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ABYSSINIA. Military Review of the Position of the British Invading Army. - The Landing, Encampment, March and Difficulties. Organization of the Army and Mor- tality in the Corps. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Filae of the English Advance and the Rattle Greunds of Africa=The Natives ai Native Help at Landing=In Camp and Camp Daty=— Dangers and Difticulties of the Expedition—Mortality Report. Musgarro, Jan. 15, 1568. Thave now been some little time at this delect- able spot, and as Sir Robert Napier has now landed and the expedition may thus be said to be faicly begun, I send you my first letter on Abyssi- nia, Imagine a large bay, with a low shore, com- posed of asand as fine as the finest four, with stunted bushes scattered everywhere. A much more unpromising site for the d.sembarkation of anarmy could hardly be imagined. <A gradually shoaling shore, so that even ships’ boats cannot come within two hundred yards, no stones or wood to form piers dr jetties, uo water within thirteen miles, no forage for the baggage animals within seventy. Very few armics ever landed “under greater difficulties, Every drop of water con- sumed here has to be condensed on board ship. Every pound of grass and corn for the baggage animals taking up stores for the first seventy miles of our journey has to be brought from Bombay or England. There seems, however, to have been no help for it. A range of lofty mountains run down the whole side of Abyssinia. There are only three or four passes by which an ascent through them is possible. The most easy and direct of th jppears to be that of Kormaylo, and this place is the near- est point upon the coast to it. As I steamed up the bay I should rath:r have thought that I was approaching a commercial port of the first im- portance than @ place the very existence of which ‘was unknown until six months ago. Fifty or sixty ships lay at ancuor, almost the whole of which were of the largest class, and a great proportion were steamers. We now anchored in the midst of them, and all eyes were directed to the shore, for some months at any rate, to be our The hour was three P.M.; a strong wind was blow!ng, and all that could be seen was a Long, low shore, upon which a few wooden stores and lines of white tents rose dim and misty in the midst of @ thick cloud of lurid dust, The monn- tains in the distance were perfectly itivisible. It was altogether a depressing sight. The next morning, however, things looked more cheerfal. There wi 0 wind, and the long line of white tents stretching away among the green bushes looked cool and pleasant, Behind the camp the land lay for a mile flat and green, then some slight undulation above the level, and behind these, twelve miles inland, a long range of lofty moun- tains rose in an unbroken line, as far as the eye could reach, north and south. Getting my traps together, | obtained @ ship’s boat and landed. The pier is about thyye hundred yards long, and has been built since \.e expedition arrived here. There has been considerable difficulty in its con- struction, for every stone had to be fetched in native boats from the opposite side of the bay, ten miles distant. The water at the end of the pier is five feet deep at low water, eight feet at high. On landing upon the jetty I found a scene of the greatest bustle and activity. A number of cavalry horses were being landed from a float on which they had been towed from the vessels which bad brought them. Several native boats lay alongside, and from these stores of all kinds were being landed, while from othera which could not get alongside, @ long line of natives were carrying bales of pressed hay and bags of rice and grain on their heads to the shore. Along the pier a line of rail was laid and trucks stood upon them to receive the goods as they were landed. The instant that they were landed a number of natives pushed them along the track, keeping up as they did s0 a monotonous chant, without which, I have since found that they can do nothing. The natives, although they are very dark, with frizzly hair, have none of the negro characteristics. Their features are well cast, and in some cases almost classical; their Jips are thin, their fore- heads frequently high, and their noses well formed. They have by far the most intelligent features of any black race Lever saw. Their figures, too, are upright as darts, and their limbs perfectly straight. The great drawback to their appearance is their extreme leanness, They are so thin that they cast no shadow to speak of, and their legs are hardly thicker fan pipe stems. Of course there are ex- ceptions; and I have seen figures which might serve as a model of symmetry ; a fat native I have not yet seen. Their dress, when at work, consists of merely @ Ipin-cloth; but at other times they wear along piece of cotton cloth, wound round and round them, and falling from the shoulder in graceful and really classic folds. 1 imagine that there is very little difference between the dress of an Abyssinian and the garb of the old Roman Sen- ator. The women dress mach in the same way, but those who belong to tribes in the interior are dressed entirely in leather, which is generally ornamented by white sheils sown upon it in elabo- rate devices. Leather does not sound a gracetul material, but some of these dresses are really very picturesque. Of the women it is difficult to speak generally. Of course they differ as much in ap- pearance as do the women of otber countries, Their features, like those of the men, show no trace whatever of negro origin, and some of them are really pretty, with delicate features, If they would but use water occasionady and abstain from frizziing and greasing their hair they would be really good looking women. They are, as in most ern nations, mere slaves to the men. They carry the wood and grass, they fetch water, and, in fact, do nearly all the hard work, while the men stroll about with their swords and shields and spears. Iam now speaking more of the na- tives upon the plateau than down here, where women are comparatively rare, The men's swords areexactly the shape, but larger, of an Irish reaper’s sickle, The spears are six or seven feet long, and round the slaft, both atthe butt and where the head joins the shaft, are rings of iron, which serve to balance and at the same time to weight the spear, In a hand to hand fight these would be really formidable weapons, for the na+ tives can throw them with very great force and considerable accuracy for a distance of thirty yards. The shivlds are made of hippopottamus hide and