The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1872, Page 5

CONGRESS.| The Amnesty Bill a Special Or- der for Monday. A Deity Aceording to the Constitution. CHICAGO'S RELIEF MICHIGAN'S INJURY. Hoar, of Massachusetts, on the Demo- cratic Party and Ignorance. The Ku Kiux and Their Abashed Counsel. THE APPROPRIATIONS PROGRESSING SENATE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 1872. Mr, SAWYER, (rep.) of 8. C., presented the resolution of the Legislature of South Carelina instructing their Senators to vote for'the Supplementary Civil Kights bill, and said that ‘be was, of course, in favor of the bill, | Mr, FRELINGHUYSEN, (rep) of N. J., presented a petition tm reference to the duty op cast steel, and spoke briefly ‘egalwat avy reduction of the duty at present, ROBESPIERRE AT HARVARD. ‘Mr. SUMNER, (rep.) of Mass., presented the petition of the @ivinity school of Harvard asking Congress to dismiss all petition for # constitutional amendment recognizing God. Mr. HARLAN, (rep.) of lowa, presented the memorial of she-Choctaw Indians protesting against the estabiishment of ® Territorial covernment in the Indian ‘Terriory. ‘Mr, EDMUNDS, (rep,) of Vt., from the Committee on Pen- fons, reported adversely on several bills to increase pen- A 8AN YRANCIB0O PARK. Mr, WIL80N, (rep.) of Maas,, from the Committee on Milt- tary Afiairs, reported a bill to lease a portion of the Premdio ‘Reservation to San Francisco for a public park. Mr, BOREMAN, (rep.) of W. Va., asked how much land was ‘Deased by the bili. ‘Mr. COLE, (rep.) of Cal. said about sixteen hundred acres, Mr. COLE’ uaked for the immediate consideration of the Dill, but Mr. HAMILTON, s objected, 8 ‘PORTED, Billa were reported favorably as follows By Mr. CONKLING, (rep. |. Y., from the Committee on Commerce, for the preservation of the harbors of the United States [rom encroachment, and constivuuing the Chief of FE gineers, the Chet of the Bureau of Navigation and the Supe tendent Of the Const Survey a board for that purpose, and en(ore the necessary regulations, ANB AND MEXIOAN MAIL, By Mr. KELLOGG, (tep. ) of La. from the same committee, authorizing the Postmaster General Lo contract with Amel can citizens, on the vest attalnable terms, for a semi- monthly mail service between New Orleans ani ports in Mexico and Havana. Within eighteen months at least three first fron steamships are to be built o¢ 1,500 tons burden it for the verviee. NAVAL OFFICERS’ PAY. Mr. Cragin, from the Committee on Naval Affatrs, re- adversely on Mr. Scott's bill regulating the pay of com- manding oflicers of the navy. LILLS INTRODUCED. Bills were introduced and revered as follows:— By Mr. HAMLAN—Conurming the sales of Shawnee lands 4m Kaugas, under the direction and with the approval of the Beoretary of the Iutertor. By Mr. Ferry, (rep.) of Mich.—Providing additional terms of the United State Couria for Michigan, and for other urposes, Pigy Mr. CHANDLER, (rep.) of Mich —Providing United Staiee Courts for the upper peninsula of Michigan. By Mr. RAMSAY, (rep.) of Maiue—For the disposing of ‘that portion of Fort Ripiey reservation east of the Mississippi River, ‘Mr, SAWYER entered a motion to reconsider tho vote by which the Chicago Rehef bill was passed yesterday, Mi, WRIGHT, (rep.) of Iowa, introduced a bill In reference to certain swamp lauds in Iowa, and asked for immediate Consideration, but Alr. Lamunds opjected, SLAVE TRADE IN TUE SOUTH BEA ISLANDS, Mr. Wit80N introduced a oll to prohibit the deportation of natives of the South Sea fslands vy citizens ui the United Btates, He sald that within a very brief period a slave trade ‘with those islands had sprung up; that our own people bad engaged in the borribie traulc; thatthe attention of the Eng- AuU-mavery socleties had been directed to it, and that be would call up this niil at an early day and urge its passage. GUICAGO V8, MICHIGAN, Mr. LOGAN, (rep.) of IIl., moved the immediate considera- oo of Mr. Sawyor's motion to recousider tue vote oy which the Chicago Rehet vill was passed yesterday. Mr. CHANDLER sald he had asked Mr. Sawyer to make the motion because the passage of tae bill would doa great in- jury to some of his conatituents—the Michigan Inmber mer. chants—anu he believed when the Senate tully unaeratood lie facts it would not conirm yesterday's your, Le sald he bad received numerous protests azainat the bill, and he read @ leter which described it as aswindie and a Traud perpe- trated by the free traders, und a from & Michigan per calling It “a scheme con d » He was willing to vote for u: but be hoped the Senate never woul Fuined lumbermen of Michigan and Wisconsin for the beneut Df Uhteago. Mr. ScovT, (rep.) ot Pa., read a letter denouncing the bili an special lecislation tor the benelit of a few individuals, and flenying that it would be of any beneit whatever to the workingmen or aby men except a few speculators. He favored the reconsideration of the vote for these reasons, because reiection bad convinced him that the bil fax clearly upeonstituuonal. He was willing to vote tor an appropriation to the relief of the sullerers it it was neces- eury, but not for tis bill. Mir, LOGAN said the plan of relteving Chicago by an appro- priation of money was impracticable, and is re- et that all the Senators Who oppos are of reilet for bis constituents were upon the same aide 10 politics with bimseit, He appealed to the Senate not to reconsider the mm.) oF Md. with authority to mal NEW = sole. Pending the discussion, Mr, ROBERTSON, (rep.) of S.C. palied tor the regular order, THE AMNEATY Itt. Mr. LOGAN asked to bave it temporarily Mr, HILL, (rep.) ol Ga, said he now telt Jerest in the Amnesty bill, bec” use there w: the Supreme Bench of Georgi, and the ¢ lously awaiting the passage of this bili, whic some of the ablest jurists in the State ‘and gi ice in filling the vacas 1 Ampesiy vill was ken up, and Mr. MORRILL, rep.) of Me., addressed the Senate wt length in favor of tne il] and in opposition to Mr, Suinner’s amendment. Mr. MORRLULL coatinued—He said that, the government having prosecuted the war upon a principle which assumed the absolute politcal disability of 12,00 the absolute overthrow of the legitimate States, the very first atep in the process of reconstruction wi essariiy amnesty, in order to qualify thy: rt in the reorganized governments. Thi 4 tion made amnesty a great civil, moral necessity at the eud of the war, aud m cordance with that principle the question of general amnesty bad been st ago Bet id. The question now belore the Senate was it would pass # bill granting amnesty NOT QUITE UNIVERSAL Dut so veariy 0 as to put au end to special legislation on the ae? He wag convinead that it would be wise t> pass this it}, He had been brougut to that conviction by the Presi dent's recommendation, by the recommendation of the Ku Kiux Committee and by bis own judgment. As to the ‘amendment proposed by Mr, Sumner, he was d to its adoption, but be believed that it ner wher been entertained as an amendment to this bil —first, iuge It involved a different rule of legislation, requiring doly a majority, and xecond, because aitnoush ft in tery delicate consi{tutional questions it had not beer red by a committee, jut there was aatill more conclusive reason why {t ought to be Jected—it was unconsuwuuonal. Tbe senator (Mr, Sumner) tad invoked the Declaration