The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1868, Page 9

‘their witadrawal would create an easing of rates, topermit an increase of fare? The public found out at that time I knew Mrs. Mary ill; f also knew "FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. | een an nro ots naddenty enews = THE HILL MURDER. Georze 8. Twit Wapnespay, Dec, 23~6 P.M, | ‘ey now know where the New York Central stock | quirg Days Proceedings=The Evidence Con- | 2%! 404 Pine sireets; the property belon'red to the The injustice of the law which prevents the tax- is held, They will ation of government bonds, either for jaternal reve- Bue or local purposes, is well illustrated in certain transactions which are at this period quite a large Portion of the business of Wall street. Reference is | *Pest except for had to the exteasive purchases of Unitea States bonds by the national banks, by private corpora- tions and by wealthy capitalists, who, by holding them on the 3lst of December and the 1st of Janu- ary next, will avoid the payment of a large amount Pisea pap la of taxation which would be imposed were their funds otherwise invested, To-day the market for government bonds became weak on account of the @tringency in money, and the declined prices tempted large purchases, principally by the class of investors referred to above, Under this ‘demand the market grew better and became Qrm at the close, As everybody knows who has @vercarned a cioussud dollars a year, it 1s neces- sary on the lst of May, annually, to make a sworn statement to the United States Internal Revenue Assessor on the subject of income, in order that the tax may be imposed, The State, county and city are also empowered by State and local laws to im- pose still another tax on personal property and capital. All these, however, may be avoided vy turning property and capital into government bonds, That the national Lanks should take advantage of ‘this chance of shirking the burden of State and local , taxation is one of the most unjust features of the | 79% 879%; Boston Jaw. These institutions, not convent with making them. Outside of Nt Island in later Cumberland, 36 a 37. Quicksilver, 2036 a 5724 a 573g; Milwat preferred, 85 a 8534 Pittsburg, 83 a 8334 rational Bank act enables the stockholders to earn | ¢ a quarter to six York Central, 1483 a 148%; Pacific Mail, 118% ‘upon their investments, are too greedy to stand their > 2 Wayne, 110%; @ 110%; Michigan Southern, 86% a house on the night of the murder, about a quarter to in his name I think, though I am not sitive; the Reading, 97% a 973¢; Rock Island, 111% asked; share of the expense of the local improvements and tot local government in the midst of which they carry : eleven o'clock; I went in the front door, through the | Counsel for defence—I object to all this kind o! ‘on their business, Just now their oficers are down | Northwéstern, 78 bid; do. preferred, 8035 a 80%. entry ie the kitchen; when I went into the kitchen testimony, anlees the ® Commonwealth shows what por Am Wall street buying up bonds. By putting them SALES Ww. YOR o there wa8 a body lying on the settee, which I after. District Attorney—-W. a 4 the place of capital they will avoid the State and sein me ae STOcK pone ” wards neces Precio there bey : oe other witnesses rs iat ara an to prove by this and City Assessor. Private capitalists and private mo- nesday, Doc. We cloth, stained wit! Jor lying across her face; nol corner of Tenth and Pine street, with her eyed insuitutious are included in this demand for | fie Us 88, ere. a Ae te S30 INS | aid not ut om the face; there was a chair stand. | OW, money, and the prisoner, without Her know. ‘Donds. The atrocious feature of their transactions | 10000 US t's, 5-20, oe. in” 200 Dear the sabiee on Wile Here Wane PAN Con! pe Thersy aaais wie, Mrs, ‘Twitchell; that this fact 0 00 US 5 is that they are geuvrally buying the bonds on time,- aa ane for the most part thirty days—and keeping their Money otuerwise employed meantime. This will enable them to iwuke te necessary aMidavit that on ‘the 3lst inst. or tae 1st prox., as the case may be, their weaitn consisted in the untaxable government bonds. Considering that these 400 400 securities were purchased ali the way up 100 g | the olicloth on the floor to a chair, which was be- 500 19) th blood on the back and the seat. Was present at the execution of the deeds, and the from forty-five cents on the dollar (when gold was | iyo MorrintEstet ai, 96 $00 Fee eae ey deienoe ok atlas tate witneen baking Payment of the money; General Pleasontod, ‘Thomas ‘Over 200), and have since drawn goid interest at six ty eee ct as 1, 400 97% | that there was biood on the chair. He does not iiamson, the conveyancer; Mr. Jones, and Mr. F cent for their face, their immunity from. texa- Mit mPennes fe 330 fo, | Know that fact. The stains on the chair may have even Tenn resent; Mrs, Hill was not lon seems all the more outrageous, The wealthy whoo. 1 Cont ry ies 400, 30 os been stains ce Sablon Se it Rack Be applied resent; 1 saw again about the matier last yu . ~ joan avoid the burdeas of government by simply in- Canton 00... es 303 be 100 Bloods aie he pkg ‘an expert I most decidedl lounsel for prosecution—Up to that timie had you westing in them at the opportune moment, The lo. 8 is object to his stating that the staius he saw on the vided peeea congue with Mrs. Hill about moral dishonesty of so doing might also enter into 5 ii” | chair were blood. Counsel for defence—t abject to the evid 100 The Court—The Supreme Court of this State has evidence of ‘the consideration of the subject; but in these days 100 $4 decided that a witness need not be an expert to | 88Y Conversation having or not having been had ‘of legal consciences, instead of the old-fashioned bo 12% | give evidence concerning @ matter of akind just vee eee Be an the absence of the prisoner. hhuman affair, 1t would be profitiess to pursue 4 6L referred so byt the wil ‘The objection is, there- ‘a detiain time cis ination val bavi ied at ‘ @ucha topic, Tao burden on the middie classes and 00 itis | RS witness then. Tesumed—I saw some rove that the old lady endeavored, without success, Poor, who have uo bonds and cannot invest in ‘them, is made uil the heavier by this unequal dis- bation, If Congress will drop the chimera of & Morced fesuimption of specie payments and turn its atientioa to the propriety of wescinding a measure which makes the rich ficher and the poor poorer it will help redeem its cord of folly and mismanagement. Otherwise ‘With the increase of tke burden of taxation the Masses may be roused to a sense of the injustice ‘which is done thein, aad finally demand the repudia- Aion of this indebtedness altogether, The market was without animation after the ‘boards, and the foliowing were the prices at half- {past four o’clock:—United States sixes, 1881, regis- ed, 1033, @ 109; do., coupon, 114K a 114%; 20's, registered, 105 a 105; do., coupon, 1862, 110 @110; do., 1384, 10614 810634; do., 1865, 107 810734; do., new, 1865, 103; 8110; do., 1867, 100% a 110; do., 1868, 11054 @ 11034; 10-40’, registered, 102 @ 10234; o., coupon, 105 a 10514; currency bonds, 99 a 99%. jood The money market was acti stringency inthe | COTTON.