The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1871, Page 4

£ —— “TIE ROVAL MARRIAGE, Princess Louise, of England, to be Wedded to the Marquis of Loru To-Day. History of the Match and Sketches of the Bridegroom and Bride. Queen Victoria’s Description of the “Dear Little Marquis” at Two Years of Age. The House of Argyll Elevated to the Steps of the British Throne. Description of the Pageant and the Ceremonial in the Chapel of St. George. Wames of the Bridesmaids and the Reunion of the Campbells. The Wedding Costumes British, Lrish and the Garb of Old Gaul. English Princesses Who Have Already Married Subjects of the Crown. AND RELIGIO To-day the Most Noble John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquis of Lorn, eldest son of his Grace tue Duke of Argyll, will be married in London to her Royal Highness the Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Guelph, the sixth child ané fourth daugh- ter or her Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Iretand, by ber husband, the late Prince Albert. This unton will blend the blood of the Guelphs, the Coburgs (of Saxe Coburg and Gotha), the Gowers and the Campbells of Scotland; the latter coming down in au uninterrupted stream during elgbt cen- turies from Gillespick Campbell, Lord of Locnow, to the happy bridegroom, who dates at Inverary Castle, in the county of Argyll, Roseneath Lodge, Dumbartonshire, and Argyll House, Kensington, London, and represents the history and fame of the Na m More. he Marquis of Lorn 1s, as announced, the eldest | son of the Most Noble and Right Honorable Sir | George Douglas Campvell; Duke, Marquis and Earl of Argyll; Marquis of Lorn and Kintyre, Earl of Campbell and Cowall, Viscount Lochow and Glea- tila, Lord of Inverary, Mi Morton and Tivy, in the | peerage of Scotlan 1 Suabridge and Lord Hamuiton, in the peerage of Engiand; Hereditary Master of the Queen's Household, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, Admural of the Western Isies, One of her Majesty's Counsellors of State ior Scotiand, and Lord Lieutenant of the county of 1 these honors the Marquis of Lorn will suc- ceed shout he survive his father, itis said that he will be created Duke of Lorn in his own right. ‘The motuer of the Marquis of Lorn—-the Duchess of Argyli—ts the Lady Eilzabeth Georgiana Leveson Gower, eldest daughter of the Right Honvrable George Granville, second Duke of Sutherland, She ‘Was married to the Duke of Argyll on ub stot duly, im the year 1544. This lady comes of a most ancient and distinguished line or ancestry, having | an Anglo-Saxon origin which dates, iliustriously, at the period of the Conquest, and descends with continuous houor from the close of the twelfth cen- fury. THE BRIDEGROOM AND BRIDE. The Marquis of Lorn, the bridegroom, was born on Uhe Gth of August, in the year 1845. He is iu the twenty-sixth year of his age. s since by a spectator in the gallery of the House of Commons in the following word: ‘The | s of Lorn looked 80 very young, and determined to look 50 very ol nm delicate and pink; finely cut and femi- t ; asligat red mustache his only facial adornment; genuine Rufus locks, smali ears, hands and feet; a light, springy step; head high in the air, and a gait which expressed generally a tull con- selousuess of the rights aud utles and belongings ot the Dukedom of Argyli—such is the Marquis of Lorn, a: he appeared to me froms the speaker’s gal- ihe Princess Louise, the bride, was born on the 1sth of March, in the year 1848, She will be twenty- three years and days old on the morning of her marriage, ‘The Princess is described a fair young lady, ap- proaching to a blonde, of graceful figure, but in- clined to be fat and heavy as she advances in years, QUEEN VICTORIA AS A MATCH MAKER. When the late Duchess of Kent announced to the people of Great Britain the simple words, “I have educated my Gaughter,"” she proclaimed a grand Social fact, the illustration of which in the everyaay itfe and domestic economies of the lady to whom she referred—the present Queen—nas been of ines- tiumable value to the English nation. Her Majesty stands forth gracefully and usefully as head of a family as well as head of the State government. By her care and attention of and to her children, 4nd her wise provisions for their future welfare, she has amply discharged her duty to the memory of her deceased mother, and repaid the many and har- Tassing and embarrassing anxtetics and circam- stances which that estimable lady endured, and in Which she was placed on account of her youtiful daughter when Princess Victoria. Queen Victoria has already allied* her family with that of the King of Denmark by the well-timed mar- riage of the Prince of Wales. She bas bound the Crown of England, so far as in- timate friendly fireside relations can accomplish the work, with the imperial Crown of United Germany, vy her negotiation of the marriage of her daughter, the Princess Royal, to His Kkoyal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia. To-day she will elevate the proudest house in the peerage of Britain to the very steps of the throne, by witnessing the unlon of the Princess Louise and tue Marquis of Lorn, and thus, in reality, place the throne itself for an aristo-democratic support on the broad and sturdy sh oulders of tue men of the Clan Campbelli—a numerous, most powerful and soldier- like race, the scions of which are united in sympa- thy with the parent stock from every quarter of the g lobe. Her Majesty Victoria is thus a‘ match maker” of no ordinary tact; indecd, it may be said that she is a “match maker” of the most brilliant talent, classing almost a8 prescient in her forecasts of happy marriages aad ber management of suitable family unions. Let us supply the proof. Queen Victoria, in ber book entitled “Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in tie Tighiands. from 1848 to 1861,” wriles a letter, under date of the 1stn of August, 1547, In which she describes her visit to | Inverary Castle, the seat of the of Argyll, her rec eption and her first impressions of the Marquis of Lorn, her son-in-law to-day, then a child of two years of ag The Que ys:-“The approach to Inverary splendid is very wide; straight before y 4a fine range of mountains, splendidly lit up—green, pink and lilac; to the leit the hetle towa of In ‘rary, & ve ft, surrounded by pme wood stands the castie of Inverary, square, with turrets | at the corners, yuon Was in the true High- } passin, NEW YORK HERALD, TURSDAY. MARCH 21, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. treme beanty of Inverary. The pipers walked be- fore the carriages, aud the Highlanders on either Side, as we approached the house.” THE CAMPBELL OF TAB DAY—THE MARQUIS OF RN. Lorne in the following word: Outside (at Inverary | Castle) stood the Marquis of Lorn, sust (00 years | old, a dear, white, fat, Jatr, lite fellow, with red- dish hatr, but very devicate seatures, tke voth his | Sather and mother; he ts sich a merry, imdepend- ent, ittle child, He had @ viack velvet dress and Jackel, with a “sporran,”. scart and Highland bon- het. We lunched at two with our hosts, the High- land gentlemen standing tn the room. We sent for | our children, who arrived during luncheon time. We left Inverary pefore t ud took the children With us L e chviage vig Krey is, the Duchess of Sutherland and the ethers accompanied us on board the Fairy, where we took leave of them.” Queen Victoria appears, indeed, to