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SPAIN. Winisterial Resolve for the Punishment of Insurrection. se Ponscription Draft for the Army—Military in Mutiny and Carlists in Movement. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Maprip, August 31, 1873. ‘The Cortes has by a vote of 119 nays against 42 yyeas rejected a proposition to grant amnesty to Bhe mtransigente insurgents, ,, During the debate upon the proposal President Balmeron declared that “he would never consent ito grant an amnesty to which justice, decency and ‘the honor of the Legislature were opposed. He had always denied the right of insurrection.” THE ARMY. Thé government has presented a bill in the Cortes calling into the army all males between the exes of twenty and thirty-five years, RADICALISM, It fs repotted that the intransigente leader, Galvez, arrested some of the members of tne in- Burgent junta at Cartagena, but subsequently ®eleased them, Carlist War Action Against National Interests. \ MADRID, August 31, 1873, ‘| The Carlists are again interrupting railway traf- Nc and destroying the mails on the lines between Madrid and the Northern frontier. Military Mutiny—On March and in Bar- racks. BARCELONA, August 31, 1873. ‘The military escort of alarge train, containing Supplies for the republicans in Berga, halted upon reaching Manresa, twenty miles from their desti- Bation, and refused to go any further. A battalion of republican chasseurs, stationed in Vich, thirty-seven miles northeast of this city, has mautinied. Portuguese Exile of Refugee “Reds.” : Lisson, August 31, 1873, ‘ The government of Portugal has sent Pierrad and Swenty-six other intransigentes, who sought refuge (n the kingdom, to Southampton. ENGLAND. _ Comment of the Press on the Construction and Position of the Cabinet—Death of @ Well-Known Horseman. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonpon, August 31, 1873. The Observer, in its issue to-day, says the reports which have been current for several days that fur- ‘ther changes in the Cabinet are about to occur are promature, as no decision will be arrived at until &ne next meeting of the Cabinet, which will be held the latter part of September, “Jt is probable,” says the Observer, “that the Marquis of Hartington will succeed the Right Hon- rable William Monsell as Postmaster General, and that the Right Honorable William E. Forster will become Chief Secretary for Ireland in place of the Marquis of Hartington.” DEATH OF A CELEBRATED HORSEMAN. French, the well-known English jockey, is dead. OCEAN TELEGRAPHY. The Eurcpo-Brazilian Cable Broken. TELECRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. Lispon, August 31, 1873. Tkg cable which ts being laid between this city and the coast of Brazil is broken at a point 180 ‘@ailes from Madeira. THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP. €x-Governor Aiken, of South Carolina. Ex-Governor Aiken, who was Governor of South Carolina directly after the nulhfitation disturb- ances in that State, was found by thé HERALD re- porter in the parlor of the Spingler House, where the is stopping on his way hume from Saratoga ‘The Governor is not yet an old man, although his bead is covered with fine gray hair and his beard is of the snowiest white. He appeared strong and hearty, and in his interview with the reporter last evening showed no deterioration of those mental qualities that raised him when a young man, and an anti-nullifier, against, apparently, the long- cherished opinions of South Carolinians of that day, to the highest office in that State. He smiled at being made the victim of an interview, but ex- pressed himself not averse to enduring that NEW AMERICAN TORTURE if bis opinions could be of any service to his countrymen. “I am especially instructed to obtain your opin- fon regarding the vacant Chief Justiceship, Gov- ernor,”’ said the reporter. “Well,” said he, “I have been so long out of ‘politics that I could hardly venture an opinion upon the subject. I do not suppose that President Grant is delaying the appointment for any ulterior ‘purposes of his own, though he may be.” “Do you have in your mind anyone who could at all fl THE PLACE OF CHASE?” “Hardly, Chase was a pre-eminently fit man. He had been foremost in his advocacy of abolition, had done great part for the success of the war by his financial system, and deserved weil of the republican purty; and alter the war closed he became so conservative in" his ideas, and seemed so _ willing, so anxious tw conciliate the people of the South and thus re- ‘nite the people, and became so conservative in his renderin; that he deserved the hearty com- ‘mendation of the wiole people, North and South, I don’t think there are many men now living who ean replace him.” “It 18 to be presumed, I suppose, that General Grant will restrict himself to PARTY MEN IN HIS CHOICE ?” “Yos, I suppose so. General Grant’s appoint- ‘Ments heretoiore have not been such as to en- courage any one to hope that he will appoint the next Chief Justice for his learning in the lay, his integrity or his wisdom. Lam very sorry to think a0. cause I have the highest respect for the Supreme Court and have all along hiaged all my hopes upon its eo age! and substantial sense. ‘When it is made @ tool for political engineering ‘and the Chief Justice's seat is given as the regular party spoils are given we are in a bad way.” “Have you any candidate to recommend, Gov- jor?” h, no!’ responded the Governor, laughingly, “I have not taken part in po!itics for twelve years; in fact I took very little part in politics since the beginning of the war, when I strongly opposed the ‘whole movement on the part of the Sonth as dis- astrous, and retired into privacy when the die was irrevocably cast. I know noone except very old Men whom I could suggest tor the place. REVKRDY JOHNSON ald be my choice. He’s raiher old, but he’s wise id cultured, thoroughly conversant with the statutes and rulings of all ages, and is still, I think, in possession of all his noblest faculties,” “The President, however, Would dvubtiess avail Rimseif of the counsel of his party jeaders. “No doubt of it, I presume! 