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4 THE TRANSIT OF VENES The Achievements of the American Scientifie Army. Official Reports of the Observers. The Plans of the Transit Commission a Brilliant Suecess. TRIUMPHS OF AMERICAN INGENUITY The Successful Labors of the Expeditions in | China and New Zealand. Their Importance in the Great Problem. The story of the brilliant achievements of tue American expeditions despatched to the Eastern Hemisphere of the earth to observe the transit of Vebus across the sun’s disk have already been minutely detaiwed in the HERALD. But the scientific recorus ofthe latitude and longt- tude observations of the astronomers, the circum- stances under which the phenomenon was chron- leled, and the other detutls so anxiously awaited by tne calculators and students throughout the world, have been reserved tor embodiment in for- wal and ofMcial reports te the commission at Wasbington, and these are now and for ine =o trst «time = made_=—s public ~— through the columns of this paper. Considering sbat the work has been performed under more than ordinary difficuities, and tbat their lavors will constitute bases of calculation in for- eign observatories, it isa matter for congratula- | tiom that the history of them can be given to the world at this comparatively early date. Appended | will be found the interesting statements of Pro- lessors Watson and Peters, whose positions and observations in China and New Zealand respec- sively were among the most important of those taken by the astronomers. The reports of other chief astronomers we hope to be able to lay before our readers almost immediately, eXcepting, per- | haps, those On their way from the distant regions of Viadivostok (Eastern Siberia) and Kerguelen island. OUR ASTRONOMERS IN CHINA. THE SUCCESS ACHIEVED AT PEKIN PORTRAYED BY PROFESSOR J. C. WATSON. SHaNncuat, Jan. 13, 1875. My Dar Proressor—I received your letter of the 22d October the night beiore we left Pekin and I send you this by the first mail which leaves aince our arrival here in Spanghai., 1 have writ- | ten to-day to Admiral Davis, stating fully our op- erations since | last wrote him, and stating also _ what Ihad done in relation to the return of the Party and instruments to the United States. I[ will therefore advise you more fully in regard to | bur observations. For the determination of our | latisude we have about 140 pairs observed and for dur longitude we nave Jorty-four occultations, | many of them observed by three observers, and We bave in all cases complete time determinations on the same evening. We have, I think, nearly, if not more than 1,000 transits of Mtars for time and position of imstru- | ments. We have almost daily determinations of the position of tne photographic telescope, We Rave numerous measures of distance between platehoider and objective; photographs of re- versed lines of platehoider, &c. We have also | Made an accurate geodetic connection between our station and the French and Russian. We bave also the magnetic and other observations provided for, Ican think of nothing which was to be done or ought to have been done which has | not been weil done. In regard to occuitations, [computed all tnose in the lisis of occultations whose limits included our jatitude, In the case of the transit observa- tions I have not been able to make the reductions | jor two reasons. First, the amount of material accumulated; second, the peculiarity of the 1n- Strument, which requires much more than ordi- wary labor of reduction. 1 have made prelimi- bary reduction of tne observatious, 80 as to keep the run of the clocks and chronometers, and to know the errors of the instrament; bat I Bave Deen obliged to deler the complete redaction of all the observations until my return to the United States. As | participated personally in veariy all the observations mace and know all about them 1 can give them thorough treatment, and upon my return tn Sep’ emver or Octohec nexe i will complete the reductions and put ail in com- Plete form for publication, whicn will, I trust, be Ww in good season. THE DIFFICULTIES BEGUS In regard to the pecullarities of our transit 1n- Strumentl ought to write you now. Upon re- ducing my first observations I found great dis- crepancies in the vaiue of the collimation jound from reversal upon different stars, and I was immediately convinced that the prism must | be loose in its cell. Protessor Young suggested also that tuere inight be some Gexure Of the axis. In order to test the instruments 1 measured the coliimation carefully and repeatedly and also the imequality of the pivots. Tnen I reversed the instrament upon stars near the zenith, so a to avoid the effect of azi- muth errors, and I found that what I suspected did actually exist, but since the error Of the prism might act in two ways—viz., If loose 1m ite cell it would simply change the position of its face so as to introduce an error, precisely the same as that of an inequality of the pivots, corre- sponding in emount; or, if held tighter at one corner, it would by its weight change the place of its face in dierent positions of the instrument, imtroducing a term depending upon the square of the cosine of the zenith distance. I reversed also Upon stars at different zenith distances. The form of the bar which carries the counterpoises is such that its rigidity is variobie, and this will intro- duce, for the effect of the flexure of the axis, in addition to the term depending on the cosine of the zenith distance—one depending on the square Of this cosine. The amount of the error first found sbowed that the prism must be loose, and accord ingly we took it out, and fonnd tne transporta. tion bad loosened the screws. 1 therefore tignt- ued the screws, and, upon repeating the observations upon stars in the manner described, the er: was found to edneed avout one-hal!. To test the dexure of the axis we arranged the striding spirit level so as to measure it quite ap- proximately, and it was ‘ownd to be of a magni- bude quite in accordance with the indications of she observations, A COMPLICATION OF INSTRUMENTAL ERRORS. Further obs tions by reversa! upon stars various altitudes, collimation and level being ac- enrately measured directly, showed me that tt terms depending upon the sauare of the cosine of the zenith distances, Jue to tue fexure of toe prism in ita celland the want of rigidity in the arm which carried the counterpolses, is by far the Most considerable term, and in order to provide well for the determination of thia term I lave Measured the cojlimation care/ully each night and feversed the instrament upon stare of varicus alti- tudes, The means are thus provided in the final discussion of the observations to eliminate = effect of al errors peculiar to the instrament. These errors Wil explain to you why | decided to observe more transite of sters than would oiherwise have 900M Necessary. 