The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1871, Page 5

WERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN ENGLAND Ywenty-two Persons Killed and Fifty-seven Injured. The Disaster at Stowmarket—Explosion of Gun Cottox—How the Accident Took Place— Heartrending &cenes~Human Forms Blown Into Atoms—An Excited Town—Dreadfal Shocks. [From the London Telegraph, August 14.) It would be difficuit to exaggerate the degree of excitement ana alarm produced in the secluded community at Stowmarket by the deadly explosion of Friday last. Unfortunately, tne results of tho catastrophe fully justify this alarm. No fewer than twenty-two persons were Killed; fifty-seven were wounded, of whow three or tour are scarcely ex- ted to survive, and two bodies are supposed to dying wmong the ruins. From the brief reports given on Saturday comparatvely few reaaers Would understand the nature aod extent or the Situation of the catastrophe. Stowmarket 1s a town Of about five thousand inhabitants. It Hes on the Main line of the Great Kastern Kallway, tweive Miles beyoud Ipswich and iourteen on the south- west of Bury St. Edigunds, For many years tw firm of Byars, Pyentice, whose Fiapie trade was that of inaisters and brewers, ut who were also corn merchants and paper makers, ‘have been the leading men in the town. ‘Tne fame of the experiments on gun cotton in Ger- Switzerland and France having come into ¢ fn Bogiand, Messrs, Prentice started the man- nfacture of that material at Stowmarkct on a siall scale, As the business increased a limited lability company was formed with a capital of £80,000, the whole of which bas been paid up. It is unnecessary Lere to say More of the process of manufacture than that the raw material consists of cotten waste, which, after being carefully cleansed, 18 charged by savuration and other means with the explosive compounds waicb Constitute its force. After veing dried it is packed up and placed 3n magazines unui it shall be sent out for service. Copsideravle quantities are employed in blasting mines; cartridges or charges are made for sportin, porement and lor xome time past this firm, wate the only one in England engaged in the mariulac- ture, has supplied large consignments to the order the War Office for the charging of torpedoes. rom this fact, a3 well as trom the known properties of the compound, its superior force as an explosive ent wiay be inferred. rly in the afternoon of the day menttoned all the hands, except those who were absent tirough sickness or on leave, had returned from their mid- day meal, The weather was titenseiy bot, and the gun's rays Were beating down on the flat plain of the gun cotton factory. At ten minutes past two three wremenduus reports, succeeding each other so quickty a3 to seem almost one, rent the air; whte at tue same moment a terriiic concussion shook every house im the town, broke in windows and Goors, tore of roois and sent pantiles, bricks, wood and gidss mito (he rooms and Lato the streets with one general and universal crash. In one house @ crystal chandelier Was riven from its hold» ing and broken mio frasment fm another house Valuable china and family relics were dasned from the sideboard; in @ third, Whore preparations were being made jor a dinner party, alarge quantity of Blass Was destroyed. in the same house, curlodsly enough, the wine cellar door Was forced open, mir- rors were fractured, furniture broken; and, in many Cases, Where (he sashes as weil as the panes were burted right through the room, the tnmates- were either wounded or had marveliously narrow es- capes. To those woo had husbands, fathers or chile Gren employed at the factory, ihatiearfal roll of BMOKe, and tie suHocaliny gases that poisoned the air, told a dreadful wile. Hurrying down toward the works they came in view of what but a few minutes belore had stood a compact Model village, with its magazines and sheds im- ‘act. Now ali was changed intoa burning rain, enveloped in sulplureous fumes, lis buildings utterly reeked aud desiroyed. Sneds were blowa down, {Workshops unroofed and dismantied, leaving the gaunt outlines of the machiaery half ovscured by the smoke trom burbiug rafters, Bricks, slates and iron torn up, into xhreds or broken were seen in heaps through an atmosphere tinck with dust and fire and nitrous gases, The sites of the three Maguzines were scooped out Lato deep hollows, and the earth was heaped up into biack mounds. Nota vestige of the structures remained. Worse even - than this scene, appaliing though it was, were the Cries of the Wounded scattered over the SIX acres of Tain, the terrified aspect of those who having been in the works had escaped with their lives, and the we he of those who were searching for their nds. Notwithstanding that the flames had seized the Tuns of urying sheds and in spite of the imminent Gauger, the people set to work to get out the wounded, the dead and the dying. Chief among Those wao were thus engaged, setting a nobie, though, as it turned out, indiscreet example, were Mr. kdward Prenuce and William, his nephew, the chauirman’s son. Observing the clolues of a man among the broken masonry of the drying shed, ‘these yentlemen muahed forward in ordcr to gor him ul, urging others to help them, and assuring them ‘that there was no more danger. Bul wnite one of them was handing aiong a package of gua coiton it orsome otber material exploded, and blew thom both to pieces—scarce even their shattered bones remain. People around were tirowa down by the cussion, and it 18 feared that several who escaped the larger explosion were killed by Snis. The report was heard in the town, ‘What was before a fright now became a panic. Whole families fed from their houses mito the feids, It was known that Uiere was still a tourth magazine, and from the direction of the wind and the terrible extent of tie burning mass 1t seemed In the highest degree probatile that thes also would explode, Very vat, therefore, Was the danger to tuose who, ugh appalled by the two shocks and by the scene around them, did not shrink from the duties en- joined vy humanity, but manfully exerted them- Belves to give su And with fifty persons writhing ta agony, some of ‘them hali buried altve and others incapabie of mov- dug, and exposed to ihe deadly lumes of nitrous gas, there Was much need for help. Aimoug those who Were thrown down by the second explosion aud Bughtly wounded was Mr, Trotman, the manager of the Works. On recovering bis feet, this gentle. Man again applied bins The sufierers. in along line ol rat, where the steach from the gas was (he most overpowering, he heara moans, aud, hastening along, at lmminent risk to his own Itfe, brought out living a man who but for | expired Dis ald must in a lew minaves more have from suffocation. Inspicited by this example, a oung man named Hewitt veatured along the same ate. It Would, however, be tnpossinte to chroa- icle ali the deeds of heroism that e periormed, Need we say that at such a crisis the medical pro- fesyion, a8 represented by tue surgeons practising am the district, was, as it always is, ready and rompt with assistance? Dr. Spencer Freeman. of wmarcet; Dr. Pearson, Mr. Sneridan and Mr. Woodcock-Wells, who were early on the scene, were subsequentiy reinforced by the arrival of Messrs. G. G, Sumpson, Bartiett, sr., Bartlett, jr., Dram- mond, and Hi. Moore, from Ipswich, and Mr, Beck and Mr. Cooper, trom Needham. By their airection the wounded were laid in rows on the railway banks, and their necessities attended to as ‘Well as circumstances would admit ‘The majority