The New York Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1874, Page 3

THE FREE LOVERS. ‘Origin and Purposes of the New Com- munity on Valcour Island. AMONG THE AFFINITIES. | A Herald Correspondent in Search of the New Propagandists, AN EYE TO THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR, ————_+_ Spiritualism, Sensualism and Ad- vanced Thought. Wrnoosr, Vt., September 19, 1874. Journeying on my way north and eastward in | search of the new home of the free lovers who | have chosen to bury themselvesand their detest- | able doctrines on an island in the beautifal bosom | of the bluest of American lakes, Champlain, I met ‘with a very communicative gentieman of middie age who took his seat at Saratoga. In the dark- mess of the night, with the car lamps burning dimly, and while tne train dashed on into space, I €stened to this gentleman, who furnished in a Growsy monotone some facts in regard to this new free love movement. “You see, sir,” he said, under the car lamp, “I am a Vermonter and I am proud of my State; but Jet me tell you we are a queer people in Yankee Jand. We have a great love for the dollar, and money is getting scarce in New England, particu- Jarly in tho extreme northern part of it, toward the Canadas. Cur young men have exhausted all Kinds of business, all the professions are filled up, and where there is a chance for a dollar to be made even in the free love line there are scores of our people who wili jump at the chance.” “Where are those free lovers about to estab- Mish themselves, now that they have been ex- ecrated so much in New York and Brooklyn?” I ventured to ask my communicative friend as the train neared Whitehall, preparatory to our taking boat for Burlington, on Lake Champlain. “Why, sir,” said he, ‘they are going to take Possession of one of the fairest islands on God's footstool, the Island of Valcour, in the northern part of Lake-Champlain, and there they are going to plich their tents and carry their alfinities with them. I believe that is what a be or she free lover Calis his or her friend of the other sex.” THE NECK OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN, Lake Champlain is about one hundred and twenty milesiong, and at the widest spot, between Essex Junction and Plattsburg, a historic ground, it 1s about ten mites in width. The lake has the shape of a biadder with an elongated nec! and inthe widest part before it becomes at- fenuated into the St. Johns River, south | of Montreal, it has a large number of islands, the largest of which is Grand Island, Some of these islands are no more than four or five acres in ‘puriace area, while two or three are larger than the island of New York. it is impossible to do justice to the beauty of these isles and islets set and encircled in this sapphire iniand sea, and covered with emerald carpeting. Here and there among their embowered trees may be seen white minarets and snowy Mansard roofs and cosey | little Sarmhouses, the homes of people who seem to be, so secluded are their retreats, a thousand miles from any o1 the hurlyburly of our modern civilization, And on the west, in an endless | chain, stretches the Adirondacks with their hoar emineuces bathed in darkest blue or imperial purpie. To the eastward stretches the green hills and peaks of Vermont, | Tough and jagged, and all around ts stillness and the majesty of nature. A puif of smoke froma | chimney-top owned by some hermit-like belong or the thin, spiral, wavering line from the hunter’s rifle, accompanied by a sharp, echoing report, with here and there tne flight of a flock of w.ld birds, is all that occurs to disturb the maiden solitude of mountains and the surface of the lake to which the gallant cavalier Champlain gave his undying name. A MOHAMMEDAN PARADISE. Twenty-five miles northeast of Burlington, in the State of Vermont, and about ten miles to tne southeast of Plattsburg, N. Y., lies the beautiful isiond of Valcour, called aiter an old French settler, to whom, in the days of peri wigs and silken doublets and ready ra- piers, the island then belonged. There is a a@rea of 1,000 acres on the island, 800 acres bemg the property of one Owen Shipman, an eccentric and wealthy old man, whose residence is at Winooski, @ thriving little manufacturing hamlet situated on tne banks of the Onion or Winooskt River, whose oniy care 18 to sow onions and watch ‘the mill wheels along its banks. This oid man Ship- man bas foralong time beea a resident of this vicinity, and has been aflicted for many years With tne disease of Spiritualism, which has never failed to go hand in hand with its kindred dis- ease, Iree love. Not by any means that I would have it understood that ail Spiritualists are free lovers, but that [ have rarely found a, free lover of either sex who is not, @ certain extent, a believer in Spiritual ism. Shipman owns, some two miles from | the village of Winooski, a farm, or rather & wood, of about thirty-five acres, aud has a plentl- | ful acreage of meadow lands, which are well tocked with poorly ted cattle, In addition to his reputation Jor being an ardent and life-long be- liever in Spiritualism, the old man is reported by | Bll persons in his victuity to be a miser and skin- | Mint of the hardest pattern. For some time past the leading !ree lovers of the United States, scattered irom Maine to Oregon, fimling that the large cities are becoming too hot to give furtner i s development to their doctrines, have en looking ior some remote spot where ticy night settle, ike a Mock of great-winged bats, wud there establish a central propaganda, Old ship. | Mar. soon became en rappor with these peculiar | people, aud che resuit is thatthe free love leaders and the eccentricmiser wave been in constant | hegotiation ior the 800 acres of Vuicover Island and about 100 acres in the pine woods whici ate on the ontskirts ot Winooski. The price | to be paid for lour-fiths of this island gem of Lake Champlain and the property at Winooski, which has an unfinished house to serve as the havitation O1 the iree love community, 18 pizced at $26,000, to | be raised in the Jorm ot subscriptions trom the in- dividual members of the disciples of this carnal doctrine, It was rumored and falsely reported ina | daily newspaper published in Vermont that the asland us it stood, with iarmbouse and barns and Haprovewents was worta $20,000, and that the two propertics Were to be made a@ free gilt by ola Mr Shipman as a& proof of hls earnest faith in the free ve doctrine, But as in | Many other things tu this wicked world which have | sor a tain spring and a lever the alaigaty dollar, L ascertained that the supposed gift was not, in any | sense, @ cilt at all, but merely and purely a busi- | ness ‘transaction on the part of both parties, with | the addition that there is not, as yet, any money | fubscribed toward this modern American Isiaud Of Calypso. IN SEARCH OF THE BELIEVERS. It was somewhat dificult for me to find the headquarters of these strange people who preach this miduight gospel of the Woodhull Veou i ‘was told that 1 would find believers, or some | ol them, at Plattsburg, at Burlington, at Winooski | or, Mayhaps, according to thet erratic wander | nnzs at Chicago, the commercial shtine of the Mesily pertecttonsts. It was told me that two ol the louders were a man named Professor John A. Wilcox, hailing from Omro, Wis, and another professor named Lyman, whose course has been eastward irom Chicago, in’ which city he de- Votes fis spivitual energies to the vending of tea, coffee and ‘spices, tt was hinted that tnese two powerlul lights were to be found sojourmug fu the Hills of Ve: mont and 1 was also informed that the Iree love community had not yet gathered in any numbers, nor were they, as yet, located either at Vaicour Istand or at Winooski.’ In Burlington J found quite an excitement about the free lovers’ Anvasion of their State, but the excitement was of the incredulous kind, aud it did not seem to keep the = people trom their usual pur Bit, the = chase = safier — filthy —lucre. Burlington is a pretty piace and the people who reside there pride (hewseives on being very acute, The Grst question 1 Was asked was, «Don't you think we Yankees are a tarnation toute peopie ?” And to this I answer, after scime brief experience, emphatically—Yes! There was a large herd of newspaper teu in town, who nad Deen tending sara apa snen like rucgl’ tostivals, | | gin, | surmounted the brow of @ hill, and in the fore- | ing a plentiful coat of Whitewash that looked as if | immemorial. | turned ai | Byen in bis very recent loss of the daughter who | entered into conve: | Mr. Shipman. | Stick to whittle. | the same as that upheid by Mrs, Woodhull, and he NEW YORK HERALD. MUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2], 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. and they al! seemed to think that the Vatcour community was @ ‘boon,” like the old woman Who attempted to pass into the show of Ariemus Ward free, Some ol the professional young menu in Burlington are so industrious that they occasioniy engage thenieives as charioteers, and, hke the New York hackmen With @ greenhorn, they will cheeriully permit themselves to drive strangers around th these mountains mile after mie, pre- tending that they bave lost their way, in order th t they may thereby be enabled to swindle the unfortunate stranger Who may, in his ignorance, fancy that he is enjoying hospitality. THE WINOOSKI HILLS, Having engaged a horse and buggy tn Burlington I had offered me as & volunteer driver a remark- abiy “smart”? and “cate” young man, who declared that he knew and was familiar with every pass of the Winooski Hills. The horse was a short avle- bodied one, suca as is found ail over Vermout, and we drove rapidly through the well shaded streets of Burlington, @ City of 15,000 people, built on the slope of a bil. I saw the loity marble figure of Ethan Allen, the work of Hiram Powers, a Ver- mont boy, and we swWept along through lealy lanes and by pieasant cottages and charming villas, now and then getting @ view of the biue liquid suriace of Lake Champlain, and again diverging through quieter and solicary roads as we leit the city that would have been very dusty but lor the three previous days’ severe rain. “What kind of a man ts this Shipman, who seems to be the moneyed apostle of this free love sect 1” I inquired of my guide, Who was busy in whipping the horse up a steep mill. “Well,” answered the cute young man, ‘he’s just as sharp a8 they make them. But his daughter beats him all hollow. She 1s the best business man of the two, though she is a spiritualist and has dreams, Why, they do say that she can sell more young trees and perjuce than the old man; and I do believe it, too, Sometimes when she ts talking to you and you think that she is all atten- tion to what you say, she’ll leave ail of ajump and turo right into the fleid, and the first thing you know she’s gota spade in the ground and 1s dig- away like the old boy”? “You see,” he added, “the old man has a big place, and he tein the horucultural line, and they have to go about peddling young trees to the farmers, and they bave made a heap of money in that way. Butsheis tremendous smart, | te Ul you, and a good hand at a bargain and no mistake, mister.”? For a long way the drive was through wretched pine barrens, such as might be met with every- | where ina journey through the State of North | Carolina, only that here and there there came, hnke a glimpse of the fabled Atlantes, an arc of the sapphire bue, The woods were just beginning to put on their roseate and ruddy hues that are s0 common in the Northern States in the last days 01 september and the early days of Octover. In spots between the pines, sumacs, alders and beeches a tarm house was pasted witi late apples and pears, Some of the trees almost laden down with the ruddy and clustering fruit awaiting the market. THE HOUSE OF DEATH. Presently we came in sight of a bluff, around which I saw a narrow winding road that seemed to lead to nowhere. The bluff was crowned with some tall pine trees and asthe horse rose wearily on the hill side 1saw what I fancied to be a pair of brick chimnies that peeped in an indistinct way through the trees. My guide spoke to meas the buggy turned its creaking wheels around the sloping hil and said :— “That's old Mr. Shipman’s house, and that is the home farm of the free love community, where they are goiug to organize for their settlement on Valcour Island. There’s one terrible smart wo- man among them, I tell, a Miss Augusta White. She’s pretty considerable of @ poctess and an authoress, and she’s the big gun among ’em all. I hope she’s home, for if she ls she'll talk you till you stand still.” We dreve into au elevated, open plateau which ground was a pista, buiit, old fashioned farm house, part brick, part stone and part timber,with overhauging eaves, all parts of the building bear- it had been renewed again and again from time ‘There was a little girl standing in the main door in a red cahco, a buggy in Which a thin, pinched- | faced woman sat, having in her lace that peculiarly New Englandish look, half of nervousness and of inquiry, that one sees everywhere {rom Boston to | St. Albans, Near this baggy was standing a man in a brown mixed suit of jean, whose lower face was covered with a plentiful beard, He hada far away sort of a look and in himI recognized the famous John A, Wilcox, of Wisconsin, who aspires to head this new free love community. There was a Wide space of a circular sha leared be- tore the old homestead which seemed going fast to dec: and there was @ long hedge infront of the picture which was being trimmed by a tawny- faced lad of eighteen, dressed in a smock {rock and having under his black brows a palr of dark and deeply set eyes. While I waited for events and welcome in the | as the ready tool of aiurther application of simt- buggy there came trom the rear of the old tarm house one of the strangest figures that IL ever saw. The figure came toward me and raised jts right hand on a level with bis nose in dumb salutation, Then the figure spoke and said in a homely way — “Good day. geutiemen; good day, geutlemen; won't you step out?’ ‘This was sald in a Yety sort of patois that at- tracted attention, “That's ol Mr. Shipman; he’s the boss of them all,” remarked my guide; and having got down and, announced my purpose 1 was weicome. He ; said:— “Gentlemen, Iam sorry to say that my daughter isdecad. She died yesterday of rheumatic lever; Lbelieve that was the cause of her death. My daughter Isubelia is dead, and we'll have ser- vices to-morrow.” The silent grief of the old man struck us all and we fell back, and 1 could look upon him as he stood in his siurt sleeves, a big, gaunt aud power- ful figure, with a head and lace as rugged as any TOCK'S fa mm all Vermont. His shirt collar was town over his ragged vest of white cotton, Which was fastened wiere the two lower buttons should have been with shoe laces. His trowsers were brown with age—they had once been gray in color, and his ponderous shoes were well The razged looking apostie nad a pair of , eavy lips and a stony iace and dee the whole contour of nis face and figure every line the story of a hard lute date, @s not the ace Of a milksop or ot a dreamer. had managed all his business, and whom, Lam | told, he trusted and believed in more than any man, there did not seem unto the old grim Ver- mont hermit and money getter, and lounder ol a carnal sect, 10 be any time ior tears or regrets otier tian those which were concealed trom careful scrutiny. Up here in’ tus hills, and with the northern winds whistling through the gorges, he stood like a lonely pine. The mention of the tact that I had the honor ot s, Woodhull once upon a ume a welcome from the oid man ag sor Wilcox, Who advanced and ation, “The services wil! be held over my danghter to- morrow some time by Mrs. Woods, from Burling ton, She wasa friend of my daughter, | don't know whether she a widow or not. She isa friend of Mrs. Brown, in Burlington, in the Bri Block, Maybe you know where it 1s?’ sald oid Well as Irom Pro M what religious persuasion was your daugh- ter, Miss Shipman, may I ask/?? “Oh, Isabella, She was a strong Spiritualist al- ways, just like myselt, and the services will be con- ducted by Mrs. Woods, who 13 also a Spiritualist, You are welcome to come; it is bo intrusion at all. Isabella was twenty-seven rs of when she dicd yesterday, and 1t 13 a bard loss," muttered the old nian, as be moved away THE COMMUNITY, Not wishing to disturb tie old farmer tn his grief, I spoke to Professor Wilcox, and questioned Hm in regard to the success of the proposed free love community, He seemed a little nervous, and 1 tancied, strangely enough, that he wanted a He saia:— “We are continually being misrepresented, and Twou.d like to have you write me down a list of questions which you Want answered, and I am go- ing over to dinner to Winooski and will answer at soine inture opportunity.” This suggestion being declined, | asked tim if bis tree love platiorm was answered :— “In she greater number of things I indorse the | doctrine of Mrs. Woodhall, In this community we shall allow individuality and sovereignty to every man aod woman to do as they choose in the bonds ol love.” “Well,” sald I, trying to get to the point, “ifa married couple shouid joln your free Jove commu. nity, as you do hot hesitate to callit, nave the maa and wiie, il they should become tired of each other's society or bond of matrimony, permission to leave each other and select afinities for their mutual satisfaction, and then live in common or promiscuously 2” “There can be no choice or selection without a mutual love aud coherence on the part of those who may choose (o leave the married state and cleave 10 the objects of their new love.” ‘sue Protessor continued at some length to res | peat this same kind of argument, which is not at Ml hew, and as he talked le walked up and down, | he claiming, and finally acknowledged, tthe right | Of promiscuous intercourse, providing that love taspired it, [said to him, at the same iime indi- caung@ the pinched-up jooking woman who sat in the buggy and to whom he seemed to be paying some attention— “4s that lady in the wagon your wife?" The Worthy Professor seemed very confused at this Yaga Diank question, and auswered, ner vously. No—no—that—that 18 another lady; she is not my wile.’ 1 waiked away with the suspicion in my mind that if it was not his wite it might be his “atinfly” or ‘soul love.” THE SOLID OLD MAN, Presently old Mr. shipman came from fis house, and I said to nim:—"Mr. Shipman, do you con- sider yourself one of this free love community, and will you remain a member of tt after it has ree Fe ooeny organized and located on Vaicour stand 17 “fam in be Mpathy with thetr views,” he an- swered, “and | will, probably, be a member of it, Tam a Spiritualist, and ( think there are many things to be said m iavor of iree rove, as we ‘understand 11,” Immedia’ after this tatk I was introduced to |, aray-whiskered man, hamed Professor Ly- man, Who stated that he came trom Chicago, in the ‘hope that his community was organizea, but that he found that not a dollar had been sub- scribed; and for his part he said that he thought Mr. Shipman was asking (00 uch money when he asked $26,000 lor tlhe tWo properties—the home daria aud Valeour Island, Bos aid he. “the house which was to be | Union and fatal to republican government, aud, Prepared for us is not fit,” and he pointed to a ricketty, ill-shaped looking trame building that stood ina little clump o/ trees at some distance on the blu, ‘I'he situation,’’ ne conunued, “is really aelightiul, ana mysel: and wile are to come back here in the spring, when things are to be better organized, e Want to have & community Of 100 families of about 300 persons, and we believe and are in unison with Mrs, Woodhull’s docirines in pearly all things.” Here Brother Lyman tntroduced me to his wife, @ faded-iooking jauy of about torty-five years of age, dressed in black, which bore evidence of travel, Protessor Lyman said he beiteved in com- munity and co-operation—tnat is, if & man or woman pliced $500 in the treasury of the free | Jove community ne should get is profits of the | $400, and if ne placed $1,000 in the tund he should, | in his optuion, reap the benefits and profits accru- ing from his investment of nis $1,000, Finding that the gifted poctess and authoress was not at ber home farm, I gotinto my buggy | and drove away with the determination that | ag soon as I could find conveyance to trans- | port me over the twenty-five miles of Lake Cham. | plain, | would pay a@ visit to this new Atlanus of the iree lovers. A TRIBUTE TO JOURNALISM, (From the Pittsburg Commercial,} Most readers must have noticed that the Em- Peror of Russia has conferred the decoration of the Oraer of Stanisiaus on Mr, McGahan, a corre- spondent of :he NeW YorE HERALD, who accom- panied the expedition against Kniva. This orna- ment for the coat buttontole has been lately re- celved at the office of the Russian Minister at | Washington, The HERALD commissioner may therefore be supposed to have performed some service valued by the Czar. The sympdthetic reader will, however, be sorry to learn that the Order of Stanisiaus is the slightest and most insig- nificant honor of the kind in