The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1869, Page 6

6 THE GALLOWS. Execution of Dowey, at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Hrs CONFESSION. Frighttul Scenes. at the SecatYold. {From the Charlottetown (Prince Edward) North Star, April 13.) One of the most trizhtiul scenes which ever oc- curred in a civilized land took place on Pownal aquare on Tuesday last. We refer to the execution of Dowey. A thriil of horror ran through the com- munity as the details of the frightful occurrence be came Known, Even the large crowd present, of all degrees of society, were so far moved at the terrible spectacic as to denounce in loud tones the proceed- ings aS murderous. We | et ourselves, in contemplation of this Dowey tragedy, whether we live in a civilized, Wuuan uuity and in the lat- ter part of the nigeteeuil cencury. 18 BXECUTION, of cruelty, preparations th the jail yard for the erection of the gallows commenced ‘on Friday, previous to the fatal day. Three days of continuous hammering took place, and each stroke of the hammer iuply served to tell the wretched at he was so far nearer eternity. ‘Tne gallows rected against the jail ‘id wall, facing Pow. nal square. We copy froin the Heraid the following description of the tra: y, together with an outline of the written address of Hie condemned, aud which ooniaias the substance of what he read, alihough not given in the order that he uttered it:— Tos GiURET is very simple in tts construction. Projecting some seven Feet irom the top of the jail fence on the south siae is apiatiorm of rough boards, This platiorm is divided of mto about two equal parts, the inner portion, or that nearest the fence, betng poarded on ail sides to the heigit of about eight leet, so 2s to prevent those inside of it from being seen vy the crowd below. igh staircase runs up to this in- closed part from the Interior of the jail yard, and admits persons to the platform by a door in the rear. In front of the osure is a door which admits the prisouer to the outer or uninclosed parte! of the platiorm. ‘This otiter part constitutes the dvop or trap, fastened at the inner end hinges, and maintained in its hort ton by ropes i «l i% a sort of With a refineme: e on Monday morning, and ment with becoming fortt- 1 the greater part of Monday tn tory of his life, whtch he intended gaiows., At eight o'clock in the U NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1869.—QUADRUPLE SHHKT. God will forgive her, too. My dear friends, have you ever been inside of a court of justice? Have ou ever seen a jury bring in a verdict of guilty and the judge proceed to pass sentence on the prisoner ? ‘The scene Is a very so!emn and impressive one, esie- cially to the person interested. You, my friends, cannot realize the feeling of blank despatr and utter loneliness which creeps over an unfortunate prisoner when the dread sentence of death 1 upen him, and I trust in God you never may, Te my attorneys | return my heartielt thanks for their Kindness to me and for their exertions to save my life. Talso thank the judge, the jury and the crown lawyers for their courteous treatment of me, They donbiless dul their doty, and I freely forgive them, I trust the living Judge, before whom we all must appear, will forgive them as freely as Ido. An now, young men, | would say to you, if any of you have vicious incilnations or positive evil habits, give them up, lest your fate, too, shall be aa mine, And, ere the prisoner raised his voloe, and again jirls, to you T would address a word of Reware of the seducer! Whenever a warning. young man addresses an improper word to vou, flee from tim as you would from a deadly serpent, There 1s poison in his honeyed words, Parents,’’ said the prisoner, “on you ress & great responsibility. Train’ up .your children m= the way they should go, and when they are old they will not depart from it, Instill into their young minds principles of religion and virtue, and then you wiil have done your part. Children, obey your parents, This is the sad canse of my un- fortunate condition, To the sin of disobedience to my parents | attach all the blame of my subsequent career. Therefore it 18 that 1 would tinpress upon children to their parents.” In conclusion the prisoner said:—“To the jailer and his tamily.1 tender my sincere thanks for their Invariabie Kindness to me. ‘To the constables and others who watched me since my confinement in jai! I also tender my thanks, To the ministers of religion who were so zealous for my spiritual as weil as my temporal welfare | have no words to express my thanks. And now, my dear friends, | ask you all to offerupa prayer for the unfortunate being who in a few moments Is to be ushered into the presence of his aes: Into thy hands, G Lord, I commend my soul.” When he concluded his speech he was conducted back to the enclosed portion of the platform by the clergymen in attendance, where they engaged in prayer tor five minutes, the prisoner earnestly join- ing therein on his bended Knees. His arms were then pmioned behind his back and he was led forth by the sheruf to the trap, He sat down on the chau, the sheriif! withdrew, and the hangman, dis- guised in a large flaxen wig, extending to his shoul- ders, & black mask on his face, and enveloped in a large rubber coat and heavy top-boots, made his appearance, and adjusted, 1 a fumbling, clamsy sortof way, the rope around the prisoner's neck. The knot was tied immediately below the left ear and the hangman retired. The prisoner, sitting in the chair, prayed for a few seconds in a low voice, The sheriff again came on the trap, when the prisoner stood up and the sheriff brought the chair away. The hangman now appeared for the last time and fastened the prisoner's legs together and drew the black cap over his face, Dowey continued praying until the hangman withdrew and cut the rope which held the trap. ile tmmediate'y feil, aud tn the deseent THE ROPE BROKE about two feet above his neck and he fell heavily on. his side on the ground, haviug fallen a distance of e Was attended by the Rev, Mr. Parnther a), Who spent three hours with him. At jock the Rev. Mes: Pope and Perkins is) attended him until haifpast twelve He then ret to rest and siept soundly unt tive o'clock on Tuesday mora- Ing. Shortly after partook of a hearty breakfa: The Rev. Parnther attended him al seven O'clock 6 gaged with him tn prayer and reading the bib! Unit nearly nine o'clock, After which the Rey, lessis. Fitzgerald, Pope and Perkins entered, and cugaged in prayer and other religious exercises with him. The prisover was resigned and even cheerfai in the beliel tiat his sins were forgiven. He pariooX of a lunch shortly after eleven o'clock, The three reverend gentlemen jast mentioued then again chuaged in pi with the condemned man, and in this manner was the ime fied up, until he preparea to mount ti iid, at half-past tweive o'clock. He was att ON THE SCAFFOLD by the following persons, and in the: following order, namely preceded by sueriit worth and Constabies Heartz and Mequiila came Lhe prisoner, arm in aru with Ue Key. Mir. Fitzgerald, accompanied by che Rey. Messrs. Perkins i Pope, Dr. Mekie: Depaty Sherif F. Long- worth, (Ww aft; these made up the number of those wh ere on the scaffold, The prisoner did not appear to be the least nervous or excited and walked fir up the stairs and on to the plat where a chair was placed for him while he read his speeci. He had no cap on; a Diack overcoat Was loosely Utrown over his shoul. ders; iis undercoat aud vest (of black cloth) were open, showing his shirt front, with a tiniature of his wile aud mother attached to his shirt bosom; he had on gray pais and a pair of socka, Having seated himeel! on the chair, he proceeded fo read, in @ distinct and loud voice, HIS HISTORY AND CONFESSION, which was written on four pages of foolscap, has been contided to the Rey. M.. Pope. Our reporter has furnished us with the following outline, taken on the spot:— lesday