—Receipts, 2,679 bales. The market was mode- | ried a lighted candle in order to examine them well; | her upon the subject; J had an interview with her in ‘Bret half of tue busiacss hours of the day. The ao. | Tey nctive, the demand being chiety from spinners, bat | 1 ‘also Went out into the yard and examined the | July, 1808, at my housein Eleventh streets uur secs yp back their funds this morning for higher rates, | 367 for export and 338 on speculation. vity at the close on Tuesday induced lenders to Fie cales oomprized 2, the salen were to a fair extent, being 309 bales low middling | evidently been used, but I could find no traces of | Counsel for the defence—What does the counsel eb Fe Tonne mignon Was A fey SEYETS. HOR, Gas} ee Ramen Sager See’ Shan fos Rlecerat Meta ef woe juantity of blood was lying in the | intend to prove by that question? I Oi ‘ticularly amon the needier and weaker classes of | Juoigi2 St MNr and 100 do, for February at 34i4e. We Poets foind a y te eeu q Object to it bo: hb "plands blood stall ~ yen laa “tne Court It is not necessary that th: f rowers, jd " 1a, witl u ind Modileand N.0. and | DO stains ors} on the fence; I examin ‘y e proof to “ip de cpanel a yedg kita Fortin “wench ~ Gene | gate ongventh street and found it closed, shut bya | adduced should be given how. “The q yh fommissions ranging from one-sixteenth to one- ‘S” | Shain attached to @ padiock; I looked at the siat- | is a proper one. quarter of one ver cent. The groas.voruiute OF Dusi- ua u 34. | tera of all the windows along the pyard—thatieto say | | Witness resumed—Mr. Twitchell, Jr. spoke to me peas wag done at sevea per cent in coin until the 5 Bs 25, pa bpp ok pos ing out a I mere pissed open ape om = tie a pinecone two e , “ ” ie 2635 | in e aide ant on street, ma @ private entrance on Bas aoe ee eae ee rctae, | ecQennt the mistksl fo, lo was quot but steady at yer: | found it perfectly fast; when I went ino Twiteheli's | Flue street and ihe balanos of tho house for a prt ho had not “place eir money e anxious, — pee. anion Sep bags ex Chineseris on private | room I examined it thoroughly to see if I could find | vate bullding; he spoke to me more than once on ‘nd were more free'y offering, the rate declining to | “Pion axp Gnatw. Receipts, Sst bbls. flour, 4,06 | aby evidence of blood washing and found none; { this subject of alterations; Mrs, Twitchell gave me jbeven per cent curreucy. There is money enough | bushels wh — do, corn. market for flour was dull | there were & pair of stockings (men’s socks) lying at | once a will for safekeeping; her husband was pres- the city to sutisfy the demand, and ail Soata beateepion tei bataies etoioon rices would have | the head of the bed and ‘acollar on a bureau, also a ein exhibited by counsel for defence and iden- fucceeded in getting what they wanted, but | force gt extreme raics. There is a tendency on ‘the part of a great many merchants and others to @ecline engagements until after the holidays, and ‘were it not for tie contraction of loans by the banks #0 preparation for the quarterly statement. The at amount of money invested in stocks through the renewed speculative feeling engendered by the Hise in New York Ceatral is also @ cause of atrin- ‘gency. The higa raies of interest prevailing in the Metropolis are attracting money from other finan- jal centres, about half a milion coming in to-day ‘om Boston, an sone relief might be expected ‘Yrom these sources were not their inability made qanifest during tue great money stringency pro- Cor Jersev... uced by the Erie clique, when the coffers of nearly Wheat opened firmer 4 @ better Mil the country banks were emptied ino New York 4 oe ag Py it <= | Fg choice of violence about the windows or doors; I examined | very Lote Belt occasion I’refer to he seemed to ‘Without avail, The West needs no more money, and | refused fore choice mation ieee feet handa of men who put their own fancy values UPD | Prohabte Motive of the Murderer—The Exe | ‘00K place in Maren, 1860; the price for which f sold without any novel feature and without general in- widely and frequently. The list sympathized with | 1. ona; neen the case sin ce the commencement mo $16,500; Mr, Twitchell, Jr., and Mrs, Hill were Central and with the activity in money and was Of this: extraordinary trial, orowded"to ttm utmost | Daitcen Gencnn on ws mad t heavy for the greater portion, In the afternoon ry Ys ‘easanton to give me some dis- there was a recovery from the lowest prices, @nd | V vegea characters, which is divided by an iron tion was not sustained by Central or by Rock | onire day a large gathering of lawyers, many of ‘Twitchell, Jr.; he told me he wanted the agreement of the last open board were as follows:— | croaser number of those young legal fledglings who 24% bid; Merchants’ Union Express, 15% ® 163 | those gentlemen does not conaist so much in the trial | dence aniess the 5 bid; do. preferred, 19 a 20%; Pacific Mall, 1195 ® | 1.01 selected by the prisoner. ‘They are five in mum- been already said about the agreement 13 not evi- York Central, 14934 a 14934; Erie, 383¢ a 89; do. pre- ferred, 60 @ 71; Hudson River, 130 @ 131; Reading, | 7; jg generally expected by the prisoner's friends Ny “which was done” were givemas evidence. 97%¢ a 97%; Bankers and Brokers’, 90 a 95; Alton and Terre Haute, 139 bid; do. preferred, 140 bid; Wabash, and Mississippi, 30 a 3044; Michigan Central, 112 bid; Michigan Southern, 87; Illinois Central, 141 @ 143; 11134 41114; Northwestern, 77% a 78; do. preferred, | more attention than any yet given during the trial is | Pay the money for the house; she was not to have After the boards quotations on the street were ir- ee fifteen and twenty per cent which the folly of the | Tesular, witha weak tendency. The closing prices | pos0q py the prosecution, was the primary cause of | Made no difference about paying that amount at Corn meal, Brandywine. meal, Brandy! NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1868—TRIPLE §S TIEET. tohell. Jr ft acted as the broker for General Pleasanton fn sétling his property, corner of the old lady Genera.’s wile and he represented her in the trans- be likely to leave both in the cerning the Deed of the Property and the | aciion; I sold the property for him w Mrs. Hill; this lew York Central the market WBS | citement Concerning the Result of the Trial. | tho hose yo ee eh Mneluding some few things in Ouse, Was $16,800; i had several PHILpEtpata, Dec, 23, 1863, Mrs, Hib betore selling her the pea ee hea he Pactfle Mail, which fluctuated | 4+ tne opening of the court this morning the room | Price of the Lonse at $17,000, and tia family oxfered Ppreseut when the offer was made; in the meantime I attonel 'witel capacity, Within the sacred preciuct reserved for | Cretiouary power to sell the house at aless price aly PB than $17,000 the bargain { made Was veh Airs ly agreed on the m3 irs, Fil ane 160, the result of the easier | rauing