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MEXICO. Parliamentary Concession to the State Gov- ernor—Priests in Prison—Clerical Advice for Citizen Submission—Post Office Discipline of American Carriers. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Ciry oF Mexico, Dec. 16, 1873, Via Havana, Dec, 22, 1878. } _ "in view of the frequency with which Governors ‘of Mexican States are compelled to leave their seats of government the Legisjature of Vera Cruz thas authorized the Governor of that State to trans- fer his residence to any place he deems convenient, ‘requiring his presence in the capital only on the opening of the Legislature. CHURCH AND STATE, The priests Arias and Gilles, the alleged insti- agators of the Tejupilco riots, have been brought prisoners to this city. The Bishop of Queretaro advises the people to «submit to the present government as a matter of . °Y+ post OFFICR DISCIPLINE. The Wells-Fargo Express Company has been Prohibited from bringing letters into Lower Cali- ‘dornia because of violation of the Post OMce rules. CONGRESSIONAL ORGANIZATION, The government candidate has been elected ‘Speaker of the National Congress, PETROLEUM, have been discovered near Petroleum wells Tlacotalpan, Matamoras Stil Excited—National Troops Control the Situation—Cor. Claim to Municipal Authority. Maramoras, Dec. 22, 1873, Throughout the city to-day the stores and public Duildings were generally closed and business sus- pended owing to the unsettled state of feeling growing out of the fighting which occurred yester- day. The government troops patrolled the streets and occupied the Plaza last night and to-day, and maintained strict order and security. It is believed that Cortina will endeavor to be in- Stalled as Mayor by the ist of January, at which ‘time the terms of the present city officials expire, and, should the efforts now being made to compro- mise the matter not succeed, serious fighting is qikely to follow. CUBA. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERAL®. Havana, Dec. 22, 1873, ‘In the Junta to-day a statement of the debt of “the island was presented. Aplanto arrange the financial affairs and solve the financial question ‘was also presented. The Intendents will submit -@nother plan. The debt of the island is $87,000,000, The notes of the Spanish Bank in circulation ‘gmount to $104,000, 000. ‘ The government authorizes railroad companies ‘¢o charge rates of freight and passage in gold or ‘its equivalent in paper. This shows that the gov- ‘ernment is averse to proclaiming a forced paper circulation. EXCHANGE. * Exchange nominal. PORTO RICO. “TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Havana, Dec. 22, 1873. Advices from Porto Rico to the 12th inst, have been received :— The Boletin (conservative newspaper) complains of the siiipment of 2,000 rifes to Ponce, Arecibo, Mayagues and Aguadilla, and thinks the rumor ‘anfounded that they are for the purpose of arm- ing the national militia as a foreign war is now ‘The Boletin further says :— We think the government would not furnish arms ee whicn says—‘‘Rise to arms’’—when a re- tion sets in against any government not federal republican. The reform party offered the Captain General 6,000 men in case of war. It is strange that @ simple committee should offer the government men as if it were a nation. ST. DOMINGO.. ‘TELEGRAM TO THE WEW YORK HERALD, Havana, Dec. 22, 1873. , News has been received from Bt. Domingo by the way of Santiago de Cuba that General Ignacio Gonzales has been elected President of the Re- public, This result completely changes the political ‘aspect of the country. It throws the doors open or the return of the enemies of Baez and will put -@n end to the present revolution. THE SAMANA LEASE IN DANGER. ‘There are fears that the new administration will vendeavor to annal the Samana lease. BERMUDA. K Legislative Convocation—The Governor's Speech=Fatal Accident, HALtPax, N. S., Dec, 22, 1873, The mail steamer from Bermuda brought dates to the 16th of December. The Legislature of the colony convened on the 12th inst. Among the dignitaries present at the opening was the Bishop of Newfoundland, who is ona visit to the colony. ‘The Governor's speech alluded to legislation for @warding the contract jor steam connection to New, York, #0 as to insure better and more regular service; to regulate procedure 4n otvil suits before justices of peace; to amended the quarantine laws so that, while they give additional security to the public health, they will not interfere with the liberty of commerce deemed necessary for vessels of the Royal Navy. ‘The education of the public and sanitary matters were algo referred to. FATAL ACCIDENT. John Howard, a sailmaker on board the Royal flora, of Bermuda, fell from the berth deck to the deck beneath, on the 10th inst., resulting In a frac- ture of the skull and death in two hours after- wards, WEATHER REPORT. pestis Wak DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, Dec, 23—1 A. M. Probabilities, "For New England and thence westward over the worshern portion of the Middle States and the ‘lower lake region clear or partly cloudy weather, with low temperaiure, will prevail daring the greater portion of the day, followed by increasing cloudiness and threatening weather in the lower dake region by Wednesday morning. FoR THE SOUUHERN PORTION OF THE MIDDLE ASTATES, AND