The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1873, Page 3

RACING AT NEW ORLEANS. Bonnabel Wing the First Race, Silent Friend the Second Race and Cape Race the Third. New ORLEANS, Dec. 16, 1873, Is seems to be pretty well determined that we are to have no winter weather. Bright skies and balmy, spring like breezes remain with us, although we are upon the very threshold of Christmas. The trees are clothed with verdure and the lawns are as green as in May. Nature herself has been ‘deceived, for all the trees are putting forth tender ‘buds, and the very birds themselves seem haif imelined to go a wooing and nest building under , the impression that winter has in some way come and gone and spring has been usnered im im earnest. It was almost impossible to ‘realize last evening that we were whirl ing out to a fall meeting, so pleasant was ‘the air and so springlike was every surrounding; ‘@nd the course itself sustained the allusion, with its green fields ana waving trees, The Shell Road Yeading to the course was alive with carriages filled with ladies, whose attire was in keeping ‘with the day, and whose merry laughter made pleasant music as it rose above the sound of rapid footstep and the whirring of soft wheels over the hard and level road. The attendance was not, however, what we hau anticipated; but as the moment drew near for the start in the first event the grand stand filled up rapidly, and we were glad to observe a great interest dis- played in the sport of the day. The quarter stretch "was enlivened by the presence of well known turf- men, many of whom were willing to back their horses with money. The track was in excellent condition, having been thoroughly harrowed since the rain on Friday night last, and if not fast was very near it, the horses in their preliminary can- Vers kicking up little cloads of dust. It was thought that in the mile dash 1:46 might be made, but sub- #equent events did not fulfil this expectation, THE FIRST RACE was for the New Orleans Stakes, for colts and fillies three years o:d; $25 entrance, p. p., with $700 added; secoad horse to receive $200 and third horse $100; two miles. There were 20 entries, but of this number only seven came to the scratch, ‘vis. :—Philolena, Meta S., Fred. Bonnabel, Astras- see, Edwin Adams, Western Star, and a gray colt by Lightning out of Jessamine Porter. Western Star was the first favorite, the colt second and Fawm Adams third, with no betting to speak of, the absence of greenbacks being painfully apparent. ‘The horses all appeared in good form, and when they were marshalled before Une grand stand, with the sunshine bringing out ‘the bright colors of the jockeys’ costumes and bur- nishing the beautiful coats of the animals, it was a pretty picture. To start was by no means easy. Every horse but the favorite was desirous of lead- ing of, and the consequence was a number ot false starts. Western Star was particularly fractious, * and gave infinite troubie by his mulishpess, It was almost impossible to get him in line; he was not amenable to coaxing, and whipping made him even worse ; he kicked and shook his pretty head, and in every way was as ugly as he well could be. Fmally the little Jockey was compelled to dis- mount, and then the rascal walked up quietly enough, and £0, after three false starte, they got away very prettily together, Fred Bonnabel dash- ing away in the lead, hotly pursued by the favor- ite, and the biue cap of the latter's jockey soon showed plainly in the front, and passed the first quarter pole several iengths ahead, with Bonnabel second, the gray colt a good third, and the rest scattering. On the backstretch Bon- mabel and the gray colt went up and felt the leader's I ed who gayly threw" off and beid his own al lantly, and they dashi wn the home- stretch and unaer the string, the Star in the lead, Bonnabel second, the colt third and Meta fourth. Round the turn they swe pace grew swiiter and more swift, they become More bunched. On the backstretch there was a most exciting and beautiful contest, Every horse evidently let himself out, and ail the way down the Streten and into the three-quarter turn it was “pall | Dick, ail devil,” as to which was in the lead—Western Star, Bonnabel or the ‘ray coit. A lady’s shawl would have covered the ree, and the excitement on the grand stand be- came intense. And now they come down the home- retch helter skelter. Such a clattering of hools, oh @ kaleidoscope vision of jockeys costumed, such @ tumult among the ple, has not been peate Of seen jor Tiahy a ddy. Sow ope Bes another, was thought to ve im thé lead; bu a ey drew nearer Bonnabel was discovered in advance bi the party, with tl ray colt ahot second. The latter made a good fight, but Bonnabel won by a Jength, the gray colt second, Meta third, Western Btar fourth, Edwin Adame Ay, Philomena sixth and Astraped seventh. ime, 3:46 54, sanee fo re i Peer coer 4 poral as ns Be ow! e pools, and not boo vo win. The ‘Was another fall for the knowing ones, and made the third race out of four run in which they went pda *. RCOND RACE, This was a race of two mile heats, for all ages, slub purse $800; the first horse to receive $660, and the second horse $150. There were four entries— Carrington, Silent Friend, Port Leonard and Nellie Tho horses were all in capital trim, and the favorite could not well have been in a better Gx ior s quarter stretch. Silent Friend was the favorite against the field, but we saw severai bets of that kind taken, quite a num- ber of persons being of the opinion that the field was an_ excellent one, apd woula do to back against odds, tap of the drum they got away well together, Port Leonard in the lead, with Nellie R. dancing at- tendance. Just before the quarter pole was reached Carrington shot to the front, Pagt Leon- ard keeping well up as second. At the half-mile Port Leonard again went to the front, Carrington secund and Nellie, R. third, the favorite keeping ‘Well in the rear and running a waiting race. ‘They under the string in the following order:— ‘ort Leonard, Carrington, Nellie R. and Silent Friend. In this order they went py the quarter and half-mile posts, but when near the three-quar- ter turn Silent Friend suddenty “let out a link,”’ and shot to the front like an arrow. The heat was then virtually won, for none of the party could close the gap, and they came under the string with Silent Friend several lengths ahead, Carrington second, Port Leonard third and Nellie R. fourth. pada mile, 1:55; second mile, 1:53%. Total, Seoond Heat.