The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW BROANWAY AND ANN STRERT, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Berar. Letters and packages should be properly tealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. =e Volume XXXII. —— MENTS THIS EVENING, NRW TORK THEATE NOmK THE GasLicut, M opposite New York Hotel.— inee at 4—Hanpr Axpy. OLYMPIC THEATR Broadway.-4 = Mipsumang Brent's Dasa. WALLACK'S TUEATBE, Broadway and 23th siveet.—~ mM aNd CousteY. BROADWAY 1H: Bas. 2B, Broadway.—Ticeer or Leare FRENCH THEATRE, Fourtecath sireet.—Tax Gnanp vOMR Ss. ROWERY THEATRE, Bowory,—Hxant or tar Gaear Curr—TuRN Hix Our. GERMAN STADT THEATE 1M BOUWAKTAEK YON Sax. Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery. — ac, NEBLO’S GARDEN, Broad Brack Croog. ACADEMY Barwon, STEINWAY HALL.—Geaxp On aronvo. or NUSsIC, murteenth street. ~Goroen NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fo: Kovesiniasise, ko. 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The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yestor- day evening, December 19. , on’a policy on the Roman question coincides © wiches of the clerical party, Minister Rouber states that irance entertains no thought of territorial @xionsion towards the Khine, Minister Bancroft had cdrence of iho Queen of Prussin, Tho expenses of the Prussian Foreign Office are to be transferred to the Dadget of North Germany. The Liverpoo! Fenians and Irish Urangemen tu that city are likely to moet in givt- ous collision, Consols closed at 924; for money in London. Five- Bweatios were at 719-16 1m London and 75% in Framk- fori, The Liverpoo! cotton market closed heavy al a de- ofne, middting uplands rating at 7% pooce. Breadstulls wad provisions without marked change. The steamship Mtna, at shis port, brings mai! cetails | of our cable dompatchea to the 28th of November. Lord | Bianiey writes an interesting letter to the Mayor of Bas- tou expressing the thanks of the British government for the attentions shown to tho late Sir Frederick Brace, O'Baidwin, the prise Gghter, arrived in the Etna, It is said he will fight Mace in the United States, Allen, one of the Fonian convicts Iately hanged, addressed a letter ¢o an wacte in Ireland a few hours before his execution in which he enye:—“I am dying for Ireland, dying for the iand that mo birth, dying for the Istand of Sainte and dying for hberty."’ The London Times of the ATs instant pad! a leugthy editorial on General Urant’s chances ( Preatdency, in which \t is said hat the General adily refuses to endorse the doc- tenes of the rady will never saba » negro rule, CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday resolutions were adopted call- fag for inform aa to the bonds iesued to the Union Facile Katroad Company and the remaining corre- spondence in relation to the Alabama claims. Consid- erable disenssion ensued on Mr. Wilson's bill retative to voting on the cousittat'onal amendment in the Sonthera Conveutions, which was interrupted by the expiration of the morning hour. The resolution condemping poriions of the Prosident’s Message was takea up, and Mr, Drake mado a long speech on ii, when the Seuate adjourned. In the House the Committee on Reconatraction, with Mr, Stevous 98 Chairman, was announced, The Con- Gscation dill, which, om the 16th of March lest, hed been postponed to the second Tuesday ia December, was then taken up, and Mevsrs, Chanler and Eldridge made speeches against it, Ii was Snally farther postponed to the Zist of January. A concurrent reeolation for an adjourumen! over the bolidays was adopted, and the House soon after adjourned. THE CITY. The Fenton Central Campaign Clad, having for its ehject the nomination of Governor Fentoa for Vice Presidont of the United States, ona ticket with General Graat, held ite third session inst evening at the St. Bicholas Rotel, Mr. J. 0. Abbe in the chair. A constitue tion and by-laws were adopted, and officers elected to Fepresent (he various Assembly districts throughout the Bate A lecture was delivered tast evening at the Cooper fastitute by Miss Anna Dickenson on “ Breakers ahead.” A post-mortem examination of the bodies of Mrs. Wall and her daughter, Jonnie, who were found dead tn theie beds in Brooklyn op Mon tay, bas disclosed the fact that they died of the effects of strychnine, Whether the poison was adintuisiered by themselves or some ther person, is a question to be solved by the Coroner's Jaques Two more young gists are missing from their bome te Brooklyn. In the Supreme Court, Genoral Torm, Brooklyn, yoe- terday, before Jedges Lott, Barnard and Gilbert, on Jmportant case relative to the rights of riparian owners in that city relative to water frontage came up, ‘The caso was that of the Commissioners of Pilots against Nesmith and & Son, to recover penalties for obstructing a pier in Das Tho defendants showed tbat the prer was their own private property, that they had titfe to the upland between the pier and the Streets of the city, and tha: the law under which the oraplaint was made referred to the port of New York, and not to Brookiyn, The counsel tor defendants, in view of these