THENCE SOUTHWARD OVER THE SOUTH ATLANTIO. STATES, CLOUDY WEATHER, WITH AREAS OF RAIN OR SNOW, AND FRESH TO BRISK NORTH- BASTRRLY TO VARIABLE WINDS ON THR IMMEDIATE Coast. For the Eastern, Guif and thence northward ever the States of the Ohio valley northerly to sweaterly winds and generally cloudy weather and rain, followed by clearing weather in the lower ‘Mississippi valiey. For the Northwest and the upper lake region less pressure, with slight changes in temperature and partly cloudy weather, except from Lake Michigan southweatward to the Missouri Valiey, In this re- gion threatening weather and rain or snow will prevail. For the canal region of New York and Pennsyl- vania the temperature will remain below freezing. The Weather in is City Yesterday. ‘The following recora will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last » a4 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Piarmacy, HERALD uilding :— Weta, 1st. 1872, 1873. +12 88 23 3:30 P. 6 a oP. me | 9 Mu OP. 4 90 Rvoriige Veiaporature yeaverday * ate a temperature Yor corresponding date ai AMUSEMENTS: “A Man of Honor” at Walls,“ Last evening was produced at Mr, Wa ‘Theatre the second of that series of come. | with which Mr. Dion Boucicault proposes to storn, the Temple of Fame in these, hislater days of dra- matic repentance, There t& a coolness of true courage in the man who deliberately sits down to keep four theatres in one city going with the productions of hid brain. He has admitted that to make all his pieces original would be impossible, considering the time he gives toeach. We are not quite certain whether he Places greater store by his originalities than by his adaptations, translations or “imitations.” It would seem that he deals them out as lavishlyas he janwactures them, and trusts that each of his of- spring will be recognized for its owm worth and the mixed question of its parentage not entered upon, This is very free authorship, and its cyni- cism ts one of its redeeming qualities, The exact Gallic source from which “A Man of Honor” was drawn off was not stated last evening. We are, therefore, not prepared to say how much of the indubisable success of the comedy belongs to the author of the English version. A very full and, in every wathetic sense, “a first night” house greeted the rising of the cur- tain, and bestowed applause very lib- eraly up to the end of the fifth act, which latter it may, though somewhat prema- turely, be stated is very like the fiith wheel of a carriage in interest or use to the story. The story, in brief, is the struggle of man to realize exactly who he is and to make himself what will fit him for any station—an honored man as well as a man of honor. In point of conesion the story, as told in full, is not very strong. It opens with one of those painful prologues which consume an entire act and leave you really at the beginning of the play. In the prologue we find Catherine, the wife of Latour, a banker, a good deal troubled, because her littie boy, aged three, has broken his arm. There was no apparent ne- cessity for this piece of cruelty to the innocent, except the stage excuse for bringing on a doctor to tel! Oatherine that her invalid boarder, De Saulieu, will die in @ month instead of a year, as that sad young rentleman prophesies. The ont real oint in the prologue is the sudden return of Raymond Latour, to whom she was wedded after the legally insuMicient man- ner of the Yelverton case—that is to say, married in Ireland, he volte & Protestant and she a Catho- lic. It is reasonable to suspect that in the original story this supposed marriage was only a promis- sory affair. He has just been really mar- rie and comes to settle an annuity on Catherine, and so cast her off, His law- ack’s ‘es yer, Anatole Brissebarre, comes to break the truth to her, and as parchment-hearted law- yers so frequently do in comeates, leaves her, de- termined to be her friend. She is, of course, dis- consolate, as the curtain falls on the prologue, with the invalid patting her little boy’s head. ‘The boy has his arm tn a sling, and in the next ir. Lester Wallack. Twenty years are sup- posed to elapse, and the boy of three now lool @ dashing fellow of 35. He is supposed to be only 23, but some people age very quickly. Jacques has inherited the invalid’s money and name, and is in love with Renee, the niece and ward and heiress of Raymond Latour, his father. He is un- aware of his relationship with the family, but 1s in- formed, in due time, by the soft-hearted lawyer. The uis de Rosney Latour, an old French noovie, is the granduncie of Renee and the triend of Jacques. At nis house the Countess, his sister, a stately old dame, cleanly stolen from the Mar- chioness in Robinson’s comedy of ‘Caste,’ comes forward with‘her family pretensions to refuse the suit of Jacques for the hand of Renee. This is the occasion of a very scene with a well pointed a ie. The third act has very little comedy in it, but ig the strongest in the piece. It takes piace at lodgings of Jacques, and gives the extra- ordinary § scene gon freproaching a father with his ‘tlessness, and tho father ing with the son how uch circumstances are and should be inst im whom the law does not recognize as legiti- mate. It ends with the son, at the request of the providential old tee by the French mission to Egypt. The audience is then requested to jump