have been taken with the members of the clan Campbell generally; for just immediately before and alter her notice of the little Marquis of Lorn she mentions “Lord Breadalbane’s Highlanders ail in the Camp- bell tartan;” “Captain McDougall showed us the real “brooch of Lorn’ which was taken by his an- cestor trom Robert Brace;” “Campbell, of Monzie, Was, Albert said, extremely active” in deer stalking; “Lady M. Campbell came ‘on board with us," aud 80 on, CONCLUSION OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT. As a pleasing resalt of the Queen’s compitment to the “little? Marquis of Lorn in the year 1347—‘just two years old” at the time—her Majesty was enabled to atinounce to the British natuon m her speech from the throne on the occasion of the opening of Patlia- ment on the 9th of February, 1871, the conclusion of @ marriage contract between the adult peer and her daughter Louise inthe following words:—*In turniug to domestic affairs I have frst to inform you thatl have approved of a marriage between my daughter, the Princess Louise, and the Marquis of Lorn, and | have declared my consent to this union in Council.” THE BRIDE'S FORTUNE. The Queen also proposed to Parhament, through her Miuisters, Premier Gladstone, in the Honse of Counngas, and Earl Granville, in the Honse of Lords, that tae Princess Louise should be voted by the nation a dowry of £30,000 and an annuity of £6,000 per annum, which was carried, and the “match making’? negotiations of the British Crown with the aristocracy completed. The fact of giving dowry to the Princess from the public purse was not pleasing, generally speaking, to the by ats nation. The vole of tue eed pee duced a democratic agitation tn opposition, jeet- ings were held and the grant denounced in the large cities of England, Assemblages of working: men were organized in London, at which resolu- tions were passed condemning the dowry vote, and arrangements made for hoiding public ey throughout the provinces to protest against it. iT. Locke, M. P., addressing his constituents tu South- wark, mentioned that “he should vote for the Prin- cess Louise's dowry,”’ The announcement was re- ceived with marks of dissent, and several persons went so far as to hoot at the mention of the Queen's name. In the Honse of Commons Mr. P. A. Taylor 0) posed the dowry vote, observing that the people were rejoiced when they learned that the Princess Louise was breaking through, in her marriage, the custom by which royal princesses were bound to seek for foreign princes as their husbands; but that gratification was short lived when it was§discovered that a dowry would be asked for her out of the taxa- tion of the country. He was astonished that the government had net acted upon the unmistakable opinion of the people and abstained trom proposing this vote. ‘The money was voted, however. by 350 votes to one, and the Queen, her daughter and the royalists made happy. THE BROAD LANDS AND HONORS OF THE BRIDE- The district of Argylishire, which Is commonly known as *Lorn,” and to the possession of which the Marquis ef Lorn 18 heir apparent, occupies the northeastern portion of the county, from Oban and Dunstainage, at its southwestern extremity, to the borders of Perthshire, on the east of Scotland. It is cut im two by the romantic and beautiful Loch Ettve, and is separated on the west by a variety of narrow channels from the district of Morven. ‘ihe district, in very aucient times, was possessed by the Mac- Dougals, a family in those days almost as powerful as tbe MacDonalds, ‘Lords of the Isles.” From the MacDougals it came into the royal House of Stuart, or Stewart, and it wiil be remem- bered that among the victories gained by Bruce in his eventful career was one over the then Lord of Lorn im the Pass of Awe. According to Sir Bernard Burke, the broad lands of Lorn passed inte the hands of the Campbeils of Lochow, the direct successors of the present ducal house of Argyll, abont 400 years ago, and it 18 remarkable that they were acquired, just as now they are about to be consolidated and more firmly established than ever, not vy force of arms, but by a fortauate mar- riage. Sir Bernard tells us that Sir Colin Campbell, of Lochow, in recognition of the great additions which he had made to the estates of the house of Campbell and to nis achievements in war acquired the name of “More,” or the Great, and that from him the head of his descendants down to the present day 1s Known among his Gaelic tenantr and clansmen as “McCallum More.’? He receive the honor of knighthood in 1280 from the hanas ot Alexander Lif. of Scotland, and eleven years later was one of the nominees of Robert Bruce in his contest for the Scottish crown. ‘This renowned and gallant chieftain was slain in a contest with his neighbor, the Lord of Lorn, at a place called the “Suriug of Cowal,” where an obelisk of large size is erected over his grave. This event occasioned feuds jor a series of years between the neighboring Latrds of Lochow aud Lorn, which were terminated by tue marriage of Colin, second Lord Campbell of Locnow, and first Earl of Argyll, Lord Higt Chancelior of Scotland, at the close of the fifteenth century, with Isabella Stewart, or Stuart, eldest daughter and heiress of John, Laird t Jn consequence of this union he aaded to arm of his ancestors the “galley,” which still tigures in the Campbeil seld, and assumed the ad- ditional title of “Lord of Lora.” The Marqguisate of Lorn was created in 1701 in favor of Archibald, tenth Earl and first Duke of Argyil, in recompense for his services to the new monarch in the troubled tune immediately after the Revolution in 1688, THE MARQUIS SPEAKING FOR THE BRIDE ELECT. The Marquis of Lorn presided a few weeks since | at the annuai dinner of the inverary Curling Ciub, of which bis Lordship is patron. Upwards of thirty memb.ra were present at the dinuer, which was held in Inverary. The croupter, Sir George Home, proposed as a toast, ‘Tle Princess Louise.” In re- sponding, Lord Lorn said:—“i assure you the Prin- cess looks forward With mach delight to the tme when she hopes to visit tnis part of tue kingdom. In one of your recent matcles between marred men and bachelors my sympatales were entirely with the latter, and I was glad they were able to hold their own; but next year i hope to be on the’ other side, and that I shal! not find myself the only one drafted inio tue opposite ranks.”