The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1873, Page 6

\ ; / ow ’ 6 NEW YORK HERALD |" BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, j ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Wire's Svs- PICION—JACK AND THE BEAN Sta.x, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Brosdway, corner Thirtioth st— Pour. Afternoon and evening. ane EyRE, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between BH tnd Blecoker streets —Crcanuri™. Mwatinge ae bead UNION SQUARE THEATRE, U pUNION, SQUARE nion square, near WALLACK'S 1! cing HEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Sum ™ ¥ - uxR Nicuta’ Con. NEW YORK MUSE: A — 8 ae ne UM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 128 West Four- teenth st.—Crrain anv Loan Coutzcri Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, July 9, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ’ To-Day’s Contents of the Hlerald. — “SENTIMENTAL ISSUES IN OUR POLITICS! GRAV3R QUESTIONS THAN SUFFRAGE OR PROTECTION! THE APATHY AND SILENUE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY”—LEADING ARTICLE—Sixta Pcs. THE LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP CITY OF WASH- INGTON! LATER DETAILS OF THE DIS- ASTER! SAILING IN A FOG FOR ELEVEN DAYS AND NIGHTS—SgventH Paag. SHAH OF PERSIA! BALL IN HIS HONOR AT GUILDHALL BY THE CORPORATE AUTHORITIES OF LONDON! THE SUCCES- SOR OF CYRUS EATS HEARTILY, BUT DOES NOT DANCE! GRAPHIO DESORIP- TIONS OF THE FESTIVITIES BY MARK TWAIN AND EDMUND YATES—Tuimp Paas. BACING AT LONG BRANCH! THREE SPLENDID EVENTS YESTERDAY! BEATRICF, KATY PEASE AND WANDERER THE WINNING NAGS—NEW YORK’S OBSTRUCTED THOR- OUGHFARES—HEALTH MATTERS! REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT SANITARY SUPERIN- TENDENT ON THE CONDITION OF WASH- INGTON MARKET—Firru Paas. MURDER AND SUICIDE IN BOSTON! A JEALOUS HUSBAND, CRAZED WITH DRINK, SHOOTS HIS WIFE THROUGH THE BRAIN AND THEN KILLS HIMSELF—THE LATE STORMS IN THE WEST! GREAT DAMAGE Tu THE CROPS—SEVENTH Page. THE MURDER OF CARL KUESTNER! THE CASE STILL SHROUDED IN MYSTERY—THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY MURDER TRIAL! DAMAGING TESTIMONY AGAINST THE Av- CUSED—SuxTH Paces. BUSINESS IN WALL STREET! UNUSUAL AC- TIVITY IN THE “FANCY” STOCKS! OON- TINUED FIRMNESS OF THE GOLD PRE- MIUM! MONEY EASY—REAL ESTATE MAT- TERS—EIGcHTA PaGs. THE ERIE RAILWAY COMPANY! ELECTION OF A NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS YESTER- DAY! THE ROAD IN A PROSPEROUS CON- DITION—EXCITING REGATTA BETWEEN THE SLOOP YACHTS IDLE HOUR AND LINA 8.1 THE IDLE HOUR WINS—FourtH PAGE. PROCEEDINGS IN THE NEW YORK AND BROOK- LYN COURTS—THE MURDER OF MARY M’CABE! THE HUSBAND AND SON OF THE VICTIM HELD FOR THE DEED—THE TWELFTH OF JULY! PREPARATIONS FOR ITS CELEBRATION BY THE ORANGEMEN— NTH Page. Tae Jzexsry Dersy.—The name of Epsom Downs is dear to the heart of every Englishman. For there, on the world-wide renowned Derby Day, every one on the “tight little island’ is supposed to meet on equal terms. Caste is for once in the year broken down, and the fleet coursers in the race are encouraged in their contest by all classes—nobility vying with costermongers in patronizing the noble sports of the turf. The management of Mon- mouth Park, the charming resort near Long, Branch, made an experiment this season to tender the races popular by throwing open the grounds, free of charge, to aly comers. It was considered by some, at first, a dangerous experiment, as exclusivenéss has been -bith- erto regarded a encany concomitant of horse racing. Bufthe result has justified the good sense of he management. The attend- ance on thetwo first days of the meeting has been not/ only very large, but brilliant and orderly, Fashion and democracy joined handg in making the meeting a success, Mon- uth Park may now be looked upon as an | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. Sentimental issues in Our Politics— Graver Questions than Suffrage or Protection—The Apathy snd Silence of the Republican Party. We are not insensible to the value of many of the issues which our political friends are seeking to obtrude upon the country. As the nation grows in wealth and prosperity and we assimilate our conditions to the dovelop- ment of the nation, we have new problems. Modern thought has no wider, nobler sphere of activity than the planting of a nation in this Western world® Here God has given everything, and other countries ask, what will man do? What rivers and lakes and streams, what wealth of mineral and agricultural re- sources, what conditions and variety of cli- mate! On one day during last Winter tho thermometer marked zero in Duluth and seventy degrees above zeroin Key West, All cli- mates are under our flag, and while one citizen heaps high the b'azing fire to defend him from Winter's icy blasts, another revels in the warmth and fertility of the tropical forest. We have Maine and Oregon, and Iowa and California, and Texas and Pennsylvania, each an empire in what it performs and promises ; each an empire, indeed, and yet only a frag- ment of the dominion covered by our imperial