over another twelvemonth and the fo! ous library of the good old Marquis on his birt! ay The humiliation of the heartless father is the object of this act. unnatural ‘ent has been greet in stocks, and it so jppens that on the report which his son Jacques is to furnish the government his fortune and that of his mother’ the Countess, depends. The best com occurs in this act, and of capital situetions which are little strained and carry the sympathy of the audieece, et (or ues love secured to niu, ‘his father and grandmother are humbled, and what more could 8 man want? The wicked fatner has even promised to marry his half- Dna if the gon will consent, The asth pod may: u i cannol be'evel batten & for nothing is It is weighted with A eudlin mother’s- , and only delays the jinale to nearly half-past elevee without any corresponding advau- tage. The cast was as follows :— +++oMr. J. B. Polk Laura Alexander a Mr. B. M. Holland Mr. G. F, Browne -Mr. Harry Beckett + -Miss Blaisdell SECOND ACT. The Marquis de Rosney Latour, ah old noble, Mr, John Gil The Countess, his sister..... Mine. Fouls Brisobarre, a notary, aged 56. 6 Jacques de Saulieu, the son of Osiharin Ramona Latour, a banker, aged 48. Cagharine, hus wife. mother of Jacqi He -Miss Laura Alexander Renee, his niece and ward, hiss bi oe Ry etree Lewis Gervais, an old butler............. onard ‘rhe first character which claims attention is Mr. Wallack’s. He is the soul of the piece, and acted throughout with admirable nerve and skill. It ae, be sad to say 80, but 23 years are too young for “ Wwallack. If, however, we make the necessary allows jis respect, the remainder in his re- ard méy isd to laudation of a very hearty ind. le was thé true-hearted lover. the man of honor, the adorer of lig porter and her diplomatic avenger upon his recacitrant father—all that the Tr. Lester Wallack Mr. J. B. Polk author wanted except 23, The old Marquis was played with all the mellow art which Mr. Gilbert has made his own. He was careful and easy at the same time iu fact, his playing last night was one of those pieces of character painting which are the despair of most latter-day actors. Mr. Polk, in the part of the bad father, had tc deal with @ very strange crea- tion, and yet his performance savored of a greater extravagance of manner and. ges- ure than ‘the author could have int@hded. This gesticulatory superahbundance is this actor’s favorite fault, Anatole Brisebarre was carefully bryan by Mr. Harry Becket. In the pro- logue he did not lock as if he was in earnest in the sentimental parte, but that 1s more due to the writing than the acting. In the drama proper he was more successful, The small prologue part of De Saulien, the invalid was ‘delicately’ played by Mr. E. M, Holland, who in everything he does betrays at artistic conscientiousness. The leading Part of Catherine was Tather insufficiently filled by Miss Laura Alexander, @ débutante irom the provinces. She was overweighted throughout, and this unfortunately was more apparent towards the closo of the play. She is not lacking in grace or refinement, but does not reach to power or pathos. Mme, Ponisi’s Countess was as good she usually makes these parts. Tne character is 80 bodily liited trom Robertson that unless it can now traced to somebody in France the public will feel rather a painful interest in it, however clever the reproduction. The Kenee of Miss Jeffreys Lewis was a fresh, firm piece of acting, which pleased us much, It pity she has not more to say, what she has i 8o Well, of ‘Kerry,’ so that Boucicault has only to make his bow to Boucicauit for the white-haired old servitor. ‘The scenery and mounting were in Wallack’s usual handsome style, if we except from any share in this praise a wretched marine piece in the first and second acts, which should be replaced forthwith. The comedy might be remodelled altogether or might be cut extensively. It has most of the elements of @ good piece but they are spread out a little to thin in spots. Musical and Theatrical Notes. id Gervais, an old butler, is a reminiscence Mme. Nilsson appears in “Les Huguenots,” at the Academy, on Wednesday evening. ‘The celebrated Henselt concerto will be played by Mr. Pattison, at Steinway Hall, after the holl- days. George Bristow's last grand orchestral symphony will be produced by the Philnarmonic Society this season. Mme, Parepa-Rosa positively brings with her next season Wachtel and Santiey, and likely Sims Reeves, “Lohengrin,” “Romeo and Juliet” and “Othello” ‘Will be produced by Mr. Strakosch in the spring, at the Academy of Music. Miss Violetta Colville has been specially engaged for the roves of Kivira in “I Puritant,” and Dinorah, in the opera of that name, for the new Opera House, Verona, Italy, and appears therein at the ensuing carnival, Mr. Howard Glover, an Englisn musician cf ac- knowledged ability, gives a concert at Steinway Hail this evening. The artiste will be Mme. Drasdil, Mile. Canissa, Mile. Glover, Mile, Lieb- hardt, Morosini, Bristow, Colby, Reif and Fradel. Mr. Carles Fechter hag retired from the Ly- “coum Theatre and ao tt mav be assumed that the NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 new piece in which he was to appear will not be presented for some time, The theatre was closed last night, but it is to be reopened to-morrow even- ing. Mra, Agnes Vedder, @ young prima donna, made her