—The betting was now all on the favorite, and we heard $100 to $20 bid, with no takers. ' After one-Jalse start they got away well together, Nellic R. in the lead, Carrington second, Port Leonard third, Silent Friend, as usual, In this order they ran the widening the gap to two tlepgths, and about half a length oi day- light showing between the other horses, Just pefore they reached the quarter pole Silent Friend, with all the ease in the world, again came to the front and shook his tail to the others in de- fiance. This order was maintained throughout, with the exception that Nellie R. got third place at the quarter pole. They passed the string as fol- jows:—Silent Friend, Carrington, Nellie and ort Leonard. Time—First mile, 1:64; second mile, 1:47%4. ‘Thia time the favorite won, ani the faces of the knowing ones were for the time radiant with smiles, THIRD RACE, One mile, with 100 Ibs. on each, three-year-olds to carry 9 Ibs., no allowance for mares or geld- ings, club purse Aad ge First horse, $300 ;.second $15; tl horse, $25. ‘here were entries, a8 lollows:—Mary [., Cape Tom Leathers, Romping Girl, Wanderer, Falmouth, Minus, Lotta Moore, Mary Forrest, Flornie and General Palmer. Minus was Withdrawn before the start. With such a feld ‘t wag not to be wondered, at that there should gave been great difficulty in obtaining a good start. {t seemed almost impossible to get them of, and attempt alter attempt was made in vain; some ‘wo or three would get away, while the rest were eit Standing sull. Alter trying every conceivable Way to get them of indecent shape, ‘and afer tight Jaulures, the President resorted to the French method of walking the horses around and starting shem as they came in line across the track, This failed several times, however, and at the fourth jailure General Palmer, being evidently disgusted, fan away with his rider, and in spite ol every at- jempt he ran completely around the track three jimes and went half way round the fourth timebe- jore he was sinned, le seemed to labor under ihe impression that he was running @ four mile ash, and kept on his way, amid the laughter of ihe entire aesembiage. After the runaway accom- plished cach mile he was greeted with deatenin shouts, watches were drawn to time him, an mook bets were mace that he would beat Lexi! yon’s time, When his jockey finally brought b mM fe was in no condition to ‘go with the rest, was withdrawn with the consent of the juages. Alter 11 false starts the party finally got off pretty sven, and went down the quarter Btretch wo huddled iner that it Wasa matter of impossibility to dell one from the other. As they nytt around the sarn Tom Leathers was slightly in the lead; but be» jore the quarter pole was reached Cape Race went so the oat Leathers maintaining the second posi- sion, while the large "arty came clattering after in Bbuuch. At the th“ee-quarter pole Tom Leathers rced the rnnning and took second place, makin, rm work for Cape Race. Down the homestretch -Abey came clattering, le was between /Dape Race and Leathers. Like all struggles down she homestretch it was short and decisive, Race winning by @ length, Tom Leathers second and jomping Chri third, ‘The reat were strung out at varions distances, Time, 1:48%. fore we close we: must accord the Club the sredit which it deserves for the excellent order Paunsadned OF the course, and Jor the sumpiyour im nd id, as the | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. Yancheon which it nests and members, hat any visitor to ti when the officers who have iced 24 return to the ful ribbon ba: ugly pasteboard labels attached to prize cattle the sooner they will give evidence of good taste. We would suggest that owners of horses be compelled to provide neat and brieet costumes for their riders. Nothing so detracts from the appearance Of a race as shabbily dressed jockeys. THE GALLOWS CHEATED. Escape of a wderer from a@ Carolina Jail. Cnarorre, N, C., Dec. 16, 1873, Joseph Baker, @ white man, sentenced to be executed on the 19th inst. ior the crime of mur- dering @ negro named Newton Wilfeng, in March last, aear this city, broke jail on Saturday morning last, ang has not since been heard of. He was convicted at the spring term of the Superior Court, by a jury composed entirely of his own race, and was sentenced by Judge Samuel Watts to be banged as above. Am appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, in the hope of gaining @ new trial, which, after hearing the argument in the case, that tribunal refused. Since then the most strenuousefforts have been made by his counsel and friends to have his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life, all the mem- bers of the jury which tried him having signed a & petition to that effect, The Governor, however, was inexorable, and positively refused to mitigate the sentence. At five o’clock on Saturday morning, Baker's situation becoming fearfully desperate, he made a final effort and succeeded in escaping, He sev- ered his manacies by means of small saws made trom short pieces of iron hoop, and, being thus partially liberated, he soon cut a hole through the ceiling of his cell, re ne in the upper story of the jail, adnfittea to thé space between roof and ceil . In this portion of the buildin; there was & ventilator in the gabie end, constracte of wooden slats, which were unsound and rotten from age and long service. These baker soon re- moved; but then, to his horror, he found himself at an elevation of 50 feet trom the ground, the leap to which would probably kill him, or so effectually inaim him as to defeat his grand object—escape. This, to a man in his predicament, was not to be thought of for an instant, so he descended to his cell, procured his blanket, cut it into strips, tied them bos arto ‘and soon had an improvised rope. With this he reascended to the lott, gained the opening in the gable, made fast his rope, and an hour before daylight he was a free man. It is supposed he has made for the mountains in the western portion of the State, where he is well acquainted with the country. Six hundred dollars reward has been offered for his capture, but that 1s scarcely probable, as, having defeated the gal- lows once, he will hardly Tisk his neck again by allowing himsell to be arrested alive, THE HIGH BRIDGE (N.J.) TRAGEDY. Trial of Edward Brennan for the Al- leged Murder of His Wife. Yesterday, in the Hunterdon county (N. J.) Court of Oyer and Terminer, at Flemington, before Chief Justice Beaseley, Edward Brennan was arraigned on the charge of having murdered his wife Catharine at High Bridge, in the above county, on the 2ist of November last, Long before the hour arrived for the opening of the court room crowds congregated outside, where they waited with anxious expectation for the commencement of the proceedings, Every available space was taken up inside a few Minutes after the doors were thrown open, and the greater portion of the audience scemed to belong to the agricultural population. The prosecuting attorney, Mr P. Chamberlin, was assisted by ex-Congressman John T. Bird, and the prisoner was represented by J. N. Voorhees and Mercer Beaseley, Jr. In about twenty minutes a Tespectable, intelligent looking jury was picked out, after the panel was nearly exhausted by the peremptory challenges of the prisoner's counsel, Mr. Chamberlin in a brief manner gave to the jury a history of the circumstances connected with the tragedy, which was sully reported in_the HERALD Of the 4th inst. The deceased, Catharine Brennan, was the mother of four small children and resided-with her husband (the prisoner) up to the time of her sudden death on the 21st of No- vember. On the evening her Gecease she was at the washtub, at about nali-past five o’clock, and at seven o'clock (one hour and a half afterwards) she was a corpse, She was interred without any investigation taking place as to the cause of her death. Ina few days after the burial her body wad Exbamed and a ‘ertem examination held, which resulted “in a