The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1869, Page 5

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. &@ 5554; Missouri @xes, 8934; do. (St. Joseph), 91 a 92; Louisiana #1xes, 73 a 74; do, levee sixes, 70; do. do, eighta, 804, & 89%; Alabama fives, 67 a 68; do. etghis, 102 @ 103, ‘The receipts for customs and the receipts, pay- ments and balances at the Sub-Treasury in this city for the week have been as follows:— “Sarempay, May 16—6 P.M. eXcited, In coasequence of a further development of the policy of Secretary Boutwe!! in the matter of re- @ucing the national debt. The plan of soliciting Custom House, ————Sub- Treasury.-——\ Proposa's for the saie of bonds to the government In Beosipts, | Receipts, Poymenis, Balances, 10... $406,000 600, 385, 159,002 708,663 the usual terms of the market led to considerable Prat 2" ga0, 331 Si eprioee Shvost a b20 188 confusion, if not doubt, in making just awards. wey iss’: ean ey 4-4 Premed Under instructions of Seeretary Boutwell the pro- 4 . 4 or pomis in faare muss iw aman a rox trent to | Nap Sekons Sucneat eras Shisha accrued interest on the accepted bonds to be paid The e} of specie during the week were as subsequently in & separate transaction. Im 8 | fonows:— cordance with these instructions, the Assistant May 11 Steamer Cimbria, Paris. the following:— ver bars. office untit noon | Gold bars. to the govern- | Fu et ty five- which time 4 character raf May 12—Steamer Scotia, Liverpoo!— amount not less 1s—steamer Eagle, Havana— named in ++ 274,070 1,200 SALES AT THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, Saturday, May 15—10:15 A. vo 06 ia . M64 Jead to @ much more sutisfactory list of quotations i , for governinent securities aud will expedite business . ae in that branch of Wall street transactions. As might me be expected, the announcement of this determination eit on the part of Secretary Boutwell led to @ very it ' a 106; 08) 8a = : 8 12244, and "67's to 118%. Although there was a fall | iu seg * ae ing off in the foreign quotation the market steadily | Amy - Ss disregarded it and closed with the following quota —-} we EN) tuons:—United States sixes, 1881, registered, 121% a | hea -- 8 Rs do., Coupon, 12254 @ 122%; five-twenties, reg- on = Be istered, 11634 a 1164; do. do., coupon, 1662, 121% a | “gw. a 4 121; do. do., coupon, 1864, 116% a 11634; do. do, | 3 uw "he Coupon, 1865, 117% @ 117%; do. do., coupon, 186s, | MMant Ms 1a 158 new, 118 4119; do, do., coupon, 1867, 115% @ 1195 | yp oe ke EY do. do., coupon, 1833, 118% #119; do., ten-forties, | 1 2 - ae registered, 108% a 109; do, do, coupon, 100% a | “Ip isd “abe 10¥% ;, currency bonds, 106% @ 107. 3 “ ax The recent advance in gold and the contradictory 7 1 petty reports as to the acts of the government in the | 3 ox ies matter of the sinking fund have made the foreign 4 ex 1) market for our bonds somewhat unstable. To-day | 400 pret iw the quotation from London came 784, at wine it Bs bs a continued steady. The gold operators were inclined pe is to look for a rise on this account, bat the announee- |} rd Niky ment above induced a “bearish” feeling, under which gold declined to 139}. This influence was soon overcome, however, by the greater power of ™M. the “bull” element, aided by the heavy amount of our imports and the strength of foreign ae exchange, which is gradually advancing to the specie we shipping point. The result was a rise to 130%. But | 6 the “bears” were so confident of the resuits te ensue Woe abroad from the full publication of Mr. Boutwell’s policy that the market was fitiul and fluctuated frequently, closing up firm at the highest figure of the day. The range of price was as follows:— ane PM ‘The following table exhibits the gross amount of auction sales during the past week. It will be readily seen, upon a reference to the table, that the Principal activity at the present time isin suburban property. Indeed outside of that the market is com- ‘There was little variation from yesterday in the gold joan market. Seven to four per cent was paid for carrying up to Clearing House time. Later in the day loans were made from five per cewt for car- rying down to flat. Tne Lafayette, for France, took out $93,400 in specie, The disbuisements of coin interest by the Sub-Treasury were $356,980. The business of the Gold Exchange Bank resulted as fol- lows: Goid cleared... $101,318,000 Gold balances. 2,086,789 Currency balances. ++ 3,400,424 Foreign exchaage was firmer at an advance of i Westchester co., Newtown, L. L., un Rutherford Park, N. d., Rutherlord Park, N. J., ununp’ prowl — projerty.. re ‘v0! ‘nun roved property. 00 Flatbush, L. L, unimproved property. 1,470 for prime bankers’ bills, both sixty days and sight. 137,386 Commercial bills are few in the market, and tne | xew York tmproved proper: may 3 lower price for cotton in London does not tend to Brookiyn improved property increase the supply. Bond bills are limited in | Brooklyn unimproved amount, and with the present relative quotations for governments on both sides of the Atlantic they are also likely to undergo little accession in quantity, Quotations ranged as follows:— Bterling, sixty days commercial, 1083, a 109; good to prime bankers’, 10934 @ 100%; short sight, 110% L. 1, auimproved property. 80,550 siuntiugton, L. |., improved property. 11,000 Stapleton, & [., unimproved property "740 Bdgewater, 5. 1., unimproved property 600 ——— 247, toe THURSDAY, MAY 18. W. Roselle, N. J., improved property..$13,005 se] aes 055 a 110%; Paris, sixty days, 6.2) a 5.16%; short —— my sight, 5.15% @ 6.133; Antwerp, 5.20 @ 5.16%; Dobbie, Ferry «Westchester county, Switzerland, 6.20 a 6.16%; Hamburg, 35}4 @ 36%; . ¥-), GDTOVes eee req Brooklyn improved property... 2lbo Amsterdam, 403 a 40%; Frankfort, 404 & 40%; Brooklyn unuaproved WrOperiy. iam ato Bremen, 78 a 78%; Prussian thalers, 70), a 7134. eet = - pan amen property. 