The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1875, Page 7

eae ' , & TE DOME OF THE DOLLS | A Visit to Sonneberg and Its Toy and Doll Manufactories. ay SANTA CLAUS’ STORE HOUSES. 8 } f o , ‘ ee 4 Making the Doll Bubies—All About the Beauti- ful Wax Doll and the Woman Who Fell in Love with It—The Papagenos of the Thuringian Forest—Mar- ble Making, &¢., &e. Franxront, Dec. 8, 4974. How many thousands of child-hearts are just at ‘this good old season of Christmas made happy in ‘the possession of the annual gilts from Santa Claus of dolls and Noah’s arks, of lead soldiers ud dancing figures and all the rest of the worla of toys. I wonder if all the children Know where Santa Claus procures the many beautiful things ne | brings them; If the girls know how and where the | Wouderiul speaking, crying and smiling dolls are Made? Of course, they hive all heard of Nurem- berg, and Nuremberg is generally styled the big toy town; but it provides the old saint principally with the cheaper kinds of toys now. Just on the borders of the Thiringian forest lies the pretty littie town of Sonneberg, and It is about thts place I intend to write to-day; for here it is that the most beautiful oils and children’s toys are made at the present ‘me in Germany. Itisa wonderfully interestmg little town. I visited it in August last on the oc- casion of a Luther festival held there, an account of which was published in the Henaxp at the time. VARIETIES OF CHILDREN’S TOYS. ‘The great display of toys and Christmas books already exhibited in the windows of the Ger- ‘man stores reminds me that I nave not much time to lose in sending my'letter, if it shail be read at the proper time. Even a description of ‘she toys thus exhibited would be interesting, for gome are quite peculiar and instructive. One is pleasantly surprised at the very peaceable char- acter of the toys which we find in South Germany }| ‘when we remember the whole German, French and Russian armies that occupied the windows of the Berlin toy stores some year's ago, and to a great extent even now. It has been well said ‘that each nation has a distinctive character about ite toys. Well, Prussian toys are essentially mill- tary; the children are early provided with big ‘doxes full of cavalry and infantry and all the other Dranches of the army; they are permitted to ght mimic batties and to beleaguer cities, ana papa and mamma fondly hope that in time a new Moltke may go forth from their home. This year the Austrian children are pro- vided, over and above the usual toys, with a very ‘useful North Pole toy, which is set up with some trouble and then represents the adventures of Messrs. Payer and Weyprecht on their last in- teresting expedition to the mysterious North. ‘The ship, the bears, the icebergs, the sailors and even the principal figures seem very old friends to me, Three or four years ago the same toy repre- sented the German Koldewey expedition to the Pole. Thus we see that even the events of the day have an influencein shaping the character of children’s toys; A month after the attempt on Bismarck’s lite, made at Kissingen, an enterpris- ing toy maker had manufactured, in tiat soft gutta percha mixture material of which hideous faces and lizards and frogs are made, the heads of | Bismarck and Kullmaon, and they may be pur- chased still for very good Prussian children. A DAUGHTER OF NUREMBERG. Well, I must tell you something about Sonne. Derg and how the toys are made. The Germans call the littic town a daughter of the ancient city of Nuremberg, who many years ago was married to the Thuringian Forest; though she is now al- most & matron herself, but is far more beautilul than the old lady on the Pegnitz. Sonneberg is a Pretty little city of 20,000 inhabitants, sttuated at the foot of one of the most southern ranges of the Thuringian hills, from whitch we can look across a broad, fruitful plain as far as Coburg, whose fortress is plainly visible, some fifteen or twenty miles distant. Sonneberg, besides being beautt- ul, is @ very prosperous little place; {t carries on i @ large trade both with England and the United States. The American Consul there is M ‘Winser, in former yearsa member of the New York press, a pieasant gentleman and a worthy representative, to whom I am indebted for many Kinanesses recelved as your correspondent. I ‘was the first American newspaper correspondent, Mr. Winser told me, who since his residence there and in Coburg had ever invaded the bome of the dolls. Through him I was fortunate in secur- ing introduction to the principal toy and doll Manufacturers of Sonmeberg, the Fleischmanns, the Dressels and the rest. 1 was very fortunate, too, in making the acquaintance of a retired toy manufacturer, ‘Adolf Fleischmann, who furnisned me with some very Interesting chapters of Sonne- berg toy history irom a work in which he Isat present engaged. THE ORIGIN OF THE SONNEBERG TOY INDUSTRY. The Sonueberg toy industry, which arose in the southwestern part of the Thuringlan Forest, belonging to the duchy of Saxe- Meiningen, dates from the thirteenth cen- tury. At first tne articles manuiactured were Of the very rudest description, wooden shingles, staffs, jugs, plates, £o., which were carved by the dnhabteants of the mountain villages, vood cutters nd charcoal burners, who thus made use of their Jeisure time. Some of these poor mountaineers ‘hen gathered together these wares, and, heavily loaded, wandered with them into Franconta, ‘where they disposed of them and returned to the mountaing, with meal, wool, cloth or whatever else they wanted for themseives or their neigh- ‘bors. It was a dangerous life for the poor fellows, for highway robbers were very plentiful, and many poor toy dealer was robbed of all he possessed and sometimes even murdered. In the following cen- tury, however, a great improvement took place in the condition of the dwellers of Thuringia, A ‘Dighway trom Augsburg to Letpsic and Dresden was made through the forest; thenceforward caravans of Augsburg and Nuremberg traders passed along the route, and in returning pur- chased the manufactured wares {rom the villages, ‘Then the merchants brought to the mountaineers ‘better models from the Berchtesgaden toy makers, ‘taught them how to paint their manufactures and toimprove them so that they could be exported | as the wares of Berchtesgaden or Nuremberg. This ‘was the commencement of the Thuringian toy industry. Then some of the more enterprising toy makers commenced business as merchants on ‘their own account. Sonneberg, then a little place of but 700 