were sent to their homes as soon as | ‘Possible, Others were set to tie Untoa Workhouse ‘or to public houses, and a few who could bear the journey to Ipswich fospital. The remains of the dead, fearfuily charred and distigured, aad in seve- Tal cases dismembered, were taxen to Mr. Boby’s malting house. Meanwhile fre engines from Stow market, Needham and Combs arrived, laving thoroughly saturated the remaining magazine the engines piayed upon the burning yuins, which at Unal time presented one vast rangé of blazing or mouldering hitiocks, from which at any moment an- Other explosion might possibly arise. By one o'clock ou the Saturday morning’ the tire had been gotuuder, but during aii that day and night the Whole town and approaches were pervaded with their foul-sinelling smoke. The work of searching for the dead was continued, and by night twenty bodies, or portions of bodies, had been found. The excitement in the town was natu- raliy very great, and 1. may not unreasonably be feared that very many persons Will suffer from (he hock and from the tou tat will follow on the subsidence of their present feverishly agitated con- dition. Under the alarm caused by the possibility ‘Of a thitd explosion precautions were taken to_pre- Vent the possibility of such an occurrence. Pack- ages of gun cotton jound on the factory premises were thrown into the river, and one young man was chivairous enough to enter te remaining magazine and throw water on the siores contained therein. It ts finpessible to esrimmie the amount of damage done to property, or to say by What means the sui- ferers are to be recouped. Those upon whom tne loss will fail most severely are the workmen of the factory, who lived tn a newiy-built hamlet or suburb of ihe town called California, ‘There houses, windows, doors and roofs huve been demolished wholesale, and during the nighis tat have elapsed since the oceur- rence many poor people have been obliged to live asthey could in a windowless or doorless house. In all parts of the town more or jess of damage was done, chiehy to windows. In some cases where these were open tho house escaped. The main force of the concussion seems to have taken a soutie ‘Western sweep towards Ipswich, and to have car. ried strength enough to sb windows and Gamage the roofs of. farmhouses a mile and a halt distant. The report of the explosion was heard In- distinctly, but suficientiy weil to suggest remark by genuemen playing cricket at Gosfeid, upwards Of thirty miles southwest of Stowmarket, The following is @ list of (ne killed and of those Who were most severely Wounded :— Killed,—Aduits—Ldward Henry Prentice, William R, Prentice, John Haggar, Jatues Ransome, Samuel Firman, James Parisn, Join Wright, R. Howe (oreman), 4. Canham, James Thomas, 3. Kead, J. Runnacies, J. Gallant, W. barker, —— Wititains, Alfred Bloom, Frank Mayhew, Girls— Alice Mortimer, Susan Wilding, Maria Markwell, Aln Mount. Missing.—Amy Hare and Anna Miller. Severely Wounded.—soan Last, Colchester (man), Pamela Barnett, Mary Hawkins, Sarai Ser- Emma Sergeant, Harriet Whiting. ‘Tho others are not so dangerously wounded as ‘these, and are in a fair way toward recovery. Scalp Wounds and fractuges, br ‘and damage to the ptvous ryatem Obie shock are the princioal 1n- + i i r Where it Was most needed. | to the task of rescuing | | | | | | ah ee ‘ i NEW Y FOREIGN TOPICS. Rowmania. Accounts ef the disposition of the army of Rou- mania towards Prince Charies vary. By sowe it 1s reported that a military conspiracy has just been Giscovered, the object of which was to bring about the restoration of Prince Couza. In confirmation ‘Of this report it'1s repregested that the only reason which induced Prince CRrles to sauction the repu- diation of their debts .by the Legislative Chamber was his fear that the a-pReneres for a gen- eral massacre of the Geir in the conntry. Another account represents tue soldiery as rather ‘weil inclined to the reigning Priace. A Converted International. What the Nord weutsche Allgemeine Zeitung calls “a converted social democrat” publishes In a German paper the following deciaration:— ‘Alter having, since the year 1806, adhered to the sootalist offoris of the’ so-called popular party, and agitated in its declare that wor, I heroby 1 wholly break om this far Ory er pec torward, having discovernd thet both against the supsiatonce of a regulated fo ee Re yarguleal or repudiican, and the subsiat- enéo of the ife of the family. While I warn wl workingmen Gho love uheir families agalast giving their adhesion t6 tals or any longer holding by i; T am to give revaln: ry y it, renee Plone over the loternal relations of this 40-culled pouular but I give to them as a preliminary the counsel to expel thelr weekly subscriptions, ‘on better objects, CHRIS, AUGUSTUS BUSCHUER, Cummmirsonan, July 26, 1871, British Routine Imbecility. Under the neading “Can It Be True?” @ person writes to tue Rondon Standard wo toguire if Admiral Dacres, senior executive officer of the admiralty, really reprimanded Captain Thrupp, of the Megwra, for forwarding the complajnt of her officers in re- gard fo the wretched condition of that “notoriously unseaworthy and worn-out old tub.” The question 1s addressed indirectly vo the Admiral, who 1s re- quested nut to sheiter himself behind the fact that there 1s ‘no record” of his reprimand at the Adint- ralty. Mr. Keed, the chief constructor, complained that ‘‘no record” had been kept of bis minutes of in- spection, after he had condemned the “old tub” as unseaworthy several years ago. The Admiralty, of course, expects every sailor not only to be willing “to do his duty,”’ but to go tu sea and even to the bot- tom without a murmur iu any old snell that can be started on @ voyage, and that is about the sum and substance of the story. The Interview ef the Emperors. The accounts which arrive of the interview be- tween the two Emperors represent it to have been of the most cordial description. Francis Joseph appeared at Wels in the unlform of the Royal Prus- sian Grenadier regiment of the Emperor Francis, and when the Emperor of Germany arrived he stood in the strict mulitary attitude—nis hand to his hat—until his nucle had @escended. Then the two Emperors hurried to each other, embraced and kissed each other several times and exchanged many warm shakes of the hand. Daring the journey to Gimunden the two Emperers remained alone, On their arrival at ‘bl they were scareely a@ moment apart. When the Einperor of Austria was not at the hore: of the Emperor of Germany Emperor of Ger- Many was at the villaof the Emperor of Austria. Altogether the intercourse of tne two Emperors seems to have Leen of tie most friendly charac! Russin’s Frieudliness to Prussia. ‘The Czar seems ready even to go out of his way to show his regard for Prussia. When returning from his tour to the German baths he passed through Warsaw. Here a review of troops was held, and at this review a large numoer of Prussian officers were invited to assist, These oficers were received both by the Russian Emperor and the Russian Ollicers with the greatest consideration, They were quartered at the “Emperor's expense in the Orangeria Pat: an éscort of German-speaking Russian oflicers attended to their wants and escorted them around the different places of interest tn Poland’s capital, At ihe review the Prussian oflicers had a lace among the immediate surroundings of the Jmperor, and aiterwards & banquet was given to them, at which the greatest cordiality prevailed and toasts to the continuance of the friendship belweea the Emperors, and