The New York Herald Newspaper, October 1, 1877, Page 5

FINE ARTS. New Foreign Pictures in the New York Galleries. egies AN IMPORTANT HISTORICAL WOKK. ‘What the New York Artists Have On Their Easels. OPEN G OF ART SCHOOLS, There has iately been added to the pictures on ex- Dibition in Schaus’ Gallery @ werk of more thay ordinary interest, both on account of its portrayal of One of the most memoravie events in French history and of its artistic excellence and fidelity. The picture by Théophile Gide, the well known pupil of Delaroche and Cogniet, represents the Queen Mother, Catharin de? Medics, aided by her favorite son, Hepry Duke of Anjou, and the mombers of the Council !mportuning the weak, irresolute young King Charles 1X,, who still Spoke of vengoance on the Guises for tho attack on De Coligoy on the noon of Saturday, August 23, 1672, on the eve of the horrible massacre of St. Bartholomew, to sign an order for the execution of the Huguenot Admiral, then lying wounded by the shot of the assassin, De Mauroval, and which urging, shen unsuccessiul, renewed at midnight, led to the utterance, by the badgered, wearied and agitated King of th fatal words:—Par la mort Dieu, puisque vous trouves bon quion tue VAmiral, je le veux; mais aussi tous les Huguenots de France, afin qu'il nen reste pas un qui me le puisse reprocher apris, Donnez y ordre promptement.” (By God’s doath, as you find it right that the Admiral be killed, I am will- Ing; but also all the Huguenots of France, so that noue will remain to reproach mo for it alterwards. Give orders quickly.) Tho scene ot the picture is laid in the Palace of the Louvre, in the sumptuous cabinet ot the King, who Bits on the right by the table; leans nervously, vasctl- latingly forward, with one hand grasping tho arm of the chair, and with the otnér halt reacuing for the pen which bis mother, tho infamous Catharine, bend- ing over across tle table, reaches to him with ono hana, while with the other she places near him on the cloth the document which needs but his signature. The implacable, strong willed woman looks firmiy, and somewhat monactngly at her frivolous, weak 890, with whom her influence is so great that she has Aimost as much power as when regentof yore. By the King are a couple of his favorite hounds, aud at his feet lie a glove and a quill pen, which he has tvidently taken in hand to use, and then, in a changed mood, has dashed to the carpet, refusing to Sign, Leaning eagerly forward in his chair, on the lett, watching the varying expressions of his brother's tace, is Henry of Anjou, the victor over the Huguenots ‘t Moncontour, afterwards King of Poland and finally Renri ILI, ot France. Ho 18a true son of his mother, and there would be no need of persuasion im his case. Behind the Queen Mother stands, in his ermined roves, the gray-bearded, crafty Chancellor de Birazues, with one arm extended, and adding his voice to that of the King’s mother. In the left foreground stands, be- hind the Duke d’Anjou, eagerly watching the turn of affairs, tho soldierly Mardchal de Retz, a favorite coun- cillor of His Majesty. Back, by the window, are two younger men—the Maréchal de Tavannes, in cuirass, fad the blonde, handsome Duke de Nevers. The Story is exceedingly well told, and on the expressive faces the characters are well worked out, notably in that of the young King, his brother, tho old Chancellor and De Retz. Tuey would all appear to be excellent portraits, lor their individuality is exceed- ingly strong, The drawing is good aod the coloring truthiul, The rich costumes of the somewhat eflem- inate young King and his brother are admirably ren- dered. If there be any fault in the picture it is a cer- tain bardness of general tone, As a fine piece of drawing and painting is to bo noted the foresborten- ‘ang and light and shade ireatment and coloring of the Ugure of the King, The costumes are all curetully studied, as are the accessories, which are well painted aud each given their proper relution of strength and color. Tho afternoon light, coming through the win- dows to the left, is admirably managed. Pictures by A, Tiddemann and F. Hiddemann have also just been received and added to the gallery. Tho former isa Swedish peasant interior. grandmother showing her bridal crown and other treasures of her youth to three grandchildren, two giris and a boy. Bhe has taken the crown from a trunk which stands with open lid, on which is a printed portrait of King Oscar and of some public ceremony, by her side. Tho children are all intent as the old lady telis the siory of how she was wooed and won; the elder girl stands ad- miringly, with clasped hands, while the boy leans on bis grandmother’s kuees. The old Indy’s