The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1875, Page 4

4 “THE INSTAL SERVICE sganasiliian The Annual Report of the} Postmaster General. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES | compensation last year it was found that, while the space basis would increase the pay of several bundred roads ly of the larger class, it would ro- duce it very materially on many of the smaller and weaker ones, and the department hesitated to vanee a measure likely to bring 80 much antagonism. During the last few months a new im; has been given to the railway postal service new facilities to the business of the country by the establishment of fast mail tines Railway post cars in py atone with passenger traius @ré now transported at a 5) hitherto unattained tn the service. Upon one of the largest lines has been placed @ postal railway train under the entire control of the Post Office Department, -carrying no era. All these new post office cars bear the seal of the It tw believed at no distant day the busi- Department. | ness of the department will be 80 great as to induce the Subsidies to American Mail Carrying | Steamers Recommended. THE STRAW BID SYSTEM. | The Present and Future of the Fast Railway Service. Wasnixerox, Dec. 1, 1875. The report of Postmaster General Jewell shows, ‘mong other things, that the ordinary receipts of this @epartment during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875, were $26,671,218 60, an increase of $299,344 80, or 1-18 per cont over the receipts of 1874, being less than Bho estimate made in 1873 by $1,809,331. To the ordi- Bary receipts should be added the sum of $650,000, pubsidics to steamship nes, drawn from the general Rreasury and expended, and $120,141 09 revenue from erdinary order business, making the receipts from all wources $27,441,360 57. | The expenditures of all kinds were $33,611,309 45, | an Increase of $1,484,894 87, or 4-62 per cent over those for 1874, and less than the amount estimated in 1873 by | | bie, | rulroad companies to ran similar trains from New | England to the Guif and from the Atlantic to the | of opinion at last that a determined effort should be Pacific SPECIAL AGENTS. | A new system has been adopted, to some extent, in | regard to the appointments and disposal of special nts. This force is now concentrated as far as practica- » with headquarters at a few prominent points, and | appointments have been made and will gontinae to be | made almost exclusively trom the employes already tm some other branch of the service who by ciliciency, ability and thorough knowiedge of Post Oilice laws and rules are enabled to become much more quickly versed | in the delicate duties required of these officers than | would otherwise be possible. Special agents represent | exclusively, and are responsible only to, the Postmas- ter General, and ought to be entirely adapted by nature and training to the severe and peculiar work imposed upon them, T would repeat the recommendation made by my predecessor in bis avnual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1873, that any person be permitted, without additional charge, to write a form of pres \ tation in any book, painpblet, magazine, periodical | orany other matier of the third class, and also that | the sender of auy package be permitted, without addi- | tional charge, to write his or ber name and address on the outside thereof, with the word “from” above or preceding the same, so as to inform the person ad- @ressed of the name of the sender, and lo wiite briefly on any package the number and uame of the articles inclosed. THR PRANKING PRIVILRGR Congress at its last session gave the privilege to members of both houses to send, free, through the mails, under such rales and restrictions as the Postmas- ter General might prescribe, certain public documents until the commencement of the next session The weight of those documents waa estimated by the de- partment at the time to be from 200 to 300 tons. Our mail transportation has now reached such proportions $218, 603, ‘The amonnt drawn from the general treasury under | Appropriations to meet deficiences wus $6,054,046 96, | from which should be deducted the sum of | $1,238,319 50, referred to in a previous paragraph, | which will leave as the legitimate amount drawn on | Account of the past fiscal year $4,710,029 46, against | $5,250,933 55 for the fiscal year of 1873-74; a differ- ence in favor of 1875 of $543,006 09. The number of recorded complaints during the past | year of missing letters of value 1s 5,645, of which | B,677 were registered and 2,968 unregistered, The that this printed matter has been distributed without causing any delay in the transportation and delivery of the ordivary tails and with no perceptible increase of cost or labor, TRANSIENT PRINTED MATTER, Trecommended that the postage on transient news- papers and periodicals, books, printed matter of all sorts, lithograplis and maps, sheet music, photographs and manuscripts designed tor publication shail be re- duced to one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof, which was the rate before the enactment of the law advancing it during the closing hours of the last Congress. NEWSPAPER POSTAGE. The act of June 23, 1874, requiring prepayment in Fegisterea lotters contained, as is alleged, ourrene; bonds, drafts, &c., amounting to $76,216 24, andgthe Unregistered valuable contents amounting to $75,997 16. Of the 2,677 registered letters reported as lost, 1,083 | were satisfactorily accounted for, 911 actually lost and B83 remain undor investivation, During the year 307 persons w ested charged with various violations of the Postal laws, the greater portion of whom were | not connected with the postal service. stamps of postage on bewspapers and periodical publi- cations mailed from known offices of publication or | news agencies and addressed to regular subscribers or hews agents went into eifect on the Ist of January, 1875, and from present indications it will realize about $1,000,000 for the first calendar year, This is nota material variation from the average results of the old law, though during the last year in which this latter was in operation the amount was increased by the pay- | ment of postage ou newspapers circulating within | | the county of publication, a requirement | that was discontinued at ‘the end of one | year. | While, therefore, there has been no PRESONS AREBSTED. The employés of the department thus arrested were elassified as follows :—Postmasters, 41; assistant post- masters, 15; Post office clerks, 23; route agents, 4; local agents, 3; mail carriers, 16; matl messengers, 2; letter sarriers, 11; others, 192, Of those persons arrested who were not in the employ of the department the | majority were tramps and vagabonds and burglars of the lower order of intelligence, The following dis | position was made of these cases:—Convicted, 107, | Bequitted, 9; prosecution abandoned, 5; nolle prosequi entered, 9; not indicted, 4; escaped, 4; forfeited bail, 1; died before trial, 2; dismissed and awaiting trial, | 7. This department is in correspondence with the Brittsn Post Office in relation to an increase of the United States territorial transit rateson the British closed mails transported by rail between New York and San Francisco. These closed mails are of great bulk and weight, averaging several | tons by each despatch, ard the rate of transit paid by Greut Britain under the Postal Convention of November, 1868, is wholly inaufficien? to defray the actual cost of their transportation by rail across our tontinent, a distance of over 3,300 miles. This depart: ment, as