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<e “TRURGRAPHIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD The French Cabinet Crisis and Prospects of a Ministry. Napoleon’s New Year's Assurances. THE CUBAN QUESTION IN MADRID, Sensation Rumors in Havana---The Wew York Junta Abandon- ing the Contest. Reported Surrender of 1,500 Cubans at Las Tunas. Arnvat of One of the Delamater Fleet. FRANCE. The Cabinet Crisis—Ministerial Reporte—Not Oficially Aunounced. PABIS, Jan. 1, 1879, ‘eis certain that the new Ministry will be an- ‘ouaced day after to-morrow. The Journal Opiciel as not yet published a list of the appomtments, but La Liberté, the organ of M. Ollivier, states to-day that the Ministry ts constituted, and publishes the Jollowing as the announcement which will be ‘oflictally promulgated on Monday:— Minister of Justice—M. Emtie Ollivior. Atinister af lhe interior—M. Chevaudier de Val- drome. Minister of Foreign Afairs—M. le Deputé Gi din. Minister of Commerce—M. le Deputé Couvet. Minister af Public Works—M. Maurice Richard. MM, Magne, Bourbeau, Chasseloup, Laubat, Le- boeuf and Kigault de Genouilly will retain their po- sitions. € Oficial Antecedents. Panis, Jan. 1, 1870, Of the Ministry, as thus given by La Liberte, four cof the members are Senators and six are members -of the Chamber of Deputies. M. Gaudin, the Mints- ter of Foreign Affairs, was formerly a Minister ‘Plenipotentiary and also Councillor of State. Chevaudier de Valdrome, Minister of the Interior, ‘was Second Vice President of the Corps Légisiatif. All the others are well known tn political circles. M. Berthemy, the French Envoy at Washington, declined the portfolto of the Interior on account of hia deficiency in oratory. French Cable Telegrams. Lonpon, Jan. "1, 1870. The Paris correspondent of the Globe, commenting on the oiicial denial of the censorsuip over the French cable, says all telegrams are received by the (Mintatry of the Interior. “the Latest Reports—New Year at the Tuile exiles. Panis, Jan. 1—6 P. M. It ts stated that the Emperor signed the decree confirming the new Ministry last night. To-day the Emperor received the alplomatic corps, ‘In answer to the usual address he returned his “thanxs and said that tne presence of all the foreign -Fepreséntatives was a proof of the friendly relations existing between their respective governments and France. He then conversed freely with the chiefs ‘of whe various legation: 5 ‘the Throne and Cuban Questions. MapRiD, Jan. 1, 1870. The Imparcial, referring toa recently circulated contradiction of the report that the partisans of the Duke of Montpensier and the Prince of Asturias ‘were working in conjunction, asserts that the denial 4s only applicable to certain persons and not to the entire party. The reception of a note from the United States government, threatening recognition of Cuba, 1s ‘omeially denied. ENGLAND. Ske Alabama Claims Question—Commercial ProspecisThe Peabody Hospital. Lonpon, Jan. 1, 1870, The Spectator, commenting on recent diplomatic correspondence between the governments of the ‘United States and Great Britain, says that the notes of Mr, Fish are improvements on Mr. Seward’s. His despatches contain no buncombe or flourishes; yet there is too much of undignified sentimental com- plaint instead of strict adherence to legal questions, The American case on the Alabama question is a strong one, and one in which all maritime Powers are deeply interested, but Mr. Fish does not do it Justice, The Saturday Review, referring to the Alabama dispute, says the Americans uniformly assume that @vlockade port 1s no port, yet they properly de- cline to interfere with their vessels running into blockaded ports of Cuba. The Times gravely predicts a prosperous com- mercial year, because midway between the woubles of 1866 and the period when a new inflation ts sure, new American schemes are excluded from European. markets by the action of the judiciary and Legisla- ture of New York regarding Eric. Federal securi- ties will lose their demand in Europe because of their advanced price. The Peabody trustees have purchased the hospital in Black{riars road as a site fora memorial hospital. LOUISIANA. The Warmoth-Wickliffle Imbroglio—The New Orleans Chief of Police Imprisoned—Inter- nal Revenue Receipts. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 1, 1870. Chief of Police Cain was yesterday committed to ‘the Parish Prison for twenty-four hours for contempt of court, in the Seventh district, for allowing Gover- nor Warmouth the use of the Metropolitan Police to prevent Auditor Wickliffe from occupying his office in the Mechanics’ Institute, from which he had been ejected by order of the Governor. Peremptory orders were issued by the sixth District Court for ‘Wickliffe to reoccupy the office, while the Fifth Dis trict Court enjoined the Sheriff from disturbing the Governor in the use and occupancy of the Mechanics’ Institute. The Governor and Metropolitan Police fre still in possession of the entire building. ‘The statement of Colonel Stockdale shows the in- ‘ternal revenue receipts of this district for the eight -Months ending December 31 to be $1,519,543, - The receipts for the corresponding period last year were $979,871, The gain over last year, without deduct- Ang the cotton tax, 14 over $500,000. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS. During the past year 2,850 marriage licenses have been issued in Baltimore. The regular session of the Maryland Legislature will convene at Annapolis on Monday next, George D. Prentice, of Louisville, Ky., is gradually fecovering and is now considered out of danger. About eight inches of snow had fglien In Louts- wille, Ky., up to seven o'clock lasi evening, and tae storm still continued. ‘The Congressional Postal Committee, now in Bos- ton, yesterday visited the Custom Hpuse and steam- ers Ontario and Erie, They wilt ‘coiflinence work on Monday. The colored people of Indianapoits, Ind., cele- Drated the emancipation anniversary yesterday with @ public procession, the reading of the emancipation proclamation and pubiic speaking. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. CUBA. ORES CTE eERCaRe Spanish Sensations—The Insurgents Ordered to Lay Dewan Their Arms by the Junta in New York—The Failure of Negotiations in the United States the Cause—Arrival of Oue ot the New Gunboats at Havana. Havana, Jan. 1, 1870, Intense excitement prevatis here in consequence of the announcement in the Havana journais of this evening that the revolution has terminated. Ac- cording to the published statements the editors of the journals have seen @ copy of a circular signed by the members ef the Cuban Junta in New York ordering the insurgents to lay down thetr arma for the present, and giving as rea- sons for the abandonment of the insurrection the foiluge of 6 fll @ Hor u inability A aa A Sthraars fa Fd the disheartening action of the American govern- ment in permitting the gunboats to sail from New York. The circular soverely attacks the course of President Grant, The Junta advises the Cubans to submit to the Spaniards in order to save further bioodshed. ‘The Vor de Cuba (sensationalist) announces the surrender of 1,600 insurgents at Tunas to General Benegast. The Diario announces that the ex-rebel General Coca offers to raise a body of guerillas to fight against the mnsurgents, One Spanish gunboat arrived to-day, having be- come separated from tts companions off the heights of Charleston, The rest are expected to arrive to- morrow. A fire to-night destroyed five houses on Monte street, Further announcements are made from the .inte- rior of bodies of insurgents offering to capitulate. If ail the nows is true the revdlution may be cohsld- ered as expiring; but a full confirmation of i is wanting. The steamer Cleopatra gailea this morning for Vera Crus. MISSISSIPPI. General Alcorn Declines the Provisional ¢iuv- ernorship. MempPuis, Jan. 1, 1870. The Avalanche has information that General Al- corn, Governor-elect of Mississippi, positively re- fuses to accept the provisional Governorsuip ten- dered to him by General Ames, NEW YORK. Fearful Tragedy at Sleepy Hollow—Two Persons Murdered and One Mortally Weunded, POUGHKEEPSIE, Jan. 1, 1870. A terrible tragedy occurred at Sleepy Hollow, near Tarrytown, about two o'clock this afternoon. A man named V. W. Buckhout shot his wife, a New York merchant named Alfred Randall and a son of the latter, named Charlies Randall. Mrs. Buckhout was shot through the temple, Alfred Randall through the heart and Charles Randall in the side. Mrs. Buckhout and Alfred Randall are dead. Charies Randall lies in a danger- ous condition. Buckhout gave himself up immedi- ately after the occurrence and was lodged in jail at White Plains. The cause of this appalling tragedy ig unknown. Some persons ascribe it to jealousy on the part of the husband, while others believe that he is insane. The Adirondack Railway. WARRENSBURG, Jan. 1, 1870. Another section of twelve miles of the Adirondack Railway was formally opened to-day. The road now extends forty-nine miies north of Saratoga, to near Johnsburg. EUROPEAN MARKETS. Paris Boursk.—Paris, Jan. 1—Evening.—The Bourse closed firm; rentes, 78f, 5c. LIVERPOOL PROVISIONS MARKET.—LIVERPOOL, boo 1.—Beef 1028, Lard dull. Cheese 688. 6d. Pork quiet. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—LONDON, Jan. 1.— Page’ quiet and steady. Linseed cakes, £10 78. a $3. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Arrivals in New York City Yesterday. Dr. J. MW. Schenck, Jr., of Philadeiphia; W. H. Wethington, of Michigan; W. D. Parker, of Balti- more; T. G. Beam, of San Francisco; O. McDowell, of Maryland, and’. D. Fagan, of Cincinnati, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Cologel W. H. Granger, of New Haven; Captain C. R. Dubois, of Kingston, and Professor Sharp, of Scotland, are at the St. Charles Hotel. General J. S, Marmaduke, of St. Louis; Fred Fisher, of New York; J. A. McClung, of Virginia, ana a. F. Coyle, of Washington, are at the New York Hotel. Dr. Stillweli, of Sag Harbor, and W, J. Field, of New Bedford, are at the Everett House. Colonel W. Scott, of Erie; Mr. Gausman, of Buffalo; B.C. Truman, of San Francisco, and L. H. Redner, of Philadelphia, are at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. Colonel J. Lawrence, of lowa; C. W. Burnett, of Cincinnati, and E. S. Spencer, of Chicago, are at the Hoffman House. Commander H. N. 8. Arnold, of the United States Army; Taeo. W. Dimon, of Washington; Captain J. Lawless, of Bristol, and E. A. Talbott, of Maryland, are at the Astor House. Prominent Prominent Departures. Galusha A. Grow, for Penusylvania; Colonel C, W. ‘Yompkins, for Baitimore; Colonel W. H. Reynolds, for Providence, aud General D. C. Buell, for Ken- tucky. LOCAL INTELLIGE SHor IN THE LEG,—At three o'clock yesterday afternoon August Cudmer, aged fourteen, was shot in the leg by an unknown person in Seventh avenue, ‘Taken to Mt, Sinai Hospital. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.—About one o'clock yester- day afternoon Henry Scorz, aged fifteen, of No. 96 Sheriff street, accidentally shot himseli through the Jett hand, shattering bis middie finger. ScuppEN DgaTH.—Albert George, colored, aged twenty-eight, residing at 256 Mott street, died sud- donly yesterday morning from hemorrhage of the lungs. The Coroner was notilied and will hold an inquest to-day. Svuicips.—At nine o'clock (ast night Martin Mo- reer, aged thirty, residing at No. 224 West Thirty- first street, committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope drawn over his bedroom door. The Coroner was notified and wili hold an inquest to- day. STABBING AFFRAY.—At half-past two o’cloc& yes- terday afternoon a dispute arose in the liquor saloon of Edward Beady, vetween Patrick Cassidy and William Cole, during which the former was severely cut in the head and the latter on both hands. Their wounds were dressed by Surgeon Otis and counter complaints preferred, They wiil be arraigned at the Yorkville Police Court this mora- tag and locked up to answer the charge. ASSAULTING AN OFFICER.—At 61X o'clock yester- day afternoon, while officer McSwigan, of the Light- eenth precinct, was conveying two prisoners to the station house in Twenty-second street for assault and battery, assisted by Alexander Hays, of 218 Hast ‘Lwenty-seventh street, he was assaulted and his prisoner takea from him. During the affray Hays suot Thomas McCatney, of 241 Kast Twenty-second street, Dot seriously injuring him. ihe injured man Was removed to Bellevue Hospival, FELONIOUS ASSAULTS.