4 neod ouiy add here that upon — sppleiag the cerresnens cus to these errors ine | | tacts With a telescope ne . vided the negatives. : NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 992 any @oservations ure orgugnt peaalifully imto line, i made observations to find accurately the value of one revolution of the micrometric screw, and also tested carefully its regularity. Toe error of jovel of the photographic telescope was always very carefully determined, as you will see when the recorus reach you. ‘The measurement of tus error | made with the micrometer, using tue spirit level of the eugineer’s level only tor a small amount—usually not balf adivision of tts scale. | THE METHOD ADOPTED you will understand clearly from the records. The azimuth of the middie vertical line of the plate- hoider, and also the azimuth of the plumb line woere it crosses the middle horizon line of plateholder, were carefully measured each might of observation. Iu the case of the double image micrometer 1 took a large number of transits of the sun's limb to determine its zero point and the vaiue of one revolution of the screw. e@ nigut belore (the transit) had been beauttruily clear. I went in person to the observatory at four o'clock A, M. and observed jor some tm I also made a Huai inspection to that everything was alt right. Lassigned toeach member the duties le was to periorm, aud every man Was in bis place lung belore the appointed ume. We had measured the clstance between the objective and piatenolder, aud we were proceed. ing to uke reversed phot phs of the lunes Wien & bank of clouds came up trom the south. and covered the sun. {t vegan to a) pear hopeless lor the observation of the transit, Thad arcanged 30 a8 to bave the contacts ob- s$—Viz., by myseli with ) essor Young W the taree-ineh Clark teicscope, and by Mr. Wood- Wad Witu Prolessor Youug'’s four-incn comet seecer, the rising clouds preveating Professor Young from usiug the speciroscope. The ciouds Were getting a Ulile Uinner aud the prospect Was, a litte Deiore nine o'clock, iavorably lor the observation of the Mrst contac JUST AS WE WERE READY to compare caronomeiers it Was discovered that Lue electric connections between the puotographic louse and tae transit house Was brosen, and t'ro- jessor Young, Who wad put them up, sougnt to fin the place of the break, Bue as it jacked oniy @ half pour of the first con- t hod to change the programme, and, ia order to be Sure and have exposure of the photograpus he tme of the aken Lsent Mr, Wooaward invo the photozraphi ne the record and tase time. on, the surgeon of we british Legatio: kindly undertaken to do this service ior us; tue accident to our electrical connections made tt casary lor me tO assign Mr. Woodward to this duty, He did vot thereiure observe the first and second contacts, The first and second contacts were observed by me and Provessor Young through tain clouds, and the photographs bear | evidence of the diltcuities We hud to encounter, The bellostat was in charge of Proiessor Young, and, Walle be Was engaged m,obse: Ving the cou- v by. te Was ass by Wahagement. 3 It w neXt to mposstble to try to catch the sua in pass- the Kev, Mr. Coilins in 1 ing breaks Io the clouds, and hence | gave the or- der to go right ahead and plotograpii us rapidly as the slates were ready, und I know taut by so doing We got hiany more ‘pictures winch can be me. sured than Would otherwise have been possipis Sometimes the bright Spot in the clouds aor ¢ actiy over the sun's cenire Would Misivad ie an at the heliostat, and he would direct the image of the spot, instead of the sup, to ihe cen Claphragm, There are three or jour puoiog: Wich in this Way are On tue side ol che plate, had provided rings, Visible irom the outside, so that when ¢ OUds did Hot inieriere We could direct the image aimost exactly toe the middie o1 the plate holuer, On the whole, you will fina the pic. tures well centred on the plate, the exceptional ceses being those mentioned. | Alter iorty-lour eXposures had been thus made dense clouds obliged us to suspend operations. It remained compietely overcast until peur one | o’ciock P. M., when we were enabled to resume photographing, A HEATHEN ICONOCLAST. Meanwhile we had detected the place of the break in our Wires (now supposed \o have been made by a Chinaman with a Wheelbarrow loaa of Water passing Over tne wires just belore we disco ered the circuit broken) and repgired tt, and thea tergoon photograpns are ulso recorded ou thy chronograph. I also continued Mr. Woodward ac tue record of the times, &c., and Dr. Dudgeon gave me Valuable assistance in developing and fixing | the puoloxrapas, waich we made ut average in- tervais Of & mMiuute and @ quarter. It wall be seen vy comparing Mr. Woodward's record | wich the corresponding record by tue Clock or the | Curonograpa that the Umes are taken by vim with eutire accuracy, 80 thal tae ioreaoon times of the phovograpns ‘ure as reliable as if tuey had beeu also recordea on the cnronograph, We o | gab photographing iM the alternvou as soon as tue clouds became (hin enough to enable us to see the sau, and I gave the same order as in the forenoon—to make exposures as fast as ine plates coula be got ready. By so doing we obtained | | tity-flve exposures before the eud Oi the transit. Toe Clouds dispersed belore the third contact, but dust storm waa approaching (it actually came Au bour after the transit), and tue alr was yellow- tinted With aust, 80 that long exposures nad to be mude. APPEARANCE OP THE PICTURES. ‘The photographs are necessarily thin, butneariy allo: them cau be well measured. ‘be tuird and fourth contacts were ooserved by me with the equacorials, by Professor Yeung witu the ctnree- luch Clark telescope and by Mr, Woodward with the lour-inch comet seeker, In measuring cusps 1 was botnered ia the furenoon by ‘he faintness on account of clouds and in the afterncou by tue eadiness of tue limp at times. However, I did the best | could, aou succeeded in getting be- tween thirty and torty measures. | Yo recapitulate them We have observed weil all | | the contacts, and have ovtuined ubout ninety photographs which can pe measured. | regret | vuat we did not bave aciear aay, im which case | We Shouid Juve obLained 200 goou pnutozraphs. — | The observations for pesition telescope and ali necessary preiumiuary ouserva- tions Were +o carelully aud repeatedly maue thus Wwe Daye the means of getting iroul our proto- Grapos ull tuat 1s opticaliy possinle, and 1 he Tuat HO pains Wil be spared In their n.easuremer in accordance with your suggesuon I nave ¢ 1 have retaimed here, to be forwarded vi & uifferent steamer, Oue LOX of | hegaiives, contaiming three sets (iour each) of direct and reversible photographs, one deiore and two aiter (he day O1 the transit, and woirty-eune negatives uf tie transit. Liose whien | oave are ood Legatives, and 1i the ochers should unioriu- Hately be lost On Lhe Way these wouid give # good result jor Pekin. ‘Jose waica | bave retained 1 wii carly to Mong