particularly between the soldiers of the bWo empires, were drank and drank again. The Germans in France. “France must fulfil her engagements” or the de- parture of the troops will not continue, The seml- oMmicial Provincial Correspondence says: — The execution of the Treaty of Peace of Frankfort does not make that rapid and regular progress waich was hoped for Wish all the greater confidence from the fact that Germany had conscientiously ful- filed all her obligations, and had conformed, as far as possible, to the wishes of the French govern- meat, The latter desires that the Germans should hasten to evacuate French territory tn cousideration of offers for the payment of the indemnity, and that the date fixed for the execution of the treaty shoulda be shortened. [t must, however, be ascertained whether the proffered modes of payment worthy of complete confidence. A satisfactory set- tiement of the Frankfort negotiations as speedily as Possible 18 urgently Hecexsary. So soon as people in france cease their system of provocation, which endangers the continuance of peace, the evacuation 0! French territory will proceed accordingly as the French government fuiflis tts obligations, As it has offered to pay the third half miliiard very shortly, arrangements nave been made to continue the evacuation of territory, should that offer be carried our, and moreover the Second and Tweaty-second divisions are notified of the probability of their evacuating the forts and returning home. Of course this must be preceded by the fulfilment by France of her engagagements. The Revolt Ibania. ‘The Vienna correspondent of the HaRaLp, writing under date of August 2, says:— ‘The last mati from Albania brings us alarming news from Scutari in the shape of a letter from that city, publisned in the Osservacore, of Trieste, stating that an armed revolt had broken out against the goverament. ‘The bazaar, or market, has been closed for several days, but tt 1s doubtiul if any greater harm than that will come of this affair, Which may be summed up in two words—namely, that the people want the Governor, Ismail Pacha, Temoved. It should be understood that revolts of this kind are of frequent occurrence in Albania, and always end by a compromise, by virtue of which things re- Twain pretty much (nstarn quo, The revolted parties are mvariably Mohammedans, the Christians never taking any part, and the slightest innovation by the Governor 1s sufficient to create one of those commo- tions digauiled by the name of revolt, and frequently magnified into undue importance by ose who do not uuderstand the thing. For the sake of peace the Governor is generaily found to be in the wrong and removed, and itis prohabie that in the present instance Ismail Pacha wil. go the way of other inno- vators, to be followed by another, who in tus turn will be tripped up. The secret of the invariable success of the revolters is 1m the fact that they rely on the atd of the Montenegrins, who are only wo delighted to ptich in if called upon io the hope of getting a itttle plunder. ‘ihe King, Who has been at a German watering e, has been reealied by his Ministers, the Queen, who is at Corfu, adding to the weight of their mes- Sage by telegraphing to him to Burry home. But the trouble In Albania is the last and least among the causes of this rec In_the first place the Greeks io not like to see their King spend too much of nis time in Germany. Though a Dane he is, like his predecessor, very German in feeling and ten- dency—a disposition which the Greeks do not like. In the next place a dimcuity between the govern- ment and an Halian company engaged tn working the mines of Laurium threatens to become serious. Count Hovenwart and the Czechs. For the last few weeks the Vienna papers have been daily filled with accounts of the negotiations at present going on between the government of Cls- Letthan Austria and the leaders of the Czech party. The reports given of those transactions vary accord- ing to the political hue of the different journals, By some Count Hohenwart is sald to have succeeded in bringing over the malcontents; by others he is rep- reseutea to have compietely failed. What the nature of the compromise proposed by Count Hohenwart to the nationalities is we cannot, of course, exactly know, but we have at our dands a very good means of forming a fair guess. A remarkable pamphiet, entitled “The Austrian Constitutional Party and the Hobenwart Muntstry,’’ has just been publishea. In the opinion of nearly every Austrian and German rer he pampiiet comes from an oMecial source. any think that 1b 1s the composition of Count Hohenwart himself. It is well written, and atone of moderation pervades every page, which has gained for it a favorable reception, even from those Who most bitierly oppose Count Hohenwart’s gene- ral policy, The position which the pamphiet en- deavors to establish Is thatthe status quo is im- possible, and that the constitutional party has no polley but the maintenance of the status quo. Tre nationaliaes, the writer says, are fuily determined on obtaining certain concessions. Prague will not be governed from Vienna, Gallicia by Cis-Leithan Aus- tia. Year sueceeds year without bringing any change in the attitude of those nationalities. They Will not eleci members to our Reichsrath; they observe @ policy of abstention; legisiation’ is at a deat lock, and the whole country in a state of uneasiness and uncertainty, Must this go ony Mustit go on until men's passions have been so aroused that either @ violent solution of the question will be sought, or the different races under Austrian rule will have, by their irreconcilable hate, eres the holding together of the empire impossible MWe,” says Count Hohenwart (if he isthe writer), “propose to avoid such a catastrophe by timely re- forms. We will give a litde now that We may not have to give too much hereaiter."” The Ozech papers are far more disposed to treat the proposais of this pamphiet with harsiness than the coustitutionalists; for its moderation does not recommend it to @ party Which has so long de- anded concessions far greater than any Count Honenwart seems dlsposed to give. Thus Count Hohenwart 1s between two stools—too extreme for the Germans, too moderate for the Slaves; and it is not unlikely that hts ministry, like so many others, will fail in the dificult task of reconciling the con- ficting claims and interests of the digerems races in the AUSLAn emDvire, hom tf Be) A Ar BS | », LITERATURE. CRITICISMS OF NEW BOOKS. Mrs, Spefford’s Personal Biscences. New Enoianp Lecenps. By Harriet Prescott Spofford, Witn illustrations, Boston: James R. Osgood & A dozen years ago Miss Harriett Prescott sprung into a sucden fame as the author ofThe Amber Gods” in the Atlantic Monthly. Young people, and, indeed, elderly people, too, for that matter, were not quite sure what the story was all about; but there were in 1t such richness and beauty of language, and such wealth of imagination that tt could not fall to capti- vate all readers into whose hands it chanced to fall. Its author was evidently a word painter of the great est power; one whose thoughts were a living fire} and whose studies acquired a glow from the brilliancy of her delineations. The promise which the young Girl gaye of her <alents hasbeen in no way disappointed. We could not find better evidence of this anywhere than in her “New England Legends.” The stories which she recites are in the main far from being new. The towns of which she discourses—Charlestown, Salem, Newburyport, Dover and Portsmouth—are not in themselves