would turn a bullet ata short distance. All the natives who do not carry shield god spear have a very heavy club, or waddy. These are smooth and about three feet in length. In the landle they are about an inch in diameter, but swell out to more than double that thickness at ‘the club end. They are made of # very strong and heavy wood. Thus much for the natives, of whom I shall, no doubt, have more to tell you as We advance into the fnterior. On leaving the pier aud stepping upon Abys- sinian ground we come upon immense piles of stores of all kinds, ‘There are great boxes con- taining mule saddles of the stage pattern. These have come from England. They are very expen- sive and exceedingly complicated, but for the carriage of baggage and box s are excellent, and they have the advantage of galling the mules’ backs much less than most other serts. By the side of these are thousands of Bombay pads tor mules, These are very simple aud cheap, and for the carriage of stores and bags of rice, &c., they are very good, but they certainly give mauy more sore backs than do the stage saddies. Near these are piles of camel saddles and furniture. These are the land transport ; tueir camp is a quarter of a mile distant, but the bulky part of the stores have been unloaded here until an oppor- tunity occurs of sending them on; and as the animals are landed they are saddled here and then taken on to the lines. Near this is the commis- sariat yard. Hs are great piles of rice aud grain, stacks of vompressed hay, lines unas of rum, of chee (clarified butter) an of biscuit, che of tea, bags of of sugar, and of flour; in fact, all that is necessary for the feeding of an army. We find on entering the camp that the pleasant green which had looked so fresh in the morning, as we suw it from the ship, is a mere delusion, A few stunted bushes, with dry, withered leaves, are scattered over a plain of sand as as tne finest flour, and in which one’s feet sink several inches, raising a cloud of dust as we walk. Near where the tents are pitched we find that the bushes have been cleared away, and that there is nothing buta clear expanse of dust. We turn towards theright when we have passed the store yurd, and ina quanien of a mile we come upon the camp of the ‘ourth Europvans, Tlie is a British regiment, which ia India are called the European regimenis to distinguish them trom the native regiments. The men are all in their Indian clothing. Ths isa complete suit of kaskee, a sort of tough drill, and which in India is white and which has been dy gray or brown, according to the fancy of each com- manding officer for this expedition. On their heads the men wear a thick felt helmet, covered with kaskee to match their dress. It is not » pretty uniform, but is very servic je for cam- paiguing. The menand officers are ncamped in large single-poled, double tents, as usea in India. These tents are only to be used when here upon the plain. ‘I! are much too weighty to be taken forward. ‘These European lines are pieben ata quarter of a mile distant from the sea, ust behind these are the tents of Sir Robert Napier, General ir Charles Stavely and their staffs, Next to the Fourth regiment are the Royal Artillery. Further inland we come upon @ long line of tents. ‘These are those of the Madras sappers and miners, the Third native rey ‘nentand the Twenty-fifth native regiment, ‘I se regi- ments look a! hort distance far mo » English than the Eng regiment itself does, They are all dressed in the regular British uniform—scarlet tunics and white cross belts, and black trowsers with red piping. The only difference is iu the head gear. Round their black forage caps they wear puggeries—that is, scarfs—of various colors. The suppers have red puggerie: hi Third have blue, tue Twen'y-fitta gree Tenth native infantry, now at Senafe, hav The native regimeuts are encamped in tents lar to those they use in India. These are culled routies. They are made of rather thin canvas, lined with bunting. ‘'hey are too hot for Euro- pean under a tropical sun, but the troops will all ave to use thei when they get upon the Plateau. The native regiments, although when in uniform they resemble English soldiers, when they are off parade have no sembiance to anything military whatever. They discard all articles of European attire and come out in their own Indian dress. As the men are recruited from ail parts and among ali the tribes of India, we have at a glance betore us representatives of all her nume: ous people and c stumes. Sikhs aud Punjaub: Hillmen and Mahrattas, Mussulmans aud Hindoot and a hundred others here, some in flowing ‘arments and turbans, others with only @ scant) loin cloth, and varying io color from @ deep blac! toa bright bronze. Taking tiem as @ whole they 'y fine, tall race of men, eir upright and free, graceful walk render them as soldierly looking a set of men as one would wish to command. At some little distance from the camp I have described we came upon a small detachment of Scinde horse. There are only two companies here, as they are pushed forward as fast as they arrive, in order that their horses may, far as pon ble, escape the disease which is decimating he bagg: animals of the expedition. ‘The horses are rough, ugly animals, for the regiment raised in Scinae, where good horses are very di! cult to obtain. The uniform is a long, green fro coat and trousers to match. large red puggery is wound round their heads, Next to these large camp containing the Punjaub pion Thi @ splendid regiment. There is hardly a man in it of less than six feet aie They are, too, a broad-siouldered set of fellows, and are admirable to see at work. Their uniform is all ray cotton, with gaiters, and they wear a ver arge, claret colored puggery like a turban, Euc! mao carries in addition to his arms a pick or shovel, and the r duty is to clear roads and execute works as well as to fight. When at work they retain only a scanty pair of drawers. Not tar from the l’unjaubers is the bazaar, two long lines of booths or hus composed of maiting. It does not look promising, but everything in the way of promise. Wines und spirits can be purchased there at, of course, exorbitant prices. Near the bazaar we came upon the transport train lines, which are, perhaps, the mogt interesting por- tion of the whole camp. Here are long strings of baggage mules and ponies; next to these are @ couple of hundre carts, with the mules which draw them; next we havea line of baggage bullocks, small, hardy creatures, and then three or four hundred of the magnificent draught cattle, huge, Brahmin bulls, some of them twenty hands high. Next to