The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1877, Page 2

2 TO LET FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES, Peserr sores ere Located on Nassau. First Floor to let; suituble for banke: Jawyers: will be let together or in fepants it esired; adapted offices oF 4; be altered to suit BASEMENT TO LET—s20 FOURTH AY,; GOOD As; faundry or any business. Owner on premises from iwi. - RUTTER, CHEESE who understanas ofthe he: arket in the ol R. 6 Washington st. TORNE ‘ORE—GOOD. Frankiort House, offic 2 PO LET—STORES, HOUSES, LOFTS AND PRINTING Offices, with or without steam pows ‘educed rents to ay H. HAULENBECK, room imes Builds iG8.—TO A RELIABLE a THREE LOFTS, 20X00 L LIGHTED, Pea or together, at 361 Canal st., near Wooxter? possession, HOUT STEAM POWER, TWO » feet, well lighted, with steam improvements. Apply at 346 East spacious Lofts, 7x2 ‘ators and ull modern NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, J ANUARY 26, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. BOARDERS WANTED. ] SUIT OF ROOMS: BATH, aC); PRIVATE PARLE e I Hourd; references. Wirt Su. $6. 4b West FLOOR ~ FRONT, “SONNY ior Board, $16 wud $18; small , Roow fASHINGTON PImch (ST. JULIE (8 to let; alse Rooms for single gentie- ovated, and is expecially adapted for tam- $4 UP; AY CENTRAL PARK: FINK AiR, EXCEL. Tient Hoard, neat ooms: privat» house : private table; on Sth av., first house below A7th st, ; one but respectable ply. Take Madixon (St, MARKS PLAGE, NBAR COOPER INSTITUTE. — Fornisied Rooms, en suite ar singly; no houskee pl * 2D 8 @tront sunny Rooms, on fourth floor: rete 10s. RLEY PL R BROAD Koon $16 for two, with Board; tr day: table Bourd, am heat throuzhout. 1 sts B28 FUKNISiBD ROOM Board, ( gentleman and wife or single sentlem DWELLING I0USES TO LET. PES. d. Stand PARTY HAVING A FIRST CLASS. PRIVATE low rent will sell Furniture to a Indy, a bure efor Kurope, Address CASH, box 105'Herald 18s" 28TH ST.-CHOlGR ROOMS FOR FAMILY lo first class; dining room on parior .. Be LY FURNISHED LARGE single ‘small Roonis to let. to gentleman and wife or gentleman, with first class Bourd ; t » moderate, igo EAST 17TH ST. TO let, with immediate possession, Apply to JAMES M, TAYLOR, 13g Pine st. “4 THREE-ROOM DEEP HO PARTLY FUR. od order; rent $110 1 ood orders WOOD tt UO.y 1,249 Broadway. ; ished. . NEAR AND BELOW (inte possession NS, Browlway and 52d at, D DWELLING, 143 GREENE eleven rooms. Inqwire ot S. H. ate Uni HOUS 04 SEUOND FLOOR, ceptionable 1 WEST SOTH ST. four room EGAN separate oF together; wi cs . =a eA 14-8 T., 217 WEST.—BLEGANT ROOM, WITH Board, for geutieman ani wile and single gentlemen; reference ihe Ghee 14 WEST 16TH ST. NEAR STH AV.—FIRST CLASS Rooms and Board for tamilies or gent em en, 'L. LACHENMEYER, 19, “RT, Sa8 A FRONT HALL ROOM TO let, with Bons & 1s Wes? 2 wi WE: terms moderate, UR STORY STONE HOUSE eeptiag the dental office and back ely. improven sension immediately: rent, E. C, Fraser, 128 Waver: SS AND APARTMENTS TO LET, mn ie A PEATE Fare WILL RENT BURGANTLY uments, ensuite oF singly. to first elasn Tgentleinan and wife. No. 5 Eust 16th ste, kv. DAT Wks? 27111 ST.—PURNISHED ROOMS, WITH Board; Rooms en suite, with private table if desired: Feferences exchanged, "NO, 120 EAST, NEAR ed Rooms, with ne ati Board changed oe ELEGANT SUIT OF ROO} th Hourd, for a family: proper reference asked. 26 ULINTON PLACE.—FRONT ROOMS, WITH AU Board, for two, $12 to $14; single, $6 to $7 per week ; transients taken, 31 ST WASHINGTON PLACE. —PARLOR AND Bedrooms, Rooms for gentlemen or housekeeping; gas and beat: rent modi 3 private Q3e.z NO, 24,—ONE. jerate. TO LET—FOR A ; good relerences re- 33, WEST 45TH,—A VERY SMAGL FAMILY WILL eront « gentleman and wile or gentleman elegantly fur nished Room, with splendid table: cleauliness a specialt; PRIVATE FAMILY HAVE SUNNY FRONT, SEC. A ondtuor Suites aise singto Rooms to xentiemen, withe out board. 33 Wes PRIVATE FAMILY WILL LET THREE NICELY furnished Rooms: private bath; southern exposure; brown stove house, 201 West 22d CHEERFUL, LARGE, FUKNL ROOM, NICELY for two gentlemen or for light Vest 24th st. 36. EAST 218T ST., NEAR BROADWAY.—HAND- OOsomely furnished Kooms, with Board, for tamilies and gentlemen ; reference. 39, EAST 12TH ST., NEAR BROADWAY.—ELE- Oe gently furnished Rooms and Parlors with first cluss jou Al EAST 19TH 8ST.. NEAR BROADWAY.—WELL furnished front Rooms on second fluor to rent, with i 1x0 Rooms up stair, zi 2, GLINTON PLAGE.—A GREAT REDUCTION FOR A Zeist clase Bonrd; handsome Rooms, en suite or singly, for families or gentlemen. 49 EAST 21ST ST.—LARGE HALL ROOM, SUNNY rd ‘EAR HUDSON T 10 KAST 151i ST nished Rooms to gentlemen ; terms very reaso Zoxpo.ure, with or without Board. ei 49 B OTH ST.—ELEGANTLY FURNISHED Roo with moderato rates, 52 WEST 320” ST, CORNER OF BROADWAY— ANeutly furnished Parlor and Bedroom to let, with or without Board, Aeneas FAMILY WILL LET. TO only, second stor, . with how al id water ample closet room ; it required, Address N. Herald offi Upto URNISHED PARLOR FLOOR, $8 eEK, AND Second Floor, $7: single Rooms, $3; house private. 68 Prospect place (42d at.), New York. URNISHED ROOMS AND BEDROO FOR housekeeping: Room with st halls, $2 50 and a BL. 106 East 15th st, Hous Fv; Wost 3a st. ARGE COMFORTABLE ROO J pitoom, $2.8 week; hours heated. av. J ARGE, NEATLY FURS sin, PU =D ROOMS, $4 ludies or gentlemen, 56 ,_ ALSO| SMALL 216 East 10th, neae ROOM, WITH ALL also accommodations for ‘ate, 243 East 19th st. ROOMS TO LET—AT 606 10 $6; double Rooms nveniences, on first floe man; terms w0¢ FURNISHED Broadway: single Kooms trom for two trom #6 to $10 per wee A 0 LET—FURNIS st, Box 101 Uptown Herald, iE SHERWOOD BUILDING, STH AV, ne Suit of four sunny Rooms, furnished, Y—PARLOR first class House, or Room aurant and Elevated road} PER WEEK —FURNIS th st., near Broadwa; 1 EST WASHINGTO: tlemen, without board, second floor. ST 28TH ST, BETWEPN STH AND MADISON Handsomely turnished front Parlor, with all gentlemen; also other Rooms; terms 08. 1 Hi ST., 144,—FRONT AND BACK PARLORS. Duicely {uFnished and. heated, to let to ladies ot gentie- men. 18 “AND 20 EAST ZSTH ST., BETWEEN MADISON and Sth avs.—Good accommodations; moderate price; families, gentiem table d’hote. H. LEFL&R, FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET, odernte pric A DESIKABLE ROOM TO LET n, without board, 4 WEST 1271 ST. OAwitoee Board, at QQ West oT sr, 4 EAST deat TH Nght housekeeping: t 143 WEST 24TH ST.—PRIVATK FAMILY, FUR- nished Rooms bath, dee. TSit: WALL Q7)] OTH STN . SLLan larze Rooma, fi married couples. 83 2 BROADWAY, NEAR WALLAOK'S THEATRE. le Parlors and «in ) furnished or nnturnished, for business or living purpose UNFURNISHED ROOMS AND APART- MENTS TO LET. : WATGHT BUILDT ‘ants supplied from the general entsine. | 107 anves tare BF. nished front Room coma to rent; also a Suit of Rooms, withont or with or will rent the Lower Part, 54 ,lexinaron AV.. NEAR 25TH ST.