of Independence and many high @nsiverations in favor of his bill, but he had faliea to point n of the constitution which would Congreas to pas Avice was authorized by the constitution it was id Mm dl wke the memory of the great deeds of other Um or the ebetr'ne of eqnal rights ax a jimiltication fortt, The senator hud attempted to place thia bli upoo the same ground with the Civil kights bit!, but there was really no analogy betwee: bem. The constitutional amendment upon which tle Senato attempted to base the bill did not assert anything; it was simply a zrand negation. Buttots bill itself was an assertion bf the equal civik political and social rights of all men, in hotels, churches, schools, theatres aud everywhere. ‘This was all wel, and he hoped the day would come when we should be ail 8o thoroughly imbued with the principles of justice, humanity and Curistianity as to take all men, with. ‘ut distinction of color, to our fresides and bosoms: but jertainly it was not within the province of Congress to en- Wwree thera by direct berg eae Mr. MORRILL criticised In detall the provisions Mr. | fumoer’s bill, and argued that Congress bad no power to ‘act them into law except #0 far as they applied to com- noo carriers, and be warned the Senate against disrexardin, institutional line of separation vetween the federal an; Mr. FLANAGAN, (ep.) 0. Texas, followed. He was in fiver of an amoeaty bill and also of the amendments; put tere were men at the South (or whose retiet he would not ferson Davis, tor instance. ‘Tuere were also other his own State, all democrats, who were condi badly, to prove which he sent several to the desk to be reau. On the o! Daud, there was one mau who bad been a meinber of @ecossinn convention, for whoxe relief he would ask after epassage of this till, He criticised Horace Greeley for 1g vail for Mr. Davis, enlogized Henry Clay and General $rdkaoo, and aunounced bis own beliet in the good old doc- {ire Wal Americans shonid rule Ainerica, Ay. KOBERTBON sald he would axree to postpone the Am- nesy bill Lil Monday at one o'clock. Mr. Davis, (dem) of Ky., warned bim against agreeing to 4 postponement at all if be wished to have it passed, andeatd Loat the enemies of the bili would ure the postpone: Met as & means of defeating the bill, Fiyally the Amnesty iil was postponed and made a spe- der for Monday at one o'cioca, the inal vore not to ve until Tuesday. ‘Tht resolution to Adjourn to Monday was lost, | Thy Appropriation bill wae taken up, and then, at a quarter past ions, the Senate went into-executive sevsion, aud soon after adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE Wasuinaton, Jan, 25, 1872, Mr. Bnooxe, (dem.) of N. ¥., presented a petition of the ‘umbrtlla manufacturers in New York, stating that they have from eighty to eignty-tive per cent duty on alpaca im- Porto! for umbrellas, while on imported umbrellas the duty $ batiifty per cent. They ask for ap equalization of the tax on both umbrellas and alpaca, Mr. STRVRNS, (rep.) of Ohto, presented a petition of 217 soudien, praying for an equalization of bouniies and the Mebt 4 homesteads without the previous term of setiiement and cdivation, Mr, CLARKE, (rep,) of N. Yu, presented a petition of the importers abd dealers in sugar to favor of Voitorw rate of duty; aleo a petition of the manulactui and aeviers in tobacco iu favor ot @ uniiorm tax of sixteen ents pr pound, Th THE PUDLIO LANDS AB RDUOATORS, end ¢ Honee took up the bilo estabiieh an educational fund \ Apply the proceeds of the pubite lands to the educa- fom of fhe people. 4. HOAR, (rep.) of Mags,, addressed the House sn support of the the he Feplied to the obarger usually made aganist ious party tu reference fo ite. Ie ve ‘objection: democtie varty. I tbat party bad the ree war power reserved 10 the governinent in (he stitution would Dever have been called into requisition, be demicratic party kept the peace jn the Southern s be Ku Wus ieeialation ot last gear would Hot have been shed, ai BO ROW. IT the démvcrane party 19 the South ; Wan Women NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET, whi THibee party, there were only twents-tiros Sat of sineny-one counties that had any schools, although there was a school system in the State. State to- ere could be found in that day county afer county in whieh THERR HAD NOT BEEN A CILILD AT SCHOOL for twelve tonths, and in which there would uot be a child for the next twel in sa7t0, there were, Ol 740, 1,846 white persons over ten years of age WhO could read or write. Adding to that number thirty per cent for ile profesring ability to read au ais . see mega bi nd bey pred than one-third of e entire native white ion of Kentucky were prac- theally iterate, gr Nive Mr, BEOK, (dem.) of Ky.—Where did you get that report ? Mr, HoaR—From the census. al Mr. BkoK—Taken by {cliows who tried to make it as bad ‘as possible; and let me tell the gentieman that nearly every one of those men in Kentucky who cannot read or write understand the practice of the constitution better than the wentleman from Massachusetts, ‘Mr. HOAR went on to say that the State ot Kentucky had tarned out of office within a year {1s Jemocratic Superin- tendent of Schools simply because his heart had been too great for his democracy, and he had urged measures of re- Vet ; and yet the gentleman from that State (Mr. Beck) bad sponse the other day about a few miliiou dollars of debt in the Southern States, Referring to the census statistics Mr. Hoar showed that in the United States at large there were’ five muilion six hundred and sixty thousand persons over ten years of age unable to read and write; that hgure had to be ‘compared with twenty-seven millions, the whole number of persons over ten years of age; and, adding to it the thirty cent for the reason he had already given, it appeared that over one-fourth of the population was practically iiite- Tate. As: to Massachusetts, which the gentieman from Iuimois (Mr. McNeely) had criticised inst session for an mcreased entage of illiteracy, the last census showed that the liliteracy of native born children was practi- cally unknown. In the small State of Delaware there were 8,811 white native illiterates, and 1m Kentucky, North Caro- Jina and some other Southern States the matter was still worse, He made these statements not as a matter of boast- ing or of taunt. He did not wish to say that there was in any American State utter ignorance or vice. He therefore appealed to yentlemen whose States were unfortunate in ‘that respect to look these facta in the face and to joi in the attempt to remedy the evil, Mir. Buncnann,(rep.) of Tl, spoke, tn, support of the bill generally, though he favored some modifications of it, SOUTHERN OUTRAGES. Mr. POLAND, (rep.) of Vt, rose to report from the Joint Committee on Southern Outrages a resolution, as a substitute for two resolutions referred to it on motion of Mewsrs. and Stevenson (these latter were calling for information as to the States of Carolina and Kentucky). Mr, Bok the parhamentary point that a majority of the House members of the joint committee having voted against the resolution 1. could not be reported to the ‘Mr. POLAND explained that whatever may have been the Preliminary votes on the resolutions ot Messrs, Ixeck and tevenson there was no division at all on the question of or- dering the report to