The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1868, Page 11

.NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1868.—QUADRUPLE SHEET, 1 SSC ee ceed, a ee eee of an fe touthern coast is marked C. de ¥ ity Los xrailes; but oe ea is given, map of ths sland of Hoyt? whics fe contained ta ol the third volume of the a rf rated work of Ramusio, ALTA VELA ISLAND: Extract from the Report of the Secretary of Toveriiles, State ow the Claim of Patterson and Mure arr, 1556." ‘The gulendo. mnt et : Venize, _ "The report from which the following extract 1s detopoe dnd cities of Isabeila, Nativita, St. Domintco, and the ‘caken bears the date of January 17, 1867, Writing at thority or of de Ferdl- giver, marked Be (aca, yg pe ‘that date the Secretary of State says:— now known as Cape bin a the adjacent cess tina Satta abt ey | Up ancver By ie | Bee itasan crspoadag ite ata os Snes Ita, ad- a of oqplpment-of nym to Alta Vela and Los SSEEaEEEneenee stations; above the Park there will be places at ev: resi of Ot ~ad Joralemon half mile. These siations are to have reception this (Wertusedaa) i eruioon, hac Past three Orcloonk foome B with every convenience for ladies and chil- Linusoaan- oe Tuesday, Apn. 14, PBTRB Liye 2, waiting Toonis for gentlemen. The pas. | BURGH, in the 80th year of his age. 4 songee nn _ one of these pl ascends stairs The relatives and friends of the funnily am respect ay uilding to the @econd story, where he | fully invited to attend the funeral, from the it hand, aad thence is whiriet away at acomiore | Heneh Seal ceouamclam? Allen S; Jimmer iy ee fort uron st able rate to his destination, be it @ne or many quar- two ciclock. 2 Eee eRNS mile, Norwalk and Bridgeport papers please wl The peculiarity of the coaches on this road ig their Mason rhe agenort pane Aan of linen safety, certainty in Site, ireesom from smoke, | Lodge, No, 322, F. and A. M., are hereby summ it, poise and, we may add, the light aud air whigh | to attend 4 special communication ‘of are by their elevation from the ground. southwest corner of Court aud Joralemon streets, The track and Braces) onrriqges and wheels are so | (Wednesday) afternoon, at one o'clock, for the’ Well guarded that it is impogsible for an accident to | bose of paying the last tribute of respect to our pen. The cars cannot be capsized. They are ‘orthy brother Win. G, Black, @ meinbers provided with friction or protecting ro!lers at each eenwood Loge, No. 669, and sister Lod; end of the platform, and these, with side guards, | respectiuity invited to atteud. “By onlon eet event the we wines from being thrown olf the truck, | Wu. R. Be Secretary, 3, G LAW, Maston \, y ACGROTTY, \prii 4 eth varia entered by a side door. At the, end of Maconore si Bone Aprli 13, ALExaxpay carri a platform wi Pi } one exclu- he friends of th "i Sively for th b men, the other for express pack- eetand the aneral trom his late weet, tence mn reet, this (Wednesd: ) oF cloek. “its intended to run these cars at intervals of two | " Waluington (0: G) tareee riers earet? Ole » muita, and thelr average speed, tucluding stop- onoxegay:—On Monday, Apri 13, HERBERT W., ay ut nm miles our, ain an: ¥ dnd evening trans from nud to Yonkers will be run | 8 Mouths and 3-daye, — -* Monegan, aged 1 yeu, at a much higher rate, to accommodate the working The remains will be taken from his parent classes, From the Battery to Harlem river the time | residence, No. 50 Lee aven| Iiamsburg, to Brid; Session and occupation of we island of A - | power Bell aot ts ereely, rs0n. dad Murguiendo, other er map is found, which 1s @ copy of the the United States, aud that the former are Bis cos original which was made and engraved inthe. year ably sugaged under the authority of the gov Alf 9 by the well known Italian chartographer, Paulo ot Domingo, in removing whatever guano —— Forlano. The original bears the inscription, “The remains on the island. The forcible interven. | Oy Island of Spagnola, now called the Island of St. fon which the claimants solicit necessarily | Gora Domingo, which 13 most fertile in many things; for dnvolves an executive decision that the claim instance, in cotton, gum, aloes, cinnamon, ginger of Patterson and Murguiendo le superiog in law tone thane t 18 between citizens of the United States, It | five degrees of latitude in the Pacific not guises under the laws of Soe nites Seas 64 wo Speak of many reefs, keys and islands in the Atlantic ws of nations, The conten - able not to the Executive Departiment Dut to the | ,, im Playfalr’s Geography, vol. 6, page 024, we toad:— 4 tribunais of the United States, and those tribu- | ‘Near the coast of St. Domingo are several islant Dale Bro SXDrOMIY, ly eet eT othed With ample & sae far eatnasg ate particutariy Memcecing. To! ¢ the conti rsy, and clothed w ample author- re iy to carry tele judginent into Cxecution, Under | tugo as having been always unsettied and unocou- and other spices.” ‘Orr the southern coast is marked Cape de los Bos and eight islands, two of which are revenues arising from it, and the eighth of all the | named “Beata” and “Alta Vela,” and all of them are lands and e else, ther with the salary | colored as belonging to Espaniola, responding to my rank ol pimical, viceroy, gov- In @ map of the Antillian islands, drawn by Mar- r, and all other emoluments Scorelng thereto, ag | tines 1n 1578, the island of Haytl is found under the 1s more fully expressed in the title agreement | name of Spagnol:, with two dalands very close to sanctioned by clr Rigbneases. the shore, one of which is named “Biata” and the “And it pleased Lord Alm! that in the | other Frailes. Alta Veladoes not appear. year one thousand four hundred and ninety-twol | A further map appears which was copled from a circumstances it would be presumptuous on | Pied, Gonaive occupied, and Navazza as desert, | should discover the continent of the Indies and many | work entitled * Descripcion de las Indias ocidentales | wil! be thirt ty rt, Conn., whore ca thoart of te Secretary uf stated rocommend he | and Cows and untanablted and frequented ‘by | islands, among them ispaniold which the indians | de Antonia do errariy tool.” ‘he inap has the ute | Hive or Aity minutes.” doe vellum Hival of the nall-past elovea oleiock New Maven Bade -suiployment of armed the Presidet uis, he comes call and the Pango. Desc: lel distuco del Audiencia de la Es- | Ti ‘oat train from New York, i yy R island Call Ate, andibne Manieong a rg el oc ken at cleknos_ ali Aaviieng do 1a. Ee ius it will be seen, at all seasons, despite of | }° ew York, termine a purely legal controversy. If it shall which the author describes thus:—‘‘ La Beata “be- in mn the other hand, that the | !8.an island opposite to Cape M (Cape Beata), Mepublic vedy St Domingo 1 the’ responsible | Itis nearly two leagues and’s halt from cas storm, rain, ice or snow—the workingman, now | —Morpay.—On Tuesday, April 14, James F. Mope pe and not Thomas R. Webster & Gon the | one Jeague wide, and three-fourths of @ league irom coniined to small, crowded, high priced and poorly | PHY, aged 21 years and 4 montis. Ventilated tenement houses, can all but fy to the The relatives and friends of the family are re country, miles from the heart of the city, tn less | Spectfully Invited to attend the funeral, from time actually than it now takes him, by horse car, to | residence, of his parents, No. 119 Mulberry Stree leave the vicinity of the City Hall and reach his | this (Wednesday) afternoon, at two o'clock, fl ‘apartinents” anywhere south of Thirtieth street. PEARSON.