pointe, moved that the judgment of the Jowor Court, dismissing the case, be alirmed; but ihe decision was reserved Mr. Justice G, G. Bernard rendered an otaborate ont @xhaastive opipion, whieh will be found inthe law re. porte of the Hwsarp to-day, on the application of Jantzen and ethers for en im .ocvon against the Board of Hoaith enjoining it from interfering with the driving of cattte ibrough the gees, Aq The motion for in Junction 4 grated, Aa (mportant opinion was delivered by Mr. Justice Ingraham at Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, in the case of Pitt Cooke agaiuet the State National Bank ef Restos, in which be held that national banks located in other States or countios may be sued in the courts of Veis State, and that » sational bank orgenized under the aot of Congress is a foreign corporation within the Moaning of the statutes of Now York, and may be pro- oveded against by attaeliment, Tee nook market was, ou the whole, arm yesterday, “and that the white population | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1867. and prices advanced in the aficrnoom, Gold closed a 135%. Governments wore steady. Business was moverato yesterday tn all departments of trade, though some articles were quite freely dealt im, Im many cases prices were materially changed. Cotton was moderately active, and Xo, a Xo per tb, lower, Coffee was dull and heavy, Oa ‘Change flour was active and decidedly higher, Wheat was in fair demand, though somowhat irregular, Corn and oats were active and highor, Pork was higher, while beef and lard were uachanged. Naval stores were more sought after, but at lower prices. Petroleum advanced Lige, @ 20, per gallon, Wool was im fair demand, and somo ki ore lo, higher, Froights were unchanged, MISCELLANEOUS. Ovr special telegrams from Havana contain further in- telliget.ce trom Porte Rico and Hayti, Earthquakes were of every day accurrence in Porto Rico, Eight thousand Haylian troops are reported in rebellion against Sainave, under the leadership of a brother of Leon Montes, Sal- nave himself had expressed a detormination to biow up his capital before be would submit to his enemies, To the Constitutional Convention yesterday tho reso- tution df inquiry as to a suitable hall in Albany for the seasions of the Convention were adopted. The report on the Judiciary was ayain considered, and sections re- lative to the salaries of justices of the courts of record and vacancies among the Judges of the Court of Ap- peals, were adopted. Discussion then ensued on the section relative to the organization of the Supreme Court, which continued throughout the evening session, when an adjournment took place without a vote, In the Georgia Convention yesterday J, KR. Parrott was olected President, which is regarded as a conserva- tivo triumph, that genttoman being what may be terme, a mild republican, Hie address was partisan, but noi ultra, To the Virginia Convention yeaterday the $8 per diem ordinance was passed. ‘The resolation doing away with the test oath for delegates was iaid on ihe tabie, Gonerai Ord has named January 7, 1868, as the day for the assembling of the Constitutional Conventions at Jackson aad Little Rock for Misalesippi and Arkansas, A young girl namod Kate Tuttie dressed nerseif in men’s clothes at Chenango Forks, N. Y., on Monday night, and thon threw herself, it is supposed, before a train of cars, being almost instantly kitled, The Welland canal is closed by ice, The Philadelphia Union League has nominaied Grant, The steainer Hatteras, from New York for Richmond, was due at the latter ciiy on Monday, aud fears are en- tortained for her safety, -The Commissioner of the Patent Office at Washington has beon requested to resign by the Secrotary of the Jaterior, Tho Alnbama Claims in Cougress. In the Senate of the United States on Mon- day last Mr. Chandler called up his resolution to recognize the beliigerent rights of Abys- sinia, his object being to reciprocate the cour- tesy of England towards us in 1861 in pro- claiming hor neutralily on the basis of the equal belligerent rights of the “so-called Con- federate States.” But for this position assumed by Engiand in support of the rebel- lion, Mr. Chandler contended that it would have been pui down In six monibs, and two hundred thousand lives and two thousand millions of dollars would have been saved. A large num- der of American ships were also lost by that recognition. Hence he was in favor of decisive measures in exacting from the British govern- ment a large indemnity. He considered, in fact, that we held a lien on evory foot of British soil on this Continent, and he would never again refer to the Alabama cisime until this mortgage was foreclosed. Mr. Anthony admitted the justice of these complaints against England, but pleaded the policy of poaceable measures for satisfac. tion, Mr. Reverdy Johnson thought no greater evil could happen this coun. fry than a war with Great Britain. | Mr. Sumner, chairman on Foreign Relations j and in immediate rapport with tho State Department, referring to the President's Mes- suge touching these Anglo-rebel spoliations on our merchant ships, said