Kong aud putin the personal charge Oo! the commander of tue Pacific Mail pleumship Salling directiy to San braucisco, to be inenee jorwarded with great care by express to suibecou, J will also jorward, thiongh tue runeni of Sate, the origival records and we duplicate, as directed in the printed ivstructions. ‘Lhe lustraments*parucuiariy menuoned in your letter of tue 22d October and the negatives, except those I siaii send irom Hong kong, have gone forward in charge of Professor Young. He wilt deliver them to you im Wasuingion. ‘Tue other msivuments are tv go home 1p the LackaWauna, Whica is soon to return to we United states. | enclose ngrewitn THE TIMES OF THR CONTACTS as we observed them, and I desire atthe same ume Lo cal! your attepuon to the phenomena ol | toese coutacts a8 1 ooserved them, Which are quite diferent irom those 0: the artificial Wansit which we ovserved, Tue Jalutness o: te image at the secoud ¢ ct, caused by tue thin clouas, did BOs eLable me Lo see Loe Changes so definitely 4s iu the affernoun at wird contact, but | did see | wellenough lo pat me ou the lookout jor deflaiie phases at third contact aud to show me what to 1 the pactographic expect. Thas whtie the third contact was observed by me with gieat accuracy aud under iavorable cit- cumstances, lam sausiled that my ovserve tions O1 seCONd Contact are very good and tu be relied | upon in the discussion of all the observations. ‘The records Will give you au account of What was seen by cach observer, aud I how write simply to stace What i now kuow to be the pheaomena of wctual transit. I will descrive THE YHIRD CONTAC where I saw every plase cleariy and unmisiak- ably. First, waoen the vand of ligut oetween Venus and the sun's limb Was reauced to about oue second of are (ur perhaps v.88.) in widtn, 1 Was interrupted by Hitting shadows. They be- gan by a Singie one Momenturiiy in the thiinest part of the vaud, wen expalding as the bend be- came thinner aad tumuer—not pei manent, but fitting—and they appeared radial \o Venus. Phey were inuependeut ol, and Nad nothing to do with, the undulations of te sun's limb. ‘Tne first mo- mentary dark connection was 24,65. belore nile cusps were formed. The definition in the sope Was food, although the limo of the sun cecasionally unguiaung. During the period ol 2 these shadows were becoming datker te was and mor Lamerow but the ine of ght coud n cle a 8, With simply motmen- tary mterruptions in the Manner described, At tue justant iecorded as third contact the shadows | ceased, aud tue line Was neatly broken ana distin were quite sharp, and a black liguthent a# p while the saadows had ceas were lormed the space between the cus untea with @ grayish light, een seconds longer, being very Cou Hed this atthe time asurt of twi- n;ht the solar corona and chrom ming to do Witait. Buta litue made me think that the phenomena Witnessed ae due to the atmospuere of Venus, Gnd it is LO Lis View Of the case thar | Wisn to call your attention UNEXPECTED PHENOMENA. Tho description whien I hay suddenly aud » Was LO App sviously descrived, dand distincs sharp cuous, and | thi nad some comtact 18 equally tue, the ut a“ reversed Of the secona contact, and it being evident from What i saw that with a guod ope and the eye hot iativued, t diation 48 early if not quite in: 100k Jor some other cau ovserved, 1 do pot kno how lar the effegt of the atmosphere of Venus has beeu considered in dis- cussing ihe previous (ransiv, or whether Ib Las been considered at « Hot access to any papers or books iro 1 may flad our, ue eftect of the atmosphere Would ve first to ¢ large the apparent diameter of Venus, sin thowe rays Ol solar light Whico enter tne lower | diy of the atmosphere Would be brougnr toe cus between the ouserver and the plaues aud Beuce increase the Gise OF Ue OCCUliOR diss. | become brighter | Fourth contact... | friends. | They would also give @ taint iamination to the disk of Venus a% seen on the sun. The rays which Would come to @ locus far behind tue ob- server would give @ siignt corona to Venus, and this I was sure (could see on severat occasions, THEORY OF THE STRANGE APPEARANCES. Alter the planet had entered upon the disk of the sun So as to be hear second contuct the re Iraction of the atmosphere above the occuitiog part would cause (he cusps to be bent out slizbtiy, avd finauy the Amb of the sun Would become visi- veiore the actual contact o. the oecultling dis: he narrow bana Whieh Would thus be raised view would be brokeu by shadows and gradually until at actual contact, whei the limp of the suo had actually risen over the horizon of Venus, these disturbances would cease. Hefore the linb was first retracted into view the iumimation of the atmosphere of Venus would produce a twinght to be seen be. tween the cusps. The samé phenomena would be produced in reverse order at third contact, At actual contact with the vccuiting disk, whea the limb of the sun was setting bend the horizon of Venus, the relvacti n would raise into view a narrow band of ligat which would be interrupted by dark Iriuges or shadows, becoming deeper and deeper until final apparent sunset over the panev’s limb, when distinct cusps would be lormed; thea would follow the twilight, which would be seen as a@ faint iliumina- ton between the cusps. When at Cnefoo I asked Dr. Adoiph waether he had seen Similar phenomena? He said that he did see a dstinct halo around Venus, and that he saw it When Venus first touched toe sun, the sky being Very clear, and he informed me also that their photograplis exhiptted it, He said that the paenomena at the interaal contacts were ‘“angsam,”? and quite unlike the artificial transit. Isuid to aim that 4 Was convinced that the at. mosphere of Venus was the real cause, and asked bim whetuer he knew of its having veeu con sidered, He said he did not, and upon my calling his attenuon to the fact that an explanation of the phenomena dia not require any unreasonable Assumptions as to the extent and density of THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE PLANET he seemed to think it quite possible thatit must be considered in explaluing the phenomena of the transit, From my own observations I have computed What may be the provable extent of the atmosphere o; the planet aud its effect upou the times of contact. Its efiect, im addition to what las already been stated, wiil be to retard the tune of first contact and to accelerate the time of tourta contact. LM we call D tl, Dt 2 Dts and D4, the correction to be applied to the computed times of contact, T 1, 27T 3 14, the observed times ought to be, if the elements irst contact=T1 plas D t1; second ; third contact, T3 plus Dt 3; tact fourth contact=T t4. [ tina that, if we diminish Bessel’s value of the semi-diumeter of the sun by 1.5 seconds, the cor. Tection Of the semi-diameter of Venus at the i | instant of tramsit is about 0454s, The longi- tude of Venus, minus the longitude of the sun, requiring the smuil correction