—FURNISHED 87 MADISON AV.—-HANDSOMELY FUANISHED (Rooms, en suite or singly, with or without private table; references. ge ‘CLINTON PLACE.—LARGE AND SMALL FUR- Yaisued Rooms, with Board, fre and gas; terms mod- erate, lO Anet Ee as on, ROOMS TO LET, WITH rato; table boarders ND: third floor, with Board; oderate. 18 WEST 49TH ST.—TO LET, WITH OR WITHOUT Board, 4 Basement, suitable for a physicina; terms mocerate, ate, 119 WAVERLEY PLAC nished front Rooms, with and gentlemen, terms moderat [26 EAST 27TH STA SO Foor and other’ Roos Bourd; terms low. ARLOR FLOOR, SECOND all farnished, ‘with good 133 EAST 16TH ST., NEAR IRVING PLACK—HALL OOKooms to rent, with Board, to gentlemen; refer- ences, 147 WEST 22D 8f.—TO LET, WITH BOARD, TO & ( centioman and wife, « second'story front Room, with alcove; every convenience; family small, [4B eter ote ST GHAMERGY PARK).—EEE- ABant Rooms, with first ourd. 52 WAVERLEY PLACE, NEAR OTH AV.—NIUELY ) Aturnished ttvoms, with isonrd; moderate terms. 212 WEST 40TH ST.—HANDSOME, 4Room, with Board; second floor, two persons, $5 euch por woek. DAR} WEST 12TH ST.—PLRASANT ROOMS, WITH good Board, for rexpectable men ; lie: 304. WEST 28TH ST.—GOOD BOA OU vate iamily, for gentleman and wil gentiemen; best references given and required Crate; newr Glevated Kuilroad and Eighth avenue ears, 3] O,LEXINGTON AV. BETWEEN, s6r AND sort OLAst5.—A family, owning house, will let, with Board, two Ko ‘Be 4.620 Avy, NEAR STH SE-TO LET. ONE’ OR e)£ Otwo handsomely furnished Rooms, with’ or without private family, at reasonable ret HANDSOMELY FURNISHED ROOM ON second floor for * gentleman and wile or two gentlem: also hall Room on same floor, with full or partial Board erms moderate, 243 West 22d st. ELAND'S STURTEVANT HOUSE.—PARLOR AND Bedrooms, for two, from $30 to $80 per week; single kooms, $17 50 per week and upward, with Board. BOARD AND LODGING WANTED. A WIDOW AND GROWN” SON “(OUTHERNERS) AAdesiro good Board in strictly private family; location Gant, between 10th and 234 sts, Address, statlng location and terms, PERMANENT, Poxt office box 274, city. “\ YOUNG LADY, TRAGHKER OF PIANO AND BIN ployed Stindayy in a prominent church ckotr. © ini, aires Bos th use ot plano; weuld preter giving musi lestons in part payment; a refined private family proferred, Address 8., box 200 Heraud office. ANTED—BOARD, BY TWO COUPLES, ONE WITH child and nurse; would like third floor through: loca- tion between 34th wn id Brondway, Adidroxs, stating price, referen Post office 4, New Yor Bi A Fulton n. near Broadway (Buropsan’ pian’ duced; Kooms, Sve. a 75e. a day ; $2 to $5 6 week; the best and cheapest restaurant In the world, GLAND HOTEL—LODGINGS, 50 CENTS; y, $2 and $3; 200 light Kooms; for gentlemen euly. Corner Bowery and Bayard. SK h st.—Each' suit has private kite! FLOOR OF SIX ROOMS; HOLT AND COLD WATER, gna, &e.; 50 Enst 20th st. J. H. MONAGHAN, 401 corner 2th at, NGELL'S HOT AIR, TURKISH. Electric Baths, 61 Lexington ay, ladies day and evening, Excolient hot ROMAN AND Das dh $ Cuol in every respect. % FLAT, ELEGANTLY Address B., TY HOTEL, BROADWAY AND STi ST.—ROOM ‘and Board, from $7 weekly; singlo and double Rooms for gentlemen and familien, AND BASEMENT (FRES- %. Inquire OC hird Floor, at Fo) REYER & 80 9 HOUSES, ROOMS, «c In this City and Brookiyn. =A.—WANTED, THREE FURNISHED ROOMS, ON first or second floor, for light h ekeeping ; rent S62 pee month. COFFEE, b Mice. OUSE WAN AL LOCATION: PAR. tially farni referred; for private faiily: moderate Font; will take first Class care of house; possossion Febra- ary i. x 188 Upta Id oltice oT AND DAUGHTER Wisit UN ED Rwom and Bedroom, housekeeping; all_convenione 10 monthly; private house, Aduress 220 West 25th s1 ADVERTISING ONL, THE KVENING i ID WITH ITS SPECIAL D FROM WASHINGTON AND ALL THE L. IS READ BY, R } EVERE HO! HOTEL AND RESTAURANT, 606 Broadway.—Single Kooms, S0e., and $1; double Rooms for two at $1 60 and $2'per day. THERN HOTEL.—THE BEST $2 HOUSE IN THe ‘ 7 liberal terms to permanent board ste f° BUSINESS MEN GENERALLY. AVERAGING ABOUT 90,000 COPIES ADVERTISING ONLY 26 CENTS A LINE, THE EVENIN ¢ FROM WASHINGTON AND ALBANY AND ALL THE LATEST NEWS, Is READ BY ALL NEW YORK, FOR TWO CENTS. AT 697 BROADWAY, CORNER AT if 81. —DIAMONDS, Watches, Jewelry, Silks and Personal Property of every description bought and sold. cone Sere A onde Watehes, of every description bough y d sold; Loans negotiaved.. 4 TSAAC BAER, KOOMS (A SQUARE AND red), without board, in private family and nu- ity, State terms, which must be low, town Branch, N, iN PRI Bedroom ; plonty of closets, | rmanent on reasonable terms, Bast 13th st. WANTED—tWo OF THREE, ROOMS, FUR for nouseker pis. within blocks of Gree . with lowest torms, A. M. G., Herald T 77 BLEECKER ST., NEAR BROADWAY.— advanced ‘on Dinmonds, Watches, Jewelry, & 8 Tickets bouht of Diamonds, Wateh OF Ste N OFFICE—875,000.—DIAMONDS, WATCH- os, Jewelry, Silverware, Valuables, &c., bought, sold and exchanged: Loans effected. Established 1858. J. H. BARRINGER, Mery .o8, DIAMONDS, WATCHES. JEWELRY, &¢,-Dinmonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Camel's Hair Shawls, Silks, Clocks, &., bouzht and sold back at a vory anall adv EOKGE CG. ALLEN, Jeweler, 1,190 78 Broadway, between 1th werenee, Address 1, ANTED—BY A MARRIED LK, UNFUR: nished Apartments of 6 rooms, suitable tor light h loeation betweon Lith and suth sts., oth aud dd ays. At tating terms, ‘e., FUSTER, box 183 lierald Uptown Branch vitice. Of 8 FRON? ROO juwekeeping: xentl box 105 Heraid Up EVEN ROOMS OR A FLAT, west side, Address NTED—FLAT OR FLOOR, FOUR OR FIVE fooms, uufarnished, $15 or $20. Address FOUR ADULTS, Hernid Uptown office. ROOMS FOR HOUSEKEEPING. ood neighborhood; three I. D. Ly ., Herald office. Pere BECVESANT PARK, 215 EAST ct boarders accommodatea; excellent table; TO LET-WItH BOAK Leis. et D pare 5 back Parlor, suivab de est 1 BOON STORY FRONT ROO \=WITH ald 20 Gaed 9d oh, Madioun pqhares cl Broadway, near 20th wt. ATCHES AND JEWELRY REPAIRED BY FIRST class workmen. GEORGE ©. ALLEN, 1,190 Broad. way, near 20th st, BILLIARDS. _ LOT OF SBCOND HAND BILLIARD FABLES IN periect order, equsi to new. at very low prices, W.'COLLEN DER, 158 Broadway. BILLIARD TA. indorsed by nil lead- cements now offered; ms i & CO. Byes, TABLES AT REDUCED } PHELAN'S warerooms and Ieevory, corne Obl a ing professio’ second hand Table: 40 Venoy st. PRICES th Hens ARTIFICIAL TEETH single, $15; warranted. New York De 6th av,, near 16th st, Established 145). RK, ALBERT 345 OTH AY Full § l, $4; ~ MARBLE MANTELS. STEWART'S SLATE, MARBLE AND WOOD MANTELS, Inew and elegant designs, trom #10 up; the liberally pals wish, 4sU wad 222 West aud ot TWICE DEAD! The Story of a Naval Officer's Widow Quee