that Mr. Chandler's resolution was premature, that certain docu- ments werd expected, and that it would be bettcr to wait until the commitiee officially charged with all these matters had considered them, as they covered one of the most im- portant questions ever presented them touch- ing not only our interest directly involved, | but certain great principles of the law of nations, and so on. Mr. Nye thought that | some specific instructions to the Committee on Foreign Affairs would not be out of place ; and | as for himself, when Great Britain paid those | damages and apologized for her insults to the American flag, be would be ready for the | peace policy advocated by the Senator from Rhode Island. We reproduce thess salient points of the debate in question in order to show, as far | as we can, what they signify, Mr. Chandler | has been consistent in bis position on the general question since Lord Ruasell’s offen- sive and outrageous nontrality proclama- tion of 1861; but in this matter, as in many others, it has generally been sap- posed that Mr. Chandler has permitted his radical zeal to outrun his discretion, We think, however, that he has not been too fast in bringing up this subject at the present timo, although we rather suspect that belligerent righis to Abyssinia, if granted, would never be beard of by bia royal African Highness, de- scended from King Solomon and Queen of Sheba; we also anspect that Mr. Sumner is in perfect accord with the Secretary of State | in temporizing, evading and putting off this | qnestion of British indemnity, from the fear of | giving mortal offence to England by pushing | the controyprsy to General Jackvon’s ultimatum | of indemnity or reprisals. Preaident Johnson, under Mr. Seward’s influ- ence, hesitates to take the decisive step. The chairman of the Senate committee and the chairman (General Banks) of the House Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs are awaiting those | expected docoments from {he State Depart- ment, But the President's Message plainly intimates that England bas taken her position, | aud that we have nothing to expect from her } as the controversy now stands, In this dilemma the proposition of Mr. Nye, to instrnct the Senate committee by resolution to report some definite line of action, appears to be the only remedy. We would accordingly suggest the trial of such « resolution in the Senate, requir- fag Mr. Sumner’s committes to report a Joint resolution advising the President to try the vitimatum op these Alabains claims of General Jackson ; for we have no doubt that such | resolution can be pasaed through both houses, } If ao passed the course of the President will bo plain, and he will cheerfully pursue it. The question of war involved in this nlti- matam belongs to Congress; but let it be adopted, and there will be nowar. No danger of it Kogland will come down wiih her indemnity, and the prestige of the United States will thus become that of the first mation on the face of the globe. As to the pulse of the American people, it will respond to this ultimatum from ocean to ocean. Lot the reso- lution suggested be tried, and our way out of this dificulty will goou apyoar. Hoadinas and Lectures—Dickons, Dolby aud tho Dollars. The second advent of Diokona in the United States promises a fino harvest, not only to him- self, but to the whole fraternity of readora and lecturers, Dickens, Dolby and the dollars. The succoas of Dickens will give » new impulse to readors and lecturers and a new departure to them all. They will get new hints and new ideas from the reader of “ Pickwick,” which they will also turn Into dollars, the alpha and omoga, the beginning and the end, of the uni- versal Yankeo nation, according to “Martin Chuzzlewit.” Their field of enterprise is also enlarged from the relinquishment of the legiti- mato drama by our theatres as an old humbug which docs not pay, and the gerferal adoption of pretty girls in scanty drapory, and of glit- tering spangles, blue lights and smiling god- desaes in the clouds, and sparkling fountains and revolving wheels of fire. The winter season, which is the appointed harvest soason of concerts, readings and lec- tures in city, town and country, thua opens most auspiciously for these intellectual pas times, Therefore, following the inviting ex- ample of Bos, we would suggest to the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher that in his readings of ‘= orwood” he might gather ia more dollars “aD he haa drawn from the Ledger, the New York theatre or Plymouth church; to Mr. Horace Greeley, that in his readings of his “Rominisceaces of @ Busy Life” he might be kept more busy ia “counting out his money”’ than was the king in his parlor mentioned by Mother Goose; and to Wendell Phillips, that in changing his base from the “almighty nigger” to the “almighty dollar” he would only have to undertake a course of readings from the Psalms of David, the Song of Solomon, the Sermon on the Mount and the Epistles of St. Paul. Wo have a host of other literary characters, male and female, who might lay in a good stock of dollars during the winter by a nice adaptation of