The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1871, Page 8

~LIPE-SAVING SERVICE. Inspection of the Long Island end Jersey Coasts by a Government Commission. Life and Proper'y Unprotected on Both Coasts. ‘Wrotehed Condition of the “Stations” —The Build. {ags Rotten and the Apparatus Imperfect—The Distances Betwoon the Stations—Impossibil- ity of Mutus! Assistance by Neighboring Scation:—Politics and the Depar:meat— Ineuiiiciency of Crew:—How tho Life. doat Worls—The Rescuing of the Distrosssd and How They Are Treated—The Servica To Be Completely Reorganized. Oark May, N. J., July 10, 1871. In 1849 8D Wort was made to supply a sufficient Bumber of Ife saving stations for the Long Island aud New Jeracy coasts, This undertaking, strange asitmay seem, was not orginated by the goveru- ment, aad for several years the saving of life and property, during the winter months, alony the dan- gerous coasis of Long Island and New Jersey, was entrusted to the care of the Humane Society, without government aid or influence, There were then fourteen stations alung the Jersey coast, which extends @ distance of 140 mules, Gnd = thivteem om the Long Island coast, ®@ distance of about one hundred and twenty miles. How taadequaie these few stations were to Sve protectton to. the great shipping interests of New York was se apparent that government, begin- arhg to recogmize the absolute need there was for @n organized system of protection at the entrance t© New Yors harvor—tnai datiy necoming more and More the dest#nacaon of vessels from al parts of the wor d—assuured (he guardiaasbip of the coast and adopted the lve-saving stattoms, such as they were, ‘which had been erected by the Humane Society. In 1856 the United Scatea government caused the erec- aon of thirteen more stations along the Long Island Ooast and of fourteen more a'ong the Jersey coast, thus doubling the number at each. Bat bere the government resied, and after supplying these few miserable sheds left tho furtuer care of life and property to the philanthropy of residents along the, coast. So far as the means within their reach allowed them the seaman on both coasts ever acted GQobiy toward any vessel distreased on the neighbor- ing beach. But there have occurred from time to meen both coasts remurkable instances of the Uiter inediciency of the stations, Vessels have been { the broken to pieces by the surf and scores of lives have Deen Jost within sound of the shore, while the vap- taip of the station was vainly signalling for heip to weighboring stations that were miles away from tim. ‘he latestexample of uch a catastrophe as this occurred in January last, when the bark Kate Sinith came ashore at Long Beach, at which place there was a station, supplied with whe Ilfe saving @p aratos, but without a crew. Nine out of the ‘Siteen hives ou board the bark were lost, and there Was bo dvubt whatever that had there ocen a crew atthe Long Beach station all heuds would have been saved. Atcer this alsaster the HERALD fully exiosed the negligence of the government in this branch of the marine service, aud attention thus being c2lied to the importance of the department the New Jersey Leatilature imstructed Senator Stuckton to bring the sub,ect belore Congress, which was done, The result was that an &@ppropliation of $200,000 was made to put the ‘epariment on the Jersey coast in a proper state of @uecuveness, aud Long Islana, a: the suggestion of Mr. 5. J. Kimbail, ohlef of the Revenue Marine Barean, was sudsequeutly ineluaed under the ap- Propriation. So much having been gained, the next step was to insure a tuorough inspecuon of both ooasts, With a View tu the Jaudicious expenditure of the money aud tw place the depariment on a basis #0 orgauived that no cause for complaint ssouid @rise in the foture, For this purpose Captan Faunce, perhaps the most skilled and experienced odicer tn the revenue service and a gentieman of sound Judgment on vauticai subjects, was selected €8 ciel of a Commission io inspect both coasts, hav- lug as bis assistants Lieutenant Siodider, wao has a fue record a3 a uaval oiiver during the war, and Mr. Hickford Vonner, a smart, intelligent and care- fal mechanic, wav js inspector of tie buildings, The business of this commission necessitates slow progress, ‘or the department 1s really in such a vad condition that the most mioute details have to ba enlered into, so that in hittie things, as well as in the more important, discipline shall ve the rule in favore, and not the exception itis nuw. Eucn house ts, or ought to be, sapplied with a complete set of apparatus, amoog which are 4%-inch manila bawser, 25g-luch mantia haguog liwes, crotoh and Peuge for \urowing rockets, sand anchor with sharp hook, tiimb.e and buli’s eye, biue lights, port fire, tron ¢prouvette mortar, 10-246 pounder shot, pow- Ger, tron case rockets, boat, metallic life car, &c. Aji these are taken from their dusty places, mea- sured and examined thoroughly. Ou Long ‘slaud ine apparatas was found to be gen- erally umperiect. In some stations go litte atteauon has been pasa ‘othe property portious o1 it had been siclen, aud chere were evidences in several Stations that the houses had been broken inio and fobved. Ou that coast, though it ls superintended by av oMver ol acknowle .ged integrity and exergy, ® total overnauilug is required. The fault is not the superintendent's, ior without the meaus to do the Work it 1s impossible to doit, Of the twenty-six Bouses along the coast eleven must be moved to Other locations, tuey veing perfectly useless wuere we, are, One statton—that at Coney Islaud—has been aivogetuer Coudemued But thts ispection of the Long island Coast was mercly preparatury to that of the ver-ey © which ts of the greater iuporiance; for along bere pass Vessels OF ail nations, and the oust n ihe Winter months Is treacuerous. Tue com ission belore starting on tuis expediuion to | dersey was joived by Mr. Kimball, Cuiel of the | Bu. eau, utd Colonel Saw yer, Superincendeut of tue gersey Coust, there are three leudwy paoiuis iv tals eclla. first, te houses; second, Ube uisiances; she crews, it 18 easy to supply ile lide-saving | Spa ulus in Use, TaoUgA Its Of yreat mportance | {0 Lod oul to What extent, under ihe ;ey m- as it has been, the imdispeusavle parapuerpalia ave | beeu alteniied to at each stadon. | We have giready visited the two stations on | Bandy Hovk and some other statons ere at the end | OF the Coust. 