a Belle im New York Society, PY S I TARE A T NOVELISTS OUTDO: THE WILDE Lunatic Asyium, KIDNAPPED AND IMPRISONED. ‘The other day there was criven from the door ofa lodging house in Fast Twenty-eighth street an elderly Jady, for whom ber relatives have twice put on mourn- ‘ng, and who has twice risen from the dead; who, sounder in body and brain than the majority at her age, has passed twenty-lve of her fifty years in lun tic asylums, It was nearly dark, and she a compara- tive stranger in the city, alone, dazed by the recent ravings of a virago landlady, and nearly penniless, Fortunately, while she was wandering vaguely down Fourth avenue, she met a Jady acquaintance, who heard her story and interested horself 1n procuring for her, in a respectable house, a mouest hall bedroom suited to her slender means—a pension amounting to three dollars a week, the income of a small property to an equal amount, and her carnings {rom occasional scraps of embroidery. A legacy of a few hundred dollars, just paid over to her solicitor, bas, tor tho present, placed her im a position of comparative affluence, A LOVGING HOCSK ADVENTURE, Little more than year ago the heroine of the atrange story that will be related presently arrived, in this city and engaged rooms in Lexington avenne, paid her rent three months in advance, turnisbed her apart- ments with the ‘necessary furniture ana such addi- tional articles de /uze as a lady requires, laid in a full stock of groceries and coal for the winter, and ar- ranged to eke out her glender income by employing her vacant hoursin embroidering. The amount thus expended was about $500, She had occupied the apartments about six weeks when she was prostrated with an attack of dipptheria, ana, taking advantago of her feeble condition, her landlady caused her to be taken +o Bellevue Hospital, where sho lingered for six months and was finaily pronounced convalescent, She immediately returned to her former quar- ters, and paid the landlady a month’s rent in advance, On repairing to her rooms she found them dismantied. Her furniture haa been removed, and no clew upon which to ground an action for replovin could be obtained. She remon- strated and inquired, and was jostled into the street at the expiration of a couple of wocks, with tho infor- mation that her constant complainings were injurious to her Jundiady’s reputation for imtegrity, and could not be tolerated by one conscious of the purity of her intentions and ot the unblemished rectitude of her dealings with lodgers. What use to cause the arrest of a porson to whom arrost was no novelty? Hor first experiment in a lodging house bad cost $700 in cash, a Joss in clothing and valuables of not less than that amount, and s1x months in a paupor hospital. Dozens of such stereotyped dramas are enacted evory week in lodging house districts, and magistrates are tired of listening totnem, Twice within a year the heroine of | this narrative has played the losing part in the same drama, It is easy to declaim upon the swindies of landladies in Paris; bat an expert reporter could parallel every hackneyed trick of the Parisian adept with some daring and ingenious originality in swind- ling invented by a New York purveyor of apartments. Having heard something in the gossip ot general so- ciety of the incredibie vicissitudes through which the heroine of the previous incident and of the following narrative has passed, the ropresentative of tho Hxravp called upon Mrs, Keith, at her present resi- dence in Kast Twenty-fourth street, with a view to hear her story from her own lips, and to vorify it by documents if such evidences existed. An introduction by the young lady who had betriended her at the te mination of her Jast disastrous experiment with a lodging house landJady, acted as an open sesame to the secret history ofone of the most singular and advo turous careers that ever befel a woman, ‘The lore of the Middle Ages contains nothing more romantic than the narrative recounted by this desolate descendant of one of the ancient patroons of Manhattan Island, while the firelight painted evanescent pictures on tho papered wall behind her, It was tho story of a sweet and gentile lady in middle life, with such suffering in it that an old stager in listening to sad narra tives must have dropped a tear or two, by way of cleansing his eyes ot mistiness, It was simply and quietly told, with the resigned and placid pathos of one who has exhausted almost every aspect of human sorrow. “Lifo was a fairy lard until the Captain died,” said the quiet, elderly lady, rocking herself to and fro in the cosey firelight in a manner that appears to become habitual with persons who are familiar with trouble and suffering. ‘But since then I have passed so many weary years in insane asylums that it scems to me sometimes as if 1 had lived two lives, with a long blank between them—one of youth and wealth and tender, ness, passed long ago, and another of age and poverty and neglect. Botweon them lies a time when for years 1 was us ono stunned, and lived on ina kind of night- mare.’? There comes a time in every carcer when life is like an empty bottle, and one reviews one’s personal history as something dreamed. But it seldom comes at filty, execpt to tives into which incident and suffer- ing have been so crowded that recollection in dotail is dazed and indistinct, One may hve on alter that by force of habit, but one is reully dead. Only once, as the quiet, soft-vuiced lady told her story, and that when she spoke of her daughter—now Mra. Em- mett Vaughan, of Macintosh Biufls, Ala—were her tones a little tromalous, and the mother yearning—tho last thing a woman ever outlives—moistened her piacid blue eyes, “She has the beautiful gray eyes and the tace and figure ot her ai ress, Mary Stuart,’ remarked the mother parenthetically; and then she went on to tell about the ragment of the Scottish crown bricked up in the walls of the old Betterton mansion, on the Georgetown road, near Washington, and of the prayer book of Qugen Anne, in possession of Mrs. Sarah Wilkins, fortnerly of Philadephia, now of Brooklyn; of the magnificent white velvet coverlet, also bearing the royal arms and quarteriags of Groat Britain in the centre of the field, intermixed with marvellous floral embroidery, A heavy builion fringe edges this an- cient heirloom, under which Queen Anne once slept. It is preserved as @ relic in the same family, HER STORY COMMENCES. Mrs, Elizabeth Mary Keith, née Sanxay, is a/native ot New York city, and ed her girlhood, from 1827 to 1841, In the ancestral residence of the Sanxay family, in Mulberry street. Hertather, RK, D, Sanxay, married tho daughter of Lewis Morris, one ef the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and thus she 18 limeally descended from shat Lady gCatheriro Gordon, who is the special