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LUNA. Street Scenes During the Total Eclipse. THE HERALD’S PREDICTIONS FULFILLED. Letter from Professor H. M. Parkhurst. WHAT A SCIENTIFIC MAN SAW The Herald Complimented by Scientific Observers, WHAT ‘THE MAN IN THE MOON . SAYS, The scene yesterday morning on some of the streets beggars description. It would have as- tounded a countryman and induced him to be- lMeve that a riot was apout to break out, Every- body that could stand the loss of sleep and the ex- Posure to the early morning air was out to get a glimpse at the eclipse. Housetops were filled by mep, women and children. On some of the build- ings the silks and satins of ladies rustied against the calicoes of servant girls; but for the time caste was forgotten; all were busily intent on one ob- Ject—the great eclipse. For some prominent places large sums were paid by those who doubted that the sidewalk would afford them as perfect a view of the strange sight, From Central Park to the Battery the streets were crowded with an eager throng, anxious to behold a phenomenon they had never witnessed nefore and certainly never will again, for the same science that discov - ered the eclipse of October 25, 1874, tells us that another total one will not occur ‘gain for one thousand years. To those who had time to stop and listen to some of the conversa- tion indulged in by the crowds a feast of fun if not of reason was had. There were those who be- Hevea the thing, as they expressed it, to be a vile hoax gotten up to sell newspapers, and at the same time to sell the public; but for once these wiseacres were at fault, The eclipse was a gen- uine success, and but for a cloudy sky and a foggy atmosphere would have been a greater one. Renry M. Parkhurst’s Opinion. To THB EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The “probabilities” of sky sufficiently clear to afford @ satisfactory observation of the total eclipse of the moon last night were so slight that it was useless to attempt to observe the effect of the penumbra, which is scarcely perceptible in the absence of atmospneric disturbance, THE FIRST VISIBLE EFFECT Must have been the encroachment of the shadow upon the moon’s limb. I had seen a statement, apparently on the authority of Professor New- comb. of the National Opservatory at Wasnington, to the effect that the eclipse would begin ‘‘at twenty-one minutes past twelve SUNDAY MORNING.” My surprise that I should have made such a blun- Ger as to announce it in the HERALD fora time nearly half an hour later, after a very brief exam- imation, disappeared. A glance at the Nautical Almanac revealed the cause of the discrepancy, vindicated my prediction, and, without any great effort of imagination, also vindicates Professor Newcomb, An interviewer calls upon the astron- omer and asks, ‘When will the eclipse begin ?” The Professor opens the NAUTICAL ALMANAO Bt page 415, and shows him thatthe moon will enter the shadow at “12h. 83.7m, Wasbington mean time,” ‘Is it the same in New York ?” Oh, o;” says the Professor, “you must apply the correction for east longitude.” “How much?’ asks the reporter. Prolessor Newcomb obligingly turns to page 488 and shows him for New York, “— Oh, 12m. 15.478 ;”’ and having other employments at the moment besides calculating eclipses, leaves the reporter to perform an operation, too com- mon and too simple in an observatory to appear torequire explanation. ‘That dash means minus,” says the reporter to himself, for his mathematical @ducation has not been entirely overlooked, “and minus means to subtract.” So he forthwith sub- tracts twelve minutes from each of the times pre- ficted inthe almanac and telegraphs it to New York. But unfortunately he either was not aware of the fact, or overiooked it, that the correction for longitude is itself subtractive, so that he should have added instead of subtracting the twelve minutes. The explanation of the blunder, one which Professor Newcomb never could have made, was so evident that I unhesitatingly ses my alarm for half-past twelve o'clock. At 12h. 35m. flying clouds were rapidly passing across the disk of the moon, but its rugged sur- face could be well seen through a good opera glass. ‘Tycho, visible to the leit in the photographs, fig. 1 and fig. 6, appeared as usual at full moon, a round crater fifty-four miles in diameter and three miles deep, with rays, a9 if of lava, extending in all dl- rections, giving it the appearance of the end of an orange. It is remarkable that these rays are nearly or quite invisible excepting very nearly at the full moon, Copernicus, a somewhat similar Grater, visible in the PHOTOGRAPHS, FIG. 1, FIG. 5 AND FIG. 6, above the centre, also was attended by its long but less conspicuous rays, Mare Crisium and Mare Serenitatis, large piains, formerly supposed to be seas, were easily seen as dark spots, the former to the right, near the edge of the disk, and the latter, not far distant, but farther from the edge and above it, These can be dimly seen