50 las ay the Wulidiuus ure Concerued Mey are, ol course, ali oF Maher; Hut tuey are mere @ucis, With @ gateway ateldier ond large euougu to Qiow the currage Upon Witicu Ue boat resis 10 be | draywu out, The average Cmensions of eaca are 17 feel by Jz, with 10 feet posts, ‘There is neither ceiling nor plaster in any, and crevices (urouga whi. ihe wiau qe.s m are nuwer- Ous ti euca. ‘The tgver of which these Louses are Sand) hook is aliuust roten, aad, It 1s » tat The same Must ve seid of most of houses along the cast. ‘Shere is a want 2888 1B each and tie boxes la Which are + 6G, He BeAtLed around without any atempt wt order. An inporiaut questiva for tue Cumwission wo decide—thouga siated bere it may | eeu. Urvul—is We mode xdopiea ef coiling we | dupes, for where (he damp seis in the ropes become Kloked arogud the pius and are tneu Worse than use- | fess for smunediale. use. To heat a Louse of the given avove there is as rusty with ent how. Tih @nEeuyst ns who may | 1 this ud vent wrse tHe | Hy assist houses on | © supply f anism pi hi Pp n roo! bulidilg is saved L ance oi The suOW 4 Sandy Hook are uti Ide siztion. housing eat WIth Lue modKey ernment Lor their erect woy- wid not have been Much Lever jus these Houses are unior: n and unfit lor use lor Crows, ib Pavuld DOL ve lorgouliea that the crews uave borne tue hardskips and miseries oF We oocupat . ier year with but Live comp. Vy ig Isiand ou the Jersey § are for te near the Bla | They are, as are in much vet coast. ‘The we most part expe vi ious to which tiey ave uitaened, Might be expected, hear: aud soul im thelr work, | One 1S eXplaius OW Uncolpaluingly Wey have ie subw Wed to Lue privations inciacuial to We sort of Life they have ied tn the station houses. Daring tue ry er moutus (hey generaily joliow some oer occupation along tue Coasi, ana Whus become scat tered. if 1s of Noporianes, a expel louce bas shown, tat when acrew bas been rained Kh should be kept vogeiner. The government nas hnuerto al lowed a crew of seven men for Ouly every aliernate savon, and wolli iaet year, When \& allowed the en $4) month cach, never gave them avy cos pensation § whaiever. eas «6meD, WwW be of | | Walch ani protect, ' hw | here Uiatitis s arcely aud NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1871-—TRIPLE SHEET. assistance at all, must be perfectly trained to ine use of rockets and the mortar, avd must know their part of their coast whoroughty, There can scarcely be # doubt but that Captain Faance, seeing tee utterly disorganized con dittoo of the crews at present, will recommend a complete reorganization ef the deparument. To ase this branch of the service reitabie, and not subect to chance, a8 it has been, requires en effec- “ve opganization of skilied surfmen, well disc: plined aud in reguiar employ. There should be a fuil crew at each station, even though the uistance were evor so near. Bot the distances between some of the stations vary be'ween three aud elgat mies. Along a coast eats and ia Che severest uiouibs O1 the year itis evident Uiat slaitons 80 far a@paré as even five miles can be Ol no service to each other. Ona winter's night HO sivnals af least now in use can prove elfec. tive ab such distances. But worst of all is the ict {oat only at every alternaie siation is tuere a crew, ‘The resdit of Unis unpardonable parsimony 1s that the apparatas lies perfectly useless 10 the most sert- ous caSes Of distress, It was to this pogiigence tat the lo8s of the nine lives 1a the Kate Suni disaster last January must be ascribed. ‘The keeper of the Loug Beacu station saw tue vessel in disicess ol! the beaca bor alied LO tue next station ‘or assist acce. The might was stormy and the next station Was eight miles distant, so of course there Was BO respouse, ‘here was no crew at the Long Beach station, it being one of the “ort” ones, and the result was tiat for the saviag of $84) tor three months’ Watching of the beach nine lives were jost and every vessel and life passing Long Beach exposed to destruction. What bhap- pened m this cuse mignt happen at uny of tue oiler Stations at any itme, and experience has proved amd common sense dictates that no organization can be too stricuy and too thoreughiy effected to | watch this coast, [tis tue castom for the crew at OG BLaon tv do patr vlly oO a distance about balf Way to Uie next station, This is. of cou Page and should be coutinued; bur such au: ne {or the purpose Ol covering the duty of the “oi”? stadon 18 useless. for iu mosi Cases ihe die tance 18 too great for quick transit o! tbe apparatus, and the beach 18 so wild aod desoiate or so filled with brusowooi aud cedar, saud hilis or marshy ground tuai the pairolmen, Whi'e they ave expected to do almost pliysicatiy tmpossivie work, can be of ji!tie help to a sinking sip, So far as can be judged tue crews are not in every Instance seiected With the sole intent of gotung the best men; for it seems that politics enter the ma- chinery o' the department here, and the lifebout must Jo manned, if possibie, by stadvh republicans, Tnave been speaking to several ol the seamen at this end of the coast, gna they have had no hesita- tion. in bog that the crew must be of republl- can poli Wuile probably this oas lasted ouiy sluce the $40 @ month bas been given, yet it has lasted enough to be of detriment to’ the service; for eeper O1 a lie-saving station, no matter how good & poiiiician, ougit to “captain” bis own bout, aod not emplvy @ deputy ab hazard. Ido not know what ts Captain Fauuce’s opinion on the suv ect, but Lhave beard him express his dissatisfaciion with Giseipligasiau presume. he ‘wil bicak ‘up this aut presume will break up political manauvring, The service has suffered Much from the scattering of the crews and the changing of the Keepers, and perhaps chis political interference has been tie cause of this annoyance, As an cyidence of tms I may men ion that m those stations we have visiied I have endeavored to get a record of the work done by each during a term of years, but ether the keeper was new or he could not remember, or the book was io-t One wouid think some record of the loss or suving of lite on the beach it im some Way ve ofictaliy kept, But this is only one of many msiances Which go to show that ‘U8 Important service 18 iu O Wrete.ediy disorgaa- wed condition, To say where the blame belongs would be ditticult, I do not taing either the keepers or the crews are to be blamed, tor they seem to think nothing bewter is expected of them, ind rememver- ing that their labor was until recentiy alinost gratu:- tous, perhaps nothing better should be. Their ideas of now @ life station should be kept wiil become much changed after Captain Faunce has issued nis instrucuons to theul. A palofui Liustration of neglect was given a few days since while station 28 steamboat landing, near Cape May, was being imspected, and one which Proves bow ineffective has been the management of tue service heretufore, lor 1t is oniy an exainpie of the general condition of the department. alter all the paraphernaila of the house had been examined, measured, &¢., Captain Faunce determined to test the iron rockets Which are used, or are supposed to be, for throwing the line. When the rocket was placed on the stand on the beach it was tound tnat thre was not @ quick match at the station, and Lieutenant Stodder 6 efforts to fire the rocket with port fire were unavati: Finally Mr. Conner dis- covered some maiches he had brought with bun, jd Liewenant stodder, standing beside Captain ‘aunce, fired the rocket. No sooner had the powder caugnt the fire than the rocket burst, the owder in cakes of fre tying about in ail directions, aru up everyining Wun Which it came in con- tact. Uniortuaately oue 0: the lumps of fre strock Licutenant sto ider tn the face, and in a moment his clothes aout the body and neck were on fire, and Dis ‘ace and neck blackened and singed. It seemed at first tha: ne had lost born of his eyes. Alter cone veying him buck tw tue hotel medical aid was pro- cured, and though the ‘jeutenant has suilerea great pain from the wounds, yet, under all the circum. S.ances, he escupert tolerably well, and is now much iuproved, nis eves belag sound, and no more serious injury sustained than the scorching of the skin. Captain Faunce, Wno was buta few feetirom the Lieatenant, was unharmed, The rocket thai ex- ploded was the only one at the station, and mu:t ve been there a number of years. Without rock- els or the Morr and car bat Littie help can be re- ceived from the crew, und though there wa3 a mor- tar al statiun zs, yet there was no car, so that this siuhion, from sheer neglect, might as well nos be in existeu.e ‘rhe day after the accident to Mr. Stodder Captain Faunce with so ..