The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1874, Page 5

ania NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. KHIVA. Mr. MacGahan’s Paper on Khiva Before the American Geographical Seeiety, The Russian Expedition of Conquest. Speeches of Chief Justice Daly, General Sherman and Dr. Kayes, Tales of the Orient, from that far away time when the “Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” were published, have always possessed a most charming fascination. Moore's “Laila Rookh,” written with- out the writer ever having beheld the scenes im- Mortalized by the glowing splendor of his verse, bas added to the spell a deeper and more abiding enchantment, [t seems almost ruthiess outlawry to lift this veil of romance and expose to view the long-hiaden realms of reality, and then, adding cruelty to the whole, propoand. in the most pro- wate manner possibie rhe series of poetic conun- drums :— Where that plenty of dutiful vassals ? ‘That plevty of gold and to spare? Whore that plenty of beautttul castles t Why are all dissolved im the air? But these are the days of comiag down to the hardpan of facts newspaper enterprise has done more to accom» lish this result than any other human agency. It foud out Dr. Livingstore, and showed what @ country tne interior of Alricais and the mystic Nile and the mystery of ts myriad lakes, And now the same spirit of progressive newspaper enterprise dispels the olden glories of romance about Khiva and its khans, palaces and mosques and beauiiul women, Mr. J. A. MacGahan, a commissiouer of the HuRALD, is the first one to “hold the mirror up to nature’? and show the people of New York this country of inde- Pendent Turkistan in its true and decidedly un- Poetic but none the less interesting light. His brilliant letters and their vivid portrayals ef the scenes attending the entering of Kniva by the Russian expedition under command of General Kautmann, of which he was the only civilian at- tendant, as published in the HeraLp, very nat- mrally intensified the eagerness to hear a more minute recital of the details than was allowable within the scope of newspaper correspondence, The announcement, there/ore, that Mr. MacGahan would, last evening, under the auspices of the American Geographical Society, read a paper giv- mg more extended details of the Khivan cam- paign, bad the effect to fill the large hall of the Cooper Insutute. Such asclect and intelligible assemblage has rarely been seen atany meeting in this city. As the hour arrived for the opening. of the “eeting some of the more Prominent memes of the society took their places on the piatform. here were other distinguished personages on the platform, includ- ing General Sherman, whose appearance was the Bignal of hearty greeting by the audience, Consul General Bodisco, the Hon. Ss. 8. Cox, General Sher- man, Colonel I. Bailey Myers, Dr. I. I. Hayes, Francis A. Svout, Henry Grinnell, General Han- cock, W. H. Moore, Rev. Mr. Nassau, Chevalier Wyckolf, Dr. A, K. Gardner, William Remsen, George Cobet Ward, Richard E. Mount, Colonel Adenried, Oswald Ottendorfer and Colonel Devoe, Some preliminary business was transacted and Judge Daly, the President, explained why the society had not yet taken any action regard- fog the reported death of Dr. Livingstone, which, he said, was on account of a hope that the venerable Atrican explorer was still alive—an announcement that was recelved with demonstra- tions of great deligut—and he then, alter reter- ence to other matters, paved the way for the ap- pearance of Mr. MacGahan, introducing him with ® prelude of pieasant compliment. As Mr. Mac- Gahan advanced on the piatiorm to the desk, and, with a bow to the audience, laid his manuseript on the desk, he was greeted with an exuberance of enthusiasm that at once put him en rapport with the assemblage. His paper was listened to with the deepest attention, and the interest deep- ened as he progressed, His account of the uncer such at disadvantages for obtaining miormanon, that they returned with very vague and unsatl tory accounts, Many of them, as deblagintweit, Stoddart and others, never returned to tell the story of thelr adventures, but suffered the most terrible deaths at the nands of the merciless and bloodthirsty knans, Little, therefore, has been known about it, and that little was vague and unreliable. An oasis in the middle of the wide and almost impassable des- erts of the ‘Turcomana and the Kyzii Koom, sur- rounded on all sides by an ocean of sand hundreds of miles in extent, it has remainea as unknown and mysterious as some distant, undiscovered island in the South Seas, or the wild and lonely regions around the North Pole—an eyesore and a source of constant irritation to members of learned bomhes like that at whose invitation 1 am here to-night. ‘The diiicuities, therefore, of giving, mm the short space of un hour, anything like a comprehensive and detailed ac- count of @ place 80 little known are very great, and I hope iy listeners will show every indulgence to the almost inevitable shortcomings in such an attempt. 1 will endeavor to give the greatest pos- sible imjormation im the fewest possible words, and if this should be incompatible with any at- tempt at rhevorical O1splay | nope you will not nar- bor jor a moment the thought that it is because a correspondent of the HERALD is incapable of such ap effort. First, then, as to the position of Khiva. 1t ties on the left bank of the Amoo Daria or Oxus Of ancient history, twenty miles trom the river and 150 from where lt empties into the Aral Sea, about 400 miles east from the Caspian and 2,600 from St. Petersburg. It is in latitude 41, about that of New York, It is surrounded on all sides by what has hitherto been considered an im- passable degert ior an army. From the shores of the Caspian on tie west, almost to the Hindoo Koosb, numbering on the east a distance of 100 miles from the frontiers of Alghanis- tan and Persia on the south to the broad, level steppes Siberia on the boyta, 900 miles, it is a level expanse oi plain alternating between sand and gravel, in which only the hardiest and most obdurate of plants and grapes can find nourishment and life, and only relieved here and there bya low chain of barren, sandy, slaty mountains. The greater part of it, aud especially that portion lying east and south of the Aral Sea, is 300 ieet below the level of the ocean, and the whole of it is supposed to have formed, at some time in the history of the earth, the bed Of an immense, shallow, inland sea, of which only the Caspian and the Aral now remain. In the middie of this desert is the ousis of Khiva. It has a length of about 200 miles, with an average width o1 seventy-five, and contains a population of nearly 1,000,000 souls, ‘The inhabitants are Uzlu Sarts, Karakuipaks, Kirghese, Kepchinks, Kalmucks and Turcoman, together with about 40,000 Persians, who before the Russian campaign were slaves, Aithough there is a wide field for ethnological speculation and research in the peoples of Central Asia, and although little is positively known of their ity and connection with each other, tt may be broadly Stated that they all belong to that branch of the Mongolian race known as Tartars, approaching and recedi from the original Mongo- Ilan type ag they have become more or less mixed with neighboring peoples of the Circassian race—the descendants of those same Tartars who twice swept over Europe like an avatanche, almost annihilating every