4,025 The money market was, if anything, a shade Son ee eee nee: Sere Geaiec, und.the minhet of ond. at dk jecmuboon nn’ Ge amen greater than during the previous portion of the a week. The desire to secure two days’ interest had something to do with this, of course, but the banks are steadily gaining in funds, while the Guiness of the stock market has induced few new engage- ments. On governments the rate was six to seven ‘per cent; on miscellaneous collaterals seven. Com- mercial paper continues active under the competi- tion of the banks, and prime double names pass at seven to nise per cent, with more doing at seven and eight. The weekly stafement of the associated banks is favorabie to those desiring accommodation, the de- posits having increased about five and a half millions ‘Total for the week...... ‘Total for the week ending M Total for the month of January. Total for the month of February. ‘Total for the month of March. Total for the month of Apri... Grana total for the special portion of the YAP... 6+ . eeee cesses $94,012,140 MARINE TRANSFERS. The following is & completé hetof marine trans fers at this port from the 1sub to the 15th lust. Inelu- sive: | Tonwaye. | sy 00 | % pee Whole] Lo Vi | ‘against an increase in loans of only one million, The oxo increase in legal tenders is less than @ million and a - petheatel ie haif, and the discrepancy as compared with the de- -snete Lewis... ie posits 18 due to the large excess of national currency Ameila 8.Ireland : 3) in the packages shipped to this city. There is a fall- ang off in specie of seven hundred thousand dollars, which is about the amount of the exports for the week. This 1s the only means of accounting for the loss, the Treasury disbursements for the week, on ac- count of the May interest, having been $2,615,676, and the customs receipts $2,684,000, The last two statements compare as follows:— :|Dusty Miller Dusty Miller. q DEPARTURE OF STEAMSHIPS YESTERDAY. The following steamsiips, European and coast- wise, leit this port yesterday :— EUROPEAN. The China, of the Cunard S:eamship line, left her dock at Jersey City for Liverpool, calling at Queens town, With 114 first class paasengers and a fair cargo of cotton, grain and miscellaneous merchandise, The Europa, Captain John Macdonald, of the An- chor line, left pier 20 North river for Glasgow and Londonderry, with 82 cabin and 119 steerage pengers, and’s full cargo of covton, grain, tar and Provisions. ‘The City of London, Captain Leitch, Quesnstown, with 100 cabin and other win, n passengers un Tells aud @ fair cargu of cheese, Decun aud in Thomson, of the National North river for Liverpool and a -one cabin we wicel aod a ear 5 rage, passenae g00d cargo of grate, of the General The Lafay or Russan, Transatiantic line, felt pier No. 60 North river, with ‘212 first class and a full cargo of grain, and merchandise, The Unived tates Uapeain { L. Norton, of the Merchants’ Steamship line, left pier 12 North pale aa New around ven eighteen yes i agers @ jait cargo Of a sorted merchantise, The George Cromwell, of Cromwell's line, left p' No. 9 North river for New Orleans direct, with ten cabin Ts and a fair misce \aneous carge ‘The Champion, Captain R. W. Lockwood, of New York aud Charleston Steamship Company's line, left pier No. 4 North river for Charleston, with thirty eabin and a fair assorted cargo. The isaac Bell, of the Old Dommion Steamship Company, left pler 87 North river for Norfolk and Richmond, With twenty-four passengers aud @ fair freight. the Euterpe, Captain George Gates, of Mesera, ©. H. Mallory & Go,'s line, left pier 21 Bast river for Galveston, With passengers and a fair nt. The Huntaville, Captam Crowell, jeft her pler on the North river for Savannah, with passengers and @ “heeiece = ro Lh ag ox) e San Jacinto, Captain Atkins, her on North river for Savannah, with passengers aad afar fay 8. May 15. + $268,486,372 $260,558 + 16,081,489 15, + 83,986,160 + 198,803 Legal tenders. see 65,109,573 ‘The changes are as follows Increase In loans. Decrease in spect rease in cirew Increase tn deposits, Increase in legal ten ‘The stock market was unusually dull. Prices opened barely steady and underwent a decline during the middie of the day. There was a rally toward the last session of the Stock Exchange, when prices closed steady on the ‘call, as follows:— Cumberland, 34; Wells-Fargo Express, 33% a 944; American, 405, a 40%; Adams, 61 a 614; United States, 66% a 67; Merchants’ Union, 15 a 16; Quickstiver, 1044 @ 10%; Canton, 62\ @ 62/4; Mari- pOsa, 2244 @ 2434; do. preferred, 48% a 48%; Pacific Mail, 96% @ 9555; Western Union Telegraph, 449; @ 44%; New York Central, 181% a 181%; Hudson River, 156% @ 157%; Harlem, 14745 a 148; Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, 72 bid; Reading, 967% a 96; Chicago and Alton, 158 @169}4; Hannibal and St Joseph, 116% @ 120; do. preerred, 116% @ 117)5; Alton and Terre Haute, 30% a 404; do. preferred, 71M @ 714; Toledo and Wabash, 75% @ 76; do. pre- ferred, 82\g bid; Milwaukee and St. Paul, 78 @ 78%; do. preferred, 87% @ 8744; Fort Wayne, 164% & 1654: Ohio and Mississippi, 334 @ 38); Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central, 4655 @ 46%; Michigan Southern, 10644 a 106%; Iilinois Central, 145% a 146; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 93 a 934¢; Lake Shore, 105% 8 109%; Rock Island, 127% a 127%; Northwestern, 91%; do. preferred, 1033; & 103},; Bosion Water Power, 174 @ 17%; Delaware and Lackawanna, 118 bid; New Jersey Central, 117} @ 118. The market after the boards was irregular and un- settied, but dull and generally strong. ‘The following were the closing prices on the call for the leading Southern bonds:—Tennessees, ex 88,977,784 199,302,449 66,501,366 coupon, 68% @ 68%; do, new, ’ The Mi Captain Moore, 6x coupon, 6714 . 68; Ini boy Mba mpd ‘iver: with e fait for Wil aE gy + new, 62 a 63; ‘The Ellen & her Georgia mixes, 83; do. sevens, 06)¢ © 06% North | part'river, for Newborn, W.-C. With pe Carolinas, ©X COUPER, 6)5 & 6O%5 oy mow, 66% | 0 fair freight RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Anniversaries, SUNDAY, MAY 16, Evangelicat Alliance.—Addresses by Rev. Drs. Wm, Adams, John Hall, Jolin Cotton Smith, Rev. Dr. Anderson and others, at the cburch corner of Fifth avenue and Nineteenth street, at haf-past seven o'clock P, M. TUESDAY, MAY 18. Sunday School Anniversaries.