their respective qualitios to thia or that line of readings, dla Dickens and the dollars. In the line of locturers we have some first claas stars on hand. There is Professor Agassiz, whoss inatructions on the arcana of the animal, vegetable and mineral world are more interesting than the “Arabian Nights ;” there is Professor Hall, already on @ lecturing tour on the wonderful natural phenomena withia the icebound regions of the Aroiic Circle; there is Du Chaillu, the intrepid ex- plorer of the before unknown wonders of equatorial Africas, an earnest, honest and popular devotee in his vocation; there is Professor Doremus, the American Faraday in chemistry, a manu of science, whose lectures and booutiful illastrations are delightfnl to witness. We cannot say much of Professor Loomis, of Yale, but we think that old Columbia might tara out a pro- fessor on meteorology, and so forth, who, in his elucidations of the late portentons show- era of falling stars, earthquakes, voleanic erup- tions, hurricanes and inundations, might realize from his labors more dollars than the most popular danseuse or nigger minstrel on tho boards. Then we have been thinking that General Sherman, who is a fine speaker, might tarn his late observations among the Indians of the Plains, Spotted Tail, Lame Bear, Yellow Thunder and such, toa good account in a series of splendid Indian leciures as on offset to, this everlasting talk in Congress about uig- gers. It would be bettwr than a voyage to Jerusalem. Lastly, there is our benevolent Mr. Bergh, President of the Society for the Provention of Cruelty to Animals—a good man. From such cruelties, however, as the laying of green tux tles on their backs to blink wt the san, the tying up of chickens’ legs and the fastening of the live lobsters’ claws with wooden pegs, if he were to turn his attention to the cruelties which cause thousands of men, women and children to perish prematurely in poisonous holes and corners, what a public benefacior he might become as a lecturer, to say nothing of the dollars! At all events, in the example and the success of Dickens as o reader, and of Agassiz as a lecturer, and in the occasion and the agents and the materials now before us for readings and lectures ona grand scale, there is a field open for a thousand reapers io divide the harvest and the dollars with Dolby and Dickens, The Jersey Nitre-(ilyceriae Case. The verdict in the case of the victims slaugh- tered at South Bergen by the nitroglycerine explosion seriously inculpates Colonel Schaf- ner, the superintendent of the works, in so far as he committed to careless hands this dangerous compound, and he is therefore responsible for the fatal results, It remains now foc the authori- ties to carry the case further, and affix some penalty to the responsibility. The testimony of Professor R. Ogden Doremus, who is prob- ably the ablest chemist in the country, shows that nitro-glyceriue is not necessarily a more dangerous compound than gunpowder and that it is less dangerous than gun cotton, and that in proper hands {t may be used with comparative safety. Although it will burn on the applica- tion of fire ora red hot tron, or even @ stream of electricity from a galvanic battery of the highest power, yet it would not explode. These facts he ascertained by repeated experiments. He found, however, that nitro-glycerine would explode, like other detonating compounds, by pressure, and in this particular case there was & very serious pressnre caused by a portion at the orifice of the can being frozen hard, and upon the gas at the bottom being evolved by the use of the hot trons applied by the unfor- tunate man Burns the resistance of the frozen substance produced instant oxplosion. These are valuable facts, and they prove ‘substan- tially tho danger of entrusting such com- pounds to ignorant persons, A Model Veto, The resolution of the Common Council to pavo Thirty-third stroet, from Fifth to Madison avenue, with Nicolson pavement was vetoed by the Mayor yesterday on throe separate grounds, two of which may be plausible enough, namely, that it was very expensive, probably because the contractors are making a job of tt, and that a majority of the residents on tho street should apply for it; but the third ground of objection—that the pavement was as yet only an experiment—is mot exactly founded on fact. The Nicolson pavement hes been in use for many years in some of our Weatern cities, and has worked woll, It ts just a9 aesured a success as any pavement known to us in this metropolis, oot one of | which bas yot given gaustaction, Great Britain an@ Abyssinia. Senator Chandler is, perhaps, a good Amori- can citizen. Michigan may have good reason to be proud of him. There are, however, many respeotable American oitisens who are of opinion that if Senator Chandler faithfully represents the people of Michigan in the United States Senate the people of Michigan must have very indifferent notions of the duties of a United States Senator. We are all pretty well agreed as to the conduct of Great Britain during our late war. We know perfeotly well what we mean by the Alabama claims, We know, too, what