—At haif-past eight last night Samuel Tilden, residing at the corner of Thir- ty-seventh street and eighth avenue, was struck in the face with a Kerosene lamp by Constantine Na- poleon and severely cut. : Fanny Place, thirty five years of Bg, residing at 38 Chiton street, was felontously beaten in a lager beer saloon, at 44 Clinton street, by Gotleib Reel, the proprietor, and Jacob Wise. An altercation occurred last night between George Williams and Joseph Jones, in First avenue, near Vuteenth street, during which Williams was stabbed in the breast by Jones, who made his escape. He was taken home by friends. At hali-past seven iast night, as Patrick Mack, re- je the corner of Kighty-ninth street and Fou avenue, Was passing througn Twenty-firin street, he was stabi in tour places in the stomach and side, He was taken home by frienas, At eight o’ciock last night Edward Saul, while preventing @ fight, was stubbed in the hand by au unknown party, who made his escape. At three o’clock yesterday afternoon, as Louis Manking, a German, thirty-five years of age, resid- ing at No. 334 East T! third street, was standing in troat of No. 223 East Twenty-eighth street, he was seriously stabbed in the left side by William Dunn, of No. 212 Kast rere fase street, who was ar- reacted by an officer of the Twenty-first precinct, THE FRENCH LIBERAL MINISTRY, Below we give short biographical sketches of the Members of the new liberal Ministry neaded by M. Ollivier. As will be seen the announcement is not oMcial, but is deserving of credence, coming from La Liberte, the organ of M. Girardin, With but five exceptions the Ministers are the same appointed by Mapoleos ou the retirement of M. Rouher last sum- er. . M. Emile Olivier, Prime Minister of France. The first Prime Minister of the constitutional empire of France was born at Marseilles on the 2d of July, 1825, where his father, a merchant of hign standing, became conspicuous for the active part he took in politics a8 a radical democrat. M. Emile Uluivier rectived @ good education, and in 1847 was admitted to the Paris bar, of which he became a distinguished member. During the year following the revolation drove Louis Phillippe from the throne, and the republican government appointed him Commbisary Geperal at Marseilles and later Prefect at Lange’. The coup d’écat met bis decided disapprobation, but he took no particularly promt- nent part in politics until 1857, when ne was elecied to the Corps Léguwlatif from the Third cir- conscription of Parts asan “opposition candidate.’’ As Deputy he became conspicuous for the speeches he delivered on the Italian expedition, the liberty of the press and the laws of public safety. When, after the great successes that attended the French arms in [taly, Napoleon seemed absolute master of the situation, M. Olitvier remained in op- n to the government at the head of what was ef Known gs “The Fivg” It was during this period that fe defended M. Vacherot, who was tried for publishing a work entitled “La Democratie.” The language used in his iment incurre’ the displeasure of the authorities, who suspended him from practice at the bar for threé months therefor, et the general election im 1863 M. Olliver was re- jurned by an imereased majority. At the start it was perceived by the radical element that his views towards the Emperor had chi Although ee 1n opposition, he was moderate in hia denunciations of the government, and evidently anxious to lib- eralize and not to overthrow it.. Meantime his Soquelnianee with Napoleon ripened jnto friendsiiip, and in 1865 @ mark of confidence be 3 Lea piyrr “upon him in his spenement aa ter adviser of the ot gorarminen which arose uatie ie the Suéz canal, and which wore settled by the arbitration of the Emperor who founded his decision upon the report of M. Olivier. In ie same year hé was ap) ag eee at and commissar! eu mas aise President of ‘the in Paris. He was also el Counoll General of Var, and sdf gfter announced that he would support the Bonapar! asty if it headea a liberal and constitutional emp! AES elections this year he was defeated vy the radicals 0! Paris, but was elected from one of the rural circon- scriptions. M. Ollivier 18a man of decided ability, but is regarded as iacking in nerve and decision of character. He is the author of several judicial and political works and ws a gentleman of erudition. Count Chasscloup-Laubat, Minister President . of the Council. Justin Napoleon Samuel Prosper Laubat, Minister President of the Council of State, is a very abie and persevering French politician and statesman, though an Italian by birth. He was born at Alessandria, Piedmont, in the year 1805, and studied in the Lycée’ Lous Le Grand. He entered the Department of the Council of Stave in 1828, and in 1830 was cespeecned to Algeria, where he served atthe siege of Constantin In 1837 he was elected to the Vee ye) Cote id in 1838 ap- pointed a Councillor of State. He served as Min- ister of Marine from the 10th of April to the 26th of October, 1851. Alter the coup d'evat be supported the government, and was elected in 1857. In 1858 he was named one of the Counsel of Colonization tor Algeria, and succeeded Prince Napoleon as Minister in 1859. He visited Algeria and ranks as a friend of the colonists. He bas paid much attention to naval affairs, and is a supporter of sailors’ mghts in pay andthe claims of the widows and orpiians of sea- men. He was appointed Senator in 1862, and has the Grand Cross of the jon Of Honor. He 19 @ favor- ite contributor to the columns of the Revue de Deux Mondes, He has held the position to which he tas been appointed since the orgunization of the minis- try last summer. General Lebeeuf, Minister of War. Soon after the death of Marshal Niel General Lebceuf was appointed his successor in the War Office, and is now retained under the liberal Minis- try. He was born in 1809, graduatea at the Poly- technic School and the Ecole d’Application, of Metz, and in 1833 was commissioned a heutenant of artillery. Durlag the war in Algeria he acted with great gallantry, bis conduct beimg especially brilliant at the engagement of the Iron Gates, for which he was promoted to tze rank of captain, For distinguished services at the siege of Constantine he was rewarded with the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and in 1840 was further pro- moted on account of the skill and daring displayed by him when covering the retreat of the French, whose column was danger of being cut off by the Kabyles. In 1842 he was made a colonel. During the Crimean war he served at the head of the artillery a3 major general and took.a prominent part at the battle of the Alma. In 1857 he was commissioned heutenant general and in the Itulian campaigu saved Victor Kmanuel’s army from vemg crushed at Solierino by his timely and judicious bringing up of the French artillery of which he had supreme commani. At one time General Leboouf was in command of th Polytechnic School, where he made himself exceed- ingiy popular. In 1866 be was sent to Venice to receive Venetia from the Austrian government. General Leboeuf 13 devoved to Napoleon. Aside from his great courage andabiilty he 1s distuunguisned as being the largest man in the