inhabitants, became the recognized centre of the trade, and has remained so up to the present time. From 1710 to 1740 Sonneberg mer- chants established branches in St. Petersburg, Stockhoim, Copenhagen, Christiana, Lilbeck, Lon- don, Moscow, Archangel ana Astrakan. THE GOOD OLD TIMES—MARULE MAKING. Avery different business was that of tne old Sonnebergers trom that of the modern people. Toys were not purchased in such quantities in ‘those days; people were neither so cultivated nor #o rich, and doubtless the children nad to ve satisfied with the simplest and rudest shings. But the Sonnebergers had also Other business to attend to, They suppited the armies of Europe with fllnts; they manufactured and sold whetstones, slates and slate pencils; they began to manufacture marbles, and glass and tron manutactories were established in the beautiful wooded valleys. Salzburg Pro- testant exiles first introduced the manufac ture of marbles into Thuringia. They are Made in the same way now as then and forma lafge article of Sonneberg export. You may find half # dozen marble mills in the valley leading | from Sonneberg to Judenbach. Children and | grown up persons first break the hard i!mestones into small square pieces, which are afterward ground round in the so-called marble miils. It 1s estimated that 60,000,000 marbles are manufactured #nDUally, polished and colored and sent from Son- NEW YORK HE rrr rnc eae Deberg to all parts of the world, and of late years besides marbies of stone are those made of giass, porcelain and other matertals. The glass blowing establishments of the valleys near Sonneberg were first founded by Bolemian emigrants who were attracted to Thuringia by the gold washings which were carried on some centuries ago in the moun- tain valleys, 4 CHILD’s PARADISE, Sonneberg exports, as I said, very diferent articles now trom what it formerly did. Perhaps no better tdea can be given of the character of the Sonneberg industries than by visiting one of the great showrooms of the place, either that of Messrs. Fleischmann or of Otto & Cuno Dressel. These showrooms are something wonderful in their way, being, in fact, international exposi- tions, we may say, of children’s toys, in at least filteen thousand varieties, They are paradises where children would go into ecstasies over the wonderful and beautiful things exhibited.” Where to begin in my description is difficult, There are toy men of all races, zones and ages, from the little Savoyard up to Prince Bismarck and Kaiser William of Germany, im wood, por- celain, papier-maché and serra cotta. Tuere are Russians and Poles, Germans and French, tourist Englishmen and Brahmin priests living far more peaceably together on the long shelves than they generally do in the big world. There sits an old grandmamma in her easy chair, and next to her Moses lies as comtort- ably as possible in the bulrushes; there are pretty Winged angels alongside of exaggerated French- men and Aipine hunters; there is Britannia try- ing to rule the waves, and Germania watching the Rhine, and close by a small bust of Horace Greeley, finely executed in terra cotta. Then there are figures of dogs and monkeys, drummer boys, Jumping jacks, clowns, little ladies at minia- ture pianos, playing a Strauss waliz or “God Sare the Queen; boys on wooden horses, peasants from Thuringia and Bavaria, the Marquis of Lorne and his princess wife, jugglers and mountebanks, and “maidens, all forlorn, a milking sae cow with the crumpled horn,” all in various materials, and all very beautifuily executed. MENAGERIES—DOLLS—THR BEAUTIFUL DOLL BABY. There are @ thousand other things that attract one’s attention. Some are exceedingly quaint, There are long rows of good old Santa Clauses, warmly clad in far and covered with hoar trost, ready to go out at Christmas time with their sacks filled with toys and dolls and sweets. There are the mangers of Bethlehem, with little wooden fig- ures of wise men and snepheyds and sheep and the infant Jesus in the manger, in dangerous prox- tmity to the cows. Chicken groups of the quaintest character—two have just escaped from the shell, and stare at each other with mutual admiration and surprise. There are cats toat squall, dogs that bark and horses that whinny, and cows that give milk, provided it be previously supplied through a hole in the back; elephants with trunks that suck up water and spirt it out againina very natural manner, and biras that sit in delignt- fully green trees gnd chirp away until they get short of breath. In short, there is everything that @ child ever heard of or could wish for, a thousand objects, the mere enumeration of which would take up two columns of the HERALD, There are the many toy musical instruments Which boys generally delight to torment older people with—flutes and fiddles, fifes and trumpets, drums and tiny pianos, and again necdie guns, swords, pistols and cannon enough to supply the German army, Landsturm and all And doils! They are there by the thousand; of all sizes and prices, p!ebeian and noble; some of wood, some of porcelain, some of papier-maché, some of wax; some lying @ hundred in a row; others beautifully dressed in silks and furs and bonnets, and sleep- ing quietiy in their doll beds or in beautifully padded drawers; some sleeping with their éyes closed and some with them open, and some capable of crying for mamma or papa when ocea- sion requires. There was one big doll, 1 remem- ber, just as big as a four-year-old girl, and nearly as beautiful as some young ladies I Know, and it seemed as if it only needed a spaia of life breathed into the body to make it speak. I was shown one doll im a beantiful crib, and the manufacturer told me that when it was first finished his wife cried over it and took it and placed it in her own bed and Would not give it up for some days, so beautiiul and lifelike was it. And now the manufacturer refuses to sell it, because, ke Says, his wife loves tt 80 much and If he took It away he thinks the poor woman's heart would break. And believe me lam not exaggerating or inventing doll stories, ‘at all at all.” HOW THE DOLIS ARE BORN. A visit to a Sonneberg doll manufactory is an exceedingly pleasant and surprising affair. I yis- ited one manufactory where eighty persons were employed, besides 150 others who do work at their own homes, The manager informed me that on his trade list he had 695 sorts of dolls, each sort having again six varieties, so we come to the fact of the existence of over 5,000 varieties of dolls. There are wooden dolls, pot-laced dolls, papier maché