trace of Western civiization, Their principal vocation 1s tilling the soil, varied, however, by predatory excursions on their neigh- bora of Kokharo and Russia, and the plundering of caravans passing to and fro through the desert. ‘The lecturer then related an adventure which befell him one evening, giving an account of the interior of the palace and & description of the harem, and drawing a grapbie picture of the old city, Its inhabitants and customs, all of which were Mlustrated by photographic views, In concluding his paper, the lecturer said :— Ana now, Mr. President and Fellows of the American Geographical Society, petore saying the hnal word, I beg to thank you for this, your cordial reception to-night. When I arrive in the Old World, aa I shall in a few days, I will tell wy Eng- lish and Russian friends who have heard of “Amen can institutions” that by far the most active and prosperous I have found is the American | Geographical Society, presidea over by your able and accomplished Chief Justice. I will teil General Kaufman and the Grand Duke that your Fellows have @ greater knowledge of Central Asia and the Khiva campaign than any people I have seen since my return irom the Khanate, and I shall assure Sir Henry Rawlinson and the Royal Geographical Society, before whieh I have been invived to appear, that your learned body is bound to become the leading geographical society of the world; for, have we not an evidence of it in the enthusiastic audiences, these emincnt guests aud the frequent occasions upon which you pone travellers even of a8 humble merit as my- self? After several beautiful stereoscopic views of scenes io the Caucasus had been exhibited and explained by Judge Daly, he caused considerable merriment by saying that when the lights were pur out there would be some additional lignt hrowo on Khiva by General Sherman, whom he had now the honor of introducing to them. (Cheers.) GENERAL SHERMAN’S ADDRESS, General SHERMAN, On coming forward to address the meeting, was loudly applauded, He said that they had heard the only notice he had received— that he was to tion upon Khiva. He had come there tnat night to hear his friend MacGahan, whom he had Iistened to with the greatest pleasure. He intepaed to cross-question him on a@gance of the Russian coimmn and battle scenes; his thrillingly grap! and, with the accompanying strereopticon views, gave to the Scenes described the vividness of reality. But it is unnecessary to i0ll0W him through ali tus interest- ing detalis. He carried his audience by the banks of the Uxus, explored with them the palace of the Khan, threaded the wysteries of the harem, and made, in short, a general survey of every puase of Khivan lve. Intermingiing with these general descriptions were personal incidents, the intense tndicrousness of some oi which seemed more a record of fiction than sceues irom actual life. ‘whe Proceedings, It was moved and seconded that the rules re- ferring to the regular order of business be sus- pended, except the reading of the isi of new mem- ers, Which Was theu subm.tted, numbering 170, who Were deciared unanimously elected, SPEECH OF JUDGE DaLy, Judge Daty said—I have been asked why it is | that the society has got taken some aciion in ref- erence to the death of Dr. Liviugstone. | take this occasion to say that although the report of his death has been corroborated by a letter received ac Zanzivar of the 20th of October, Irom Licuten- ant Cameron, commander of tc reliei expedition, yet its reliability is uot assured. ‘his report cor- voborates previous reports, but it still rests on the veracity of a negro Kuhma, by whom the information was communicated to Lieutenant Cameron. Under ordinary circum- Blances such a report would be credited, as Dr. Livingstone’s death was before reported under like circumstances, There is still, however, a fuint hope that the brave old traveller still exists, and the society, belore taking any action tn this mat ter, requires more corroboration than that already received, The paper o! to-night will be by Mr. J. A. MacGahan, who, as the card states, is the oni civuian Who was present with the Russian col- amo at the capture of Khiva. Air. MacGahan and the sociely are honored to-night with the presence oi General Sherman—(cheers)—who has come on from Washingtun tor the purpose of being present on this occasion. (Cheers.) A: General Sherman is himsel! a traveller, aud Wi peed over a portion of Asia, I shall, if I i | jake that liberty, in the course of the evening as! ulm to say a word or two in regard to bis journey in the Caucasus. I make that request fora par- ticular reason, because I think he will gratify tue Buuience I! he will afterwards exhibit the views of the Caucasus given by Mr. Kennon big account of that interesting country. Mr. Black, who was here on the cc sion or the Polaris reception, photograpi- Ing the views, nas come on trom Boston to-night to render us the same service on tus occasion. It is now, I think, about 600 years ago since Marco Polo made that most remarkable journey frum Venice to Cathay, the account of which Was re- veived with so much astonishment in Europe and woke that country up irom its lethargy to undertake an enterprise to go to the Cape 5 of Good Hope and discoyer the country. During that journey Marco Polo passed twelve months in that country, traversed by the genticinan who wil speak to you to-night, and trom that time to the present, under the in- tolerance of Mahometan rule, tt has been shut out from the civilized world, The country tra- versed by the geutleman who will speak to-night ‘was, during the visit of Marco Polo, a partof the great empire established by Ghengis Kahn, and is how the present aome of the Turcomans. ulso Mr. MucGahan's good fortune to be a spectator of those military movements which resulted | im Opening up thai country to the knowledge of Jnankind, and woich has extended the power otf Russia (rom the shores of the Caspian to the northern bank of the Oxus, He is to apeak of an old jand to hight, but new to modern civilization. Jt affords me great pleasure to introduce io you Mr. MacGahan, (Cneers.) MR. MACGAHAN’S ADDRESS, MR, PRESIDENT, FELLOWS OF THE AMERICAN GHOGRAPHICAL SOCIRTY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN— Belore proceeding with my paper this evening I would say that I recognize m the Qistrnguished assemblage gathered here a soldier whose iame I jound had preceded the Russian arms in Khiva, | Littie did I aream one bot tropical day in June, when the Russian army arrived Within sight of the | Oxus with parched tongues and empty stomachs after a desert march of 700 miles, as Kauimann and mysel!, seated in contuyruous saddles, were uiscugsing Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea, that I would ever find the great American soldier auditor of mine, during my recital of the Khivacampaign. I need’ not gay, ladies and gentie- men, how gratified | am to see him here, although Jam perieculy aware tpat tn his cage, at least, am carrying coals to Newcastle, ‘The sabject of the paper Lam about to read is Kiva, It ts a | country about which so little is Kaown by the gen- eral public that to give anything Ike a full and complete account 1 it, together with a history of tue Russian campaign ‘wich resulted in tts cou guest, in the sort time I have allotted to me, will be a very dificult task. There are many among My audience to-night, I fear, who would find it bard vo tell where Khiva