these are the camel lines, with hundreds of the uncouth animals. Again beyond these are the elephants, which arrived only the other day, and which have astounded the natives more than any- thing they have yetseen, They know elephants, and to their cost, for in the wet season they abound here; but they know them only as invin- cible enemies, who ravage their fields; so on them these huge beasts, in @ state of servitude, obeying orders, lying down and getting up when ordered, and carrying enormous loads, strike them dumb with astonisiment and admiration. These animals of the transport train have come from all arts of the land—from Bengal, Bombay and adras; from Persia, Arabia, Egypt, Smyrna, Italy and Spain have come the mules and ponie: the oxen and camels. Bach of these countri too, has contributed its quota of drivers. From the transport train lines we go down to the water- ing place. Txis is a long trough, at one end of which stand numbers of large tanks. It sounds almost impossible, but it is a fact, that all the water for the use of the 10,000 men and 4,000 animals here has to be made—extracted from the sea by condensers. Much ot it is made on board the steamer, whose boilers are at worle night and day, and there are also condensing en- gines onshore, or rather upon a small artificial island near the troughs, which turn out large nantities of water in the twenty-four bours. uring the early days of the expedition, six weeks since, there was intense suffering among the ani- mals—paftly due to shortness of water, and partly to the general desertion which took place among the Arab and Egyptian mule and camel drivers ; but this is now past and the transport service is going on most satisfactorily. Every animal has sufficient water and forage, the hay and grain coming from Bombay, which may be considered the base of operations. The difficulties of this expedition are really euormous. Forage and food have to be brought two thousand miles, water to be condensedmpon the spot. Fortunately at Hor- maylo, the first halti place, thirteen miles from here, an abundance 0! r 18 procurable from nd from tiris place, as far as we have at is for the next hundred miles, there to be met with every twelve or fourteen baggage animals have to carry their own forage as far aa Senafe, seventy miles off. There hay is tolerably abun but no corn of any description is to be purchased. At Senafe we at present one English fantry re, Thirty-third; one native infantry, the Third netive cavalry, some sappers and mountain train and the Firs elooches, 4n Indian infantry regiment, recraited among the hills. The men and horses of a battery of English artillery are also there, but the gans have not yet been taken up the pas. No move is likely to be made forward for another fortnight, the transport train being at present occupied solely in taking Up provisions to Senafe so as to collect a larg stock there. When two or three months’ pro- visions are umulated the troops gow here will move up, and those now at Senate Will advance to Atteghrat, forty miles further inland. It is at heed unknown whether it is the intention of the ommander-in-Chief to push straight on from that oint or to a accumulate supplies. What will @ the ultimate cost of this expedition no one can yet foretell. It of course depends upon its dura- tion. If it last a year it will cost fifteen millions sterling at the lowest eatim: @ year for each year after sum to spend in order to re who had been vastly bette: I thiuk I can say t England will emba sionariea. It wil thing that if @ trave’ trasts himself among 80 at his own risk. few individuals oping at home, t this will be the last war save tray enceforth be an t OF @ missio 6 nations A inillion ere or mis- derstood likes to iat he does er head is rather rescue of gentlemen who have, with their eyes open, gone into the eluiches of a barbarous chief. | @ high price for a nation to have to pay for the Whether we shall rescue them is an uncertainty, The hostile king who had interpused between Debra Taber (Theodore’s capital) and Magdula, where the prisoners are almos: all coufined, aut who had laid si-ge to the latter place, has de- camped, and Theodore, at the lat-st news, was moving upon Magdala. Ere this, thereiore, he has ail the prisouers in his own hands, and the next question is, will he give them up when we approach, on tie condition of our instant return to the seashore, or will he put them to deith and retire to the mountains? ‘This is of course the all-important Rola; but which way it will go no one can say. I fear myself that he will take the latter course. Indeed, his whole conduct and policy point that way,’ He is an inteusely proud man, and his rule is upheld as much by moral as by physical force. He might originally have released the captives with- out any loss of prestige whatever. Indeed, Lhave no doubt that our neighbors would have thought all the more of his daring and cleverness for having seized Spars of English and compelled their nation to sue for their liberty and pay hand- somely for their ransom. It would have been @ feather in his cap that he had got the better of a white nation. And to deliver the captives when we a presce within a few days’ march of him would have an effect the exact reverse of this. He would have defied as long as the enemy was in the distance, and could not afford to yield when taey were at hand, he would have guined nothing whatever by his conduot, but would have lost the resents sagisnd offered him, and have forteited ¢ friendship of a Power which has always stood between him and Egypt. He would be humiliated and laughed at. Far more likely, then, according to all the accounts we have received of Theodore’s character, is it that he will put ali the prisoners to death upon our approach and retire to his native mountains, where he could remain for years in perfect safety and return upon our departure from his country with the certainty that he could easily overturn any of his rivals whom we piight have set upon the vacantthrone. [na that case—that is, it Theodore murder the cap- tives and then flee—it is difficult in the extreme end whatever to the expedition. We could hold ‘the country forever, but it would be absolutely useless to us. It may be rich in minerals; but the difficulty of car- riage would render the Fearkiog of nines of any of the baser metals imposs:ble. It would be difficult to reach, being out of the way of any of our do- m nions; aud, in fact, no one here has the smallest idea that there is any intention of holding Aby-- sinia. There remains, then, two alternatives—the one to set up as King one