* PREPARATIONS FOR THE MARRIAGE. The marriage pledge having been forinaiiy ratified the preparations for the soiemuization of the cere- mony, Which had been going on privately for some time previously, received a very direct impetus under direction of the Queen, given after ter re turn to Windsor Castle from tne Isle of Wight. it was decided that the Princess Louise should be married in the Chapel Royal of St. George, Windsor. The decoration of aretiring room for the royal bridesmaids, which has been erected at the west end of the south aisie of the chapel, was com- menced. The interior walls are richly decorated with choice fabrics and carpeted and suitably fur- nished for the occasion. Previous to the ceremony the bridesmaids will assemble within this elegant little extemporized boudoir to await the coming of Princess Louise. Tue space in front of the com- munion raits, between the ends of the seats of the Knights of the Garter and the rails in front of the altar are covered with board and carpeted, thus forming a level platform for the purposes of tne mar- riage and hiding the steps leading up Lo the altar. Just outside the south door, as the visitor eaters the cathedral, is the Bray chapel. This is a sort of alcove, partly shut off from the nave by panelled work. Access is gained to it by an ancient door leading from the interior of the cathedral, and it 15 within this recess that the bridegroom and grooms- men will assemble previous to the hour fixed for the wedding. The stone pavement of Cardinal Wolsey’s chapel, which has been converted into the Prince Consort’s Memorial chapel, has been boarded over and car- peted by the Court uphoisterer, and suitably fur- nished as & conver eee room for the ladies who will be present at the marriage. A carpet, with crimson ground and black design, has been specially manufactured for use in the Al- bert Memorial chapel. With this the temporary wooden flooring, which has been placed over the stone flagging, will be covered. Partitions, suitably and handsomely decorated, will divice the chapel into the bride’s assembling and reuring rooms. ‘The preparations also comprise a canopy over the steps Of the grand entrance at the west end leading to the nave of the royal chapel, opposite the Horse- shoe cloiste! it will be fitty-three feet in length and sixteen feet wide, so that the royal carriages may drive under in case of rain falling. On entering the chapel there is @ temporary room erected on the right and side for the special accum- modation of her Koyal Highness’ bridesmaids, near the cenotaph of the late King of the Belgians, oppo- site the cenotaph erected by the nation to the me- mory of his consort,¢the Princess Charlotte, of Wales. At the south entrance of the chapel, facing Henry VILL.’s gateway and tne Castle guard rooms, another portico, Aity-three feet by sixteen feet, 18 placed simular to the one erected at the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales, for the convenience of the company who may be honored with an invi- tation to be present at the ceremony. A gallery is buiit near the altar, between the Lin- coin chapel and the altar immediately fronting ler Majesty's private pews, for the accommodation of about one hundred of those personages connected with the Duke of Argyil’s family. » outside of the three porticos is covered with and tue inside lined with crimson cloth amd ted. ROUTE OF THE BRIDAL PROCESSION. ine of Ue bridal procession from the Castle to tue Chapel Royal will be by Castie asile street, under Henry VIII's gateway, oy tue Castle Guard quarters ana the newly, built Horseshoe cloisters fo the grand entrance of st. G *s chapel; in fact, the whole line of route will iy the same as that ebserved on the d fashio » Duke and Duchess of Argyll | occasion of the marriage of thetr Royal Higunesses jear I E hb Leveson Gower), the Duchess of | the Prince and Princess of W Sutherland, Lord Staford, Lady Caroline Leveson | QUEEN VICTORIA'S SKA. Gower ana the E tne landing | During the ceremony her Majesty the Queen will piace, which wa enied with heather, | oceupy the royal closet over the altar, as at the nup- The Gel tte umpbell of Islay, bis | tals of tne Prince and Princess ot Wales. Formeriy up aud the with # number near the carriag: tine. aud We W a very pretty were all other much sirack by eX the Queen, When desirous of visiting pri services at St, George's, passed from the re: f the Hon, ana Very Rev. ( ey, Dean of Windsor, over ce Wolsey chapel, to the east end of the cathedr and so reached the royal closet in the chapel. Recently a suttable platform, defended by an iron railing, has been erected along the north side of the Lol | roof of the Wolsey chapel, so that her Majesty can Her Majesty proceeds to describe the Marquis.of | pass fro: mm the deanery to the royal closet with the greatest privacy, and itis expected that this is the way by which she will proceed to the chapel to-day, ‘There ts also a communication between the Alhert Memorial ‘chapel, which will contain the bride’s boudoir, and the deanery. THE BRIDESMAIDS, Tho following ts @ correct tist of the ladles who have been Chosen by the Queen and the bride elect to assist as bridesmaids to Princess Louise:— Lady Constance Seymour, daughter of the Marquis of Hertford, 5 Lae Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of the Duke of reyll. Lady Florence Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond. . Lady Mary Butler, daughter of the Marchioness of Ormonde. Lady Alice Fitageraia, daughter of the Marquis of Kildare, Lady Grace Gordon, daughter of the vowager Marchioness of Huntly, Lady Florence Montagu, daughter of the Earl of Sandwich. Lady Agatha Russell, daughter of Earl Russell. Lady Agatha Russell, haying just had an attack of Bcarlet fever, may not be able to attend. THE LADIES’ WEDDING DRESSES. The wedding toilet of the Princess Louise ts to be entirely of British manufacture—a white Irish pop- Itn dress, Honiton lace veil and trimmings and Bal- briggan (Ireland) hosiery. ‘The exact dress to be worn by the eight noble bridesmaids as yet remalus & secre Scotch plaids are, however, fashionable again, ond the Campbell platd over and above all the others, cela va sans dire, the mama for Scotch ma- terlals and ornaments is Itke to run wilder thao ever. Atacourt just held by Queen Victorla at Buck- ingham Palace the Princess Louise wore a train of rich white silk trimmed with ruches of the same, and a tulle petticoat over glace, trimmed with bows of violet velvet. Headdress, violet velvet, diamonds, feathers and veil, diamond ornaments and the Orders of Victoria aud Alberi, St. Isabel and thé Coburg and Gotha Family Order. THE BRIDEGROOM’S COSTUME. It has been arrangea that the Marquis of Lorne ta to wear the full bs tev costume. Several well known houses in inburg have been busily en- 1d in making for the ‘youthful Marquis’ a mag- nudcent spectmen of the garb o1 old Gaul, No stene ornaments are to be introduced. The mountings will entirely consist of gold richly chased, every piece of jewelry having engraved on tt the arms of the noble house of Argyll. RELIGION—OMRNS. It is commented on, and very extenslvely, thatthe Queen named a day in Lent for the wedding of her duughter. This choice has astonished many people, as Lent 18 notin the Engush Church a time for fes- tivity, and itis accounted unlucky to marry in the holy season. It 1s alleged that two British noblemen—one of the highest rank, the other well known in political society, but neither holding official positions under gevernment—having had it mtimated to them that they would receive the Queen’s commands to be resent at the marriage of the Princess, asked “her jesty’s gracious permissivn to be excused from a tending & matrimonial ieast to ve celebrated in nt THE ROYAL MARRIAGE ACT OF ENGLAND—FIVE MARRIAGES BBC{WEEN PRINCESSES AND SUBJECTS PREVIOUSLY. The union of British royalty with subjects of the crown has been declared illegal by law during one hundred years just past, unless the royal personage seeking to contract the union had received the sanc- tion of the sovereign, This was stringently laid down in what is knewn as the Royal Marriage act (12 George I11., chapterj11), which was passed in 1772, atthe instance of King George III., who was indig- nant at the marriage of his brether, Wiluam Henry, Duke of Gioucester, in 1765, with the widow of Earl Waldegrave, an illegitimate daughter of Sir Edward Walpole. His brother, Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, in