is, and Lam tain to con- fesd that when the proprietor of the New Your«k HERALD first proposed to me to go there { had to look at a map to assure myself that | had | even an approximate knowledge ot its position in | the mysterious rexions of Central Asia. Few | Europeans have visited it, and these, owing to the | Suspicious character of its people and the blood. thirsty dispositions of ita rulers, have labored | had no doubt that the Russians living north | last evening at its rooms in the Mott Memorial some pointe wien he had an opportunity of doiag so, When he (General Sherman) was in the East two years ago he _ received a de- spatch that a newspaper correspondent, one MacGahan, was join him. This was not welcome news, but Mr. MacGahan came, and he iound him @ most agreeaple and compan- ionable man. He nad listened to him with extreme pleasure, and he did not intend, ai that late hour, to supplement any remarks made by Mr. MacGahan wita regard to the Caucasus which lay between Central Europe and Asia as tie connecting link between ancient and modern civilization. It was in the Caucasus they found that beautitul Caucasian race, because they had clean water, and thev were accustomed to hear of the praises of the fine race known as the Georgians ofthe Caucasus, The General described his arrival at Kotl, where there was a village or town that was Russian, pretty mucn like a place in Pennsvivania, and while there @ man wanted to sell them town lots, but nobody invested. (Cheers.) There was railroad to Tiflis, They expected to find |; some of the beautwul women of Georgia, but they did not see many. They made the journey to Tif_is partly by rail and partly by carriage. They ound there Russians in garrison under the command of the brother of the peror, | & fine, pleasant, agreeable gentleman, of excellent presence, the Grand Duke Michael. He was satisfied there was a commingling of races eee from the Caspian Sea and pouring into what is now known as tne Cau- casus. Those races came from the Oxus and com- ing into that gorge of the Caucasus intermarried, and their children, having the best of clean water, had produced the Caucasian race, (Cheers,) He of the Caucasus were the dirtiest people they ever saw. He did not believe they ever washed their faces or their bodies; but in the Sourn, where they had water, they were a more cleanly people. The Russians bad established civil and military bureaus in Khiva, and he had no doubt that the government was adapted to the peopie and was as good for them as any that coula be given. There appeared to be justice tempered with mercy. good military system Was established, the ofilcers were extremely intelligent and the Russian soldiers | tn that county would favorably bear comparison with ourown. Cheers.) The people were mixed With all the races of Asia, and they were at war , almost from time immemorial until about the Close of the American civil war, when the Russians captured Schamyl, @ hero of whom they might have read. They traveliead in the coantry, they bi for what they had and got little to eat, Dur- ing the journey he had not received a hard word, and he had experienced no more danger than he nad tear of now. He thought that the rule of the Russians in the Caucasus had been for the advancement of civilization, and ‘therefore he wos glad to hear that the Russians in- tended to extend their power in the East. When the wild Turcomans and | Khivans were subdued, the old Persian Empire | would have a chance to rise from its degradation take its place among the nations of tue world, | «Cheers.) A vote of thanks (proposed by Dr. Hayes) to Mr. MacGahan and General Sherman brought the pro- ceedings to a close, THE AMERICAN MICROSCOPIOAL SOCIETY. Tne American Microscopical Society of the City of New York held its annual meeting and election Library, No. 64 Madison avenue. The following fre the names of the oMcers elected ;—President, John B. Rich, M, D.; First Vice President, 0. G. Mason; Second Vice President, William H. Atkin- son, M. D.; Third Vice President, John Frey ; Co responding Secretary, D. H. Woodwiilie, M. D.; Recordin; retary a J. P. Wintringham; Treas- urer, Professor T. Oremieux; Curator, Samuel | Jackson; Librarian, 8. @. Perry, M. D. JAY COOKE & 00.’8 CREDITORS, {From the Cooperstown (N. Y.) Journal, Feb. 26.) Mr. H. A. Risley, of Washington—father of the Miss Risley who was adopted by Mr. Seward, accompanied him on his journey around the world and edited his book giving an acceunt thereof— | was at the Carr Hotel a couple of days since our last issue, He is visiting the banks that were creditors of Jay Cooke & Oo,’s First National Bank of Washington, effecting a compromise on an offer of flity per cent cash and fitvy per cent in the bonds | of the Northern Pacific Ratiroad Company—equiva- lent now to about eighty-five cents on the dollar. OITY AND COUNTY TREASURY, Comptroller Green reports the following receipts of the treasury yesterday :— From taxes of 1873 and interest. From arrears From coll From marke! rents, tees, £6... From water rents............ From permits to tap water pipes, From Bureau of Permits—Mayor' F From itcenses—Mayor's Ofc... 47 From tees and tihes—District Courts, ee jive them some light and informa- | | country. ART MATTERS, The Sate To-Night at Clinton Hall, A sale will take place at eight o’ciock this even- 10g of the pictures which have been on view dur- ing the week at the gallery No, 817 Broadway. The sale, however, will occur at Clinton Hall, and not at the gallery, and will meclude some few specimens of marble statuary by R. H. Park, Since the gallery was opened the lana- scape by Lambinet has divided attention among connoisseurs with the cattle by Voltz. The Lam- net 1s not absolutely new to public vision, but It 18 very excellent. There is @ ‘Forest Frontier,” bearing the autograph of George Inness, and on that account valuable, though tt 13 eclipsed by nis more recent works, Some bright Little bits by Theodore Frere fill nooks that we are glad to see so Well occupied. Steffech’s “Young Family” is a very clever painting of a group of dogs. Ron:er and Ool’'s ‘Taking It Easy” brims with character, and in this respect ranks with apy picture im the coWection, YHaussy bas some Well drawn ‘Cattie at Work.” These are among paintings to which we have not referred. We have already mentioned with praise Meyer von Bre- men's “Garland,” Tom's “Catule and Landscape,” Mulier’s “Pet of the Pacha,” Voltz’s *“I'nuringian Landscape” and Veron’s three pictures, with their sipguiar and effective masses oi color. New Pictares at Lanthier’s. Mr. L, A. Lanthier’s little gallery, at No, 6 Astor Place, shares in the spring impulse to which we have more than once referred, 1t contains about a dozen new pictures, some by foreign and some by native artists, Foremost are two characteristi- cally quiet bits in oil by David Johnson, that tover of lichens and student of rocks. One 1n a scene at Fourteen Mile Island and the otner a view at Wawanyanda, It is one thing to imitate the organic character of a rock with geological accu- racy; it 19 another to invest a landscape with heaithy but tranquil sentiment. Mr, Jobn- son has united the two achievements in a high degree in the first mentioned of! these pictures, whieh, althouzh it is capable of much greater elaboration, beara many marks of an alfectionate, intelligent and patient spirit. Jules Goupil has a@ small oil painting, highly fin- ished, representing a fair