The New York Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1871, Page 8

THE ICE CROP. HOW THE ICE IS HARVESTED. Prospects of the Present Season—The Ice Houses Nearly Full. The readers of the HERALD have been kept tn- Vormed throughout the season regarding the Ice frop of the present winter, but the manner ef har- ‘vesting the crop is littie understood. The short sup- | ply of last summer brought home to every reader of ‘the HERALD the unpleasant experiences consequent ~Upon a dearth of ice. This season, thanks to the Re long continued) celd as well as clear weather, ‘the ice harvest has progressed rapidly, and at the present writing the different storehouses on and near he Hudson river are nearly all filled. ONE WEEK'S GOOD WEATHER ‘will insnre the finishing of the ice cutting. The tn- troduction of the Croton water Ip the city ip the year 1842 renderea the taking of ice by our people not a Juxury, but a neeessity, Before that the arimking water optatned from the different pumps and wells was cold and pleasant. fut She Croten during the warm months came to She thirsty householder at a tepid warmth, and with pauseons and sickening tasie. The cooling of this Orinking water was rendered imperative, and the ice bustness, from small beginnings, bas risen to its present enormous extent. The almost only use to which It was put before the Introduction of the Cro- ton was for preserving the meats of butchers and packers, and some smal! quantities were also used by confectioners in the freezing of creams and ices. The sapply of ice for these individuals was obcained from the numerous ponds along the line of the Sec- end and Third avenues, in the neighborhood of Sev- entieth street, the largest being Known as Sun Fish Pond, Here for years was the supply obtained. Mr. A. Barmore was the first man who bro Joad of ice to the city for sale and consumpuon. ‘He was born near Rockland Lake, and came to this eity and engaged in the boot and shoe business 4m Hudson street, near Canal. His father, stilt liv- 4ng on the homestead, near the lake, was written 40, and he, in company with some of bis neighbors, fut anc packed 1,000 tons of ioe. From this humble Peginning arose that wealthy corporation known as fhe Knickerbocker Ice Company. Your corres- pondent selected Rockland Lake, owned by tat company, as the scene of his labors, from the fact Abat it is the nearest to the city, and having been the aS SS SE oy bold ten tonseach. These are loaded at the toe. houses, turnouts eee! from the main track to ther house, An old white horse named Charile Graws the cars from the icehouses to the main track. A small dummy engine siarts the loaded train. After the start is obtained a stationary engine, or, rather, a double engine, working to 100-horse power, draws the loaded cars, by means of a wire rope, up and over the hills, The descent, of course, is made by the weight of the cars, The cars going down draw bd empty oues up the hill and back again to the \OUNeR. THE HORSE CHARLIK ts hitched to a loaded car and siarted off without a driver for where the train 18 making up. He goes to the train, and, wheeling around within an inch of the “dumuny,” walis to be unhiiched. He then starts back for another loaded car, and this is re- peated tll the bell rings for twelve o'clock. The | Minute he hears the ring he stops, as if shot, no matter where the car may be, and refuses to budge aninch, No whipping or coaxing cau induce him | to move & » The minute he stops a boy unhitches dim from car and he starts on a gallop for the stable, an eighth of a mile off, After ieeding, while | the bel! 8 ringing for one P. M., they put on his har- ness, and off he goes by himself tor his work, but now on the slowest and staidest of walks. He has , been at this duty fer thirteen years. Having taken two days w view all the workings of the ice getting Wwe start on Thursday, in the midst of that horrible storm, for New York, arriving there some three hours alter the train was due. RELIGIOUS. Services To-Day. A sermon wil be preached this morning in the South Reformed church, corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-first street, by Rev. Dr. Rogers, on ‘Chris- tiam America Salutes Free and United Italy.” Rey. J. M. Pullman wil discourse this evening, in the Sixth Universalist charen, on ‘A Lost Soul.’* Rey. Osear Hugo preaches on the Bible question this morning tm the Fifty-vhird sweet Baptist church, and in the evening in the Attorney street ehureh, Rev. R. S. MacArthur preaches morning and even- mg in the Calvary Baptist churen, Rey. Dr. McVickar will preach this morning and afternoon in the Church of the Holy Light. Services as usual this morning and afternoon in ‘the Canal street Presbyterian church, Greene street. Rev. A. P. Graves will preach this morning and evening in the Central Baptist church, Forty-second street, The evening discourse will be expressly for young men. Rev. G. F. Frotel preaches morning and evening im the Evangelicai Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Bvening discourse, “The Division of the Yen Commandments.” Rev. Dr. Wedekind preaches morning and evening in the English Lutheran €nurch of St. James. Rev. Chauncey Giles’ third lecture on “The Life of Children After th—How They Are Instructed,” Will be delivered at the New Jerusalem (Sweden- dongest used of any ice reservoir tbe machinery | borgian) charch this evening. ‘would be more apt to be of the most perfect character. Btarting on Tuesday last, the coldest day of the sea- gon, but one most favorable for operations tn the fee, your correspondent stepped on one of the trains of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey for Nyack, on the Hudson. After a two hours’ ride through a cheerless yet still lovely landscape, we Rev. Dr. Cheever will preach in the church cor- ner Lexington avenue and Forty-sixth street this eveuing, and Dr. Sanderson will preach to his con- gregation in the morning on “The Memorial Offer- ing.” Rey. George H. Hepworth will preach this morn Ing in the Church of the Messiah on ‘What a Man arrived at our destination, but were yet some six | Must Believe.” miles away trom Rockland Lake. The snow of Mon- day lay like a blanket over everything, and he ‘pranches of the trees bent down ward by the weight ‘of the now moistened snow. Procuring a sleigh at Nyack we started to the sound of the jingling bells on our cold ride. The ten miles was done in an hour and fifteen minutes, but the ride, being right Jn the teeth of the wind, was long enough to “Jrost”’ the cheeks and two fingers of your correspondent. ‘A VIGOROUS SNOW RUBBING, although occasioning much pain, took out nd drew the blood once more to its usual e arrived at Rockland Lake at about six P. M. 1 up at the nearest hetel we partook of a jearty supper and soon marched off tobed. Having word to be called at sharp six it seemed but the shortest a naps before the raps were heard rouung ‘vs out. Lie grn phmy and hastily despatcht breakfast we took our departure for the Jake, a hal! mule distant, and, early as we got on the ground, ‘we found a large force already at work. ‘The lake is 8 Sheet of water not over six miles In circumference, and lies nestling in a perfect aor theatre of hills, The highest is known as hb O.ue, and hes toward Haverstraw. The next is the Book Mountain, lying toward Nyack. These are but bare crags, divested of trees, and present to the eye notning but beaps of rocks an Felton on Ossa heavenward. The ice we fend, when walking on the frozen surface of the lake, to be covered witha couple of inches of snow. Tne the frost cot Rev, Alexander King, of Dublin, will preach this evening in te Broadway Tabernacie on *“Uhureh Disestaplishmeut and Progress of Rehgtous Liberiy 1 Ireland,” Rev. Dr. Carter wil! preach this evening in the Charch of the Incarnation in behulf of tne House of Rest for Oonsumptives. Rey. E. H. Uhapin will lecture this evening in Chelsea church, West Twenty-second street, on ‘Modern Ohivairy.”’ Rev. Howard Crosby will preach this morning and evening in in the North rresbyterian church, Thirty-first street and Niith avenue, Preaching on ‘‘The Coming of the Lord” at the Catholic Apostolic church this evening. Merrill Richardson will preach this evening in the New England Congregational church on “What Js Sin?” Rev. Dr. Wescott will preach in Plymouth Baptist church this morning and evening. The discourse im the evening will be to young men on “Punctu- stone, piled | ality.” Rev. James T. Powers, of Vermont, will preach this morning in the Bleecker street Universalist rst operation is to get rid of this. Here are twenty | church on “Voices of the Dead,” and in the evening, orses at Work at this. Each horse is attached to a triangular shaped scoop, the apex forming a seat for the driver. ‘To the outlying ends the whiietrees kre fastened, and the horse steps out briskly, scoop- ing and scraping off the snow as he proceeds. This pcraping is repearea — and again until the face Of the ice is reached. Now comes one of the fore- mea, aud with or THE IRONMARKER. A space of three acres has already been cleared of now, and the teams siand with thelr drivers await- Ing with impatience the laying out of the “land. {ter the first jine is drawn by the straight edge the ‘on marker is rau giong. This is shaped like a ya sied, without the top, however, and one run- mer glides along on the line marked by the straight “Man Shall not Live by Bread Alone.” At St. Luke’s Methodist church Rev. W. H. Ferris will preach in the morning and Rev. C. S, Harrower in the evening. “David, the Singer of Israel,” will be the subject ‘straight edge” lays out the course | of Rev. Charles P. Lee’s discourse this morning at the Fifth Universalist church, Plimpton Building. Rey. J. R. Kendrick will preach this morning and evening in the Tabernacle Baptist church. Mrs. Hyzer will speak before the Society of Spirit- valists in Apolio Hail thls moraing and evening. The Beecher Slander on Si. Paul. edge. Theu tuis ts repeated until the whole three | To rar Eprros or THE HERALD:— facres te marked out. These lines run, say, frol north to south, As soon as marked one way th miachive is turned, and the marking done from eas! to west. Following in the groove made by the marker come the plough teams The ploughs are Rear six feet in length, and consist of a series of 1 em living in the Nineteenth ward, at Yorkville, and I fear God and try to keep His commandments, Ihave been a constant subs er and reader of the HERALD since its commend t, and have always wleel knives, set one behind the other, and each | admired the HERALD for its Independence and eo ping cp of an toch lower than the In front of 1 ft loughs 1 di ingle horse, Pata me goual ate rt twenty-five of them at work at @ 8 me time, t Bbarp cut and scrape sound on the still the escape of sieam from a dozen bolle Ki toh hgteration in Kai | suraightforwardness in political as well as religious matters, as in all other respects. I want you togive Meury Ward Beecher a dash or chastisement regard- reaching the Gospel lately mouth church. A short lasing at the same time, The cutis made down | time ago he asserted from his pulpit that there was ito the ice, say two and a bali are three iuches. Do direct teaching in the Bible of a future exist- After the marking and ploughing 13 fairly under | ence—as much as to say that there was no punish- way from north to south one-1 of the teams work | ment or reward hereafter, and ape onegenen A we can from east to west. The rapidity of the coutinual } ali goon and commit murder, rape, theft and ail oriss-crosaing, as they pass and repass each other, Makes mostlively scene. When done the three F250) abjes in its usarking th Pre nan A HEPES POND, cos ary Bawed, say eight squares deep, aud from fiiteen to Bwenty im length. ice houses are distant from the scene of the cuttiug 41 least a quarter of a mile. other sins without any fear of punishment hereafter. Tue enemies of Christianity are Ry up his re- marks and exuiting over them, saying, “There 1s no punishment uereafter, for Beecher, the smartest minister we have in the country, says so.” And, to cap the climax, he last Sunday insulted every tue friend of Christianity py calling Paul one of the greatest aposties that ever lived, “a most msisutt- Of these there are two. The oldest is a butiding 240 | cant, biear-eyed Jew.” And now, Mr. Editor, I will feet deep by 255 feet ye fs a besa on witb @ bali through the centre, capacity house i a eee RSS OW quite Sreath tiie lee As deliv: to the houses by means of elevators. Of these there are five, fifty feet apart; these rin to tue top of the house, a height of forty reet. six in- clined plains extend from each ol these elevators to the houses, and are used successively as the houses 4 up. These elevators are worked by shafting 1un @ stationary engine alongside of the storehouse. The new or South house ts @ building three hun- Gred by & hundred and fifty feet, and ak you, or any other candid map, if this is not cal- culated to injure the cause of Christianity aud bring it into mdicaler AN OLD JACKSONIAN DEMOCRAT. as Enstruction and Con- solation. To THS Epiror OF THE HERALD:— Permit me through the columns of your valuable Percentage on Rel! bolds | journal to ask why persons attending service a: the forty thousand fous. The arrangement fer tilling | Catholic churches in this city are required to pay at this is by the eame system of elevators and inclined pianes as the older nouse, but the length of the puaftiog Is some seven buadred feet. A large canal te cut from one cleared farm of three acres to near ihe ice houses. Smalier channel are now cut from the wain canal to each of the elevators. A hi pices, containing over two hundred blocks, 18 canal, jt takes four or five men to start il, but wWoen Once in motion one man keeps it going. Nearing tbe elevator channels, a man springs upon & and With vigorous biows with a heavy lron spade— impiement resembling a Jersey farmer's post Spade—the blocks are split off one aiter another and Gelivered to Ube clevators. A Wan siands at the foot of each elevator, and one block is seized and carried Gp and shot along the inclined plane at whatever beigut is desired. These BLOCKS. pve jo in weight two hundred and twenty-five aie, When Working Witl @ heavy force two Boxes are taken by we elevator instead of one. ‘Within the bouse mea are busy with pike poles or t hooks; seizing the cakes as tucs come sailing duw the different roowus, they stow them away side aide, er upon tier, uot the room is full Ane er MAN stamis at the top of the elevator, along- | wide of we shalting, and fends wo the brake, which ‘works each separate elevator; stopping