upon FIG. 1, FIG. 2 AND FIG. 6. carefully scrutinized the left hand upper edge, ‘where the indentation appears in fig, 1, and there ‘Was as yet no sign of the shadow. Idid not expect to be able to improve upon the Nautical Almanac time, and carelessly allowed my preparations ior protecting the object glass of my telescope from the mist to delay me until 12h, 48m, The eclipse had then commenced; but the haze had within these thirteen minutes so cuvered the surface of the moon that neither with the opera giass, the finder (con- sisting of a common sea spygiass), nor with the tel- escope (eight feet in length, and with an eyepiece magnifying fifty times) could a singie spot be seen. The appearance of the moon in the telescope is very exactly represented by the PHOTOGRAPH, FIG. 1. But with the finder, and especially with the opera giass, while the central portion of the moon could ‘be much more easily seen, the limb of the moon appeared to terminate earlier, making the eclipse @ppear more advanced than it really was. I con- tinued to observe the moon alternately with the telescope and with the opera glass, with the same difference in the result, At 1h. 28m. its appearance ip the telescope closely resembled the PHOTOGRAPH, FIG. 2 At this time I again caught a glimpse of the Mare Crisium, which, with a part of the neighbor- ing large dark plains, could be seen at intervais, until at 1b. 50m. the shadow had so advanced and they"had become so dim that they could no longer be seen. Having set a pair of dividers to the radius of the moon, in the diagram in the HeRALD of Thursday, I made frequent comparisons of the ap- parent with the predicted phase, finding in every case that while the position of the observed part Of the moon corresponded with the diagrams the earth’s shadow appeared somewhat larger than predicted, although the difference was far less, on making a careful estimate of tne amount of the Mmb remaining visible in the telescope, than on comparing with the opera glass. That this was owing neitner to an error in the size of the shadow Dor to a material error 50 the Nagtical Almanac NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1874.—-TRIPLE SHEET. THE TOTAL L REE (a - UNAR ECLIPSE. ne Six Photographs of the Different Phases of the Phenomenon of Sunday Morning. 3:60 A. M. 2:40 A. M. * inky wet Reg Ferg Om a) z 3 THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. Result of the Contests for Members off the Councils General. Political Tacties of the Leaders off the Shady Party. IS THIERS THE COMING MANA 2A.M. Prediction was plainly evident at the moment When the eclipse became total. As the clock struck two the appearance was as Tepresented in the PHOTOGRAPH, FIG. 3. The bright streak gradually grew shorter, some- times disappearing entirely for nearly half a min- ute, until, at 20. 03m., it finally disappeared and the sky was @ perfect blank. The predicted time of disappearance was one minute later; but as at Rutherford’s observatory the disappearance was also noted at 2h. 03m., It is probable that the total- ity commenced a fraction of a minute earlier than predicted in the Navtical Almanac, Expecting the haze to increase in my locality as the morning approached Idid not wait for the moon to reappear. I consequently failed to make the astounding astronomical discovery depicted in the PHOTOGRAPH. FIG. 5. namely, that the moon itself has a satellite 400 miles in diameter, about as large as @ large as- teroid, which was making its transit across the Jace of 1%8 primary at 3h.16m. I am afraid, however, that like Lescarbault’s intra-Mercurial Planet, seen only by himself upon the sun’s disk, this new discovery will remain a long time unverified, Of course, no one will ever suspect, especially after examining the beautifully engraved series of diagrams contained in the HERALD of Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, that this new satellite of the second order— As fleas have lesser fieas to bite ’em, And go proceed ad injinitum, the first discovery of the kind in the history of astronomical research—could have been created by an uccident of the printer. During my observations of the moon this morn- ing I was forcibly reminded of an accidental omis- sion in my letter published in the HERALD OF SATURDAY, LT omitted to mention, in speaking of the effect of the earth’s atmosphere, that this is the cause of the dimness, or want of definition of the edge of the earth’s shadow seen upon the moon. Witha clear sky this indistinctness is not so great as to prevent observing witha considerable degree of accuracy the times when the shadow passes over certain points upon the moon’s surface; but in this instance, very shortly alter the commence- ment of the eclipse, there were moments when, in the telescope, the boundary line appeared to extend inward almost to the opposite limb. It may not be unworthy of mention that at the time of the total eclipse the planet Neptune was oniy about one degree, or twice the moon’s diame- ter, southward from the moon’s limb; so that, had the sky been clear, we might have seen, aimost without moving the telescope, the nearest and the most distant members of the solar system. HENRY M. PARKHURST. New Yorg, Oct. 25, 1874, Mr. D. C. Chapman’s Compliments. New York, Oct. 25, 1874, To THE EDIToR OF THE H&RALD:— I read carefully and with great interest your account of the moon eclipse of October 25, 1874, and permit me to say that I was surprised at the accuracy with which the article was pre- pared, 1 regret that as the photographs were as perfect when they leit the hands of Mr. L. M. Rutherford as it was possible to make them, that no mention of bis name was made in your paper. 