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JAPAN. Herald Special Report from the German Capital. The Imperial! Asiatic Ambassadors Seeking En- lightenment Concerning Christianity, Project of Missionary Propagandism by Means of a State Church. A Prussian Savant on the Indestructible Vitality of the Seed of Faith, Universal Toleration and Freedom of Conscience the Grand and Saving Essential. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The following special despatch to the Henaww has been received from our corre- spondent in the German capital: — Berum, April 23, 1873, The Japanese Ambassadors, who have just zeturned to this city from St. Petersburg, have had a lengthy conference with an eminent German Professor of Jurisprudence regarding the propriety of endeavoring to establish Christianity as the state religion of the Jayfinese Empire. COMPLETE TOLERATION PREFERRABLE TO A STATE CHURCH. "The German Professor earnestly dissuaded them from the project. The Ambassadors, who had already come to regard the change as probable and a favorable one, listened eagerly and with profound attention to his reasons when the Professor adduced facts from the history of Christendom to show that the Christian religion ‘cannot be enforced by governments,”’ but that it is ‘‘vital only when it grows amongst a people and from a people.” He counselled the granting of full, complete religious liberty by the government of Japan 8 the most desirable course for the Imperial Executive to pursue, PROFOUNDLY ENLIGHTENED AND POLITELY GRATEFUL. The ambassadors expressed their satisfac- tion and thanked him for his advice. SPAIN. Parliamentary Right and the Power of Govern- ment—Madrid Military on the Alert— Commissions of Captains General Resigned—Madame Figu- ras’ Funeral. TELEGRAM 10 THE NEW YORK HERALD. Mapnip, April 23, 1873, The permanent Committee of the National As- g@embly held a session to-day. The Ministers were present at the meeting, and hopes are now entertained that an agreement will be reached between these two branches of the government. CITY EXCITEMENT AND MILITARY PRECAUTION. There was a great assemblage outside of the hall of Congress, where the permanent committee was im session, but there was no disturbance. The National Guard occupy a strategic position, and are held in readiness for any emergency. Unarmed troops paraded the streets of the city during the day. Though trouble of some kind had ‘een apprehended, all the shops were open. CAPTAINS GENERAL RESIGNING THEIR COMMISSIONS. General Pavia has resigned the Captain General- Ship of Madrid. General Velarde has resigned the Captain Gen- eralship of Catalonia, to which he was only recently appointed, in consequence of disapproval by the government of the rigorous measures he had taken to secure the re-establishment of discipline among ‘the troops under his command. FUNERAL OF MME. FIGUERAS. ‘The remains of the wife of President Figueras ‘were buried to-day. The funeral was attended by an immense number of persons, including the members of the government, the rorcigu Ministers ‘and other dignitaries. FRANCE. Politieal Alliance for the Coming Election Contest. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, April 23, 1873, M. Isaac Adolphe Cremieux, who was a member of the Government of National Defence on the 4th of September, 1870, is supporting Count de Remu- Sat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, for the vacant seat tm the National Assembly from this city, GERMANY, ‘The Beer Riot Reformers of Frankfort Held in Check by the Military. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, April 23, 1873, ‘It was expected that the persons incensed at the @dvance in the price of beer would renew their Fiotous demonstrations yesterday, and the mihtary guards throughout the city were strongly rein- forced. ‘The rioters, however, were overawed by the in- creased number of troops, and up to this morning Have remained quiet. It is now believed there (will be no more disorder. RUSSIA. Imperialist Preparation for a Visit to the Brit- ish Metropolis. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonpoy, April 23, 1873. His Imperial Highness the Czarowitz Alexander of Russia, accompanied by his wife, the Grand Ouchess Marie Dagmar, daughter of the King of Denmark, and sister of the Princess Alexandra, wife of the Prince of Wales, will visit London dur- ‘ng the month of May. OCEAN TELEGRAPHY. She Atlantic Cable Tariff Rate Advanced—$1 50 Gold Per Word. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, April 23, 1872, As intimated yesterday the managers of the At- ntic Cable Companies have determined to increase tariffs to 6s. ($1 50 gold) per word. The ad- vanced rate will go into effect on the ist ef May. fhe reason assigned for this heavy aadition te the ig the limited facilities for transmission, caused the interruption of communication by the cable. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. AFRICA. Herald Special Report from Khartoom, by Way of London. Sir Samuel Baker and the Members of His Party Said To Be Alive and in Health, An Agent of The Explorer Seen at the Pal- ace of the King of Gondokooro. Soldiers Sent Forward to His Aid and for Escort. TCLECFAM TO ‘THE_KEW ‘YORK HERALD. The following special despatch to the Hepzatp has been received from our corres- pondent at Khartoom—the capital of modern Nubia—on the Nile, by way of London: — Kuanrtoom, April 21, 1873, Amerchant named Bockour, who has just arrived here from Gondokooro, reports that Sir Samuel Baker and the members of his expe- ditionary party were well at Falookra. M. Bockour says he was present when Baker's agent came to the son of the King of Gendokooro and took two hundred soldiers to Falookra. This is trustworthy news. ~ ENGLAND. Rumored Suicide of an Earl—Agricultural ? Prospects. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, April 23, 1873, There isa rumor in London this evening that Ear! De La Warr has committed suicide. Charles Richard Sackville West, Earl De La Warr and Viscount Cantilupe, C. B., is a major general in the British army, an officer of the Le- gion of Honor, and highly distinguished for his services in India and the Crimea, He is High §tewart of Stratford-upon-Avon. He was born oh the 15th of November, in the year 1815, and succeeded to the earldom on the 23d of February, in the year 1869. AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. - The weather to-day throughout England is fair and favorable to the crops. “A PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ex-Mayor Innis, of Poughkeepsie, is at the Met+ ropolitan Hotel. General W. b. Franklin, of Hartford, has arrived at the Glenham Hotel. General Hancock and aids were at Barnum’s Hotel in Baltimore yesterday. Ex-Mayor, H. G. Eastman, of Poughkeepsie, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Charles W. Kennedy, of the steamship Baltic, is at the Grand Central Hotel. Ex-Mayor Verry, of Springfield, Mass., is not dead, as reported, but is still Verry lively. John W. Young, a son of Brigham, is in town ‘with his third wife, a former Miss Libby Canfield. Senator Cole’s tamily, with Jesse Grant, a son of the President, arrived in San Francisco on Tuesday night, Hon, Jason B. Brown, the new Secretary of Wyoming Territory, arrived in Cheyenne on Mon- day. The Vomte D’Eu and the Princess Imperial of Brazil are going to Europe to spend the Summer there. The Elmira Advertiser (republican) believes State Senator Harrower innocent of official cor- ruption. Governor Bovth, of California, and Sam Bowles, of Sprin gfleld, Mass., arrived in Salt Lake City yes" terday, on a brief visit. J, H. Devereaux, of Cleveland, General Manager of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Dr. E. Thomas, the slaughtered Peace Commis- sioner, had his life insured for $10,000, which will inure to the benefit of his family. The “Age of Steel’ is the subject of an editorial in the Coal and Iron Record, It probably was writ- ten for the latitude of Washington, J. Y. Buchanan is not the captain of Her Britan- nic Majesty’s steamship Challenger. On the con- trary, J. Y. Buchanan is the civilian chemist of the expedition. Mr. Wash. de Pauw, of Louisville, Ky., has sus pended labor in his glass works on Sunday. He “washes his bands’’ of any intention to violate the Lord’s Day. Colonel N. Zeverly, editor of the Unterrified Dem- ocrat, publishea in Linn, Osage county, Mo., died suddenly on the 14th instant, from an overdose of morphine, The average Londoner 1s in the habit of mistak- ing disused pumps for letter bexes, and of putting his letters in the slitsin which the handles were wont to work. “You've got the symptoms,” is the way of ex- plaining it when a member of the Kentucky Legis- lature appears on a railroad train under the in- fluence of a “Bourbon flush.” William W. Eaton, of Hartford, will be Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives. He is an old democratic war horse, 80 straight that he sometimes ‘Jeans backward,” Baron de Bussierre, of France, yesterday arrived at the Sturtevant House. The Baron is the hus- band of an American heiress, a daughter of Ben Halliday, the Pacific coast millionnaire.g There are already eight candidates in the fleld for Mayor of Jeffersonville, Ind. What extenu- ating circumstances can be adduced for bringing so many horses into a single race? They can’t all be Mayors. The venerable Thurlow Weed is endeavoring to clear up the mystery about the antnorship of the letters of “Junius.” We rather think he will find it @ more dificult task than getting a New York city charter through our Legisiature. A correspondent of an Eastern paper recalls the fact that forty years ago, in Florida, at a peace conference, under a flag of trace, between the Indians and white troops, the American com- mander was treacherously shot dead by Osceola, Seminole chief, who died a lingering death in prison. Mr. Carl Hetnzer, editor of the radical German weekly, the Pioneer, of Boston, has been offered, by telegraph, a coloneley in the Dutch army operating in Sumatra. Mr. Heinzer formerly served with distinction and gallantry in that army on the Isiand of Java, It is understood that he will accept the offer. The following circulates in London as Gladstone's only rales though, perhaps, the Gladstone who wrote it was not ‘the people’s William :"— Here le the bon A tnidhless friends a bitter toe Whither his restless spirit’s ted Cannot be thought of—much less said. If to the roalms of peace and love, Farewell to iness above; = And it he's gone to a lower level, All must commiserate the devil. The Prince of Wales was recently installed as Most Eminent Grand Master of the Knights Tem- plar of England and Ireland, The Saturday Re- view is severe on this “Brummagen chivairy,” and the Spectator calls it “marvellous, transmog- rifled resuscitation of knights all in dust,” It talks of “tomfoolery and merryandrewism.” The Review reminds the Coming K-—— that “life is not all beer and skitties.”” Alkert Edward seems to be like the enfant terrible, whose elderly friends are always expecting him to didgrace them ip the eyes -L of she company. ‘ A FEAST OF MUSIC. Second Night of Thomas’ Festival—Ri: del and Mendelssohn as Interpreted by the Boston Chorus, The second performance of