ot 0.168. and the sum of the corrections for the longitude of he node and error oi sun’s latitude, being about 4 Assuming the adopted value ol the semi. diameter or the planet to be correct, the portion of the atmosphere Which becomes Invist- bie and enlarges tue occulting disk amounts to, in height, about one-seventiein of the 1a- atus of the pianet, or about — fifty-five miles, @ result Wich, withougu, of course, only appreximate, is entirely probavle. The twilight m be due to the liuminution of an amount Ol Visinle acnosphere iully equivalent | to this. If we call its apparent height 0.58, we have Ms. for tic pertod of its contmu- ance, aud I am sure it Was visible for 15s, at third contact. Its dsappearance at third con. | act would be gradual, and what was observed Would be the bright twilight due to the lower por | lions Of the atmosphere, Inderiving the parallax | of the sum from the observations of the internal | contacts the dimeulty | ing the will be tn determin. | corresponding phases —_ observed, and I have explanauion no doubt that without definite the times recorded at tne present transit will be found to be as apparently aiscordant as those of previous transits. kt places where the ony wasclear the bright twilignt pre- ceding the joining of the cusps at the second con- tact, and following thelr iormation at wird con- tact, Will in many instances be recorded as actual time o1 contact, as inierred Irom the requirements of the instructions to observers, and in very clear sky these preceding and following phases may have been observed as definitely as those which I observed at Pekin, TRE TRUE MOMENTS OF APPARENT COLLISION, It would have been better, 1t seems to me now, to have insiructed the observers to note LWo or three times when they witnessed well defined phases and not attempt at the instant to fix upon | atime tu be regarded as that of contact. For a | period of nearly 11 not quite a minute three dis- tnct phases Were succeeding one to the other aud the observers could not at the Moment decide | when the contact took place. But when tne Tecord shows What was seen at the instant tor Which the ume was recorded it wiil be possible tocompare the times observed at different sta- | tions with entire certaiuty. I have no woubt that &@ good determination Oo! the parallax can be effected by means of the observed times of contact, but they are not to be imterpretea by means of any assumed effect of irradiation. And 1 have not & doubt that the atmosphere of Venus tur- nishes a compleie Key for Us iuterpretation, With the hope that many of the other parties may have been lavored with better weatne: than we had at Pekin, dud Wishing you the full fruition of your Ponce in regard to the results which may bederived, 1 remain, yours very truly | JAMES UC, WATSON, Chief of Party. To Simon Newcoms, United States Navy. THE 1.—Onserver, J, ©. Watson. OBSERVED TIMES OF = | contact. | PEKIN, CuINa, Dec. 8-9, 1874. First contact. Second contact— Firat gleams of light between the cusps Line of unbroken White ight completed. ‘Thira coniact— Line of wuite light first momentarily broken... Line completely broken; distinet cusps fermed.. (Gray tint of light between cusps filteen seconds longe Fourth coutact. e0ee sence eal Instrument, five-inch equatorial; power, about 8) First cou Second Led later.) Third contact— several dark lines connecting Venus with the sky. Light last seen to gitinmer acro: distinct and permanent. Fourth contact. instrument, thre Il.—Ossenver, C. A. Youna. gliinin eariier casional Gurk tringes seen ten or fifteen seconds ‘and dark connection, laré telescope ; power—tirst contact, 25; others, IIL. —Onssnrver, 7. Third contact— Connection between Venus and su Complete contact. : 's limb. Instrument, four-inch comet seeker graphic house at first and second contacts. The phases above mentioned are as described by the observers respectively in the original notes to the observations, Chronometer Correction $0" porta af. Ti Chronometer | PMT. | penarte, OMS. | AM 1. M. & j 13 54 10) 7 Probably 3 or 4 | sec. lute, Mw 2 350] 7 8 | Mm 60] 7 3 Prob. 5sec. late. | 1g a ool 7 3 1 Good obserya'n. 18 M825) 7 1 Ime exact. .[ 18 38 44.0] 7 35 339] 2 17 17.9 |Good observa’n. ronometer, Bond, 29). 14 9 80] 7 23 81) 21 82 381 |Prob'ly late.(%) 437 3.0 23 80/22 0 11.0 |Good observa'n. 18 26 230] 7 23 7.5] 1 49 455 18 2% stu] 7 23 75] 1 50 06 18 63 54.0] 7 23 7a] 217 14) 89. Chronometer, Dillon. P. Woopwanp. 18 26 300] 7 23 7.5| 1 49 375 18 26 560| 7 23 75) 1 50 85 1s 68 45.0] 7 25 74/2 16 S24] Mr. Woodward was taking time in photo- power, 0." Chronometer, Dillon. THE KERGUELEN OBSERVATIONS. THE PHENOMENON OBSERVED AND PHOTO- GRAPHED UNDER FAVORABLE ELEMENTAL AUSPICES—NEWS FROM DESOLATION ISLAND. UNITED StaTEs STEAMSHIP MONONGAHELA, KERGUELEN ISLAND, South Indian Ucean, Jan, 10, 1874. Having received orders to find and convey home the parties who were leit at Kerguelen Island by the United States steamer Swatara, Guring the month of September, 1874, the Monongahela, which was attached to the South Atlantic station, left the harbor of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, on tne 1st day of October, 1874, and proceeded on her long cruise. It was an expedition entnusiasti- caliy entered into by officers and men, though we were about entering unknown seas many thousands of miles from civilization, and having | comparatively little knowledge of the dangers of the navigation, being entirely without any data or meteorological phenomena which “vbiaze | out,’ as it were, the more irequented portions of the globe. After a long and tedious voyage through the inhospitable seas of the Southern Hemisphere we at Jast sighted tae Crozet group of islands; but, 10 our great disappointment, there was no Ameri- can party there, We had been left under the im- pression that an expeditionary force was to be janded on that island; but we thought, perhaps— as it afterward proved—that they had been unable to effect a landing. So the ship was turned toward Kerguelen, which place we sighted alter a few days, anchoring in Christmas Harbor. NO SIGN OF THE AMERICAN PaRTY, As at the Crozet Islands so it was at Christmas Harbor; where we confidently expected to find our party they were non es: inventus, and it was @ source of considerable annoyance and some anxiety tous, as we nad not the slightest idea where they might be. Visions of serious weather and disaster to the Swatara began to arise, a8 sue bad not been seen or heard irom since she leit Cape Town, in August. But, trusting to luck, the sailor’s “standby,” and to that weet littie cherab which sits up aloit to watch over the life of poor Jack,” it was decided to pro- | ceed at once along the coast and search out our Accordingly, on the 9th of December, the day of the transit, we steamed out of Christmas Haroor and headed down the coast. As we rounded the southern cape of the harbor the sun broke forth in all his glory from the eastern bori- zon, and, filling the whole heavens with a brillant light, presaged @ magnificent aay. And so it proved, 4 BRIGHT Sky. To our enthusiastic countrymen, standing on a lone point in the southern part of the tsland (as we afterward learned), 1t was indeed a “sun of Austerlitz.” Not @ cloud dimmed the sky, and, with anxious and beating hearts (for tne weather bere 1s most treacherous), these gallant men, in thelr efforts in benaif of science, stood ready by thelr instruments | to catch the first moment Oo! contact. 