ancestral vanity of the Mortis family. Her jather was the son of John Sanxay, one of the last of the patroons, who was the grandson of the famous Anneke Jans, the royal ward of the King of Holland. Anneke Jans married Jansen, A daugnter by this marriage was the grand- mother of John Sanxay, The grantof the King of Holland to Anneke Jans } ied the whole of Long Island and almost bait of Manhattan Island. Commenc- ing at Hamilton ferry, the west boundary of the estate Fun north, inclining to the west, taking tm the landed po, belonging to the Trinity corporation, St. uke’s Hospital lies within the limits of the estate, AS Mrs. Keith is a sister of the third order of St. Francis (the brown sisters) it thus follows that the Catuolic power in America basa very considerable interoat in the claim of the heirs of Auneke Jane to the property of that corporation. A ROMANTIC EDEN ON THK UDSON, In 1841 Miss Sanxay was married to her cor Cap- tam Louis Gordon Keith, @ naval officer in the service of the United States, adirect descendant ol the Stuarts, Their residence was Beividere, on the Hudson, the ancestral seat of the Keith family. The ceremoay was rformed at Belvidere, In the fashion of that day the ride was in white cambric, orange blossoms and praris; drops of frozen moonlight studding a fabric of woven snow! The ancient structure is now dismantled; the id old trees, through tho of which it was visivie from the river, have been cut down, und ali that remains is» roturesque ruin with the reputation of being Haunted. The ghost, to digress hee OF Wo, first appeared there about twenty y go. Major Bird, of Phila- delpbia, married the beautitul Miss Randolph, of that chy; caged ber at Belvidere alter enjoyiny a year or two of halcyon life as a married man, at liret reportiug her mad, finally dead, and then married agaiu, The accidental alscovery in # newspaper of a nouce of the Major's secon precipitated the tragedy in which the lite courted Philadelphia bello ended. Newspaper in hand, she threw herself trom a second story window, and now picturesquely wal about the oid rain at night, with a diaphanous now: papor between hor ghostly thumb and finger. ‘This romantic paradise was the home of Captain and Mrs. Keith for four years, during the brief intervals of rest that the exigencies of the service permitted to a A Sane Woman Twenty-Five Years in al A naval oflicer, On bis way to take command of shenavy | | yard at Portsmouth, N. H., Captain Keith was suddenly biricken down with ap att tong Kong lever, con~ tracted during service m Asiaiic waters, 4t should be remarked, par parenthiee, thit, allnough educated as Yrotesanuts, Captain aud dirs, Kein had both been converted to the Catholic futh, Wheo the Captain died, leaving aM Mint daughter Loree years of age to the care of a girl widow of mineiven, his last mjUnCHOM LO the latter was to withdraw from the world, eke refuge m some Cutbolie institation, and have the seen to be orphaned hetress to Lis immense loriane educated, under Ler own daily supervision, 10 tie strictest (euets of the faith, As she spoke oF ner husoand the biue eyes of the quietelderly lady be- {Land (ustrous and her eVen Lones unWwontedly uc pleading, but never tor a syllable joot their plueid equasity Of mopatlion, e Fi YIRSP ACT IN THE DRAMA OF LIFE, And bow commences one of the most extraordinary dramas ever furnished by the social anual of ihe United States, A drama in which the heroine passes a quaricr of a century in bospitais for the insane, 15 twice announced to be dead to stifle the inquiries of Irivads, twice kidnapped and twice liberated, once after baving veen lor seven years believed Lo be dead, and once after eighteen years, Finally set tree by the strong hand of a military tribunal presided over by Major Generul Hancock, which pronounces her per- lectiy sane aud ber incarceration ove of the high hunded outrages of the oineteenth century, she effecis her escape to New York, where she has hitherto lived ip penury, going to mass at live o’ck every morning aad at the sume Lour every alternoon, and thus passing six hours vat of every tweuly-ieur in religious devo- tion, 1p pursuance of Captain Keith's last injunction Mrs, Keith remaived in Baltinory under the special protec- tion of her cousin Archbishop Hgglestun, placing ber daughter, by bis advive, im # Catbolic insutution at, Frederick, Md,, while she was preparing tor tho life of aquautied nun, As a preliminary, in association with Miss Kinney und Miss Margaret Jenkins, abo was placed in supervision of St. Vincent’s Asylum tor Or- phan Boys, in Front street, Baltimore, a duty which had beeu peremptorily relinquished by the Black Cap sisters, ‘The disturbauce which grew out of the re- fusal the sisters to vacate the builuing, and the bit- ler controversy that resulted from Uneir determination to subvert the purposes of the asylum, turn the boys into the street and retain the structure as the home of their Order m Baltimore, are proper subjects of evcle- siustical record that need not be enlarged upon. Ax a jast resort, the detied and offended prelate requested Mra, Keith to notify'the sisters that their expulsion by legal measures bad been decided upon, when, under protest, they sullenly retirod, and the throe superin- tendents took possession. Unable to punish the prel- ate, the bailed Order wreaked their enmity on the ineasenger. KIDNAPPED AND SEVEN YRARS DRAD, A year later, just at dusk ove eveuing, us Mra, Keith and her child wore out walking in an’ untrequented suourb, they were suddenly overtaken by a carriage furiously driven. It stopped, and belore the affrighted woman had time to make an outcry an elderly man leaped to the grouud, seized the child and vaulted into the carriage. The moter sprang in alter bin, This was just what was expected, Declining to answer any questions, the emissary, one Lovegro'y, conducted the mother uid child to the Mount Hope Lunatic Asylum, to which he consigned dirs, Keith ag un orriug daugh- ter, whom it Was necessary to restrain in her liverty. ‘Yo-stitle inquiry her death was anaounced, and in this living tomb she resided tor seven yeurs as a pauper pationt. Her jewels and other valuables, eveu her visiling cards, were, to carry out the deception, hunded over to her relatives; but her body was denied to them, on the ground that she had died of a cou- tugious fever, which bud affected ber braiu aud neces- silutea her temporary removal to tho insane hospital. No doubt of this statement was entertained by ner rela- tives, Her pension was during these seven years paid to her father, in trust for Captuin Keith’a child, She had been {mmured ut Mount Hope only a few wooks when a second scene of violence was enacted. One afternoon, during visiting hours, an attendant knocked at the door of Mrs. Keith’s cell and informed her thata