The New York Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1877, Page 3

* verge of the village. STRAT ay ka ane NIA lis RE Ir snes 8 HAYES AT MIDDLETOWN, How the Ohio Colonel Was Wounded at South Mountain. BLOODY ENGAGEMENTS. Reminiscences of His Treatment with a Friendly Family, A REAL LOVE STORY. Mippixrows, Md., April 6, 1877. T cannot forbear, even at this late day, the publica- tion of some interesting events which occurred here during the late rebellion referring directly to tho gen- Uemap who has recently been installed as President of tho United States, The 14th of September, 1862, was a remarkable Sun- day in this old fashioned Maryland village. Foralmost the Orsat time in a century the churcbes were closed and clamor and tumult offended the sacred hours. All through the previous night the rebel army under ‘Lee bad been hurrying through the town on its retreat westward aci®se tho valley. In the early morning tame McClellan’s advance guard in bot pursuit, the whole Union army following, A battery, uolimbereu, At the western edge of the village harrassed the reced- Ing columns of the enemy and “drow some answering, resentiul cannon shots, which crashed through the walls of ono or two dwoillings, Residents barred their doors and took to the cellars, whero horses, poultry, provisions and articles of valuo were concealed. When they emerged distant artillery peals and volleys of musketry announced the opening of the battle of South Mountain, They waited for the issue of tho engagement with suspense alternating between hope and dismay. Most of them were Union people, Middlctown bad already got the nickname of “Little Massachusetts"? Should Leo win the battle they had nothing but calamities to iook for, McClellan ‘was their shield against ruin, One family was especially perturbed—the family of Captain Jacob Rudy—whose brick dwelling stood on the main street, the fourth bouse from tho western There were the Captain and bis wite, two sons and five daughters, Tho oldest son, Daniel Webster Rudy, was sick in bed in an upper Chamber. The two youngest girls, Laura and Ella, bad scarlet fever, and Laura, who had boen taken into the country, and stayed there while the rebels wero passing through, now returned, rather the worse for her journey. As the day udvanced and tne battle roar grew louder, and dubious rumors reached the village, Captain Rudy mistrusted his wisdom inaticking there with a house full of 1n- valids; but it was too late toremove. Late in the afternoon the Union wounded began to arrive; procession of ambulances, wagons and stretchers, showing ghastly faces and emitting low, agonizing ories, moved up the street, Along with this procession came news of the Union victory. Then the aspect of Middletown was changed, Houses were thrown open. Churches, schoolhouses, barns, and stables were pi Pared tor wounded men. The whole place was gradu. ally turned into a hospital. A WOUNDED COLONEL. Jnst as the sun went down beyond the mountain bat- tle fleld an ambulance, drawn slowly and accompanied ‘by a surgeon, an orderly and two colorea servants, mounted, approached the village along the turapike, An officer lay in the ambulance, mute, haggard, and evidently in great pain, His light brown hair and beard were dishevelled, his collar was torn away frou bis throat and his uniform was covered with dust and soiled with mud, *Joe!’? he callod. “What is it, Rud?” inquired the surgeon, bending over irom his horse. “Take me to the first respectable looking private house we come to after we get into town.” The house selected by Surgeon Webb was Jacob Rady’s. Jacob himself stood in the doorway, wearing under his gravity an habitual expression of good will. this your home, sir?” asked the Surgeon, with a salute. “Ee te? “Then I hope you can accommodate my brother-in- law hero with temporary quarters. It is Colonel Hayes, of the Twenty-third Obio. He is severely ‘wounded in the arm aud needs quiet.” “L shall do very well,” said a voice from the am- bulance, “if L can get into a level bed. My servant is here. He will try not to make much trouble.” “All right,” vroke in the Captain, “We'll fix you, I think. Let'ine speak to my wile a' moment.” Mrs, Rudy, hospitable and alert, toon haa a chamber Fendy next the one occupied by ‘her sick son, Daniel, ‘Thitber the fighting Obio Colonel, pricked hard, but saved by destiny (o make a tuture President, was con- veyed with some dillicuity through sundry lower rooms aud up a narrow staircase, The winddws were Taised, the atm was, unbandaged, und Webb caretully redressed the woun “There,” said he, when he had finished. “Now I'll go down and arrange matters with the tamily.?? HAYES’ PART IN THR UATTLE, he pretty badly hurt?’ usked Jacov Rudy, when pad taken a chair in the sitting rocm, in ugly sort of burt,” repli he young sur- we ‘becaute the ball bit tue bone, Then again be jest @ youd deal of blood, because he would keep on ti In tho attack to-day he was in brigade of the advance division of Burns: ‘ps, which was in advance of the army. He was ordered to take @ mountain path to the Jeft of the old national Toad, 1eel the enemy and open the engagemen found their pickets in the woods, received t! aud drove them in, Beyond the woods he rebel line advancing, He charged into it with a regi- mental yell, and, after some fierce fighting, drove it back through another piece of woods und across an open field beyond. Here he ordered his men to charge again; but he had hardly given the command when a bullet struck his left arm above the elbow. He yor off his horse and usked a soldier to bandage bis arm tightly near the shoulder; but i+ woulan’t d to tumble; and he probably tho thing he wi shelter, At thts he got on his legs again and m hot for them until they came forward, Then they made it hot again for the euemy, He couldo’t stand up long; he had to he down trom sheer exhaustion, But the men say he kept giving orders acd calling to them to fight tout, The Major, Cornly, at length as- sumed the command, and ordered the Colonel to be carried off tbe field. fut be came back again, with his wound half dressed, and went on fighting until ho was tarried off ayain.’’ “1 hopo he got his belly full by that time,” said Lape “Jacob!” (from Mra. Rudy.) “Never you mind, wite, You go on with that sup- er if you want wo keep @ family from starving.” Phen be turned to Webb. “*No,”? answered the later, “He worried and grum- bled until be heard that tne rest of the brigade bad come up and dislodged the enemy with the bayonet. Tuen we got him into an ambulaueo aug brought bim to town, See here,” be continued, “see what he wrote in his memorandan bouk alter he teil, This 18 just like Rad Hayes for all the world:—‘While I was down | had considerable talk with a wounded Confed- erate lying near me. 1 gave him messages for my wifé and friends in cave I should not getup. We were right jolly and friendly, It was by no means an un- pleasant experience.” “go he is married, is he?’ exclaimed Kate Rudy, duo of the daughters, Where ix his wile?” “I suppose she’s left Cincinuat, Ohio, by this time,” answered Webb. “We teregraphed her frum the battle field, She is a sister of mive.’”” “You will stay here and attend him, of course,” Captain Rady said, “A day or two, yes. My brother Jim, also a sur- geon, willbe over, But weshall have to uttend to a good many more, Have you any good local physi- clan??? “Yes, indeed; Dr. Baer!’ was instantly chorused by the Whole Rudy family, the several members ot which proceeded to pile up praises of their tavortio nysician antl Webb’s brain grew dizzy. Dr, Charles aer seems to have earned aud deserved the eu- comiums which are to this day uttered of him when- F his hame is spoken tn Middletown, He was then His wiry, well propor- tioned figure; handsome face and tine head, set off by nuburo bair and whiskers; his pleasant smile, quick, energetic movements, and hearty voice of cheer, com- mended him everywhere, in addition to bis skill «nd success In the practice of his protession, His counsel in the case of Colonel Hayes was of great value, since it helped to prevent an atnputation, and his services in vther homes «nd the improvised by tals iu the vil- Jage during tue following month any limbs and hives, He was already married, and or four young children, @ has since removed to a farm in Roanoke county, near Salem, Va. ARRIVAL OF MRS. HAYES, On Tuesday, the 16th, Surgeou James Webb arrived, and the two brothers were thencelwrth di A tm the Rudy household as “Dr. Joe”? aod Both were much hiked. They occupied the Colonel Hayes’ servant and Dr, Jov's servi the floor in tue chamber woere jel Rudy lay, a yes, who Vuinly sought for her wounded husband itn Washington and Frederick, reached Middle. town on Wednesday, while the guns of Antietam were thundering beyoud the biue Ridge, She was accom. Junied by a reiative, Mr. Piatt, aud bad no difficulty in finding out the Colonel's resting piace, 1 eo ‘Was bull Glled wity wounded soldiers of his regiment, years old, Indeed the Twenty-third Obio had lost in killed and wourtded at South Mountain within eight men of bait | ite entire Jorce engaged. The “Twenty-third fe! ag were loun, wherever there was u sbady some with heads bans daged, some with arms ip slings, others limping badly, Several of the leust battered ones had been down to pay their to their com- fr napaned since Sunday were glad to show his wile the way. “The minute Mrs, Hayes came inside the door,” said Mrs, Rudy, to me, a8 | sat conversing of these incidents with her and her daughters, Kate and Ella, this after. noon—'the moment she crossed our threshold I knew sbe was a good woman and a natural lady. Of course her husband was rejoiced to see her and hear about his children, and she was relieved to know that bis wound was Dot 80 rous us she had imagined it, She made It easily at home here at once.” “Yes,” said Miss Ella, “Il remember the moroing after she came. She was down in the kitchon early, and asked leave to cook the Colonel’s favorite aish.”” “He bad an appetite then?” Linquired. “We are recurring to facts inthe liie of a vory distinguished reon. “A very good Sppetiie.” rejoined Miss Elia, smiling, “He never objected to anything that was sent to him, and, though he suffered constantly and got little sleep fora woek and longer, he was always cheerful. He Bot only wouldn’t be cross—ne wouldn't allow any extra trouvie to be taken on his account. Mother used to ask him if she could not ‘do something’ for bim. He always thanked her, bus said no; he didn’t need anything; he was going very well. The only thing he did have changed was his bed; but Kate will tell you about that,’? COLONKL HAYES’ QUARTERS. “If you will come up stairs,”’ biithely suggested Miss Kate Rudy, ‘i will show you the bed aud the room where he stayed, A correspondent who was here last summer, by the way, descrived this ag ‘a rickety stairease.’ It is @ trille narrow, but it cor- tajoly isn’t rickety. Then he spoke of this chamber ‘dark and gloomy.’ Do you find it so, sir?” “Assurediy not,’ I replied, Like every apartment in the house tnis'one showed the perfection of neat- ness, Two large windows lighted it thoroughly. The partition betwven the room occupied by Colonel and Mra, Hayes, and the ove occupied by Drs. ‘Joe’ and “Jim” Webb in 1862 had since been removed, throw. ing the two chambers into ove. The walls were gar- nished with engravi and simple ornaments; the carpet was of o bright pattern, and an ample stove stood belore the chimney piece, Here is his bed,” exclaimed Miss Kate, lifting the mattress, “When he came it was like all the other beds—the frame was held vogether by corda Ifyou bave lived in the country you must know what tun it 18 to ‘tighten the bedcorag’ One person gets up and walks ucross, stepping Om one cord afier another, while the other pulls each longth of the cord taut the instant the rope dancer’s fvot leaves it. Still, the tautest of cords will sag, and so Uolonel Hayes aduptod the device you see bere; he bad a solid bourd platiorm Jutd in place of cords, and the mattress rested ov that,’? “That's what be meant when he im the abu. lance that he wanted ‘a level bed,’’ explained Miss Ella “1 wouldn’t take a good deal for this uld bed,’’ Kate Rudy continued, musingly; ‘*!’ve slept in it ever since the Colonel weut away; | never hud u bad dream tn it, never, “So you all fell in love with the patient Colonel,” I remarked at random, as we descended the stairs. “We, in tove with him directly,’” Rudy. ' “He didn’t talk much, but what ‘the* point h language toward t rebels, do 80. poke of the bravery of thew men. His manners'were remarkably mild, it generously of the Southern officers, und was the ie with Mrs, Hayes, As soon as he was out of dan; ¢ used to spend a part ol every day in the hospitals, visiting rebels und Union meu alike, 3 took grapes to them, and any other delicacies she could get, and sometimes she would read to those who Iiked to hear her. She had a great many favorites, bus ‘wos attentive toaill, and admired by evorybody.’’ jo you remember her hair, mother?’ inquired Ella, ih, yes,’? said Mrs, Rudy. used to wear her bair 10 a style which had long been out of general fashion. It was comved smoothly down over her ten». ples and then back, aimost covering her ears. 5! gathered it behind ina plain coll, ‘This style became her, though it would have destroyed the looks of. most women, fam told sho still adheres to it.” OvT OF DooRs. At the end of a forinight Colonel Hayes was able to come down stairs to his meals, A day or two later he er walked on. the north side of the street, wi was a paved sidewalk, but always took. the south side, sometimes wading shoe-deop in mud. Old residents, still tap- talized by this behavior of the Onio Colonel, are wout to urgue the why and wherefore of it around the tavern stove. Un the 2d day of October, late in the alternoon, Colonel and Mrs. Hayos slowly ascended the slope back of the Luth Church, toward the Lutheran Ceme- very. From here thero in a beautiful view, extendin; eastward to the Cotuctia rango, westward to Sout Mountain and vorthward aud southward up and down the fertile valley of Middletown, A nui bues were on the mountains, hills and intervening. hes of wood- land; brightest shone tho foliage of Ul log wood aud the gum treo, the lattor standing in clusters, with many-tinted glossy leaves; the stubble of thousan of harvested acres alternated its browns and yellows with the darkening greens of pastures which bud been despoiled by two armies of their accustomed flocks and herds. Jt was a quiet pl nour, The wounded Colonel and bis wi mselves near the ceme- tery to watch the sunset. A groan startled them, ‘Turning ber head Mrs, Hayes observed a soldier loan- ing with averted face upon a gravestone. She uttered a whisper of surprise and alarm “It’s Lieutenant W——! Uut of his bed and up bere! Last night they were despairing of bis lite,”? Motioning to her husband to keep is seat, she ap- proached the oflicer and gently accosted him:— “Lieutenant, isn’t this very rash??? He litved a face haggard, not merely with the illness resulting from a mortal wound, but with another kind of agony. Mechanically touching bis cap, be stared, but did not speak. **Had you not better go down to the hospital?’ ahe asked. “I thank you; no’? She hesitated a moment; then, approaching nearer, suid:—"You are suflering., Has anything occurred Gan I be of service to you? Or perhaps the Colonel —; he ts nere, close by.”? ‘The young man’s face was so distorted by anguish that secouds elapsed betore he partially composed him- self. *Sladam,’’ be said, at length, “1 do not think that you—I do not think that anybody—can uid me. Last night I thought of living. To-day”? (with a bitter smile) “the uses of Iife are not apparent.’’ Recover- ing bis composure, be added in an ordiary tone, “I have no idea that { shall live twenty-four hours longer ; perbaps it ts well you came—yes, it is well. Will you ask your husband? 1—1 thiok—I shall have to sit down. AN IDYL AND A TRAGEDY. “Now, sir,” procceded the Lieutenant, after the kind lady who had greeted tim had insisted on but- toning his military cape around bis suoulders, -‘thero 1g nothing to tell Gut of the common; it 1s an old story with different names, 1t I trouble you with it, it is be- cause 1 see no other way. There sare no people down there—motioning toward the hospital—to whom I could tntrust a necessary message. I am too weak to write—you seehow my band treimbles,”” A pause, “‘My parents are not living. I have no brothers nor sistere—no near relative except a little girl cousin of my mother’s, an orpuan, who was placed under my care several years ago, She is properly provided for, As she never saw me but twice sue will not, grieve. * * * The lady’ (here the officer choked a ittle) “who will feel this blow the bardest has already been prostratea by the news of my wound. I hud hoped she would come down to see me—with her mother. I received no detinite tidings Of ber until tu-day. Here ig her mother’s telegram.” The despatch road thus:— Warrrtows, N, Y., Oct. To Lieutenant —— ——,—th New York, in Middletown, Md. :— Have hoped to start with J——— wlindat every day for » fortnight, Retained trom informing you ot her continued delirium. Wer situation ts erivieal.” telegraph her wlut may be a lust word, ‘iA. tT. “ know well what is meant,’’ continued the Liea- tenant, ‘She is dying, us i am.’? “Come,” said ibe Colonei, touching his sleove; “come down to the hospital.” Ly nge,”” the oflicer went on to say, not heed- ing ogo that when 1 am so well convinced I shail not live [ grieve that she canvot Ii Thave longed for is to be with her, Now, that I am sure I must retiaquish her bere, why should I not be glad that we are so soon to mect hereaiter? Yot the idea of her death 18 terrible to me, But | torget,”’ said be, rousing bimsell, “ihe request 1 had to mako ot you. Her picture is here, inside my vest. The let- ters from her since I have been in the army are in my vulise, legibly marked; my servant has the key. Some other things there are, inclosed in a packet. ‘They are all to be sent to her mother, who will decide whether and when to deliver thei to her. 1 have been thinking of a letter, but 1 am too weak to write, and I cuuld not bear to dictate one, I shall mapage to write @ telegram, to be sont to her mother alter my acath, I will ask you to take charge of 1." He had spoken rapidly, almost hysterically, toward the last. Ho added, attempting to rise, “Now 1 am ready 10 go.”’ At the moment a boy came ru.oing up the slope with something in his hand. It wus a tele- gram, whico be gave to the Lieutenant. “AS you see,” the latter said, offoring the despatch, “it is Over.”? My poor — (thus ran the nm your mame for the lust time « li ‘Gid not suffer of compiain, home. 4 ; The boy scampered back with a message for the Lieutenant’s servant, turning a somersault or two on the way, Soon after the Lieuteount, nis pallor in- creased, aid adieu and moved painiully down the bill supported by lis servant's arm. His wound, irritate and inflamed by such reckiess exertion, bled avew. Fever setia before midnigat, and he died, alter a period of exhausting Irenzy, the foliowing aliernoon, DEPARTURR—A NARKOW KHCAPK, Just three weeks aiter the batue of South Mountain, in which he received his wound, Coloucl Hayes and his wile lett Middictown Jor their bome im Ciwerns Regreiting to part with the Rudys, who bad bee kind to them. they did not Know and did not hear tor some time afugward Of a peril they bad almost mar- velluusly escaped. Danicl Webster Rudy, the sop who lay in the room fei the Hayes’ chamber, w: 2, 1862. hicspital, posed to have lettever, It turned out that the smallpox! pie pillows on his bed were uscu to prop up Colonel Hayes at meal times, yet the latter had po syinptoms of the disease then or later, nor had the negro servants, who siopt every night on the door in Daniel's roo Alter the Hayes’ departure every member of the Rudy household was attacked by stoailpox, and Charlie, the youngest boy, died of i “When we wrote to Mrs, Hayes avout it,” said Mra, Ruy, yesterday, “she wrote back that they | rool, ave you had any intercourse with them since?” od, Colonel Hayes was with Hunter on his raid into Virginia, Returoimg trom that raid be aud Dr, Joe Webv stopped here one day and took dinner with us. Kate visited Mrs, Hayes at Columbus nine years ago. They gave her # hearty welcome and treated her handsomely, When Governor Hayes was pominated Jor President we were all intoresied, wishing him to succeed. On electionday my husband was very un- well; stil he went up town and voted for Hayes, He died last Cbrietmas, My son Daniel, who ts bow in the Custom House at Baltimore, sent Governor Hayes @ note announcing the death. The answer came back within a week. It expressed tbe uimost sympathy for us ail, wag reverted kindiy to the time when he was disabled and had a home with us? A QUEER CHARACTER. The old City Hotel, on the main street, thrives amain and there J met a quaint character, a man of forty-live or fifty years, ‘Sir,’ be said, **! see you are a tray- eller, seeking tniormatiou, You want to know something about this region, I can tell you. It's the garden spot ot the State of Jand, though the Jand has been a leo-tle impoverished by overworking during the past ven years, Wo grow wheat and corn mostly; vory little tobacco; plenty of fruit; only enough vogeta- bles for local consumption. at runs all the way from 10 to 35 bushels an acre—mostly 