1t came pre- cisely at 6n, 41m, A. M. A dark spot was seen to touch tne outer rim of the sun’s disk, and our astronomers knew that Venus was in a direct line between them and the great luminary, Other positions of the planet being obiained, the rate of travel was established and the deed was done. As the planet was in transitu, PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS of it Were taken by Professor D. R. Hoimes, the chief photographer of the expedition, and his assistant, showing the relative position of the star at diferent times, These pictures, oeing “instan- taneous,” are very exact, and show the true posl- Lions and times of the planet in its course across tue sun’s disk, The first instant of contact was observed by Commander G. P. Ryan, chief of the ex- pedition, through his large telescope, one minute belore it was seen by Lieuten- ant Commander Tram, who had charge o: the smaller tmstrument (by no means an inferior one, thus showing the strength and per- Jecthess of the former, which is Of American mauutacture, We have every reason to congratulate these gentiemen, not only on the accurate aud splendid instruments waich tuey possess, DUL also on tne Skil Wita Wich they Were managed. Apropos, Iwill state that, owing to the vad weatuer and her duties elsewhere the Swatwa was unable to remain here any length of time; 80, having landed the party and tueir'effects ou the beach, she took her departure, leaving those gentiemen, witu their ‘household gous’ scattered around them, and lookiug ilke 80 Ibany “Mariuses anid the rains of Cartnage;” but they dia not remain jong iu this state, and, having Boure 01 the 29a! ANd perseverance Of Lhat oid Korman hero, they s00u brougnt “order out ol chaos,” aud not taking of their coata, ag the slate of the thermometer would haraly admit of that, bat, giraing up their loins, they “piccbed in’? in true iavorer style, and room tue neat littie TOWN OF RYANSVILi! ‘an to assaine @ local haoitation and a name,” Ulebant Commanaer traimy the architect o1 tae sand Bor parposss aenrig two bi miles, the Agreeabie work it must have been with thermometer at forty degrees and the wind blowing the hair irom your head; but notaing daunted, these gentlemen having erected their houses, tents, observatories, &c., and making @ street here and a square there, soon gave an air of comfort and business-like appear. | ance to tne Hitie village by the sea. Itis true there were no reservoirs or hydrants, nor were there any gas lamps in this new city; but a gusn- | ing torrent o1 pure cold water trom the distant | mountains swept at 13 leet, supplying the av- sence of the former, while the tunumbered con- | sieliutions of the Southern Hemisphere, glowing | with their undying brilliancy, answered in place | of the latter. POSITION OF THE OBSERVERS Molloy Point, upon whica 1s situated the village | of Ryansviile, the point wuere the observing pur- les are stationed, 15 on the north side of Royal | Sound and about twenty-five miles from tbe | mouth. It is wocer the jee of the nigh range of | mountains Which extend along the length of the | island, aud is thereby protected trom the stroug | westerly gales which blow here at times | witn great force. These mountains also tend to condense or dispel ina great measure the heavy | masses of clouds waich lorm on the windward | side of the island. This point is one of the most favorable in the whole island jor observauons, and will probably be used again in 1882, when the next transit of Venus takes place, VENUS AT THE ANTIPODES. PROFESSOR PETERS’ CHEERING STORY OF THE QUEENSTOWN, OTAGO, N. Z,, Dec. 11, 1874, President of Commission on Trapsit of Venus:— Dean Sin—lam very happy to report that our been successiuliy accomplished. Onr success I Would call complete if a steady cloud had not in- terfered toward the close, so that egress could not be observed. As it 1s, our record stands thus :— With the equatorial I observed the first exter- nomena presenting themseives to my eye. I took 14 measures of chord and cusps while Venus was on the limb, further 21 measures of distances of rhe planet {rom limb, and determined its ap- parent diameter by 10 good measures. ution of the plates, made on yesterday alternoon, tn ail 23; 178 contact pictures and 6a pic- tures taken While tie planct was on the disk. ‘These are not uniformly (istrivuted over tne time. The sun was out almost uninterruptedly during the first 1%; hours. Thereatter came ciouds, with but small miervals of sunshine, so that tle system was changed. and pictures were taken Wlienever thee Was a chance, sometimes, therefore, in quicker succession, ‘Ihe last pieture Was taken at 16 minutes belore beginning of egress. Aud irom that time on the sun was under a dense cloud, until lcaugat the first glimpse ot tt again, 83 seconds aicer the computed time of last con- tact When Venus iad gone. UNEXP The American party ‘ said to have been pa y Nobe of tue ocher observers on this isiand have seen tne least of the transit, clouds seeming to have overhung tne whole areca, I received tele- grams in the jorenoon such as these:—“Rain at the Blu! din; + Cast t Chrisichuren,” &¢. It seems that We escaped disappointment from being in @ greater elevation avove the sea. 1 must aad, beside, that our instruments Worked admirably, especially the mirror and the heliostat clock Work. Nou soouer did the sun show @ beam throagh a gap in the clouds than 1b was caugut on tne plate by a gto or spring ana re- corded by the nograph. Algo our other precautions (against wind, &¢.) proved of tie greatest useluiaess, and the operations did not suffer interruption’ from sudden gusts of wind, nor trom heating Of tne sou, &c. 1 may well make these remarks, pecause tue greater merit of thes arrangements does not belong to ine, assistant astronomer, Lieutenant Bass. 1 am, dear sir, yours very respectfuily, C,H, KF. PETERS, Chief of Party. lenclose prints ofa few ofthe pictures 01 Venus’ transit. VENUS IN NEW CALEDONIA. SUCCESS OF THE FRENCH SCIENTIST6—BRILLIANT PHOTOGRAPHIC ACHIRVEMENTS—THE ‘(BLACK prop.” To THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON TimEs:— Sim—Many of your readers Wil no doubt be glad to learn what fortune has attended the French serve the transit of Venus, The success, ! am sorry to Say, has been partial, the first, second and jourth contacts being observed, bur, owing to | acloud, not the third and most important one, The phenomena of the biack drop and ligament were not seen through any of the four telescopes fitted with M. Foucault's silvered lenses; but with @ filth instrament, provided wita an unsil- vered object giass, there was an appearance if a gament Were avout 10 form, succeeded by u cloudiness about the point of contact of the planetary and solar limbs. The time of tue secoud contact, Obtained by Means of tne slivered object winsses, 18, WILhOUL doudl, Very fuod, as the planet Was &¢ on to the sun's disk, and the recorded instants of tis Contact agree very Closely with each other. 