début last night at De Garmo’s ual. in| A Brother and Sister Found Their Throats Cut in a Broome “Robert, tri que j'aime,” she achieved a genuine ‘mecess by the freshness and purity of her voice, intelligence of her interpretation and the high * of her school. ‘The rm Avenue Theatre has enjoyed very fall O or three evenings, this increased houses for ty activity being v bipciv eee aa catgtie public “has atscove,"°* that & pla| Mall “The Parricide’” and ,Vee2Ot be & sensationar tragedy. In spite of ts nméNthere ts very iittle horror in the piece and # goda ses! Of fai The manager of the Germania ifeatre will pro> duce Offendach’s opéra boufe, “Les Georgiennes,? on Christmas night. A splendid ui@un' of the piece is promised, and it 1s Mr. Neuendorif’s inten- tion to present itin a manner as nearly perfect a9 possible. The costumes and other accessories have been made expressly for the opera, and the rehearsals were under the direction of Mr. Neuendorf, who leads the orchestra while the Piece holds the stage. WASHINGTON. —_+——— Wasninaton, Deo. 22, 1373. Castelar Resolved Upon the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba. The State Department bas received a despatch from Madrid to the effect that President Castelar has instructed Sefior Soler, the Minister of Colonies, now tn Cuba, that the Spanish Republic is virtually pledged to the immediate abolition of slavery, and that his mission wiil be incomplete un- less he prepares the way for this act. It is expected he will acquaint the leading slaveholders of the determination of the home government and convince them of the folly of rebelling against the orders of the Madrid au- thorities, and assure them that nothing less than the abolition of slavery will be satisfactory to the United States. Castelar further says that he has made this proposition the test of Spanish authority in Cuba, and that the United States will so judge the Madrid government, Spanish Credulity and Bogus Affidavits a in the Virginius Case. A prominent Senator here has received a letter from New York stating that the Spanish govern- ment is using every effort in New York to obtain information, no matter how fraudulent it may be, which might tend to prove that the Virginius was a Cuban vessel, and that her passengers were Cu- ban soldiers enlisted by General Ryan and others. Proof has been obtained that the Spanish officials have gone so far as to avail themselves of the am- davits of perjurers whose character in this res- pect is so well known, as to make ut- terly worthless any assertion made by them. In one case, especially, the testimony collected has no better foundation than may be de- rived from the affidavit of a man who is notoriously a fugitive from justice, and who, by Swearing as ordered, seeks to make a few dollars. It is said that the Spanish oMicials innocently be- lieve that arguments of this kind will have some weight at Washington, forgetting the fact that the worthlessness of this bogus evidence is sure to be known to the government as fast as the credulous Spaniards collect such material. The Oppressive Feature of the Bankrupt Law—Senator Edmunds’ Opinion. Senator Hitchcock has addressed the following letter to Senator Edmunds, Chairman of the Com- mittee on the Judiciary :— Unrfgp STATES SENATE Caanae WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 1873, DEAR ages ede the failure of the Senate to act prior to the holiday recess upon the bill re- pealing the Bankrupt law, 80 far, at least, as to ‘wipe out” the present oppressive feature of in- voluntary bankruptcy, and, fearing that such fail- ure will aggravate financial suffering and add others to the already long list of victims, I desire to obtain Pha | opinion of the feasibility of so amending the Bankrupt law as to make the repeal of the oppressive feature cultan retroactive, and as the probability we of such amendments, Your reputation as a lant and your position as chairman of the Senate udiclary Committee wilt give weight to your opinion, and such opinion, if aMrmatively given upon each of the propositions above named, will, I think, go far to relieve eee anxiety and prevent useless and oppressive litiga- tion. aN soe P, W. HICTHCOCK. Hon. Gzorar F, Epmunps, Chairman Senate Com- mittee on Judiciary. SENATOR EDMUNDS’ REPLY. Senator Edmunds replied as follows :— UNITED STATES SENATE aes} WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 1873, Dear Str—I havé feceived your note of the 20th id and say = reply, ro not Lary to speak for any person but myself of ¢ #0 aK ing I have no healtatig My in eagtey toe ony Lael signs that may be fo Fospecng the forcing of debtors into involut pankruptoy, and the proceedings thereupon will, 30 @8 my voice oes, be made retroactive, in such & Way that no rson will gain anything by aby oppres- sive steps towards debtors, pendin; the consideration of the b ew As ail such Matters relate to remedies which Congress ihay take away altogether, if it pleases, there will be no impropriety in making any wise provision, which regulates the proceedings to just ends, apply to pending cases, and I feel great confidence that such will be the opinion of the Senate.