10 to 15 bush els; corn runs irom 26 to 50 bushcls—say 35 bushels— to the acre; potatoes from 300 to 600 bushels to the acre. We're iu Frederick county. Frederick, the Jargest town, has u population of about 8,600. Middie- town here has 800, "The whole county 47,000, * Our Valley of Middletown 1s watered by Cotochin Creek and hundrea little tributary brooks. The roads are splendid in summer, iu the winter terrible, Yea, sir (1 know what you're going to ask), we've had war here, Over yonder on South Mountain ig where the new President, Hayes, was wounded, Some of the men of bis regiment said he did ight that day like sin, Up there, too, ia the spot where Keno fell. And | could show you the well where Farmer Meyers, who took a coutract to bury soldiers at $1 a head, dumped fifty or sixty of ’em into a well ana covered ‘om up, and culled that decent Christian burial. Sir,” ejacu- lated the speaker, with sudden solemnity, “Il know something about the battle of South Mountain,’? THE RUSSIAN EASTER. FIRING A GRAND SALUTE—THE ADMIRAL AND GRAND DUKE VISITING THE FLEET—ALEXIS AND THE TELEPHONE, At eight o’clock yesterday morning the flag was ousted on board the Russian flagship Svetlana and the three ships of the fleet were dressed with flags in honor ot Easter Sunday, After the band had, as usual, saluted the flag, played the Russian natioual anthem and ‘Hall Columbia,” the usual Sunday morning In- spection of the flagship by Captain the Grand Duke Alexis and the Admiral began, The officers were, on account of it being Easter Suaday, In th plendid full dress unliorms of greou and gold, with swords and cocked bats, and wearing their orders on their left breasts, The Admiral and Captain tho Grand Duke Alexis did not, as during the muid- night mass, wear the uniform of the Emperor's guile, but their brilliant full dress naval uniforms, The Admiral wore the broad red ribbon of the Order of St, Anne, the cross of St, Viadimir, and a number of other decorations, both Russian and foreigv. The Grand Duke Alexis wore the blue ribbou and silver enamelled star of the family, Order of St, Andreas, and the cross of St, Viadimir, The Grand Duke Constantine woro tho star of the Order of St. Andreas, The breast of Baron Schilling was especiaily rich in orders, both Russian and foreign. Captain Novonsilsky wore, among orders, the cross or St. Anne. The brillant array of officers were drawn up on the gtarboard side of the quarterdeck, and the crew of some tive hundred and filty men on the port side. The Grand Duke passed in front of tho officers, suluting them. They together returned the salute. The Cap- tain then inspected bis crew and tho whole ship, after which the Admiral, accompanied by the Captain, did the same. THY ADMIRAL VISITS MIS FLEET. At about ten o’ciock Admiral Boutakoff, accom- panied by Flag Commander and Fiag Licatenant Prince Stcherbatofl, embarked on board his sixtecu-oared barge, which was in command of Ensign Prince Bariatinsky. In front, at the bow, there was tne Admiral’s pennant, and behind the Russian ensign. ‘The guard was paraded and tho band played ay he lett the flagship. The Admiral was firet rowod up the river to the corvette Bogatyr, On ascending to the deck with the two accompanying officers he was received by Captain Snafroff and tho officer of the deck, Lieutenant Brestropp. On the starboard side were ranged the otticers of the corvette, while the crew were placed forward of tho mainmast on both sides of the sbip, The marine guard on the port side presented arms as the Admiral reached the deck. The Admiral passed, accompanied by the Captain and tho flag officers, in front of the officers and crew, saluting, saying, “Christ is risen; they responding, “Verily, He is risen,”? The Admiral then entered the Captain's cabin with bis officers, and tho felicitations of Easter wero given and received, the Admiral and the flag officers kissing the Captain threo times on the cheeks, After a short stay the Admiral leit the ship and paid a similar visit to tho corvette Askold, where ke was received in the same way and went through the sume ceremonies, ALNXIS VISITS THE BOGATYR AND ASKOLD. About a quarter of an hour after Captain the Grand Duke Alexis in his gig, which wac in charge of knsign Prince Obolensky, ielt his ship and visited the Bogatyr, being received at the gangway by the Cap. tain and the Officer of the Dock, the marin ard pre- senting arms, The Grand Duke and the Captain then entered the captain’s cabin, having embraced euch other outside according to the Easter custom, Leav- 15g the Bogatyr he visited the Askold, being received by Captain Tirtoff, GREETING FROM SAN FRANCISCO, At about nine o’clock A. M., before visiting the other ships, Admiral Boutakoff received from Admiral Per - sino, commanding the Russian Pacitic squadron of eight vessels, now lying at San Francisco, « telegram wishing bim the felicitations of the day, and sending those of the officers of the fleet of the Pucitic to those of the flying squadron now at New York. In reply Admiral Boutak bt his thanks and the felicitatious of the Grand Dukes and of officers of the squadron CONGRATULATIONS FROM THK EMPEROR. At half-past ten o’clock A. M. Captain Novoasilsky Tead, 1n presence of the asse: officers und crew, from the Admuiral’s order book that the Emperor had sont by his courier, Prince Doundoukof!- Korsakoff, his felicitations and bis thanks to the officers and crew for their gervices, The Admiral and Grand Duke Alexis entertained breakiast at eleven o’clock, in the Admiral’s cabin, Cuptain Sbadolf, of the Bogatyr; Ur, Condrine, Barou Schilling, Captain Tutboff, of the Aucol plain Novossiisky, tive ollicer of tho Svetlana; Flag Comuunder Alexieff, Sub-Lieutenant the Graud Duke nd Flag Lieutenaut Prince Stcherbaton. jay thirty-one guus were fired irom the id the two other vessels of the fleet in honor As tho tenth gun was fired trom the rst gun Was fired from the corvettes Ascold the rapid cannonading from side to side of the Russian fleet woke the echoes of the Hudson, and as tue just echo died away the cer- emonies of Easter were tinisbed. During the day a lat crowd were on the wharves Viewing the Russian fleet. The three vessels, almost in ine, made a fine appearance with the signalgings stretched in line trom topmasts to the ends of the Yards And frum tho foretopmast to the end of the bowsprit, Russian ensigns were spread from the fore, the main and tbe mizzentopmast of the three vessels, During the breakiast of the Admiral and Grand Dake a num- ber of the officers of the Svetiana visited the Bogatyr and Asculd, which visits wero revurned in the alter- boon, ‘At half-past one o-clock Admiral Boutakoff, the Grand Duke Alexis, the Grand Duke Constantine, Buron Schilling and Dr. Condrine were rowed asburo im the Admiral’s sixtven-oared barge and disembarked in the city wt tue foot of Twenty-third street, LISTENING TO TUB TRLEPHONK, An arrangement was made with Maurice Strakosch to have a private exhibition of the telephone yesterday afternoon jor the venellt of the Grand Duke Aiexis. Through the kindness of Mr. Urton, of tho Western Union, aud Mr. Brown, the super- intendent, an ‘apartment was secured