¢ diflicuity procured a crew for a neighboring station aud went through the laoorions process of testing re entire apparatus, ana this atforded an oppurtunity to see how the work of Saving ships in distress on the coast is done, ropes, consisting of the shot line, the nauiing Ane and the Lawser, are all uncoiled aad taken out on the beach; the life car, boat and carriage, either by horses or Ue crew, are taken to the beach opposite te distressed snip. AS shivs come ashore mostly at nignt time, blue lights fre usea by the crew to sSigual to the snip that heip 1s near, and by the light given by thes. the wen are enadied to get to work. Ail the apparatas bere on the beach, the next effort is to get in communication with tue ship, and it 18 to this end tnat either the recket or the mortar is used. The mortar of course torows the sbot tine to a greater distance tuan Lae rocket, and 1s, therefore, used when the vessel is fariher ont; but, when possibile, in order to save ume, the line 1s wnrown by the rocket, ‘The average distauce the line goes from the mortar 1s 250 yards, aud irom vhe rocket from 1%) to 15v yards, In sending trom either care must be taken tu allow for the direction the wind blows, and ior this considerable experience ts required. When the mortar ia used the sind ts dug away till the mortar lies level, tnus giving the piece —-, degrees elevation. Attached to the ten 21-pounder shot is @ spiral wire, apd to this the shot ine, The shot gues over the vessel, and, of course, the live falls across her. Those on board the vessel seize the tine and haui it from the shore, sy this time the hauling line (two and a half inen) is attached tu the shot fine and the hawser to the hauling line, and the haulug Of the ropes to the vessel goes on ull the haweer ts reached, and this is made fast to the vessel at one end, while at ine other it 18 reeved through the ring of the life car, Which is @ boat, about nine feet iong. made of gal- Vaaized von, with an oval cover, in the ceutre of Which is an aperture 2)-ineb square. The hie car isthen hawed ro the stip, the hawser being Made taut by the sand anchor which 1- embedded in the sand. Jt 18 able to boid comforrabiy seven ersons, and when it is iui the lid of tue aper- e 1s made tast and the car is hauled back to the shore, The car continues on its jife-saving mission as Jong as @ sou is on board whe ship. If the weather ia very cola one or more of the crew board me | Vessel to assixt in Managing the car. The car ts not usev eXcept When the Wind 18 strong aud the surf | raging, for it would then be Impossible to use the heaety. When all on board the vessel pave ¥ are iaken Co (he stulion, where, they are to be comfortanly care 9 donbt, do What they can for ti but thatis very let Tcannot una, could oe provided at amy stauion we u enougn warmth to preserve them from if there were many of them 1018 certain that twey would undergo severe hardships. This 13 repre- sented so strongly lor tue reason that it 1s so easy to remedy the grievance and because the neglect has lasted “so long. To pui the appatstus In working order to test it, even unmediately bestde the stution, took us over three uours, and that, too, with cverytuing pre- visited ness, and viousiy burnished up to receive the commission, Shivs do vot always fall invo distress Opposite a sta- tio. It ts difiicult to see how the apparatus could be conve along su good, nothing ed, Ou & Stormy night, even three miles, 4 Coast a8 Tls 18, aud aflerward 40 any Without we rocket or the moriar cau be done, and with ag un- Billed, unirained crew, siivering and ex. cited, there is not even a probability thai, ast li 4 Case Of great aanger to a vessel, Iie or would be saved. Yet three miles of coast, Tor ine greater part, uccording to present arrange. Ment, is but waif the distance a crew is expected to The best oi the stauons in every way, as I ain intormed, are those on the Hook aud the few we have el Mere around Cape May. lylug along the intermediate coast, which are yet to be iuspected, are, it is Build, in the most im- ei fect Condition. The result Of Uns tnvestigation will disclose some oriant knowledge relative to the manner tu wih the Long Ilaud apd the Jersey «oasis » been mariged in the interests of commerce. One great resuit will be a compiere pevolution ta tine department aud tie orgauizaion OF @ Coast guard hol luterior to that Of Great Hritain, it may be said sluod at Washingvon What hard work te is to Inspect the Jersey coast; for Wt would sccm us if it Was supposed that Captaia Faunce was aiie, not only to be the head of the cOMMMIssiOn, | Solis nands, Itis too much to expect that ty lain, Who 18 Venerable oid sea- Man, av he has not power to spend governme: mouey Jor heip, should, with bis two aids, “rw to” and uuder a July sun haul ropes aloug tae beach aud dig away Saud for sand anchors aad mortars. HEALTH OF MRS, VALLANDIGHAM,—Mrs. ©. L. Val+ Jandighs inpauled by her young son, arrived at Cumvertand, Md, on briday morntag, and 18 Bloppins a the residence of her brotner-in law, Dr. ke > AicKay. We very greatly regret, ava the Caniberiand News, vo ve taiormed That thls esti- ionble jady Is #til} ia @ deplorabie state of mental aud boully health, superinduced by the trayzicai death of her husoand, Sane is in such condition as to be is cawecly aware of the presence of ber (rien be hope! Wat soon ebe will be improved, The! LITERATURE. Criticisms of New Books, COLLECTIONS OF THS MASSACHUSEPTS HrsToRIOAL Socrery. Fourth Serles, volume % Frith series, volume 1, boston: #ubiisted by the Society. Ls7l. SV0., pp. 48%, 27. Here are two portly volnmes, printed in the ele- | gamt and accurate style characteristic of the 80- | Clety, Whose imprint they bear, The Massachusetts Historical Society has outlived three-quarters of a century, andthe present issues make the thirty- ninth and fortieth voiumes of its printed *Cclleo- tions.” Of all our Historical Socleties it nas been the most prolific in publications, though we ave not always abie to recuguize the special vane of | some of them to the world. The fifth series opens, for example, with a third volume of “The Wintirop