fuce is ad- | mirably painted, The scene is homely aud the pic- ture, a8 a whole, rather pleasing. In strong contrast 4s to method and execution is the strong, living out- door picture by Hiddomann, enutled “dt 1 Dared.” ‘Two boys are standing, in mid- winter, 19 @ snowy street by a garden wall. The younger, on his way to school, with buoks in band, bas evidently been the recipient of several suow ball compliments on the part of the elder, a shop Loy or apprentice, who is carrying a bottle of ‘chnapps which, as the snow on the bottom evir dexces, be Inid down for the assault, and the last or the unpleasant missiles bas evidentiy struck home by the schoolboy’s ear and roused lim to the pitch of re- taliation, He raises himself somewhat on his t.cels to be nearer in stutere to bis antagonist and holds a | snowball iu bis band which he, im view of provable | cousequences, is airaid to deliver, His enemy looks | at him a» if to | suy, Lend and bas the other stuck in bis pocket. It is town and gown on a smallscale, The picvure is both | Pleasioy wod auusing, 18 sirong iD action and ihe ex- | pressions are udmiravle, The coid 1s well suggested, hnefe 13 also a pleasing little Meyer von Breinen— @ nother with a just risen child on her lap, waching itto pray, before giving it 18 breakiast, which lies ready on the table vetore them Eugene Kiimisen, ot Paris, is represented by a couple Of exquisite little water colors, puuted on parch- ment; pertect little yems in their way. In one a mother is washing the baby, which lies struggling acroas her kuees, while an ol sister looks laugbing on. ihe other represents a mother with ber arms clasped around the young pride of tho household, wi Bits on the tabie, and gazing fondly up into bis eye while behind the content her, sinoking, looks pleusea down at both bis t ures. In both the pice bures the drawing and modelling are admirable, ‘Tue | coloring is delicate and laidon with much skil!, the | nrimipusation being bardly Observable even with u gluss, Tue stories are weil told, that uf the first pice Ture being decidedly amusing, aud of the lust very pleasing. Amoug the recent additions to the Goupil Gallery is “the Duct,” a delicate little example of A. Gisvert, formerly director of the Royal Acavemy at Mauria: Tue seforita bus been playing & auet oo the mando- lii—wuieh now hes on the table—with ber rather good-looking masic teacher, who huswguitar. Her | Mother or auenna has jalien asleep, book in band, in | achair by them, and the couple have seized the oppor- tunity todo a jittle rapid fhrtaviov. Tue charming Standing, tantaizingly boids up the score side- while the teach: seated, undaunted by the aif- ficulties of ready it, ‘continues to play, iovks up at her abd sings bis compiunents. The scene is the lust century in a richly decorated apartineut of some noble Lousehold, The picture is very charming, 19 pained in a graceiul, carelul atyle, haga delicate general tone and color treatment, ‘ue wnite satin furred cloak of the fair one is “Shere in, im acditiog, © qui tnndac re is, In Addition, @ quite ng pe by hy ated in this celebrated artist's, pI etohy style, which is ip og contrast to that displayed in some of his earlier aug more worked up cauvases, STUDIO JOrTINGS, J. G. Brown is back in his studio, after a summ spent chiefly on and vear Grand Menan Island, Now Brunswick, at thefishing stations, where he has been studying the picturesque Oshing life. The men em- ployed in the cod and hake fishery give types which bi: been very {elicitously trausferred to canvas by the artist. They are more than mere color sketches or studies that Mr. Brown has made—tuey are out-of- door pictures, possessing all those qualities of free light and shade, not to be obtained from models in & Studio light, ‘The most important of the sketches and which he will soon work up into a picture is, “Pull ior the Shore.” A ‘double bankeu” crew of fishermen are pulling lustily (or shore from their fishing craft, bent on having ayood time. There are six men at the oars, an oily old coxswain and a boy in the prow. The rough, ruddy, uugaioly, honest lvoking mariners are all portraits, The action is excellent, and a strong out-ot-door effect is well given. I the coloring the artist has been very successiul, baving just caught the peculiar comploxion of the men, Among the other sketches are ‘Hoisting the Sail,” 4 stalwart, wiry old sailor, pipe in mouth, shown on the prow of a fishing boat, standing out bold against the sky and hoisting tho single sail: ‘Coming Homo,” a steerer lying back itching the sail, while in the bottom of the boat lie the spoil of fish: “Throwing the Net,’? a strong bit: “The Coming Squall,” a bareheaded sailor in