The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1871, Page 8

— 8 ENGLAND AND ANERICA. Those Who Were Present at the Cobden Club Banquet and What They Said, THE WASHINGTON TREATY. Friendship and Good Feeling Established Between the Two Nations. LoNpox, June 26, 1871. O® Savorday night Mast the menibers of this well ‘known club, which numbers among its members ‘many of the prominent men of Kngland, held their ‘annual dinner at “Greenwich. The clab is not an Yustitution with @ local habitation, but a society for | ‘Spreading and developing the principles of Mr. Cob- | "den. A large party, including several foreign gnests, Lord Granville, the Marquis of Ripon ana mat ‘members of the House of Commons, went by spect steamer trom the House of Greenwich, and a considerable proportion of them returned by the boat at night. About 250 sat down w dinner; Lord Granville presided, and among those Dy whom he was supported were the Marquis of Ripon, Lord Acton, Sir Louis Mallet, Baron Mackay, Captain S. Osborn and Messrs, Artes Dufour, Cyrus W. Fietd, Vander Mueren, Jultas Faucher. Augustus ©ouvreur, Montagu Bernard, D’Fiehtal, T. Michel, George von Bunsen, Hugh McCulloch, Odo Russell, Max Schlesinger, Mahlon Sands and W. BR. Baxter, M. P. The general company included, besides a Jarge number of members of Parliament, many of Me political and personal iriends of the late Mr, Wobuen, from Manchester. ‘After the “Health of the Queen” was proposea and recelved with enthusiasm, the toust of (he even- ing, the “Prosperity of the Cobden Club,” followed next in order by tne chatrman. Earl Granville, after passing persona! ewogy on Mr. Cobden, went on to speak of the labors of the great champion of free trade and the influence they exercised throngh- ‘eut the world, Reterring to the pleasure it afforded him of deine surrounded by the representatives of | eight different nations, the speaker had something tosay of each of the countries which were repre- sented at the festive board that night. Speaking of the United States, he said:— Here 18 a country, a very interesting and a very great country, separated by an tamense expanse of Water from us. [Tt is one which Mr. Cobden was Not Ignorant of, for he took im st the deepest interest, and desired iat it might be warmly and nearly con- nected with this country inevery sort of wa: at was uot loug beiore his death that Mr, Cobden Made a speech iu the Honse of Commons stain he kept ius word, that Le would not say anythin, the American point of view, but would speak only im the sense Of our British interests, when he urged upon tus country What he considered to be the true state of the case as to what it was desirable tat they should do. J beleve that speech bad a great efeci—i Know it-had a verv great effect upon the mind of one of the Most distinguished statesmen of Commons stairs to | ] & satteMerion to think that neither m this country nor in America could this treaty be called the treaty vol any Day: on the other side of the Atiantic it was supported by politicians of all parties, He trusted the treaty would never be regarded in @ narrow or pany view, butas the first step ip the restoration of hose close and interesting relations which ought to exist between this country and the United States— between the motber country and her tllustrious and mighty daughter on the other side of the great Allantie, A MYSUERIOUS FIRE. The City ef Shefield, England, im Danger tecteries Immedintely Threatened—The Ori- [the Fire Unknowe. {From the SheMeld Telegraph, June 24.) Ove of the most remarkable fires which has ever broken out in SheMeld is now raging underneath property of considerable value almost im the centre of the town, ‘The scene of this singular occurrence 1s Trinity Works, Eyre street, in the occupanon of Messrs. Andrews Brothers, who carry on business as utlery manufacturers and merchants, under the Ulle of Messrs. Butler & Co. They let off a large por- ; ton of the premises to other persons in the cutlery | trade, and to Mr, Wilson, @ glass grinder; also sup- plying thelr tenants with steam power. In connec- tion with the engine is an immense boiler, thirty feet in iength. For some time past this boiler has been | Observed to be gradually sinking, but this has not gone on to so serious an extent as to warrant acare- lal investigation. The cause of the subsidence, how- ever, Was discovered early on Monday morning th a most singular manner. Mr. Molden, the engineer | in charge of the machinery, raked his fires as usual on Saturday evening, but on examining the boilers some time afterward he found, to his astonishment, that the withdrawal of the burning fuel had not had the usual result, The boiler was fuillof steam. Mr. Mastin, builder, was sent for, aad the result of an examination made by him and others was that a layer of shale in connection with a seam of coal ex- tending beneath the works and passing immediately below the bolier was found to be on fire. A pum- ber of men were at once set to Work to remove the burning material, but it was found that the fire was not confined vo that particular spot. There was every reason to believe that it extended a consiaerable way on each side, and to subdue it excavations of a very extensive character—not only below the boiler, but underneath, or near the fonndations of the manufactory—wouid have to be commenced. ‘rhe excavators, at twelve o’clock on ‘Lhursday night, were engaged In the ccliar below that portion of the builaing rented by Mr. Wilson, and the resalt of ther jabor Was that-a quantity of burning shale Was removel. The seam of coal and shale extends beyond the works, passing underneath an adjoining dwelling house occupied by Mr. Holden, the engineer, and to the cottages on the opposite side of byre street, the imhabitants of which state that they have observed a pecniiar exhalation from their cellars, On Thursday morning the services of Superintendent Pound, of the Corporation Fire brigade, were called mto requisition, and he pro- ceeded to the spot with a hand engine, which, however, could not be used to any purpose. The fire can only be overcome by means of the spade. The removal of so large a quantity of earth beneath the boller sued and che manufactory must neces- iy be attended with considerable risk and dan- ger, great care having to be taken not to leave we buniding without saficient ges os To prevent tie } possibility of any accident of this kind walls of brick are being erected tn suitable places to uphold the great weight waich must have rested upon the i, Shale and cual which have been dug out, A gang of men have been ployed at the work night anc day since Monday. Tne origin of the fire 18 at the thne both in Englacd and America—in gradually | present a mystery. It must have been raging for a bringing both countries to wish to remove all causes | Jong period, possibly for some years. The doiler, of of diference and om » which might exisi. [ be- | course, cannot be used, and the operations of the eve it enabled goverainent after government pro- gressively to advance in measures of a conciliatory ature, ani to reach that stage of understanding with America, aud has made possible that whic tt has been Lhe singular good fortune of Word iupon and Mr. Montagu Bernard, pere present, and of their absent collcagucs, to eifect, and which i belleve to have deen’ a great and good work, Ido not only speak of their having put into afair wain of setUement questions of an irritating eharacter which were festering betweeu the two countries, bull speak aiso of What they have doue for the future, greatiy, J belleve, ia the imterest of America, and i believe stil more greatly in the inte- rest of this country, With regard to the settlement