like manner had offended the King by his marriage, in 1771, with Lady Anne Luttrell, daughter of the Karl of Carhampten, and widow of Mr. Christopher Hor- ton, of Catton Hall, Derbyshire. Tne late Duke of Sussex braved his father's displeasure, and, in defi- ance of that enactment, went through the ceremony of marriage with the late Lady Augusta Murray, second daughter of John, fourth Earl of Dunmore, first at Rome, in April, 1793, and again at St. George’s, Hanover square, after the publication of bans, on the 5th of December following. His Royal Highness, having been left a widower, married, sec- ondly, Lady Cecilia Letitia Buggin, a daugnter of ur, second Earl of Arran, uiterwaras Duchess of Inverness. In tie like mauner George 1V., while vrince of Wales, 18 said to have contracted a secret marriage with the celebrated Mrs. Fitzherbert; but in none of the above cases was the royal sanction given to the unton. In the previous century King James II, had married as his first wife Lady Anne Hyde, daughter of the Lord Chancellor Ciarenden, but previously to that time no member of the royal family of England, strictly speaking, had contracted a fuareinge With a@ subject siuce the reign of Heary L E BRITISH PRINCESSES WHO HAVE MARRIBD SUBJECTS OF THE CROWN. English princesses have been instinctively onedi- dent to family law, and we dv not dud an instance of @ daughter of a living crowned head marrying @ subject later than the reign of Edward LIL., five centuries since. Marriages between princesses and subjects have occurred since, but at most in tive cases, and all uuder peculiar circumstances, as fol- lows:— The Princess Elizabeth, danghter of James I., and widow of the King of Bohemia, 1s understood to have privately married Lord Craven, at whose house, in Drary lane, she died a few montis alter her re- turn from exile with her nephew, Charles 1 the circumstances of the marriage are extremely obscure, and the Queen was entirely released from royal control. 3 ‘ne Princess Mary, sister of Henry VIII., took the opportunity, inuch to the indignation of her brether, ot marrying Charles Brandon, who was sent to fetch her back from France on the death of her hus- band, Louis XII.; but the peculiarity of this case 13 also obvious, Henry VII. permitted tnree of the daughters of Eawarda IV, and sisters of nis own Queen to marry the heads of the families of Howard, Courtenay and the now extinct Welles; but Henry VII. never fully recognized the legality of the royal title of his father-in-law. We must go back to Edward Ill. to find an instance of an ogcupant of the throne be- stowing a daughter upon a subject. PROPHECY REGARDING THE HOUSE OF ARGYLL. “When the moje shall reach the Mull; when the holly tree near Inverary shali be destroyei; when a road shall be made throughout the county; when bells shall ring Irom arock in Loch Fyne; when Strone Point, near Inverary, shall be coverea with wood, high enough to conceal an invading army, and when the Atlantic shall flow into Loch Fyne, then shall the Argyll Campbells be driven from Can- tire, excepting 80 many of them as shail escape on a crooked and lame white norse.’” So runs the ancient North British prophecy; and although its conclusion leaves a singular loophole of escape, yet this prophetic wish that was father to the thought has been so far fulfilled, that although the head of the Ulan Campbell is the ruler over Caa- tire, yet It is also true that many properties im the niisula, not so very long ago held by Campbells, have passed into other hands, whose owners do not. bear the old familiar name. There is still the Duke of Argyll, and Campbell of Stonefield, and Camp- bell of Kildalloig to represent the cian in Canure; but Skipness, Saddell, Carradale, Machrihanisn, Barr Gien and Tangie Gien are no longer under the sway of a Canipbell. Inverting the tix clauses of the prophecy I may note the singuar way in which each portion has aiready met with & partial or complete fulfilment according to popular belief, ‘That the Atlntte should flow Into Loch Fyne may, perhaps, i a few more years be the case if the long contemplaed ship canal across the narrow neck of the peninsula between East and West Loch Tarbert shouid becarried out, The plantations have clothed Strone Pdnt, the bells have rung from the Loch Fyne rock which was quarried to make a belfry for the church at Inverary and the high road has been made fron Inverary to Oampbeltown and from thence to Sowhend, Con- cerning the holly, it is said that the gandfather of the present Duke, out of deference to te Het mee insisted on an awkward bend being, mate in the line of the public road, in order to avoid the necessity of cutting down the tree, whitch still exits, although its roots are exposed and threatenel by the tide. ‘The holly is @ tree that often attains t) a considera- ble size in Argyleshire, where the Leight of one specimen was found to be twenty-tiree feet and its trunk ‘bree and a half feet in circunference. The portion of the prophecy relating to the mole and the Campbells bears upon a very cirious fact in natural history, if not in family history ‘The penin- sula of Cantire had been overrun by wild boars and wolves— although the poems of Osstai never men-- tion tue wolf, a circumstance of wich the oppo- nents of Macpherson were not slow to emind him— but had never been overrun by molesuntil the pre- sent dey—so recently, indeed, that £ was not till after the birth ef the Prince of Wales,who, as Lord of the Isles, may be looked upon as tle representa- live of the old Mavaonalds of Came, that the Land’s-end -was thorsugily invaded by the mole, It had commenced its mroad into thenorthern dis- trict of Saddell and Skipness about the year 1822, but nad not made eignteen miles of ppgress by the year 1843; for the author of the “Shlistical Sur- vey” of that portion of the peninsua, writing in that year, says:—*The mole has not a: yet made its appearance in the parish,” though he las to correct his statement in @ foot’ note:—-Sina writing the above the mole has advanced into theparish.”” He also says:—‘‘it 18 a very singular cirumstance in the natural history of the mole that imravels by the hills, and colonizes the sterile distrigs before it at- tacks the cultivated lana.” Lam mabie to state whether the mole has reached the ighthouse ex- tremity of the Mull; but It bas spreacso rapidly in te peninsula that Mr. Alexander McPiall, of Drum- garve farm, near Campbeltown, tn 4 letter dated. early in April, 1863, wrote as follow:—‘“As a far- mer I have been suffering tor a nunber of years back from the eficcts of moles, mop particularly innew grass and turnip fleids, No being aware | of the extent of damage done by thse creatures until recently, I lost no ume 1M securkg the services @ mole-catcher 1 the neighbor- hood. He ca ‘0 my farm on the ‘sth of March. and then leftme for Mr. Olark’s fark, Pangy; and during the Week he was with me he wstroyed witit his traps 145 moles. On Mr, Clark’ farm he de- stroyed 162 moles, nearly an equal mmber on Mr. Jon Bannatyne’s farm, and severe on Mr. Wat- son’s far, at Drum, among which vas a specunen ofa white mole, the drst What he had net with tn an experience of fourteen years as a mol catcher.’ But, though the moles may advane to the Mull, and the Atiantic may dow into Lochiyne, that Campbells should oe driven out of te Land’s-end would be the consummatian Of a pr@becy tual uo Cantire tenant would desire #0 long as the clan supplies such excellent landlords as the late tire, from ‘ar! t ie y re » ‘The statesman ts there for- gotten in the landiord, and political Influence is ex- changed for territorial. A position in the Cabinet is not half so tangible a rank to the Cantire Highlandor as that dertved from a pleasant combination of the jord-lheavenancy and the chief proprietorship of the county, His Grace may be merely @ Duke in the House of Lords; but at the Land’s-end, and for fur cry” throughout the Western Highlands, he 1s bailed as the Duke, the chief of the Clan Campbell, “Mac Callum More,’’ And so the people hope, for the Queen and for the Campbells, that the marriage of the Princess Louise and the Marquess of Lorne may be a happy one. THREE ALIASES. A Notorious Pickpocket Sentenced — A Heroic Woman on Her Muscle— Judge Bedford’s Memory. John McCarthy, alias Cockney Jack, alias John Macklin, was brought up before Judge Bedford yestorday in the Court of General Sessions charged with having picked the pocket of a lady at Hamii- ton ferry on the night of the 20th of February last. The complainant, who, mn appearance, 1s evi- dently “from the country,’’ and a capital subject for the manipulations of the LIGHT FINGERED GENTRY, gave her evidence in a thoroughly characteristio manner, and excited roars of laughter by the quaint way in which she told the story of her sufferings on board the ferryboat. Sne deposed that her name was Elizabeth Donovan and that she resided at-No* 87 Wolcout street, Brooklyn. On Saturday night, the 20tn of February last, she said, she had the misfor- tune to come to New York TO BUY A BIT 0° SOMETHING at Washington Market. Returning home in the evening, two men, one of wuom was the prisoner at the bar, “KEP’ DODGING MB about at the gate leading to the ferry. Finding that they impedea my progress I sald, ‘Now, you git out; I can’t pass with you.’ This summonsfrom a stal- wart lady, Whose accents are not the most dulcet imaginable and genera:ly not uttered sotto voce, had not the eee effect on the men who blocked her way an THEY CONTINUED ‘TO DODGE.” The witness at this stage of her evideuce grew ex- cited, ana, “fixing” McCarthy with a look of the most lofty contempt, she continued to address the jury, without once relinquishing ner gaze on the prisoner. “Finding, gentiemen. tnat I couldn’t get by, I SWEP’ BY ’EM, or, rather, I endeavored to do so; but as soon as I did, your Honor,” at once addressing Judge Bed- ford, “what do you think I finds in my pocket but the hand of that mau,” tragically poimting her finger at the prisoner. “The worat of it was that while he had his hand in my pocket it was STUCK IN HIS OWN POCKET at the same time, Iiound my purse in his hand, quite open ; but I naboed him before he got hold of my $6 50—Iny husband’s hard earned inoney. He says © me, when | caught the purse and told Lim he was a dirty thief. ‘I’ll have you arrested.’ [ says to him, ‘You will, will you? You never will leave this boat until | arrest you. With that he kept pulling me, until he dragged me on board the ferry- boat, where the horses were. When I got there a lot of men gathered around me and knocked me down. 1 stuck on to him all the time, and I never let him go until I got an ofticer. Iran to him and pointed out the prisoner as THE MAN WHO ROBBED ME, about six yards off, and says I, “Don’t arrest him unless you find @ hole in his pocket.” Turning full round to the jury, she summed up her narrative in the words, ‘An’ that’s the man that robbed me,’”? Ofticer William McMulan, of the First precinct, de- posed that the former witness pointed out McCarthy as the man who robbed her, and that when be was searched at the station house it was found that THB LINING OF HIS RIGHT HAND POCKET, through which the prosecutrix alleged that he had robbed her, was cut compar out, The prisoner, who was very well dressed and who appeared quite unconcerned during the proceedings, offered as his only defence the fact that he had not actually taken the purse from her pocket and that he had only at- tempted to commit the theft, Counsel for the prisoner offered no defence, as the case was overwhelming against him, and the jury, atter his Honor'’s charge, at once rendered @ verdict of guilty without leaving their seats, THE COURT ROOM was densely crowded during the trial of the prisoner by nis ‘‘pals,”? who stood by him in full force, and who, were it not for the vigilance of the officers of the court, would, in ali probability, have embraced a good chance to rescue their leader out ef the clutches of the law. There was a great sensation when the jury rendered their verdict, and the army of roughs in the rear of the room were almost thunderstruck when Judge Bedford said he would sentence the prisoner on the spot, after the clerk asked the usual qnestions. At this juncture several of the “Dead Rabbit” crowd near the door rose to their feet as if to intimidate the Judge, who, not- withstanding these beiligerent exhibitions, in a tirm voice delivered the following sentence :— THE SENTENCE. Judge Beaford, in passing sentence, said:—John Mevarthy, alias Cockney Jack, allas John Macklin, since my connection with the Court of General Ses- sions there never has been a man convicted whose past bears a worse record than yours. You were arrestea in 1852 by Judge (then Captain) Dowling and Superintendent (then sergeant) Jourdan for picking pockets at tne Crystal Palace Fair. in 1360 you were again arrested by Judge Dowling for picking a woman’s pocket in Trinity church while she was attend- ing her husband's funeral. In 1864 you fled to San Francisco, when you were again arrested by the Chief of Police for numerous offences, and thou- sands of dollars’ worth of property were found secreted In your room. In 1863 you were arrested by Judge Dowling for robbing a man of $1,300, but = managed to escape. You have been in State rison and on the Isiand, and to-day you stand here a3 an escaped convict, and found guilty ot larceny. The iast time you were tried, which was in August, 1870, you tried te deceive the Court by making out you were deaf and dumb; but Judge Dowling at once recognized you and sent you to the Island. To- rn, ni day I send you to the State Prison for the full te five years. THE FISHERY EXCITEMENT. Fishing Interests Ninety Per Cent Below Par—The Bay Men Excited—Delegations Going to Albany. The excitement which prevailed in Suffolk county for the past few weeks relative to the fishery laws 18 now more intense than ever. Two bills w@re pre- pared, which simply transferred the monopoly. The first bill was to remove the restriction contained in chapter 567 of the laws of 1870, which prohibits the use of pounds, weirs or set nets, with meshes less than five inches in length, between March 15 and June 15. The bill was accompanied by a petition of severa 1 hundred citizens, and a bill virtually withdrawing Suffolk county from the provisions of 1870. But there were confilcting interests, and Mr. Cannan received suggestions and bills from both parties. Section seven of the laws of 1870 was to be 80 amended that it should not apply to the salt waters lying easterly of the boundary line between Queens and Suffolk counties. The second bill would relieve the pound fishermen of the disability between March and June, and transfer the ban to the purse- net fishermen throughout tue year. POUND FISHING would be made legal in Suffolk county throughout the year, while purse-net fishing would