French service. Rigault De Genouilly, Minister of Marine. The newly appointed Minister of Marine is an ad- miral of the imperial navy. He was born at Roche- fort on the 12th of April, in the year 1807, and admitted to the naval school of France in 1825. He entered the navy in 1830, was captain of a trigate in 1841, @ memver of the Admiralty in Paris in 1853, and Rear Admiral of the naval brigade operating against Sebastopol in 1854. In the year 1856 he was despatched to command the fleet in the China seas and there co-operated with the British at the cap- ture of Canton, in 1357. He was promoted Grand Otticer of the Legion of Honor in 1865 and created Senator in 1860. In the month of January, 1862, he took command of the squadron in the Mediterranean, and was named admiral January 27, 1864. He was Minister of Marine in 1867. The Admiral has paid much attention to the development of the l'rench iron-clad feet and is a practical as well as a sclen- tune officer. He is a writer as weil asa navigator, and has edited some two or Wiree popular works in Paris. Pierre Magne, 1 ister of Finance, was born at Perigeux, December 3, in the year 1806. He isa self-made man, being of what is termed an “obscure” family. In 1831 he was admitted as an avocat, or attorney, and was patron- ized by Marshal Bugeaud, M. Fould, noticed his peculiar ability, and soon afterwards took charge of his political fortunes. He became a member both of the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies, in which bodies he was recognized as a practical man, al- though not much of a debating speechmaker. He retired to private life in 1848, but was recalled to official position as Under Secretary of State for Finance in 1849. April 10, 1851, he was appointed Minister of Public Works, in which ofiice he was very successful during three or four years. He was an ‘able advocate of railroad extension in Frauce, and during the interim inspected all the main lines already jJaid down in the empire and in other countries of Europe, adopting and suggesting improvements. From 1864 to 1860 he held to the portfolio of finance. In 1860 he was nominated Minister’ without a portfolio, retired from the Cabinet in 1843, and was named a Privy Councilior in April of the last named year. Hots a Senator and was commander of the Legion of Honor before he received the Grand Cross in 1854. M. Magne originated and conducted most of Napoleon’s great loans. During his absence Irom Paris at one Bane the Empress Eugenie visited him and found im feeding @ flock of chickens. Louis Oliver Bourbean, Minister of Public Instruction. Louis Oliver Bourbeau was born at Poitiers on March 2, 1811, and studied law under Boncenne. He made his début at the bar of Poitiers, where his pre- cise style of language soon gained nim a very exien- sive practice. In 1847 he was made Mayor of his native city, which office he retained during the crisis of 1848, and was afterwards named deputy to the Con- stitutional Assembly. His independent ideas were notorious, and he generally cast his vote with the moderate democratic party. He completed the im- portant work entitied “The Theory of Civil Proceed- ings,” written by M. Boncenne, aud published it in 1847, with two additional volumes. At the recent election he was returned for the Vienne, and was one of those who signed the interpeijation of the memvers of the left centre, which brought about the present constitutional government. The Other Ministers. Of the other Ministers we know but litcie. Deputy Gaudin fs announced as Minister for Foreign Aftairs, He ts probably M. Pierre Foedora Gaudin, who was formerly a member of the Corps Légisiatif, and dis- tinguished Limseit by his atack on Napoleon and his ministers for the expedition to Rome. Deputies Couret aud Richard, Ministers of Commerce and Public Works, eppete for the first time to oficial powitions under Emperor. AND OPE Horse Racing in the .Desert—The Vieeroy’s “Turnout’—An English Steed Takes the Prize—Evening fetes and the Seene at Sunset — The Mysterious Beauty Again—Lunch at the Pyramids— The Return and Dressing for the Opera. ALEXANDRIA, Deo. 1, 1869. A very different thing tt 1s toset out for the Long- champs races, near Paris, and for races in the desert of Abbassieh, near Cairo, in Egypt. It is an inf. nitely warmer ride, in the first place, and in the second a dust cuat 1s no pretence at all. It was, I may say, a novel thing, on reaching my appointed piace in the Viceroy’s stand, to ind that Arab steeds were not the only competitors down for Prizes on the lists, but dromedartes and donkeys likewise. More than novel, thirdly, was the aspect ofthe fleld. To the right rose tne citadel and other antique domes, which sloped down to the borders of that part of the desert re- servéd f6F the race course. Here a line of infantry had been drawn up to salute the Emperor of Austria, who wouid have to arrive from nis palace to the royal stand tn that direction, In front a long horizon of mounds enclosed the open space to the lett—the interminable desert—and behind the ruins of the “City of the Sun,” Heliopolis. The idea of our modern sport in such a spot would have made me fancy myself some embodied anacuronism had | not soon had the nineteenth century prought home to me by the continued arrival of trains from Cairo with European tourists and yjsltors in light gray trousers and pearl gray kids. Ladios also appeared in toquets and blue velis. ‘They were fow, certainly, but enlivened the scene. One equestrian belle took place among the carriages that fringed the course: on @ lovely white horse. Her saddle was blue velvet; her style of sitting, alt Rotten Kow or Central Park; her close fitting habit, Parisian. But what added a kind of piquancy to her appearance was that she fiad come preceded by two of the finest Nu- blan forerunners, in white, fowing camel’s hair garments. worked with gold. These sais would certainly have created a great sensation in the demi-monde at Longchamps, They were black as ebony, and both as handome as Othello in the eyes of Desdemona, Their light, elastic spring over the desert was still more graceful than the pawing of the noble beast on which the fair sportswoman was mounted. The Viceroy arrived in a basket chaise, covered with @ light palanquin, umobrellashape. His trotters were light gray and harnessed with crimson, on which merrily rang numerous bells. Soon after he was seated the Emperor of Austria was announced by the firing of the infantry in the distance, All glasses were directed to the spot. His outriders were dressed in a scarlet livery, while he, seated in