be ‘The SPEAKKR, after frat sustaining the point made by Mr. Beck, reversed that rating after the explanation was made by Mr. Poland. He, therefore, ruled that the report was properiy vefore the House, ‘The report was recommends the adoption of a resolution calling on the President tor {nformation on which he acted in exercising inthe State of South Carolina the were conterred upon him in the act of April 20, 1871—the ‘a Klux act—with the names of the persons arrested and Imprisone, with ull the particulars ; also such other informa. tion as will conve} correct idea of the state of society and the security of lite and property in that State and in Caroiina, particularly as to the “Lowry gang;” Kentucky, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, incluaing the recent legislative conflict there, Mr. BECK offered a ‘substitute confining the information aske'i to the State of South Carolina, masmuch as that was the only State where martial law existed, and as it would re- quire months to give ali the intormation required in the origi- bal resolution. He ulluaed to the fact that many persons wo had been arrested in Souta Carolina had been discharged by the army oficers arresting them on the payment of money; in fact, they had been blackmailed, and he referred as his autbority-for the statement to a letter which appeared in the NEW YORK HERALD of the 15th Novemver—a care/ully written letter—giving the namey of the oflicers and challeug- made. ing denial. Mr. STEVENSON on) Mr, Beck's substitute, first, Decause ft contain ‘Matement that was not trac law suspended civil law; and if that had been saspended the Tecent trials in Columbia, 8. C., would not have been held, wuere two of the ablest lawyers in the jand were feed largely to defend the Ku Klux wretches and actually left the court room in e. For his own part he shouid bave had no ob- Jeotion to see hundreds or thousands of the Ku Klux wretches ried by drumhead court murtial and swinging to the highest trees, Mr. VAN TRUNP, (dem.) of Obio, questioned the state- ment as to couusel for the Ku Klux prisoners having been driven out of court by shame at the developments made, Mr. SYEVENSON replied that one of them, Mr. Stancerry, of Ohio, left tue Court House wiilie one of his clients was on trial, because he was sickened by the facts aeveloped ; and the other, Mr. Reverdy Jonnson, left Columbia waile the cases were still on, Mr. VAN TRUMP said that Mr. Stanberry had left only when his duty—that of arguing the law points—was per- formed. Mr. MAYNARD, (rep.) of Tenn., asked Mr. Van Trump if he said that Mir, Stunberry was not ashamed of the develoy- ments. Mr. VAN Trump did not know anything about that, but he knew he had not deserted his clients, Mr. STEVENSON would Undertake to say that Mr. Stan- berry was ashamed, and must have been ashained, and that Af he were not every triend of his would be ashamed of him. ‘After (urther discussion Mr. beck’s substituce was rejected, and Mr. Poland's resolation was adopted. THE NAVAL APPROVRIATION. Mr, HALF, (rep.) of Maine, (rom the Committee on Appro- priations, reported the Naval Appropriation oill, which was made the specia: order for Tuesday next. ‘fhe bill appro- prvates 817,948,347, ‘The House the: Committee of th GENERAL, LEGISLATIVE APPROPLLATION Inreference to an item for the punishment of frauds in tne Pension Oulice, Mr, GARFIELD, (rep.) of Ohio, stated that the Committeo yesterday by tie sve- of Ways and Means bad been assy retary of the Interior that tuily one-fourth of the pensious now paid were (rauds. He had been so startled by such extraordinary statement that be had written down the wore ai the me, and tie Commissioner of Pensions, who was present at the tne, conlirmen the statement, Messrs, BUTLER, (rep.) of Mags, and HALE, of Maive, made remarks conlirmatory of the st: er ailuding particularity to a bateh of wv or 5 York—upplications for pensions for the war of I were all tound to be fraudiwent, gotten up by claim some of whom had been arrested, tried and convicted, winis others bad fled to Canada, ‘Atter progressing with the bill as*far as the forty-second page the comunittee rose. DEAF AND DUMD REGENTS, ‘Tne SPEAKER appointed Messrs, Dawes and Brooks, of New York, regents of the Deas and Dumb Institution at Washington ‘Ihe House, at four o'clock, adjourned, TRE WORKING WOMEN, They Mean to Heéress Their Wrongs By the Ballot—Enthusiastic Woman's sSuidrage Meeting. A meeting of the New York Women Suffrage Association was heid last evening at «asonic Hall, ‘There was a moderate audience in attendance and @ good eal of enthusiasm was shown as the speak- ers gave their views of public affairs and men and women, ‘he men especially suffered at the hands of the air orators; but such masculines as were in the hall seemed to think the scourging that their sex recetved an excellent joe, Mrs. BLAKe opened the meeting with asnort and pointed speech, showing the disab.lities that women live under whule without the ballot. Miss JENNIE COLLINS, of Boston, followed tn sharp criticism upon society as it relates to the working women, She did not consider it policy to send women to the West to be the wives of semt-bar- barians, The producers should not be sent, and the Worthless, helpless women are not fit to be wives and mothers. She pictured the lot of the factory girl with vividness and pathos, and asserted that the ballot was the only redress, Why don’t women go to good homes in the country? Because these homes are ouly homes lor the body. The sewing girl can go to her attic when her work 4s done and her retreat 1s sacred from the bell of the mistress, As to the charge of extravagance, who sets the, example of extravagance? Women have not individuality now; they are little copies; but when tuey go to the poils inen will have very diferent assqciaics. ‘The Charge ot idleness agatust wouien was disposed of by reierring to the nosts of working girls, Women are irivolous, Here the Speaker showed the arts O1 the tempter of the poor girl, Women suffer from adventurers, who, as soon as a Woman is successtul, TRY Tu MARRY HER fora support. ‘Pe cry for cheap jabor 1s the great corroaing cancer that fils the bouses of iuame. ‘The ladies vt the community rush to the houses where cheap goods are advertised, littie thinking that they ure taking the butter of the poor girl's bread, The meu give money to build churcies aud then go into their lactones ani dock the girls’ Wages, ana this injustice willbe carried on tll Woinen go to tie polls and speak tor themselves. The downward pach of the giri from a country home was pictured Ull sie Was Seen im the police court, t twenty minutes past two, went into ‘Whole, Mx, Wheeler in tue chair, on the TiC and then taken to the Island. In speak» img of Mrs. Fair, Jennie said, “Would ww God that every ibertiue in the city could meet his death vetore to-morrow morning Jim Fisk, she velleved, would Have veen an orna- nent to society if he had associated with strong- minded Women, insteau of te voluptuous and wie beauuiful. Mrs. FRANCES HALLOCK told the brethren that, in Weir eyes, a Woman 18 Of LmMportance or non-Lun: portance in proporiion as sne is userui or not to a have veen scared by men iong enough. 