—Very truly yours, GEORGE F. EDMUNDS, Hon. P. W. Hircncock, United States Senate, Cha: in the Revenue Marine. The revenue cutter Stephens, recently reported at Baltimore, bas been ordered to duty at New- bern, N. C. The following changes in revenue marine officers have been made :— Captain A. Pengar detached from the revenue cutter Hamilton, at ca eecak wal and placed on waiting orders ; Ga) tain Frank Barr detached from the Woodbury, at Boston, and ordered to the com- mand of the Hamilton; Captain David Evans ordered to the command of the Woodbury; First Lieutenant L, Sturges detached from the Mocassin, at Newport, R. I., and ordered to the command of the Manhattan, at New York; First Lieutenant James Irish detached irom the Manhattan and ordered to the command of the Mocassin; Chief Engineer F. A. D., Brennan detached from the Jonnson, at Mitwaukee, and ordered to the Wood- bury, at Boston; Chief Engineer Charles G. Dale detached trom the Woodbury and ordered to the Johnson ; First Assistant Engineer 0, H. Ball from the Washington and ordered to the Manhattan; First Assistant Engineer J. W. Collins from the Manhattan and ordered to the Washington. Secretary Richardson to Visit Boston, Secretary Richardson leaves here on Wednesday for Boston, where he will remain till Monday next, Attorney General Williams as the Friend of an Oregonian “Ring.” The culpability of Attorney General Williams in preventing an investigation of election frauds in the vistrict of Portland, Oregon, has been fully established in his threat against the United States States Attorney there, the Oregonian has been obliged to come out with the truth of the matter :— Wasnincton, D. C., Nov. 27, 1873, ae C. Grass, United States Attorney, Portiand, egon :— Tam advised that you have obtained an order | for @ new Grand ‘y at tne term of the Court to | be summoned in an unusual manner. You are instructed to move to rescind such order, ‘eatly increasing the expenses of the term, Tam satisfied the regular grand jures can do the business of the Court. Take no action be- fore such jury until you have reported to me the necessity for the extraordinary proceeding and expense. pense: GEO, H. WILLIAMS, Attorney General. Much light is thrown upon this telegram by tne following answer :— PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec, 1, 1873. Hon. Geonoe H. Wikiams, Attorney General, Washington, D. C. Your telegram was received late Saturday night, In reply, Ihave to say that it was proven before the last Grand Jury that a state of bribery and re- peating was inaugurated in this district at the late congressional election which wi alarming. A_ bare majority prevented indictments where the guilt was clearly proven. In one case the Grand Jury voted an indictment, and after one night rescinded the indictment by a vote of one majority. Upon investigation I found hi uty Marshals were instructed from Port- 0 summon certain men designated, sing that the wheels of justice ought n be allowed to be blocked by mistake or cor- ruption. I moved for @ new Grand Jury. The Court amended rule No. 11, by ordering that here- afier the Olerk, Marshal and United States Commissioners select 150 names irom the assessment rolls of this and adjoining counties, from which a jury May be selectea by lot. A jury so selected is to meet to-morrow. For thus doing my duty—I understand representations have been made to you to prevent their meeting, and for my removai as a last resort of corruption- ists to prevent ations and cover up rascal- lity. by letter. A. ©. GIBBS, United States Attorney. Attorney General Williams chose an effective way to thwart the investigation of these election irauds and to carry out the olans of the “ring.” A GHASTLY MYSTERY. Street Tenement House, WHO WILL LIFT THE BLOODY VEIL ? % te” Assassination * with Wirt Murder. and Suicide or a Double nares 7. Tm FATE OF POOR MARY: RYAN. The Mystertu.™* Vest and the Bloody Foot- prints on ne Boof—Great Excitement in the \ Thirteenth Ward, — On the 28th day of Noverate,” Of this year Nicho- las Ryan, aged 28, and Miss sister, 25 years of age, fourth floor of No, 204 Broome street, nea» Norfolk, for furnished lodgings, stating tnat he*yvas @ “eam” shoemaker, and that his sister, \vho seemed to be a modest, well behaved young. was @ ‘‘gaiter fitter” in the employment of Bart & Co., Whose establishment is located in Thomas | his sister, who was also employed in the shoe fac- street, THE PROLOGUE TO THE MYSTERY. Mrs. Burke, on consultation with her husband, Patrick Burke, rented their front room to the brother and sister, and it was immeaiately occu- pied by them, Nicholas and Mary cooking and sleeping in the same apartment. The room is about16 feet square, aud was well carpeted ana comfortably furnished with a walnut three-quarter bedstead in the southeast corner and a new black horse hair sofa at the rear and centre of the room, against the wall. The walls of the room were decorated with framed prints representing the , “Crucifixion,” the “Last Supper” (over the mantel piece), the “Immaculate Conception” (over the bed), and other pictures distributed over the walls. The door of thig room led out on tae front part of the landing of the fourth floor and had a catch lock or boit which could be pulled back from within, but could not be opened from the outside excepting by a key made especially to fit the lock, MURDER IN THE NIGHT. Let it be further stated that young Nicholas Ryan slept regularly on the bed—a very comfort- able one, with walnut woodwork—while Miss Mary Ryan slept on a large mattress, which was dis- posed of nightly in this way—the mattress was placed one side of it on the horsehair sofa, while the outside part of the mattress was supported by two chairs, which were placed nightly, as it may presumably be supposed; by Miss Kyan before re- tiring and when making up her bed. A VILLAIN WITH BLOODY HANDS. Between half-past two and three o’clock on Sun- day morning Officer Wilson, of the Thirteenth pre- cinct, wag patrolling on his beat, in Broome street, near Suffolk. While passing he heard a window ed with a sudden crasb, and, looking up- ward in the direction of the noise he saw the head of @ ‘man protrude from a window on the fourth story of the six story brick tenement house No. 204 Broome street, which contains 24 tamilies, The man was shouting “Murder!” and “Police!’