The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1872, Page 5

—— THE JERSEY CITY MURDER. Arrest of the Alleged Mur- derer. Doris Fully Identified by the Dying Man—Ex- amination Before Justice Keese~Mr. Reche’s Statement-A Thrilling Scene in the City Hospital. John Doris, the alleged murderer of Thomas Donnelian, in Jersey City, was arrested yesterday morning by Officer McGowan and was locked up. He had the hardihood to return to the liquor store fs Dougherty and resume his duties as bartender, He was taken to the City Hospital, where Don- Rellan identified him as the man who fired the fatal thot, Justice Davis, who was present, took the fol- lowing ante-mortem statement of Donnellan:— 1, Thomas Donnellan, of the city of Jersey City and county of Hudson, was in Henderson street when I met John Loris and another man whose mame is Dougherty; the said John Doris did while thts deponent was standing in said street commit go assault on him by striking him with his fist; this deponent aiterward accompanied the said Jour Doris into the liquor saloon of Patrick Roche, and while in there this deponent asked Doris to fight him; that deponent struck at said Doris, when the said John Doris took from his ket one revolver pistol and discharged the same to the body of deponent, and did, with said pis- tol snot, wound deponent, and that deponent is Qow lying confined to bed in the hospital of said city of Jersey Vity, and that the life of Soponens, is now in danger from the effects of said shot; that the deponent fuily identifies the said John Doris, she man who is before him now, as the man who discharged the pistol at him and shot the depo- ent, He thereiore prays the said John Doris may arrested and dealt with as the law directs and justice may require. Justice Davis, addressing tho dying man, asked, “Ponnellan, is the man who shot you present?” Donnellan, without tho slightest hesitation, pointed to Doris and said, “You are the man.” Doris never winced, but chewed tobacco and feered at those present, as well as his victim, with indifierence. Justice Davis again asked, ‘Have you not made a mistake—is not the man standing next to the one pointed out the man that shot you? Here Donnellan made an effort to raise himself in the bed, and said, “No, sir; I know the devil too well; he is the man that shot me.” Doris all this time betrayed the coolness of one who would be deaf to all pass ing around him. An examination took place before Justice Keese. Patrick Roche gave the following testimony :— 1 am the keeper of a soloon at 28 Henderson street; | know Thomas Donnellan, who was shot in my saloon last night by John Doris; did not see the revolver, but saw Doris pull something from his coat and heard a shot follow immediately; Doris had his back to me and was facing Donnellan while Iwas behind the bar; Donnellan stood up for several moments; he said he was shot and showed me the wound; until then I did not actually know that he had been shot; the men Boris, Dougherty and _Donnellan came into the saloon in a quarrelsome manner, and the shooting followed within three or four minutes; I should not have thought any of them were under the influence of liquor; they may have been drinking; Doris and Dougierty came to- ward the bar when they came in, and Donnellan followed them, and accused Doris of striking him in the street; he said they dared not do it again; Dougherty asked him why he had called “police ;?’ he answered, to have them arrested if an eMcer came; Donnellan took off his coat and threw it over the bar and said, “Didn't the two of ep together lick me?’ Doris answered that they jad, aud would do it agam; Donneilan then hit Doris on the nose, bleeding it a little; Doris stepped back a couple of feet, drew his revolver from his overcoat pocket and shot him in the belly; Doris stood still ana said, “It served you right;” Michael Donahue. a man named Geary, Thomas McMahon and John Newman were in the saloon at the time; Donnellan asked me if I could donothing for him; I sent Newman for a clergyman, Geary for @ doctor and McMahon for the police; Doris ‘and Dougherty stood by the bar still and Donellan again asked me if Icould do nothing for him; I came from behind the bar and taking a stick tapped twice for an officer, repeating the signal, but got no answer; I returned and Doris had dis- appeared, had gone out the side door on Hender- gon street; he had taken off his overcoat and leit it on the bar; Dougherty said he did not know where Doris had gone; I said, “Is gone and you've got aeranne he’s his coat;”? when I went out I think Donohue and Geary were in the saloon; Dougherty said he had a call whistle; I took it and blew two of ee twice each time; | didn’t understand the call; I got no answer, but presently saw an officer on the oppesite side of Henderson street, and called to him, ae him why be had not answered me; he said I ha got called correctly and asked what was the matter ; Jtold him aman was lying on the floor insidé, shot; he came in and examined the man and saw the wound; he asked who shot him, and I said a man by the name of Doris; I pointed out Mr. Dougherty to him as Doris’ employer; Dougherty keeps a sa- Joon at Railroad avenue and Henderson street; in ® moment later Ofticer Kelly came in and a Btretcher was sent for and _ Donellan was taken to the hospital; Omicer Kelly took Mr. Dougherty into custody and the other officer kK me and the rest of the party down as witnesses; no doctor came while we were there; [ could not say positively whether Donellan was under the influence of liquor; he was not drunk; I think they had all been drinking, though they took nothing in my place; they were ina quarrelsome mood; Donellan did not strike Doris with anything except his fist; used no weapon whatever: Donel- lan was an industrious boy, and I never knew him to be arrested; I have never had any trouble with ‘any of the party; the affair occurred at a quarter to twelve o’clock by the clock in the barroom. (Doris’ overcoat was shown and identified.) Dr. William J. Scott sworn—Ii am physician at the Jersey City Hospital; there is a man by the name of Thomas Donellan under my charge; he came there about twenty minutes to one o'clock A. M. to- day; I was there at the time; I examined him after coming in and found a small’ opening, irregular in outline, about one-quarter of an inch in diameter, one inch to the left of and one half inch above the navel; it appeared to have been made some sort of a projectile; 1 was told it was @ pistol shot; that was the only external injury; the man at the time appeared to be sufferin; from a shock, the result of some sevete ina aid not probe the wound because I believed it dan aerue do so; I think he isin great danger of eath, Dougherty was held in the sum of $1,000 bail to appear asa witness in the case, there being no evidence to connect him with the murder. When arrested he wore the frieze overcoat of the alleged murderer, which was handed to him by Doris just before the shooting. Donelian is sinking fast. A HERALD reporter called at the City Hospital at nine o'clock last night and found the dying man surrounded by three members of his family. His sister rushed up to the reporter, mistaking him fora doctor, and asked, “iho you think he will live to-night?” The Super- responded in the negative by ® shake of the head. At this momeut his brother uttered a half-smothered crv, and the agonized patient drew up his legs and threw his arms loosely across the bed. With ‘a vacant stare he asked in a tone no louder than a whisper, ‘What time is it now?’ The meaning of this question was fearful. The las was fading from his eyes; the lamp of life was flickering. The thought that such a man, in all the aes of life, werful, Is Ne and hopeful, was drifting—hope- lessly drifting—through a cruel and merciless fate into eternity was terrible. He struggled in the effort ‘to cling to lie, but life was slipping from his grasp. “Oh, what time is it?’ was the question repeated. “Nine o’clock,” and the dying man turned over on his right side. His eyes roiled and he looked to- wards his sister, but he eaw her not, jor the scales were settling upon them. Drs, Hunt and Morris Bay that he may linger during the night, but if he survive till this morning it will be something re- ‘warkable, THE TRAGIO DEATH OF MR, BIEBER, Three Suicides in One Family. The suicide of Mr. George Bieber, the German, at 818 East Thirty-third street, by opening the arteries of his left wrist with a razor, was published in yes- terday’s HERALD. For many months past the de- ceased had been ill with consumption and for the Jast two weeks had not left his bed. During the temporary absence of his children from the room Mr. Bieber secured a razor aud used it with fatal effect, as stated, It i8 @ sorrowful and singular fact that two years ogo, the wife of deceased committed suicide in a imilar manner, and at anearlier period, during her residence in the old country, his mother opened the veins in her arm and died of hemorrhage. intendent GROUND TO DEATH, Watal Running Over Accident on a Railroad. Near the Hackensack bridge, about three o'clock yesterday morning, was found the dead body of an anknown man, frightiully mangled and yet warm. There are reasons for surmising that deceased 18 (dentical with a man who called at a hotel near the depot, in Newark, about midnight and was after- wards observed to clamber on the roof of tne mill- stone freight train. He was about five feet ten inches, ‘igit sair 41 blue syes. The remains were gaken 10 Newark for identification, 3 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. COX AND TREMAIN. A Pleasant Elect Episode. {From the Albany Evening Journal, Nov. 14.] We publish the following correspondence with great pleasure, itis highly honorable to both the distinguished gentlemen, It would be well if the kindly feeling it exhibits more frequently survived the unavoidable collisions of an exciting can- vass:— New York, Nov. 9, 1872, My Drar Sir—I received an Albany Journal with your jubilee speech, You were so kind and cour- teous as to speak of me in ® way that touched my heart. 1am sure it does honor to your character and impulses. During the campaicn—aside frem a little play- fulness now and then—I let no word escape me about yeu that you would not consider fair play or jair fight; and this is my gratification, that, amid the grossness of the campaign incidental to all our elections, you and I come out of it without. the Dipeolanse which se often blur victory and humiliate iefeat, 1am almost sorry that I cannot be your colleague in the next Congress, but I shall cheeriully retire to the “still air oi fey geen studies” in my library and to matters which I think are more congenial than leet’ and I much mistake it you do not attend the sittings of the Supreme Court at Wash- ington more than the sessions of Congres, With kind regard, &c., . 8. COX. Hon, LYMAN TREMAIN, ALBANY, Nov. 11, 1872, DeEaR SiR—Accept my thanks for the friendly sentiments expressed in your valued fayor of the 9th inst,, which, I assure you, are heartily reciprocated on my part. When I went to Hart's studio, in Florence, to view your excellent bust, with our mutual friend and your warm admirer, Captain Boyd, little did 1 dream that we should ever be opposing candidates lor the oftice of member of Congress, But, as dr. Lincoln truly observed, we are controlled by events and circumstances, The recent canvass, earnest and exciting as it has been, has left no rankling wounds in my oreast nor any other than the kindest personal feelings towards a gentleman so universally esteemed tor his genial qualities as my distinguished Epes Rejoicing in the conviction that our political an- tagonism has in no manner disturbed our personal relations, I have the honor to py ‘onra, very truly, DRENALN, Hon. 8. 8. Cox. THE MISSOURI INVESTIGATION. Testimony Taken Yesterday Before the Inspectors of Steamer Boilers—Too Many Cooks Crowding Around a Boat. The investigation into the burning of the Atlantic Mail Line’s steamer Missouri, which was burned off Elbow Key on the 234 ult., was commenced yester- day morning, at the Inspectors of Steamers’ ofice, 23 Pine street, before Inspectors Brainard, of Al- bany, and Mathews, of New York. ‘The first witness called was Patrick McGovern, one of the waiters on the Missouri. His testimony Was substantially as follows:. Myself and others of the crew were trying to lower the aft starboard boat, The Captain and others were working at the aft poop boat, which they got over all right, and when the men who were working at our boat saw this they ran and took possession of her, and all the steward’s de- partment crowded around the same boat, I went alt and got into the only boat that saved its crew. When our boat was goiten out to sea we saw the boat with nine men, which : HAD BEEN SWAMPED. They cried for us to assist them, and wo were fo- ing to their assistance when a passenger, named Outerbridge, objected to such a course, holding that our boat could hold no more and that by goin, after these nen we would endanger the lives of all in our craft; urged the crew to make for them and give them all the assistance we could; two sailors, named William Jones and Samuel Cohen, Said they would go to the boat and give them A CHANCE FOR LIFE, We carried our point and made for them, and in about fifteen or twenty minutes we reached them and threw them abucket to bail out their boat with; they wanted us to take them in our boat, but the passengers objected, saying that we could hold no more and that if any more got in WE WOULD BE IN ALL PROBABILITY SWAMPED, and if we took one we would have to take all. Jones, one of our crew, cried out for all hands but two to get out so as to give the two in the boat a chance to bail her out. One man got out, but as the others would not follow he got in again. I think if they had got out and had the boat properly bailed they would have been saved, We proposed to make Jones the commander of our boat, but as Captain Culmer had lived all his life around the Lute knew where we were he was put in com- mand. WE SIGHTED LAND about four o'clock in the afternoon, and were picked up by the schooner Spy at about six P. M. the