1f women have courage they wil! fad that | ther king is no beer than ihe jog that Jupiter threw down to the irogs. Men wall uever give women the balot til it 1s tor their interest and self-preservation. Instead of letuag men go tu Aibany alone Lo get into miscluel, Women should go With them and Watcn then, Hallock asserted that women are se proper iegisiators. Women shoud co-operate and es.adiish banks, and study and find ont what thet postion is. ‘The public good is enurely igeored by men. Nige-tenpis of the legis: jation 1s special legisiaion. Love is to turn the beast into the prince, according to the old nursery story. The trouble m Us sick World is that 1 is passing oif for Jove a very spurious coin, = Rev. J. H. Vincent, D. D., addressed last evening the Might College for Christian Workers in the Sun- day schoo! house of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Madison avenue, corner of Forty-second street, The subject of the jecture was “Tbe Plan and Purpose of tue Sunday School.” THE WARRIOR'S. BURIAL. The Remains of Major General Henry W. Halleck Given to Earth. The Last Sacred Ceremony at Greenwood—His Friends and Fellow Officers at the Open Grave—No Military Honors to the Dead—A Quiet Scene. Greenwood yesterday looked bleak and sad. Naked trees and frozen mounds, paths and glades, with the cold monuments scattered on every hand, made the scene fitting in charactera city of the dead, 1f whatis drear and melancnoly should ever be associated with those who have departed this life. THE LAST RESTING PLACE, Near the eastern boundary of the cemetery is the last resting place of the lave Major General Henry W. Halleck. The freshly made grave is situated be- side one of the footways, wicno. is fancifully called the “Aspen Path,” ina plot of ground recently pure chased by the family of the deceased. This portion of the cemetery ts not so thickly flied with tombs as the rest, and the trees and shrdbbery are not of very old growth. There are many maples and oaks, ARRIVAL OF THE REMAINS, The remains of General Halleck arrived yester- day morning from Cincinnati at Jersey City by the seven o'clock train, They were contained in an outer box of rough wood, which was labelied in large letters “The Remains of Major General H. W. Halleck.” Tuey were taken directly © Greenwood ana placed in the mortuary vault for the few hours that were to elapse before the final consignment to the earth, MRS. HALLECK. Mrs. Genera) Halleck came on the same train and Grove from the depot in a coach to the residence of her father, in West Twentieth street. Here the triends gathered before tweive o’ciock, and at that hour, taking carriages, they started for Greenwood, THR FUNERAL PROCKSSION. ‘The procession arrived at the Court street en- trance of the cemetery at one o’clock, where 1t Waited for a short time, until the coilln, witn its gad contents, had been placed in the hearse. The cortége consisted of twetve coaches. Those which followed close after the hearse were occupied by the mempers of .the family, Mr. Hamilton, Sr.; his Oaughter, Mrs. General Halleck; her two brothers, ner son, Master Aleck, and several other relatives, The other carriages contaimed the officers of the army who had come to pay the last tribute of the Kkinared regard which soldiers feel to their dead comrade, ‘ithe procession drove at a trotting pace through the winding roads, past the monuments, vaults and tombstones, tor about two miles, At length we grave was reached. The carriages stopped silently, and vie mourners stepped out and stood waiting while the coin was slowly borne to the side of the narrew berth that had been dug in the ground. AT THE GRAVE. The relatives then advanced and stood near the heap of iresa soul that had been thrown up. The olliciating clergyman, Who also performed the fune- Tal services at Louisville, the Key, Dr. Wyatt, stood at the head of the grave, wearing the solemn biack robes of nis office With a white scarf. He 1s the munister of the Unurch of the Holy Commuaton, in Catifornia, at which General Halleck used to attena when hiving on the Pacific Slope. Every head was uncuvered as the cola was placed on the siender bars of wood that were laid across te gaping mouth of the grave, Across of white flowers lay upon the lid, placed there by THE DEAD SOLDIER'S COMRADES. On the farther side stood Major General Mc- Dowell, 10 uuiform, and, near Mr. Hamilton, the venerayle Major General Casey, of the Mexican war, Whose head has grown white a8 snow 1n the service of his country, to Whose military he has given a val- uapie system of tactics, ‘he other officers present were brevet Major General J. B, Fry, General Jef- ferson C, Davis, General Baruard, General James b, ‘troy, Generat Cullum, Colonel J. Mac. L, Laylor, Colouel Robert N. Scott, Colonel S. C. Lyford, Mas- ter Alecg Halleck stood py ine side of his mother, ASHES TO ASHES; DUST TO DUST. After a moment ol sileace the minister began the simple aad beautitui burial service of the Episcopal Chureh of England, with solemn and tender toues, which thriicd through every heart. ‘In the midst of hfe we are in death.’ Then followed the touching prayers, the Gospe! and the Lord’s Prayer, witn the close, “Forasmuch a3 it hath pleased Aimighty God 1a His wise providence to take out Of this worid the soul of our decease brother we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” jhe seXton at the Words sprinkled the bandful of earth Upon we coilla, THE END, “rhe grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God anu the feliowship of the Holy Ghost be with us allevermore. Amen,” Then ue mortal remalas of ove of our great generais were siowly lowered gown ito the grave, and the mourners turned lingeringiy away as the first heavy ciods were tumpbied in upon the cofin by the jour sturdy grave diggers, Who had stepped forward with shovels in their bands and dressed in blue irocks, None Waited to see ine 1ast bits of EARTH PILED UP over the grave, except those who felt no other in- terest in the remnent of humanity they were bury- ing than in hundreds of others vo which tney nud aone the same office, And they worked vigorously, Jor it Was very Cod and the wind swept through te thinly scattered trees with a keen and bituung breath. ‘The carriages were again tilled and deparved, one by one, at a rapid pace, NO MILITARY HONORS. The burial was of tne most quiet character, It Jacked the usual military honors that are paid to 0 wortay a soidier, but was, pernaps, not less impres- sive. Toough no marual dirges accompanied the jJast march and no loud sajutes were fired over the grave, his memory will douptiess not be any tue Jess disunguisied aor bis rest less peaceful. BON VOYAGE, The Excursion of Notables for Hav and , Back. : The departure of the steamer Morro Castle fo Havana was attended with more than usual inter- est yesterday. The crowd on the wharf was very large, and on the steamer itself sufficient w make her sink a foot below her water line. The occasion of such & commotion was the departure for the West Indies of @ very select party of ladies and gentlemen, The steamer lay puffing and blowing at her Wharf as carriage alter carriage rolled up and deposited its toad of humanity and humanity’s bag- gage at the gang plank. A collation was served in the cabin to celebrate the departure, but the Dumber of visitors was so huge that any chance of partaking of 1 was good-naturedly given up by tbe majority. ‘The invited guests for the trip numbered