1 suppose that Sena- tor Morton and Senator Conkling influence him greatly in all his ied and they may de- “Cide Who the next Chief Justice will be.’? after some further disc: ‘dinary topics ‘the reporter withdrew. on \epamank ta THE UNKNOWN DEAD. Saturday night at a late hour a man whose name is unknown fell from the ferry bridge foot of Tenth treet, Fast River, into the dock and was drowned. Yesterday morning William Hum nrey, of No, $37 East Third street, and John Russell, living in Green- joint, found the body, which was sent to the lorgue and Coroner Herrman notified, ds supposed to have lived in Brookiyne ese COURT CALENDAR—THIS Day, COURT OF GENERAL SksSIONS—Held by ‘Sutherland,—The People vs. Joseph Rivers, wae Jary and iarceny; Same vs. Thomas Brudergast and John Nixon, do. do.; Same vs. Jonn Donohue, giand larceny; Same vs. James Taylor, do.; Same vs. Philip Magee, rape; Same vs. Jonn Gallagher, do.; Same vs. Kmil Stein, re tet, receiving sivlen goods; Same vs. James illy, do, do, ; Same vs. Con Simmons, do. do.; Same vs. Charieg Gertch and William Carroll, do. do. me vs, William Burke and William Madden, Assanit and pereer | seme Mi aay b day do, oo eee vs. omas Murray, larceny from person; Same vs, ‘William Buoblen, dy, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. VALENCIA. Graphic Description of the Closing Hours of the Siege. COMPLETE SURRENDER OF THE REBELS The Ruin and Desolation Caused by the Protracted Struggle. THE OLD CHURCH OF ST. SEBASTIAN The Scene When the Troops En- tered the City. Certain Future Triumph of the Government. Martines Oampos, the Oonqueror, and His Demeanor on Horseback. THE DEAD AND WOUNDED. SVALENCIA DEL Crp, Spain, August 8, 1873, CONCLUSION OF THE SIEGE OF VALENCIA. The siege isended, The blatant rebels of this ever-effervescing city have succumbed; they have laid down their arms with timid humility, in fear and trembling. Those vallant descendants of the great champion of the Christiana of Valencia, after foaming at the mouth with wordy patriotic rage and fervor, have proved nothing but their utter degeneracy from those warlike fellows who defled Prim and Serrano in 1869, They have nothing in common with them. They have been more than usually insolent to all classes of citizens and stran- gers, and though their insolence SMACKED SOMEWHAT OF THE LUDICROUS yet were they dangerous so long as they were ready to back their words with their bayonets—a thing they were by no means unlikely to do when neither law, order nor decency was recognized by the wretches who have heid the proud city of Va- lencia for the last fourteen days—that is, trom the 26th of July to the 8th inst, Thoped sincerely that their words were heavier than air, and that their loud, boastful patriotism would bring some fruition; but I am now unde- ceived. I lauded the army of the volunteers of 1869 through column after column of the HERALD, and I thought that the courage they displayed face to face with the veterans of the monarchy when fiercely contesting each step of Alaminos and Primo de Rivera would be repeated against the troops of Salmeron and his government, but I am now compelled to speak of them precisely as they have proved themselves to be. M ‘ LAST DIURNAL NOTES reached to noon of August 6, while a truce had been made and hostilities suspended until the Peace Commission fulfilled its duty of mediation. That truce continued until three o'clock A. M. of this morning, when, alter the departure of the intran- sigentes for Cartagena by steamer, the battalions of order, the First battalion, the Third ana Filth battalions, and some 2,000 other moderates, sent word to the camp of Martinez Campos that the city was ready to surrender. But to continue my notes of the siege. The volunteers were seen in knots discussing the probabie termination of the work of the Commis- sion, Some thought that there would be peace; others believed it to be impossible; some argued lor peace, others argued against peace, others de- sired above all things order and tranquillity, while the rabid class were seen energetically gesticulating and declaring that sooner than see Valencia in the hands of the troops they would lay the town in ashes, The timid feared that violence would gain the day, and all day until late at night the mattresses and chairs were being taken in hand carts to the grao or port; forin taking their departure from the besieged city the people only cared to take with them their beds, as food was abundant, It was @ curious sight to follow them to the grao, and see the thousands availing themselves of every space to pitch their beds. Such a thing as sex seemed to have become entirely obliterated, That strict line of demarcation, which no man might cross, and which, though an abstract line, was 80 profoundly respected before, seemed by easy steps tohave been forgotten. In the out- houses, back against walls, against the pier heads and wharf posts the beds of entire families were set, and they laid down and slept unconcernedly. THE FRLUCCAS of the port became of great use in accommodat- ing the fugitives, for scores of families found shelter therein; and while within the city of Valen- cia reigned silence and doubt and fear, at the grao people conducted themselves as if they were out on a monster picnic; they laughed and sang, walked and bathed as if they had left their homes on purpose for this outdoor enjoyment and social