The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1877, Page 7

FRENCH GOSSIP. Anecdotes of Henri Monnier—A Practical Joke. FRENCH DIPLOMACY. The Coming Session of the Assembly. impertinence around him that parts: be thought in holding bis head high he was only rmalstating his dig- nity asa president of tbe commonwealth of letters. Thus on jorrow after the first performance of bis “Orestes” the Maréchule de Luxembourg wrove him a letter containing four pages (crossed and recrossed) of eritical reflections on that piece. Voltaire replied by a single lines— it od Ja Maréchale—‘Horestes’ is not spelled with an Voltaire himself assures us that he felt obliged to | Stand on the defensive even in the presence of so ge tron as Frederick the Great,** Ove day,” he ders of bis hes Prussia that peopie were very jealous of the marked tavor he showed me, 1 know what lam about,’ repied His Majesty; ‘we squeeze an orange, ‘and When We have sucked out all the juice, we throw isaway.’ La Mettrie took good care to repeat this apothegm, worthy of Dionysins the Syracusan, rom that day I determined to put the orange peel in a place of security.” VOLTAIRE'S STRANGE COURTESIES, | WALL STREET'S HOLY ENTR'ACTE. : Panis, Jan, 7, 1877, ‘The death of Henri Mo. the creator of Joseph Prudnomme, is the principal topic of conversation at the present momont, Inoumerable are the anecdotes told of him. Perhaps one of the best relates to that fine answer he made toa gentioman who asked him the way to the Panthéon (where many of the great men of France lie buried). They were on the Boule- vard at the time, but Monnier promptly said, “Par la Bue des Martyrs.” Here is a more playful instaace of his wit, A friend of his pointed out to bim a negro who wore a white tie, ‘Yes,” said Mgnnior, “he bas put it on to mark where bis head begins.” A practical joke of Monnier’s is among the most ludicrous on Jecord, though it cannot be said to hi been wholly Aefousible, Taking a stroll one day ne maw in front of a grocer’s store a cage con- jaining a couple of ferrets. Monnier stood for a while before the cage; then, as the owner of the store came put, “What fine guinca pigs you bave there, my friend!’* quoth he, ‘Ferrets, you mean,” replicd the grocer, with s superior smile. ‘Ferrets be hunged; Shey are very rare specimens of the guinea pig.” “Impossible, sir! 1 bought them as ferrets.” “Thea, My good fellow, they’ve been hoaxing you,” “Why should I believe you more than the man who sold themto me?” ‘That ts your affair; and yet, as di- fector of the Zoological Society, 1 ought to know pomething about avimals.” “Oh, im that case, if you say they are guinca pigs, {t,must be s@”? “In any tase you have not lost on the bargain.” Next day, as bad been arranged, Monnier’s friend Romien passed by and halted before tne grucer’s, “Fine ferrets, thi my friend,” be carelessly observed,” “You are mistaken, sir.” said the grocer, “they are guinca pigs of a very rare breed.” ‘Very rare, indeed, I should think,” re. Bgonded the other, with a sneer; “why, mar, I’ve been all my life in the ferret trade, and I should think | knew what a ferret was by this time.’’ Romien than calmly showed him that the directors of the Zoological Gar- den must have been inerror, The grocer was con- vinced; but next day a German philosopher bappened bo pass by and admire “the guinea pigs.” An angry discussion followed, but the grocer ended by being teconverted to Monnicr’s view. On the following day a dog fancier reconviuced him that they were ferrots, and so on for a fortnight, ali. the men having, of vourse, beon seut by Mounier, In the end the iu~k- leas grocer became 80 exasperated that he pitthed the ferret cage wildly into the street, and narrowly es- Baped being taken up for assault, The terreta were then quietly drowned; for the innocent often pay dearest for a practical joke, Romien, by the way, was as incorrigible a joker as Monnier, but one day be was very NEATLY TAKEN IN by a‘clockmaker in the Palais Royel, whom he had sought to mystify. Euter Romien, pretending to bea gentleman from the country of a very simple type, in- deed. Romiex (with strong provincial accent)—Pray, sir, San you tell mo what are those little round machicos bung up in your shop window? CLocKMAK&R—T hoy are called watches, sir. (Unhooks One and shows it.) Romren—Ah, watches, and what are they for, please? CLockmakeR—To indicate the time, sir, Romikn—Vo in-di-cate the ime! And how, pray? CLockmakex—1 will show you, (Enters into brief Dut lucid explanation. Then concluding.) You must ‘wind up the watch every twenty-four hours, Romun—Kvery swenty-four bours! evening? Crockmakxr—Morniny. Romiex—Why mornin, Ciockmakgr (blanily, , Monsiour Romien, in the evening you are generally aruuk, Exit Romien. Another death, just recorded, recalls associations of avery different kind. The day before yesterday wore Interred, in the Cemetery of Picpus, tho mortal re- mains of THY COUNT DK VILLELUMR-SOMBREUIL, Vhe only son of the heroic Mauriile de Sombreuil, who warried M. de Vilivlume, an officer in the “emigrant” army of the Ptince of Condé, Mile. de Sombre: father was condemned to death during the Reign of Terror, and all her cadeavors to save his life seemed Ukely to prove unavailing, At length, however, the tribunal which presided over 1! page is said to have devised this test of filial piety, It the daughter would go to the tout of the scaffold, and, immediately atter the execution of certain royalists, Grivk a tumbler of their blood her father’s life should be spared. From this ghastly trial, so history or Jegend says, she did not shirk, aud M. de Sombreuil Was pardoned, ALITTLE BILL. The painter Courbet hus been presented, doubtle: dy way of étrennes, with a little bill—to wit, the cos: lor reouilding the Vendome Column, pulled down by orders during the Commune. It amounts to 23,0011. 68c., or, Say, iD round numbers, to $64,000, M. Courbet will probably find it convenient to chango his residence from Paris to Brussels or Rome, for tho bourts have already decided aga:nst him, anc there yeems every prospect that the fine will be rigorously levied, Even shoulda really liberal government come mto power and M. Gambetta becomo Prime Minister, or Presideut of the republic, M. Courbet would ha little to hope irom the change. M. Gambetta, like many pther sincere republicans, is only too anxious for an portunity of proving how little sympathy he bas with Communism or with Communists. With regard to THE KASTBKN BORK, it 1s whispered here that the Conierence is{ast turn- ing into a struggle for precedence between the various ambassadors, ‘The re entatives of- Great Britatu, Russia, Germany and nce are severally wud indi- vidually inspired with the beilef that their respective sountries have been ‘“‘by heaven designed to piay first fiddle’? and the French Ambassador 18 especiiily touchy, the Constantipopie Conterencoe being the first Fegular congress of the great Powers at which France bas been repre-ented 8! war, M. Comte di extremeiy avie diplomatist, 18 naturally anxious that the great nation Bhould not appear to buve ceded any of her old pro- tensions. But, intruth, the balance of power 1s 100 Bicely adjusied at the preseut moment for the Ambus- “sador ol any one State to jord it over the “others, Very far removed is the age of tho that of Louis XV., whose gTnird Republic trom Srepresentative at Rome, the Duke de Chorreul, Was wont to take such marvellous liberties, Were any privilege accorded to the envoy of aaoiber king, do Choiseul not only insisted (as be might bave had some right to ao) on the game privil being orded to Mem, but on a favor, new privilege being created in his special THK COMING SESSION is expected to be a toleravly quiet one, though thi will no doubt be a suiliciont amount of -crises, ood many of them having their origin in that hunger Er place which, like hope, springs eternal in the hu- man breast, That was a good auswer which was made by amomber of the Chamber of Deputies to # tricnd ‘on the occavion of an important debate, The Deputy was rising to speak in delence of the Ministerial policy, “Bat, my dear fellow,” remonstrated the friend, seven children have all got promised them.”