The New York Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1871, Page 8

PERILS OF THE PRESS. Adventures of a Herald Correspon- dent in France, HE IS TAKEN FOR A PRUSSIAN SPY, Presence of Mind and Profuse Profanity. SALVATION THROUGH A GENDARME, L# Mans, Deo. 16, 1870, During toe skirmishing the ever day a Prussian battery was shelling the French lines pretty actively, ‘The repert of the guns, the dull ham of the flying @hells, and their explosions at the end of their Tespective trasets—were sounds that followed ong nother in regular order and rapid successien, and Bow and then broke ina littie bit the susilade of ‘he skirmishers, Not knowing what it mi.ht @mount to, and thinking it might presently @mount to a battle, | sought for a point from which Tmugdt get a commanding view of the scene, and ‘With that end in view directed my steps to a little vil- Jage toward tue French left, and quite beuimd ithe Une, SEEKING A POSITION. AsI wished to locate the conflict by the mapI asked the name of the village of the frst man I met im the streets, He was an oid man, with that face all craff, suspicion and meanness which ts the com- monest face you see in French viilages from the Mayor down, My tongue betrayed that I was not a Frenchman, and the old man stopped short and @canned me keenly from head to foot. I perceived ‘@t once that I was unfortunate in the person to ‘whom I bad appled for information, “Ha! You wish to know the name of the vil- lage}? “If you please, gir.” “That seems to me very extraordinary—very ex- ‘aordinary; a foreigner here and wanting to know the name of the village. Ha! what for?—what do you want to know the name of the village for?’? Is may readily be conceived that I contd not tell ‘this old fellow that I wanted to know the name of ‘the village with a view to fix the place of the figh amg on my map; for to have announced that I hada Map would only have opened a new accusation, Before, however, I could frame an answer to his last question he had reached another stage of excitement, aud other questions came, “Perbaps you are @ Prussian,” he said. countryman are you ?’’ “I am an American—a citizen of the United Btates.”’ “A citizen of the United States? I don’t know that. How do I know that? Are you very sure of Ma? Besides, they say & great many Germans are citizens of the United States. Are you ono of those There was much more to this effect; but, finally, Qssuming a Very positive tone with the old fellow, I Moliified him and put him down, or seemed to have put him down, in Lis suspicions, He gave me the Bawe of the Village, and I passed on into it, think ing it would be much better to go the other way; Dut, kKuowing that it woud not Gv w seem airaid @ud best a retreat, sinve the danger that menaced Me Was much easier to Hehe al clese quarters than @t long rauge—gun-shot 1ange, for instance. was not wicag in my anticipation of what the old feilow would do. ie had the sly character of tae cat family ia his operations, An Arab once @aid toa traveller, if you snould see a Hon m the @esert and ie should di-appear without harming ou, GO Not congratulate your: that you have jot been seen, Lui turn on your heel and go in the @irecuion exacily contrary to tai in which you Were going When you saw the lion. He has only one LO auticipaie You at some point on your way my sly old enemy who had given way wueu W Were face to face had immediately prepared a ta- miuit furtwer on. TAKEN FOR A PRUSSTA! As I was about ali way down the main street of She villa, heard a shout behind u at i did not Wurn. Aan Who Was chopping woed by the way- ide With aD ugly litle one-handed axe looked up Aud Bald, Witt a very pleasant lace, “Some oue is calling you, sir.” 1h back and saw several Oid beidames, the very sisters of Macbeti's wi coming jurioasiy down the sireet. { said, Mol ior me,’ and was golwg on: but ai the same moment they suvnsed, “de 13 a Prussian.” Vbereupou my eud with the axe rushed for- Ward and seize me—bis face in the lustant havin @udergone a marvellous change. In the instau iso, #5 1 the thing had been by some mysierious “What hy telegraphed into every secret burrow of the | Place, men and women swarmed and corner—aur ebire Of a gro of iurtous, irr ignorant, orutal wreich éreaiures in such a temper that he who shoud give me tue first blow would be look Fest as the urstol ueroes, It is Not very pieasant to be ine centre of such a circle. One “man rushed out of e @round a litie bus aod reappeared witha gan, and | Stood at ihe outer edge Of Ube circle, Just in front of me, examiniug ~ a uf the caps were right. a@ double-barreiied gun. One tall .elow, a butcher, and just from we sluugiiter house, came up, breathless with haste, and whipped out from its leather case in his girdle @iong, keen Knie, iuat nad been ground away in the widih of the bisde ull it looked as thougi it might enter the fesh like a steel skewer. Another butcher jolned lum, und they looked quite as ready Yo operate OF me as OA Une Carcass they Lad just lef. Pitchiorks were as pi ul in the circle a3 they musi have been in che iabulous times when it bed that sort of haraware, and every oid woman da biket of wood. Never was { so vividly ab.e to Pealize mebs of the French Revolation, and [ could recail in a secoad iifty hiscories of how, tu the Presence of such # company, the mere posseselon of @ cleau rut Was a suiticient deal warrant, PRESENCE OF MIND, If I had suered these fellows to see how mack U Was irigateved 1 should bave been killed in & minvte; jor it would have been, in their eyes, an @dnussion t 1 was the spy they thought me, But A puta boiu face on the matter, and poured upon ‘thew all Lue eXecrations I could Command for idiots a@nd thieves—ihe latter especially—as their bands Were very busy with my po searching for ars. d an authority lo examine my pap. Tiosultea bim (rom the start with the raaest, coars- est, most guirageous things I could say. 1 feltip- Buictively that were Was a certain saiety in this—that 1 was in the presence of a wild ‘east, Which I controlied to a degree by assuming the agwressive. I Knew that these fellows would be tamer under my insuits than under tbe influence of ‘She Whougit that i was a spy. | insulted their chosen Man fuuily as much as Lkuew how by expressing a doudt whether le could read, which subdued nun from te tury of murder tothe mildness Of reparte aud he said be could not read my papers “if they Were 1) Prussian.” With tats fellow J saw that Words lad acervaia vaiue, and 1 wanded him my American passport. Let nobody trust his salety to Sech & cocunent Ivdid not convince any one of , and had, in short, uo efect whatev RUSCUED hep ihe tardy gendarme, the sole aut hn Like av belore ibis produ ed a special Fequesuing give me ald and pro! arme ime mediately vd the crowd tiut J Was @ pe distinction, who | How tue asp | @euble-barretied gun eisap * and tne buicher bh pitenforks aud vi secret corners | But | iefused to accept tenances, und addressed the A | dignant brok “oO geu brave you a armed map! But wt you we fore the enemy te Prussian Fran our.”