a plain business proposition, takes the ground that if it transports mails for other countries over this long and exceptionally expensive route, we should re- quire, to the extent that they do not perform an equiv- leat service, that they should pay the billa, | OPERATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT. | The report then shows the operations of the various | bureaus of the department concerning dead letters, registered letters, contracts, readjustment of pay, rail- | toad routes, mail bags, &a Much information on these | subjects has already been published. The report con- cludes as follows :-— MONET ORDERS. Tho Money Order Department, the annual transac- | tions of which have reached about $80,000,000, shows | an apparent profit of about $120,000, though’ it 5 really in arrears nore than that sum’ if the clerk nire and Stationery required for business and now charged pgainst the postal revenues were transferred to this nc- count, where they properly belong. The money or. | der busiuess is nothing more nor less than govern- ment banking for the beneilt of the public, and those who avail themselves of Its benefits should pay its cur- Fent expenses. Congress at the last session advanced the fees on small money orders to a point at which it is believed it will, as it should, for the current year wad hereafter, pay its own expenses. OUR MAIL CARRYING STRAMERS. ‘The fact that but one line of steamships carrying our fag is employed in conveying mails across the Atlantic, d none whatever to South America, is humiliating to the just pride of every American citizen. This line makes regular weekly trips from Philadeiphia to Liver- | pool, and carries a small mail ina satisfactory manner for the postages as compensation for the service; but the great bulk of our mails for Europe is carried by | steamers under foreign flags, sailing trom the port of | New York ou Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays of each week. A’ a matter of national pride, as an aid to the revenue of American commerce and a8 a means of supplying an efficient steam marine, | state of things | er Increast in the aggregate receipts there has been a larger net gain by saving the commissions on coliec- tions allowed by the old law, as under the present law the great buik of postage is paid at the large offices, whose salaries are not affected by this item. Under the old law there was no check to insure collections at the office of destination, and the cousequence was that much matter went unpaid, and it is a satisiaction that under the present more equitable mode the universal collections have made up for the reduction in the rates, ‘The new system has worked so admirably and has given such general satisfaction that no “change is deemed necessary. Fuil information as to the manner of exe- | cuting the law, with more specitic statements of its re- | sults, will be (0und im the accompanying report of the | Third Assistant Postmaster General. COMPENSATION OF POSTMASTERS. Under tho prasent law, which bases the compen- sution of postmasters of the fourth class apon the sale of stamps, loss has been mflicted on the revenues of the government by the sale of stamps to be used else- where, particulariy in large cities, where salaries have reached the maximum provided by law. Many officials have been dismissed for violating the rales of the de- | partment in this respect; but 1¢ 18 impossible, so large 1s the number, for the department to prevent wrong practice or even, check. I recommend that the compensation of P masters of the fourth class be based upon the business their respective offices, as determined by the can- lation of stamps, the account to be duly sworn to, for each quarter, and returned to the sixth Auditor. There is a great want of eqfity in the compensation of postinasters of Under the present law posimasters in small cities and towns, who are required to give a very moderate bond and whose business also ts not large, may receive the maximum salary. In the larger cities, like Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, postmasters doing a postal business of hundreds of thousands of dollars per annum, | a money order business of millions, and giving bonds to | the extent of $200,000, receive no greater compensation | than that paid in @ great majority of the smail cities. In many places (te salary of the postmaster is the largest tn the place, presidents, cashiers, secretaries and other | officers of corporations, whose duties require greater abilities and whose positions entail tly | greater responsibilities, receiving less. ‘This encourages and sometimes leads to an unseemly seraimble for these offices, If the salaries at the smaller offices are not excessive | those of the large cities ure certainly too low. I find postmasters as a class to be efficient, capable and at- | tentive beyond my expectations, and their salaries should bear some proportion to their duties, Cases are said to exist, bowever, where few or no duties actually pertormed by the postmaster. A law compe! masters whose net income is, say, $1,000 or give their entire atiention to the duties of e, of {ailing in this to employ Some person to at their own and not the goveroment’s | { | | © made and shal! continue to make sobriety an | indispensable requisite in every person within my con- trol, in all branches of the service. The Post Oitice 1s & business department and should be run on business principles. REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES. | The postal revenues during the last dsedl year have sympathized with the prevalent depression in all | branches of trade, showing an increase over the pre- | vious year of only 113 per cent, which ts the | smallest increase fgr many years, and which have induced me to ery moderate in estimatin, pected revenues for the year ending June 2 ing to be on the safe side, ig the ex 877, wish- Estimates have been sub- available for |inmediate use by the government incase mitted which show an expected deficiency of son should be made for the #9,151,002 lv. ‘of our mails on important These lave been based upon existing laws and ecvan routes = in steamehips offivered” und UPOD the existing state of things. Lt business revives manned by own citizens and sailing under ourown | Sud eXpanus, as it must, if we may judge flag. It is believed that the payment of a moderate | the fuiure by the psi, and if the laws mail compensation in excess of the postages now al- | ‘0 relation to compensation of — postmasters lowed under the provisions of the general law would are modified in accordance with the recommenda. | enable our citizens to establish and maintain steamship | Hons of this report, the deficiency for that | lines across the Atlantic and to South American ports | Year will be very mach less than the estimates. The | which would prove remunerative to the proprictors | deficiency of the Post Oftice Department should by no and promote the general prosperity of the country. A | ie allowance fora line to the west coast of South America would assure regular ma{l commanica- tion by American steamers with our sister republics on that anda moderate mail compensation for a Iine to Japan and China will dovbtless continue the mail service to those countries in American ships after the termination of the existing snbaidy contract, which ‘will expire on the Gist of December, 1576 { think it safe to say that the sum of $500,000 per anonm now granted as a subsidy to the China and Japan line for a | single monthly service on that route would, in addition to the postages on the mails conveyed, be quite eufli- cient, judiciously