republican flag. Men of all nations come to sit down with us, that their children may divide with our children the precious heritage of freedom. We are about to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of our existence; and to a nation a hundred years barely covers the morning of its day. All of this God has done for us, andthe problem of the age is, What shall we do with it? Therefore, when wise and ingenious men ask us on the one side to favor free trade, on the other protection; to insist upon this scheme of finance or the other; to give suf- frage to one class or withdraw it from another, ‘we answer that, beyond the hospitality of our columns, we have nothing to say, When one eminent man calls another a liar and yil- lain because they differ about specific and ad valorem duties, we admit the heartiness of the argument and the sincerity of the antagonists’ temper; but we are none the less sceptical. Woman's suffrage is contemned by many as a fantastical scheme; but we cannot altogether despise a cause that is championed by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Wendell Phillips. Free trade has been described to us as a_ political abomination, @ conspiracy sustained by British gold, But there is something definite and true in what- ever commands the enthusiastic support of John Stuart Mill and John Bright. We have had these questions; we shall always have them. They are a part of the gospel of progress, like questions concerning the telegraph and gas and railways. But the only way to solve them is by education, and there is no reason for angry controversy. We have never seen a great canvass for the Presidency decided upon sentimental questions in politics, Take pro- tection and free trade. It is impossible for any political convention, as conventions are now formed, to draw an honest line between these two issues. To make the distinc- tion would tax the genius of the wisest of men. And we can never be a party to the unavoidable deception which must result from the attempt to make the true distinction. Time will decide what is best, and our columns are open to all alike—to those who think with Mr. Mill and those who do not, to the fol- lowers of Mr. Emerson and those who have no fellowship with him. men, who otherwise would not be misled, will, in their enthusiasm for sentimental theories, forget the overmastering question. It may be briefly summed up in this:—‘‘Shall we have Cewsarism or republicanism?" In our his- tory General Grant has attained tho position which Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln attained. He is master of the, jiti- cal situation. Supreme in a party which is supreme in the nation, commanding our politics and legislation, he ‘s irresistible. Our consti- tution, unlike taat of France and Spain, makes the Presidential office as impregnable as the Czar,” Impeachment is practically no punish- meyit, and no President can be reached except \y a revolution. It is, moreover, a painful and extraordinary fact that, while every poli- tician in America is thinking over the problem whether General Grant will or will not bea candidate for re-election, no leading republi- can has dared to say that such a candidacy would be practically an avowal of the failure of republican institutions. We see the unfortunate conditions of our society— corruption in Congress, on the Bench; in social life, luxury, voluptuousness, craving for riches, the absence of simplicity and truth in our lives, After Tammany Hall, and Erie transactions, and Crédit Mobilier, Cwsarism is (institution which combines the best elements | * danger that can only be overcome by such a of popularity with all the brilliancy, taste and anjoyment of respectability, fashion and re- fined aristocracy. Mosr our citizens submit to the foul smells which, rising from the vast accumulation of fermenting manure in the dumping grounds, spread over the city and poison the air for | scores of blocks along each section? These heaps are monuments of the lack of energy of our officials. During many years the evil has existed, been complained of, and yet the fleposits grow. If there is one duty more pressing than another upon the municipal authorities it is the thorough cleansing of all public streets and places and the removal of ithe offensive matters far beyond the city limits. ‘There is not the slightest excuse for the stor- age of manure in these abominable depots. Every ounce should be taken from stables at feast once a day, immediately discharged into boats and conveyed so far away that its effluvia could never reacb our dwellings. Easy- going public servants tell us that at this season there is no demand for manure by the farmers “pnd that boatsare hard to get by reason of other profitable employment. Are these valid excuses for poisoning our population and making tho city » stench in all decent nos- trils? New York is rich enough and pays taxes enough to provide for the removal of moenure. If boats can be had im no other way the city might own what are required for this geryice; and surely proper grounds could be at twenty or thirty miles