or starung the same a8 uccusion may require. view from this the scene beiow us upon the lake. boys, tner with fifty horses are moving rapidly to and seemingly With 20 purpose; manu has bis allotied duty, and goes on with precision of machinery. ‘The aur is bitverly cold, the thermometer standing at two g@bove zero, Fabrenbeti, and your correspoudent's beard and mustaches are gray With the frost. De- ecending bo the lake again, we find tue toar frost wetting on man apd beast. The bay horse looked , and the gray one White. Long icicies hung from fehiatr and beards of the workmen, Wille some ‘who are workiug to Cardigan Jackets ure cuvelopca tu @ gauzy mist Of frost. As ihe sun arese we n tioed suniething we never saw before: tue particles of the frost floating in the air, could plainly be seen SPARKLING IN THE SUNLIGHT Jike @iamonds, and adding greatiy to the beauty of dhe scene. Here, at Rockland Luke, the ice harvest is the busy season, and all the inhabitants hail the cutting with joy. The balance of the year with Wem 1s simply stagnadon. ‘The work 18 not hard, nh standpoint ne Cauiping ap tue | the roof of the oid tiuuse, we | eee een ie minh: s eat “the poene be © | cannot be too highly commended for their Uhristian- led of the main body and propelled a.ong the | jg ovliged to obey | ping oar God | aree hundred and pity men and | Jike action 1p this matter. | Operation of the Ipfallid! the doors, and also to what purpose this vast revanue isapphed? The charge 1s not made for the seats, for iu many of the churches you musi pay the de- mand before you can enter. 1 think this practice cannot be too severely reprehended. Every Catholic the fen Commandments of God and the precepts of the Church; otherwise he Wil commit @ mortal sin. Now, one of these pre- cepts requires him to assist at the holy sacrifice of the muss on all Sundays aud holidays of obligation, and in the eudeavor to worship God after the man- ber prescribed by His holy Church he 1s stopped at the door and ten, Miteen or twenty cents de- maudea. Twenty cents for the privilege of worsiip- What a thought for a Chrisitan, aud how forcibly we are reminded of the money changers ii the temple! But lam told in reply that there is one mass at an early hour every Sunday morning at which no charge is made, and at which poor people can assist; in that case poor people can never hear 4 sermon ‘or receive instruc- tion; hence their ignorance is invariably held up to ridicule by the scoifers of religion, 1 believe that no dirge is allowed to be made at the Church of the Paulist Fathers, Fifty-uinth street, or the Church of 1. Jonn, Fifteth street, and there may be one or two others who welcome the rich and poor, saint and sinner, alike, ‘the pastors of such chnrches I believe that all earuest Catholics condemn this shameful abuse, and it is to be hoped that the day is not far distant when It Bhai Ve enuurely abolished. JUSTICK. PRUSSIA AND THE POPE. y Dogma Among the German Populaiions—The Balnuce of Iutereste—From the Altar to the Camp. BERLIN, Jan. 9, 1671. | CHURCH AND STATE—THE INFALLIBILITY QUESTION. ‘The policy of the Minister of Public Instruction, Herr vou Mithler, has achieved that Protestants as well as Catholics have become highly indignant, and resulted in endiess religious troubles. While on the one hand it ts insisted that the doctrine of Papal in- seems more in the nature of a frolic or pacnse than work. Evel other man was ®inoking lus “dhudeen” or “meerschaum,” and all jolly and contented. The wawes paid ts frou a dollar and a half to three-quarters, and boys earn us much as men. Some of the workmen live miles off, and these are generally the first on ip the morning. From the lake a railroad has built over the hills to the banks ef the Hudson wer. The tems oe ‘of this Is three-quarters of a mile. Wharyes have been run out in the river, on either pide of which are moored the barges. These barges @arry 4,000 tous each. The cars jor carylng the ive faliibility is binding upon the Catholic clergy in Germany, the Protestant persuasion insists more and more on @ separation of the school irom t Chureh, and, indeed, entire separation of Church and State. The Archbishop of Bresian, not content with ex- ercising sway over the ordained clergy, demands the infallibility test from religious wachers in colleges and high schools. ‘The Archbishop of Cologue made a clean sweep of & much beloved pastor tn Bonn, who refused snb- mission to the aforesatd dogma, without “caring a fig” for the volce of the governinent in any such appointment. The new incumbent, a creature of hus, soon made himse!f obnoxious to the commu- nity, Whose repeated protest4, however, were not listened to by him until flaally they were supported by the government, He then appointed a successor | Of greater moderation, but the pastor who was first removed, encouraged by the community, now re- fuses to surrender to him the register and seal of the Church. In Saxony, the population of which is principally Protestant, while the dynasty 18 Catholic, an address to the Pope was prepared and covered with seme 3,000 signatures. It pleads in favor of the liberty d independence secured to his Holiness by history and justice, and condemns the unserupu- lousness by which he was deprived of it. When ‘he document was presented oy Count Cajus, of Stol- berg, 0 King John, of Saxony, he told hiiu that he was glad to acknowleage the sentiments contained therein as being entirely in harmony with his own 1eelings and convictions, 1 will band this petition, said the King, to my Minister of Foreign Affairs for transmission to the North German government, which will undoubtedly receive similar petitions, THE RELIGIOUS BALANCKS. The position of the North German government, Which is fighting the war with the atd of Catholics from Silesia, Westphatia, the Khenish provinces, and ‘last, theugh not least, of the Wurtemburgers and Bavarlans, is certainly a vory delicave one, .1t has to make, with reference to Romanism, bonne mine au maudais jeu, for it will not do at all to hurt the feelings of the ‘faithful flock.” Hence the unenvia- ble position of Minister Von Mtthter, prompted in his actions by inspirations from Versailles, The larges accession of Catholic members to the Legislative Chamber, due to the appréhension aroused among the Catholics that their interests would suger through the predominance? of Protes- tantism, is a great help to Herr Mahler, though It could not save him from partal defeat in several of the bros he has recently excited. He was thus compelled to notify the Archbishop, or, ratoer, Prince Bishop—for such 1s bis title—of Breslau that he could accord to him no authority over the lay teachers in Catholic schools and colleges. Aside from great dimiculties occasioned by Herr Minler's undue interference in the Evangelical Consistories of Hesse, and which, totally against his intention, will ultimately lead to the much dreaded separation of Churet and State, he has getten himself into an- oa a cennected with the lately established churels. BRO‘HER PAUL AND BROTHER BEECHER, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— T observe that some of your contemporaries have taken to task one of your reporters for having given 8 too faithful transcript of the words which fell from. the lips of the eloquent and popular pastor of