1am sorry not to nave been able to have furnished your representative with any spectroscopic observation, owing to the wa- tery atmosphere; but, as 1 have stated above, your account was as complete and correct as it was possible to obtaln under existing circumstances. Respectfully, D. OC. QHAPMAN, The Moon's Eclipse as Seen on the Pa- cific Coast. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25, 1874, ‘The eclipse of the moon last night was visible through the most of the phases, but the dense fog obscured that of the totality. Two hours aftera very heavy rain commenced and still continues. The Eclipse in Canada. TORONTO, Ont., Oct. 25, 1874, The eclipse of the moon last night was not viewed to advantage here, cloads intervening after the total eclipse commenced, and not open- ing until after it had terminated, A beautiful yellow halo surrounded the moon after the first contact with the penumbra whenever the clouds came across its circumference. The sky was all the time thickly covered with clouds of the kind known as “cirrus.” INTERVIEWING THE MAN IN THE MOON, The remark is @ continual memorial of my early days, It keeps vivid in my mind and is enhancea by my monotonous experiences in youth and man- hood up to the present time, It was dinned into my years by continual repetition when I was an infant in my mother’s arms, and even then I under- stood the meaning of the phrase, though not the exact significance of its individual words, “Whata ‘strange child! What wild, big eyes!” And after- ward I can remember the same enraptured ,adies who thus commented on me privately, when my mother was not about, whispered of water on the brain, and prophesied ior me a quick transit from this world to the spirit land. And, really, 1 have been assured by the doctor who cared for me in my infantile days, now a hale old man, that I was a diMcult subject to rear. He grumMy flatters me now with “But you weren’t a puling child; simply a ‘queer un’; and @ ‘queer un’ you are yet.” And then he gers angry for a time, saying, “Why don’t you get out of moping, and spirit-seeing? Go into some rough, burly business, and leave your books and your star-gazing.” To the latter part of his speech I say meekly, “I cannot;” and then 1 leave him, for thougn I love him I can- not bear the force of his rongh-spoken worldly wisdom. Thus, as I have indicated, \'Lave always been a Spiritualist. Iwas born one. [tis Rot possible for me to prove to others that there Gre spirits, for my intercourse with them has not been held on earth, amid the banging of banjo heads or in a gasping stroggie to relieve myself from hempen bonds, I cannot bring ether to my body's home and materialize it, or, as | am Yet @ bachelor,I would do so and keep the materialization In the place of @ wife born after the manner of real human beings, Yes 1 am able "round and rosy. to dematerialize myself, and [have possessed the power since my birth. Before being able to talk with men and women spirits were my familiars, and my essence sported with them in the air while my body lay in the cradle, These excursions into the unknown were gradu- ally extended, as I was carefully guided by a familiar, and I grew to know all space and its in- habitants, WhenI became a manI took up the profession of journalism, Therein | had time and scope to enjoy my facuities to the full; and in that profession I acquired an inquisitiveness, a desire for information, that tinctured my inmost spirit. Therefore, on my excursions into the space which envelops the planets, Tsought to learn everything, to know the beings that inhabit the planets as well as the frisky sprites Wno roam ceaselessly, I would write a book to tell alll know, but that I remember An- drew Jackson Davis’ treatment by the world. He has but a part of my knowledge, How then would an “ower true tale” from me be treated? “Lu- nacy,” “lunatic,” would be the contemptuous words with which my book and I would be dis- missed by the reviewers. Well, tney would be right unknowingly. Lunacy is one of my affec- tions. In my spiritual fights I have explored every planet, and have learned the inhabitants and the aspects of each. I know them all, yet since I first went to the moon my heart bas re- mained untravelled. Itis compulsory for me at times to return to that planet, which is not drear to me but is rendered joyous by the hospitality of the wondrous being who is known on the earth as the “Man in the Moon.” itis beyond my power to describe him accurately. If you wil remember Milton’s suggestions as to the height and physique of Satan, you will conjure up @ semblance to the body of “the Man.’ But his face is the feature that captivated me at first, while the hearty way that he used me chained my affections to him. It is a face For centuries Sol, warm-hearted, hot-headed Sol, has been trying to inebriate the “Man in the Moon” with the wine of light. He has even drenched him with tt; yet the only evidence that Mana, the proper name of the Man in the Moon, gives of being a wine-bibber 1s in his face. Tne features of that dial-like countenance are not according to earthly ideas of beauty, ‘The nose is bridgeless and sunken at the cen- tre, so that its end is tip-tilted, and its nostrils very wide. The eyes look out from slits, like orifices; the mouth as a long breach in the dial; and the ears mignt be useful on earth for windmill satls, Yet for all these things I love the “Man in the Moon.” My latest visit Was paid to the moon last night. I was cor- dially received by the Man, whose face is again splendidly illumined. I said to him, “What were your feelings last night? Undoubtedly you were much ‘put cut,’ but were you angry at the earth MAN INTHE MOON—Well, though I have been eclipsed often before, 1can never be calm under the punishment. I need light at all times, Llend much to the earth, and go I feel all the more sor- rowful when that planet ungratefully aeprives me of illumination. It’s a kind of “dog in the man- ger’ proceeding. The earth don’t get the lignt of which it deprives me, and it only acte toward me just as I heve often seen men act toward one another. I begin to sus- pect that what you call evil on earth is not in the men, but in their planet; that it has vents in cer- tain places which I can’t see from here, and that the men who live or are born over these outlets are the worst, REPORTER—By the way, you can see everything that men do on earth? MAN IN THE Moon—Yes, almost everything. I take agreatinterestin them. And here is another reason for me to get mad at an eclipse. Ican’t see through the shadow to amuse myself with men’s doings. Men do @ great many things before me that they wouldn’t do betore Sol. He’s a good tellow, but he lets out too much. Everybody likes me. Down in New York last night all the people were praying and waiting for me to come out all right. Why, they all had their glasses turned towara me. I know tt, for when [came out of the anadow they all took a last look, and, slapping each other on the back, they went capering home. REPORTER—You must have seen some strange sights, Would you-— THE MAN IN THE MOON interrupted me by say- ing:—Yes, I've seen strange doings on earth, I don’t blab, but I'll tell you something about your State politics, The funniest fight I have ever seen is going on in New York. I know ali about it, and the prize fougit for is the Presidency. I look jong enough into the window of both Dix and Tilden, and what do I sec? Why, in one room sits Dix trying to study Latin, or improve his trans lation of the “Dies Irm,”” but all the time his fingers are tracing the shape of the White House on the paper. Tilden sits writing a letter to tue secretary of a local committee, but every once in @ while bis pen slips, and beiore he gets command- of it again it makes @ series of lines that ac- curately show the route of Pennsylvania ave- nue and the outlines of the Presidential grounds, But the funniest figure in this connection ts that of Myron H. Olark, Why, he has in his library a lay figure, holding out a wooden goblet in one hand anda pipe in the other, and crowned with an old white hat, He has it labelled “A typical gin-selier,” and every night, as soon as he enters the room, he strikes out atit, First, he hite it ander she chin, and before it falls he catches it and gets in two or three more biows, Then he flops all around the room with the figure, always keeping it under him, Weil, its just the fanniest sight \'ve ever seen, Myron’s in earnest every time he hits. i’d pit him against Homer Lane asa wrest- ler, for that gin-seller’s symbol is the trickiest iay figure that ever was made. REPORTER—Well, going from State to national politics—what do you tnwk of the third-term ques- tion? MAN IN THE Moon—Why, what's that? I've never seen anything avout that, REPORTER, (pityingly)—Don’t you know that President Grant wants to be re-elected? MAN IN THB MOON.