same day. During the fire and while I was in the boat the sea was running hgh and the wind blew a gale. Samuel Cohen was next sworn. He said that the firemen and engineer took possession of the port boat, and that he and the captain, together with Mr. Brown, the first omMcer, tried to get the forward port boat launched; but, finding that was impossible, he ran aft and JUMPED OVERBOARD. The boat im which the survivors were saved icked him up. Every one did as he was ordered, andall available means were brought to extinguish the fire, but nothing seemed to have effect. The only way any of the women or children could have been saved was for them to have jumped over- board, as a boat could not live alongside, JERSEY BATTLING AGAINST CORRUPTION. pa anevane, “meee The Good Work Goes Bravely On—The Supreme Court Squelches the Convicted Police Commissioners of Jersey City— | The Greenville Troubles—Anotiaer Ef- fort for Bumsted. The present session of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, at Trenton, will be ever memorable on account of the important questions under consideration, The Court has already pre- vented flagrant frauds in Jersey City by timely action, and Messrs, Abbett and Ransom, who represent the taxpayers of Jersey City, are following up the advantages gained in behalf of popular rights, Yesterday morning the application of Mr. Ransom for a writ of mandamus and a writ of quo warranto to compel Ezekiel N. Pritchard, Thomas Edmondson, Thomas A, Gross and Frederick A. Goetze to deliver over to the Board of Police Commissioners of Jersey City, of which Board Wiliam D, Hart is President, all the papers, records, documents and other paraphernalia adie pac to the office of Police Commissioners, and which property the defendants are in unlawful possession of, was ranted by the Court and made returnable on next Weanesaay, when the matter wiil be fully argned by Messrs. Ransom and Abbett on the part of the relators and Messrs. Parker and Dixon on the part the defendants. A copy of the information of quo warranto was ordered to be served on each of the old commissioners as soon as possible. The case of Police Sergeant Robbins vs. Mayor O'Neill, of Jersey City, fora writ of mandamus to compel the Mayor to sign @ warrant for Robbins’ salary was again brought up yesterday and the Court set it down for argument next Wednesday, on which day there will be a final hearing. An application was made by Leon Abbett to the Supreme Court for a mandamus to compel the late Town Clerk and Treasurer of Greenville, Hudson county, to deliver up the books, papers and records of their office to the Town Clerk and Treasurer chosen at the late township election, The old oficers held possession of the books on the ground that the election was not legal, but the present omoere contended that the claimants could not go behind the election returns except upon a writ of quo warranto, and they had made no ap- plication for that. The Court, therefore, compelled them to deliver up the township books and papers to John Rowe, Clerk, and John Morrill, Treasurer, the newly elected officers, ‘An effort willbe made to procure the release of Bumsted from State Prison at the approaching ses- sion of the Court of Pardons, The evidence in the MeWilliams trial respecting him is to be submitted to the Court. ‘The case of the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company vs. The Mayor and Council of Hoboken was laid over till next term. None of the cases of assessment of property in Jersey City have yet been taken up. Mr, Abbett remelus unshaken in lis conviction that nearly all the assessments will be set aside. MILITARY VISITORS, First Regiment National Guard, Philadelphia, Coming to New York. Arrangements have been peifected, as an- nounced by Major Joseph Tobias, A. D. ©., on Major General Provost's staif, Philadelphia, fora visit toNew York city of the First regiment Na- tional Guard of the last-named city. The visit is fixed for the 26th inst., the anniversary of Evacua- tion Day, and the soldier boys of our National Guard will, with their characteristic hospitality to military visitors, spare uo pains to improve the opportunity of giving them a fitting and brilliant reception. The Dy ey of reception has not yet been formed, but it is certain that their visit will be a pleasant one. Unfortunately their stay will be bi as they leave Philadelphia on the 7:15 A. M. train and return at midnight. It is unnecessary to state that the First regi- ment of Philadelphia ts the crack regiment of that city, occupying the same social and military status that the Seventh regiment does here, Colonet James Latta, the popular commandant, will ac- company the regiment, As the Seventh of New York were entertained by the First when a were in Philadelphia it is probable thar they will claim the honor of doing the delightful for the Philadelphia boys on this ocgapion, ot | which eventually caused his death. OBITUARY. Francis Murdoch. Francis (Frank) Murdoch, the actor, died in Philadelphia on Thursday, the 14th instant, Mr. Murdoca gave promise of arriving at a leading Position on the American stage at an early day. He had fine talent ae an elocutionist and was deeply attached to the study of the histrionie art. He was the author of a number of plays and also @ writer of poetry. Lady Wrixon Beecher. The death of Miss Eliza O'Neill (Lady Wrixon Beecher by marriage) has just occurred in Eu- rope. She was, many years since, favorably known in the Old World and the New as an actress. Eliza O'Neill was the daughter of Mr, John O'Neill, the Manager of a company of strolling players, Her mother’s name was Featherstone. She acted at Drogheda, and subsequently in other cities of Ireiand—at first under her father’s manage- ment, afterward under that of a Mr. Taihot, who directed theatres m the Irish northern circuit. At Dublin she made @ hit as Portia. Sheil thers upon wrote for her his tragedy of ‘Adelaide; or, ‘the Emigrants.” Ultimately she was engaged for Covent Garden Theatre by John Kemble, Her Lon- don début was made there October 6, 1814, 18 Ju- let, and on the 1sth she acted Belvidere—making an unusual and startling tmpression in both. Her last appearance jin London was made on the 13tu of July, 1819, as Mrs, Halier, Shortly alter this she retired, finally and permanently, from the stage, becoming (December 18, 181%), the wife of Mr, Wil- ham Wrixon Beecher, MP.” This gentieman, iu 1831, Succeeded to an ancient baronetey, and 60 his wie beeame Lady Wrixon Beecher, She has been for a number of years a widow, he leaves & numerous family, As an actress Miss O'Neill was remarkable, aud in person she was a very beauli- ful woman, Frederick Welwitsch. Frederick Welwitach, M. D., a man well known in sclentific circies, and especially among the Old World savans who devote themselves te the study of botany, has just died in London, He expired in @little lodging room situated in Fitzroy atreet, near Tottenham Court road. The deceased devoted his whole lite to the study and explanation of the fora of Africa, He was on the West Coast of Africa for eighteen years, in