The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1872, Page 5

Whe Coroners’ Office Crowded xX “The Work ef the Coroner's Jury. Yesterday. PEN PICTURES IN (COURT. The Appearance of Scannell and How ~ He Bore Himself. “Fhe Vordiot of tho Jury. ad the Probable Be- fence that WIN! Be Otered, Ap adjourned inquest om the pody of Thomas , who was murdered in Johnson’s saloon, of Twenty-eighth street and Broadway, on ‘Mast Saturday night, byJohn Scannell, was resamed yesterday morning, fd the City Hall, Before Cor- emer Nelson W. ¥oung, . The case! wea set down for hearing at ten o’clock, but the marked atrocity of the crime and the relations .which for some ‘time past tad existed between Scannell and his vietim attracted a large crowd of spéctators, and Jong before the hour of opening the approaches to the Coroners’ oMice were filed with the friends of he deceased and his slayer. Some had come merely through motives \of curiosity, but the feelings of the majority .wera; deeply excited, and they freely gave expression, to, their sympa- thies and comments. In the crowd might be seen ‘te ward politicians througti:- whom the deadly feud Between the families was inaugurated; the fashily @zeased gambler, with diamonds, sparkling on his bosom and hands, and the tragedy hunter, who is siways tobe found when murder is in the wind, fo judge from’ thé appearance of the Coroners’ oMice, no case has excited’ so much pubic intercst #ince the killing: of | Fisk, the peculiar elrcum- stances of the cage and, the position occupied by fhe parties in society having tended to produce a widespread sensation. In the crowd might also be geen psuccessfuland disappdinted candidates for Abiermani¢’ honors; respectable-looking'‘mén of a)i ages, and a fair sprinkling of roughs., - The hearing did not commence nonti) half-past ten o’clock, Owing to the non-arriyal of the. pris ‘ener, Dut at that time the Mutter around the ap. proaches announced his arrival, andin a moment after heentered the room handenied ‘to Officer Malony, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, and escorted by Captain Burden and two detectives. Ivery eye ‘was instantly strained to’ catch a glimpse of the eviminal, and-forms and chairs - were ‘mounted in the rear part of the roomin order that-a better View might be.obtaincd. , i _. SCANNELL IS A PALE, SINISTER-LOOBING MAY, Mbout five fect ten inches high. He wears light Wide'whiskers*and mustaché, atid in his attire is ot serupulonsly clean and neat. He was attired in 9 Bie lampskin:' coat and dark pante, end: on die . finger .sparkicd a handsome diamond ring. He took a eat in the corner of the room and . endeavored to appear determined looking; but his ©) €roubled \andaownoast face and the trepidation Weibie on hislight eye: showed that! he felt ii at ence, He nat throughout the inquiry.im the po ° gition he frat took and never onee changed the ex- pression of his face. Seated near him was hie ‘wWife—a' ptdut, comely blonde, the marks of recent -i>séars pon: her faco showing that Mie keenly felt fehe position in which ner bnsband: was placed. The chair next to the prisener was occupied by Colonel Spencer, counsel ior the accused, who Watched the proceedings attentively in the interest ‘ef his client, but did not interpose to ask any questions of ‘witnesses, The few friends of Beannecll ranged themselves outside the bar, Hstening to the evidence with deep interest. While the various witnesses were detailing the gaanner of the murder; Scannell never winced, and ‘gave no sign of emotion when he was recognized f several of them. ‘the -witmesses: wete men of more than ordinary intelligence, and, with one or wo exceptions, gave their evidence in a straight- manner. Phe jury, the game tiat was em- on last Sanday, were in their places € ‘to'time, and from thelr appearance any one~ that an enlightened verdict would The Copter addressing the jury, told them they were torénder a verdict in accordance with the " ta that would be offered, and if any cgm- hh the crime could be found it was for them pronounce upon it, Taking a paper irom his et, on which Was written a long roll of names, e proceeded vo call the first witness Jn the person ol % 8 ¢ EDMOXD STRPNENSON, * fempecteble,icoking middic-aged. man, wearin; ig iskers, and fashionably dressed, wiio testi- Bed.a8 sollows:— ails Are at 356 Third avenue; I am paying teller © gt the Fil National Bank; f was acquainted with r deceased, Thomas Donohoe; have. known him it nine years; I saw him alive the last time at Johnson's saioon last Saturday night; 1 did not go there with him; Lag wsentat the time ef the ‘garder; heard no spoken; the first thing heard was the report ote pistes the gentleman itanding in front of me, Mr. Tuompson W. Decker, ~ started mly and “paid, “My © God!'! genera! Tush. ;was, then. made tothe. morth- est end oF the room; Scafnell's face wag not visi- odie tomeat the firss-report of the pistol; I was not Sgclted and apres round and saw the pistol in 6 mab’s hai 3 Faw Four shots come out of it; I » Saved the mai, and saw it Was ohn Beaunelts } id “WOE Bee the bea shot fired or thé. an, fall, (Wit- comers ‘here ddentiied Scannell.) “I recognized the Dody of Donolwc as soon as Scanneil went opti steps: I saw Scannell in the saloon when ‘st In; he was sitting at.axind of aesk; I oloe when he firat. came in; he was abo) ts or twenty minutes in when the shot was when ‘Seanneli went up'the steps some one went after him; I don't know who it was; I was not o! speakin, Se yee Mr, Donohoe, and did no! talk to ins e SHERIDAN 81100! the text witness called, he took his seat the witness chair, attired with faultless pre- | and elegance. ‘The iollowing ishis testi- ‘@ision pate reside at the Maison Dorée ; lanx proprie- ‘the Union Square Theatre; I was acquainted with Mr. Donohoe; huve known him for the past e years; I was at Johnson’s pool rooms on last day night; I did not see Yonrohoe to recog- him; I witnessed some parts of the shooting; “T'was talking to two or three gentlemen when i «Beard the report of a pistol; I turned and saw Scannell fire turee or four shots into the body ofa Swan lying on the floor; had beeu talking to Mr. Ml that night; did not notice anything pecu- about him; don’t know who was in his com- my; whep I first saw him he shook hands with me; aiter the shots were fired there was au uproar in the house ; I aid not notice any one going up the with Seanne! J. Finnegan, a natty little man, wearing ¢ Necktie and stand-up collar, testified :—I re- at No, 226 EKightieth street: { was not uainted with the late Thomas Donohoe; I Was in fohneon's poo] rcoms last Saturday night, about atelodke know Mr. Scannell by sight; 1 saw ‘the fash of two shots, but could not tell mee fired them; I heard the report of the first shots I did not see the party who fired thew; there was a final stampede after the shots were fired; I did not see Mr, Scannell at all, and did not see him leave the saloon; I did not leave the saloon, butremained ‘entil the body was removed ; life