—Well, | want to know! (By the way, I learnea that phrase irom Southerners Who bave gone through the moon.) I never could I guess imagine for what that at the back of the White House, There were little Aleck Stephens and big Ros, Conkling, Mosby, Morton, Logan and @ number of others, while Grant always stood, a pillar os fire and smoke by night in the middie of the party, They were always talking, but 1 never could tell what they meant. But, now you speak of a third term, I remember that I’ve seen Grant reading up a manual of court etiquette; Logan has had a pair of knee breeches made, slashed with gold and with gilt buttons at the side of the knees— I’ve seen them when he aired his wardrobe, HERALD REPRESENTATIVE—You will pardon me, sir, if 1 ask you to give me another seat than what I have been sitting on forsome time. The wet cloud that I have occupied foran hour or over is melting fast, and seems inclined to drop me into some starry planet, and I would like to havea safer thing. crowd met so often OLD TIME ROCKS. MAN IN THE Moon—All right, my dear boy; take any ofthe clouds that are hanging round doing nothing. We've got lots of them to spare. There are no reserved seats here, and besides, you see, you take up such a small space. Ishoula judge that you weigh at least 180 pounds in flesn, below, on the under world, but here you on'y weigh about thirty pounds. Oh dear, what a rowdy world that is of yours below! Man and boy, I've been looking on at your antics for 6,000 years, and 1 fina no change since the Sunday I undertook to gather chips to build a fire on the range. I have known all of your worldly pig- mies—you would call them great men where you live. Some of the individuals that you have en-. shrined in your corfounded dreary pooks that you print to confuse the human in- tellect were very small potatoes to me. I knew them all, and have had many a merry day with them, for they have had to visit the moon in transit, every one of them. I have played keno with King Solomon, hand ball with Hannibal, Ju- lius Caesar and I have bitten at the jewsharp and Alexander andI have sat down many a night at forty-five fora quart of beer. (Here the Man in the Moon became much affected and took a chew of tobacco from his breeches pocket.) HERALD REPRESENTATIVE—But, sir, did you ever see ‘anything like our local politics, such as we have in New York city? I can imagine what a vast experience you have had, and I can only look with awe upon the sufferings that you endured during the Flood, particularly. POLITICS ON THE HALF (MOON) SHELL. MAN IN THE MOON (Who had taken a fresh cock- tail, and began to talk loud)—Well, yes, things were a little lively during the food, and the moon did get a little wet, and I elt the rheumatism in my legs for a week, but I wore rubbers, you know. And you think that I never saw anything like your local politics? You are a little fresh, I must say, my dear HERALD man, There were districts in ancient Rome—I mean in the city of Rome—that could give the First ward of New York fity points in ballot- stuffing and beat them. Talk about your New York rough! He is nothing to the old Roman rough that frequented the baths not more than once in five years, and whose appetite for rough and tumble fighting was whetted by the wild beast shows two or three times a month, I have seen an Athenian rough, a Beotian, by birth, bat who had taken out his citizen papers in the shadow of the Areopagus, 80 desperate that he would think nothing of guiping down Reddy the Blacksmith lke @ small sandwich, and Rockey Moore would not have served as a free lunch for some Of the brutes who roamed the streets of Carthage at night and who were always hal- looing for war with Rome, and when war came those frauds instead of fighting joined the Numidian Blues, @ sort of @ home guard for harbor defences. No, my dear teliow, if you print this in the HERALD just put me down as saying that you are as good in the world now as the peo- ple who lived on it five thousand years ago, when I took my frst wife. Never go back on your own times by any means, my dear boy. HERALD KBPRESENTATIVE—Did you ever direct a train of thought from your gigantic brain toward the subject of the Beecher scandal? ME HAS CHANGED HIS DRINKS, MAN IN THE MOON (reflectively)—Weil, for a month past I have been endeavoring to get at the truth in the matter, but owing to the fact that £ have lately changed my drrinks, 1 suppose that my head is not clear. Then we have bad a volcanic eruption up here some time since, and my tallor’s bill has laid on my mind, and I have lost track of the daily papers somewhat. We are laying outa new boulevard up here, 300 miles long, and since the time of the Schleswig-Holstein question I have never attempted to unravel mysteries. But I will say that the Beecher scandal bas provoked some discussion up here, and there are partisans of both. parties, very violent in tone; yet they all agree that ‘hiton should nave his hair cut, and that Beecher should be compelled to diet himself moderately, for you Know moderate diet, suct as brown bread and mashed turnips, will cool the blood for a contemplation of scientific matters, I can see, however, that there will be a big steal for the law- yers all around the case, and I think it would be wise to call out the militia and shoot them all on the spot. That pata mein mind of General Dix, who [have known along time. Havemeyer and I went to school together «and swopped tafy with each other for marbles and apples. Have- meyer always treated me