Papers,” a series of private letters of two centuries and more ago, on all conceivable subjects, grave and trifling, Which have beea spun out into 1,500 | pages of print already, and still we are promised several volumes more of the same sort in the pre | face to the present instaiment. Surely it is not ne- cessary for us to believe tuat everybody's private i ' | letters, full of domestic trifles and theo logical platitudes, are history? Or does the Massachusetts Historical Soctety, because its Presid*ut happens to be a Winthrop, choose to print | everytuing that syllables that ngme as a contribu. tion to so-called “history ‘The other volume of the present Issue consists of much more worthy ma- terial, There is in it @ large amount of orlgtaal in- formation respecting the early settiement of Virginia. There is a hitherto unpriated letser from John Pory, Secretary of Virginia, to Sir Dudiey Carleton, under ate of 1619, ‘ull of information about the condition of the colony. There ts a leticr from the Virginia Council to the Lords of Trade and Plantations in 1626, and there ts the very important nurrative of “Captain Thomas Yong’a Voyage to Virginia end Deiaware Bay and Raver’ in 1634 These papers: have been very carefully edited, with copious foot notes and historical and biographical elucidations, evidently by a hand who 1s familar with the remark- able and little understood history of the Virginta Company of London, ‘There are here also half a dozen warrants for the reprieving of criminals out of Newgate, upon condition that they be trensported to Virginia, or other ports beyond the seas, with proviso that they returned no more to England. Tuese bear the early date of 1617, showing how early that colony of gentlemen and cavalicra began w be af- filcted with a coarser kind of cattle. The “Virginia Papers” are followed by a long series of letters, which might be cailed the “Bouquet Papers,”? since they consist of nearly two hundred pages of letters to and from that distinguished oficer Henry Boquet, | Written in 1760 and 1761, and all relating to travela, explorations, skirmishes, negotiations, &c., at the epoch of the French and Indian war. The value of these papers as materials for American history at a period imperfectly understood 1s very great, and we may look to see uture Parkmans and Sargents ex- ploring this new mine now opened to view, and weavlug the results into vital history that will stand the crucial test of criticism. We will only add that the running title of this volume of letters, “The Aspinwall Papers,” appears to be singuiarly infelicitous, It is true that they ‘were once the property of Colonel Thomas Aspin- wall, who purchased them in Europe, where a large part of them had been the scatvered relics of the rich, historical and documentary library of George Chalmers, Secretary to the Board of Trade. But why Puvlisn a collection as “The Aspinwall Papers,” which are now in the pousesston of “an eminent counselior of the city of New York,” as the preface imforms ua, and the property of which has changed hands many times over? Tne NEw AMERICAN Purt.—*Sonas OF THE SIDR Ras. By Joaquin Miler, London: Longmans. 1871. 12mo, pp. xui., 301. Thia volume opens with @ modest though manly preface, In wiich the author tells us that the poems were writtcn on tne rough edges of the frontier, where he has spent most of his lite, “walled from the world by seas on one hand and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, In savage grandeur, on the other;” and where “rhyming 1s considered a mild type of insan- ity.” Golug to London last year ne, forthe first time, saw New York, which he rather Mippantiy styles “a great place for cheap books and a big dea of smail thieves.” He bad previously told us that “the city of Mexico was my Mecca, and San Fran- cisco, to me, a marvel of magnificence and civiiiza- tion.” Wegatuer from the few hints of an autopio- graphical character dropped here and therein the poems that Mr. Miller has hved chiefly in Mexico, Arizona and California; that he accom. panied ‘the Gray-eyea Man of Destiny,” Wiliam Walker, In his tli-tated Nicaraguan expedition, aud hat be 18 no longer very young, although he teils us, ‘Poetry With me 18 & passion that defies reason.” Although @ thick volume, tais book embraces only seven poems. The shortest, “Burns and Byron,” was written in Engiand. and has nine pages, and the longest, “Ina,” has over one hundred. The others are entitled, “Arazonian,” “With Walker in Nicaragua,” ‘California,” “he Lost Taschastas’’ and “The Tale of the Tall Alcaide,” The first im- pression we get from this book 1s that of very great though unequal and ill-sustamed power. Here are Ines and pages overflowing with rich imagery, with bign poetic fancy that fills us with the idea that such writer can do anything he will with his art. We read on, looking tor more beauties, aod straight- way we come to @ long episode of common- places such as we may see ia the produc- ons of any ambitious young spinuer of rhymes. With all his wealth of diction and occasional bursts of. power the net result of the poems 1s unsatisfying. The author disappoints our _ He whispers of the glorious gods, fo whispe: lor! ‘And leaves us in tee mire. We cannot help wishing, grateful as we are for fancies so freshly poured into eong, that ne had taken more pains—that he had consented to winnow some pages and to fiie many lines. Yet the poems are redolent oi the breath of Nature in her most per- fect moods. Here is @ picture of Nica:aguan acenery: The trees shook hands hich overhead, And bowed and intertwined across The narrow way, while leaves sclous frit, xold-nued and red, Turough tue co ony of green, Let not one sun: {t sacot between, Birds bung and sno, roved and red, Or crooped in curved fines dreamy; Rainbows reversed, (rain tree to wee, Or sang low-hanging overheadey Hang low, as if they sang and slépt, like some far wateriall, OK No note OF Us Kt Ali, b ripe outs crushed at every step, And in the following, from “The Tale of the Tati Alcalde,” the reader will discover traces of the write.’s power in depicting the tender passion, as Well #8 Jus mingicd felicity and energy of descrip tlon:— ‘The ‘Tue nd moss dappled and the dimpled aktes, sweet stars and the Unted moon, ‘as sun at noon, bb eyes, mien, her manner, just we mulicy iim savage war chie(s child, da GOt bara the lo beaded foot was firm, ep was tras, irop of dew. the eeeptic soul, ample of the whole That heaven hash ntore. At last, one midnight, T was free; Agall | felt he Aga aur Arowud my bot brow Sweet ax my Saint Maconna’s prayer, Or bene ticts Pare alr, Again I Ure | Pure air, all 1 God's air, Wuich man hata seized and sold ' Unto sis feilow man for goid. J bow'd down to the beaded sky, 1 tons’d my two thin hands on high, Ton led wato the croo T shouted to the ann! band rapt chioulboy loowed at noon, wounlng from the wars Aud A caution of but litte nees. y sieed ‘1a louk to girto and guide 1 dasb the roa in his aide, Swift as tue shovtiog stars }, tO Bee, LO my al t a Alas the shining tuetoors fall Woe fly, and never sound or word, Kul