morning, and en- BE SArp: “My dear friends, you look upon an unfortunate fellow being for the last time; but, oh, take warning by my sad fate and snun the Causes which led to my untimely end.” He then proceeded to read from a written ane an account of his life. He began by saying:—“‘I was bora in the town of M—— C-——, At an early age | was left an orphan, my father having died witle | was yet a child. From my ear- lest years | was of a Wild and reckiess disposi- tion. 1 would listen to no advice [rom my parents, When I became old enougu I was placea at a trade; but 1 ran away from that. Then I worked in a factory, and aiter a short time left that also and ran away to sea. The first vessel I shipped in was a steamer, Boston aud Prince & years. Getting ured of that Which port I we went to London, from to the Meviterranean for a couple of Voyages. Aiterwards | sailed between Liverpool, New York and New Orleans, The lavter city | made my home for several years. At the breaking out of thé war ia tue United states I shipped on board of a Northerh war vessel and served as master-at-arma, 1 Was liked by my oiicers for my courteous de- meanor. Leavy: the American ‘navy, again [ steered to Prince Edward Isiaud, when I made the acquaintance of FP, During all my voyages, and when | was in port, there was no sia of which I was not guilty, You all know, my dear friends, the kind of places which sallors resort to when on shore—brotheis, gambling houses and taverns. If there should be any of my class here iistening to me, I veg of them, as they yalue their soui’s salvation, to shun those haunts infamy, Which. io lange towns, lead s0 many to d struction, I any among my listeners should recog- nigé in the unfortunate culprit now before them the suiart steward in Whose Obscene songs and ribald jests they joined, I beseech them, for the love of God, to give up their evil ways and return to God. I knew very littie avout religion in my youth and what I did know I speedily forgot. 1 have said that there is scarcely any sin of whieh Ihave not been gulity, Aud these sins were known oniy to God and mnyseif, Thousands there are in the worid whose record is a8 black and as heinous as mine—whose lives are as wild and as reckless, who uever think of their God or their last end. To those | would especally address myself and warn them to beware of the evil tendency of their Ways, and, while they have yet time, to make amends ior their past lives, To you, my triends, Whe are now liste ag to me, | Would give @ Word of advice, Ni ‘uy from the footpaihs of virtue. Never forget relivious pao of youth. — Never uses of ,ill fame, and, above all thinus, quit haunting tavern But, you may say, we do Hot Wan! your advice; we are neither druak- ards nor murderers, My friends 1 never was a drookard, and nti the last few months | was not a murderer, But you see wat i did in a moment ot passion. Unless you have the grace of God about you, uhiess you reform your lives and become truly penitent, you cannot tell what your fate may be. My shiptates in the Clara Novello were ali gay, reckless fellows. In a moment, tt may be, they were ali summoned unprepared’ before their God. Pheretore it 18 that | would fimpress upon your yories to do nothing Which would cause you a single regret. seafaring men, | would caution you uch streews as Park lane, in Lond Bar- rack street, in Liverpool; North street, in Water street, in New York; pire st New Orieaus. In these streets are locat of infamy which lead so many of o struction. When l was brought to pre depend, my friends, that 1 was sad o jecte enough, and so would you if you were in my po siuom. | A prison, even to the least guity, i# not a pleasant memories, Butto me, a warderer, 1 full of despair, Nothing gloomy Walls around me and the gaost of a mur. “1 man continually looming up before me. I c\Q——, lessons and = im- your frequent thought at first thet there was netiner hope nor chance for my salvation. I could not get any pe of mind. After a time, however, | took my bur and laid it at the feet of my Redeemer, who, with His precious blood, is able to wash away my sins and yours too, my dear friends, be they ever so black. After my triatd had some thought of making away with myself; but as | aequired peace of mind Igave up the wicked idea. A holy Gaim came over me, and now tam here reading as composediy as if nothing serious were about to happen me. Soon, my dear friends, IT shall be beyond the reach of pain aud sorrow, of sickness and of death, Hearing tiat my mother had moved tothe town of D had While ne went her for — eight visit IT omade the § Woman whom married. In ¢ 1 Intendert it to be my last voye row my poor old mother and the wife of my bosom, to whom J had beeu married only a fortnight. ft came here last fall in the bark Clara Novello, intends ing on the return of the sip to set ny but, unfortunately, | renewed my acqua I visited her pretty of i ) On tl he murder T had taken ed my t ler au to see incr, for 1 years. jusin visited on tlie of a young ing here last fall I had left in sor. not the influence of jealousy anc ceed for which sins have brought tr the an takes lie of a fellow kuown I was married, Alter | gave myself ap heard of the fact, and tn @ spirit of about sixteen feet. He appeared stunned for a few seconds, when he raised himself to his Knees and attempted to loosen the rope around his neck. There a jarge crowd in attendance, variously esti- ‘ed at from 1,000 to 1,500 persons, among whom, we gret to learn, were inany females, A guard, consist- 2 of sixty men, detatied from the Irish, Prince of Wales and Prince Edward companies, under com- mand of Captain Mcintyre, were stationed tmme- «lately in front of the gallows. When the prisoner fell great excitement prevatied in the multitude and a gevera) surge was made to break in the semicircte formed by the guard, Captain McIntyre promptly faced his men about with fixed bayonets, which had the effect of repelling the crowd, whiie the police- men who were ou the ae unloosed the rope from the prisoner's neck and carried him into the jail, where he was immediately attended by Dr. Mackie- soa, Although much shocked it was discovered that he had sustained no fatal injury. While the carpen- ters, under the superintendence of Mr. W. Long- worth, were refitting the gallows, the prisoner, who appeared weak, was forced to lie down, and was of- fered wine, which he refused. When everything Was again ready—an hour having elapsed tn the preparations—Dowey was carried out of the jail and up on the scaifold by Constabies Heartz and MeQuillan and two police- men. He was seated In a chair while the same horrible preliminaries were again gone over by the hangmen, and in this position the signal was given, tbe trap tell, the rope rushed through the pulley for the fall of three feet, but the weigit and force of the suspended man were so great that the cleat around which the rope was fastened, 30 as not to allow of more than the three feet fall, gave way, and the rope rushed through until the prisoner's legs touched the ground. Out of sheer mercy seve- ral of those on the scaffold seized hold of the rope and hoisted the criminal avout eight feet from the ground, and ta this condition he was ailowed to oe for forty minutes, when he was cut down and tue body placed in a comMu in the jail, whence it was removed this morning for interment in the Protestant hy eatny We do not know how to Lorry in fitting language ofthe bungling manifested at this execution; but wherever the fault lay refinement of crueity and torture which it indicted on the unfortunate man adinits of no excase or palliation. the tortures of body and mind which he must have endured during the hour or so which it took to execute him can ve better imagined than described. It was a prolonga- tion of the agonies of death and a fearful mement for the life of the man he murdered, The outline of the address whieh we give is devoid of the pathos and Christianlike earnestness of the original document, which at tts close contati a | ad: be God would bless the jailor and his fam- Y the judge, the jury, the administrator, the lawyers, the minisiers of the Gospel, and all the kind friends whe ministered to his wants, either spiritually or temporarily. INCIDENTS, ‘When borne back into the jail Kev, Mr. Pope ap- proached him as he lay on his back and satd, “This is too bad." The poor maimed man opened his eyes and raised them towards heaven and replied, “Tbs just! Praise God, tt is just’? He uttered no word of complaint, but In in, piteous voice, begged that Sir Robert might be asked to permit him to die in jail, as he felt that he was dying, and marie use Of the expressions, “) my poor neck |? and “Jam suffering!’ His waole demeanor was quiet and resigaei—no repining at his terribvie lot— not @ word of reproach. He requested Kev. Mr. Pope to read a passage from a@ litle book which he was fond of, “The Faithful Promiser.’” The littie volume was of a religious character, and of course furnished comfort to him during the fearful ordeal through whieh le was passing, Wile preparations were in progreas to take the ort man again to the gallows Dr. Mackieson offered him some wine. Dowey asked what it was, and hearing that 1 was wine, he refused it. “it will sustain you,” said the physician. “The grace ot God has sustained me thus far, and will sustain me throughout,” returned poor Dowey. Such a mantiestation of Christian fortitade and reliance has made @ deep linvression upoa the community, and his demeanor thronghont the latter hours of tis ie astonished and rejoiced the clergymen and other friends. We may here state that when he waa first taken to |e he vowed that he never again would taste liquor, let the resuit of his im- prisonment be what it would, itis stated that the attendant physician and the seri, in reply to the tortured man’s Ag omy that the adininistrator should be appealed ¢ bused expressions Which their common hamanity should have shrunk from, but which in their public ca- | aaa they lad a perfect right to utter i they saw \t. While the suffering man lay in the jail Mra. Mar- Vie, the jailor's wife, aud who has throughout the pected of Dowey's imprisonment bestowed upon 110 Ianumerable kindnesses, plucked up courage to approach lim and threw herself upon her Knees be- side him. Learning thatshe was there he requested Rev. ir. Fitzgerald to turn his head that he might look at her, and prayed that God would bless her for al) timt she had done for him. A fall hour e! ‘ations for the second seene tn the frightful drama were com- pleted, when le was iniormed that he must again be taken to the seaifo! Ife asked the constables to carry him with his head up. The Crop feli again, as has been stated, he teli to the earth a dis ¢ of some forrt feet, the chair upon whieh at falling with him and bruising his forehead, A gentleman who was In @ cartiage near by informe us that, horrified at the second failure to end the man's existence, he jumped ont and rushed throagh the crowd to the close Vicinity of the gallows and found the wretched being with bis limbs on the grognd and his body teaning forward with the rope preventing lim falling prostrate, Several minutes elapsed before the para.yzed oficiais moved to do anything, when he observed the sheriff seize the rope and hoist the man up a few feet, and again jet go, as he, anaided, unequal to the task he attempted. He ordered bis constables to assist, and three several pulls or jerks of the rope were given before the dying man’s body reached the required @ last scene of the bratal tragedy ended, After being suapended forty minutes the body of the truly unfortunate Dowey was conveyed t the jar! yard, and soon after Was «arried to the cell he occupied in life. The disguise of the hangman was most inappr priate for the occasion, and better suited a mas qu rade or the harlequin of play than for the solemn scene in whieh le was to be so promivent an actor, His head was enveloped in an enormons tow wig, the ringlets of which were as large 4s @ man’s wrist, and bis face covered with alight bine mask are aeented that only the solemnity of the occaston prevented downright laughter and jeers when made his pearance beside the prisoner, leaque was out of piace then, Bur. When the condemned man first appeared on the scaffold he made & low, graceful bow to thee as The act waa performed in auch a manner oe to draw towaras him sympathy ratver than to sembied. repel 16 Tie BARKHAMSTED MurpER Cash.—John Evana, charged with the murder of James Hickox, In Bark- bamsted, a few weeks since, waa tried in Litchfield, ment of the counsel he pleaded guiity to By ag the second count, murder in the second aegree; and on this he will be gené to the State Prison for life. it @ppearea that Hickox had been sleeping with Evans’ wife while he was off at wor, ana finally the wife pard more attention to Hickox than to her To se she kept back @ material part of the white would have reduced my ertme to But 1 fre evidence Manslaugiter. forgive her. 1 hope of his wife's iove: With her.—ddarifo da Times, Aprit 25. We he le the matter Evans cut the throat and thus ended his intercourse BEN BUTLER. The Essex Statesman Again Gives His Views=Litthe Rhody Kuows What He fs Abou—A Workingmen’s Party=(iran'’s Great Mistake—Batler Don’t Agree with Sumner as to the Alabama Claims-Wor or the Cession of the British North American Provinces. WASHINGTON, April 26, 1869, I dropped in on Ben Butler yesterday morning to have “a talk,” and, finding the Essex statesman in a communicative mood, drew him out on four or five toptes just now occupying public attention, We conversed about Sprague, Cuba, the Alabama ciaima, Sumner’s great speech and the Grant ad- ininistragoen. I think you will find his views on these topics worthy of going betore the public, and’ therefore I propose, so far a3 memory and noves will perme, to write out in substance what occurred in our conver- sation, for the edittcation of your readers, ‘The talk occurred tn the great B, B.'s “omee.” You must understandthat adjoining his resi- dence, corner of I and Fifteentn streets, there is a plain wooden structure divided into two apart ments, Which he uses as his “office.” There he re- ceives all visitors on business, and there, in fact, when he is in town and not attending his Congres- sional duties, he spends most of his time, ‘The front apartment ts oceapied by his secretaries and the back is fitted up for the General’s sanctum, The latter 1s a cosey, snug little apartment, plainly tur- nished, but walled with bookcases filled with legal and Congressional volumes, I found Butler engaged in running over a vast pile of correspondence, separating the chaff from the wheat, the chaif being tumbled into a waste paper basket and the wheat taid aside for careful stor- img. A good number of letivers appeared to be from people soliciting the General's autograph. “Here is one fellow,’ said the General, “who not only wants tiny autograph, but a letter aiso. I sup- pose i ought to give hin the same answer as Daniel O'Connell did on a similar occasion, When he wrote aletter deciining to give his autograph and con- cluded by writing ‘Your obedient servant, Daniel o’Conneli.’ ” Saylog which he smiled in his peculiar way, ceased his labor of assorting letters, ieaned back in his chair and scemed ready to be attacked colioquiaiiy. At all events I mterpreted the move- ment a3 Osignul that he was ready for each and every assault, and therefore I commenced opera- tions. I made some allusions to the Sprague-Abbott un pleasantness and the story about “Little Rhody” skulking out of the Senate. BUTLER—Abbott had betterlet Spraguealone. If he supposes Sprague is a coward he will find himself very much mistaken. Sprague has plenty of pluck. In fact, you know, it was Sprague’s pluck that caused his quarrel with Burnside. Sprague wanted him to make an attack on the enemy, which Buruside re- fused, and it was that made Sprague so much vexed. Sprague will fight. There is no doubt about that. And he knows what he 13 abouf, too. CORKESPONDENT—Then you are oot one of those who beiieve he ts crazy ? BUTLER—Crazy! Bless you, no. He knows very Weil What he is about. fe wants to organize a new party and piace himself at the head oj the working- men of the country. That’s what he is atter. He is earnest, too, in whathe says, and believes it all, All reformers have been set down as crazy, aud Sprague cannot expect to escape that charge any more than those who have gone before him, CuxRES PONDENT—Well, don’t you think soine of his speeches are curiously put togetuer ? BUTLEK—OL, of course they are. Sprague 18 not peaker. lie hasu’t been accustomed to making speeches; and it would bother almost any man at first to get up im the Senate of the United Staies to make speeches, He experiences the natural einbar- rassiments of all novices on such occasions, Thai ts the explanation, | take it. Hoping to draw him out on Grant, I said something about the havoc the cires of ofice had aiready made with the mens et corpus of the litte i'resident. BuTLER—Grant has made just this mistake—he supposed tuat one man could run this government, He starved with the notion that he could get along without advising with any one. Like all men wio have had that notion before, he finds that it cannot be done, aud the consequence will be that he will fall into the hands of somebody who wil run the government for him, ‘This was about as much as I could get out of him on the Grant question, and therefore I proceeded to another matter, CORRESPON iT—What are your views, G Of the present position of the Alabama ciiims? ‘This question seemed to please him betver 4han any that 1 had asked before. Laying back in his caair and running his hand over his bald h and mas. ve brow in rapid succession, he answered :— “The question peading between tuis country and Great Britain knowa as the Alabama claung, but which involves in fact the conduct of the English governinent during the rebellion, does not see. to me ice im & very Satisiactory Condition for settie- ment.” ConRBSPONDENT—What do you think of Sum- ner’s late speech? BuTLER—I_ acknowledge the ability and propriety with which Mr. Sumner has put forward his views, but I cannot fully concur wich them, as it seems to me he fais to put our case against Ensland on the Strongest ground, and the one least embarrassin, us asa nation. The thesis of his speech, as i under- stand it, 1s that England committed an almost un- aurdonable sin—at least one to be atoued for ony by il payment of all damages immediate or couse- quential—in her too eariy accovding to the insur- gents belligerent rights, in allowing the escape of the Alabavia, and in selling arms aud mantis ns of war to the South. Of course the jast legal y resuived from the first; for after belligerency is accorded by a mation there 13 no objection t> tle sale of anus by any neutral nation to the beiligerent. We sold arus to Mexico as agatust the French invasion; we sup- plied muies to the Frencu to transport their luggage trains from Vera Cruz to Mpxico, So we bought arms of ail natonsin Europe. so there ts noting io ouf neutr sity laws against our selilag arms ener to Peru or Coie, and we have been seiling them aris in their war agaiust Spain. CORRES rONDENT—Pheref re, General, if we were to acknowiedze Cubaa belligerent tiere woald be no objection to our sviling arms to the Cubans? SurLeR—Precisely, sir, There woula then be no objection, even if there is now. Therefore the gravity of Mr. Sumner’s accusation depends upon the propriety of the recognition by Bngianu ot the riguts of beliigerency in the reve: Bot we mast remem- ber that our complaint in that behalf is as grave and commanding against France and Spain as againsy England, [am inciined to think Mr. Sumner puts too much stress upon the haste of this recogaition as to thine, because on the 17th of July by tormal declaration of war we acknowledgea the confed- eracy as belligerent; andin a war wiuch lasted tour years, whether beiligerency was acknowledged on the 17th of May or the 1700 of July of the first year, certainly could not be a matter of so grave conse- queues, if it might be acknowledged at ail, CORRBSPONDENT—How does Suimner's idea of a blockade strike you, General? BTL eR—I am not quite prepared to adopt Mr. Sumner’s definition of a biockade, or of the slate of the beiligerency of the confederacy on the ocean, vecuuse our clamation of blockade of the ivth of April, pending the recogaition by other nations, recttes tat a combination of persons have threatened to grant pretended jetters of marque to authorize the bearers to commit assaulcs on the Jive, vessels and property of the good citizens engaged on the high seas and in the waters ot the United States. This presupposes that the rebels were fitting out at that th i) vessels against tie commerce of the ( and the blockade was to be in accordan laws of the United States and the laws of nations in such cases provided; and after due warning that vessels captured attempting to enter or ieave a biockaded port were, with their cargous, to be seut In fe wiicalion as prizes, not of pei but of war, And tn the prize cases the Supreme Court nel? that ail captures made after the declaration of biockade were prizes of war. This would secim to me to de- termine that thts waa not a “pactiic plockad such as 18 known to the laws of nations and referred to by Mr. Sumner, Further, | am afraid that Mr, Sumner, by making (he ground work of bis complaint sympa. thy With @ reteiiion against constituted government = grave an offence, puts this country in a false posi- Oi. CORRESPONDENT—T suppose you mean it ts going beck on ovr universal practice of extending sym- vatoy to revolutioniste, BUTLER—That's about tt, sir, We have aiways held it as acardioal rule of our international polity to afford ad aud comfort, moral and material, to ail rebellions, This i# almost a necessity of our nw tonal being. Born of revolution, holding our coun: try to the oppressed of all nations as the political refuge and sanctuary of all rebels and insurrection ists ngainat ail hold, and in pr: insurrection were rignt, and all attempts of govern. ment to suodue or put down insurrection or revel lion were wrong. We always found ourselves iD sympathy, at least, with rebeliion, whether in Greece, in Poland, in Hungary, in Canada in 1886, © that it is not re- ‘aber was making & itl against England for reveliion of the South, Representatives, in the other ead of the Capitol, Were instructing the President to take sorly means to recognive the rebellion in Cuba agains Spain. Besides, we have almost canonized rebel tion on this Continent by the Monroe doctrine, which bids Gs to Intertere with all rebellions where any people are asserting their unwilungness to be gov erned by any other government than that of theit choice. Now, If sympathy with rebellion ia the gist of our Complaint against England, whevier as to time or as the fact, Engiand may reply we have been no ewilter than you; we have only sympathized actively in rebellion against you as you have done in al) rebellions ane other nations, Mr, sumner would undoutmediy reply to tis that we never la sued proclamations according bejligerent rients at #0 early a4 day to any rebellion. But to that would hot bngland reply that in no case bas a government or in Crete in 1895 aud 1966, markabvle that while in Mr, e institated a blockade of the ports of her rebelitous Turther answer mist be wade thus we have alwaye answer migit be made interiered with insurrections in behalf o! liberty and liberal ‘nstitutions agaiust monaroll A strong governments, as we did at a very early of the ate rebellion in Spain, fo ‘hat again and might auewer that sne believed that monarchical and government was tue beter ‘orm; and while we believed liberal goverament was better, she, wishing mouarciical governinent to be estab- lished, more assim:lated