mean, though, for he would fish off my stall, and when we went steal- ing pies (rom @ hostile Dutchman who kept a cor- ner store Havemeyer never divided worth a cent. loften have visits trom sublunary people, but the meanest white man lever met was an individual from New Engiand, who sold me an imitation watch that would not go and then borrowed $8 from me to pay Nis railroad fare when he got back to Easton from Springfield to Montreal. HOW TO SETTLE THE BERCHER TROUBLE. Why doesn’t Beecher raise $100,000 from his con- gregation and divide it ap with Tilton and Frank Carpenter and all of Mrs. Beecher’s poor relations, and pot give it allto the lawyers, where tt will surely go? And why did not Morrissey and Kelly give Creamer @ nomination for Congress in his ola district, and then he would have talked like & ttle man for the Tammany ticket? All politicians shonid be busines# men and they should not let their angry passions rise. The squarest man I ever met from your planet was a Greek, named Socrates, whose spirit came up here after he had taken the hemiock. Iasked him why he had killed himself and he told me that it was his wife who had caused him to do it, and that he really had no other enemy. Socrates told me that be was never allowed to close his eyes before five o'clock any morning, and he then had to get up and bulid a fire and nurse the little Greeks and finally be weakened trom sheer perse- cution, All Morrissey has to do is to look well to the registering, and as I hear that there is a fall- ing off in the registration of 1,500 votes in the Elev- enth Assembly district, which, they say, is gener- ally republican, itis pretty certain that the Tam- many ticket will win, although, to tell the honest truth, Lam afraid they will lose three out of the twenty-one Assemblymen from the city. But they Will get their Mayor sure. BURN THEM ALIVE, HERALD REPRESENTATIVF—What do you think of the spirit mediums and the free lovers? They are just now attracting a great deal of public atten- von, MaN IN THE Moon (biting of the half of a cold ham)—I could not for the life of me teil which are the biggest frauds. We have a travelling circus up here, and although the men who do the trapeze and acrobatic business are rather light in body and subsist mostly on wafers and gum arabic, yet) will back some of them to do tricks that will astonish any medium in the United States. ‘The thing 1s simply scandalous, and it isa clear proof of uhe want of sense among the people | of the world that they do not cremate all those humbugs. You can put me down as being im favor of cremation—that 1s, comparatively speaking. I would like to see some people burned alive, particularly the spirit mediums; and yet I am happy enough to say that I believe to acertain extent in Spiritualism, I remember that the Witch of Endor tried to borrow a dollar and half from me once to buy stews for herself and another old hag, but I turned cold after that on the old girl and we don’t speak now as much as we used to. are come, the saddest of the year, the money mar- ket must be fearfully tight with some of your col- leagues, my dear fellow; but do not despair. [ like all iterary men, and there is a bed and a knife and fork for you whenever you drop in, but you need not eat the bed. (Here the Man in the Moon shut himself up in @ large refrigerator and went to sleep—that being the way they have to warm themselves up there. He said that he had an engagement with Copernicus, a Dutchman named Kepier, lsaac Newton and some others of the boys at breakfast.) THE ACCIDENT TO THE ADRIATIC. Statement of Her Pilot and Officers. The following statement, signed by the officers of the Adriatic and the Sandy Hook pilot who was in charge of her at the time of the collision, con- tains the details of the accident :— STATEMENT OF THE COLLISION BETWEEN THE STEAM- SHIPS PARTHIA AND ADRIATIC. Oct. 24, 4:20 P. M.—Aboat one mile below buoy of the mud fats, Steamship Parthia steaming | down the bay on our port bow. We ported con- siderably to pass her ata good distance, as we were overhauling her. 4:35. Passed steamship Parthia distant about one cable’s length on our port side, both vessels then steering the same | After we bad overhauled ter half our | course. ship’s length she immediately ported her helm and bore down toward us, we porting also to keep out of her way. 4:43—-Steamship Parthia collided with us, her starboard bow striking us on our port quarter, forward of jigger rigging, doing consivera- ble damage, we at the said time starboarding our | helm to prevent our propeller striking her bows, 4:48—Stopped to examine damage. Finding we could not proceed until alter repairs, steamed toward Quarantine to anchor. HAMILTON TERRY, Captain. J. JEWELL, Pilot. ROBERT LE BENCE, Chief Oficer, PETER J. IRVING, Second OMicer, JOHN P. WALKER, Third OMver, ALEXANDKE MoGACHEN, Fourth Officer. The Repairs Going On. A force of mechanics are at work on the repairs to the Adriatic night and day, and It ts expected they will oe completed this