was extinct when it was taken out, Richard Murphy sworn—I reside at 150 West Twentieth strect; 1 have got no business at pres- ent; 1 was only Slightly acquainted with Thomas oe; I was at Johnson's pool rooms last Sat- urday night; I saw Mr. Donoloe there after he was shot; I heard five shots fired 43 was standing ip front of the oyster counter; the five shots were fired in rapid succession; aiter firing the first snot the man got up on the steps and turned right @round; 1 could not tell who fired the shots; the man who fired TOOK DELIBERATE AIM AT THE BODY and stood still when he fired the shots; the Piatos he fired with seemed to be a large one. (Ihe pistol was here produced, a navy re' of unusaally large size, and the witness identified it as the one mised.) [was so much excited I could not recognize the man; | thought first he was firing:for fan or an advertisement for pool selling; when 1} saw tho man stand! on the stepe J did not recognize the color of his beard; 1 heard some one haltoo out, “My God, John Scannell has shot Tom- Donohoe ;"* | was near enough to the man who fred to have prevented tie last shot, but the thing was done 80 coolly I did not think tt %as murder; {went from the saioon to the station house with the iy. Benjamin Il. Prady sworn—t reside at 53 South Washi paton square; I did not know thomas Dono- hoe; I did not know John Scannell; f was in Jonn- gon’s pool roows last Saturday night; 1 got there about nine o'clock; the siooting took place almost instantly alter lentered; when { came in 1 saw the flash of a tol and heard a report; I thought the discharge was accidental and went in: I tayned and saw the body ofa man Jying sa also, , and he oo Nees sete aw tna el Ee + wi me Shout ten’ feet from each other; Tdid not notice peculiar about "8 looks; about a minute after I shook hands with Scannell the ghote were ae 1 Lave oP tosee, bd ae lies wae eyes ot see; 1 Ww: Talking Yo Mr. Olavk as the time and T sald Go him, are two men firing at each other, JUMP DOWN OR YOU WILL: BE SHOT;” down and! dropped on top of him; shere were Ove shots dred in avout » minute and ahalf,! think; when I got ut ‘dia not Mr. grrr core eerenre ie Inceuntit Ta Drake sworn. reside . acct Thad known the Jate Thowias mnonoe about-two or three years; |saw him Satorday nigh mee he came into the saloon; John Nesbit him; I know Jotn bus bim ithe. ‘saloon that } I_was within five ‘ho'fred. thi yl dia. ree ge the man who fired tl tol; it wi Vignt im the saloon at that time; t! ‘was no per- son standing between me and the man who fired the shot; I saw him advance to t! rostrate body ana ‘fire three shots into it; he fred ‘two. Btand and moved on a step and fireda third; he,went up the steps with isto! in his hand, and as I was in;his way 1) got out of the. position I was in; Idid not notice what kind of a he was or what clothes he wore; I saw Mr. 6 Hl @ night or two previous to this occurrence at the same saloon; I did not hear him mention Mr. Donohoe’s name that night. By a Juror—You say. you were, acquainted with Scannell several years, and yet you say it was not him you saw when you were within six feet of m. Witness—I did not say that I did not recog- nize the man. ‘Thompson W. Decker sworn—I reside at 311 West Twenty-seventh street; I am in the milk: business ; Ihave aeen Mr. Donohoe to know him, but was not acquainted with him; I went to Johtison’s saloon last Saturday night about eight o'clock; I stood opposite the bar at the time of the firing, about ten feet irom the front door; | heard the first shot; I merely saw the man who fired the shot, as I turned and ran to the rear of the saloon; [did not recog. nize the man who fired the shot; 1 was 90. con- aes 1 Hao A could tell what I was doing; when’ SAW THE MAN LYING ON FLOOR; the other shots were fired after 1 went into the crowd; aia not see who fred the lastshots; I did not see Scannell in the saloon that pigut; 1 would have known him had’ I seen him ; ‘T'was so acared I did Apt. see what was done; i am) not Imterested in the case one way or the other, Henry Salpaugh sworn—i reside at: 244 Weat Twenty-sixth street; 1am a builder; l was ac- nainted with the late Thomas Donohoe; I was at johnson’s. yroome on last Saturday wight; I did not see Bre ononoe there; I aw Me eau. nell; theres .Iohad not been the sa. loon three mjnntes when the shooting . com- menced; I was about ten feet from the door when the firat shot was fired; Idid not, see who fited the shot; there were five shots fired in all; ‘mo word, spoken the first shot was fred; I did not see Scannell when I went out into the si ¢ I did not know 1t was Donohoe who was shot until I wens into the street, | John F. Barrett sworn—I reside at 29 West ‘Twenty-fourth street; I am not engaged in any business; I knew Mr. ghoe; have known him ee isan wed Frida, - ae be we Hotel; l-enow Mr. Seannell; 1 was a Johnson's fast Saturdays, when 1 weut in Scaunell ‘was standing at the oyster counter; I went ou’ rand © back in agent thirty mihutes; abou three minutes after I came in I heard a pistol abot ; jo} \e] ied ‘Tom no! Feat, Zon Senne the hot’ I Sumy pena fall, peralies with Twenfy-eighth stréet, as regularly as four shots ito. the, bod ) aring.of the’ four al 6. 3 ¥ x what ot? sonnel ‘the shots I'did not see con jon: 3. bcdid mot: notice any- thing pecniiy about Mr, Scannell previous to the firings 1 wae talking to Mr. Jones, captain of the: Precncs, at the time; Lwent, forward and took hold of Mr. Donohoe’s land; I think he was dead at the time; he must have died as soon as he fell; Icould not be mistaken as to the identity of Mr. ‘Boannell. Michael Fagan, sworn—I reside. at 82b Thind-ave- nue; Iam superintendent of the Compton House; Igaw Mr. Donotioe 1n the pool room last Saturda, night; I reached the roum about half-past.eight ; ‘went there alone; [| saw Mr. Scannell at the sa- loon that night; 1 had no conversation with him; I saw him before that night on the corner.of Thirty- fourth street and Third avenue; I did not hear say anyt! about going to the P veal foom; I was talking to Mr. Nesbitt when the it shot was fired ; T did not see who fited the shot; I ventured toward the crowd; I cduld not see who tired the second shot; there were five. shots fired all; I cannot tell who dred ang of nem I was Johmelly a part: ner of Mr. but didnot go to the saloon that night wit 3,1 had no conversation with 0) it 3; 1 knew. aid not hike it and mever talked to him about the subject. Captain Mciiiwain sworn :—I am a captain of police in the entity yprecinat. 1 know, nothing f the shooting ; “at tl e it cocutred Iwas on the opposite aide of the street; Lheard some re- ports and rap out of the Brower, House, where I ‘was; 'saw 8 mian come out of the saloon rinning at full speed; I gave urine ren aiter him to Fifth avenue; he went to book! ith street ana then he came back to Twenty-seventh street; he slackened his pace and I said to him, recognising hiv, “Haiioa, Jonn, what's the matter?” he said, ‘Glow do, you ao pangs Teale. “What's the mat- ter?” and he said, “Nothing, come and take a ch gar; I said; “I don't smoke,” and he said, “I don’t arink ;”’ we came down Broadwi y, and I “Let is goand sce what thie row is;” when I saw the body I said to him, “This ig a nice fix you are in;” I took him to the counter and searched hun; found no weapon but - ' A LEATHER BELT AND HOLSTER ATTACHRD; ‘we were followed by an immense crowd, who shonted, ‘Hang him!” “shoot him! ‘String him up to the lamp post!’ I being in pian jothes called apoliceran of the Twenty-sixth precinct to my assistance ; an ex-policeman came up and joined the policeman and gave my man a pistol, and then the-crowd went for him, which gave mea free pas- sage for my prisoner ; when I came te the station house I sent a man, who found the pistol; I had been in Johnson's saloon abont four minutes pre- vious to the occurrence, and saw Scannell ihgre; when I heard the cry “Stop thief!" I supposed rat iL Was-8 design to-tirow ‘ue off my track; but Iwas rt "of the direction the man took, and went righ ‘tin Maloney sworn—lam an officer attached to the Twenty-ninth precinct; Iwas sent out Saturday night to look for @ pistol; I weut in the direction which Scannel had taken; 1 found the pisto) under the stoop of 260 Fifth avenue, one step down; the tol produced here to is the one found; I took ¢ pistol to the etation house and laid it on the Bo ak RAIA gues BOE. ao Dr. Marsh detailed hour; he made the exal tion; one ball had entered the head behind the right ear, another in the back of the head; one ball had shattered the right arm, and after removing the lungs Ifound @ ball imbedded between the seventh and eighth ribs, a8 Mr. Donohoe was pre- viously shot, and the ball had never been extracted ; the ball I found between the ‘ribs was the one. The Coroner having briefly instructed the jury, they retired to their room for consultation, Dur- their absence the crowd became greater, and the excitement was on the tip-toe to know what the verdict would be. The eviteace was so clear inst Scannell that it was strange the jurors thought it necessary to Jeave their seats, Dut the did go for the ee of having greater freedom of conversation. While they were out the prisoner conversed with his counsel and his wife, wearin, the same gloomy and morose expression he borne through the morning. Thejury were about filteen minutes out, and when they returned the crowd was 80 dense that it was with difficulty they could force their way through, The following is the verdict that was Fgnaerea - ders a aro Ned together by We, tho undersigned jurors, calted toge: Coroner Nelson W. Young to ascertain the cause of the death of Thomas Donohoe, state that Thomas Donohoe came to his death by the hands of John Scannell, on the evening of the 2d of November, 1872, about nine o'clock P. M.; that John Scannell fired four or five shots deliberately into the body of Donohoe, causing instantaneous death, The jury are of the opinion that this deliberate shooting was intended to cause death. LOUIS CARR, Foreman. Coroner Young told Scannell to stand up and asked hin had he anything to say. The prisoner made a motion, but Mr. Spencer motioned him to be silent, paving tae the defence would be re- served for ie proper tribunal, at the same time thanking the Coroner for the impartial manner with which the fatter had conducted the investigation. The Coro- ner then committed Scannell to the Tombs to await the action of the Grand Jury, and he was taken from the apartment, followed ‘by the dense mags of spectators. He looked tated when the verdict was rendered, but walked from the room witha firm step. It is rumored that the defence will be emotional insanity. Whatever that may be is only known to the lawyers, a few of whom are now dis- covering more ases than the whole medical faculty. ALLEGED ARSON IN WESTCHESTER, Julius J. and Simon V. Lambert, brothers, were arrested in New York on Thursday night by Deputy Sheriff Ford, and subsequently lodged in the jail at White Plains, Westchester county, on a charge of arson. The accused partics were recently pro- prietors of a dry-goods store in the village above named, said store having been Revie destroyed by fire about two weeks ago. When first discov. ered the fre was found burning in three or foar different parts of the store, a circumstance which ied to strong suspicions at the time it occurred, The charge of arson has been preferred by the owner of the building indicated, “Geed Authors at a Discount.” ‘The large hall of the Young Men’s Christian Agso- ciation building, Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue, was well filled last evening by an intelli- gent audience, who had come to hear Ed- mund Yates’ lecture on “Good Authors at @ Discount.” The lecture was the second of tne course, given under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and announced for Friday evenings during the Winter months. For half an hour hefore the lecture the audience was entertained with some fine music, and promptly at eight o'clock the lecturer was introduced, The lecture was for the most part a recital of favorite pieces of the author, the fancies of poets who had never received, at least during lifetime, the appreciation of the public, In his introduction the lecturer spoke of the tremulous anxiety of a young man whose essay appeared for the firat time im print; how he would rush into the nearest ‘place of privacy to read it, and, afterward, as he would emerge into the street, how he would think that, everybody knew of his being an author. ‘All this,” he said, + would soon wear away with the young man, and, whether for tiie pertodical or the newspaper, the littérateur's contributions were ftire to be ‘the product of labor to: which he was driven by the butcher's billor® call for. childven’s shoes. To be ap- preciated, the, literary man should not attempt to soar too high; it was to the identification of Dickens’ thonghts with those of the middle classes that the great public appreciation of him was due. He did not think that Tennyson was appreciates, theugh he knew that the laureate was celevrated, renowned and loved, The appreciation of Tennyson by most people ended with their admiration of « ‘Locksley Hall” and the “May Queen,” The lecturer then took w several of the <All Seeukivelthesonareaet i Were Mot and. read, wi preaaive effect, Pierce from them. The first. he se- imund ncer, of whom he thought few knew little more that he was born in the reign of Elizabeth and was the author of the ‘Fairie Queen ;’’ and yet UR Terk Sree our reatest poets, e lecturer then extracts fom Bayley, the author of ‘déstus;’? from ander Smyth, and a beautiful pont, which he had pS by dwn, and. howe, roken down, and_ wi D Moon, ater ‘Tobin’s abity: ‘was = found thrown aside in one of the pigeon holes of the desk o! it was f a theatrical manager who had told Tobin — lost. =~ epedking of reer Hers aed au ra—those who we: Tecogntx ‘but.who had an inner feeling that they were Ca) aie. of doin; | things—he mentioned gold frien ‘ank Smediey, who was .