—On Tuesday, April 14, GEORGE RINCHRY, For almost the rent of a year in the city, he can buy | eldest son of George and Mary Jane Pearson, aged 6 @ plot of ground in the beautiful country, and upon | years, 1 month and 26 days. it, if prudent and industrious, erect lis pleasant, thet relatives and friends of the family are respeott even it be a humble home, and rejoice With hig ly invited to attend Ga funeral, from thé residenog children, now pale and sickly, in all the strength } of Mis parents, No. 615 ier avenue, this (\Vednege aud beauty of ruddy health—in that liberty which ) afternoon, at one o'clock, » ever is found in the God-made country, aud which | RaYSoR.—On Tuesday, April 14 OmARLES, young since Was exiled from the man-made city, est child of Jacob and Catharine Raysor, aged 1 yeas If the workingman chooses to live, say in the vil- | and 6 months, lage of Yonkers, he can by the morning train the The funeral will take place from the residence company (honld this road go into operation) pro- | his parents, No, 218 West Eighteenth street, on Thurg Poae runni ng at a high rate of speed leave his home | Gay morning, at ten o'clock, 4 roved of my und ® second enterprise | Marks in regard to this map as follows:—*Though for further discoveries and settlements; and the | there have been made already before this time (iso) Lord gave me.victory over the island of Hispaniol: better and more complete maps of the principal which extends six hundred leagues, and I conquered | West India islands, of Cuba, of Hayil, &c., still it and made it tributary; and I discovered many | this map is remarkable as a general one of all islands inhabited by cannibals, and seven hundred to | those regtons, giving in a pretty full and com- the west of Hispaniola, among which is Jamaica, | plete manuer all the names of the islands and of the which we call Santiago, and three hundred and | principal settlements, capes, &c., and showing the thirty-toree leagues of continent from south to west positions and relations of all those islands in a very les a hundred and seven to the north which ruc and correct manner. In the original the name discovered in my first voyage, together with many | of the Antilles is not to be found on the map. ‘They islands, as may more clearly be seen by my letters, | are called ‘Ysias dela mar del Norte,’ (the islands memo! and maritime charts, And as we hope in | of the North Sea.) Many of the names appear proba- God that before long a good and at revenue will | bly for the first time on an engraved and printed be derived from the above islands and continent, of | map.” The towns of St. Dominga and Azua are which, for the reasons aforesaid, belongs to mo the iven, and ihe peninsula of Beata is cailed La Ca- tenth and the eighth, with the salaries and emolu- | logia, separated irom which appear the islands ‘Sa- ments specified ve, and considering that we are | beata’’ and “Altobelo,” with other islands corre- ‘of State must answer that the controversy | land. The soil is and was once in a state of 4s only incidentally a »ational one, while really it cultivation, the fall of St. Domingo it was the involves nothing uiore than a coum question of | great Tesort of French privateers, lawful right between conten re citizens of the In poedory “Hecgraphical and Historical Diction- United States; that the courts of law are competent | ary of Am the West Indies” we find this and obliged, on due application, to investigate and | account of the clty and province of Azua:—‘‘Azua, or decide it, while the question whether the Executive | Azuca, a town of the isiand end government, of 6% Department shali intervene is one which the consti- | Domingo, settled by the Adelantado Velasquez in 1504, tution and laws refer: to tue discretion of the Presi- | It was called Compostela, from the Comendador dent, and that discretion is to be exercised with a | Gallego, who had here an inheritance. This name, principal view not to the tuterests of individual citi- | however, it afterwards lost, and took that of Azua, xens, but to the rights, interests and honor of the | Which it held in the time of the Indians. It is ver, United States, fertile in sugar canes, from which much sugar Nevertheless the Secretary will proceed in his ox- | Made. In this district are also some mines of gol amination of the subject upon the supposition that | Which were formerly worked, but are at present this dimeculty of conflicting claims of Patterson and | abandoned. It has a very g port on the South | mortal, and that it is proper for every one to settle | sponding to Los Fraiies, at six o'clock and be landed at Batlery place and ASSIGA.—Suddenly, on Mot tern Murguiendo ancl RNOINAR, Webster & Co. ise botnl Be tenia nigel mate el dearer Hered of | his futhire and to dears iGetlared to nis halts, onl jane ame Rane no evidence that any part of the original Greenyioh street, the southern termings, at fliteen Les CHARLES’ "About ahi son 69 Are overcome and removed. seems quite clear . hor also. :— | cessor @ possesses or may have ‘ovinee of St. Domi ted | minutes to seven o'clock; and on le: york and Mar, siga, 5 SUAES Caper Mxeoutive. " Depantneat que eat | “Cape Beata, a point of the island of St Doming ‘at Pp of St. Domingo was ever alienated ven o'clock; aud on leaving work at ‘y Rassiga, aged 6 months and 16 ane » right to, wherefore I have concluded to create an | by Spain before the Dominican revolution. By entailed estate (mayorazgo) out of the said eighth of | that revolution the whole of that dominion inured to the lands, places and revenues in the manner | St. Domingo, We have seen that the republic of St. which I now proceed tostate.”” (irving’s Columbus, | Domingo has ever since claimed the whole of it, in- vol. Gi D. 444.) cluding the isle of Alta Vela. “The Historia de Santo Domingo,” by Don Antonlo Legislators can seldom expect to foresee all the del Monte y Tejado, published in Havana in the year | cases aud conditions to which their jaws may ulll- 1853, contains Columbus’ orizinal account of his dis- | mately be supposed to apply. It can hardiy be be- coveries in that isiand, and is illustrated by a chart | Meved that in passing nt Guano law of 1856 Con- which seems to haye been copied from the original | gresé Would have thought it necessary to insert a charts of Columbus himself. On this chart appears | cautlon that the discoverers should assign the exact the island of Alta Vela, undistinguishable (probably | latitude and longitude of guano islands, if they had by reagon of the smaliness of the scale) from the | supposed tieir law would have been extended over main land. islands that ave known as landmarks to every x six o'clock in the evening return to his home The relatives and friend lawfully have iustituted any proceedings whatever | 00 the south’coast and running @ great way into the tn is home In maeof She ate ie for the relief of the claimants until after they had | sea. It is eighty-five leagues from the city of St. filed the bond prescribed by law. Their bond bears | Domingo, longitude 71 deg. 18 min., latitude 17 deg. date of March 13, 1801, but it was not presented to | 42 mi Bei @ small island close to the the department and tiled therein untit the 25th of | South coast of the island of St, Domingo, January, 1846, Tue eviction of Patterson and Mur- | and opposite the point of its name.” ‘niendo from thé isiand of Alta Vela, or their ‘“de- in the Histoire d’Haiti, vol. 1, page 268, Madiou Tusion,” as they call that proceeding, occurred and | tells us that during the French occupation of the Was complete lot only before the ay when they | Spanish part of the id of St. Domingo, the island Med their bond, but even before the day on which | Of Beata was made into a canton, and that as such it purports to Haye been executed, The secretary | canton it had the boundaries of the ancient province might be unwilling to insist peremptorily on this po- | OF Quartier; and that the island of Beata, as such sition, but he thiuas it is his duty to stand upon it | Canton, was attached for purposes of criminal juris- Westchester county, a distance of seventeen miles, | pany B First infantry, N. G. 8. N. within the hour,’ The fare will be reasonable | Zouaves), are respectfully invited to ‘attend enough—namely, one-half cent per mile for the | funeral, this (Wednesday) afternoon, at one o'clock | round trip; that is, the cost daily to the passenger | from the residence of his parents, corner Fourth avéy (and the company will make large dividends at that) | Rue and Fifty-third street, Tor the round trip will be seventeen cents. By com- RECENAGEL.