? *I'rue,”? said he, “but tnere is a possibility of my yet having other 7? This story re- Minds one of that other touching a gentleman who bad a tolorably comfortable piace in the.customs, and who submitted (nis neighbors thought) a groat deal toc uietly to certain appointments of Roman Vatholics by ing James 11., whon that monarch was endeavorivg to drive a coach and six through the British constitution, “T have,” he said, ‘fourteen excellent reasons for complying with Hi Majesty’s wishes—a wife and thir. ” teem crumble, for the loaves and fishes bas actually Deen im progress during the last fort ight, and thisday some half a dozen prefects and a crowd of inferior function: have been gazetted out of office and their Placos given to Tho Gaulois bas recentiy puvlished a fac ile of the first French daily paper, Le Journal de Pai bain ade its appearance on the 1st of January, 1777. frst ‘umber is bighly interesting and contuins a very ebaracteristic letier irom Voitaire, who writes: “The plan of your jourpal appears to me as wise as ft i8 curious and interesting. ly great age, and the maladies with which | atm overwhelmed, leave little hope that I shall be able to produce any further work a ing of your attention, (Ibe patriarch of Perney actually died on sho BOch of May, in tbe following yea If 4 bad a prayer to make it would be to un- deceive the public with regard to those lite writings which are continually imputed \o me. I have re- ceiv d in my retieat whole volumes printed in my name, in which there is nota line I would bave writ- ter ‘I would also request you to be good enough, by a word of warning, ver me irom the crowd of anonymous letters which are addressed to mc, Tam pbliged to return all lette ol which are un- known to me, Tuis warning ried jn your Se ta eed will excuse me to persons who complain that I we ot replied, I pave no doubt but your paper will Save & great succes: T count myselt already among e number of your subscribers. Z ee arely enyibiog more truly Voltairian—i, ¢., egoti Pical—has rarely been published. It bristies with so gssortion, Ab inordinate opinion of his own me ibe} was, in lact, the pringipal fault that could be attribute fo the apostle of liberalism in tho eighteenth century. ae yet shore was so muca Jalse pride and misplaced Morning or, SOME VERY BAD YOUNG MEN WHO HAVE BE- COME VERY GOOD, One would think to hear the emphatic assertions of the avorage speaker at the downtown daily prayer meetings supposed to be held for the conversion of the brokers, that those speakers were calied in as wit, nesses to establish a good reputation for the Son of God, The familiar way in which some, evidently not too fortunate in their worldly acquaintances, speak of the Saviour of mankind, carrics with it something of presumption, bot to say insincerity, more likely to repel than attract thoughtful business men. It can hardly be a pleasing sight to a strict thoroughgoing Wall street man to see an ill dressed, pug-nosed young fellow with astraw colored whisker just sprouting get up and say:—*‘My friends, 1 am glad to be able to testify tor Josus, A year agol was one of the wors young men in the cit; ow I am sat Anothor of these meetings was held in the basement of the old John Street Methodist church yesterday afternoon, ‘The attendance was quite large, and among thoso present were noticed several persons who attend daily and are always ready to aid in con- suming the hour with prayer or “experience,” The leader was Mr. Joseph Mackey, who named ‘Rescue the Perishing” as the opening bymn. This sung, be thanked God in prayer for privileges enjoyed and being enjoyed, Then ho read‘ the thirty-fourth Psalm, making, as he read, running comments, in which were mixed generalities on religion, witb illustrations from bis personal experiences. In conclusion Mr. Muckey said emphatically, “This Bible is,true; 1’vo tried it for a few years and I’ve found it to be true,” With this assurance the Christian world will doubtiesa breathe more treely hereatter. ‘Jesus Loves Me’? was sung with unction, a tall young man assist- ipg at the little organ in front of the pulpit. Then the meeting being declared open one of tho old attendants, an aged man in a threadbare suit prayed long and earnestly, Another hymn was sung, and ayoung man on the right rove to deliver un address, which he did ip a jerky style and broken sentences, Lt was easy to bless the Lord, be said, in prosperity, but it was bard in adversity. There aro many in the city now in adversity offering a rare op- portunity to the charitable, Expressing the hope that tbe charitabie would improve the opportunity, he sat down, A red haired young man, atout twenty-two or three years of age, next jumped up, saying:—"} am glad to be here this evening to testity that Jesus can | save to the ubtermost, for { was one of the worst young men that ever lived, and he saved me.’ To be | Bure this Self-condemnation was not questioned, elicit- ing only a 8ob or #o aud one or two “glorys,” but the young convert produced uo proot whutever to show that he ever was really as wicked ns he claimed, Another youth, not quite as old, and just a hile lei wicked, before be had been’ “picked up by Chri told how he had been converted at Mr. Dwyor's meet- ings, where he went'to scoif and remuined to pray, He said, “I can recommend this Jesas, you know, His religion makes a gooa busband and a good son of a man, don’t you see. [t makes a map honest in his daylings, He doesn’t make a mana Christian in the morning, @ devil in the middie o’ the duy anda saint at night.’ The next speaker was Howell Gardner, said tobe a converted bruiser. This speaker said nothing with hesitancy. He spoke as one of firm faith, earnest in all his convictions, He assured tis hearers that “God never leaves nor deserts nobody that trusts Him.”? “1 am aCbristian,” beadded, ‘picked up twenty years ago aud kept twenty years bere this way.’’ Alter relating some unimportant personal experiences in his en- deavors to bring others to bis faith, Mr. Gardner cou- cluded by shouting, “1’m bound ‘for the kingdom! Glory!’ Then he gat down, and murmurs and excla- mations of “Glory to God!” “Hallelujah!” broke from whe listeners, for the speuker had gradually waxed warmer toward the close of his remarks. A man witha strong North of Ireland accent told how he had been saved, saying:—'A stan’ afore ye here this ev’ain’ an example 0’ God's mercy.” Then a woman, with a thin piping votce, sald that God prom- ised He would send the comforter to her and He aid. He bapuzed her through and through. Another Lrish- man, with the dress of a dock laborer and a South country brogue, made a confused speech on the dutids ol a religious life. Alter a brief and incomprehensible speech bya funereal looking man the orgapist #aid:—‘l have becn trying for some tme to get in a word edgeways for Jesus.’ Then he got in his word, which was much like what the rest had to say, and he sat down to make way for a man who said he “couldn't let this here precious moment go without testifying for Jesus.” Alter speaking of his conversion, he closed with a jumbled reterence to some boad transaction Which pebody understood. It was supposed that he meant to speak figuratively, how- evor, and possibly of convertible bonds, A pri next offered, and then a young man, some years con. verted, coniessed tbat he had beep an ardent lover of the game of euchre before hig conversion, but said that he “ound the Saviour waiting tor him at prayer meeting one evening.” The hour expired as this speaker concluded, aud the doxology was sung to close the exercises. PRAYING FOR SCHOOLS. Yesterday veing the fourth Thursday in January was observed by Christians of different denominat.ons as a day of special prayer for colleges aud educational institutions, The occasion was improved here by a meeting in tho Fourth avenue Presbyterian church in the afternooon, at which Rev. Dr. Crosby presiaea, and offered prayer, and prayers and addresses wero made by the Rev. Professor Hitchcock, Dr. Bevan, and Dr. Poor, the Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Education, Dr. Hitchcock, by anecdote and com- ment, illustrated the value of Christian students to the future thouxht of the world, AT RUTGERS YEMALE COLLEGS, ‘A meeting was also held at Rutgers Female College, The Rev, Mr. C, 3, Harrower, of the Central Methodist Episcopal church, edelivered’ an address, in the course of which he dwelt particularly on the necessity of forming friendships at school, The young ladies lis- tened attentiveiy to the discourse, which seemed to,im- press them deeply. JERSEY CITY HIGH SCHOOL. ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT LAST EVENING—THE GRADUATING EXERCISES, The Tabernacle in Jersey City contained a brilliant assemblage last evening, the occasion being the gradu- ating exercises of the class of 1877 of the High School, The large building was crowded aud hun- dreds were unable to gain admission, The young ladies who graduated were attired in white, and acquitted themselyes in a very creditable manner. On the plattorm were Mayor Sidler, Mr, Abbett, President of the State Senate; the members of the Board of Euucation, Superintendent Dickinson, Professor Barton, principal of the High Scbool, and nearly all the principals and vice principals of the public schools inthe city, The exercises took place | tn the following order Salutatory, Samucl Hathaway; Civility, Agnes E, Have recitation, “Schoo! Days,’ Mary Mulbolland; Windows, Lizzie Ferret; Water, Louis D, Carman; recitation, ‘Engineer's Story,” Lena M. Searle; Scientific Culture, Fannie G. Loesch, Esquisse de Louis XIV., et de son époque, George iH. Earl; recitation, “Granny’s Test,” Lu- cinda Reid; Happiness ana Her Devotees, Jen- nie Ferret; Alchemy, Arthur C. — Roberts; recitation, “McLane’s Child, Emma Rose; Growth, Fannie W. Phyfo; Classical Bulturo, William T, Viy* men; monologue from “lphigenia auf Tauris,” Fannie M. Combes; True Patriotism, Eva M. Benwell; “You Can if You Will,” William M, Laws; Pictures, Emma M. Bolling; recitation, “Homeward Bounu,” Neihe F. Carrick; Nameless Heroes, Auna Moles; vaiedictory address, De Witt Van Buskirk. The presentation of medals followed. The following 4s the list of the graduating class of '77:—William 3, Baker, Samuel Hathaway, William M. Laws, Louis D. Carman, Frederick Klein, Arthur C. Roberts, George H. Earl, George W. Lavence, Wilham T. Viymen, Rubert F. Wisewan, DeWitt Van Buskirk, Evelyn) M. Ben- I, Nelle F. Carrick, Lizzie Ferret, Estelle Hadden, ab a Mary Mulholland, Lucinda BR Kuma M, Boiling, Fahnie M. Combes, Virgi Haven, Fannie Loesch, e Robertson, Avgusta Brooks, Jennie Forrett, Martha Furman, Cynthia 8, Huggins, Anna Moles, Jennie B, Reid, Einma J. Rose, Lena M. Searle, Lucy 8. Wiliams, THE PAULIST CELEBRATION. ‘The feast of the commemoration of the conversion of St. Paul the Apostle was celeorated with imposiag ceremonies yesterday in the new temporary edifice of the Pauiist Fachers, in West Sixtieth street. Besides the low musses in the early hours of the moroimg a solemn high mass was celebrated at Lalf-past ten o'clock, Owing to the extreme coldness of the weather Cardinal MeCloskey was unable to be pi nt the alvar was beautifully decorated with flowers and bril- hantly lighted, The celebrant of the mass was Rev. Father Young, who was delegated by His Eminence the Cardinal, The sermon was preached by Rev. L Algernon Brown, ©.8. 2. The music was turgished by a large choir of men ana boys dressed in cassock and surplice, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY A MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT A Case That Has Plagued Three Generations. SHUTTLECOCK DECISIONS. Nineteen Years in Court and the End Not. Yet. | “CIRCUMSTANCES” AND “NECESSITIES,” It may scem impossible that in the courts of Now York there could be found a counterpart, or what may become a counterpart, of the little Miss Flite of Charles Dickens’ master fiction. A little episode in the Gen- eral Term of the Supreme Court yesterday—an episode 6o light in itself that it would readily escape notice altogether—is proof to the contrary, however, and shows that one may be a suitor in our courts for many years, waiting in vain fora ‘judgment’ which ought to be obtained in a iew mouths, Tho case is one which bas figured on the calendars tor sixteen years, and been im litigation for a still longer time, with the unpretending title of Jones va But. ler, It 18 a case which has passed through every stage of legal procedure, reaching she Court of Appeals, and, coming down again, three times making its appearance in the General Term, where it was yos- terday or would have been if Judge Brady had not been absent from the bench., Its history is so remarke able, aud the cause of justice hus been so long delayed by its course, that, like Jarndyce and Jarndyce, it has become a joke, if in nothing else, in being compared with that monument of chancery practice. It has its story, too, which is scarcely less pitiful than that of the little mad old woman in “Bleak House,” who found a bower in the garden of Lincoln’s (un and waited with her ‘documents’ jor a ‘‘judgment” on the Day of Judgment. HOW FILIAL DUTY BEGOT A Lawsuit, Cecilia Ann Butler, the defendantin this Amorican Jarndyce and Jarndyce, is a lady of good standing and position in this city, who bas grown old in delending her rights in the courts of the State. As the words in Jarndyce and Jarndyce got into the case without know. ing how or why and could not get out of it, so Miss Butler tound herself in Jones against Buticr without apy fault of her own, and she bas found it equally im- possible to extricate herself. And as Jarndyce aud Jarndyce was originally about a will and the trusts under a will, so Jones against Butler is about @ marriage settlement and the trusts under 1, The defendant was not born when tho deed’ ot trust was execated and was only a child when the trust property was lost in unfortunate speculations, As she grew up she found herself in charge of an old, inirm motber, but she had a wealthy brother who oiten promised to rewara her for this service, and he finally kept his word by giving ber a deed for the property now to dispute tn consideration of her continuance of her care of their mother. This was as long ago as 1852, and for a long time thereafter her possession