an open phaeton by one of the Viceroy's Ministers, was in @ plain black frock coat, light trousers, a black round hat and lavender gloves. The most decided “swell” on his ata’ was*a young German diplomatist in @ dark green velvet jacket and light cloth trousers, with the Egyptian scarf over his hat. These scarfs, or to be correct and thus show a tincture of Arabic, these ‘“cou- fiéh” over hats have been the furor here since the Opening of the canal, No one has gone out without a dangling coufleh upon his head, rolled, streaming or apreading somehow, and I infinitely prefer them to the vell which sportsmen delight mn on Derby days. They have had so great asuccess with both sexes that I prognosticate we have not seen the end of them at races, Those which are woven with gold in Pharaoh stripes of red and yellow are the most becoming. They cover the coat collar, keep off the sun and dust and—add a glow to certain eyes, a straightforwardness to certain noses, a screen to certain whiskers which, having been once appro- ciated In the glass, cannot be easily dispensed with in the future. Perhaps the least sald avout the run- ners themselves will be best. Colonel Stanton’s stud, with, English jockeys, gamed the day. ‘There were but three dromedaries vo compete for a prize of £125 sterling, distance six miles, Two of them were superb; the third gave up before the end of the race, This was a local and unteresting run, @ while, owner Khalil-Aga, and mounted by @ ferocious looking Bedouin, came up by half a length victorious at the winning post. ‘The .terrible excitement among the donketeers, whose animals tad been admitted to try for a twenty-fye pound prize, greatly amused the Em- Deror of Austria. About 300 Arabs rusned on tie race course, gesticulatiing and shrieking for the precedence of thetr own. It was useless to persuade them to stand back and to explain to thea that it was all going to be fair piay; that their don- keys would all start on @ straight line at @ given signal. They disbelleved fair play. Soon vociiera- tions and viows were exchanged on 80 wholesale a scale that the run was given up and the Arabs were beaten off the fleid. Tais was the real race, for he Tan fastest came in for jess blows. In less than five minutes the space was cleared and a mighty shout of See pa irom all spectators raug through Abbas- sieht. A splendid collation consisting of cold meat, fowl, pates and exceilent wines, had been laid out under a neighboring tent tor tue Viceroy’s gentlemen guests, White the ladies were waited on by lis servants in tue stands, ‘The /éte was not over until near sunset, and a glor- jouy sigot this was, No fireworks, no artificial bouquet in the pyrotechnic line could ever create 80 deep & sensation of wonder as the sudden light- ing up of that Egyptian sky and the no less sudden disappearance of the mighty powerful orb belind the norizon of that hippodrome. All the colors ever dreamed of biended In one harmonious prisin were spread ip an oceau overhead.” Wherever the cye turned it was entranced by a sea of purpie, gold and blue that played on minarets end on every grain of sund, on every pebble and fragment of broken grau- ite under foot. ‘The soul yearned to see veuind those dazzilng realms above; down teil the Fel- lahing and Mussulmans, and with knees in the sand and faces to the east they worshipped. Groups of them were soon at prayers in every direction. Somo went apart and prayed alone, others took oif their woollen overgarments, and, cross-legged, 8% on Uhem in deep weditation, ‘The larger number mut- tered a kind of litany, with beads in hand, every now aud then bowing their forcheads to the ground avd hitingup their arms. One old man, with a long flowing beard and venerable gray head, re- minded me of the Hebrew patriarciis, He prayed wih his arms extended unul the sun had quite vanished, Stranger to ms than this unexpected sight was the undeniable evi- dence of strong faith on the countenauces ‘of these Mohammetans. It was no semblance of re- lugion such ag we see In our modern temples; tt was not lip service, ‘God 1s great” 18 the basis of their worship. As I looked at the departing, merry crowds of Europeans in well made attire, just then all running to catch the train which was vo convey us to a banquet at Cairo, | despised those who turned to scott and mock these patievt. these enduring Arabs. “Whata splendid gymmmastic exercise for the body,’’ exciaimed @ young Parisian, pointing to a Fellak then bowing and prostraung himseii on the sand, “and what @ cunning old cove was Molam- med,” suid an Englishman, ‘he invented ablutions for the sake of fing them a nice wash once or twice a day.” It clashed on my ear as | left a scene which never will be forgotten. ‘The next day Was to see us among the tourists who were to be with the Emperor of Austria at tie Pyramids. On tuis occasion, a3 throughout the whole Egypulan trip, we were free to make up our parties aud have our different halts in companies of our own selection, No etiquette was entorced of guests beyond that of seeing everything and being erywhere. Consequently a whole party vf us had resolved to visit the work of Oueops together. We considered, of course. that oar members were made up of the best sort. If we were mistaken we were, at ail events, (he merriest sort, and ever managed, after mevitable trials and separations, to fail to gether again. It is not an easy thing to get to the Pyramids. It can ouly be done with the assistance of turee diderent conveyances. A drive of two hours brings one to the Nile, which has to be ferried over in crazy old boats with lateeu sails, on which men snd donkeys stand promiscu- ously With & continual certainty that they are going to be capsized every alternate five seconds. On the opposite slore—and me Nile is very wide at the point that has to be crossed—tne donkeys are landed, and thus mounted tourists get to the Pyramids. We had the excetlenc iortune on leaving our car- riages for the ferryboats to come across Mili ria, whom | had not seen since the ball Neither was she alone. “I knew you were all con ing here to-day,’ She said, with her sweetest tongs, “and Lthougit you would not mind having me and my grandiather,” she auded, putting her arm wittin that of a finé old genueman who came { ward. “Comte de P.” sue troduced and de- clared our names to the aged novieman. 