in their oilice in Twenty-third street and Filth avenue, and hecessary orders were given to secure a direct cirenit between’ this ctty and Philadelphia Althougi the company was about moving all 1s apparatus in Phila deiphia from the od into the new building, Mr. Stra- kosch’s telephone instrument was carried thither and back, and placed tn positiva in a few hours, and at tbo appointed time (one o'clock) Mr. Goodrich, the pianist, svated himself at the fusteument in Philadelphia and be- gav playing for His Imperial Highness, The first air Performed was thy Russian national hym, “Comin? Through the Rye,” “Way Down Upon the Suwanee River’: and a number ot selections of American inusic followed. Amoug those im the room were baron Scniiling, of the Kussian Embassy, and Messrs. Orton and Brown, Tho whole aflair was quite ivformal, the gentlemen sitting = quietly §=about the room listening to the melodies as they came over the wires, The Grand Duke Alexis expressed himsel’ as highly delighted with the periormanco and manifested considerable wonder at its novelty. He also sigoifed bis intention to atiend the concert on Tuesday, in which Ole Bull and Miss Thursby are to participate, : AT THR FAGLE, Alter dinner the Grand Dugo Alexis, Baron Scbilling and Dr. Condrine visited the Eagle Theatre. They oc- cupied box No, I. The occasion was the tureweil Sun- day concert given by the Aiméo Troupe, * A FAITHFUL SERVANT'’S FUNERAL, The funeral ot Mr. John T, Robinson, late of No. 363 Washington street, Hoboken, and one of the managers of A. T. Stewart & Co. for the past fifteen y , took place yesterday. Upward of four hundred employés from the alove mentioned firm were present. The display of flowers in various forms was very han sume, The tuneral services took piace ut the late resi- dence of the deceased, aud were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Brady and Rev, Mr. json, Tho remains wore taken to Buston fur interment. ‘NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1877.—TRIPTF SHEET. LITERATURE. Mus. Browxini yy Richal tiler, It has been many years since the reviewer was last called upon to read a new volume from the pen of Elizabeth Burrett Browning. Such is his happy task to-day. Sixteen years alter her death a volume of her letters is given to the public. These letters are ad- dressed to Richard H. Horne, a man who has lived on the outskirts of fume and is botter known as a friend of men Of letters than us a mau of letters himself, His writings, which cover a variety of subjects, are now out of print, Mr. Richard Henry Stoddard, who was wisely chosen to edit the American edition of these lettors, gives a little sketch of Horne by way of preface. Speaking of the poetic dramas of the last huadred years, among which Horno’s are numbered, he says:— “The English pablie was indulgent to these produc- tions, and their writers thought that the good old Poetic drama was flourishing ouce more. Nota bit of 1 It lassed about thirty years at most, and is as dead to-day as Julius Cesur, Mr, Tennyson may entertain himself by writing ‘Mary’ and ‘Harold,’ but they might as well have remained unwritten.’? Mr. Horue’s excuse for publishing these letters of Mrs. Browning's is that the ink they were written with was fading and that ho was obliged to resort to type to preserve them, We have a secret opinion that Mr. Horne was not averse to ing his name in print 1m this connection particularly as Mra, Browning is very complimentary, aud gives us a bigger idea of bis importance than we ever bad before, We shall not, however, quurrel with so pardonable a weakness, ‘since it bas bad accomplishod a result by which we are the greatest gainers. Mr, Stoddard bas written a most interesting and appreciative memoir of Mra, Brown- ing to this edition of her letters, in which he pronounces the Sonuets trom the Portuguese “the most remark- able personal poems ever written,’’ a sentiment with which we heartily agree, while we tect that perhaps the Personality of some is almost too intense, ‘The one Deginolug— First thne he kissed me, he but only kissed ‘The fuyersot this haud wherewith £ write, seems to us tov gacredly personal for publication, al- though wo would be sorry never to have known it, In this memoir Mr, Stoddard quotes a letter to Leigh Hunt io which Mrs. Browning says, in spevking of his “Religion of the Heart:”’-—*1 believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ in tho intensest sense; that He was God absolutely, Butior the rest, lam very unorthodox @bout the spirit, the flesh and the devil, and if you would not let mo sit by you u great many churchmen wouldn’t; in fact, churches, all of them as at present constituted, seem too narrow and low to hold true Christianity in its proximate developments, 1 at least cannot help believing thom 6 Mrs. Browning’s let- tors to Mr, Horne are very off-hand and personal, and Contain running fires of comment upon contemporane- us writers which ure often amusing and always origi- nal, We mako a few quotations;—‘‘falking of poets— nO, not talking of poets, but thinking of pocts—are you aware, O Orion! that the most popular poet alive is the Rev. Robert Montgomery, who walks into his twenty and womethiugth edition ‘like nothing ?? I mean the author of ‘Satan,’ ‘Woman,’ ‘Omuipresence of the Deity,’ ‘The Messian,? the last of these being in its teens of editions, and the greatest not worti a bark of my Flushie’s! Mr. Flushie is moro ofa poet, by the shining of his eyes! But is it not wonderful that this man who waves bis white hand- keorchief trom the pulpit till the tears run in rivuletsl all round should have another trick of oratory (as good) where be can’t show the ring on bis little Guger? I really do beliove that the ‘Omnipresence of the Deity? 18 in the twenty-fourth edition or beyond it; a fact that cannot be stated in respect to Wordsworth after all these years.” Of Harriet Martineau:—'‘l have bad groat pleasure lately in some correspondence with Miss Martineau, the noblest female intelligence between the sons; ‘as sweet as spring, us ocean deep,’ She isina hopeless anguish of body and serene triumph of spirit, ‘with at once oo hope and all bope! To hear trom her was both a picasure und honor to me,” Of Tenny- son:—''I send you ‘an opinion’ on Tennyson, Use It, or do not use it, Hoe is a divine puet, but 1 have found it dificult (in the examination of my own thoughts of him) to analyzo his divinity, and to determine (even to myself) his particular uspect as 4 writer, What is the reason Ji" it? It never struck me before, A true and divine poet neverthe' " Of Edgar Allan Poo sho writes:—‘Your iriead, Mr. Poo, is a speaker of strong words ‘in both kinds’ * * * As to the ‘Raven,’ tell me what you shall say‘about it, Thero 18 certainly a power, but it does not seem to me to be tho natural expression of @ sano intollect in whatever mood; and I think that this should bo specified in the title of the poem. There is a fantasticainess about the ‘sir’ or ‘madam’ and things of the sort which is ludic- rous, unless there is a specified insanity to justify the straws. Probably ho—the author—intonded it to be road in the poem, and he ought to have intended it, ‘The rbythin acts excellently upon the imagination, aod the ‘nevermore’ has a solemn chime with It, Don’t get me intoa scrape. The ‘pokerishoess’ (just gods! what Mohuwk English !) might bo found fatal, peradven- ture, Besides, just because I havo been criticised I would not criticise, And I am of opinion that there is uncommon force and effect in the poem."’ There is no such thing asa life of Mra. Browning extant, shame to say, and these lewers (for which wo shall always be gratetul to Mr. Horne) have given uso bovter insight into the everyday lifo of the divine poetess than anything that has been published, reface and memoir Lerrexs, with a jew York; James ry Stoddard, Tuat Lass o’ Lowzie’s. By Frances Hodgson Burnett, New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co, As Miss Fanny Hodgson the author of this novel was first introduced to us through the pages of Scrib- ner'’s Monthly, for which magazine she wrote occasional short storica, She was wholly unknown to the editor when her manuscript was first sent in, and going through a dreary pilo of commonplace stories one day he came upon one of hers. He did not have to read far to seo thet he bad found as A That was a field day tor that editor, for stories such as those signed ‘‘¥anny Hodgson,”’ coming from an unknown source, is a new experience for an oditor, It 18 needless to say that her story was published, and {rom that day sho has been among the most valued contributors to Scribner's, That ‘Lass o’ Lowrie’s” is Miss Hodgsop’s (now Mrs, Burnett) arst long story, and in ft she bas fulfilled all the promise of her early work, It is an English story; Mrs, Burnett is an English woman by birth, and the scene is laid in the mining districts of Lancashire, The heroine is Joan Lowrie, a girl with great physical bouuty as well as beauty of character, She was brought up to work ijn the mines, and that was about all the bringing up she had. She is a very strong character, always in action, seldom talking. She was of too fine a nature to be on gossipping terms with the other colliery gir! who rather feared her aud were always telling of tho odd doings of that lass o’ Lowrie Joan took ina puor, friendiess girl whose love of admiration had led hor astray, and cared for her child as though it bad been herown, The scene where Joa: ads the town’s people tormenting poor Liz 18 well described :— Derrick turned to ascertain the meaning of this cry of appeal, but almost vetore he bad ume to do #0 Joan herself had borne down upon the group; she had pushed her way through it aod was standing in the contre, confronting the girl's tormentors in a flame of wratu, aud Lig waa clinging to hes, “Wilat ba’ they been sayin’ to yo’, lass?’’ she de- mandeu, “Eh! but yo're u urave lot, yo’ are—women yo’ ca’ yo’raens !—badgeri’ a slip o’ a woneh loike thie,” ‘+ did na coom back to ax nowt iro’ noan o’ them,” sobbed the girl, ‘i'd rayther dee ofy day nor do it! I'd rayther starve |’ th’ ditch—an’ it’s comin’ to that”? “Here,” said Joan, ‘x1’ me th’ ehoil She bent down and took it from her, then stood up before them all, holding it high in her strong arms—so superb, so statuesque and yet so womanly a figure, that @ thrill shot through the heart of the manu watching her. *‘Lasses,’’ she cried, her voice fairly ringing, “do yo’ see this? A bito’ « helpless thing as canua auswer back yo’re jeors! Ay! look at it well, aw on yo’. Some on yo's getien th’ loike at whoam. An’ woen yo'’ve looked at th’ choild, luok at th’ mother! Seven teen year owd, Liz 18, an’ th’ world's gone wrong wi’ her. I wunpot say as th’ world’s gune ower reet wi’ Ouy on Us; bUt them on us as had th’ strength to howd up agen it, need na set our foot on them as has gone down. Happen theer’s na sv mach to choose be+ Uwixt ua alter aw, [> ik a this to teil yo!— tnem as has OWS to say o’ Liz, mun say it to Joan Lownie |”? This was Derrick’s first sight of Joan, and he never forgot it. Derrick is tho hero of the story, and was the new overscer at the mines, Dan Lowrie, Joan's father, was an ugly customer, one of tho disaffected bad sort, who aro always at outs with their employers, Ho hated Derrick, and the story ot hia vengeance is thrilling in the extreme, As the reader will guess from the frat chapter Joan and Derrick were to become something more than employor and employed. How the character of this poor girl 1s developod by het love for the man so much above her in station is | @ wonderfal stady, We bave ao hesitation in saying that there is no living writer—man or woman—who has Mrs. Burnett's dramatic power in telling a story, ‘There are many who nave greater literary ability, greater strength, perhaps, in developing character, but as a raconteur she has vo equal. This probably seems like vory strong prai: ind so ft but Bo one who reads tho story carefully will say that it is not de- served. We will make a quotation to prove our asser, Mon, Here is the death of old Lowrie. Ho had always been a hard father to Joan, and came to hisend by the trap ho had laid for Derrick ;— When Lowrio died, Anice and Grace wero in the room with Joan, After the Grst two days the visitors bad dropped off. They bad tied their curios Lowrie was not a favorite, and Jowun had al soemed to siand apart from her follows, so they were left to themselves, Joan was standing pear the bed when there came to z the window fell upon his disfigured fa roused himself, moving un ap wi? met’? he muttered, “Feyen Theh memory scemed to return to him. An angry light shot across bis face, ie Hung out his hands and , art tha?” and and broken as he was, he wore that mo- ment a look Joan bad long ago learned to under- stand. “Ay, feyth answered. during the few moments in which full recognition of the tact that he and beaten alter alli—that his plotting had been of us ail—torced itself upou him. He made fort to speak once or twice and tailed, but at last ords came, ‘ha went agen me, did tha?’? he pan “Dom ”” and with a siryegie to summon all bis strength, he raised himself, groping, struck at ber with his clenched band, aud, tailing to reach ber, fell forward, With bis face upoo the bed, It was all over when they raised bim and laid him back again, Joan stood upright, tremblod a little, but otaerwise caim. Isolated passages, however, cannot do justice to the book, With all its dramatic power and simple pathos it 18 quite humorous, and shows versatility of inven- tion, The character drawing is strong and void, and wo should.judge from this story that Mra Burnett could write an acting drama thas would bring her fame and fortune, The publication of a story like “That Lass o’ Lowrio’s’’ 18 a red letter day in the world of Iterature. Central Aprica; on, NaAkep Trutit or Nakep Pxo- Lr. An account of expeditious to the Lake Vic toria Nyavza, &c. By Colonel C. Chaille Long, o the Egypt'an Staff, New York: Harper & Brothers The most original feature of Colone! Long’s book is ite title, The Colonel writes in a rather agreeablo, off hand style, without any pretensions to Interary merit or scientific knowledge, His adveutures were not very differont from other African explorers, except that they do not seem to have been quite so danger- ous, On the whole, he was pretty well troated and bad arather comfortable timo when he was not ill, On his return to Egypt the following were submitted to the governmont as the results of his expedition 1. M’Ts¢, King of Uganda, had been visited, aud the proud African monarch made a willing subject, and his country, tich. in ivory and populous, created tne southern limit of Egypt. 