of Theodore’s rivals; the uther to hand the country over to Egypt, which Power was prevented frum taking it years ago, because Great Britain and France espoused the cause of this so-called Christian community. Theodore has been spoken ot by all travellers wiio have visited him as a man of great talent. There can be no doubt that during the conduct of the prerent transaction he has let his temper get the eiter of his discretion, and has allowed his indig- nation at the scandalous neglect ot Earl Kusseli in not replying to his letter to lead him on to do, per- haps, the most impol.tic action any sovereign ever committed. At is difficult, indeed, to understand what his object hus been throughout the affair, and we can- not therefore argue with any certainy what line of conduct he will now pursue, He oa not Spparently wish for the deata of the captives, le has no animosity against them pean , 83, indeed, they huve in no way oliended him. He does not want money, although at one time it appeared likely that he would accept the splendid essa England offered him und release them, ‘hat, then, dovs he want? No one can auawer. What will he do? The same silence. As I have said, I fear the worst; but, even if so, we can hardly regret for the captives’ own sake that we have undertaken the expedition. Death is prefer- able to a captivity for life in the hands of a savage who occasionally tortures and may at any moment slay you; and should Theodore commit this last atrocity he may be very sure that ‘never again will he sit upon the throne of Abyssinia, even if Eng- land has to keep a brigade of soldiers there for the next twenty years to protect any rival monarch we may set up in the place of the tyrant. In the meantime we need not disguise from ourselves that the difficulties to be encountered by the British force are enormous. The difficulties of water and forage I have already spoken of. In addition to this there ure the dangers of the cli- mate and its eftect upon both men and animals, Upon animals it is terrible. A strange disease appears to infect this plain and the pass behind it. Horses are seized witn what at first appears to be only a slight cold. In three or four hours they are dead. The natives of the interior dread this scourge so much that they never bring ponies down the pass, but come down upon foot. Asan example, the Third native cavalry lost one hundred and eighty horses out of tour hundred and fifty. The transport corps have lost alto- gether over fifteen bundred animais, and have now five hundred in hospital. ‘The disease is not of so viruleut type as it was at first, but we are told that it will be very much worse in the rains which are shortly expected. As far as regards human life, at present the climate appears to agree with us well enongh. There have been two or three deaths, but less.than the number would have been im India among an-equal body of men. But, then, we are at Xoigs oe in the month of January, and even now the thermometer marks 109 ina tent. In another three months it will be perfectly unbearable for a European, and the pass, with its high mountain sides, will beaturnace, Everything a be out cs be ae beget and we must Ge pend for supplies wholly upon the country throug which we march, The rabyestulans; ith their shields and spears, are enemies almost below con- tempt; but King Climate is a truly formidable enemy, and any loss we may suffer will assuredly be caused by his assauit. to see aay Letter from One of the Captives. . Magpa.a, Dec. 23, 1867. My Dgar Cuartorre-The imbecile proceed- ings of Menelik, the absence of all intelligence from the coast, and the distressing conjectures about the advent of the King have not added to the assurance and comfort which we felt on the first news of the approach of our hoped for de- liverers ; those and a variety of minor disappoint- ments imparted @ sadness and gloom to the mind which invested with its sombre hues our present and future prospects. On Friday, the 13th inst., tid- ings, however, reached us which caused our hearts and nerves to quiver with ecstatic delight. Eng- land has at length determined to show that she has not only the means and the power, but the will also to chastise an uureasonable and cruel barbarian, who, in his vanity, imagined that for- bearance is weakness, and ma; imity cowardice, The invading force, we hear, is strong enough, not only to conquer every province in Abyssinia, down to the utmost limits of the Galla country, but it will also carry terror and diemay the remotest corners of Atrica. All those il- jusions about the forbid Aspect of this lund in which fanciful speculators have so pro- fusely indulged will v: like & vision of the night so soon as the troops leave the parched and feverish plains around the coast. The difference between the climate of interior Abyssinia and the ‘west coast of Africa is as great as between an oven in the capital of England and the airy hall of an English nobleman the country. ‘The stmos- phere here is in every respect bracing salu. brious; the vegetation exuberant, but not, as in the lowlands, rank and steaming; and the scenery checkered and picturesque and most lovely. Our friends, the lovers of the sparkling and not joer eett, need not, [ can assure them, fear an inveterate drinking of the pure liquid, nor be sparing in their libations from the rive! nd springs of Ethiopia, which, if net inferior, are at least equal to those in Europe. The guinea worm, that agonizing and disgusting dise, known on the mountains aid plat the banks of the Thames, We e worm—a discomfort which every foreigi can avoid if he does not, hyena-like, riot in reeking collops of raw beef. If our expected liberators who come from the sunny climes of India can appreciate a little frost they will be enraptured with Magdala and the adjacent provinces. Ever since our second captivity on this rock, which is lower than the Gala and Wadela Piains, we have regularly had our fires, morning and evening, and it@ve were deprived of the cheering blaze it would, next to iron chains, be one of our greatest hardships. We yearn, yearn most inteneely, to hear the sound of the bugle and the roll of the British drum. Our garrison, the tyrant is not here, will not offer muc aistance to the British legions when they see their glittering arms and witness their noble martial bearing. I hope and pray that the British jion will forestall the Abyseinian tiger, for should that savage antici- pate him we shal) have a erous funeral of the old and a tempestuous entrance into the new year, ‘The King is at present three days’ journey from here, but with lis gigantic toys which he calls cannons it will take Lin at least a month to reach the Magdala. if he accomlpishes this object it will be one of hix mont triumphant feats. is literally encompassed by myriady of insi ents. Unfortunately, they all dread ig mouths of his harmlese artillery, I wish tl Abyssinia had never heard ef such invent guns. Tlie temper of our ceptor has not im- ved. He hae of tate adopted a new and most cruel method of oxecution, Formerly he used to ‘hirne in their own ot a3 but { despatch he has abandoned e:nng & Theodorus, Now grave Pius down with ap tron tent peg, and them to porish; while those whose leaser megniinde he stretches on nd, and then drives his clumsy ain- munition Wagons actors their gory end wiithing NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 18€8.