lady, almost Grecian in the outline of her countenance, attentively exam- inmg a piece of Japanese bronze. The mouth is very sweet, the lips warm, full, sensitive, yet not voluptuous. There are quite a number of water color drawings by J. Thorpe. Most of them lack frames yet. One of the best represents some sheep, carefully drawn, on the Sussex Downs. Couturier, the celebrated painter of poultry, has number of chickens and ducks, periectly drawn and grouped alter the Jashion of nature, Guricino contributes a sketch of some lazzaroni. Kobert de Paum, of Brussels, following in the wake of Bakalowicz, presents us with @ tall and graceial woman olering a brilliant ge parrot a jump of sugar, Parrots and large ladies are very well in their place, but perhaps ‘they have been brought into this sort of juxtaposi- tion often enough. Paum has, however, in this instance been quite aa successful as Bakalowicz, and he }as been amiable enough to represent the lady feeding the parrot, instead of teasing it. Alboy-Rebonet has a small oil painting, assumed to be representative of Diana of Poictiers, Diana is dressed in red velvet, with a white satin uucer- skirt, One hand res*s thoughtiully at her mouth, the other on the table. The floor is tesselated, the facade of the tall mantelpiece is hung with tap- estry and the wall above arches loitily into the g.oomy ceiling. All of the pictures we | ave men- tioned are quite small, and most of them are painted with very minute finisn. work ig hasty and careless, There is a sinall pro- portion of buyers who do not have to wait to Know the name of the artist in order to determine whether a picture is worta possessing. It 16 to this class that this Itimted collection appeals. There is also an allegoricai subject py Benjamin West, taken from the Revelation, and to wh.ch we must refer at anotuer time. Some South American Pictures, Plenty of our artists go to Newport and Lake George, few of them wander as far as Lima or Val- paraiso, Mr. H. A. Ferguson seems to have done 80, however, and the result is that he has produced three pictures severally representative of scenes in Peru, Ecuador and Chili. The Peruvian view consists of a landscape which may be beheld by any one occupying a position on the bridge that hes midway between the eastern and western di- visions of the town of Arequipa. In the back- ground are snow crowned mountain peaks, the loftiest of which is known as Pichu Pichu. In the foreground is a shallow expansion of the stream that takes ite name from the town. At intervals upon the low shore are slender trees belonging to the cypress family and looking like attenuated | Poplar trees, To the right, upon an elevation of Jand, extends a long, low wall, made of adobe, whitewashed, enclosing a tropic garden and lead- ing from a private residence, The disposition of lights and shadows is skilful, and tne pic- ture as a whole 18 well painted, though we could have desired a firmer and more exact indieation of the character of the un- familiar equatorial foliage, The Ecuador scene ‘The hour is sunset, and the low lying shore is coy- ered with trees and vines richly and picturesquely dishevelled. Chief among these 1s the matarpalo tree, embarrassea with brillant parasites, the interstices of its voluptuous follage periorated with a burning light. The attempt to indi- cate the lavish and sensuous avandon ol nature in these latitudes ig much more successful than the average o! such efforts. ‘The Chilian land- scape 1s more daring than the others, and repro- duces the peak 0! Paloman among the Andes. Down a precipitous and rocky guilet dashes the sim rivuiet named Topingato. To the left an equally steep and arduous mountain pass is threaded by a few mounted merchants and arri- eros returning irom Santiago to Mendoza. The vee isan upright. It is ambitious, but the am- ition 1s justified by the fact that the painter re- sided for a long time amid the scenes he describes, and was sustained by something o1 the genius of the true artist turough many patient ana weart- some studies, The scene has a local character which cannot be mistaken. The temperament is far removed irom that meek and marrowless one with which the average painter of tempests in teacups has made us lamiliar. All the pictures will be on view for a short time at Mr. Ferguson's studio, No. 6 Astor place. Spiing Movements § in Avery. Mr. Avery has not veen apathetic; he has only been quict; and now, at his pleasaut parlor galicry Pictures—Mr. | on Filth avenue, above Fourteenth street, are to be seen @ dozen new oil paintings, almost all of which have just been received from Europe, and none of which have been publicly beheld in this E. 8. Kennedy, the English artist, has a Spanish subject, in which a young gentleman Jeans against a casement conversing with a young girl, attended by her duenna. ‘he girl toys with a sprig of oleander, plucked froma bush hard by, and the young man 1s so engrossed that he does nOt notice the bouquet he holds behind him (ready Jor presentation when the duenna shall be out of sight) i8 being demolished by a nibbling goat. The distribution of lights and shadows in this little picture is excellent, and the underglow of humor is expressed with refinement. De la Brély is represented by a French target party of a century ago, Doticeable for the graceiul disposition Oi the figures. There are two coast scenes by W. T. Richards; only one of them, however, that representing moonlight on the ocean, Is in his best and more recent style. Lumimous and rich isa life size figure by C, L, Muller. showing @ beautiful woman, sumptuously dressed, turning over a vol- ume of engravings as she sits beneath a tree. | Adolphe de Boucherville has two companion pieces named “Captivity” and “Lioerty,” The irst repre- sents @ young aud exquisite Georgian wistful and pining amid the splendid immurement of a Turkish harem. She is magnificently attired. Superb cush- fons support her form. A caskei of rich jewels, gifts from her sensual master, lies open beside her. Kut her Singers forget the flashing gems, and her eyes are fixed upon the menrory of the green glades and dancing waters she shall see no more, The treatment 18 tall of pathos, ‘Liberty’ is less showy in its accessories, but 1s y grit cheery in spirit, representing a young girl in the forest holding im one hand an open cage and watching the \ flight of a bird she has just (reed, Shattuck has painted a landscape for the purpose of introducing some sheep, but the sheep are 80 inferior to the land- scape that we wisi hts intention had been reversed. Escostra has an andaciously brijiant picture. A dine looking woman, with amiable and rather jolly features, Sits In a@ showy figured dress before a mirror arranging her hair. The mantelpiece is hung with blue satin and flanked by a gaudy Japanese screen. A Turkish rug is extended in front of the hearth, An armchair, cushioned with crumson {8 partiy concealed by a glittering green satin curtain embroidered with red flowers. A pean of the scene is reflected in the mirror. ‘ew hands but Escosura's could render so har- monivous this near juxtaposition of so many varied hues, Jaccovacci has a Borghese palace interior, rich and elaborate, and containing among other ‘ features an Stalian greynound, very delicately drawn, with blue, white and yellow tiles, In the ‘middle Oo! the Noor stands a tall and beautiful woman in & Sweeping robe of velvet, red india m color, aud belonging to the age of Louis