—The New York Sunday School Missionary Union (formerly the New York Sunday Schoo! Union) will gather 150 schools in thirty-two, different hails and churches through- out the city, at half-past two o'clock P, M. After the anniversary exercises the schools return to their own rooms and partake of refreshments. The annual meeting of the society will be held in the Collegiate Reformed Dutch church, corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, at hal!-past seven o'clock P.M. Rev. Dr. T. L. Cuyler, Rev. J. M. Ludiow and Rev, 8. H. Tyng, Jr., will make ad- dresses. Tickets will be given gratuitously to all applying to the eupbeinianneniay or at cue Deposi- eo 7 Bible House. Baptist Sunday School Union also hold their anniversaries at hall-past two o'clock P. M., 1 varl- us Baptist churches. The jormed Presbyterian Sunday schools meet im the Jane sireet Reiormed Provesiant church at hall-past two o'clock P. M. The Two Presbyterian Assemblies. On Thursday, May 20, at eleven o'clock A. M., the two largest Presbyterian bodies in tne United States assemble in this city. hey will represent churches in all parts of the country. The Old and New School Assemblies in the South meet in Mobile on the same day. The last year’s statistical reports give the fol- Jowing summaries of the Old aud New School Pres- byterians:— ola New School, School. 26 23 Added on certilicate. . Number in Sunday gcnoois. $8,001,885 2,441,086 285,31 108, 196 113,109 132,548 sembly comprises 10 synods, 45 presbyteries, 786 ministers, 51 jicentiates, we - 4,208 churches and 76,949 communi- ‘The United Presbyterlan Church has 7 synods, 50 presbyteries, and about 700 ministers and 65,612 communicants, ‘the Cumberland Presbyterian Church has 24 sy- nods, 98 presbyteries, 1,600 ministers and 150,000 communicants, ‘The Keformed Presbyterian synod has 77 ministers and 5,457 communicants, The Associate synod has 12 ministers and 1,091 communicants besides tuese there are other suiall Presbyterian bodies, g Congregational. Foreign mission: of the Assemblies. On the day and hour above named, the Old Schoo! General Assembly will assemble in the brick Presby- terian church on Murray Hill, corner of Fifth ave- nue and Thirty-seventh street, aud a sermon will be preached by the Rev. Dr. Musgrave, of Philadelphia, (we Moderator of last year. On the same day and hour the New School Assem- bly will meet in tne Church of the Covenant, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fifth street, and will be opened with a sermon by Rev. Dr. Stearns, of New- ark, N. J., the Moderator of the last Assembly, After the sermons each body will be organized the election of officers, aud wil then proceed to busi- The sessions usually are extended through addition to the social entertainment which pri- disposed to extend to te ‘excellent men Who will be assem: i E bers, bodies, and the families by entertained, may be brought together evening Would ve a delight- lw) reunioa ad universally enjoyed. ‘The Jewish Festival of Shabnoth. ‘The feast of Snabnoth or Jewish Pentecost, also called the Feast of Weeks, commenced last evening aud will be celebrated in all the synagogues to-day, threugh the required course of religious in- strucuon are on this day confirmed, amid an impres- sive Ceremonial, Leture tue Whole Cougregauion. Hebrew Orthodoxy and Reform. The progressive ideas of the times have penetrated and may tareaten to dwrupt the oldest religious in- stitution in the world (af we except the Hiindoo and Chinese), the faith aad practice of Judaism, The re- formers are busily at work, as busy as beavers, 60 they say, in order to conform the priuciples of the Mosaic doctrine to the wants and demands of our enlightened age. They claim that Judaism, pre- perly uaderstood, is the true religion of humanity, adoring one tudivisible Goduead aud seeing in all maukind only the visible tokens of His unlimited power and goodness. The branch of Mosaic re- formers im very ably represenved by the Jewish Tunes, @ Weekly paper published in this city and not yet three months old, It is edited with remarkable abiuty and pumbers among the contributors to ts commas some of tue foremost Kabbis io the Uened States and Burope, ail, of course, ve- jonguug to tue advanced scliool of religious reori- ers. The temendous ouslaught against this tendency to reform made by the tev. Dr. isaacs on Yuesday last, in his sermon at the cousecravion of the synagogue Sharre jedia, in Forty-toarth sireet, iu which he termed the reformers saceiiegious inno- vaiers, Was parttoularly alwed at tie Jewish Times and its corps of Kabbinical writers and -all tts sup- porters; and the Jewish Messenger of this city, tue organ ol Kev. Dr. Isaacs, fully supporisiym. ‘The Heorew Leader is at present neutral betwee the two Wings and adects (o sapport both. Tue rupture has even exteaded as far as California, Where the Hebrew Observer, of San Francisco, 1s pitching imto the Jewuh Pines for is reformaiwry heresies. Those who stk to the twee law and in not Diasphemy aud Wise than the Je coming to the proscripuve Views of medieval luwes, 0 to the sulmtance aad spiritual Pentateuch aud the Taimud, who gress beyond the narrow, procrast ideas Aly centuries ago, side with the Jevri are informed, are the majority of | quike & Bpiried controversy may be pre- the Those who ning of the eve Alleged Mohammedan Outrages on Christiaus. Great complaints continue te be received from the Armenians throughout Turkey of the outrages and Intolerances committed against them by the Mobam- medans, The Armenian bishop of the province of Moucke has addressed an evergetic ! to Ismail Pacha, Governor General of Viiaye and Erzeroum, on this sutject, begging that the Turkish govern- ment Will take measares for the protection of his iste, §=The Manzoumaye Afeure, & daily paper of Constan' » mentions that the Arine- nians of the village of Tiv.auzen vod ope of their pod od “the belie tm their church, which 60 tn- cited “the Tarks that they went to his «house