trom that part of the court room allotted to | daughter, who was with her, left, and’ f drew up an at this period. This apprecla- | the common herd of spectators, there was during the | agreement of the sale, which’1 handed to Mr. made in his name, which was done. transactions. The quotation | that cigs; whe have plenty of causes, and a far Counsel for ‘defence Was thas agreement in writ. enforce so ; Wells, & Co,’s Express, itness—Yes, sir. 363 Wells, Fargo ‘xP have few causes and no effects. The attraction for Counsel for defence —Then we Shlods fo Sia Gv rh - agreeme! produced, anc Te- 2234; Canton, 48 bid; Mariposa, | it.01f as in the formidable array of counsel which has | duest the Court to instruct the jury that all that nas jon Telegraph, 3335 a 2324; New 119%; Western Unk dence. The agreement is in the possession of General ber, three of whom at least, itis said, rank among | Pleasonton and ean be produced, the most promment criminal lawyers of the State, ‘The Court sustained the objection in so far as the itness resumed—Mrs, Hill that when the case for the defence will have been | when Twitchell made the TeUAtk se perpen e A Bk PANY ee DEI On. opened there will bo @ great shaking of the dry ¥ wane ee mado out in his name; pigsisalinget Nenidiatssp Appt tnogs) bones in tue ranks of the prosecution, but so far | ‘pwitchell paid me $1,000 rg aR ie 4 there has been no foreshadowing of the coming punches he sald he wanted the deed made in event, Although the prisoner's counsel are fighting | 18 wife’s name; I asked him who his serivener w: and having mentioned a number, the case step by step, the prosecution are working | that number Eaward R. Jones; Meme rok with equal vigor. The evidence which has attracted | when Mr, Twitchell, Jr., was present that she would ; Fort Wayne, 110% 111; Ohio ; Toledo, 98 a 9824; Rock Island, Water Power, 13% 0 13%. that given to-day by the real estate broker, Gilbert, | Was anid at the thave aboot at ae ey ana nothing who executed the deed of property which, it is sup- | when Mr. Twitchell gave me the $1,000 I told him it o’clock were as follow: N that time; he replied that he preferred stad the murder of Mrs. Hill. $1,000 on account and Lacoepted it anaes ine coe Detective Warnock recalle@-I visited Mrs, Hill's | receipt on the back of the agreement; I receipted it following day I met him at the scrivener’s ottice. urchased ‘the house 30 152 : no” 100 2d call 14944 | taining bloody water; there was @ pool r, i 2 | mixed with” blood,’ thac had» run down from | W288 concealed from Mrs. Hill; that some time in the the settee; no one was in the kitchen when I went | Summer of 1808 It was communicated to her by @ ti t , superb gift in frst; Mr. Bowen soon after I entered came in; | MDa sernce we withdraw the whole of jouse; On go! W 8 I found a pool oo ee oe des ait On Ein ; the traces of bee resumed~ met Mr, Twitchell, as I said eee Tckial that le tad aie ‘down from the fore, at the acrivener’s office; he there produced his sofa to the door, a8 though some person had been | Dére ine matter as leh in the has ochisnerhanes, . . rr, FOE ae ag ee rae de ae eed along | there being nothing much for me to do alter thate d BSSe SASS: s hes on the window sill, which was besmeared with | t0 obtain 4 reconveyance of the property, and a few blood, and on the handie of the dining room door I Gays before the murder had, made ‘arrangements to found traces of bjdod; there were slight marks of | Consult counsel on the Monday or Tuesday following blood on the ollcloth near the door; the drop of | the murder and to institute legal proceedings for 2334 Cumb lood I discovered on the knob of the door was on | the recovery of the property, and that on Sundi 100 Boston Water Pir, oa aide, and it, seemed to have rolled down q little | Might preceding this Monday of ‘Tuesday she had bs} Wellu-Fi way from the Piso were it had struck; I found mane e appointment for her counsel she was mur- bi on t fered. 100 fery "pea the aoor, “ind oon ry table oto Counsel for defence—I withdraw all objections to 100 was ne ating ‘\Foom "pear ' the "ota that offer, but contend that the manner in whtch it I examined the chandelier and discove! bie {g to be proven by the prosecution is illegal and un- drops on the éxtinguishers, which, at the time I saw fair, were closedcover the jets; there was a drop | ‘THe Court—We do not find tn our notes that the han the room with a green shade; I think ww gontents of the deed has been referred to. The quea- shade was a transparent one; I examined the fire in | Hon objected to Is therefore overruled. the grate; it had apparently been recently built; 1 | The court here took a recess to three P, M. found in the grate @ piece of paper almost ‘burned to EVENING SESSION. cinder; I found that it was printed matter of some On the reassembling of the court the District At- kind; the only piece I could preserve I placed in the | torney produced and offered in evidence the deed bottom of a candlestick; in pes ie investiga- | executed the 15th day of March, 1866, the title tions th the room I carried a lighted candle; after | Yeading “Blizabeth Hoge and others, Thomas Wil- examining the sitting room I went out into the entry | liamson, trustee of Elizabeth Pleasonton, and the said and discovered what was ap} tly @ of blood | Elizabeth Pleasonton to Camilla E. Hill, recorded on the oilcloth in the entry; 1 did not cut it out, al- | the 20th day of March,” and then recalled though a stain was cut outsome time afterwards and | to the stand Mr. Gibert. He continued his testimony given 08 me; I gave it BoP ni hae it was ee one = He Engle Fed a Cee business from z1 roduced in court yest 31 examined the back yu roperty until SoeaaDaseDee ES Rs i. Feairs, but found ne traces of bl them; I car- | July, 1868, nor did Ihave any corres] Lbs ones with S883 tracted by lower, closit a Venetian blinds of one of the rear windows and } derson accompanied her on the occasion; I had a ‘Dales, Weluding Leaf fot eee: tosee if the hydrant had been used to wash the | conversajion at one time with Mr. Twitchell, Jr., ‘or future delivery | stains bie ch 3 the hydrant had | on the subject of this property. holders manifested no disposition to ir of cuffs, sleeve buttons in the cuffs marked “ that will remained in my Possession until were lly steady. California .;"? all these articies I took from the home and | July 27, 1408, when 1 gave {t to Mr. Twitchell; I re- Domina j,ine sales were 6000 bbls. | afterward handed them over to Mr. Levis; this was | ceived it about October 10, 1866; I surrendered 1t to en were ane on Thi ving Day; I did not see an: ker in the | him after the interview I had with bim and Mr. 