wak un- disputed and there was no premonition of the years of litigation that were in reserve lor her. WHAT CAME OF A MARRIAGH SETTLEMENT, ‘The origin of the suit which bi so much inconvenience and exp y bad its origin as tar back ab year Thomas G. Butler, ot New York, married Jano Anu Joues, of Georgia, but being ‘in trade,’ ax the trust deed expresses it, ne desired that Triage settlement should be executed to prevent his wile’s estate trom falling mto the bands of bis creditors in case of business misfortune. The trust deed provided that the property conveyed by it should be held forthe use and comfort of the busband and wite during their joitlives. If the husbund died betore the wile the property was to go to the support of the widow and children, but if the wite died before the busband, which was tho result, there was no pro- Vision lor the disposition of the estate. Seaborn Jones was named «8 trustee im the deed, but be died soon afterward, and Thomas C. Butler, Sr., the father of the husband, was substituted im his place. Under this set- Uement the trustee camo into control of considerable put Miss Butler to trust property, whieh afterward inciuded the premises | the corner of Broome and Wooster streets. In the action originally there was also a claim for other prop-" erty in Howard street aud in Fifteenth street, It may well be imagined that at that time property in these localities was not particularly valuable, and tew per- sons had the foresight to see the wealth which in a very few years would accrue trom such unprized p sessions, Twenty years laser it value had increas very little, and nobody foresaw the imm: of ‘the next twenty years, In tho meantime the trustee, at the solicitation of the husband and wife, was induced to sell the property, and it is this con- | veyance under the tru: the will in Jarndyce the trusts under vas first in dis- bie nd as in the o1 there was nothing left in tigation oxcept costs, 8o ip the other uothing is left Ww uvravel but an inextricable series of motions, which may represeut ouly costs at Inst, “OIRCUMSTANOKS” AND “‘NBORSSITING,’? The trust deed contained a provision ullowing the trustee to aeil the property and invest the procceds in auy other productive iund or property circum. pes Made it vecessary, 1n such cases “necessity” is apt to become a very important “circumstance,” and Mr. Thomas C. Butler, Jr., was not slow in tinding these corollaries to work poworfully in favor of the ex- tinguishment of the trust estate. In 1819 he failed in business, and from that yeur until 1824 he earned a Precarious livelihood sumetimes in Mobile and some- limes in New Rochelle. He had a wife and three young children to support, “circumstances” which will make almost any honest expedient necessary,” It thus hap- pened that in the latter year he conceived the purpose | Of carrying out the trust to its fullest extent, and de- termined upon investing tho trust cstate ptber productive property.” 1t thus came that the trustee was induced to invest the trust funds in the factory business at Paramus and subsequently at Dashvilie Falis. Thomas ©. Butler, Jr., managed the factorics, and in ten years more he succeeded in losing the whole trust estate. In 1834 the Broome strect prop- erty was sold to Jonas Butier to puy the Paramus and Dasoville Fails debts. In 1852 it passed by decd to Ceeilia Ana Butler, the present defendant, and in the same year Mra Thomas C. Butler, Jr., died in Ohio, Jeaving several children, who are the plaintiffs in tpi: action. 2 BRUINMING OF THE evIT. The suit ig to recover the property under tbe trusts, and Was begun iu 1858, alter more than a quarter of a century of undisturbed possession. The uction was begun In the Supreme Court, the piaintifla claiming as benelciaries under the old marriage settlement, upon the grounds that the Broome street property had been conveyed in violation of the trusts in their favor, and that “all the parties to whom the property had since been conveyed, including Miss Cecilia Ann Butler, the defendant, had knowied, of that trust, and asking that this property, together with the Howard street property and the | property in Fifteenth street, should be adjudged to be trust property and conveyed toa new trustee to be appomted by the Court. The defendant demurred, but the demurrer was overruled, and Miss Buuler then put tp her answer, Tbo case was referred to William Kent, but he died soon afterward, and ex-Judge | Wiiham Mitchell was then appoiuted reteree, ‘tuo testimony Was Voiutuinous, but Judge Mitcheil finally made bis report, deciding tn (he piainuif'’s favor, This was the completion of the first stages in an action which delay, and delay alone, 18 to make memorable. SHUTTLECOCK DECISIONS, The reteree’s report came on to be beard before Judge Sutherland in 1868, Judge Sutberland decided that the pieces of property in Howard and Fitieeuth streets ve- longed to disé Butler, and that the Broome sire Premises were trust property, but held thut the con- Veyauce to Miss Butier was good Lo pags the lile estate as C, Batier, Jr. Tnws de was satisia ther side, and both pa appeaied to ie General Term. In 1869 the Geno the Broome street property was trast property, and that the conveyance was not good to pass the lite estate of Thomas C, Butler, J or any estaie, ‘The Court also directed’ tue premises to be conveyed to @ new trustee, and appointed Pamilton W. Merril, of New Rochelle, as such (rustee, atthe same time requi Miss Butler to pay to tho trustee about $10,000 for rents and profits which she bad collected, She pwd the money aud then appealed to the Court ot Appeals The case was beard vy the Commission of Appeals in 1872, and that court decided that the Broome street property was not trust prop» erty and thut the pluntits could not maintain ther action unger the trust deed, A new trial was ordered, which came on to be heard betore Judge Van Brunt at Special Term, who decided that tho plaintifis could not maintain their action either under the trust deed or as hetrs-at-law. The pluintifls appealed .to the General Term, while Miss Butler, the detendant, fol- lowed up ber advantage’ by motion ‘before Judge Barrett to compel the trustee to turn over to her the Broome street property, which is now worth about $80,000, and to vccount to ber for about lected. Judge Barrett granted the motion, and trom this the plaintiffs also appealed to the General Term, at the same time applying to Judge Westbrovk to stay proceedings upon Judge Barrett’s order uni their up- eal could be heard, The detendant appealed from udge Westbrook’s order, and ail these appeals camo up to be argued in Goncral Term yester us went over, owing to the absence of Judge Brady, As (his t day of the term it 18 ly that # final dispo- of t shuttiecock decisions avd appeais will be still further dela, WRONGS OF SUITORS. This case 18 4 singular jijustration of the wrongs which suitors sufer in our courts, and it wiil be seen tbat even Jarndyce and Jarndyce was scarcely more re- markable except that in that case the action only Stopped when the costs hud absorbed the whole estate, ‘This case bas been in our courts tor nineteen years, ready fills two large volumes of printed matter, AL is possible it will have a hike result, Dickens teils ws that when Jarndyce and Jarndyce came on t short hand writers, the reporters of the court and tho reporters of the newspapers invariably cecamped with the r whe reguiars. Joi ay Baier sooms imiiar effect, oF this rom: ‘of tho courts have so long