Treize. Through the | window is scen the chateau of Fontainebleau, None of the | shows Chimborazo irom tne banks of the Guayas. | P. C. Compte has a French interior, paved | Pasini has a large picture representing @ religious file iM Carro, noticeavle Jor ite eflective grouping and rich and sombre ensemble. A landscape b, Koek-Koek presents some of the best merits an some Of the faults of that artist. ‘The light @hd perspective and the sense of distance and expanse are excellent, So is the drawing of the trees. But that coldness and giaze for which Koek-Koek wus so censurable are very definitely perceived. Jules Wagner has an excellent picture about three ject square called “The Birthday.” It represents 2 German family of the humbler class celebrating the birthday of one of their number. ‘Two rusti¢ music stand in the background. ‘The jamily seated at the table are watchmge with interest the uncorking of a bottle of champagne by the son, Who holds a rose ip bis mouth by the stem and whose lace betrays his sense of the import- ance of his task. ‘he dgures are very well drawn, the sense of good cheer and sweet fecling is de- lightiul, and the perspective of houses seen through the open window is adroitiy managed. Wagner 1s a pupil of Leys and resides at Antwerp. Pi presenc picture figured in the Vienna Exposi- ion. ACHEEN, The Dutch Army Advancing Steadily Under Dificulties=Heavy Losses in Officers and Men. Advices from Acheen, under date of the 28th of January, report the progress of the Hollanders? army expedition against the Sultan thus:— During the past two days the Dutch troop? have been fighting for the possession of a piece of round trom which the Kraton could be bom- rded, and which lies behind two fortified vil- lages. The lossesduring the two days tn killed and wounded were 160, of which fourteen were oMcers, The rege) was determined, but the piece of ground had been obtained. Batteries were being erected, on which heavy guns would be mounted. A letter had been sent to the Sultan stating on | what terms peace wouid be granted, The messen- ger had been stripped naked, bound and taken to the intenor, having first been threatened with death. The letter was not delivered to the Sultan, but torn into pieces. The Rajah of Pedier, with 1,500 followers, had aired at Acheen and strengthened the war ve A division of the Dutch’ fleet had been sent to bombard the town of Pedier. ‘The people had assumed the government. Cholera was diminisning, THE ARMY. The Army Register Qut—New Feature=— OfMcers of Foreign Birth—Promotions from the Ranks. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 1874. The oMecial Army Register for January 1, 1874, with an addenda giving the changes that have occurred irom that date to the time the Register | went to press, is at length ready for distribution, and officers of the army will recieve it forthwith, It was anticipated by the HERALD Register, pub- lished on the 7th instant, which also included changes subsequent to the making up of the oficial document. The only NEW FEATURE THE LATE HENRY SMITH. Chsequies Yesterday at the Seventh Ave- nue Methodist Church. THE FUNERAL PROCESSION. Amild all the pomp and circumstance which the comoined efforts of the military, civic and police authorities of the metropolis could throw about the obsequies of a public official, the mortal re- mains of Henry Smith, late President of the Police Commisston of thia city, were yeaterday borne from out the city where he had succeeded in making himself a power and an authority as a broker in Politics to the little village on the banka of the Mohawk whence he had emerged asa boy, pennt- | less, unfavored and friendless, & quarter of a cen- the occasion of an immense turn out of the peopie (so-called) generally would be but the stating of an absolute fact; for it cannot be denied that, from early morn tilt the hearse was borne from the City Hall to the roud depot late In the day, the though which the funeral procession was destined to pass were lined with thousands of spectators. Yet there was a marked diiference between the crowds that thronged the sidewalks and the crowds which usually gather together to witness whe iuneral of @ public man who during his life- time may have made his name a household word for EMINENCE IN PUBLIC STATION as an honest man or for the good deeds done when want aud misery demanded tne aid and comfort of the gooa and the well to do, The majority were made up of spectators who were spec- tators because they knew there was to | be a spectacle of a grand public funeral, | and who would not have been specfators at all had there been plenty of work for idle hands todo. It may be saiely asserted that there hag not been lor ten years past present at any public occasion On & nOon-holiday so peculiar a crowd as that which gazed from sidewalk, stoop and alleyway at the pageant of yesterday. There were but few women to be seen along the whole route of the procession, and the masses which darkened the line of march and stood on Broadway shivering for hours before the music of the bands could be heard, and who stood shivering for hours while the long line of | military, police and high dignitartes of the city gov- | ernment filed soleunly and grandly before them, were chiefly of the “unemployed” class—men who, before the late panic, never knew probably what @ holiday—a week day without work—really afforded in the way of sight seeing. There were ig that under the caption of “brevet and volunteer commissions” the dates of all commissions held by officers, with tle dates of muster out, vacation, &c,, are inserted. For example, the record of Colonel McUoy, aide-de-camp to General Suerman, is as follows:— | Colonel, aide-de-camp, March 8, 1869; first lieu- | tenant brevet, captain brevet, major brevet, and Metenant colonel brevet. all March 2, 1867; first Heutenant Filty-fourth Ohio volunteers, October 21, | 1861; captain same regiment, March 10, 1863; cap- tain, aide-de-camp volunteers, July 19, 1863; major, | aide-de-camp volunteers, October 29, 1863; must- | ered ont September 1, 1866; lMeutenant colonel, | aide-de-camp, August 11, 1836; vacated March 7, 1869, tieutenant colonel volunteers brevet. This | takes up thirteen lines of the Register, and with numerous other cases of the same kind extends | the volume to 260 pages—about one-fifth more than Jast year, The object of this additional information is to enable the accounting oMcers of the Treasury Department to ascertain, without troubling the Adjutant General, when an officer becomes entitled to the ten, twenty. thirty and forty per cent increase of pay for five, ten, filteen and twenty years’ service respectively. Innumerable charges have been raised against officers on the books of the ‘Treasury UVepartinent on account of overpayments caused by this per | centum, technically called “iongevities,” being | anticipated by errors on the part of officers in | computing their length of service, many of them | counting from the date they were appointed in- | stead of the date they accepted their appointment, | This information should have been inciuded in last year’s Register, put the necessary data could not be obtained tn time. One officer has recently been court martialied and dismissed for reporting that he resigned trom the Fiuth United States colored regiment, whereas he was dishonorably dismissed by Major General Butler. The number of | OFFICERS OF FOREIGN BIRTH | holding commissions tn the army 1s 