'h I found a long iron which may | Henderson; I surrendered it to him because E 5 i E + 5 deman it from again; in my im- | lady would not live h checked the demand, and | vestigations I did _ not find indivations | terest could be bought at one-half or one-third at the (ee ‘Mrs. Hill’s room the night of the murder; there were | argue that the old lady would not live long; on other nf invites me Xery often fided in ine very umehe . When he &pae to you how queer she A. I never hearé the: Was always the “devil him say that the old strict a rule, to go out riding; he con- you aboat his troubfes with didu’t ee you about them to show ‘ord “queer” mentioned; it aausiter); T nwer heard pry AWAY Money in out-ofthe-cay places the ae ting =~ about wee Lot aaa Nad accusing peovie of stealing ity was in my possession; anos, road ie we in the presence. of her agentyby the wi owed ft to Mh gave all her propertyto not to her mother; I stowed wt to i oe sidered it unsafe to hold it longer a heard of Twitchell’s fearful conduct toyards Counsel for defence—I move that ti of the witness’ statement just given The Court sald that were it to fol ruling the evidence would be allow defendant was bemg tied for his li becaus: len it and afterwards r what Lhad ‘Netast portion be Sticken out. low the general ed; Dudas the fe it would not Witness resumed—I gaid that returned the at Twitcheil’s own request, but I do not mean ard that it was because of lis request I gavo it up; after ae og ee hag with Mrs, Hil T felt that it fe for me to keen any papers belonging to suc! people, and I told Twitchell ahgut it; I told MEPwitot mm pre ar ayy bea had Tue about the bad con- duct of him and hi fe towards her; no but Mr. Twitchell saw the will wh Phin; he did not ask mo whether Mrs. not; he said nothing to me on the subject; I never told him 1 had never shown it to any one; the reason I called ag the stables often was because I knew the Proprietor and had business with him; ) might have asked often about Mr. Twitchell when ! called there; I did not always call for him when | went there, for he was almost always there; he stopped calling on me when I stopped him from caliing; he never reproached me about showing the will; he never treated me in apy way but the kindest manner On all pocaslonte ne 7 'e-direct—-I never gave him canse to be unkind to me and always treated him kindly, BOOKS FOR THE HOLIDAYS, “Of the making of many books there is no end,” sald the Psalmist, as if in anticipation of the results of the modern invention of printing. Although during the present year the Paris, London and New York publishers appear to have made less extensive special preparations than usual for new holiday books, yet all the arts pertaining to book manufac- ture have now been carried to such perfection, both in Europe and America, that there is no lack of en T gave it to him; . Hill had seen it or i that rs. Hill il Mra, ad and > Leon. her, was not Tours in Larope Farmers’ Libr: “Gulliver's Travel tian Andersen, Rollo Books,’ ‘J thirty-two pages. it are Hawthorne’ Biography,’? « Ahee Cary’a “s “Juvenile Books Day,”? Mra, Horas Si Greck Fairy books. Many works of ancient and “The Holy Bible,” cont to Goethe, have been for a pok mean that it had no | Mrs, Hill, in the company of Mr. Henderson, $5.00 9515 | turned end; I saw a poker witha brags handle in the | came to’ me and asked me how the decds 5%— 650! ai (poker produced and identified); I no- | cai to be in her di ter’s name; I gur- TRS 8% | ticea Mrs. Hill on the night of the murder; | rendered this will to Mr. Twitchell at his Soe 6 bo | She apy tobe dressed in @ dark frock which | own PA ee Thad a conversation at one time with $%s Sw | hada large pattern spot on it; sue fad a hood or | Mr. tenell, short time after I nad sold the 70a 8 | cap on; I do not remember whether the hair was | house, when said the old woman had placed a 0 @ 11 00 | joose or not; I think it was confined within the cap | large silver plate on the and I told him he had 8008 900 | oF hood; fhe handkerchiet, stained with bi better let it remain; at he told me he had Hoo Be | which the ct At has just handed me, i | a terrible time with lady; I told him he 13 00 — 1400 | found on the Moor in the kitchen; it looks like the | shouldn’t stay there und circumstances, and | Was printed in 1700 Boe ue one I saw on Mrs. Hill’s ; there is gray hair on | on several occasions when he spoke about his dimi- | illustrations 25a 1100 | it; this blood-stained T found stuck between | culty with her I told him Not pradent to talk | Goethe,” Lette, Lilli, Ip! 7 1200 | the Venetian blinds near the hydrant; this collar | about the matter; Occasion he came 252 $48. | Dox, with two cofiarsin it, belongs to Twitchell; 1 | into my office and a very Seung | Desi, BORNE in an rw . o ds but holders | obtained him he felt certain that the in- | Portraits of Lad collection of 226 portrait modern classical authors are so splendidly bound, printed and illustrated as to entitle them to a far higher rank in this particular class than aay of those collections of elegant extracts which have taken on parlor centre tables the place of such gitt- edged “annuals” as were once so popular under the editorship of the late Alaric A, Watts, in London, or of the late Peter Parley Goodrich, in Boston and New York. Moreover, @ race of book collectors is mult- plying in the United States which seriously com. betes with the most eccentric and extravagant bibii- maniacs in Europe, and American demands for rarity regardless of expense are intelligently sup- plied by one Welford and one Philes, Scribner, Welford & Co. have published, as a sup- plement to “The Book Buyer,” their monthly sum- mary of American and foreign literature, ‘A List of Books for the Christmas Holidays, 1868-9.” This comprises @ judicious selection from their extensiv> and varied stock, giving the titles and prices of the newest illustrated, works, important new books, finely tllustraved works, Gustave Doré’s publications, books of portraits, standard Engiish authors, valua- ble historical works, popular natural history, comic and humorous works, Bohn’s popular libraries, bio- graphical works, poets and poetry, cheap English literature, rare old books, works of réfetence, lin- guistic dictionaries, new juvenile works and inter- esting French books, “‘allin the finest bindings by Hayday, Reviére, Kelley, Cecil and Jennings, 4c.” In glancing over this accumulation of books, “espe- cially adapted for Christmas, New Year's and holi- day presents,” the eye is particularly at- taining the Old and New Testaments and the Apo- crypha, four volumes folio, in the finest Turkey morocco, Hayday’s best style, and illustrated by an immense number of select, rare and curious engravings after eminent painters and by the most celebrated engravers, ancient and modern. @ truly splendid copy; price $750. It woul suitable gift from a Protestant society to their pas- tor. Another remarkable and superb work, which arrived on Saturday last, is ‘The Lives of the Saints” (London, John Camden Hotten, 1869), bound im vellum and containing fifty-one fall page minia- tures in gold and colors, the text with engraved borders from ancient books of devotion; price $75. Still another new work is the second volume of Hachette & Cie’s unequalled Paris edition of Dante Alighier1, with Gustave Doré’s tllus- trations. “Tl Purgatorio” affords the genius of the illustrious illustrator of Dante almost as wide a scope as “Il Inferno.” We