to aer institutions than to ours, might we | interiere in benall of a goverament establisned in consonance with those institutions ch ae believed to be best: for it is certain that the rebels looked to au altimate monarchy. des, ail rebellions have been attempts of communities to compel the mght to manage their domestic insti- tuttons in their own way; and that was ali the South claimed, however much we migit believe ther insti tution of slavery was wroag and a@ sin, and their rebellion treason, CORKBSPONDENT—I8 it not the misfortune of Mr. Suiner's view to put this country, oe ‘the ques- tion of the propriety of tie conduct of England. pre- cisely Where we jound ourselves in the meident of she seiqare of Mason and Slidell on board of the ‘Trew HUTLER—It can hardly be doubted that the univer- Sally accepted law 0: nations allowed us to seize am- bassadors or miunsters or oficers of a hostile Power Wherever they migit be found on the lizh seas, But We had always claimed special minuuisies for neu- tral vessels, which claim arose from our anomalous pouincn in the wars of Napoleon, arising out of the Berlin aud Milan decrees upou one side and the “orders In councii” on taé other, Therelore, whe Kkagiand would have been obliged to adit that, ac- cording to the principles of public law as practised by herself, we Were rigut tm the seizure of Mason and Slideli, except upou tie techoiculity that Wilkes did not send in the ‘Trent tur adjudication, Yet she could reply that, according to our ciaims of the im. munities of neutrais, we Were Wrong In that seizure. Aud Mr, Seward, in giving up the rebel emissaries, Was obliged to Coucede that that cession was made upon the principles of law as we clauned them to be, tiough in derogation of the laws ot nations as prac- tised by Ergliad, I fear that we may find ourselves in like mann r troubied with our own acuve sympa- thy with rebellion ull ever the word if we adopt the theory of Mr. Sumuer’s cumpiaiuts alone. CORRESPONDENT—What cheory, then, General, would you have our government adopt? BurLeR—I should, with great humility, venture to suggest that our case agains’ England mighi 0» put upo.u ® different and peraaps more e:ticieat ground, and certainly less embarrassing. Cau we not bet- ter say that, in Violation of eve'y principle of inie- national Jaw she had ever Ciaimed as to now rebels sliould be treated, and in coniravention of her weil- established aud acted upon theories as to slavery, and in derogation of @ treaty which she had with us to suppress the African siave trade sue hastened to ackn Wieage the coufederacy, whose corier scoue Was slavery, and whose national ue only couid be perpetuated by the sustenance of that institution, and oy the reopenig of tac siave trade, Waich was openty ciaimed by the coufederacy as its uitimate object and design, for the simple and sole purpose of destroyig Our goverumens ana crippling our power and of getting rid of a danger- ous rival, if not a dominant Power, both in commercial and warlike marine? if we put our wrongs upon wis ground, then the haste Wiuch she made to acknowledge belligerency in the rebels need ouly be considered as evidence of her intent, We need not, then, stop to discuss whether she was tecunicuily rgat or wrong in ber acxnowledgment Of beligerency, or whether the biockade was a justification of thac acknowledg- ment or not. If she Wook advautage of technical law to injure a frieudiy Power and to do un rien 1); acts for tae purpose of destroying ‘hat irienaly Power and destroyung her commerce if is just as much an injury that requires reparation as though the same acis, With the same inteut, had been done withoué such teouuical lexal justification. All ques- tions of dispuced law arising under the law of na- tions, where there i no final arbiter bus the sword, might, it would seem, be well laid aside) May we uot well say that she had left us @ legacy of slavery wich, being 1uiterwoven in the industriai pursuits of aimost oue-hatf of our country, became, for ue time at least, of necessity a part of our tustitucons, While im her empire it was ouly an incident of her culonial wealth? She then set us the example of emancipation, as she could easily do wishout daager to her government. She taught us that slavery was wrong ana emancipation and freedoin oniy rigat Alter our government nad fully accepted tuese v.ews to such @n extent that a large portion of our people, becoming fearful for What they Considered their constitutional rights and what they acid as their most valuabie property woud be destroyed under our gov- erament, reveiled to save it and = insti- tuted war, At once, at tie earliest possibie moment, she lea the way to sustain them in that re- bellion, and aided to set up tual siavery whica she had declared @ natural gin and nad taught us was 90, What motive cvuid there be (or her so-to do, except the one suggested of ier determination to destroy us at all hazarus? Then the fit..ng out oi the Alabama, allowing has $0 escape and giving her shelter; al- lowing the Shenandoah to go out, become, not inci- Gents of her sympatuy wita rebellion, but her own act in pursuance of her designs to destroy our com. merce and crippie our power. Then these acts ate not incidents of @ recoguition of the rebellion, as Mr, Sumner puts it, but are the very means which her government chose to perfect an object, which no man in this cquniry douots she fad in view, and which was ireely avowed in her Parliament, to over- throw the great rival maritime Power of waich sie ‘Was jealous, CoRRESPONDENT—In this view may we not claim that instead of the permissive escape of the Ala- bama, fitted out by a tember o; her Paritament, being @ mere matter of negligencé, however gross, ‘was in fact an act by herin the great and nelarivus design which We can well iaipute to her? BUTLER —Before ine tribunal of nations I think it Would not be diMeult to con her out of her own mouth, from the speecies in Parhament and acts of her governmeut. of tus euterprise. Agata, in tnis view her subscriptions to the Contederate ioan, her avowed fostiity to the Union and her moral and material support of the rebellion need not be put upon the ground of sympatay alone with revellion for right—as Was our sub- scription to the loan ww Kossuth for Hun- gars ut upon the truer and more just aod higaer ground that it was part of her action, and in pursuance of uer own undertaking, for which her sympathy with revellion was @ pretext ouly. When we sympathized with Hungary it was not to break down Austtia; when we sympathized with Greece it was not to destroy Turkey; when we sympathize with uba it is nov to destroy Spain. But We may well insist, and [ think we ought to insist, that the sympatuy of England was not sympatny with slavery, bat Was, as every one can see, part of & well Considered aud 1ully executed scneine, so far as she tnght, to take advaotage of the con‘ederavy, notwithstanding it Was fouaded on siavery and was @ rebellion, to destroy & nation with which she was clauuiny to be on irieudly relations. CORRESPONDENT—Alter all, General, yon come to the — end as Summer binself, though by a ailfer- ent road. BuTLer—Yes, sir, my view of the matter leads to the same result as Mr. Suniner’s, that the e must be Atonement and reparation for these wroags, anu I have only thought of this ition as disembarrass- ing our just claims from the necessity of reversing our doctrine of sympathy with rebel.jon and insur. rection, How to fouw our claims upon breach of international law need not be considered at all if I am rigttin what [ believe to have been the great ob- ject of Bnglana tn her aid of the rebellion. “In otner words, it was not to aid rebeilion as rebellion, it was not to aid slavery a8 siavery, but it was to iake ad- vantage oi a rebeliion f anded on slavery to crush out the governinent of the United States--a success- ful mauufacturing and commercial rival. CORKESPONVENT—What reparation would you have us