riigiag mustang hoofs be board, Aud jimus of ot Could not be stronger than the! ‘There are passages in nearly every poem, espe- *‘ioth see of Roberts Brothers, Boston. } they will ctally in “Californian” and “Arazontan,’’ which Dreathe a certain misantitropy, as if the wricer owed a grudge against fate. Here is a specimen or two:— Tho red, ripe stare hang low overhead! Let the good and che Lignt of soul reach up, Pluck pod ae piucktag a butt ry But Cam as re red; There ta noting Lean wake one passion In soul or body, or one sense of pleasure, No fame or fortune in the world’s wide measure, Or iove fui-Losomed or in any fasuion. And the “Californian” thus pours out his sceptt- cigm over the end of life:— Oh, for the reat, cor the reat eternal! ims supernal, Life'a respiendeat ana glorious Me? Elsewhere our poet breaks into the warmest de- Seriptions of the charims of the tair Mexicans, or the daughters of the sun, His muse here treads Upoe the dangerous edge of things, his images be- come almost scasnous, and help to account for the acclaim wits which the yeuager school of English poets—Roasetti, Swinburne, &c,—have welcomed our author to theirguild. Yes be is never gross like Swinburne ; still less hag he any trace of the coarse and vulgar prarieacy that so disgusts us in Walt Whitman, to whom, we observe, some undiscerning Englishman has compared him, We find little re- semblance berween Joauguin Miller, who has 60 Much literary skill, and Walt Whitman, who has none atall, Tye uncouth mouchings of the latter, though frequently haif redeemed by vigor and sug- gesitveness of thought, forbid any expectation that live in litera ure. We are no Worshippers ot the coldly correct and classi- cal school of poewy; we would give all the imitative poets of the eighteenth century, and throw tn some famous American poets iuto the bare gain, forafew gems of inspired imagination from the Elizabethan age, But we cannot forget the su preine importance of form and stytc as vehicles of thought; and the more aftluent the imagination of a Doetic writer, the more exuberant his fancy, tne more sweet ana striking his language, by so much the more does he require the rules of literary art to assure nis productions of immortality, With a brief sampic or two more of our poet's quality our Notice must cud. Here is @ specimen of his blank verse:— Hi standing b in the vines by the twilight, Ware tha fattinoct uastesting nee toon pane ond palld, On the vroad broast of heaven, as one tl iw weary, ‘elow hair tral.'d bridal vella down upoa us, merry stars p'ay'd Lide and seek in the beaven cet ard dangled Hike yoiden ansied, jd to me this, And here is the opening scene of “Ina,” near the city of Tezcuco, in Mexico:— Popocatapet! looms lone Hkean island Above the white cloud waves that break up agsinst him; Arouud him waite duties 1m the moonlight are Uaaning, Like silver tents piich'd in tae fields of heaven; While standi::g in line, in their snows everlasting, Flash peaks as my eyes unto heaven are ited, Like milestones that lead to the City Eternal. We have said enough to indicate some of the characteristic faults and excellences of this new candidate fer poetic fame. While we should be far from commending the philosophy which runs through most of his book, there 1s so much of un- mistakable genius in him, such opulence of imagina- tion and such occaslonal skill of construction, that we cannot fail to anticipate a briliiant career for him. To swch as are longing for a fresh literary sen- sation in the hot season now upon us we recommend the tonic Navor of these poems, THE TERRITORY OF COLORADO—THE Rocky MouUN- TAIN DIRECTORY AND COLORADO GAZETTEER, FOR 1871. First year of pubitcation, Denver: 8. S. Wallihan and T. 0. Bigney, compilers and publish- ers, 1571. 8V0., pp. 442 Here ia a book which may be termed the literary frat fruit of the Territory which was organized in 1861, and which has since become famous for its weaith of silver miaes, Although printed at Chicago, the work bears all the marks of indigenous enterprise; and while tt may doubtless be termed a speculative book, in the seuse that all directories are gotten up to make money, it still represents 80 wide a clientage as to remove all suspicion of pufery or jobbery. The statistical portion of the book 1s prefaced by a Driel history of tne early ex- ploration of we region now known as Colorado under Pike and Long and Bonneville aud Tremont, Then follows an accoant of the geographical and physical features o1 the country, made up largely from the trustworthy geological report of Proiessor F. V. Uayden, whose scientif_le exploration was made under authorty of the United States government in 1869, This report, being buried among the massea of documentary lumber which are printed, but not Publisued, by Congres-, has been little known, and it 18 well that so wach of its valuatie information Is now condensed {nto a more practical form. Besides this, nearly one hundred pages are occupied by a detailed “Description of Mines,’ which 1s extremely useful, and, indeed, indispensanle to every one per- sonally laterested in the mineral wealth of that great Territory and its exploitation. In tie settied valleys of Colorado, already supplied with railroads, markels and educationai and religious privileges, the author tells us that improved farms are worth trom $26 to $190 per acre. This speaks well for the Material prosperity of that freshly settled country. Somo cheaper lands, we are told, may atiil be had in each county at $260 to-$10 per acre. The wonger- ful purity and nealthfuiness of the atmosphere is praised, and the first impressions of tne traveller, Who sees @ landscape totally unlike tne Eastern States, and destitute of stately forests and a wealth of green vegetation, and closely resembling a des- ert, are corrected by the information that older settlers find Colorado an agricuita- ral paradise, productive of mammoth turnips, Miraculous squashes, and ready to turn out whoie caravans of grain, if only properly irrigated, from the mountaius. These same mouutains are peren- nial sources of delight to the acenery-loving eye, and the magnificence of nature knows no draw- back, save the smallness of the population to enjoy it. Theinhabitants of the Territory are described, as to their occupations, as ‘miners, mechanics, business and professional men, agricuiturists, stock- ralsers and wool growers.’ The miners, who are Most numerous, are chieNy Americans aud Cornish- men. The professiona! men, we are told, are ‘‘anu- sually cultivated and talented for those of a new country.” The days of lawleasn and violence, eays our authority, are ended, and we are pointed with triumph to the fact that in consequence of.the vigorous policy of the early settiers against horse thieves and other criminals, and “after a few judl- cious hangings, whipping: and banishments, the population became as orderly and lite and property assecure as inthe cld states.’ There ts a full di- rectory of Denver City and of Nevada, Greeley, Black Hawk, Goiden aud other Colorado towns, Crescent City Yacst Club—Preparing for the Annual Regatta. NEW ORLEANS, July 7, 1871. The annoal meeting of the Crescent City Yacht Club of New Urieans was hela last night and re- sulted in the ¢ jon of the following oficers for the ensuing yea Commodor+—Henry Rareshide, First Vier Commodore—Charies T. Howard, Second ¥ commo tor. —George H, Case. Secre’ary—Walter T, Perry. Treasuie’’ epn P. Hornor. The club numbers 150 members and possesses a pretty littie Geet of yachts on Lake Pontchartrain, ‘With the glorious Gulf of Mexico at her command it is @ pity that the yachtsmen of the Crescent City have not attempted something more plucky than the toy yachting which has hitherio contented them. Last year they issued a general challenge to North ern yachtemen to partic:pate in their race for their Challenge Cup and felt aggrieved that noae accepted, Let them bulld a few Fleetwiags, Dauntiesses and Sapphos and train for the course from Lake Pont+ ghartrain’s muddy stream to We bold waters of the git, and they wii not sound their challenges in t annual regatta of the club takes place on Thursday next a the lake, Afverward the sqaa tron Will probably cruise round to Mandeville Pass, Ohristian, Biloxt aud Bay St. Lonis, those pleasant resorts ef the sumiwer-bound residents of the Cres- cent Chy, and at each watering piace, it is probable, Fogattas wii) be licld. rachting in New Orleans suffered a severe blow in the death 01 0.d Commudore Kobtinaon, tne father of the club, bat Chariey Howard and some of the younger memuers are manitesting a spirit and pluck Which, carried into a bolder fleld of action, may yet do great things. GENERAL SHERMAN, Norwack, Conn., Jaty i, 1871, General Sherman and party arrived here this evening on the steamer Henry Smith, The party are to be the guests of Legrand Lock woed for tho rest of (ho Weeks ART MATTERS. Mons. Dubnffe’s Great Painting, “The Prodigal Son’'—Reflections on the Defective State of American Art fchools. “The Prodigal Son” belongs to the highest class of imaginative art; 1s is grand in conception and is boidly and skilfully treated both in color and draw- ing. Whatever its defects—and we intend to point some of them out—they are amply atoned for by the gencral excellence of the execution, Warm and brillant tn color, generally correct and sometimes powerful, and often exquisitely tender in drawing, the picture presents a series of harmonized groups eacn one of which represents an tucident in this general train of thought, Indevd, the number of independent points of interest seriously interfere with THE DRAMATIC UNITY OF THH COMPOSITION. No dread of being charged with anachronism in the treatment of his subject has restrained the artist from presenting the biblical hero in the costume of the sixteenth century because the the arustic beauty and rich colors of the costume suited his composition. With the same sublime con- tempt for dates the artist takes a back leap of 2,000 Years in order to exnibit to us the prodigal in the desert tending bis swine and scekiug his father’s forgiveness, In adopting this bold treatment and sacrificing truth of time and piace the artist was, no doubt, influencea by the example of THE GREAT VENBTIAN MASTER, Paul Veronese, who never hesitated to abandon chronology when it interfered with tne technical excellence of bis work. One of bis grandest and best Known works 18 the “Marriage of Cana,” which, by @ wilful anachronism, he pxints as though i took place in Venice, displaying in the accessorles all bis theatrical taste and love of decoration, with a passion for light and éciat; exhibiung, at the same time, @ cosmopolitan carelessness in the mingling of all kinds of costumes, demanding only that they —— — of stich ©: Tow types ts soareely tB ping with the refinement that distinguishes the principai revellers, and that, even for sake of com trast, 1 was @ inistake to Introduce 80 low 2 type of the gambler tito a scene which in the midst sa hrexegls the influence of poetry and refinement of A group of three dancing girls ocenpy the left for = they do not necessarily belong to the Picture, and rather interfere with THE UNITY OF THE CONPOSITION, but justify ty. some beauties of execution their pres- ence, The dancing girl on the rigit of the ene gracefully posed, and a drapery of white gauze that floats around her adus much to her apparent light ness, A flatness in the region of tne stomach takes very much from the effect of this figure; the right arm, too, 18 @ little hard im outline gud not so Well in color as tne regi of tne figure, ‘The centre figure is a very good study of flesh paint- ing, but the form 18 not refined, and nas tuo much of common nature, 1t 1s well modelied, but nature has been followed too closely. The trutiiulness of the flesh tints and even THE WANT OP IDBALITY inthe figure at once suggest thoughts of Etty’s studies from. life, An exceplion must be made in favor ofthe right arm holding the tambourine, which: is an exquisit: example o1 art, beautiful and grace- ful in outline, fuil of tender, refined tceling, with light shadows softening the full, weil-rounded forms. We do not itke the pose of thia ggure, and think the action of the lower limbs might have been improved, The action of the dark Eastern beauty on the left is much more pleasing: bul she 13 scarcely 1M equilibrium, We consider the flesh form just eu draw a tine anatomy ts te The legs are weil drawn, but my 18 too stron ghy marked ior iemale nature and the outiines @ little hard. In 1ooking at the picture generally it strikes us that some ol the accessory Dgures are present only to fill up space and aid the general eifect of the color, Which 1s soifieten! (ust! fication for their pres ence. However, we think that the artist would have done better in leaving out some of the aauree and giving more compactness to his com) tion. At present there are too many centres of interest, and not suflictent sympatuy between the subordi+ nate und main groups No attention whatever seems to have been pald to the drawing of the cloud and mouniain forms, tue sky being simply repre- sented by STREAKS OF BLUE AND YELLOW, With here and there formless blotches of gray and white, while the mountains are repre-ented by @ form'ess muss of blue. without the slightest indica- tion of shadow or bil form. In spite oi ail these fault; of detail Mons, Dubuffe’s picture ts a masterpiece of art in which, even in its faults, the hand of the master appears, ‘The know: pone Of anatomy displayed in the void, pronounced and sweeping outlines of the figures show at once shall be rich aud BEAUTIFUL IN COLOR and such as will harmontze well in his deep, rich tones, Given these primary requirements, ho cares not to what age or nation the costumes belong, Rote*eking after histor:c tratn, but bright, warm colors that he can blend into a painting that will bo great by the depth of its tones, the prilliancy of its color and the power of its composition, independent of conventional ideas, Between “The Marriage of Cana” and “The Prodigal Son” thereis'a strong analogy, and, wide as the guif which separates the Frencn arti: work in pomt of execution from that