? ee AD DOW" ARING LRAVE. By this time the Prussian battery was beard no more, and i turned my stepe wward the city of » but mwardly resolved vo # in tie futar Oo {ar agit may Here might be a e civility of thelr coun- muituvude ia in- s, how guinst one un- It as brave b could mot stay in anisiake, and the iellow will” an might eme aehot before semen. “it is no ee wory Ihave given, Mierauy Cxue ie & Toumon’ story in tke nedghbortioed ot @he army, and scarcely any one but has lus €xperience of an adventure wore or jess like it The people are insane on the supject of spies The other day a friend of mine in the arny, an officer of ime Wwiegraphic service and wearing bis fail uniform, Woe arrested 1p the same Way. ie is a man of florid sourbiexion, With blue eyes and bight hair, This ough for the villagers, They seized him as a wy. They accounted for bis un/form by tae suppo- siuen that be bad svolen it from some French oficer, whom le Lad probably killed. He was Kept several ours 4 prixoner and Was at last only relieved. by de general ending others to seo why the amy pou Which this of.cer was sent bad not been per ormed. od Wiliam A, Harrison died at Clarksbarg, West ‘a., on the Sist ult., In the seventy-sixth year of his Be was three times a member of the Virginia islature, and United States District Attorney iw 1563 was elected @ Juage of the Supreme ‘ol West > resigning Wa peat 2 on of Ww 1 upon by tae I consiantly demanded to ve ied before the | Was 10 Mayor, and one of the mob | 1} end ol a | Biers ant threw him invo the wagers ‘The follow ize Fecord will show the chanies in the temperature for thé pM twensy-[c8t hours in com, parison with the corresponding day of last year, a8 twdicated by the thermometer at Hudnnv’s Phat macy, AMRALD Butiding, corner of Aun sjreeti—~ _, 120, 1871, 3289, 1971, 2% 3P. 26 18 6P, 21 MOP. 18 11_12P, 15 Average tet rature yesverday. % Average temperature for correspo) Jast year, ss Miss Anna Dickmson lectures this evening on “Men's Rights,” at Ste'nway Mall, before the Mer- cantile Library Assoctation, Dr. Lord delivered the second lecture of his course—on Savonarola—yesterday morning at Assog ciation Hall, The lecture was well atteuded and was quite well received. Professor C. E. Deghent, of the University of New York, will deliver this evening the first of a course of four lectures at the lecture hall of the University, re square. Subject, “The New Map of the orld.’ Coroner Schirmer yesterday held an inquest at 415 West Thirty-eighth street on the body of Cora Hicks, an infant fourteen months old, whose death was the result of burns received about two weeks ago by failing on @ hot siove at the residence of her parents. ‘The trustees of the New York Orthopedic Dispen- sary held their fourth annual meeting yesterday afternoon in the armory of the Seventy-first regi- ment, and it was mage the occasion of bringing to- gether the patients of both sexes who are now or have been under its treatment for diseases and de- formities of the spine and hip joint. Harriet Currier, a colored woman, seventy years of age, yesterday died in the Centre street hosp.tal. On Saturday she entered the premises No. § Church street to do some scruobing, and being under the influence of liquor Harriet feil through tue hatch- way from the second story to the ground floor, thus Tecelving fatal injariea, Coroner Young bas the case in charge. gDeceased lived at 118 Cedar street, Captain Williamson, of the Fifth precinct, ar- Tested the “Biter Biv’ wagon yesterday afternoon, by order of the Vity Marshal, who flued the driver for violating an old city ordinance, The wagon was first taken to Police Headquarters and was then sent to the City Marshal's office, where the driver was fined four doliars. The wagon was then libe- rated. It 1s said that the owners of the vehicle were old not to cover the number of their license with breed transparency, by which the oruinance was vio- lated, The Central Park Meteorologica! Department re- ports for the week ending January 7, lowing 1871, the fol- atmospherical conditions:—Barometer— 7 inches; maximum, at 9 P, M., Janu- minimum, at 2 P. M., January 6, raage, .532 Thermometer—Mean, 83.5 Je- ; Maximum, at 3 A. M., January 6, 47.7; Tt nimum, at 7 A. M. January 4, 19.5; range, January 6, rain from 9:30 A. M. to 2 P. M. to of ll inch, which was total amount of Water for week. Distance travelled by the wind during the week 1,512 m1 Coroner Young yesterday held an inquest, at his office, in the City Hall,in the case of Alfred C. Shears, a lad nearly nine years of age, who, on the 30th ultimo, had both legs crushed beneath the wheels of car 133, of the Third Avenue Rall- road Company, at _ Filty-ninth street. 1 ceased, who lived at No, 335 Fast Ninth street, was going to skate with some of his asso- claves, and, im his eager haste, jumped off the car before it had stopped. Even then the lad wouid hove escaped but for the fact that he retained j his grasp of tue tron handie of the car, Was thrown down and «dra der the wheel. In their ver- (ne jury “censured the Third Aveuue Railroad Company for not instructing their drivers and con- | ductors to oyercise greater care im letting passen- gers on and off the cars,” Letitia Hamilton, of 64 West Twenty-sixth street, made a complatat before Justice Shandiey at Jeffer- sen Market yesterday morning that she had been robbed of a certein amount of hatr described as “switches of human hair,” “sets of caris’ and “ions curls.” The swiiehes and curis, long and short, were valued at $150. OMicer Jenn Dunn. of the Six- teenth precinct, produced the snspected delinqueat, in the shape of a raggea youngster, James Barry, re- siding at 246 West Twenty-eighth street, whose own hair was of such a matied, tangled appearance that envy alone must have incited the deed. The officer Jound the boy a the coruer of Twenty-seventh street, shortiy alter the robbery, examining and adminag the “blond tocks,” and handed over both the oy { and the “human hair’? to the tender care of the warden at Jefferson Market. Aitera short inter- view with (he justice Master Barry again retired to his friends be PAVING SOUTH FIFTH AVENUE. Mayor Hall has put a quletus on the proposed | paving of South Fifth avevue, or Laurens street, | ‘With the Burnett pavement, as will be seen from the following communication, which the Mayor for- warded to the Board of Aidermen at thelr meeting | yesterday afternoon:— Maron's Orricr, To TH BOARD OF ALDERME The Mayor returns, without approval toe in New York, Dec, 21, 1870. @ resolution originat- our Board to authorize the Commissioner of orks to advertise for bida and make con- Paving Syuth Fifth avenue (known | xe The Mayor objects that the resolution eciton fourteen of Snaptor eighty-three of the of UV, in so far as the resolution embraces Son “fth avenne between Canal and Amity streets, which been once paved aud the araessinents duly paid. “The inte! tion and spirit of that portion of the section which is app | ble to the measure belore wa conuranlated saving property | owsers upon the line of w strest airenly paved {rom any se0- ond wesesament for replacine old pavement with a special pavement—that is, @ paveroent for laying which there could not arise competition, because