—TRIPLE SHEET. bodies till they are crushed, mangled and rednced to au undistinguisbabie mass. 1 fesr his Euro- an workmen cursed the day when they entered ue great Negus’s service, und made him instru- ments which he has not applied to maintain order and peace in the dominions which |e wuce raled, but on the contrary, to torture and torment the un- happy people. There are numbersin Abyssinia who, like ourselves, long for the arrival of the Engl sh, who, ast ey just!y anticipate, will quell rebellion and restore peace, security and law to # reft and bleeding country. God grant that their expecta- tions be not doomed to disappolntment! England has done, and is still doisg, under the good provi- deuce of @ covenant-keeping God, much for the progress of civilization and true religion through- out the universe; and if she is in 1863 a@ generous to enthralled Africa as she was not many years ago, ehe may from the Alpine heizhts of Ethiopia proclaim an act of emancipa- tion to this enslaved continent, which to the very verge of time will cause the sable sons and daughters of Ham to call her biessed, Should anything happen to us (which God forfend) no blume can be attached to those who were sent to Procure our rel-ase, as they have exerted them- selves to the utmost to ensure our safety. With kindest r-gards to all who iuterest them- selves in us,I am,&c., HENRY A. STERN. General Merewether, on sending the above to Mrs. Stern, in London, says:— We are most anxious to h on, as yeu may suppose, and everything is done to promote that object, but owing to the unfortunate scarcity of provisions this year, brought about by such swarms of locusts and wa ¢ of rain, in addition to the inter- nal state of the country, it is necessary to make sure of @ good stuck of supplies before final on- ward movement can be made. Once that is done there will be no turther check, and we shall be soon in the neighborhood of Magdala. Mean- while, we hope Gobazye wiil keep Theodorus in check, to prevent ais reaching the captives before we come to their rescue—Jan. 13.” POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. New York Politics. General Green was defeated at the Syracuse charter eleciion om ¢he 18th inst, as the democratic candidate for M ‘The reason was not # much that he was a copperhead as that his head was too well read. Onon- aga may therefore be set dowm for Grant. Reterring to this eiection the Albany Argus (democratic) of yesier- day says ‘the radicals made a bitter personal fight against im (Genera! Green), and it is reported that large sums of money were used to accompilsh his deieat, ‘The result may be charged to personal and not to pollii- eal causes,” Detawaaa Couxty.—The democrats have gained one in the Board of Supervisors, Taking this as a bacis, the Albany Journal (republican) glories in the “sedemp- tion of Deiaware.'’ Fo.tox County elects six democratic and four republi- can supervisors, ‘Ihe republicans are bappy over their success in the town of Stratford, which, they concede, ig “usually democratic,” Kentucky Polities. The election of Hon, T. C, McCreery, of Daviess county, Ky.—tbhe candidate of the “Green river coun- try'"—-to the Senate of the United States, to supjly the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. James Guthrie, is an important event in tne political history of Kentucky, Kentucky fund it to be MO easy task to supply a place once occupied by Heary Clay and John J, Crittenden, to say sothing of the pro- found abilities of the immediate predecessor. One of the Louisvilie papers, prior to the election, mentioned the name of Mr. MoCreery among the last in the list of candidates for the position, After referring te the Statesmanship of Stanton—not of the War Office—the Judicial learniag, calm discriminatiog patriotism and chaste eloquence of Bullock, the direct tact aad prac- tioal experience of Green, the enlarged democracy and forensic influence of Caldwell, the philosophic thought- lessoces of Rumeey, the ability and joyaity of Rhea, it came finally down to the ‘deliberate wisdom and eloquence’ of McCreery, The United States Senate wants at this juncture ‘deliberate wisdom and eio- quence,” If the mew Senator possesses these qualities Kentucky may agatn boast of haviog m the highest branch of the national legislature @ Ot representative, Deecriptive of McCreery we may sate, on the authority ot ap Owensboro correspondent of a Loulevills paper, ‘that be in a veteran democrat, and has rendered yeoman eervice in days lang syve, and will make a Se: wortby ase Loh of a Clay, Calnoun, Webster or a Doug las, and is a bead aod shoulders taller than soy of | Tadical luminaries now sbedding a tallow beeswax hue light over the councils of the pation. Mr. MoCreery has never been a seeker after office, and the Logiwiatare B selecting him bonored the office alsa, ‘The Louisvilie Board of ‘Irade, Demooratic Executive Commities, &c., have prepared an address earnestiy urging upon the Democratic National Executi @ittes, which meets in Washing! on Saturday to select Louisviliw as the piace for boiding the Democratic Natiooal Lon: tion. The Kentacky Legislature has passed a law submit- ting to the people whether or not a «pecial tax of fifieen cents on the $100 for common school purposes shail be levied, A strong effort was made to defeat it by a re- consideration, but it did not succeed. Western Politics. The Detroit (Mich.) Post—rad.cal—is euggesting the Propriety of the Republican State Convention, which meets in that city on the 18th Maroh, to be carefal io the selection of the sixteen delegates to the Republican National Convention in May, who are to cast their votes for a candidate for the Vice Presidency, Grant, of course, being set down as their irrevocable voice for the Presi- dential nomination, The Post desires it to be distinotly