1 may ment.on that in ali Cases the telescopes Were socussed on Solar spots and hot on the imo ol the sun, out with this diderencetbat with tne ensiivered equatorial & aput Dear the edue, aod 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. LABORS AT QUEENSTOWN. | Rear Admiral C. H. Davis, United States Navy, | work, the observation of the transit of Venus, has | nal and first internal contacts, the former (as of course) uncertain, the latter with great precision, as, I believe, none of tne much talked of physical phe- | 01 photo- | | graphs | find, after a careiu) revision and examin- in at Clyde; “Overcast at Dupes | but to my | expedition despatcued to New Valedonia to ob- | nto pass distinct and without distortion | | not, as In the other cases, near tne centre, was | selected, More than two bupdred photographs on silvered plates by the iodl-bromine process were taken by M. Angot, by means of an object glass of considerabie leugth of 1ocus, during the progress of the transit and up to within eight minutes of the third contact, nearly all whieh pictures, from their extreme clearness of definition, will prove o1 the highest value in estimating the exact In- stants of contact In the path of the planet, For ten days previous to the 9th of December the sky was a'most continousiy covered with clouds, and M. André, the director of the expedt- tion, as well as every one eise connected with tt, enlertained tie Worst jears as regards the weather | up to within three hours of the commencement of | the transit. ‘The observations with the telescopes mentioned above appear todemoustrate the superiority of the silvered over the uusilvered object glasses for work of this kind, for with the former the distinet- hess Was Laat of mathematical contact, while with the latter it was impossible todo more than fix two lastaats of time between which the ouserver could aay with certainty that the contact oc curred, I remain, sir, your obedicot hey Novmga, New Caledonia, Dec. 11, 1874. HYPERBOREA. THE BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION—ITS IN- TENDED COST AND RESULT. Lonpon, Feb. 23, 1875. Within the next three months an expedition will satl from these shores to endeavor to reach the North Pole of our earth, This expedition, to be undertaken and provided tor by the govero- ment, ts the result of an agitation which has been carried on by the geographers ard scientific men of Great Britain since the return of Sir Leopold McClintock from his well Known voyage of dis- covery in the Pox. Oh the 23a of June, 1865, Cap- tain, now Admiral, Suerard Usborn, read before @ large and enthusiastic gathering of tne Geo- graphical Society his first paper on the explora- tion of the North Polar regions, It was, however, no lault of the gallant Captain tnat the general pubilc did not respond to theappeal. Himself an Arctic explorer, he spoke with knowledge and confidence, pointing out the reasons tor under- taking Arctic discovery, explaining the direction which a Polar expedition should take with tue least risk and the greatest probability of success, the mode in which such an expedition should be conducted and the scientific results likely to ev- sue. The proposition met with but lukewarm en- couragement ana it was not until seven years later, m 1872, when the gallant officer made a second effort before the same society, that the press and the puoiic, which, during the interval, nad been familiarized with the importance of Arctic exploration, came forward in his support. A ceputation of the Koyal Geographical Society, headed by its President, Sir Henry Rawlinson, waited upon the government in December and were received by Mr, Lowe and Mr. Goschen, to whom they explained their views, But a Ministry which had Mr. Lowe for 1ts Chancellor of the Exchequer was not | likely to look with any favor upon @ pr@ject Jor spending money for scientific purposes, and in the that the government declined to send out an Arc- tic expedition that year on the plea that “tne public revenue had to bear the main burden of the expenses of the operatiuns itrusted to the Chal- Jenger.” scientific bodies were not, however, to be discour- ‘rhe leading men among the learned and | agec by thisrebuf They felt that they had se- | cured a hoid upon pubiic attention, wnich would indorse their efforts, and the Geographical Society united with the Royal Society in drawing upa “memorandum on che scientific results to be de- rived from Arctic exploration aud on the reasons why such researches can best be successfully ac- complished by a naval expedition despatched un- der government auspices, and secured ag far a: Possible from failure and cisaster by careful navi- gation and good discipline. This memorandum was submitted to Mr, Gladstone, with a request that he would receive a deputation on the subject, But the Prime Minister wrote an unsatisfactory reply, stating vaguely that survey operations had a stronger claim to consideration than thosé of discovery, Jn February, 1874, the Gladstone Min'stry re- signed, and it being considered probavle tuat their successors, as men of larger views, would be more readily approached, a deputation, consisting oft Dr. Hooker, the President of the Royal Society ; Sir Henry Rawlinson, Presideat of the Royal Geo- graphical Society, and Admiral Snerard Osborn, on August 1, 1874, had an interview with Mr. Dis- raell on the subject of despatching an Arctic ex- pedition in 1875. The memorandum already spoken of was submitted to the Premier, with other papers, setting forth the important scientific and commercial results to be obtained. The ue- taus Of the expedition were fully gone into, and Mr. Disraeli promised to cousider the subject care- tuily aud to give au early decision. That decision Was commuuicated to Sir Henry Kawiinson in a ersonai letier irom the Prime Minister, dated jovemper 17, 1874. It stated that “having care. fully weighed the reasons set Jortn in support of the expedition and the scientific advantages to be derived from tt, MS Chances of | success, as well as tue importance of | encouraging that spiric of maritime euterprise | Which has ever distinguisaed the English people, Her Majesty’s goveroment has determined to lose | no time in organizing a saitabie expedition tor the | purpose in view.’ An Arctic committee, ap- ointed by the Lords ol the Admiralty to advise ‘them on all subjects connected with the expedi- | tion, consisting o Admira: Ricbards, Admiral Sir Leopold McOuatock and Admiral Sherard Usbora, was at once orgauized, and under their super- vison the work o! preparation has been zealously yushed forward, ‘The command of the expedition | has been given to Captain George 5. Nares, Who wa | @ mate ou board the Resolute in the Arctic exped! uon of 1852-4, where he mainly distinguished | himsell by taking a leading part in siedge travel- | ling. In ibe spring oi 1853 he travelled over 665 miles 10 69 days, aud 1n 1854 he started in the iutense cold oi Marcn and went over 586 miles in 66 days. Besides his Polar servic captain Nares as done valuable work in su! veying, From 1s72 to 1874 he commanded the Cnallenger during ner important scientific expedi- | ton, he operations of which have made | such large aduisioas to our knowledge | ofocean currents acd semperature, and ne was | recalled trom this command to take charge of the | mew Arctic expeaition. The second ship to be en- | maged in the service will be commanded by Cap- tain H. F, Stephenson, recently promoted out or the royal yacht, ‘fhe secoad in ¢,mmana in the advance suipis Commander Alvbe.t H, Markham, | an Oficer wo, since be entered the navy, in 1866, has done exceilent service, and who in | 1872 undertook a voyage to Bamin’s Bay to Prince Regent’s niet, im order to | @cquire experience in ice navigation, the result ol which Will be tound ta bis excelient book “A | Whuling Cruise in Battin’s Bay.’ Lieutenant Pe: ham Aldrich, Who has-been serving as first lieu- | tenant o1 the Chalienger, wii! take nis piace in the | advance ship. ‘he medical staif will consist of | Dr. volun, who served with disiinction during tae au r Vancouver's Isiand, Besides the medical staf thero wil be a scienufic civilian in each ship, With tne exception of the ice | quartermasters, selected from among the most ex- | perienced whaling seamen, the crews Will CopsIst of men-ol-War’s men. nish aug driver and interpreter, named Kari Petersen, Who was up pmith Sound with Dr. Hayes in 1860, has also | been engage, ‘Phe complement will be about | sixty officers and men for each snip. ‘the exploring Vessels Dave already been se- lected, Tne advance ship is te Alert, @ steain si00p Of 1,045 Lons and 381 norse power. She is now in Portsmouth dock yard, being thoroughly Slyengchened ior her encounters with the ice aud Atved With new engines and pouers, Lhe second sop 1s the bloodhound, a Dundee whaling steamer, | bulit tWo years ago and purcoaged by tne Admi- raity. She is ulsu at Portsmouth, being strength- ened and ficted as an exploring ship, ‘An estimate memorandum of the COST OF THE EXPEDITION | has just been issued by the Hooorable Algernon | sgerton, secretary of the Admiralty, 1t amoun(s | ib total lo £98,620, Of this sum £17,080 18 | allotted for provisions, £14,000 if the pur- ciase money for tie Bi B oodnouny, £36) jor livhts, £1,000 for victualliug stores, | £600 Jor chronometers, £20,920 for the hydrograph- ical department, and £8,000 the costor fitting ap the two ships. In additioa there are sams ib- ciuded in the navy estimates for 1875-6, on behalf of tue expedition, amounting 1a the aggregate to £15,943, and the above charges are “exclasive of | pay of naturalists and the value of scientific | stores chargeabie to the civil service rates.” The total COB) Of the eXpedition If, a8 is expected, it 18 three years absent, wil not be less than £160,000, | und may Very possibly be much mor | Ju our nextietter on this sabject we shall dis- cuss the question Whetner cis adVisaule ty Incur such an Cnormousoutiay for the mere pupose of Teaching @ particular spot on the earta’s suriace, Tue North Pole is merely a Spot Where the sun’s | #lutuce 1s equal to its declination, and wuere beariugs mast oe obtained vy reference to tim and not (o the magnet. It will probably be reached i (he course of eXpioration, and there are, Of Course, tuany among the ignorant and up. ited Who would be captivated by the Idea o-cnding Upon it; oat this, to the thougutfal a entifie, would be @ poor reault of such an | expeulliog, Wesnall endeavor to point out @ re- | sult infinitely more important in all senses, add- ing HOt mMeely to coe scientific knowledge, but to ) un Mee yeh invereats of tie Worl aerate might arrived at with something comma epense | less tuBa @ tithe of the ¢: operations on the Goid Coast, and Dr. Moss, | nuy in charge Of tue Esquimaux nospitalin | $$ —___—_a—______—_—. THE EVERLASTING. TRIAL The Plymouth Pastor in Training. WHEN WILL IT ALL END? The Plans of the De- fence. MRS. TILTON NOT TO TESTIFY The public welcomes Saturday and Sunday as breathing days in the great theological and seca- lar scandal across the river. Yesterday, according to one rumor, Mr. Beecher was blanketed and being walked to and fro by Mr. Evarts in traming for his great match of testi- mony, handicapped bs Judge Fallerton and lea by American Girl. Others say chat he will not testliy for a Week or a fortnight. One of the counsel for the defence was questioned last Thursday as to the duration of the trial. He replied: “I suppose all the evidence for our side and the plaintif’s rebuttal will take a montn, but we shall not consume # month with our witnesses,’? On this theory the defence ought to have Mr. Beecher on the stand this week, as the rebutung evidence will take at least a fortnight, and there are yet to testify for Mr. Beecher witnesses to re- but Kate Carey and others to impeach Frank Moulton, Kate Carey will be attacked on all sides, and it is said that she may save the defence this trouble by coming forward to modify her testi- mony. The latter 1s claimed to be very probaole. Meantime, the plaintiff has a lot of new witnesses, He means to impeacn the credibility and general character of Assistant Pastor Halliday, ol Bessie ‘Turner and of Thomas Cooke, and to show that all this batch of witnesses have been drilled and kept in conference and paid money and sup- ported on promises, Evidence is also to be offered that ‘Therese burke was spirited out of Brooklyn and out of the juris. diction of this State. Mr. Carpenter 1s to be sworn, Mr. West and others are to be recalied, and the course of the defence is to be offered to show that witnesses were flattered, entreated and persuaded on various pretexts to come to tne court room and impeach the plaintiff, Proceeding ut the rate of four hours a day, how can this evi- dence ve presented in a fortnight or three weeks? The witness Cooke, the newspaper tterviewer, Who remains here to give turcher testimony al- | fecting the preparation of the West charges, says next month Sir Henry Rawlinsou was informed | that the triai wil continue unt July, and that Mr. Beecher’s witnesses and himself will require at least six weeks more, He sai THE PLANS OF THE DEYENCE “The defence propose to attack Tilton on every sige of his character and make him odious to the community and country. Alter that is mlly done they propose to take up Mouiton and destroy bim, root and branca, to like manner, Then they will show Mrs, Mouiton’s dependence upon those two and leave her without support, $v that her evi- dence will fail to the ground between. They had proposed to impeaca her credibility, also, but Mr. Beecher would not have her attacked cruelly.”