and forcibly abducted bis wie and muther, deiverately murdering ao iufant that the wile carried at her breast. After Violating and otherwise tli-treating the defenceiess women they were left in the feids of every vestige of clothing. Surely sucn Outages cai for redress aad should be taken in hand by some f agent as a duty iim- posed Upow the Crvilized ‘af We World, Work of the New Jersey Bible Soctety. From the anaual report of pr. Sheldon, who has these interests in charge for New Jerery and Dela- ware, we gather the following summary of bible Society aMuirs ia New Jersey during the year just the Stato twenty.one county Bible | U 1 ations, and prosecuted their appro- tate Work Witt Commendanic vigor. At the Beve- county toWns aud oiuer central ports Hiles are Kept on deposit for sae at simple cowt aud for gratuitous distribution among the eee ao Well se the supply of Sunday se and various § putiic — Inatitution or these | Uses 19,087 Yolumes have been introduced | invo the Twelve distributors have been eu: during the whole or « pw ue year, who ave Visiled 27,672 families, embracing |! > pe fons, and furnisned copies of the ScTIP™ res to 2507 | destitute families, embracing 14,6 person. More cul according to the testime than 315 missionary and other schools Rave | bat for (he loose and been supplied with these important (Xt books Tbe | creased oactilation. iy Volumes io lange Bumbers have beew placed tm raliroad it the the those be correct there 18 that she 40 mule drivers on our canals and others, The met re- celpts, or amount forwarded to the American bible Society in New York, are $24,345 05. If to tis be added home expenses for freight, depositories aud colportage, the gross receipts are about $04,948 06, belag @ considerabie advance on the previous year. The Ecumenical Council at Reme. ‘The Univers has received from Rome some details relative to the preparations for the approaching Council. The Holy Father not being satisfied with the plan of the architect first consulted, M. Sarti, called in another, M. Vespignani, This gentleman laid an entirely new scheme before his Helmets, ‘who adopted it at once, The whole lateral nave St, Martiniau will be devoted to the assembly, thus affording greatly increased space and mach better acoustic qualities, The Pope's throne will beerected at the bottom of the abside and the altar tn the cen- tre, ‘The end will be closed by a curtain, which can be opened to enable the peopie to belold the Pope. ‘The new plan gives general satisfaction. Sunday Library at Milwaukee. ‘The Young Men’s Library Association of Milwau- kee, Wis., held its annual election last Monday, at which the question, whether the library should be kept open on Sundays, was submitted to a vote of the members. The “openers” carried the day by 284 majority, to the great chagrin and annoyance of the minority, who threatened many dreadful things if the proposition be successful. ‘This is the first in- stance that a public libI and reading room 1s to be opened Sundays. But the Young Men’s Associa- tion of Milwaukee has 400 German members, and that may account for it, “Songs of the Sanctuary.” Isaac Watts and Walter Scott are thus hauled over the coals by the Liveral Christian, the Unitarian paper of this city. Tnat highly literary and religious Journal, according to the Observer, in ridiculing “Songs of the Sanctuary,” cites some examples from the book and among tnem quotes aud says:— ‘What could be worse than the following :— Alas! and did my Saviour bleed, And did my Sovereign die Would he devote that sacred head For such a worm as I? It is hard to tell which ts worse, the theology or the poetry Of the following verve:— Ob}! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to mt wakes irom clay, Be thou, ob Christ, the sinner's stay, ‘Though heaven and hal pass away. ‘The Odserver_adds:—As the first of these verses 18 fro the pen of Watts, and the second 18 translated from the celebrated ‘Dies Ira,’? by Sir Walter Scott, we ignorant ortnodox Christians may periiaps be permitted to suppose them worthy of remaining ib our books a little longer. But 1s there not something very ridiculous in ridiculing us for using the poems of two such men as Watis aud Walter Seow? Catholic Confirmations. Confirmation was administered by Arehbishop McCloskey, on Thursday morning, 6th 1nst., in the chapel of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhat- tanvilie, to thirty-one persons. On Thursday after- noon, 6th inst., in St. Joseph's church, Manhattan- ville, to 160 persons, On Sunday afternoon, 9th tst., in the Church of St. Paul the Apostie, Ninth avenue and West Filly-ninth street, to 400 persons, Is Christianity a Lie? To THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD :— A correspondent in last Sunday’s HERALD, re- ferring to your assertion that “if there is no revealed religion, then Christianity isa lie, and the churches are swindling institutions one and ail,’ fully en- dorses the sentiment, and adds that “no sensible man but will conscientiously subscribe to these views.” Now I profess to be a “sensible man,” and et cannot subscribe to the “views” you have taken. think you are both wrong, for the following reasons :—There 1s a wide diilerence between a lie and a mistake; both are deceptions, but the former 18 a wilful deception, while the latter isnot. Now Christianity is a system of religion believed to be true by @ majority of its teachers and followers, and hence it 1s not a “lie,” but only a “mistake,” even if the entire system be false. If the ministers of Christianity are sincere, and in the main believe what they teach, they are not liars vor are their churches “swindling ft cutions.”” Aamutting, then, that Christianity 18 onl; appy delusion,” I have the charity to believe that a majority of its votaries at least believe it to be true. VINDEX. Religious Notes. The Pentecostal Ordinations at the Provincial Theological Seminary of St. Joseph, in Troy, will be held on Friday and Saturday of next week. Arch- bishop McCloskey, of this city, will oMciate, By the death of Mra. Frances