apportioned between the reapective | routes, to maintain an efficient mail service by steam- ers saliing under our flag on all the important orean routes which shouid be occupied by American steam- ers. STRAW RIDDIVG. The officers of this department are subjected to great Annoyance, and the department itself to great pecun)- ary loss, by the prevalent system of “straw bidding” | on long und expensive routes. Several stringent laws | have been enacted with a view to the eradication of | the evil, bat* they bave signally failed to accomplich tho desired result, interested parties, in the teeth of oaths and penal still combining together and em- loying various devices to prevent ® fair competition and to secure undue advantage by fraud, under the Present statute, In the case of falling bidders and — contractors the Postmaster General is chmpelied to go | up the list of actual bidders and tender the service to the next lowest bidder, seriatim, until one is found who will consent to contract; or, if the price is considered too high, to readvertise, meanwhile periorming the service by temporary contract, It is found, im actual experience, that many whose names appear on there lists are wholly irresponsible, often the drivers and agents of the old contractors, who make use of them | merely for the purpose of retaining the routes in their own grip. ‘This evil, which agnually ‘nvolves the department in the loss of many hundreds of sho fands of dollars be effectually r moved by such a change in the law as wil) authori: the Postmaster General, on the failure of any accepted bidder, to offer the contract as at present to the next lowest bidder on the List, if, in his judgment, the bid be | fot too high; and tf this next lowest bidder declines to | enter into contract, to be authorized to enter into con- tract with a person not a bidder, atany price not ex- feeding said next lowest bid. Incase no contract can be made with any party at this price to go on op the sé in like manner, always giving the bidder the first chance, In this way will the Postmaster General be fied of contractors, the jess they will take the contract ai tle price named. RAILWAY POSTAL SERVICE. ifferences of opinion the railroad com for transportation of the mails | about $10,000, app and they in return are offering all the facilities ab thelr command, and in a manner which indicates the utmost cordiaiity between | them and the government and every disposition to ad- | vance the interests of the department. | The compensation ig gow based apon the wight of mails carried. Many of the most intelligent controlling these corporations feel it would ve more equitable to pay by space Im the estimate made for | | 18 to reduce the defi probably less than one qnarter 0 sound rule of business increase in percentage if it must in amount It my expectations should prove correct for the year ending June 30, 1877, there will be no in- crease in the percentage of deficiency, but, on the con- | trary, @ decrease. Basing the estimate of the revenues at the smallest amount, and of the expenditures at the largest, an increase is shown in the percentage of the deticienoy of ouly 19.29 against 24.65, which was the estimate of the percentage of increase of the deliciency | of last year over that of its predecessor. A wide gap ab the end of a year between the receipts and expendi | tures, and on the wrong side of the ledger, is anything but asant {act for a bysiness man to confront With proper watchfulness and economy in this depart- ment, always requiring maximum service at minimum cost, asin any other business, this gap between ex- | Penditure and receipts can be gradually closed and in time be made to disappear altogether. Important as tt | cy it must not be forgotten | that in the sparsely settled portione of the South and West the expenditures for mail service must in many | instances exceed the receipts two or three and gome- | times ten fold. It is devirable on all accounts that our country should be settled by intelligent people, and, | with this end in view, the pioneers should enjoy fre- quent and regular mail communications with the more | | populous sections. Probably there is no tax our peo. | Admiral Pinzon, who distinguished hin ple will more cheerfully bear, provided they can fecl certain the money has been judiciously expended, than | that made necessary by providing fret class postal ta cilities throughout the eutire extent of our magnificent domain. | THE ASTOR ESTATE, The reports im circulation about the value of the estate of the late William B. Astor are said to be greatly exaggerated, Similar eports followed the doatn of Jobn Jacob Astor, in 148, whose property at the time was estimated .by popular rumor at $50,000,000 and turned out to be worth about $20,000,000. Some pub- Ushed statements nave fixed the value of William B. Astor's estate as high as $20,000,000. Its real value is that sum. It is bo- Astor's property consisted . The records at the Tax he paid taxes this year on $10,000,000 | in this city according to the valua- | Heved that the bulk of Mr. worth of real es tion of the Tax Commissioners, The market value of the property {s from thirty to forty per cent abeve the | assessed Valnalion—about $25,000,000, The game | records show that he owned $636,000 worth of bank Stock, and he is Known to bave been the holder of con- siderable amounts of State, city aud national bonds. Whatmay be the value of the government bonds and other property exempt from taxation belonging to the estate there 8 no means of ascertaining, bat hh ts bee | lieved by those best acquainted with Mr, Astor that the | Lord Houghton sailed for Europe yosterday on the steamer Abysatnia A large number of friends jentiemen | secompanied him to the wharf in Jersey City, The | 25,000 are Germai Kight Rey. Bishop Hare, the miaai Sitesane Ge nek eel es eT ey | NEW YORK HERALD, ' ad- | SVODENCE OF TROUBLE AHEAD WITH THE HOME | United States and of the Post Office | to any extent, to keep them in | ‘ost | the first, second and third classes, | | ing a total of £131,000 in all, or pearly a third of the HURSD/ JAMAICA. ASEM | GOVERNMENT—POLITICAL SOCIETY FORMED TO EFFECT A CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT—THE URUGUAY WATCHED IN PORT. Kixaston, Nov, 23, 1875. The event of the day in Jamaica is the movement | that has been set on foot for bringing about a change in | | the system of goverument that prevails, Ali classes | are now wearied out and disgusted at the hopeless im- | | becility of the “one man rule’'—imbecile in all save the | | expenditure of money, and there is a wide concurrence | | made to get rid of i, With this end in view a patriotic | society, after the manner of that which exists in the | Straits Settlements and has been so effective in re- | straining the tyranny of those who Lave been sent out from England to rule over the natives, hi been formed in tho island, called —the ‘Jamaica Association.” It ts supported by the voluntary subscriptions of its members, and is com- posed of people of all classes throughout the island, who, | by paying a fee of $10 cach, might become enrolled as members, It has already done some good in exposing abuses in public institutions and forcing the govern- ment to inquire into and correct them. Its most re- cent act was to prepare a momorial to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, which, in the name of the whole | body of the people, sets forth the failure of the new | form of government in effecting any good whatever for the country while it has gone on trom year to year | increasing taxation and expenditure till