the service o1 the Portuguese, and was present at the taking of Congo by them. He had collected 40,000 specimens of African flora, and was at the time of hia death engaged ina “Magnum Opus” upon them, His lodging, which wasalmost entirely filled with his specimens and books, so as hardly to aumit of locomotion, was a perfect curiosity, Flis best known work is on cer- tain African molluscs, John Russell. From Melbourne, Australia, we have a report of the death in the antipodal colony of John Russell, well and favorably known in England, America and Australia for his musical attainments. Mr, Russell was born in Liverpool, England, and was one of the founders of the Philharmonte Society in that town, «fe was also the founder of the Har- monic Society of Brooklyn, in 1849, In 1853 he went to Melbourne, and was the pioneer of music in that city, having been the jounder of the pre- sent Philharmonic Society of Melbourne, From that time until 1867 he was a lead- ing spirit in the socicty, and conducted no less than ninety-one of its concerts, introducing to Melbourne audiences the choral works of Beet- hoven, Handel, Mozart and Mendelssohn, and quite succeeded in instilling into the Australasian public a taste for high-class music. In the early part of 1867 he was selzed with a slight paralytic stroke, which gradually developed into the malady He went to England in 1868 in search of renewed health, but. the change had not the desired effect, and he re- turned to Melbourne in March last, only to end his days in the land of his adoption, at the age of sixty- seven years, Elijah Ridings. Elijah Ridings, a poet and English politician in humble life, expired quite lately in one of the hospitals of Manchester. He was born on the 27th of November, 1802, at Failsworth, and was con- sequently in his seventicth year at his death. His parents were silk weavers, with a family of fifteen children, of whom Ejah was the tenth, He was removed irom school at an early age in order that he might wind bobbins for his brothers and sisters, who were employed upon silk looms, Subsequently his family removed to Newton Heath, and he be- came a teacher in the Sunday school attached to St. George’s church, Oldham road. At @ later period he joined the Unitarian chapel, Dob lane, Failsworth, He still worked at the loom, but in his leisure read such books as came within his reach, particularly history and travels, In the year 1819, being then seventeen years of age, he Was appointed icader of a section of Parliamentary reformers at Newton Heath and Miles Platting on the memorable march to Peterloo; and he nar- rowly escaped being trampled by the yeomanry horses at the famous meeting on the 16th of August in that yea In 1826 he wrote a poem entitied “The Swan,” which was published in London, In coujunction with Mr. John Har- per Ridings originated the Miles Platting Zetitic Society, trom which sprung the Miles Platting Mechanics’ Institution. In 1529 he assisted in the compilation of the “National Commercial Directo- ry.” Afterwards he assisted in compiling the Liv- erpool and Birmingham directories; but bis health failing him he returued home, where he published a small collection of poems, entitled “The Village Muse.” Some of the poems were in the Lanca- shire dialect and of a humorous nature, and they became popular. Since then he has written “The Voiuntecr,”’ a rhyme cece ae by the British citi- n-soldier movement, and “Streams From an Old Fountain.” The great petition which was sent from Manchester praying that the Reform bill might pass into law was drawn up under the man- agement of Mr. R. Potter, M. P., Mr. G. Gill and Elijah Ridings, and the latter was employed to superintend the progress of the petition. To him, also, and his relative sand friends, is mainly attrib- utable the inclusion of the township of Newton Heath within the borough of Manchester, Later he became a lecturer on English literature, and he also delivered addresses in favor of the re- peal of the corn laws. He started a day school in Lamb lane, Collyhurst, but in 1832 a visitation of cholera leit him with only ten scholars, and the school was closed. In May of that year he married and took a public house in Butler street, Manchester, which he named the Falstaff and Bardolph. His poetical works were first pub- lished in a small book of eighty pages in 1840, In the year of the frst Exhibition m Hyde Park he wrote an ode, entitled, ‘fhe Isles of Britain.” “The Village Muse,” mentioned above, contained all the author's writings up to the year in which the work was published, about 1953, Deaths in British India. Our press files from Rangoon, India, dated on the loth of September, report the occurrence of the fol- lowing deaths in that quarter of Asia:— Major Tottenham, of the Queen's Army, whose promotion from Captain was gazetted on the 16th of July last, died at Ferozepore on the 6th of Sep- tember. The death is announced at Nagpore of Colonel G, W. Peyton, Commandant of the Twentieth Madras native infantry. ‘The Burmah papers report the death of Lieuten- fer Kyle, of Her Majesty's Forty-filth regiment, at fongi, ‘Stadt Assistant Surgeon Dickson, of the Nine- teenth regiment; Dr. boate, a medical practitioner, and Mr. Pratt, the 'y Missionary, have died of cholera at Allahabad. POLICE TRIALS, sinonliapinansstas Thomas F, Walsh made a complaint yesterday before Commissioner Manicrre against Captain Kennedy, of the Sixth precinct, for improper con- duct, It appeared from the testimony taken that Walsh is the keeper of a liquor saloon at No, 15 Chambers street. A fight occurred there some time since and a man named Melntee was severely beaten, Walsh called in @ policeman and caused the arrest of Mcintee, who, when he got to the station house, made a charge of assault and battery against Walsh. Upon this Captain Kennedy sent two policemen to arrest Waish, and when he arrived at the station house locked him up. The case was sent to the Tombs on the following morning and disposed of in the usual way. Walsh's friends, however, were very indignant at his incarceration and worked hard on the night of his arrest to pro- cure his release, but were unsuccessful, and the charge made yesterday morning was no doubt in- tended as @ ineans of getting even with the bee cIntee was placed on the stand before the Commissioner, and he stated that he was badiy beaten by three or four men; he was compelled to go to the hospital for treatment; his head and face were very much cut, Captain Kennedy testified that he sent two officers to arrest Mr, Walsh; he sent two because of the character of the men who irequented the place, Mr. Walsh desired to know what the Captain meant by “the character of the men who went to his house.’’ Captain Kennedy explained that there was always a “gang” about the saloon, He named several persons who he said were arrested there ior various offences, Some of these were convicted in the Courts and others of them had disappeared, The case was then postponed for the purpose of bearing further testimony. MR. STANLEY AND THE PRESS. The Discoverer of Livingstone Enter tained by the Journalists of Edin burgh. {From the Scotsman, Nov, 1, 1872. Taking advantage of his presence in this city a number of gentiemen connected with the Edin- burgh newspapers entertaincd Mr, Henry M. Stan- ley, the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone, to dinner yesterday afternoon In the Royal Hotel, (Mucgre- gor’s), Princes’ street. Covers were laid for up- wards of thirty gentiemcn, Mr. Charles Cooper, assistant editor of the Scolsman, acted as chairman, and Mr. Mnre, edl- tor of the Courant, as croupier. After dinner and the usual loyal toasts, the Chairman | proposed the health of the President of the United States. The toast was cordially reevived, and was acknowledged hy Colonel Robeson, the American Consul in Edinburgh, The Chairman afterwards gave the principal toast—the health of Mr, Stanley. In doing so he expressed the great pleasure which the membors of tie press of Bdin- | burgh felt in meeting Mr, Stanley. Ie considered | that their distinguished guest had a mplished the | greatest work in connection with journalistic enter- prise which had yet been achieved, and that the newspaper press had acquired additional Instre | from what he had doue, Mr, Stanley, in acknowl edging the toast, saluted the gentiemen who were present as brethren of tho quill, He passed on at once to notive the charge which had beon brought against him that he had been the means | of turning back the Livingstone Relief !xpedition, He explained that when he got down to the coast after his interview with Living- stone, he found Lieutenant Henn alone in charge, Lieutenant Dawson and New having gone off, Lieutenant Henn, when Mr, Stanley introduced himself, was standing upon a door-step, Inclining his head a little to one side, lie surveyed Mr. Stanley from top to toe, and, alter regaining the perpendicular and being apparently isfled, he said:—“Mr. Stanley, I congratulate you. You have done @ great work, Will you have a glass of | beer?” “With the greatest pleasure in the | world,” Mr. Stanley sald, and accordingly he had a glass of beer—oh, how pleasent it was!—the first glass of English beer to had tasted for eighteen months, There were slaves among those who composed the expedi- tion, and on mentioning to Lieutenant Henn that he had explicit instructions trom Dr. Livingstone to turn back any expeditions with slaves, the Lieu- tenant said, “I don’t care a straw for Dr, Living- stone; | am going to shoot elephants.” Thereupon Mr. Stanley told him that Dr. Livingstone did not need him, for the Doctor had enough of stor to supply his wants for three or tour years; that was the cause of the expedition being turned back he most heartily pleaced guilty of having been the means of sLorping it. Mr, Stanley went on to remark that while cach of the men who formed that expedition was, he belteved, competent to lead it into Africa, the expedition was comp: of elements which it would have been ioun sible to harmonize in African camp places in the world, men’s peculiar would show themselves, Mr. New, he took occasion to observe, was a very good man, but he was ag- gressively religious, which of course was quite in- consistent with young naval ofticers, Alter some al- lusions to the conduct of Dr. Kirk, and to his critics of the Re ieographical Society, Mr. Stan- ley said he was careful to observe that he did not blame that Soclety as a body, nor suca inen as Sir Henry Rawlinson, Captain Burton and Colonel Grant, to whose opinions and statements he would listen with respect; but the persons whom he specially referred to were Dr.Charles Beke (whom he had playtully termed Dr. Censure Bunkum), Mr. Francis Galton and some others of the same de- scription. In concluding, Mr. Stanley said he had acted ail along simply as a journalist, with no de- sire to obtain creait for courage or pluck or bravery, It was not till he arrived at Paris that he really knew what he had done, when people were waiting to grasp him by the hand and-entertain him and take his photograph; and had he, when he reached England, been told in the journals that he had done his duty well to the proprietor of the newspaper on which he served he would have con- sidered that the acme of praise. He hoped that his intercourse with those whom he had now the pleasure of meeting would not terminate with that svening. Among other toasts proposed were “Mr. James Gordon Bennett and the American Press,” the ‘Safe Return of Doctor Livingstone,” the “British Press” and “the Chairman.” The after- noon was most pleasantly spent. Mr. Stanley left the Waverley Bridge Station at fiftcen minutes past ten for London. Yesterday Mr. H. M. Stanley was entertained in the Council Chambers, Leith, by the Provost, Mag- istrates, and Council, to a banquet of cake and | wine. Invitations to’ meet Mr. Stanley were sent out to all the foreign Consuls, to clergymen repre- senting the various religious bodies in town, the | bankers, the chairman of the Leith Chamber of Commerce, the Colonel and other officers of volun- teers, the Moderator of the High Constables, the chief officials of the public departments in the town, &c. At a quarter-past one o’clock Mr. Stanley arrived in the Provost's cure riage, and was received by the Provost, Magis- trates and Councillors, On entering the Council Chambers he was rarinly aencied by the company present, Provost Watt took the ciiair, and aiter proposing the usual loyal toasts, gave the healtn of President Grant, to which Colonel Robson, United States Consul, responded, The Chairman next proposed the health of Mr, Stanley in a short but well-expressed speech, in which he poimted out the heroism and tact their guest had displayed in conducting his great enterprise, and the obli- gation which the nation was under to him, The toast was cordially responded to, Mr. Stanley briefly replied, excusing himself from making & long speect: on the ground that his time was short, ashe was compelled to proceed to London a night, and that he had nothing to say beyoad what he had said already, Mr.-Mactle proposed the health of Provost Watt. The last toast was that of Mr. James Gordon Bennett. In leaving, Mr. Stan- ley was loudly cheered by a loud concourse of peo- ple who had assembled on the strect to see him. After leaving the Council Chambers, Mr. Stanley drove to the Exchange Reading Room, where he entered his name in the “Strangers’ Visiting Book.” Before taking his departure three cheers were given for him by the gentlemen in the room. CONWAY ON STANLEY. The Victoria Medal and the Banquet of the Geographical Society. The following is an extract from a letter from M. D. Conway, the London correspondent of the Cin- cinnati Commercial, dated 22d ultimo:— All the recriminations, quarrels, suspicions, jealousies, divisions resulting from the audacious discovery of Livingstone by the correspondent of THe NEW YORK HERALD have ended. Yesterday the Geographical Society unanimously voted to Stanley the Victoria medal—that last the highest of the two it gives out annually (the other being the society’s medal), awarded to the man who has done the next highest service to geography