about twenty-five. Among them may be mentioned Wiliam Cullen Bryant, Rev, H. M. Gallaher, of Brooklyn; Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, the wife of the emiuent divine of Plymouth church; Fred P. Church, Nehemlan Perry and family, of Newark; Douglas ‘Taylor, the Tammany Sachem, and wie; Ss. 5. Conant, J. quincy, A. Ward, Joun Laiarge und Fred, 8. Church, the artists; John Durand, the writer, and a number of others. General McClellan ‘Was invited, with his wile, and had accepted the levitation, and wus, of course, expected, but at the Jast moment he sent @ note stating that business reasons prevented him from participating. ‘ine absenve of this weil known personage caused some disappointment in the party, but we event was speedily forgotten in the pleasurable an- Ucipations of the jolly time anead. ‘Ine Key. H. W. Beecher was at tie boat to see ins Wile off, and the parting between the two was long ana affecting, It is we first time that Ma Beecher has veen away Jrom his wife for more tnan a day or so at a ime suice his famous trip vo Englana daring the war, The intention is to be away about a couple of Weeks and come back on ihe retura trip of the Morro Castle, Giving the vessel the usual tinue of ave days there aud five days back, ti wit leave uie excursionists several days In Which to visit (he sights ol Havana and enjoy the sunny climate of the tropics, Going and coming the party will stop at Nassau tour or five hours and visit twat litde town, so Well known in (he annals of blockade running during the war. As the hour of three approached, which was the one tixed upon for the departure, tue sieam biew louder aad louder, the carriages arrived taster amd faster and the crowa grew thicker and thicker, On the lower deck of tne steamer locomouon was Almost impossivie, and yeti band-saaking, kissing and bidding goodby went on as proiuseiy as ua voyage round (he world was mended. There was not much crying inaulged in, however, even among the sofler sex. It was so cold that perhaps the tears froze before they got out. At three precisely the United States mau came up, the bags were \hrown hurriedly on board, the tardy ones rushed down the gang-plank In a@ hurry, haudkerchiets were waved, the Walkiiig-beam gave # premonitory twitch, the paddies obeyed the impuise, three itde cannod gave three diminutive roars, and tne fine ship steamed out into Lie stream aud Was soon just to sight, ANOTHER NEWARK TRAGEDY, singular Suicide of Peter Nenninger. A sad sensation was occasioned in Newark yes- terday by the announcement that Mr. Peter Nennin- ger, @ Well-known and highly respected manulac- turer of that city, nad shot himseif dead at his howe, It appears that om Wednesday uignt he fe eee, Saati en wath aarene his custom. He woke A VIOLENT HEADACHE, and at eight o'ciock his wife heard the report of @ istol. Hastening to his room she found her hus- I—shot through the heart by his own hand. Deceaged was fitty-four years of aze, No one seems to know what moved the unfortunate man to the act. One theory ts that he was troubled about bis financial affatra, these not being in 80 flattering @ state as people supposed, Another 18 that ne was seized with a spasmodic pain of great acuteness, and tn a fit of desperation Killed himself, He was looked up to by his fellow German citizens as one of thelr best men, The deepest sorrow 18 felt at his shocsing fate, His life was insured for $10,000 im the Manhattan Life Insurance Company for his family’s penetit, and $600 for the German Hospital of Newark, NEWARK’S DOOMED. BOTTS’ LAST DAY UPON EARTH. Penitent and Frayerful—He Gives Excellent Ad- vice to a Fellow Prisoner—What He Consid- ers the Angels of the Devil—Preparing a Memento for His Venerable Mother—An Affecting Scene in the Murderer’s Cell. George Botts, who murdered General Oliver 8. Halstead, familiarly known as ‘Pet,’ in the city of Newark, N. J., on the 2d day of July, 1871, ip the house of @ harlot of that city—a creature known as Mrs. Wuson—while poisoned with liquor and jeal- ousy, will to-day, in all human probability, between the hours of eleven and twetve o’clock, expiate his crime on the gallows, As stated in yesterday's HERALD, he received the news of Governor Parker’s refusal to interfere with his sen- tence with a degree of composure which ily concealed the real effect of the dread uidingsy He even tried to say that he expected as much. He thanked Rev. Mr. Siegfried, his spiritual adviser, for assuring him of the fact, for while the least spark of hope remained life was sweet. He spoke * feelingly of his desire to be FULLY PREPARED TO MEET HIS MAKER, and joined his reverend visitor in prayer. During Wednesday night he was visited by a Mr. Fionell and “Dr. Leighton,” a fellow prisoner, who Das throughout been Botts’ warmest friend and companion. ‘Leighton’ is undergoing sentence lor some trifing crime. He 1s said to be a doctor, and 1s undoubtedly a man of education and talent. He 1s Botts’ biographer. He declined to re- veal his identity to the Court when sentenced. AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE was that of Floneil, Leignton and Botts falling on their knees tn the cell and offering together a fervent prayer. Botts was greatly aifected and could not Teirain from bursting into tears, After Fionell left Botts entered into conversation with Leighton and again turned back to the trial, charging his lawyers and the Court with dealing untairly by nim. He earnestly cauuoned his companion to avoid intoxicating liquors aad he biandishments of immorality, for they were, he said, the agents of the devil and will ruin any man who be- comes a slave to them. He then desired the Doctor to write an inscription In a book whicb was given to him some time since by a friend, entitied “Thoughts for Wearv Hours,’ as he wished to have the book given to his mother as a memento of him, ‘The following 1s the inseriptuon:— DEAR, KIND, Loving MoTHER—Accept this little volume, which has cheered me in many a weary hour. It may serve to make light your burden on the way to heaven. it be of us much beneLt to you as it has been to me, and may we both meet cach other ut the feet of Jesus, Your affectionate son, GEORGE, He said he was willing to die and had no desire to have his life prolonged on earth. He siept but littie durmg Wednesday night, being restiess from chills, Early yesterday he arose, and at half-past eight o’clock ate a light breakfast, Soon after. wards he received a letter from some sympathetic young damsel expressing sympathy and religious condolence with bim. During the day he was closely attended by Rev, Mr. Slegiried and Rev. Mr. Hughes, Mr. Siegfmed last evening assured a HERALD representative that Botts was more HOPEFUL OF BEING FORGIVEN all his sins then than ut any time previous. There “48 great auaking io certain respectable quarters in Newark over LEIGHTON’S BIOGRAPHY OF BOTTS. which 18 to be printed Jor the benefit of Botts’ brother John, who has spent nearly every dollar he possessed 1 his eijoris to save the duvomed man’s heck, ‘nis biography 1s said to contain a iist of the names of the parues Who Irequented the places kept by the woman Wilson. ‘These names, iorty-1our 1a all, mcinde those of five lawyers, Gne doctor, three liquor dealers, One detective, two hat dealers, some broad sireet dry goods merchants, Jewellers, drug- gists, several