we mean when we say that these claims must be settled. But we have yet to learn that because Great Britain misbehaved during our late war that ia a sufficient reason why the United States Senate should be made ridiculous before the world. If Senator Chand- ler chooses to make himself a fool, we bope his brother Senators will reveal their self-respect by compelling him to seek another scone for tho display of his foolery. Our opportunity for dealing with Great Britnin will doubtless come, but it is little likely to bo brought about by the tomfoolery of such a manas Chandion. Tho present expedition to Abys- sinia is no doubt, looked at from a certain point of view, a little absurd. It is, however, exooed- ingly difficult to see how in the circumstances Great Britain could have acted otherwise than sho haa done. In the same circumstances the United States would doubtloss have similarly acted ; 80, at leaat it is reasonable to presume, Senator Chandler, if a grain of sense remained to him, would advise us to act. The Abys- sinian expedition is alvogethor too trifling an affair, and too insignificant in its probable effects on Great Britain, to deserve even tho passing notice of United States Sonators, The question as between Abyssinia and Groat Britain is a question between civilization and barbarism, and in other quarters might be our question to-morrow as much as it is that of Great Britain to-day. The rights of British subjects now and for @ long time beld in cruel bondage, and the example which it is neces- sary to aet to barbarians everywhere, have dragged the British government into a paltry but annoying war. Let us be magnanimous aa well ag exacting, and let ns hope that the expedition may result to the advantage of civilization in regions where darknoas and misery have too long reigned supreme. Batt, The grand carnival ball in aid of the Dra- matic Fund is to come off at the Academy of Music to-morrow evening. Wo have always favored and encouraged the project of making provision for those who in the heyday of their capacity made the stage, whother lyric or dra- matic, a source of infinite enjoyment to the public. We believe that the public owe some- thing of gratitude, aad more substantial things than gratitude, to the actors aad actresses whose contributions to our pleasure are oftentimes: above price, and yet receive small remunera- tion, We have done mora to further such-a scheme than the late Managers’ Association, which rather connived at making the interests of the artistes subservient to that of the mana- gers, and generally wound up the year’s finan- cial results with a big dinner. The funds of the association ape at the present time very low, and, therefore, tn the distribution of that charity and asefulness to the needy for which it is mainly intended, the purposes of the aaso- ciation are necessarily in a great measure frus- trated. It is the duty of the public to pay back to their old favorite actors a portion of the deb! due ihem for “value received” during many houra of pleasure nightly in the various theatres, and we would be ungrateful if we did not recognize and liquidate the debt. There ia, perhaps, no community where a friendly familiarity, almost, indeed, a kind of family association, exisis 90 strongly between the audiences and the actors a3 in Amorica. This fact was noticed by Mr. Oxen- ford, of the London Times, in his notes on the American stage. No such fceling exists in Engtand. There the actor belongs to the theatre, and movesa—except in a few excep- tional cases—only in the circle of his own set, and the members of his profession, and among the critics of the oyster house fraternity and the higher class. Here the actor and actress of known repute aro received into society. They are known and welcomed as part of the community when they make their appearance on the stage. <A well known face is hailed with a genial recognition, especially if it has been for any time absent. We had an evi- dence of this in the warm reception accorded to Mrs. Vernon, at Wallack’s, on Monday night. For five minutes the welcoming scclamations of the audience kept this estimable lady em- ployed in making obeisance, although she ap- peared in « comparatively subordinate pari; but they recognized an old favorite and took this method of showing how glad they were to see her once more on the stage where she bad been so often appreciated. This is but one out of a thousand instances of the same feeling. And thus it is with the New York pnblic—as Mr. Oxenford acutely observed, in gathering his experiences here—the actors and (he audi- ence are, as it wore, of one family. The foot- lights really make no dividing line between them. Although we are acritical public and at times unsparing in the exercise of our criticlam, we always recognize real taleat and are never slow to reward it, Bat the whole duty which the public owes to the actor is not comprised in the measure of applause bestowed upon him. We must remember him, too, when his powers have failed him; when age, or sickness, or poverty is wrapping him sround like « pall. And this is the opportunity which now offers in the