the prow, watching With bold, determined face the rising of the tempest, his hands on the single halyard ready to haul all down at the necessary moment: ‘See Papa’s Boa! young boy over @ rock, on which he bas placed a t scope, and looking through to seo his father’s boat an excellont sketch, the expression of the faco, with ‘one oye shut and the corresponding side of tho upper Jip drawn up is amusing: “Gathering Gulls’ Eggs,” a faring boy limned aguinst the blue sky, with the hort- zon tar down below him, scaling a shoer cuff, and just reaching a nest of the coveted speckled eggs; the tig- ure stuuds out boldly in relief against the sky, tho effect of light and sbade is bold and tree, and the study, when worked up, will make a powertul picture Our Camp,’ a study of the party’s home during part of the tri, aud of its sailor guardian smoking a short pipe, of more use On sea than be Was on shore: ‘Cleaning Fisu,”’ a siriking view of the operation on shore, aud un excetlent character study; thore are tree figures, One man cutiing off the beads and ripping open the lish, another Wwking out the entrails, anu a third tuk- ing out the buckbone aud throwing them into the heup, and a bold bit ofa young gir! perched on a spur of rock readiug, On the whoie Mr. Brown has mado an excellent sutmer, aud we do not doubt that in tis 6 he will be as successful as be usually is iu others, M. F. H. de Huas Just returned from a week’s sketching at where he bus veen studying the rapids above with a view of painting some pictures from the excvedingly picturesque views of the troubled river to ve found there. . H, de Haus is aisy back alter asummer of Indus- trious skeiobing. Casiiear i painting, {rom sketches mado this sum- mer, a xood sized picture of a view on the Chemung River, looking down the broud stream and up to the sweep of hills stretching away from the bauks On the lett a few cattle are coming down from under the trees todrink, The picture bids fair to be very successiul and has that peculiar golden tone observable in the first dawn of autumn, L, E. Willmarth bas juet finished a pleasing little pic- ture. Ina basement # young girl ts tuking uway in a basket some young puppies trom a litter, she holding up one, Wuile the mother dog licks 1t goodby, ‘The others lie Gncouscious Of their coming fate, and one bright little fellow, with bis chin piliowed on some part of one of nis generation, looks calmly out at as Winslow Homer has reiuroed (rom a summer in tho Adirondacks and is Oovsbing up n large ptt “Night in the Woods.’ Tbougn pitch dark it late, and 4 man lies stretched uuder tue buck t asloep, while another sits by the fire, which | into the darkness, making the surroundings: more gloomy, ‘The long, waving sparks from the moss on the wood rise in great numbers above the flames from the pine fire. Around ure scattered fishing tackle und iinplements of the chase, Above rear their heuds the gaunt pines, one of which, felled ball way, lies across and over the tent, Another picture which Mr. Homer is finishing 8 “On the ‘'rail to Marcy.” ‘Two guides, one of whom is the well kuown old Phelps, pointing out the cup of Marcy, the other a stalwart young mountaineer, are coming over a mountain side.” Both have with thom their axes and their usual slight camp A bold breezy canvas, the tiguies admirabl ndscape good. ‘There is also a trapper in “plue boat’? searching along « bank for beaver siyn: William Hart is again in his studio, after a summor reful and painstaking work, He is putung the ng touches to a large and fine landscape, which ls *An Upland Pasture—Morning.” A gap be- tween the hills, cattle by a stream the Ad:ron- dacks in the distance, and above a line cloud elfect. He is aiso finishing up @ picturesque view on the Housatonic—I'ttle Alderney cattle, wandering down a riverside path, a cottage over the far meadows and Mount Greylock in tbe distance, There are on bis easel two little autama bits, surcharged with the briliiancy of color of the dying year, a woodland and a mountain stream. Mr. Hart has been sketching during the summer in the Adirondack rogion and has brougut back a portiolio of brilliant color sketches. Among them are a view on the Ausable, a fine bit; tho picnic light and spade effect ; How's Falls on the Ausable, and a rocky view ou the sume im. In each picture small figures are introduced, adding to the interest, George Ioncss has on his easel a picture from this summer's studies which bids fair to be very success. ful. It is w view near Pompton Junction, N. J. 1% country, picturesquely wooded.’ Down’ a 1 a cottage Just boyond an isolated clainp of trees, fluely treated, while way beyond are purple hulis’ stretching away. On tho failing slope, wih trees and afeuce to the right, is the igure of a boy. Tho oflect, adunrably rendered, is that of descending forenoon light, aud the atmosphere eflect is sometuing rarely attained on canvas, a vreozy Ireshuess of air. ‘The cloudscaps is admirably treated, and ov off distunce Langs below the mouataing a bli The coloring as far as advanced 1s stroug and free, ‘There is, tn addition, a nearly finished golden tinted view near Closter, N. J., and gue on the Pequonnock. Mr. Innes is ulso at work on a pleasing bit of Italian landscape—sheep at sunset on an upland looking over th pagna, with a Ro man shepherd vy them. fhe 1m the studio a fino, largo, upright landscape, Castle Cadore, in ‘Tithan’s country, which th: twill probably finish up this winter. Through great pines and jurches, striking foreground objects, 13 seen beiow in the valley the village of Sutty Castello, surrounded by moun- (aos which remind one, though ou @ suialler scale, of the Yosemite, dames s. Hart is varying his work on ‘‘At the Brook- side’? by working Gu au alternoon v ew on the Housa- toule—cows in the stream, and in che distance the vile luge of South Lee, over the river meadow: 5 aloe lighs elect and a pleasing golden sunset tone, H, Humphrey Moore hus just got tuto b studio, sud is decorating it with the brilliant Moorish draperies, costumes, armor wad odds aud ends which he picked ap during lis life iv Tangier aud Morocco, He was on bis easel “Aiter the Hunt,” a Tangiers iu- verior, A hull ouked, ithe, sinewy hunter, just back from ihe chase, with ‘bis long gun across his knees, 18 telling to # pair of attentive lisseners the story of ‘his exploits, while by the group on the carpet lies dead a graceful damingo. One of uis triends lyiug dows oo the carpet jeavs his bead on his arm aud swokes, while thy other, a mulatto from the interior, sits with his cloak hood drawn over his turbanea head, Bebind the bunter 1s apipe stand for quil, a sort of opium, The picture is admirable in general treatment, the story is well told, the flesh painting iy fine, and the ceessories are, as usual, all that is to be desired, Mr, Moore has also & Moorish girl in @ gorgeous costume, in an nterlor decorated with Alhambra azueljos, seated on a Tich carpet und playing the guitar, Ona low stand in front ot her is a perfumery sprinkler, and bebind a large Alnambra vase. 1tis very pleasing, and, like | the first picture, rico and trathtul in color, y J, H. Beard bas vearly Onishea au excetient portrait Of himsell, admirably puimted, Harry Beard vas two | asin. and amusing tle Caricature pictures, called rhavil You Take?” and the answer, “Woiskey Straigot.”’ In the first a saucy, rakish, young Skye terrier, with bis hair down over oue eye and gazing cutely out of the other, stands with one handon glass resting on two cigar boxes and the other on a bottle o1 claret, Io “Whiskey struight” a dissipated old souker of a coach dog, with bleareu eyes and a red nose, in av old cout, scarf apd a battered stovepipe, a the question. Ibert Gall, an exceedingly promising young artist, @ papii of J. G. Brown's, who accomp.nied Mr, Brown and dr, Eldred, of Boston, to tue Grand Menan, bas made some very truthful and pleasing color sketcues Of coast scenery made during tue tri He has alsoa Jarge canvas entitled “She Gravediyger,” an old man, with one foot in a freshly dug grave, in a village cherchyard—an admiradie composition for so youog the tar haze. There is @ beautitur picwure by Adolphe Piet which might bo called “Heurtsease.” A handsome lit tle girl is bending over a bok of flowers, comparing | therein depicted with a few ireshly xath- which lie on tho table belore her. ‘The bright charmivg little tace wreathed in @ wealth of | dark bnir looks smiing happily and somewhat mis- chievously out at Us ia periect contentment. Bape ciuliy fine is the flesh coloring, the modeling and the bright clear eyes. ihe picture is brilliaut, yet deep and rich in general to 4 io local coloring. On tue tis one Of the most charming pictures it has Leen our fortune to see for some time, A new picture, | quite pleasing, by C. Doyen, # pupi! of Boa,ereau, is a | + bull length of a young giri with a haio of tight’ hair | looking Umidly out of the picture wuile she Lolus Lor doll, & punchinello, to her breast, 1k *peaks strongly Of Ube artiss inaster aud 1s well drawn. The most ambitious of the recent adations is “Going to Mass,” by F, H, Kaemmerer, A young und handsome patrician French dume, well muffled up in she costume Of one huodred yeurs ago, from the doorstep of one of the glow is of the Fauvourg 8 Germain, ir her gayly decoruted hand sie gb ehareh, on 'y and about to on hor snowy Sunday moruiiy. Bebin ay to the sleigh, hat