it was controlled by a patent. Now, it ix’ trae that a section the westerly line of Sonth Fifth avenue is now unpaved, by reason of ftw having beon widened, under its old ; yet tue pronerty holdera upon this 2 been once assessed for the pavement name of Laurens etree! tide of the street (and the preatest part of the street which ‘on the easterly side, unaTected by the widening on the westerly side. Itis obvious to the Mayor that, unless « mafority of the property holdors between Amity and Canal streets petition for the passa eof your resolution, it is 1'le- gal for your honorable body to pass, and for bim Yo approve, the in question, as at present framed. And, resol the eutire block’ between Amity | cannot be separated from the le, resolatio consequences of the even if the Mayor rr e re, 18 a resolution which the Mayor's non-eoncurrence must render lezaily and absolutely moperative, and allows your honoraole body no discretion of reconsideration or 1e- aflirmance. ‘The Mayor bega to add chat he has been furnished with a petition fora stone block pavement, and signed by a ma- Jority of the property holders on the line, of the street in question. OAKEY HALL, Mayor. TES RAPID TRANSIT QUESTION. A delegation of citizens of Harlem and Yorkville, consisting of John Foley, R. W. Townsend, General J. G. Wilson, Robert Hubert, Wan. A. Whitbeck and others, yesterday called at the City Hall to confer | with the Mayor and Comptrvller as to the best means of securing rapid transit between the upper and lower ends of the island. The delegation met in the Council Chamber and appointed R. W. ‘Townsend, General Wilson, P. Q. Hnabert, Robert Ward and Mr. Tarner, of Harlem, 43 @ committee to waitupon Messrs, Hail and Comptroller Connolly | and request their presence. The committee retired, and alter being absent some time returned, when Mr. Townsend avnounced that the Mayor and Comptroller were 80 busily employed that they could not give the delegation an audi ence. ey had, however, h suggested that the criizens interested in rapid” transit call ing Some Saturday evening at the upper the island, and they wouid atteud and coaler | wita them, or they would be happy to meet the dete- gation at the City Hall on atutare oecasion, The delegation resolved vo hold a meeting, as suggested by these ofliciais, om Saturday evening next. A commiitee was named to select a hall and issue & cali through the HERALD O! Sulurday morning. OBITY. David RK. F. Jones. This well Known opd prominent citizen of New York died at an early hour yesterday moratng at his residence in Soutn Oyster Bay, Long Isiand. For many years past Nr. Joues had been influential in politics, 2nd at one time held the pesition of Lieu- Yenant Governor of ine state. About three weeks ago he retursed from an extensive tour of Europe, being them in bad health. The complaint watch took him off was affection of the liver. Mr. Jones was @ gentleman of five abilities, His death wili be deeply depiored by a large cirele of friends and ac- quaintances, FOOTPADS ON LO A Young Men Robbed and Thrown Into a Mill Pend. On Sunday night, between the hours of nine and ten o’ciock, as Wiliam fi, Keeler, of Rockville Centre, was walking along the track of the South Side Rallroad, on his way home trom church, at Pearsali’s, he was seized by three men, one of whom choked him while the otner two relieved fxm of fifty doliars, @ ciamond ring and a# gold Watch, aller thus divesting him of his property bim to the oid mili pond of Mordecai r i im ‘His, cries ioe eip Drgugut two young wen to assistance, by wags fag reacved with much didicuity. . NEW YORK CITY. THE WATER FAMINE IN JERSiY CITY, A Visit to the Works at Belleville-Probably Correct Theory of the Accident—The Works Not to be in Fall Operation Tl Nexe Week. Bo greater calamity, scarcely, could befall lange gommunitics, Jing those of Jersey Oity and Ho. boken, than such an accident as occurred on the evening of the Sist of December, ten days ago, at the Belleville Water Works, The trath of this 1s abundantly demonstrated by the 1m- mense and scarcely conceivable amount of incon- venience, misery and absolute suffering which the good people of the communities cited have been are are now subjected to, The H&RALD has already informed the public of the main features of the acci- dent and its very serious concomitant results, but in order to get at “the truth, the whole trutn and nothing but the truth’? in the matter 2 HERALD re- porter visited THE SCRNE OP THE DISASTER yesterday afternoon, Tne works are located on the northern bank of the river Passaic, directly opposite she quiescent viliage of Belleville, noted as being once @ halting piace of General Washington during revolunionary times, They are, too, within a aton’s throw of a place that not long ‘siuce was the cyuo- sure of the entire reiding pubitc—Hervey’s laundry, where liveth and worketh, but ret<netn not, Charlie Ming and his sixty odd fellow “heathen Chinee,” _THE WORKS, or rather the machinery, ocoupy a large, handsome brick building, irentipg &lane running parallel with the river. Here are the three poweriul perpendic Jar engines, each about 250 horse power, Entering the building tue reporter lound THE ONIEF ENGINERR, Mr, Wiillam Kearney, who was up to his eyes in steam and oi, and repairing tools tn the epgme room and superiutending some re- pairs being made to the machinery. Glancing at {be reporter's card handed nim his eyes caught the talismianic Word “HERALD,” and Ne dropped every- thing aud announced hunself at the service of the neWspaper scribe. A view of the brokea stand. pive was (rst taken. It hes tn Owo huge .ragments on the sward in front ‘of the works, and when in posiuon measured 168 ieet 8 inches in height aud about 6 feet in diameter, It stood on a@sold square brick support, which fn turn had o solid sioue foundation, The support is forty-tive feet hich from the base, The pipe proper was con. Siructed Of about Uhree-eighth inch sheet iron, had ben tn use ever since July, 18.9, and 1s considered by some @Xperis @ rather poor Sonar: of tron, It Was through tus the water was forced up from the Passaic to THE RESERVOIR, situated about 3,000 icet distant on elevated ground, From the engineer's books i appears that on the dent the temperature was as fol- seven m the morning, aegrees; = meridian, thirty-nine degrees and at halfpast five o'clock in the evening, thirty-eight degrees. On the day previous at the same hours the thermometer stood nine, twenty and twenty-four degrees. This condilioa of the atmosphere, tn the optuion of Mr. Kearney, was not sumMciently cold to freeze the Water 1) the pipe sui.cient to cause ft, under ordi- nary circumstances, to give way. The FIRS? INDICATION that anything was wrong Was observed about noon on the jist, When the engines worked heavily and alter a time stopped alcogether, After dark the pipe toppled over with a terrific crash, There was ice in it avout vine inches thick, clinging to the sides for about s.Xty-live feet down from the top, It is be- ed that this Garing the day feli away, and, rowding downwards ina mass swelled the main. mocn tube, 1 when the reaction came with the