oi questions which might have arisen, and, above ail, itnink they have done a good work in peLting an example of the way in which disseustons watch might be the commezcement of quarrels between reat nations should be setued, that instead of each Meing absolute judge m its oWn cause—a thing, as Mr, Cobdea said, which is unknown in private ilie— they should endeavor as much as p Me, first vy peaceable negotiation and se-ond by arbitration when possibile, to setile differences in a Way Which Jeaves nothing behind it but feelings of friendship, peace and good will. I do not proiess to bea peace-at-any-price man, and I have aright to say “that Mr. Cooden himself was opposed to any notion ‘of @ur disarmament, for he stated so himseif iu the | House of Commons, and I say more with re- ard to other men like Mr. Cobden, or to i¢ most peaceable menibers of the Cobden Cinb, hat if real insult or real injury was offered to this country, Tshould be sorry to stand bail ior their peaceable behavior, because when they thought the insult was not sufficient and the interest was not great they had the moral courage, so much more Fare thau physical Courage, to slate thelr opinions and to enceavor to calm public opinion. (Loud ehcers.) If there isa flaw im the American charac ter it possibly 1s a rather striking adherence w pro- tectionist opinions. But there are reasous why he engendered these Ieelings. For many years before the civil war America was absorbed with the discus- sion of one of the most diMicult questions that ever froubled a great nation—1 inean slavery. 1 believe That prevented the eXamination Which Would otuer- Wise have been given to poliuco-ecoaomical trutns, which in our leisure we very recently, with not so mach reason, pursued in past years. Then came their reat struggle, crealing an enormous debt, watch me Americans, with praiseworthy earnest- Mees, are uying Ww pay of. It as not fer me to say whether their protective Guities is the best way of raising revenne, but what L do say 1s thst, without any pressure from foreign countries, from calm and deliberate reasonuig among themselves, and from that perfect and as- tute knowledge which, above all races, they possess, they are rapidly coming to the conclusion that it is not m their own interest to coutinue tariffs of such an enormous amount. I believe that now the seeds of friendship and good feeling have been planted Hirmiy bevween the two nations—if such a coasum- miation 1s produced —there will be nothing to pre- ‘veut the two nations, haying so much in common, oti in the present’ aad in the past, being pollti- rally, internatioual!y and socially more closely united jn the future for their own advantage and benelt, an, | will say, for the advantage and benefit of the whole world. 'Lreally have to apologize to you for trespassing so loug, but I must beg you to drink Will Unpee tmics three and real envuusiasin ““Pros- perity to the Cobden Club.” ‘This toast was drank. with tne greatest entha- blast Lord Acton then proposed, in an anle speech, *evhe Forelgu Guests,” which was responded to by M. A. Dufour (for France), Herr George Bunsen (for Germany), and Mr. Hogh McCulloch (for the United Rtates), who before sitting down proposed “The Treaty with America,*’ coupled with ‘Tbe Meaith of the ais of Ripon.” The Marguis of Kipen returned thanks on behalf ‘Of himsel and bts colleagues in the late commission to the United States. He woukl always estecin it a high aod signal bovor if it had been in their power, py their labors on the otber side of the AUantic, to pave lad the basis of @ lasting peace and of fr! diy relations between tlie country and the United Biates. He Erol reed with all that had been paid by his iriend Mr. McCaltoci: as to the digas- trous effect, not only t America and England, but to the world at large, of a war between those two great kindred Powers, The solution of the great question between the two countries was not made a party matter, but was prompted by the earnest desire of men of all political parties, to ar- a a@t_a@ peacefe! solution of a mest diMcnlt prob- jem. To his noble friend in the chair (Lora Gran ville) belonged, above all men, the great honor and reat credit of having taken the propitious moment. To wim belonged ghe credit of having launched the bark, however teebly manned by those whom he phoose 10 put on beard of it, on the erest of the wave. ‘aking advantage of the state of feeling in both coun- tries, they (the Commissioners) were sent out to Awerica, and they were met by @ calm and earnest desire among men of al! political parties in America for a peacefui solution of the diMicalties in dispute. Fie 10 not say that the task was simple, and he should repudiate facts if he were to lead his hearers to the Welief that there were no diMculties and complications and momenis of great anxlety during the course of ‘the negotiations; but there was, he was bound to #ay..on hoth sides an eqoal desire that the settle. ment to be arrived at shonid be honoraole te both gouutries, and just aud fair to both alike; and it ‘was diMcnit to suppose that Where stich sentiments prevailed ween two great and honorable nations y diMoult negotiations could not be overcome, MS treaty, a8 it seemed to him, was one was alike fair and just to hot) parties. It was nota triumph on etrher side, still less was it a bumilia- tion, it was an equal contract between two free veighbors. If that were true of the paat, it was of far greater importance in {ts relation to the fature. There was in the proposition embodied Jn this now expression of international Jaw the foundation of # system Which was a most advantageous system to Xhat country which rau the greatest risk of being most frequently belligerent, and, therefore, If we were to judge of the future by the past, we were very likely to be more benefited than the other side. But far above ail other considerations he belleyed they were fully justified in eppenatug, on bebalf of Kogiand, thelr names vo the treaty, because It contained the emvodiment of @ principle of the my ent value to the World at large. Arbitration on in- sigoificant matters had not heen unknown, but tig was the first occasion upon which two great and roud mations, equally tenacious of their bonor and Interests, had been knows to agree upow questions which closely touched those tuterests and that nonor-—to.all jem one by oné to be iaid Impar PMally and fr before chosen artitratora, There this treaty, the the embodiment eat priuciple which would have been With the utmost sausfaction by fiinatrious = =oman = Wh name the club pore. Mr. Cobden tp international interests, as jn private quarrels, men Wore not the beet judges of their own cannes. He, Aberefure, esteemed it & yreat Nonor in being per aiiioy to place his Dame the document, Jb war as we did, that in which | manufactory, at which about 400 men are employed, have consequently been brought to a standstill, THE DRY GOODS MARKET. tnere has been but litle movement in the dry goods market during the past week, a luli in busi- hess bemg naturally produced by various causes, COTTON GOODS, The market has been very quiet, but the stock in agents’ hands is well sold up. Jobbers have done a fair business. Heavy standard brown sheetings are held firm at 13c., and no stock, and for fine four yards brown there is no stock elther with agents or jobvers. Low and medium styles of bleached goods are equally active with brown, and all desirable styles are sold up to production, and to be had only on order. In the finest qualities the stock In agents’ hands is limited to daily receipts, and many brands a e sold abead. Corset jeans, satteens, roiled* jaconets, glazed cambrics abd silecias are well