can only specify among numerous other attractive works the following:— One of the very few copies to be found out of Spain of the Barcelona memorial edition of “Don Quijote de la Mancha,” by the immortal Cervantes, price $80; @ rare and splendid copy of the complete works of Old Father Cats, ‘‘the delight and instructor of the whole people, young and old.” said that “toa genuine Knickerbocker this work is invaluable, as conveying @ more graphic picture of his ancestors than exists in any other shape.” It This is ld be a It has been well Price $60; Kaulbach’s “Female Characters of nia, Gretchen, Margaret, whose biography of Helena, Sahat Migann t eid, coy Clarchen, on and the rest, with explana: pI the of Schilier by Carlyle; the Court of tek VIL, with sam) The sales (part tare propor of tn Soutera ction roy ha | Stal Smear att tts eae | HntRET Tighe Nate eet Cn | foe" tonne‘ hat Ma bet n already moved, so that an easter money market | mand, 5,00 "vushele Western at #1 65 0 der about half-past eleven o'clock, leaving the house | submit to any little difficulty now, as he would be- | d’wuvre des (Grand Wsexpected after the passage of quarter day with mt) was jar, old being :ers; mi A. Michiels, the historian of Fle: She banks and the advent of the new year. inal, while new wae ieee under ht receipt, oi oot maa Br. Twitchell” fe wee in te ad ner seers qos atnss bos ot as embrace Gold was very dull and weak to-day, one interval | Stisea™ine latter ar extreme:cloning ni Sf bia foresee, | house when 1 went away; the féliowing morning | knew her, that she knew how to “put on;? Fiipptno Lippi, Of an hour and a half ¢lapsing without a change in | $1 03a $1 1139 for dd do., in store and afloat; S4c. a 960, for I went to the house I remember | Ways manifested intense feeling in speaking of ner; | eariy painters, price tation, It sued at 135, a 4 to 134 yw Jersey ; Gl w 61 OS Tor new Southern yellow, and @1 a seeing @ wardrobe near loor leading to | he called her an old bitch at times; during these quotation, Opeucd al , decline %» | $1 7 for new do. white. Oate were Fle and prices were a | Mrs, Hill's room; one door was open and | conversations he once or twice threw out the remark Failied to 135 and settled to 134% at the adjournment = Sales, 4,000 bushels, at 74340., in store, and 77e. | the other was locked; the wardrobe is divided | that he'd “kill the old bitch; I always repiled bj ofthe board, Between three and four o’cigck it de- Fakiants were q ‘When it closed at tue quotation 134% @ 13474. Ite | tively; 50 boxes bao at weakness is due to the vetter feeling in the Euro- | Tyyondon, 40 bie. ollcake nt is. and 9) tone oxide zine | were $320—three fifty dollar ‘notes, some ten dollar | him before the saie of at Be, The charters w pean money market and the recovery there of | werp, petroleum in to man bark from Piliadelpbia to Bremen, 2,800 bbls. petro- | one else a diamond cluster ring, nited States securities, founded upon the less war- | jeum on private terns. ike aspect of the Eusiern complications, There was GUNNIES were dui and prices were nominal at 7c, a 17)ge. | for fifty dollars and some small articles of jewelry; District Attorney—How many horses did he for bags and 1fc. a |ve. an abundance of casi gold fur delivery, but purchas- | ‘fous—Were but ittle 7 preferred keeping tue currency, and paid as high | purchaser. We quote, pri fair to good do, Ve, a as 6 and 7 per cent ordinarily, and 9 per Hay. cent, 1-16 and 3-64 exceptionaily to have tne | Weavele metal carried. the goid bi Dalances $2, or nal at our last quoutio; @ut no specie. The consignment from San Fran- Naval STORES. -Keceipte, 90 bbls. spirite turpentine and cisco by yesterday's steamer was over $300,000, au do. rosin, The market tor whe former wae quiet at | and he did so; I then examined his shirt and ex- Counsel for defence—If 1 understand this case, as rices, clositg fi ut 45, We, fe shantabl « ated b; Ya tho stock market New York Central continued | krd°anipping ints: Kater of i Goin Mise kT emmy | Claimed, “low came this here?” pointing to blood | prosecuted by the Commonwealth, I believe the oat the feature, but tue volume oftusiness in it steadily | *t the Ioakie price,” Phe buainess in rosin w prices of ail grades were i . e e strained ¥ ied, and I then told him to take off his boots, when | inferred from the simple fact that a man happens pa ae oe ka rh ety bet ata tn. We. ‘quote :-xtralned, * 45; Koo Ss Eo suued ‘me if I intended to strip him; 1 told him | to be poor. Lonce had a caso in which my chienta Without asaic. Tue weak hands holding it became 75; No, 1, $8 @ @ 25; pa. jeatea'do., 868 | T did not intend to do so, as I would send him other | (two brothers) were tried for highway robbery, and @larmed at the safety of their investment, particu. Wilinington tat waa qui 89.8 $3 60, and sales of clothing; 1 told him to put on his overcoat, which he wanted to prove that on the morning precedin; arly as they were cuinpelied to pay such heavy in- ‘ULL6.— Linseed wis terest for carrying, and threw it on the market, The | 8nd bbIa.; pening price on iue street was from a half too Per cent boiow last night's closing figures, ‘The | R982 vi Pressure to sell was greatest at the regular board, | fined. Crad nd in the interval to the second open board the | ™ price went down to 143, This was the period of the greatest stringency in money, and a difference of an | ige. w ic. per gallon. eighth to a quarter of one per cent was made be- | S#ked. ‘tween “cash’? and “regular” transactions. At the Paakages cut at the second regular board only one and at the last | bbia., at open board, as before stated, none at all. The a7 bbis. new P 0 Live boxe were firmer, the Clique are, therefore, still in possession of their load, foe. rrteain ia hect wok oan held) sales 1by bbls. at 811 @ $17 for 7 phant in this tine of tigit money and high interest, $19 for exira do. Tierce ga quiet, was frm | him stockings or not; I noticed two ash barreis | on me I. informed Mr. Twitchell of the fact; { told id ‘Which they begin to find somewhat of a white ele- namoly, in the wands of the clique—and they are not | former quotations, fale apt to give the aforesaid clique credit for so much | yesterday's quotations, generosity a8 to dispose of an article below ita value. | fair request and fe ‘The “outside public’ therefore draw the inference | at 16%c. & 17),c. for No. For future delivery that they cannot make anything by purchasing Cen- sande c ‘ot tlerces at tral of the present holders, and so they ieave it | 7anuary, February and @everely alone. The time for the success of these | quoved at Byc, a Sige. SUGAR.