now our discal mnposts are double what they wore ten years ago. Tho | Tevenues of the government have been more than doubled during that time; and, while the, people have no voice whatever in controlling the expenditure, they have the double mortification to find that nothing whatever is done to develop the resources of the country with a view to the promotion of general pros- perity. THE MEMORIAL SETS FORTH “that in the year 1865, by an act of the Imperial Parlia- ment of Great Britain, this dependency of the British Empire was deprived of the free constitution and rep- resentative institutions which its inhabitants had un- interruptedly enjoyed for upward of two centuries. Although this‘important change in the government | ofthe colony was achieved without consulting the wishes of the people to be affected, your memort- | | alists, with that loyaity which has ever distinguished | them, dutitully accepted the change, trusting to the | hope rather than expecting that the prospects heid out of the great improvement and prosperity which | were to result from the new form of government | might at least be partially realized, After nine years! experience of Crown government your memorialists are driven to the avowal that thoir hopes have been | entirely dissipated, The circumstances of the colony are none the better—are in many respects worse— | than at any period of the existence of free | | aad representative institutions, ‘Theevils which it | was aileged had arisen under and been fostered | | by the abotished form of government, and which | Crown rule was adopted professedly to mitigate or | eradicate, bave, on the contrary, increased, while | others of a far graver character have been introduced, | and this to so great an extent that ‘your memorialists _ can no longer, consistently with the duty they owe to | themselves and their successors, refrain from respect- | fully bringing them under your Lordship’s notice, and | praying your Lordship to recommend to Her Most | | Gracious Majesty that measure of relief which your | | memortalists sincerely believe to be necessary for the | | future welfare and happiness of this colony,” THE RBLIKY PRAYED FOR | isin @ partial return to represeutative institutions. | | The memorial 1s now receiving signatures throughout | the island, and will shortly be forworded to the Ear! of | Carnarvon. What the upshot will be remains yet to | be seen. It is too much to expect that this prayer will be granted, for tyrants do not so casily relax their | grasp when they have once thoroughly mastered a | people; but it will be gained sooner or later, for there | | is a feeling being aroused in the island that will not | abide the evil much longer. | THE URUGUAT | fillbustering steamer which put in here some time | ago while manauvring, it 1 alleged, to enter one of | the inlets on the coust of Cuba for the’ purpose of Land. | ing arms and ammunition for the insurgents, 1s stll lying at this port, closely watched by a Spanish | steamer, the Francisco de Borgia, Yellow fever re- | | cently broke out among the crew of the latter, and car- | ried ‘off several of them. As the Uruguay is under | | seizare of our government the watchfulness of the | Spanish cruiser is unnecessary, as it is not likely the filibuster »will ever be allowed to proceed on her | mission. | ‘THR WATER DRINKERS | are creating @ stir in different parts of the country, and, | according to their views, total abstinence is the only means by which the people can hope for prosperity ia | this world and salvation in eternity. They seek to convert everyone, from the Governor downward, alto- | gether forgetting that the manufacture of’ rum | is one of the greatest sources of profit to j the planters and of revenue to the govern- | | ment, The revenue derived from this source is £97,000 from rum duties, £15,300 from spirit licenses and about £18,000 from imported spirits and ale—mak- | | whole general revenue derived by the government from taxation, A financial secretary would be more than human to contemplate such a loss without dismay. AS CHRISTMAS APPROACHES a general revival of trade seems everywhere evident, id in the fancy and drapery business in particular ers are being comforted by quick sales and large | profits for the dulness of previous mouths. The demand for English and French wines and beers and for Ameri- | can breadstufls and provisions # also gradually on the increase. The latter must increase greatly, owing to a partial failure of the native provision crop. If seasons continue favorable the sugar and coflee crops will be good. | THE URUGUAY. ] CITY. Among the passengers who arrived in this city yes- terday on board the Henry Chauncey, from Jamaica, | was Captain Summers, of Connecticut, formerly of the | United States Navy, and more recently commander of | the celebrated Cuban steam yacht Uruguay. Accompa- | nying the captain were four of the crew, The first | mate and e sailor remain on board the Uruguay, at | Kingston, Jamaica, where she 18 watched day and night’ | by British men of war and also by the Spanish vessel | Francisco de Borja, | It is not yet known at Kingston what disposition the itish government intend making of the Uruguay's 0 of arms . There aiso arrived yesterday, in the Heary Chaun- | cey, two of the expeditionary party in the Uraguay, | namely, Colonel Pio Rosado and Domingo del Sol, aged | eeventeen, son of the celebrated General Jesus dél Sol, | who was oue of the Virginius victims. DRL 801'S STAT! NT. Colonel Pio Rosado received news while at Kingsto from Captain E, Collazo, who was one of the party ol nine who landed in Cuba from the Uru, with him were Colonel M. G. Barn Trujillo, tain RK. Gonzales, pilots, The brothers Trujillo are American citizens, | and were on the Virginius expeditic The letter trom | Collazo stated that after the party landed at Truquino, near Santiago de Cuba, they went to the iuterior. The reason of their going up the country was to obtain as- guay. The others | ¥. Trujillo, R. ero and three | | sistance to land the cargo from the Uroguay, but they | did not meet their friends, and on coming down to the coast on the third day saw that the Spanish steamer Tornado was thore. “All hope of communication with the Uruguay being at an end, they joined their brothers fn arms aiter a narrow escape from capture by the | Bpanish troops. The letter also states that the ots | are well drilled, aud intend advancing on the Cinco | | Villas very soon, THR ARMING OP THE SPANioH NAVY, The fronclads Vittoria and Zaragoza are now being | spent money very freely for corres! | ina very few months | Humaup’s advice, | without baving the rights of belligerents, diplomacy | The Henaxo, then, will see “how much easier it is to | ous ald.” | procress OF AFFAIRS IN BROOKLXYN—A NEW work atthe Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Trenton ts progressing finely and will doubtless be successfully launched before New Year's. and Florida tn hand ag soon as they arrive from New London, which will doubtless be to-morrow. ships were m the hands of the workmen during the old flurry with Spain, and rigging, &c., are well ad- vanced and can be completed ina short time if aeces- ary. , DECEMBER 2, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. TUR HERALD AND THR CUBAN CAUSE. To Tax Evrrox ov Tre Heratp:— AS amember of the press of this city I would re- spectfully ask you to grant me the courtesy of allowing this communication to appear in your valuable paper, inasmuch as the journal J edit in the interests of tho Cuban cause is published in foreign language, unin- telligible to the majority of the