine, } Was put up, and by hard work they managed to make it These are ueed for printing the adver- . withstanding this, however, it seems | precipitate obtained, which = few caused 10 A Irritation, the lighter _spote indicatin 2 the lus Reet etioaean or ie ie symptoms of pleurisy not Goes nothing of the upon nothing uncommon or ind! Pi Py 101 iclon that the cause of her death was Jury coming into Court; re several indictments and were diecharged, with the re of the Court and connty, Several prisoners were also it up and charged. rough Dr. James R. Chilton, of New York, that of an analytical chemist; been in the profession for thirty five years; ‘7th of April, trom Coroner Wolfaten, of Wi K articles of by Dr. Blackwell in his testimony, in the bott led, a8 he testified; immediately el the articles in his laboratory, and no person except imeelf was allowed acces to 1) em; commenced the apalyais with the stomach, as that had been removed first; the Docter’s evidence in regard to the appearance of the stomach corroborated thal of Dr. Bladkeelh ae velvetty coat of tho s’omach was in some places de- stroyed; upon examination with magnifiers, some small white epecks were diecovered upon the inner cost of the stomach, and were separated, washed in pure distilled water and dried, and weighed one twelve-hundredth of @ grain; a few of the particles vere placed upon live coals, and immeciately voiatilized, emitting the peculiar garlic like odor of arsenic; remainder was boiled in pure water until diesolyed, and then di- vided into three parts; in the first was put & drop cf ammoviated nitrate of silver, and & pale yellow precipitate obtained; to the second portion ‘few drops of ammonia sulphate of. copper were added, and a grase-green precipitate obtained; to the third some hydro sulphuric acid gua was added, and a colored woe A conan and Iai dissolve; hydrochloric gas ue del i 1uze Was ‘washed with water, and presented a’ aden appearance; they were driea and washed in yhuric ether to remove oily matter, and when dried put and a white substance con recel ret of hydrogen gas for half an hour,and a fine yellow — was obtained; after the was whole was thrown upon a ‘and washed; a solution of pure ammonia was upon the filter, and what passed through the filter collected in a clean jar; the ammonia dissolved the who of the precipitate, and it 5 hyd chloric acid the precipitate; was washed and dried, and weighed three and eleven bi THIRD DAY—MORNING SESSION. Buivoores, N. J., April 19, 1860, At the reassembling of the Court this morning the roc] ‘Was filled with spectators—the interest in the trial bei decidedly upon the increase. Ex Chancellor Willi left this morning for Charleston, and Mr. Shipman, wh; success in the Parker and Carter murder trials has giv} him considerable reputation, conducts the defence, ed by Mr. Bradley, of Newark. Dr. Chilton, of New York, resumed his testimony—'| other half-of the yellow powder was mixed with « little] the reducing flux compound of powdered soda and coal, put into a tube and heated until asublimate of senic: another ‘Was put into a small tube, ‘at both ends, and when heated, sublimed and cond in minute white crystals of areca, exhibiting facets; the blood received the coroner ms two apd a half gave white proved wile arsenic by — a ee liver ‘no unusu: ay and was ni half was oiled tn cleat sulphuric acid until thick eolution; the heat was continued and the mags stantly stirred, until « Joote carbonaceous matter tained; @ portion of this was so placed as to allow the ar to into @ tube of hard part of the tube was i result; this deposit wag examined ag carbonate of soda and }, and placed in tube and heated, result—a brilliant metallic u beat being applied in an opemtube it again sublimed, condeveed in minute, white, brilliant crystals; these, digeolved in water, and tested te silver, monia, sulphate ‘an fureted b and proved to "be. whe arsenic; from 6 h Produced a lemon-yellow precipitate; this Epon a filter, dissolved in comonin attd aga precip 8 in former tg, and converted into arsenic: ducing flux; this was sublained into white arsenic, whic} verified by tests; the intestines and pancreas werd xamined, and one half tested as was the first balf q iver, and amall steel-colored eublimates obtained; » very marked result; the other half gave white mate, and this being tested produced a yellow sulph arsenic (tube G.); the and der, bejai lyzed, gave sublimates of arrenous acid (in tubd «very caro was taken to prevent error; the ments were new clean, and all chemicals u firat tested and found pure; I estimated the reepic obtained as about eight grains; the. Wprtoved known; nearly three weeks in these tests; arsenic is absorbed into thi jetem, and very much of itis thrown off; the at erefore, does not give the whole amount of arse the jars delivered to Dr. Chilton, in his office. James Garey, sworti—Lived in 1! ship; knew accysed. Sng, sess a year ‘Mrs. Caroline d Mansfield township; is the widow of Dewitt Ran Harden and his wife for some time; shortig mariage, Haden, who had been boariiag at drought his wiie thero; Harden nad his no Bady’8, vear by; abey stayed over nights her for her father’s, ‘aod Mr. Harden returned the not long afier Mrs. H. again cane trom he: when he again took her to his fatoer’s, hy of the way with her, and left her with n' ter; this infor mation I obtained from Hard mained about threa weeks, and (hen Harden ber, going one day and returning the neat;