sold up, ‘ Canton flannels have moved weil, with prices vm, Printing cloths for spot goods are in short supply, and contracts a laily reported, covering many months, at 73s cents, The print market 18 of medium activity. ‘The Manchester and American and Hartel are offering some styles at 1114c., and Garner's are selling freely at lie. The Oriental 7-8 purples have been advanced to 1635 There is @ prospect of a fine show of fancy prints the coming season, the price ruling trom Lic, to 12sec. WOOLLEN GOODS. There has been a ialr amount of bnatness done during the week. On account of the rapia advance in wooi there 1s @ great degree of firmness in the market. Many styles of staple goods have increased, though notin proportion to the cost of production. There is nothing of interest to note in wooliens, buyers having as yet restricted thelr movements lor the mo-t part to looking through the market, SHAWLS. Considerable inquiry has been made the past week for woot shawls by buyers at@ distance, but 1t 18 scareely possible for agents to name prices so far in advance. The advance must be a very marked one over last year’s prices, yet it will be dificult to get a price that shall equal the increased cost of production. HOSIERY. ‘The inquiry tp this department bas been auite ac- live, Jn shirts and drawers of the medium and fine qualities there nas been a small advance. In fancy hose and fancy knit woollens there has beea some iuquiry, though operations have been miuch restricted. Tn cotton hose there is a good demand considering | the jateness of the season. RDER. PARTICULARS OF THE BUFFALO | Au Usoffending Man Stabbed te the Heart by a KuMan. (From the Buffalo Courter, Juty 7.) About @ quarter to ten o'clock last evening patrol- mau Dillon reported at police station No. 1 that a man had been murdered on Michigan street, near | the dock, by a desperate character, well known to the police, named James E. Kelly. Active meas- ures were immediately taken by Captain Donohue for the arrest of Kelly. The murder occarred about half-past nine, and the news reacted the station so guickly that an admirably organized police force | was able to at once establish @ cordon about the pity, through which it would be impossible for tne assassin to escape. The entire available force was spread over town, so that no cunning on the part of the man sought toy would be suiticient to elude pursuit. In his ure rangements Captain Donohue was ably assisted by Detectives Gorman and Haley. Shortly after eleven o'clock Patroimen Battles and Purcell found Kelly on Indiana street, and brought him to Station No. 1, | Where he was examined and tnearcerated. Three witnesses were also examined by Captain Donohne— Joseph McMasiers, Mrs. Rankin, the keeper of the hoarding house, and another woman—and from them Were obtained the CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE MURDER, It seems that the inurdered man, Charies Rosen- felt, who 1s # satlor, about twenty-five years old, and @ transient boarder at the house of Mrs. Rankto, was sitting in the common room of the estabish- | ment talking with MeMasters about a pariner of Ineira, Whose prolonged absence caused them some concern, Rosenfelt arose to go out and look for Lim, and as he passed out of the door Kelly came in, | Bo words passing between them as they met. As soon as Kelly came in he began to be a little ob- streperous, talking lod, as such characters will | when somewhat under the influence of liquor, and making himself so generally disagreeable that the women advised him to go to bed. Fie, however, ex. pressed his devermmation to go out agam, an started to do so in a few minutes after his entrance, As he reached the doorway he encountered Rosen- leit returning. No person in the house heard a word pass between them, but Kelly was seen to make 4 pass at Rosenfelt, aud the Jatter at once dropped, crying out, “I’m a dead man.’ Kelly pro- ceeded lat) ule street, and Mi vers followed him 4 little Way; but the murderer turned upon P him and called to him to stand back, at the same tume making @ passé at him end appearing to have sometning in fis land, so that MeMasters con+ cluded to ge for a doctor In place of aitempting the arrest of he) The assassinated man was taken into the bou ind if Was found upon medical ex- aminaiion thathe had been stalybed to the heart. He died m about Oftecn muutes trom the time when he was siaboed. TUE CONDUCT OF THE MURDERER. 'y was arrested he was walking the Xpreesed entire ignorance of any reasen why he should be taken. He went quietly to tne station house, and there retterated his statement that he hdd stabbed no one and knew nothing of Kosenfelt. A large jackutfe, with a viade avout five inches long, was found on his person. Kelly is @ ive of Ireland and says he 18 forty-two years of Jt has beea Nts custoin to spend a large portion oF ius me ip the South. While here he picks up odd jobs at almost any kind of manual labor in the lower partof the city. Some three years ago he was the OT ores in @ stabbing affray and has long been knowl fo the poilce as dangerous customer. The jestimony of the thr icnesses mentioned a in every particalar their identiscation OP Kelly wadcomplete, As far as any o/ thom knew, Kelly and Kvaenfelt were not acquainted and had never had any {rouble. The case looks at present like a clear one Of cold-biooded murder, without provocation, and xhe conduct of Kelly after 4s a reat was sugh ae tO, pregivde the excuge of lntoaica- Won - ” MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. English Receptions—What They Are and What They Scem Like—Fashionable Mobs—Heads and Skirts in Peril—Dangerous Dra’ ing Room Navigation—The Queen “At Home”-—-The Various Kinds of Receptions. LONDON, June 20, 1871. ‘There is nothing more striking to the observer of English manners than the different ways in which these islanders receive their guests, ‘The wonderful variety which 1s presented in this matter. may of course be equalled, if not surpassed, in other lands; but sull the English reception in itself presents some features and pecullarities not to be matched anywhere, from the abode of the Abyssinian host who crowns his guest with a pot of butter, to tne graceful welcome in a New York salon, That which ig popularly termed & “RECEPTION” in London is one Of the most awkward that can be quoted, and onght to be called a ‘deception’ if it ever succeeds in persuading anybody into its clutches by the vain mirage of the enjoyment of society. Im the first place, the lady who is receiving considers the proper thing on these occasions 1s to assemble @ great many more people im her house than it is in the nature of that house to hold, She desires to crowd her arawing-room till 1t is more biack-nole-of-Caleutta-ish than the hold of a slave ship, to say nothing of the crowd which 18 painfully and vainly trying to make its way up the stairs, In ths surging mass of jewelled and brightly dressed humanity it would be diMcult to determine which are most to be pitied, the ladies or the gentie- men. The ladies know that their Mowing skirts are at the mercy OF A HEEDLESS POOT; that their Jaces, flowers, flounces, are barbareusly treated in consequence of this “pressing”? In- vitation, which they have been bold eneugh to accept. Nay, who knows whether some of the fair, fowing ringlets which form part of the strange erection upon some of the heads, and for which nature is by no means responsible, may not be caught in the throng; and then imagine, just imagine, “a wealth of wavy curis,” as the ro- Mance writers have it, united with another wealth of diamonds, feathers and flowers, in 4 moment Tuthlessiy displaced, and a lady scalped, as it were, in an instant, One