dolls, wax dolis, in the making of which are engaged not only the modellers, wax varnishers, &¢., but hundreds of children and girls 10 make boots, dresses, to curl the hair and other !mportant operations on these fearfully and wonderfully made creatures, The dolls with wooden heads and wooden limbs and porcelain heads are the lowest germs of the Sonneberg doll. The heads are imported, but the movable limbs and bodies are cut, carved and put together by the dwellers of the mountatns,.many of whom lol- low other occupations. Thus, tn Judenbach, I saw whole ‘families, old and young, male afd female, engaged in the interesting occupation of making wooden dolls, The smallest chil- dren would have some simple operation to do, such as cutting or sawing the wood into the proper length, an older child would be able to cut out the limps in the rough, the older members would do the finer work and fix all the anatomical parts together. When the children are sent out to guard the cows or the sheep they take wood with them and a simple knife ana return home at night with quite a stock of legs and arms, The curious Papagenos of the Thuringtan forest, the birdeatchers, are likewise ‘armed with a knife and a peculiar little piece of wood affixed in front of them, and carve the limbs or other pieces of toys, when they have sct their snares and are yet waiting for the little feathered victims, THR WAX DOLL MANUFACTURE. To make 4 real wax doll or one of papter-maché is quite a long process. First of all the limbs have to be made. The legs, either of pot or cotton, have to be filled out with moss and sawdust, and the me process is gone through with the body and arms, the task being entrusted to a numuver of young women. The head is more diMcult to make. First comes the moulding, from a kind of whity-brown paste, which wien hard is almost indestructible, The bead is moulded in two hatves, the back and the front, and then the two parts are joined together with the same sort of paste. The heads are made by the thousand, of all shapes and sizes, and left for the moment un- polished and sickly looking. Then these irame pasteboard heads are carried to the wax room, where they are passed through some severe or- deals. The papler-mach¢ modei heads are dipped into boiling wax and thus have the appearance of real wax dolls, But the genuine article, the real dolis of wax, are made thus:—The boiling wax 18 poured into a plaster mould; tt adneres to the sides as it becomes cold, and when the mould is taken apart there is the beautl- ful wax head, but slmply a shell, and of course very weak. The head is cast complete, and only a small opening is left in the crown of the head. Toen & workinan takes the wax shell and very carefully lines tt throughout with a kind of soft paste about the thickness o! cardboard, } Which soon hardens and gives the head its strength and durability. Alter this process the head is placed over a hot furnace, the wax is per- micted to melt to a very slight degree, whereuvon it is dusted with powder made o! potato mealand alabaster, to give ita delicate nesh tint, In another room the head 1s provided with a pair of eyes, ana it is no easy thing for the workman to select two exactly alike, Sometimes, as the chilaren know, dolls squint, and this proves that the workman who put them in was not very careful in his work, Another | very skilful workman then recetves the head, and Anisnes of the front appearance of the eyes, RALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 187 5. TL scooping off all the wax and aM™xing the lds ina charming manner, Then eyelashes have to be aMxed, and then the little lady has to be pro- Vided with teeth; which are pat m by # skilful workman one vy one. A still more interesting Study is in the hairdressing room ofa doll manu- factory, Ali the doils that come into this room are complete as far as their Leads; there they are quite so baid as Bome old gentlemen of eighty who dou’t wear wigs. ‘The hair for these heads is first worked on to a mesh, which fits the doll’s bead so nicely that one can- not tell but that tt is a natural growth, Then the rough head of hatr, with the doll, 18 sent to the female hairdressers, who are armed with comps and brushes and hot curling tongs, have no small amount o/ good taste, and would, | am sure, make excelient ladies’ maids. The bair ts made up in the most beautitul manner, tn imitation of the very newest fashions; ana then when the dol! is thus combed and curied it is provided with a delicate little chemisette and placed, with a hua- dred or more companions, in a _ huge | basket, and transported cither to the great storerooms or to the doll milliner, who provides it with clothing and costumes fitting it to appear in the great world, This will only give you 4 taint idea of how the wax doils are made. I have omitted many interesting parts of the process, | am sure, suchas how the bany doila are made to open and shut their eyes and to ery “papa” and ‘“imamma;” but Lam also sure that neaily all children have atone time or an- other locked into these mysteries of doll life, and @ description would be superfiuous, I must bring this already tov jong etter to a close before half. exhausting the interes¥ug things of Enneberg, trusting only that 1t may prove interesting to the children world at this pleasant doil-buying season of the year. THE COURTS. THE COMMISSION OF APPEALS. ALBANY, N, Y., Jan. 1, 1875. The Commisgion of Appeals will meet on Tues- day, at ten o’clock A. M., at Albany, in the court room of the Court of Appeals, and will hold two sessions @ day during the term. No causes will be set down for a particular day or put over the term without a special order of the commission or good cause shown, ‘tne following is the day calendar for Tuesday, January 5, 1875:—Nos, 3, 8, 9, 26, 141, 152, 182, 200, 232 and 237. SUPREME COURT—GENERAL TERM. DECISIONS. A very large batch of decisions, mainly of cases argued at the last term of the Court, but some of cases argued before, was rendered on Thursday in the Supreme Court, General Term, We give be- iow abstracts of tue More important opinions: Osvorn, respondent, and Keech appellant. Judgment affirmed. Option by Judge Lawrence, Bartlett vs, McNiel.—ordeis aftivined, with $10 costs im each case und disbursements in one case. Opinion by Judge Davis. Satterth wait vs. Vreeland et al._—Judgment re- served and new tria) granted, costs to abide cvent, Upiaion by Judge Danzels. ‘Lhe People ex rel, Alexander vs, Alexander.