visitor was waiting in the parlor, With suddenly resuscitated hope of establishing some means of communication, with her friends, she hurried down stairs The child ran down im advance, and entered the parlor at the rear door possibly’ ten seconds belore Mrs, Keith, who missed her in the ball, and, overwheuned with @ sudden apprehension of something Wrong, pushed open the door and glanced into the room just tn time vo obtain a passing glimpse ofa tall figure, wearing a black cap, a8 tt vanished, with the irightened child, through the front door of the apartment into the hall, the beavy door of the asylum slammed bebind the retreating figure bofore an.alarm could be given; the sound oi carriage wheels driven at furious speed trembled on tne still air for a minute or two, then grow faint with distaneo; aud for weven yoars froin that afternoon the woman never Jearned whether her child was living or dead. The child, as was alterwards ascertained, arrived at Nor- folk,’ Va., on the second evoning after her disap- pearance from the asylum, consigned to the care of Mrs, James L, Anderson, aloue, without means of establishing her identity—-a no-name waif, Altogether 1m the dark ag to the meaning of such a strange pro- cedure, kindly Mrs, Anderson placed the little waif in the nursery with her own child, and not unul the prattic of the two children exchanging imnovent con- fidences revealed the fact, the next day utter her mys- terious arrival, did Mrs. Anderson learn that her lito guest was Mary Isbata Keith, tho daughter of hor ouce intimate friend. She immediately communicated with the child’s grandfather in New York, by whom she was informed of the supposed death of Mrs. Keith, and who assumed the guardianship of the desolate livtle orphan, ONCE MORK AT LARGE, After seven years of this incarceration, supposed to be dead and buried, Mrs. Keith was at lust successtul in obtaining an interview witu Archbishop Hendricks, the succexsor in office of her protector, belore whom she threw herself ou her knees and besvught his inter- ference in her favor. The kindly old prelate called an ecclesiastical council for the investigation of the cir- cumstances attending her detention, and it was sum- marily decided to remove her trom the instituuon, Mr. Lovegrow, ner pretended father, was accordingly summoned, aud took her to his own house i Balti- more, her persistent denial of bis paternity being treated allucination, Her broken health render- ing it impracticable that sho should unuertake the journey unattended, Mr. Sanxay was acquainted with the astonishing fact’ that Mrs. Keith was still living, and promptly responded to the summons by escorting her to New York. KIDNAPPED AGAIN AND EIGHTEEN YBARS DBAD, A yoar of rest now intervened; the mother, like one rigen trom the dead, aud the child, now almost a young lady, once more reunited. Measures had been 4nsuituted to prosecute the parties engaged in the con- spiracy, when Mrs, Koith’s shattered physique gave way under the reaction. As the only means of paving her life her physician advised a trip to Virginia, and Williamsbarg, on the Peninsuln, was selected as her place of residence. She had but put her hand in the lion’s mouth again, Within six weeks'alter her arrival, with the connivance of Dr. James Bolton, her attending phy*ician, she was ain kidnapped and immured in the asylum in that city, Where sie lingered eighteen years, reported dead, and baffled in all her attempts to commanicate with her relative ntil tho arrival of Major Gencral Hane cock on the Peninsula and the organizution of a miil- tary government in that district: enabled her to appeal to an authority that could be neither baffled nor re- ied. A military commission was convened for the examination o! her case, at which the General presidea and of which Colonel Joseph Anderson was a memver, ‘This commission, after a thorough legal, and medical investigation, pronounced Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Keith perfectly sane and compos mentis and her incarceration one of the high-handed outrages of the nineteenth con- tury. On various pretexts, however, she was still de- tained month aiter month at the institution, until the menaced removal of the officjals connected with it ren- dered further evasion perilously impracticable, were now,, by order of Gen- once more notified that a woman mourned us dead for eighteen years, was. stilt living; her brother, I, Selby Sauxay, responded to the lettor, and Mrs. Keith was removed to tho residence of her sister, Mrs, Emily Batte, of Potersbarg, Va., received her as one rivon from the dead. He 1 was again reunited to her long lost daughter, a ma turoly beautitul young wom: plunged in deep sor- row jor the death of her fiancé, wert Bruce, who had served as an officer in’ the Union army. Her father, who had meanwhile removed to Virginia and become the proprietor of a plantation at Blackwater, near Petersburg, died within a year after her ros- toration, and Mrs, Sanxay a few months later. Her daughter married and removed to hor present resi- dence in Alabama . A LAST ADVENTURE, A local émeute consequent upon the murder several years since of a planter named Friend by his jormer slaves, whom he had treated with exiremo cruelty, resuliéd in a third disastrous adventure. Mrs, Keith’s rash enthusiasm in defence of the negroes, in the excited condition of the public mind, placed her life in peril, and she decided to offect her es- cape irom the neighborhood, Secrotly taking passago for New York, she hastily collected her most impor- tant papers, including title deeds, a box containing the captain’s commission and promotion, and other neces- ry documonte, Retaining the box in ber own vos- sessl ho-sent ber maid, Elizabeth Walker by namy to the steamer with the vailise, under rs to aw tho arrival of her mistress. Having complevea these arrangements, she set out to pay a last visit to her priest, by whom she was informed that her intended Goparture was suspected, and a mob had gathered at the landing. By nis advice, she accepted the proffered protection of the White Cap sisters, consigning the commission box to the care of Helen Givers, un old family servant, All efforts to trace either of these parties and obtain possession of the missing docu- have thus far proved abortive, At length, more than a year’s seclusion with the sisters, Mrs. Keith left Blackwater secretly, and, with many Joiterings and visits by the way, arrived in New York. Such, succinetly told and stripped of all unimportant incidents, is tho story of the soft-spok and siiken haired lady, who, onty the other afternoon, was riven from’ the door of a lodging house in East Twen- y-eignth street. She tells i quictly and sadly, with corroborating letters and documents that establish many of 1 leading pots by documentary evidence, LIFE