be made tlle- 1 at all times of the year, except in the waters of ong Island Sound. On Saturday last, when the character of this proposed legislation became known, & strong feeling of indignation arose among the purse-net fishermen and they made a start for Uan- nan, The Green Point fishermen are willing to yleld Peconic bay to the shore fishermen, bat in Riverhead a different feeling prevails. ‘They believe that the SPRING FISHING IN PECONIC BAY 18 a matter too serious to surrender thus easily, and @ petition With 400 signatures. bas been prepared in Opposition, This fight between the fiskermen is very bitter, one party trying to totally annihilate the other and refusing to concitiate. It is thought it will result in open rupture or the bays, BROOKLYN MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. The Brooklyn Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon, Alderman Bergen tn the chair. TOUCHING THK WATER SUPPLY. The following communication was received from the Mayor:— TO THE HONORABLE THR BOARH OF ALDERMEN :— ENTLEMEN—Herewith please rocetve copy of a petition presented to me by a large Gumber (forty-four) of our most Tespectable citizens relative to the proposed increase of our water supply. In the opinions expressed by those gentlemen I fully concur, and, therefore, respectfully request your hon- orabie body t7 appoint a committee to confer with the Board of Water Commissioners and obtain their co-operation, in order that the very reasonable request of the petitioners may be complied with without any unnecessary delay, and, if possible, quiet the grave doubts now pervading the commu- nity as to an immediate necessity for the iarge expenditure contemplated, as well as the ultimate enccess of the pro- posed pian, ‘if carried out, accomplishing the object in fendea.” Very respecttuly, 3 MARTIN KALBFLEISCH, Mayor. ‘The communteation was rezerred to the Water and Drainage Committee. A CHANGE FOR THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS, The Board coucluded to hire the building at the corner of Court, and Livingston streets, owned oy Mr, Felix Campbell, fora headquarters for the Police Commissioners of Brookiyn, They adopted a reso- lution authorizing the Street Commissioner to enter Into contract with the owner ata rental of $7,000 per annum, THE GAS DEFICIENCY. A resolution was adopted authorizing We Issume Of bonds to the amount Of $127,000, to pay the de- Bciency in the gas bills, the Legislature having passed an act to that eects THE GALLOWS. Execution of Henderson Oxendine, a North Carolina Outlaw. STARTLING MURDERS AND OUTRAGES Immorality and Depravity of a Mongrel Settlement. PARTIAL CONFESSION OF THE CRIMINAL, Repentance on the Scaffold—Para- dise in Full View. Scenes and Incidents at the Execution. LumBERTON, Robeson county, N. C., March 17, 1871. At last one, and the first, of the notorious gang of Dloodtnirsty outlaws who have tnfested this and the adjoining counties since the close of the war, has met his just doom, Henderson Oxendine, @ mulatto, who would pass at any time for a white man, was executed here to-day for complicity in a large num- ber of murders during the past three years; but the main one, and in which he was the principal, was the cold-blooded murder of a young man named Davis, of this county, about three months ago. To detail the atrocities and murders which have been berpetrated by tnis gang would be a labor of weeks if not months. They are commanded by a notorious desperado named Henry Berry Lowrey, who has long cheated tne gallows of its just dues, Associated with Lowrey are two of his brothers and as many of the Oxendines as ringieaders of the gang which has long defled both the authority of the State and national governments, Their main force is variously estimated at from eighty to one hundred, all of Whom find refuge when pursued and security against capture in the impenetrable recesses of a vast area of marsh, Known as the “Big Black Swamp” in this and Bladen and adjoining county. Proclamations of outlawry and large offers of re- wards, both by the county and State, have failed not only to effect the capture of the ringleaders, but they seem to have ma e them more daring and out- rageous in their ommissieon of crime and atrocity. A company of United States troops, sent here to protect the citizens and aid in the capture of the outlaws, was treated with the most per. ct contempt by the gang, to prove which they one ght advanced on the United States camp, captured one of the sentinels, carried him off with hts ammunition and accoutrements, and murdered him. When their necessities de- manded It they made an incursion on the planters in certain neighborhoods, and levied heavy contribu- tions of bota money and provisions after the fashion of an invading army, which the vitizens willingly paid to be spared their lives. A rough estimate of the murders committed by the gang places the num- ber at some twenty-five or thirty in the counties subject to their !awless raids and dominion. One of their favorite amusements was CUTTING OFP THE BARS of citizens who evinced a disposition not to submit to their acts of tyranny and outrage. They used frequently and in open daylight to completely gat whole houses, tying the owners up at points from which they could conveniently witness the spolia- tion and robbery of their houses; andin these raids the RAPE OF WHITE FEMALES Was not an uncommon event. So general and wide- spread was the terror created, notwithstanding the eiforts of the civil and military authorities to afford protection, that this and Bladen counties were Tapidly becoming Sy ke oh As {ast as the citl- zens could dispose of their property on any terms that would enable them to leave the dangerous lo- calities they dia so, for lew knew when wey retired tbat the rising sun would not find them and their families mangled corpses, victims of Lowrey and bis MONGREL HORDE of negroea, It is hard to conceive of a more despi- cable aud desparate set of semi-civilized tiends than these outlaws are. A majority of them hall from a place in this county, known by the unique name of “Scuffictown,”” which, from all the inior- mation I can glean, is aden of the most depraved and immoral creatures on the Continent, where mis- cegenation is the rule and ‘4tis a wise child that Knows its own father.” Negroes, mulattoes, half- breed Indians and some whites, the latter mostly lewd women, congregated here, and live in a state of semi-barbarism, and from this trive most of the desperadoes who have kept this section of country in such a constant state of terror and alarm came. On numerous occasions large bands of citizens were formed to HUNT DOWN the gang, and even the services of bloedhounds, 80 useful 1n the days of slavery, were brought into re- quisition, but they always signaily failed, ana the outlaws; by a superior knowledge of the swamps, successtully eluded pursuit, It has recently been disclosed by one of them who was captured that their great stronghold aud headquarters was on an island in the great swamp, which could only be approached by a narrow path or causeway known only to themselves, and which coula be successfully defended by a few against a large and supe- rior force. On this island they have huts erected, which are furnished with the stolen property of many residences and are fitted up with all the domestic appliances necessary to rustic ease and comfort. Here they kept their arms, a regular supply