public oficiais and thé names of pve single aid married Women. Strenuons efforts have been made by several of the parties to prevent the pubdlicauion of ther names, One party ogered Leighton ®& round some of money to erase lis name, and another said he would make up a good thing for him for a similar service. He was solemnity pledged, however, to do notuing of the sort. AVPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS to witness the execution have been made to the number of tens of thousands. Sherif Peckweli has led the iife of a dog for days past witn button. holers for passes, If he had given them ail a pass Military Park would be none too large to held thei, ‘The services of the military will be dispensed wita on this occasion, and A GUARD OF POLICE will be substituted instead. it will consist of eighty men, and will be in command of Lieuenants of Police Kirwan and Partenfelder, Yesterday after. noon aad evening THE PRESSGANG irom New York, Puiladelpima and other points poured in and flooded the jail, despite the fact that smal'pox has still an abiding place there. An inci dent in copnection with the representative of the “aver Frankiin’s’’ two-cent twinkling vis-d-vis 18 worth printing. The energetic geat wanted to get all the news—all the facts, He was eager for an imerview with somebody when he couldu’t get one with Botts. An okt tady had just come from Botts’ cell, She had been giving him =the benefit of her best advice, “Looking unto Jesus.” For her this twopenny twinkler man satled at once, and be chuckled over the prospective ports he anucipated veimng let into. He spent some time with the old jady, but soon found that instead of her being snter- viewed it Was lim, It was in vain that de tried to get away irom her. She fee to nim with the tenacity of @ revivalist, and insisted on his hearing her good advice on the soul-saving subject hearest her heart. To do him jusuce he bore up With & most commendavie degree of Christian Tesignation. He will oe cautious hereafter about iterviewing elderly personages of tue genie gender, LAST NIGHT Rev. Mr. Siegiord and Milleunium Flavell kept the doomed man company. Avout the jail the deepest silence was observed by Botts’ feilow prisoners, who seemed thoroughly impcessed with the dread character of the scene to be enacted to-day. THE GALLOWS Was erected last night in the northwest corner of tue Main hall of the jai. Tne names of the persous executed on tils gallows are as follows:—James Low, for the murder of Isaac Winans, at Rah- Way, executed Seplemver 14, 1812, James Be Burnett, Sueriff; Jonn Erpenstein, at Newark, for the murder of bis wiie, executed March 30, 1862, William Pierson, Sheritt; James McManon, at New- ark, ior toe murder of tus sister-in-law, exe cuted January 12, Isd¥, KE. Maller, Sher- iff; Patrick Maud, at Newark,’ for the mar. Ger Ot His sister, executed January 12, 1860, BE. N, Miller, sheriff; Chaiies Lewis, for the murder of James Rowland, at Princeton, executed Aprii 3, 1s63, Rovert L. Mutchinsys, Sheri; Morris Els- Worth (negro), at Newark, lor the murder of nis Wile, executed January 10, 1566, F. W. Ricord, Sherif; W. Grady, at Bilzaveth, for the murder of Fergus Collins, executed April 11, 1866, N. Bonnell, Suerit; James Gleanim, at Lizabeth, for the murder of ais Wile, executed April 26, 1566, N. Bonueil, Sherif; syivester U. Miller (negro), at blizabeth, ior tue murder of George Furman, executed November 14, 1867, Edgar Pierson, Snerin; Thomas Welsch, at Newark, jor ie murder o¢ Patrick Torney, executed Jaunary 2, 1868, Wm. Busi, Sheriff Behall of What Will They vo with Him? ‘The case of I. ¥. W. Buckhout, the Sleepy Hollow Another Effort in Buckhout— murderer, Who has been thrice tried and twice sentenced to be hanged, is about to be again brought vefore the courts, Counsel for the condemned man notified District Attorney Briggs, of Westchester county, on Wedaesday of lis intention to appiy for another writ of error and stay of proceedings in the Supreme Court av Brooklyn on the 2d proximo, osvensibiy With @ view Of taking the case before tne Jourt of Appeals. District Attorney Briggs mm‘ends to strenuously oppose the mouon, believing that @ Jurtuer posipovement of the last sentence 1s the Only object sought by the prisoner's counsel, and kaowing that the Huckhout case has aiready cost the taxpayers of the county named about fifty thousand dotiars, It will be remem- bered that an application for astay of proceeaings in this case Was denied at ihe General ‘Term alew Weeks siuve, On Which occasion Justice Gilbert re- sentenced the prisoner to be executed on the J6un oF Fevruarys MUsIC AND THE DRAMA, Wallach’s Theatre. As all sorta of ramors are trave!ling about a8 to Mr. Lester Wallack’s intentions regarding his next fall and winter season—some of such rumors being of the wildest and most absurd character—tt may, Perhaps, satisfy those who are interested im dra- matic chit-chat to know that Mr. Sothern will join Mr, Wallack in September; that Mr, Wallack’s sys- tem of producing piays witn the best possible casts will be strictly adhered to, and that the powerful aid or Mr, Sotnern’s popularity and emment ability will give additional brilliancy and aturactiveness to ‘What was already. the first comedy company in our Janguage, New plays of the highest standara of literary and dramatic merit, in which Mr. Sothern will be seen for the first tune in Amertea, will be given. And that gentieman’s appearance, in conjunction with such artists as already grace the boards of this theatre, should be strong evidence that Mr. Wailack has lost none of the zeal and = spirit which have always characterized his management. We are wlad to see that Mr John Gilbert nas resumed his role in “Jon Garth.’ Mr. Brougham, too, has Tecovered and ts in good figiting trim again, and the powerful Wallack batialion 13 Once more ready to present a full front to an appreciative and ex- Pectant public in the next novelty produced, That Rovelty Will consivt of the celebrated drama, “The Veteran,” which, aiter a rest of more than a dozen years, will be reproduced in the most elaborate manner, with a perfect cast, and with entirely new scenes, costumes and appointments. ‘The play has been rewritien by its author, Mr. Lester Walback, who has, however, with the recoilection of tts arst great success, been careful to retain ali its attract- ive Jeatures intact, Chit-Chat at Home. “L’Africaine’’ will be given for the last time this evening at the Stadt. Mr. Mackaye will ely open the ensuing week at the St. James with “starriage.”” The Shield Tableau in “Humpty Dumpty” 1s the most artistic feature we have ever had here tn ballet. The Union Square Theatre has a capital bill this Week, the ollo features of which are bewildering in ‘heir variety, ‘John Garth” will be the piece de resistance of John Jack and Miss Annie Firmin in their provincial vour next month, Zimmerman’s goat has caught a cold, which com- els Bfurther postvonement of his debut in “The lack Urook.’