demand? ButTLer—Mr. Sumner has not said what reparation he proposes, except tuat he wants pay for all dain- ages inflicted. He has not shown how itis possible for England, consisventiy with national honor, vo make that reparation; and ft ts not easy to say, be. cause England may say to as tu either view—that of Mr. Sumner or mine—"Your ciauns, then, make ug an ally of the Sout. Be itse. You have conquered our ally, the confederacy, and can make such terms as you please with the conquered belligerent. You have not conquered us, and you cannot dictate terms to as tl youdo. You have a ciawn against one of the firm, who is in insvivency, agamst whom you have obtained judgment. You may enforce that Claim a8 you pleas®; but we are not yet brought into court. and you have not obtained judgment at as. You cannotentoree your cian tl I pou do. fi fore, whiie Saiminer says he speaks in the Interest of yet, if any result fs to come from what he says, In the direction in viten he is gomg, it must come from war, Wh he only mode of enforcing such @ right a8 16 Ciaimed against a proud and pow: erial hation. And must nut you come to that at last CORRESTONDENT—DO you think we ought to go to war about itt BUTLER—My answer, perhaps, should be that that jnestion must be answered vy the wisdom of the xecutive, and Iam not the Executive. Butt think not. England took her opportunity when we were crippled to break us down, We can wait until a like opportunity comes to assert our just rights, CORKRESPONDENT—Wiien, think you, will such an opportunity ocour? Ber —It 18 not far distant. Ireiand or @ war in Burope will give us that opportunity as goon as we are fully ready to take advantage of it, At pre. sent it ia for Kngiand to say how she shail make the reparation—not for ua. We can weil aifurd to wait. ‘The sense of her wrong and injustice in the minds of oar people will not die oul Every statistical table which shows the decay of our co/amerce wil 1 re it with new iife, and these feetiugs will ourst Into fall activity 48 s00n as Biiginud comes inio fit condition to give us au opportunity of easy repara- tion, We can easily find means, Whenever she geis into @ war, to #weep her commerce from the ocean and substitute in its pace ourown., In the mean- ume we hold ne ander = perpetual bonds to keep the peace to the amount of the ta. terest she has in couimerce and manafactares, We thus reduce her to a third-rate Power, because all nations Know that she dare not be pro: voked into @ war; therefore, as louy as she stands in her present actitade with aa sie has no command: ing position in the politics of Europe. Fran would hot date to go to war with Prussia if England could make herseif an active ally of Prussia, ussia wonld not dare to push her conquests in the Bast up to the very gates of Uritisn India if she did not feel that Russia was the frie a and tiand tue enemy of the United States, and that under no couditions, until questions which We are now considering a® the Alavama claims are seitied, can England go to war even to defend her rich | ossession tm india. Chint, too, need fear no more the demands of Eng land te force opium down the throaw of her aub> joota wih the canon of Britisa crusers #0 long as the of the Pacific Ocean can send out privateers under the flag of China, for whose Em r the Alabaina was said to have been built, for the purpose of mak! reparation tor the ravages of “neland in th» rebeilion by the deproda- tions of the Suenandoan and Alabama. So, | repeal we can a(ford to wait. It is for England to say wha is to be done next, CORRESPONDEYT—Don’t rou think it is lower: our national dignity to send _a represen'ative there RuTLeR—RByv no means. Mr, Motiey can go there to be ready to receive any proposition England has to make and to transmit it to his government at home, He will have no other business, since John- son has eaten all the dinners ConresronpEYtT—Do vou think the cession of Canada and the British Provinces in North America would satisfy our claims General. BurLer—Yes, sir: | think we ought to be satisfied with that. Possession of the British Provinces on ‘this Continent would be highly advantageous to us. CORRESPONDENT—Do you think we are likely to get peaceful posseasion of them? BurLer—Yes, sir [ do, 1 think Eneland will be apt to say to her colonies “you can go if you want. we have no desire to hold you if you wish to cut jose. At thia point the subject was changed to Cuba, but Butler would not lev himself out for some reason or other. He seemed not to want to commit himself yet on that subject. FISK OY TRE Wi! PA‘H IN NEW JERSEY. Riparian Righte—An Important Laweult ProspectivemA Wighshanded Proceeding Excitement on the Banks of the Passaic. ‘The western bank of the beautiful Passaic river, At a point a little this side of Mount Pleasant Ceme- tery, within the limits of the oity of Newark, N.J., was the scene yesterday forenoon of considerable excitethent, which, it was feared, would lead to results of a more serious character. There was very near being @ personal con- flict between the cue players of the Erie Railway and those of the propetty owners along the shore of the river named. Of course the public are already aware that the Erie Ratlway Com- pany have bought out the Newark and Paterson Railroad Company, the line of which has been in process of butiding for some years past. In the charter granted the original corporators it was pro- vided that due respect should be paid by the com- pany to the property of private persons, and when ho agreement could be made with them for the pur- chase of property the matter was to be placed in the hands of & commission in the usual manner. At the inception of the work on the new road, white yet it was in the hands of the original company, these stipulations were observed and carried out to the letter; but it appears since the adven t of Erie as proprietor of the road this gort of thing has changed wonderfally. At least tt would appear so from the experience of yesterday at the point indi- cated, flere, fot 500 feet. trom the cemetery down, the property is owned by Alderman Frederick Stevens and Mr. William M. Force. The latter gen. tleman owns 300 and the former 200 feet of the river front. The line of the Newark and Paterson Railroad, as proposed, runs along the re twenty- five feet on either sile of low water 1 . Frontin; his property Mr. Stevens had an old dock whic! he bought recently with tha property, and this he commenced to repair witht! a day or so for ob- vious reasons. The Fiskites had already encroacned ‘on what he considered his Pipe to the extent of about twenty fect. and had driven there the neces- sary number of piles. A week ago Mr. Stevens and the other property owners were granted a tempo- rary tajunction and the Erle folks took a rest. 16 day before yesterday, however, Chancellor Zabriskie declined to grant a per etual injunction, and it will take some six wee fore the courts can make any decision in the matter. In the meantime yesterlay morning, between eight and nine o'clock, the invading hosts ‘of Erie, to the number of about 200 strong, dropoed down the river in a tugboat and schooner and brought up opposite Force and Ste- vens’ properties. Under the direction of Colonri Pruyn, engineer of Erie, and Mr. R. B. Catherwood, the contractor, the Fisk men at once prooeeded to take 101 of Alderman Stevens’ water front. They commence by hitching fast the tugboat to the pi'es of the wharf and “snaking” them out one by one, arfd then letting the timbers float adrift. Percetv- ing @ disposition on the part of Stevens’ men to cut the “snaking” ropes, chains were sub- Btituted, besides using, as alleged, threatening lan- guage to the Alderman’s men. ‘he Efieites then rocured two pile drivers and commenced drivin; heir own as it as they dragged the Alderman’s out. As the force of men opposed to them was only about thirty they proceed without any molesta- tion and defied Mr. Stevens, who commanded them to desist from