in hand, stands the Inckey, whe will pro pel OW street. ‘Ihe charming el/gante | has halted tor as , 18 SMoothing down her gloves a 1OOkS Across the Streal, provubly at somo admirer | who has raised bis hat in passing, Beh.nu his mis. vorway, bolding her mufl and livre de messt, 18 a discreet old servitor, It is quite a pleasing picture, but with that opucity and tuickness of im: pasto usually found in this artist's works, Tue paiut- | | himself, bxcoilent iu character and painting 18 the old | luge, with smoke curiing lazily apward in the gloam- Auartist, The gravedigger has, in two senses, ove foot in the grave, tor be will scon be under the sod | man’s face, and well managed is the figure, Rondel bas just fuished a large picture, an autumn sunseton the Mohuwk, Over tho river is seen a vil- ing,'and back @ line of mowataing, Lp the foreground, on the bank, stands a fisherman about to throw bis line, while back of bim a coupie of boys t Jast lita {res wood Bre; a pleasing picture, Ernest Baker and Rondel are working on a view of jon Light in a storm, the marine part of the work veing by the former. Mirauda js at Work on @ portrait of Joaquin Milier, Powell has just floished a tuil length tgure of Mrs, Theodore Moss, dressed for a fancy ball, OPENING OF THE ART SCHOOLS. The antique school of the National Academy opens to-day, and the life school on Mouduy, the 15tn. A drawing from a cast of any part of the human figure, submitted to the council, decides wuetuer the applicant shail become a mombut of the antique class, The Academy schools are this year tre 0 | fees having been formerly $5 per month. The open. ing ol the life class is much earlr than usual, it olten not baving been opened ubtil January, A course of lectures on anatomy 18 to be given, to commence about the Ist of the coming year, A mew feature Ws that opened of the the the Ibrary for the use of statues—one of Antinous and the other of Discobobus— and several new busts, Tue schools will again be un- der the charge of Professor L. E, Willmarth, The young and vigorous Art Students’ League Feopens its classes to-day 1 tor the third year. There will be three life classes daily, as well as com- position and sketch classes, and the schools will be Kept open until June. Lectures on anatomy, perspec- five and composition will bo given during the season, On the first Tuesday of each Month there will be social reunions of the members, Applicants for membersbip have to submit a drawing ofa full length figure from cast or life, unless protes- sional artista. The meinbership fees and dues are very reasonable. Walter Shirlaw, the artist, will be protes- sor of drawing and painting; the Presicent is Frank Waller and the Correspoodiug Secretary Howard Po- land. The League expects to reopen with some sixty members, umong whom are quite a number ot proies- —— Members are coming from the Weet and trom joston, SOCIETY OF DECORATIVE ART. Tho highly commendable Society of Decorative Art will open this morning its rooms at No, 4 East Twentieth street, fur the exhibition and sale of articles accepted by the society and tor the classes of Instruction in the different branches of decorative art work. Of the large nomber of articies sent in from {he city und various parts of the country, two-thirds have been rejected by the committee of artists who passed upon their artistic excellence. There are in the rooms a very tastetal collection of articles for sale, Among these we noticed a pleasing little statue of a tamborine girl, sent trom the country by a young lady; some very artistic needlework from Boston; a lot of Irish lace, made by an Irisu lady now living here; pavels with flowers, decorated pottery, some Ricely painted ornamentation of porcelain und china plates; portitres with tusteiul needlework; ombrotd- erod screens und a wooden platter very nicely orua- Mentod with little pen aud ink medallions aud orna- mental tracery. The classes in needi and painting ou pores 5 and the charges for inj ery reasonable. The class m needlework will be instructed by Mra Pode, from the South Kensingt chool, while that in lucework will be under the charge of Mrs, Atkinson, FOREIGN ART NOTES, The clay group of St. Joba, by Thorwalusen, which adorns the entrance of the Frae Church in Copen- hagen, is to be replaced by a more durable copy in marble, by some of the first of the Danish sculptors. Thiers intended to write @ life oi Michael Angelo aud a bistory of Florence. Gambetta has been etched by Legros. Some eighteen stones, covered with ncopunic in- scriptions, which were sont {rom Tunis by M. Guéuot, have been received by the French Academy of Inscriptions, Sarah Bernhardt, Mile, the talented French having an elegant