INSURANCE. It is understood that yet another insurance resola- tion will shortly be introduced in the Legislature, bearing more directly than any of its predecessors upon the management of life companies, Mr, Skin- ner, ofthe Insurance Committee of the lower House, is looked to for this production, and the resolu. tion is id to be significant of hostility to the Insurance Department, It provides tor & special committee of five, who will sit for a jong period in this’ city for the purpose of cxamming all the life insurance companies, Mr. William Allen Butier, refereo in the Continental case, will begin his labors to-morrow. Assistant Superintendent McCall is among those he has sumimoned to testily, On Tuesday next a decision will be had from the Court of Appeais in the case ot the referee, DeWitt, appointed to examine the Con- tinental affairs, on application of the Insuranes Depart mene \ RAPID TRANSIT. THE APPOINTMENT OF RAPID TRANSIT COMMIS- SIONERS TO CONDEMN LANDS ON SOUTH FIFTH AVENUE, Under the statute authoriz ng railway companies to have lands needed by them ussessea und condemped to their use, the Gilbert Elevated Railway Company fone pe since presented to the Supreme Court, General Térm, a petition agarast EH. Anderson and wite, &, Ellery Anderson aud w: wnd others, owners of property ou South Filth avenue, for the condemna- ton of the small spaces of the street needed for the posts of their road, The reason of this is that Laurens street, of Which South Fiith avenue is a widening, 16 pot a stréet taken by the city usfder the statute, but &n ancient street dedicated by the adjacent owners for use as a roud, but in whieh they retain all other rights, The matter was relerred to John Y. B. Lewis to take proof as to (he tacts, and yesterday the Court made the following order: — On the petition of the Gilbert Elovated Railway Company, veritied on the 22d day of Se; 5 praying ior the appointment of three di son and Augusta, Edward H, Anderson aud Josephine, tris wi C. H, Kobbe, the owners of or parties interested in the parcels of real estate described in said peution and Uherein designated respectively by the numbers 1, 3, 4and 6, and proposed to be taken by the sald peutioner for the purpore of its Incorporation and on the answer to the suid petition of said John 1. lreiand, Edward H. Andérson and Josepnine, his wile, and &. Ellery Anderson and Augusta, his wife, verified October 7, 1876, ard on reading and filing the report of Jonn V. B, Lewis, dated October 20, 1876, and the schedule A, tuereto uunexed, containing the evidence produced by tho said respective partics beloro the sald reieree; and alter hesring Herman Kubbe, counsel for the respond ‘Mrs. C,H. Kobbo Ellery Anderson, and Witham M, Evarts, cou: for said respondents, Ireland and Anderson and Charles Francis stone, Grosvenor P, Lowery and John K. Por ter, £sgs., counsel for the said petitioner motion of Porter, Lowery, Soren & Stone, attorneys for the said Giibert Kievated Rallway Company, it as ordered that Cuester A, Arthur, Jobn J, Crane und Adam 8, Cameron, three disinterested and competent ireebolders, residing in the city and conoty of New York, ve and they are hereby appointed commis- sioners for the purpose of ascertaining and appraising the compensation to be made to the said John L, Ireland, Edward Henry Andersoa and Josephine, his wile; kK. Ellery Anderson and Augusta, his wit and Mrs. GH. Kobbe tor the real est 80 proposed to be tuken, which said real ostate 18 situated im said city aud county of New York, and is described as follows :— (Here follows the description of the different parcels of lund). And itis further ordored that the first meeting of the said commissioners be held at the office of Portor, Lowery, Soren & Stone, No. 3 Broad sirect, in suid city, Ou the 28tn day of February, 1877, at twelve o'clock M., and that the Datly Aegister’ and Daily Tribune, \wo newspapers pudlished in the city and county of New York, be and the same aro hereby designated us the newspapers in which notice of tho said hearing betore theesaid commissions: all bo Ppublishea according to law. REAL ESTATE. ‘The largest parcel of city real estate that has been offered to purchasers in the Exchange forsome months past was disposod of yesterday, Authony J. Bleecker being the auotionecr. It constituted the realty of tho estate of William Browning, deceased, and was sold by order of the Supreme Court, in partition. ‘The following is @ hist of the property and the prices obtained:— An iron foundry, with plot of land, 60, 3x87,8x59x97. 8, on Bank streoi, north side, 82.10 teet west of Washing- ton street, to Henry Waish for $10,200. , A five story tireprool store, with lot, 21.6x75 feet, on Washington etreot, southwest corner of North Moore street, to W. G, Browning for $26,500. Five five story similar stores, with lots, each 22x87.5 feet, on North Moore street, south side, 75 tect west of Washington street, to William G, Browning for $14,500 euch, A two story and attic brick house, with lot 24x100, on Morton street, vorth side, 124 feet west of Hudson strect, to John Corse tor $8,700, ‘Three houses (lrout) and two brick double tenement houses (rear), with three lots cach 25x100, Nos. 8, 10 aud 12 Jones street, south eide, 104.6 ieot west of Fourth street, to J. W. Dimmock tor $22,: A two story brick building, with plot of land 98, 9x1! on Kleventh avonue, northwest corner of Thirty-thir street, and twenty-two lots on Thirty-third street ad- joining, each 26x08.9, and four tots on proposed line of Twellth avenuc, northeast corner of Thirty-third street, each 245x100, thirty-two lots in all, to Will- fain H. Vanderuilt tor $126, 000, A two story iroa building, with plot of ground 98.9x 63, on Eleventh avenue, northeast corner of Thirty- third street, to A. C, Camp for $16,000, ‘Two brick buildings, with plot o1 ground 75x98.9, on Thirty-third — north side, 63 feet east o1 Kieventh avenue, to A. B. Wood for $8,000, A two story building (front) and frame building (rear), witb plot of land 100x100, ou West I'birty-third streot, south side, 100 lect east of Eleventh avenue, to W. G, Browning for $16,000. fi 'A two story frame hoage and two-story brick stable, with plot of lund 57.4x100, on West Thircy-third street, south side, 238 feet east ot Tenth avenue, to James O' Donohue for $9,350. A four story brick house, with two lots, each 25x 98.9, on West Thirty-fourth street, north side, 100 feet west of Ninth avenue, to the Sisters of St, Mary tor 27,000, i Four three story brick bo ((ront) and five houses (roar), with plot of land 77x10, on dallivan strect, east side, 84 feet north uf Broome street, to Mortimer Thorn tor $20,000, Six two ttory and attic brick houses (front) and three brick houses (rear), with plot of land 100x100, on Clinton strect, west side, 100 feet south of