undorstood that ‘Michigan republicanism is decidedly Fadical.’” [From the Evening Telegram.) Curoaco, Feb. 19, 1868, Mr. John D. Caton, late Judge of the Supreme Court Of this State, has written column letter to W. T. Dow. dall in answer to one from Dowdall, which is published in the Peoria Democrat, in which he (Caton) dectines to accept the democratic nomination for Governor of this Btate, Judge Caton says he never has been enzaged in politics, and doos mot understand the management of political parties so as to qualify him to be leader either during @ canvass or in office, Skill in manipuiating men he regards as cesential in « political candidate for Governor, and he thinks if elected he might prove a failure, He proceeds te discuss the Presidential ques- tiom, He thinks the goverpment is controlied by un- acrupoteus — who are progressing from one siand vo anotber. thinks there are thousands of republi- cans who the democratic ticke: poxt fall if the democracy wil| neminate an waodject @ man, and that without Tepublican vote there is mot the re- motest hope for the democratic date, Pendiston, he saye, is, next to Vailandigham, the most objection- able man im the country, not only because of bis war record, put also upoa bis greenback policy. To nomi- bim is to make the party take the affirmative upon @ questionable @naacial policy, and ton’s war record. Beginning, there with say Sherman or Dix—and simply protesting against’ negro success would be certain. Texns Politica. The San Antonio Herald publishes several aMdavits made by German citizens of that county, showing that they were refused registration simply because it had been ascertained that they were opposed to negro suf- frage. The Dalias Herald says that the Board of that county has not registered or stricken from the rolls not only the names of aj] those who were denied registra. tion under the provisions of what was termed the “secret ivetructions’’ distributed from headquarters of the Fifth Miltary District last spring; but, im addition to the questions contained in satd instructions, in order the privilege of registrati inded to ap) nis the following questions “are you ta favor, of negro youjvote for the Convention? jwestions in the negative was held Hoard as 00d grounds for the rejection of tne majority of the plican ¢ for regist-ation. Applicante who had never taken the amnesty oath, if io favor of negro suffrege and the Com Vention, were registered; if oppesed to either of these p tone they were rejected, bec takom the amuesty oat. Dallas for purpose of registering re di y the overbearing and insulting conduct of the president, Returns from 122 counties are published, showin: 56,678 whites and 47,581 colored voters registered, an 74,788 rejected applications; these last are almost oxclu- nively whites. Polittent Another registration com! on the 24 March, The Richmond Daily Register, radical, is dead. The only wonder is how it managed to live so long. Cases Boynton and Nellie Woodward, two interesting young ladies residing in Green Lake, Wisconsin, for the consideration of ome dollar each, kissed the mate negro servant in the kitchen of the house where they were attending a party, The fathers of these two interesting Young Iadies are both radicals and miseegenationists, The Clovelamd (Ohio) Leader, radical, February 17, thinks the democrats are not easily satished, A while Ago they made the hills and valleys ring with their boisterous denunciation of Congress becaure it refused to admis ives to Congress from the rebel States, Now tho boot is on the ot Youtorday, in our Loptelatare, says the Leader, the democratic members yoted solid against a resotation favoring the Mnmediate admission of A‘abama to the Union and of Representatives aed Senators from that siete to seam in Congrows, * REAL ESTATE MATTERS, Sales Vesterday—Prospect rk Boule- vard Lots, &e., still Up. Yesterday was scarcely less noticeable than the Preceding one for activity in the real estate market, and furnished additional evidence of the metropolitan character of the oilies surrounding in the concurrent demand for lots equidistant in every direction from its business quarter. Brook- lyn, 30 long over hadowed by its great sister, which, absorbing all its energy and enterprise, left it, while exceeding in population many other cities of the Union, dull, inert and non-progressive, has of late become so much identified with New York and so necessary a part of it (as though it were one or two of the wards) that, becoming in- oculated with the speculative spirit and enterprise of the metropolis, it has apparently roused itself from its long lethargy and become as lively and energetic as ita sister. Thus while Boulevard lots, the Park lots and the favored neighborhood of Fort Washing'on are giving inducements to specu- lators to invest in real estate and affording Opportunities to make rapid fortunes in their purchase and sale on this side of the East river, Prospect Park lots, sites on the line of the new Grand Drive or in the vicinity of the proposed Ridgewood Park, in the Eastern District, supply smilar in- ducements to Brooklyn capitalists and mark that ois corresponding progress. ‘he sales Sosteriay were well attended and the bidding spirited. ‘The following are the particu- lars of them :— By order of the executor of the late David Wood some valuable lots near the Park and in the vicinity of the pew improvements, consisting of thirteon lots, comprising the entire block bounded by Seventh and dt. Nic olas avenues and 1)4th and 115th strevta ; and twenty lots and gores situ- ated a'the north side of tisth street, 150 feet west of Seventh avenue (uew line), were put up at auction, when they realized the following Prices, a portion being withdrawn in disg it the indisposition “of bidders to go higher:—' lots on the corner of Seventh avenue and 114th street, $1,000 and $3,000, and the two in the rar, fronting on Harlem jane (St. Nicholas avenue), $3,950 and $2,900, purchased by J. Loper. The remaining lots on Seventh avenue were purchased by Lambert Suydam at $2,950 each for three, and $3,000 each for three others, The lots and gores on 115th street sold as fol- lows, commencing with the one nearest Seventh avenue, to Hugh Sackett, for $1,700; the two ad- joining to Jonn Reynolds, for $1,500 and $1,495, respectively; the three next to Mr. Suydam, for $1,475 eacn, which were all the full iots, Begin- ning with the gores, which gradually become smaller going west, two were purchased by Mr. Suydam for $1,190 each, two by D. -choonmaker for $1,000 each, two by Ryerson for $360 each, two others by Schoonmuker for $625 