very remarkable. The legends which can be told of New York, Pennsylvania and Mary- land are in many respects even more strixing, But those have never been told as these are recited by Mrs. Spofford. We recognize the hand of tho artist in every line. We see the colorings of genius in every shadeot ber pictures. They are alive with an interest which few pens can impart to these twice-told tales of New England history. As an example of all this we have only to potut to her ‘‘True Account of Captain Kidd.” The story is not long, but the narrative is as sparkling as the pebbly bottom of a mountain stream, Much of the old romance about the man and his treasure is swept away. Captain Kidd never landed north of Block Island, and all of his gains were known and accounted for; but to the man 13 given a new char- acter. “Previous to the two last years of his life he Was esteemed @ good citizen, and as honest a sea captain as ever sailed out of New York, and in the Surrogate’s oMice 1s still preserved his marriage cer- tificate that classifies him as a gentleman.” The account of his trial is graphic in the extreme, and the story of the adventures which led to it exeeed- ingly interesting. The King haa aetermined to md the American seas of pirates, and to that end appointed the Earl of Bellamont Governor of New York and New England. Robert Livingston being then in London, introduced to him William Kidd “as a person who had gained some fame in engagements with the French, aman of honor and tuatrepidity and one ‘who, knowing the haunts of the pirates, was very fit to command the expedition against them, which Bellamont anda others was forming.” The ‘others’ were the Earl of Romney, the Lord Chancellor Somers, the Lord High Admiral, the Duke of Shrews- vury and Sir Edward Harrison. Even the King entered into the scheme very heartily and was to have one-tenth of the profits, There can be no doubt that the whole design was only a piratical adventure undertaken by these noble lords and gentlemen, and that Kidd was a mere tool in their hands. And Kidd was even averse to the plan, but was forced into it by the threats of these royal and half roya! feltows that his own ship should be taken away from him unless he acceded to their wishes. Believing he had the support of the gov- ernment in whatever he might undertake, he construed his instructions itberally and was brought to trial at the Oid Bailey in 1/01, on a charge of piracy and murder. He had counted on the protection of Bellamont and his friends, but, compromising them too far, tney hanged him to save themselves. The trial itself was not only a mockery—I!t was an outrage. When Kidd desired to have counsel assigned him Str Salathiel Lovell won- deringly asked him, “What would you have counsel for?’ and, though the right was finally accorded him, he received a defender Who was dumb in the presence of his judges, But Mrs. Spoftord says, ‘It being determined to hang him at all odds, the law- yers were given hinis, the witnesses were brow- beaten and the jury were instructed, after teatous iteration, to bring him in guilty.” And it may be of interest to the seekers atter Kidd's treasure to know vat all his gains, iil-gotten at the best, have gone to swell the revenues of the English kingdom. Asan example of Mrs, Spofford’s style and Captain Kidd's “goodness” we print the following exhibit—(A, page 2):— : ‘The American seas being greatly, troubled by pirates, early in 169% the King summoned the Exri of seliomout before him, and told him that, having come to the determination to to the increasing piratical tendenctes of his colo- jad cho: im as the most jon to be in- D, being acquainted with arl, introduced him to Wiliam Kitd, who, having loft wite'and children in New York, Was also then in Lonton, asaperson who had secured some fame in engagements with the French, a man of honor and intrepidity, and one who, knowing the hanats of the pirates, was very il to com mand the erpeviition against them |which Bellomont and others were planuing, Livingston beoame Kidd's surety , a Kindness that the latter always remembered, as be threatened, onhis return two years afterward, to sell his sloop and m- domaity Livingston out of the proceei#if Bellomont did not surrender the bond, Te was at proposed that Kidd frigate, but hard!y daring give him ¢l tu Itself indicat cated in his trangaction the w houtd have a Britisn —which hesitation z reat lo) were reaily impit- aship was parchased for £6,000, Kidd and Livingston neing at one-fifth of the expanne, and the ert being born» vy the Earis of Bellomont and Romney. the rd Chancelior Somers, the Lord High Admiral, the Duke of Shrewabury and Sir Kdward Harrison, and they agreed to give the King, who entered into it very heardiy, ‘a tenth of he profits of the affair. Kidd was somewhat averse to the plan, and serlously demurred, In belleved, but was threatened by the men of power that bis own ship should be detaine and taken trom him If be paraisted, and accordingly he yielded, and in 1895 was regularly cominiasioned under two separate parchments, eto cruise against the French, rr extrasrdinary oue, but ieued under the eriag him to proceed against the pirates and for the purpose of rty as he might cap- coups to the Karl of arely fi England; and the Ave’ ey, armed ship, of thirty guns and eighty men, was brougut to the bnoy tn the Nore atu end of Febtuary, and ou the 23401 April, 1896, he railed in her from Plymaotith, reaching New York in July, and bring- ing in a French ship, valued at £250, which he had taken on and which he there condemned, ‘ork he invited men to enter his service, by notices large offers of boo and ny {ter “y shares for him at ould be deducted ; d, increasing his crew to more than ove hundred and fifty je went (o Madeira, then to aeveral of the West In ports, and afterward to Madagascar, the coast of Mala! ‘to Uab's Key, an island at the eutrance of the Red Sea, he lay in wait for the Mocha fleet, ten preparing to evident that he went outside of his nominal in- by thus leaving the American for the A waters; Dut it {s algo evident that he understood he waa to be supported by the people of power who were behind him at home, and believed himself to be onty following out thelr intentions; andthe man who had been encouraged to rob one ship had not, perhaps, stflicient rednement of diserimt- Ration to think’ any diiferent matter of robbing another. Moreover, having come a and captured no leaving New York, he might nataraily have felt (hat bi were expecting more of him, and thus have resolved on soinething desperate, At any rate he did not consider bitn- teit to be golng outside of his daty, or to be appearing in any Questionable light, when on his voyage out, he met the ship Quarrying the Ambussadur to the Great Mogul, and exchanged courtesies therewith, Another fearful picture which Mrs. Spofford paints are the trials of the Salem witches, That history is adark and bloody tale, the judictat murders, ac- cording to the narrative before us, being the results of the ambition ana artfulness of @ reckless Salem parson. ‘ihe testimony of a few half-crazed girls led many innocent people to the scaffold, and when one of these who had been accused by these infatuated children was acquitted by the jury “they were rep- rimanded by the Chief Justice and remanded to confinement fill they brought tn @ verdict of guilty.” But the bubble burst at last. Old Giles Corey, a man of eighty years of age, who had himself aj sisted in some of the persecutions, was accused of the crime. When brought to trial he refused