distance, “where all our refuse could be deposited, and, bait the proper seasons, sold to enrich the soils yf Long Island and New Jersey, and thus repay ‘ve experise of removal. All that is wanted th _ia matter iso auota of common sense and v | revolution as was needed to destroy the Tam- | many Ring. Men like Mr. Conkling, whose eloquence thundered like the roar of Niagara ageinst poor Mr. Greeley and his fancies, are | silent now. They may say that they do not | speak because they will not be rude or unjust they dare not. When any Senator suppresses the truth within him becanse Casar may frown, then he is a partisan of Casar. When | any Senator has another monitor for his political conscience than the people's will he is ready for any surrender. Nor does it answer our arguments that the character of General Grant forbids any appre- hension that he will bea candidate for re- election, or that, if elected, the liberties of the nation will be safe in his hands. To this we always answer that when liberty depends upon the forbearance of any man it has no true life; for while we have Grant to-day, who may be trusted, whom shall we have to-morrow? Rome had other Cwsars than Julius—nay, she had Brutus before Cmsar. ‘The evil is in our system, in our constitution, in the subservience of our public men. Omsarism does not necessarily mean that Cesar shall bea vicious man. On the con- trary, the men who have mounted to supreme authority have generally been men of rare transcendent gifts. What men were Cesar, Cromwell, Napoleon! How rich in faculty and experience! how brave and re- nowned ! how faithful to their country and its glory! Cmsarism always makes @ nation glorious, but never free ; and it is because wo would rather have our country free than famous, because we see the highest glory in | the triest freedom, that we presi this disous- sion, Nor does the character of General * Grant entizely release him from anxiety He treasiesininly NY My is o soldier; he knows the felicity of authority. His ideas of the Presidency have always been that it isin many senses a per- sonal office. True and faithful as he has been, there are many things he has done that show @ tendency to Cmsarism, to the belief that, in some way, the President has a supremacy of will that knows no responsibility but to his own conscience. From his first selection of a Cabinet down to his extraordinary assign- ment of his son to a command tor which the army records showed neither excuse nor precedent, every now and then we see the Cwsar spirit—the belief that there is a supreme responsibility which in the royal legends is called “by the grace of God.” General Grant is no greater, no more patriotic, no more suited to his country, than Owsar or Cromwell or Napoleon. Each of these mon fought tor his country and would have died for it, In like manner did General Grant. But what these men achieved for Rome and England and France did not prevent their as- suming power when it was bestowed. Therefore we contend that all sentimental issues in our politics should be postponed until we have decided the fundamental ques- tions. We have seen France pass through a trial which we should dread to see imposed upon America. We have seen her institutions submit to a strain which we are sure our own could not resist. The lesson taught by France we should be swift to learn, In the presence of this spirit of Cwsarism which per- vades our politics and has expression in Wash- ington can we feel that there is no danger to the Republic? If it is true that General Grant's friends mean to place him in nomina- tion for a third term and he is weak enough to accept, then the issue will be upon us—an issue involving the national freedom. We elected General Grant a second time because his fame, his services and the unparalleled calum- nies heaped upon him required no less a vin- dication. ‘This we did as we had done to Washington and Lincoln, At the same time we should gladly end the precedent here and support the one-term amendment. Beyond that we cannot go; for if it is necessary to A grave danger is that many wise, patriotic ; to the President. They will not speak because | elect any man a perpetual President of the Republic we have no Republic. Republican- ism is inconsistent with the idea of perpetual, constantly renewed power. Better, as we have said, abandon the expensive and irritating forms of election and legislation and govern- ment, and return to our ancient allegiance to Great Britain. The Queen’s government would no doubt regard us as something more than a colony, and worthy of representation in Parlia- ment, and welcome us back with stars and titles. We should have then, what we are afraid wo have not now, the right to pass judgment upon our rulers when they no longer possess public confidence, The Canadians Copying Our Credit Mobilter Rascals, Rascality is not confined to the United States nor virtue to Her Majesty’s pro- vincial subjects. The developments just made regarding the conduct of certain knights and other distinguished British loyalists, in working up the Canada Pacific Railroad scheme, show a