evening and that the | proceed on her voyage Tuesday | steamer will morning, All passengers who have gone ashor have been notified of the fact and requested to be | on board to-night, FUNERAL OF THOMAS DENNY, The funeral services over the body of Mr. Thomas Denny, & prominent member of the Stock Exchange for many years past, who died on Wednesday last, took place yesterday afternoon at the Church of the Covenant, Park avenue and Thirty-fifth street. The regular Prea- byterian burial service was read by Rey. Dr. Marvin K. Vincent, assisted by Rey, George H. Prentiss, D. D., and Rev. Robert R, Booth, D, D. Aiter the services a Sermon was preached by Rey. Mr. Vincent, eulogistic Of the deceased, who he characterized a8 a man of the highest integrity and honor. The body was enclosed in a handsome rosewood casket, richly silver mounted, and was covered with (oral offerings. Among the members of the Stock Exchange resent were EK. H. Miller, Ludlow ‘homas, H. Re Vermilye, W. A. Smith, A.'S. Wilson, W. B. Clerke, George H. Brodhead, Alfred Colville, John Norris and several others, The remains will be taken to Leicester, Mass., on the ten o'clock express this morning. The lollowing named gentlemen wtil act as pall bearers:—Willam EB, Dodge, M. M. Backus, Gordon Buck, M. D., John P. Crosby, W. H. H. Moore, Henry | D. Noyes, M. D., Aired C, Post, M. D., C. frumbull Waite, Dr. Horace Kim- ball, and Mr. George Ripley. FUNERAL OF YOUNG OROOKER, Yesterday forenoon the {uneral of Albert E. Crocker, the young politician who was killed by the Italian barber, @’Ambrugia, on Wednesday, last, took place irom the residence of the sister deceased, No, 172 Pear! street, Brooklyn. The at- tendance was very numerous. Rev. Father Kiely, of the Cathedral, Jay street, conducted the ser- vices, and delivered a brie address upon the solemuity of the oggasion and the lessons which sudden death should impart to all, Deceased was reared in the Protestant religion, but embraced Catholocism just befure his death, Tie remains were taken to Far Rockaway, L. L, tor interment, A HUNDRED MILE WALKING MATOR. LEwisron, Me., Oct. 25, 1874. fhe hundred mile walking match between Cush- ing and Avery Was completed at six minutes past | eignt o'clock last night, Cushing's time being 23h. ém,, aud Avery’s 230, 2im, Now that the melancholy days | Paris, Oct, 9, 1874, | The result of the elections to the Councils Genet eral is, on the whole, @ victory jor the Espa party. it ts true that, according to the lates! returns, 680 conservatives of all shades have veend returned against 690 liberals; but if from the Jor: mer number are deducted 130 Bonapartists, it will ve found that the pure monarchists are in a post: tive minority. 48 the new Senate—to be crea! next session—will probably be chosen, in part, b; the Councils General, this is @ fact of no littie sige nificance. Of individual elections the most im4 portant ts unquestionably that of Prince Charles Bonaparte in Corsica, The defeat of Prince Napoleon will do the imperialist cause no 200d. Be is THE KING OF THE SCAMPS, and Bonapartism nas always depended verw | much for support on scamps—that 18, on men of | talent with lean purses and no consciences, Sucty | was Jacques Leroy, who added “de Saint-Arnaud’4 | to his name, and, having display; Incontestab\ courage in shooting down the civil population o: Paris, was created a marshal of France; such, | also, was Jean Fialin, who found the name of “D Persigny’? more euphontous than that whic! nature and bis mother had given him, M. Pialli was probably one of the cleverest men who eve did dirty work for an august master. Coun! Janvier de la Motte was another admirabie specl¢ men of the Bonapartiat pure and simple. Nat department was better governed under re Empire than the Eure, of which Coun Janvier was prefect; but he scarcely mada ® secret among his intimate inenda of the sums he quietly transferred from the funds o! the local administration to his own pocket. Prince Napoleon understands and sympathizes; with this class of men. Being rich he can attract | them to the cause he wishes to serve, namely, his own. Till now his interests have veer tdentifed) with those of the Empire, but now he must feed he bas nothing to hope from A BONAPARTIST RESTORATION, and he will doubtless seek to establish for himsel® a definite position in the republican camp. How) the republicans will receive bim is another ques, tion. If with open arms, then they will obey they scornful precept of Our Lord and make to them~ | selves trends of the Mammon of unrighteousness.; | For there 1s little doubt that the Prince's sand would reconctie a host of stockjobbers and shod contractors to the Republic. ME. BUCKLE’S ADVICB TO GOVEBNVENTS generally was to do nothing, as they would sure to do wrong if they interfered with the courset | ofevents. President MacMahon is perhaps of thiay | opinion, His Excellency having lately given up | the cares of State to spend his time in shooting. | A few days ago he actually left Paris by a goods! | train