Thomas’ musical fes- tival showed no diminution of public interest in the good work undertaken by the young pioneer of art. The hall was crowded and the enthusiasm even greater than on the preceding even- ing. The programme consisted of selections frem “Israel in Egypt” and the “Hymn of Praise,” by Mendelssohn, The choral and orchestral parts in each were fully equa! to the high expectations formed of them as tar as the rendering is concerned. There was a feeling of disappointment in the minds of the bearers when the few selections trem Handel's work came to an end, This feeling was caused by the thought that, witn the transcendant majesty of the five cho- ruses sung and che finished rendering they received, the audience had not enough of the grand old master. The “Hymn of Praise” is @ gem of beauty whioh can never fail to have a host of admirers, but it israther unfortunately located when it follows a chorus from what may be considered as the most sublime Choral work that ever emanated {rom the human brain, Few people present at the performance, who were well acquainted with the King of Ora- torios, but would have preferred to hear that grand chain of choruses commencing with “He Spake the Word,” and ending with “I will Sing unto the Lord,” to the “Lobgesang,” charm- ing though it may be. There is a rugged majesty and sublimity about “Israel in Egypt,” which when interpreted by such an able chorus as that of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society carries every- thing before it, The selections made were in the following order:—Opening recitative, double chorus, “And the Children of Israel;’’ tenor air, “The Enemy Said;” double chorus, “He Gave Them Hatstones;” double chorus, “The Lord Shall Reign Forever ;" recitative, double chorus, “I Will Sing unto the Lord, for He Hath Triumphed Gloriously. The Horse and His Rider Hath He Thrown Into the Sea.” Both chorus and orchestra covered themselves with glory in the double or eight part choruses. It would be dinicult to recatl to memory such an effective rendering of the ‘*Hatlstone Chorus.” The tempo was dangerously fast for aught put a well disciplined body of sing- ers and instrumentalists, and yet not a point of the sublime phrases of the composer was lost. Words and music were clearly expressed with an unanimity of spirit and effect such as only many years pf constant association and practice on the part of the singers could roduce. “The Horse and his Rider,’’ with all ts enormous difficulties and grand ideas was equally eifective. Mr. Nelson Varley displayed more animation and dramatic spirit than we gave him credit for in the air ‘*The Enemy Said.” It is a ity that this Immortal work should be so tittle ‘uown to the public of New York. It is like the vertebra of the American continent, the Rocky Mountains and the Cordilleras, a grand unbrokea chain of choral eminences soaring into heights which constitute the musical empyrean. England deserves praise tor her fidelity to the teachings of the great apostle of music who came to her shores in the last century, for in no other country is the music of Handel so well known and so well appre- ciated. Shall New York, through the insincerit; and apathy of @ few vocal organizations, be le: in an Egyptian darkness in regard to his works ? ve should certainly be able to organize a Handel Society in this ots as the materials for & chorus are abundant. lendelssohn’s work gave fresh evidence of the high training of the chorus and the weakness of we at ae Kd ae pinta SS the first jonors 1g deli! Symphony which precedes. the cantatd. Sareea a inched —aidest008 Si Hote alegretto un poco agitato and adagio re- f? ‘were delivered with a spirit almost amounting to enthusiasm, an unanimity of tone and feeling, as if there was but one huge instru- ment combining every orchestral effect, and a promptness and distinctness in phrasing, reaching the regularity ef clockwork. ie opening chorus, “All Men,” showed a slight weakness in the tenors of the society, enough to mar the nicety of bal- ance of tone Which should exist in such @ joyous movement. Mrs. J. H. West then sang the spirited “Prawe Thou the Lord,’ accompanied by the deli- cate choral passages that comme in at intervals. She did not remove the unfavorable impression conveyed on the first evening of the festival, but rather confirmed it. The tenor air, “He Countetn All Yeur Sorrows,” was sung by Mr. Variey with the ease and finish ot a true oratorio artist, but the same “throaty” defects in his voice were distinctly perceptible. Notning could be more Veautiful in rendering than the chorus, “All ye that cried unto the Lord.’’ The duet and chorus, “[ waited for the Lord,” is, perhaps, one of the most attractive jeatures of the cantata; but neither of the ladies who undertook the duet was capable of giving it the effect it demanded. It is singular that the leading soprano will insis: upon constantly singing F fat. This note throughout the cantata seemed to baMe her, The chorus created quite a furor by their splendid interpretation of the cen- cluding number, “Ye Nations.” The orchestra was not behind the chorus in efi. ciency. In the stermy phrases of Handel and the full, rich harmonies of Mendelssohn, this admir- able body of instrumentalists were equaily efficient. Strings, reeds and brasses in this orchestra are so admirably blended that one can only hear the combined effect, without being able to detect a Qredominance in any one department. Mr. Oarl Zerrahn, who conducted on the occasion, had an agreeable task to perform, and no small share of the success of the pertorm- ance is duc to him. It is no easy task wo be