? Charles Mathews closes Ins engagement at Mrs. Conway's Brookiyn Theatre on Saturday, and the next week will be devoted to Augustia Daly's “Man and Wile,” Mr. 8, B, Mills and Senor Sarasate give a matinée musicale at Stemway’s on Saturday. Rucolfi, the favorite young American baritone, will sing on this occasion. un Saturday evening “Divorce” will reach Its one hundred and flitietn representation at the ¥iftn Avenue Theatre. The bills for the event will be printed in gold on white satin, Mr. Lent has surpassed all his previous efforts at the New York Circus by giving an enteriainment which, in equestrian, pantomimic and acrobatic features, has had no superior in tls city. A concert was given at Steinway Hall last even- ing for the oeneflt of the Germyn Ladies’ Society Jor Widows and Orphans, the artists being Mme. Fabbri, Mile. Elzer, Miss Menlig, and Messrs. Miller, Damrosch aud Candidus. ‘The Arion Society also appeared, On Wedresday afternoon the Brooklyn Philhar- monte rehearsal took place at the Academy, Mr. Phelps’ new overture was performed and Wagner's “Kalser March.” Master George Magrath executed “La ci Darem,”? from “Von Giovanni,” one of the most dificult of Chopin’s compositions, At the next renearsal Mme. Van Zandt, Irom the Rosa opeia’ troupe, is to be the vocalist. ‘The programme of the grand musical soirce of the New York Conservatory of Music, to be given at Steinway Hall on Saturday evening, is very mter- esting, a8 may be seen from the following:—Organ soio—a, Offertory in A flat, Batiste; 0, Postludium in the Fugue Style, Charies £. Rink, Miss E. Perkins; sung, “Bid me Discourse,” bishop, Miss M. Lathrop; Faniaisie Briliante,from “L’Elisire d’Amore, Czerny, oe siX bands) Misses L. Chambers, C. Dougherty, }. Van Iderstein; Ah quel Giorno, Vavatina from “Sonnambula,” Miss A Randall; plano solo, **Fantai- sie sur des ‘Themes de Moise,” 'Thalberg, Miss J. Hard; Scena ed Arta, “An! forse ul,’ Traviata, Miss J, Palmer; Fantaisie in © major (Ups. 15), Schubert (arranged .or two pianos by Liszt), Misses P. Vaillant and J. Hard; Rondo from “Sonna:mbula,”’ Miss U. Lasar; duetto, from “Marino Fallero,"”? Mrs. K, Haigh and Mr. Smith; Whispering Wind, Caprice, Wollenhaupt, Miss N. Fagnant; Duetto, ‘«bben a te feris ce.’? “Semiramide,” Misses C. Lasar and A. Ran- dail; Caprice Brilnante (in B mimor), Mendeissoiin, with quartet accompaniment, Miss J. Palmer; Cavatina, from “Macbeth,” Mrs. K. Haigh; organ s0i0, Concerto in D, Volkmar, Mr. 4, Dunnell. Provincial Items, Mrs, Chantrau Is playing “Christie Johnstone” in Mempin Mr. John Murray will essay “Rip Van Winkle” at Bridgeport on Saturday, Mile. Janauschek is the star atthe Philadelphia Academy of Music this week. Robert McWade and the Lingards are the drama- te attractions in Chicago, Mr, Sothern and Mr. John S. Clarke are alternating each otier each evening this week at the Walnut Street and the arch Street Theatres, Phitadelpiia, On stonday evening Mr. Clarke began the periorm- ance at the Arc Street Theatre, at eight o'clock, m his famous impersonation of Dr. Pangioss ia the “Heir at Law,” and at the conclusion of nis _per- formance Mr. Sothern, who had veen doing Lord Dundreary at the Wainut Street Theatre, made tus appearance in Byron's one act farce of “Lord Dun- dreary Married and Settied,” while Mr. Clarke at the otner theatre played ‘Toodies.” Of course this arrangement is proving lughly attractive to voin houses. A Toronto critic thus writes about a New York favorite whu lately appeared “Another large and fasuionabie house greetc second production of play ented ‘Alma; or, in Which the pretty young artist, Miss Lilie FE dridge, appears in the Utle ro/e, Although the fair aspirant for dramatic fame accomplished a decided success on her first appearance, she seems nighily to umprove, and we can safely say We have not for Years enjoyed so fresh and charming a bit of acting. ‘The play iself is, beyond doubt, the embodiunent of elegant portraiture, and the acting is especially worthy Of Commendation, the stock company also rendering capital support, and we woulda advise our readers not to fail to see ‘Alma.’ ” SEVENTH WARD DEMOORATIO REFORM, A Lively Debate on the Tammany General Committee. A meeting of the Seventh Ward Democratic Reform Association took piace at’ 165 East Broad. way last evening, Mr. William Churchill, the President, was in the chair. A lively debate tmme- diately took piace on tne tickets of delegates to the General Committee. Mr. ALLEN said that several tickets had been shoved upon the association, and that this was evi+ dently the work of one-man power. He accused Mr. McNamara of having shown a printed ticket to the members of the association, and that he had been influenced In doing so by interes'ed parties, Mr. MCNAMARA rose to expiain that Mr. Barthol- omew liad made up a ticket and that he had simply copied it. ‘ug PRESIDENT stated that a certain politician certafnly had been endeavoring to rule the ward, and that this should be prevented. Mr. MAYES said that Ben Wood was endeavoring in the old way to get things into his own nanas. He knew tie Chinameu well. Itwas the object of the agsoctation to have things in its bands and not to allow the people to control it. Mr. ALLEN made @ motion that the Chair appoint & committee of nine to make @ Lickel to tie General Committee, This motion was then warmly discussed, and several members objected to the Chair appointing the committee. Alter considerapie devate, how- €ver, tne motion was put and carried, and the Chair then appolnoted nine who retired to make out tne ticket. They were absent one hour, and returned with nominations winch the Club debaicd upon without detinite result, During the meeting there was considerable ex- cliement in regard to the mattér, and a goou deat of bitter feeling Was engendered by the ucbate. ed the beautiful in Bondage,’ BROOKLYN DEMOCRATIC GENERAL COMMIT. TEE, The delegates, seven from each ward and county town of Brooklyn,chosen for the Democratic General Committee of Kings county, under the reform plan of action inaugtrated since the election last fall, met atthe headquarters, Court street, last might. Several protests were receivea from wards, but these were laid over. Protests were received from tne Seventh, Eleventh and Twelith wards, Messrs. Chauncy, McCoy, Pitt, Birdsall and Craig were ap- pointed, finally, @ committee to entertain the pro- tests and report taereon., it was agreed that pro- tests would ve heard on next Monday evening. Phe Committee on Reorganization to nominate oiticers consists as 1oilows:—Messrs, Cunningham, Chauncy, McCoy, Pitt, Vrooman, Clapp, Birdsall and Craig. The committee adjourned for two weeks. The new delegates iorm @ most interesting imuseam of po- litical curiosities in the strange make-up and amal- gamation vf herevolove adverse and contending ele- ments. MELANCHOLY SUIOIDE IN BROOKLY About one o'clock yesterday afternoon Join Doherty, aged forty-seven years, residing with 1s family at No. 40 Main street, Brooklyn, while labor- ing under @ fit of temporary aberration of the mind, deliberately shot himself through tne head with @ revolver. ‘The ball lodged in ihe brain, Deceased was a married map, had a Wi! a three children, and was @ bartender by occ jon. He had been out of employment for the it six Months aod pi sadly depressed in mind im consequence. 