— amount Cliques is nearly gone by. The Erie combination are | was tight, there bel nt of business transacted in this article | found on the bureau ? Still staggering around with a heap of stock which ae iro, ning him to keep a rd on nis tongue; tet, but rates were generally firm, The | inside into two compartments, each door covering a | cautiot ?, sus yi bh NS, 4 ens ents were :~To Liverpool, per steni (000 bush. | distinct compartment; on examining the wardrobe | told him he had better leave tho house if, (lined to 1345, but grew firmer toward five o'clock, Poy wheat, thi verpos! nat, a ee ae a f ‘an’ " ceaes demand 4 and full pri r 1 had @ conversation with the prisoner after his a A ping Py el, retai ‘tn sl ie ‘gi 0 Toes ys rest; he was brought out into the main room of the | the murder 1s concerned? va pose The gross clearings were $50,039,000, HEMP w as dull and nominal at former qnotations. clothing; he took his outside coat off and I then told | ing up tis question, the pecuniary condition of this $1,097,784 and the currency, | pkey wore’ steady Belen sO Gol ae ieee a patemand aed | him to take off his inside cont; Texamined his vest | man at the the Lrefer to, I intend to prove that 760,03% The European steamer took | auction) 660 bis, m 7c. a8tc, Foreign wae dull ‘and nomi. | anc asked him how he all that blood on it; he re- | the prisoner was in embarrassing circumstances, bbis. at the inaide price, 00 gailens. were so.d at equal to 98. xami were dull and unchanged. per; Tam detailed OF CAKE.—A nals was made of 40 tons Western at $58 tr or. pM.—Reveipts 865 bbls. crude and 2494 do. re | iisiits’ with Chiet Lenon and the coroner; we went | considered as @ motive impelling bin to commit yeard of go sales. Refined F the mari .; | went into the lofts and cellar; I was there ‘The Court said that it was very true a man’s ere hold, bir the, Walanes a ahi ee aie MRM: | Went ednesday with two New York artists and the | poverty or wealth could not be considered neces- mirket was loactive and prices receted | coroner; while I was there the servant girlcame | sarliy evidence of crime; but @ men’s condition PROVISTONS.— Receipts, 508 bis, wl 4d. - Inarket for pork was dull Second open board there were only five sales, | reeicicting anions he Hales were optiued te abow 4 | hovse nor ald I direct tt to be searched; 1 believe for new mi wa 75 for old do, Fy thing I found, and thing and was competent evidence, ty wench og TE gd however, it was examined; everything , at #30 for prime mers and Tho general pubiic know where the stock is— | For veef hame the demand was an were firm at with sales of 100 boxes Camberland cut at Ie, Lard was in | the dust on tt; I don’t know whether there are slats | in her house to keep; the whole amounts bidden 3 cumstances I did not ieel Dusiness was dove andenice were | aod cif the night of the murder and I took them ed s ae ie Ss wit o-] 1 . ke ee 17i¢. for December and 173e. for | #¥ay the following Thursday, ing longer; a, March. Re-«lirect—There is an ornamental iron railing rr thit he woud take the will; Rick.--No sales of moment were reported, Carolina was | running all along on the top of the feuce, declint give it up to him without an order fe quote fair to mot redniny ‘The salen were 123 bhas. Cul eh sales at #3 10a #2 1259, incl of Sergeant Fent and one or two | come her heir; he would then say she was a very ashe said, fo sinall boxes; I took | the old lady accused him of robbing het, and he Fone 0 with her; I never knew Property; after that, up ht out by some | to six months, I had nothing to do with him; once ir of diamond | since the sale I met him at the place where he kept Twitchell, Jr.’s, | bis horses, suitable for at ‘<4. | the paper boxes down myself; in one of them there | could not get along in British abip, 1,09 tons, to Ant- ‘understood at 2ic., anda North Ger- | DOtes and some fives; there was rina,” Dr. J earrings, also a due biil of G te a ta in the drawers of the bureau I found a gold wateli sought after. and prices favored the | and chain; | saw also some silver plate in a sm: ena tad chotoe grades ite. 8 He | Stand in the southwest corner of the roo eep? Counsel for the defence—I object to that question. Has the number of his horses got anytuing to do with the question of his guilt or iamocence, as far as “Folk Songs; rt do. $1 a station house; J told him to take off his outside District Attorney—1 pro to prove, by follow- e lied by carrying Mrs, Mill from the yard into the | and that he notwithstanding kept horses, and that cei Rouse: aaa ta ‘4 him to take the coat and vest oif | to keep horses money was necessary, and—— peat) ins I saw on it; he answered “I don’t know;’’ [ | evidence against the prisoner is circumstantial, and lon of 1 ioe then ordered nim to take the shirt off, when he com. | I do not see what motive to commit murder can be the evening on which the robbery was commiti trmly held, at Re. a $1 OL in casks | Id. seamined—I am not of the detective force | one of the brothers drew $9,000 from a bank, which the office for special duty, | Was deposited there on his own account, but the at ia to attend to business that comes in by day and | Court would not allow the evidence on the ground night; the Monday after the murder 1 visited Mrs, | that a man’s circumstances could not be necessarily oes “pactive. there hy no Ad there to bring away the deeds and other things; we | crime. AN the clone Bie, was bid and Bi}¢0, ther clothing; I went through some parts of | could be brought up as evidence In certain cases, 620 do, beef, 316 the Ouse; at another time I was at the house and | In the cas» on trial Pino prosecution contended that tard and at deenoos «. The | Made a very thorough poarcait yy ene the Oe. Sutlest. pone sal bE a = Maa vox Hi not searcl oul d um ste ‘wore onndtict fer geont eo | fiexee nor aid 1. direct! et outof his troubles. This was quite auother rice for city— “ tl ‘ht would cast any ligit on this mur- ‘The cowisel for the defence took exception to the Se ee”, Frory ng od Gari have bretight bere; 1 took he prisoner a shirt, | ruling Of the Court, silanes ge hy * resui . oman but drralg | cont, vest, collars, | Xe after R ‘Aiter Mra, fil) and Mr. Henderson had called iain mess and @12| other clothing; I don’t know whether I took | lows for Indi do. fe * gome men might spring from tnem | him that Nrs, Hill and Mr. Henderson had called on tp bin a Gh come fer on Beer ta fence into tne yard, butt Wourtne like to | me, and tlatsho. had aald that she had heen rovbed Miioh but. sony, with, steal! aniga’at | try it: I did not examiae the top of the fence tw see | by Mr. Twitchell and lis wile at different times of by Birt Bacon. was tirm at former prices, | .if there were any blood marks of traces of hands in | money shd had placed in bureaus and other places 4 artiste, in value, the sales betag 600 packages 1 to prime steam and kettle rendered. inside the fence along the arbor; I saw the collar | were not sjolen, but ony just ma Sg toid him. — on the collar from his wife, a it had been made and entrusted to cfhinbrent aa me by her; he got tie order from his wife and pre- realy any deman !, out former prices | “ Witness—There appeared to be. sented 1 tame, when [gave him the will (the order Sergeant Penntogton and policemen White and | was here produced and identified) | have visited Loaf,’ “uur trations, “executed in t original drawings by ° C. uriswold, engraved price twenty dvilars. by new processes by F. Kel copies of works b; beautifully tinted eagravil y