recreation, To pass from Valencia to the grao was a work of some trouble, and, unless a man was pretty thor- oughly protected with passes and visés, a work of some danger. This was simply the result of the indisciplive and INGUBORDINATION OF THE VOLUNTEERS, who were becoming by degrees the most unso- clable vagabonds. These fellows, seated on chairs as they kept guard, smoked cigars stolen from the tobacco factory and leered at respectable women, or insulted respectable men. A well dressed lady became a sure mark of jests and sneers and brutal laughter; a poorly dressed man became the victim of tyranny. Often I found my hand tnstinctively rising to choke some one more brutal and filthy than another, who sneered at one as though a rev. olution in the city of Valencia had changed the whole aspect of social amenities and customs throughout the world, and that in future there coud be no more good or decent behavior, but brutality, ribalary and insolence. A fervent prayer Loften uttered on this day was, “God save all civilized peoples from the tyranny of the igno- rant and from mobocracy.’’ Tyranny of kings and czars and aristocrats may be bad enough, but such a tyranny is far preferable to that of such an undisciplined mob as this. Besides their indisci- pline, insubordination, brutality, their mocking laughter, these violent volunteers were the helots of the province—mere mannikins in height, idivts im appearance and apes for ugliness, I found it more difficult to obtain information of these people than I have had to interview the highest authori- ties of any lands. If 1 went to a church and respectfully requested if I might be per- mitted to look tn, I could not obtain a civil answer, but with an insolent shake of the head—for they found it too much work to talk— they gave me to understand that it was impossi- bie. One day they recognized a pass signed by the American Consul; the next tney desired to have one from the Janta. A pass brough: before them, sealed with the seal of the “Junta of Salva- tion and Defence,” they refused to look at unless it was also sealed with the seal of the Consulate of the United States of America; and thus people have been badgered and tyrannized over by men whose hearts have become seared with license, But enough of them and their beastly behavior, ‘The 6th of August passed in anxiety, and the next day dawned with no brighter prospects; but the report that Generals Martinez Campos, Vel- arde, Salcedo, Arrando and Villacampa had con- centrated a force of 10,000 men outside, with eighteen heavy siege guns, was already producing effect. The Junta could not deliberate in the crypt of the cathedral with the ease and liberty it desired; @ violent Intrangigente priest~a kind of republican Santa Cruz in stature, form and appearance—all the time stormed and menaced the members composing the Junta if they took into consideration any terms but those granting free pardon to all engaged in the revolution, and the irreconcilables flocking under nis standard professing his principles made it absolutely dangerous for the Junta to deliberate upon the terms the Commission brought from the General at all. THE “COMMITTEE OF SALVATION AND DEFENCE," as the Junta styles itsell, seeing which way the wind biew, came silently to an understanding to surrender, and sent @ secret letter to the com- Manuing general outside that the olty would sur- render at noon, and, having communicated it to the volunteers of order, each member of the com- mittee silently and secretly absconded, leaving the reds to come to an understanding between them- selves, Until midnight it was not known what the reds intended to do. A sergeant of artillery in charge ot the Cuarte Tower declared that he had orders to blow tt up at ten A, M. of the 8th, Cavalottl, the chief of the volunteers of order, when asked about the probable issue of the whole, aaid he be- lieved that very bad things would come to puss; he could not say what exactly. He feared that vio- lence would end it all. Timid people solved tne issue among themselves, and numbers of them were seen bearing their beds on their backs to the grao, or port. At midnight, however, people began to breathe freer, There was a report that the reds had marched to the port and taken the steamer Mathiide for Cartagena. In a short time the re- port was confirmed, and people fervently blessed God that the danger was passed. At the port, as the reds arrived, they were hooted and insulted by the Valenciana, who all at once seemed to have plucked up courage to revile the fallen demagogues; and as they heard the curses loud and deep directed agatast them, and some wicked wags started a report that the troops were coming, they launched themselves ‘into the boats and tumbled on board in a manner that elicited laughter from hundreds who witnessed their de- parture. So great was their anxiety to be off that they manned boats and towed the steamer far out to sea, until she signalled that steam was up. The 8th ot August camo, with its cheering news and promise of peace. The barricades were at an early hour levelled, and the tartanas, or carriages, which had been collected together outside rolled in, and commerce began to revive again. What a healthy, happy, cheery sound wheeled vehicles make in streets where they have been for- bidden for a time! A city seems as if it were beginning life anew, as if it had been resuscitated with all its beautiful organiza- tion into life from death! The shops were opened and people thronged the streets once more, Where had they all been hiding for the last four- teen days? Ifyou were only to mark the excessive pallor of their faees you need never ask that ques- tion, They had been living within their houses with vlosed doors, and the only fresh air and