system of corruption as cool and deliberate as that of Oakes Ames’ Crédit Mobilier. But our ‘leading public men” exhibited more skill than their imitators in Canada. Ours carried out their plundering scheme on the grandest scale and pocketed the money; the distinguished Canadians have had theirs exploded in the inception and before reaping the fruits of the swindle. One evidently was the model for the other. Oakes Ames distributed’ the stock among Congressmen and other influential men “where it would ‘do most good;'’ and Sir Hugh Allan, the Oakes Ames on the other side of the border, sets down in his confiden- tial letters a list of members of Parliament and high officials to whom ao hundred thousand and fifty thousand dollars in stock ‘will have to be distributed” to each to carry the matter through; and, with ref- erence to this, this noble knight says, “I think the game I have been playing is now likely to be attended with success.” He repeats the word ‘‘game’’ several times ; and ® game it is, no doubt. Some Americans were to be brought into the scheme and to have a prominent position, but that was, from prudential motives, to bea secret. Writing to Mr. Smith, of Chicago, he says: —‘‘The shares taken by you and our other American friends will, therefore, have to standin my name for some time, We shall get $6,000,000 of the stock out of $10,000,000. Ten per cent on the amount will have to be paid up and deposited in the hands of the government as security, but will be re- turned, I think, as soon as the work is fully begun.’? This, then, is the project which the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain has taken up so earnestly and which Mr. Glad- stone was so intent on aiding in order to rival the United States in Pacific Railroad enter- prise and the trade of the Pacific. The bait took as effectually with Her Majesty’s govern- ment and Parliament as did that of the war and political necessity argument which called forth the most lavish aid from Congress for our Pacific Railroad. However, the British government had bound itself to aid the project as @ conciliatory and compensating act for the alleged damages sustained by the colonists from the United States, which England had adjusted in tho Alabama Claims Treaty. In that treaty all the outstanding difficultics between England and her colonies were adjusted, and therefore England had to make whatever compensation was deemed due to the colo- nists, Aid to the Canada Pacific Railroad was the consideration. But no sooner was it known that the Mother Country was going to help the project than the loyal and distin- guished colonists—knights, members of Par- liament, government officials and leading public men—sniffed the prey, though afar off, and were ready to pounce upon it. From the tenor of Sir Hugh Allan's letters and evidence we sre led to infer he had studied carefully all the details of our Crédit Mobilier. He acknowledges, it seems, that he subsidized the newspapers, “both editors and proprietors,’ and exercised an influence over the priests to carry the elections in favor of the government or to show the govern- ment his power. “The strong influence I succeeded in obtaining,” he said, “hag proved sufficient to control the elections, and as soon as the government realized this fact, which they were unwilling to admit and slow to see, they opened negotiations with | me. The result is that yesterday we signed an agreement by which, on certain conditions, they agree to form a company, of which Iam to be President, to suit my views, and to give me and my friends a majority of the stock.” ‘Thus we see how political jobbery was mixed up with the other jobs and corruption in plac- ing the stock and in the scheme, after the plan of the Crédit Mobilier, of securing contracts for making the railroads. Sir Hugh wanted the contracts as well as the office of President and political control over the colonial govern- ment. This worthy knight was equal to Oakes Ames in pipelaying, but had not the skill in maintaining his secret till the plan was consummated and the profits realized. There are more developments to be made, and such, no doubt, as will profoundly agitate the virtuous Britons across the border as well es Her Majesty's subjects at home. It will be interesting to watch the course of the British government aiter these revelations. The opposition will probably make use of them to embarrass the Ministry, and Sir John Dilke will rejoice that he proved to be a prophet when he denounced the Pacific Railroad scheme asa job. A great outcry has been raised in Canada about citizens of the United States having anything to do with the work, and Sir Hugh Allan found it necessary to keep his American allies in the back- ground—to have their stock placed, for a time, at least, in his name. But, considering the incapacity and jobbery of the Canadians at the beginning, we would suggest that the whole business of constructing the ambitious work, with the funds to be supplied by the British government, be turned over to our enterprising citizens. Or, if the Canadians and the British government