Barwolozzi price $75; Rawlinson’s five Orest Monarchies, four volumes, Myers ag price $75; nique and extraordinary; rice $100; Hoibein’s eighty 1, &C., “Chefs ” reproduced in colors rhoven, with text by mish art; this first Quentin Matsys, em esole and otier $110; and “Fiora Javae,” four folio Volumes, wit 200 magnificent plates, $2,000, In addition to these costly worl Weaithiest would not disdain to receive as holiday gilts, Scribner, Welford & Vo, ae books of criptiou at prices convenieut for Sexes and all ages, G, Holiand’ Boy's Hoi ©. Scribner & Co. aunounce among their new, popular and standard Works a fresh edition of “Kath- m, with seventy il ighest style of art, Hi and by the celebrated W. J. Lin. ton, on large paper, unliorm with ‘Bitter Sweet” and the Brightwood edition of the select works of Dr, J. G. Holiand (“Timothy Titcomb”), in six volumes, cabinet size, prinied from new stereo- typed piates upon tinted wove paper; Henry Ward Beecher’s “Norwood,” Mra, E. F. Ellett’s “ of American Society,” with sketches and orginal steel portraits of prominent beiles and leaders of fashion, from the early Gaps of the republic to the Present time; “Pictures of Edgewood” (shortly to ap- pear), in which Mr. Mitehell (Ik Marvel) calis in tue ft photography and lithography to show what changes may be wrought in a country place at cou- paratively sail expens ty aod reprints of Froud Subjects’ and Max Muli Worksop,” erudite and suggestive essays on science Of reiiyion, on mytivlogy, tradiiions aud customs. Perce’s “Magnetic Gloves” migit also serve well for holiday presents. We have been tempted to linger so 1o1 immense book store, juintly occupied by C. & Co. and by Scribner, Welford & Uo., because it isa type of what the first class American book store bas now become, And as the iimportations at the otner great book stores are for the most part siuilar, it will be only necessary to indicate Whatever may be peculiarly characteristic in them, D. Appieton & Co., wiio are satd to be the wealthl- est publishers in tie United States, offer three im- portant new illustrated works for the holiday season Of 1468-69, together with eleven new juvenile works. ‘The former are ‘Che Poet and the Painter,” an im- pertal octavo volume of 400 pages, Containing choice selections from the English poets and superbiy Lilua- trated with ninety-nine large steel engravings, printed in the most superior inanner on the page ‘With the text—one of the most sumptuous gilt OOKS ever publisiied in America. “Woodside and Seaside fiustrated by Pen and Pence’ i quarto volume of ninety-s1x.j a with Foster, Joun A, Hows and other eminent ‘ne Schuller Gailery,” comprising Ofty superb tliustrations engraved on steel, representin, characters in tie Works of Frederick Schiller, wi descriptive text by Frederick Pecht—impenal oo tavo, in full morecco antique and morowo gilt; ‘The new juvenile works to Which we Have alluded are Appleton’s “Juvenile Annual for 1369," “Lite Rosy's Voyage of Discov. ery;”’ “ships and Sailor hort Studies on “Chips frou a Gi ‘Queens by very simple me rice which the ever; if every purse wn’ 18 5 Great an, in the ‘ibner an elegant small nehiy and folly h engravings from drawings on wood Ancient and Modern; “What Mukes Mo Grow)? “fue Story of & Roand Book;” “Jack, the Con ' 8 y house ( Tenth and Pine streets several | queror;” “Antmat Sagacity,” “Jar Duwi) Compan- Say Weems Mie: 00)ines. 0) CO ue encer cee been tate Yor wot whitey 1Stge 0 tages for oe ee veer unartea Uy tee, povion roan 16 GbE Hae oer TRIS thar, tuoy Kept ogw inthe house; 1 | tus" “Our Chil iren’s Pets”? ana *1he Children's their money, but for which the hard-hearted public sv, ny extra 0 do. i the murder was discovered notil alter the inquest. know that because it 1s just as much as amen | Album of Protiy /ictures.” ‘The little people can Central showed unmistakably weak signs. With | "tom cLnweed wasn good demand, but avlower prices | fe night of tue murder and noticed the cap on Net | the dogs; Lhave not eposua to " tastes of tho children, as Well as. of cuildren of o Be the couleur de rose of the recent divi- pio Yo bags Tn sore at 4, 9, ro, get cata Crose-examnt d—The cap was.a woollen one of two Crowentmised™ wi hal and I ceased to be | iarger growin. in additiay, to his selection of newly end and the absence of any such disturbing | $7173 gold: €0 anya time, without interest. Uraes were dull | colors; It did fot eover the entire nead; Ldo not | friends ove eigut moutas BOS ‘all my couversations | bound by mk + aataple tor noilday preseats, oan 4 uses a8 Injunctions, the price went down to | butsimbuy sivederiay'e quotation | ie glee | KNOW Wiiethor It was ornamented With Heade; I | with lin aout ‘al ot trierid of Was te vaumeie | wok DOM, he WAS 10% 4 aac e rest variety of Eng 148, What wiil be its vaine when the Logisiavure re- | gyjfi't's The. Pesto ce Om ay CaRe Wom FORD 70 NEE ID | toad 6b SO hia. trvnibies Will ‘yg ott Tady i Was | iis juveuue vad and. & uber of ohuldronts to sanouon this watering of stock, ani whea | . Spe ae ag tear ty ier) doaoph Git aworn—T am a real Ostate brok quite my With Vin; acter MZFiog hin at te |“ .LLarle» IM BOA, tHe beat Of winich are ~The Fural members judiguantly scoutany proposition | paid 4 ase ? | in tue apring 6f' ives L was in My RP’sseat business; 1 ould ogcasivawlly go 97%, riding with tua; | Haas COcliay “Andersea Livraty’’ and “Lue y a remains were inter first was a barn belouging to. the Hartford Carpes 1X Lorses, Wagous, geain aud lay use of the Company. About two o'clock Saturday morning the barn of Hengy Thompson was found to be tn Hames. vag firemen were on hand and hoeid the tire a6 bay Tor some thine, but a stron; were kept for twenty-four and the Ty Tol ble collect: rela’ Mrs, Guild's “Fairy B 5 ooks for a including “Ba0p's Fables? " aud several tales by Sheldon & Co. publish many of the best and moat ular children’s books. Among these are @ Rollo Story Books,” ‘Rollo’s ” by Jacob Abbott. Aseries of eaght volumes, desexibing the principal cities of the world, and entitied “Spectacles for Young Byes,’? by Miss 5S. W. Lander, sistes of the late General Lander; and Particularly a most wmourate and valuable work toe Bix volumes, with 500 wood engravings, “Pictures and Stories of Animals for the Little Ones at Home,” by Mrs. Sanborn Tenny, W lately o1 Vassar College, no’ Fleids, Osgood & ‘al Hans C! fe of Projeasor Tenny, Woof Williams College, Uo, (suctesgors of Ticknor & Fields, of Boston and New York) manilestiy intend to sustain in every way the high reputation’ of their Predecessors, ‘Their illustrated “Honay Catalogue of Reautifui Invenile Book: a Artis, American and WOreign,” alone contains Among the works comprised in ‘rue Stories from History aud onder Book for Boys “Tanglewood Tales; Miss Helen S. Conant’s “Buttery Hunt ow Berries,” Grace ihe ne Hamiiton’s ce Mann's ‘lower People,” Mi! Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Queer Little wo “Adventures in Fairy Lane,’ Captain Mayne Reid’s first’and second series of “Tales of Adventure,” W. J. Linto: r? the Rey. by the best Autuors and nd Girls” and 2Ooks,?? 