the Brooklyn Plymouth church last Sunday, and the effect which those words produced upon his au- dience, who, we are told, welcomed, among other things, ‘with loud laughter” the remark of the reverend orator, that St. Paul was “an insignificant, blear-eyed Jew.” 1 confess that, for one, this shocked me. From My childhood I have been accustomed to regard Paul as one of the purest and chietest followers of Christ, aithough he modestly represents himself as “the least of all the apostles.” Perhaps his very personal appearance which Mr. Beecher ridicules— his “insignificance” and his “‘bleared eyes”—may have been the “thorn in the flesh’ of which Paul speaks, and which he laments, but of which he never complains. Yet his devotedness to the cause of his Divine ’ Master, whom he so faithiully served through so many fearful trials and temptations and such varied sudering, forms a record, in his own simple words, which, in infinite pathos, has no equal in the New Testament, save in the example of the Saviour Him- self. Now let us see what this “blear-cyed, insignificant Jew” sufiered and performed, and what moved him thereto, and then, by a fair contrast, let us compare nis case with that of the modern apostle who raised a loud, derisive Jaugh in his fashionable congre- gation at the hard-working minister’s expense. In respect of those who were boasting of what they had done for the cause in which he was en- gaged, and for which he hat done so much, Paul says—admitting that he is almost ashamed of this “vain boasting,” we.l founded, stili modest as It is—yet it was forced upon him: “I must needs glory,” he explains:— Are they ministers of Christ? I am more. In labors more abundant, 1n stripes above measure, in ear more frequent, in deaths oft. Uf the Jews ve times received [ forty stripes suve one. Thrice was I beaten with rods. Once wag Istoned. Thrice I suffered shipwreck. A night And a day I have been im the deep. In journeyings often, in pers of waters, in perlis of rovbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren, in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in cold and nakeduess, Beside those things which are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care ofall the churche: Poor faithful dantly than Paul. they He “labored more abun- all;’ he was troub.ed on every side, yet not distressed; _ per- plexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, bat not destroyed; bearing about in nis body the dying of the Lord Jesus, “that the !fe also of Christ might be mace manifest in his body.” In all that he said and in all that he did Paul Jooked not at the things which are seen, bat at the things which are not seen; “for the things Which are seen,” says he, “are temporal; but the things which are unseen are eternal.” When hé was present among his brethren, and wanted, be was chargeable to no mau. “In all things,” he says, with pious pride, “I have kept my- seli from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.” But with all tl there was no vain glory; no ostentation of himself or of what he had donb} but thé most humole, arte te counsel and 2D pens, < > advice to ail with whom Le had auythiag to do. “Be kindly affectionate one to another,” says he, “with brotherly love: in honor preferring one another. Rejoice with them that do rejuice, and weep with them that weep. Mind not high things, but con- descend to men of iow estate. Be not wise in your own conceit.” Could asingle word be added to brighten the effect of this simple but most eloquent farewell of St. Pau! to his brethren? »** “And now I go bound In the spirit unto Jern- salem, not knowing the things which shail befall me there, save that the Holy Spirit: witnesseth that in every city bonds and afflictions abide Me. But none of those things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that { may finish my course With joy, and the ininistry which [ have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God. “and now behold I know that ye all amon; whom I have gone preaching the kingdom o! God shall see my face no more. Wherefore I take yon to record this Gay that I have net sbunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Therefore, watch and remember, that by the space of three'years I ceased not 10 warn every one night and day with tears. “And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grave, which fs abie to bulid you up and to give you an tuzeritance among all them which are sanctified. I have coveted no mau’s silver nor gold nor apparel. Yea, ye yoursetves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities and to them that were with me. I have showed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak; and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to than to receive. No wonder that after he had kneeled down and prayed with them aii Paul’s brethren felt on hia neck and kissed him, ‘‘sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.” 4 And now, by way of contrast, let us see what Brovuer Paul, the “imsignificant, bicar-eyed Jew,” mught possibly have been had be lived in our day. Would he nave twenty tousaud dollars a year for “wagging his pow in the pulpit” twice every Sun- day + Wonld he have other twenty thousand during the 8 gS—plous novels entire and “things” in weekly instalments of sentiment, at the highest price goin t To this last question it might be traly answered :— “Very likely; Mr. Bouner would wave had him for the per, and paid hyn h ucteristic liberality, Lor his ‘best p St. Paul ig not reported to have married many couples. Indeed, there 18 reason to believe that he did not favor matrimony over much: yet he did say Uhat “it was better to marry tian to burn.” But the question is, Knowlg that there are plenty of people always ready to grease a fat goose, would he have taken in gold for marrying two persons to one another? Now would he, do you wink ? Would he, after having stated publicly that it was “a shame ¢ a woman to speak in charch,” turn right round and say that women ougit to preach and practise law in the courts and medicine and surgery in hospitais and tamutes ¢ « Would Brother Paul have done this in our time? And if he bad, what modern apostle would be like unto hia! AN ANXIOUS INQUIRER. WAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Naval Oonstractor Thomas Davidson, Jr., has been detached from special duty in the bureau of Construction at the Navy Department aud ordered to the Boston Navy Yard. The order of Chief Hogioeer O, H, Lackey to We Ticonderoga bas been revyokud, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. MORE SNOW. Another “Pace”? Added Last Night to New York’s Winter Dress—The Streets, Parkes, and ‘Pablic Breathing Piaces During the Siew Fall. “Again it snows,” said a handsome and cheerful- looking young lady passing through the City Hall Park yesterday afternoon, ana she started off with @ quicker step in anticipation of delighttul and pre- longed sleighings, At about four o’cloge the bright azure clouds which had cheered th: Rearts of all lovers of outdoor sports during the day, became obscured by a series of dark, heavy, snow-laden clouds, whose straggling extremities scemed to de- scend upon to the buildings as they flashed along in rapid playfulness, and it indeed began to snow. “More snow }” repeats the stage driver, a3 he passes