& cripple but who e author of “Frank Fairleigh,” “Lewis Arunde)l’’ ship,” Dooks abonn: \d. ‘Harry. Coverdale’s Court- jin hearty and manly char-: getens; He them showed how ‘the same metre may ybe used for grave or subjects, quoti oes ‘of Kingsley and “Thackeray fn proof. Of ition of ‘The of Sighs’ Hood food he said that betore the publica' ois the Shirt” and “The Brid, ‘was looked upon a8 a‘buifoon. All the selections road wer received with applause. feeturer, in concluding, spoke of the great Fale Sh, hoee. ‘ho bad power to,creep: into the carts of and elevate Ww their iellow-men, to cheer and console. them. What must have been the feel- ings, of those unappreciatea men w minds were filled with great thoughts, and yct who were Alex, lece DY Pierre- up at a London who died “The Honey Yl peemretiemeternatia PIGEON SHOOTING. stale Match for $2,000 Between Howard 8. Jaffray and Benjamin Deforest—Ex- cellent Shooting, the Contest Resulting in.a Tie and the Stakes Drawn. A pigeon match for $1,000 aside between Howard 8. Jaffray and Benjamin Deforest, fifty, birds each, twenty-one yards rise, eighty yards boundary and one and a half ounce shot, came off yesterday af- ternoon at the grounds of the Long ‘Island Shoot- ing Club (Hiram Woodrud’s old hotel), on the Ja- maica road, which resulted in a, tie, each, gentle- man killing thirty-seven birds and missing thir- teen. The ‘Pigeons were’ farnished by Ira Payne, who handled and trapped for both the shooters. The weather was,coid, with draw, bleak wind blowing over the grounds during the progress. of Me match, and the shooting under the circum- stances was considered very good. Mr. Deforest i led off, and after ten birds had been shot at by each gentlemen the score was nine for Jaffray to eight Deforest. At fiftecn birds they tied; at twenty faffray had killed eighteen and Deforest seventeen, At twenty-five they wore in ‘Ue, and ‘at thirty birds Deforest was one }; having killed twenty- five to Jaffray’s twenty-fonr. Mr. Jaffray was ahead at the thifty-flth shot two birds, as. Mr. De- forrest missed three. out of the five, having ex- tremely ‘bad !dek by his hit birds Yatting out of bol Ww! Spite '8 generally tumbled inside the nage ien forty pigeons had been shot at Mr. ay il led two birds; but at the forty-sixth shot the two gentlemen were on a tie again, and thus they continued to the finish. . Jatray was very anxious the matchoff then and there, but as the day was waning the friends of the gentle- men perstaded them to draw the stakes make oper match if; they think proper atsome future ots Jatray, snot! witha matitile Yonder 14 bore, le leny of New York; Mr. Deforest with a Dreesn-ader ad bore Mate Uy Wilhenne & Powell of Liverpool, Ernest Staples acted as umpire for Mr. Deforest and William M, Parka performed the duties of the same ofite for Mr. Jaffray. P. kh. Stetaon was chosen referee. ‘The following is THE SCORE, 4 sh waa ae 1 Wap oR 1 “i 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 4, 0 fe ¥, 1,1, 0,1, ot, Of 0; 1,0; 1), 0; 1 kihiea, ‘er Taised. 3) Potal, Derornet—I, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1,3, 3, 1, 1,1, 0, 1, 44, 1, 0) 1/7, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0,0, 1, 0.7, 1 eet, 9,0, 4,3, 45 de dy 1, 0, 1—Kelied, 37 j massed. 13. ‘total, There wae mo betting on the groand, pnt about | ten thougand dollars depended on the watch, i BUROPEAN HORSE NOTES. Mr. Redcliffe, the owner of Salvanos, offered to | run that horse against Playiair, the winner of the Cambridgeshive, for £1,000.aeide, either acroes the fat or en the Cambridge course, at the same differ- ence of weights as on.their last race, provided the scale was raised at least agtone and a half. The offer was declined. Young Haybos'will soon go to Germany to take care of Count Renard's horses. Baron Rothschild has sold King Alfred for a “thousand,” to go to Sweden, and Brother to Tomato and Norfolk, to go to Germany. Soapstone, the well-bred son of Touchstone, has | been purcsased for Ger tad At @ meeting of the Jockey Club, heid at New- market October 23, Sir ©. RKusbout, Bart., was | elected a member of the club. The fixtures of the Newmarket meetings for 1873 were reconsidered and altered as follows:—First October gesting, | September 23; secotid October meeting, October 6, and Houghton mecting, October 20, The Hon. J. Erskine purchased What Care 1, preg years old, after running in the Backaleug) licap at the Edinburgh meeting, aud the filiy ‘won three times after at the Perth races, NEW YORK CITY. onclguansGpiwommenat. Comptroller Green paid yesterday to the Depart- ment of Public Instruction, for Erection of Schools Fand, $50,000, hit Under a decision of the Supreme Court, rendered last week, Commistioner Van Nort, of the Depart- ment of Public Works, to-day made requisition eee the Department of Finance for the sum of 20,840 68, to be deposited in the Chemical National jank to meet the pay-roil of laborers, &c., employed on the Boulevard and avenues for the two weeks ending on Saturday last. Owing to the horse disease affecting travel in the city daring the past two weeks, and the occurrence of the Presidential election, the exhibitors have titioned the Managers ol the American Institute Exhibition to extend the time of closing one week beyond the regularly appointed time, November 13. At @ meeting of the Board, last evening, it was de- cided to comply with this reqnest, and the date of closing fixed for the 20th inst., and the Pxhibition will continue until that date. STRIKES IN FRANCE. The Patrie complains that while the strike of the Miners has brought the coal crisis from which the country now sutfers and the strike of the carpen- tershas caused the occupation of the Marne and Upper Marne to be prolonged, now France is feel- ing the direfal consequences of the strike of the hatters, which was aimed at the Paris trade. When that strike occurred the manufacturers of Paris, who supplied four-fifths of the requirements of the departments, addressed themselves to Eng: Janda. The provincial merchants did the same on their own account, and gradually ceased to apply to Paris. The result is that the hat trade, both for export and for the home market, has greatly fallen off. The Pairie estimates that it has lost fifty per cent that it will never recover, and that branch of trade, lately so flourishing, is wow in a very tical condition. [From the London Saturday Review.) Hawthorne, in hie “English Notebook,” gives an amusing but unconstious itustration of the dim- culty of managing the somewhat morbid sensitive- nese of an American guest. He happened to meet Lord Lansdowne at s breakfast party, and when they were at the foot of the. stairs the Marquis in- sisted that Hawthorne shonld go first. “He ‘would have me remember that he was a peer, and that he yielded the step to me,” is the Ame! ‘s Tesentful comment on this extremely natural ordinary civility, Hawthorne was nimself one of the most amiable and unassuming of men, and very indifferent to social formalities; but he could not resist the national bent of mind, and so discovered matter for offence in one of the simplest courtesies of everyday jife. Lord. Lansdowne is accused of displaying. aristocratic arrogance because he asked him to go first; but we can easily imagine what he would have said if the nobleman had gone on and left him to follow. Hawthorne might have remembered: that Lord Lansdowne: was not only a distinguished public man; but. very much his semior, and entitled to precedence on other grounds than his patent of nobility; but those who knew the Marquis will readily under- stand that he had not the slightest idea of assert- ing ®euperiority ofany kind. It ts certainly dim- cult..to know what to do with aman who equally objects to your walking before or behind him, We are reminded of this anecdote by Mr. Stanley’s treatment of the Geographical Society.’ Since his arrival in thie country he’ has been engaged im, alternately denquncing the ‘“ easy-ohair Geographers” for presuming to patronize explorers witha view to rob them of the fruits of their researches, and for not inflicting this odious patronage on himself, He was at some pains to show his contempt for the society, and then he went about, complaining that it did not Persceute him with its impertinent attentions. If Mr. Stanley is not an American he has at least a sufficient share of the capricious susceptibility of the American character to entitle him to citizen- ship. Ina magnanimous mood he has at last con- descended to accopt.a dinner and gold medal from the Geographical Society, but only, as he grace- fally explained, to oblige Dr, Livingstone, Mr, Stanley has fairly earned the Vic- torla. Medal. He successfully accomplishea ® gallant and daring mission, and ibrought back the welcome intelligence of Dr. Livingstone's safety. He did more than this. He conveyed suc- cor to the veteran explorer at a very critical and tr moment, Sir H. Rawlinson was ander’a mis- apprehension when he suggested that Livingstone must ‘have relieved Stanley rather than Stanley Lanagntone, The ‘tor's letters show that he re- ceived assistance in an hour of pressing need, and itis ble, as Sir Henry satd, that he owes his life to the opportune arrival of the opepeapandent, ea ttad Yorke aags bat eae. graphical jety has shown a proper, spir! log aed Mr. Stanicy’s incourieond treatment of itgelf, and in bestowing upon him the just reward of his clever and courageous feat, medal ig not a certificate of manhers. ‘The dinner on Monday night was intended, as Mr. Stanley acknowledged,, asa “general, shake hands,’’ but he thought it a auitable oppértunity to ert his tne grievances. His story about Meanding of Living- Stone was not at first received without some hesi- tation. Unques' he founda Livin, far, therefore, be ‘im, But for this tt ley himselr is solely and entirgy to blame. : It ia ridiculous to sup- se that people in this countr: were bound to give Implicit credence to an unauthenticated telegram from an unknown news ir correspondent. The NeW YORK HERALD has @ world-wide reputation but its. reputation ts not exactly for literal and prosaic accuracy, of statement. The silly falsehood which it published a few days ago about the Crown Princess of Prussia and Lord ¢ Russell intrigu- ing to get the Emperor to alter his decision on the San Juan veer in favor of England is a fair ex- ainple of the daring romances which are the staple of the HERALD's news. The firat telegram from Zanzibar was follawed up by a summary of what purported to letters from. Mr. | Stanley, and this was foufid to’ be forthe most part & ludicrously, inaccurate version of some of Dr. Livingstone’s. old. letters already published, with some scraps. of extremely confused and confusing information as to the cor- respondent's own movements. Mr. Stanley chose, for his own purposes; ito withhold all corroborative testimony. He par wished that the HERALD should have the first of his news, and he kept back the Jetiers with which Dr. Javingetanic had en- trusted him until aiter his arrival in Paris, As soon as Livingstone’s private letters were pro- duced all doubt was at an end. It prpears that in Awerica, where the Heap and Mr. Stan- ley are both better known than they afe here, Mr. Stanley's narrative was. received With resolute and’ persistent incredulity. At the dinner. on. Monday there was an abundant outpouring of the stale cant about com- mon } and common tongue, and it was sug- ested that the ‘ovation’ to Mr, Froude at New ‘ork and the dinner to Mr. Stanley in London Wo¥ld infailibly promote that brotherly Jove which has as yet been tmperfectly developed by the Geneva arbitration. It 1s unfortunate that the “ovation” to Mr, Froude should have, been diately followed by the declaration of the Naw York HARALD that there 1s an “irrepressible con- flict”? between England and the United states, which had better be settled at once by war. Itis unfortunate that Mr. Stanley, after discov- ering and assisting Dr. Livingstone, should have been the, means of breaking up what he possibly regarded as @ rival expedition, Lieutenant Daw- son unjustifiably threw up the command of the English qares on On hearing of Mr, Stanley's suc- cessful fourney, but Lieutenant Henn and Mr. Oswell Livingstone were willing to'procecd. “The party,” says Dr. Kirk, ‘were ready to start, and perhaps no expedition ever set out under better auspices or better fitted out, when Mr. Stan- ley, the American newspaper correspondent, who a year ago gone off, reached Bagomoyo. Mr. Staniey lost no time in assuring Lientenant Wenn that he had written orders from Dr. Livingstone to turn any expedi- tion he might meet coming x the country to him, and ipjormed Lieutenant Henn that he and his party would be far from welcome, and thelr pres- ence WAM an encumbrance, as he (Mr. Stanley) held the Doctor's own orders for a gang of men and the epecial supplies he still required.” The result was that the Englishmen abandoned the expedition, aiid that a portion of the supplies was gent on under the charge ef natives only. Whether they will ever reach Livingstone re- mains to he seen, but previous experience of the behavior of natives without European leadership is certainly not encou ing. The let- ters witich have this week been received from Dr. Livingstone express his deep regret and disap- pointment at the abandonment of the expe- ition, and show that Mr. Stanley Bn i misinterpreted the Doctor's instructions, althor he could hardly have been ignorant of the rounds on which those instructions were based. ivingstoié, as he says in his letter to Lord Granville, had been subjected to SP dkaeos in- convenience by the employment of slaves in- stead of freemen. The slaves, or their leaders, appropriated the stores with which they were en- trusted and left him destitute. This had caused him the loss of quite two years of time, inflicted on him eighteen hundred or two thousand miles of useless walking, imminent risk of violent death on four occasions