exer- cise they took they obtained in the inner courts, which all Spanish houses fortunately possess, It has also been noticeable that as soon as any revo- lution is spoken of THE BAKERS’ SHOPS are thronged, and all tne bread immediately bought out. With the experience derived trom re- peated revolutions, Spanish families proceed in a business-like way to invest a small fortune in edibles, with which they garrison their fortress- like houses, and their large inner courts furnish them with abundance of fresh air and sufficient room for exercise to keep them in moderate health, Still, when we saw the unusual number of people in streets which had been absolutely deserted we could not but wonder, and with wonder came a feeling of contempt for the species. Enough stal- wart, able-bodied men had been niding within their houses to have crushed a force three times superior to that of the violent Reds, and these men had permitted their business to be stopped and their houses ruined by cannon balls because they had not spirit sufficient to take up arms and quell the insurrection. The Peace Commission repre- sented these skuikers, men of families, and men of property and standing high in soclety, and they stooped so low as to travel backwards and for- wards from city to camp and camp to city to en- treat Martinez Campos to do what they could (had they desired it) have done very well for them- selves, Atnoon it was said the troops were advancing upon the city. Accompanied by some English frionds I walked down the Calle Cuarte, and at the extreme end of it I saw the great gate was open, and over the defiant frowning towers waved THE WHITE FLAG, A BED SHERTY Two soldiers, armed, quietly passed us and hur- ried torward, as if they were bent on some errand of love and charity, along @ road they well knew. They were evidently fathers of families and Valen- cians, and they were hurrying on, probably, to ob- tain news of their dear ones, Outside the towers of Cuarte we looked at the scars which they had received in battle. The marks were huwerous enough—there were, proba- bly, @ hundred of them; but, excepting two or three pretty deep holes, they might as well have been made by musket balls for all the material damage they had done. The towers might have stood such battering for ten years and, probably, stood just as formidable at the end of that time, whereas a dozen 100 pound shots striking them fairly would have destroyed them. The neighborhood of the Cuarte Towers, outside the old city limits, had, however, been fearfully punished. Each house had been visited with mi- traille and pounded with shot; roofs had been shat- tered ; balconies, with their iron railings, had been wrung from the walls; shutters lay awry, doors were unhinged, and lay riven and splintered; in- teriors of houses had been gutted, furniture broken, walla perforated, pelted, scarred, disfig- ured with jagged holes and ugly rents, and the streets were littered with the rubbish. THE POOR OLD CHURCH OF ST. SEBASTIAN, with its new dome, was a pitilul sight to see. Its stone ornanients had been sheared from the walls and its stone balls had been powdered. Stone saints and monks stood headiess and armless, and the new dome had been almost clean halved. But such details might be expected, and, having ex- cited your imagination, I leave your tancy to sketch the thousand other such scenes and desola- tions, ENTERING THE CITY. The troops were at this time pouring into the city by the gates of the Cuarte Towers, and the St. Vieente mounted civil guards in advance, sap- pers and miners following; then a squadron of civil guards, infantry and artillery; finally, Villacampa, @ brigadier general, who turned out to be a very civil officer, with whom I once travelled from Va- lencia to Barcelona, surrounded by his statf, who were perfectly amusing with their straight backs and proud appearance. Almost all the oficers bore themselves with the air of conquerors, and the condescending look with which they were pleased to visit myself and companions I shall remember to tmitate some day should Iever be fortunate enough tobe a # queror, for I should fancy from what I saw to-day nothing gratified a man’s vanity so mucli as to give him that awesome, solt-appealing 100k, which the conquered are supposed to give the conqueror. I should like to have such a look be- stowed upon me by all means, especially from the timid fair ones. % Bat the idea of these popinjay officers assuming such looks 18 what amused me—fellows who could no more have entered Valencia had the volunteers been unanimous in resistance than they can enter heaven. It is probable, however, that they think they captured Valencia by assault; but if they do not know it permit me to inform them through your eolumns that they did not take tho city by assault, but it was given up to them by the volun teers of order, LT have not conversed with MARTINEZ CAMPOS yet, but I shall before to-day is over; but my opin- jon of him has been strengthened by his appear- ance inthe streets of Valencia with his cocked hat in his hand saluting everybody when really nobody saluted him, I wish Lhad the humor of Mark Twain in me, for then, perhaps, I might do such @ ridiculous figure justice; for a man might as with all the graciosities of a Spantsn caballero as for Martinez Campos to have ridden bareheaded through Valencia when nobody iooked at him save through motives of curiosity. I desire in no way to reflect upon the Generai, who may probably turn out tobe really an amiable man, bnt I cannot help pitying 4 man who makes his own self-respect so cheap, and offers it to the first semblance of a human figure he sees. However my interview with him to-night will turn out, I must confess he has not inspired me with any profound sentiment