—On Monday, April 13, HeLeNg MARR mutation this rate will be considerably reduced. RECKNAGEL, daughter of John H. and Marie Reoke Ina “sanitary? point of view too much pagel, of Brooklyn, aged 7 months and 9 days, zi said in favor of the projected elevated he relatives and friends are invited to attend the those in use or projected. The passenger {: funeral, this (Wednesday) morning, at half-past ter out of and above the tith and stench of the streets, | O'clock, from the resideuce of ber parents, No, 2 he is removed from the erowded streets, and as 1 Hoyt street. lumbering Wagons cannot interrupt his progress, he Kick.—In Brooklyn, on Monday evening, April 13, at until a different construction of the act shail be pro- | diction to the canton of Neybe. In “Churchill's Voyages and Travels,” published in | seafaring man, and whose latitude and longitude | can calculate with periect certainty on Ue moment | eight o'clock, after a very brief illness, Ina Avause, nounced by the courts or declared by Congress. The discovery of guano on the island of Alta Vela, | London, 1744, the author gives this account of the | were accurately set down tn geographical mags and | he can reach his aontinnsions ” Rice, only daughter of Charles H. and Cassie A. hice) The question remains whether, When Patterson although one of the fundamental conditions for mov- | discovery of Alta Vela:— mariners’ cliaris @ hundred years before civilization Of course, a road of the character we are discuss- | aged 5 years, 2 months and 23 days. and Murguiendo took peaceful possession of Alta | ing the government of the United States to secure “On Saturday, the 234, scaciqaa came to the ships | commenced in the region now occupied by the | ing cannot be constructed at the cost of a street rail- She has gone to her home on high, Vela, that island was not in the lawful jurisdiction | Yemporary possession of the island, can have no ei- crying almirante, almirante; that ts, admiral, ad- | United Siates, As litle could Congress have ex- | way. Thus far the section on Greenwich street To disport with the angels bright; of some foreign country. feet to disturb the lawful rights of the republic of St. | miral; whence he Inferred that must be the point of | pected that, in determining the national right to | has “elevated the ideas of its _ projectors, And with seraphic smile she looks ‘The Secreiary of Stace will not, in the first instance, | Domingo. That republic, if it had lawful jurisdiction | Hispaniola, for till then he knew it not. At the end | occupy sucti islands, tuey Would come into conmict | We shall not say, for we do not know, how On her earthly home with delight, go backward beyond the political era of the republic | Over the island of Alta Vela, could not lose it by fail- of St. Domingo. That republic declared and achieved | {ng to appropriate, or even by failing to discover, de- #8 independence from te republic of Hayth on the | posits of guano, Indeed, it is only the com- of August he anchored at a smail island, which looked | wiih a tile di ly derived from the disvoyery and like a sail, because it is high, and called it Alta Vela, {| occupation of the West indies by Columbus. being twelve leagues from La Beata. The other two In the case of the claim of Cayo Verde, the Attor- much has been’ expended, but we ’ have | Funeral services will take place this (Wednesday) been informed that the track can now be | #fteraovn, at three o'clock, at No. 193 Schermerhora bunt and fully equipped for about $150,000 per mile, | Street. 2ith of February, 1s44. it was subsequently recog- | Merce in guano that is modern, ‘The article | ships being out of sight he caused some men to go up | ney General of the United States explained the | When itis remembered that the ratis can ouly be RoGERS.—On _ Monday, Apel 18, Mr, Taostas nized by Great Brita and France andother nations, | itself was found in Peru and adjacent islands in | to the top of the island to discover them, and the y the Wheels of the carriages of the company, si no thé 79th years of his age. 4 as Well as the republic of Liayti, and is now recog- | Use a8 @ fertilizer when these regious were con- nized by and holds treaty relations with the United | quered by Pizarro. Guano came into use as an arti- States. It adopted and ‘proclaimed a national con- | Cle of commerce in 1839 Certainly the United States atitution on the isth day of November, 1844. What | do not forfeit by non-use the coai, iron, copper and the constitution deciarcd in regard to territory is, | gold which are reporied as being so profusely dis- that the ancient Spauish part of the island of St. | tributed throughout the isiands and main land of Domingo, with the “adjacent islands,” form the be territory of the Dowinicau republic; that the boun- ‘The title of St. Domingo to the island of Alta Vela daries of the Domuican republic’ are the same | bas been found by the Secretary of State to bear the which divided the Spanish part of the island from | test of historical research, Christopher Columbus the French part, as fixed in the year | on the 17th of April, 1492, stipulated certain terms 1793; that the territory of the republic is divided | With the King aud Queen’ of Spain concerning the seamen killed five seals that lay asleep on the sands, RAL'S OFFICR, Dec, 14, 18: Knocked down many birds with staves and took some “Sm—The papers sent me b; with their hands, for that part not being inhabited | Kendall, of Baiiimore, las they fled not from them, After six days the other | tected in the po: ships came up; they proceeded to the island La | Caribbean Se: Beata, which is small, and thence coasted along | pears that Hispaniola toa river, on which lies a curious plain ritish governi very populous, now called De Catalina; that is, Gatha- | Power and belonging to the Bahamas; Lord Lyoas rine’s, rom a lady it belonged to.” The same account | having given notice that the removal of guauo there- of the discovery of Alta Vela and Beata is given by | from by an American would be considered not only a Churchill in the chapter entitied “fhe Discovery of | trespass, but a lioslile aggression. the West Indies by Christopher Columbus, together “belore a citizen of the aunt as these are of wood, te Ir es tion is so truling that it is not p able, except by oxydation, the | Robert and Ric u road will ever Wear oul Or heed renewing, luis sum | attend the fun !, from his late residence, No, is not large, Washington street, this (Wednesday ) afternoon, ¢ The West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway Com- | o'clock. 4 pany, of which W. 8. Guuuce is lent and W. HL. Bodens.