uillder weaiuer the ipe snapped and feil as stated. Mr. Kearney claims that the accident is pot In any Way chargeable to the negil- gence of the employes, as had been atieged m some hewsvapers, but was cleatly unavoidable. Notiung could be accompitshed wirh the PUNY FIRE ENGINES, so other engines have been procured. It is expected that ibe machinery of the Works Will be serviceabic in a day or so. THE N W STANDING PIPE 13 already on, but it will notjbe fy {position before the begining of next week. Itisihe sane weight as the ober J piump three-eighths o: qe inch thick, warraate ciron. A large lorce oi"wen are new erecung an immense derrick, with slide, to Place it in position, THE EXCITEMENT IN JERSEY CITY and Hoboken, tar :roin abating, is on the Increase, Jn severa! wards of the lower section of Jersey Clty — as the it, Second, Seventh and parts of the ‘Toird, Foorth ang Fifth—ttue or no water was to be had yesterday at the hour Axed tor turning it on. Many persons sest to New York and had a supply conveyed in casks. A meeting of tne Police Com- Dussioners was held, and it Was resolved to appoint an extra force uf SEVENTY SPECIAL POLICEMEN to guard against Incendiarism. Shou a fire break out during Unis Water famine the resut must be very serious. Tbe few pumps and wells available would be of very little service. 1t becomes necessary, then, to adopt EXTRAORDINARY PRECAUTIONS against fires. ‘The directors of tie State Insurance Company and several olner Insurance companies held incetings yesterday, and the Fire Commis ers may be sat to be in perpetual ses: whatever is heard from the Water Cominiastoners, who seem inclined to hide their heads from an indig: nant comuuuity. One wholesome result of this famine will be the consignuent of every member of the Water Board to private hile. ‘The people have had ample experience of such politicians, YUCATAN, Resignation of the Governor—Il!-Feeling Be- tween the Federal and State Governments The indians—The Crops—Report ef Hene- quen fer the Year. Menra, Dec. 19, 1870. The Governor of this State, Doa Mannal Cirevol, has again tendered his resignation. He did so so ne six months since, bat Was persuaded to continue for some time longer owing to the critical condition of affairs growing out of the corn famine, the threat- ened attack of the Indians, &c. The federal govern- ment is in no way well affected towards Yucatan, to whom it owes a considerable amount of money, Which it either cannot or will not pay, and the Gov- ernor bas made himself particulariy obnoxious to it by pushing for payment and for the abrogation of certain feieral decrees which bear hard on this State. The Indians have been quiet siluce September last, but great viguance is exercised in reference to them, aud preparations have been made to give tuem a warm reception on tuetr neXt visit. A scheme has Set on loot to estab! sh a cordon of telegraph ail aiong the frontier, but the means are not yet forthcoming. ‘Ihe adminisirator of customs at Sisal, a federal ouicer, has put dimticulties in the way— provapiy under the influence of Wwe general govern- ment. ‘she corn crop to be harvested in March next proinises fairly, Sut in the interval there will be | great scarcity and resuitant distress amoug the working classes, Heneguen is coming forward plentilully. According to esumates made some two yeors and 8 half ago. based upon carefully ceulecied and reiable data, there ought to be produced in ine coming year about 70.000 bales. Of there will Le say 2,000 bales raanuf bags, repe, hammocks, twine, &c., for exportation Vera Craz, coastwise, Belize and otuer exported Lo Great Britain, France and Ger- many 10,000 bales, leaving a net ¢xport to the United States of 40,000 bales of 400 pounds each, valued at $15,000,000. An industrial exibition isto be opened here on the ist of April next, to be open to the pubiic for three da, «1 prize medals are to be awarded to the suc 1 arts, Mechanics, manufactures, &c, GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. The wife of ex-Governor Hempstead, of lowa, died at Dubuque on the od inst. attue age of flty-eight. There ts to be held at Oskaloosa, lowa, on the 15tn Of this month, another Convention, having itin view Wo introduce ihe Dawe of God in the constituuon of the United States. Since the holidays a great many negroes nave left the vicinity of Murtreesboro, Tenn., for Arkansas, and more are preparing w go, owing to the high price offered in Arkansas for feld hands. The ofi-disappointed Millerites of New England have set another day for “gomg up’—the Lith of February--and they have ulready commenced to mel excited and en. jusiasue over Lhelr contemplated journey, ‘Tweive boys taken to Newton, Iowa, Py the agent ef the Children’s Aid Society in New York were given Lomes with iarmers in Jasper county at Newton one day last week. The #ree Press says there were applications sufficient to dispose of three Umes the number. Ail the newspapers are. indignantly denying that the Miss Logan who died in Hurtford the other day, at the age of Llo was Olive, The Oartersviile (Ga.) Hrprese says that during the old spell of weather the Etowah river was Trozen ever, aud tat the like has never beea known beiore. ‘The Maine State Prison’s receipta were $6,000 in excess vl Lue expenditures last year. The Savantian Republican is anxious for the re- peal of the usury laws tn Georgia. Two colored men—Lieutenaut Governor Dunp and Mr, vinchbeck—are candidates for United States Sen- ator in Louisiana, * Judge Cadwallader, of Philadelphia, on Saturday sentenced Michael McBride, tur illegal voting, to an Jnprisoument of six monihs, and to.pay # ine of Silty deilars. Elizabeth Jackson, a colored woman, aged 101, died at Lexington, Ky., last week. Her memory daved back to tue Kevoiutionary war. The Monmouth (N. J.) Democrat estimates that at least 100,00 gallons of apple jack have been maae in that county this fall, tor which 60,000 bushels of apples were required, ‘The crop of baffalo skins this year is immense. Kentucky 1a talking about Dolding @ convention to Tevise its constituion . ~ : IRELAND. Religion and Party Politics in the North, ee “Ss _ Ake The Shutting of the Gates of Derry—One Hundred aud Eighty-two Years in the History of Protestantism—Fervent Memories—Queen Victoria’s Authority Against Local Strife and Riot—An Excellent Sermon, LonDONDERRY, Deo, 18, 1870, The one hundred and e!ghty-second anniversary of the shutting of the gates of Derry took place to- day. In whatever hght it may be viewed it must be regarded as @ miserable failure, Indeed, it could not be otherwise, for the troops drafted into the city outnumbered the “Apprentice Roys” by five to one The latter did all that could be done under the circumstances, and that was simply nothing, They were allowed to march to and from church, but they did not carry, as on former occasions, party banners, nor wear party colors, nor play party tunes. They were merely allowed to go to church in a body, and that was all. They wore, it 1s true, sashes and ribbens of crimson—the city color—vut no citizen of Derry could possibly take exception to this, for it is worn andiscriminately