and a loss of money as well, He was extremely anxious that no more slaves shculd be sent, and he therefore “requested Mr. Stanley to hire fifty freemen at Zanzibar, and, should he meet a party of slaves coming, by all means to send them back, no matter what expense had been incurred.” “I had no idea,” be adds, ‘that this would lead to the stop- age of an English expedition sent in the utmost ness to my aid.” So far from resenting the arrival of English explorers, he would have been glad to find work for them “as @ branch expedition to Lake Victoria, for which the naval officers selected were no doubt perfectly adapted.” It is probeio that Lieutenant Dawson now regrets the hasty and uowarrantable decision at which he ar- rived, AN UNFOUNDED FEAR, Cubsn Anxiety for the Safety of the Heraid Commissioner in the Ever Faithfal Isle. New YORE, Nov. 7, 1872. To THE EpiTOR OF THE HERALD :— We have seen to-day your despatches from Ha- vana, dated November 1, about Mr. Henderson's mission to Cuba libre, with the intention to see and report the truth of the state of the insurrection that has been sustained by the Cubans for four years in a constant struggle. In regard to this mission, we freely manifest to you and to the American ee le that our impression 1s, as we know the itt jardg well enough, that Mr, Hender- gon’é life will not be respected, and we would not be surprised that Mr. Henderson bas been killed in @ battle or by the Cubansin Cuda U or, perhaps, you may not hear any more of him. We know too ‘well the Spaniarda’ ferocity and villany. Should they assassinate Mr, Henderson they will do all in their power to put the vlame upon tlie Cubans, At this time, perha; ir. Henderson's sentence hae already been decreed between the oficers of the blue blood. jase to keep in your mind our impression and remark. We remain, sir, yours very reapectfully, SEVERAL CUBANS, A SUBSTITUTE FOR FLOGGING.—A Writer in the Pan Mall Gazette ion that instead of the appli- cation of the cat” to the backs and shoulders of garroters and other criminals, as at present prac- tised in London, they shonid be punished with severe currents of electricity or galvanism, which might be 40 managed as to give the most intense pain, yet not tear the Ankh or break bones, ! more like farmers in manner and appearance than ¥, NOVEMBER 9, 1872—TRIFLG SHEBT. COURTESY AND DISCOURTESY TO STANLEY { Full Particulars’ of the Dover Tragedy. THE INQUEST YESTERDAY. The Last Chapter of Love and Murder. Interviews with: the Dying Boriotti and with Luigi in Wis Prison, The Romance and Mystery of ‘Three Lives. Dover, N. J., Nov. 8, 1872. Dover is a straggling village of some two thou- sand inhabitants, situated on the Morris Canal, in Morris, county, and is cut in twain by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, at a distance of forty-twe miles from New York. The hills around contain deposits of iron ore, and among them are the hamlets of many miners, so that, With the population of a few square milea_ round about, the village proper, it claims to rival Morristown, the county seat. The people seem to be of average enterprise and intelligence, Uke townsfolk, and of that general character of those with whom a sensation, of whatever kind or Calibre, so that it is. local one, takes precedence over all affairs of state or nation. Under ordinary circumstances the late election would furnish food for ‘conversation here for weeks; but now all Political: questions dwindle into nothingness before, the red gloom of a. dastardly mur- der in their midst. At one end of the village, in the upper story of am under- taker’s shop, lies the gashed and gory corpse of @ woman yesterday fall of health, and rejoicing in a certaim dark beauty that even the coarse and unclean habiliments of poverty could not conceal. At the other extremity of the town the man with whom she had lived, and who, per- haps; she loved, fs stretched upon a pallet on the floor. struggling in the grasp of death. Both were young, and both were Italians, and their story is Sullof the passion and treachery with which the character of their race is ever painted, THE STORY OF BORIOTTI. Two years ago a young Htalian, fine-looking and Pleasant in manner, sober and industrious in bis habits, came to the, village of Dover, He had no Wealth save the little stock of shoemafers’ tools he carried in @ sack, and what may lie concealed | in robust health and an earnest intention to werk. He hired a basement and put up his sign over the door. He was found to be avery skilful workman, nd.the people flocked to bis shop. In ® few months he had to employ assistants, and s00n he had four or five men busy on his benches, At the end of a year he obtained the lease of a store inthe same building where he had begun so humbly, and) purchased in New York a fine stock Of goods, But clouds were gathering, and sud- denly they burst at an unexpected moment, involv- ing him in financial ruin, He was forced into bank- raptcy, and then began to unwind the thread that involved his all, and may yetend in his death. He learned that A MARRIED MAN might claim the sum of $700 from the wreck of his fortune in the Bankruptcy Courts, and he probably, at the same time, remembered a young Italian woman, of very comely features, who had long, Jet black tresses and tecth like pearls, whom he had met months before in the slums of the metropolis. He visited New York and brought back on his return this woman, whom he called Johanna, and introduced as his wife. Some of the people of the village understood that she was his workwoman and housekeeper, and all observed that she toiled hard and faithfully. But ‘about this time he went before the Commissioner of Bankruptcy and claimed the benefit of the $700 exemption ¢lause on the ground of his marriage, He took a little shop in the rear. of the store he had occupied and facing on another street, and in the one room worked, cat and slept. A long counter—a rélic-of hislarger venture--beneath which was the bed—a pallet on the foor—was the only parti- tion separating the place of cooking from the place of benches and shelves. This occurred in August, ‘and all kee that month and the succceding ‘ones till the black Thursday of this week came he was very happy. He sung at his re from morn- ing till night, and many of the old customers who bad forsake him with’ the first departure of lus good fortune came back. ALL THAT 18 KNOWN OF JONANNA LUIGI at the present mowentis that. she came from the art of Italy that had been the home of Boriotu. jhe was said tobe older than he. They give her Famt that he ha knows the meaning of nue. but waeleverane betes and fears nd. “4 “SHE WAS MY WIFE,” S he began, “We'llved ina rear _Baxteratreet. Iuever kiew the mua ore tknow the house. I always yrorned. 