244, of whom | 47 are in the stam departments, 54 tn the cavalry, 23 in the artillery and 121 in the infantry. This does | not include one born in Asia, one in Fast India and three who were born when tneir mothers happened | tobe at sea, The countries having the honor to sup- ply go many officers for our army are :—Ireland, 96; Germany, 45; Engiand, 35; Canada, Scotland, 15; France, 8; Sweden, 4; Switzerland, 3; South | America, 8, Nova Scotia, Italy and Poland, 2 each; | Prince Edward Island, Austria, Multa, Corfu, Ma- | | deira, Norway and the Netherlands | each. One hundred and ninety-six of our officers BOSE FROM THE RANKS, thus showing tiat if every corporai’s Knapsack does not contain & marshal’s baton a good many | of them contain shouider straps. The vationality of these officers is worthy of particularization, in- asmuch as it proves that, contrary to the gene- ' rally received opinion, the majority of our officers who entered the service as enlisted men are na- | tves of the United States, and not ‘forelgn mer- | cenaries.” The United States is credited with 108 promotions from the army; Ireland, 44; Germany, | ingland, 7; Scotland, 7; Canada, 2; Switzer- | 23; Bi 2 land, 2; Norway 1; Sweden, 1; at sea, a THE CHINESE NEW YEAR. GI ke Ao Salle Celebration in New York—The Heathen Temple in Baxter Street, The attention of citizens has been attracted | during the past few days by the appearance on the streets of an unusual number of Chinese. Their attire was better and more becoming than is worn by the permanent Mongolian colony in New York. {These strangers came trom New Jersey, Massa- | chusetts and other points where they are em- ployed to celebrate, according to the custom of their country, the new year, which, as laid down | in Chinese chronology, has just commenced. The ceremonies partake largely of a religious charac+ ter, and as New York ts the only city this side of | | the Rocky Mountains favored with a Joss, or heathen temple, in which is installed a deity | and in charge ofa Buddhist priest, many faithful Celestials came here to welcome in the new year, to setlie outstanding debts, compose past ieuds and generally enjoy tnemseives. THE TEMPLE IN BAXTER STREET. | The Chinese Temple is situate at No, 12 Baxter | | street, one o1 the most squaild quarters of the city. | it is on the second floor of an ancient, dirty and | dilapidated frame building. ‘There is no attempt a° elegauce in the arrangements of the two apart- ments, Which are of about equal dimensions and | | connected by a doorless opening. The first entered is used for carrying on gambling, witha square, thin | trame, In which smull rails run irom one end to | the other, and as the play progresses wooden balls, | the size of an ounce bullet, are passed to and fro, ‘The visitors are maimly congregated im this room, | and seem to enjoy @ pastime at which no money | appears to be lost or won; but whether such is , the case or not is rather doubéiul. The place is called the Chinese Club Room. | | DESCKIPTION OF THE CHAPEL The chapel or temple fronts on Baxter street, and differs from the outer apartment very litte beyoud the addition of an altar, over which is sus- ended ig and hideous picture of the God Fo, seated, with an expression of malice mingled with gross sensuality. He ig surrounded with cheap, tawdry paraphernalia and an abundance of tinsel, Which 18 80 attractive to Mongolian taste. There are aay of two pretty females, ap- parently ati lant goddesses—one at cach side of | Fo. On the is Of the room are suspended strips | of red paper, on which are ingcribed quotations from the writings of Confucius, and @ sickening odor arises trom the barbarous incense that fills the atmosphere, combined with the smell of kero- sene, which buras in several lamps. A large many- colored balloon is suspended from the ceiling directly in frontof fo, and smaller ones in other arts of the room. The jurniture is of the ordinary | kind, very scanty and cheap. There is an alcove, orrecess, in which are siceping a1rangements for | three or More persons, arranged in the shape of bunks On board ship, One above the other, | OBSERVANCE OF THE SEASON. The celebration of the Roetraink of the new year is always @ great event with the Chinese at home, and always where their numbers are considerable | it 1s likewise a festive occasion. In California it is Its \ | | It was some time alter one o'clock when the | } | | Close the lid over the face of the deceased. | heads of departmen: bunareds of them looking hungry and ragged, yet not like the ordinary rabble that makes It a busi- ness to be on hand at every public pageant, and whose every step and every move is an incentive for action to the detectives on the trail of the bad characters of the town. Tvey were orderly, all of them. ‘They sat upon the steps of the stoops on Fifth avenue, and while waiting smoked their | pipes and gazed wistiuily up @t the happy Jaughing child faces which beamed out ; of almost every window on either side the way, each full of expectation of the treat of band music and soldier marching that | they all had been told was sure to come. Candidly, | there could not have been any better evidence of the immense number of willing, able-bodied men who are now in want of work thau was afforded | by the thousands of laborers, mechanics and oth- | ers of @ like character who thronged the street during the procession, It seemed as though they had somehow discovered that there was a public show, free to all, by which one day at least could be whiled away. The excitement of the Waiting for the display, the pushing and the | crowding, and the sudden meeting with old friends who had hidden themselves away in their hours of want, 80 that fricnds in better circumstances would not descry them in their tattered clothes— made them forget that once upon a time one meal a day did not answer for three. AT THR CITY HALL. procession started from the City Hall, The body, up to the time of the removal irom the Govera- or’s room, from midnight of the night previous, bad been laid in an elegant casket bound and adorned with silver nails and vandies, aud was yet buried, so to speak, beneath mounds of flowers and roses, which fairly ijadened the air with their | perfume, It took a long time for tue crowd of sight-seers to pass by the casket and gratify their curlosity ia gazing upon the teatures of the dead, but it was finally deemed advisable, betore all the atient waiters on the Hall steps had | een atle to reach even* the floor on which the Governor's room is situated, to The procession finaily started in the following order, the band of the Seventh regiment, which was drawn up tn line in front of the City Hall at the time, playing a dirge as the coffin was borne to the hearse by eigut police captatas:— Mounted Police. ‘The Seventh Regiment, National Guard. Battalion of Fire Department under Chief Engineer Eli Bates. Battalion of Police on foot. . Pallbearers in carriages. Hearse, Guard of Honor, consisting of Police Captains and Benev- ie ‘olen’ eK. 5 Police Commissioners Charlick, Rusvell, Gardner and uryea. Police Justices Kilbreth, Morgan, Bixby, Flammer, Kassmire and sherwood. Mayor and Common Council in carriages. Heads of Departments. Citizens on toot. TO THE CHURCH, The snow had been the ae eee thoroughly cleared irom the surface of Broadway and the maich was, therefore, unobstructed to Fourteenth siree On reaching Union square the Seventh had to break into company