of ammunition, and supplies sufficient to last them for a considerable period in case of @ prolonged attack or siege. Among the NOTED MURDERS perpetrated by the gang in this county are the fol- jowing:—The McLeod murder, the murder of a man named Norment, the murder of ex-Sheriff King, the murder of Make Sanderson, the murder of Edward Nicholas, the kilung of Tom Taylor, Ben, Bertha, Brant, Harris, Saunders and the vicum Stephen Davis, for whose murder Henry Oxendine to-day suffered death. This was one of their latest bloody deeds, which occurred some three months ago. A party of determined young men, Davis being one of hem, went in pursuit of a portion of the gang, with the determination, if possible, of capturing them DEAD Of ALIVE. They came upon them at a remote and lonely por-- Uon Of the swamp, near the house of one of the gang where they had been for a few days, and the outlaws at once showed fight, as was their custom Wherever approached by any body of men, know- ing that eid rewards had been offered tor the arrest of each of them. The pursuing party com- manded them in the name of the Governor, and by authority of the law they had so often violated, to surrender themseives as prisoners, They replied to ‘this civil Summons by a defiant yell, Which was soon followed by @ voliey. Quite a@ skirmish ensued, in which the young man Davis wus shot, and some of the outlaws were also wounded, atter which the whites, with the exception of Davis, fied, leaving him in the hands of the murderous gang. It was soon afterwards ascer- tained that Davis had only been wounded at tne first re, and that he was brutally murdered by the gang, and principally by the fiend Oxendine. All attempts to capture him failed until about a month ago, when he was captured with another of his gang and securely lodged Un To prevent escape his trial ‘was had at the earliest day. He was FOUND GUILTY and was promptly sentenced to be han, Judge Kussell, of the Superior Court ot is judicial aistrict. Soon after his sentence Oxendine, seeing there was no earthly chance of evading the terrivle sentence of the law, made A CONFESSION to the Judge himself, which 1s quite lengthy, and from which Imake some extracts, He details his escape from the jail of the city of Wilmington, where he tad been lodged for safe-keeping when arrested some twelve months ago, and then narrates his exploits before reaching the headquarters of the gang, and then says:—i do not know anything about the McLeod murder; never heard Henry Berry or any o! them say anything about it. | never heard any of them say anything about the robbing of James H. McQueen. I know nothing about the kill- Ing of Norment; never heard. who Killed him unjil since I have been in jail; I have heard somebody say that Zach McLauchiin killed him; | have heard Henry Berry say that Normeut was a meddiesome fellow, and laugh about Ms being taken off, DUS said he didn’t Kil hinw BEFORE GOD I was not at the King murder—have never heard Henry Berry ov any of them say who did kul King. Have heard Henry Gerry or George Applewhite say Ut ne thougut John Dial was paid to swear as he did, Joba Dial was jn the gang before we were captured in August 1869, THE DAVIS MURDER. Tom Lowrey was notin the Davis flight, That 1s S0-—and I say ibis so, as expect soon to mec my God. Phere were there Henry Berry, Boss, Steph (seorge and myself—that was the crowd, We bad just been at George Applewnite’s exting our dinner and dvinking; We Were not in the habit of going there to eat, but we did that day; did not keep a guard outside: «While we were eating. "We knew they were hunt ing for us, but aid 2 K to-day by of the creak. If they had come up a little sooner they would have found us in the house. We wi al wounted im the fignt but Henry Berry. J was Shot tu the arm, Steph and Gcorge cack m the aide, and Boss right tn the forehead, the ball wand down: 4 THe Tayt,°8 MURDER. Henry Berry, Steph ana Boss were the men that xalled olin Tajloreeey they,'2ld me. Tom Lowrey, or Steph, or some of them—s ‘on’ exactly remem. ber which—told me a day or h,"0 before Taylor was killed that Henry Bor he be d——d it he dian’t take old Taylor off. Thess, Henry Berry say that he and Boss and Steph kith “t btm. So crowd were at the killing of & Wnders—Henr, Berry, Boss, Steph, George, myself, Tom Lowrey, Andrew Strong and Zach MéLauehlin.®. He next graphically states the capture of & num- ber of citizens by the gang, one of whe % Damed was Saunders. All the prisoners were turn °4 1008@ alter awhile but him, and Oxendine goes 0 say:—Saunders was VERY STUBBORN AND PROUD ° while we bad him ut the camp. He got a knife 674 time and cut a vein in ms Wrist o_he could bleed &* death, but it didn't bleed a greatdeal. ‘rhen ba took arsento, George Applewhite had some tn bis pocket and gave tt to ulm. He put it in his mouth and swallowed tt, Ltdidu’tseem todo much, Ho didn’t complain of pain, Said one time he felt 16 buraing in his stomach. On Wednesday evening they took him out from the camp and carried him oir some distance and then all stopped. Steph Lowrey told him that he might have an hour to pray, He prayed a good while, feit sorry for him aad told them they had better iet the man go. Henr, Berry and Steph swore he shouldn't, I turne round a little and stepped of, for | saw that they were going to Kill him, Just then Step shot oue barrel of his gun into him and he fell dead. Tom Lowrey was oif two or turee hundred yards when Steph killed him, Tom sort o’ lagged behind. ‘Saunders first came into the settlement as a school- teacher and a friend ot the colored people. I never knew Henry Berry to be with him but once. Henry Berry never went about his schoolhouse. They killed him because he had come and triea to pasa ou tor a triend, and then betrayed them, I told where Saunders was buried, (The bouy has been found from this description.) this nearly wound up what the condemned man had to say of any material interest, though in the latter part of ‘his confession he refers to several other murders. Up to his last might on Barth Oxen- dine wore a reckless air, and proved himself the desperado he was. He frequently said the only objection he had vo belhg hanged was that he could not go of ia COMPANY WITH HIS COMPANIONS, whom he knew were sure to follow him sooner or later, Great as his crimes were he professed to be- come a religious couvert, and tn his spiritual com- Municauion with a clergyman who was tn zealous and regular attendance upon him since his convice ton, he seemed to have repented, and, like all other negro criminals, believed he was forgiven and Was on the way to the regions of Paradise. It is a most extraordinary Ieature of negro criminals who are eXecuted that all of them die wit the consctous- ness of Divine forgiveness and the sure prospect of eternal joy and happiness. Oxeudine was not am exception, and he, too, realized at the last moment that it was the happiest of his existence. HIS LAST NIGHT was passed in comparative quiet, though his slum. bers were somewhat disturbed by nervous starts; but he arose this morning considerably refreshed and partook heartily of his last meal, Shortly atter- wards he was visited by the clergyman, with whom he remained in prayer the better portion of the morning, calmly awaiting the fatal hour. Di this time he was visited by a number of friends and acquaintances, whom he bid an eternal fare- well, and gave some of them well-timed and sensible advice