American people. For this especial favor you may be sure of my sincere grat- itude. The Heraxp of yesterday (Thanksgiving Day) con- tains the following brief editorial article, addressed to the Cuba ADVICR GRATIS TO SOME CURAN PATRIOTS. We notice that some of the Cubans living in this country have begun to abuse the HxkaLp for its recent course upon the Cuban question, These people seem to forget that the Hmraub has for a long time been the consistent and powerful friend of Cuba; that it bas dence to pro- ‘sent the cause of Cuba fairly and fully to the world; that it bas constantly expressed its sympathy with the attempt to make the {sland tree, and its desire for the success of the Cubans. It has not changed; but it does not propose that this country shall fight the Cuban battle. ‘Who would be free themselves should strike the blow,” said a poet, who also was a sincere and devoted friend of liberty; and we Will tell these Cubana who are now grumbling at the Hreatoan absolutely sure and effective way to free their beloved island. If they will all go over to Cuba immediately and fight the Spaniards they can achieve success in less than aix months, There are in this | conntry, according to the best accounts, nearly 60,000 | Cuban men. If they were where they ought to be they could sweep the Spaniards into the sea in six weeks. Why will they not try tf To the sentiments expressed in the above lines I would reply, beginning with the well known maxim that “To blame an unhappy people is always easier than to give them generous aid.” I do not think that the Cubans alluded to, on commenting freely upon the late position assumed by the H#ratp on the Cuban question, had it in their minds to abuse or revile that journal, but they could not help witnessing with extreme surprise the sudden and unaccountable change effected in that Paper, which only yesterday stoutly maintained, with Strong logical reasons, the right of the Cubans to be recognized as beiligerents by this government, and to- day throws the whole weight of its influence in op- esnips of the very views before advocated by it ‘hat the HenaLp has been the strongest champton of Cuban independence from 1871 to 1875, and that it bas spent largo sums of moncy in sending correspondents, who, breuking through the Spanizh lines might reach the territory of free Cuba and make known to the outer world the existence of the government of the Cuban Republic and its organized defenders, until then denied by the Spanish authorities; the Cubans have not forgotten, nor can they forget it, and this is why they look with amazement on the late utterances of the Hykatp, as compared with the sentiments it has before expressed on the same subject. ‘he Cubans are far from pretending that the United States government should draw the sword in their behalf, or thata single drop of Ameri- can blood should be spilled on Cuban coil in defence of their liberty and independence; but they do maintain that this government should do justice toa heroie people that for seven years have proved themselves entiued to that recognition which would give them the same advantages their enemies have, so that the exiled Cubans be not looked upon as pirates or fltbusters it thoy send men and ammunition in aid of their brethren, while Spain is granted the right of constructing gunboats and ostensibly purchas- ing in the United States arms and fe nage) which she exports without difficulty by all the American steamers of the Havana line; and when the Cubans, after immense sacrifices, obtain a small craft, inwhich to send a few muskets and cartridges to their compatriots, the State and force of this nation are stirred up to action in order to prevent the sailing of the defenceless small craft; and so grant the claims of the Spanish Minister who + ETHERIC FORCE. Mr. Edison’s Discovery of a Supposed New Natural Force. Electricity Superseded by a More Docile Agent. Mr, Edison, whose name promises to become famous as the discoverer of a new natural force, was at his laboratory in Newark last evening, attended by nis as- stants and surrounded by a little company of Inter- ested persons, among whom were several expert eloc- tricians and a representative of the Hxraum Mr. Edi- son 1s @ young man, of about the medium height, with fall oval face, a large head and @ manner that bespeaks the utmost devotion to his business. He was formerly telegraph operator in the employ of the Western Union Company, and, during the war, was engaged tn the Associated Press operating room, serving with ex- cellent skill and fidelity, Possessed of natural inventive genius, he began to turn bis attention to the betterment of the telegraphic instruments then in use, and succeeded in making number of additions and improvements with such pecuniary bene- fit to himself that he was enabled to abandon the laborious occupation of an operator and devote his time to the study of electric science. His most {m- portant invention up to this time is that of the quadru- plex system, by which four messages can be transmitted simultaneously through a single wire. It was while engaged in his occupation of experimenting that he made the discovery of what he is pleased to term, with- ‘out much appropriateness, ‘etheric” force. This force or principle is the direct offspring of electricity and magnetism, The operation’ of an ordl- nary telegraphic circuit affords the simplest means of deriving it and it is by this method that the present ex- periments are being conducted. When the circuit is open or broken the electricity stored in the magnetic coil by the operation of @ con- tinuous current is withdrawn artificially and it is in this manner of relieving the magnet that the invention consists, Hitherto the power stored inthe magnet has been permitted to dissipate itself unnoticed in the air, in ignorance of the fact that {thas assumed @ new nature and possessed properties more valuable than those of electricity itself. Edison noticed that the accidental contact of a wire with the core of the magnet caused the production of a pecaliar bright spark when @ metallic substance was applied to it. Though this manifestation has been frequently observed, he was led to investigate it to its origin, and was amazed to find that the new manifestation failed to respond to the either inductive or static, The galvanometer was un- moved by it; the dainty gold leaf of the electroscope exhibited no signs of deflection; the tongue could de- tect no sensation; the Leyden jar charged with it was possegsed of no property that ts contributed to it by electric contact. In a word, the manifestation was non- electric. It was the display, recognized for the first human ignorance. Since the moment of thts discovery Mr. Edison has demands the enforcement of the neutrality laws, dis- puted him by no one, since Spain sends from the harbor of New York gunboats, cannon, Remington rifies powder and cartridges with which to drown in blood the aspirations of a people who demand their rights to liberty and independence. Let the American government recognize the rights of the Cubans to belligerency, and the world will see how they alone will suffice to end Spanish dominion in Cuba ; for have they not opposed, un- aided, all the power of Spain for seven consecutive years, and Jad low 120,000 Spanish soldiers, forcing that nation to exhaust $250,000,000 of the Cuban Treasury | without the remotest ‘hope, until now, of pacifying | the island? And all this the Cubans have accom. | plished in spite of the indifference of the United States government, and without the material aid of the American people, for they have been so