of respect for his valor or his knowledge of war. For humanttarians and philanthropists, perhaps, this quiet taking possession of a city wili be better than taking it by assault, but for those who love to see ® general show his mettle, and a gov- ernment its strength, when it might have been done without any loss of life, or the de- struction of property that has followed the former method, the taking of a city with a masteriul hand, with skill, dash and courage, is far better. The day we arrived at Vatencia the city might have been taken at once had tne atcack been made at night from the port, and the cannon on the towers of Cuarte, Serranos and the Citadel rendered useless unless the reds were determined to destroy their own city, _ We saw fhe troops enter—infantry, cavatty and artillery—to the number of about seven thousand men; we saw Martinez Campos, Villacampa and Arrando, With all their brilliant stats of aristo- cratic young oMcers, enter the Captain General's palace, and we knew THE SIEGE WAS OVER. Some of the saddest sights I have seen in connec- tion with the siege are the scenes I have witnessed among the houses of the poor, in the Church of the Escuelas Pias and those in the hospital. The houses o/ the poor are very thickly congre- gated on each side and around the Cuarte Towers, They are to be found in narrow alleys leading from the main streets; the air is pregnant with hateful exhalations, the ground is strewn with refuse of all descriptions, and with the smell and aspect of these quarters the district is not by any means an inviting one. Still, with the cleanness of Spanish Wives in the interior of their houses, almost all of these externally uninviting houses are cleanly whitewashed, and decently furnished inside. However, the shells which Martinez Campos has been pitching into the city haye given us an oppor- tunity to glance at the interiors of the low houses, These being constructed of cobble stone and very poor mortar, which more resembles mud than thing else, have required but a slight tap near the lintel of the door or an explosion inside to make them completo wrecks. Several of them have their fronts clean blown down, leaving each story of the house exposed, with the beds in their places, the clothes on the pegs, the dishes in the cupboard, the usual saints in their niches, while many of them likewise are seen with beds, tables, chairs, saints, dishes, clothes, hats, rags, carpets, bricks, mortar, &c, in one confusing heap. I fancy I hear the wailing of the poor women and hear them cry out to their neighbors:—‘We are ruined! We are ruined! What shall we do? when they come from the port to repeople the scenes they had deserted, and look in stupefaction and wonder upon the desolauon in their quarters, There has been another locality, adjoining that just described, above which heaves and towers in grand proportions the dome of the Escuelas Ptas, which has been the theatre of many explosions. ‘This dome ts immense, and one of the largest in the world, so that its preservation has become now an object to the Valencianoa, The Pious Schools were erected towards the beginning of the eigh- teenth century; but the great dome suifered so much from the French General Finchet’s batteries that the Archbishop had it pulled down and made bomb-proof. Indeed, I should advise every Ameri- can who intends residing in Spain to follow the ex- ample o/ the worthy Archbishop and build a bomb- proof house for his protection, The poor families of the district of the Pious Schools had all hastened after the ist of August, when the troops appeared to be in earnest, to shelter themselves under this bomb-proof dome. Over two hundred families were here congregated, while throughout the immense and strong buiid- ings outside over five hundred families found pro- tection. But under the dome the whole scene could be taken at one view—each family by itself, benches dividing it from its neighbor, but the the beds, pots, pans, clothes and everything be- tokening poverty, were all, seemingly, strewnover the floor of the rotunda, without regard to owner- ship. It was similar in its moral aspect to the scenes of out-door life visible at the grao during the bom- bardment, when sex seemed forgotten, and woman scarcely knew herself. THE HOSPITALS, of course, present the usual sad scenes that follow in the wake of war. Some seventy or eighty wounded men lie on beds with scarred bodies and unrecognizable faces from the caisson explosions which followed the explosions of the troops’ bombs. The artillery men of the Towers have been very unfortunate in this respect, forin three suc- cessive days the same accident occurred, All is being done that can be done to alleviate their con- dition, and numbers of Sisters of Charity are, with their usual goodness, at their bedsides, Apropos of these artillery men, who behaved so plauckily above the Towers of Cuarto, a colonel has just told me that the officers of the army are loud in praise of the manner they worked their guns and the splendid shots the insurrevtionists made. Mislata and Socos are perfectly ruined by their balls. The colonel also said that they had sus- pected the pointer of their cannon to be some officer of a foreign navy. ‘Whoever he was,” said he, “he was @ man of intelligence—of great intel- ligence.”” This “intelligent man” was the first sergeant of artillery, a tall, handsome man, who lies a ghastly object at the hospital. It is now the night of avGust 8. Thousands of people have already hurried to the city. The hum of voices, the roll of rich men’s chariots, the heavier roll of the commercial wagons, resound through the streets; a wonderful number of people with clean shir’s and shaven faces, gaily dressed ladies and children throng the Glorietta and