trespassing on tis property. After the consequent excitement between the tw» parties had subsided, the Erie men were placed within call on board the schooner to awatt any emergency while the pile driving was prosecuted. The invaders claim that, under tne new repartan laws, the have a perfect right to the shore line, between hig! and iow water marks, while the entire propert: owners along the line are of the opposite opinion an declare they can and will put as much legal steam on asthe Erie Company. Legal proceedings have already been commenced, and as this is a test case as to the ola seer much interest and importance are attached to the issue, Mr. Force has commenced buidiag a stone wharf to Property as far out as low water mark. . sBETUARY, Henry Dutton. Henrv. Dutton, ex-Governor of the State of Con- necticut, &n eminent public servant and man of great learning and ability, died in New Haven on Monday, the 26th inst.. of @ sudden attack of lung fever, in the seventy-third year ot his age. Henry Dutton was descended from an ancient family dis- tinguished in the Revolutionary War of Independ- ence. He was born in Litchfield county on the 12th of February. in the year 1796, His paternal grand- father, Thomas Dutton, although a deacon o: the church, took up arms aud served as a captain iu the Revolutionary force, having his son, the father of the deceased, by his site for ® brief period in the field. His mother was descended directly from John Punderson, “one of the seven pi lars” of the church first estab- lished in New Haven. The ex-Governor was brought up as a farm boy and thus acquired robust healto and a strong constitution. By perseverance in study he qualified timself for admission to \ ale College, from which he graduated in 1818 with distinction He suudied law in the office of the late Koger H. Stedian. He served as a tutor in Yaie from 1821 to 1828, and subse juently opened A law orice in New- town, removing to Kridgeport alter a practice of four- teen years. In is47 he was appointed Professor of Law in Yale College, a position which he held to within a few weeks of his death, being afierwards elected to some of the highest offices im the State courts, In early lite he was attached to the whig party in politics, but joined the republican 1anks alter the dissolution of the former. The whigs elected him Governor. He aided the Union cause actively during the war, his only 6on yolunteering into the army and being kiled ja bate. Doctor Minturn Post. This eminent physician, so widely known in con- nection with the business of life insurance in the United States, died in New York yesterday, in the sixty-first year of tus age. He was born in this city, on thé 28th of June, 1808, and graduated in Columbia College tn the distinguished class of 1828. He studied hus profession first in the office of the late Doctor Valentine Mott; subsequently m the schools of Philadeiptia, and afterwards in Paris, under teachers of the highest repute. He translated an able work on auscultation and percussion. whieh at- tracted much attention. Twenty-six years since he was elected medical examiner of the Mutual Life insurance Company, an timportant office, which he held to the day of his decease. . Henry McCloskey, & Journalist of repute, died yesterday at the lunatic Asylum, Flatbush, L. 1, where he had been taken a short time since by his frienda, Mr. McCloskey was favorably known to the citizens of Brooklyn, where he occupied the position of Managing editor upon one of the papers. He retired from that position in the early part of the rebeliton. Shortly after he was aypointed City Clerk, holding at the same time the appointment of stenographer in the County Court. Ir. McCloskey was superseded in 1868 in the city clerkahip. Since then he tas been a contributor to the editorial col- urons of one of the metropolitan Sunday papers. He Was about forty years of age and leaves a wife and two children. Derroit, Mich, April 24, 1809. To THe Eviror or tue HeraLo— Articles of association under the general telegraph Jaw of ont State have been filed with the Secretary of State for the organization of a new telegraph com- pany, styled the People’s Line, and cover all rou in the State traversed by the Western Union Tele. graph Company. The organizers are Henry N. Walk- er, of the Detroit Pree Press; Senow, secretary of the Western Press Association; Jacob Ff. Far. ftand, ion a of a national ban Barker, late ye of Detroit; KB. Wendell, caster National Bank and other wealthy and enterprising envemen. They propose to juce the price of legraphing to postal prices—tweaty cents for any Humber of miles up to $00—and will be prepared to sk Cengress for a contract at the Next session fur & telegraph postal law at prices five cents less than’ the Hubbard bid at the late session, A move is making at Indianapolis to organize a company in Indiana, with the same design, noder the general laws of that State, Tue whole West is now taking the matter of cheap telegrapiing ta hand, St Louts is to be the headquarters in issourl fora new company in 04 tion to the Western Union in the Bouta west. wis ae See Se ei Sea See ees SPRAGUE. The Enterprises ef Sprague—What He Owns and What it Looks Like—Cranston Mille— Their Appearance and Mode of Working— The Two Families of Rhode Isiand=The Spragues aud the Browns—The Burnside Address, Cranston, R, I, April 23, 1869. Sprague’s print works are here. From this village goes forth daily au enormous quantity of those call- coes that enterinto the dressing of our women all over the land, It 18 a very interesting place and 19 all the time increasing in growth and prosperity. Under the kindly and intelligent guidance of Mr. George Harris I went over these works yesterday and saw @ great deal that was at once curious and impressive, First we paid a visit to Amasa Spracue’s staples, saw his horses, numbering, perhaps, forty altogther, some of them very beantiful crea- tures, especially’ that famous trotter Rhode Island— @ dark brown horse, with short, powerful limbs, and asgeutie as a gazelle. His horses are kept in a@ series of pens within a stone’s throw of Narragan- set Park. Amasa Sprague’s character may be a little understood from the fact that finding fault with some arrangement in the old trotting park, he went to work and constructed this new park at Narraganset, which may fairly chalienge compari- son with any in the country. It is without the natural scenic beauties of the Jerome race course, but purely as a trotting ground, with perfect fittings im the shape of staples, stands, &e., I hardly think it can be surpassed. It is a large enterprise for one man. To Amasa Sprague {t 18 no more than the purchase of a billiard table. This village has a population of perhaps 2,000, Sprague fills the entire atmosphere. That long tandem team of horses drawing some five tons of calico case have the letters A. & W. S.on the harness. These initials run over everything. You find them on the calico boxes, on the fire engine, on the ma- cbinery, on @ thousand things, Sprague owns all the eye rests upon. Stretching away to the horizon is a tarm of immense proportions, the produce of which contributes to the support of the operatives in the mill. These people live in cottages built by the Spragues, neat, comfortabie residences, laid out in plete tay ean white, They buy their meat, groceries, goods, drugs and all the rest that enters into the jist of domestic consumption at a store belonging to the Spragues. The sales last year ‘wer $400,000. It 18 @ fine store, very cleanly and @ good deal superior to ordinary stores a similar character. The meat is sold four or five centa cheaper than in the city, and has a fresh, Juicy look, not common in our markets. The calico works lie in a hollow and are scattered around confusedly. You enter by an office. through which only a certain class of bath is permitted to pass. It appears that men belonging to other print Works indulged in the fashion of coming here and