—Shaneniy, Titomas Roauns, aged 6 Appleton, the publisher, is Treasurer, has a capl- | Years, 6 months and 14 days, “2 tal of $5,000,000, Its’ experimental capital {3 The relatives and friends of the family, also th@ $150,000. Should'the road be aduitied a success, | OMicers and members of the Bighty-fourth regiment and that will depend in a few days ou tae verdiet of | Ate respectfully invited to attend the funeral, fr tae commissioners provided for by the Legislature in | His late residence, No, 25 Bedford street, on Thursdi the act of tucorporation, Une siock of the association | #fternoon, at one o'clock, without further no} au Show that W. J. ard H., are Tespectfully invited ltioued to be pro- on of a guano isiand in the called Cayo Verde, It also ap- » Verde is regarded by the ntas under the dominion of that friends of thé family, and those of hig ia muted States can be entl- ‘Anto ve provinces, Coipostela de Azua, Santo Do- | hoped-for fruits of the great enterprise which he had | with his Life and Actions,” tled to the benefit of the act of 1865 it must appear | Will doubUless be taxen up and the road pushed to a | His remains will be interred in Greenwood Cemet gningo, Santa Crus’ del Seybo, La Conception de la | Prejected:—First, that he should have, with perpet- Inamap which accompanies “M. L. E. Morean de | that the islaad, rock or key upon which lie has dis | conclusion, Should, however, the decision be ad- | ,S&RR——On Taesday, Apr 14, Ropene Sanh ‘Vega and Santiago de los Caballeros; thatthese prov- | Wal succession, the oflice of admiral in all ‘nces shall be divided into communes, whose num- | islands and continents which he might dis. Ber and distribution shail be regulated by law, and | Cover or acquire in the ocean; second, that he should that the city of St. Domingo shail be the capital of | be viceroy and governor ‘general, under these x Nog republic. monarch, of all said islands and continents; third, hag been already seen, by the report of Mr. Caz- | he reserved to himself one-tenth, deducting expenses, Meau, that the islands uf Beata and Alta Vela were, | Of all pearls, precious stones, gold, silver, apices an by alaw of the republic of St. Domingo passed in | all other articles and merchandise in whatever man- 1855, named and described as dependencies of the | ner found, bought, bartered or gained within his ad- Province of Azua. miralty; fourth, he was to have sole jurisdiction, verse, tte section now standing im Greenwich sireet | M8ease of the heart, at his residence, No, Will be removed and th company disso 3 Third street, Brookiyn, BE. Da aued years, § Bat tis future 18 thought to bd assu Isthere | _ ils friends, also employés of R. Hoe & Oo., are rez hot danger of—with Its enormous capital—its becom. | Sporttully Invited to attend the funeral, from th ing a monopoly even more hurtful to the interests of | Universalist church, corner of Fourth and Sou the city than any or all of the street ratiwavs against | Third streets, on Thuraday bg ig,“ &t two o’clool which the people and the press so often, and seldom LS eepm e Wind Lge 14, A sag Avista, Without just reason, declaim? Certatuly its charter | fant daughter of Richard and Eunice Smith (No. % hould be so guarded that 1¢ will be compelled to ad- | Mott street), aged 13 months and 26 days, ae” here to every stipulation, to the end tat while the ‘urther particulars 1p to-morrow's Brcivel Mase Saint Méry's “Description, Topographi coverea guano Was not at the time of its discovery Civil, Political and Historical, of the Fre P within the lawful jurisdiction of any over govern- the Island of St. Domingo,” published in Philadel- | ment. In the present case Cayo Verde is Pphia 1797, there are laid down, on the southern coast | distinctly asserted by the British government of Ha, te Cape La Beata, the island La Beata, the | to be within its jurisdiction, The President island Alta Vela and two islands called Los Frailes; | has no rigit, under the jaw, to annex the island to and the boundary between the French part and the | the Untied States, or to put any American citizen in Spanish part of St. Domingo is distinctly traced from | possession of it, Until the diplomatie question raised the mouth of the river Pedernales, on the south, to | by the British Minisier shall be finally settied, and the bay of Mancenilla, on the north, as it bas been | not then unless it be settied in our favor. 1 ain, very The laws of the Dominican republic on the subject | Subordinate to the government of Spain, in ail causes | heretofore recited. respectfully, yours, &c., J. 8 Buack. | stockholders enjoy fat dividends, the people who PBNCER.—In Brooklyn, on Monday, April referred to are two—ouc passed in 1844, the other in | aud disputes arising out of trafic between the coun- | Ona French war map of St. Domingo, made during Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of State.” patronize it may not be swind.ed out of whatis justly | J, Wife of Charles 0. penne er : 1854. tries to be discovered and Spain; ‘fth, the right, to | the revolution for independence in tiayti, the de- | | Upon tis review of the facts specially subraltted rduc—reasonable accommodation aud positive: | ,, Ae relatives aud friends of the family aro res EXTRACT FROM THE LAW OF 1844, contribute an eighth part of the expenses—which | marcation line as fixed “between the French and | to tie Secretary by the claimants, as well as of oiler uully invited to attend the joners . from hor late “ARTICLE 2. The province of Compostela ge Azua | Contribution he made. ‘These stipulations are still in | Spaniards in 1776,” is indicated, and Cape Beata, | geographical, historical and political facts which deuce, 543 Atlantle street, this (Wednesday) afterno 43 divided into niue communes—namely, Azua (the | existence, bearing the signatures of Ferdinand and | Beata island, and Alta Vela are delineated as falling | bear upon the subject, the Secretary of State finds at threo o'clock. ¥ pital of the province), Neyba, San Juan, Hinchii Isabella. (Navaraete, vol. 2, p. 7; Irving’s Columbus, | within the Spanish part, and as included in the prov- | hinseif unablo to recommend the empioyment of the MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Van Bu pee Monday, April 18, Bunty Matas de Farian, unica, Caobas, 8. Rafael and | Vol. 3, p. 114)" It was pursuance of | ince of Agua. Beuta island is separated from Cape | land and naval forces of the United states for the Buren, in the 79th year of his Oy 2 The ‘relatives aut friends, ‘wird the officers Married. brethren of Marsh Lodgo, F. A. M., are respect! . invited to attend the funeral, at the residence of BosBRIDGE.—On Monday, April 13, by the | son, James Van Buren, No. 425 West Forty-six . Paddock, WILLIAM CHAMBERS DABLIN to | street, this (Wednesday) ‘Afternoon, at one o'clock, ELIZABETH, second daughter of William Bosbridge, WaLsu.—In Vicksburg, Miss., on Wednesday, Esq., Cookstown House, county Meath, Ireland. tober 23, 1867, EDMOND ALBERT Walga, aged FanmMeER—JONES.—On Monday ana April 13, | years, late of Davenport, Jowa, =< at the Church of the Holy Trinity (Brooklyn), by the The remains were on Tuesday morning, # il 1 Rev. A. N. Littlejohn, Wa. W. FARMER to ANNIE A., | conveyed to St. Peter and Paul's church, liana oldest daughter of J. W. Jones, ail of Brooklyn. | burg, where a requiem mass was offered for the GALPIN—MEEHAN.—On Tuesday, April 14, at the ose of his soul, aud from thence woCalvary Qometery Church of the Nativity, by the Kev. Father Everett, for interment. ae Mr. Francis H. GALPIN, of New Orleans, La., to WATKINS.—Suddenly, on Tuesday, April Miss Mary J., daughter of John Meehan, Esq., of | Cuan.es H, Watkins, aged 60 Sears, dmonths and this ci days. ig relatives and friends are invited to attend . Miguel. The wiilitary station of Baraona will be | this contract that Columbus took formal ‘ttached to the commiune of Agua, as the nearest, | Possession of St. Salvador, his dis- @nd Petitru to that of Neyba. ‘The adjacent islands | covery in the West Indies, on the 12th of October, Depending on this province are Beata and Alta | 1492. It was in pursuance of that same contract that Wela.”"