shudders at the bare possibility. Yet is it not asserted that such things have been? But there are the genuemen in a scarcely less deli- cate predicament, Whichever way they look is a wavy mass of white, ‘blue, pink, silvery, golden, covering the stairs, the passages, every step of ground which male foot has to tread. Who knows where to step, where to squeeze his person, under the circumstances? THE CHIVALRY OF ENGLAND 18 not particularly pronounce, Inconvenieneing a Jady 4s not of such consequence with our modern baronets as it woul have been to Sir Charles Grandison ; but still the situation 1s not without its horrors, How many @ ‘swell? must have wished himself sate in his chambers, while making the ter- rifle ascent of some Lady Rushington Rout’s statr- case! How many weak-miuded gentlemen huye been reduced to clingtng helplessly to balusters and wishing jor wings! A pair of heels, @ la Mercury, would indeed be a boon upon these occasions, But we will suppose the squeeze passed through, the stairs scaled, and whe dificult navigation of those dangerous strats at the drawing-room door nappily peneiraced, You stand at the en- trance of the room, gazing at this brilliant mob within, looking back at the cloud of human ings withouf, wondering how you ever got there; being there how you Will ever get back again. Also quesiioning with yourseif whether you were ever So LoF before, and where your hostess may he. A fresh wave now breaking on the stairease you suffer yourself to float in with it into the first draw- ing-room. You realize tne force of the old fash. joned expression, **4 DROPPING IN UPON ONE'S FRIENDS,"? for you ready todrop, You look round for the lady who bas lured you to your destraction with a pretty, embossed card, delicately hinting that she Will be at home to-mght. Atlength you perceive her standing not very tar from the door, smiling on all around, and greeting those who manage to ee up to her with a touch of the hand, She usually says. “How do you do?” to each, with @ great emphasis on the first do, but they probably teel that rhe inct of having come there is the greatest *io” of tie evening. They reply, however, with polite hypéc- risy, endeavoring to look as though nothing were the inatter -a31{ they were not squeezed and jostled bey bearing—as if nobody had been treading on their toes. They are then swepton by new comers, and, pernaps, begin to consider how they are to get away again; for you receive nothing at these “re- ceptions” unless it be a stray ice or a casual cup of coilee, the “devouring element’ not being supposed to form a part of the process. RECEPTION AT WINDSOR. There is another “reception” which makes the deepest Ui Weed because it is the biggest you can get In Engiand—I mean 9 reception by Her Ma- jesty Queen Victoria “at home,” but hardy more comfortable than the “reception” of the season. Peopie like to go through with it for the honor of the thing, but, perhaps, it not treason if we hint that it 1s’ not the most agreeable experience in the world, We will suppose that you are some remarkable stranger (you have made some great discovery, ordone something that nobody else has done); you liave been half murdered, pernaps, by Chinese or Greek brigands; or you may have got made a bishop or have given away something enor. mous tin charity, either of which circumstances would procure you an invitation from Her Majesty, even now that invitations are rare, It is the first ume you have met with such an accident, and you are in a great state of excitement on the subject. Perhaps you doa’t know much about it. You have nv idea What you will do when you get there, You know aman who knows @ man who was Invited, and wisely you inquire about it. The man says it ‘Was very siow; the only thing that pleased him was the seeing his name the paper next day as having «ined with the Queen. You tora a your nose (mentally) at the man—you settie that he has no feeling for the grandeur of meeting those who will afterwards be met with in the history of napant. You arrange some striking remarks to be introduced in conversation with Queen Vietoria—you think you snall perhaps make quite ap impression on the mine of that august lady, ‘ou dream of dining in full view of a resplendent beng wearing a golden crown. THE DAY ARRIVES. You go down to Windsor. Memories of all the court pageants you have seen upon the stage flit be- fore your eyes. You look upon your feilow passen- gers with a disdaintful pity. They may be going to Windsor, but you are going to the Castle. Meanwhile you are wrapt in castles in the air. The decisive moment approaches—you arrivé You = suddent feel very lonely. You enter the great puilding, find yourself ina silent land, apparentiy raled over by siient men in red, Yonr way ts indicated to you in solemn fashion, and you are ushered into your own apart- ments and you stay there, You wonder what next, Next an attendant brings you some tea in a delicate china service, which you samire, You drink your tea; you wonder that the Queen's tea tastes so mach Ake other people's, The dioner hour, as you have been duiy informed, 1s eight. After having care- fully attended to your toilet you see that hour ap- broach with trepidation, and it 18 with an increase of this feeling that you hear yourself summoned to THE ROYAL. DINNER TABLE, “Yon behola the august assembly and are marshalled to your place. You see whe gilttering table orna- Jments, the lights, the flowers, with a curtous feeling of indistinctness, Yon stand and wait as in @ dream. Then you see the great lady in her black dress, and you feel an enormously long way of from her. She sits down: you all sit down. is, then, the dinner, You feel sny. Your hand tieuables over your soup. You wonder at the caim- news with which your neighbors take thetr meal; but they are very silent, and there seems no conver- satvon. The Queen speaks to those near her. The din mer seems very long. You think over your pre- cou ceived notion with @ sort of sigh amd” “is this ally® Everything comes to an end in this world thong’, even parliamentary speeches, chancery suits and royal dinners This dinner is no excep- tion. EVERYBODY 18 RISING. You fwlow the example. Tee gentlemen place themscives in a row extending towards the door, You \io i the manmuvre. Her Majesty waika down ..4¢ row, stopping every now and then to address ~ word to somebody, The others, then, all Tali back #0 as to leave the favored individual alone in the foreground. This manceuyre starties you. Dut you manage to execute it with the rest. The Queen approaches you—-giances at you—knows at once you we @ stranger. Your heart beats. She stops, and you are leit alone, She says afew words, a mere nothing, perhaps; but sufficieat to show she knows who ter guest is; aud you are struck by the singular sweetness of her voice and smile, You are painfully conscious of intense awk Wardness on your part—you never felt so embarrassed by your arms and legsin your life before, The Queen passes on— goes ont of fue door, and her bevy of ladies follow ni The visiowi# Vanished. You feel there is an end of the connection yor have had with the history of England. Royalty is still present though; thera ‘@ some ofthe princes. The sun having aet, you are dazzied by the stars, Nobody sits down but the princes stand talking to various gentlemen, Oonee is olfered to you. You take @ cup, Besore you can drink 1t, A PRINCE COMES UF and begins od-naturediy conversing with you, You have to Stand atill; you can’t drink your coffee and you can’t put it dow he Mite cup of egg-shei) china feels uncommonly heavy; you think tn another moinent you will wertainiy drop it; you wish tne Prince Would drop. it—that 18, the subject, Cortee and conversation seem incompauble here; you feel afool, At jast, tuen, you find the situation aito- ether too much for you. The Prince moves on XOp aWaliow Your comfeo; uf has pecome col. That. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. JULY 9, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. ts the last of yonr aaventures; you soon aiter retire to rest, and are thankful to do 80. A MEDLEY OF RECEPTIONS. We have lin 80 long over these receptions that there 1s no space left to notice in detail. The oftictal bys om | by a deputation, with a wand of office, an address and the terrible necessity of re- plying to it; the reception in & country house, with all (he dogs barking at once, and half a dozen boys and girls rushing out into the hall to see who you are; the reception in a learned or scientific circle, whore everybody pulls out his wits against yours a8 if they were telescopes and you wanted to see whitch could go farthest; the reception of old-fasuioned hos- itality and the reception of new-fashioned noncha- ance, and, last and best, the friendly reception which convinces you, verily, you are a welcome guest, CHILD TORTURE IN ILLINOIS, Family Discipline in the Prairie State—A Western Parent whe Does Not Spare the Red—Terrible Sufferings of a Child—A Boy Whipped and Berned—Tertured to Denih by His Father. CHICAGO, Juiy 8, 1871, ‘The testimony taken before the Coroner's jury on Sunday last at Onarga, I., in the case of the boy whipped and otherwise tortured to deatn by this Sather, Martin Mera, reveais the crime of the latter to have been one of the most fiendish and revolting in the nistory of the State, Mary Mera, the mother of the child, testified as follows:— My husband, Mertin Mera, warpped my son Mar- tin, aged ten years, two weeks ago Tuesday nignt; be babe was born on that day, and | did not see the wi tipping: it was done in another room; I heird the blows and heard. the child beg for mercy; the chud then went to ber; about ten o'clock next morning the child came to my bedroom, followed by hus father, who was whipping him; HE WHIPPED HIM VEKY HARD with a blacksnake horsewhip; the caild dodged around the room to avoid the blows and begged for merey; the child was completely naket, his father having compelied him to strip himself; his face Was swollen from the whipping he had received the night before; IMs father whipped him very hard for ten or fiteen minutes: at 1 he stopped, and told the child to put on his shi he made an ef. fort to ao so and fatled; is father repeated tne order, when the boy said, ‘f can’t see it; L cau’t pee It!) “You cumt see it?’ responded his father, “No, father; I can’t see you, father; 1 can’t see you!” and FELL DYING. The fend then rubbea the bo forced some down his unroat, The child raised his hands, moved his lips and expired, Mera thea took the body and put it under the bed where the sick mother was lying, and it remained there unul evens a when he buried tt as previously reported. Sarah Mere, the daughter of the murderer, aged fourteen years, testified that her father oiten whipped her brother very severely with the horse- whip; on Tuesday two weeks ago, he brought my brother in, gaid he had not worked, and winpped and knocked him down twice: father continued to to whip him, and said he would whip him until he could not stand up; he would WalP THE LIFE OUT OF BIM; two orthree times he would say this, and brother would pi¢ad with father, “Father, don’t whip me any more! Oh, don’t whip me any more!” fle was & good boy, and I liked him; brother went to bed about ten o'clock; he said he did not know why father Whtpped him 80; he never told stories only when father made him; father would say that if he did not. own up that he had done so and so he would whip him, and to avoid it brother would own to things he never did; on Wednesday I got up and got breakfast ready; father rose when breakfast was ready, and brother got up, but felt so badly that he went, back to ned; father made him get nd go out and feed the stock, and waen he cane father whipped him and sent him to the flela; he went for him and brought him tn avd made him take off his clothes and tuen whipped him and then picked him up and LAID HIM ON THE STOVE; the stove was hot enough to heat an tron; Twas baking biscuit; father put him on the siove twice, brother pleading all the while—“Father, don’t ourn me ! don’t burn me! don’t burn me !?’ he screamed very Joud and the skin stuck to the stove; his skin came off his back and his feet and it stuck to the stove: it smelled so I openea the door, and father immediately shut it; while brother was ptead- ing father said he would barn him until be worked; 1 have seen father strike motuer with is iists many times; he kaocked brother down several tines with the butt end of the horsewhip; I never saw my brotuer after he went into mother’s room. A POST OFFICE SCARE, Depriving the Clerks of a Breath of Fresh Air—a Wail of Anguish in Nassau Street. There was great consternation in clerkdom at the general Post OMce ail day yesterday. When there is consternation in that region the cause 1s generally an extraordinary Luropean mat! or a crushing order from the head centre of the establisnment putting on the oMclal screws tighter than usnal. The cause yesterday was @ crushing order, and its con+ sternating effects may be imagined when tt is taken into consideration that it prohibits the boys from TAKING THEIR CUSTOMARY VACATION ofa week or so outof town. How the order came about no one seems to know. The Postmaster says he got a letter of inquiry from Washington asking him how the vacation pastime got into vogue, and that he invends to answer this letier m a di or two, and obtain some ofictal rale to go by; bu he denies that he has forbidden the clerks to do as they please meantime. The only suggestion he bad made about the matter was that the clerks who in- tended to Knock the dust of the city from their feet and take to country roads for a change wouid have to take their chances about salary when they got back, By the end of this month some arrangement could be arrived at, he thought, so that the clerks could pack up their duds and get out into the wil- derness, each in his turn. The gierks, somehow, don’t see things in the same light. It may be a mis- interpretation of tue order on their part; but they contend that they understand it 80 well that they don’t like what [ts eifects will be, no how. “Dy’e see,” said one of the clerks to & HERALD reporter, a3 he threw letter aiter letter into bags set at all points of the compass in the saifocating room, where a dozen or 0 of his feliows were ruaning about in the dimly lighted room to find their way to the boxes; “It 18 preity rough Is that order, or what- ever you iike to call it 1 had arranged with that chum of mine over there to go away on Monday, he to do my work and take part of my salary for it, Weil, 1 mred a nice, covey room in A COUNTRY FARMHOUSF, and paid mv board in advance, according to the landlady’s terms. So you see how ts fixed me.’