unfortunate that in this Centennial epoch they found nota gallant Lafayetté, who, at the bead of 16,000 veterans, would cross the seas to share with them the triamphs and de- | feats of their war of Independence, The HunaLo was misinformed when {t said there were in this country 60,000 Cuban men who could drive the Spaniards into the sea in stx weeks if they ail should goto Cubaat once. fhe Cuban men, women and children living in exile in this country, scattered from New Orleans to Boston aud struggling against overwhelming odds to earn their bread in a foreign land, hardly amount to 8,000 all told, and of this puma- ber there are hardly 1,000 men serviceable for war, bat who would be fighting with their compatriots to-day had they the means of transportation, But how can they go? Swim? Impossible! In steamships? Yes; but every armed man landed on the shores of Cuba would cost $150; and therefore $150,000 would be needed to enable those 1,000 men to foliow the And how could such a sum be raised when the Cubans exiled tu this country who are foria- nate enough to ind work hardly earn $10 or $20 per week with which to supply the wavts of their families? Are there any Americans who would advance the money for such an enterprise? Surely not, But grant the Cubans could obtain the no for their transportation 4 armament, how could they leave these shores without being hindered by the government at Washington? and the claims of Spain's representative here? For, simply places us in the standing of insurgents or pirates, and neither can-the Cubans obtain the means to go in aid of our brothers in arma nor would Amer- ican citizens dare to lend such assistance to men regarded by their government as pirates or filibusters. viame an unfortunate peopie than to lend them gener. Does the HxeaLn wish to immortalizo its pame in a grand, noble and glorious enterprise? Itoan do it if it chooses, for it has ample mean. Let it offer hi loan of $500,000, and it may rest assured | that every one of them in this country will go to Cuba and sweep the Spaniards into the sea, ay, and in less than six monibs. Why not try it?’ The only thing wanted by the Cubans to finish their war of inde- pendence is not “‘advice gratis” but. money, money, money. In the meantime, alone, and without aid, we shall do what we can; burning every sugar plantation on the island, ruining the production and the com- merce, and exterminating the Spaniards with the d now and then that we can do at present, and it 1s enough. J. B, DE LUNA, Editor La Naw Yous, Nov. 26, 1876. NAVAL MATTERS. Independencia, COURT OF INQUIRY—THE MARION TO BE COMMISSIONED— RECRUITING AGAIN GOING ON. The cold snap seems to have little effect in delaying Preparations are being made to take the Shenandoah Both ‘The sloop-of-war Hartford is being coaled and will be put in the stream so that room can be made for the Minnesota, Florida, Shepandvah, Phlox and other ves- eels expected at the yard. A Court of Inquiry has been convened at the yard to examine into the alleged frauds in Civil Engineer Stration’s department, by which the government has been swindled out of considerable sums of money by means of falee rolls. Commodore J, B. M, Clitz ie President of the Court and Paymaster Robert H. Allen Judge Advocate, Tho Court \s empowered to send for persons and papers, and a thorough investig tion Is to be made into leged irregularities the parties brougut to justice if found guilty. This subject was before & Board some time since and th evidence then brought to light has resulted in th present positive action on the part of the Navy De- partment, It will probably require a month’s labor to Driug the affair to & conclusion. Prepared to atart from Spain for Cuban waters, besides two trouclads which haye been built in France, and the following vessels, now at th % navy yard:—Villa de Madrid, Lealtad and Co ption frigates, Dona Mai de Molina corvettes and steamer Vigilante Linnor. The commander of the fleet in Cuban waters is to be moeif in 1866 by capturing the Chincha Isiands from the Peruvians, A NEW SEA COURSER. ‘The new schooner, Stephen D. Barnes, which was recently launched by David Carl, the shipbuilder of City Isiand, for Mesers. 8. D. Barnes & Co., of Broome street, this city, was yesterday towed to the foot of Rivington street. She will she rtly make a trip to the South. Im spaciousness, considering the eizo of the | "Phe triple turreted iron-ciad Roanoke, now in the Vessel, and in appointments her cabin is probably su- | hands of the engineers, ts found to be a good deal the | perior to that of any other working vossel hailing from | Worse for wonr. The Umbers sustaining the turrets and deck are rotten to some extent, and the decks are reading, Which has tendency to sever the pipes this port, Her foreca has been Ity fitted for be | Lg aS "8 A superticial view Of jeading from the boilers, and the engineers aro ae ee es cn he the opinion that the | not particularly anxious to serve about her engines Gaeta pines my the model was to pecnre | until needed repairs are completed. The old craft will Tred anes whereas an inspection of the hold tends | protably stand the ¢eas of the harbor, but no one | pecetved chilletncs ae Bion. Hercaptain has already thinks she could go outside in rough weather with Feceived challenges for sailing round tip races from | pares different vessels. ba some of which are as noted among ractical builders and boatmen ag the yachts Sappho, Dauntless and Resolute are among yachtsmen. Among ses tay be mentioned the echooner William H. Yan b sailed in the yacht race t 0 and behaved co handsomely. 6 WO 7o8rn ne THE GERMA ‘The corvette Marion, one of the new hips, goes into commission at Portsmouth, N. H., this week; Com- executive officer. | To meet therequirements of the service recruiting | offeers are again ebipping sadors, landymen, &c. ct w knows no doubt an abundance of good . Now i Josed on the great lakes thousands of excellent on can be obtamned atan early doy. So far no new recruiting offices bave been established in any of the lake citica, THE GENTLE ELIA. Mr. Louis M, Wilfson, of the Home Journal, will | deliver # lecture this evening on “Ch Lamb; His Life and Works,” atthe Temple Ahawath Chesed, Lox- ington avenue. corner of Fifty ffuh etroey SOCIETY. ‘The Board of Directors of the German Society held | {te monthly meeting yesterday afternoon, One | thousand seven hundred dollars were appropriated for | charity for the present month. The treasurer's report | showed a balance at the present time in uh treasury of $8,006 19, The Emigration Committee reported that | the total number of emigrants arrived in this country ence the let of January last is 92,000, of which number | A communication was read from resenting the sui of 400 if of the Grand Duaay bl the German Cons: iabant £109) on bel mander Robert L. Bradford will ¢ommand her, and | Lientenant Commander Oscar F. Hugerman goes as _ worked night and day to ascertain more intimately the nature of the new “etheric” principle, and with results which are strongly confirmatory of his original theory. A voltaic battery, of several cells, is applied to an ordi- nary telegraph tnstrument. The trial of twenty-eight different metals having shown that cadmium is best adapted for the transmission of the new power, a bar of that substance (analagous tn its nature to zinc) is placed across or near to the magnetic coil, elther directly or with an insulating substance intervening, and from this bar a copper wire conducts the “etheric” force to | any desired point. Connected with the gas pipe tt | charges every gas fixture in the building, so