— Order attirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements, Opinion by Judge Lawrence. Board of Commissioners Of Pilots vs, Spofford et al.—Order reserved, without costs. Opinion by Judge Davis, Same vs, Same.—Order appeated from reyersed, With $10 costs besives disoursements, and tne clerk is directed 10 make Out the items of costs in the Court of Appeals, Option by Judge Davis. Burns vs. rhe Mayor, &c.—Judgment reversed and w new trial granted, with costs to abiaeevent, Opinion by Judge Davia, Rollwagen vs. Koliwagen et al.—Decree of Sur- rogate affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Judge Daniels. Excelsior Petroleum Company vs. Lacy, exe- cutrix, et al,—-loe order appealed trom aiirmed Witnout costs, Opinion by Judge Davis. The Peopie, deiendanuts in error, vs. Gardner and Charlick.—Judzment affirmed. Opinion by Judge Daniels. Giilman ys. Gillman et al.—Order reserved ana proceedings remitteu vo the surrogate for tue par- ties to take such proceedings as chey may be or- dered, Opimion by Judge Lawrence, . Watson vs. Ohurch.—Order modilied by simply denyiug the motion in Court below with costs, wnd, as modified, afirmed with costs and d.sburse- ments. Opinions by Juuges Lawrence and Davis, Tournade vs. Hagedorn et ai.—Order acirmed, with costs, Opinion by Judge Danicis. Sewara et al. vs. Torrence et al.—Judgment re- served and new trial oruered, with costs to avide the event. Opinion by Judge Lawrence. Clark vs. Donaidson.—Judgment ailirmed, Opin- ton by Juage Davis. Powers vs. ‘Irenor.—Order appealed from affirmed, with $10 costs, beside disbursements, Opinion by Judge Daniels. arlipg vs. brewster.—Judgment affirmed and order affirmed, With $10 costs. Opinion vy Judge vig. Romeim et al. vs, Garth.—Order ‘apnealed from reserved, witnout costs, and upon payment of all the costs Im the action and disbursements, and the costs of motion below, plainti! may have leave to amend bis compiaint as prayed for, Opin- ion by Judge Lawrence; order to be settled by Judge Lawrence. Romein et al. vs. Garth.—Order afllirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements, Opinion by Judge Lawrence. Lenahan vs. the People.—Judgment and con- viction reversed and new trial granted. Opinious by Judges Davis and Daniel: Seaman et al. vs. Glegner.—Order aMrmed, with $10 costs besides disbursements. OUpinioa by Judge Davis. Matter oc the final accounting of James Gill.— urder of Surrogate affirmed with costs besides disbursements. Opinion by Judge Lawrence. The People ex rel. Catherine Murphy vs. Board missed with costs, Lawrence. Bixby vs. Smith.—Order reversed, with £10 costs besides disbursements, ana motion granted with | $10 costs. Opinion by Judge Davis. Seaver and another vs. Moore.—Order affirmed With $10 costs, besides disbursements. Opinion by. Judge Davis. Godfrey vs. Moser.—Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, costs to abide event, Opinion by Judge Daniels, Judge Barrett taking no part in tue decision. » Tne People ex rel. Tenth National Bank vs, Green, &c,—Order reversed with $10 costs and dis- bursements and motion denied. Upinion by Judge Daniels. The Same vs. Board of Apportionment.—Order reversed with $1 costs and disbursements and motion denied. Opinion by Judge Daniels. Hirsh vs. Livingston.—Order reversed with $10 Upinion by Judges Davis and below; order to be settled by Judge Daniels. Opinion by Judge Daniels, Ghion Dime Savings Bank vs. Duryea et al.— Order reversed with $10 Costs, aad disbursements exceptions to reicree’s report overruled and motion to confirm tne ee grautea with $10 costs. Opinion by Judge Barrett. Haligarten vs. Eckert et al.—Judgment reversed and new trial granted; costs to abide the event, Opinions by Judges Davis and Barrett, Judge Bar- rett dissenting, Murphy vs. ‘I'he People.—Judgment ana convic- tlon reversed and new trial ordered. Judge Davis, Foster vs. The People.—Judgment affirmed. Opinion by Judge Daniels. Gill et al. va. The Peopte.—Conviction and judg- ment affirmed. Opinion by Judge Barrett, Oppenheimer vs. Walker et al.—Order afmfrmed with costs aud disvursements, Opinion by Judge Lawrence. Mutual Lite Insurance Company va. Leipzeger. Order affirmed, with $10 costs, besides disbur: ments, Opinion by Judge Davis, The People ex rel, Commissioners of Public Charities, &c., on complaint of Susanna Sanders, vs. John J. Sanders,—Conviction aillrmed. Opin ton he Judge Lawrence, Bielschopsky vs. The People.—Judgment afirm- ed. Opinion by Judge Davis. 'Tofty et al. v8. Wililams.—Order appealed from reversed, with $10 costs ana disbursements, and motion to vacate order of arrest granted, wita $10 costs, Opinion by Judge Barrett. Redmond and anotuer vs. Hoge et al.—Order affirmed, with $10 costs, besides disbursements, Opinion by;Judge Davis. Matter of the petition of John D. Vootris to vacate assessment,—Order reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements, and motion demied, with $10 costs, Opinion by Judge Barrett, Matter of the petition of Richard Williamson, dr, to Vacate n assessment for sewer.—Order below reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with $10 costs of the Court below. Opinion by Judge Davis, McGuire vs. the People—Conviction and judg- ment afirmed. Opinion by Judge Barrett, House and King, surviving executors, &c., vs. Raymond,—Judgment ordered in accordance with the opinion of Juuge Daniels, to be settied by Judge Daniels on two days’ notice. Opinion by Judge Daniels. Beebe vs. Briggs.—Order reversed, without costs. Opinion by Judge Lawrence, Matter of the Petition of Helen EK, Little to Vacate an Assessment.—Order reversed, with costs beside disbursement, and motion denied, with costs, Opinion by Judges Davis and Law- rence, Judge Lawrence dissenting. People ex rel, Kediam vs, Neilson, President of the Board of Education et al.—Order afirmed as far as relates to the appellant Netlson and re- | versed as to appellants Green & Earle, without costs, with leave, &c. Opinion by Judge Law- Ce. * Humphrey vs. Hurtt.—Order aMrmed, with $10 costs ol the Laks besides disbursements, Opin jon by Judge Davis. Reaman vs. Shuyler,—Judgment aud order al firmed, With costa, costs, besides disbursements and motion in court | Opinion vy | Lester et al. vs. Roosner.—Judgment afirmed, With costs. Opinion by Judye Lawrence. Matter of the Extension of ‘Lexington Ayenue.— Order aMrmed, with $10 costs, besides disburse- ments. Opinion by Judze Donobue. Moffatt va. Caldwell & Whiting.—Order reversed, with costs, and demurrer overruled, with costs, with leave to defeudants to answer in twenty days after securing order, on payment 0! costs. Opinion by Judge Barrett. Miller vs. The Mayor, &c.