pilot on such occasion, where rocks and shoals threaten the musicai bark at every point, A rehearsal of the two works performed last evening took place a few _ hours before, commencing at one o'clock. The hali was literally crowded, even to the second het with ladies. So far the costly enterprise of Theodore Thomas has borne good fruit, and the subscriptions tor Friday and Saturday are pouring in at such a rate that not a seat wii be vacant at the concluding performances. This evening the oratorio of “Elijah” will be given at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with the same grand ensemble that character- ized its presentation hereon Tuesday night, SUIT AGAINST THE PIEDMONT RAILROAD, Legal proceedings have for some time been pend- ing in the Courts against the Piedmont Railroad in Virginia, on a mortgage. Application was made to the Attorney General to seize the road under the act of 1861, on the ground that it was confis- cated to the government, having been constructed and used in the interest of the rebellion. The At- vorney General has just decided that the President's prociatiation of paYdon of 1568 operated 86 as to restore to the corporators or stockholders all their Tights; and, therefore, the right of the government to seize the road is debarred. The District Attor- ney has been directed to discentinue proeeedings and to foreclose the mortgage given te the Con- federate government, on the ground that the con- tract is a nullity, A)! proceedings against the road will be dropped, The interests at issue were about a million and a half of dollars. ~L BELKNAP AND SHEKIDAN, Great Enthw im of the People of Texas Over the Sceretary of War and “Little”? General Phil. BROWNSVILLE, Texas, April 23, 1873. Secretary of War Belknap and General Phil. Sheridan and party left Ringgold barracks, 120 miles abov#here, for this place yesterday, and are expected here to-morrow. The City Council ten- dered them the freedom of the city and appointed a committee to meet and escort them into town. Preparations are being made to extend a hearty welcome to these distinguished persons by our peo- ple generally without distinction of party. OBITUARY. Paul Grout. Paul Grout, one of the oldest New York poll- ticians of the century, has just closed his existence at his residence in Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, E. D., at the advanced age of seventy-nine years. The deceased was very active in politics halfa century ago, and was a member of the Tammany Society as tar back as 1830. He was subsequently elected & member of the Assembly, and fill nu- merous local offices between that period and the succeeding fifteen or twenty years, His death re- sulted trom paralysis, CINCINNATI STATISTIOS, CINCINNATI, April 23, 1873, The annual report of Captain H. H. Tatem, Sec retary of the Board of Trade, is published, From the report it appears the total value of the manu- factures of the city for the year 1872 was $143,- 400,000, @ gain over the preceding year of $7,500,000, The manuwactures of iron reached $26,750,000; Liquors, $21,500,000; food, $17,750,000; wood, $15,- 250,000; clothing, $13,000,000;’ leather, $8,000,000; tobacco, $5,500,000; soap, candles and olls, $5, 500,000,’ All'these departments show an increase over the [ene J year with the exception of tobacco, The heaviest increase 1s in tron manufac: tures, which {8 $3,500,000, and the number of hands employed in the manufactures is 58,600, THE NATIONAL GAME, Boston, April 23, 1873. The first game of base ball of the season here for the champtonship was played between the Philadelphia Club and Boston nine to-day. The Pyiladelphia Club WoR—8 to 5, SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Annie Hennessy, a Young Married Woman, in a Fit of Melan- choly Murders Two of Her Children. The Boys Strangled and Their Bodies Then Roasted.. FEARFUL SCENE IN THE STATION HOUSE. The Bodies Found in a Washtub Stripped Naked. Particulars of the Horrible Occurrence, One of the most sickening tragedies that has oc- curred in this city for years was enacted last night in the tenement house, No, 87 Third street. Mrs. Hennessy, who occupied a back room onthe fifth floor, ina fit ot melancholy or puerperal mania, killed her two little sons, George, aged three years, and Francis, aged five months, About eleven o’clock last evening intelligence Was brought to the Seventeenth precinct station house by Dr. Thompson of Twelfth street, that he had been called to the tenement house above men- tioned, when he found the two dead bodies of the children in @ washtub and the mother sitting at the edge of the bed in a state of insanity. He immediately, finding that he could be of no use, went to the station house and informed the police of the terrible occurrence. The Captain and a couple of officers instantly repaired to the scene of the tragedy. The house 18 & most respectable one in the exterior, and 1s situated in a very quiet neighborhood. The peo- ple im the vicinity had not heard of the matter when the pelice came, and in consequence there was not the slightest excitement when the police arrived. The Captain proceeded up stairs, accom- panied by the Doctor and the officers, and the fear- ful spectacle met his view. Lying in the washtub, within two feet of the stove, were the bodies of the two * INNOCENT AND UNFORTUNATE CHILDREN, They were completely naked, and so mutilated that their features were not recognisable, The flesh had been burned from their faces and shoulders, the eyes had been roasted from their sockets, and the lips of the little ones were awfully disfigured and swollen toan unnatual size, The unconscious