? violently. The officer stopped his patrol and ran tothe house, giving, as he says, an alarm rap at the same moment, to which there was a response in & few moments by Rounds- men Tuite and Smith and Officer Shellard, A brief consultation was held, and OMicers Smith and’Shellard, taking matches irom their pockets entered the hall, the door of which is often, but not always, locked at night. The officers lit their matches and held them up above their heads. They saw streams of blood pouring down the stairs and banisters, but discovered no human body until they came to the ianding of the second Story» and on that part of it toward the rooms fronting on the street there was discovered by the oficers & msot and terrible sight. A young man, apparently in the full flush of man- hood, wearing nothing but his drawers and un- dershirt, was stretched, life just extinct and his throat across the jugular vein severed by an awful and deep gash. He had bled, even on this floor, three or four quarts of blood, and the worn and soiled oilcloth presented a smoking, red, ghastly spectacie, The head of the slaughtered man rested against the panels of the door of a German named Charies Miller, whose family occupy rooms on the second. figor. On examination long rivulets of blood aiid pools of the same ghastly fluid were discovered all over the stairs and walls of the third “ fourth floors, to which the pulice officers ascended as rapidly as possible. The face of the dead man—not long dead—lay downward. WHO KILLED POOR MARY RYAN? On the stairway the officers met Patrick Burke, who occupies three rooms, and rented the fourth to the Ryans. He was in his shirt sleeves, and was very much excited. This man directed tile officers to the room, in which he said there was another dead body. All entered close after one another, with that expectant gait and bated breath that comes ofan unknown terror. And there on the mattress, cleanly covered and in @ dark night robe, lay a young girl, her head thrown back, her throat cut by a deep gash almost from ear to ear, and her tongue almost lolling out of her mouth an slightly black on the surface. The neck—a Jair, white one—was marked with the deadiy press of fingers, indicating that the assassin had strangled his victim perhaps into an insensible state be- fore catting her throat. The improvised couch was in itself very clean, tidy, and not at all disturbed. The fingers of the hand were slightly closed, and the face, bearing marks of con- siderable intelligence and refinement, had an ex- pression o! pain and sudden fright. ‘The mattress was fully soaked with the poor girl’s blood, and her skirts and underclothes, of remarkably fine texture, were found placed smoothly and in regu- lar order upon an adjoining chair. A little further on was a small lady’s gold open-faced watch, with @ black composition chain, a lady’s gold lead pen- cil, and inside the door was a night Sire a small white handled penknife, the blades shut and the handie spotted with gouts of blood. The blades, on being opened, had not @ stain upon their bright surfaces, bat were sharpened In that peculiar way that 18 noticeable among shoe- makers, the heart of the biade being eaten away, as ground on a whetstone. The body was not coid, nd the policemen’s feet slopped about in clots of blood, which were sticky and bot under the teet. The bed whith had been ieaeeat by, roung, Mr. Ryan was tossed about and looked as if something violent had taken place on it while occupied. The sheets and quilts Were thrown in a heap, and on an adjoining chair were discovered a pair of pant: loons belonging to the dead man, a white linen shirt, with two small gold imitation studs in the bosom and having short cuffs. This shirt was spreadyout in an orderly fashion, as was the trou- sers. There was besides the shirt a pair of linen cuffs and a pair of gold sleeve buttons, A razor case, made to nold two razors, was found, and but one razor was in the case; the other could pot be discovered on the premises. THR FOOTPRINTS OF THR ASSASSIN, Ont on the pres and all the way up from the fourth to the sixth story were found pools and clots of blood on the oilclothed stairs,and the walls were discovered to be covered with finger marks and clots of vivid red blood. It was a slaughter ohuse, this tenement, which contained over 100 souls}hived together in such a smail breathing piace, A MYSTERY. But how to explain this horrible slaughter? Who had done it? Where was the weapon’ The pol could not tell anyshing for they could not fin thing to give them information. Had young Rya been followed