Stanton street, to Meyer Finn for $24,500. One lot, 26x100.4, on Kast rifty-eighth str side, 141.5 feet west of avenue A, to Davi tor $2,100, i A three story brick house, with lot 25x98.9, on Thirty-seventh street, north sido, 125 feet west of Ninth avenue, vo Stephen G. Browning for $9,000, Uve lot, 26x98.9, on Thirty-seventh street, north side, 100 feet wost of Niuth avenue, to Hugh Ken nedy for $5,000 A two story and attic frame baiiding, with two fots, each 24.834x100, on Tenth avenue, northwest corner of ee strect, to Samuel Browning tor 10,7 Richard V. Harnett sold, by order of the Supreme Court, in foreclosure, J. J. Thomasson roteres, a house, with lot 168x089, on East Forty-first street, nogth side, 400 feet east of Second avenue, to W. L. Cutting, pinintim, for $5,880. Wiliam Kennelly soid, by order of tho Suprome Court, in foreclosure, Frederick Smyth referee, a house, with lot 20x100.4, on Wost Filticth stroct, south side, 100 feet east of Seventh avenue, to William H, Gedny tor $11,200, ‘76th st., s. s., 98 ft. ©. of nv. A, Miller to Charles F, Binsh n, Ww. corner Stanti t, soath Christio wife to Margaret 267.6 ft. 6. of ‘Post to Abraham 7K.4 tees w. of 3d ‘Cornelius Desmond to Jullus De Courdy. 147th st, n. 8., 900 ft, ©, of public drive an mn ty 8. Deshon and wife to Joseph P. tlh bay Re Bee i, 250.8 Tt, w. of ist” ‘av. 3 i Brohm and wife to Unomins J ix Kearney (executor) to Poter M.’ Wiln 115th ste, ss, 40018. we of Sth av. e Brown and wite to Mury A. Peck. a Waverley place (No, 108), 22x97; also, Division wt N >), 25x61; Louis Greenhut to Klene 5oth wt. Herman: fom, ); Hyman, E. Hyams to Lona Greenhut + Nom, 490h st. (No. 217), nes. 421 18. 6. Of Bth av., 14.0% 100.5; Zoe Pape Angeline to L. Houper. Nom, Sulfolk st., w. 8, Derween Rivington and Stauton .. 26X100; Geo, dteckler and wife to Kdward tees =. 3 hs it, 1080.8; FW, Loew, (reteree), to Caroline Wail i. ; 9,100 Gerard nd Butternut st. D. Gule, MORTGAG Clark, Charles and wite, to Godt of Woodruff wv, c2ath ward) 3 yours. len E, and husband, to Slary Logan, No. 50 Ald wt. 15 yours. sad Jofeph D,. to Jemie A. Marshall, @ AV. # Of DUEL Ft. *. Dassori, Frederick and wito, D Park st; instalinen pinina, to John smith, w. way; l year. Geraghty, Mici road (23d wat years Hine, Kdward and wite, to Cuaries 8, tine 44th st., between Lexington and 3d ay: 6,000 seth K. ond wife, to Georze Mullig: «8, OF Madison 3,000 yenr.. thering Bellamy, ® % of aye: 2 yen nin Bauer, 8. ny. A 2 years. Michael Donovai av, Purdy, James 8. and wil ‘ corner 124th st, und Lexington Ran, Dora and husband, to R. G of 2d av..s, of S5th st.; renewed. Seileck, Edward, to Edward V, Loew, w. s, of av. A, sof 119th st} 1 year, Scheters, Elizav: Walton, William ‘t, 6. of Bth ay. n. of FATAL COASTING ACCIDENT. Philip Vonino, filteen-yoar-olé youth of Orango Valley, left bome on Wednesday evening to enjoy coasting with other boy: nm the Chostnut avenue grade. Through inexpertnoss in steering be dashed against @ post and was instantly killed, r es ee DIGGING BY MOONLIGHT. AN EPISODE FROM LIFE ON STATEN ISLAND— EXCAVATING FOR TREASURE AT HUGUENOT HEIGHTS—A SCENE FROM MELODRAMA. From New York to Staten Island, short as the joure ney {8,18 like passing from ono world to another, in habited by peopte bristling with angles and eccen trictiies, and ono thing that particuiarly heightens the illusion is thatthe transition is effected by water—a broad and tossing Styx that Hes between. Perhaps, too, the picturesque aspoct of Governor's Island and of Jow lying Bedloe, by the way, :nay have some influence tn increasing oye’s sensitiveness to impressions par taking of the legendary and mysterious; at least by the time one iands at Clifton ho 1s prepared to accept any tales of buried treasure that may happen to turn up, and to jo any party digging for gold, coin or silverware, on the word of any person who asserts the existence of such things in any specified locality. Possibly the low lying, sea washed ‘landscape that viewed from the ferryboat, seems to rest likea row and motion/ess cioud on the restiess surtace of thr bay, may have oxercised a peculiar fascination over the mind of Gaptain Kidd, who is reported to havi | purted his treasures at this point and that poink by way, perhaps, of playing a grim practical joke os future generations. The locality where these tradb tions are most abundant lies about Princess Bay, which was one of Kidd’s most frequented lurking places From Clifton to Tottenville by rail isa journey of ff teen miles, with country seats, lager beer saloons, vil- hotel signs, quack placards and stunted oak trees waltzing across the fleld of vision, At Totten- ville, the very centre of Kidd literature, young mes and old tell tales of buried treasures and of exportencet in digging for them, which must be discounted seventy: five per cent for deliberate invention, and at loast af teen per cent for uncertainty to commence with. The blue hills of New Jeracy lie just across the strait, and they are groung rife with revolutionary legond. Three miles this way Irom Tottenville a sleepy little village styled Auguenot lies basking in the sunsbino, agains! a background of hills—the Huguenot Heights of Revo lutionary literaturo, This bleak range is fairly honey. combed with excavations fur buried treasures, and ff may be sald, perhaps, that here, within a district of two anda half miles in width by three in length, not jess than tilty singular night scenes have been wit nossed within the Jast fifty years, Some of these treasures are reputed to have been buried by Captain Kidd, others by wealthy Jorseymen during the Revo- lutionary war, others by predatory bands ofJorsey ban- aitti, who robbed friend and tue indiscriminately, and often found it necessary to conceal the evidence of their transactions, THE SEARCH FOR TREASURE, ‘A report having been circulated that recom® at tempt Lad been made to exhume a quantity of gold, Biiverwure and coins, supposed to have byeu buriad during the Revolutionary War, the representative of the HERALD alighted {rom the train at Huguenot yes- y morning, and proceeded to make a thorough in- ation. Un the heights behind the village for- merly stood an old house, familiar im that section as Harry Burton’s, lt has recently been replaced with @ modern structure, When the new proprietor of the premises came to tear down the old building several pots of coin wero found securely hidden in the collar wall. The legend is that during the Revolatiouary struggle the old house was the resort of an act.ve and desperate organization of the Jersey bandits, and that they frequently disposed of their booty ou and avout Huguenot Heights, On the Wolfe arm, a quarter of a milo from the village, a dozen excavations may cousted, Most of them are irom ten to iifteen years old, and their walls have been