— denied and new trial ordered, with costs to abide the event, Opinion by Judge Davis, Stevens vs. Corn Exchange Bank.—dudgment af- firmed, Opinion by Juage Daniels, Juage Law- rence taking no part in the decision. Neidman Ys. Goddard.—Judgiment reversed and new trial granied, with costs to ablde the event. Opinion by Judge Lawrence, Tyng vs, Field aud another.—judgment reversed and new triai ordered, wita costs to abide the event. Opinion by Judge Lawrence, Judge Daniels lotion for judgment concurring in the resuit. Judd aud another vs, Smith,—Order reversed, With costs. Optnion by Juage Westorook. Merevants’ National Bank vs. Board of Super- visors.—-Motion ior a new triai denied and judg- ment lor pluinif ordered on the verd!st, Gnintons by Judges Brady and Danieis, Judge Brady aissent- io in part. Hinman vs. Nichols, impieaded.—Judgment re- versed anc new trial order Cosi8 to abide the event, Optnion by Judge Westbrook. Atianné Savings Bank—Heber, appelant, vs. Fiten, respondenv.—Order appeaied trom afkrmed, With $10 costs, besides disbursements. Opihion by Judge Westbrook. Arctic Fire Insurance Company vs. Austin, Preal- dent,—Judgment atiirmed, Opinion by Judge Westbrook, Lupton vs. Smith & Lupton.—Order appealed from, with $10 costs, besides disbursements, Opinion by Judge Day Wailack vs. ihe Reformation of Ju le Deitnquents im the City of New York.—Orider reversed and tujunetioa dis- | Solved, with $10 costs of motion in the Court below, Opinion by Judge Davis. Chambe n, Jr, VS. Same.—Order reversed and injunction dissolved. Augusta Daly vs, Society for the Reformation of Invenile Delinquents in the city o| New York ana the Mayor, &c,~Urder reversed and injunction dissolved, Same vs. Same.—Same order. Hayes, administratrix, vs. Sam2.—Same order. New York Academy of Music vs. Same.—same orde: 48 in Daly’s case, Murtha vs, same.—Same order. Jarrett and others ve, same.—sSame order. Tooiu vs. Same.—Same order. Thorhe ys, Soclety for the Reformation of Ju- Veaile Delinquents, &c,—Same order, Shook vs, Same.—Same order. TOMBS POLICE COURT. EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT. Before Judge Kuibreth, Among the New Year's callers at this Court yes- terday were Messrs. Bondy and Solomon, both ofiicers of the Whaiebone Manulacturing Com- pany. The former, who is the secretary and one of the directors of the company, charges the latter, who 1s the treasurer of the concern, with having | embezzled and teloniously appropriated $7,785 94 of the company’s moncy to bis own use. The com- plainant could not exactly tell the dates of the de- falcations, but promised, When the examination and when the different amounts, whose total is given above, Were tuken, Bondy jurther states in his atidavit that he knows these facts to be true, for two reasons-—first, he 1s enabled, from the fact of his office im the company, to make au- 30th of December, 1874, Solomon eckuowledged to him that he had taken the money, took the papers and held Solomon to answer 1p $5,000 vail, Mr. Sigmund T. Meyer became security in that amount and Solomon Was released, Solo- mon, on the formal examination, ie the follow- ing sratement wheo asked to answer “Guilty or not guilty ?’—“! am guilty of no embezziewent; I am principal in the concern, and this arrest as been made for the purpose of iorcing me toa settlemeni.’? . ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO MURDER TWO PERSONS. Michael Coliins, of No, 7 Harrison street, met Charlotte Thomas, a colored woman, trGrand street on New Year's Eve and asked ner where she was going. Sie did not answer him, and feeling offeuded at her ebon reserve Michael, it is alleged, drew a knife and stabbed her in the thigh. When asked why he had done it Collins said, “1 don’t Know anything about it.” it is also charged that Collins on the same day staboed Siias Cook in the hip, but owing to his injury Cook was unible to appear. Collius Was held lo await the injuries of Cuariotte and Silas, DISORDERLY HOUSE. John Byrnes, of No. 150 Hesier street, who was arrested on the 3cth ult. for keeping a disorderly | house, was held yesterday alter an examination in $1,000 to answer, FIfTY-SEVENTH STREET COURT. STARBING AFFRAY. Before Judge Flammer. Judges Morgan and Otterbourg, who have been dispensing Justice to the lawbreakers of Yorkville selves to the comparatively peaceful precincts of Harlem, and for the next three months their places will be occxpied by Judges Bixby and Fiam- mer, Mr. George W. Cooney takes Mr. Rockwell's place as Chief Clerk. The former Court clerks— Messrs, McCabe and Otterbourg—will also go to Harlem, while their places will be filied by Jonn McGowan and Join slammer, of Trustees of Common Schools.—Certiorari dis- | } | Judge Fiommer presided yesterday, but, with the exception of one case, there Was nething on the returns of unusual interest. On Thursday evening a party of young m who were in @ liquor store on the coruer OF Thrty-seventh street and First avenue set theiselves to “let in the newyear” and give fitting jarewell to the old year. ‘hey succeeded ina manner they did not anticipate. Having become hulf mad from the efects of liquor, they began to quarrel, and a young man named Michael Daley i the thigh, it 18 alleged, by Thom: ps latter also received several! severe cuts on the head and body, aud he wag heid tor trial on Daley’s com- plaint, THE LATEST SWINDLE. A BOGUS CHARITY FAIR AND GIFT ENTERPRISE. A new swindle has been brought to the knowl edge of the police in the shapeof a bogus gilt en- terprise just started by one George P. Harper, who gives bis address as No. 838 Broadway. He pro- poses to sell tickets at $1 each for a grand charity fair to be held at Irving Hail, January 26, 27 and 28, for the benefit of the poor of New York, and at which the Commitice of Arrangements, In order to make ita grand success, have concluded to pre- sent the purchasers of tickets gifts valued at $719,207. Advertisements have been Inserted in the country papers cailing attention to the scheme, and the names of the managing committee are given as follows :—Rev. L, P. Hammond, Rev. Sid- ney kK. Chase, .Hon, M. B&B. Strong, Hon, Mrs, Charles B. Fancher, Hon. Mrs. Val. Kings- land, Miss Editn Gaylard. The Directory does not coutain the names of any of the parties. The surnames, however, are those of well known per- sons interested in the charities o/ this city, and different initials bave been used which would easily deceive the public, Inquiry was made at No. 8388 Broadway, which Harper gives