—(Appendix No. 2.) he afterwards k possession of the isiand of Cuba EXTRACT FROM THE LAW OF 1854. in the name of his sovereign, and it was in pursuance “ARTICLE 4 The province of Compostela de Azua | Of the saine contract that he afterwards entered the 4s divided into the following communes:—Azua (cap- | harbor on the west end of the island of Haytt on the {tal of the province), Neyba, San Juan, Las Matas, | 6th of December, 1492, and named it St. Nicholas. Hincha, Sau Ratael, San Migual and Caobas. | In pursuance of the same contract he raised a cross Whe military-post of Barahona will depend upon the | On the 12th of December, which cross is still seen in commune of Neyba. The adjacent islands depending | the cathedral of St. Domingo. In pursuance of the on this province are Beata and Alta Vela.”"—(Appen- | 8ame contract he built a fort, La Navidad, on the 4th ix No. 63.) of January, 1493, and founded a city of that name. oe of peace between France and Spain was | While executing the same contract r concluded at Aranjuez on the 3d of June, 1777. It is | discovered and named the promontory of Monte historically known that the French and Spanish | Christo, the Rio del Ora, or Sant and rovinces in the island of Hayti acquiesced in that | the Golfo de las Flechas, now kuown as the Gulf Boundary line which has always been understood to | Of Samana. When Columbus, aeseraing. from have been established in that treaty, which boun- | his first voyage, arrived at Vai and related dary is the same With the boundary of 1793, referred | his discoveries to the King of Portugal, that woo] to and adopted, as before mentioned, in the constitu- | set up @ pretence that, by virtue of an existing pap: tion of 1844 of the republic of St. Domingo. The | bull, and of previous capitulations between the sove- present constitution of the republic of St. Do- | reigns of Castile and Portugal, the islands and conti- Mmingo was adopied on the 26th of Septem- | nents which Columbus had thus discovered would of der, 1866, in the twenty-third year of | right inure to Portugal, and the King accordingly ¢the independence, and in the fourth year of }| set on foot an expedition to seize and occupy them. the restoration of that republic after its violent over- | (Irving’s ColumbuR, vol. 3, p. 257.) Having arrived ‘throw by Spain. The constitution declares that the | at Palos, in Spain, Columbus despatche: a letter to ‘Tepublic embraces all tuat has been before known | his sovereign announcing his discoveries. ‘Ihe letter a8 constituting the territory of the republic, namely, | Was acknowledged by a reply addressed to him with the Spanish part of St. Domingo aud its’ adjacent | the title of “Don Christopher Columbus, our admiral islands; it declares that the boundary line which | of the ocean sea, and viceroy, and governor of the separates its terriiory irom Haytt is the same as | islands discovered in the Indies.” On going agreed upon between France and Spain, in the | to Barcelona, im April, 1493, Columbus gav. 4reaty of Aranjuez, on the id of June, 1777. The sev- | his sovereigns @ minute account of his voy § eral divisions are conunued as in the constitution | and a description of the islands he had disgovered. of 1344, including the province of Azua. He displayed specimens of their animal, vegetabie ‘The boundary line thus fixed in 1777, between the | aud mineral productions, and exhibited natives of Beata by & strait five miles wide, This strait is | setzure of the islaud of Alta Vela. marked as having a ron ‘arying from twenty-four WILLIAM H. SEWARD. to thirty feet. Alta Vela is separated from Beata island by a strait a Nierey Pied than six miles wide, gnd. ig fourteen mau ee Claret trom Os heed THE ELEVATED RAILWAY. five miles distant from Alta Vela. nN Meee S In Hakluyt’s Voyage, vol. 4, page 103, first pub- | Am Experiment—Character of the Road=— lshed in the year 1599, Sicsotions are given to the | Security Against Accidents—Peculiaritios=— east these wetdae oY Domingo to Nueva | Rapidity of Travel—Fare—Prominey—Fat “if you will sayle from St. Domingo, in Hispaniola, Dividends and Accommodation, in Nucva Eapanna, stirre away souti-southwest un’ | ‘Those of our readers who at any time within the San maaan atiche aw; bat none, peng t Fou past six months have passed through the lower or = tad CP, Isle = nee And “ you — on southern end of Greenwich street must have ob- ‘this point ot gao for Ocoa you must passe along the | gerved on its western side a railroad track, upheld rth until you come to Puert z gaunt went and by orth haven, which is 18 leagues | DY & Series of strong looking plliars of wrought iron, Paes pe St. moma _ if you proceede we a extending from Battery place northward half a mile, uerto Hermoso for Nueva Espanna you must stirre | or to the near neighborhood of Cortlandt strect. away south-southwest until you looke out for Beata | ons elevated road—a section of one that in time may He continues to give “markes of the Isle of | extend to Yonkers—has been put up for the purpose Mae ts a small island, and not very high; yon | Of testing the capabilities of atrack and carriage, may passe along tie outside thereof, an there iano the whole modus operandi of which is the invention danger bat that you may see; and by and by you | of Charles T. Harvey, and secured by upwards shall aise Alta Vela; and irom thence you must stirre ‘away west and by south to give a birth eo CO eee See ree Set bes il the islands called Los Frailes or the Friers. And | that since 1866 have been secured in France, Eng- when you are as farre ahead as the Frailes, then you | land, the British Provinces and the United States, pomf pare eth Vector et | Fatumet k The road, taken as a whole, is unique, and its suc- ou shall see high craggle clitfes, and at the descend- | ©es8, although no actual experiment has been made ingot them white — like rear Pye these | upon it, is admitted by intelligent engineers and ex- bist ¢ lag Orig ge ein perienced railroad men, As a means of conveying point of Bacoa you shall discover a little lowe isiand, | Passengers quickly, cheaply and safely from one end ty. New ‘Srieans papers please copy. Hanxs—James.—On Tucsday, April 14, at the | funeral from the Presbyterian church, Fifth avent Church of the Hoy Communion, by the Rey, Francis | corner of Eleventh street, at half-past two o'clock E. Lawrence, assisted by Rev. Edward Bradile ay afternoon. Services by Rev. Dr. Pattony . CHARLES GRENELLE HANKS and Rosk COLVIN, daug! oston papers please ie ‘ 4 ter of Thomas D. James, of this city. No cards, WEEKS.—On ee pril 13, Gzoror, son INSLEE—P1t0N.—On Saturday, April 11, at the rest- | Samuel and the late Margaret Weeks, aged 29 y« dence of the bride's father, by the Rev. L. H. King, | 6 months and 14 days. Mr. FRANK H. INSLEE, ot New York city, to Miss ‘The funeral will take place this (Wedneaday) Martg PiToN, of Brooklyn, E. D. noon, at three o’glock, from the residence of MoNuLry—Devidn.—On Monday, April 13, at the | brother, William Hf. Weeks, No. 114 Monroe street} Church of St. Francis Xavier, West Sixteenth street, | The friends and relatives of thé family are respecte by the Rev. J. 8. Danbress, 8. J., LORENGE | fully invited to attend. < lcNuLTY to Mary E., eldest daughter of the late YERKES.—At Youkers, on Monday, April 13, AysTng Daniel Devlin, Esq. No cards. IRWIN YERKES, Only son of George ‘I. and Emi Watson—Hugains.—At Manhattanville, on Wed- | Augusta Yerkes, and grandson of Fredéric and nesday, April 8, by Rev. C. G. Adams, Mr. Joun L. | Ann Blatr, WATSON to GENEVIEVE HUGGINS. YoumMans.—At 347 Fifth avenue, New York, on WESTOVER—MILLLE.—On Tuesday, April 14, | Monday, April 13, Ema Z., wife of Daniel D. You. Rey. D. Mci Quackenbush, D., GEORGE mans, and youngest daughter of the late Ephralat ESTOVER, Esq., of Wisconsin, to ELIZABFTH QU. Miller, of Brookiyn, “i 24 years. " ‘BUSH, dauguter of Charles 5, Miller, of Brooklyn. ‘The relatives and friends of the family aro respect No cards. fully invited to attend the funeral on Friday afters French afd Spanish provinces and repuplics, has been | the newly discovered countries. He pronounced ali | even with the sea, and full of trees, which is called | of the island to the other there seems to be little noon, at two o'clock, from the residence of hey jelineated on every Enown. miap Of the island of Hayti | these mere harbingers of greater discoveries yet to | Isla Baque.” doubt Of ite tature Sizlectirtty’ ove Téeds int bn the Died. No. 48 South wi th street, Brooklyn, E. Dy ince the year 1777. 