Passos; and here am I still dallying with my pen over such ghastly scenes as war makes every- where, when Peace has already appeared, with wand and snowy robe and smiling face, to disperse with her presence the memortes of the dark time which the -fair city of Valencia of the Cid has lately known, Down with the curtain, and vamos caballeros, SEA CLIFF GROVE CANP MEETING, iii The camp meeting of the New York Methodists, at Sea Cliff Grove, will close on Thursday next, Yesterday was considered the most important day oi the meeting, and the attendance, consequently, was very large, although not so large, perhaps, as on the last days of the July meeting, when, it is estimated, there were 8,000 peopie present. The exercises are under the direction of the Rev. J. B. Merwin, of the New York district. There were three regular services yesterday, beside the usual intermediate prayer meetings, and @ childre: meeting in the afternoon. The Rev, Richard Mere- dith, of the Twenty-seventh street (New York) | courch, preached in the oer ai his discourse being an answer to the query, ‘Is it possible to make the most of both worlds ?” his text being taken from Matthew, vi, 24—“No man can serve two masters, Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hoid to the one and despise tue other, No man can serve God and mammon.” The aiternoon sermon was preached by the Rev, jeorge Lansing Taylor, of Hempstead, and the ng sermon by the Rev. D. 0, Ferris, of Water- ry, Conn, A love feast was held at nine o'clock A. M., at which the attendance was large, and the results of which were Wight of as very gratify- ing. At Qall-past one P. M. there Was aiso a meet- ing for those seeking entire sanctification, THE DAILY PROGRAMME for the remainder of the week comprises preach- ing at eleven A. M. and three anda quarter to eight P. M., with prayer meetings at six and nine A. M. and at the close of each service. Among the clergymen ee to be present are the Rev. J. 8S. Inskip, the Rev. Dr. Lore, editor of the christian Advocate; the Rev. Cyrus D. Foss, the Rev. Dr. George R. Crooks and others of note. There were present yesterday, beside those taking part in the exercises, the Rev. Dr, G. R. Sanderson, of Canada; the Rev, John Pegg, J Rev. Dr. Depew, the Rev. W. H. Boole, the Rev, F. Hill, the Rev. Charles 0. Keese, the Rev, Mr. bat sy Us Glencove, = one th eavy storm came luring the 38 of the afternoon service: at there Detg Santy of shelter on the grounds it caused no serious incen- Ventence, although there Was considerable skusry- Well have gone (hroygh & foreat salatog we breoa | ing for 4 Kae. < EE SN a LA THE HUNTINGTON BARBARISM. —— Sunday Excitement at the Long Island Village Over the Terrible Sensation—The Dritt of Opinion and the Probabilities of a Public Disturbance—Interview with tho Brother of the Murdered Keisey— Statement of Coroner Bayliss. Auntinaton, L. I, August 31, 1873, The excitement regarding tie developments in the Kelsey case is still unabated, To-day, being Sunday, the discussions and gossip are contined to the houses of the residents—the public houses being comparatively deserted. Many who had heard but the outline of the evidence taken be‘ore Coroner Bayliss at Oyster Bay yesterday read with great interest the full accounts in tis morning's HeRacb, for which there was an immense demand at the depot. This apparent LULL IN THE BXCITEMENT is regarded by wiseacres as a dangerous indication, they maintaining that 1t will break out to-morrow with the accumulated force of two days and thus culminate in action as violent as the excitement that will then direct it, This prognostication may be true, but its fulfilment is not yet, Governing the excitement which is felt in the community is the stronger excitement of curiosity, and if there is to be any disturbance it need not be looked for until all the inquest evidence is taken. Great impatience is felt by all to hear the testi- mony of the physicians who examined the remains, ag this evidence will Mx or remove the suspicion of more damnable crime than murder. I know that the doctors have suspicions of the nameless and unmanly outrage that is accredited to Banks, Sammis & Co., but they will give them the benefit of a doubt that exists in their minds as to whether it was the lance or the water that left the marks that engender the suspicion, They say the marks may have been made by the fishes, but it would seem that THE BLOOD ON THE SHIRT, found at Lioyd’s Beach, would be sufficient to dis- sipate this theory. I have spoken to Dr. Vanzandt on the subject, and he is of opinion that one theory is as probable as the other. In reference to the shirt it is said that the marks were so pale and indistinct as to leave a doubt as to whether they were blood or brick dust. It was yesterday reported that the brothers Kelsey would bury the remains to-day. The report spread all over the county, and many came here to attend the funeral and were disappointed. I callea on Mr. W.S. Kelsey to inquire about the funeral and what arrangements he had made for the final interment of the remains, Mr. Kelsey received me kindly and said he had been in aemand all day by people, asking why the funeral was not coming off. He said tt was the intention of the family to have buried the remains to-day, saying that they want. to get them out of the way, but they decided to let them remain until all the testimony on the inquest is taken. I spoke to him about his having saia nothing about his brother visiting the house of Miss Smith on the night of the murder, He said the whole story was a fabrication, He didn’t hear Charles that night, but knew he was in the house, because he 1ound HIS WATCH IN HIS ROOM smeared with tar. He told this yesterday to the jury. He continued—“I am confident timt it is my