deep gash bemg discovered in her abdomen, together with several bruises on other parts of her body. The doctors who made the examination pronounced it a case of foul play. A coroner’s jury afterwards returned @ verdict charging the prisoner with the commis- oqgonte for the ladies, invited ‘here is nothing left undone hé course could desir id of the 8 instead of the North §9F Souk foukd a bill or fadiclment aga(ast him of murder inthe first degree. As yet there is no direct Se againsy the age EP The first witness placed On the stand was William J, Ili, the Justice of the Peace who acted as Coronet at the inquest. His testimony was not very important to the State. He presented a dia- gram of the house where the bloody scene took lace, 4nd minutely described the exact location of he rooms, passageways, stairways, windows, the lace where deceased was found at her Beath and the marks of the three pools of blood, He testified that he was present at the t-mortem examination held in Clinton, and that ne was not much acquainted with deceased. He was cross-exathined at great length by Mr. Voorhees as to the location, size and con- struction of the prisoner’s house and also the residences adjoining. Elien Brady, a sister of the prisoner, next gave her evidence in a very reluctant manner, and throughout her examination she could hardly be heard by any one, save Mr. Chamberlin, who was close to her, notwithstanding she was several times requested to speak in a sufficiently sudiple tone. The most important rtion of her testimony was as follows:—That she saw @good deal of blood on tie floor where the deceased lay after her death, but she did not know what the cause of her death was; there was no one present at the time she died but the prisoner, Edward Brennan; a@ short time before that heard Mrs. Brennan cursing: the baby in the basement and also heard her make a threat that she would throw the baby into the stove; prisoner came in about this time and told Mrs, Brennan to give him the baby; heard him tell her to go up stairs to the children; afterwards heard deceased she was not able to go up stairs; prisoner then said be would help her up; he then got one arm around her, and, holding a candle with his other hand, helped her up stairs; that is all witness saw until deceased called her soon afterwards to bring her some water; heard nothing happen between them that day; they often had angry words, which witness could not now repeat; Mrs. Brennan used to beat her baby, and, consequently, prisoner would often take it from her; the blood on the floor came from the body of Mrs, Brennan; 1 saw the clothes that Mra, Brennan wore in the water closet, cov- ered with straw. During her cross-examination by Mr. Voorhees she deposed that immediately before the death of Mrs. Brennan witness called on Ned (the prisoner) to go for the doctor, when deceased said—‘No; bring me a drink of water.” Bi is Dr, William C, Alpaugh was next examined. evidence was tantamount to that given before the Coroner’s jury, when he described the nature of the wound in the abdomen and his opinion as to the cause of death, which he said resulted from foul play. His evidence was not concluded when the Court adjourned, It = believed that the case will last the entire weel A SWINDLER FOILED, An audacious attempt was made to swindle the village Bank of Flushing a few days ago. A pre- possessing young man, calling himself W. H. Clarkson, entered the bank and presented to tne cashier @ letter of introduction, purporting to be from Messrs. C. G. Gunther & Co,, of this city, and @ certified check for $9,000 upon the National Park Bank, bearing the signature of that firm. As the young man appeared very anxious to draw about $2, of the money in greendacks at the time of jepositing @ suspicion arose in the mind of the Cashier that all was not right, and he suggested the propriety of telegraphing to New York before paying out the money. On this the young man suddenly found that he had brought the wrong documents, and proposed to retarn to the city to novare the right ones. He has not since been of. THE DEATH OF MR, ARMSTRONG, At last the investigation into the case of Mr. Thomas Armatrong, the merchant at No. 164 Wil- lam street who, it is believed, committed suicide on the 4th ult, by jumping overboard . and drowning himself while in an unsound state of mind, has been concluded before Caroner Herrman. Yesterday Mr. Andrew Fitzgerald, of No, 61 Hicks street, Brooklyn, with whom deceased had lived for three years previous to his death, and to whose niece he was to have been married the day follow- hi earance, Was Called and gave his knew that Mr. Armstrong Dad been for several days previous to his ‘Wae impossible to tel) whether he Jumped or fell into the water. The Any to whom the case wae snbmitted believed that Mr. Armstrong committed quigide, ahd Buch Was their verdes, Sha President Colonel Frederick Grant’s F Colonel Frederick Dent, the father of Mrs. Grant, died at the Presidential mansion, Washington, just before midnight on Monday, the 15th inst. His death was not unexpected, as he had been in feeble health for some time past. He complatned of being unwell during the day on Monday, but no alarming symptoms were apparent until a short time before his death, which occurred without a struggle. Mr. Dent was a native of Frederick, Md. He was in bis 88th year, having been born October 6, 1786. He removed to Missourl in 1812, and resided either in or near the city of St. Louis until 1865, when he came to Washington, and has ever since been a member of the President's family, remaining at the White House during the winter season and in the summer accompanying his son-in-law and daughter to Long Branch. The old gentleman was quite @ character in his Way; @ genial, gocial man, who honestly spoke out bis opinions. He belonged to the olden time Maryland and Virginia school of politics, and stack to these principles to the last. He fre- quently amused himself by sitting in the ante- room or office of the White House watching the numerous aspirants for official favors as they came to press their claims, and making quaint remarks with regard to the “cormorants,” as he termed the office-seekers, Not even his surroundings could shake his politi- cal convictions, aud when the fitteenth amendment became a portion of the law of the land he de- claimed violently avainst it and said “the con- founded radicals would be sorry for it some day or other.” He boasted that he had voted jor every democratic President from the time he had at- tained the right to vote, with the exception of Buchanan, of whom he was not in javor. Previous to the war he took a great interest in the success of his party and for years attended the Presiden- tial inangurations. ough a strong partisan, he never held or songnt any official position, prefer- ring, as he said, the private station. le kept open house at his homestead near St. Louis, and at which place the President, then a lieutenant in the Fourth United States infantry, stationed at Jefferson barracks,in the vicinity, first met Miss Dent and afterwarrds married her. The farm, considerably enlarged by the purchase of adjoining tracts, is now the property of President Grant, and it is understood will be his fature home