to plead, and submitted to the old-fashioned sentence, peine fovie et dure, and from that moment never uttered a syllable. And the oid man died of starva- tion, suffering to its fullest all the rigors of that dreadful punishment. It was the last of Salem witchcraft, and the youny creatures whose accusa- tions brought so many persons to the scaffold were allowed to come out of their contortions un- regarded, and, with one or two exceptions, when they grow into womanhood they led openly shame less lives. The story of the destruction of the Ursuline Con- ventgon Mount Benedict, tn Charlesvown, in the year 1834, 18 another of those tales of New England fan- ‘aticism which can never be forgotten. Mrs. Spof- ford tells it with proper indignation, but we doubt if her own conclusion that such an event cannot occur again be quite correct, It was only another phase of the Salem witchcraft horrors, and the one 1s about as disgraceful as the other. If almost any other person had written this book Of Mrs. Spofford’s it would no’ be worth the paper upon which it is printed, Even her pubilshers seemed to doubt the value of her work, and they bave given us @ very uucouth specimen of book- ORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUG making. But she treated her subjects as no one else could treat them, and managed to infuse into the homeliest of stories the life of her own genius. Every page sparkles. Almost every sentence 1s in itself @ gem. Captain Kidd acquires a manii- ness which was never before accorded him, Old Giles Corey is shown as @ man of marked traits, The Wentworths are touched with such gentie and dell- cate art that they possess an interest it would be im- Possible to accord to “Long John’—“the Hon. Jonn Wentworth, of illinois,’ Mrs, Spofford calls him. The “Legenda of New Engiand” is just such @ book a3 one would care to have at hand for an idle hour, #u4 almost any sentence picked out at ran- dom will saficientiy engage the attention to com- pel the perusal of a page. This is a rare merit and fuily justifies the collection into @ volume of these sketches, 60 full of personal and historical reminis- cences of the old-fashioned New England towns on tne Eastern Railway. Tue Fepenal Goveryuunr: I?3 OFFICERS AND Turin Purizs. By Kansom H. Gillet. New York: ipo Hworth, ainsworth & Co, 1871, 1zmo., pp. ‘The object of thts book—by an ex-member of Con-, gress from this State, who has also been Register and Sollcitor of the Treasury Dopartment— is to furnish a plain’ manual of inior- mation to the citizen as to the sub-divi-e sions of the general government in all its departments, Such a book was much needed, as Itttle ts to be found in print respecting che organiza- tion of the greet and intricate departiaenis at Wash- ington, and people having business there are fre- quently at 4 disadvantage from the want of a few hnes of guidance, which, known beforeuand, would save them much trouble and loss of time vy inquiry. In reference to the duties and divisions of business in various branches of the civil service the work has the advantage of having been compiled by one who has had practical experienco as an oficer In a department, and is, pernaps, in the wain correct, though far from being as full and explicit as destra- bie in the information conveyed, We note with re- gret as well as surprise tat the author has content- ed himself with copying from old statutes or docu- ments out of date, many important statistical facts, which should have been verified either vy a visit of investigation to Washington or by letters of inquiry. This simple course would have spared the work the = discredit of diffusing and perpetuating erroneous statements. Nearly the whole statement, forexample, of the salaries re- ported as paid to officers under the government is an anachronism. On page 286 we are inlormed of the creation of a “department of education,” by act of March 2, 1967, with a commissioner whose salary is $4,000, It ig now more than two years since this so- called “department” was reduced toa bureau by Congress, and tae salary cut down to $3,000, We ave told on page 393 that the salary of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court is $6,000. Mr. Gillet, although a lawyer, appears to be unaware that these salaries were, Many months since, increased to $8,000 each. On page 127 the author informs us that it ts the duty of the Chaplam of the Mouse of Repre- sentatives to conduct religious services in the House every other Sunday. “In practice the Senate Chap- lain atvends on the interventng Sunday and performs the like services,” Mr, Gullet’s information would q@oubtiess have been correct had he printed it when himself a member of Congress; but itis well known to all who have been recently in Washington during the sittings of Congress that there have been no Sunday services by the chaplains of Con- gress, in either House or Senate, for many years past, On page 142, mm stating the functions and privileges of the President of the United States, Mr. Gallet tells us that “under a ute he employs @ private secreiary and a steward at tie public ex- pense.” A brief consultation of any of the legis- lative, executive and judicial appropriation bilis for several years past would have shown that the President employs several secretaries and a short- hand writer. at the pubdlicexpense, “under a stat- ute.’ The salaries of nearly all the officers of Con- gress are greatly understated, having been increased three or four years ago ‘rom the figures given in Mr. Glilet’s work. The table of snecessive heads of de- partments, with the dates of their appointment to oMce, from the foundation of the government, is quite valuable, and would be stl! more so had the compiler taken the trouble to ascertain and print the dates of appointment of Secretaries Boutwell, Rawhings, Belknap and Robeson, Brainy ras 3ara Boston: Lee & shepard, New Yor! a , Suepard & Vililagham. 1 16mn0., PD. This 1s an anonymous and a melancholy book. In it are opened with great force and oconsional elo- quence of style the sad and dificult probiems o! the actual and the proper treatment of the insane. It 1s Mot, as might be inferred from the tive, a continuous Marrative of individual experience, though the editor seems to imply in the preface inat it was all written by one Who has becn an actual patient in an asylum. This we take leave to doubt ke is rather a series of searching criticisms upon the methods of treating mental aberration. The drift of the work may be luferred from the following definition given by the author:—"In an asylum—a2 place where insanity 1s made.” Many vigorous protegts against the system of Mechanicai restraint which even yet dis- graces these institutions are found scattered through fis pages and duly enforced by practteal iiinstrations, The author lays down the axiom, “Let mistakes be made rather than moral restratnt Shall be effected by physical means.” Here ts one of the writer’s Ulnstrations, drawn from the history of George tie Third of England:— Royalty, we know, Was not exempt from the | harsest Mr. Massey, In his listory of Bug: reader a wotul picture of the unroyal © treatment of the sovereign, in 1735 when Dr. Warren pronounced him a se'tied lunati The King was moved by the spirit which possessed him to talk unceasingly; he ts said to have taikea at | one time for nimeteer hours consecutively, but vet | he was not violent. Notwithstanding this, le was forced ito the § at waistcoat, deprived of the sight of his fami and refused the common use of a knife and fork. But Dr. Wiills freed him from this unnecessary bondage, allowed lim to use @ knife and fork, adding “to this favor the polite hope that he snonld have the honor of dining with His Majesty, and even offered him & razor to shave Nimseif with, He was then permitted to see his queen and the princesses. Although the court physicians were struck with ter- ror at these Innovations of the prescribed system, happily (or its encouragement the King ina few weeks regained bis reason. Assuredly this was a royai road to reform, and showid have opened many patus for enulation.”’ CALLED C. Abbott, Harper & Bros, HistORY OF FREDERICK THE SECOND, FREDERICK THE GR By Join S. With tilustrattons, New York: 1871, 8VO., Dp. 584. This is one of Parson Abbott's industrious but not always trustworthy compilations o( history, The stvie of historical narrative most affected by this ‘writer is illustrated iu the very first line of the pre- face to the present work, in which he tells of “the wild and woundrous e ts of the past.’ For the staple of te volume, the’ facts on which the narra- tive Is based, Mr. Abbott is chiefly indebted to the great work of Carlyle, which ts a monument of his- torical labor and accuracy, This obligation Is irecly acknowledged in the preface, as well as in numer. ons foot notes, The narrative of Frederick's extra. ordinary life ond campaigns is one of absorbing interest, Which no deficiency of treatment could avail w render wholly uninteresting. of the character of the great Prussian Emperor Mr. Abbottis an unsafe and prejudiced judge. More than once in the volume before us he calls him an atheist, Frederick was no Christian, as all the world Knows, and bad a hearty contempt for priests and their opinions and ways, which he hated with un- seemly violence, But he was no atheist, He believed ju God, as his published works abundantly show, and, it might be added, was about ail he did believe In. As Cariyle writes on this point: ‘the- iam, truly, he never could abide; to him, as to ali of us, it was flatly inconceivable that intellect, moral emotion, could nave been put into him by anenuty that had none of its own. But there, preity much, his theism seems to nave stopped.’? The work is” elegantly printed throughout, but the numerous illustrations have a very wooden look, which is, per: haps, largely owing to their German subjects, Tus Lire THaT Now Is, yer. The Engitsh-American blacksmith who now forges ermona by Robert Coll- Boston; Horace B. Fuller, 1871, lémo, pp. UST 30, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET, Heal sense and thought, A single passage will characterize this performance better than acres of commentary :— Oh, friends! we read these new lives of Christ that are pouring from the press. We are fascinated DE Kenan ana bewtidered by Strauss, We 4 impse of His presence in “Ecce Homo,” touch the em of His garments in Schenkel, and almost see Him as was in Furness; and think how glad we should have been to be near Him, in His very living presence; to be one of the twelve, and hear His voice, and touch His hand, and be healed by Hite power and lifted by His spirit to God, We cannot read the life of Christ so as to under- stand it until we enter into is spirit’ any more than Jeiferson Davis can understand the life of Abrahain Linco. Loyalty to Christ's spint and work ls the best commentary, and the only one that can make Christ altogether clear to us. Go about the Father's business as He aid. Send fila Gospel far | and wide; be ye saviors in your degree; take Christ | mto your hearts, and then there wiil be very litue | tronble about Him in your minds. But, then, never forget that if He is the vine God is the sun, ART MATTERS. De Hane’ “Wreckers” and “A Fishing Scene” in the Bogardus Gallery. I is to be regretted that artists possessed of cer- | tain power will yet condescend to minister to the | diseased taste of that portion of the pablic which is nothing if not sensational, Seeking after sensation, whether in literature, the draroa or in art, is tue vice of the period which threatens to corrupt not alone our manners, but our hearts, and reuder us indifferent to THE GENTLER TOUCHES OF NATURE, in which dwell the highest and purest imfusnce for | good over the spirit of man. Whatever tends to weaken this elevated sympathy with the higher and more refined feelings of our nature is opposed to the true end and aim of art, and should be carefully avoided by all who have tts laterest at heart. ‘These reflections were suggested to us by one of Mr. De Haas? late works, “The Wreckers,” at pres- ent on exhibition in the Bogardus Gallery. The ene is laid on the coast of Long Island, and repre- sents a ship stranded, the waves breaking over her side and stern, The frst thing that strikes us 1s the incongruity of the incidents aad the utle of the pic- ture. Our notion of “wreckers” is strongly con- nected with DARK, STORMY NIGHTS and the exhibition of false lights to tempt the an- wary mariner to hisdoom. ‘Then the class of men who engage in wrecking are popularly supposed to combine all the villanous traits of the smuggler and the pirate, witout any of the bold qualities that relieve, f they do not redeem, the characters of these two classes of evil doers, We are, therefore, somewhat surprised to discover the group of mena onthe beach engaged ta the nome work of endea- voring to save the crew; for such we esteem to be the object of establishing the line between the shore and the ship, tueman. who are SITTING COOLLY ON THE STRAND in the foreground, has certainly notaing in common with the idea.of a wreck; and, for the sake of our common huinan nature, we hope that there are not | tro people in America who could sit so unconcern- ediy by while a number of their fellow beings were in momentary danger of death. However, we do hot wish to fay too much stress on the stortcomtngs of dramatic power in the Ogures, as the arust evi dently intended them only as accessor and meant to tell bis story in the angry waves and THREATENING, LURID CLOUDS that fill up the background. He has, no doubt, pro- duced a striking picture,,but tt 1s at the sacrifice of | what makes a picture really valuabie—truth to ua | ture and harmony of tone and composition, | ‘The sunis going down aad is hid behind a mass of clouds, through which a luminous hghtis break | ing, and, falling along the shore line, bathes the | white foam dashed on the strand by the waves, In a | flood of golden light tiat, MINGLING WITH THE SILVERY SPRAY, produces infinite variety of color, This effect, | though perhaps not bad In ttself, we confess in all | our seaside experience never to have seen anything i im nature like it, seems to us out of keeping with | the scene, and only introduced as a kind of !tme- | A similar | light effect for the purpose of contrast. want of fitness is exhibiiet in whe selection of a clear,. grayish-blue sky, tinged with @ faint yellow | light, while tie mass of the clouds ta the back: ground are dark and terrible, Through one large, dark gray patch of lower cloud that, separated from tue heavy masses, floats away into space, A GOLDEN AMUER TINGE is breaking and gives us areal coud effect, for it requires no stretch of the Imagination to conceive this luminous cloud sailing across the sky, The main effect 1s sought in the mass of cloud—yellow, white and gray—from bebind which bursts (he flood of sunlight. The cloud forms are well painted, but the light and dark eflects are too sudden, and by their WANT OF HARMONY destroy ail tone in the picture, Nor ts there any ex- | planation why the storm sky of the