brother Charley, and I am anxious to have his body buried with those of the rest of the family who have died. I would notoffer insult to the memory of those who have gone before by the presence of what I knew to be a strange corpse.” Mrs. Gould, the lady who claims to have seen Kelsey on the New Haven Railroad last spring, will, it is said, be called before the jury on Tuesday. She is a lady of high standing in the community and truthful. She is probably the victim of an optical delusion, but firm in the belief that she saw him. Mr, Scudder will likely be recalled at the inquest on Tuesday. He ts the man who heard the wagon go down the road towards Lloyd’s Dock on the morning of November 5, at two o'clock. The remains are still at Oyster Bay, under the care of the Coroner. There is high indignation here against the sup- Posed perpetrators of the crime, What Coroner Bayliss Says. Coroner Bayliss, in conversation with a reporter yesterday, stated that he had no doubt whatever that the remains found were those of Kelsey A Knowledge of the coastline and of the usual flow of the tides and currents would satisfy any one of the extreme probability that the remains would float in the exact direction in which they did, and the fact that there were a number of sea Spiders on the remains when found was proof con- clusive that they had been for some time lying in deep water. ‘The Coroner further stated—a fact which has not yet appeared in evidence—that when he first drew the remains on shore and uncovered them they appeared to be fair and plump, but upon being ex- posed to the air they began immediately to putriry, and the stench from them became almost intoler- able. He accordingly at once ordered them to be placed on ice. He examined the remains with the greatest care, and asserts positively that he found a considerable quantity of tar upon the groins and upon both legs, and that there were literally hand- fuls of feathers intermingled with tt, especially be- hind, where especial pains appeared to have been taken to place them where they would express the greatest indignity, some of them having been actu- ally thrust into the person. But, worse still, the mutilation of the body was of the most horrible character, Whether it oceurred betore or after death it may now be impossible to say, It was further learned from the Coroner that the relatives of Kelsey were so certain that the re- mains were his that they were perfectly willing, upon the testimony already adduced and irom their appearance, to accept them for burial, and that the funeral would have taken place on Satur- day but forthe fact that they desired the funeral to take place from the Second Presbyterian church in Huntington, and the authorities of the church demurred to tlie arrangement before the close of the inquest, at the same time expressing their en- tire willingness that the ceremony should take place in the church, if the remains proved realiy to be those of Kelsey. The funeral is therefore ap- pointed to take place on Wednesday next, FOREIGN ART NOTES. Gabriel Loppé, of Chamouni, whose wonderfully sympathetic pictures of the uplifted wilderness of ice and snow which surround his home attracted 80 much attention when exhibited lately in the rooms of the Alpine Club, of which he is the senior honorary member, has returned to his native Switzerland, to execute a new series of the glacier wilds, and reveal on his canvas more of the sublimities of the snow world. M. Loppé has made mountain scenery, and par- ticularly that of the higher Alps, upon which he seems to delight to live and labor, his speciaity, and his new set of views will be hung on tie walis of the Conduit Street Gallery, pow leased by Mr. A, M, Marsden, next Spring. Mr. F. R. Pickersgill, R. A., has been elected to the office of Keeper at the Royal Academy, in place of Mr. C. Landseer, R. A., who retires. Consider- ing bis many years of close attendance and con- scientious service, we should imagine the students would not allow the worthy veteran to leave them Without testifying in some tangible form, however slight, their appreciation of his many kindly quali- ties. The election of Secretary to the Royal Academy, consequent upon the resignation of Mr. J, P. Knight, R. A., whose health no longer allows him to perform the duties oi that office, took place on the LOth uit., at a gemeral meeting of the academi- cians, when, out of 106 candidates, five were se- lected for ballot. The voting terminated in favor Mr. Eaton, f W. W. Story’s ‘Jerusalem in Her Desolation" ts now in London, but is presently to be forwarded to the Academy of Arts, Poiladeiphia. Itis a noble female figure elad in flowing Saree the head, crowned with a kind of phyiactery, 1s finely model- led, the Hebrew face having ah expression of Mingled distress and contempt. She is seated, as “solitary widow,” with her right arm resting on & square column, broken but ornamented. The gea- eral impression of the design is that of majestic sorrow; and the execution of the work turoug b- Out is most careful. London art Journas fer August saya:— ‘The 7 close of the French Extitbition ror tnis year was siznalized ey Incident of unique bad taste, wherein art has been grossly degraded into a foui ministrant to coarse sensuality, We allude to the fact, almost incredible, that the Paris- tan Art-jury haa boldiy awarded three of its prizes “to some tiree o! those disgust ing canvases which reveal the study of the nude in its worst professional exactions, and set wantonly at naught every suggestion of common decency. When the high judicial function invested iu & body of artists is thus betrayed it seems time to invoke the interference of a higher power aad entrust a severe veto ae Fine Art mivister, ‘the bronze head, or rather portion