of the Venetian master, yet there are points of excellence tn which the advantage most be given to M. Dubude's work, The ‘Marriage of Cana” is perfect in color and composition; but there 1s a wider grasp and more POWER OF [MAGINATION isplayea in the treatment of “The Prodigal Son,” which, were it equa: in cvlor, and not marred by some defects of composition, would undoubtedly be @ higher work of art. ‘'aking up the period of the Prodigal’s life when the pleasures of the senses are in faliest play, the artist presents us with a scene of revelry full of animal life aud voluptuous enjoy- ment, but tonea down by an exquisite refinement in the bearing of the principal figures. Some grosser types among the subordinate characters serve to heighten the air of grace and nobilit7 that hangs round tne more prominent reveliers, Wish much that 1s SUGOE®TIVE AND VOLUPTUOUS in the scene there 1s nothing coarse or offenstye, and we feel even aiid the dissipation which 18 leading to ruin and dishonor tuat the refinement Which ever accompanies the higher natures prevents the revel from sinking into @ debauch, ‘The main interest of the picture is concentrated on the central group composed of the prodigal son and two rival beauties who seek to win him by their solt, voinp(uous caresses, The prodigal stands ta a Diaze of crimson ligit, the gun of tue revel, with a ‘wine giass raised in his hand as if he were apout to deliver some impassioned pledge. tts tace, which Js of the Jewish type, ia nebe, but bears a dissipaved look, and Were {t not for his deep black eyes the | countenance would be Jacking in expression; as it 4s lis Lvok 18 too abstracted, anu seeins Wanting Ia SYMPATHY WITH THE SCENE, of which he is supposed to be the very hfe. On his Tight a fair young creature, dressed in dazziing Diseyes. Her face is lacking in that tavensity of Passion which the artist sought to convey. Tne vlue eyesand gentie face are full rather of tenderness than Of passion, and lack tne force oi expression which the situation demands, This geutie end beau- tiful woman looks too pure and holy for the scene, and seems out of piace in tne revel. Tucre 13 too much of tue angel and too iittle of the animal in her nature, Tue cold, pure white dress of this figure makes the warm, rich crimson costume of the prodigal GLOW UPON THE CANVAS, 4nd is one of the best light effects in the picture, ‘The main group Is completed by tne figure of a neau- Uful woman seated to the left of the prodigal, against whom she is leaning back in the wost com- plete abandon, her eyes closed and her whole being glowing with the most intense passion. Her arms are crossed lightly and gracefully over her (ul aud swelling bosom, which seems to heave and palpi- tate with voluptuous passion. It 18 impossible to imagime anything more graceful aud teuderiy ex- Dressive than the action of the arms and the hands, which caress ligntly the fingers of the lover's hand that rests affectionately on her shoulder. For beauty of form and exquisite modelling of parts we have seldom seen anything more beaut! ful than this study. The contours are rich aud un- dulating, but delicately firm, and the riyzhc arm and hand are so near periection in veauty of outline and correctness Of Mouelling that tiey remiad us strongly of the Nesh painting of Corregizio, with THE TENDER SHADOW LIGHIS which that great master made to play over the | forms of his nympbs, solteuing and toning down the too vivid ties colors, If we lave anyuiung to reproach Mous. pubufe in the matier of hts desn pamung of this figure it 1s the too great tutensity of 18 HES Color; just the suspicion of too much White and carmine, A little more tenuer shadow reduc. ing the éa! of Wat passioniul bosom and neck would have addea a charm of mystery and made the study perfect. Of tie pose of the iigure we re- gret to say we cannot speak approvingly. No doubt the action 1% exviesaive of compiete coandon, and Js suttavle enough to the though! it expresses; but the artist has sacrliced the ejulbriuin of his igure, Wuich appeurs in some danyer of R G OFF VAB CANVAS, ch ot the principal gronp. Also. the placing of the marbie coluan 50 ciuse behiad | the prodigal gives a fatness to the group, Waicd should have been avoided. Au accessory Kroup Is formed by a very fair young lady, who looks natural and joyous, wud is peering round the mard.e pier at tue impassioned group Uhat ecm Oblivious Lo Lhe presence vi tue vuler per- souages, while the action of oue of her adorers, 10 whom 1s jnuereat, nokding Her vaud aad 1 prinung a kiss ou her shoulde wo.l concel Alituie to the right @ poet Is seated, deciaiming; while a musician, in rich, dcep brown-red costume, LEANING ON HIS GUITAR, listens attentively to the story, and tal girl, with regular (eatares, tu a tnder pluk-culored dress, re= clines on his Jap, Wrapt in deep aitention., Oue of the best studies im the piccure is a dark, eastern- looking girl, of rich olive complexion, W.ti lustrous eyes and raven haw, Who appears to be absorped In thought rather chau listening tu the ie tare. Sue is posed easily and naturally, with inucu appropriate expression, ‘The figure of ihe poet is weakly and theatrically treated, aud 14 very poor in drawing. Jn our opinion ne interieres with THE GENERAL EFFECT OF TUB COMPOSITION, and it wonld nave been better to leave him out and concentrate tie interest on the wusivian, round a@ Wwbie in Various stages o. inebiiation; tno | wine has doue its work, aud exgied anja pas | sions are well conyeyad. Gné Msipaled took s | fellow ly bent over le tabie, excitedly oasing Tue VOLUPTUOUS HRAU TY leaning against the Prodigal, overcome by sensions excitement, and who appears to be quesn of Lie revel, but she is tovwly taconscions of her ad homage. With a touch of navure the artist the arm of one of the fentuie nucchanals row neck of the rake, but be, 1 bis turn, se ent to ber blandisnivents, in the backyrour drunken figure pursues a dau ivy laughing, a8 1 only loo ready vo be retained. The right foreground is Ocoupied by a group of gamblers, admira ly conceived and forcibly drawn. ‘The Head 9) the losing gampier ts weil studied, and | exhibits deep anxicty aad suppressed rage; the nervous clutching of Wwe right hand in bis hair and tho UNNATURAL RIGIDITY Mm Which he jeans, well express the rs des A femuie, who is & int in the losing man, cannot cone Tage, while he successfil gamuier takes MO pains LO hide his vulgar sa. istaction, of the left arm, ainvier’ Though the drawing aud conception of this group ' are decidedly powerful we are of opinion tat ue white, hangs uyon Nis neck and luoks intently into | On the right @ namber of figures ae grouped | a | Colieg | large. that Mons. Dubuile has been @ consclentious stu- dent, while ray TOUCHES OF TENDERNESS and exquisite feeling that cons’antly appear throu; the work tell of close sympatay with the beantifal. People not practically conversant with art can have no conceptuou of what years of thougot and lavor are conceatrated in this giant canvas, sad how nearly impossible it 181m such a large composition to fill 1n faultlessly the details, Leonardo