will mortgage Canada to the United States, our government might be induced to push the enterprise through. We can afford to suffer a little plunder, for we have been accustomed to that, while the poor Canadians might lose their senses under the shock. Such a big thing as @ Pacific Railroad must bewilder them at all events, but these revelations are perfectly dis- tracting. The Wonders of Central Africa—Sir Samuel Baker’s Latest Reported Dis- covery. The special Hzrarp despatch from Khar- toum, on the Upper Nile, announcing, among other things, the discovery by Sir Samuel Baker that the Equatorial lake Albert Nyanza and Lake Tanganyika, lying to the southward of the Albert basin, “are one and the same sheet of water, forming a magnificent inland sea, seven hundred miles in length,” is the most surprising news of the kind we have had for many years. As our correspondent says, the announcement of this important geographical discovery will astound the civilized world; for, if it is true that the Albert and Tanganyika lakes are one, and that from their outlet to the Nile a ship may sail to Ujiji, this discovery, in a scientific, commercial and political view, is one of surpassing interest and importance. Our correspondent assures us that his state- ment comes direct from the explorer’s lips, and we, therefore, cannot doubt that Sir Samuel Baker believes that the mystery of the outlet of Tanganyika is solved, and that its surplug waters, instead of being discharged into the Indian Ocean, as heretofore supposed, pass down through the Nile into the Mediter- ranean Sea, and through thirty-five, or, it may be, forty degrees of latitude. But, tor the confirmation of this reported discovery there are two difficulties to be over- come, two obstructions to be removed, which may here be stated. They are— First—The surface level of Lake Tanganyika and that of the Albert Nyanza. Baker in the report of his first exploration of the Albert lake, in 1864, gives its altitude above the sea as 2,720 feet, while Burton and Speke, from their exploration of Tanganyika, in 1858, re- port it at 1,850 feet above the sea. If these figures on both sides are correct the Tan- ganyika, being 870 feet below the level of the Albert lake, can have no connection with the Nile basin. . Second—The New York Heratp explorer, Mr. Stanley, after finding Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, made with him an excursion by boat northward to the head of Lake Tanganyika and there found a powerful stream, the Rusizi, flowing into it from the north, Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley were thus convinced that, as this lake is sweet, fresh water, it must have an outlet, and that the outlet is at the southern end, and that through the Zambezi River its flowing stream is discharged into the Indian Ocean. : How, then, can Lake Tanganyika be estab- lished in the Nile basin? First, the estimates of Burton and Speke of the level of the lake, from damaged or otherwise defective instru- ments, may be incorrect; and next, Living- stone and Stanley may have supposed a mere arm or bay to be the head of the lake, No explorer, we believe, has passed entirely around the northern or southern end of the lake ; nor are we aware that it has been estab- lished by observation that there is an outlet at the southern end. On a map before us a stream enters the lake at its southern extremity. In Baker’s map of the Albert Nyanza (1864) he gives a portion of the Tanganyika visited by Burton and Speke (1858), with this note from the journal of the Royal Geographical Society: —“‘At Uvira (some dis- tance north of Ujiji, on the same side of the lake) Lake Tanganyika narrows to about eight miles, and turns north-northwest ; but its northern limits are undetermined. Oppo- site (that is, on the east side of the lake) the mountains appeared to be prolonged far be- yond it.”’ On the same map, in his remarks of his partial exploration of the Albert lake, Baker gives this note :—‘‘The lake is reported by the natives to be well known as far as be- tween the first and second degree south, where it turns to the west, its furthor extent being | unknown.”” Here, then, between these two unknown portions of these two lakes, Baker, from his recent explorations, reports that the mystery is solved in the discovery that Tan- ganyika is but prolongation of the Albert Nyanza. "The prevailing opinion among geographers in reference to Livingstone’s system of interior lakes and rivers is that, through a common channel, they are discharged into the Congo, and it is possible that, in pursuing the stream of the Lualuba to the end of its course, he will come out into the Atlantic Ocean through the Congo, The prevailing opinion in the London Royal Geographical Society of Lake Tanganyika is that it in the fountain: \ head of a tributary of the Zambezi, and if Burton's report of tho altitude of that lake above the sea is not a great mistake this opinion must be correct. But our corre- launched in the Nile, above Murchison’ s Falls, may eail up this lake to Ujiji. If so, then we have only here to repeat that this is one