cause of all this misery sat upon the bed without speech or motion, evidently not having the slightest idea of the murders she had perpe- {rated, All efforts to make ber conscious of the occurrence were unavailing; her features wore an expression of the deepest melancholy, but she manifested neither regret for, or knowledge of, the death of her children, ‘Tne bodies were covered over with a white cloth and removed to the station house, and the mother was arrested by Captain Walsh. The facta of the fearful affair are as follows:—George Hen- nessy, the husband of the woman and father of the children, came home from his work about half- pastseven o’clock. He is by trade a shoemaker, and works with his father on the corner of Nassau and Fulton streets, The apartments occupied by the Hennessys, as = stated before, are on the top floor of the house and consist of three rooms, a kitchen a sitting- room, and a@bedroom. The kitchen is the outer room, and when Hennessey came to this door he found it locked. He knocked repeatedly, but re- ceived, no response for more than half an hour. At last the door was opened by Mrs. Hennessey, and, by the dim twilight, the first sight that met his view was the tub containing the bodies of the children. His wife clutched him by the arm, and in an unearthly voice said, “George,” at the same time pointing te the tub, “the children are all right—they are happy now.” She repeated this several times and then said, “I will soon be happy too.” The feelings of the unfortunate husband at the pitiable avowal, and the thought of the fate that had overtaken his innocent offspring, can be better imagined than described. He was almost stunned by the catastrophe, and for more than an hour could scarceiy persuade himself that it was not A FEARFUL DREAM. When he had somewhat recovered he thought that it would be well to summon assistance, and was about going out when the poor woman clung to him and endeavored to draw him back, She seemed to be apprehensive of some dread calam- ity; but after the first mention of the children she did not again allude to them, and seemed to have forgotten them completely, One of the strangest features of the case was the faet that the eldest child of the woman, a littie girl aged five, was peacefully sleeping in bed tn the nner room untouched. How it was that the life of this child was spared while the others were sa- crificed it was impossible to say; but the people o¢ the house say that she had been playing upon the street up to a late hour in the afternoon, and from the appearance of the bodies and their coladess, it Was evident that the children had been killed in the early part of the day. When Mr. Henessey returned the fre had burned com- pletely out in the store, and there was no light in the room, save what was afforded by the dying day. When the husband had succeeded in pacify- ing the wretched woman he was about to take the little girl out of the room and go for assistance, but she would not let the child be disturbed. From the manner in which the bodies were distig- ured the doctors suppose that death had been caused by STRANGULATION AND STABBING, after which the dead bodies had been roasted on the stove. Whether they had been denuded of their clothing before being murdered or not could not be ascertained, but they had been stripped before being put upon the stove, as the garments were found ia a corner of the room without being singed. The apartment was pervaded with the sickening smell of burned flesh, which remained in it after the tub and its bloody centents had been removed. The people living in the tenement heuse—and it is thickly inhabitea—heard no unusual noise during the day, the house not being in the least disturbed by the crying of children, So quietly had the crime (if crime it may be called under the circumstances) been com- mitted that noone knew ef it until the husband returned; and even after the arrest had been made and the bodies taken most ef the residents of the tenement house had no idea ef the feariul tragedy that had been enacted in their midst, A reporter of the HERALD, who made inquiries in @ saloon next to the tenement house, was astonished to find that the people in the saloon had no idea of what happened, as there had been no excitement or unusual noise in the locality. The stove in the chen was covered with fragments of hair and ened flesh, a8 was the floor around, which was also thickly sprinkled with blood, When the BODIES WERE TAKEN TO THE STATION HOUSE a chair was provided for the woman, and an ambu- lance was telegraphed for to Bellevue Hospital, A reporter of the HERALD got to the station house before the Woman Was removed to the hospital and while the police surgeons were still in attendance upon her. She sat in the seat, her face as pale as ashes, her eyes wild and wandering, and her whole appe: jee eXpressive of insanity, mingled with mela . Hennessy is a native of Dabiin, nd is about twenty-six years old, When th she must have been an extremely beautiful woman, and as it is she is still very interestin, Sgt! ‘She is of medium height and of slight build, and her features are small and regular, Her te dark, as is her hair, and her forehead denotes that she has been a woman of more than ordinary intelligence. It was impos- sible to look upon her without entertaining a Ieel- ing of the deepest commiseration for her, She [is not speak any one while in the station house until the arrival of the ambulance surgeon. Several of the oilcerg, the Captain agd the doctors { endeavered to draw some word from her, but witn- out success, as she spoke to no one, and was evidently unconscious of