fronts, as the snow had not been carried away irom certain portions of the street along the lettof the line ol the parade. ‘When the coffin was borne into the church on Sev- epth avenue, near Fourteenth street, there was an immense crowd on the sidewalk, and it was found that even the galleries of the sacred edifice had been filled @ full hour before. Tue services were plain and devoid of all ostentation. There were 0 decorations; the floral tributes which had graced the Governor’s Room in | the morning, placed on tabies at the foot of the reading desk railing, being the only evidence that the ceremony was other than an or- | dinary one. The casket was borne in by a selected number of the police captains and depo-tted in the , middle aisle near the altar railing, and was soon | followed by the pallbearers, headed by Commis- | sioners Charlick and Gardener and the various and other persons well known In poutice circles in the city, among whom were President Wales, of the Department of Public Parks; George Van Nort, of the Department of Public Works; President John Wheeler, of the Tax Commission: George Starr, Commissioner ot Emi- | ration, Shepherd Knapp, Sheridan Shook, Isaac | ll, General Bowen, Commodore Budd, Archibald Bliss. THE RELIGIOUS SERVICRS. | ‘The musical part of the services were under the direction of T. B, Mosher, chorister oi the church, and the choir was made up of Miss Annie Borie, soprano; Hattie Bryan, contralto; Royal Keith, basso—the organist being Wm. G. McCall. Tne | Dead March in Saul was rendered as the cofn was being borne up the aisie, and soon alter it was | {U0 placed at the foot of the altar railing; the hymn, O1 which the following are the first two verses, Was exquisitely sung by the quartette:— How vain ts all beneath the skies; How transient every earthly dilss; How slender all the fondast ties ‘That bind us to a worid of bliss. The evening cold, the morning dew, ‘The withering grass, the tading flower, Of earthly hopes are embler j true— ‘The glory of @ passing hoar. Selections from the 103d Psaim, “Bless the Lora, On, my soul,” and irom the twenty-fourth chapter of the Gospel accoratng to St. Matthew were next read, after which the choir sweetly sang the hymn, Deptas of Mercy.” The first two verses run as 1ollows : Depths of mercy! Can there be Mercy still reserved for me ? Can my God his wrath forbear ? Me, the chiet of sinners, spare ? Thave long withstood His grace, Long provoked Him to His tace, Would not hearken to His calls, Grieved Him by a thousand fails, ‘The Key. Mr. Bottome then followed with 18s ad- |S dress. He read it irom manuscript, wod it can be | said, therelore, that it had been carefully pre- ; & Season of great rejotcing, and is made the occa- | sion of an unusual daplay of pomp and Mongolian | splendor. The Joss temples are briliiantly lighte beg cee whee the tom-tom keeps up # continual racket, and the | Chinese, high and low, perampulate tue oireata nm their holiday attire, The houses of iriends are | Visited, and after yeerning the customary ; Salaams and parraking of | Proprictors are called aside and asked i it would | Rot be convenient to settie littie outstanding bilis— | Tequests which are, in aimost every case, complied with. The municipal authorities in San'Franctsco | grant permission to heads of the native comp: to carry on these notsy observ. restrictions; but it appears that the Police Com- missioners of New York were unwilling to grant the same license to our Chinese residente | Testament making up the cbiel bulk. are burned by the thousand; | he finally made a few remarks which, to say the | refreshments, the | bi iy ces under certain | which related to Mr. Smith’s cl red, It was exceedingly disjointed in the open- Ing passages, quo nS irom ims aud the New tury ago, To say tnat the funeral of the man was | Tail- | streets | | we struck the | us | 1 ' However, | least, created quite ® flutter among the politi- | cians from thelr very voldgess. He said that he | knew nothing of Mr. Smith hapten sa and all, therefore, he would have to about hit would | Ye bused simply on what he had read in | the newspapers, which had in great part, in his opinion, taken the place of the pulpit, He | | then quoted Mayor Havenieyer's communication to | the Board of Aldermen in its entirety, aud also that portion of the resolution perros by the Board aracter a8 a public cial and @ private citizen, cin Maymerian which he had been reques also read at fou read, and which he explained bad been wettten by | be given poem, ai tivel: ted to | Bi on 5 an admirer oF the aeceasea, fe then we: way that a3 human beings we were ali pan SUBJECTS OF A COMMON INFLUENCE. Divine law taught us the great lesson of charity and bade uf not to judge wo nasti y of our netgh- bor, to point to his faults sneerin-sly, as we were all liable to {all into errer’ ourselves. He referred to the Saviour’s treatment of the accusers of the woman taken in admtery as evidence of how He taught by His own practice the law of charity. The reverend gentieman then spoke O! the dangers public men were @: to from the criticisms of the press, and animadverted very strongly upon what he called the vandalism ofcertain newspapers in tear- ing private character to pieces to gratily a politi- calend. He dia not deny that a free press in a iree community was @ sort of necessity, and he ac- knowledged that the power and watchiuiness ofthe press was the great preservator of pubiic virtue, Suu, he did not believe in the right of the press to attack one’s family and private character and throw, as it were, into @ caldron of vi- tuperation and abuse everything that could biacken = a man’s fair name. It had come to such @ pass, he said, that nothing Was at times saie from the vaudalism of a Nog that placed no umits to what it calls its “rights,” and Which hesitated at nothing so long as, for tn- stance, @ man in nomination for office could be de- feated, even by the wrongful blasting of bis repu- tation and that of his friends. He ‘felteved the reason why good men were nowadays 80 reluc- tant to accept office was that they were unwillin; to contront the abuse of partisan journalists, an thus, indirectly, the Partisan press was ao aider and abettor in the work of making our public oilices cesspools of corruption. Jt was, he said, a divine law that AUTHORITY WAS TO BE RESPECTED; but it had become the habit so to reviie, with or without cause, those in authority that authority Was mocked and made an immorality of even when pure and undcilled, The semptures said that “He who spoke evil of the laws spoke evil of the Lord,” Fair criticism of men in authority was always to be expected of an uprizht non-partisan preet, Danse mes not fair criticisin, erend gentieman then orietly r to the that the death of Mr, Smith ought to be sskapiin heart by all of us a8 & Warning, Dignities and duties sank into insignificance in compari- son to the Ife to come, and duties and dignities of this life should, therefore, be so performed and s0 worn as to bring rich rewards 1n the werld to come. What was Mr, Smith’s late earthly power and greatness now if he had not made good use of his time bere on earth ? As Massition had said, when pointing to the dead body of the great Emperor of Fra, atter tthad been borne back to Paris, “There is hothing great but God 1?" THE ROBES AND EMOLUMENTS OF PLACE AND PO- SITION were nothing now to him who was gone. Life was out a vapor, that appeared for aa instant and