in order to obtain an extra two houra’4 sport, quite unmind{ul of the crowds whom he mus® have known would assemble at the hour of the | regular train for which his departure had beem | fixed in order to pay their respects to the chiel off \ the State. There is a want of kingship tm | Marshal MacMahon which will always stand) in the way of his playing 8 grease \ part in the history of his country. Frenchmen; | know a King when they see him, but their ideal is a high one. A sovereign of France, whatever be | his title, must be great in every respect—in his | acts, his language, his demeanor—tf he wishes to secure the affections of the nation. Medlocrity, be it never so respectable, is, in the opinion off this singular people, better employed in growing: cabbages or labelling pots of preserves than im | administering the affairs of a realm. They will not | put up with a President who asks for exorbitant powers and still more exorbitant sums of money, | mot to reorganize the army more rapidly or to represent authority more splendidly, but to sneak away irom the capital by a goods train for nis | own private amusement, ana to the disappoint | ment of thousands of sight seers. | M. THIERS’ POSITION, It is noteworthy that the Figaro, which has com stituted itself an organ Of the marshalate, is daily abusing M. Thiers-with extraordinary violence, as though the Septennalists feared the return of the | eminent little man to power. Though he never | won a battle, and can never ride wlong the boule- | vards ina splendid uniform, surrounded by a brill- | fant staf’ of officers, M. Thiers is more popuiar than the victor of Magenta. The fact ts, the draper’s son is the first of living historians, the most brilliant orator in France and a fanatic pa- triot. He has the reputation of having achieved | the most stupendous financial exploit the waerld | has ever scen, and the still dearer fame of having freed his country’s soil from foreign soldiery, Add to these merits that he has embraced tne | peopie’s cause mm othe) «great controversy of the day, and it is not to be wondered at that his countrymen shoula admire bim, as they have ever admired genius, in spite of its faults. If the republicans win many more seats in the Assembly nothing but a coup d’état can long keep M. Thiers out of the Presidency. I may here mention a rather good story told of the liberal chief, who lately revisited his native town. He found one or two old men who had been the companions of his boyhood some sixty years ago, and whom he had not seen since, He asked one of them what ho had been doing, to which the other replied, with evident satisfaction, that he had been driving a flourishing trade in the boot and shoe line. “And what have you been about f”’ he in his turn asked of M. Thiers. The latter explained that he was une ex-President of the Republic, “What!” ejaculated his companion, “are you that Thiers? My poor friend, how I pity you!” THE VIRGINIUS QUESTION. | Earl Derby’s Diplomacy Obtains Indem« nity and Satisfaction for England— President Serrano Placed in # Corner, Lonpon, Uct. 9, 1874 There exists no further aoubt that England hag Teceived satisiaction in respect to the Virgintus | claims. In a few days Thope to receive full par- | ticulars, and the cable will probably inform you | Specially before this reaches you whether I have | been success{ul. When England was asked to recognize the Sere rano government there was @ hitch—nobody seemed to know the reason—and, in order to | avoid everything which might have the appet ance of “huckstering,” the matter was kept very secret, ar however, bas transpired to ‘assert that Lord Derby was firmly resolved’ not to recognize the Spanish Executive unless the Virginius question found a solution. if | the cnief of the Foreign Omice argued, “You are | suticleatly sq@png as @ government to demand | recognition,” ®arely the excuse which hitherto stood in the way of a settlement falls to the ground, That excuse, [am told, was founded on | anon possumus principle—viz., that Serrano was | not suMficiently tn the saddle to face the Spanish | nation with @ demand for the settlement ot tue | pending dificuity, The Spaniards had finally to | yield, and, rather than forego England’s good will, and to secure recognition, the Virginius claims were jormaily recognized and probably paid. Vu the latter | apres some doabt exists, but in a lew days Lshall be able to clear up these doubts and | receive positive loformation in what lorm tie set | tiement was obtained. THE DELANEY SHOOTING CASE, Deputy Coroner Marsh yesterday made & post mortem examination, at No. 222 Henry street, op tue body of Thomas E, Delaney, who died of a Pistolt-shot wound of the head received at the ands of Thomas Hayes during an altercation de tWeen thent, at the corner of Jackson and Madisop Streets, on the night of the 7ta Uit., as previcnal reported in the ‘Siena, and jound that deat was caused by pzamia, Coroner EBicknod em. panelled a jury and will hold an inquest in the course of a few dayy