by all. A HEROINE, As the procession passed along, a young girl— evidently a Roman Catholic—tore @ sash from the shoulder of one of the Apprentice Boys” and waived it triumphantly in the air. This little incident cre- ated great ainusement, and a crowd collected around her, which was at once dispersed by the authorities, Jealous, no doabt, of the notoriety which his fair friend achieved with impunity, a young man was tempted to renew the experiment, bat he was imme- diately arrested by the police and marched forth. ‘With to jail. THE “TURN OUT.” The procession consisted of some four hundred persons, the majority of whom were under twenty years of age. It was asserted that the Governor of the “Apprentice Boys” headed the procession, in company with Lord Garvagh; but this was a mis- take, Hs Lordship, though in town, took bo part im this day’s proceedings whatever. It would in- deed be a strange sight to see the descendant of George Canning heading a procession of “Appren- tice Boys”! AS soon a3 they appeared on the street they were received with a storm of hisses by the Roman Catholic party, and with cheers by their friends. The Romao Catnolics thought they would be prevented from eveu marching to churen, and, as they were not, many of them thinking that the troops had no invention ef carrying out the procia- mauon, became highly incensed. Some of them 1 believe, began to revenge themselves by throwing stones at their enemies in differcat parts of the city. IN THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. COLUMB-KILLE. The venerable cathedral was filled to overflow- ing. It ts the Church of St. Columb-Kille. The services having been read by the most reverend bishop, the Rey. fT. L. M. Scott ascended the palpit and preached the anniversary sermon, taking for bis text Luke xXtv., 3 ‘And Jesus answering, spake unto the Pharisees saying, Is it lawiui ww heal on tae Sabvata day?’ THE SERMON. I think, breturen. you aud 1 can conceive and @ueWer that questivn, We do kuowa monarch who did not sit down first and compare his own sirengift With that of the king Wio come agulust Lin; for It he had, he would never bave entered upoa the war wiuch has uprooted his dynasty aad devasted mis country, filing her pliuns with biood and men. Then, 1 Uiink, we can conceive its value, ‘The ve- ginning of suife Is like the letting out of water— there iS nothing at first but a iiitic water oozing turough the banks; then nothing vut a tew small cracks here and there. but by and by there comes a trembling and one long shiver, and the wiole bank crumbles before tae wave, Which, dark aud tercible, leaps up uad down upon us career oi desolation, ip the first few days of the threatened war It is still possible to recall the hasty words, to aloue for the wrong or the discourcesy; bat when once the two enemies have rushed together the chance of peace 15 most generally gone, ‘there must | be viciory on one sive and deieat on the oiher, £ think we can conceive also the difticulty of the probiem that monarch has to solv. Wuo is there can foresee at the first outset, when the passions rise igh ana plood is hos, the lung agony of war, the awful guiit of those who Caused it; all the chances which may bring victory, and alitae humiuation which must follow defeat? those thirteen apprentices who shui the gates of the city on tne 7th of Decemper long ago—do you sup- pose, waen they did that deed, there was actually present to their mind the whole suiering which it luvoived, the long conficts with thetr treacherous aud vaciliating leaders, the bitter alternauon of hopes aud fears, aud the deadly agony of their tast long inonths beiore the boua was broken ? DO you suppose that they had counied ai! tie cost of tpatone first act? Not ail the cost, not uli the sutiering; Dut the issue proves that there was some- {ning more—a deeper than the meve recklessness of youth. If there had been nothing else, It must nave been crushed and utterly anniniated besore the ter- Moie reality. but was it shedy No, Their hearts at times might quail, and hope leap up in one short moment, and then almost die away; but still, with desperate endurance, they he.d on against hopo—they cherished nope. aud God at Jast gave victory to their patience. Ido notthink, however, thatthey had counted all tne cost; and, what is more, I think jf meu always realized at tue outset the entire sacrifice and cost and suieriag aud privation which are to follow, we sboud have few great or noble or heroic actions to record in history, God, in mercy to our weakness, velis the future; the sorrows and trials of this iife meet us singly, one by one, or our poer faith and courage would all fail beneath their accumulated weight. There was oniy one hero, only one man—the man Christ Jesus—who Wentiorth to the deadliest struggie, kuowing all things that were to come upon Mim, His setting down, therefore, to weigh the chances of the com- ing strugglc 18 not in the expectation that we can calculate all the cosi, but in the assurance that we may decide the vital question Whether we shall surrender or resist. That question, whatever the thoughtiess men may say, it 1s not idle and it is not base to in. vestigaie and weigh well, because there are circum. stances under which the surrender would be most base and there are circumstances under which the the refusal to surrender would be acrime. Every one of us, I suppose, is agreed that, when mgnt and mightare both upon our side, to surreader would ve base, with the most aggravated baseness; and, when mught aud right are both against us, then the refusal to surreader would be acrime. We can go tarther, and Say that if might be with our forces, nut right and justice both against us, then it would be heroic for us to yield. Tohear the strong man apoiogize to the child, the master confess tothe servant that he was Wrong—such surrender would be nobie; but for the poor to cringe before the rich man just because he has @ few shillings to besiow, tor the weak to yicld their conscience to the strong ust because the strong may crush hin it he go forward, that is the baseness of the sur- render which we despise. Onée more: there are rights which we shall Petchren in by their sur- render, and these 1s no cowardice in surrendering. The thief is not @ cowerd for restoring back the sioren goods, nor the wicked when he gives up his guty life. When there has been nothing more than & mere sentiment of our own, or the temporal comforts or natural lives of ourselves and others entrusted to our care, then it 1s quite conceivable thai there may be cases in Which to surrender would be our duty. If, for example, the enemy were generous and trust- worthy, and if our resistance were really hopeless, entailing only misery and death on tie besieged, then it would be wisé and honorable to surrender. For @ general or @ statesman to sacrifice his own personal fame and personal popularity in order to save the lives and Interests of his fellow country- men—i can conceive cases in which such surrender might rise vo the very nobiest heignt of heroisin, and in which the sacrifice of life and property for his own fancied reputation might