covered, more or less, from the levelling action of rain, snow, thaw and frost ‘An old gentleman, resident in the village, states that he knows ot thirty-tive different excavations for treasura within two miles and a half of Huguenot, but that very few of them have taken place during the last ten yours, A sensation was recently created im the neigh. borhood by some buried coins which wero ploughed up by a farmer near Rossville, On examination these coins proved to be Spunish, and reinforced the waning faitn of the old inhabitants of Huguenot that iron- Vound boxes filled with goid and diamonds ure lying under their very fect, uf they could only find them, These midnight adventures for treagure have been couducted in a very desultory manner by parties sue cious of each other, each Working in the interest of ome distorted tradition banded down from father te son as a certain talisman to sume Aladdin cavern, 80 muny paces {rom some particular rock or tree, 1n such anu such a direction. “Lye no doubt in my mind,” said the oldest inbabt- tant of Huguenot yesterday, ‘that large amounts of treasure are buried about here, if they could only be found.” The old man smoked his pipe placidly as he unburdened himself of the legends his grandmother told him when he was a boy about certain men whe were seen at work ono dark night during tho Revolu- tionary war, evidently burying voxcs of valuables, He repelled the intimation that the boxes might bave been cofins with an indignation that verifiod his s ‘cerity and bis abhorrence of coflins in a singie sen- tence. ‘The ariver of the Rossville stag: sort of local jour. Balin that neighvorhvod, turned toe lounger pamed Moses and remarked that they two had dug together on several occasions about the heights, but that tne Jatest excavations had taken plice ou the further slope of the range, near Rossville. On pressing Moses a lite Ue he coniessed that they did not dig very deep and that they exhumed no treasar ‘Altera great deal of wandering upd suquiring the fact that some very recent vxcavationsbat wkeu piace Was at last stumbled upon. On the Rossville slope, about fy. rods froin the roud, are three pits a lew feet from each other, Very near this spot, aithoush ine exact location cannot be ascertained, a New Jersey royalist of great weulth 18 supposed ave buried @ large quantity of silverware and other valuables waite that purt of the State was the battle ground of the two armies, Numerous attempts bave been made to dis cover thig treasure, the existence of which rests op New Jersey (not on Staten Iatand) tradition, The weaithy royalist went to £ngland whue the war was := progress, intending ty aturn stor the reverlion hw been pat down and rear: 2 possesmon of his esate, Ai motber earth was the best sule deposi company U existed in those days, accompanied by a single faith servitor, tho ancient patroon rowed ueross to Staten Island snore one night aud ouried a large box, céntaiming tne family pi nd x cunenleravie wmoun’ incoin, ‘There are no means of idenul¥ing the spot, oreven of veritying the fact, except traditions hunded down in the family of this servitor, and altogetler aoe pendent on his veracity. THE MYSTERIOUS DIGGERS, ‘The Staten Isiunder, baving passed bis life amid Jocal legends and oyster beds, is not, however, 1ntec- ted with the prévalent scepticixm of the niveteonth century, Ho can atill smoke the vilest cigars out able, without the slightest ivea that they are not ne ported, and still enjoys nis experiences in digging by moonlight for Kidd’s mythical voxes, by way, pere ~ ft enhancing the value ol roal estate, he three fresh excavations jook commonpince enough, but at cuch of them a weird midnight scone was enacted. Local gossip states that they were the wreck of a party consisting of five mysterious person- ages, armed with picks and spades, Who landed from the Jersey shore and returned during the nignw A dark lantern bathed the stooping figures in yellow radiance as they toiled on from midnight until the small hours comimen:ed to drop in by threes and fours, and Warned that the sun would presently lift his round yellow from the ocean beyond them, Thrice has the scene been repeated and thrice have the figures stolen off into the night, like so mang gnomes ina German mining legend, ouly ihe gnomes usuallytarry treasure away with th whilo the Jorsey explorers went as cmpty handed as they came, each with @ dusky doubt of the correctness of the ancient servi- tor’s story. THE ICE HARVEST. A VAST QUANTITY STORED—THE PRICES NEXT SUMMER. The Knickerbocker, Mutual Benefit and New York ice companies report that the ico harvest is nearly over and that by the end of next wock they will have stored all that they need for the summer trade. Tho ico gathered, they say, !s of splendid quality, from twelve to fourteen inches thick, and entirely free from snow. In the houses upon the Hudson the Knickers bocker bas stored nearly 250,000 tons, and various other companies have gathered 120,000 tons, ‘These companies have paid $137,000 to collect the ice, and there have been over 4,000 mon and boys and 600 horses engaged tu the work. ‘The companies have not yet decided upon the prices vo be charged next summer, but tho president of the principal ice company inthis city stated yesterday that it would be much Jower than it bas boon for the past three years, 7A SERANGE SCENE IN CHURCH, [From the Rochester (N. ¥.) Union, Jan. 24.) One day last week a young man living in Goneseo elopod with the daughter of a wealthy and respected citizen, the parties for somo time previous having manifested a decided affection for cach other, The young couple went to Mount Morris, whore they took Upon themselves the solomn obligations of marriagos but their present whereabouts are, we believe, un- known The young Iady’s father was in Albany at the time on business, and somebody wrote him that he had better come home and look after his daughter, He returned immediately, On Sunday last ie tenaed church, and here oecurred a strange scene, Tho congregation had just concluded the singing of the first hymn when be arose in bis pew, took out his watch, and addressing tho clergyman ox: claimed :—"There ts a devil in this church, and I give her just ive minutes to live!” At the same time ha drew a revoiver and pomicd it ata Indy seated in a pew in tronto! tim, That lady was the mother of the young man who bad eloped with and married tae other's daughter. Tho w , acting under an ims pulse of discretion, jeft th jurch, and things settled down again to a quiet state of affairs, Nothing farther has been done about tho matter, though the whole commvnity bave made it a subject of constant talk, It seoms that the man who feeis so deeply aggrieved at what bad previously taken place supposes that the clopemont Was instigated by the young man’s mother,