da Vinct, the best educated artist that ever lived, spent four years of the prime of bis life painting the portra‘t ot Moana de Lissa, and yet thought he could never pe:fect It This may give some idea of the diMvuities ther ein the way of those who undertake to paint GRAND HISTOR'CAL SUBJECTS, which never repay from a worldly point of view the: labor and thoughtexpended upon them. In placiag the history of the “Prodigat Son” on canvas Mons. Dubuffe undertook a ut Work, Which he bas successiuliy carried out, dispiaying the highest powers of imaginative art. Hs picture isa gi poem full of warm, brant color and true artistio feeling. He has assembled and contrasted the dif ferent productions of Vice, and pointed ont clearly the path where they lead with rare judzment, His icture tells the story so fuly and completely that he most obtu-e can read the moral, and the ciearost perception see nothing to su..gest by way ol adai- tion. ‘The two drawings. in biack and white, repre- senting the prodigal tending swine and his return, are magnificent studies of A CLASSICAL SEVERITY. The presence among us of tus great work must have good resulis, by making the people acquainted With sowe of the wonders of Ola Worid art. In America art tasie 1s of such recent growth that we ave not yet had time to develop a school of historical painting; and, in truth, our national life has been So shurt'2nd ao wanttug in incident of tne dramatic romanesque kind that the American artist Would miss the food Whi te intrigues and dramas of the Uld World farnish to his buropean co-laborer, For the higuest branch of tustoric art, indeed, our history, siort ag it 13, attords ample scope, and already Luropean artists have ound INSPIRATION FOR GREAT WORKS in the incideais of our revolutionary struggia ‘Therefore we must look iarther and deeper wheu we atteinpt to discover the causes whivh produce bar- renness 1u the Migher walks 0: art. The absence of art scivols and galieries, where tne Americaa Ftue dent might become acquainied with toe wouderiul creatious of the best inas.ers, 1s, undoubtedly, the primary causc, and this 18 supplemented by tne Want Of @ correct art taste on ihe part of the mass of tae people, Under these discouraging clvcum- rtances it is Lot astonishing that tie American ar- tists as @ body turn their attention to landscape paindng, which Guds @ readier patronage because 16 dves not go ivo inuén beyoua m THE COMPREBBNSION OF THR PATRONS. Besides, the ricu wio buy have almost always Pleasant associaiions connveted with tue bevutl ul Scenes selected by the artsia, and oiteu purchase the picuure as Much as a reminaer of past ain. as in encouragement ofart. Yet we believe unat I | Au Amerivan artist displayey even moderate aviiity and conscienttoas work 10 an etfort to treat nlstorie subjects he would receive generous support. Perhaps the greatest obstacie Lo the growth of & school of Alsturic art 18 to be found im absence of | good models to guide the siudent aud to educate te pablic, Thanks w the lucreased facilities of travel we are rapidly wiring av educated class, and there is no reason why the Americau nation should not stand in a few years amon the (uremost pawons of art. Next to the power of producing great works 48 the power of appreciating them, and, indeed, un- til the latter point is reached really bigh art is im- Dossible amoug any people. Ibis Lo be regretted that no efurt 1s made to culiect from tume to tune the Masterpieces of Eur pean art on tuis Continent, wiere it would be possible for the American people to becoiue acquainted with THE EAisTENOK OF TREASURES OF THOUGHT of which they have no conception. Private enter prise has brougiit to our shores one example of the grand drainatic art of our own day, a work that with many faults of detail is still a masterpiece well deserving of our bom: Tne thanks of the public are espectaily due to Mr. Derby for his enter. prise in securing such an important example of contemporary art. And we hope that sowe rich corporation wil be public spirited enough to pure chase the work of the French ariist, and secure it for the nation as a veginuing of the national cole lections of great works which we hope to see formed in all the principal cities of the United States. THE BUCKHOUL TRIAL. A Jury Empannelied at Last—Opentag of th Case for the Prosecution—ixamination of Witacsses. In the Court of Oyer and Terminer at White Plains, Westchester county, tne third triai of Isaac V. W. Buckhout, the Sleepy Hollow murderer, was only fairly commenced yesterday, when the last Juror was obtained. Such is tne state of public feeilng in regard to the enoraity of tue criine that since lust Thursday two pauels of 600 each were ex- hausted, and a wird, consisting of 200, partially 8o,. before the requisice number of competent jurors coul | be found to try the case, After a brief though comprehensive opening ad+ dress by District Atvoravy Dyxman, Charies Rendall, son of TOR MURDERED MAN, ‘was called to the witness stand. Young Rendall, who, in addition tu the loss of his teft eye, bears other inarks of disfigurement, plainly tliustrating lis) narrow escape from death througn the murderous charge of shot directed by the finger of Buckhout, reiterated ms former testimony relalive to the circumstances which transpired immediately preceding ana at the jusiant the Goubie crime Of murder was perpe- trated, AN undsualiy rigid cross-examiaation by counsel tor the defence lailed vo elic.t any uatertal Variation f.otn the former testimony of tne witness, Mary &. Weeks, Wao Was near tae seedy of tae tragedy and HEARD THE SHOTS FIRED by the prisoner; Mrs. Saraa &. Cass and Miss Mm® rlon Rendall, both daugnters of Aled neuuaill, were also eXwmined, and testified suvstanuialiy to the sume facts, Which Were Tully pubusted in these columns Wien Lhe frst trai oO: the prisoner wok Place. Novntog new, however, was brougni- out, fad ists expected tnat tue defeace will cali & num- ber of their witnesses to-day. The douowing are the naines of the jurors and the towns in wien they reside:—Charies Davis, New toonede; Weluain Walsh, Westeuescer; isaac OC, ward RK. Uovv, Grecnourg: yoru; Williaa Cornell, Mam- teCarty, Hasicaosier; vaniel u. Dew G Weeks. Morrasunias tuastchester; Williaa He Eh aad Edward Gustavison, Ba 4 Morrisa’ LOWDOLN COLLEGE OOMMENOEMENT, LRunswick, Me, Jaly 1i, 1871, The exercises of commencement week at Bowdoin imeaced last nigat with prize deciama- 1@ junior class. ‘The attendance was very This afternoon Rev. KE. P. Parser, of Hart- ford, Coun, Will deliver an address before the Alumni. 10 vie cvening there will be a concert by the Germania Band, of Boston, assisted oy Miss Annie L Cary. ‘he exercises of the graduating Glass Wil take place Lomorcew, There are but six- ons by | teen gradaates tis year—a sinalier Quimber than | aince bz. fue Board of but their action reimuve to Harris has not transpires meet to-diy, Govervor Chawberiain was nnanimouly “i President of Lowuoin Colle@e iousy. vice isiees mek yerterday, successor wo President he board of Oversecrs elee | the Kev, Dr. darris, resigned,