Russia, and is be- stowed with the utmost liberality, not only by doz- ens but by thousands, on Muscovites and foreign- ers, Kirgises and Cossacks, believers and unve- lievers—in a word, on every one who will or will not take it, Sosaysacontemporary. But possibly it is moved by envy, Doubtiess the order ig @ real honer, or it would not have been be- stowed. The best of such decorations seems to sensible people at the present day a mere bauble, All admit that Mr. McGahan displayed admirable courage, fortitude and perseverance in serving his newspaper. VIGOBOUS AND INOISIVE, BUT JUST {From the Boston Post.] The New Yor« HERALD criticises the policy of Military interference at the South in a style that is vigorous and incisive, but just. It expresses wonder, not that these occasional ebulitions occur to disturb the South, but that, considering all the circumstances, such events are not more frequent, in fact the rule instead of the exception. “Judged properly, not an event has occurred in the South that would not have occurred in any Northern, State under the same circumstances.” There is not a little deserved sarcasm.in the proposition— “Prepare deliberately the events that will irritate and excite a people, and that must provoke them to violent acts it they are human; then wait till the violence you have prepared jor occurs, and send your troops to occupy their cities.” In ths connection, too, the HERALD pays its respects to | the Attorney General, who “narrowly missed the splendid reward of the Chief Justiceship, the price of nis services insuch a reconstruction of Loui- siana as has accomplished the worst purposes that the worst 01 party plunderers could possibly pro- pose to themselves. And again he lends himself lar projects,” The “reconstruction” of Louisiana and the attempted reconstruction of Arkansas are held up as a specimen of the remedies that this same officialand his backer are ready to extend to as “many other States asthe wicked designs of @ plundering clique may require.” The picture, though a strong one, 1s not exaggerated, AN EXPONENT OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT. [From the Paducah Dally Kentuckian.) Attention is called to a very remarkable edi- torial trom the New York HERALD, which appears | herewith. Such language sounds strange, coming | from a Northern newspaper, but we are all sure | that it was written by a bold and original thinker, and it is but anticipating the judgment of history. | on the south side oj Grand street, right resting on | | way to South terry, | William H. Goodwin, Regent of the | Schneider, under the leadership of KE. H. Pinckert, | departed brother, the duty would be deputed ‘The HERALD i8 not so much a leader as an ex- | ponent of public sentiment, and we would fain hope that the honest portion of the intelligent people of the Nortn will indorse the views ex- | pressed by that paper. We ask every reader of | the Kentuckian to peruse whe article carefully and | in full. A DANGEROUS POLICY. [From the Atlanta (Ga,) Daily News.1 The New YORK HERALD, With its accustomed | independence, is telling the Northern people some unpalatable truths, and of course all the radical and naif radicai newspapers are assailing tt for 0 doing. Our New York contemporary possesses Prescience enough to see that persistence in the policy of repression toward the whites in the South ig alike dangerous to the permanency of the foreseeing, it has the candor to speak plainly. PREPARED FOR EMERGENCIES, (From the Washington (VD, C.) Evening Star.) The New YORK HERALD 13 promplly on hand witha map of the “revolutionary city” of New Orieans, a) AT LAST WE HAVE A FRIEND, {From the Columbus (Miss.) Index.} We pubiish entire an article irom the New York HERALD, and rejoice to do so, Here ts a journal with brain and candor enough to see the truth and speak it, We thank Goa and gather | courage again. All justice is not dead, all ira- ternity is not crushed. Here we have a friend who extends a hand tous in our necessity, We do not care for biame if it be tempered with jus- tice. What we have done that is wrong we will | make right when we can, Speak as brethren and the South will pe quick to respond with a gen- erosity born of its fiery blood. Deal justly with us and we will listen patiently to reproof. Read this, oh readers of the Jndex, and recognize the voice of a iriend! THE HIGHEST COURT, {From the Pittsourg Despatch.) Is the New YORK HERALD a court of last resort? Rochefort wrote to it to protest against his treat- ment by the French; Bazaine appealed to it as to whether or not he had been Jairly tried, and one | of the first acts of Penn, the self-styled Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, was to attempt to justify | his recent action by a letter to the HERALD, What | distinguished recognition of the press as president | judge of the tribunal of public opinion JACKSON AND A THIRD TERM, {From the Nashville (Tean.) Union.) Senator Brownlow was interviewed by a Kuox- ville correspondent of the New YorK Heap the other day, and we publish the Jatter’s report tis morning. With regard to General Jackson's third term views the Senator Is badly at tault, No pubd- lic man has put himseif so emphatically oo record against incipient “Cwsarism” as Old Hickory, STABBING AFFRAY IN JERSEY CITY. Between twelve ana one o'clock yesterday morning @ party of men were drinking in a saloon on Montgomery street, near Hudson, Jersey City. A quarrel arose between two of the mea, Patrick McPhillips, of No. 231 Thirteenth street, Jersey City, and William Keenan, of Troy, N. ¥., when the latcer stabbed the ormer in the right side. He then attempted to escape, but was overtaken by OMecer Tarwin and lodgea in the First Precinct station house, Merhillips was aso conveyed thither, and both men were searched, No weapon was tound on Keenan except a par of small scissors, whilea penknife Was found in the pocket of McPnillips, The latter protested that the knife was not mis, and that he had no knite In his possession when the afray occurred. | It is be- Keved that Keenan shipped the knife into the | pocket of McPhillips after using it. MePhillips’ shirt was cut over the wound, but neither the coat hor vest showed the mark of a blade, Keenan was committed tor examination. PELL FROM A WRAIN. At eleven o'clock last night Thomas Patterson, aged forty, clerk in the Workhouse on Blackwell's Island, while attempting to board an outgoin, | train at the Grand Central depot, sitpped and fei, sustaining @ fracture of the leg and narrowiy escaping being run over. He Was removed by an ambuladce to believue Hoayyval- | the pallbearers closed round it and tt was moyed '-mahogapy bulkheads, is 40 feet | feeu inches, and is put together in such a manner | that she can be divided into five sections, each | plunge toto the river and swim toward 1. 