that the © application of a metallic substance to any one of them will produce the etheric epark. A connection with the street main enabled Mr, Edison to draw the sparks | from # gas fixture in his residence, some distance | away. Hence it seems that the new force ‘e not affected by ,, the contact of the earth, but performs its’ operations independeat of the necessity of insulators, Herein ies its immense practical value. The cumbersome appli- ances of transmitting ordinary electricity, such as tele- graph poles, insulating knobs, cable sheathings and 0 on may be left out of the problem of quick and cheap telegraphic transmission, and a great saving of time and labor accomplished. Ocean cables operated by “ethertc” force need cost bat a fraction of the present clumsy lines. Wires may be laid in the earth orin water. The existing mothods and mechanisms may be completely revolutionized. The experiments witnessed by the Henaup representative were of an ex- ceedingly interesting nature, Attaching the wire upon which the etheric current is conducted to a gas fixture in the large laboratory, it was found that the peculiar sparks could be obtained from every other gas fixture in the building simultaneously by the application of a file, knife blade or other metallic substance. A con- fusing and inexplicable experiment was as follows:— The current was transmitted pipes, and the experimenter proceeded to o distant burner and drew obriiliant sparks by applying his knife diade, Three feet from this burner was another burner, at which a second person was stationed with instractions to grasp it firmly, which was no sooner done than the sparks at burner No. 1 became s0 feeble as to be almost imper- ceptible, When the grasp on burner No. 2 was released the sparks were evolved from No. 1 with renewed bril- liancy, Water was then placed upon the floor and @ Piece of iron laid in the wet spot and connected with burner No. 2 by means of a copper wire, thus furnish- ing ample opportunity of escape had the current been an electric one, But the brilliancy of the sparks at No. 1 was found to be unaffected by this test. The person who first grasped burner No. 2 was then made to re sume his grasp, standing on the wet spot, but the former effect of diminishing the force of the spark at No. 1,was now imperceptible. Standing upon the dry floor his grasp of burner No. 2 was fatal to tho mani- fostations at No. 1, but when tho floor was moistened the interruptive effect ceased. Still another ex- periment consisted in grasping the gaspipe into through the gas which the etheric current was being led, the person | grasping it being made to hold a knife in his other band. Upon touching a file to the knife blade sparks were freely drawn, showing that the human body ts a 00d conductor of the new force. No peculiar sensa- tion was observed by the person through whom the current passed, When the writer left the laboratory Mr, Baison had just brought the microscope to bear upon the etheric sparks, magnifying them eereral thou- sand areas, It has been suggested that this discovery throws new light upon the nature of the auroral phenomena Tele. graph operators are familiar with the difference be- tween the effect of the electricity developed by a thun- der storm and that which affects the wires previous to an auroral display. The former passes through the wire, emitting both spark and sound; it is instanta- neous in action, seldom travelling far on the wire be- fore discharging itseif. But the electricity produced | by the aurora passes along the wire in a continuous stream, with no sudden discharge, effecting the same result ag that produced by the galvanic battery. A colored mark upon the paper is made by the positive current of the aurora as by tho positive pole of the battery, When these effecie have been ob- served the aurora follows, and so familiar have the operators become with the manitestations that they can predict an auroral display with absolute ceriainty, They regard the electricity which precedes ite appearance as Of procisciy the same nature as that of the electro-gaivanio battery, which fs distinguished by {ts voluminous current without intensity of action, differing from ordi- nary atmospheric electricity or the kind produced by friction, which may be dissipated by means of» wire | conductor leading to the ground. Now, it is ola theory that the cause of auroral displays is the accu- mulation of quantiti may be regarded as @ vast magnel) and by the libora- tion of this electricity, which is dissipated in the form of a magnificemt display of light. But this is pre-e spark is produced. The core of the magnet corresponds te the magnetic pole of the earth; the cadmium and wire act in correspondence to the pecu- Nar conditions of the atmosphere under which the earth’s electricity Is liberated; the galvanic battery and | electric current are analogons to the vast currents of the electric fluid which encircle and pervade the earth; the auroral flame is kindred to the etheric spark, In tests applied to discover the presence of electricity, | time, of a principle until then burted im the depths of | of electricity in the earth (which | cisely the mechanism by which the etheric. short, the newry aiscoverea manifestation, producing no offect but light, tg believed to be a miniature of thas Grand and mysterious illumination which has excited the admiration and wonder of men for so many cen- turies. * ' Mr. Edison ts conatructi quantity of special ap- Paratus for the purpose of experimenting with the mew force. Gutta percha rods will be suspended so that the mstruments may be more thoroughly insulated and all possibility of electric induction prevented; an “etueri- oscope” will be contrived by means of grathite points 80 that tho etheric sparks may be more advantageously studied and a spectroscope analysis will be made of the spark in order to ascertain the affinity of the light with that of the auroral display. The discoverer will labor unremittingly to develop the etheric manifestations until be succeeds in putting them into more tangible shapes and evolves a force which shall be as docile aud adaptable to the uses of man as those faithful drudges— steam, heat and olectricity. Mr. Edison’s theory of “etheric" energy 18 as fol- lows:—"Under certain coffditions heat energy can be transmitted into electric energy, and that again, under certain conditions, into magnotic energy, this back again into electric energy, all forms of energy being interchangeable with each other, It follows chat if electrio energy under certain conditions is transformed into that of magnetism under other conditions it might be transformed into an entirely unknown force, subject to laws different from those of heat, light, electricity or magnetism, Thero is every reason to suppose that ethe- rio energy {s this new form. The only manifestation of {ts presence previously recorded with scientific ac curacy is that of the/German chemist Ruchenbach, who noticed that an electro-magnet, under certain condi- tions and placed in a dark room, became luminous when the hands of peculiarly constituted persons were made to approach the poles, This phenomenon, inex- plicable to Ruchenbach, 1s easily to be accounted for om the etheric theory.” INTERCOLLEGIATE CONTESTS. HOW SOME BRIGHT YOUNG MEN AVOIDED THB MENTAL META FERVIDIS EVITATA ROTES YES- TERDAY AND DESCRIBED LINES THAT POSSESS THE PROPERTY OF ASYMPTOTIS. Yesterday was an interesting day at the University | of New York. A compotitive examination took place | in Greek and mathematics, A Hunauo reporter was | duly despatched to the spot where the pulvis