W. Haskell, of Windsor Locks, mother of the late Mrs. Bartlett, the bequesis of the latter become payable, as follows:—To the tional Union, $10,000; to the A. B. C. F. M., sagan, 1 Union, $: F. M. ‘The residue of the estate, estimated at trom 8,000 to $10,000, is to be equally divided between the Home meee Society and the American Mis- at 100. onary Litwe Johnny, on being chatechised by his bro- ther, who asked him of what he was made, replied:—"You and me and papa are made of dust, and mamma and sister are made of men’s wibs.” -ACCIDENT ON THE ERIE RAILWAY. Freight Cars Demolished by the Locomotive ot a Passenger Train—Several Passengers Jump Off and Are Seriously Injured=An Ex- citing Scene. ‘The Cincinnati express train, which left Dunkirk at ten o'clock on Thursday night, ran into the rear end of a freight train between Cuba and Belvidere at fifteen minutes past three o’clock on Friday morn- ing and left the freight train a total wreck. The lat- ter had run off the track, and a squad of railroad employ és were at work in replacing the cars on the track. The engineer of the passenger train was driving at the ordinary rate of speed, and would have reached Belvidere on time, The moment he discovered the cars lying across his route he whistled down brakes, shut off steam, and knowing that the momentaum was so great that the train could not be stopped before it reached the freight cars, he and the fireman jumped off. Asa great number of pas- sengers get on this train at the Cuba station they had not retired to rest, and the signal of the engi- neer being heard through the train many of the passengers rushed out on the platforms, while others put their heads out of the windows and the terrors of the situation were comprehended at a glance. Four mon sprang from the front platform of the thira car, one of whom, in his eagerness to get off, shipped and struck on the ground heavily, where he remained tneensible ull restored by the efforts of some of the passengers aiterwards. His name Was Gilbert Sadiier, of Dunkirk. The other three were more or less injured by the fall, one man having leg lacerayed in a Shocking manner. Several others yamped off, not one of whom escaped without some bruises, The confusion and excitement at this instant can easily be lmagined by any one who has ever found himself in @ rauway car at the dead of night siding along atadashiag speed, the world outside slam- bering in ap while to him and his companions death stalks in a thousand shapes before their eyes. ‘A man in such @ position sees at one glance, as in a mirror, the ghastly spectacies he has read of in the chapter of railroad siaughters. The women screamed, rashed from their seats, and were transformed in an instaut mto frantic beings; the children started from their slumber and rushed almost naked to their mothers, the stoutest hearts quatied, the conductor holding his lamp in one hand and swing- ing off the platform, clinging by the other hand to the rail, peered out in the twilight as if to caicuiate beforehand the extent of the coming disaster, All this is the ploture of bat a moment, yet the horror of that moment will never be forgotten in the lives of the passengers. The locomotive dashed on and then came the sho ‘The engine struck the last freight car at an acute angle, ran clear through, crushed in the side of the mext and struck the third at sowe point near the centre of gravity, for ;it was literally shivered to pieces, Two of the remaining cars were almost demolished. ‘The locomotive Was greatiy damaged, some of the connecting rods bemg bent as if they were mere sprouts of wood. ‘Most fortunate and strange, not one of the passen- ger cars was ia the least injured or moved from the track. The passengers, who remained quietiy in thew seats, were frightened, but not hurt. One of the employes, who was standing in the doorway of the car, Was thrown down by the shock and slightly injured. Trains were delayed six hours before the track Was cleared, so that the passengers on the Cmeinnati express, who expected to reach New York at six o'clock on Friday evening, Id not arrive tll midnight. From several these statements were obtained seiting forth the foregoing re. ‘Three of the injured passengers went » Hlornet levilie, the others were able to proceed to their respective desUnations, ‘The almost miraculous escape of the passenger care Was the chef topte of discussion among the ratiroad off ester The train superintend- ent, conda master and engineer in thew riive reports to the General Superiutend- ent aserive (heir escape to the compression platform and sutometic coupler with which ali the passenger cars on the Erie Railway have been recent! equipped. The conductor added that had the off platforms and loose couplers been avtached to the cars “telescoping” would be inevit- able and a general smash ap would result. Mr. Rid- die, the lave superintendent, declared im one of his reports that the loose couplers were the cause of pine out of ten ratiroad acctaents. The only satis- factory U farnisved in regard to the recent ang road disaster is consistent with this view, while the Angola disaste: e vag come When "om travel wi be rovbed of ‘ite terrors: PARIS FASHIONS. “The Man Whe Laughs”—Charitable Do- nore—The Chinese Ball—Who Were There and What They Wore—The Tullerics Re- coptions—The Empress and Her Gueste— pas Se Paris, April 28, 1569. Mt was at the splendid ch rity fete given by Princess Beauvan at the Grand Hotel on Friday last that on closing my eyes for a moment the following bit of classical lore steeped my senses in several layers of philosophy, Bucca flssa usque ad aures, ‘This Latin, of course, referred to the “Man Who Laughs,” of which new novel everybody was talk- ing, and it means “mouth split as far as the ears.’