1t Legins at the river Dajabon, | be made, which would add realms of incalculable At page 113 of the same book, under what fs called ve . ANpDREWs.—On Monday morning, April 15, Martin iim Mancenilia bay, on tie north coast of Mayti, | Wealth to the dominion of their Majesties, and whole | “The second ruttier for the West Indies,” are given | surface of the ground or “in the deep bosom of the | ANDREWS, a member of the Twentieth precinct police, MISCELLANEOUS, ‘and is accurately marked by monuments along | Millions of proselytes to the true faith, They assigned | “the latitudes of the headlands, capes and islands, | earth buried.” aged 27 years and 6 months. Saeanenene een aaeear am -" BOOTS AND SHOE! s° Cun, LORIN d BROOKS & SUNS’, 404 ‘the course of rivers and mountain summits across | to him a coat of arms, in which the castle and lion ‘the whole isiand to the wouth of the river Pedernales, | Were quartered with his proper bearings, which were ‘or Des Anses-t-Pitre, on the southern coast. The | & group of islands surrounded by waves, with the foundary line nowhere approaches the island of | Motto, “Columbus gave a new woild to Castile and ‘Beata nearer than thirty-four miles, or tue island of | Leon.” (Irving’s Columbus, vol. 3, pp. 268, 274.) \Aito Velo nearer than tuirty miles, The conilicting pretensions of Spain nd Portugal ‘The claim of jurisdiction over Alta Vela thus made | to the regions discovered by Cojumbus were referred ‘y the republic of St. Doiningo in ttsconstitution ana }| by them to Pope Alexander VI., who issued a Jaws seems to bear the test of geographical inquiry, bull in which he drew a line of demar- REPORT OF THS UNITKD STATES COAST SURVEY. cation between the territories of Spain and “pescription.—Tue mountains of Bauruco lie near | Portugal, namely, an ideal line drawn from the he middie of the southern coast of the island of | north to the south pole, one hundred leagues to the ayti. They rise to a height of 2,400 feet, and termi- | West of the Azores and the Cape de Verd isiands. Mate at Beata Point, or Little Cape Mongo, the | All land discovered by the Spanisa navigators to the “pouthern extreme of tlaytl. west of the line which had not been taken possession “peata Island.—ihe nerth point of Beata island | of by any Power before the previous Christmas was Wears west by north jour miies irom Beata Point, It | to belong to the Spanish crown. This line was, on Qs about fve miles joug {rem norih to south, two | the 7th of June, 1404, by capitulation between the as well of Madera, the Canaries and the West Indies, and of the Azores and the Isles of Cabo Verde.” In On the completion of the material inventions of giving the latitudes of the capes of Hispaniola the | Mr. Harvey, in 1366—that ts, of those which were ee Lge Me coed < oe isle Pr ae = 1734; | necessary to the sure working of a railway such as the cape ¢: de Nigao, neere 8. Domingo, in . Hispaniola, in 173 the isle’ Beata, on the south side | 43 contemplated, an association was formed, and the of idispaniola, in 17; the point of Bacao, on the south | Legislature of the State incorporated it under the side of Hispaniola, in 17); Cape ES the | titie of “The West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway bol pi of Hispaniola, and the isle of Nauaza, in | Company,’ and authorized it “to operate exclusively ‘Vhere is found in the library of the Department of | by means of propelling cables attached to stationary State a copy of an original chart subsert) as fol- | engines, placed beneath or beyond any strect through Portugal is accurately indicated, Besides most of | from view so far as the same may be detrimental to the other West India isiands, the island of Hispaniola | the ordinary uses of said streets.” is laid down end. Me Shitite ends oareilly ast Other rights not hurtful, however, to the public, AND GOOD, g rokdway, corner Bs, NO. 1 SCOTCH AND AMERICAN FOUNDRY tom shipyard, sso direct from furaaces, (oe WILLIAMSON & CO. Wall stroct, FS OF A PRIVATE DETECTIVE CAN BS « G. M., Herald office, Members of the Metropolitan Police Department, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 216 West Thirty-second street, this (Wednesday) afternoon, at two o'clock. His remains will be interred in Calvary Cemetery, ALDEN.—On Monday, April 13, at the residence of her daughter, No. 66 West Twelfth street, ELiwapern Aion , aged 41 FON soy New ti 3 i . T remains were taken ew Haven, Conn., for rear a interment. Vor Other Advertisements Under the Follows AgrMsrrong.—On Monday, April 13, ANDREW ARM- ing Headi See Auother Page. pene. of Philadeiphia, age 7 gests. ‘ : ‘The fineral will take place from the residence o ; his brother-in-law, Henry Wilkens, No. 1 Hoyt strect, ING HOUSES TO LET. E FURNISHED, THE TONE KONT GOTH ritage, 247 Went Fitty fourth atreet, bejween Br Kighth jennie, con easont 10 tl way ‘1 in the r fe The relatives and friends of the family, also the | [3 it this (Wednesday) aflernoon, at two elphia papers please copy. with bays, headiands, and the point of Beata orough; miles broad, mostly covered with brushwood, and | Kings of Spain and Portugal, rmaoved to 370 leagues | ed, togubier with the islands of Beata,“Altavela”® a | were granted this company, upon condition that tts At Greenwich, Conn., on Monday, April 13, re egage om 3 au o tay fons G15 por from fifty to eighty feet high. The southern point is | Westof the Cape de Verd isiauds. So promptiy aud | Frailes, as described in the journal ef his disvoverics | fajjure or success should depend, so far as the work- N D. BRECK, aged 75 '§ and 2 mouths, - . Can be seen between 10 A. M. dod bP M. Applyos ‘the most elevated; tue north end terminates in along, | 80 decidedly was settled the greatest question of | by Columbus. ing of the road went, upon th inion of a B loft Funeral this (We Inesday) afternoon, half-past one ‘emniaes or at 246 Woat Fifty (th street P= ule Jow point, and not iar irom it there 1s @ solitary hut, | title and boundary which the world has ever known. nt chart, by ‘“Viaconte de Majolo, of the | !°% - » Up ¢ opinion of a Board of | ovejock. ‘Trains leave New Haven Raliroad depot at | nished Cottage to let In Fifty Orth; rent Y7) per aunuim. ‘The west side trends about north by east hail east, | (Irving's Columbus, vol. #, page 300.) nd the mainiand of Honduras to the Cape | Commissioners, three in number, two of whom were Fe 8 2, PRANCTS BLAY- Y is LET -FURNISHED, FOUR ROWN S1ONR and ts bold and steep-to. OU some paris of this side Under this papal bull the Spanish monarch Maria, in Uruguay,” gives the dividing line | to he appointed by the Governor, and the third by Braxcarp.