as to the sort of life they Should lead if they regarded the salvation of thelr souls, The day was peculiarly adapted to wheter. rible tragedy about to de enacted. A dense mass of heavy, black vapor hung over the earth like A FUNERAL PALL, and there was @ generat gloomy sort of feeling per- vading the eutire community, owing as much, ber- haps, to the heavy, damp atmosphere as to the exe- culion of the criminal. The imstrument of death, a corabination of scaffold and gallows, was situated within the jail yard enclosure, in conformity with the law requiring executions to be private. It was @ structure consisting of an ordinary platform, with @ drop, above which was the gallows, from which hung the rope with the traditional hang- man’s noose. Tue drop was supported by another rope, Wich ran through a puliey in the gallows, and was made fast to a peg tn one of the uprights. ‘This cut, the drop fell. There was a LARGE CONCOURSE OF PEOPLE in attendance, most of whom were whites, owing to the great and widespread notoriety the criminal had gained from his connection with Lowery’s gang of oudlaws and iis own celebrity as @ murderer. At an early hour there was @ ludicrous and eager scramoie for every available foot of space, inoluding heusetops, trees and fences, from which a view of the impending tragedy could be obtained. Long betore noon every eminence was lined with a mass of anxious and curious human beings waiting with the most heroic endu- rance through a drenching rain to witness the ex- piring agonies of a fellow creature, Twelve M. had arrived, the rain was still falling in torrents, and the condemned had not made his appearance; but Not a solitary spectator gave way under the terri trying circumstances of the occasion. At last, at Ofteen minutes past twelve A, M., accompanied by the Sherif! and the clergyman, Henderson Oxen- dine marched from the jail, and with a firm and elastic step, though a somewhat subdued alr, he ascended the gallows to the platform. He Was attired in a neat suit of clothes, made of native Manufactured material of a comfortable and sub- stantial kind. He bid the clergyman farewell at the foot of the steps, and his first act after taking a quiet survey of the crowd was to open a hymn book and sing ina clear, steady and musical intonation of voice that did not once quiver, the hymn, “And shall I yetaelay?” This concluded, with permission of the Sheriff he sang another hymo, and then expressed hus readiuess to submit to the sentence of the law. For a moment more he stood as if in prayer, with bowed head and his eyes covered by his handker- chief, This latter article he gave to the sheriff, with his hymn book, to be aelivered to bis mother. Ina moment more the criminal was pinioned at the ankles and by the wrists behind his back. ‘The rope was adjusted with admirable precision and celerity, and ere another moment elapsed there was a sharp CLICK OF A HATORET, @ dull notse of the rope running through the pulley, the creaking of the trap, and Oxendine was swil Jog in mid-air. The neck was broken by the fi and, with the exception of a few convulsive twitch- ings of the lower limbs, that were scarcely percepti- bie, the body never moved, In @ few moments life Was pronounced extinct, and after hanging sixteen minutes it was cut down and delivered to the aulllcted mother of the outlaw for interment. The crowd hung around the scene of the catastrophe for a considerable time aiterwards, and, indeed, seemed reluctant to leave when they did begin to disperse. THE PNEUMATIC TUNNEL. ‘The following 13 a copy of the protest against the Pneumatic Tunnel bill, which has been extensively signed, and which will go before the Legislature at an early date. It presents strong arguments agamst the underground ratiroad:— ban THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK :— : The undersigned, owners or occupants of property on Broadway, in the city of New York, respectfully remonstrate against the passage of the bill known as the amendment to the Beach Pneumatic Tuonel, but wnich 1s in fact a bill for digging up Broadway and making therein an underground raliroad, thir- ty-one feet in width and eighteen feet in height, for the running of two or more passenger trains or cars, In carrying out this scheme there 18 scarcely a building on Broadway which would not be mate- Tially damaged, if not destroyed, while the running of passenger trams of cars propelled by heavy lo- comotives on the tracks proposed in such close proximity to the buildings would, in tne opinion of the undersigned, crack and injure every large store or warehouse on the street which might escape serious injury during the construction of the tunnel. Also the bill, a8 proposed, provides no protection whatever to the property which will be injurivusly affected by it. The ciause directing the filing of a bond for $200,000 as a provision for these damages is so ex- tremely, small that it may be said to amount to. nothing, as many hundreds of buildings on the street would, in the opinion of the undersigned, be injured to an amount greater than the entire bond. Tne company itself affords no protection, as no capital, or, at least, if any, a mere nominal one, 18 the only security offered for the immense injuriea the building of such a tunnel in Broadway would, roduce.. Besides, although the bill appoints as commis. sioners two bighly respectable engineers, who wilt In part oversee the work in conjunction with one to. be appeinied by the Department of Public Works, yet acareful readmg will show that they have no Controi or authority in the matter, and that an trre- sponsible company may proceed at pleasure with the construction of the tunnel and the digging out of Broadway. ‘The bull, as it passed the House of Assembly, au- thorized the taking of private property on of the line for depots and buildings without the con- sent ol the owner, the value to he ascertained by commissioners to be appointed by a Court of Re- cord—a@ power which exposes ail preperty atong the: line to the chance of selection and appropriation throngh the forms of law, greatly to the injury of owners, amounting to @ serious invasion of ihe rights of property. The amendment that pupite pazks and places may not be sold or given away, added tm the Aseembly, leaves them still subject to be leased for an indefi- nite term of years. Many other objections are apparent on the face of the bill. It abounds in impextections, and through- out there is no responsibility Bresented tor the great. amount of damages and injwxies to property tt wilh cause if carried inte effect. We earnestly, therefore, semonstrate. against its paasage or becoming & Law. "SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. Fire ia Krooklyn—Loss About Forty Thousand DoHars. Shortly after three o'clock yesterday morning a fixe broke out im the Storehouse of the New York Hemp aud Flax Manufacturing Company. The wa'chman on the premises gave the alarm as soon as he discovered the fumes, but the fremén did not yeach the plice in time to check their progress, and the balding Was demoushede ‘The loss on stock Was about $50,000; insured for $25,000, Load on the building, $10,000; insured for $5,000. Tne fire originated from spontaneous combustion. The stable of Charles Denins, at the corner of Love lane and College place, took fire at wire o’ciock yesterday afternoon and caused 4 damage Or $2,500. Insured ta the Security and Mannatian Tasurance Gompanica,