18 Coroner was notified to hold au wquest over the body. & A BISHOP MURDERED. Bishop Patteson and His Co-labor- ers Hacked to Death by Polynesians. LURED TO SLAUGHTER. The Murderers Avenging Their Kidnapped Companions. England’s Flag Protecting the Traffic in Human Flesh—Islands Depopulated— Slavetraders Assuming the Cleri- cal Garb for Their Ne- farious Purpose. Kidnapped Kanakas Murdering All on iLoard a Vessel. SYDNEY, Vv. 25, 1871, The government of Australia is at length aroused to the magnitude of the atrocities committed by the South Sea Island slavers. Had missionary remon- strances awakened the British government to asense of duty I should not now have to record the murder of Bishop Patteson and two of his fellow laborers, Englishmen, and women, too, were wont to prate about slavery in the United States, How often hag Exeter Hall rung with the declamations of those who professed to be the friends of the “nigger” and the admirers of the abolitionist leaders | Yet these very people who were so prone to finds fault with America were perfecily spathetia when Captain Palmer, iresh from the seenes of these outrages, assured the people’ of Engiand that Polynesian slave trafio was not a mere myth, existing only in the fevered) imagination of the “unco guid.” Tne murdered prelate was the first Bishop of Melanesia ap- pointed by the estabushea Church of England, and alter eleven years of devoted earnestness in missionary enterprise was the first of nis creed to join the list of martyrs of whom Jona Williams has hitherto been counted the chief, Me found that it was truly reported that where whalers conld tn former years obtain provisions and recruit then crews they dared not pow attempt to land except ate whe risk of their lives Nay more; he discovered that a schooner, painted and fittea up to represent his mission yacht, the Southern Cross, and having * on board a white rufian, dressed in full canontcals, who assumed the title of Bishop Patteson, was among the most noted and successful of the kidnap- ping fleet, Armed’ with tuese proofs he boldly de- nounced the trafic. In August last the Southern Cross left Norio Island on a cruise ainong the tne islands, some of which have been almost depopulated oy the slavers. On September 20 sie arrived off Nukapu, one of the Santa Cruz group, lytug in latitude 10 south, longt- tude 165 cast. Here on previous visits the Bishop had never been able to obtain a hearing, and it was with feelings of pleasure on that fatal morning that he found several canoes come alongside with. presents and Invitations for him to land, Stepping into one of them, unaccompanied by any person from his vessel, be went ashore, and was shortly afterwards followed by the Rey. Mr. Atkin, a na- tive evangelist named stepuea and a boat's crew. When the latter arrived at the edg: of the coral reef fringing the island tuey were met by three canoes, THE MURDER. What followed 1s thus described by Jonn Adams, son. of the Patriarch of Pitcairn Island, by whom the news of the massacre was transmitted here:— “One of the chiefs held up a bow and arrow, ast. ing those of the bishop's ty if they had anything of the sort. Being answered in the negative, ‘Well, then,’ sald he, ‘take that,’ and discharged it at the Bishop’s people, This was immedtately followed by u fight of arrows trom the other canoes, The result Was that Mr, Atkin, who was in charge of the boat, was wounded by an arrow in the sack, and two otiers of the crew were also wounded, one of whom recovered, and the other, with Mr. Atkin, died seven days after the affair happened. How- ever, to return to my story, Mr. Atkin took bis wounded men on board and had their wounds dressed; and thinking that perhaps tae Bishop mught be in danger they went agata in their boat On coming to the edge of tne reef they saw an ap- parently empty canoe drifting about, imagine their horror wad grief when they came up to it and found that tt contained the dead body of the Bis- hop—those wretches having stripped the body of everything but his boots and wrapped it in a mat, ‘The mission Is in @sad way about it, and no won- der, for the Bishop was the head and mr. Atkin is, you may say, the right arm of the mission.” CONSEQUENCES OF THE SLAUGHTER. Widely known and respected by all denoming tions in these colonies, 1t will be readily imagined that the news of Bishop Patteson’s death has created a sensation Of horror, not so much against the perpetrators, of whom he was the apologist, as against the government of Queensland for first legalizing the traffic in Polynesian labor, and the captains who have prostituted the license thus obtained into a warrant for committing deeas as dark as ever disgraced the Gam- bian coast. It will go hard with Captain Coath, who now awaits his trial on evidence as con. Clusive as ever slaver was convicted upon, Had Hovell and Sevingcr not eluded the gibbet through legal technicalities they and the young Australia’s condemnation would have deterred others irom ects for which others have paid the penalw with their lives. Those who returned in the Southern Cross from her fatal cruise are fully impressed with the conviction that the murders were committed in revenge for acts done by severa! slave vessels they saw cruising among the islands. The captain of one of them having expressty declared lis intention to “try his luck” at Sauta Cruz, (ney believe that his visit preceded theirs. Public meetings held here recently show how strong a feeling has been en- gendered, and if the memorials despatched to Lord Kimberly do not awake him to the fact that England’s flag is now the only one protecting the traMec in human flesh the fault will not rest with the colonists, The ladies of Engiand once honored “their American sisters by appealing to them to aid in abolishing slavery mthe South. Perhaps, now that our country 18 free, Columbia may ask the Dachess of Sutherland how long England will permit her ships and her sons to attempt the revival of @ wade which every other Curistian nation nas eradicated, . SAVAGE VENGEANCE ON THE BISHOP'S BODY. I may mention that a letter from the sailing mas ter of the Southern Cross says that when they found Bishop Pateson’s remains fa the canoe they were wrapped ina new mat, and in his breast was in- serted a piece of palm having five knots, This was taken as an indication that the murder was an act Of savage vengeance for the loss of five of the tribe to whom the assassins belong. Her Majesty's steamer Rosario left here on the 19th ult, for the very scene of the massacre, not knowing that sucha horror nad been perpetrated, but with a view to suppress the kiduapping reported to be taking place there, WHOLESALE MURDERS AT FIJI. While the public mind was still excived by the loss of the missionaries news came trom Fyi that Mr. Warburton, merchant, of Levaka; Messrs. Whitta- ker, Robson, Kington and Parker, planters, ot Tayiuna; Captain Owen aad @ sailor, of the cutter Mewa, had been murdered on board that vessel on the night of the Ist inst, They had left Ovaiau on that day, with forty Yoloman Islanders, rivea by the Lismore, & craft well Known as a oor seeker.” There must have been some- thing Known about the way in which these men were ovtalued, or, rather, detained, from we tact that Mr, Levanter Buri, Cuter secretary of Fiji, warned the European passengers agam jong in, the vessel, ‘This advice was neglected, and that night tne Kanakas murdered them all, One Fijlan sailor, WhO managed to swim ashore, reported the matter, and immediately three smail vessels, manned by volunteers, put to sea in chase of the Mewa, in which her captors were then making Jos their Dome, The result Is agt yeu Kaown here