Dramatic Fund ball to-morrow night, and it should not be lost. Dickens, who is himself @ natural as well as an amateur actor, end bas done much for the dramatic profession in his own land through a similar obannel, will lend the influence of his benignant spirit to this ov- casion by his presence, At loast so tt is said. But while we say this much for the actors and actresses, we would remind the managers that they owe a duty to the publio which oan only be fulfilled by giving us good, genuine plays of sterling merit, instead of rehashed auf and blue-light sensations, The taste of the people is educated to » higher point than this, and though dey may ondare this kind of dramatic entertainment for » time the mans- gers will find it to their fatorest to remodel their present system. ‘ |. Twyman, formerly Consul to Moxico, tateee gece ee are aa a , . raced mis: NEW JERSEY. * Jersey City. Couonan's LaQousts. —The taquest on the bedy of the man Smith, who was picked up in s dying condities on tho turnpike road near the Hackonsack bridge, and who died « short time afterward, menced yosterday and was to this gvening.. The inquest on the late John who died suddenly on Monday morn- ing, has not yet been ceaciuded by Warren. Avorasn Fagrraeat Accipent,.—On Monday night a man, whilo in a atate of intoxication, went down isto the Ccrankroom of a ferryboat and bad bis fout badly crushed, while he was asleep, by the crank, Ho had a nacow eacape from being crushed to death, Hebeken. Sr, Manv’s Hosrreat,—te view of the large number of patients who bave been admitted into this exceltent institution singe its foundation, and the care bestowed on them by the good Sisters gratuitously, the patroas of the have on several late occasions & sense gratitude those kind nurses who devote their lives to the alleviation of suiTerit through the charity of ia under tho immodiate su Decent surgeon, wha, In dasgoroue. casey receive ae pelent surgeon, who, in receives Bistance from several other medical gentiomen of the city, and ail this without any coat to the patients. Is is an Institution of which uot only Hoboken, but Now Jorsey may (ool proud, Hudsen City. Cuanano wera Stanuiag an Ovincee.~A mam camed Patriok Devine, a resident of Jersey City, was committed for trial by Recordor Aldriage yostorday morning on tne — of wixbbing Officer Ludwig, on Tiankagiving benevolcat and bumane. rvision of the Rev. Father ‘Troaten. Dmirsnare Arrnoy Berwaen = Necrons.—Yosterday morning two mogroes aamed, William Clarke and Joseph Henry Andrews, wore brought before Justice Johnson on @ charge of fighti ‘The quarre! sooms to Bare bad its origin ia iomtaie atone where the greea- eyed monster was at work. The combatants were separated after a stubborn fight, when Clarke, baying armed himself with a razor, returned to tho charge and inflicted several cuts on bis nent's arm. Andrews was committed in default of bai, and Clarke gave bail to appear for trial, ~ Ciiftea. Fatat Raroan Acctpent.—Atoxander Mathows, aged twenty-five years, a carpenter by trade, was shockingty Crushed yestertay betwoen two oars at Cliftou, N. J., oa the Erie Railroad. It appears he waa atiempling to jump from one car to another while tbey were ia mo- po) ek tapestry von th haar ae acemcem ot maneer ween them. 10 lows hia body being ht, it was so jammed that the bones wore all broken the flesh laocerated in soveral piacoa, Ho was immediately forwarded to Jersey City, aud from there he was conveyed by » Mr. Graven, of No. 63 Erie atrest, to this city, and under tho.surgory of the Now York Hospital, but expired ins sliors timo after being admitted. Mathews was a pinglo man and a Da tive of Ireland. BROOKLYN MNTELLIGEYCE, Tim Bosao ov Sureryigons.—The Boart of Kings county Suvorvisors mot yesterday, A communication waa received from a similar body in Ovecge county, this Slate, in rolation to the eaormous axponses and increased taxation created by the many military exactions iv tbat county. The commuaication was appropriately refor- red, Supervisor Toran, ia betalf of tho Committes of the County Treasurer, set forth that, for the fied ending July 31, $3,082 bad been received and $2,755 be* been paid out for tho several bills audited, Eusoron ov Asactane Excivaers of tin Waerken Disraict Tine Deranrwent.-—The eloction for seven assistant enginoers of (he Wostera District Fire Department of this oliy waa hold tast evening, whon the following named porsons, haviag roccived the largest number of votos, wore declared duly olected:— Witiiam Dowd, Kugine Company No, 16; C! B. Far- ley, Feee Hig gS 6; Trae 4 oe ape srg jo, 2; Thomas Ryan, ne pany No, 10; Seeee Gaffney, Hose Com; No. 6; Jamos Dean, dates voted for. ‘Ihe utmost good foeling provaited, and pretty goocral satisfaction to bo expressed with the result, The oflcers thus selected serve for a poriod of two yoars, without pay or emolament. Reeenracan Genseat Commrrres.