then disappeared. Still the soul was still alive; the real life of the deceased had not departed, ani that which is and must be iorever is aud must be the end and fruit of that witch was, The herea‘ter was but the echo of the now. Every one was (eigenen? responsible to God sor all his acts, and what we might deem bad in a man with our finite sigut might be good in His sight, When aman failed to live up to the stand- ard of charity and love of the right he lived in absolute rejection of the Saviour. Our public men’s lives, he said, did ot always come up to the proper religious srandara, It had often puzzled im to answer the question why practical Teligion 18 80 rare among public men. ey were often, he said, by their irreligion an injury to public virtue. He believed it an absolute necessity in their lives ta render them fit for the discharge of their duties; for sin in a man’s heart was a rebellion in deed against God and must be atoned lor, “Without holiness ho man shail ever see God,” said the Serip- tures. The reverend gentleman then closed by earnestly praying that God may bless the widow and adopted uaughter and friends of the deceased, who were left sad and broken-hearted, and that the rich should give of their wealth to the poor, Aiter the address the choir sang the hymn which begin Jesus, lover of my soul, etme to Thy bosom fy, While the uearer waters roll, While the tempest still is hich, The funeral march of Beethoven was then given, and the casket was taken out and placed in the hearse. The procession was then again formed, and through fourteenth street to Fifth avenue to Forty-second street the solemn march was con- tinued to the Grand Central aepot, where a special train was awaiting the arrival of the corpse. The train le:t adout half-past five o'clock, To-day, at noon, at Amsterdam, on the Central road, te re- mains Wili be consigned to their last restung place. Action of the Board of Docks. The following resolutions were adopted at a meeting of the Board of Docks yesterday, all the Commissioners being present:— Whereas this Board has learned with deep regret of the death, on the 234 inst. of Hon. Henry Smith, President of the’ Board of Police’ of the elty of New York, and whereas the Commissioners governing this department desire to bear testimony of their high appreciation of the many commendable virtues of the deceased, as shown in their official communication with him; there- it ‘That, out of respect for the memory of the the regular meeting ot this Board, to'be held be aad the same is hereby postponed tili March prox., at two o'clock F. M., and that the offices o the departinent be closed to-day at twelve o'clock M., in con- formity with the resolution ado; y the Common Council, and that the Commissioners and employes ot the department attend the tuneral services. Eesolved, That the Commissioners unite with the pub- Ue in heartfelt expressions of sympathy for the allicted family of the deceased in this their’ hour ot protound sorrow and grief. Resolved. That copy of these resolutions be trans- mitted to the widow, and that they be eutered {n full on the minutes of this Board. THE RECKLESSNESS OF NORTH RIVER PILOTS. a Government Investigation Yesterday— Boats Chasing Each Other Around the River—Interesting Developments—A Personal Quarrel Between Pilots. The recklessness which prevails among pilots of ferryboats plylug on the North and East rivers, who are constantly in the habit of reiusing to answer each other’s whistles, was the cause of a government inquiry yesterday at the ofice of the United States Local Inspector of Steam Vessels, in Pine street. The inquiry was neld by Mr. John K. Mathews, Local Inspector of Boilers, and Mr. Jere- miah Simonson, Local Inspector of Hulls, and was for the purpose of taking acticn with reference to ; the collision between the Delaware, of the Pavonia ferry, and the New York, of the Desbrosses street ferry. Over twelve witnesses were examined. The exammers stated that they are determined to carry out the steamboat laws with greater vigor than eve", as open violations are daily occurring, notavly im the matter of refusing to answer whistles on board ferryboats in the North River, Mr. Stmonson gave it 48 his Opinion that there is a personal quarrel between the two pilois who are now under examination. ‘The following 18 the principal testimony received so far:— Nicholas Pertatn, pilot of ferryboat velaware, being duly sworn, 3 A lett Pavonia terry, Jersey City, jound for Chambers street. on an ebb ast two A. M., on February 16, 187 ork coming from Jersey City, Twa third of the way across the river, velow me; [ blew two whistles to go to the lett; i answered me with one ; he sheered to eastward and ran directly across the Delaware’s bow, just above Cham- bers street slip; I rung to slow, stop and back just before Rew York: at ‘tne time of collision the New York was within about 100 feet of the end of Daane street dock; at the time I blew two whistles we were about a qaarter ot a mile apart; after I blew my sicual she hauled to the eastward, Another single whistle trom the New York; after I received an answer of one whistle to my twolblew, three whistles imme- diately after, and after that the New York blew 3 slowed my boat about the usual place of going into the ‘slip, whi yards from the end of the dock: I wi ant 100 irom the end of the dock when I stopped; if the York had kept her course up the river when I blew two Whistles she would have gone clear of the Delaware: 1 saw nothing in the way to the westward to prevent her pursuing wag course; the proper course tor & Dost boand from Jerse street, 0! i the centre’ of he rivers if 1 haa stopped when 1 blew two whistles we should have avoided the collision; the Guty of & pilot when. a i 8 to Re and back; I did laware blew the three pi! © hew York Kept Ler course up the river we been neatly in our silp at the time he e our wal M. Van Keuren, deck hand The next witness was Peter an Reuven ond 3 ie, ata quarter Usaw the New t that time one- she was directly he vs New i} Pavonia ferry, who gave evidence to rect the ew York did not Guswer the Delaware's whistles, ot kept course. jneer of the Delaware, stated hal it he rd the pil eee two whistles and then soon atter three whistles, and that he did not hear any more nals until he received a bell to slow an and two belistogoback, and the engines were worked accord- | ingly ; we backed two or three turns, when the ts Cole. ded. ‘coorge 8, Punson, pilot of the ferryboat Jay Gould, ear ee Seamer ro aud. three o'clock A. Mon Fey: 16, 1874, while bound from Nev ‘ork to Pavonia TY heard ihe Delaware blow two whistles, iiam Kane, deck hand of ferryvoat Jay Gould, con- foregoing. Aine car Pindar, roman on the Delaware, corroborated ¢ statene! y nt of Nicholas Pertain, ‘WHAT THE OTHER SIDE BAS TO Say. lot of the ferryboat New York, taro ud ‘started fy with 3 hy geurrentcee eer ems ; and ‘backed the boats would have collided i Pav : com: manded the Western Union Telegraph Company's stcaumer (OF one year, ies shshiewemi = t, t jersey City. Theat the New York blow a wists Twitch the Delaware falied to answer, and this drew my attention to the boats; T noticed that the two boats were running each other round the river. A groat deal of amusement was caused by this witness, Who qualified every answe: gave with ainbiguous language, so that his evidence was less. The investigation adjourned ‘clock last evening, and the decision wil in about a weck.