? I certainly do not call our Saxon tnterpretation an elegant one, Generally speaking, translations murder thought; but in the original bucea fssa, &c., does not suggest so unpoetical an image as our Engilsh con- sonants put together do convey. In fact, bucca Jissa took such possession of me that I could think of nothing else and applied the split to my own mouth in Latin, I soon reflected that no one in Paris 18 more justly entitled to the designation of the man who laughs than myself. How it is the split has not gone aH round my head, behind, is @ wonder, when I come to consider what are the objects and persons I have professionaliy to study in daily life; but nature is 80 wise. The human brain, too, is so wonderfully constructed that the catastrophe could not occur un- leas the sufferer were disposed to become cracked, a thing all New Yore He#xaLp correspondents are specially preserved from. Independently of this, there is no accounting for my Latin at all; it comes and it goes, only its property is ever to come when not wanted and to go when it would be of service. How often at sermons would my inner man have improved had I understood what the preacher was impressing in Latin on myself and an unconscious but trasting congregation | To listen to a sermon with 6 dictionary bound to look like a prayer book ts ali very well for the first text, but when a string of texts come down in fast succession the haste with which one has to turp the leaves is unbecoming in church, In such cases, therefore, Latin would be of service; but at a ball, while lovely baronesses and duchesses were passing to and fro, followed by bouillonné trains over’satin, while diamonds glittered and soft laces waved, it was @ positive intrusion. Yes, “ducca jissa,” it lisped in my ear with Me- phistophelean grin, “look at your charitable donors— there they go; and what does their charity amount to? Self-enjoyment and a splendid occasion for display. Look at the program of this evening—a splendid concert, with Adelina Patti, a piece playea by the best actors in Paris, and at the end of the evening @ ball, All this for a few francs. Why it is cheaper than stopping at Rome!’ jeered the demon, and of he went. I was glad to be left alone, but it was only for a moment; oucca fissa had only walked round and now whis- pered in my left ear, ‘Look at the protuberances of panier made with I on frill and rouieau of satin on tulle, where neither gathers nor wrinkle nor fold were allowed a few months azo; laugh at those painted faces, as thickly coated as signs hanging out on wayside ing with @ brazen lion on them; look at the work of the magic pencil to conceal webbed crow’s iteet on temples from which modesty has fled; laugh at the comedy before you. and then at your own figure in a vest kept on ‘one button, & Solitaire, as you call it, and your blue cloth coat with veivet collar, blue bottie shade, ror’s new style—ha, ha, bucca Md Nothing could express my annoyance to find Latin laughing at me. I had to walk off and readjust the corners of my white necktie before a large glass, which, presenting my whiskers and mustache favor- ably to myself, soothed a part of my ruitied spirit, and the other part was mightily amused when, on re- eatering the gay crowd, I st face to face with an aged husband who was yawnifg Irom one ear to the other, while his young wife, in spring green ae, flirted his arm, followed a This was ducca . I found fit of laughter neceen od ound a fo. \- tion. If men of the world would all laugh at each other itmight sharpen their appetites and do away with a great amount of expensive sea- soning. The quantity of trufied sandwich I absorbed at the buffet after my Joliity over the er in life is better forgotten than record to ape the Eny led, the more 80 48 some lovely toilets seen at Mrs. Burlingame’s ball are waiting for description. No less than one thousand invitations had been sent for her second /éfe, when, applications being made, the American-Chinese Ainbassador issued five hundred more. house was turned into a par- terre of rare flowers, dancing kept up on two floors; a buifet all the eventing, ending with coullon, added the charms of gastronomy to the more elevated insinuations of* surround- mgs. Some peepie tried to count the bas- kes of creeping verdure which hung ffom the arches and windows, but they could not. Some uied to get up statisucs of cameiias, roses and orange blossom branches, but it was like getting among bushes—they couldn’t get out again. Some thought they would acquire a notion of outiay from Champagne corks at tue buffet, just as people do of the deaa by the number of the siain (ajglrishism intended); but the reports went “of like chassepots, which, a8 Marshal Niel says, ‘do marvels,” in a sweep and continuously, Others fan- cied they would caiculate how many diamond neck- laces, broocies, earrings, tlaras and diadems flashed under tae chandeliers, and thus give iriends an idea of the weaith displayed; but such ardus statistics could not be kept up while che music, ae, sub- dued when dancing Was not golag on, lulled the spirit amid southern groves and far away from Ara- bian figures to the Thousand and One Nigits’ Enter- tainments, Mrs. Burlingame was richly atiired in a lovely white tulie robe, under a coral colored panier, looped with mignonette; her hair ts jet black, so that a diadem of the ligat green, with a coral bow for a headdress, can be fancied. Mrs. J. Riggs was in black tull-, covered with flowers of pol. Pratt, whose beauty is so famous, and amethyst shaded eyes the brightest of gems, wore white tulle bouillo: and = a black § tunic. Her black hair jell over her shoulders, Mrs. Chadwick was in white and mauve, and, among other remarkable toilets. the ee war of roses:—A blonde had snatched from a bus! opening buds of all shades, with which ste had looped up her tulle skirts, strewn her long curis and made @ bouquet for her hand. A brune had gathered none but purpie roses, five of which se wreathed in her raven piaited hair; the rest of her toliet was entirely white tulle puils and court mantle; her or- nameuts diamonds aud is. Another bionde was in mauve tulle, with the Louls XV. redingote cut square and sleeves pagoda shape, of rated lace, In this tableau @ lady with robe of black tulle sprin- kKied with silver stars made of white floss—a mid- summer night's dream. Tue white star flower, a frosted narcissus