along and cracks his whip in hopeful anticipation of the additional patronage the snow will create. In mang parts of the city previonsly the snow began to present anything but @ white aspect; thousand of horses and steam pioughs, sleighs, stages, cars and foot passengers nad turned and beaten and trodden down the lovely particles until they repre- seuted the color more commonly known “as black as soot.” Moreover the warm sun began to ake @ most decided havoc in the pumerous places, until slush and mad made up the compound, causing the young and GAY-HEARTED DENIZENS OF FIFCH AVENUE to tremble for their favorite sport. But the increased “fall” has Uterally added another face upon it. At sx o'clock the principal avenues up tow were crowded by gallant men and laughing ladies, to Whose sport the falling material gave additonal interest and a new lnpetus. Gradually avenues, streets, aileys, byeways, housetops, all became cov- ered with a pure white ment he sheet became thicker and tiucker, untl it might almost be imag. ined that the snow had not been cleared away since the beg.nning of the week, It was a splendid sight tw watch THE LIGHT, THIN, WAVY, GLISTENING FLAKES as they tell in majestic splendor on everything, in everything and ever) where; tue playful aloins glit- tering tn prismatic beauty aod turowing o:f coiors that represented millions of stars falling in the dim and oupleasant gasiight. At every turn might be inet huiman beings so covered with snow that they brought to the mind a fait picture of “old Father Cirisunas,” with frosted hair and beard. THE PARK AT EIGHT O'CLOCK was the scene of the greatest beauty. Every walk and avenue was lined by promepaders, aud the trees and shrubs, at all mes beautitul—especiaily tuo the snowy season—last night looked stil: more beautifal by the fresh falling snow as it clung to the already existing icicles which for some days os have been hanging in graceful crystal rops from their naked boughs. All was as quiet as a Lapland valley, avd weve it not for the Unkling of the merry bells on the Mail, and now aud then a laugh from some uproarious geutieman, as he mischievously threw @ handial of snow ata Jellow traveller, 1% might well be imagined that the scene was ln that wintry region ratber than in the classic and favorite breathing plave of America’s metropolis. Away to the east und west, in all direc tions, over hill and dale one extensive mantie of white was spread out, causing this magnificent public resort to iook gtorious in its Winter sul. City Hall Park and Madison and Union squares looked lovely a8 the snow gathered, covering the Walks and trees, aud adding more splendor co their alrcady seasouable covering. ‘The mdications up to a late hour last night was that it would continue “io snow.” THE SLEIGHING CARNIVAL. The week that has passed nas been one of great excitement ana jollity on the broad avenues of Cen- trai Park and the roads beyond. From the far northwest @ boon had come im the shape of a heavy fall of snow, which was rickly valued and industri- ously taken advantage of by the owners of fast horses, Slelghs of all Kinds, sizes and shapes had Jong been in order, and it only remained to have Snow shoes put on the horses, and that done, all was ready, and the jolly drivers of Gotham sallied out In former years “things” clumsy in shape and mode! have been used as sleigns; but within a past few win- ters the old “Albanies’’ have given place to light, graceful creations of the mechanic's skill, lined with velvet cushions and painted in the highest style of art. It is the fashion now to use robes only in front, the sleighs being upholstered, and, instead of long, clumsy strings of bells, light, open ones, with siivery sound, are attached to pole or shafts. A knowimg driver, if accompanied, sits on the left of his sleigh, and in that position has a better view of the road before him. Again, norses, instead of “balling up”? and going wearily onward, sipping and sliding, have a preparation of gutta percha put around the sole of the foot, that enables them to take up their feet free from snow, and prevents them from throw- ing balls of ice into the faces of the occupants of the sleigh, All this those versed in “noble horseman- ship” practice, and the others will come to know in time. Owing to the hardness and smoothness of the Park roads there is good sleighing on them when the roads beyond are almost bare; aud it seems stregige that the Park Commissioners, who have tor the general public museums, menageries and skat- ing ponds, should have no accommodation for those who ike to indulge in speeding their horses, but compel them to go at all times a funeral pace. A part of the Park should be set aside during slelgbing, say from the Lake to the statue of Com- merce, hear the Eighth ayepue entrance, where, under the charge of the police, and compelling all to arive and speed one way, those who have fast horses can mdulge themselves. We will venture to say that such a privilege would not be abused, and would prove a source of great pleasure and gratifi- gation to A Spt ae who pay high prices for speed and haye id place to show it, ‘They are all tax- payers, too, remember. Well, thé bells have been merriiy ringing; hune dreds, and even, a8 it seems, thousands, of sleighs have issued from the various stables, private and public, and proceeding to houses im all parts of the city, have taken aboard their freights of happy mor- tals. Whata gay throng! Singie sicighs aud double ones, drawn by one, two, turee, four, five and six horses. Family sleighs, with father, mother, bloom- ing daughters and gallant sons. John and Peter covered with buttous, seated on the box, their coun- | tenances full of the responsibility of the occa- sion. Lovers with their lady loves and “p’hoys” with their = “gals.’? All nations and all countries seemed tully represented, and now, 4s faithful chroniclers, we proceed to give a panoramic pen sketch of what has transpired and of the doings of the celebrities who have been enjoying themselves, premising by saying that the excite- ment of sleighing casts aside all thongnts of cold and sends the biood tingling and warm through the veins even of an old man. Prominent among the swiftly moving throug goes the well known face and form of the great raliroad king, Commodore Vanderbiit, drawn by a sorrel team that he has chosen from his stable of horses. ‘The Commodore is @ consummate horseman, and drives with a seeming recklessness ana abandon that shows nerve and tact. He loves a good horse, and knows one, too, at sight. His sen William, seated behind a fast black, spies the old gentleman and “goes for lim’? with a rush, and down the road at a merry galt rattle father and son. Captain Jake Vanderbilt, a brother of the Commodore, and not oue Wit jess u horseman, is scated behind & small but very speedy pair of blacks, ready at a moment's notice to take up the gage of battle against any other team or single trotier, and we would advise all who ) crity of speed Lo let hun alone or they Will get beaten. . hd now Mr. Kovert Bonner, a gentleman as well known throughout the leugth and breadeh of Us continent a8 an admurer of speedy horseflesh, ap- pears upon the scene. His horses have a world- wide reputation, and all within sight are on we qui vive to see something marvellous, and they ave not disappoluted; Jor he is behind that prodigy of beauty anu speed—the daughter of than and Poca- hontas—Pocuuontas the trotter. She darts up the road, Mapelied by his hand and voice, like a meteor; and Ben Mace, who has come out with the stallion Logan to beat all comers, pulls up, and, shaking his heat, thinks it would be a very foonsh thing to “tackle” her, jor he has driven her himself a mile in 2:18. A. R. Phyfe, seated behind that staunch friend of his, the splendid brown mare Lady Lockwood, goes up the road at a rapid gait, eliciting from an entha- siastic Hibernian, Who is an atlenuve observer, tie remark, “Shure she’s a divi wid wings.”’ ‘Toomas P. Wallace, the owner of inany fast and splendid animals, was enjoying himself behind that beauty, Lady Ella, Who 1s a daughter of old Hamble- tonian. Hatch, with Lew Peut, 1s a(ter Weaser with Income, but Income seems to be too many guns for him. Thicker and thicker they come, and we fun gro’ {and furious. We have hard work to re- cognize all, but among the many passing and re- passing We note Eph. Simmons with Toby Candour, Chester, Simmons behind Commodore Nutt and mate; Ned ee with Cricket aud White Heels; Frank Work, with nis long striding sorrel mare; General Baxter, with bay gelding yopas Price; Stokes, with Josephine and mate; Ned Fry, with chestnut mare: Frank Baker, with big bay; Win. Lovell, with Lady Lovell; Mr, Gates, with his fret | dun mare; Mr. Lawrence, with a fast o1 black ponies; Ally Bonner, with mare Fiatbush Maid; John Langden, fine bay; Mr. Chapin, with Grey Vrince; Blanchard, behind “his speedy black yelding; Mr. Higgins, with fast bay mare: Mr. Hinman, with his trotter, Young Comodo. 's Colbara, ‘With @ white and >orrel teain; ms, with a bay; Harry Felter, bebind his Hambievonuns; Joha Chamberlain, with bay and brown: Dun Walton, with gray ana brown: Billy Carr, with his gray mare; Mr. Moss, with fast black mare; Mr. Green, with Nabocklish and Medoc; tlenry Bennett, with his favorite sorrel mare; J. Q. Laws, with a splendid pair of mares; Wiliam Oulffe, behind bis fast black colt; Mr. Fergusen, with a fin’ roau geld- ing; Billy Gray, with his fast brown gelding Richards behind bis merry team, Brother Jonathan and Mayshek; Mr, Ayres, with a fine sorrel: G. B. Curtiss, bebind his bay Morning star; Mr. Howard, with brown gelding Steamboat; George Ives, with his beautiful and speedy team’ of Ethan Allen’s; Captain Wilson, behind a fine team ot bays: Mr. Wm. Turnbull drove his bay team; Mr. Wm. Bum- pnres drove & handsume team of thoroughbreds; ir. Bellinger, with a fast gray; Mr. Starin drove his promising colt; Mr. Saunders drove Western New York and mate; Mr. Spicer ‘drove his brewn mare; Amos Littell drove his famous team of vay mares; Mr. Abrams drove his brown horse; Joseph King drove that speedy black mare; Dr. George Gordon drove Sally Voorhees; Lew Marin drove speedy Billy Lewis; Billy Bird and bis friend De Jonge sat behind a very fast sorrel colt; Mr. Price held the reins over a black; Mr. M. Cashman drove a fine bay; Mr. Van Nest sat behind a fine team of bays; G. N. Fergusen was driving a fast grav; Frauk Fergusen drove a@ rapid bay; Wilham Ridabock sat behind uaker; Harvey Hynard drove a brown filly, whose lam was Suatlyside, called Ponchon; Sam Wells drove his trusty Ethan Ajlen mare; Ed Wilkins went by ata tremendous clip, behind his Hambletonian stallion; Cantatn Baby was behind a fine team of grays: Mr. Barry drove his fast black, Shoo Fly; Mr. lohnson drove the fast gray horse, by Pilot, Jr., Bnil Run; Mr. Keyser had a white-faced mare; Mr. Parker drove Pulaski and mate; Mr. Truesden was behind Lottery; Mr. Lovetu drove Young Bruno; Mr. James Wallace drove a fine bay; Messrs. Jarvis and air Pad John Jackman arove @ fine pair of bays; Mr. Feely was behind ® fast brown; Mr. Fiannigan drove his young prodigy that he purcha ser <4 Mr. Scot drove his fine bay gelding; Mr. Winkle drove a fine pair of browns; Mr. W. H. Brown drove his Jamous roan; Joshua D. Miner drove his Ethan Al- len mare and mate, and they showed a good ‘‘clip” of speed. L, J. Phillips has thrown aside his business, and beh nd his spleadid brown mare (Hambletonian Maid), shows the crowd a 2:00 clip. ‘This mare 1s a haf sister to Ship Timber, and is one of the prettiest drivers in the world. She is improving every day, and bids fair to be one ot the fastest, J.H. Harbeck, Jr, is behind a splendid black gelding, tour years old, and with a great turn of speed, a recent purchase. Richard Sage 1s yee | fast bay, by Ethan Alien, Garduer Sage is seat behind that speedy gray gelding, Hero. Dan Mace appears behind a nauiber and variety of trotters; Cottontail, his white gelaing, being greatly adinired for his beauty and speed; Lady Sage, a fast black mare, and a brown one, unknown = fame are also among the horses that Mace sits hind. And now a painful scene occurs, one that blanches the cheek and shakes the nerves of the stoutest. Coming by a club nouge Whose steps are black With men 1s a weil Known gentleman driving a fine and valuable team. In the eupoaire: direction, proceed- tng at a run, are a man and woman behind a sorrel horse, easly they are coming; in an instant, before the gentleman can think, tiuey have rushed head on agalust his team! A woman screams—a sudden lifting in the air—a shock that tears all asunder—a noble animal struck to the death by a shalt, his lite blood oozing out upon the snow—the gentieman mained and helpless, perhaps his death- blow given; and this utterly foolish and miserable — of horsemansnip has accomplished his Mr. Lewis drove his speedy gray mare om lestiny. "Aga the merry crowd fly past after this terrible accident, and we notice that Isauc Phillips is driving that well known trotter, Admira! farragui; Fisk is driving a six-in-hand, three blacks and vnree grays; Richard Coombs 18 seated behind a fine gray; Joun C. Sares has ont his fast black team; O. B. Grey 1s beluind his black; J. B. Fellows 18 in a handsome sleigh, behind a splendid pair of bays. among the family sieighs we noticed those of Messrs, Husson, Bates, Cornell, Moss, William Sim- mons, C. Carman, Pearsall, Coe, L. J. Philli land, Grey, Sares, Wiiliam Turnbull, H. Blackenstein, G. 'N. Ferguson and ‘Slade, Daniel Mace and family enjoyed themselves behind @ splendid team of bays attached to a handsome double sleigh. Garrison turned out a handsome six-in-hand of bays attached to the largest sleigh on the road, and Well suppliet with robes and filed with a merry P tty, Ex-Sherif! James O’Brien drove his very andzome and fast team—s gray and black; Purdy drove his speedy Ethan Allen; Gardiner Howland drove a ir of very stylish Hambletonian mares; Messrs. Heenan and Hill drove a fine gray and black from Dan Mace’s stables; the old champien sleigh horse Rattlesnake showed a terrific burst of speed; Charles Carman’s roan horse Dick Carhart and bay mare Annie made a rattling team, and showed @ good clip of speed; Charley Sparks was driving Dexter, Jr.; Robert Bonner drove his fast gray; James W. Gillies sat benind that splendid brown team of his; Dr, Cattanach was going a 2:40 clip behind a fine black gelding; Dr. Corey was speeding bay mare Kitty; Commissioner Galway drove his fine sorreis, Prince of Wales and Metamora; Mr. Lawrence drove Cheg roan and bay; Mr. Davis drove a last bay gei- ng. Darkness was