—Tbore was a mect- ing of this committee hold last eveuing at their head. quarters in Washington street, Mr. 3, 1. Sanderson presided. ‘Tho special order of business waa tho discus- Bion of the roport of the Kxecutive Committees on the por gt of the adoption of basin of representation for each ward. It was recommended in the report that cach ward and country towa he represented according to its population. ‘Ihe report was not adopied, and tho mooting adjourned for one week. Kiorion ov ren Overcuns of tae Boake ov Rarax- sexratives.—At aa election of ofticers of this Board, held on Monday mght, the following named geatlomen were ehosea :—President, Jamos W. Dickié, Engine 22; Vioe Prestdont, Aaron J. Michaels, agin» No, 2; seore- tary, Samuel Bowden, Hose 17; Treasurer, Frederick 9. oe 0, Kngiae 14; Collector, Chartes Kane, Engine jo. 7. Farat Ranaoan Acciant at East New Yors.—The imquest over the body of Me. Henry Eckert, who was jovember. rneer, and aug that the oom, Feoompense the widow of tho Gsomsoet for kecioms Aucacem Borciiry—Araxer ov Two May.—Oiicer Murphy, of the Fiftioth precinot, arrested two meo, named James Martin aad August Kompton, on Monday evening, on the charge of burglary. tho prisoners bavii prc renp boy watob and chain, besides some money Hy ‘® quantity of mitk, from the milk depot of Monsra Davis & . Atlantic street, The total vaiuo of the allozed to havo been stolen is aid to be $300, hased with the procceds of the robbery, wero found on toe persona of the acoused. They wiit have a hoaring before Justice Corawoil, Mrwne Giua —Oa Sanday last Jala Hastings and Margarct Gettings, agod respectively @fteen and sixteen lef their home in Bushwick avenue, F, D., on on Any! with the intention of attending St. Mary's ol at the corner of Leonard and Rensen streets, since that time they have not been heard of vy their The girls are ball sisters, of rather attractive appearance, and arrived in (his country from jand about two months ago. Auirow> = Laxcayy of Waraey Batavia. —James Hogan was yoatcrday arrested and arraigned before Justice Dailey, ona ro stealing 113 whiskey bar. hat Now roils from Aionze Kic' , Of 24 Orobard street, York. The alleged larcony was committed on the lst 0! Septernber {aat, The acoused was held to await further examination. THE MYSTERIOUS POISONING CASE iM BRODKLYR. The Post Mortem Kxnmination=-The Victime Died from the Effects ef Mtrychnine. ‘The post mortem examination oa the bodies of Mrs. Fall and ber dacghter, who were found dead in bod at theie residonce, No. 307 Auantie streat, on Monday morning, was mate yesterday alternoon by Dre, Se and Willete, A careful exsmination wag on ibs bodies of the @ and the various orgens wore found ja » healihy stale, The stomachs wore thea removed for the purpore poo enge Gyre of the contents, The fact thas the pabire the poison might be determined by giv nome of the contente of the stomach to a dog The saimal was procured, and four table ia administered from the contents of Mre. Fall's oon Sas < fow minutes thereafter ho to ox. al 9 47 Mptoms consequent apen atrychnine. "He mageored about the room aad then fel! in violent cvovulsioss, which were repeated anti! he ai It was evident from the experimeat made upon the dog and its rosuits that the deceased must have taken, of bad sdministerad, 9 strong dose of the poigon. Thin drug always causes convulsions and ® general stepor of the fact!tisa, froma which the patient does not recover. The questun now to be dotermined ts whether the de- coased took hor owa life and that of her daughter, tg Ea i them nother party, Many think it if she her own life she would have been likely to have lefts nove repiaining the cange of her tmeane ect; bat nothing ofthe kind bas been discovered effects, Kom what caa be loarned ber mi heard from him, an@ that sho wae fodifferent about living. Hat another given her strychnine ahe would bave had amgto time io bave made her condition known to ty the bor and shawas clasped tightly ia could bardiybe detectod ‘e the beer, and the girl mi easily have eon persuaded by her mother, afier hav: Prepared forbed, to take « drink. A man wh occu, & room in the house adjoia' wayehe cont wa ge py gee Mca, Fail dring Sunday Bight, and says it continued for some hare, The (aqudt over the bodies will be commenced by Coroner Lyh at nine o'ctock on Thursday morning, M OFFICER ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. Officer Hley, of the Ninetesath precast, was acct. dentally sh¢ yosterday afterncea by the explosion of a pistol whicthe had ia bis pooket, He was extoat « If it is possible to makes distiovtion, Mr. Dickens looked more cheerful and seemed to feel even more at home than he did on Monday night, Mr. Dickens sete « goed example to all public entertainers, With him there is moO unnecessary waste of time, Scarcely hes the audience become fully alive to his pressase when the usual brief introduction is ever ang the reading bas commenced. The pieces read last eight were “David Copperfield” and ‘Bob Sawyor's Party./* ‘David Copperfield’ bas always been pronoenced cae Praises bestowed upon him were not anmerited; In the first of the six chapters the reader studiously reserved his strength, and though hie enunciation is alwaye clear sad distinct, ho must in one or two pas sages have been heard with diMculty a the extremity of the hall, By the time he reached the close of this