the piace where she of the presence of those around her. A plain woollen shawl was thrown over her Ces pare | and the rest of her dresswas neat “pot much disordered. Bar EapreParee aca haad toes ts pout ut kept her eyes vacan q) le groun Her Husband. accompanied her to the station house, and after detatling what he knew to the Captain he returned to his desolated home to see after his iittle girl. he tub was placed under the rear window of the inner room of the station house. | {t is ef ordi- hary size, and the bedy of the older child haa been evidently bent betere it was crushed in. The chil- aren lay with their arms entwined around each other, their heads at the bottom of the tub and their feet pointing upwards. The lower art of the bodies, from the breasts dewn, ad not been disagared, but the shoulders and faces were terribly burned, There were stabs in the necks of both of them, which had been inflicted with @ knife, and the necks had aiso been twisted by strangulation. The doctors were puzzled to know whether they had been strangled or stabbed. first, but incline to the opinion that they were strangled, as their cries would have doubtless alarmed the inmates of the house had they BEEN STABBED AT THE OUTSET, The ambulance arrived a little after twelve o'clock, and the surgeon in charge of it at once made an examination of the woman. Her pulse was high and feverish and the pupils of her eyes were greatly dilated. The doctor asked her, was she conscious of what she had done, but she made no reply, and gave an unmeaning look at her interrogator. He then asked her where she lived, and she answered, “89 Third street.’” “Betweem Second and Third avenues ?’ said the Doctor, and she faintly replied, “Between First and Second.” A glass of water was handed to her, and she took it in her hand, holding it for a mo- fens ae then set it down upon the table un- ed. By request of the captetn the ambulance sur- geon consented to take the bodies away with him, aud two officers lifted the tub and carried it to the conveyance. When the tub had been taken away Mrs, Hennessy looked around and said in a low tone, “It is very warm.” She then got up. and went and sat down by the window where the tub had been placed, Sbe remained here a few moments, and then orders were given for her re- moval. When the doctor teok her by the hand she made no resistance, but passively rose and accom- panied him, Her step was so weak and feeble that she had to be supported as she waiked, and was LIFTED INTO THE AMBULANCE by the police officers, The tub was already in the ambulance, and when the poor woman had been Soa, fixed the ambulance drove off with its ghastly load, A crowd was beginning to gather around the station house at the time, but most of those composing it were unaware of the excite- ment, and imagined that it was some sick woman who was betng taken to the hospital. Dr. McKay, the police surgeon who was in the station house, Sores by his father, stated to the reporter that the woman for the time being was completely insane, and had no more idea than. an infant of what she was doing when the children were killed. He says it is no unusual thing for women aiter confinement to be AFFLICTED WITH HALLUCINATION } but cases of gootperal Mania of so strongly pro- nounced and dangerous a nature as this are fortu- nately rare. The religious depression under which the woman has been suffering tor some time con- tributed largely to the act, as she may have thought that the killing of the children was the best thing she could do for their future good. The doctor says that the oper in all_proba- bility, will become fixed, though it is possible that the unfortunate woman may regain her reason. It would be better, under the circumstan she did not, as the memory of the fearful death of her children would be torture more than human nature could bear. The Coroner has been notified, and an inquest will be held as soon as practicable, WHAT THR HUSBAND SAYS, Quitting the harrowing scene in the station house the HERALD reporter, with aching heart, wended his way te the scene of the dreadfutslaugit ter. The house in which the family reside ts a five- stery brick double tenement, and is literally JAMMED WITH HUMAN BEINGS, no fewer than four families cocapying each floor, and yet, strange and inexplicable as it may seem, nota soul in this building heard any unusual noise in the apartment of Hennesy at any time during the day. Passing in at the front door, the reporter found himself in a long, narrow and dark hallway, through which he ped until he reached the staircase. This gained, he rapidi; ascended, picking his way by holding to and fol- lowing the course of the banister railing. Rap- ping gently at the door at the head of the last land- ing, under which a faint light dimly glimmered, the reporter was soon met by an old lady, who kindly requested him to enter, The apartment was a small one—probably ten by eight—and con- tained an ordinary sized range, atable on which were a number of dishes, many of them broken in small pieces, a few dilapidated chairs and a “rag’’ carpet. The range sits in the end of the room, to the left as you enter, and near this sat the HEARTBROKEN HUSBAND AND FATHER, @ man twenty-eight years of age, below the medium height and of slight build. His face was red and swollen from incessant weeping, but he struggled manfully to compose himseif on seein; the entrance of a stranger. Two other men stoot near him, one his brother-in-law, the other an old friend of his wife. The old lady who opened the door is a kind souled woman, occupying apart- ments in the house, and who had come in to do what she