? “Yes, indeed,” chimed in another, who loo as though a day in the country was the bess medicine he could get to enliven him up a litte; “I wanted to go home in the country for a few days too, and the old folks have been making all sorts of preparations for me; but what can [do now? ‘The fact of the matter 14 the order has created a tremendous sensation, and the way the nox clerk ‘end the other clerks growl over It onghteto be a caution to postmasters for all umeto come, Itis safe to say that no class of clerks in tus city work longer and harder every day m the week than do the post office clerks, and to deprive them of their lutte vacation In the summer ts certainly A VERY GREAT CRURL! Besides, it 1s inexcusable. The public service has never been known to suffer by the out-of-town re- cesses of the clerks. for they have always hereto- 1ore arranged matters so well amoug themselves that when one is away another does his work for him for the sake of being done by in the same way in return wh@n the other's vacation expires, All the employés of all the governmené oMices arrange among themselves how and wien their vacations can be parcelled oui, so that the government suifers nothing by it, and why the hard worked anc poorly paid post office clerks should be singled out as an exception to the rule or custom, just as people like to call It, is a Maystery—at least to themselves, A COUNTY CAVAN “COGN. ‘The Irish negro, Patrick MeNierny, born in Crusha- jough, county Cavan, Treiahd, is agam in trouble. Patrick, whose face is like polished ebony, and ‘Whose wool has the kink of the pure Qongo, has the genuine “brocala Corkona’’—as sweet a brogue as ever was heard. He perlodicaliy makes his ap- pearance in the police courts, and always excites more or less enriosity and murth. Ibis time he 1s aecused of stealing a lot of wearing ap- arel {rom Mra, Meehan, of 76 Forsyth street, He was found roaming through the Bowery about two o'clock yesterday morning oMmcer ‘Totten, of the Tenth precinct. had In his possession at the Ume a large bundle, and not being able to give a satisiactory account of where he got it, the officer arrested him. Officer Kelaher went out to work up the case and found that a rear window in No, 75 Fors th street had been broken open and nearly the whole of Mra, Meehan’s wardrobe carried off, Mrs, Meehan, on request of the officer, came to the station house and identified the prosecy jound with MeNierny as her own, When Patrick was brought before Judge Scott yesterday morning he protested tis Innocence, He said what éroupied him most was he coutd not take @ hand in the threatened troable on the Juth ol July. It seems he 18 very bitter against Orange- men. He looks likely w be @ good sbiliclah twister, with spirits and UNITED STATES COMMISSIONEAS’ COURT. Alleged Franduient Bankruptcy. Before Commissioner Osborn. The Untied States va, David Livhensiadt,--The defendant had been charged with baving committed fraudulent acta of bankruptey, The evidence did not support the accusation, and the defendant was, therefore, discharged. The United Stats vs, Witkam Spitzer.—The de- fendant, on a charge symilar to the above, was licid to await the action of the Grand Jury. Alleged Smuggling. Refore Commissioner Shields. The United States vs, William Conner,—The de- fendant, who is steward of the steamer Merrimac, has been heid on lita own recognizanges for exam- ination oi & charge of having been erned With the captain of that steamer i sinve*'Dg bay on inio Ws port’ « THE PROPOSED ORANGE CELEBRATION, | To THe Eprror oF THE HERALD:— The present is essentially an age of pro- gress—one that contrasts most favorably with the past as regards the great discoveries, the in- Valuable inventions and improvements that have been brought out trom time to time. Now there 1s no country to which the above remarks can apply with greater force than to this great, this free and enlightened land, which civilization seems vo have adopted as her favorite abode, where politeness, frankness and intelligenve at once stamp the character of the people. ‘This country can claim the credit of effecting one of the niost salutary and desirable of social reforms; It has put an end to the tyranny of the master over the slave, of the white man over the black. It will be the pleasure of the historian to record the noble and successful efforts that America has taken to advance the cause of civilization, and thereby to multiply the inestimable blessings of Christianity. But, my dear sir, there 1s one thing out of many that 1 cannot understand; it is this: why are the Orangemen here encouraged to celebrate the 12tn of July? Now I think we ought to sup- press and bury all recollections of peut wrongs, party feelings ‘and sectarian animosities, and take each other the hand like brothers, uniting and ulling together like one man—uniting, 1 say, like rothers-—to smite down the tyrant, the enemy of freedom and independence. Now, whatever cause tends to set brother against brother in deadly com- bat, or one portion of the populauon of a country against another portion, is had, because it 1s sub- versive of the very principles of Christian charit; in the first place, and manifestly against the well- being of society In the second, Sure, the inudeseribabie distress and misery in- ficted on this country by the disunion of the people, a few years ao, 18 but too weil known. Look again at France! Why, the outrages, horrors, wholesale butcheries and crueltles of every descriptioa—the result of disunion—are too shocking to contemplate; nor does hisivry furnish a more striking example of the evils of a disunited people than dreland, Now, we know the celebration of the 12th of July is nothing more or less than Keeping alive and nourishing a1 evil feeling; the triumph of party over party, the very remembrance of which ought tw be banished from our minds with all the con- tempt it so justly deserves, What results have at- tended the July celebrations in Ireland? Labor was suspended, factories closed, thousands of hanas thrown out of employ, cuurches and chapels de- stroyed, houses wrecked ana plundered, many killed and several wounded; the trade of that portion of the country completely paralyzed. Well, it 18 natural to expect that the causes that produced such effects are as likely to be followed by like remults, whether they take place in Belfast or lyn. J) say as long as_ the same elements, the different denominations of Irish With ail their antagonistic feelings are present, they wil produce the same evil consequences, perhaps on @ Smaller scale, but one 1s as natural a sequence of the other as night 1s of the d Now as regards sucn celebrations the question 1s, qué Vono? Ifl could see by any means that they were pro bono pubico, I say the government ought to encourage and protect (bem; but the experience of past centu- ries shows itt Ye the reverse; 1 1s sure to give the government + me extra duty, to incur some extra expense to preserve the peace. At tue very least it tends to divide » people that ought to be c.osely united, and thereiore it has an evil tendency, and as such it ought to be discountenanced. Oaly for the Union of our Staves what would tunis country be? It would be a colony of England, and we would be the slaves of Great Britain. But J don’t wish to be looked on as depre- cating the Orangemen’s celebration more than those | of any others of the kind. No; L would suppress | Ribponism, Orangeism and every other tsm likely to sever that bond of union and good teeitng so necessary to the people of this land. We know that a certain great Power, while protessmg the warmest friendsiip for this conntry, was at the same time clandestinely assisting the South during the late war; and if she could, by foul means or by fair, have protracted the struggle uli the parties siould have arrived at the same state as the Kil- Kenny cats, ther, tustead of acting as an Mmpartiai umpire, sne word, in ad proba- bitty, do as sie once did witi Scotland—seize on the whole prey, or at least nothing less than the lion’s share would satisfy Johuny. Now we know there is no more fruitful source of evil than opposite religious feclings when brought jnto collision, And who knows but ihat Johnny has his agents at Work here striving to get up a@ little muss? Itis notorious that he has been at the bot- tom of every revolution that has disturved the peace of