during the year—and in the evening it entertained him at a grand banquet. Mr. Francis Galton was not, in- deed, present, the incident at the Mayor's Banquet in Brighton rendering it impossible, but all the other magnates who are in London were present. Sir Henry Rawlinson was in the chair and made the amende honorable for all previous infelicities of his own, and the whole thing ended in a sort of grand tableau, with apovheosis of Livingstone in the background, Stanley embracing Rawlinson in the | centre, supported by the Lord Mayor on one hand and the American Charge (Mr. Moran) on the other, with cascades of real champagne flowing and plen- tiful red light of eloquent enthusiasm irradiating the scene. Te tell the truth, the occasion was really an in- pressive one, and animportant one. It was im- portant because the divisions which have oc- curred have been serious enough to threaten the unity and usefulness of a society which, whatever may be said of it, contains the best Oriental learn- ing and the most experienced travellers in exist- ence, and is continuaily adding to human know- ledge. And it was impressive, bi se there was something undeniably romantic in the sight of the most eminent explorers and the gray-haired scholars, who have built up their reputation stone by stone in a lifetime, gatuered in homage around @ young man who, by one courageous stroke, had pL ae afeat unequalled in the annals of explo- ration. There was from the first no doubt whatever that the Geographical Society would vote Stanley their highest medal and offer him tie banquet, For the latter, however, they would haye lixed to have waited until the beginning of Winter, when the shooting season would be about over, and the various dukes and lords who regarded it as fatal to the British constitution to enter London at this time, could be present, But Mr. Stanley, when spoken to on the subject, was found to be under the necessity of leaving before the return hither of any of those 2,000 noblemen, who the other day, with the Prince of Wales at their head, chased @ Scottish fox all day and finally slew him, and so the banquet was set for last evening, Still, [have rarely seen a more in- fuential gathering than that at Willis’ rooms. These rooms, be it said, are in the aristocratic region of St.'James’, and there, with cupids sus- taining flowery festoons, or seated on clouds fres- coed over walls and ceiling, the swells generally o up their banquets. There were, indeed, two dinners in the same building last night, for it was the anniversary of the battle of Traialgar, and there is @ Trafalgar Club which dines there always on the anniversary in question, attracting all the naval grandees of the nation. ‘The “Abyssinian Comrades” also, of whom Stanley ts one, had pre- pared to give him Lt death dinner last evening, but they resolved to unite with the Geographical So- ciety. They attended in large numbers, and, bein: Jolly lle haA added certain elements of fin an freedom to the diuner such as the staid veterans of the Royal Moone ental would hardly have been equal to without their aid, THE HORSE DROPSY. Improvement of the Stables—The Fatal- ing of The heavy rain that fell on Thursday did not cause any serious ingrease. in the horse disease. It had been expected that many of the more enfechled animals would sutfer severely from chills, but this anticipation was fortunately not realized, and yesterday the principal stables on the cast side and the west side of the city had most favorable reports to make. The general belief now is that TUR EPIZOOTY HAS DONE ITs worst. In ali the stables the lingering effects of the disease are still apparent, but the only complaint made is that the horses are weak from the want o1 food and trom the strain put upon them by the work while they were sick, The usual signs of the dis- ve almost entirely disappeared, and a state of general convalescence is now announced by the doctors aud superintendents, This condition of affairs is of course subject to the exception of the dropsy, which has taken hold more or 41n nearly all the stables of the car and stage lines, The nur r of ho suffering from VR LAVEST SCOURGE is, however, con ly small, though it must be said that the fataiity in this form of the disease is great, In tho second avenue stables, which escaped w uily (rom the ravaves of the oplzooty in its i Stages, there are tive oan \ death has'oceu: ed. In the yoivd ay tables there ave enghtsen horses ick in very bad, and two died yeste Vhe general condition of these ¥ ig Very Tuveh improved. Thue Fourth Avenue Comprny have so far lust two horses, but. the general condition of the stables is good, and it ise ed the fui number of cars wil soon be again running, On the Sixth avenue line they have sus cases, and in all avout tity horses undt for work, the J: being. STILL WEAK FROM THE FPizoory. Only one hors) died here trom the dio; sy. In the Fighth avenue stables they have had only two raxes, one of which proved iatal, in the stabies of Madison avenue stage line one horse dicd yes- ¢ the terday and there are seven others atlicted; but the old iorms of the epizooty have neariy aitogether ad, On the Filth avenue stage line, they have had i death from dropsy and one case is now under treatment, Out of a stable of 420 horses here only about ten have died within six months— Including the warm weather of the summer and the troubles of the epizooty. The old evidences of the enpizooty have nearly all disappeared from this stable, The bracing air of yesterday was generally conside good for the tle, aud in every stable visited It was stated that ule epizooty now among the things that were, or at least very soon would be, disappeat The Sanitary Committee on the New Phase of the Horse Calamity. The Sanitary Committee made the following re- port yesterday to the Board of Health on the new form the horse disease has taken in the city:— ‘omuiittee respectfully report that they the new phase ot the epidemic amon purpura henorrhi ct or scurvy of the hun . The blood is deteriorated’ that it escapes from the vessels into the cellular tissties under the skin, so as tocause large cechymosis into and through the muc mcm oranes, giving rise to. bloody harges and into the eanceliated portions of th The re globules are In a state of disintegr: rum escaping from the vessels collects under the skin in the most dependent portions of the body, causing the appear- ances known as dropsy. The collections, it bloody, under the skin and the discharges from the ‘nose hive been maken for the swellings and discharges peculiar to glanders, iis destruction of the integrity of the blood seems to be eding fever, especially ave previously been poorly rked and Kept in ill-ventilated and filthy stables, Another and. powertul exciting cause is excessive medication during the ly exposure to cold, wet and iatigue poor and unnitritious diet during convalescence, These tuial complications are mostly found in horses which have been sick under the cireuinstances above mentioned and rarely in horses which have been carelully kept previous to the attack and well attended