remained unwritten, to hw would not i Term heid that | 000 besides for rent and profits, which he hud col- | 26, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. DIVORCE TRIBULATIONS Mrs. Nichols and Her Friends Refuse To Be Sketched by an Artist. THE JUDGE SUSTAINS THE ARTIST. po aA al “Dr. Wilson’s” Mysterious Visits—A Lovely Sunday Morning Drive. peceiliemetelinatet The detectives, who play so important a part in di- vorce cases, had it all pretty much their own way yes terday in the Bridgeport trial, Beside the teatimony developed by thei thore was also some spicy evidence regarding the visits of a “Dr, Wilson”? to the fair piain- tiff, and also in reference to a lovely Sunday morning drive taken by Mrs. Nichols and Mr. Lyman. Beside this there was an amusing intermezzo in the futile at- tempt of Mrs. Nichols’ eounsel to exciude a special artist from the court room. ‘The first witness was Susan Smith, another female employed by the tailor (Condon), who also kept a curi- ous feminine eye upon Mrs, Nichols’ early meander- ings in the proximity of the Lyman residence, She corroborated the previous fevidence, Susan, more cu- rious or more persistent than the other 1emale, instead of following Lyman and Mrs, Nichols merely to the next block, once foliowed them several blocks im a pelting rain from a certain house in West Filty-firss street, in front of which she bad first seen them, ‘The next witness offered was John H. Cochrane, a newsboy of the neighborhood, who had also been watcbiul of the strange lady’s doings. Betore hie tes- timony was taken, however, quite a jively and anex- pected diversion took place. TRYING TO SKETOW MRS, NICHOLS, Mrs, Nichols, during the morving, bad tmproved upon her previous attitude by turning her back to the Court in such a mauner and 0 completely shrouding hor head in an impenotrable black veil that not even a glimpse of her profile could be obtained, When the female and other watchers were asked whether they recognized in the court room the Judy whom they bad seen hovering about Lyman’s residence it was really funny to hear them answer that they did und point at Mrs, Nichols, when it was absolutely impossible to seo anythiug but the graceful outlines of her back, and when it would really have required the gift of second sight or Heliertsm to distinguish her identity with the fair plaintiff in thts caso, What now provokea some whispered comment was that ber mother and her lady friends all partiailyturned their backs and kept their hands to their faces so as to hide them, From whom? was the general question. Nobody in the court room hud apparently ofended them by casting iinproper glances at them, but it soon trauspired that the innocent cause ot their flutter was an urtist for Frank Leslie, who bad made his appearance that morning and was diligently engaged in sketching the noted personages of the trial. Mr, Doolittle rose and addressed the Court as follows :— DOOLITTLE ON PICTORIAL ART, “Betore this witness takes the stand we desire to bring a certain mutter to tho attention of the bonora- bie Court. We have learned that this morning a cer- tain person las obtained access to the court room by telling the doorkeeper that he had @ card of admission from Mr. Nichols, the delendant iu this cage, and that he is now sketching tne ladies in the case, Now, sir, Mrs, Nichols and her friends shouid not be subjected to any such indignity as being sketched, or curicatured, perhaps, in a New York illustrated paper. This 1# not public court room, sir, avyway, as the Court only sits in committee”? And Mr. Doolittle added, sternly:—‘‘That person will now rotire, and be excluded by the doorkeeper hencetorth.”” ‘At this there was a manifest stir in the whole court room, The young artist spoke up and denied that he bad said to the doorkeeper that he had a card from Mr, Nichols; and thereiupon Mr, Doo¥itie conirouted hin with the doorkecper, Judge Fullerton said that certainly the defence had no possible interest in having the court room sketched ; they bad given no situation to the artist and had no suggestion or wish in the matter, ‘The auditors seemed to be uignly amused, while the Jadies surrounding strs, Nichols shot withering glances at the iunocent artist, The venerable Judge who lis- tened with nis usual solemnity auring this ludicrous vroceeding said in bis usual voice;— “Is there any motion before the Court?” Mr. Doolittie seemed somewhat stazgered at the Judge's composure in the face of such a startling de- velopment as an attempt to sketch the court room. Recovering himsell, be finally said, ‘Well, sir, we will move that the person 1 have described shall’ bo ex- cluded trom the cours room.” THE JUDGH SUSTAINS THE ARTIST. Profound silence followed, a:nid which the Jndge, in a periectly colorless toye and mauner said:—''L am not aware of any power resting in me to exclude any person Irom the court room while that person is behaving in an orderly manuer, 1 don’t think I have any such power.’? he looked highly piqued, while the ladies were in- tensely indignant The artist smiled and went on sketching. The newsboy was then allowed to testify, and cor- roboruted the previous testimony about Mra. ols watching for Lyman on Broadway, near Fifty-seventh street, at the cigar shop on Eighth avenue, &c, LYMAN A¥ “DE. WILSON.’? Samuel W. Benjamin, an honest looking, straight- forwurd witness, testified 10 certain visits paid by a Dr. Wilson (who alterward turned out to be Lyman) to Mrs, Nichola while the Nichols family vourded at the south Orange Mountain House, in Orange, a few summers ago. Mr. N Nichols was away most of the time, but his wife remained there with ber threo daughters and 600, She notified the witoess, who was the clerk of the hotel, that her family physicmn, Dr. Wilson, would visit ber, and asked bim to have a lunch prepared for him, a good lunch, (Titer. ) f 4 Mr. Fouuxrrox—Was the “good lunch’ chatged in the bul? Mr. DooLittLe—We object. Mr. FULLERTON hereupon produced tho hotel bills dug up by some industrious detective of the deience, and the witness identilied a certain charge of $7 as having been paid tor Dr. Wilson,”? who came twice or thrive altogether, The witness went on to say that Mra, Nichols went frequently to New York “to consult ber physician,” as she said; once she went away on a ‘hursday and did not return until the Monday follow- ing, leaving her children alone for four days, ‘the clerk ulso remombered receiving tclegrams from Mr. Nichols, king his wife to come to New York when was away, and he replied to those despatches by telegraphing back that Mrs, Nich- ois had gone to New York, Benjamin waa taken to Lyman's house by Detective Mastersou and waited un- tl Lyman came out, when he identified him as the “Dr, Wilson’? who attended Mrs. Nichols at the South Orange Mountain Hou When Dr. Wilson arrived at Orange Mrs Nichols’ phacton aiways waited there to convey him to the hotel. ‘A SUNDAY MORNING DRIVE. Luke Keely, a suarp faced, red mustached and de- mure looking detective, wuo assisted Detective Mas- terson in the preparation of the caso for the defence, guve tho resuite of bis douging Mrs, Nichols’ fooisteps: He not only watched Mr. Nichols, but also sir, Lyman, but when be was questioned about Mr, Lynan’s doings’ on Ninto av Mr. Doviittie objected, on the ground that the question Was irrelevant. Mr. Childs, of counsel for Mr. Nichols, argued that the cross bill of the detendant distinctly urged that the | defendant's happiness had besn destroyed by her ab- souce