each, the two next by R. Cuapnian for $600 each, and the two next (which brought matters to a very fine point) for $400 each. The two story brick house and lot on the north- west corner of Washington and Carlisle streets, known as No. 122 Washington street, 18 feet 11 inches front by 39 feet in depth, were purchased by William G. Hammer for $9,300. The three lots of land, with the brick and frame stores thereon, on the north side of Water street, commencing on the nortueast corner of James’ slip, and known as Nos. 364, 366 and 368 Water Street, varying from 17 to 25 feet in width and {com 30 to 60 feet in depth, were sold as follows: — No. 364, subject to a leaxe, which ex ires in 1570, to A. Hall for ieee No. 366 to Daniel Daley, Alexander Mallach, for $4,600 pes 68 each, The four atory high stoop brick house and lot on the south side Fourteenth street, between First and Second avenues, No. 174 (old No.), the house 23 feet 8 inches wide by about 60 feet, with modern improvements, the lot 193 feet, were knocked down at $17,500. The four story and basement brick store and dwelling, with lot, at the northeast corner of Grand and Attorney streets, 19 feet front by 70 feet in depth, was put up by James M. Miller, under direction of Gratz Nathan, referee, and pur- chased by Nathan Aisel for $20,800. The following Brooklyn property was sold yest terday by Anthony J, Bleecker & Co., viz:— On Frankiin avenue, west side, between President and Union streets, eR gores. On President street, one large gore on northwest cor- ner of Frapkila aveu three tote on north side, commencing 1CO feet west of Franklia avenue. Os Union street, six bots on sorth side, commencing 850 feet east of Ciasson avenue. Oa sacke:t street, six lois oa south side, commencing 350 fect east of Ciaasou avenue. On State street, two Jote southwest corner of Nevins Street, eseh 23278, aod « two story hich sioop frame house and lot on south side, commencing Atty-six feet ‘went of Nevins street; house about 23x33; lot 100 feet dee: ‘on Adelphi street, throe three story high stoop brown stove houses and lots commen ‘eet, northwest coruer x obtained were as follows:—The seven n Franklin avenue and the large gore on Mr. Robert White being on President atreet, $615 each, G. T. Chapi chaser, who aiso P took the six lots on Sackett street, at $910 each, and three lots on Union street, at $350; the remain- ing lots on Union street were purchased by Wm. Harvey for $720 each; Adelphi street property purchased by James Carey, at $10,800 for the corner and $10,100 for each of other lots; the operty on State street, at the corner of Nevii 2 $e ‘~ Duncomb, at $2,400 for the corner lot; the adjoining one by Valentine Carn for $2,050, and he house and lot next adjoining to the same gen- qleman for $4,800. Ofcial Trausters of Real Estate and Leases Recorded. We give below the official transfers of real estate and leases recorded yesterday in this city, Kings county and Hudson county, N. J. :— TRANSFERS IN NEW YORK O:TY. Broadway, @s, det 10th and 11th 115.3x1 100.6150 . st, Gor of Chrystie, 252100 fronting Cortiandt al, 3 low, 154 (4 © of av C, 18192.3 150 {tw of Ist 16 8x! LEASES RECORDED IN NEW YORK. Broadway, No 540, Ww per yr... Broome st, Nos 125, 127, 35¢ yra, per ¥ Broadway, No 1,263, 6 yrs, per yr Canal st, 95, Wost Broadway, No in,} wo years, 0: ber three. 40ub at, 85, 4390 ft w of Sth av, 202100.5, 192-3 years, per ye seeeese 65d st, ms, 1598 ftw of Broad’ ear Pr 2,200 10 13 y 150 8th ay, ar. re 9th av, No 252, 10 yi per year 9th av, No 459, 7 years, Der year. 2,000: 9th av, No 455. 3 years, per year. + 1,600 10tb av, No 454, § years, ber year 1,200 Lot No 537, Moore estate, 25291.11, * i, No 126ij, years, pe 600 ‘THANSPERS IN BROOKLY! 45251. ee toe sisi Oakland st, © 8, 129 2 ft m Van Cott av, 26x100, Pow w at, 20x100.. + 6,000 Powers st, w 8, £0 (ts Dean ; Prospect st, ns, 125.2 (ve Jay at, b aud Quincy st, ‘ss, '340 ft w Gates av, 200x100, Funiteds : Wythe bth at, deed Gates Marcy 100260100466, Lln— mre 6, 107. 1056 x10). Ad. « 1 Aah ot, 06, 100 (eae OOM av, 60x: fo of iiih Lots 68, 69, 73, 16%, 107, 169, 814, 315, 242. 343, } Value 895, 596, 824, 325, 616, 617, Vandervo ri ext conad LEASSS REC RDED IY BRO KLTN. Hopkins.at, ns, fourtu door @ Nostraad ay, 5 yours, assignment $3,009, reat per yci TRANSFERS IM JEASKY CITY 50 tt o of Pavonia 12. 6x60, , 68.10 1t © of Erie at, 22x67. NORTH BENGaY. King st, lots 62 and 63 125x100. ver property, eich Bergen Point plank, wood map, 25:98.9- Mack 5, how ARRI-ON, 4th and Hamilton sts, n w corner, 252100. " RNY, Searing’s av, 28, 160 [8 © of Passaic ay, 25195... GREBNVILLM, , Fulton ay, ns, 50 ft @ of Jackson av, 752100 UNION, Kossuth st, lots 138, 134, 134, 185... Hackeuseck wurapike, lots 166, 167, each 25x100. THE MURDERED CAR CONDUCTOR. Conclusion of the Inquest and Verdict of the Jury. The inquest in the case of Thomas F. Lavelle, car conductor on the Seventh avenue line, whe was assassinated on Monday night by @ pergom at present unknown to the police authorities, was commenced yesterday morning by Coroner Rolling, at the City Hospital. Mrs, Lavelle, who was present, said her hus band was twenty-eight yeurs of ave, born in Iee- land, and had been in this city about five years. The first witvess was J; Halligan, living at No, 309 West Forty-fourth street, le deposed as fel- lows:—I am the starter of the Seventh avenue line orner of Broadway and Barclay street, and was on duty Monday night: the deceased was conductor of car No. 104 and arrived at the stand about half-past e‘glt o’clock; the conductor die rected ay attention to a man in the car, who, he said, had got un t at the corner of Houston and Thompson streets and wanted to get ont at Vesey street; | went in und totd him that if he wanted to get off ut Vesey, tue next -treet was it; the man was then standing up ant looking out of the front door to the driver; his reply was, “I don’t want to go to Ves-y street, but to Seventh avenue, up town;” he then told me he had paid eighteen cents on the Sixth avenue live coming down, and thought he should not be compelled to p i I then told him this car had nothing the Sixth avenue, that it was Seventh avenue car, and if he rode in this car he should have to pay his fare; he then took his seat, he car started on its upward trip, and rode halfway to Church street, but he was very quiet; I thought the man was somewhat in- toxicated; it was about forty minutes afrer whom I heard of the conductor's murder; the man & have reference to was from thirty-five to forty years of age, about five feet seven inches in heigt, and had full black whiskers; he