13,” Miss ireenwood's Rod Letter People,’? by R. i. Stoddardg Robert Browning, Wile Y, Lydia Maria Chil neil Holmes, H. ‘Uwe Mete ith,” John Mukeaty, C. by Charies thirty new illus- well ani “Diamond Hall,” of Compliuntat “Translation of works, scientific manuals, atiases aud maps. “lilustrated Catalogue’ of this firm would ve @ fit ornament for any centre table. “The Bible,” Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost,’ Dante’s “in ferno,” Chateaubriand’s ‘‘Ataia,” Cervantes! “Don uixote,” Tom Hood's “History of Croquemi\aine’? and “Fairy Realm,” Baron Munchauseu’s l'raveis,’* La Fontame’s “Fables” (Walter Thornbury’s ver- sion), all and each illustrated by Gustave Dore’s in- imitable pencil; Cassell’s “Popular Natural History,’ 3 “Family Bible,’ Casseil’s Cassell’s “History of England,” Bayne's “book of Sacred Poems,” Cassell’s Cassell’s “illustrated Penny Readings,” Casseira “Robinson Crusoe,” “Goldsmith” and “Bunyan,” and we have not space to enumerate how many other authors, variously and lavishly illustrated. ear eas Rises areere ree Book’? as sui g else of their kind. G. P. Putnam & Son have carefull, those who seek a literary Cassell ent. Kuentze's nam & Son, Harper & Brothers do not attempt any spectal pub- 8, but among the innumera ble issues from their busy press such standard books ‘Motley and Prescott and Ticknor—to mention only these-—and Draper's ‘Civil lications ior the hoilday: ag the historical works of Tt iuciudes “Shakspeare,’? iustrated Gulliver’? Cassels we must add “rhe prepared for. and artistic present of » high character the following superb ornamental books:-—"'The Illustrated Book of the Artists,” coim- prising biographical and critical sketches of Ameri. can artists, from the earliest period time, by H. T. Tuckerman; “The Landscape by several American arists and gend of St. Gwendoline,” with eight photographic ne from draw: expressly y J. W. Erringer, Irving’s Sketch Book,’ by Dr. Chaplin Cnitid Shakspeare’s Heroines,” by Miss Cooper's “Kural Hours; ‘“Irving’s Life at Letters,” ing’s “Obristwas in Engiand” and “A Generai Atlas for Family Use.’ Method of Drawing,” which the most distingu' French and American artisig have pronop: “the best and only successful method,” has likewise been recently published, in elegant styie, by tois firm and would be a very appropriate holiday prea “artistic Stawueties of Poets,” Bryant, Longie.low, Goethe, Schiller, &c., would algo be acceptavie hod- day gifis, aud they can be purchased only from Put- vo the present made forthis work “he ‘Ten Dollar Vopy of is edition; “Benedecite,’? ortia, and Ocher Tales of Mrs, Cowden Clarl “Madame Cavels ed Inced to be Popular Irving, Tennyson, War,” Lossing’s ‘‘Field Books,"’ and Guerns: Alden’s “Wild Life Under the Ei volumes alregdy can offer to the holiday books, wi and “Pictorial History of the Great Kenetlion, * ther with Du Chaillu's “Ashango Land” and juator,” as wellas the two ished of McClintock and Strong’s in able “Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theo logical and Ecclesiastical Literature;’’ Heary Ward Beecher’s “Sermons” and Lyman Abbott's “Lite of Christ,” with designs by Feun, Dore, De 'aroche and other celebrated artists, would be highly appropri- ate gifts for this as for any other season. A. W. Derby has made such arrangements with nearly all the principal American publishers that he ublic the choice of their finest the added chance of winning ot aprize one of the many pictures exhibited ut th. Athenwum by our foremost American artists. ‘The Leggat Brothers can also supply their name- rous customers with the holiday books and of standard books bound i hotiday splendor. The most prominent puoiishi, firms of Great Britain and America are represented at their well known book siore in Nassau street, At Christern’s and at the office of the Courrier des Etais Unts the finest illustrated editions of the classical and the popular authors of France—as at Westermann’s those of the distinguished authors of Germany—may be procured. In fine, our American an children, the bara prew ceed, but the north or combustible mi CRIME IN CONNECTICUT. A Railrond Train.in Danger—Fiendish Pict to Bure Up a Village. A Thormpsonvilie, @onn., correspondent of the Hartford Times writes as follows under date of the ‘22d instant:—Incendiarism seems to be tue prin al feature in ‘bompsoaville at present, Abrams was ber the dwe. ‘The it possible variety of id our foreign booksellers, only a few of whom our limited space allows us to designate, can abundantly supply the present active demand for holiday books. SAD AFFAIR AT PLEASANT VALLEY, Two Little Children Burned to Death, POUGHKEERSIB, Doc, 23, 1568, Aterrible affair occurred in the town of Pieasant Valley, about nine miles east of this city, yesterday afternoon, the particulars of which are as follows:— William Abrams and wife, together with their two resided in a tenement house on tie farm of John Bowera, in Soon after dinner of Mr. tance off, and Mrs Abrams left to make one or twocalis in the village of /acnt alley, about haif a mile off, leaving the littie boy, Wiilam, aged six years, and the gurl, Mary, twe years, tn the house aloue. about two hours, when she returned and fotud tue filed with sinuvke. door she attempted to ente was driven bac house was on fire inside, bearing her = sarieks ance, but without and contents were entirely destroyed. ened corpses of tue little caildren were feand at the \d of the building. It ts thought tat the ed from the stove in some Way, a8 HO MAAC it rial Were on Lhe premises. ‘red im the burtai ground moar ( scene, the villagers not thinking an inquest nec sary. Abrams and his wife lost everything Uley had, but are kindly cared for by Mr. Josepi West, ia Whose employ Abrams was, ve work West, some dis- premises She had vecn gone No lesa han three fires occurred last Friday ulght. Company, wher nn conflagration an ita there. Soon after cellar of F. EB. immediately without about one o'clock, track, STRAMBOAT Stru¢,—The Massaciiusetts ‘ans sustal defendants iy, tue case ‘the New B/dtoid and Nantue any AY “ordered @ new trial ath Wal, The on board \n Ve first urial be rece'ved a vor | amonnt of $9,40Q im ble FOPWY 410010 wad Lb a@ tisd $11,000. this a fi ‘"s we the At tui wind favored tha Spreadiug wood shed of Mr, Thompsou on tie right aud a tive story house belong ouper oa the left. ‘The house was part! ihe bara aud were consumed, With & library of the Koy. Mr. ‘owasend, the Episcopal rector, wach Was stor. . re Was caacovered In the yy constable Daw, Who alarm ani it was exhaa. Still another dre ge About one o'clock @ barn owe Conroy was totally destroyed; thougit that a generai cles: intended. The authorit. the apprehensivn ef the The sume corres; of the village © offering fewards fox eat adda:—Om Priday night eo mawimig so express train passed through, an eiapivye of tue) works was on his Way houle, when ue discove sleeper set up in & culvert on the railroad ax iron rail across the traok, Which, la! 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