—On Sunday, April 12, Praxcrs Buay- House on Thirtieth ' street, there is no bottom with 156 fathoms of line at thr hastened to prepare for new and further dis- | between Spain and Portogal and flags bearing re- _ in the 6uth year of his age. Twenty-ninth street, oth; one uncral will take place from his late residence, | street, $260 per month; one on hic £0 ib street, 100 hy street, this (Wednesday) afternoon, Pan ope. on Twentloth strve per awurh; one o& rhe friends of the family are re- ee Le Fak a mre: 1 without further notlee. CHAS. B. MILLS, Agent, o West Thirtioth street pectively the arms of those conntries, Most of tie | ‘te Croton Commissioners. On the passage of the yest India islands are delineated, among them | act the company commenced the erection of the ex- spagnola Isabella.” The coast of Hayti is given, | perimental half-mile section, but its progress has juarters of a mile from the shore, and off others a | coveries. He established an orice of Indian aifulrs jepth of twenty fainoms nearly a mile distant, | and custom house at Seville, with a correspond. From the southwest point a ledge stretches off | ing office in St. Domingo; and the crown assumed W some distance in that direction, and there are only | all the expenses of the colony of St. Domingo and was | with two islands corresponding to the islands of " “¢ quested to atte ——— four fathoms at tree cables? length om The east | to receive all the emoluments, ‘Thus provided, be- | Beata and Alta Vela, but Without names, Across tile | been stow. Last summer, when ground was broken, Se Td Ne Dre LdWat Be Colanat | TO BRT, RURNISUED—HOUSE 4 CHARLES STREETS side is very steep, but the north and northeast sides | sides being entrusted with the royal seals andauthor- | lower part are written the words, “Tota terra | an injunction was sued out by interested parties and | Ap Harrig N., wile ° =" ind, }. Cole, = all the modern improvemeuts. Inquire on the premiseae are connected to Beata Point by a shallow white | ity to use the name of their Majesties in letters pat- inuenta p. Cristofa Colonbo Januensis de Re de | the work delayed two months, when the tnjanction Raps rd, and dauglter of Stephen ie, Bsq., 0 ——— —— Sa ae af Dank, on which the greatest depth te reported to be | Ciriadictiom, Comumbus proceeded on Mie serena vege | “Tonanother chart, without date, of the same coniec- | a8 Femoved, and it perhaps is well here to state | © ‘The reintives and friends of the family aro invited ROOMS AND APARTMENTS TO LET, three fathoms. Nori by east of the island there is | jurisdictior, Coiumbus proceeded on his second voy- ® breaker. Good anchorage will be found in from | age. On his w out he discovered and took pos- seven to nine fathoms water at about half a mile | session of the Islands of Dominica, Gaudaloupe, tion, of particular parts of America, the West India | that at no time have owners of property on the pro- i the funeral, this (Wednesday) afvernoon, at A 6 isiands are given without names, except Cuba and | jected line raised objections to the necessary exca- ee T FORTIETH ATRELT, BETWEEN three o'clock. ‘and me and Hroadway.—2 parti ‘ate on first % 0 i dl el hfe from the western shore of the isiand. This anchor- | Antigua, St. Martin, Porto Rico and others of the | Bahama and “S| ola,” while Yucatan is marked } | CoRNWRLL.—In Brooklyn, on Sunday, April 12, | stories, painted wails, gas aud water, to sius) rome Moced to the west, but the trade wind here | Carisvean islands. “He arrived at iis former harbor | asanisiand. ‘Two small islands are found adjacent | Vations for the purpose of building vauits in which | p1iza, relict of Timothy Cornwell, aged 14 years, Adults oulyy vacant oh buh his montd. ~Abriy on pred invariably blows home. and og ie a on ae 27th of November, | to “8; corresponding to Beata and Alta | small engines are to be placed for operating the road, a a rueave ie eae teravsutoon, B vad SUIT OF SPACIOUS AND F SOANTEY raed Alta Vela.—Alta Veia lies southwest half west six | 1493. ‘was demolished, but he promptly | Vela, but are without names, daughter, A. &. por ' ed Kooma—Will be vacant on we Istof May, ou andaquarter miles froin tue southwest part of Beate, | repaired it, founded the city of Isabella aud aiseive | A very ancient chart of the cast coast of America, | ‘"° rains commenced and it was not until some | 4""Gakes, are respectfully invited to attend the geay, ment the principal tela; bot mad Cold Wath and about fifteen mules irom Beata Point, It is three- | uted military forces throughout the istand, quarters of a mile jong in a norttieast by east and Alter these pi he visited Cuba and Do- from Hudson's bay to the Straits of Magellan, pre- | Months subsequently to the erection of the funeral, from the residence of her daughter, No. 268 sents the isiand of Hayti with adjacent isiands in the | first iron column that visible progress could be made. Lit—the & vet, Brooklyn, om Thursday after | ARG ND FLOOR, CONSISTING Ke "Toate rosns, pantries, bath ‘same 5G Of Washington st A revurni t way. noon, at two 0 room, €., 01 ‘wrdo, bal ia sisbowe eniirely corkponed oun Hay he saw on the Zot of Angust, 140 iid wave | “Om another ancient chart of the east const of pr Mess Lage wiser bg otc Propitions day was | “Rochester and New Orteans papers please copy. stall respectable liye” Apply at bisesker street, able bell-shaped hill, the summit of which is 600 feet | name to Cape San Miguel, now known as bu. | America, from New Branswick to the Amazon river, | *¢ized to push the section forward, and it 1s now all Dzanven.—0n Tuess ay, Apel io any FRANCES, (0 LET—A PART OF THB UPPER Fant oF DWwEide oF DWI ‘above the sea. At three quarters of a mile from the | ron, the southern part of the istand of Here | the West India islands are laid down with a fair | but ready for the crusis experimentum that is to | daughter CA in and Margaret Dearden, aged 4 ing 74 Kivington sireet, to a email family of aduita. north side there is a small, low, black rock, and | the’ natives recognized and saiuted him by his title | delineation of the coast of Haytt, under the name of | decide its fate. months an a ply afior 10 A. M sonal vf imipeylate, va, ‘The funeral will take place this (Wednesday) after- — ee V noop, at two o'clock, from No. Spencer street, 89 BROADWAY, WEST SIDE.-T0 Let _shcoNBs Hrooklyn. The relatives and friends of the family J 1 and Third Floors with water and gas,at 4 lo’ > are respectfully invited to attend, ply to W. BOGGS, tu thi fiAN.—On Monday, April 13, after a long illness, = scoral bank of soundings, v: g from fifteen to | of admiral. At the end of that month, according to eighteen fathoi stretches @ mile from the | the account which he rendered to his sovereign, he southeast side, Vessels bound either east or west | anchored at @ small island, or rather a rock, which will tind the hill a most valuable point of departare, | rises singly out of the sea opposite toa ng cape ition of Alta Vela was accurately determined | stretching southward from the centre of the island, Hespanbol, with an tsland marked Beata, a second The road, we should here remark, is built with a marked Frailes, and an adjacent one, without name, | single track, the cooien being to have lines of road corresponding to Alta Vela. on opposite sides of the thoroughfare through which We tind also in the Department a y of Juan de | it may pass, the cars or trucks moving In opposite s map of the world, made in A. D. 1500, which | or contrary directions. Each track will be five feet Dy Captain R, Owen, R.N., who pinces the summit | to which promontory he gave the name of Cape Sepresease the Antilian islands and their vicinity. | in width between the centre of the rails and be sup- | JouN EoAN; in the von year of his age, anativeor} ST Oy RY ERTS menor, cline ‘hili Mm latitude 17 deg. 28 min. 60 sec. north, | Beata, The rock at which he anchored had an ap- | It was taken from the fac simile Granemt which was | ported by @ series of columns of about nine inches | the con 'y 1s poly Jatt a ‘of the fami ‘TEAM POWER,—FINE CORNER ROOM, 8X60, LI b- and longitude 71 deg. 39 min, 44 sec. west.’ pearance at a distance of tall sip under sail, from | made for the “Physical, Political and Natural His- | diameter at the surface of the pavement. These | . The friends and relatives je family are respect. | \ ait, all around, adapted, {25 mechanicas purpcgee email Kasemen' poly s “Los Frailes, or Friars’ Rock, lies north by west | which circumstance the admiral called it Alta 1. rters West, nme and @ quarter miles from | Several seamen were ordered to climb to the top of Vela; west