2, The Lake Victoria Nyanza bad been partially ex- plored, not thoroughly, owing to my helpless aod almost dying condition at the time, 3, ‘The Victoria River, leaving the Lake from Uron- dogan} (from whence Captain Speke had been driven) had beon explored for tbe first time as far as Karuma Falls, thus forever putting at restall doubts and ostab- Mehiog tho connection between the Lako Victoria and the Lake Albert. From Urondogani to Karuma Fails tt was provon to be navigable by steamers of tho @Geatest draught. 4 Tho discovercy, in about latitude 1 dog. 30 min. north, of a lake, sinco named Ibrahim, thus adding another great reservoir to the sources of the Nile—a m of basin of which the Lake Victoria and tho Lake Albert were only known heretofore—the plateau southward acting aga great watershed to the almost perpetual equatorial rains, 5. The affair at Mrooli—a desperate preconcerted attack on the part of five hundred savages upon two frail barks containing three combatants, resulting in the loss to the enemy, mentioned in the general orders already cited. The results of the expedition to the Makroka Niam Niam countty may be summed up as follows 1, Communication had been opened from the Bahr. el-Abiad, viet armis, by punithment given the Yanbart tribe—to the Niam-Niam country, rich in ivory, whose inhabitants were friendly and well disposed towards the Egyptian government, 2. Occupation of that country by the establishment of military posts, which were to serve the double pur- pose of acquiring ivory in exchange for cotton cloths, &c., and at tbe samo time inculecating in the native habits of induatry, cultivation of the soll, the raising of cattle (the want of which bas been the chiet incen- tive to anthropophagy); {n fact working an ameliorae tion in the state of the negro, social, moral and mental, 3 Extended information as to the customs, fabrics, &c,, obtained of these people, specimens of whom, in the interest of ethnography, were brought to Cairo and presented to the goverument. in conclusion Colonei Long says that the Nomads of the Upper Nile, uader a proper régime ot discipline and the selection of good men that he knows among them, he regards as the great future civilizing element for the redemption of this country, since the Arab cannot permanently dwell in its pernicious climate. TITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Henry Holt & Co. are about adding to their Leisure Hour Series that best of all Jean Paul Richter’s books, the ‘Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces.’’ Professor W. G. Sumner, of Yale, hus in Putnam’s press his ‘‘Lectures on the History of Protection in the United States.” The rovolution in the book publishing trade, so long impending, is likely to bring down the high retal prices which have ruled so many years, and thus be a public beveft, D. Appleton & Co, havo already re- duced their educational books to lower publishing prices, The perennial popularity of Dickens is scen in tho fact that the new two shilling cdition of the ‘“Pick- wick Papers,’’ which the London publishers have just issued, wi bscribed for to the extent of 42,000 copies by the English book trade, Mr. T. A. Trollope’s forthcoming ‘*Life of Pope Pius 1X.” will be rather personal than torical, and will appear near the closo of the summer in two volumes, Mr, James Bryce, who ascended Mount Ararat last year, has in Macmillan’s press a volumo of travels in Trans-Caucasia, M. Rénan’s “Origines du Christianisme” will be brought down to the death of Trajan in the dith vol- ume, to be published this month, and in the sixth will reach the year 160 A. ), M. Réuan will then write the history of the Jews before Christ, in two or three vol- umes, Bitter’s German life of Sebastian Bach has been translated in an abridged form by Miss Shuttleworth, and printed in London. ‘The London Academy treats Mr. Van Luun’s History of French Literature with great severity, The omissions of notable writers are said to be as numerous us tho blunders in passing Judgment upon French writ who are noticed. “Properly to expose the shortcom- ings of this book,” says the critic, “we should want the whole number of the Academy to oursoives.’” Mr, John Morris’ “lroubies of Uur Catholic Fore- fathers,” in the third series, just out in London, en- ters upon tho persecutions of the Roman Catholics in Yorkshire and the North of England, 1 Di Cesnoia has completed his work on Its Ancient Cities, Tombs ana Temples: A Narrative of Explorations and Discoveries During a Ten Years’ Residence in the Island,” which Joba Murray, of London, will soon bring out. We are to havo a new book on Thomas De Quincey, including unpublished correspondence, and notes on bis lite and writings, by H. A. Page. The medical as pect of Mr. De Quincey’s case, throwing fresh light on his opium eating babits, will be fully treated, That remarkably learned and oloquent book, Mr. Kenelm Digby’s “Broadstone of Honor,” long out of print, will be reissued in April, by Quaritch, of London, Another periodical, devoted to fishing, will be Started April 20, by E. W. Alien, of London, under the namo of The Fishing Gazelle, Mr, James Stevenson, Giasgow, has printed “Notes on the Country Between Kilwa 4 Tangauika,”’ which is said to contain in brief all that is yet known of this part of Africa. * Mr. C. B, Mans(old’s “Aerial Navigation,” pub- lished posthumously and written twenty-Ave years ago, treats of ballooning as @ problem rather than as an achievement, 4 publisher, who withholds his name, announces a life of Bismarck, with an introduction by Bayard Taylor. Scribner, Armstroug & Co, will publish in a few dase “The Wit and Wisdom of Hayti,” bvemg a collection of proverbs of Haytian or of Airican origin mada by the Hon, Jobn Bigelow during a visit to that island in the winter of 1854. A considerabie portion of them sp Peared ina series of contributions to Harper's Maga sine in 1875, The chief value, to thoughtful people at least, of these specimens of the proverbial literature of the Haytian, is iu the colloquiahsms of a people whe for the most part neither read nor write. Macmillan & Co. have just ready for publication Matthow Arnold’s new volume, entitled “Last Essays on Church aud Religion,’’ uniform with *Literature and Dogma.’ Scribner & Co. bave brought to light a new writer of children’s stories 10 Mr, Howard Pyle, ® young maa who promises to rival the famous Grimms, He not™ only writes stories, but be illustrates them as weil, The United States Publishing Company havo is- sued a new anabridged edition in one volome of Edwards Lester’s “Our First Hundred Years,” This book has received the highest commendations, and is valuable as @ history of our first century, In this new edition a long-felt want is supplied, The Contemporary Review is in its twelfth year, and has been on the whole a grand success, Jobn Moran will have a poem in the May numb§r of Appleton's Journal. “Seward's Autobiography”? ts selling rapidly, and is the means of employing a great many worthy women, us it is sold by subscription only. G, P. Putnam’s Sous have recently issued a book called “The Best Reading,” which contains hints on the se- Jection of books, on the formation of libraries, publia und private; on courses of reading, &c, with a classi fied pibiiograpby for reference. It is edited by Frederic B. Perkins, Not only are the books named,« but the prices given, The book is so arranged that it is very valuablo for reterence. The pian of the book originated with the late George P, Putnam some years ago. Part of the hints in the present volume were written by Mr. G. Haven Putnam. J. B. Lippincott are most fortunate in having secured the plates, even though at great oxpense, of Worcester’s dictionaries, The best Euglish writers and the must particular American writers use Worcester as their wuthority, It is almost incredible the labor repre- sented in Worcester’s unabridged, It contains 1,854 pages and over 100,000 words with their pronun- Clation, defuition, and otymology, 1t 1s illustrated with over 1,000 wood cuts ‘and contains 1,000 articles on synonymes in which 6,000 synonymous words are illustrated by apt examples, 1¢ algo contains proverbs and sayings from the Latin, French, Spanish ana other langunges; the names of noted characters in history and fiction, ancient and modern, Greek and Latio names, tables ot weights and measures and such @ quantity of information that one need study no other book to be a well informed man, Austin Jobson has anew volume in press “Proverbs in Porcelain,’’ and other poems. “Sketches, Social and Political, of English Rural Life’? 13 the title of a book in course of preparation by Dr. Von Holtzendorft. ‘The catalogue of the Bodleian Library has reached half-way through R and S, and will probably be fuishod in the course of two years, Arte de Labacho, the rst work on arithmetic evet printed, bearing tho dato 1478, was recently sold in London for £21. HL de Lagardie bas a capital article in the March Macmillan on Daudet’s Sidonio under the title of French Novels aud French Life, ‘The Portfolio for March, received through J. W. Bouton, contaims an etching by Flameng of Sir Thomas Lawrence's portrait of Mrs. Siddons which is unusually soft in its lines and bold in its lights and shades, James Paterson has written “Commentaries on the Liberty of the Subject and the Laws of England as to the Security of the Person,” in two volumes. Tho latest brochure on the silver question is Mr, J, Heotor’s Currency Considered with Special Re! enco to the Fall in the Value of Silver,” just published by Blackwood. Mr. Frederick Boyle has written a frosh and breazy book entitled “The Savage Life; a Second Series of Camp Notes.” Edmund Beckett's ‘Book on Building, Civil and Eo clesiastical, with the Theory of Domes and of the Great Pyramid,” is just completed in London, ‘The most elaborate book on sugar manufacture is M. Moumané’s ‘‘Traité de la Fabrication du Sucre,” just published at Paris in two volumes, Asecond and greatly enlarged edition of Noback's great work on **Moncys, Weights aud Measures, Ex- changes and Gold aud Silver Variations,’ is just com pleted at Leipzic in the German language, titled NEW BOOKS RECEIVED. The Cardinal's Daughter (A sequel to “Ferne Fi ") adv Y and vound volume. Messrs, T. reo & . 408 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Broth Papers (United Relating to Foreign Affairs, ac- companying the Aunui De Session of t ‘congress (arte L, IL and TIL). Government Printing Office, Washington, B. 0. Harper's Hall-Hour Series (paper cover Tales from Shukespenre ries and Mary ‘alex from Shakespeare (by Charies and Mwry edie, Messrs. Harper & Brothers, New York. Noru’s Love Test (a novel. recover), by Mary Cecil Hay, Messrs. Harper & Brothers, New York. ‘Acrons Africa, by Verney Lovett Cameron, C. B., D.C. L., Commander Roval Navy (with namerous tilust ration Messrs. 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Peterson & Broth- (vol, 0. 1877). the American x, The Américan News Company, Cham- Gils: York. 0 Frult: A Handbook of Frait Cultare Well Ne, trated), by Thomas Gregg. Messrs, 8. RB. 737 Broadway, New York. How to Teach According to Temperament and Mental hrenology in the Schowlroum and Fam- gf), Mouars. 8. Ht Wells & Uo,, No, 737 w York, : of, Meditations Upon the Return of the iteign Over the Earth. (By. Ste Messrs. Muckl mon, New Yor THE HOBOKEN BIGAMY CASE. Martin Pakenham, an inmate of the Hudson County Jail since Saturday evening, when he was ar- rested ou a charge of bigamy (as stated in yesterday’s Heratp), has made the following statement to a AenkaL reporter “1 am emp!oyed at Solomon & Maby's shoe store, at at No, 20 Warren street, New York, and have worked for them about two yours, Previous to coming to this country, which I did in 1867, I resided for ten years in London, working at my trade in Hosiery lane and the east end of the town, In London I made tho ac- quaintancesiip of Margaret Shea, a servant girl ems ployed by Mr. Jacobson, a jeweller, whose shop was Situated near No, 400 Strand, We came to New York and lived at No, 369 Pearl strect, io 1869 my wile proved herself such a maniac that, to save the life of our child, | bad her committed to Blackwell’s Island, Subsequently I came over to Ho- boken, Ladmit I have passed her off as my wile, bat decline to state if we were married or no. §=That bas got to be brought out onthe trial. Well, when she came out of the Lunatic Asylum on the island I took her back, and the life she lod me with her mad capers was so infernal that | bad her committed to the lupa- tic asylum from Hoboken, and sho spent three years im Trenton, When she came out, cured, ag the doc- tors said, C took her home. One night 1 came home and found her about to carry out threat sho had made ot pouring a kolo full of boing hot Water on our child This was the 21st of Fobr ary, 1875, I had her arrested and Recorder Bohnsteds committed her as a lanatic to Suake Hull, where, for all 1 know to the contrary, she now is, Whatl fe uns dergone with my lunatic helpmate nobody knows, [ have been living since my marriage in November last in Mr, Givitt’s house, 1 Clinton street Formerly lived at No. 247 First strect, Hoboken, My wile j@ taking caro of the cnild, Sergeant Edimonston, of the Hoboken police contirms the prisoner's story as to bis wife's lunacy, and says that she used to make attempts to leave her home dressed in ber night clothes, RUN OVER AND KILLED, Isuir, LL. L, April 8, 187% Albert Young, of Sayville, L, 1, was run over and killed by a train on the Long Island Railroad at Oakes dalo on Saturday evening. VCoroneor Preston, of Amitye ville, 18 holdin, inquest, A DEPOSITOR’S INQUIRY, |, To tue Eorror ov tas Henarp:— Noticing in an evening paper that_the first receives appointed in the case of the Loaners’ Bank is being called to a strict accounting, will not, while the case is a 6 aoret os wien Gans Ca) statement of ite SN ole to a ca