of the most interesting and important geographical discoveries since the first rounding of Cape Horn. And we have great faith in the white pacha, because of his great achievements and his great name as an African explorer, and because of his indomitable courage, perse- verance and endurance in his Nile expedi- tions. At an expense of two millions of dollars the expedition from which ho is just retarning has been accomplished, and as in undertaking it the object most at heart with this heroic leader was doubtless the determination of the metes and bounds of the Albert Nyanza, we can hardly doubt the truth of his reported discovery, given as it is upon his authority. And so we await further intelligence upon the subject, with the hope of a confirmation of this startling and surprising report, Twain and Yates Telling Their Twin Story of the Shah in Johnbulland. It is question for psychologists to deter- mine whether the self-consciousness of the American or that of the Englishman is the more to be admired. American modesty and British diffidence are also studies in their way; but they prevail respectively in such abundance that people sre apt to forget their points of contrast. The dual description, in another part of the Herarp, of the Shah of Persia’s visit to his would-be bosom friends, the English, will be found to bring strongly forward the types of bashfulness which America and England are proud to call their own. In Mark Twain’s pithy account of what he saw the peculiar shrinking nature of the representative American will be observed as plainly as the perfect blotting out of self in the idyls of the King by Edmund Yates, a representative Englishman. Enter- taining as are the stories in themselves, much profit may be reaped in a comparison between the two stories. The pure, childlike simplicity of Mr, Twain in his correction of some mis- taken notions prevalent here about the customs of royalty is one of those treats that in this sophisticated age we miss so much. One would almost expect that at the close of a paragraph he was about to take up his little hatchet and go out chop- ping chorry trees, with a determination not to lie about it any more than the Father of his Country. The guileless innocence of Mr. Twain, indeed, reminds one of the por- trait of Hawker Jim or Scar-faced Charley which a leading Quaker member of an Indian peace commission would draw. The same trusting, credulous nature, the same untutored honesty, the same affectionate, regard for human life start out at every line of Mark’s story, just as they shine upon the brow of a Kickapoo on the warpath, seen through Mr. Delano’s spectacles. He went to 8 ball given by the fair, round Corporation of London, with good capon lined, to Shah Nasr Din of Persia. He also came literally next door to going to the opera with the Shah, and with his young Georgic candor tell us what he observed. It is curious that at least one of his observations has escaped Edmund Yates— namely, the school medals which that good boy Prince Arthur wore on his coat front. Mr. Yates probably thought we knew all about it. In the latter gentleman, that retiring and un- obtrusive nature which notes all that passes with a keen and educated eye will be appre- ciated. It is indeed curious to find a man unconsciously painting his own beauty of character while delineating the nobility of everything in his vicinity. His touch is subtle. When he praises, the couleur de rose is laid on as unpretentiously as an apprentice would paint a shutter, but at the same time the brush is handled with all the delicacy, grace and skill of Apelles putting the last touches to the cheek of a Venus Anadyoneme. It would be invidious to institute comparison between two such earnest literary workers ; but if the dear pub- lic will read the two descriptions of the scene in the Floral Hall (the glass house, Mr. Twain ingenuously calls it), it will be seen how beautifully and wonderfully distinct are the pictures that result, although the figures aro the same. How it has been accomplished we leave our readers to guess. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Kari Marx is ill in London. ‘The Brazilian Minister, Seilor Borges, 1s at the Brevoort House. General A. S. Diven, of Elmira, is staying at the Hoffman House. Congressman Thomas ©. Platt, of Owego, Is stay- ing at the St. Nicholas Hotel, General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix’s staf, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman Clinton L. Merriam, of Locust Grove, N. Y., 18 at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Stephen H. Bullard, President of the Boston Mercantile Marine Insurance Company, 1s dead, Bishop J. J. Wood, D.D., and Rev. August J, McCoromy, Of Philadelphia, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor T. B. Maury, of the Signal Service Bureau at Washington, has arrived at the Hoffman House, Mr. Joseph Price, of Hamilton, Treasurer of the Great Western Railroad of Canada, is at the Bre- voort House. M. Figueras is at Faux-Bonnes, France, being treated for an affliction of the larynx, produced by straining