during’ anc r the fever, Horses ve ing trom this epidemic should have a highly 1d casily digested diet. To counteract the ten- deney curvy, iron compounds are usetul, and such foods should be especially selected as are rich in the nor- inal saline constituents of the blood and in any laceous compounds, Such are the various bulbous roots—viz., carrots, rutabaga, potatoes, &c. These, to be be boiléd and feve with a readily’ masticated and digested, should mixed with bran or other mash’ es tH! Sanitary STEPHEN SMITH, M. D.,¢ committee. MAGNUS GROSS, Horses in Brooklyn, The dropsy among the horses that have been ate tached by the epizooty is working sad havoc, There were six deaths among the equines at the Third Avenue Railroad Company’s stables yester- day, and several victims are reported from livery and private stables, The cars are run at from ten to eight minutes’ intervals, “HORSE NOTES, meet Colonel McDaniel, the owner of Harry Bassett, Jo Daniels, Hubbard, Tubman, Sue Ryder and several other fine race horses, has issued the fol- lowing racing challenge to the world:— Epitors TURF, FIELD AND FARM:— I authorize you to state that I will match my stable, three races, against any horse or horses in the world, to name at the post, two, three and four-mile heats, for ten or twenty thousand dollars each race. ‘The races to be run over the Saratoga Course, N. Y., any time between the last of July and the 1st of September, 187 & D. MCDANIEL, Princeton, N. J. The gray colt, Alroy, dam by Alexander’s Ab- daliah, two years old, recently purchased for $1,500, died on Sunday, November 3, at Midway, Ky. The famous four-mile racing mare, Annie Bush, reported broken down, is in active training at Mobile and will be formidable in the great $20,000 race at New Orleans in the Spring. A four days’ race meeting has been fixed to come off over the Pacific race track at Alameda, Cal., about the Ist of January, A four-mile-heat race will come off during the meeting. Helmbold, the race horse, will be trained for the great four-mile-heat race at New Orleans. He has entirely recovered from the injury to his leg re- ceived in exercise a year ago, The inaugural meeting of the Natchez Jockey Club will be held on the 19th, 20th, 2ist and 22d ins, London, Hollywood, Roger Hanson, a two-year old by Hiawatha and a yearling by Lightning, dam Zingara (full brother to London), the string of Tom Moore, have gone into Winter quarters at Mobile. George Rice has arrived at Mobile with Stock- wood, Wanderer, Annie Bush, Bessie Lee, C. 0. D. and Join McCormack, They will be worked on the Magnolia Course. The trotting horse Dreadnaught fell a victim to the prevailing epidemic in the early part of this week. Dreadnaught was well known on the turf and was trained by Alexander Patterson, Mr. John W. Conly’s stable of horses is having the epidemic in a mild form, Blackwood is the aos of the lot, naving symptoms of swelling in the legs. Breeding trotters on a large and liberal scale re- munerates the enterprise. Atleast Mr. Backman, of Stony Ford, Orange county, hag found it so, for he has sold in the last three years $200,000 worth of stock and $60,000 since the 1st of May last, ‘The famous trotting mare Sontag died at West Milbury, Mass.,on the 11th instant. Sontag was foaled In 1846, her sire being Harris’ Hambletonian, In 1855 ahe beat Lect Bl in 2:31, wagons and drivers weighing 300 The "two Thousand and One Thousand Guineas races for 1874 have closed with eighty-two and sixty-t subscribers respectively. These figures show an improvement on those of 1573 of eleven and nine in each race. Inveresk and Pompadour are matzhed for five hundred guineas, halt forfe:t, to run across the fat at Newmarket Second October meeting, 1873; In- veresk, 122 lbs.; Pompadour, 119 lbs.; both of them four years old, The Yorkshire Post (English), reporting the race meeting at Morecambe, October 31, says:—“During the gale of the previous night extensive devasta- tion had been wrought by the sea. The paddock, which had been fenced oif for the accommodation of the horses, was swept ig the judge's box being also carried out to sea. Hampers of beer, boxes of soda water, &c., which had deen left in the refreshment tent under the Grand Stand, floated away in various directions, and the interior of the department was wrecked.” jaron Rothschild has named his yearlings as follows :—Brother to Corisande, Beaconsfield; coit by King Tom out of Maid Marian, Helsthorpe ; colt by Rowsham ont of Fairy, Burston; brother to His Grace, Archduke; coit | King Tom out of Direc- tor's dam, Marsworth; filly by Lecturer out of ucen of the Vale, Science; filly by Lecturer out of jahala, Lectrice ; filly by North Lincoln out of Ny- anza, Lady May; filly by King Tom out of Mrs. Lin- coin, Czarina; tilly by King Tom or Lecturer out of Mincemeat, Quenelle; colt by North Lincoin out of Tourmalin, Cat's Eye} filly by Lecturer out of To- mato, Pimento. BLOOD'S BITTER BONDAGE. Colone! Blood Fully Committed. Justice Fowler yesterday rendered his decision in the case of Colonel Blood, charged with complicity in the Woodhull slander upon Mr. Challis, He was fully committed to anawer in defauit of $6,000 bail, 5 THE “VEILED HURDERESS.” ——e——— Singular Developments in the Female Prison at Sing Sing. eee How Henrietta Robinson, the Troy Borgia Bears Her Life Sentence—A Groundless Story Contradicted—The Woman Still Retains Her Intellectual Equilibrium—Remi- niscences of a Startling Tragedy. Among the twelve hundred graduates in the School of crime who are immured within the walls of the male and female prisous at Sing Sing there is, perhaps, none whose life presents more of ro- mance, mystery and moral obliquity than Henrietta Robinson, better known as “The Veiled Murder- ess.” This eccentric, inconsistent and wayward woman, who has already told of eighteen years of a Iife sentence in Sing Sing, is to-day as much of an enigma to those around her as she wits to the Court, counsel, jary and spectators when, in 1854, at Waterford, Saratoga county, she was placed on trial, convicted and sentenced to be executed for the destruction of two human lives by the subtle agency of poison, Busy rumors having again attracted attention to this mysterious and accomplished criminal by asserting that her intel- lect had at length tottered and given way under | the coustant pressure of that dark and terrible secret of which she is the sole custodian on earth, & HaraLp representative visited the prison yester- day for the purpose of ascertaining whether the statement alluded to had any foundation in fact. During a conversation with Warden Nelson and Rey, Mr. Schoonmaker, Chaplain of the prison, it was ascertained that while the mental faculties of Henrietta Robinson appear to be tor the most part as vigorous as at any time during her protracted incarceration, yet there are occasions when she evinces a moody, taciturn and repellant disposi- tion, which is kept up for days together. Although evidently UNDERGOING INTENSE EXCITEMENT during these unaccountable spells, she is never in the least degree boisterous or demonstrative, but coports