be the very baseness of utter selfishness. ‘Then, on the other band, there are evernal principles of right aud wrong, more pre- cious than men’s lives—rights which ure annie lated by their -urreuder, These the brave man must nor does surrender. Where itis, indeed, no mere comtort or sentiment, buc deep, eternal principies of right and truth which are at stake, then no might and no bribe, ne terror and no death, must drive as to surrender. The great majority of you, brethren, are worshiping to- day in this cathedral rather than in other churches ‘ailee you commemorate this 1sth of Decemper the shutting Of our city gates by the “apprentico Boys” of Derry. If, theretore, tis service were, a8 in other years, arranged specially and held for such commemoration, I should apply this les. son of surrender and no surrender to that resistance to those half disciplined troops who tuen required aduiittance, and also to the honorable submission to Lord Mountjoy a few months later, But l dare not forget that this is aiso the day of Jesus Christ, and that there are others here besides. { cannot forget that among those others there are young bearts who pian this week to surrender themeelves to Jesus Ohrisi, and to con- firm their baptismal Pledge to take up arms against Christ's enemies. 1 apply, therefore, the lesson of my text to that great warlare te which our Lord i vended it to apply, and which concerns us ail. AFTER THE BENEDICTION. On leaving the Cathedral the Apprentice Boys Marched down Bishop street, and as they passed Do you suppose, lor example, tuat | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 187L—TRIPLE SHEET. fore reaching the Vorporation Hall stones were thrown atthem, The mounted police. however, dis- bersed both the procession and the mob and quiet- Ne‘s was restored. In the melée a mounted policeman Was knocked down and severely injured. During the rest of the day, though party feeling ran high, there Were few disturbanses, and towards evening the city was perfegtly quiet, CALIFORNIA.” The Crittenden Murder Case—Desperate At- tempt as Suicide~Troubles in the Branch Mint, SAN FRANci8co, Dec, 28, 1870, ‘The Christmas holidays have come and gone, and in spite of the proximity of the new year there isa general dulness over the town; so much so that it taxes one’s imagination sorely toremember that it is the holiday season. The weather has been un®sually fine, much to the satisfaction of young California of bo:h sexes, but greatly to the disgust of farmers and business men . enerally, who are growling loudly at the absence of rain. The rains that we were blessed with at the end of last month and commencement of this have barely sufficed for ploughing and seeding, and more rain 1s anxiously looked tor in order to ful- fll the anticipations of a pleutiful and profitable wheat crop. Should old Pluivus playus a scurvy tiick, and not visit us with a more beunteous supply of waver than was received here last year, the golden expectations of the agricultural interests will be all knocked askew. And in view of the pro- bable continuation of the European war, and the conse(juent high prices that wheat is likely to obtain in £uropean markets, it will be rough on our sturdy yeomen if they cannot go in and get a share of the profits, lt is to be noped that the gods will be kind. The absorbing interest that all parties took In tha Crittenden tragedy enacted nere some weeks agot lke ail Valifornia excitements, 13 ataling among the people generally, although with the legal fraverni.y it shil presents all its points of interest ia the same in- tensity as at first, The probaoiiities are that the prisoner, Mrs, Fair, will not be tried for some time tocome, In the first place comes that disagreeable question of jurisdiction, Was the killing committed in San Francisco or in Alameda county? ‘Lhat ts the knotty point, The District Attorney of tmis county insists that to him belongs the high mural duty of prosecuting, a8 the boundary lines of the county extend very nearly to the opposite shore, leaving the whole of the bay under san francisco jurisdic. tion. On the other side, the Grand Jury of Alameda county have found a true bill of indictment against Laura Fair for murder, Her counsel, also, Elisha Cook, is rather in favor of having the trial come of in Oakland, probably for the reason that Critten- deu's antecedents are not 80 well Known in Oakland as here, though for my part L sovuld think that the lea3 that was known of his antece- dents the better for Critteuden'’s posthumous reputation. In the meautime it Is duticuié Lo aecide how this question Of jurisdiction 13 to be settled, Can it be decided on & writ of habeas corpus? Some lawyers say no; tuat she will have to ve tued for the crime, and that this question must come up inci- den ally, Then comes the question, if she be tried in Avameda county and it be found that that county has not tae jurisdicuoa, May she be tried again in the county that the Sapreme Court aecides hus’ Ail these questions are puzzlog, but seem to be much in iavor of the culprit. The Grand Jury of this county does nov couvene unl next monih, ana it will still furtier Complicate matiers if tney also fiad @ bill agaiust her, which they probably wil, Probably one of tue coolest cases of attempted suicide that has ever been recorced was witnessed in San Francisco on saturday night lust. A young man of avout twenty-four years of age arrived neve avout three mouths azo trom New York. His name Is Stephen Massect, He caue here with som? money intending to gO into business, but somehow or an- oer he bad mauaged to get to we bottom of his pile without opening an office or store, the proba- Uuities being that the gambling frateruity gor hoid of hun. However, on Saturday evening he entered one Oo. the best class egret real and, seating niu sell at one Of the tab.es, Ordered a sumptuous ner. de ate his dinner with exbreme satisfaction his biil jor food alone amounting vo two dollars and ahalf, Me then ordered the waiter to i ning nim a pottie of two dollar wine. This was brought and = Massett dranz about two-tlurds of the conients of tue bottie. He then coolly leaned back in lus chair, drew a single-barreiled Ptsiol from his pocket, placed the muzzle ta ms mouth aud fred. The report starued the people in the restaurant, and on luokiug round they saw him reeling in his seat, With blood streamiug from his moutu. Several people rushed to tia, but one of the aliendants supporting him he gout to his ieet As SOOM as Le coud clear the blood from his throat and mouth he expressed his surprise aieaden pis‘ol builet could be shot tbreug! a man’s mouth Without stunning Qum. He refused to give his name Or assign avy reason forthe act. He was reminded by so.ve oue connecied With the estadlisiment that if he wanted to shoot himseié he might lave gone out on the sidewalk instead of disturb.ng the whole restaurant. This be freely adumitied, He was then asked to pay his bill. He replied, “Waat the reli do you take me for? Do you suppose 1 should try to iil myself if 1 had any money about mer?” He was then put into a hack and couveyed toa surgeou’s Oltice, Upon examination 