background {| should be accompanied by the calm, clear, cold, biue sky of the foreground. Not a drifing cloud ex- plains to us that, though past, the storm has be In the cloud painting the artist has given ua a beau tiful piece of purple sky, rich Mm color and well in form, Which is THE GEM OF THE PICTURE. ‘The effect of the purple light over the dark hea land in the background 1s also very pretty; but, an- fortunately, pone of the picture will bear too close inspection. {t 1s very much to be regretted that the arustallowed this painting to leave his easel in ita present crade state, for there are not wanting in the } picture itself indications that he could do much bet- ter; and if there were not internal proof of bett things a qt fishing scene in the same gallery, which we will notice in a few days, would convince the most sceptical that the VERY GLARING FAULTS in “The Wreckers” are due not 30 much to want of execution. The cloud drawing in this work ts far above the average in American art, and displays some attention to the weak port of most paintings. Indeed, by separating the diferent effects ana look- ing at thei singly, without reference to the general composition, we could find MUCH TO ADMIRE: but taken together the want of harmony In the colors, a8 Weil a4 their too strong and sudden con- trast, destroys the good qualities of the parts and creaies an unpleasant impression on the eye. | a marking the points in this work which im- pressed us most vividly we naturally turned to where tae burst of white light from behind th clouds irresistibly atiracts the eye and draws off attention from what after all should be the uw interest Of the picture—to wit, the ship and the We coufess tne artist has almost succeeded in mah Ing us Jol we half exp replace the ship and sea and gi a A LIME-LIGH? GODDESS strolling melodramatically on the sea shore In that food of golden Jight which scems so Inappropriate in the terrible tircumstances of a wreck. A great painter would havo surroanded the scene with gloom, and tne only lignt ed he would have | given us would have veen Jurid ughtuag flashes ILLUMINING THE TEMPESTUOUS SEA. To any one Who has felt nis heart sink and e. tiwent of Iittieness and impotence creep over hir in presence of the immense, majestic billow crow 1ed with leagues of white, dazzling spray, that In storm roll on tn seemingly resistiéss strength, the weak, bodiless waves of Mr. De Haas’ picture are @ poor representation of at: angry sea. Out right the Waves are dark and threatening, Dut W ing in grandeur and majesty, Wheo the sea deeply agitated the waves KOLL IN HEAVY, SWELLING MASSES, with the spray dancing on the top, but carryig With them the iinpression of force aud u- resistuble power. ‘This peculiarity the artist nas failed to render, though the sea form 1s not bad. tu point of com, osition tue stranded ship and the dark | sea on right are excellently conceived, and in 5 fect harmony with the idea of storm and wre ( Withstanding the defects of detail we have pointed out and a certain want of transparency in the water, wich is a shade too leaden in color. 1t is perhaps too mach to expect that a picture gotien up for the market should be perfect in all those trifling details which go to make Perfection, but the trata 18 we do not recogaize trade in art, and expect that the artist will not allow a work to leave lis ease! while he feeis he can improve it, and itis im- possivie to xtand before Mr. De Haag’ “Wreckers” and not feel that the artist has done himself inju: tuce in not finishing the Work before us, But, alter ali, the public are more to blame than the artists, since patroas preier to .buy @ number of tmperfectiy | noished works to paying for one upon which a maa | of genius has expended time and thought, and tne imperative necessity of living forces the artists to ace | comimodate themselves to the market. Looked at | irom a distance the effect of the “Wreckers” is | pleasiog, for the Composition of the picture is not | bad, the fauits of Which we complaim evidently aris ing more from hasty execution than from want of the always | religious thunderboits in a Chicago puipit gives the World @ fresh volume of nus discourses under this Appropriate title, The book is strikingly character- istic Of the man—plain, earnest and downright in style, devout and fervant im apirit, and full of prag power. | ‘THE FISHING SCENE.” In the same gallery there is a usning scene, painted by Mr, ve which offers the strongest contrast of style to the reckers."? While one Is sensational aud full of sudden eifveta, the other 18 peacefal and Calum, with ao atmosphere of col tranquillite | yeu } pas ‘The presence, also, of a lady and gen- | | aud her mother, | erty, and power as to over straining after effect, ana hasty | } a bi | to be under, _ ——_. mat makes one wish to way trom me town enjoying the refre: bE sea Dreesce, Pee seene is laid off the coast, with Sching sacl, ride ing steadily at anchor, while some of crew are busily engaged 10 a small poat, LAYING THE FISHING NETS. In the distance we sce a small amack, under near the coust. The ae background is ocen; by a dark headland. Nothing could be more tran- quil than the scene, and yet the waters are by no means still, bat seem to bé rising and swelling with the gentle dignity of thetr playful mood, The colors of the painting are very fresh, but the tone of the picture ts good. A very pleasing effect has been produced by the bright white light on the horizon, which, thongh somewhat too strong to our minds, melts gradually away aud MINGLES WITH THE WAVES in @ most artistic manner, Had there been @ smatier quantity of gat on the horizon tt strikes a8 that the effect would have been much impr Outside the Influence OF this stream of whi nt falling down the centre of the picture the waves are | rather dark and are too mach tinged with faint purple shadows, The water would have been tm- proved by the presence of more greén and blue. The waves intae foreground gre in shadow except where THE STREAM OF SILYERY LIGHT | proceeding from the horizon fala upon them. Ip the water painting the artist has been very saccess- Tul just were the boatinen are laying down the neta and has excetiently rendered the motton of the Waves as well a) the trausparent properues of the water. A ¢ gray sky, with here and there specks of the elerual blue of the upper regions har. monizes with tae quel scene, and the waite aad gray clouds that VLOAT IN BROKEN MASSES seemed charged with light showers, but have not as mate up their minds whether or aot th shall weep down [ertilizing tears. The cloud paint. ing, though wanting in form, conveys to the miod the idea of a reai sky, aud looking at tmis picture we feel that there 1s sach a thing as an atmosphere, though in this respect the work might have been improved. The tone of the “lishing seene’’ is quite refreshing, and confirms us in our already ex~ psessed opinion, that Mr. De Haas caa paint well if only he Will take sunicteat trouble. ACKOSS TH SKY FOREIGN PERSONAL GOSSIP. General Ignatieff, the Russian Minister at Con stanunople, has left his post for St. Petersburg. —~—Genera Sickles, Untted States Minister to Madrid, 1s at presents 1 Paris, on & short leave of absence, —tThe letter of the Empress Eugénte, which first appeared in the HERALD, was addressed to the Duch- ess de Mouchy. ——Count Antonelll, brother of the Cardinal, passed through Paris on his way to London, where he arrived a few days ago, Antonelli whose arrival at Vlorence has a flutver among newspapers 1s only the Juvher of His Eminence