4e 8 ‘my end,’ you know,’ #he added, lauygn 1 shook hands with him; “he was W: t id, and because he had helped him overtand route Co Lndia ana has got oh his rights among the Egyptians, | though | would come and teil the Viceroy a bit of my mind, so here we are, and | shall not le: this couniry ull my grandfather 1s righted eithe: “You must iell me all atioat tt,” I said to M. de P., ‘and ail about Waghorn.” “[ think 1 know more about him than any one on earth,” said the old gentioman. “I was wth hint from the beginuing, and did not think | should live to see the Eogit allow a Frenchman piace his bust if 5 —— a OWE to M. Go Leasepa that Wi vy termed @ fossit bt 4 Wrpaf down to posterity.” neers antlers Socnants ly io thet primitive con- ‘You ap out” Lasked. | dition of horn and have no change what- ih : we of emigrants. | ever. He remarked thas shis elk, colossal as it is, ‘Thy rh jaihe ung dina) ‘ince the oration W2 had now to get iato the boats where Mile. Im- | of man, for tne bones ‘antlers are found in caven petia was welcomed very heartily by my compan. | aide stde with the fitnt arrow heads, bone 1ons, who were all her admirers. Unto a future cor- | hatcheta tremendous clubs, which indicate that respondence do I reserve the communications made to me by M. de P. as the overland route and his friend horn, the Pyramids leading your readers far cnough for this letcer. We were a curious picture when we all landed and bad remounted our troftera, each followed by & jue-looking donkeytccr, ‘There was the edt- tor of the Gat With his medicine chest under h m, aud without which he never leaves Lis hotel; there was the editor of the French Charivari, on a donkey, called “Jumping Charley;” there was the fame “Domino Noir," whose real name 1s Baron George d’Orgeval, the witticst of Parts satirists, there was the great chamberlain of the “Emperor of all the Russias’? on an animal known “Ragol- boche” both far and near. In advance was the ex- Minister of Public Instruction. Ie got in before the vanguard on a beast called *Pensive Bob,” from a mauner he had of drooping his ears. The Opinion Nationale was on “Rochefort; the Times of India on “Ali Baba.” Twas stirred up on ‘“Macaroni,’? because he is a “pipe,” said the rider of **Ali Baba,’ Mile. Imperta came up on Telegraph, her grand- lather on Lanterns, ‘There were, of course, many others, but the man of the party who was to be a Vicuud—and there always is one—was a dignitary in the Foreign Office, Paris. He had come to Egypt to try his hand at travel. He had never left hig bachelor home, nor bis maiden sister. He was ‘set up’? in blue spectacies, a Diue veil, a vall felt hat with Diinkers of brown bol- land on each side, cotton im both ears, a spacious umbrella, gaiters and three spotted silk haudker- chiefs round bis throat. This quadru| ‘was called hocking,” and thus it bebaved itself all through; tt did not like its rider from the moment he singied it out for hia and patied it on the neck. There are om for @veryone on the road to the Pyramids, but the downs were the rider of Shocking. Unfortu- bately he was bent om creating an impression on Mile, Imperia, Who was most condescending now that ahe found her grandfather. He atiempted both the trot, the caper and gallop for her editica- tion, and each was fatal. After this he had but to display bis three decorations on bis ‘honored’ breast, @ quiet cst that if unsuccessful at el dopke 8 where. e 1a We wore all struck of gigantic constructions & heap at the before us; and while the luncheon was being oyt at the foot of these world-famed monuments the party separated, sole to be pulled up to their summit by Arabs, who are greater Lumbugs in this locality than even European cicerones, As soon as they have helped a man up about two dozen yards, and he feels it would be comfort wipe his forehead in peace, they scream out “bakshigh.” They are signed t@ Walt; no; out ate stretched their pany - shish, or bratiie yi leave you RS 4 e a a to a life own on indred fig’ of stalrs, Soll “fen of Hhich one yard and a half a part. The only thug to do 4s to work up an snyand bending a atmaninted eftees v lury, demonatrateg by 9 strong fem) reps over on the Sphinx gelbana emai’ Tee to tura the linkng of one's pockets ‘inside out, aud show them they WHi get nothing till they pring you safe down again. From that hour your person ts their property, surely, but sacred. When they reach the top witi' you they will feel ail your limbs to ascertain 1 anything 1s broken, rub you, declare you are not britule and drag you down. Some of our party declared, when | returned to them, that they had gone up alone in a quarter of an hour and run down also alone in five minutes. These are nimbie facts, some would call fancies; but | never doubt either when traveiling. ‘The most amusing part of the day was the picnic luncheon. Mile. Amperia did ve honors with womanly grace and skill. The Gavlots tolé some of its best fictions; the Ciarivari sketched us all; the Russian Chamberlain was as grand as Viteilius over champague and truflies, whie the French rider of Shocking explored the vicinity for a souvenir of the day. At length he brought it and gravely presented it to Mile, Imperta, It was @ human skull—teeth imperfect, This was a signal for a universal move. All rose to their leet for human remaing. Some found ashin; otvers a foot, @ hand, a saoulder blade; while the originator of ts anatomical idea sat in glory with the skull between his knees, ‘The ons mois and jests made were truly French. Mile. Imperia declined the offerings brought to her and accepted the skull aione, “I will steal it from you when you are at the tomb of the Sphinx,” kindly whispered the Charwvart. “lease do,” replied we malicious girl; “1 shall not have to carry tt.” Accord- ingly, when we all returned from the different sights round the pyramids the skull was stolen. No one Knew who had done tt. The Gauéots declared that one of the Arabs had recognized his ancestor and carried him home again. Our inteption haa been to remain the whole aiternoon with tae shadows of Cheops, but @ messenger was sent to say the Em- peror of Austria had resolved not to visit the pyra- mids that day. The proparations which were beng made for their tllumination were suspended and our caravan turned \owards Cairo, each laden with spoil and bits of treasure. The rider of Shocking was only twice thrown com- ing back, but the last throw was conclusive, as it caused a@ fearful split and necessitated that some vehicle should be stopped on which a seat could be secured for the reat of the route. On our return to Cairo it was time to dress for the opera and the gala ballet ‘La Giselle.” The house ‘Was most brilitant, all the ladies being in full dress: and the Viceroy in his box. The iourth act of “‘Rigolette,” by M. Naudin, and Mille, Vitalt opened the