stealing Spragne’s patterns. — Steal- ing is a bad practice anyhow, but stealing these particuiar patterns Was depriviug the Spragues of a vital feature in their business. These patterns are the most beautiful in our American market. There is a freshness and an artistic finish about them that makes them popular. To steal them was therefore a very positive acs of criminality, and thus it occurs that people whose characters are unknown are debarred from looking over the works. The first floor you enter contains the calico ready for entpmens and all you see covering a space of over feet in length, and piled up to the ceiling, comes in and goes out in one day. It 18 a vast col lection, enough, one would think, to clothe all the women and babies In the land. You naturally go uj stairs to see by what process all these elegant goods come into existence. You are pointed out the rolla of unbleached cloth just after arrtving from thé cot« ton spinaing. mills, The next thing you are shown is the bleachery—a very interesting place, but fear- fully warm and moist to the fancy of a stranger. Machinery is at work all around, hauling boiling water endless yards of muslin, It in brown and comes out immaculately white, It is then dried and printed. But tirst this brown muslin, after coming m the spinning mills, is run at tremerdous speed over a red hot cylinder. This rocess takes oif that delicate fur which adheres he musiin and leaves it clear and smooth as a shi of paper. The printing would present a blotoheda appearance if this operation was negiected. In one room are Some twelve peutograph machines, that engrave on coated copper cylinders the patterns that are transferred to the muslin. This isundoubt edly the most interesting feature of the mills. There sits a girl, a8 she might sit at a plano, moving an in- strument over @ sheet of paper on which the design of the pattern is sketched. Above her head is a aod cylinder, revolving slowly, like that of a music box, and. receiv! ft every revolution & series of marks from diamond dies that cut through the copper and leave, of course. a las ee impression, The di over which the moves the instrument 18 considerably jarger than that which is insctibed uapon the cylinder. This is necessary, as these delicate dots and circles would otherwise require the incon- venient ald of a microscope to distinguish them properly. When these cylinders have ed their functions they are shaved off and made ready for another engraving. e Bantograph machines cost a great deal of nace e and of the patterns is an 0} jon of great care, involving ag much exercise of inventive akill as might contribute to the balanctng of the dome of St. Peters. The proper arrangement of the colors in a calico pattern Another operation juicing skill and Hon. jivoes that fail vo hold their colors tn agg washed are fearfully unpopular with the ladies. Sprague’sa have the advantage tn that res; ‘They wash and wear weil. These works would take a week to de- seribe in detail, They show, taken altogether, o power of giant prone, The ring of that im- mense machinery 1s impressive, You go away from the mills with @ feeling that the councry that pos sesses such elements of industry and euterprise hag rength and greatness that bids deflance to politi- cal mutatio is, The people who work in the mills are principally = pan They are mostly from ty and Ge many, quiet, orderly people, satisfied apparen' with dhetr fot and working on with that feering of cheery contentment that seems to be tne reward of honest labor, ‘They live better than ever they could live in England or Germany. Their homes are cleaner, better ventilated, purer every way than what you see around Manchester or Bremen. Across here, at the other side of the village, they have a sehoo! for their children, which was started by the Spragues. Their religious weifare is attended to by ministers of different denominations employed by the same influence, ‘Thus we see a whole community of persons, whose support in every way depends upon the house of Sprague, which comprises two young men, one of whom is just now so prominent in polt tics; the other has an utter contempt for olitics and politicians, Let us see, however: he full extent of the eoreane enterprises. Here we have the Cranston Mills, to which I have ailuded, hoy og ings gd A thousand people. ‘Then we have the Baltic Mills, an immense conce over nine hundred feet long, and the operatives o' which live in two hundred and forty houses bullt by the S| es. Then follow all these:—The Natick Mills, the Quidneck, Arctic, Central Falls, Augusta, M Morgan, Perkins Sheet Iron Company, Rhode Island Horseshoe Companys, Rhode Island Loco- motive Works, American Horse Nati Company, Nicholson File Corapeng, Comstock Foundry Com. any, Union Railroad Company, Boston Wheat and Bread Company, Providence and New York Steam- ship Company, Kennebeck Land and Lumber Com- any, Builders’ Iron Foundry Company, Phoenix tompany. Now come the farma:—Peat Farm, Greenwich, Howard, Harris, Milk, Reservoir, Jotinston, Cranston, Natick, Quidneck, Arctic, Waldos, South Windham, Bingham, — Stirlii Augusta and Pocassett. The thnbver land in Math comprises about a million acres, From there comes the wood that makes the cases for gue's Coos, ‘The other farms are agricultural. e average #170 of each i about two hundred acres, Then, again, they own f great deal of real estate in houses scat. tered about the city of Providence. The entire bulk of this property Is something enormous, Having given some idea of the Sprague posana. sions let me alinde to the Browns, ay own tracts of land in the heart of Providence, one lot of which would make the fortune of a poor man. Their real estate, as valuable as any around your Central Park, can be counted by acres. At lonsdale they have im- mense mills and employ as many people as Sprague does at Cranston, They have very fine machinery and very fine looking mills. Their property ts of that magnificent character that impresses the stranger, but it falls short of that look of lavish en- terprise characteristic of the Spragnes. The latter seem to venture into verious branches of bnaines for pure sport, for the excitement of the thing and the glory of reaping success, The others are of @ different calibre entirely. They appear forced into every enterprise they undertake, and move with tha singgish motion of a tortoise. ‘The Bpragues are ail rt lightning, and give an impetus to ir business that one must fee! to appreciate property. Popularity between these two powerful houses ts curiously diviaed, ‘The cool, conservative, aristo- cratic classes side with Brown & Ives; the pluck, energy and youth go with the Spraguos—that 1 outside of tue question in reference to the action the First Rhode Island comment, On that everybody is sore. I find Burnside ts out of the State, ‘Burn. side 9A man Who possesses many elements of popu. larity—fine aqpearan » jovial disposttion, goods natured. &c, He does not profess to be a very acute politician, nor does it appear that he claims to have eh a very brilliant soldier. Nevertheloes, Burnside has a iarge share of popularity in this State, and Sprague ma gly mistake in attacking him, Suppose the First hode Island rogitnent did behave cowardly at Bull Run, and thet Harnetde benaved Withont dignity or bravery, does it constitute sum. cient offence for Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, to stand ap in the Senate of the United States and denonnce these men seven years after the ocourrence nol his own Slate, and ali that sort of thing? They comptatn of this—of this solely. What means this ovation to Hurnside that Burnside is just now nnable to accept? It means that Rhode Isiand is mad with Spragne for big cnmous description of the condacl of the Tirst Rhode Isiand. fe dragmed that splendid organiza. tion into he presence of the very ition and called themselves and their officers coward’. Humen jh Averse to this kind of treatment; hence tho ng.