after he lays aside the cares of oMice. The wife of Mr. Dent was a Miss Wrenshall, of Pittsburg, Pa., who is said to have been a beautiful and accom- plished woman. She has been dead some time. immediate family there are four sons and three daughters. The eldest is, we believe, soecg in business in New Another son the Appraiser General of the Custom House at San Francisco, and there are General Fred Dent, of the United States Army, and Judge Louis Dent, of Washington, The daugl ters are Mrs, Grant, Mrs. Sharpe, the wife of the United States Marshal of the District of Columbia, and Mrs, Casey, the wife of the Collector of Customs at New Orleans, The Dent family are of very respectable origin, and at one time were large landed proprietors in Maryland. Mr. Dent's remains will be deposited in the family lotin the St. Louis Cemetery. They will be accompanied West by President Grant, General Dent, Marshal Sharpe, Colonel J, F. Casey and other members of the family, together with Gen- eral Babcock, THE FUNERAL SERVICES AND PALLBEARERS. The funeral services attendant on the death of Mr. Dent will take place at the Executive Mansion on Friday morning. The Rev. Mr. Tiffany will officiate. ‘The remains will be transported over the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad to St. Louis, leaving Wash- ington at half-past eleven o'clock en that day. e pallbearers are Secretary Fisn and General Sherman, Senator Bogy and Representatives Stan- nard, Wells and Stone, of Missouri; Lowndes, of Maryland, and Negley, of Pennsylvania, Dent, Senator Locke, of the Dominion Parliag ment, By mai) from Halifax, N. S., we are informed of the deata of John Locke, a Senator of the Dominion Parliament.~ He expired at his residence in Shelburne county almost immediately after reach- ing home from attendance at his place in Parlia- ment, Mr. Locke was borne on the 25th of September, 1825. When only 26 veers of age he entered the Nova Scotta House oi Assembly as member for Shelburne, and continued tp represent that constituenc: uninterruptedly until tue union with Canada, when he was called to the Senate, He sat in the Executive Council of Nova Scotia from 1856 to 1857, and again from 1860 to 1863, In the divisions of political Yonge Mr. Locke was a liberal, In the confederation struggie he was a member of the anti-confederate party. He was the only member of that party called to the Senate, and by the advice of his political as- sociates he accepted the position. He was a warm sympathizer with the reform party. General H. D. Barto. A telegram from Ithaca, N. Y., under date of 1éth inst., reports General Henry D, Barto, a banker and prominent sitizen of Trumansburg, died 01 a Teeian stroke, at his residence in Trumansburg, st night at seven o’clock. Deceased was in bis Hitieth year, Judge John M. Parker. Hon. John M. Parker, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, died sud- denly of apoplexy, at his residence, in Owego, in this State, yestéroay evening. He was an accom- plished jurist and an excellent citizen. THE BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT. The Board of Apportionment met yesterday, Mayor Havemeyer presiding. The resolution offered at the last meeting of the Board to issue city currency to the value of $8,000,000 of bonds was taken up and adopted, The following resolution was olfered by vomp- troller Green and adopted: Resolved, That the sum of $8,000 be, and the same is hereby appropriated under the head of “Public Char. ities and Correction” for the reliet of the poor, said amount to be transierred from appropriation for ‘extra contingencies. Comptroller Green also offered the following, which Was adopted :-— Resolved, That upon the application of the Department of Public Parks th $1,174 %, oF such amount ants mentioned, be ai Propriated under the head of "Parks and Piaces, main- tenance and government of,” such amount to dé trans ferred from appropriation of Harlem River bridges. The Board then adjourned until to-day at eleven A.M A BRUTAL STEPMOTHER. Compelling a Child to Sleep in ‘Woods for a Trifling Fault. SALAMaNnca, Cattaraugus county, N. ry Dee, 16, 1873, the ‘This place is greatly excited over developments just made in a case of alleged brutal treatment of @ child by her stepmother. A Pole named Peter Moskey, @ widower, with a daughter six or seven years old, was married a year or 80 since to a woman who has ever since maintained a system of domestic tyranny over both hasband and child. On Friday last the girl Was found in the woods about a mile west of the place near where her father and stepmother live. She was nearly dead from exposure and hunger, and said she had been wandering for three days within sight of home, but was not allowed to come ip the house by her stepmotier. She gave as a reason for this cruelty that in looking tor their cow on the Tuesday previous, she losta little shawl. which she was unable to find, The loss being made known to b mother, she beat the child until she was bi: bine in places and then compelled her to go back to the woods and look for the shawl. The little girl searched in vain for it, and, cold, hungry and almost exhausted, had repeatedly returned home begging to be allowed to come and warm herself a moment, but was as often forced to go away by her stepmother. The story of the child created the most intense indignation in the commu nity, and the stepmother and father were arrested and brought to this place on Saturday. The hearing in the case revealed a system of brutality towards the child on the partoi the inhuman stepmother that has few parallels on record, The little girl, for trivial offences, had been forced to sit inxice cold water for an hour ata time; tied up by the thumbs and whipped; torced to le in the woods all night, with the scantiest of clothing, in all kinds of weather; obliged to perform labor that a man would con- sider had, and kept continually on the most meagre jare. She is literally covered with bruises and scars which she had received at the hands of the woman chosen by her father to be her mother. Singularly, the only result of the investigation thus far been the taking of the child out of the control of its unnatural protectors and placing her in a family at Oorry, Pa. A PATENT ASSOCIATION. Boson, Dec. 16, 1878, Ameeting of the New England patentees and owners of patents was held in this city to-day for the purpose of forming an association to promote ‘Uniformity of action and as an auxiliary to the Interaational Congress to be held in Washington on the loth of January. The following resolution ‘Was adopted as a piatform :— te ‘ing this asrociation we seck the Ng a My RE ne ahs ish introduoets ot the one sive, and the ur 10 Biiair auare of the benents to be derived from them ; and, further, that we declaim any intention of forming or hereafter, any combination for the rosecuvon of bate! suite DR. DURYEA’'S DEPARTURE. A Large Meeting Last Evening of the Clason Av. ¢ Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, to Protest Against the Re- moval ot Dr. Duryea to New York— Resolutions and Speeches of the Clergy. Last evening there was a “demonstration” of the Christian peopie of Brooklyn, at the Clason avenue Presbyterian church (Dr. Duryea’s), for the purpose of protesting