1 was not home all day. Once I came home aid @ woman and man were im my house; ere Usidg I 98 & place of assignation. I came in unexpectedly and saw everything. ee Wife she inust not let such Rivas hertouse nod to go away.” Tien Tame work.. and sw 8 man, not the shoemaker; he was leaning over my and her head was on his bosom. That wasin July. I went out and they did not see me. Then I inquired-and found my wife drunk and danced with men when I was to’ work. Alter that I saw something worse stil! and T cursed my wife. In August she went avy, Then I felt bad and Floved her. 1 fo ‘out where — was Sbe talked very tert to mse andayo English ed very me, and she talk: with the shoemaker, and 'I couldn't d. I was in the door, said something ‘and she drew ki and = tri to a ool Stab me in the abdomen, I ht her wrists quickly and tufned them over #0 the knife was id towards her, I hed so (here he de- Plcted the struggle), and then she fell dawm. She let go the knife, and I took it in my hand. Then he shoemaker struck me with the hammer. It made my head swim. I fell backwards and- struck out everywhere. I did’nt know I stabbed the shoe- maker then, I didn’t want to kilyhim, Ididn’t know him. I never saw him before, but lie saw my wife two years ago. ‘The wound is in my abdomen, where wife stabbed me when 1 her wriste, have no friends, only one, who is! my uncle, He has @ peanut stand in the street. I had m4 ald not Philippi, who cann ‘ not see 10 ot speak @ singh word of English, and who says nothing. , THE INQUEST TO-DAY, Though the pee was adjourned ,Meet at ten o’clock this morning, it wag not re- sumed titta quarter to twelve, owing to the. ab- sence of several jurors Who were officiating as pall- bearers at a funeral. The names of the jurors having been called by the Coroner, Mr. C. P. Gage, it was announced that Mr. James H. be tug ‘would appear for the Dis- trict Attorney. Henry McDavit, the who prevented the lynching of Lut With this exception, and that. the jurors, counsel and representatives of the papers and the HERALD, there were no more ‘ee or four persons mm the room. The knife with which, it ws leet she: Wee was committed was lying upon the le. Itisan old butcher’s knife, of iron—the steel having’ been all ground off—about seven inches in length. ‘The blade hooks over from a point, five and @ half inches front the handie, ‘so that it has the ap ance of an inverted letter J, with the turned uj portion a little elongated, ‘The handle and blade are marked with @ few blood stains, This knife ‘Was found across the road from where the mu was committed, anda ts supposed to have been thrown there by Phillippt. Dr. J. W. Condict was the first witness swérn, and testified that he had been epractiaty: ai~ ctan for twenty-five years; he ‘at. the woe shop of Bortotti at nine o'clock on Thursday morn- > and found him wounded and Dr. Crittende: attendance. (He here gave some testimo as to Boriotti’s wounds, when he Wane y the Al counsel Loo for the District and instructed by the Coroner to give énly Such testimony as applied to. tho .weman Fede red). le, with Drs. Crittenden and am! y, made & post-mortem éxamination ofgne woman’s ly at five o’clock on ihursday; the found two wounds; one of them was about amine from and below the junction of tne breast and collar bones; it was not a mortal wound; (the curved knife was here shown to witness, who stated this wound waa aciean punctured. wound, made by a knife blade of the same ‘one shown him) ; it was probably made ht blade, but could possibl: fave igo uf he A & kuife bent in the inquest; the been made of the one exhibited at wound on probing was'found to extend about an inch downwards and inwards, Another wound ‘was afterwards found upon the back about four and one-half inches from the centre of the spinal column and to the left. He opened the chest and found the right lung in @ healthy condition, The left lung was fitted with blood, and dark, coagu- Jated biood adhered to.it and to the chest. He re- (there was about a pint), @ punctured wound ent*ring the cheat between the sixth (aud) ‘seventh ribs. This was a continuation ef the wound we had before observed in the back, and the instrument inflicting it must: have been more tian four inches in length; the external orifice was from one-half to three-fourths of an inch ia length; the wound, from its internal hemorrhave, as well as from the clone of the. lung ‘vy blood, was necessarily fatal; blood exuded irom the mouth; it would be possible for a porsoh to inflict a wound with his or her own hand: death in this case resultéd from the filling of the, pulmonary Cells of the lungs with blood. The next testimony produced was the ante-mor- tem statement of Boriott/, taken by the Coroner, when, however, the Man was not asked if he be- lieved himself likely to dic and when the phy- sicians thought he wight recover, BORIOITUS ANTE-MORTEM STATEMENT, The following is the ante-mortem statement of Boriotti in its eriginal purity as it was taken down :— Morris County G. B. Boriottl, of Dover, m @olph township, county of Morris, being badly wound And toall appeirances mortally, belog duly sworn, on his oath saith:—That on the 7th Way of November, 4. D, i man he thinks came trom New York calied into nop and spoke to this woman who is now lying He sala toher, “You are my wife,” #he repiied, “I was our wite, but you did refuse. me for your wife., ine away. ‘You did fight me ihe ume when T was with you. On account of that Iwill not come with you. When T married you T had a little money. | When you ent alliny money he did retuse hor tor hie-wite.” haa sj 4 Ttold him that if she did noj Dt to £0. Wi now 1 would bring her in New. YOtK tn a few Gaye te sore of thelr relations: perhaps they, mizht persuade her to 9 and live with him fagaln. 'T told the man that was with him to tell him had better talk kindly to her and not make her mad, and then we can, DEPRaps, persuade her ain.’ After ‘he spoke to to live wi him — again. her he took the knife out of his pocket and stabbed the woman. She was standing near him, and this deponent was at work. on his workbench, and lyoked up and him stab her. I then rose up and tried to stop iim. He mtabbed me in the breast. Twice I called the other and told him to take the knife out of his hand, and .. Tho deponent being shown @ knife, recoxnized it as the one with which the stabbing was done. |Inever seen the knife before. It does not belong to me. The other man. stood near the woman when she was stabbed. He did not try to stop the man iroin stabbing the woman. After the woman was stabbe wentout doors and died, and I held fast (0 the ian andealled for age as twenty-seven. She was of medium height, | help. Ja Kell had a nicety-moulded figure and regular features. from men ‘sin. on Itausns be eee bi Her attraction, however, seems to have been | been in this country five years; have lived Mae eee at sem RRS AFOS ARG, BAK AMIE | Va Nery BPE ogi egares a ate Sete, Voethi She cares. married © to “Louis | 46 woman's ‘name wan Johanna Most she was al {3 he gives, his mame), and lived | italian; haye known her for many years; ‘she waa twen- with “nim in @ wretched rear tenement im | ty-four years of age; has been with me nearly four Baxter: street. “Chey quarrelied, and finally