Europe and America for many years. A shrewd rogue is thatsame Johany. Religion, he Knows, is the rock on Which the imsh were always shipwrecked, and he turns this Knowledge to xood account; he Keeps one party arrayed against the other ull at last the strength o! Ireland is completely consumed, The ple prostrate at his feet, he can then dictate what | terms he Likes. As for the processtun on st. Patrick’s Day and those of the Hibermians, their past conduct 1a suMcient guarantee tor the future, Their very tiles show them as not belonging to any sect, but at once point out tneir national character.” Now, it is the opimiow of very many tnat the so-called vice tory of the izth of July was simply thas of might over right, and we know tnere coud be a great deal saidto matntain this opinion. Let it De right or wrong, it is deserving of some @onsideratfon, simply because It is the opinion of a large Class Ol a people whose generosity Is proverolal and whose valor and patriotism gre unquestioned, Hoping, dear sir, that you wil use your powerful induence 8 arrest any movement likely to lead toa breach of the peace, 1 remain, dear sir, yours, &C., J. Ha, 141 East Thirty-second street, city. Foreign Aaniversarics Wanted. To THe Epiror or THE HERALD:— The prospective ceiebration of the Orangemen on the 12th inst. will no doubt be productive of a great deal of mischief, Being strongly and publicly iden- tutled with the cause of Protestantism, tt 1s within my power to know to be tie truth what I stated above, and if the city, State or general government do not take most eifective measures to stop forever ail celebrations of foreign victories and defeats on American soii, the day is not distant when we will have a war of races in this country—a struggle which, in its flerceness and cruelty, will equal only that of the cowardly assassins in Paria, who have disgraced the name of humanity, and bathed their murderous hangs in the biced of the good, pious, fatherly and helpless teachers and spiritual guides of their own nation and faith, There is not an Insh Catholic who venerates the memory of the saintly *\ Patrick more than ldo But what has America to do with St. Patriek’s anal- versary? To see on that day as least fifty thousand foreigiers, ten thousaad of whom are armed, marcie ing wader the dag of a foreign country, and wear- jaz the insignia of bey bd to a foreiga land, ts an insuit to America, the Americau flag aud the Ameri- can institutions, as well as nationauty. The heroic deeds of the Prince of Orange are dear to my memory, but as Americans, native or adopted, what have we to do wita ms viccories? ‘The marcn- ing of thousands of Orangemen beneath the yellow flag through the streets of an Amertcan city is as ofensive to American nationality as is the display- ing of the “green.’? During the war between France and Germany no man gan qaestion ou which side my sympathies were, for in a hundred of pulpits in New York city I have boldly vindicated the rignts of Germany, and thus directed the sympathies of at least one hundred thousaid of the best, most influential and most educated people into the proper direction. Yet I consider it ont of taste to celeprate monarchical victories on the soil of republican America. it Wasa sad sight to behold on the day of the peace celevration by the Germans thousands of men clad in the uniform of a Prussian, Saxon, Bavaria: &c., soldier, and marching beneath the fags despotic Powers, I, myself, am a foreigner, but an adopted citizen ot this country, in truth and in spirit, and I cail every display of foreign flags, foreign military, the celebration of foreiga anniversaries, an outrage upon the native Highs of the Americans, an insult to this great repuvlic and a disyrace to the foreign- ers engaged in such demonstrations, Wait, my foreign-born fricads, till all our coun- tries are what this couatry pow is—a free, a glorious republic—wait wil republiean France emancipates the enslaved nations of Europe, and all our native lands become “the United States of Europe,”’ free and independent, then we might, with some degree of pride, mingle our national fags, represenung freedom and not despotism, repubies and not crowned tyrauts, with the Nag of thls the giant re- gl of the West. And while we are waiting for he verification of Napoleon (tp “Great,’’ and not the “Litue”’) that Europe will be a repubilc (for Cossack she cannot, shail not be), let us, who fled from our native lands to escape crowned tyrann: at home, and who fouud liberty and asylom in this country, prove our gracitade fo the people that re- ceived us with hospitality in the days of our darkest trials, by houoring the native institutions of this land ‘and make no foreign monarch cal Gisplays, which are tending to oifend the native rights o this people who gave us homes when We had none. Tati our own national (20% monarenical) Naga shall wave in triumph over the free fleids in Kurope which have been defiled byt nny for ages past, let us know, eae and protect but one banner—the nobie folds of the “starry flag,” the glorious “red, white and bloe,” the hope of oppressed hamanity and the terror to crowned tyrannies, OSCAR HUGO. New Yous, July 7 1871, SICK AND TIRED OF LIFE. About ten weeks ago Mrs. Bridget McGuire, @ poor, infirm woman, seventy years of age, was sent tothe Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island for medical treatment. She subsequently returned to her home, No. 75 Mulberry street, and, becoming worse, was induced to re-enter the hospital, A few days ago, while suffering great pain, she procured @ Knife, or other sharp instrument, with which she cut herself in the abdomen, infiicting, however, but light wounds, yet suificient to cause death, tho} producing Inflammation, as mfammation speedily set in and she diced. Dr. Fiores, attached to the hospital, gave « certific which not peing ac- cepted by Board of Health, Coroner Herrman Wie Hobted by hg)d an ingest over the remaiee MORE MURDER. CUTTING CASE IN OAK STREET, A Family Feud Fatally Ended—Personne! of the Parties—Wife and Family of the Dying Man-—The Terror of the Tenement House— Hypocrisy and Hatred. ; For some time past a deadly enmity has existed between two families living in the same buliding i Oak street, This feeling, whicn has culminated so lJamentably for both sides, seems to have had na wer foundation at its starting than one of those peculiar dislikes that people very frequently take for one another. Iiving on different floors of the same house the opportuntties for both parties to give free expression to their sentiments were very frequent. The innumerable little jeers and insulug that are so easily given and so tardtly for gotten made up a part of the dary lif of these two wretched famutes. The aimculty. was not between the tro females of the respective: houses as is generally the case, but between the man on the one hand and the mother on the others Mrs, Wells, the mother of the young man now: awaiting the result of the injuries he has caused,, took a strong repugnance to Mr. Keating from the very first moment she saw him. Tuts animosity she at no time took any pains to conceal, but rather, om the contrary, + SHOWED HER DISLIKE i by every means in her power. The womun’s chare acter im the neighborhood where she lives is @ most. peculiar one, The people who live around her ee she is @ woman addicted to drink, J violent temperament and most unforgiving, though at the same tle strictly regular in her ate tention to religion, with that superstition of whieht, people of her class secm never to be able to divest, themselves, she has on several occasions cursed the: mjured man and hisfamily, This method of resenting: an injury or paying back a