Olympicus was to be gathered by the aspirants, who had not to fear the meta fervidis evitata rote. It was with dim- culty that the Hera.p man discovered the Chat celior’s room, in which the examination was being held, By the courtesy of tho examiners he was allowed to enter, The room is literally panelled with pictures, some of no small merit, The assaults of Boreas through the floor are checkmated by a thick Brussels carpet. The examiners eat in one corner of | the room, and their bland, considerate, gentlemanly METHOD OF PUTTING QUESTIONS must have set the examined much at their case, Among | the latter is @ young lady whose Hellenic . pro | pensitics have tnduced her to onter the liste | | against the sterner sex, representing eight col. leges. “The assembled ‘students propounded to themselves the question why a lady preferred fighting men on Sophocles to making point lace; dairy work was noteven hinted at, No gonclusive answer was elicited ; but the most manly delicacy on all sides testi- fied to the general appreciation of the pluck of Cor- nell’s Greek athlete. The examination was both oral and written, The Hera. man was allowed to witness both, Knowing enough Greek to distinguish alpha from omega and beta from theta, he is in @ position to say | that the examination was no sham. The questions were frequently very severe, but this was probably previously so arranged in’ order to get at the respective merits of candidates who on ordinary quea- tions had run @ prettyeven race. The atmosphere was {nstinct with Hellenic life. First and second Aorists fluttered round the room Alpha priviti bowed to the verbs in mi, THR ATTIC, TH# 10NIO AND THR DORIO PORMS duly intercbanged salutations, the oxytone and par- oxytone accents were duly feted and all the betes noires of the Greek Grammarian were in turn uncaged and handed over to the youthful Greek tamers It must be said that the examination | | Lovo, | was exceedingly creditable. No ordinary scholars could have stood tho heavy cross-fire of philological queries directed at the contestants It would, per- haps, be invidious to single out individuals, but it must be said that the Syracuse man, Mr. M, Wheeler, stood up tohis work like a gamecock, and mt his spurs into the literary question propunded to Bim with the most tnerring precision. The ordinary duties of the university faculty were omitted out of respect tothe other coilegos, The Standing committee of the Intercolicgiate Associati which has the whole contest in hand, is composed of Mr. John ©, Tomlinson, Henry ©, Alvord, of the New York University, and Nelson S. Spencer, ot New York Corley The examiners in Greek and the aspirants to acade mic nonors are as follows:—Rev. Dr. T. W. Chambers, ' Charlton T. Lewis, and Professor W. R. Dimock, of Quincy, Mass. The following are the names of the students examined yesterday:—&. R. Downs, Williams; Miss Josephine J. fhomas, of Cornell; Heury Veghta, Rutgers; Ernest H. Crosby, New York University; H D. Gardner, Hamilton; H.’M. Wheeler, Syracuse Unt versity ; John Currer, Northwestern University, George B. Smyth, New York College; David H. Hunt, St John’s, Fordham. Prizes—$300 and $200. The mathematical examination will be apprectated from one specimen of the questions asked. It may be recommended as a cure for dyspepsia:— Find the equations of the asymptotes to the hyper. bola, of which the equation is— b2x2—a2y2—2ex-+2ey+-f=0, and show that the lines possess the property of asymp- totes. “Tho examiners in mathematics are as follows:—Ad- miral C. H. Davis, of United States Navy; Simeon Newcomb, of United States Naval Observatory, Wash- ington, D. C., and Professor P. 8, Michie, ‘of West Point ‘The candidates are:—Thomas Craig, Lafayette; G. B. Halstead, Princeton; James F, Eaton, Williams; K. H. Paimer, Cornell; ©.'L. D. Washburn,’ Rutgers; George P, Janes, New York Untversity; J. milton; L. M. Spooner, Syracuse; F, M. Harris, Northwestern University; N. 8. Spencer, New York’ Colleg Jones, St. Johns, Fordnam. Prizes—$300 and $200, All results will be announced at the oratorical con- test to occur at the Academy of Music on the evening | of January 4, 1876. | In oratory eleven colleges are to compete. Ten essay have already been submitted to the Committee, | oratorical prizes are $200 and $150. Tho essay prizes are $200 on each of two subjects. p27 tah hen SUICIDE IN WYOMING VALLEY. A STORY OF DISAPPOINTMENT, DESPAIR AND DEATH—A YOUNG MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THE BREAST BECAUSE HR IS REJECTED BY HIS SWEETHEART, Forty Fort, Pa., Nov. 30, 1875. The little village of Forty Fort, in Wyoming Valley, within sight of the scene of the celebrated massacre, | has been the theatre of a startling suicide perpetrated | under the most romantic circumstances. The victim of his own band was a young man named George } ‘Washington Phillips, twenty years of age, and occupy- | ing a respectable social position, About a year ago he became engaged to acharming and accomplished girl, to whom he wag about to be married shortly. Sta weeks ago, however, he, In company with three other young men, went to Wilkesbarre, where they became | intoxicated, and in this stato they took @ horse ané | buggy without the knowledge of the owner and crossed to Kingston over the Susquehanna, where they con tinued their orgies, The owner of the buggy, mean. | while missing hus property, pursued the young men, and was in such high dudgeon when he found them, that it took $60 to settle with him. This amount Phillips paid bim, and, after receiving 4 GOOD LESSON, he returned to Forty Fort. The story of his experience in the city reached the village and became co: | gossip until the father of bis sweetheart, who is strict tuember of the Methodist chureh, heard of it Ho be came so incensed that he at once forbade Phillips com- | ing to bis house, ag be did not want such a husband for bis danghter, The girl, moreover, acting in accordance with the wish of her pee, broke off the engage. ment, and this made Phillips, who was very much de- voted to most miserable. He tried repeatedly to repair the past, but to no pury ‘and finally {n despair concluded to take his own life and that of the girl, This tragic deed he determined to put | tno effect at a festival heid in the Methodist Episcopal church a few evenings ago, On Thursday evening last | he went with arevolver, hoping to find the girl at church, bat was disappointed and returned home, The | following evening he went somewhat earlier, aud thie | tare, too, was foiled, as some of his friends ascertained | that he had a revolver in hig possession and took it from him. He then went away, and procuring another | revolver returned later in the evening when he was | chagrined to find the girl had gone home, Takin companion with him, be proceeded at once to house, but the family gone to bed for the nigh ‘and he eeemed bitterly disappointed. Standing in sigh! of the window where he said the young lady slept be romarked to his companion— ‘1 HAVE LIVRO LONO ROUGH, she does pot care for mo,” and thereupon he drow the revolver and fired twice im the direction of his own | heart, each bullet passing directly belowit He was | carried to his home in @ feeble state and lingered for | fifteen hours, when death relieved bim of pain On | Saturday last he veaged that he might be permitted to see the young lady for whose sake he shot himself. | His request was granted, and the girl and hor father went i i } to his bedside, Phillips wept bitterly and was very much agitated. Ho said, “I don’t want to live any Jonger; 1 am not worthy of you" Ho died that night aad was buried vesterdaw.