his voice. Lord Dufferin, the Governor General, and party, arrived at Gaspe, Canada, yesterday, on the gov- ernment steamer Druid. Prince William of Wttrtemberg and Princess Marie, eldest daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, are betrothed, James Sharp, the oldest “living” member of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, died in ‘Watertown on the oth inst., aged elghty-three. Miss Trafford Southwell, of Honington Hall, Eng- Jand, has given a cottage hospital to the town of Wisbeach and endowed the institution with £5,000, Seflor Don F, Gonzales, the Chilean Minister, and Sefior Lorrain, Secretary of nis Legation, yester- @ay reached the Clarendon Hotel, from Wash- ington. Dr. Beke, the traveller and Biblical scholar, 1s tll in England, having been removed, while favorably dispo-ed, from Nice, where he was attacked by his sickness, John Gregory Smith, receiver, turns over to John Gregory Smith, President, the Vermont Central Railroad and its affairs, This i¢ literally making “one hand wash the other.’’ dobn W, Beam Ippo manager of she Reston hones. Pe ae cee ed of AT. Stewart & Co, has been made the re cipient of a handsome testimonial from his Boston friends, Joun L, Tucker, one of the good old time lang lords of the Tremont House, Boston, and recently of the new Clifford House, at Plymouth, Mass., was drowned while bathing at Plymouth, on the Sth instant, Charies Hale, of Boston, late United States Com sul General in Egypt, has again donned the edito rial harness vice M. M. Ballou, late of the Boston Gwbe, He should never have gone out of the traces, Dr. Charles T. Jackson, the eminent chemist, of Boston, whose seri»us illness we have before men tioned, has been taken to the Insane Asylum at Somerville, Mags. Dr. Jackson was one of the most important experts in tne celebrated trial of Professor Webster ‘or kiliing Dr. Parkman. The Shah has just instituted the Order of the Sun, for ladies alone. Queen Victoria, the Princess of Wales, the Km»ress and tue Princess imperial of Germany, and the Uzarina have so lar been in- vested with the decoration. There is danger, now that he has lost his contem,t tor woman, that he may becume over-gallaut. THE HOBUKZN MUADER. Continuation of the Coroner’s Inquest~ No Light Yet Cast Upon the Mystery. Throughout yesterday tue excitement consequent on the murder of Mr. Carl Kistner became more intense in Hoboken, No person appeared at we police station who coud throw the faintest light upon the dread mystery. The corpse of the ill-fated merchant still lies at the oitice of the Coroner, The earnest desire of the public seems to be that Weehawken be speedily brought under the jurisdiction of the Hoboken police, in order tuat the notoricas rowdies who intest the fields may be prevented from fixing their abode on those grounds. ‘he inquest, which was adjourned on Monday, was re- sumed last evening by Corouer Parsiow, at Stem. ler’s Hotel, 62 Washington street. ‘The first witness called was Louis Saigger, pro prietor of the Park Hotel, who, on being sworn, testified as follows:—Deceased resided at the Park Hotel for tnree weeks, during which time he was generally away in the daytime; don’t know what was his occupation; I saw deceased for the last time on Thursday even- ing, July 8, at nalf-past seven o'clock ; he then left the hotel, as was his custom every evening; he used to return at niue, ten or eleven; about five or six o’clock each evening he used to tuke @ bat but whetuer at the regular bach or outside it don’t know; NEVER SAW HIM INTOXICATED; don’t know whether be had @ bath on that day or not; Ihave seen him carry @ silver watch in his vest pocket; he wore @ ring on ius leit hand; he wore a black coat and vest, wilte pants, coilur aud necktie, but 1 can’t say whether ve cli d hia clothes on that evening; When he paid his oulls he had only the correct amount of tuem; he paid tiem weekly; 1 supposed, aiter Friday, that de- ceased had leit the hotei; 1 found the key of his room on the board on Suaday; never saw any fire- arms with him; he deposited no money in my safe; any one can leave the hotel unseen, but no one cam enter without being observed by the porter, County physician Buchre sworn—Having made @ care.ul external examination oi the bouy of de- ceased, 1 am of opinion tiat the wound on the iace was inilicted bya heavy charge from agun or pistol held in close proximity to the head—probably the weapon was put in his mouth; the having lain in the water, the traces oi gunpowder were washed away; no shot or bullet was discovered in the skull, inasmuch as the whole iace was blown away; fuding ample cause of death, I deemed it unnecessary to make further examination, as it my custom. fo Mr. Adolphi (foreman)—An external examina« tion ig sufficient to ascertain the cause of deati{ cannot tell whether death took place by drowning or by the infliction o/ the injuries ou the face; tha condition of the lungs would be the same in either case (some physicians might dispute this with the ened ; the wound on tue right eye was provavly inflicte bya bullet; it may have been, too, that