the Cardinal. ——General Fatdherbe has been sent by the Frenen government to Switzertand to stady the military organization of that country. ‘The King and Queen of Denmark will accom. thelr son—the King of Greece—on his return to Athens, and spend the winter there. yé Queen of the Belgians arrived at Pesth, ngary, OM August. She was received by the Archduke Joseph and the Governor of the elty, ——M. Thiers, It ts confidently asserted, contem- plates a visit to Prince Bismarck at an early day. ‘The precise object of the coming interview does not appear, ——Madame la Maréchale Bazatne, It ts stated, went to Brussels to ask an audience of the Count de Chambord, aud after tfree attempts and as many disuinct refusals gave up the attempt. Jeneral Cordova, the new Spanish Minister for suid Co be busily engaged ta the equipment of a body of 5,000 men, Who are to be sent out against tae Insurgents in Cube a3 soon as possible, ——Count Hray’s post in the Bavarian Ministry ta still gafilled, and (he lain.stertal orists shows no ol avacement. The coutest between the Ill is and the ullramontanes in Bavaria is daily growing herveer. ——The Prince of the Asturias, son of Queen Isa. bella, Was lately betrotied to Mercedes, daughter of the Duke de Montpeaster, at tie chateau of Mon- desne, la Fray a the presence of Queen Isabella Queen Caristina of Spati. ——The Buron de Kuveck, Avstrian Mintster to Florence, in order to avoid going to‘Rome has asked: vo be ved and appointed vo another post. His successor at Florence will be, ti is said, Count Wouzihnm, of Saxon origin and a Protestant, who formerly represented Austria al Brussels. ——The Archbishops who buve petitioned the As sembly, in their own name and that of their suffra- guns, on bekall of tue Pope, are nine tn number— namely, Tours, Toulouse, Attch, Chambery, Rennes, Sens, AIX, Bourges aud bordeaux. The Archbishops of Reims and Avigaon bave addressed themselves privately to M, Thiers ——King Victor Fmmoenuel is now on a sporting excursion m the mountains of Aosta, He has eveo | gone beyond Vaisavarancne to chase the wild \ He and his followers are eucamped tn tents in high regions. ‘The royal parvy, Says the /tatia, bas been exposed to the severest cold, and contd enjoy, ja the midaic of July, Ue speetacle of a heavy snow storm. The King has Killed quite @ pamber of animals. ——M. Pouyer Quertier, states the Prange, has miade arrangements with the Bank of France for the payment ofa tied dve hundred miilions to Prussia. This would iamediately relieve tie departments of the Oise, Setne eb Oise, Seine et Marne, Seine and he forts around Paris from Prassian occupation, vacation Of the above places will be entirely eiected vy about Aagust 26. The German trooj pow in those departments wil! be concentrated in ne portions of Aisace and Loraiue retained by France. ‘ ma Couremenos, the famous Greek brig. | and, notorious for bis uamberless crimes, committed both in Turkey and in Greece, was some time age apprehenied by ihe dellenic antiorines at Vonitza. When brought before a Cour d’Assises ail the charges were clearly established agatast Bim, dat the jury returned a verdict of acquittal, on the ground that the criines tus man committed in e Were explated vy a meritorious act of his in ‘hat of siaying Uiree Mussulmans at Poli m Crete. The Heilente authorities, Indig- ui at the monstrous Induigegce thus shown Cosma Qouremenos, ve refused to set him at Lb. Intend st itag ulm to suother trial upon other charges, eens OF CAVADIAN GIANTS. Piiding of Lovt Citiv: A most stagular “find” was that ty Canada West, last Wednesday, digging on the farm of Daniel Fredeaburg, in that towosnip, the workmen found, about five feet below the surface, in Cay | apitiled wih gigantic human skeletons, judged to be at least two hundred in number. tons are those of mon of gigantic stature, some of them measuring nine fect, very few of them mea- suring less than seven Some of the thigh | bones were found to be at least half a foot longer Wan ‘hose at present know, aud one of the sknils, being examined, compictely covered the head of an ordivary person, ney were piled in regular layers, euch sxeleton having @ string of beads around the neck and some of them laving pipes of stone In their jaw A number of stone axes and other tin Piements of the same Material were found tn thie charnei house. A correspondent of tne Toronta Twegraph thinks that the site of tne farm where the remains were found was (he slte of a iost city, He saysi— At various times within the past year the remains of mud houses with their chimneys bad been found; nd there are dozens of pits of a similar kind to that Just unearthe gh much smaller, im the place Which has been discovered before, though the fact has not been inade public hitherto, The remains of ckemith's § containing two tons of charcoal and various re turned months ago. has been cul Fy covered with # thick growth of pme, 80 chat 1t must have been ages ag Lue remains were deposited there. The letons are of an enor+ mous size and of ai manner of shapes, about pall The skele. a@s large again as are now to be se Toe teeth in most of (hem are sui in an almost perfeot state of preservatic though they s00n Uh out when expose there is gold o1 D ate, Lt ts supposed that siiver tn larve quantities to be found in the premises, a8 mineral rods have invariably, When best poited to @ Certain spot, and afew yards from Where the last batch of these skelevoas were found, directiy uoder the apple tree, Some large shells, Supposed ty have been ased for holdin water, Which Were alsa found in the pit, were ale fost petrified. There ts no doubt that were there ascheme of exploration carried on thoronghiy the resuli would be highly interesting. A good deal of excitement e@Xist# in the neighbornoon, and many visitors call at the farm daily. ‘The skulls and bones of the giant fast disappearmy, being taken away by curiosity hunters, It ia the inten ton of Mr. Fredenburg to cover the pit up very soon. ‘The pit is ghastly in the extreme. The farm is skirted on tac Borta by the Grand River, ‘The pit is Close to the banks, but marks are there t¢ show where the gold or silver treasure Is supposed: From the appearance of the skulls it would seem that their possessors died a violent death, as many of them were broken and dented, Thea are shaped like tomahawks—small, bat keen instruments, ‘Tb ady are ail of stone ai Of ail sizes and snape Tos pipes are pot unllie in Shape the culty pipe, aud several of them are en gravea with dogs’ heads. Toey have not lost their Virtue for smokin, Some people profess to be- lieve that the locality of Fredenourg farm was for- merly an Indiaw burtal place, but the enormous Statue of the skelctoas and the fact tac piae trees ol centuries’ growl Covered the spot go far to dis | prove this idea, DeatH OF AN OLD SOLDIBR.—Richard Brazier, aged seventy-cight, died in this elty on Wednesday just at eleven P. M, Mr. Brazier enlisted in the British army in 1809, serving in vue same ten years, being 10 the command both of Moore and Welling: ton, and travelling exveasiveiy in Spain and Portu: gal while @ svidier, He (took part in a number of vaties, the mos: prominent of which were Vittoria, Salamanca, Louleuse, ‘mpetuns and Waterloo, Hie enlisted in the Mormou battalion in 1846, and with them took part tn the Mexican war. On the 16th of July, 1847, ne received an honorable dix charge trom the United States Army, soon alter obtaining a pension from the government, whict he enjoyed in this Territory for more than twenty vears,—Salt Lake Pribane Amaiast Wy .