rose, on her forehead, and diamond siars on her neck, compieted the illusion. A novel toilet Was @ red currant tulle, over which a whole basketiul of straw-colored acacia fell in gtaceful trails. It Was worn by a brune, and her curied chignon was headed by a comb from which tne same traiis fell down the wearer’g back. But the Empress’ third Monday must not be omitted, though it is sweet to say taat Mr. Burlingawe’s re- ception of his countrymen was on as grand a scale as those which take place with more grandeur aod i of the pawiarchal spirit in the palace of past ngs. ‘The presence of the Princess of Prussia at the Tuileries added great ¢clat to the third “small Mon- day” and dancing m the Salie des Mari- chaux. The Empress was poetically attired in pale green gauze and silver, while spring hedge rows had s ted wreaths of clinging convolvolt for trimmings. Nothing could be poo age more appropriate and becoming. Two bands of diamonds were worn flat on her olden hair, surmounted by the diamond of France je Regeat. The Princess of Prussia was in a robe of white damask, trimmed with nympheas and browa ruches; several wh plumes were curled in her hair, fastened with diamond snaps. Pring Mathide was in @ straw-colored robe, covered with white tulle and strewn wit varied roses; in her hair she wore a tiara of diamonds. The following young ladies were all ta white:— Miles. d'Albe, Millie. de Bassano, Mile. Payne, Mile. Mariana, Miles. de rurres, Mile. de Gréty. ‘The Em- ress’ nieces (Miles. oad. were wreatieda with ilies of the valley; Mile. de Bassano with snowballs, aud her hair was tressed @ la chatelaine; Mile. Payne with natural roses; Mlle. de Pierres with fresh mountain heath. Anh! the lovely aigrette. Oh! breeze from the blue heights, which plays at home in those heath bushes and scatters thy bloom on— well, no, on nothing lovelier, even there, tian Mle. de Pierres’ cheek and shouiders. Mme. de Metiernich created a perfect, sensation in a golden taffeta robe over which plissés of a much lighter shade, powdered with stiver, aad @ pauier of crépe lisse looped with blue wheat blossoms and silver spears, ‘he same fowers in her chestaut hair. Mme. de Pourtalis was in cerise with white talle nier, powdered with silver, rawed in three places Bywnits and silver hyacinths; she ‘looked lovely; from her hair waved @ tulle vell, glitcering under silver, and raised coquettishiy on one side with cerise plumes. She can only be thus compared to roay Aurora peeping out of parting morning clouds, all scented with eariy hyacinth belis Dey | sleepers to Wake up and look; but heaven protect them when they have looked! A kind of sore leg sensation is creeping over me on recalling the effect of nothing vvGomitesso. Fernandina was io the mildest of mauves; it was @ robe cut en fadlier, with au. daciousiy climbing lilac and white peonies from the round to the waist. They seemed to want to clin £ awed by @ constellation diamonds, whi ic ‘ie ; , ara NJ pnd! Egyptian band that loo if forty centuries i resent the liberty. I despair of getting all in, but must say | admired the Duchess of Malakom's clover leaves; they were made of diamonds and held Her robe was quoise Blue. 5 beetles quivered in rucbes about one beauty in pale nymphiike pink. = Alter tls one word about flowers on new hats. ‘The eider fruit and elder blossom are much worn, I noticed in several carriages, @la Daumont, at the races the day before yesterday, also cowsiips, the mauve periwinkle, also with trail of reseda or mignonette. A new stripe on wW Was the lavender and orange alternately on white. Claret, yellow in the capucine or nas- turdam jes, is in great vogue, The wife of Marshal Canrobert flashed by in @ drab tissue that seemed spun with gold; a of ruche, fringed with drab and gold; @ white tulle mM, crested on the comb locality with violet lilac, Her skin 18 as white as marble and her profile 48 correct as statuary. Princess de Gailifet, a blonde, was one fall of lace, mantilia and all over blue poult. Her aipete Was rosebuds, ‘he Princess de la Moskowa was in black gros Marquise de Canisy was in black cashmere (80 much worn at presen! ), With. flounces of lace, Mer voquet, p! gi Signet. placed ign on her fair hair, was set off by & Among knicknacka I will remark that velvets and ribbons are no longer worn round the neck, but & golden flat ring, on which medallions are hung, which ring is put on toa necklet of gold, and thus three and four lockets can be worn. coilars in favor are unmitigated sailor collars, with bows of the same material in front and high cuffs to match, Printed musiins enyrnprnytoray but snort us of these in my next. iden sil BROOKLYN CITY. THE COURTS. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT—IN BANKRUPTCY. A Baker a Tradesman Within the Meaning of the Bankrupt Act—Decision. Before Judge Benedict. In the Matter of John T. Cocks, Bankrupt.—The following decision was rendered in this case yester- day:— This case raises the question whether a person whose occupation is that of a baker and who bars flour, which he converts,into bread and then sells the bread to daily customers, is to be deemed a trades- man within the meaning of the twenty-ninth sec- ton of the Bankrupt act, and _ therefore not entitled to a discharge where it appears that he has kept no books of account what whatever. As neither counsei has referred to any authority bearing on the question I am justified in pve sjenn for the purpose of this case, that no authorities exist, either in this country or in Eng- jand, which throw any light upon the subject. ‘a absence of any light from authorities I incline to ‘the opinion that the petitioner must be heki to be a tradesman, and therefore not entitled to a dis- charge, for the reason that it appears that he had kept no books of account. I shall be ready to re- consider tis conclusion with the aid of authorities if counsel shall desire to present them for my con- sideration. SURAOGATE’S COURT. Before Surrogate Veeder. The wilis of Wm. G, Gordon, Margaret Ann Foster, David Kopping, John Koepler, Garret Byrns and Wm. F. Springer were proved during the past week, Letters of administration were granted in the estates of James Cunningham, John P. Garland, James How, Jr., Eliza Bates, George Brolly and Wm. Murphy, all of the cicy of Brooklyn. Letters of guardianship of James, John, Catharine A. and Patrick H. Garland were granted to Ross McMann, of Kottiland; James Haggerty to Bernard B. Haggerty, of the town of Flatbush. BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE. ABRESTS.