whe | months; she was my ‘maid servant; wai a woman of left htm to make her home with Boriotti, till the goad ohare Lae far, 90 a ori cathe which placed her Didody Ghd mati. | oe, "Raywed 7 her Tt Gunk: wes wie atalino, glee. form dm vhe coarse pine box where I saw it 0-day, THE SCENE AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE MURDER. As-you enter the door of Boriotti’s shop there is a@ bench, with its back to a sinall counter almost directly im front of you, and some eight fect uis- tant, against the Ww; to the left, is another bench. Upon this last, at nine o'clock on Thursday morning, Boriotti was sittiug when a stranger entered, and, Pe oroacning, the vacant bench, asked if he might be seated. The reply was “Certainly |? The stranger Jooked down the room ‘and saw the woman Johanna; lie polntea towards her , “That is wife.” She came for- ward and, speaking in Italian, said, “I was your wife, but you denied me. Iam your wife no lon- ? Then Luigi—for he was the strauger—re- Sfica, want gout COME HOME WITH ME} 1 LOVE YOU; I don’t want you to be@ bad.woman, You must come.”’ Finally the two walked up and down the Moor together aud talked earnestly. Boriotti, looking out of the window, sew another man, a stranger, standing outside watching the two who were walking, J then two customers (a Mr, McDavit and friend) came in. They remained a few moments and when they passed out left the door ajar, thinking the man outside was going in. A little while later the second stranger, an elder!: Hallan named | Philippi, and like Lat a working man, entered, and with him Bortott conver: in regard to the woman and her hus- band. Bortottl mek to Johanna, and they ‘conversed {n English. Phillippi went out upon the steps; Luigi and his wife went towards the door; there was @ quick altercation, a struggle and flashing of steel, and the woman fell forward on t! Bt thed in blood. Boriotti leaped jorward upon Luigi and struck him under the jeft ear with a hammer, then began crying, “MURDER! MURDER |? Some men came up and captured Luigi and Philippi. Boriotti went and sat down on the bench where Luigi had been sitting and suddenly fainted, It was then found that he been twice stabbed jn the breast and abdomen. Johanna was lying on her face on the steps, her hands stretched out and feeling the an Ny ogee — ve lifted up gasping, and the blood oozing from her lips. id @ moment she fell back dead. And this was the tragedy. Luigt and Phillippi were arrested. The excite- ment ran high and the miners’ threatened to lynch them. They were confronted with Boriotti, who Identified Luigi, and then with difficulty they were smuggled on board the train and en to the county jail at Morristown, LUIGNS BTORY—ANOTHER SAD PICTURE. CTURE. Late this afternoon I called upon the Sheriff at the jail in Morristown. [He was very busy, but took time to conduct me through the iron- gated corridor to the Fa solid oak door of Luigi's cell. en he locked me in for halfan hour and went back to his busi- ness. Lnigirose with a dazed uncertain air to meet me as iff were his executioner. The half hour spent. in his cell was @ painfal one. Of the score of intelligible English words that he can man- age to pronounce, #0 that their meaning may be peerery ,tne first he managed to frame were “Will they kill i” a Sate said, fearfally snd eagerly. “I don’t know, m: 7 mad. A. dozen tunes. he asked this question, and then the use of all his art of gesticulation and by a werful effort he told his story. He stood there rribly in earnest, pointing to blood stains upon his shirt and unintention: uly exhibiting the dried ore, like iron rust, upon his ear and throat. He fs of medinm height, slender, with eyes parched b; T never saw him before this morning. The two men charged with the crime being brought in, the deponent recognized the one Suswerkng, to the name of Louis Louis as the one who did the stabbing. He said Louis ‘was the man that he caught hold of an ye. G. BORLOTTI. Sworn and subscribed before me this seventh day of Poe. mber, A. D. 1872,—Uornznivs B, Gack, Justice of the r. Crittenden was next examined. He merely corroborated the testimony of Dr, Condict. Patrick Gaynor, sworn, testifed to having heard a@cry, and seeing a Straggle could not say he saw Luigi stab the woman, but heard him “she was my wife; 1 Killed her, and J am damned glad I did it. The inquest was adjourned till to-morrow. A RELATIVE OF THE DEAD WOMAN, At seven o'clock an uncle of the murdered wo man, Johanna Luigi, arrived here from New York; he seems stricken with grief, and he at once went to the undertaker’s to take charge of the body. BORLOTTI SINKING. At this time Borlotti, whom the physician claimed was out of danger 1m case no infammation set in, is sinking. He talked too mucii during the jayand as his breathing was dificult from the character of his injuries it seems to have lost him some chances of recovery. Still it is possible tor him to revive and rally with the quie id ress night will bring to him. TRISH MINES, (From the Belfast News Letter.) We have received from Mr, Gray, whose letters on our coal fields have caused considerable atten- tion to be given to the important question he is 80 ably discussing in our onanes greet 1- mens of Irish coa:, of various quality. peci- mens, which may be seen at our office, include cannel coal, gas coal, lignite and three other kinds, from the coal measares, al Island, county Tyrone; a specimen from true coal measures, Ballycastie, county Antri where several beds occur irom eighteen to it feet thick; @ specl- men of lignite, from Ballintoy, county Antrim, and another specimen of lignite from morris, in the same county. Mr. Gray will deal with the question himeelf, and we shall allude to it only in a business int al view. So far as the inquiry has one, aD only beginning, re am, evi- lence that we have plenty of coal Ire- land, some of it equal to anything prodtced in hnglana, and very little of it which not be turned to profitable account. Whi is there not an effort made to develop this t resource which nature has bestowed us? ‘hy are Irishmen #0 apathetic involvin; ( is bors, facilities for its man ture are Wo time to time under the notice of alist, yet the capitalists look on without mpi “any- thing practicable, while all classes are mi ing. We keep depending on Ly and coal, and we mus! pay w tever owners choose to demand, while it is known that in Antrim, and Leitrim, and elsewhere giected island there is as good we are buying from ba a pg Mla of poun ' in hing and we work mines, make ratlways, i Y everything which Toreigners tad us to doy but we pass by our own country and seem not to care what may be its fate. No wonder Ireland is taunted for her poverty when her children con- tribute to make her poor, No wonder our coal as any wi and Scotland. Wo foreign Fi do ite us ken and with ali that horrible mystery of a bumag belus who cannot read amd who is #0 igne- are discontent, when they are nnemployed and left to Work mischief, having nothing tse to work o&