16 was dis- covered that the bullet had grazed the roof ot his Inouth, Cut the paiate and then had descended into the stumach. From the docior’s oilice he was con- veyed (o ine Station house for sate keeping, There he conversed very cooly about the matter, express. ing bis utter astouishment that a pisvol at such short range should fati of the fata: effect. He said he thoug.t he had a “dead sure ting,” aud bad he even dreamed of failure he would have used a biunderbus. He said he had experienced much Scoudie aud thought that deaih was the best way to end fs troubies, but be added that he felt ashamed to have it kuown that he bad failed. Wien it was suggested to him that his palate was shot off or severed le repited, “1 don’t care about that, bat thls biood has spoiled my pants.” He 1s suid 10 be a relitive of Stephen Masset, the alleged humorist. Young Massett evidentiy 18 a cool hand, ‘There is quite a diminutive civil war going on Within the walls occupied by Uncie Sam as tie United States branch Mint, The Superintendeat General (La Gran ze) is a pet of Grant's, aud was put in by him; whtie ine calef coiver owes Lis position “to Senator Cole. These two men are not actuated a inendly feeling towards each other; on the con- trary, they have been working at cross purposes ever since they have been in together. Lately, La Grange, who 15 an aspiring politician, and ts ambi- tious to get into Congress, has made several re- movals, and appointed, in place of tioxe rewoved, mea who could heip him in his aspirations. Besides this he has made many and sundry promises which he b s never keps, and altogether has acted in such @ manuer as to draw down upon him the disgust of most of those who come im contact with him. Even his appointees place no reliance upon him, for they are there to-day and gone to-inorrow. The coiner, in the meantime, steadily retases to give the new appointees any work to do, on the grouud that there is noue to be done. Each of tie pariies have had friends at work to get the ovher removed, and La Grange now proposes to go to Washingion and fight 1t out there, insisting he will eituer have the coiner removed or he himself will resign. He 13 attempting all manner of shifts to bring the neces- sary induence to bear upon the Washington authori- ves. His most plausible one was, that duving im- proved the ventilation of the adjusters’ room— the adjusters being all ladies—he wanted them to get up a card thanking hita ior such improvement, One of the ladies suggested that it would look funny to get up a public testrmo. nial for the Superintendent for having vored an oatre bole inthe roofof the building, The fact is that Mint matters might be managed better in this city 1: men were appointed who were not actuated by petty ambition, ‘Theve is not much improvement evident tn busi+ nes8s—the holidays probably being respovsinie there- Jorin asmall degree. But the merchanis are all clamoring about the dull times. Money is still in rather active demand, although the rate of interest holas fis own. One loan of $100,000 was made Last ‘Week at one per cent per month for four years. This rate of interest is too high, and business must ne- cessarily lag until tt ts reduced. ‘the Bank of California andthe Pacific Bank both declared and paid a dividend of one per cent on the 20h tast. THE UNISN HOME PRIZE RAFFLE.: Owing to untiring exertions of tne committee having in charge the grand prize rame in atd of the Union Home and School the sale of tickets has been gratifyingly brisk. The committee comprises Police Commissioner Henry Smitv, Commissioner of Chari- tes Owen W. Brennan, General Henry A. Barnum, John McB. Davidson, Thomas ©. Fields and Wiliam R. Travers, They have aiready disposed of some 6u0 tickets, 80 that but 400 remain, and these, it 18 expected, will be sold so that the rate may come off this week. The prizes oifered consist of watches, diamonds and various kinds of jewelry, vatued in the aggregate at $5,000. The drawing will take place as s00n 3 the chances are all taken, at the store of the ‘treasurer, Mr. Davidson, 681 Broad- way, where the prizes may be seen aud the tickets procured. A Seer axp [lis Son SHor IN MisstsstPrr.— We are reliably iniormed of a horrivie murder which vook place hg Mtg) yesterday on the train between here aud Magaolia, the particulars of which are as follows:—The Sheriff of Pike county, Mr. Prowitt, and iis son nad in custody a prisoner whom they were bringing up the road, Some un- known persons, suppo to bo friends of the pri+ soner, boarded the train at Johnson station, and }m- mediately shot sir, Prewitt and his son, thereby ree leasing the prisoner. The victuuns of this dastardly outrage were doth severely wounded and wie pro- babiy die of their wounds. The prisoner in charge ‘was one Head, a iawyer, who bad been having his trial at Holmesville for the murder of Biller, in Pike county, about a » Im consequence of the Ve tna of the trial be was being brought'to icksburg for safe keeping.—Jackson (Atse.) Puol, slong (yey wore loudly grooned and hissed, and ber » Jan. & THE TAYLOR WILL CASE FURTHER ERAMINATION OF WITNESSES, Testimony of Mr, Taylor’s Counsel—The Will of 1837 Prpduced—What the City has Lost by Mr, Taylor's Sudden Decease ~The : (ontested Will in Joopardy,’. ~ As this extraordinary case, wiich has already at tracted so much interest, approaches to a critical polnt the excitoment of the parties more immedi- ately concerned and that of tueir triends and the interest of the public in the déaovemen: increases, Surrogate Hutchings’ court yesterday, at twelve o'clock, when the Taylor wili ca:e was called, wae filled to overflowing by an interested audience, The principals in the lttgation, wich a large following, occupied the front benches, aud near them was @ considerable delegation of fashionables and would> be fashionables of both sexes. TESTIMONY RENEWED—MR. MOSES H. GRINNELL ON THE SAND. Mr. Moses H, Grinnell was the first witness called, He testified that he knew the deceased for twenty or twenty-five years; remembered the marriage bee tweon Kate and Mr. Howland; a tew days after thas. Mr. Taylor called for the purpose o: inquiring of the character of Mr. Howland; witness aiked whether it was With respect to financial maticr); he said thaw Kate had married Mr. Howlaud’s son, aud expressed his dissatisfaction; witness said AS THE DEED 183 DONE write a letter to your daughter and tell her to come back with her husband; told bim Ibad known ar, Howland, Sr., from boyhood; that 1 had never seen his children, but as far as the father was concerned I knew him to bean honorable man. Being asked if Mr. Howland was & man of meaus witness replied that he thought he was ladependent, although, per+ haps, not rich, Ten days alter this interview, con- tinued the witness, Mr. Taylor came to my ofiive; said, “My. Teylor, DID YOU WRITS THAT LETTER? Thope it is all arranged; he said, Mr. Grimnell, wrote the letter; everything is arranged and the past forge‘ten, and Iam glad I adopted your advice. J. H. OUYLER BOYD'S TESTIMONY, Mr. Boyd, being sworn, ‘estifled hit he was a lawyer and knew Mr. Taylor for aucu. @ year pres