—There were 350 arrests made by the police in Brooklyn in the several precincts during the past week. Founp DrowNeD.—The body of an unknown man was found inthe water at the foot of Elizabeth enh er natenal ae ae Leche in ane The coroner was nouiied. Sega A MysTery SOLVED.—An inquest was held yester- day by tne Coroner over the body of the man found in the river with its throat cut, at the foot of Main street, and which was at first ved to have been the victim of foul play. The doctor who viewed the body and made the j-mortem was of the convic- tion that the cut in throat was caused simply by the action of water, the remains very much decomposed, A verdict of found drowned was ren- CoNFIRMATION.—The Sacrament of Confirmation will be administered to about fifteen hundred children, girls and boys, of the parish of the Cnureh of St. Mary’s (Star of Sea), Court street, near Luqueer, by the Right Rev. Bishop Loughlin, of the Diocese of Brooklyn, at the church in question, this forenoon. The occasion will be one of much so- lempity. In the afternoon Confirmation will be administered to the children of the Church of our Lady of Mercy, Debevoise street. Diep oF His Ixsuntes.—Lewis Pervin, employed a8 a watchman at the Ridgewood Water Works, East New York, was found dead in the engine room of that buliding yesterday morning. It appears that the deceased was severely injured internally a few days ago by boing, aur + between the guards of two ferryboats, and had been compaining greatly ever since the accident, The night previous to nis death, although he went on watch daty, he was very ill, Coroner Whitehill held an inquest on the body, when a verdict in accordance with the facts was rendered. CRIME IN WILLIAMS BURG.—The following criminal cases were disposed of yesterday by Justice Voor- hies:—John Jones, colored, for committing a violent assault upon Anna Ransell, was sentenced to the Peniten! for thirty days; Terence Nugent, for assaulting Mra. Mary Hoyle with a hatchet, was re- manded to await examination on Tuesday next. James Byrnes and George Peiseanna, for assaulting and cutting Owen McKenna, of No. 1i1 North Fourth street, E. D., were fully committed to await the action of the Grand Jury. THs Labor MOVEMENT.—It was decided at a recent meeting of the directors on the Brooklyn City Raifroad Company to increase the wages of the drivers and conductors from $2 to $2 25 per day. Similar action has been taken by the Coney Island Company and the Grand Street (E. D.) pany. ‘The tne! , Whieh is voluntary on the part of the railroad companies, dates from Monday next. A temporary league of navy yard ae in op- tion to the twenty per cent reduction of wages in that quarter was jormed recently, Ata mecting held by them on Friday evening it was stated that for the future, in accordance with instructions from the Navy Department, It was understood that “foremen” and “quartermen’’ would be patd at the same raves as formeriy. A vote as to whether the employés in the Civil, —-= Department would work ten hours at fall wages or eigut hours at a reduction of twenty per cent was taken last week. Only two men voted for ten hours’ work and pay. The following are the rates now paid: - sons, $4 per day; painters, $2 50 per day; smiths, $2 50 per day; gun-carriage makers, per day; plumbers, $2 50 per day; hod carrier r day; carpenters, $3 20 per day; ship carpen’ rt 80 per day; dock butiders, $2 20 per day; bieck- makers, $2 50 per day; laborers, $1 50 a $1 €0. Tas Homicivk oF James DonsGaAN—VeRpict or THE ConoNER’s JunY.—The Coroner's investigation into the circumstances attending the death of James Donegan was continued on Friday night, at the County Court House. The deceased, it may be re- membered, was stabbed in the back during an affray which occurred among a number of parties on the 2d inst, at the corner of Johnson and Navy streew. From the evidence — elictied it appears there is considerable auimosity existing between a number of rowdies who around the above locality and some members of a liibernian or- ganization, and on nearly every occasion they meet a fight ensues. It seems to have been prearranged that they were to have a fight on the afternoon of the 2d inst., and consequently a number of parties hered about the locaiity, armed with clubs, ‘ives and pistols, It is said the policemen joing duty in this section were so familiar to these scenes that took no notice of it ‘on the occasion, which resulted in the loss of life, The Aght commenced about two o'clock, and was kept up for over haif an hour, nd those who wit- nessed it say It was a desperate affair. Several of the belil ute had their skulls nearly smashed in with cluba, while others escaped with a few bruises, However, the parties withdrew and the neighbor- hood became quiet again, but it was only for a short time, About six o'clock in the evening the fracas ‘was renewed in front of the liquor store of Patrick O'Neil, and it was during the la Tow that James Donegan was tatally veral were arrested by the police subsequently for alleged par- ticipancy fn the riot, A large number of witnesses were examined by Coroner Jones during the inquest, and though these latter were remarkably reticent upon the question as to the identity of tie partici tants in the fatal affray, being doubttess joacn implicate their bors, yet the Coroner appe: to have mynaged the case with such judgment as to pon the par- charge was have satisfactorily fastened the ties to whom it belongs. to the jury o'clock on Friday nig sent until nearly hal ‘tn twelve when they returned with following ve “That James Dunnigan, the deceased, came to it mi