as his address, and the place to which the money for tickets 1s to ve forwarded, and the persons residing there stated positively that no | person by thac nave resided in the house or did business there, At the Post Office, station D, the superintendent has his name on the pro- scriped list, and the manager of Irving Hall stated | that no such fair was to take placo there at all and that the hall had been hired for balls on the dates referred to, Fs SUDDEN DEATHS, George H. Freeman, aged about forty years, a resident of some piace im New Jersey, was found | dead on the floor of aroom in No. 146 West street, yesterday morning. An tquiry will be made into the canse of his death. Shortly before three o’clock yesterday afternoon Jacod Vollmer, aged thirty-five, died suddenly in his room in No. 157 Attorney street. A Coroner will investigate the cause of Volimer’s decease. An old lacy, named Rebecca Whalen, died sud- deniy irom an unknown cause yesterday afternoon at her residence, No, 103 Cherry street, ‘ihe Vor- oner was notified, An unknown man about fifty years of age, died yesterday in the basement of the lodging house, No. 37 Oliver street. He is about five 'eet seven inches in height, with sandy hatr, mtxed with gray. CORONERS’ WORK YESTERDAY. Coroner Croker yesterday made investigations Into the cause of death of the following persons: At the, Morgue, Thomas McMullen, aged sixty years, who dropped dead while at work on the Boulevard, near Seventy-sixth street, on Thurs. if evening, t No, 347 Third street, Join Currie, aged five years, who dicd of paralysis, At No. 80 Sherif street, Lizzie Waiz, aged eight years, who died from natural causes on Thursday. At No. 519 West Forty-third street, Joseph Ross- ner, who ilved in the basement of this number, on Thursday was found dead in front of his door by OMcer Bock, of the Twenty-second precinct. The Deputy Gorvant Bie hot id eae ve to caus ner’s deaib, whic! SUpposed to ave beeu heart digeaae, ce or and the Society for the | came off, to produce a detailed statement of how | thoritative assertions; and second, that on the | The Judge | for the past three months, have betaken them- | i FINANCIAL AND COMMERCINE Highest and Lowest Prices of the Year. Watt. STREET, FRIDAY, Jan, 1, 1875, There being no market to-day, itis only neces- sary to nove how the oid year closes, what it has left behind in the shape of memories and what are the outlines of the future. First, a fact too apparent to be ignored is general stagnation in trade. Since the panic there has been no success- ful recovery. Prices in ali departments have es- tablished themselves silently, sympathetically, and, tt may be remarked, without much effort, on a lower basis, The following table shews the closing quota- tions of stocks on the last day of 1875 and 1874 Deo. 31, Dee, 31, 1873, 1874. New York Central and Hudson.... 991 101% Hariem. Nortnwestern.. ia Northwestern preierred, Rock Island - St. Paul. y Central Union Paeitic ©, GF and 1 flaunibal and Si Joseph. Ohio and Mississippt. Panama... Western Union. Pacific Mail.. seeee > HIGHEST AND LOWEST FOR ‘1874. The highest and lowest prices ot stocks and goid for 1874 were as lollows:— Highest, Lowest, New York Central + 105% 96 134% 13% 51 26 84% 76% 5534 1835 62% 34% Milwaukee and St. Paul..... x oe Sis Milwaukee and St. Paul preferred. 74% 43 Dei., Lack, and Western. 12 99 New Jersey Central. + 19g 99% Unton Pacific. + 88% 23 c., ©. and LC... = B25 8 Hannibal and st. Joseph... Bay 223g Olio and Mississippi 36 21% Panama .. TK 101 Western Union 836 68 Pacific Mail 51M 33% Gold, 114% log poaeee hy FINANCTAL, N OPPORTUNITY TO INVEST IN STOCK PRIVI- £4" leges as good asthe proseni seldom occurs. Janu- ary is the most active month for stocks in tue year, ant udicious investment will pay a hundred fold. Our lites for executing orders tor the purchase or sale of stocks Or sto rivileges are unequaled by any other house. We give all orders our personal attention and guarantee satistaction. TUMBRIDGE & CO. Baukers and Brokers, No, 2 Wall street, DVANTAGES SELDOM OFFER CAN BE SE- “stock Privileges :? our cuse lized in profit many times their invest g December. | Address, for prices and explan- atory circulars, ALEXANDER FROTHINGHAM & CO., Bankers and Bro! Ww. RATL BLE c t Insurance Policies. Mortgages and is etfected with 117 Broadway. A —DEFAULTED RAILROAD BONDS A SPECIALTY * and bought by the old established house of RERT H. NICOLAY & CO. okers and Auctioneers, . 43 Pine strect, New York. ty 23 years. Securitics, best companie; Insurance of ail ki J.J. HABRICH & CO. Railroad Securities our sj y. . 8 AND 10 PER OENT ° City and County Bonds. Railroad Bonds, City Reilroad Stocks, | Also other choice Stocks and Bonds paying 10 w Ld per | cent ata large reduction below par, for sale by ALBERT H. NICOLAY & CO., Pine stteet. Stock Brokers and Auctioneers, 43 —Investment securities e PR oO “DOUBLE PRIVILE! a ) $150,T0 $390; SINGLE PRIVILEGES, 3100: s, $5 TO $20 PER 10) SHARES; PAMPHLUE | MONEY Is LOS? AND MADE’ IN WALL ! FREE, SAVINGS BANK, 123 AND 130 BOWERY, Discemaer 14, 1574. A semi-annual dividend at the rate of six () per cent per annum on wil sume of $5 and upwards, and not ex ceoding $4.0 and ot aye ‘9, per cent per annum on alt sums over $2,000, which shail been deposited at least three taonths on’ the ‘first day of January next, be allowed to the depositors, payable on or ater Monday, January 1 1875, m1 accordance with the provisions of thie by-laws, SAMUEL T. BROWN, President. G. H. Coaai . Bowe | under date of January |, and | ship, under th ANCIAL. PERE a al sob scans EOE STATE OF $OUTE canons. EXECUTIVE De tment, State asurer's oMce. Ces * Couata, 5. C., Dec, 1, 1976 Coupons of the Consolidation Boads of tae Siate of South Carolina, due January 1, 1875, will be paid op atter that date ‘om presentation at the National Bank, New York, tad at the Treasury, Voiumbta, &. C. Coupons due July 1, 1374, on Consolidation Bonds tl may be issued in exchange for fundable bonds will be paid at any time on precen sation at the SOLO men ry L. CAR 0, been wis i Treasurer South Caroling, UMPANY, NO. % LIBERTE oved coliaterals. oo RADE! " DEPOSIT street.—Monoy to loan on JNION DIME SAVINGS BANK, Nos. 296 and 398 Canal street, corner Laight. Open daily, trom 10 to 3, and Monday eyeming, 5to 7. ‘Agsets, over ten million dollars. over eight hundred thousand dollars ri Surplus, Six per cent interest allowed. Money deposited now wi bear interest trom January LA dividend at rate of six per cent per annum hus been declared, payable om Gnd after January 1 N, J. HAINES, President. G, S Cuarix, Treasurer. 