a heavy oladgeoa or axe was used On the face or de- ceased. xiter taking unimportant testimony of another witness the Coroner adjourned the inquisit on to this evening. ‘Thus far there 1s no hope of dis- covering the murderer. THE RYE NECK MURDER, The Westchester County Authorities Still Probing the Mystery—Damaging Evidence Against Terpill, the Sus- pected Murderer—How He Endures the Ordeai—The Prosecution Rest Theiz Case tor the Present—Probable Action of the Grand Jury. In the Grand Jury room at White Plains, West- chester county, yesterday morning, Peter Terriil, the young man who has been in custody for some weeks past on suspicion of having murdered Gilbert H. Robinson, @ jeweller, at Rye Neck, on the night of April 26, 1869, was again brought before Justice Paulding for a further hear- ing of testimony in behalf ol the people. Beyond looking a@ little pale from his confinement in the county jail, the accused seemed em» tirely seif-possessed and manifested not 4@ shadow of apprehension for the result of the investigation. As in all similar oases, public opinion 1s divided as to Terrili’s connection with the fearful and mysterious deed which deprived an inoffensive cit:zon of his life, some believing him to be the perpetrator, while others less credulous ridicule the idea of his guilt” In support of their position the latter refer to the fact that immediately subsequent to the murder the prisoner was not only under the eyes of the authorities, but also that the detectives worked at him until they became convinced that they were “barking up the wrong tree.”’ STRONG POINTS AGAINST THE ACCUSED, At a previous examination of the accused the following strong points against the supposition of his innocence were brought out by the various witnesses who testified:—That Terrill was inti mately acquainted with the murdered man, often being employed in his store by the latter to clean and repair guns; that he frequently slept in the store with dece: and had been known to say that he knew where Robinson’s sale keys were kept, and that if he ever got a “sly crack at him” he would get into tue safe, where ne believed there was a large amount of money; that, being at work in White Plains on the night of the murder, and after the accused had ft retired for the night, @ horse owne tua employer was led by some person stealchily from the place between ten and _ eleven o'clock P, M., the foovsteps of the animal and its leader being again heard returning to the stabie about three o'clock next morning; that (alvnongb the murder was not discovered until Tuesday alter. noon, or neariy twenty-four hours waiter the crime had been perpetrated) the prisoner, while eating breakiast at the house oi nis employer, avout seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, toid the servant girl apd another party that ‘Mr. Robinson, the jewelier, or Rye,” had been murdered ; that when spoken t¢ about it subsequentiy HIS FACE FLUSHED and his eyes dropped; that a soidier’s blue over. coat, which he usually kept folded in a bureau drawer, was found onachair at the foot of his bed on the morning in question; that he did not have this overcoat on when he returned trom his milk route before breakiust; that he had ackuowl- edged to ® woman, with whom it is al leged he was on terms of closest int. macy, that he visited Rye Neck on the night of the murder, and nad leit his horse tied above Tiliord’s, on the White Plaing road, and that he had also acknowledged to the same Woman, on being asked by her why he killed Robinson, that he did not know. When the case was called yesterday counsel for the prosecution announced that the cuse for the people would rest, they having no further testi- mony to offer at present. A SINGULAR MOTION DENIED. Mr. J. 0, Dykman, ste pada the defence, then moved for the discharge of his client on the ground that there was no proof tnat the prisoner had com- mitted the crime with which he is charged, and that there is no provable cause jor charging bum with the commission thereof. He also char. acterized the action of the prosecution a@ unfair, since it was well known that more wit- nesses had been subpevnaed to testify against the accused, while Dow it was apparent that this additional testimony was to be withheld until such time as it would be out of the power of the defence to offer the necessary counter evidence, To this Mr. Ferris, in behalf of the prosecution, urged thatthe prisoner had it the nt examination when he might have waived it, and that the prosecution was not compelled to furnish ali the proofs in their possession against the ac- cused at this time, as by doing 80 they might afford the defence an janity of manulactur- ing evidence in rebuttal. He concluded by saying tnat the concatenation of circumstances as shown by the evidence points unerringly to the prisoner’a guilt. ‘The motion to ae was denied, and by mu- tual consent of counsel cage Was set down for next Monday, in order that the defence may pro- juce witnesses to in behalf of the prisoner. ‘There Is little doubt that on the evidence Ca offered the next Grand Jury will fod a true