from his house in waiting and watching jor Lyman, in appoinung rendezvous with him, &c, Mr, Dooittie maintained, on the other side, that although the cross bill had charged adulieries ‘pretty much all over the country,” it had not charged 1 on Ninth avonue, and hence this testimony would bo inadmissivie, ‘The question was then changed #0 48 10 apply to Mrs. Nichols aud he testified that be saw Lyman enter a certain house in Ninth avenue, in the neighborbood of his brewery, and thut subsequently Mrs. Nichols emerged (rom the house. On Sunday morning, March 1876, he followed Mra, ols trom the Remsen sireet house, Brooklyn, where she then rosided, She ran down to the South jerry, In New York, ‘‘on the Battery walk,” a carringe was waiting for’ ber; she jumped i, and he saw a man shut the carriage door aud pulidown tho Curtains, and the carriage was in- staatly driven up Broadway. Iho driver of tne car- 4eWas a hittie colored man, and wore # peculiar light livery, and the industrious detective was sent to find him. He finally captured him one aay and ascer- tained that the couple had been driven up to Lo8th streot and then back to the Metropolitan Hotel, where thoy alighted, THY DETECTIVE AND A RROOMSTICK. amination of the detective was quite Mr. Doolittle asked him if he had not culled & Reddon, who lived in the neighvorhood of Lyman’s bouse, and tried to induce her tu testily that she bad seen M ghborhood, and ue that she would be weil paid forit, This he jen ied. Mr. Doolittie—Didn’t she threaten to dri with ber broomstick? (Laughter.) Witness—No, sir, ‘The detective acknowledged that be once followed a lady tothe Fulton market from the Remsen street ho we under the impression that it was Mrs. Nicholis, and that he did vot discover his mistake until le followed her into Dorlon’s oyster saloon, He Mr. Doolittie thut be foiiowed a lad: twenty times from the Remsen sireet ' ferry under the impression chat it was Mra, Nichols. Mr. Fullerton—id you follow hor across the ferry? Witnoss—No, sir. Mr. Fullertono—Why? Witness—Because I though Mr. Fullerton—Are you stili under the impre that the iady was Mrs. Nichols? Witnesa—I1 am sure of ib. THK COACHMAN’S STORY. the little colored driver ot the peculiar The eros amusing, upon a Mr you out Hovry Jon light livery, so curiously discovered by the detectivi Who was [ast on the stand, corroborated tho testimony drive, He sad the gentleman engaged tho rr ‘was driven down by him to the Soutn ferry, where the lady jumped ia; be subsequently was taken by Detective Masterson to a drug store, where he saw At this decision Mr. Doolittle’s countenance fell and | | the committee might call other witnesses, who were in Mr. Lyman, and recognized tn him the male oceupant of the carriage on that Sunday morning on March 5, 1876; he made a report of the peculiar incidents of the drive to his employer, stating where he had driven, &e. Mr. Fullerton showed him a slip of paper, which the driver said bis employer bad torn from his book, and which was the driver’s report, Mr. Doolittle tested his memory severely as to the minutest metdents of the drive, &c., but Jones stood the t be tripped up. He said it Mr. Dooiittle ( moc balmy, soft'spring day ? ess— Yes, (Laugbter.) Mr. Doolittle—How aid you feel that day? Witness—I didn’t feel very pleasant; { bada’t had me breakfast. (Laughter.) ‘he Court, at six o'clock, adjourned til! this morniug at half-past nine. To-day’s session will bo brief, THE WESTCHESTER SCANDAL. a fine spring day, sentiment)—It was @ & MORE ABOUT THE POORHOUSE—A NEW USE FOR AN ARTIFICIAL LIMB, No additional evidence of an inculpatory charactor ‘was elicited yesterday by the committee of the West- chester county Supervisors appointed to investigate the charges of malfeasance in office against the keeper of the Poorhouse, Charles A. Dominick, the principal witness in the case, was again cailed to the stand by counsel for the accused, who resumed rigid cross-examination of the young man ata point where it was Interrupted some days since in order that waiting, Lt was through the instrumentality of Dom!- nick, who is a son-in-law of Keeper Hammond, and who appeared before the Grand Jury which indicted 1, that the investigation was ordered by the pervisors, The domestic trouble that has resulted in giving the public ap insight into Poorhouse life und management dates back to iast July, since which time the leading witness bas been a sou-in-law | only in name, his wife having preterred to remain with her parents, Dominick did not falter under the fsourching cross examination, which lasted some hours, but reiterated the statements already made by him, Biving bis answers with deliberation and | anpor- ently without any tinge of mahce toward Keeper Hammond or his family. It came out that the large cheat which was testifled to as having been ‘found by the witness at Pleasuntvillo, and resembling, ashe deposed, “a smail dry goods store,” also contained aruticial limb titled with packages of pins avd needles, ‘The limb, he said, had belonged to a temalo pauper named Sarah Seeley, then deceased. Dominick was also closely questioned in regard to a tub ot lard, suid by the witness to have beou taken one night from the Poorhonse and delivered by him to Mrs. Elias Acker at the request of Keeper Hammond or his wife, He swore positively that he did 80, and repeated the re- mark made to him when he delivered the lard. = Mra, Acker was subsequently sworn, and emphatically de- nied all that Dominick had testified to in relation to the tb of lard. There being no more witneasee to ex- amine by the committee an adjournment was an- nounced until Monday next, ART SALES, ‘There was a gale of foreign and American pictures at Schenck’s gallery yesterday, at which a landscape by John H, Cocks sold tor $30; Near Stony Brook, Co by Walter Blackman, $80; The Ferryboat, by J. J. Spobler, $71; View on Licking River, Ky., by W. L, Sontag, $53; Summer Time at Lake George, by David Johnson, $69; Tho Departure of a Garibaldi Volunteer, @. Induno, $105; ‘the Shepherd, Franz Lebrot, $127 Canal Scene in Holland, Kruseman Van Kiten, § A September Vay, Roitcher, $412. Several pictur Were passed, and a number that were very good sold at ridiculously low prices. The best pictures in the cutalogue are reserved for to-day’s sale, among them Thomas Moran’s Vallvy of the Rio Virgen, which is a particularly fine specimen of this artist. There was a gale of paintings at Barker's yesterday, but the prices fetched were very low and the pictures not particularly good. There will bea much betier collection offered at to-day’s sale, SALE OF THE HASTIE LIBRARY, Tho attendance at the sale of tho Hastie-Tracy library yesterday was not large, Francisci de Retza’s “Comnestorium Vitiorum Sive Superbia Assimilatar Pluribus Rebus,” royal folio, hogskin binding, said to bethe first book printed at Nuremburg with a date, 1470, brought $50. It contains nearly 300 leaves, and is printed in old Gothic letter with illuminated initials. At the evening sale tho collection of bibles, comprising 192 ecpies, was disposed of, many edi- tions of the seventeenth and eighteenth ceuturies bringing ouly $1, $2 and $3 per copy. ABible and Apocrypha, in two volumes, Cambridge, family copy containing register of births—brought $10 per volume, Itis one of the six copies only of the same editfon which were preserved from a fire at the publisher's warehouse, Two volumes of Anthony Purver’ jew and Literal Translation” of the Brolo fetched $12 60, Blair & Bruce’s Kdinburgh