7. 8 Ane “etar3 0 LOAN (FREE OF ANY OOMMISSION B5.000 mr arcew wl ant Moritage on. first case city property, s, ac7 percent; applicants must slate exuct location of property oF not noticed. | Address Zs all way. GFUBD, Herald Uptown Brauch office, 1,266 Br hesitate RROWN, OF RICH- ‘and Join Edgar John; part Son, of Imittes AIP NOTICE. vay admitied my sons Abe H. Herts and ists partuers inmy business. , “IN DHENKY B. HERTS. J Vhave Maurice A. H. Dated New Yorx, Jan. 1, 1875. is day formed a copartaer> x! B, Herts & Som The unde! {have name and stvle of H. General Auctioneers, No. 6) Broad rs New Yore, Jam. 1, 187 D, RANDOLPH, {" B NG HOUSE OF DD. RANDOLPH & CO. street, New York, iW. BICKLEY, Jan. 1, 1875. We this day open @ house in ehagelatis under the name of RANDOLPH, BICKLEY & ©O., which wilt aiso be the utle of the New York house from this date Mr. William J. Black is admitted to an interest in firm. ____ EDMUND D JOLPH & New YORK, JANUARY IST., 1875 AN” We have this day tormed a copartnership under the firm name of HORACE R. KELLY & CO. | for the transaction of shipping and commission business, and tor the impor.ation and sale of tobacco, succeeding tothe firm of ROBERT E, KELLY & CO,, except a6 to liquidation. HK COPARTNERSHIP BRERETOFORE EXISTING between Richard smith John F, smith, under fo frm mame of K Smith & son, has beon dissolved this 23th day of er, Y mutual consent Be Smith assumes the payMoat of tie firm's debts and will continue the business, KICHARD SMITH, JORN F, SMITH. BUSWESS OPPORTUNITIES, A ZARINGR WANTED—EITHER SPECIAL OR Ad general, with $3,093 to $10,000 capital, to engage tm the produce commission business; a business of $70,000 a year already established, with acquaimtance for lafzer business, with a capital to carry it, Address P., box 217 Herat offi AXY, BUSINESS GENTLEMAN POSSESSING $25,000 can associate himselt with an extensive Western Wholesale house possewing the highest credit; will we- cure investment if desired, Address WHOLESALE, box 175 deraid ofc: A RENRING PARTNER WILL DISPOSE OF HIS Interest ina profitable, established business in this City ; goods staple ; associations desirable and references ane office. eptionable. Address C. uf. J., box 170 Herald ASS INDUSTRIOUS MAN, WITH $100 TO $300, CAN Join me, witere a sinall jortune can be made; a Cosey indoor ‘business, thoroughly established. 273 Hud- son reel, Upstairs, AN ,OUD CALIFORNIAN, RETURNING TO SAN ZA Francisco on Tuesday, wants agencies or parents to introduce, Address AJ AX, box 136 Herald office. N BDITOR WANTED—TO PURCHASE THE WHOLE or part Interest of a retiring partner in estab- lished trade newspaper, paying 8 ood profit, and tusi- hess increasing; 4 man with ability ang first class refer- ences required. Address box eraid office. A. BUSINESS MAN, WITH $75), WANTS AN AG- cepiable associate with a like sum, in a most desir able cash office business: pays trom $7,002 to $8.00) per annum, Address ADVERTISER, 62 East Ninth street, 10 til 3. NTS, MANUFACTURERS AND OTHERS persons desiring to ime $ with responsible part J opportunities at our office; investors are G > & CARLETO:! ncial and Business Brokers, 98 Bro: GOR S\LE—THE STOCK, FIXTURES AND LEASE of & Hosiery uni Fancy Goods Establishment, located in the best part of sixth avenue, on favorable wrms. Apply at siore, 26 and 28 Lispenard street. EAXCPACTURING BUSINESS | for sale,—Will take part tp desirable Keal Estate, unencumbered, or merchandise. ‘The trade {s large and long estavilshed. Address C. M. D., box 16) Herald office. MAxcracroniwve AND MERCANTILE BUSINESS in a wholesale line.—Reliable partner, wath $10, for halt interest, wanted to igcrease a well establish house in pood standing. Apply to GNIGGS & CARLE- TON, 98 Broadway. MACHINERY PARTNER WANTED—WHO CAN FURNISH ABOUT gs to stock a ®uilders’ hardware business in @ and tin business in a dourishing town that ts tablished; object, a refiable man to take business; business legitimate aud plumbing ready (mess saves G8 BANK 75—JANUARY INTEREST, | ‘The twenty uinth semi-annual interest, at the rate of | six per cent per annum, on all sums which bave been on deposit for one or more months next previous to Jan- | ary 1, wil be credited aud paid on and aiter Thursday, january 2! not called tor will remain as principal and st accordingly, and wiil be entered on the 's’ books any time when presented alter the 2ist nk is open every day for the reception and pay. ment of money trom iW A.M, to P.M, and on Mondays and Saturdays from 10 ASM. 'to 7 P. Bank books in German, Freuch and Engtish, Bank 53 Bowery, southwest corner of Canal street. _ BA. QUINTARD, President u TS, MANUF AC tarers, &c. Underayned have applications trom 1 sons who desire to invest capital. AL: IHINGUAM & CO,, Bankers und 12 Wail street. CHICAGO AND INDIANA CENTRAL Railway Company.—A special meeting of the stock iders will be ‘eld on Monday, January 4, k, in Metropolitan Bank building, en+ ive the reports ot the eting, and to tr: g i, Financtal as President. Cand I. ©. Railway, € Chairman Bondholders’ MILLIb Ef 3 SLSR, ers’ Committee. New Yorx, De E RANT INDUSTRIAL SAVINGS BANK, NO. 51 New York, Dec, D chambers street, 1874. Dividend.—The trustees of this bank’ lav dered that interest be paid to «epo itors entitled thereto for on Ohairman stockhold- | 30, 1874, the six months ending tins date ag follows:—First, on stuns of $2,000 and under, te of six per cent ‘per anni: second, on suis’ ng $2,0W, six per cence per m on $20) and five per cent per annum on the excess, Payabi¢ on and atter Monday. January 18, 1575. The interest will be placed to the credic ol depositors led to interest nara MOGUEY’, President. for the next six months If not HENRY b. Davin Lepwira, Comptroiler. SOLTY-FLFTH DIVIDEND Hanover Fire Insurance Company, No. kv Broadway. A semi-annual dividend of five (5) per cent is payable on demand at the office of the company. EMSEN LANE, v Yorx, January 1, 1875. Poe. SALE—TWO MORTGAG! Secretary. OF $8,000 KACH 10 er cent), on 10 acres very valuable Building Sites, on Madison and Hyman avenues, Chicago, are otfered ata | liberal discount, Address 0. 8. A., box 2,966 New York | Post office. IGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES OF STOCKS IN H 1874.