against Dr. Daryea ac- cepting the invitation of the Presbyterian church in Madison square, New York, to become their pastor. The chureh was crowded, in pews and aisles, with a congregation made up from every class of society, and there could possibly be no difficulty in ascertaining that the meeting was thoroughly in earnest in its endeavor to retain Dr. Duryea in Brooklyn. The platform was placed in front of the organ, and was tastefully decorated with plants and flowers, and over the’ chair of the President was inscribed in white letters, “Peace be with you.” Among the clergy on the platform were Dr. Buddington, Clinton avenue Congregational church; Rey. ©. Wall, Young Men’s Consistory; Dr. J. §. Carrol, Bedford avenue Reformed church; Dr. Talmage. Dr. Loomis, Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, Dr. Scudder, Dr. Inglis and Rev. Mr. Martin. The meeting was calied to order about eight o’clock, and Mr, 8, N. Stebbins was appointed Chairman, SPEECH OF THE CHAIRMAN, Mr. STEBBINS said that the Christian minister who occupied that puipit since its dedication was not to be considered as belonging to that church, ‘but to the Christian world in general. It was for the purpose of considering this that this meeting had been calied. With a view of accomplishing this several ministers and friends had been in- vited to express their opinions thereon, and in short speeches give their opinions to those pres- ent. He would set the example of short speeches, and called upon Dr. Loomis to open the meeting with prayer, TAE RESOLUTIONS. Mr, A. A. SmirH, who was appointed Secretary, read the following resolutions, which were aiter- wards adopted :— Whereas the Rey. J. T. Duryea has received a call from his pastorate here, given by the Madison square Presbyterian church, of New York; and, whereas, in the judgment of the Christian community of Brooklyn, as represented by this meeting, neither the field to which he is called, nor any other'as yet developed. presents opportunities or advantages more favorable df indeed as much 80) for usefulness and success in the Christian ministry than the one wiich he now fills his removal from this point, where, under as instrumental in leading a istian enter- rise into a promise of success, and when bis labors are nd developed into a Christian harvest, it would e,not only @ public calamity. but it woold seriously em barrass and jeopardize the good work he has begun; vi caaiveld, That D D esolved, That Doctor Duryea is hereby urgently so- lieited not to abandon this fel |, and it is tl eretore vi Resolved, In view of the fact that Divine Providence evidently adapted bim to this peculiar work, and also adjusted this work for him, thus making him em- inently usetul. it is the unqualified sense of this meeting that he is called upon by every requirement of his own peeps, as wellas the community, remain at this post ot duty to which God has obviously assigned him, aud it is still further and id co-oper..tion SPEECH OF DR. BUDDINGTON, Dr. BUDDINGTON said he was present to express his acknowledgments, as @ Christian minister, to Dr. Duryea, and ,to second any endeavor to retain him sn Brooklyn. He therefore heartily supported the resolutions, and would have supported them if they had been stronger than they were. ‘The Chairman, in his opening remarks, had said that great and good men belong to the world: and Dr. Duryea belonged to roe aa and not only to this congregation. As a Brooklyn minister, he said to on square Church, Take not Dr. Duryea away from Brooklyn, because his gilts and his grace are wanted in Brooklyn. As aman with the greatest willingness to do good, he had never seen his equal. Dr. Duryea had stood up in the darkest days of this republic. He had preached to the army again and again. Whatever good cause had come to Brooklyn that Dr, myer did not support? (Cheers) Will he go, Mr. President, (The President, “‘No.”) This, sqid Dr. Buddington, is Dr. Duryea’s home, and he has @ home among us uch a8 he cannot have in Madison square. We jonor Dr. Adams for staying in the pulpit which he entered in his youth, and we desire Dr. Duryea to do the same. (Cheers.) It will be remembered that when Dr, Adams’ church was down town in New York, an invitation was sent to Dr. Adams to accept the pastorate of the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, but Dr. Adams said “‘No.” Now we wish Dr. Duryea to do the same. Dr. Duryea nad left the most conspicuous Ps in this or any other country, for tnis church in Brooklyn, and he had shown that he was nota twreling, and he hoped that this meeting would have the effect of on that Dr. Duryea could not go away. (Loud cheers, SPEECH OF DR. TALMAGE. Dr. TALMAGE spoke at some length in his charac- teristic atyle in support of the resolution, and said that ne vepresented his own church and the lay college of ebarch, SPRSCH OF DR. SCUDDER. Dr. ScuppER said that if he were to make a speech as ee as bis idea of Dr. Duryea’s merits he would make a long speech; but those who had come to that meeting had come to express their ety een and their respect for Dr. Duryea. le had, however, put off an important engagement to attend that meet- ing; and though, by recent residence in this city and by much occupation, he had not been able to know as much of the Doctor as be should like to have done, yet, what he did know of him caused him thorouguly to appreciate him. He did not want Dr. Duryea to leave og ae (Loud cheers.) A number of other speeches, in a similar strain, from other clergymen were delivered, and the meeting broke up, evidently with the impression that Dr. Duryea would remain in Brooklyn. Shortly before the close of the meeting the fol- lowing letter was received and read :— To THE SESSION OF THE CLASSON AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN UHURCE :— Dear Brerarex—At our last meeting I mformed you that I had received a call to the pastorate of the Madison square Presbyterian church, New York, and although I had neither desire nor conviction of duty inclining me to seck a separation from you, yet certain circumstances made it necessary that 'should give this matter careful consideration, Ihave used all the means appointed by the Lord for the guidance of his ministers, and have cou- cluded that itis my duty to remain where Providence has placed me. Ihave communicated my decision to the Madison square church by a letter sent yesterday even- ing to be delivered to-day. Thope the Lord will fest approval and bless us to- Yours, most falentully,, sether as pastor and people, Brookryn, Dec. 16, 1873. JOSEPH T. DURYBA. THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH Bishop Cummins in Chicago—His Views on the New Movement—Remarkable from Members of Other [From the Chicago Times, Dec. 14.] The Right Rev. Bishop Cummins, the prelate of te Reformed Episcopal Church, arrived in the city at nine o’cloek yesterday morning, and was the guest of Mr. Peter Van Schaack, at No. 33 Twenty-second street. The unfortunate divine had been 48 hours in his journey to the city, on account of an accident to the train, which delayed his arrival some hours. He was greatly iatigued, and though numerous people flocked to the house, either to welcome him or to obtain information, he was compelled to take