edition of 1811-12, a large paper copy of the smallest Bible ever printed in Scotland, two volumes, octavo, sold for $11 per volume. A copy of the Oxford Bible, of 1686, two volumes, imperial folio, in old red velvet binding, brought only $9. A Gine.copy of the “Vineyar” Bible, London, 1717, brought $7 50. A large paper copy of Woodfall’s edition of the Bible, London, i) 1806, with fine series of plates, brought $20, Reeves’ Bible and | Apocrypha...” ten volumes, London, 1802, sold tor $2.. Courdale’s translation of tho Bivie, made in 1535, reprinted from a copy in the late Duke of Sussex’s library, London, 1838, brought $7. A reprint of the authorized verston of 1611, sold for $4 50. Forshall & Madden's London edition of 1850 of Wyeijffe’s translation, in four volumes, brought $4 26 per volume. POLYTECHNIC TOPICS, ‘The regular weekly moeting of the American Poly- technic Association was held last evening in the Cooper Building. Dr. J. C, V. Smith read a number of inter- esting papers. Ono bad relation to China, in which the writer, speaking from an experience of years with the people of that nation, said that Chinese statesmen were the greatest in the world, and that its first Emperor was tho illustrious obi, a contemporary of Noah’s, The plough and the co 188, the paper ted, were tho inventions of Chinese 2,627 years beiore the Christian era. Another article wi on the manu- facture of Indian ink. The audience also listened to the reading of an essay on the subject, **Prosperity largely depending on the inventor.’’ [t was asserted that while distinguished and ingenious men of letters died poor the inventors of trifling things left millions of wealth behind them. A writer submitted a paper on the subject of the solence of net In Mobam- medan nations, it was stated, anatomical investigations were absolutely forbidden, and in China the penalty was death for a person to open agrave to look at a dead body. Mr. William T. Lyon, of New Jersey, read along paperon the subject of photography and its modern relations, The regulur avnual meeting of the be held next week. TICKLED BY GHOSTS, Not content with developing aman who claimed to be John the Baptist, Richmond county has furnished another case of insanity, which, though not as pre- tentious in charaeter, is yot scarcely less strange and interceting. In this instance the individual who has attracted attention by her mental idiosyncrasies is a woman by the name of Sarah Joyce, a resideut of the locality known as “Buffalu Corners,”’ Port Richmond, S. 1 Miss Joyce, although she has attained the age of forty-three years, has thus far retained her patronymic, and up to the period of her insanity was “in maiden meditation fancy free.’" She was born im Ireland, but has for many years been a r dent of Staten Island. She has all along bee Tegarded as a womai onjoying mens sana in corpore sano, and none even of ber most intimat friends suspected that she was becoming the prey to a distressing and apparently mcurabie affliction. A few months ago, however, Miss Joyce began to talk and act in @ manner that indicated some slight aberration of mind, and this peculiarity, instead of passing away, has grown upon her, until her case was at last brought to the attontion of Drs, Harrison and Martindale, of Port Richmond, who, after an examination, pro- nounced her insane, and upon their jaigment she wai by Justice Middebrook, commitied to th County Poortouse for care avd @ turther medicul ex- ainination, ociations will SOME OF HER FANCIES, When interrogated ag to the naiure of her thoughts and experiences, M.ss Joyce deciared that for mouths past she has been the subject of a most vigorous and unrelenting attack or prosecution by ghosts or tan- tustic demons, who have pursued her by day and by night, rendering both ber waking and ping hours horribie beyond endurance. She said that while site ting by the window of her room sue could of eo the whostly or demouiac persecutor Pproaching, and there seemed Lo Le no escape from them, Even when she would shut down the window gash they would come right through the panes of glass, and that, too, wituout in the least shivering these diaphanous ob- structions. From her account glass is evidently too thin a barrier to the ghoulish tribe, Whor asked what these spirits would do to her, she answered ;—**Why they uckle and pinch me and stick pingin me until my side and head voth ache, Sometimes they squeeze my head in their hands untit i weems that the top of it will burst open.”’ 8h id, further, that a few nights ago a tremendous big mau—a real giant—came to ber chair, just before retiring for the jad just come trom lreland to night, and sard th: punch her th the side, oF Most cruelly, until amed with the pain, The young woman who came to her relief saw, of course Brob- dinagian Celt in the’ apartments, nor any siga that any had been there, These dre only a few of the visions, or phantasmagoria, that were described by the poor woman. Her visions cannot be explained on the hypothosis of induigen in strong drink, jor ists stated that the subject was hot addicted to tnbibing ardont spirits, Her case has > CASTAWAYS. Adrift in Mid-Ocean in an Open Boat. A MIRACULOUS RESCUE, A Thrilling Tale of Peril and Suffering. THE CAPTAIN’S STATEMENT, ‘The winter of 1876 and 1877 bids fair to be of the most remarkable in the annals of the sea, The list of disasters aud remarkable rescues already to its credit is longer than that of any two years of the last decade, and still the record grows, The latest addition to this teresting collection of romances and tragedies ts that of the loss of the bark Nancy Bryson and the sub- sequent rescue of her captain and crew after they had abandoned all hope of ever sighting Iand again. Tho fact that the Nancy was abandoned has already been chronicled in the HeRaLp, but nothing was told of the manner of the rescue of her crew, who were picked up and brought to Matanzas, Cuba, by the Americin brig A. G Petiengill, CAPTAIN DUNCAN'S STORY, Tho captain of tho Nancy Bryson, Hugh Dunean. arrived in town yesterday morning from Havana, ot the steamer City of Vera Cruz, and from him a Hxwace reporter obtained a detailed statement of tho jast hours on board tho ill-fated bark. Captain Duncan, a remarkably well read and intelligent man, told his story with great modesty, and now and then indulged in bits of deseription of remarkable vividness, At first tho captain did not seem to think that the story of the rescue was of sufficient interest to be repeated at lopgtb, but finally, after the formality of the meet- ing had worn away, he told the yarn atter his own fashion, interrupting the narrative now and then with inquiries about what bad been happening im the world since be left Pernambuco, on the 28th of last Noveme ber, “THEY SAILRD AWAY.’