home and killed for his: momey ana had his sister been straugied and lier throat cut the assassin? Was the assassin a resident of the house, which ts full of Peles, Germans, Italians and a curious snd mongrel mixture of people whose avocations are uncertain. The latter Meory has its ogy 4 Or had young Ryan, who was said to be a peaceable and temperate man, ina moment of mad insanity, killed his sister and then cutting his own throat rushed out, not knowin: where he was going—anywhere into space an eternity? These things will be probably investi- gated, but there is very little evidence, it seems, to prove anything as yet. There was & small rosewood lady's box in the room full of trinkets and which contained a bank book on the Bowery Bank, endorsed by the de- itor, Miss. Winifred Stapleton, while in Mr. yan’s trunk was discovered two bank books on the Emigrant Savings Bank, Nos, 64,522 and 97,121, endorsed in the name of the deceased Nicholas Ryan. The Miss Stapleton is supposed to be niece of the dead brother and sis' The deposit- ors im the three bank books were accredited with & total of over $700, In the bottom drawer of the rosewood case. which was shown to the HERALD reporter in the, Thirteenth precinct station house, @ small revolver, looking quite new, was observed, THK STORY OF BURKE, Patrick Burke, who rented the room for $9 a Mary Ryan, his bot 'gt2married, ap- plied to Mrs, Patrick Burke, whd nY¢S on the sadfr, 3, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. ei ance by Nivfolas Ryan, states that he . was Fast yaed by seme strange noise about hall-past beat lock On Sunday morning, He jumped out ot {astantly and ran out inthe hall, but all eaten meena for i moment and unde im somethin, uke the wheezing of 3 cat. As he was hastiiy if he heard the cries of his children, iceplng ina hall bedroom adjoining the nt pied by the Ryans, and his daugh- ter, ge Burke, aged. 4. years, cries to him, ‘come hee, ther ; there ts something the matter on the landing.” Then his wife said, “Go, Pat, and see what's tie matter.” He did 0, and carried a lamp with nim through the hallway, when he saw streams of fresh biood on the oil- cloth and walls, and this frightened him and he went back and told his wife that murder must have been committed in the house. Then he went to Beet peta Mana Ci ad awi er face downward on the_mo* Aer throat cut. Then he ro. otha Mont low and gave tue att fo the police, whereupon they entered and discovered the boo of Sonne ay an on the second Sone and afterwards saw rif ‘an lying dead in room, MRS. BURKE'S STORY. . The wife of the above-named man told ti porter of the HgxaLp that she had found Miss Ryan since she knew her to be of irreproachable character, and that the brother seemed to be a aceable young man and temperate, but that they ad quarrelled ance since they occupied the room, and hg had entered her (Mrs. Burke’s) room an ,told her that be would not be governed by a Woman, and that his sister wanted to rule him. Miss Ryan explained the difference that bad oc- curred to Mrs. Burke, by stating that she had pur- chased a teapot, and that her brother declared that iy was too small, and the quarrell had arisen out of that small matter. Other wise pn had peen nothing to in dicate bad feeling between brother and sister. PATRICK RYAN’S STORY, Patrick Ryan, who is married, a resident of foue Brooklyn, and has five children, says that he is @ foreman in the shoe establishment of T. Kalliske & Oo., No. 34 Warren street, and that his brotner Nicholas worked under him. He was a sober and peaceable young man, and had supported tory of E, C. Burt & Co., Thomas street; his sister Mary was an affectionate girl, and the brother and sister had lived together previous to their removal to Broome street at No. 3 Canal street, since the death of their mother six months ago, before which they had kept house for the mother; Nicho- las loved his sister dearly, and if there was any little disagreement it never amounted to any- thing more than is usual in any family, and would be jorgotten.. Nicholas and his sister were brought up too religiously to think of suicide or of any other similar crime. Nicholas had attended St. Mary’s church, in Grand street, and St. Bridget's chareh, in avenue B. He took tea with a married sister and his own two children at the room of Nicholas and Mary on Sunday evening, and all seemed happy, ‘laughing and joking. Al! six per- sons then left the nouse in Broome street to go out. His sister Mary and brother Nicholas accom- panied as far as the corner of Suffolk and Broome streets and there—it was then seven o’clock Sun- day evening—Nicnolas left them and he (Patrick Ryan) said to his brother, ‘Nicholas, you might tell us where you are going and introduce us to the girl that you are going to see.” This was in a joke, and Nicholas leit and I did not see him again until 1was sent for to see him dead, from Brooklyn, where I live. Mary, my sister, left her married sis- ters in Lewis street at or before nine o’clock to go te home on Sunday evening, and that is all I know, excepting that my brother had a silver watch valued at $15, and a gold chain attached, valued at $35. Would not know the makers’ name or what amount of money he had in his pocket. Healways carried money abd made good wages. THE VEST. A vest was found on the roof of tne house in Broome street at seven