could to comfort and console the wretched man, On being asked to relate what he knew of the shocking affair the husband told his story as fol- lows:—‘*We were married in St. James church six years ago next September. My wife’s health was always delicate, but until the birth of our last babe, five months ago, she had managed to attend to ber household afairs, Since then she has been very weak and always exceedingly melan- choly. Often she would act strange, as though somewhat out of her mind, but she was never in the least violent towards any one, more especiuily the little ones, whom she actually wor- shipped. I have always tried to be kind and affec- tionate to her, God knoWws, and I have heiped and done for her whatever I could. Some three weeks ago she got up suddenly at night and DECLARED SHR WAS DYING. I hurried for a doctor, who, on arriving, pro- nounced it an attack of heart disease, and said it was very dangerous. During the past five or six days she has been more melancholy than ever, and oniy last night she sat up all night long, holding the youngest child in her arms. I implored her to come to bed, but sne would not. About two o'clock the lamp went ont and she catied me to fix it. I got up and lighted it and found the baby was ail uncovered and very cold. 1 asked her to cover it up, and she commenced crying and said it WAS DYING. 1 Pathe her fears and then went back to bed, and w en I got w in the morning there she sat, still holding ti She wae not able to get my _ breakfast, and I went to my work without any, first fixing up the rooms and doing what I ceuld for her comfort, When I came home this evening I found the door locked, and was unable to get her to open it for at least half an hour. Finally, she turned the key and drew back the bolt, and tnen, O, God what a sight met my eyes!” Here the poor man’s ants id completely gave way, and for several minutes he buried his face in his hands and wept as though his heart would burst. Presently, however, he became Lend composed to speak again, and he went on with h story. 4 Paw the children lying im the frais as you saw them at the station house, but I not know they were completely dead I rushed towards them, but my wife cavght hold of me and dd me not to touch them. Jasked her what she done, and she replied that they—pointing to the ‘children—were happy now. ‘They are ne now,’ she said, ‘and I will soon foilew, and hen I will be happy too., I tried to get by her to where the tub sat on the chair, but she clung to me and pleaded with me not to disturb them. Finally I got her quiet and then it was I found THR LITTLE ONES WERE DEAD. ‘They were icy cold. I rushed towards the door, invending to go for a doctor, but Annie caught hold of me and would not let me _ leave the roem. She threw herself on her oon and cried as though her heart woul break, begging me the while not to leave her, Presently she went out into the hallway and ree going up the stairs which lead up to the roof, I called her back, but she would not come, but toid me she was going now. I feared she would jum off the roof, and so I followed after her, althoug! she did not Want meto. As soon as she get on the roof SHE LOOKED TOWARD HEAVEN and said “I will be happy soon.’ I got her down into the room, and, in the course of an hour, had suc- ceeded in quieting her so that she would let me go for the doctor. When I got back with the dector she did not know me nor did she notice the doctor in the jeast. Our little girl—the oldest chiid—I found asleep on the bed in the other reom, and the | tet in the house tell me she was play- ing im the street all day. Had she been in the house I suppose she, too, would now be dead. This Lf here in the room woke the cnild her if her mamma had been cross to her or had whipped her, and the little thing answered she had not. There was no fire in_ the stove when I came home, and the stove was pertectly cold, and this, together with the fact that the chil- dren were so stiff and cold, leads me to believe they were killed some time in the furenoen. course { could not get a word from my wile about it. She would answer everything I asked her with the remark that ‘‘they are happy now; they are gone, and I HAVE DONE MY DUTY*” While Penta | to the husbamd’s gad story the reporter availed himself ef the opportunity to look about the apartments more thoroughly than he had done on Cn A The stove was literally smeared with charred flesh and hair. There was no smell, however, of burnt flesh; but as the window ‘was open and had probably been so all day this had escaped. The murdered children had evidently been stabbed with some kind of a sharp instrument, bat no knife or scissors bearing marks of blood could be found, Inquiry was made of several of the occupants of adjoining apartments as to whether they had heard ba noise = in Hennesy’s rooms during the day, but each and every one declared they had Oue no’ lady said she thought she smelled meat burning oe, eleven omer but ig no attention to My as she supposed it arose from some persons (he house preparing their . ————— 9 WASHINGTON. Wasninoton, April 28, 1973, The Case of Phelps, Dodge & Co. and the Treasury Department. The Treasury Department is preparing for pubit- cation all the correspondence in the case of Phelpa, Dodge and 0o., for the purpose of joining issue with the firm and refuting their published state. ment of innocence of fraud on the revenue. Tha Treasury oMcers are not unanimous, however, in sustaining the late assertion of ex-Secretary Bout well that the compromise itself, which the firm effected, was an evidence of guilt, because inno- cent violations of the law were not