0. O. F. The Funeral of Charles Vendervoort, Late Grand Master of the Odd Fel- lows—=The Grand Chaplain’s Address— Impressive Services—Over Eight Thou- sand in Line, Charies Vandervoort, Past Grand and Most Worthy Grand Master of the Odd Fellows of this Sta‘e, Was buried with the honors and rites of bis iravernity yesterday, All Saturday and from an early hour yesterday @ continuous stream of the brethren poured up and down the staircase of Odd Fellows Hall, cor- ner of Grand and Centre streets. The services in | the Corinthian Hall were of the most impressive character. Enormons crowds filled the adjacent streets, and over eight thousand members of the Oraer were marshajled in the tollowing order to await the conclusion ol the religious ceremony | and the comiag forth of the coffin. | ‘The lodges were formed vy districts, as follows :— Nos. 4, 3, 2 and 1, of Kings county, were arrayed Baxter street. Nos. 14, 13, 12, 11, 10 and 9, of New York, were on the north side of Grand street, leit resting on Cen- tre Market place, Nos, 8 and 7 were ranged on the uorthwest cor- ner of Grand aud Mulberry stree Nos. 6 and 5 on the northeast corner of the | same, No. 43 on the northwest of Grand and Mott, No, 2 on the northeast of Grand and the same. Richmond county and Westchester lodges on the right of District 2 and on the northeast corner of Ventre and Grand. The route was through Grand street and Broad- The Grand Chaplain of the United States, Rev. | New York | His discourse | and was hstened to with the | University, conducted tue services. was very eloquent, deepest attention. THE PALLBEARERS. From the Grand Lodge—Myer Stern, Past Grand Master ©, V. Clark, P. G, M. und Grand Secretary; Edward 8, Ralphs, P. G. M. and Grand Treasurer, . From the Grand Encampment—Jobn Galbraith, Grand Patriarch and P, G, M.; Royal G, Millard, P, GM, abd Vast Grand Representative; George Smith, P. G. M. and Grand Treasurer. From Mamre Encampment—Tneodore Froment, Past Chiet Patriarch; Joun Y. Savage, P. C. P.5 A.C, Wing, C. P. From | Ucean Lodge—Silas _ Batzflela, Past | Grand; Charies Hodman, P. G.; Robert Watch, P. G. The Grand Marshal was Peter H’ Jobes, with special aids George H. Brickweil and Henry b. Starr, assisted by the District Deputies. The arrangements were admirable, At least hall an hour beiore the services ended the head of the column was put in motion, and each district lodge or encampment tel! tn without contusion, SIX abreast. ‘The police of the Fourieenth precinct, With @ section of ten men from the Sixth, all under Captain Clinchy, were present by way of preserving order. ‘Ihe cross and uptown cars were stopped on either side of the moving mass, TUE LATE GRAND MASTER, arrayed in the regalia of his high station, reposed | in a@ handsome casket, covered with floral em- | blems. Ocean Lodge had sens a broken column of | tuberoses, District Deputy Ashe @ wreath, Tomp- | kins Lodge a crown, and there were numbers of other simiar tributes, A number of ladies were present and a remarkable veieran, Brother Patte! Son, eighty-seven years of age, the oldest member ot the Order in thé country, The family entered shortly before one o'clock, They are unused to grief, a8 this 13 said to have been the first sickness even in the family since the deceased gentieman’s marriage. A SOLEMN DIRGE preluded the prayers given most effectively by the German Odd Fellows’ Saengerbund, President J. Junior Past Grand Master St. John ther statea that owing to the immense assemblage, and it being impossible for all to perform the last cere- mony of throwing @ sorig Into the grave of the | to the Grand officers and the Lodge and Encamp- ment, Mamre and Ocean, to which the deceased more immediately betonged, the guard of honor irom Ocean Lodge consisted of Jasper Keen, William B, Doneley, William More, J. Carmody and R. t'widy. THE GRAND CHAPLAIN’S ADDRESS, Rev. Regent Gvodwin said:—We are assembled to render the las¢ sad ofices to our departed | brother, Man, in the innocence of infancy or in the pyide of middle life, is no more exempt than in | decrepit age from the final late o: all, In every beautliul and sublime Jeature in each page of Nature the hand of the Creator attests the uncer- tainty ot Itte and the certainty of death, Day after day we are called trom the house of joy to vhe house of mourning. He who gives vigor of body oittimes recalls that body with litte warn- ing. The living of to-day are the dead of to-mor- row. We appear and disappear, as spray meets spray and fades away tp troubled waters, Let us improve thiy hour and be prepared for the great | Change that comes most surely to ail. LET US PRAY. The venerable preacher prayed fervently that. the Almighty wouid not turn from tue supplica- tions of the stricken brethren then present. He | prayed that they might be so imbued with a sense | of their helpiessness, unwortuiness and utter de- pendence on the Great Father, that they s.ould meditate on the inevitableness of death and the uncertainty of lite. Gathered to the sepulture of the greatest man among them, called suddenly to a comparativety early grave. (Mr. Vaudevoort was only fity-four, and had been but a few weeks Grand Master.) He implored the Divine biessing | upon the stricken 1amuy and the Order; that tue | former might be comforted and the latter built up Im wisdom and love. On the platiorm, supporting the Grand Chaplain, | were Past Grand’ Masters Wilson Smail, George Smith, Ed. S. Ralpns, St. John; Grand Secretary, | Charles V. Clarke; Grand Marshal, Peter Joves; | Past Grand District Deputy, Ashe; Grand Warden, | Jonn Van Nort; G. P. C. Patriarch, Pruden, } | j | | THE SPRIG OF MAMRE was then deposited in solemn silence by the Grand officers, circling slowly round tne cofMiu, and after them by the brothers of Ocean Lodge | and Mamre Encampment, as representatives of the masses outside. ‘The’ Grand Chaplain mean- while uttered @ solemn sentence or (wo, as is the | custom in Episcopal churches, during the collec- | tion ot the offertory. Tne family bade their last | Jarewell, the rooms cleared, the coMn was closed, down stairs to the hearse, This, drawn by four white horses, stood at the door, guarded by the Grand oficers and the guard of honor, while stiil streamed the long procession of Odd’ Fellows, in | black with white gloves, toward Broadway, Despite the unpropitions weather, it was one | of the largest funerals ever seen in New York, and aroused the keenest attention as it passed cown Broadway. STANLEY'S BOAT—THE LIVINGSTONE, | (From the Irish Times (Dublin), September 9.) At Teddington, near London, yesterday, a boat, forty 1eet in length, built from the desiga of Mr, | Hi. M. Stanley, the discoverer of Livingstone, and intended to accompany that gentieman’s ex- pedition to Central Airica, was launched, It can be divided into five. sections, weighing 120 pounds each, and a section can be carried. alter the lash- jon of an Indian palanquin, by two men, {From the Liverpool Courier, September 10.) From the yard of Mr, Messenger, of Teddington, was launched, on Tuesday asternoon, the buat de- signed by Mr. H, M, Stanley for the expedition to Central Africa, of wnich he ts the leader, This crait possesses some remarkable features of construc~ Uon to meet the necessity of lightness, strength aud small draught of water, combined with great carrying power. She ts outlt of cedar wood, with ‘om stem to | stern, With 6 feet