some of the rest that nature insisted upon. His sermon, which will be preached to-day at the consecration of Dr. Charles E. Cheney, at Christ church, was mainly written on the cars, and the mental and physical strain to which he had been subjected during his journey would have exhausted a less active and vigorous person. When a reporter of this paper called for the sec- ond time at the house he was received very pleas- antly by the Bishop, wno showea no reluctance in expressing his views. “The interview between one of the reporters of the Tribune and Mr. Cheney, a few days ago,” said he, ‘was published in fullin the New York papers, and although I shall be glad to give you any in- form ation you ask for, let me tell you that the re- porter, whoever he was, extracted from Mr. Cheney about all there is to say. At least, so far asl can recollect, there is little to add.” RerorTsR—Do | understand that the church of which you are the head at present is “The Re- formed iscopal Church of America.” Bisuop CUMMINS—No, sir. We purposely avoided those last two words, The churches of America and England constitute the Anglican Communion. Ours 18 the Reformed Epiecopal Cuurch, ReporterR—Do you anucipate, tien, that the Low Church party of England ‘and Ireland will join your movement? Bishop Cummims—I think they will be glad to avail themselves of the opportunity to turn their backs Meds the innovations of the present century and go back with us to the Episcopal Chnrch of the ae weageienstom ‘eR—Have you enco en across the water? pie shui wien oe psaant artim’ ise at Pi nen! men iD and Ireland, who congratulate us alr upon the Btep we have taken, have aiso @ letter from an eminent divine of the English Church in Canada. 1 will not give you his name, of course, but I will suaats, Wi that his congregation are ready to REPORTER—Doos he belong to one of the large cities? Bishop Cummine—Yes; he i8 rector of a jarge church in one of the large cities, I Lave no doubt that others will come in too. RT RI ‘ou not fee) enc manner in which the ple are respond “Pl ee| ? Cummins—Ob ves. indeed, ‘The Chareh ia | not more than a few weeks old, and siready seven clergymen have joined us boldly. XEPORTER—Is that the extent of the encourage- ment you have had? Bishop Cummrns—I have in my possession letters from 20 or 26 clergymen tn all parts of the country who have expressed themselves ready to join us, But we are not prepared for them yet. What could we do with such a number, when there are Soe pamnonee yal eat for them? When we have ony ay call upeg them, ro underateee there ia a church in | Bishop CumMINS—Yes; we shall have one there in a jew days, with the Rev. A.G. Tyng as recter. Iam going down there next week fo visit the con | regation, You see other churches will spring up in the same way aud We shall have pastors enough tq supply them. Berorrer—How do the laity encourage you? | Bishop Cummins—You would be surprised at the | manner in which they answer us. They flock to our standard boldly and in numbers. | RereorteR—Have you hong reraed of adherence from members outside the Episcopal Church? | Bishop Cummins—I have been told by several dig- tinguished ministers of the Methodist and Presby- terian churches that they will join ug, Even a Bap- | tist minister told me he would come in with us, REPvoRTER—How Will you receive the clergy of other denominations ? | Bishop Cummins—On eqnal terms. We shall | recognize their ordination as ministers and wel- come them as such. We shall tell them that when our Church is organized we shall have an ordina- tion service, but we recognize those who are or- dained in other churches. REPORTER—How does the Episcopal Church, as now constituted, regard ministers of other de nominations ¢ Bishop Cummine—In the diocese of Tilinois, I grieve to say, tbe Episcopal Church has as- sumed ap arrogance toward other denomina- tions which has prevented its growth. It rejuses to recognize any of them. ‘ollowed out to its Sequence, its position is something like this:— We are the Church; therefore you are not the Church; thecefore your ministers are not minis- ters; therefore your marria; are not marriages; feng wives are not wedded; you are all in error. his poliey has been most disastrous. The popula- tion of this great State of Llinois, with nearly 8,000,000 people to-day, has been growing steadily within the past 10 years, and yet tne Episcopal Church has scarcely gained @ convert in that time. The growth of the Church has not kept pace with that of the State here, at any rate. | ReEPoRTER—Do you suppose the ritualists are | striving to bring the Episcopal Church into unity with the Church of Rome? Bishop CumMINS—No, indeed. Why should they, | in point of fact? They can come as near it as they | { | want. They can assimilate to it, can enjoy the pomps and ceremonies of the Church, the absolu- tion of the priesthood, and yet not be under the authority of the Church. ‘There js one other rea- son why the Episcopal Church will never go ie that Rome. Nine-tenths of all the clergy of t! Episcopal Church have wives and famities, and that alone would disqualify them. No, there is no danger that the ritualists will ever go over to ome, ReporT@r—How do you regard the standing of | your Church ? | Bishop Cummins—We stand toward the Episco- | pal Church exactly as the old Catholics of Germany | stand toward the new Catholics. REPORTER—DO you suppose that the Evangelical Alliance had anything to do with precipitating this movement? Bishop Cummins—It had something to do with it; yes, certainty. The fact that I communed with clergymen of other denominations raised such an outcry that I thought the time had come to take a bold stand. I did go and left that Charch. And I vols here discovered that had I not done so I should have been presented, Your readers are familiar with these matters of course. I felt that if 1 could not recognize ministers of other Churches at the communion table, because the Episcopal Church forbade it, 1 had better leave it. And I | have left it. REPORTER—What will be the service at Christ church to-morrow ? Bishop Cummins—The conservative service will be held and a sermon preached by me. REPORTER—Who Will assist you in that service? Bishop Cummins—The Revs. Marshall B. Smith and Mason Gallagher, of New Jersey; Rey. B. B. Leacock, of New York city; the Rev. W. B. Felt- well, of New York, and the Rev. Charles H. Tucker, of Chicago, REPORTER—Will any laymen participate ip the consecration services? Bishop Commins—Only one. Colonel ©, Acrygg will read the certificate of Mr. Cheney’s election to the Epics by the Council heid in New York on December PRESIDENT GRANT'S NEW JUSTICE. The Fall River (Mass.) News (republican) ad- mits that “the nomination of George H. Williams, ,of Oregon, for Chief Justice, does not meet with the enthusiastic reception generally accorded to Presidential recommendations for high offices, when vouchsafed to men of eminence and high desert for acquirements in the department of knowledge fitting one for the office. Mr. Williams certainly cannot be considered a brilliant man or aleader at the Bar. His nomination ranks quite | well with that of Borie, Stewart and Robeson and Ackerman, some of the President’s selections, which the nation accepted with awry face. It is hard for the lawyers and judges of the nation to stand by and see aman who it is thought would | make an indifferent justice of the peace placed in | a life office, and the highest in judicial honor ofall in the gift of the nation. There cannot fail to be some revulsion at this step when 100 men are passed by, any one of whom would Ail the office well, and give satisfaction to the Bar and Bench, ag well as to the people.”