—See HASSLER'S Financial Report, No. 209 five cents. No,7 Wall street. ALWAYS HAVE MONEY TO LOAN ON NEW York efty Mortgages without bonus. Principals de- siring to BORROW OR INVest apy ny tO hh. L. GRANT, 11 Pine street. N AN UFACTURER’S AND MERCHANTS’ BANK, ew mK, Dec, 24, IST4, ‘The directors have this day declared a’ d da’ dividend, irom the earnings of the last six monihs, of three and @ halt per cent, free of taxes, payable January 2 i375, The transfer books will be closed until January 4 THO, DY. WAKREN, Cashier, | rT! | N oupoRs ot the Mortgage Bonds of the Budalo B ¢ Railway Company, even per cent Convertivle Gold Bonds, Erie Railway | Company, iurie aid Genesee Valley Railroad Compa: Avon, Geneseo and Mount Morris Railroad Company, Burinlo, Bradford ani Pittsburg Railroad Company. Paterson and Newark Railroad Company. Newburg and New York Railroad Company. Jeflecson Railroad Company. ‘And also the seml-annuai dividends on the stock of the | Ri enesee Valley Raitroad Company and Von, Genesco and Mount Morris Railroad Compa, falling die Ist January next, will be paid on and aiter the diiprosa at dhe treastity ol the Rete allway Com any cornet 0 re c New Yor Leiti W.P, SHBARMAN, Treasurer, | r Manufacturing Company, No. 4 iy oy ii i) 20, 1874. Ew Yorr, Dec. 3 . The Directors of this Company have deciared the usual quarterly Dividend of two and one-half per cent; al-o an Extra Dividend of two and one-half per cent; both payabio on and aiter January 2, 1875. a. PF. bile os ci FPIOK GREAT WESTERN (MARINE) INSURANCE Company, No, 50 Wall street, New York, December 1874.—At n special meeting of ihe Board of Director: held ‘this day, A SEMI-ANNUAL CASH DIVIDEND 0} FIVE @) PBR GENT on the eapital stock of the compan was deciared, payable on and atter January lay ted Transfor books will be closed until that date, M. T. LOCKWOOD, Seeretary. OPHSE, RIOGEWOOD, TeeUeaNOK COMPANY, Brooklyn, December 28, 1874.—A semi-annuai Divi? gene ot oye ®) Ber oan, Js gechared parable on vie 2d of anuary, 1875, at ‘ew York office ol this company, No. 184 Broadway. WMA. SCOTT. Recretary. SECURITY SAVINGS BANK, GORNER THIRTY: ) fourth street ané Third avenne. The semi-annual Dividend, at the rate of six por cent per annum, on all sums entitied thereto, will be credited and paid on OTR lnteres not called for will remain iat interest not called for will remain as principal and draw interest irom January 1. “ ref ne city of New York, \ Wr j pas NER WA) vision business | Majesty's ship Phoenix, Lbear the strictest investigation. Call tor one week 253 Water street, New York. DERUNDEOU & GOODWIN, NTLD—ACTIVE OR SILENT, IN THE has an established joa of maay years: the bi c and ily” established; parties auswert ce amount desiring to inves. Address box ice. DARTNER W. manutacture of a staple article —IN THE MARKET AND PRO- rare chance for a inan to get_right $6u0 or $300. Inquire at 64 Fulton into a good busne: , Brooklyn. SRS.—PARTIES IN OR NEAB y, having first class facilities for manutac- ron, MAY OtaIN Work on com- stating location, &c., WOOD office. OWNER OF A LARGE STEAM shes a party with $3,0W) to $4,000 io ime he ‘manttacture of shire in connection wita at business: machinery and, orders ready for business at onee: ‘would preter a bookkeeper with the amount w invest. Address PROVERTY S&CUALTY, Herald oitice. ‘ a 0. —SILENT PARTNER WANTED, $1.200 iT © gentleman, in a splendid cash buste yo ness established ‘several years; large monthly profiteg steady aid increasing; no risk splendid chance tor im vestment. Address SECURITY, box 140 Herald office. 2 TROUBLE ON BOARD A WHALER, {From the San Francisco Cail.) The voyage of the whaling ship Java, now tm port, was prolific of discontent and embitterment Counter charges within the cognizance of the United States Circuit Court are preierred both by ' the officers and crew. The captain, E. £. Fish, and the first mate, H. D. Colson, have been arrested for crucl aud unasuai punishment, and the latter is also charged wiin iil treatment lavished upon & seaman named Peter Riley. While the ship was at the Marquesas Islands the crew remonstrated with the captain on certain incentives to duty bestowed on the carpenter, and the captain, resenting this appeal irdm the ine ferior machtnes ef the jorecastie, Lad sixteen of them mustered on deck, and in handcuffs he strung thom together with @ rope. A Maori, who happened to be of their namber, gnawed the rope in twain and liberated all. Another rope was pro- cured, but a file effected a release. Aiter two days of handcuffing ali came to terms with the excep- tion of two, They were put in irons, ard the cap tain vowed they should have nothing to cat or arink until they proiessed submission and re- turued to daty, One gave out in a coapie of days; the other, an obdurate Scotchman, named Duncan McEwen, continued a dougaty protestant against his treatment ior five days. Then he surrendered, For this treatment the captatn and his first officer have been arrested. A counter charge of muting is preferred against the crew. THE NORTH POLE. ENGLISH PREPARATION FOR EXPLORATION IN THR ARCTIC REGION. . {From the London Telegraph.] Up to the present no ships have been decided | Upon by government for the Arctic expedition, although three vessels—namely, the Esquimaux, Bioodhound and Arctic—are all favorably men-, tioned. Possibly one of these will be selecteds but Sir Leopold M‘Clintock has gone to Scotland on a mission of inspection, and, till he returns, tt 1s not likely that any decision will be made. Prob- ably one whaler and one gunboat will join the ex- edition, and it is believed that the efort next Year will be principally directed to reaching 88 deg. of latitude by water before starting im sledges for the North Pole. ‘THE REGENT INLET, $ Another record of the presence in Regent Inlet of the Prince Aibert searching vessel, under com mand of Mr. Kennedy, has been Jately brought. home by the whaling ship Intrepid, Captain Sonton, The Prince Albert entered Port Bowen on September 5, 1851, ahd during her short stay of two days a party from the vessel visited the neighbormg harbor of Port Neili, in charge of the ailant Lieutenant Bollot, of the French avy, who deposited the memorandum in his own ‘handwriting which has now been found, | Lieutenant Bellot’s services and his untimely cond Arctic voyage in her re well known, and are recorded upon the obelisk erected to his m at Greenwich. A still more enduring testim was awarded to him aMxing bis Dame to t) stratt, the existence of which» was ascertained by Kennedy and himself during their subsequent ex- jorations, ‘This atratt is & connecting link in orthwest passage, the waterway through it death when upon hit Wa. M, Bayes, Secretary. + MARSM Ald Presions, Pmas, L, SucRAaE, Treasurer. along the north coast of America Delma Goalinae ug 10 the PAGIAG OCGA