performance. No ballet in Paris could excel the beauty of this Cairo display. The principal stars were Mmes. Miranu, Roscri and Cerri. ‘ihe ladios of the Viceroy’s harem quivered, as I have before do- scrived, bemina their screens of stretohea gauze, and many 4@ sigh for iiberty, alas, was borne oa the per- fumes of that Arablan opera house. THE BALL SEASON. Footsteps on the Floor. During the coming week the devotees of Terpsi- chore will have opportunities of mduiging in their favorite and pleasing sport to their heart's content. The week, indeed, will be @ brilliant one, and, juag- ing from the preparations already being made, will long be remembered by all who take part in the fes- uvities, < To-morrow night the grand Bal dopéra boufe will come off atthe French theatre and will be in every way @ glowing opening of the week. Those having charge of the arrangements promise that it shall outdo anything of the kind yet seen in New York. A number of novel features wili be intro- duced, and ample precautions have been taken to prevent any such scenes a8 have disgraced imasque- rade balls which have lately taken place. At Apoilo Hali, on Wednesday evening, the first invitation ball of the Lincoln Union of the Ninth Ward will take place. ‘’he gentlemen having charge of this ball, at the head of whom 1s Collector W. B, White, are such a8 to guarantee that the affair will be enjoyable in every respect. ‘The ladies’ tickets ure handsome photographs of Lincoin and his Cabi- net, and snow @ taste for art and appropriate rich- ness On tha part of the designers. On Thursday evening, at the Academy of Music, the Americus Ciub will noid forth. Praise of the receptions by this club would very much resembie the attempt to “paint the lily.” Everybody wha is anybody goes to the Aimericus ball, und as every- body wishes to be thought somebody and nobody is willing to be nobody, it is safe to presume that everybody who can will be oa band on Thursday evening. “Everybody who can,’ is good. Be- cause it {$ not everybody who ¢i The club members have been circumspect in the distribution and disposition of the tckeis, aad they intend to make the bali of 1870 A No. 1 tn all regards, Grafulla will have cuarge of the music, A. J. Garvey of the decorations, Caaries H. Hall of tne floor, while the indefatigable * William M. Tweed will act a8 generalissimo in every department. The ladies’ tickets for the ball have, on the reverse side, a finely executed and faithful representation of the club house and grounds at Iudidn Harbor, near Greenwich, Conn. The committee of the City Lodge, F. and A. M., appointed to make arrangements for the forticom- ing Masonic baliat the Academy of Music on the 16th of February, and to superintend the sale of boxes and tickets, are working with laudable energy and earnestness. As has been already stated the ball will be under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of the State, and the proceeds will be devoted to the relief of distressed Master Masons in Cuba. The Academy of Music on this occasion will be magnit- cently decorated, and netther expense nor labor will be spared in the endeavor to make thus, the first Masonic entertainment ever heid at the Acad- emy, one of surpassing splendor. Tickets may yet be nad from the proprietor of the Revere House, Broadway and Houston street, THY PALEOYTOLOGICAL MUSEUM. The Progress Made—Contempliated Change of Quarters. Professor Waterhouse Hawkins, who was engaged by the Park Commissioners to furnish caste in plaster of fossil animais, has at lenth succeeded in obtaing suitable quarters for himseif and his ope- ratives. Cooped up for the past six months in a small, partitioned chamber at one end of the third story of the Arsenal in the Park, he and his men had scarcely room to move, tar les# to work in, A re- porter from tie New York HERALD visited the Pro- fessor, and found bim very white and powdery in his scientific den, He was engaged in super- vising the mouiding of @ pterodactylus from a specimen found in the blue las of West Virginia. Around him = were the @igantic forma of the hadrosaurus and the Irish elk. The former was Sound in New Jersey, in the vicinity of Haddontield, whence it derives its name; but the Professor, who {8 an accomplished natural- iat, the pupil of Waterhouse and the son of flawklos, We archwologist keeper of toe antiquities in tae British Muscum, thinks the name incorrect, sluice hadrosaurus can by no transiation indicate tue town of Haddenfield, where it was found, He has suggested hydrosaurus aa the correct name, which would imply ‘water hazard,’ having happy reference to the amphibious habits of tho enormous § creature, §=‘The ek, Professor a Prehistoric era known ad the stone period. Coatem- fares fest, hair and Dag Bad found (oe reserved in Sjberia, aad the urus or sigan ‘bull, Whose eecchoat ania is described by Unsar ip his “Comment: ” and specimens of which are stl to be found in the great torests of Poland aud Livhuania, in company with that rare animal, the ‘Lithuanian bison. ‘The headquarters of the Professor and his staff Will shortly be removed to Sixty-third street and Eighth avenue, where an ample and convenient Bled 1s now in course of erection, ‘fhe work of re- producing the extinct monsters, whose remains 0o- cur 80 frequently tn the old red sandstone, will then 4 very rapidly, and fu a snort time it 18 to be oped that the Commissioners of the Park will be deliberating on the mauner in which these interest ing renovations shall be bashes before the public, Perhaps no better way could be found than of ing them in natural, unstudied positions about the water and the uplands of the Park, for halt the interest will be lost if they are placed in a museum, jumbled carelessly together, the wingod side by side with the water creatures, and the am- phibious “cheex by jowl’ with the strictly terres- trial, The monsters should be grouped naturally, the icthyosauri flercely battling with the longnecked patoenan and the mousirous megalosauri com- ‘ng up to the scene of combat. In this manner the visitor will be edified and will have some glimpse into the characteristics of the strange things. Placed in sober rows he might make the grievous error of nustaking a ferce carnivorous wreth for @ airict Vegetarian, and vice versa, TRAGEDY IN A CONNECTICUT JAIL. Sulcide of Mart McGuire while Walting Trial for the Murder ef His Wite. (From the Hartford Courant, Jan. 1.) in the latter part of August Martin McGuire, aceavle sort of man to all appearances ordinarily, tally murdered his wile in his house, on the cor- ey of heen ngson