chapter he had become fully warmed; an@ few who heard them as pronounced by their author lest Might will ever furget the words in which David Cop- perfeld gave vent tohis feelings when he discovered the wickedness of his friend. ‘ Novermore, 0 God fore Give you, Stoerforth! to touch that passive band of yours in love and friendship. Never, never more,’* Tho closing scenes of the second chapter were toush- ingly and trathfully given. I¢ was a piece of perfect acting. Peggotty and Mrs, Gummidge seemed to live te fore us:— Mr. Peggotty moved no more, until he seemed te wake all at once, and pulled dowa rough coat from its peg im 9 corner. “Bear ahand with this. I’m struck of a heap an@ can’t dott, Bear ahaod and help me, Well! Now give me that theer hat.” Ham asked him whither be was going. PS ae seok my niece, I'm a going to eesk my Tm going, Orst, to stave in that cheer boat and sink it where I would have drownded him, a3 vin’ soul, if I bad bad of of what waste him! As he sat afore me, in that face to face, strike me down dead, but I'd have drow: him, and thought it right !—I'm ‘& golog fur to seck mg “Where?” “Anywherot I'ma to seek my niece through ha eee Vm fophch nn hd my ue niece in her shame, and bring her back wi’ my and neaa Noone stop me! [tell you I’m a going to beh ayo I'm a going to seek her fur and wide |” Gummidge camo between thom ins at of ory- “No, mo, "l, not as I Serie ys Beek 8 little while, my lone forn Dan'l, and tl ‘yh but my knoes and curse Steerforth yielded to ing, My overcharged Beart ound the same relief as ala, and Icried too, ~ ‘Who that was present last night will forget the twe Micawbers; the little foolish, (riffing, loveable eng affectionate Dora; Mary Ann, the servant; the storm, whioh we seemed to hear whistling through the oreak- ing cordage; the agony of excitement; the retribution, and the moral, whiob, like a lovely flower, grows out of the story and lingers behind ¢ To reading “Bod Sawyer's Party” vickeas was equally: at home, The characters, one and all, seemed to tive and move on the stage before us. Mr. Dickens becomes each in succession, and, as we eaid yesterday, if we but close our eyes, we seem to be in the presence of aD many different persons. A night with Dickens we hesitate not to pronounce the perfection of literary enjoy moat, BARON HACKETT, As our special corrospondeat reports, Mr, Hackety attracted to the Washington theaire last week very large and appreciative audiences, some of them finding onlg stendiag room. He had aot been seen atthe capital siuce the season previous to the assassination of his par- ticular friend and great professions! admirer, Prest- deat Lincoia; and General Grant, though ne had re- peatediy of late yoars exprossed an earnest desire te seo Mr, Hackett upoa the stage, bas never till now hag an opportunity, and seemed highly cateriained with bis performances, THE WEW YORK ALUMNI OF AMHERST COLLEGE. A pleasant reunion of the alumni of this institation, residing ia New York city, took place last evening at the house of Mr. Hoary G. De Forest, President of the York Amhorst Collego Alumni Association, No, 15 Thirtioth street. Of the one hundred or more memberé of the Amborst classes, who are now residents of thie city, a large blk yew emus commana G, Iie Forest, woloomed the sented whom were bis classmates, with a very y turese address, In which he took occasion to eulogize the alma mater of them att after the usual wanner of al ang to oxpress the that the utmost sociability fra teraity of (ocling might always mark the lotercourse of the ry of The foe. tivities of the occasion were ap 2 late hour of po of wittictem ry of bm mo ing intermingled wi more serious phases of ‘oocaston, ‘ GLOOMY STATE OF AFFAIRS IN ARKANSAS. Ono of tho editors of tho Memphis Avalanche has juss conploted a three weeks’ sojourn in Arkansas, Hegivee a gloomy picture of the state of affairs in that Bite, He saye:— . ones have reached this ii i ll HH le ids i ; H Hs a ? fe H i Ms £ i i E i RH fe Hil # H i ! ; [ y i 3 is | E i zis 2 5335 i i key, of Brooklyn, and Pateey Doonan, of New York, cane off at Flushing, for $250 a side, Although a heavy snow storm most of tho time that the encounter inated, this Mot at all interfere with the rugilistie arrangements, and some three hundred wore present, besides the yy and their friends, Rounp i will nao leading off, aud catching hia sntagon| on the mouth, which MoConkey, however, returaed with Reavy exchanges, Kounvs 2 ro ¢ —Doonan kept the ioad, aad visited hie opponent heavily each time, im a Doonan ry ‘Dut thrown ai the close of the round. oti nel Rouwns 6 to biden ns g from this period seamed to have the advantage, fought Doonam At the close ofthe tweatyeseventh round the sa foul blow, when the referee declared the fight to be won by McVoukey. A SERIOUS AFFAIR. Rovert Armstrong, @ youth sixtess. of 0g0, toe siding at No, 62 First rcauhs anh Indhatd (a cleans ing Out the sinughter house at No, 67 First avonue, ‘Ohatise Line, tn tua" eaten oF which the atest row « handful of ia "a face, destroy the ng of mn apm aed pr the oye the at Helle Se peers to ES Toned. 04s ihe pouse pre aa bie 40k,