beam, and depth amidships of 2 | section weighing only 120 Ibs., and being provided with carrying poles, so that if can be carried by two men in the style of an Indian palanquin. Though so light the boat will carry about filty per- sons, or between six and seven tons burden, wotle drawing only one foot of water when fully loaded. She is itted with @ double vank of tourteen oars, seven ® side, and will carry two large sails. Mr. Stanley has expressed himself well pleased with the way im which his design bas been carried out, and a short trial trip on the river proved thor- oughly satisiactory, With peculiar appropriate- ness to the object of his mission tle boat was christened Livingstone, FATAL CASUALTY ON THE HUDSON. Between five and six o'clock yesterday morning, while the schooner Vesper was lying at anchor of the iron docks near the trestie works of the Dela+ ware, Lackawanna and Western Ratlroad, sho | sprung a leak andin @ short time went to the bottom. On board of her at the time were Cap- tain Parker, his son and a deck band. They were roused by the rushing of the water, but had no time to Make any other effort for safety than to he dock. The Captain and the deck hand succeeded in Teaching the shore safelp, but the Captain's son, Charles W, Parker, @ lad aged thirteen years, Was drowned, The vody was found at ten o’ciock and taken to the office of.Coroner Parsiow. The vessel had been heavily laden with pig iron and ‘was about to start for Maine, where her owner ree sides. The Coroner Will hold an investigation into the melancholy occurrence, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The United States steamer Lancaster, the flag- ship of the South American squadron, Rear Admi- rai W. ©. Le Roy, and the Monongatela, Captain J. §. Thornton, commanding, were at Kio Janeiro on | August 26, The Health ol the fleet was good, | ‘the Wasp was at Montevideo on the 17th of August, 4 | stanza:— | divided as the great Christian world 1s in various | | ter, all ditference vanishes, as you recede from the spiritual conception of | guilt, never give up | signific 3 BEECHER’S SERMON, | Ran ORES. © | Farewell Discourse of the Plymouth | Pastor to His Mountain Audience. | — THE SEARCH FOR IDEAL MANHOOD. Who Shall Ee Greatest in the) Kingdom of Heaven? A ere Bho WHAT CONSTITUT CONVE IN. Ss | mato a farmer? TWIN MouNTAIN IIouse, N. H., Sept. 20, 1874, This mornivg Mr. Beecher deitvered the fitta and | last of the present series of his mountain ser- mons. The lateness of the season and the un- pleasant weather which bas prevailed in the | mountains during the last few days have had the | effect to greatly lessen the number of guests at the | Various hotels in this vicinity. The Twin Moun- | tain, however, being a popular resort for persons | from all parts of the country afflicted with hay | fever, 1s yet well filled. If, therefore, only the 1n- | mates of the house had assembied, Mr. Beecher | would have had a good audience, But although the | cars did not run ason previous Sundays enough | people came from the neighboring public houses | and villages to fill the great parlor, the desire to | hear the eminent preacher continuing to the last | on the part of those within the reach of this place. | THE SERVICES, | which were of an unusually interesting character, | commenced with the singing of the 776th hymn of | the Plymouth Collection, the words being “lined | out” by Mr. Beecher, alter what he termed the | “good old fashion," The following 18 the first Our pathway oft is wet with tears, Our sky with ¢ da o’ercast, And worldly cares and worldly fears Go with us to the last, Then followed the prayer before the sermon, | which was long and earnest, and in which the soul | of the petitioner was poured out in thanksgiving and praise to God for innumerable mercies in the past and in supplication for renewed and multt- plied blessings in the future. This prayer being concluded the 733d hymn, beginning, From every stormy wind that blows, From every swelling tide of woes, ‘there {s a Calm, a sure retreat, ‘Tis found beneath the mercy seat, was sung a INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. Mr. Beecher prefaced his sermon with these words :—'During the few weeks that I have been here and have had the services of the Sabbath morn- ings under my charge, I have felt that both cour- vesy and good feeling required that, as far as possible, I should avoid all discussion aml expo- sition that would raise questions of difference, | into separate | ways, internally and externally, bands. {t seems to me thas the same | courtesy should be employed when one | stands in a promisclous multitude in o community that 1s employed fm the intercourse of | families. There are certain elements that are | cifferent in every neighborhood between one fam- | lly and another, such that politeness requires | that they should not interfere with each other's living, Every one is entitled to nis own liberty, | } and there is a propriety in every other one re- | specting that liberty, Ihave undertaken, there- | fore, on the Sabbath mornings when I have spoken to you—and [ shall this morning do the same—to discuss these elements, which were Spiritually fundamental, and whicu belonged to | all Christian sects in common; for when you touch a question of true Christian experience, and when you deal with a great subject of charac. | It will be found that manhood to the instruments by which men are educated differences multiply and disputes in- | crease, but that as you go from the visible toward the Invisible and discuss the interior life of Ch tians all differences gradually cease and that men come into a perfect unity. If you could bring the | may hever meet me aean, are, “Hope in Go whole great diverse brotherhood of Christians, under various names, together into a scene where | all were iiited to a holy enthusiasm in admiration | oi some great and noble deed or aspiration, you | would find that they would take nold of hands together ana that there would be no separation. The essential element of Christianity reunites men, its instruments and external institutions divide them; therefore he who speaks from the } interior to the exterior of Christian experience | usually speaks in accordance with the vest judg- ments and the best aspirations of all Christians of every sect. THR SERMON, In the eighteenth chapter oi Matthew and the | opening verse are the lollowing words :— At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus saying, | Who is the greatest in the kingdom ot heaven ? | ‘That is very much, if you ghouid put it in modern | phrase, astfone should say, What do you consider as the Most eminent state of Christian experience What 1s your conception of the most periect man- hood? Jesus cailed a little euild unto Him and set him in the midst of them and said:— | Verily I say unto you, exceot ye be converted and be- | come As little children, ye shall not euter incu the king: dom of heaven, H Let alone who is greatest there you shall not | even get in unless you become as little cutidren, Whosoever, theretore, shal! humble himselt as this little child, ‘the