cempromised but forgiven. There are those in the Department who think that Mr. Boutwell may have been misled into accepting forms as facts. It ia true that no compromise can be effected without confession of guilt ; but if the Congressional investi- gation, to which the matter 1s likely to lead, should be had it will probably appear that such confession has been made under duress in many more cases than one. By adroit manipulation of the various laws applicable to the subject the swarm of federal Officers at New York, or at any other large port, are able to work the virtual ruin of the business of a large and reputable house by arbitrary seizure ot books, papers and goods in store, while the law's delays intervene to prevent the recovery of name and trade. The bare knowledge of this ability 18 believed to be sufficient to compel nine out of every ten business houses who fall under the suspicion of the officials to settle on the best terms obtatnable, imdepen- dent of the questions of guilt and proof of guilt. The immediate concern of the government officers is to realize immediately upon their respective shares, of whatever sum is exacted; hence it is necessary to obtain a pro forma admission of culpa bility as @ condition precedent to a waiver by the acoused of all rights of action for the recovery of the sum paid the government. In case of hesitancy to confess guilt the mere formality of the transaction is frat pointed out, and that failing, the terrors of the arbitrary processes of seizure and detention, and those, but preliminary though prolonged, are invoked and seldom in vain. The whole system is known at the Treasury to be demoralizing, as was admitted of the same system in the internal rev- enue service before its abolishment, Its practical illustration is found in the case of Judge Noah Davis, who, a8 United States District Attorney, was stimulated by the expectation of his moiety to pursue the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co. tll the compromise money was paid, and who now, upon his judicial conscience, acquits them of any intentional, and therefore culpable offences against the revenue. It is not admitted, however, that the Treasury administration is to blame, the law being responsible altogether. There have been similar evils detected in the working of the naval prize iaws. The Board of Supervising Steamboat Inspectors have nearly completed the revision of the rules, the object being to deprive them of all ambiguity. ‘The inspectors now require the manufacturers and agents of regulating steam gauges to guarantee them for one year. Provisions for life-preservers remain the same as now, and the regu- lations as to life-boats are rendered more practical and in accordance with the spirit of the law. The Board have also recom- mended certain new inventions, but do not compet steamboat owners to adopt them. The Board are fully impressed with the importance of the selec- tion of competent and reliable men as engineers, pilots and others connected with steamboats, and will, more than heretofore, insist on thorough ex- aminations before the granting of licenses, The Board will adjourn stne die to-morrow. The Coinage at the Mint—Pichbald Re- publics Asking to Have Money Coined. The Director of the Mint, Dr. Linderman, has fixed the charge for coining the new trade dollar at one-half cent per piece, which is the lowest possible rate under the law. Great expectations are entertained of the trade dollar as a means of creating a home demand for parting bullion and keeping gold in the country. Owing to the in- security of the present mint building in San Francisco, all refining of silver bullion in that city will, until the completion of the new build- ing, be done by the San Francisco refining works, on the tariff agreed on between them and the government, but at a cost to the deposi- tors of three cents per ounce less than heretofore charged. New and improved coinage machinery will be shipped overland by the ist of next July. Dr, Linderman says vigorous efforts will be made to ut the new San Francisco Mint in operation with- twelve months, The Republics of Hayti, Ecuador and another South American Republic are anxious that their coinage shall be executed by the United States, but as there is no law which will permit this to be done, it is probable that Congress will authorize such services. Gentlemen connected with the Treasury think that this would be toa great extent bene- ficial to the Unitea States, especially in the matter of commercial exchanges. The Revision of the Laws. The Joint Committee on the Revision of the Laws, who have been in session here since last Monday, Will adjourn this week, Their purpose is to make some provision for indexing the statutes already codified and to factittate the completion of their work. Treasury Balances, ‘The following were the Treasury balances at the close of business to-day :— CUPTONCY «2.66 see eeescere se ceeeessreceeeee 446,392 Special deposit of legal tenders for the redemption ot certificates of deposit... 27,555,000 QOIN.....cerececccerececscees +« 75,606,914 Including coin certificates. . 25,711,200 Legal tenders outstanding 57,907,226 New Gold Bank in California. ‘The Comptroller of the Currency has granted permission for the organization of a new gold bank at Santa Barbara, Cal., as soon as the stockholders shall have deposited United States bonds to the t of one-third of the capital, as required by tow. rhe capital stock is fixed at 100,000. The officers are:—Mortimer Cook, President (owniee pe of the 1,000 shares), and A. L, cola, Cashier. 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