herself, as is her wont, with a dignity bor- dering on haughtiness, While in her gloomy mo- ments the ‘Veiled Murderess” is seldom intruded upon hy the matron or her assistants, and the other convicts entertain for “Mrs, Robinson” a respect of sich a profound nature as to exclude the proba- bility of an interruption while the unhappy woman is communiny with her own BICTER, BURNING THOUGHTS, Having spent 80 many years in the prison, and having deported herself in an unex tionable manner, the woman named ts allowed many little indulgences not often granted to new arrivals or short-time convicts, Among these are the privileges of cating in a separate apartment trom all the other convicts, and of leaving the chapel when service is over on Sunday mornings a few moments before the not over-pious members of the convicted congregation are conducted to their res; ive Is. Many of these litter places, however, give evidences of feminine ingenuity and taste, the cultivation of choice flowers being a favorite pastiine with not a few of the female con- victs, Especially is this the case with Henrictta Robinson, whose ccli is a miniature conservatory embracing some RARE FLORAL PRODUCTIONS, while the snowy pallet and immediate surroundings at once denote that the occupant is one whose sense of refinement is of no ordinary nature. Although for many years past this singular person has had recourse to art while endeavoring to perpetuate the ruddy glow of youth and health upon her cheeks, the most rigid scrutiny has falied to dis- cover from whence she obtains the vermillion-hued cosmetic, and it has long been believed that the commodity is produced from some o1 her horticul- tural “companions” by a process known only to herself. This eccentric woman has admitted no one to her confidence during her incarceration, the chaplain being the only person to whom she has occasionally thrown off a slight portion of HER HABITUAL RESERVE, Whatever she may have communicated to him has been imparted under the seal of strict secrecy, which, of course, he religiously observes, Mr. Schoonma! however, states that ere many months shall have passed there may possibly be disclosures given to the public in regard to her case Which will present her in a different light to that in which she now stands, and perhaps materially alter public opinion in her favor, It should be mentioned that the chaplain, who at- tended her trial, has always expressed a belief in her entire innocence of the feariul crime for which The only way in which she has when cony she was convicted, aliuded to the traged, er of the prison oftic , “tf Tam guilty T have alrea verely punished.” She has p 3 disclose anything relating to her previous domestic history and family connections, saying, “If my freedom depends on telling Who iny relatives are, £ will die in prison,” It is believed, however, that she is allied to A FAMILY OF NOBLE BIRTIT in either England or Ireland. She shrinks from the gaze of strangers, but with those around her she is invariably modest and ladylike in her de- meanor, While ciinging to the hope of being ulti- timately pardoned, she still believes herself to be a victim of political animosity and ambition, 1t will doubtless be remembered by many read- ers of the HERALD that the crime charged against tta Robinson was that of causing the deaths mothy Lanagan, the keeper of a grocery store at Troy, N. Y., and also of Catharine Lubee, an un- married woman, by ADMINISTERING ARSENIC IN ALE, during the month of- May, 1853. In order to illus- trate the disposition of the accused it will only be necessary to quote the following incident, which was published in one of the Troy newspapers at the time of its occurrence;—"Tke prisoner was at this time in jail, awaiting her trial, and as usual, at the close of the Sessions, the Grand Jury visited the jail for the purpose of seeing its inmates.) They visited the different de- partments and found everything clean and in good order. Finally the jailer (Mr. Hegeman) offered to conduct them to the room of Mrs. Robinson, in compliance with their particalar request, as each one of them was very anxious to see her. The door was opened, and the Grand Jury with much dig- nity walked in, They surrounded a large rocking chair, in which SHE SAT CLOSELY VEILED. ee requested her to withdraw it; she made no response whatever, but sat perfectly silent and motionless. ‘Their anxiety was so great that they requested the jailer to remove the veil, which he respectfully de- clined to do, Finally, one of the jury stepped up and removed it himself, when, to their great sur- prise, no Mrs. Robinson was there, but, on the contrary, @ silk dress, neatly stuffed, after the latest Parisian fashion! The bird had flown, Where? ‘the jailer was asked if she had escaped. Search was instantly made. A slight titter was heard proceeding from under the bed. ‘The cur- tain was raised, and there she lay, so full of laughter that she could hardly contain herself, On her subsequent trial the plea of insanity was set up in her behalf, much against her wishes, and after one of her counsel had concluded an able argument, which lasted five hours, the prisoner leaned forward and whispered to him the following equivocal compliment, “A very able speech, Mr. ‘Townsend; but you might have said all that was necessary in fliteen minutes, The idea of my in- sanity is absurd.” When SENTENCE OF DEATIC was passed upon her by Judge Harris, who, in conciuding, invoked the interposition of the Almighty im behalf of her soul, the pris- oner sprung to her feet, and, facing the Court, said with emphasis, “You had better pray for your own soul,”’ et “Judge Harris, may the Judge of Judges be your judge.” She was then removed from Court, and her sentence was several months alterwards commuted to imprison- ment for life. Henrietta Robinson received the title of “The Veiled Murderess” from the circumstance that, during her examination and trial, she was so closely shronded in her veil as not to be easily identified, On these occasions several attempts were made to remove the veil, but she srmiy re- sisted them all, and even when compelled to do so by order of the Court she contrived by her hands or in some other way to eifectually screen her somewhat handsome features, Some of them very THE PATERSON STRIKE. Fifty silk weavers of Meyenberg, Prall & Co.'s establishment, in Paterson, yesterday joined the 176 strikers of the Phoenix Mill in consequence of a similar reduction of their wages, from filty to forty cents per yard, None of the other factories have yet followed in the reduction of wages, but the operatives say they will join the strikers if any such thing 18 attempted, and they will pecuntarily assist those on strike anyway. strikers deny their intention to make any trouble, and wili offer no interference even should their places be taken by new hands. The manufacturers still insist that they will close their shops rather than pay more than forty cents jad yard for plain goods hereafter while the operatives say they will never acce| t thal a ‘even if they are forced out of the country fon wor