closing around when we left our post ef observation and most of the habituds of the road had taken their departure homeward; but we Were assured that night, far from closing this ani- mated scene, catls forth all those whose business keeps thei engaged during the day, and that those who “go 1a” for slelghing practically carry out me words of the well kuowa song— I'm bound to ride all night, I’m bound to ride all day. THE WEATHER AT MOUNT WASHINGTON. MOUNT WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 1871. Observations at ten o'clock A, M.:—Barometer, 23.45; thermometer, minus 8; relative humidity, 61. Wind, northwest; velocity, sixty miles per hour. It was clear above at sunrise, but there were clouds at different heights in tue vatley. As the sun shone on them there were limes of every hue, producing a grand effect in this pure atmospiere STATEN ISLAND, The Movemeut for Improvemeut—Mectiag of the Commis-ion—Pian of Proposed Legal Negnulations. The Internal Improvement Commision met at the banking house of Duncan & Sherman yesterday afternoon to hear the report of the Select Commit- tee. The president of the Commission, Mr. Erastus Brooks, was in the chair. The report pre- sented was from a committee composed of Messrs. Westervelt, Prentice, Bowman, Cameron and Shaw, and its main features 1s an at intended for the Leg- isiature, but first submitted to the Commission for amendment or apprevai. Its main features are:— First—A board of five commissiouers, one from each tows of the county, to be named in the bill, from whom shail be seiected a president aud trea- surer, and who shall have power to elect Second—To this board, if the bill becomes a law, ‘will be given power over the whole si age, roads and incipient steps to ire water for the island from the various beautiiu! lakes now scatiered over the centre of the island, Third—The duties of the board will be to execute generally, but not precipitately, tae plans snbmitted by the board of experis, which have. already been approved generally by a resoluiion of the Commis- siou. The duties under the general law over lands and highways belonging to railroad commissioners are proposed to be given to the Commission. Fourth—The tive main routes, 100 feet wide, across the island, viz.:—First, from Tottenvilie to New Bright n Point; second, from Nortnfiela to New Brighton Point: third, from the west part of Southfield to New Brighton Poimt; (with fourth, an open place Hot less tian 400 feei long and 200 deep); ith, a shore road of 100 fect from the south end of New York avenue, Clitton, southward via New Dorp, thep northward so as to connect with the Southf road, north or northeast of the Great Kills, then via Tottenville and oa to the present North Shore road, Fyth—The transverse roads, fifiy feet wide, will be Jeft to future time and town autiorities, tne duties of the Commission being mainly coufined to the drainage of the island. Strti—For these general improvements it is pro- posed, in the bill pending, the whoie island shall pay & tax upon Itsy preperty which is over # ‘To raise tue necessary money it is proposed, under carefull imitations, to issue, by the ioards of Super- visors, county bonds fron year to year, to a limted extent, and under proper responsibility, the bonds to be Known as “Improvement Bouds,’? bearing feven per cent interest, and redeemanie some years hence. ‘fne bill was ordered to be printed, and was made the special order of business for the next meeting. BROOKLYY WATER SUPPLY. Probable Scarcity of Water and a Pian for Providing Additional, Reservoi Jor the city It ts abundantly demonstrated by tne condition of the pouds from which Brooklyn draws her supply of water that tho large storage reservoir which is proposed by the Water Commissioners is @ project that will ere long be found very necessary. Chief Engineer Adams has stated that the water Jn the ponds in the reservoir Is lower- ing, and in order to prevent a sbort supply tt | wul be necessary for the citizens of Brooklyn to be economical in its use. mayor Kalbfeisch, who has opposed the construction of the new storage reservoir, says he apprehended no danger whatever in the supply of water, There are some seasons of the year when a large quantity of water might be saved if there was any place to ate 8 It. ‘The enterprise will in all probability be carned out this summer. ‘The reservoir Will cost $1,400,000, but it will make Brooklyn a more desira- ble piace of residence and will enhance materially the Value Of real estate In all sections of the ciuy. 7,000,000. | A HOLOCAUST AT SEA, The Coolie Ship Uncawah Destroyed by Tire, Togeth:r With ‘ver Four Hundred of Her ‘ oolie Passengers, [From the Straits Times, Dec, 3, 1970.) From the late Java papers we learn of the lose by” five of the ship Uncawsh, from Maco pound to Callao with cooules, Who mutinied at sea and get fire to the shig. ‘The captain and crew arrived at Aner inthe San Salvadorian ship Fray Bentos and a portion of the coolies in the British ship Juanpore. The partiou- Jacs that can be gleaned of Chis sau aifuir are as fol- low The Uncawah, under San Salvadorian colors, left Macao on the 1sth October for Caliao, with 637 coolies, She was under the command of Captata Gluseppe Rosicana, an Italian, Whose account Is in e 8 follows: ler having sailed for a cou le of days with a fair wind, the Cookes began to grumble. Several ot them circulated letters amoug the coolles, urg- lug them to rise aud make themselves mas. ters of the vessel. On the moruing of the 2ist October the coolies were, as usual, left on deck to refresh themselves. After having steady some time on deck they were ordel wo ge below, but refused to ubey. ‘Tue cooties persisting iu their refusal, the crew endeavored to force them vo go below and a fight ensued petween them. + he sailors were provided with Weapons, but the Chinese armed themselves with pieces of tron and wood and latd about with these so eilectively that the steward and enter were killed aud several satlors Afier a struggle jasimg half an hour Chine-e were driven to the hold, and, seeing that there was ttle hope of obtaming command of the vessel by force, broke everything beiow and set fire to the ship. ‘fhe crew, perceiving this, became panic stricken, got out a boat and made away irom the ship so hastily that the captain, wno wus left behind, was obliged to jump overboard and swim after the boat, which picked him up. They pulled steadily for five days, during which time they were without food, whem they reached the Great Natunas Isiand, They re- four days on the island, alter which they e taken of by the Ban Salvadorian ship Fray tos, Captain Mota, aud taken to Anjer, where they arrived on the 9th November.’ ‘Tue fate of the vessel usd of the coolies who were thus left on board is best descrived in tue following: stalement made by Captain Haldane, of the British ship Juanpore, who has also reached Anjer with 112 of the coolies aud a Greek sailor, who had been left benind on board the burning vessel by his shipmates, More than 400 of tive covli¢s uiust have perished vy fire and by drowning. ANIER, Nov, 18, 1870, Wile proceeding down the Cutna 3¢s from Shang, hae for London on the 2ist of October, in latitude 6 40 north, longitude 109 45 east, a vessel was reported to me to the south-southeast, Shortly after thin smoke was observed proceeding from her, trom Witch | comciuded tuat sne Was a steamship, under which belief 1 remained "ii sundowa, when fire Was distinctly visiule envelopiog the whole ship. At this ume we were about twe.ve mules dis. tant from her, As tie wind was very light, I despatched Mr. Stewart, second oticer, fn charge of the gig, to pull away auead. mn nopes of gee! anytaing or picking up aby of the survivors. Abou an hour alter this the secoud oioer retarned with intelligence tuat one of the unfortunate ship’s boats, manned by twenty-five Chinamen and one Kuropea: hud hailed them, stating that they were a partof the survivors {rom ihe nurping ship, Who had been direcied to us by observing our blue lights and rocketa, which Were exhibited every hour; but doubting the truth of their statement, he returned alongside, followed siortly aiterwards by the Chl- nese boat. lL requested the European, a Greek, to come on board and drop the boat uste:a and make fast, not ajlowing the Cuinamen on board til I was satisfied with tis man’s statement. From him I was ac- qnainted with the fact that the burning ship wae the ULncawah, from Macao for Caliag, with 538 coolles on voard, who had mutinied and set fire to the smp that aay, a flerce conflict having taken place be- tween the officers and crew with the Chinese, some of them pearing strong evidence of the scene of slaughter, cutlass and pisiol wounds being on seve- Tal or them. ‘Tie Chinese, seeing they were getting defeated, retreated to tue fore-end of the ship and set fire to the ves-el, The captain, oifl- cers and crew, seeing that all nopes were gone, now lett the ship in boats. Lam also informed that five days after leaving Macao the coolies had made an a\tempt to capture the ship but had not succeeded, whereupon avout one huudred of them were put 1D irons, ‘The said ringleager of the matiny and the man who set fire to the ship are on boara my ship at present in irons, Tnese are all the farts 1 am acquainted with from the ouly kuropean whom we rescued. At twe A. M, on the 22d October [ reached the buraing ship and hove to avout a mile distant manned the gig, aud taking command, I proceede: in the direction of the stip; but as the water was atrewed with bodies in all directions, foaung on fragments of the wreck, I stopped tO pick up as many as possible, returning twice to the ship to dis- charge our living cargo. Finding that we had now sixty Chinese on board, I proceeded direct ior the burning ship in hopes of rescuing some of the crew, but did not find any traces of them. Alter surveyin, the ves: round, which was surrounded with wreck to a considerable aistance, I deemed it pradent to return on board aud wait til daylignt, At five A. M. | started ag un for the buruing ship, which was now nearly burned to the water's edge, and reaching her, com- menced to rescue a$ muny as possible, which was attended with conside: able toil and danger, as there Was a heavy swell running, and the Chinese, seeing Geilveraneé approaciung, became frantic, plunging inw the water from all quarters, comple ely sur- rounding us and laying hold of the ganwales of the boats. which comp us to make free use of the oars, to prevent their too quick approach, otherwise the boats woud have beeu apse At ter A, M. I despatched sir. Barlow, offtcer in charge of the gig aud planace, with instracuons to Hi! both boats and retura as quick as possible to the ship. On nis return | mustered all hands, and, Jiuading that we had 112 men ou board, decided that ore could be done. At eleven A.M. 1 tihed ‘ay to the south, passing dead bodies, fragments of wreck and various articles of cabin furniture, Jully tweuty miles from the . AUGUSTUS M. HALDANE, e Commander of the ship Juanpore, owned by Messrs. & J. Brovilebank, of Liverpool. » eae master and crew of the 1i-fated Uncawah an the 112 coelles saved by the Juanpore taken from Anjer to Batavia in the mer Minister Van Staat Roconssen. Five of the polies Were pu¥ in irons, charged with the murder of the carpenter. The Greek, it 1s said, ls also charged with having combined with the coulies; bub the captaim of the Uncawah discredits this. THE WiDOW’S V.CrORY. Case of Mrs. Overmaller va, The Morris and Essex Kutlroad Company— $#3,500 Awarded Her tor the Killing of Her Husband. One cold winter’s night, about a year ago, a Gere. man baker named Overmuller, residing at Mubarn, lost his life through falling into- @ mill fue or pond at that place, as alleged through the negligence of the railroad = compan: in not providing proper lights at the depot. Mr. Overmuller was @. passenger on a train, and when let out at the depot, in consequence of the abseuce of the customary light, mistook his way in the dark, tumbled into the flue and was drowned. At the coroner's Inquest which followed a verdict was rendered severely censarmg the company. 1t was shown during the inquisition that the company had repeatedly been warned of their criminal negligence, but to no purpose. All the leading citizens of the place came forward aud formed an association primarily to have justice done te poor Woman who had beer. widowed by the aforesaid negligence of the com- pany, and secondly, for the purpose of taking measures that would prevent a recurrence of such cataswophes. At the ensuing term of the Essex County Supreme Court suit was brought in benaif of tue widow to recover dumages from the railroad company In $10,000, it was urged in defence thas Overmuller came by = his eath §=through his oWn Cureiessness, and it wus sought to be proven that he was diunk on the night of the acc dent. This was disproved, though it was shown that deceased had been drinking. The jury, how- ever, disagreed. Another tial took place Xt the present veri, and resulted yesterday in a verdict for Lue widow inthe sam of 5, The legal point. was uot Whetuer Overmulicr Was or Was not intoxi- ced, but ha i suiicieut safeguard been provided by company? ‘The verdict is theyanswer. It 18 said. the railroad company purpose appealing the SOCIAL AMENITIES IM BROOKLYN. Attempt to Shoot « }rominent Resident. Kdwin Wiley was arrested yesterday and arraigned before Justice Voorhies, of Williamsburg, to answer @ charge Of shooting at Mr. Michael Haggerty, a prominent Fenian leader in that place. ‘The shoot ing took place on Friday last, in the building No. 31 Broadway, E. D., in which Wiley and is curry 00 business. Jra Buckman, Jr., made acharge of assault against Wiley at tne same time, cases were adjourned unul Thursday next. A MUKDER ConrassEp.—The Hudson Register of lasi evening Bays:—‘'A stranger, giving his name as dienry ©. Clark, gave himself up to Justice J.P, Hogeboom, in Chatham Vilage, last evening, stating: that he murdered one George Clark, at Fort Leaven- worth, Kansas, about elgot months ago. He has a nuinber os aliases, but left Kausas under the name of Charles Hastings. He is about twenty-six years oid, with sandy hutr and mustache, Be was taken to jail in this clty to-day, to walt for some intelli- gence from Fort Leavenwor' He telis a very suraight story, giving iull particulars of the murder, and says be could ud uo peace of mind since the crine was committed unui be relieved Lis conscience by divalging the horribie secret that haunted hig lite. He is generally betleved to be sincere in hia confession.” —J'0ud, 038 IN, Yo) Press, Jan, 18, .