? ‘The Tuskegee (Ala.) News says:— General Grant has outraged the public senti- ment of this country in many respects, but in no respect has he set it at defiance more shametuliy than in his appointments to high and responsible offices. The Macon Telegraph says :— The press of the country is either significantly silent on this nomination or denounces it un- sparingly. The administration journals rarely attempt to apologize for it and it has few or no defenders. The Norfolk (Va.) Landmark asks :— But will the Senate confirm this man? Can the Marshalls and the Taneys and the Storeys and sucti like ornaments of the Bench be Jorgotten? Can the most important branch of government be prosti- tured to the degraded level of party rewards? Can | the sheet anchor of public liberty be hammered down into pin Looney wherewith to fish for per- sonal aggrandizement? These are Pregnant ques. | tions, and we submit them to the Northern mem- vers of the Senate as eminently worthy of their careful and immediate consideration, The Opelika (Ala.) Observer says :— Grant bas appointed afourth-rate Oregon jawyer to fill the chair of the Chief Justice, which was once occupied by @ Marshall. This is such a display of favoritism as to forever shut out hopes that Grant would show @ more patriotic spirit after his re- election. The Pittsburg Despatch says :— One o1 the most unfortunate nominations made 2 / President Grant since he entered the White | louse is that of Williams for the Chief Justiceshi). ‘The people had a perfect right to expect from the President some proof of ability in the man he would nominate a8 successor of Chase. Unlike the petty postmasterships or foreign consulates that are parceled out upon the recommendatton of dis- trict politicians, and usually go to the applicants having the largest and most influential lists of names on their petitions, the headship of the Federal Judiciary was conceived to be of impor- tance necessitating clear evidence of worth on the | rt of the man elevated to it. At best the Bench | is not a fair prize for politicians; and among the most ardent partisans we doubt if there be many who would {nsist upon applying too closely to | to, “fo the ti be jong the. spot’ Muon ould it 1e 8) 3. fucl less P} V be fooxea y nee @ toy wherewith the Appolating personal wer is pr! wileged to attest the force 0! voritism ; least of all should the Chief Justicesnip of the United States rank among the perquisites of the White House, to be disposed of without refer- ence to the expectations of the people. And what- ever Mr. Grant might have done with lesser offices, with regard to this there is no excuse whatsoever for indiscreet action, as the sentiments of the pub- lic were conveyed to him in forcible and abundant measure for months before Mr. Williams was | chosen, The strong point against Mr. Williams is that while he was judge of an lowa@ court full fifty r cent of his decisions were reversed On appeals oa higher tribunal. This is a bad recor We know of no judge in Pennsylvania, at least, that has anything like it against him. Moreover, it is a récord that cannot be overlooked ; for, in fact, it is the only record Mr. Williams has made as @ judge. At last one paper has been found that considers the nomination the best that could be made. The San Diego Union says:— This is unquestionably the best choice that could have been made, and it will be generally accepta- ble throughout the country. It affords reason jor jal congratulation on the Pacific coast. Judge iliams will |r @ worthy successor of the eee who have hitherto occupied that exalted | no win THE KINGS OOUNTY SUPERVISORS. ‘The Board of Supervisors of Kings cov"), met last evening and resolved to enter in.;;; “@ract with various parties for the building of pda teenth iment accordance wit! e plans and specidcations t ‘Agreed upon at @ former meeting of the Board. The resolution was to the effect that the Committee on Military Affairs be authorized to enter into contract with the follow. ing named persons tor furpishing, material and , they being the lowest riage Aden sixes kon fr 6, ri carpenter boar 16,700; P. Ky sy Colier Sitter, iron, a OR ath Mar- in J. Brien, plumbing work, |, $74,850. ‘Afesolution was adopted authorizing a committee to expend $300 jor repaire on the Newtown Creek Bridge, The Supervisors of Queewe county are to expend @ like sum, 8 THE CAUCASuS. Lecture by Mr. George Kennan—Chief Justice Daly on the Death of Agassis—Mr, Paul B. Du Chaillu Among the Norwegians, Last evening a meeting of the American Gew~ graphical Society took place at rooms, in) | Second avenue. Mr. Chief Justice Cnarles P. Daly: occupied the chair. A number of applicants for membership to the society were elected and some | amendments to the bylaws of the society were proposed, The Chair then announced that General’ | Simpson, of the United States Engineers, tad eon-- sented to deliver a lecture, on Tuesday next, om the subject of the Aztec ruins in Mexico, with an ac- count of the march of De Camado In search of the seven cities of Sibylla m 1540. Judge Daly them said :— . “It nas become my duty here to mention the sad event of the week, the deatn of Agassiz. We ca here only indyjge in the common grief at nis de- Parture from our midst, while we must deplore it as a national loss, Louis Agadsiz was one of the most distinguished philosophers of the age, and his discovery of the glacial theory‘must place bim im this position ; for while there has been great doubt, and controversy on this subject, it is now generally: accepted that at one time vast portions of the con- tinents of Europe and America were coverea witlx ice. This great discovery came to him while ex- ploring the glacers of his native Switzerland. But not alone that. An eminent man many years ago, HE HONORED US by making this country the fleld of his activity. His own acquisitions were extraordinary, and hi own influence. on other nations and States wag great in many ways. I do not know of any mam living who can take bis place, He was@ man who possessed magnetic powers. If our country has been raised during late years in scientific knowl- edge, it owes more to Agassiz than to any man we: have possessed. He was one of the great scientific! men of the age who maintained his belief in & great presiding Cause over this universe—in other words, ' in the existence of that God whom men have wor-: shipped since they were born on the earth. In this he agreed with Newton, who sald that hesbad never seen anything here which beligeehe ite x eng. Ama een eed ence of a Higher may still be said to be livin, A committee of three was appointed to draft resolutions upon the part of the society expressmg regret, at the death of Louis Agassiz. : Samuel B. Ruggles paid a short tribute to the’ memory of the dea ) Mr. Paul B, Du Chaillu, the