was neatly dresse‘! in black clothes, sack coat and silk hat from the dialect of the man 1 supposed him to be an Irishman. James Murray deposed—I live at 216 West Thirty-seventh street; I was the driver of car 104 of the Seventh avenue line on Monday night; when the car reached the lower stand the man referred to by the starter came to the front and said to me, “I have paid three fares in the Sixeh avenue car,and am not going oo pee this coa- ductor another fare.” He also said he was “‘ ing to ride up and see Mr. Bidgood, the superin- tendent of the line, and have the conductor re- moved;” I made no r+ ply; I think he was slightly intoxicated; immediately after this the starter and conductor came into the car, and I told the former that this man thought he was ina S xth avenue car; the car was then started, about half-past eight o’clock; in Church, nearing Cham- bers street, the bell rang and I stopped the car; there was loud conversation inside, and opening the front door asked ‘‘What’s the matter?” the conductor replied that this man would not pez his fare, and he would be compelled to put dim off; the man then said he had paid three fares and would pay no more; the conductor said if he did not pay him he would have to get off; at this time the deceased went te the back platform to see he could find a policeman; could not; then came in and immediately put the quarrelsome man outs the car was then started, and looking behind it @ moment afterwards saw a man ranning after && on the sidewalk; a passenger, ina moment after that, shouted to me to stop the car, that the oon- ductor was stabbed; did so. and shouted “‘Watoh”* when @ policeman ran up; went tothe back platform and asked deceased what was the mat- ter; he said he was stabbed, and that the mar ran down Church street ; the deceased was them taken to the hospital. Wm. Christie deposed—Live at No. 5 Bethune street; on Monday bibs La the car in ques tion corner of Broadway and Barclay street; ea- tering, saw a man sitting in @ rear corner; ao- ore occurred until under headway, when he used abusive language to the deceased coniduos tor; the latter took it calmly, did not get excited at all; he then began to collect the fares, and soon went to this man, who said that he bad “paid him thirty cents and would not give him any more ;’’ deceased said he had not, and would “put him off if the fare was not paid;" t! man said, “Who'll put me off? « will,” said the deceased; the car wa then stopped and the deceased went to the back platform after an officer; could not find one, and re-entering the car the man stood up and pat himself in a menacing attitude and said he would fight him ; whether the man was pushed or he! off the car cannot say, as the next that I saw was that the man was running on the sidewaik nead the car and trying to get on it; it was moving so rapidly he could not jump on the step and he then jumped into the street and ran behind the car, caught hold of the iron railing, struck or rather ma‘e a pass at the deceased; did not see a kuife; the position of the ¢onductor wae with bis face to the man; did not see the man terwards; the car had gone about half a block when the deceased came in from the back plat form and said, “I am stabbed;” car was a 4 a and driver apprised of the conductor's condition; the balance of this gentleman's testimony was corroborative of the preceding witnesses, except+ ing that instead of the man being five feet seven inches in height, he was fully five feet ten inches. Daniel M. Elmore, deposed—I reside in New Jersey; was passenger in the car in question; was in company with previous witness; in essential particulars agree with bim; but on turning Church street the man arked deceas:d, “how much de you ste: he answered, laughing, “I take all & can get;”’ he then was very abusive in his lan- uage, to the effect that ‘‘all cunductors were thieves, and all railroad companics were worse than robbe: and continu some time; the trouble of the fare, the stabbing and slight search for the man aud bis appearance were detailed bove. Thomas E. Thornton deposed—Am an officer of the Third precinct; on Mouday night, while en duty in Church street, near Duane, saw the driver of the car alluded to stop it on the northeast cor- ner ot Reade and Church streets, and heard him r bed ed who did it? when I was told that tun down Church to Chambers street; gave chase at once; firs: one I saw wae the switch tender, corner of Chambers street; in answer to my questi said no one had passed there, then turned and ran up Chambers street 3 met some women coming down and asked them had they met any one; they ssid no; I immediate- ly turned and ran as faras the corner of Cham- bers and West Broadway; asked a young maa standing there if he had seen a man ranning by 5 he said no; I then returned and helped two other officers to couvey the deceased conductor to the hospital C.M. . M. Bell, M. D., house surgeon of the New York Hospital, in the written post-mortem exami. nation submitted, said that Thomas F. Lavelle was admitted in the hospital about nin clock P. M. Monday, beget 17, suffering from an incised wouns of the right groin; it was one and a half inch long, horizontal in direction, and situated one and @ quarter inch below Poupart's ligament, and about three inches to the right ef the anterior median line; on admission the de- ceased was in a state of syncope, pulse ess at the wrist, his surface cold, respiration feeble and gasp- ing; there was profuse venous cp from the wound, which was immediately controlled by the application of ligatures to the wounded aed meanwhile prompt measures were instituted an yersevered in to restore the failing powers of his heart and nervous system, but in spite of all ‘efforts he died about ten o’clock P. M.—one honr after admission ; at the autopsy it was found the wound was backwards and slightly upwards, the instrument having passed just internal to the fom- oral and profunda, but not wounding these great arteriss. The hemorrhage had escaped from @ large transverse cut in the femoral vein, nearly sovering it. In the examination of other parte of the body all the organs were found healthy. Deceased died from excessive loss of blood. The testimony being closed, the Coroner, with but few comments, submitted the case to the jury, who rendered the following verdict: — “We find that the said Thomas F. Lavelle came to his death from exhaustion by hemorrhage from a stab in the right groin, inflicted by some person unknown, on the evening of eh bd 17; and we recommend that the proper authorities shall offer a La reward for the apprehension of the ase ass