of a head, lately deposited in that precious case tn the Bronze Room of the British Museum, which includes the Utrle Neptune trom Paramythia, the great mask of Hypnos, and @ few similar treasures, is one of the objects recently purchased of Signor Casteliani by the Museum, The head im question is remarkable lor lis excellence ag a Work in metal, uo less than for its artisue grandeur, It 18 Cast in bronze; but the metal is almost as thin as been worked by the hatmm Witn the finish of feavure is combined a breadtte ntin the less conspicuous parts (such asin the diadem and the upper divisions of the hair), 30 boid as to lead to tue conviction that the mould Was wrought, bot in Wax, but in clay. M. Cordier, a French sculptor, appears to have founded a new order of his art. ‘It may be vailed Uitra-realistic, for it consists of the combination of two distinct materials in a single figure, or dark marble, to imitate che skin of the t other colored races, and white or variegate: bie for the white races of mankind and for ries, In his latest group the 3 has carried out his method in a mo: tended form, taking as a text for his the well-known plirase as applied to the negr “Am [ not & man and a brother.’ Vhe irons round the ankles of the black boy tdicate that he has been a slave, but there is no chain, He has burst his bonds and 1s folded in the arms of the white boy, saluting him as, it may be presumed, his de- liverer, ‘The group 18 a pretty ‘study in black a white,” an original artistic fancy, lile-like and a mated, and excellently modelled; the character. istics of the Opposiie races are well preserved in Pome rding to the official catalogue, the number of works of art contributed by the various countri the Vienna ixhibition ts as follows Austria, $11; Germany, 725; Italy, 625; Russi: Belgium, 296; Holland, 167; Hungary, 10: mark, 101; Greece, 37; United States of America, Ws; Turkey, 7; China, 2; Monaco, 3, and Brazil, 1, making in all 4,919, At the time of the Holbein Exhibition, hetd at Dresden in the year 1871, 8 congress took placo, and it was determined that the idea should be kept in view and the congress renewed upon the next favorable occasion, and 4 commission was nominated for that purpose. It is now de- termined that a congress shall take place in the Austrian Fine Art Galleries of the Vienna Exhibition on September 1 to 3, to deliberate in common on matters touching the sciences connected witn fine art. The tollowin, is the programme for the occasiot 1. What scl- ence requires with respect to the classification, cat- aloguing and administration of museums. 2, The methods of preserving works of art, including pic- tures, public monuments, objects of religious art, miniatures, drawings, &c, 3. The teaching of the history of the fine arts in establishments for supe- rior instruction and secondary schools, 4, The formation ot a repertory of the fine arts, and the necessity of drawing up an inventory of their his- tory. 5 The reproduction of works ofart and their propagation in the interest of museums and artis tic education, PROBABLE MURDER. A Young Man Almost Killed by Rob- bers. SCRANTON, Pa., August 31, 1873, At an early hour yesterday morning a man named Richard O'Connor was found lying insensi- ble in @ pool of blood about half a mile from the village of Wyoming. He was taken up and carried to his home, where it was discovered that his skull was fractured together with several severe injuries inflicted upon his body, His ruflanly as- sailants, im an effort to get at his pocketbook, cut his pantaloons with @ 4 knife, and penetrating deep into the right groin, inflicted a serious wound, O’Connor has been for some time past in the employ of the Lackawanna and Baltimore Railroad. He left his home on the afternoon of Friday, going in the direction of Pitts- ton, and had the sum of $300 on bis person. Late in the evening he was observed at West Pittston, in company of two men who are suspected of nav- ing foully dealt with him, in order to possess them- selves of his money. When found near Wy- oming all his money and valuables were miss- ing and life was almost extinct, Various ru- mors are afloat as to the perpetrators of the criminal deed. Some persons say it 1 the work of a strolling band of gypsies who were seen in the vicinity of W/oming during the camp meeting. Others again assert it was the work of the men seen with O’Connor, From the multiplicity of speculations itis dificult to fix any reliable information. O'Connor 1s still in a state of unconsciousness, and hus recovery is looked upon as being extremely doubtiul. He is twenty-six years of age, just in the prime of life, and all things were in readiness for his marriage, which was to have taken place last evening at six o'clock. He had looked forward to the happy event with glowing anticipation, and his visit to Pittston was made with a view to arranging some of the preliminaries of the wedding. fs cherished hopes, however, were suddenly shattered, thus illustrating once more the truth of the adage—“L’homme propose, mais Diew dispose.” Indeed, some persons go so far as to say thar the attempt on O'Connor's lite was | pesitend by arival, This, however, I have not heard substan- tiated by any feasible information. The tragic Occurrence has sent @ thrill of horror throughout the neighborhood where he was known and spected, and cast a pail of sadness over the imme- diate circle of his iriends and the friends of his afllanced, Moorn.—At Greenport, L. L, on Friday evening, August 29, Mrs, JuLIa Moork, th the 92d year of her age. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend her funeral, at her late residence tn Green- port, on Tuesday, September 2, at hali-past two o’clock P. M. 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