ten miles from the north end of | the isiand, which commanded a at extent of ta. It is avout halfa cable in extent and thirty | ocean, and there to look out for the two ships which feet high, and at the distance has the appearance of | had parted from the admiral during his voyage. De- Wttaetee of sharp peak rugged rocks, with white | scending from the summit the satiors killed on the Ope—the effect of birds’ dung—hence the name.” island of Alta Vela eight sea wolves, which were “The between Alta Vela and Beata is quite eping on the sands, knocked down many pigeons lear; but it will be prudent to keep outside all. The | and other birds with sticks, and took others with channel between Beata and Beata Point is navigable | their hands; for in this unfrequented isiands the ant- for steamers, butthey must be of light draught, for, | mal seemed to have pont of the wildness and timt- ‘a8 we have sald above, there is a depth of three | dity which is produced by the hostility of man, (Irv- ims, and the swell is generally very heavy.” ing’s Columbus, vol. 3, page 434.) Columbus re- It 8 thus seen that Beata island 18 distant only ined at this anchoi of Alta Vela six days four miles from Beata Point, and that Alta Vela, in- — Voyages, vo Page 530; Betrers, Decad stead of being twenty, or fifteen, or ten miies beyond | 1, liber 2, chap. 15); ai id having then been joined by ‘the extreme sonthern polut of ‘Dominican territory, | the two missing caravels, he coasted along the as the claimants coutend, or five leagues, as ro southeastern part of the island, pi the country by Mr. Cazneau in his reports is Sn tact oniy | watered by a branch of the Neyva. 19 a miles from Oape Beata, and only stx and one- | was a fertile plain fliled with haumeta and detache: fourth niles from the southwest part of Beata island. | houses so close together that for the space Gk ta Vela being 500 feet high, is in full view, not only | leagae it was @ continuous Village. (Hist. Sai Oo of island of Cuba,’ by Don on de la | columns in the section erected, placed at tnter- baad 3 Satie, 1837, On tno men the island of Hayti | vals of about twenty-five feet, except at street crosa- appears under the name of La Espanola, with its | ings, where they are necessarily further apart, along coasts. On its southern coast is marked C. de Lobo, | the curbetone, between the sidewalk and the car- and adjacent are the names “Beatai’ and “Altobelo;” | riagoway, These again are attached by girders or but the islands are not marked. braces to the track, Which is placed perpendicularly On a copy of charis of the important Antilles, | to their centres at a distance in clear of four+ as depicted separately by B. Bordone, in differ- | teen feet from the pavement, ent parts of his wel! known work, called ‘iso- ‘The engines in the street vaults, bulit immediately fario? (a description of all the islands of the under the track at distances of half a mile, are in- world), Which was famous at its time—first edited tended to revolve endiess steel wire ropes, to which, 1628, then in 1634, and again in 1648—appear the | by an ingenious device, the carriages are, while isiands of Jamaica, Gn tS) ola, Guadalupe, | passing o or down, to be attached or disengage’, Dominica, Matinna (probably inique). The city | and is perfectly under the control of the brakeman. of Isabella, long since extinguished, is presented on | The steel wire rope js mounted with small ‘“trucks,"’ the map of Spagnola, and on the southern coast are | with should at regular distances (150 feet), an’ to shown four Reande, corresponding in location to | these the car attached or detactied and Loe Beata, Alta, Vela and Los Fratlese All the isiauds | with perfect safety and without noise or jar within a are represented as uncultivated, wild and full of | distance of thirty-five feet, This result ts obtained by hills and forests, with the only exception of His | means of a series of elliptical springs on a rev as paniola, which shows many Spanish buildings. shaft, bed lengthwise to the car. By means 0 f A copy of @ map of Hayti, or Hispanial Y ppd in oe py a har an as we have La bg ty m the island of Beata, but even from Beata Point. | mingo, by San Antonio del Monte y Tejad: 853, | the same collection of the Department, whic! con- | the eman—the cars are moun e' The distance from the jalan of Beate to Alto Velo page 936.) riwe tained in the foilowin work:—“Libro = Pri- | wooden tread-wheels, also a new invention, Brood wi being six ane one fourth niles, exceeds by only 1,040 Columbus began hia third voyage on the ooh | mo della Historia, delle Indie occidentale | single or double flanges—run without nolse. This by the modern raage of cannon shot. It 18 | of May, 1908 After having made large Gisvoverics | cavate da libri scritth del Pe Marted Oviedo: | wheel has been pronounced infinitely superior and x fully invited to attend the funeral, from his residence, 213 avenue A, corner of Fifteenth street, | sireet, corner Hoa this (Wednesday) afternoon, at two o'clock. OsT.—, le Te 4 T 415 SECOND AVENUE (OLD NUM Frost.—At Giencove, L, 1., on Mon April 13, pteNs 4) oad Trost Ls E, Frost, son of Edward L. Frost, in his 22 terms mer ‘Tue funeral will take place thi (Wednesday) after. — noon, at two o'clock, from the residence of his “COUNTRY HOUSES, FARMS, eee ONBES. Im Brook ca nD. day, April 14 ORBRS.—I B.D. day, Apri ae ~~ ~ 7 are WILLIAM G. FORD Teta 62 ten iti 3.00, ~TOLBTTAT RAVENsIoOD L. 1) cCOTrAgR Notice of funeral hereafter. 6, A Stable altaened | ne EDDA AD, Hancock.—On Monday, April 13, Maocy ANN | Swoutypirmsrece A” APY 8 Me HANCOOK, aged 28 years, § months and 6 days. - ‘The relatives and friends of the famtiy are respect- | — fully invited to attend the funeral, from the reat. | dence of her sister, Mra. Eliza Ranney, No. 204 West MAGN Twenty-seventh stheet,this (Weduesday) afternoonat | A. “ales made.order, cily maker, used ¥ mouth coat 4 on Arunt-~in Brooklyn, day, April 12, aft oF 9 Fariot eat toing’ Reo ues AicH.—In Broo} , On Sunday, Apri after a | Hronzes, Charmber sud Living Hoey short \ilness, JouN MAIUH, Jr., of Huddersfield, Eng- | tee. bnguire at 44 \V eat Slat vetrheghinn hen! ie land, in the 36th year of his age. WILL SELL, FOP, IMMBDIAT ceo The friends of the family a respectfully invited rosewood Plawoforte, x to wae the Up mie ee hears yo we Uh pind ——— aly street, corner Grace cou n Heights, this ot i elt {Wedhesday) afternoon, at three o'clock, ys een HASLetT.—In Leg OY be orn ril 11, Mfrs. AROAISS —TWEYTY FIRST CLASS ROSEWOOD &Cy TO PLANOFORT. Jiviuina IFICENT ROSEWOOD PLY. OFORTE ion rorthy of remark, @iso, that al t pI n terra firma or the mamiand of § a, ho | Venezia, 1504. Tt is the oldest engraved special | more durable and lesa ‘pensive than any here. I Rela the isiaud-of Biase and Ait Velie ete peur to tue Isiand of H tp niap Of Hispaniola which is Known On this map | tofore invented, and within ten years will supersede | Jane TERESA, Wile of John Hasi in the doth oye! bad LY aotortes, manufactured by Chickori clear, yot it is so imperfect that it is deemed dent nm the 20tli of August he airiv his former au- tho comsi is delineated; the vities Of Indian tribes | those now used on cars propelled by steam. | year of ber Stodarty Wurcost raduary, Cor ion than bale originn! rol By navigators ie hob entirely outside of borne the paorage under the itive igand Beata, aad from aid Spasish setieuents ad forts are given; the It ts the intention the company to fit up below 0 friends of the family aro respect- | aiso a8 mea ws vat orteg Ab WAKA. AgLUFers Yel 7 Sal ‘The rel 5 po and desolation of the province of Azi 6 he COMMUMCRLEE With hin WOLKE Was Ciies Of IdaveLa gad dl, Gomme are matked aod the Park, at distances of a quartor of & mile, aub- 4 fauy inv to attend the funera, from her law \OUUN 4 00, W Foor