vious to his death; I saw him in his office about the 12th of July, when he showed m2 a nembver of bends. of the city of New York, four or five of them of the value of 340,000 or $50,000 each; he made the re- mark that they were VALUABLE THINGS TO HAVE; that was all wat was said about them; I saw him again in August, when I toid him 1 thought he looked unweii; be said he did wot ‘eel very weil, ‘The witne-8 was cross-examined, but bothing of importance was elicited by ut. Mr. Cooper, belug recalied by Mr. Clintoa, was, asked if the handwiitiag to the alleged will bore any res mblance to the handwriimg of Mr, Taylor, and replied that it did nol. MRS. HOWLAND RECALLED, Mrs. Howland, being ulso reculle i, Was re-exame ineu by Mr. Cunton—i aim well ac.uainted with my grandiatnen’s handwriting; tae sigvature im ne alleged will is not Mr, ‘Luylo.’s siguature, to the best of my opinion. TESTIMONY OF MR. L. BR. MARSH, Mr. Luther K, Marsh, a lawyer, was* next called. He tesutied that he kuew Me. taylor tuumately for vwelve or fifteen years; was his counset most of ther time in neariy all of his tuiportant cases; he con~ Suited me 1M 1067 in regard to Lac MAKING OF HIS WILL: I superintended rawiug of the will in that year; te firs draft of ihe first parc of the will wag perfected; that part covered tie subject of the will except that relating to charities; it was given me by Mr. ‘taylor, at Mis of.ce, No. 43 Pine sitcet, aud from what t drew We wilt down tw tue end of the Van Vecnten draft to the end oi the dirst page; Mr, Van Vecuten had drawn the wii tor Mr. Taylor and the latter gave it lo me ww periect; he said he did. not care particularly Wuat 0 came oO: his property iu the event of Mrs, Howland dying; he sald uo wanted to leave $25,000 to erect A STATUE IN THE CENTRAL PARK to the fallen soidiers in the war; tue conversation then merged inte a consideration oO: the best means of distributing bis Money in charity; | went home lo carry out bis views aud made tue will, THE 1867 WILL PRODUCED. The names of the executors were la.t biank; af Ttook wwe will vo bum he filet in my name as one o! the executors; 20 O.uer Dae Was put 1 Dub that of Mr. Taylor; there Was @ blank Jor anutner name; can’t fx the time of iny giving bin this will; it wag in 1567, MR, MARSH STANDS ON PROFESSIONAL ETIQUETTE. ‘tae witness declined to relate his professional conversation with Mr. Taylor, aud & di-cussion o1 the point arose between counse. ou the point, The questions were not pressed, Witness then testified to his knowledge of Mr, Taylor’s handwritu My INTIMATE AND CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONS existed untl he died; as Jracy Was supposed to be named with me a8 exccuicr we went Witt Mr. Charles Tracy, A. M. Wallace, Rovert Murray, B. F. Nudgett and Mr. Wells to the office uf Mr, ‘Taylor, alter his death; Mr. iracy uad the eye of the buliding; We searched the saie; ail tue pape were jaid on the tabie to see if any ol (hem was & will; other papers were produced, ihe table drawera and desk were examined, but no will was found; the drawers were locked; Mr, Tracy had the key; there were otuer drawers, in which were books, which we did not examine at that time; the papers were taken to the Saie Deposit Company 11 a large wn box; Mr, Charles Tracy drew up @ paper siting What we bad done, and pat it in the top of the box; the paver Was sigued by all present; some few days aiterwards we returned to make @ further examimation of th oftica; this was after the contents of tie tin box hi been scrutinized; the second examination was more thorough and complete; ail tue drawers were care- fuily examimed; no will was discovered; tie pox ‘Was opened afterwards by Mr. James M. sweeney, im. the presence of several persons; NO WILL WAS DISCOVERED; I did not participate in any other search for Mr. Tayior’s will. Tbe witness then corroborated the testimony of former witnesses as to Mr. ‘Taylor's methodical Dusie ness babiti THE CONTESTED WILL—THE noF GENUINE. ‘The alleged will was thea handed to the witness: for his opinion on the genulucness of the siguature. He answered to the general question—“The signa~ ture; in my best belief and opiiuon, is uot the genuine signature of James B, Taylor.” Uross-examined by Mr. stoughtoa—I had a con- versation with Mr. Robert Murray prior to my havingr seen the puotograph of the signature to the will; & said in the Surrogate’s ojiice—i remarked that the signatare resembled James B. Taylor’s; there meq some talk of a compromise; 1 was not counsel foi either side; I knew Air. George Jones, publisher of the Times; | had @ conversation wita him; don’® remember having expressed an opinion to Mr, Jones that THE HANDWRITING IN THE WILL cay was that of Mr. Taylor; George Duryca was. the clerk of Mr. Taylor, but not his conflienval clerks. he was his only clerk. There was @ clause in the wilt, of 1867 giving $10,000 for the publication of the works of Emmanuel Swedenborg; not long after the reception of the will by Mr. ‘Taylor he said to me that he had executed bis will, The cross-examination was continued at much length, but without any important result, At its conclusion Mr, Ciintoa asked ior un adjournment for the purpose of putting in the testimony of wit- nesses now absent, Mi. Andrews for Mrs, Taylor} opposed, and was followed by Mr. Vanderpool 1 support of the request. The upsaot was that we trate lawyers mutually agreed to cool of, and the court adjourned tili to-morrow, at eleven o'clock, without any turther fuss. SIGNATURE DEATH OF A NEWARK ALDERMAN, In Newark yesterday, after a comparatively snort. Dlness, Volney A. Elus, a member of the Board of Common Council, died in the fiftieth year of his age. He was @ democrat in politics. For the last: twenty years he wasin the employ of the New Jerse; Railroad, and during many years past was regarde as that company’s most usefal “third house’? mem. ber. Mr. Ellis was an Englishman by birth, Lia father, who lived with biz in Newark, was with Nelson, on the Victory, at Trafalsar. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 1871. Master ©. ©. Cornwell is detached trom special: ordnance duty aud ordered to the Tennessee, First Assistant Engineer Henry Snyder is detached from. Philadelphia Navy Yard, pald, and ordered to the Tennessee. kirst Assistant Engineer L. Sheridan 1s detached from the Tennessee aud awaits orders. Master OC. Arnoid 1s ordered to return trom Wwe Asiatic fleet and awaits orders, ~~ YOURNALISTIC. ROTES. ‘The Ottumwa (Lowa) Coppernead has dropped that title and taken up that of the Ottumwa Democrat.” The Vernon (Ind.) Banner has passed from the control of the Vawter Brothers to that of A. J. Smyth, the present Mayor of Vernon, Tho Skandinartsk Harold is the name of a new Scandinavian paper just started in Omaha. Itis condueted by Kev. Theodore Hassel. Mr. P. P. Wall has sold his interest in the Houston County (Minu.) Journal to his brother, Mr. 0. @. Wall, who will centinue its publication, Mr. J. 7. Stoneman 1s said ‘o be the editorial suc. cessor of Colonel A. P. Richardson on tne North Jowa Times, He was the democratic candidate for Congress in the Third district last iall