same is greatest in the kingdom of | heaven. | We are to recollect that our Master stood at a | time of the World when, im various nations, the ambition of manhood had been, or was, very | stron ‘the Chaldean and tne Assyrian had their conception Of What Was the most becoming ina | man; the Greek had his ideal manhood; th Roman had very distinctly belore his mind that | whicn constituted the highest spectacle of man- | hood; the Jews, who were hot one whit benind them, had a_ clear conception | of what was necessary to perfect —_uo- | ble manhood and our Master fell im with | that universal disposition of the best men, | in their better moods, to grow to and attain the i ideal periection, that when they came to ask him | Who ig the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? | He took a utue | What was the | What 1s the bighest manhood? child and set him in their midst, tion oO} thaty Weil, he was surrounded by | conceited men, Whose ideal was so easily reached | that there were tens of thousands in Jerusalem | who had reached it, who had gone, as they , thought, as far as human nature could go, and | whose thought was what lack I yet? That was tue spirit of the great mass of the best Jews, Their standard was law, and they were puffed up. They had read the ‘law of Moses and of the prophets. Their teachers had inspired them with the jeeling tbat knowledge consisted in @ minute rendering of this exterior Mosatc | law, and they were very familar = with | taat; they therefore felt that there was scarcely anybody who could teach them, and they were | very proud and excessively conceited, Our Mas- | ter Stood tn tue midst of scribes, doctors and emi- nent Jewish saints, and tueir feeling was, “We are | Teady to patronize you, We recognize that you are anable man; youare & prophet, you are one of | us, aud we will receive you tnto our company | you wil only disclose an esprit du corps.’ In their own estimation they were ali ortuodox; | ney Were ail saints. But Christ said to them, | “{C you Wish to be eminent in the kingdom of | heaven you must empty yourselves all out of your- Se,Ves aud Start over again, and you must be like | | bas begun to try, | closed as follows | discontented with Weir suortcoming: | and how many are besotted, | spall never keeps time, what was it mado for? It was made, like all clocks, 0 keep time, That is what it set out to do, though the man who made it may have thought only of selling it. Yet the construce tive idea, back of the commercial one, was that it should register time, That being the root of the matter for which it was made tt ts valuable in proportion as it does that, and worthless 0 proportion as it falls sbort of it; 80 Re fect manhood jis the thing toward which the development of all man's faculties should tend, That which constitutes the conception of | man is the full discixgure im harmony of ail his | power of mind, of soul, of spiritual tunction—so that he obeys all material, social, intellectual, moral and spiritual laws, Now, what 1s it to enter Into the kingdom of heaven? Whoever undertakes to be a man according to the instruction of the Word of God and undertakes to use himself 80 a8 to make himseif better and so as to grow more and more manly, has entered into tue kingdom of heaven, Entering the kingiom of heaven, See, | ls entering a Coristian life—tt 1s being better ani Meaning to be betier as a systematic purpose of Mle, What 18 being converted? Why it t# begin- Ding to do this, What is it tobe a farmer? It ts | occupying @ man’s time in the cultivation of the soil, What is it tobe converted trom a minister It 18 to stop preacuing and com- mence working on alarm. When a man devotes himself to work on ajarm he isa farmer, whether he is successiul or not What is it for @ man to be converted trom a liar toa man of ver~ acity? 11s to ‘orm the purpose and to {uifil it, as far as possible, of telling the truth. Tne man who bas been accustomed to lying ali his life can easily act on the principle of aiways telling the truth, bub he has begun to Se a trutuial man the moment he Now, the Moment a man takes ina CONCEPTION OF HIS RELATIONS to Gon, | of his own eternal existence and of the change by which, by and by, he 1s to drop this mortal body and to be associated with the general assembiy and chureh o! the frst born and the spirits of just men made perfect in the other Itle; the moment a@ man takes in the scope of his OWn being, here aud hereaiver, and says, “1 am determined to vegin and live a8 aman should who has such duties in this life and such adestiny in the ille to come,” that moment he has ehtered the kingdom of heaven. At this polut we are stopped by misconceptions widespread, Men say, ‘l under- stana by conversion a great change wrought in @ man by whict he passes from veath to life, go that whereas yesterday le Was a great sinner, to-day he is lifted into a ive of purity. This impression is enhanced because it has a root of truta in it; but conversion is not a sudden, it is a gradui change. [f a man, having surveyed bis lile, is dis- satished, and “will, by the grace of God, from this time forth, undertake to live a better and a higher life,” that man is converted, He has started im the rigut way, but every aay of his life he will find that it 1s one thing to resoive and an- other thing to execute, and tnat in entering upon a Christian ie ne enters nov upou a lie which, by the grace of God, tas been smoothed and cleared, so that he wil’ roll like a ball down bill, easily al the tine, but upon an education the most compretiensive and the most dificult that @ man can conceive ol. Christ says to men, “Would you be saved’ Well, then, come to Me and let Me teach you.” Tnatis the import of the command, “Follow me.) When a man 18 con verted—that is to say, when he has had @ olear revelation o1 wis sin and revolts from tt and turns his back On it and Was @ more or less vivid con- ception of the higher Christian iiie, and sets bis face toward that hie and says, “1 believe 1 am converted and | believe [have entered the king- dom of heaven,” tuen he 13 like a little eluld. Many persous, when they have gone trough conviction and wrestled with the Prince of Dark- ness and passed sieepless nights and Jost their appetite and gone trough great struggles and ‘Luen been hited into a state O1 Wonderiui ecstas} rinse} and joy, ate supposed to huve pveea cleaned, scoured out, It is not do not ridicuie these dramatic experie: Ismile at them wien they are misinterpr as to be miscttevous, [tis a misaporel suppose that men must go through suc ences, Oltentimes persons are so organized and so educated that te transition trom a worldly ile to the Me of a Christian is well mich unper- eptibie so lar as their eXtermal conduct ts con- cerned, THE BEGINNINGS OF CONVERSION may be immediate, and there ts no prescribed moue by Which It shall cake place. ‘The erroneous notions with which persons enter the Church were also explainea and commented upon at length. ‘ihe whoie subject of the sermon Was discussed with a power und richness of expression and with a variety and vivid- ness of filustration of which ‘no adequate ldea canbe given within the mits ol a briet reporc like tuls, Alter the exposition vhe and the appil jon of it which tolowed, preacher, Wio commanded the ol lis hearers from the beginning to his very long, bai iutensely interesting, discourse, THE FAREWELL REMARKS, Dearly beloved, we shali not meet again tn the flesh; we go dur several ways. May the dear love of Cnrist go wiih you all, You are peloved of Christ. My Father is your Father, My wope for heaven 1s your nope Jor heavy nsickbess, mn dis. COULAYEMENE OF CisAPPOLNtMeNts, IN sins oF great hope i Gow. There 1s no other mend lke Mim. Noovdy loves | you as He = aoes, You do not know how to love and nourish your children with the tenderness and Kindness wit waica God loves and bourisnes you. You are rich as long as | you nave God; you are poor without him. | Wherever you may #0, my last words to you, who | your hope, your sulvaiion is im Hira. Hope in | Goa.” THE CONCLUDING PRAYER was as follows :— Thou best aud most beloved in heaven, Thow Father of all goodness and God of all grace and consolation, breathe upon tue souls in tas pres- ence to make thei discoutented with Che nselves, » With their tinperiections, With ail that IS Wroug. Breathe hope ito their hearts, that they may every one feel, in spite of all ihe past and its besetmeats, that there 1s for them a bet- ter lie and a nobler maanood; breathe a spirit Of tenderness into ali that they may live together aflanced i novier friendsmp. We pray tor the biessing of Almighty God upon every soul, uponall those that are dear to cach one OF Us, Upon all our housenolds and ail the consecrated hopes therein; | we pray lor our beloved land and jor all the nae tions of the eartl. O Lord, tow long? Behold the roaring imsery of tue world that groans and travails in pain; behold the fightings, the blooashed, tue terrible disasters and the speechiess suiferings, behold around the glove how few know Thee How jong, 0 Lora, how long? Bring in the bright day when no man shall need to say to tis neignbor, “Know thou the Lord,” but When every man snail Know Him trom. the greatest to the lowest. Cut short the time, Make haste, Thou that dwellest in the intinituge of strength, and bring to pass thac latter day giory when the wheaven and the new earth come, on W dwelleth mghteousness, A CHARITABLE COLLECT Before the singing of the Doxology, with which the exercises closed, a collection was taken up to relieve trom the pressure of debt and the dangers o: a mortgage the home of a widow who has been deprived of her earthly support and strengtn within & comparatively recent period. Mr. Beecher to Speak Before New Eng land Agricultural Societies=The Dee mands on His Atiention. TWIN Movnrats Hovss, N. H., Sept. 20, 1874, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, upon the invitation of Mr. Fairbanks and others, of St. Johnsbury, Vt, 1s to speak in that place on Luesday next before the County Agricultural Soctety. He 1s also to speak at Plymouth, N. H., on Wednesday, before a similar organization. Governor of Manchester, N, f large committee, pressed upon Mr. b vitation to deliver the address betore the State Agricuitural Society of New Hampsiire on the 1st oj October, but tts and a score ot other invitations: he has felt obliged to decline, A GIFT TO FREE CUBA. Carlos De Varona’s Donation of $20,000 to the Patriots—Termination of the Faction Fight in New York. The agents in this city of the Republic of Cuba are engaged at the present moment1 telegraphic | communication with Mr, Carlos de Varona, a dis tinguished Cuban patriot, of Paris, Who has piaced at the disposition of the Cubans here the sum of $20,000, for the purpose oO. carrying on the war against Spai The sole con- {dition of the gift is that the money shall be employed tn sending help to the Cuban alittle child’? Now, wracis it tn ctidhood that | army within a reasonabie time. As’ announced ta becomes the model conception of manhood ? Lt 16 ; v1 the universal hnpetus and bapinde to learn, it | te columns of the KERALD previously, owing to is notasense of ignoravce so muchas tt ts an | the unfortunate faction dght which has existed appetite for knowledge. The whole nature of a chid’s mid ts, “Whatis that? ana the child sits artiessly aud receives wat every one tells » Ibis hungry for knowledge, aud knowledge pours into it ta ceaseless streams. But the Phar- isces felt as though they were @ bay and the whole Atiantic Ocean sprung its Udes into it and filled tt full 80 that nO more could be got intott, The*! Saviour said to them, ‘There are none among you | that know anything about the Kingdom of God in > your sel!-satisied state. Uniess you become as little children and are consctous that you are pro- foundly ignorant aud have a different conception of what manhood means and become my echolars and let me teach you the first elements of nobie living, you shali not see the Kingdom of heaven.” THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN 1s & phrase which was better understood tn an Oriental monarchy than tn our democratic gov- ernment. We baye to form @ very artifictal conception of tt. The Apostic Pani defines it as | being not meat and drink, bat righteousness and peace and joy im the Holy Ghost. When you put these elements together and bring them to our way of thinking and interpret them In our own familiar mauner the Kingdom of heaven 13 simply arealization of manhood in the highest form. it begins on earth and terminates im the world to come. He is in the Kingdom of heaven who bas begun to develop in himself that purpose, those quaiities and that line of conduct which are lead. ing him toward the fail ideal of what periect manhood which God meant when he set up me: Take & Clock, like that in the aMfce bere, ani which among the Cubaas here for some time, a difficulty sprung up as to wuo should be tne holder of the money tn question, and half & dozen interviews took place on the subject between the would-be donor, Mr. Varona, and Messrs, Aluama, Aquilera, the Vice President of tne Repub lc of Cuba, now in this city; Cisneros, and Echevarra—but no amicable arraagement could be arrived at—and finally Varona re- turned to Paris, alter remaining here for a Month, in disgust at the want of true patriotism ol the Cubans, who allowed a@ $20,000 gtit for “Ouba Libre’ to go begging. After ne nad gone regret at their conduct seems to have taken pos- session of the minds of the New York Cuban patriots for ignoring the best inter- ests of the noble band of their brethren fignting for liberty and a free country, and wao have not received any belp from the United Seates for the last fifteen months. In this state of things Vice President Aqullera was au thorized to renew communication vy telegrapn with Mr. Varona, at Paris, aad it 1s believed thag within a day or two a fusion will be arrived at here and the money paid over on telegrapluc order from Paris, ‘The Peruvian government proposes, tt Is stated here, donatiag $200,000 toward vringing about the independence o/ Cuba, and a conference of Lhe South American Republics ts expected to take place at Lima ob the suaieet