traveller, at the re-’ uest of the chair said a few words, remarkin: that he bad just returned from the northern of Norway, where he had been @ long time. He said he went as high as 70 degrees north, and ex- lored @ country Where common schools existed hat taught Greek, Latin, all the higher branches of mathematics, &c., at the expense of the state, and where DAYLIGHT EXISTED UNINTERRUPTEDLY for six mouths in the year, at an equable tempera- ture of 45 degrees below zero. Mr. Du Chailia said he enjoyed himseli exceedingly and had learned much, The lecturer of the evening was then introduced’ and gave a very eloquent and glowing descriy i of his travels through the Caucasus, one of the lop poael st ited ep ea oenpienlinsive! e speaker ving & ce description of the Caucasian ral asa whole. He then proceeded to consider in detail the mountains ofthe Eastern Caucasus with especial reference to tneir physical geography. The tern Cancasus,, he said, comprised the region known to Russian: goographers as Daghestan—or the land of moun-. tains. Its name was accurately descriptive of its character, for although not the highest it was one. of the most rugged and broken portions of the whole Caucasian range. In area it was about: equal to one-third of the State of New York, and: Primm ry to nie and oti oa to end men noth- ing but mountains, precipic Ir pro- found ravines. The lecturer sketched in Tapid out- line the geography and the GEOLOGICAL FORMATION OF THE COUNTRY, drew on the blackboard a transverse section of the Caucasian range through Daghestan, and gave it as his opinion that the mountains of that region were only the ruins of an ancient plateau or im- mense inclined plane, which had been cut to pieces by the erosive action of water. The characteristic. features of Daghestan were, he said, its fat-toppea ridges of truncated-cone shaped mountains and its profoundiy deep valleys, ravines and gorges. These gorges were rarely more thap 300 or lect wide at bottom, and,were shut in by walls, which rose sharply, sometimes perpendicularly, to heights of 2,000 and 3,000 icet, broken occasionally into terraces by thick strata of limestone. They were tremendous galieries, which looked as if at army of Titans had been digging Lees and carrying on siege operations against t: nite ramparts of the great range itself. He then described the population, THE DAGHESTAN MOUNTAINEER, who were made up, he said, of almost every na- tionality known to ancient history—Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Mongols, Jews, Georgians—frag: ments of every race and people which had ev crogsed the Caucasus, a8 well as hosts of fugitives who had fied to these mountains bp ae = from persecution. At the present time they are, as a class, a brave, hardy, semi-barberons people, differing widely ate | themselves in outward ap. pearance, but alike in character and united their devotion to liberty. The speaker then retired for a few moments and reappeared dressed in the brilliant costume of the Caucasian mountaineers, and wearing numerous silver mounted wea| oe of the warlike character of the people. Such, e said, Was the appearance of the 25 mountaineers who acted as an escort to his party in thes- tan. They were received at the mountain villages through which they passed with various imposing and warlike ceremonies, large parties of moun- taineers frequently charging out of the village gates Lys them at a gallop, shouting and firin; istol shots over their heads they came ant nally stopping abruptly at a distance of 10 or 15 feet and shouting, “Peace be with you!” The roads through the mountains are mere shelflike paths running in zigz: up and down the sides of prectp- itous ravines and along the edges of P at heights Irequently of 1,000 feet. He then described the mountain settlements, built like eagles’ nesta high up on the edges of precipices or projectin; cornices of rock, where in case of war they could be pool defended. rae were built of stone, had lows except portholes without glass, andin bad weather were very gloomy. The tnhabitantasub- sisted themselves by keeping large flocks of sheep and goats, and by cultivating a little rye, wheat or oats in the valley bottoms, where they could, land, however, was very scarce, and to subsist themselves ihe mountaineers finally began 10 make PLUNDERING RAIDS into the fertile valley of Georgia, on the south side of the range. For a thousand years, he said, the Lesghiaos of Daghestan had been a veritable sword of Damocies, suspended from the snowy heights of the Caucasus over the lowlands on the souch side of the range, and when that sword fell it reddened the clear streams of Georgia with the best Christian blood and filled the sunny valleys of the pee megane Roce ae oe Heaherenane ing vi es. The population said, was about 400,000; of its composition some idea could be obtained from its languages and die- lects, of which there were no less than 27. There was one setticment called Innooki—a settlement of only 28 houses, which had a language of ite own not spoken by any other tribe in the Caucasus. None of these languages had ever been written. The political Cr thud of the rode hae were of two kinds—hereditary khanates communities.’ Tne khans governed about of the population, the ree communities embraced about 276,000, These free communities were simply republics in their most primitive form, ruled general assemblies elected by vote, then gave an account of the mountaimeers’ laws, illustrating it with a description of A VERY CURIOUS CUSTOM observea by a mountaineer who has lost a hoise. He clothes himself jn @ white burial shroud, fargo in je hand a small silver coin a pays fale ean reading prayers over a grave, and goes in whose no horse has been fo the iatter returns the animal pencensy, good; ifnot, the owner will fight for f shows that he has fully considered all queaces by coming in a burial shroud and bringing with him money to pay the expenses of his own funeral. The mountaiueers all have trial by {ary and the legal custom known as the ‘wager. we! still survives in Daghestan, although it has been obsolete everywhere else in Europe lor ee) years. ‘The speaker then gave au account of the custom of blood revenge and the Ceremonies and laws which relate toit. The mountaineer was as might be supposed irom thes @ murderer and carey wrt table and gener gree ty fanaticism; Was passionately fond of skilful in metrical compen ‘and often with a deep vein of poetic feeling. To illustrate these points he gave translations of two f which, cal led the “Dexth Song of the the last 1 Re Ri oe Ohechense,” was the iteree, inanmieable prise of the followed & very attempt of the Grreat Caucasian bed men, ad ho! 28,1 ce = Baratinski. paper closed with an account of the author’s scree ed snowy range of the Caucasus into valley a The lecturer was frequentiy ini by hs Aina’ grap gh? ene thot agate t Scham: jefeat by the Russians and the bravery ofthe hand/ul of mountaineers who pre- Jerred death to dishonor. Ater the lecture was over an In! of stereopticon views of the various mountain range and of exhibited, the lecturer Searbiig the sul ey referred to and mingling them with interes! anecdotes of the scenes they represented, At i ceamon ® vote of thauke was tendered the, pcb rer.