street and Retreat avenue, some city occurred between McGuire and his father-in-law, Mr. Garity, At ali eventa, the former imagined that his wile’s parents were tnduencing hee ageinas hum. He Placed Las garalngs my bis wife's poaséasion weekly, and she deposit them tn the State Savings Bank in her own name, by the advice, he thought, of mr. and Mra Garity. Desiring to use the money tor the purchase of building lots he was met with a refusal to allow the money t be drawn uniess he would have the deeds made being then and nthe name of his wile, her gain subsequently that provigion should bé made, In that way, for the children. Finally the matter was com- [rie ea by counsel by making the deeds jointly to jcGuire and wife, and it was supposed the dificalty pd Agutlege £2, the Saturday night following, how- er, 4 quarrel took piace between the and Mrs, McGuire went to her father’s house and re- mained till morning. when she roar peat aud while at breakfast McGuffe eutered and cut her throat from ear to ear and then fled. An sctive pursuit was made for several days, track of the iugitive being frequently secured; yet he managed to avoid an ar. Test, and at lust ventured to retura to bis house in the night season, Where he was discovered and rested by two oficers of the police force. He was bound over to the September term of the Superior Court and the case was continued to the presca' term, the assignment for trial having been made for next week. pince the prisoner nas been in jail he has behaved at times strangely, and mauy Wituesses wouid have been produced on his trial to vesiily to thetr belief that he was of unsound mind. Latterly he has been More composed, though very anxious to se his children (two boys), wuo had been to see bun bus once. He nas often expressed himself as determined not to go to State Prison for life; ne had rather be hauged than suffer that punishment; though his Keepers have not supposed that be meditated self- destruction—that he would not, at any rate, make an attempt upon his life till after bis wial. HK 13 FOUND DEAD. Shortly before seven o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Austin Fenn, son of the jailor, who, with bw father, had taken ali the other prisoners out to wash, went to McGuire's cell, a8 usual, aud called hun; but getting no response notified his father, and, on opening the door of lus cell, tae iifeless body of the unfortunete man was found hanging by the wall, where it was left undisturbed to await an examina- tion by the coroner's jury. HOW THE DEED WAS DONE. In the cell was @ broom, a portion of the handle of which McGuire had cut off and wound around one end waxed thread, such as is used in the shocshop, so that a loop placed on 1 could not slip off; the other end of the stick he had placed in @ hole i the wall, where a brick liad been taken out for ventila- tion, and wedged it with pigces of wood obtained by breaking up a water pall, the stick, when thas lastened, being periectly firm, Then the self-mur- derer had obtained a quantity of hemp, which has been assorted in tue workshop of the jail, and wove it into a rope making tt secure and fust by winding waxed thread around the twists. A smail plece of Tope was used jor a slipping noose at one end, end at the other a loop was made big enough to go over the stick in the wall. Though of exceedingly rough workmansiip the contrivance was skifully put together, even to the fixing of a large knot on one side Of the noose, what strangulation might the more easily be accomplished. Having put the noose about his neck he adjusted the loop to the stick in the wail, just below the ceiling, stood upon @ bucket and launched himseif into eternity, bis feet, as he hung, nearly reaching to tne fi Just beneath his body a loop made of strips of int was found, and At 18 supposed that with this he tted his feet together, but it slipped off. The body had every appearance of an easy death; there were no convortlons of the facial muscies and the limbs were as straight as if arranged by some friendly hand, A LETTER DISCOVERED. Upon @ chest in the cell the following letter, writ ten partly with ink and partly with lead pencil, was found. Its incoherency will be observed ; but whether that proceeds from the ignorance of the man, the natural excitement which must attend 60 desperaie @ deed, or unsoundness of mind, cannot be said. ‘The copy is given in tne precise shape of the origt- nal:— . © my God, I am o grieved to think that I seen my wife te her mother’s arma and 1 to be the cavae, 1am here to-night and the first thing L think of was when ‘I got in the yard. E can't think of what [done in the house, as her mother said. Ellen, L do you forgiv 1 the BH from R, Hubbar. Jones aud what money of mine Welles has got; he ga’ 9800 of tt. T want It ali got for the children. Dear Brother, I want you to be in good frieudA with Garity for he nover wanted mo be taken, nor I was not taken until L got ready to be. 1 wlik say of my wife she was true, and it was for her truth and loyalty that we were united, uid for the saine my heart sluall beat and not in the walls of Dungen, jgave some money to my Boys the last ume. 1 don't know how much for Thomas MeGuire, was sick. I don't want my children to go to an asyium while the money stands, acd when anything ts don Tet them with and preyudice t 5 will neato them I hope, What furniture and sutch of mine that is not Garity#. Martin McGuire I want made sale of or Garity to show (oa fhem because be cant clains anything for ho gave noting to fet his Daughter goon her own. She was ony 15 months in the country when she marrled. MARTIN MOGUL, Amerion, STABBING AND SHOOTING AFFRAYS. At one o’clock yesterday afternoon Henry Moore, oolored, of 111 Broome strect, was stabbed in the thigh by some unknown rowdy, in Wiilet street, near Broome. The assailant made his escape, At four o'clock yesterday afternoon an altercation occurred in front of No. 113 Mulberry street between Peter Reynolds, of the latter nuraber, and Patrick Munday, of Jersey City, during which the latter was stabbed ip the right breast, cutting the Tat ‘The injured man was attended by Police Surgeon Frazer, sent to Bellevue Hospital. Reynolds was arrested by officer Lacey, of the Fourteenth precinct, and will be arraigned at the Tombs this morning. At hali-past nine o'clock last night Patrick Phelan Was shot and slightly wounded in the neck on the corner of Kasex and Houston streets, by some un- known person. He was taken to his resideuce, No. 175 Essex street. America.—Reatorer America. Use it. 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