slight 1s one of the most! appalling that can be resorted to among these poor: people. Every turn of ili luck that comes after suchi @ thing has been done they foolisniy attributes to the effect of the imprecation. Mrs, Wells, though, of the same order as her neighbors, had cunning enough to understand this. and since the unfortu-, nate Keating family vas ved under the same roof with her, she has many a time made them tremble with AWE AT TARE DENUNCIATIONS she called down upon their heads, Shortly after, one of these terribie outbursts about three months: ago Mr. Keating fell sick, and his terrifled wife tremblingly attributed his illness to the bane. ful influence of Mrs, Wells, This woman seems never to have stopped, tn her inhuman treat- ment of those people, to think of the effect of all this violence upon her son, The young maim is devotedly attached to her, and — ever, act of hers tuat other persons 100k upon with borror. he justifted = with tuousand arguments, Matters were in this condit tion during the illness of Keaung and since hia recovery some two weeks since. Yesterday, however, they came to a crisis. Kei came home to ius dinner at one o’ciock, and found. Mrs, Wells scrubbing the stairs, She would make no room for him tw go up to his home, but filled up the narrow statrway with her person. Keaiing asked her at first quietly to move’ out of nis way, as he was in a hurry, but SHE WOULD NOT MOVE. Becothing exasperated, as his time was passing away, the man used some forcible language and was endeavoring to push his passage up the stairs, when the son, George Welis, came upon the seene. He at once wok up his mother’s cause, an both attacked Keating with their tongues. His wife heard the altercation in her room and came out upon the ‘landing to see what was Ute matter. Things soon explained themselves, and, know; ing the character of the woman at the f of the stairs she requested her husband tocome up. He did so and sat down to dinners Durtng the time he was sitting at the table Wells and bis mother kept up the battery of words. Keat~ ing’s door was open, as the room in whic! he sat was very warm, una no word oj the abuse from the other — side of the house was lost upon him. When Keating haf finished his meal he went down stairs to return to ms work. At the door he was met by Wells and threé young friends of his, who taunted Keating as no passed, and called himself and wife the vilest naines~ ‘Keating being a man of very easy disposition took no notice of this until young Wells struck Lim, He turned at this 10 face bis assailant when the others slashed at him from bvehiad,. cutting and’ bruising him on the head and back, Mrsy Keating, who had gone to the window to watclt her husband off. saw the ouslaugnt made upon and, rusiing down stairs, picked up two brie! with which she struck Wells on ihe side of the several times, i CUTTING HIM . DEEPLY $ and drawing a stream of blood, Wells got so ene raged when he saw the blood rusning down hig shoulders and chest that be pulled a long-biaded, double-edged Knife, plunged it into Keating, ran, leaviug it sticking in his liver, It dropped ont in a Moment, and Keating, putting his hand ovei the wound to try aud stop the effusion of blood, dashed after” the wouid-ve murderer. the man rushed along the street the hot bloo® gushing between his fingers and flowing to the ground, his body bent toward one side, and thy iast agonies of the death struggle crowding 1m! face. Wells flew aloug, looking from side to side, eager for an open door or an alley way that would offer a good chance for eseape.' Men, women and children ran im irom every nore and seeing the biecding victim tearing savage! along, they took up the cnase and pressed closcly upon THE HEELS OF THE FLEEING MURDERER. As he made a curve towards an alleyway, in the direction of Cherry sireci, policeman Conron, of the Fourth precinct, who was just going m search of @ man who had cut another's lip open witty @® razor, saw the man running away pure sued by the shouting crowd and the wounded Keating. who left a bivody track beaind him, took up the pursuit and quicély caught the fugitive. He Was broaght to the station nouse and locked upe Keating Was also taken up, but he seemed in such & Weakened state that Captain Allaire wi obliged to send ior an ambulance and nave hi taken to the Park Hospital. The wounds were cx- aouned by the doctor in charge, and tt waa found the Kulie had passed through the Hyer, caus @ mortal injury. ‘The only weapon = that Keating had about tim was a cotton hook, which he wi in his trade as a ‘lougshoreman, and thas had been taken from him at the covmmencement a the scrim Keating is @ man about fort five years of age, t and slight, of casy temper ana very domesticated habits; he has a wife and three children. He is ® member temperance soticty, and seems to be much ected oy all who him. The poor fellow and ms_ wife, who is very much attached to him, have made seve eral attempts to leave the house in Oak street wherd he met his deathbiow, but his trequent Mis of illa and the duliess in ais busiaess prevented him, j As he lay on the paliet in the hospital yesterday! with his wretcned wife veside him, holding uv reat, heavy hand, covered with dried bivod, 1 ers, and THE LITTLE ONRS CLUSTERING behind her, the poor fellow gasped between thé paroxysms of pain, ‘0, my poor boy! my litte home! May God forgive him.” Mary Keating, tn sister of the dying nau. Was with her relative, an endeavored to cousoie her with such small comfort as one can find at such a time. A VERY DIFFERENT SCENE was the one in the station house when the mun who has caused so much misery was brought m He 18 quite young, «about nineteen or twenty, with a ratner intelligent face and @ bright, quick eye. He evinced no regret for what he had done, but said it was all Keaung’s own. fault, and he brought 1¢ on himself. «Th wonder is,” said Wells, “that he did not get it before? The young man_ evidently thought he haa done what was right, as it only appeared to nim that he was defending lus mother’s position. He, too, Was covered with blood, ‘the front of his shirt was saturated and so were the pack and left side of his trousers. He had evidently uo regret for what he had done. “1 suppose they will put me im @ cell,” he said; but it is the first ume in my life, and I must tuke my. chances, Only once during the questions af the desk did he raise his head and ask after the condi- tion of Keating. When he was toid that the ber could not live he simply auswered, ‘Well, it's hus own fault.” AQ ante-mortem examination was held durin, the afteruooon of yesterday, i {ee statemen’ was taken. 18 Temoved 4 the ‘Tombs, to await the result of hig injuries, and ail the witnesses to the affair are held at the Fourvh precinct station hous When the medical men at the hospital came t the conclusion that Keating could not i through the night, a message to that off was sent to the Rev. Fatner Farrelly, of st. James’ church, who came last evening to sec the dying man and admiuister to him the Jast consviae tions of his religion. — ee ANOTHER GAR GUIRAGE, To THE EpITOR OF THE HeRAaLyy The following will serve as a specimen of the rough treatment which the public too often receive at the hands of car conductors. I had occasion tq get tutoa Lenth avenue car, where two collectors were engaged in collecting fares, To one of them I handed the required change. After riding a block, or LWO tue Other conductor came up to me and dee maavded the fare, 1 told him that I nad paid it ones already to the ovher conductor, Who, In the mean, Ume, had lef tue car, No sooner had [ given hint this answer tuan ne seized me and thrust from the OAfe A RESPEQTABLE CITIZEN, »