? As to Rev. Mr. Haliday, tt appears that there is to be a front, flank ana rear attack upon him to the end to Gamave the reputation of Plymouth through and torough, and the lollowing letver has been published :— Rev Save. BH Autpar. ed that In your xamination yes- terday in the Beecher-Tilton case you stated “the Juve. duardian Society is one of the biggest humbugs that was ever putafloat”” As Iresident of said society I brand the above assertion as untrue in every particn- lar and mallviously talse, and challenge your proot. Failing to produce evidence in support ot your charge legal steps will be taken to prevent your attempt to damage our society trom having the effect evidently 1n- tended by you. Neluher the Rev. D. P. Robertson nor any one ‘*w, ing green spectacies’? is connected with the New Juvenile Guardian Soctety. ave the honor to be, yours, &c. HENRY W. BALDWIN, President. New Yorx, March 20, BESSIE TURNER'S MANNER. Mr. Daniel Dougherty, the executor of Edwin Forrest and a leading social and jorensic light of | Phitadelputa, heard toe who.e of the testimony of Bessie Turner last Friday, and a HERALD writer interviewed him opon the matter aiter Court. He said:— “L don’t quite know what my judgmentis. The girl’s manner rather shocked me, in 118 cool, boid, immodest way cf testifying such obscenities sa Dinatly. She was prepared forevery question and herevVidence was giveu rather too much parroquet fasnion to convince the ear. However. the cross- eXamination will test that, If sae is twenty-ture years oldshe can expect no immunity irom a Tigorous exammation, It was a severe story, however, and tue apparent tuconsequentiality of Some Of the details gave It an air of reality, She reiated that sue nad lollowed Tilton three times with great apparent docility to near nis alleged horrible relation in @ private room, and 1 was rec minded of Otuello saying : Still dia she follow with a greedy ear, While 1 discoursed, I don’t know, however; the defence scems to me to be of admirable minuteness and Industry, but of very unequal relevancy. I don’t believe that over in our Quaker City any juage would permit so muca trying Of side issues. 1 think we nave judges who would make the lawyers finish up even this case in a tortoight. I tell you, sir, tne greatest and must genera! of modern offeuc in America 18 perjury. Our judges almost unt- Versally aamit that perjury is nearly as jormid. uble as justice. When they are done with Tilton’’ general character here, and come to Mr. Beecuer, this cause will arrive at where it snowid bave re- mained trom tae outset—at the trial o: the cause against the dclendaut lor the offence charged and Jor the damages claimed, and for nothing else.” ‘rhe friends and adherents of Mr, Beecher are 1m a state of great exultation at the quantity ana de- cided hue of the mud thrown over the plaintl, The more immediate aitorneys of Mr. Beecher and the Mrs, Tilion coterie are delighted witu Bessie Turner’s bearing and bravery. She will ve sharply met at every point by Fullerton; but the plaintif jabors under a chrouic want of funds to oring his witnesses to Brooklyn trom suco tar Western places asthe spot where Bessie Turper went to scnvol, and where they claim that sbe was @ precocious and coustant har and ioventor. Mr. ‘Tiiton’s housekeeper, Vid Katie, and others, wil however, reiate what they know on this point with sufficient vigor, and the subject strengthens the propapiliry tuat Florence Tilton wiil take the stand. MRS, TILTON WILL NOT TESTIFY. That is yeneraily couceded. Mr. Beecher’s Brookiyn organ has appeared with a long edi- torial against changing the law to meet tns ex- cepuonal case, and that is the attitude of lawyers aud juries ip general, “Change the law to opige Beecuer and Tilton?” said a distinguisneG jarist lasc week. “Why, do they want to make the law as progressive as their morals? If the law lor~ blading 4 wile to testify in @ case concerning her husoand is ever to be changed [ hope it will not beon suca aa occasion as the preseyt whico seems to me to concern only the must frivolous society that ¥as ever been revealed to a disgusted public. A respectable raven might fly over this deiuge of mud aud slovver and find no clean rest anywhere In it lor the sole ot histoot.”? Juage Mor | mis and, we believe, Mr. Pryor say that they would rather like to see Mrs. Tilton on the stand, but want the delence to call her, as sne is more properly their witness. People Wao nave indulged the de iusion that this unhappy couple are ever to meet and cweil together again are pot propably ever to be gratified. {ilton said recently when addre: on this question:—“‘Notning Was.ever jurther Irom my intentions aiter Mrs, Tilton co-operated with the deience todo me the last injury in her power, It will be mpossible tor a reconciliation In this Ile, although 1 expect to work for Wer Sup. port as beiore. hey will throw her aside in Plymouth church Without compensayon a8 soon as tney have used her to ruin me.’ ‘There is no abatement o: the zeal of the coun. sel ior the defeuce, Mr. Frank Moulton was bowed vw in an interrogatve way vy Mr. Beecver in the court room jast Week and shook lis head that be WAS Not to be placated, Still, they do very queer Wings over there. Itis Dot iuprovable that we shail yet see Mr. Beecher pamnted in @ picture of THE LAST SUPPER, with Tilton, Moulcun, Halliday and the respecyve counsel as the twelve apysties, the same to be set up in the relectory 0: Piymouth church, with tie words beluw:—"Leonardo ‘1a Vinci ‘tracy, pinzit.” Several of the leading secular spirits are to goon the stand next week, It 18 belleved, Clafin, Cleveland and Storrs among them. A rumor prevails that the plamel means to serve @ subpana upon Mr. Shearman, the clerk of Ply. mouth churca, aod gt him an unusual oppor. tunity to say ‘1 object.” Bowen continued under & subpeena and Will be put upon the stand, without question, by Beecher’s seems to care nothiag avout id thas = he will testily that Tiiton, while editing the Brooklyn had ‘an improper person in his edivorti rovms alter office hours, and that tueir relation were the reverse vi respec'able. Two servants Mrs. Woodnail Will aiso testily that Tilton had the me chamber with that priestess of the progres ve, and Stephen Pearl Andrews wiil teatily bore to Tuton’s talk and acts, ‘The plaimtur will inv peacn Andrgws 23 4 man Who used his own resir dence to board women of bad racter for lewd ani rapacious purposes, under the Consent or bis wie, ibe trial Will bardiy foisn without bringin out the nanies o! the people Who were in the nabil of visiting Woodhuil’s uouse, and there bFreet frompling, io bigh quarters 1a Consequence OF this apprebeasion, “