o'clock yesterday morning by Miss Jennie Burke, the daughter of Patrick Burke, although the police had scoured every Lae of the rool, which was covered with bloody jootprints, for three hours previously. Special Omicer Johnson says that the bloody footprints correspond in size to the feet of the dead man, a measurement having having been taken of his feet by the police. Captain Hedden, of the Thirteenth precinct, leans to the theory of suicide and mur- der, but will not commit himself to any statement. A Coroner's jury of nine persons were empannelied by Coroner Young yesterday at the scene of the murder, and the body was viewed; but no evi- dence was taken until further investigation has been made, » Dr. Marsh carefully examined the bodies, and found on that of the sister a cut on the throat nine anda half inches long, beginning at the back of the neck on the left side and terminating at a straignt line from the left jaw. The carotid artery and jugular vein were cut, which must have re- sulted in almost instantdeath. Blue marks, as if made by fingers, were on the throat, as if tightly pres ae It, causing the tongue to protrude tween the teeth, Dr. Marsh thinks that she was first strangled until she became nearly uncon- scious, when a knife or some other sharp instru- Tent was then used with the right hand, while the throat was clasped by the left hand of the murderer. There were no other marks of violence on any other part of the body, except two cuts, one on the chin, an inch and a half long, and another on the right cheek, one inch long. On the body or the brother no marks were found, only the one on the throat, which caused his death, THE EASTERN RAILROAD COLLISION. Testimony to the Fatal Occurrence Before the Coroner’s Inquest. BrippzrorD, Me., Dec, 22, 1873. The Coroner's inquest to investigate the cause of the late fatgl accident on the Eastern Railroad, between Kennebunk and Day's Siding, examined to-day Theodore Davidson, engineer of the locomo- tive Chelsea. He testified that he toid the Kenne- bunk operator not to let the down freight train pass, as he was going hack after some lost cars; the bing? hung outared signal and said they would not e togo bythat; we went back to get our cars, and were revurning at the rate of 12 miles an hour when Iheard a whistle, and im- mediately there was a collision; | was not thrown from my engine, but crawled {rom the wreck with one shoulder and an ankle disiocated; I did not see the down train, as it was dark and thick. Charles T. Pettee, conductor of the down train, testified that when he arrived at Kénnebunk the operator told him the up freight had: gone back alter some lost cars; there was no signal light out; 1 stopped for water and asked the operator if he had any orders for me; he said ‘‘No;” i asked him again and he answered ‘‘No;” we then started Up. probably going at the rate of 12 miles an hour, when I felt the steam shut off; the brakes were set at once, and then we felt the collision; my brake- men were in the saloon car and on the engine; we expected to pass the up ireight at Day’s Siding; had I known they were west of Day’s I would have sto] ; alter they had been at Kennebunk we did not have the right of way. LABORERS’ STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22, 1873. There is considerable excitement along the wharves to-day in consequence of a strike among the laborers, All the steamship companies had given notice that from to-day they would pay only 20 cents an hour for labor. The men all struck, demanding 30 cents an hour. The American Steamship Company paid 30 cents, in order to un- joad the steamship Pennsylvania, which arrived on Saturday, and the hands continue at work. The Clyde Steamship Company have obtained men at 20 cents. The strikers claim that the submission of the American line 18 @ harbinger of their success, and they seem determined to force the men work- ing at the lower rate to join the strikers. Riotous Conduct and Arrest of Several of the Strikers. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22, 1873. The striking longshoremen marched along Dela- ware avenue, stopping at each wharf where men were at work, and where persuasion failed threats were made to compel the men to join them. Failing at Clyde’s wharves, the rabble continued up to Race street wharf. Here they found steve- dores unloading a schooner from the West Indies, laden with sugar, at the new rate. Here they sig- nally failed to induce the men to stop work, and vented their rage in beating one of the men and mm cutting a rope which held a hogshead of sugar suspended in air. it went with a territic crash down into the hold of the vessel, but fortunately without injuring anyone The police appeared here and the strikers moved on. Above Vine street tney found an English ship unloading, and were successful in compelling the stevedores engaged upon It to stop work. At the Winsor wharves they found a number of men at work, and failing to intimidate them, they commenced an assault. In the midst of the ensu- ing turmoil @ squad of policemen appeared and dispersed the rioters, and arrested about a dozen, who were locked up. MAILS FOR EUROPE. The steamship Idaho will leave this port on Wednesday for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close at the Post Oflice at seven o’locck A. M. 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