? “With fair wind and weathor,’? the Captain began, “we left Pernambuco on the afternoon-of November 28, bound for New, York with a cargo of sugar, The crow numbered eleven, all told, and the prospect for a quick passage was very favorable, On the 2d of Do cember we crossed the Equator in west longitude 87 deg. 10 min., and the wind blew falr until the 224, when it became squally, During the night of the 22d tho wind blew strong, and tt raimed belore morning, when the wind changed 118 quarter and an ugly cross sea Was on. From this day unt) Thursday, the 28h, the weather was unsettled, amd on that day we had a sti gale, The barometer fei) to 28.80 inthe morning and the Nancy was under lower topsails, The gale increased in strength on Friday aud | hove the snip to, wader lower main top. ils, reefed spanker and mizzen staysail. At noon wa had a terrific squall, which was followed by otuers during the afternoon, each one more furious than its predecessor, About sundown the wind veered from southwest to west and the snip labored and strained heavily. In anticipation of trouble I had had the pump attended to, but at this time the ship was not making any more water than usual, say about three fnches in four hours. During the ear.y bours ol night the sea began to rise and by midnight the most tremendous sea 1 ever witnessed was running, 1t was a bright moonlight night, and us the sea rolled in mountains around us the upper balf of h wave seemed to be of a different color from thg rest of the water. Down in the trough of the seal was as black as ink, with here and there a fleck of silvery moonhght; but in t! es, the water thrown up between us and the moon seemed of alght bright green color, From the top of every wave the wind blewa shower of milk white foam, Once or twice one’ of these mountains poyred down upon us and the ship staggered and reeled, y FOUR MEN OVRBUOARD. “At about ten minutes past twelve, just after the port watch hadcome from below, a tremendous sea struck us and well nigh tore the ship to pieces. The shock was go great that tt was some seconds before I recovered, and when I did 1 found Dulwarks and stancbions had been snapped off trom the cuthead cleau att to the main shrouds. 1 also carried away the fore house, boat skids, water casks, and everything movable on deck. The next wave that rose bore all the débris fe with it, and I saw four men struggling, while the forco of the water spun them around and togsed them up hke so many corks, Ina moment they wero in tho trough of the cea again and the next wave was as clear as crystal, not even a splinter of the wreck was on it. I thought the poor f:llows had been stunned by being ‘bit against the fore house, in which they were when the sea broke in on ua Thecry of “Man over- board !’’ massed all bands on the port side, and ropes were mado ready to throw to the men if they ap- peared again. They all’ came up together on the next wave, and were making desperate struggles to reach the ship. As soon as they appeared halt a dozen ropes were slung, and the men caught them and were saved. If it had been a dark night they would all have been lost, for it was impossible at that time to launch a boat. “The sea that washed these men off burst the spanker and the mizzen staysails, and the jagg@d tails ot tora canvas snapped as joud as rifle detonations. the wind howled through the rigging, and the Nancy was toyed about like a feather in Alter the men had been taken below looked swamped us, T port skids had been stove in, the port wheel of thd pump was broken, and the foremost swiften on tho main rigging was’ carried away. Thinking that the ship might be making water through the rips, where the stanctions had been torn out, I sent the carpenter below. She was not making much waver through tho rips, but in the lower hola the carpenter found water above the keelsous. Thenl gotthe ship beiore the wind and manned the pumps. HOPE ABANDONED. “At about daylight on Saturday morning 1 saw there was no hope of saving the ship, 60 1 made a masthead watch, and the men reiieved one another on the look. out for some pussing vessel When the wind changed around to the west the mercury in the thermotheter went down about fifteen degrees, and it was bitter cold, so that a man could not stay oloft very jong. Shorily after daybreak I called the men aft and told them that the ship was badly sprung and there was no hope of saving her. I sent ove gang to nail sheet lead over the holies stove in the port boats, another to pourd boais ready and another to ‘ead and water to take on theboais, At o'clock A. ML. Whe water began to xain on ths pum| pid¥, and @ boat was lowered, but it ‘ove and swamped. Afver this accident the water was half way up to the hold beams. When I overed this | ordered the men away from the pumps, and ail bands assisted in jowering the last boat. The ship wag hauled to the wind aud the boat launched in safety. At about noon all was ready, and we left the ship iv latitude 34 deg. 45 min, north, longitude 73 deg. west. ‘This is, of course, deed reckoning, for I had no chance of taking observations, The men were all in the boat, and had taken about eighty pounds bread and a mall cask of water, I stood on the deck for a moment, took a look around and then stepped into the boat, An inquiry at this point from the reporter inter- Tupted the narrative, Yos, L stepped into the boat,’ said the Captain, ‘he ship was so low in the water that I did not have to lower myself, 1 had just scrambled into the stern of the boat when we rode a sea and were clear of the ship. The men behaved magnificently, and they pulled with @ will from the ship. AFLOAT IN AN OPEN BOAT, “We were just well clear of ber when she went dow: Thad a magnificent opportunity of seeing her o ander. When the last gallon of water that vroko er balance had been shipped, a sea she neariy went on her beam hull almost to the keel, Then she ted and plunged head Orst down into the ocean, Her maintopgaliant sail Was the last thing | saw. Whon we mounted the next biliow I saw about two acres of white wal the spot where she went down, There wasn’t even a stick Of wood in it; nothing to show thataship bad deon there. The iifevoat was unmanageablo, so wo god a drag of vars in order to keep ner head to the During the afternoon the wind changed again, & Cross sea vexed us Once or twice wo were almost swamped. During the night it grow still Colder snd began to ram. 1 never erjoyed rain so much in all my lite, Tho salt water that drenched me was biel Let body sore and my eyes weak, almost closed, with salt, When the rain camo 1 managed to wash my face, and felt ever so much ro- fresned afterward. During the might we ate some of tho bread, It was saturatea with salt water, but 1 don’t remember, if, having eaten such @ dainty bit before, ‘When mao ia very hungry you know he’s not very nico, and I never wasted the salt, During the early hours of Sunday morning tho men vegan to give out and threo or four of them dropped into the bottom of tne boat and went to sleep. I warned them thut they would be frozen stiff, but nothing seemed to rouse them. A MYSTERIOUS NOISR. It was now growing light, and I discovered the cause of ® noise that hud bothered me ali night. Toe night was as black ad pitch, 90 that we eould not see ono anoth and dozens ot times I heard a humming » It caused by great seagulls, and en daylight came I saw thr jour dozen of them flying over our boat At si of the day before there was not one im sight. I doi know where they came irom, but there they were, While | was looking at these birds & man called out, “A suill’? and, looking of to tho westward, I saw a brig bearing down on as. Tho men at the bot. tom of tho boat wore so jaded that they did not show the slightest interest 1a the di 4 In an hour's time we were on board tho & Pettengili, bound for Matanzas, trom whence}. Now York via Havana COMPLIMENTS, ngill, treated us haved y compensation for his trouble for oxcited considerable attention and comment, and tho iesuo of thone experiences is looked turward to by many to whom thoy are entirely new, Re ee OTe und expenses, to go home on th row Aro Still at Matanzas, waiting British mai there on the 8b of February,"” Steamer, which is due