hotel igus by Escalier, the weil rehitect, who has also designed the furniture and interior decorations, The studio will be especially ne, The Atheneum very sensibly proposes that the Egyptian obelisk, soon ‘to arrive in London, be placed 4n front of the British Magoum, and not on Parliament square, where it suys the obelisk would be dwaried by the Parliament buildings, notably by the clock tower, 1t fears that the shatt will undergo a dis- astrous change of color from the London atmosphere, ‘The sume publication, as the thitiy-second ot its descriptions and criticisms of the private coilections rites about that of Eshtow Hi Gargravo. lection includes pictures by Rubeus, Rembrandt, Van Dyke, Baul Veronese, Ruysdall Swanveidt, Van Goyen, Berchem, Canaletto, Sir Peter Lely, Turnerand many other celebrated painters. LITERATURE, ‘FLIRTATIONS IN AMERICA.” This is the title of the silliest of many silly books published by T, B. Peterson & Brother. Tho flirts the vulgarest of vulgar people—in fact, nothing could be more vulgar generally than the entire story. The book is full of Freach sentences which the author is kind enough to transl in foot notes. The charac- ters are characterless and the plot cousensica!., Thero is an English nobieman in the story who drops his b’s and puts them oulikeanander groom. This is a speci- men of Sir Edward’s conversation:—“I ‘avo honly to say that he isno gentleman. But who ever ’eard of @ Hamerican gentleman?” “THE WINGS OF COURAGE.” “The Wings of Courage” (G. P. Putnam’s Sous) is the title of a collection of aturies for boys and giris, adapted from the French by Marie E. Field, with iilus- trations by Lucy G. Morse, ‘The stories aro bright and @racetully written, and while they are not of the goody-goody sortare perfectly pureintone. The little boy who loved nature and made playmates of the biras ofthe air and beasts of the Geld will find many ad- mairers and no iew emulators among the boys who read this charming story. It is no little indorsemont of Mra, Field asa writer of children’s stories to say that she Is a contributor to that best of children’s magazines and friends, “3t. Nicholas.” “UNDERBRUSH,” While we do not think very highly of Mr. James T. Fielda’ literary style we yenerally find him interest- ing. In “Underbrush’? (Jamas R. Osgood & Co.) he ts not so personal as in lis other sketches andwe think tim more agreeable, “My Friend’s Library,” tho first of these papers, treats of a valuable collection of books in an entertaining manner aud makes us long Jor the privilege ho enjoyed in browsing among those troasures. Think of owning books that nave been dog-eared and penciled through by Sam Johnson, or books with fly leaves written over in Lamb's clerkiy hand, or a book ownod jointly by “Percy Shelley aud Leigh Hunt.’ The owner of this Nbrary, who ia a lady, has evidentiy bought books as she liked them and not with the wild thirst for accumulation of the unrestrained collector. Mr. Fields’ little volume Contains a great variety of subjects, all of which he has treated in a pleasant, gossipy manner, CHIT-CHAT, “The Reign of the Stoics,” by Frederick May Holland, is the title of a new book from Charles P. Somerloy’s New York pre: To the endless lives of Christopher Columbus ia now added oue by Arthur G. Kaight, of the Socicty of Jesus, London, 1877. It adds Columbus to the saints of the Churen (Catholic), and foreshadows his approaching canonization, Roy, Samuel Manning has written ‘American Pic- | tures, Drawo with Pen and Pencil,” descriv- ing our country in a genial and pictorial spirit. Dr. Manning pronounces the scenery of the Hudson River on the whole superior to that on the Rhiue or Danube, and he is an expert traveller, The new edition of tho works of Robert Burns, edited by William S. Douglas, elicits the warm pra’ of the critics as the best yet seen, the editor’s work being @ manual of labor of iove and of knowledge. Protessor Max Miiller bas returned to Oxiord, and Is busy editing the universal collection of Scriptures, in English trauslations, which he has undertaken. The late Henry D, Thoreau, philosophical Yankee And poet o| Waluen Pond, wiil form the subject of a | forthcoming book by H. A. Page, un English writor, entitied ‘Thoreau; His Lite aud Aime A Study.’ M, Victor Hugo’s new work, entitled “Histoire dun Crime,” is really « complete history of the coup d'état of Napoleon III. in 1851, told in that dramatic and powerful stylem which Hugo has no living equal. The English translation will appear simultaneously With the original in two volumes, Mr, James Milu’s excavations at Carnac, in Britta- Dy, 18 One of the most interesting archwological works ofthe day. Monsieur H. Zboinski bas printed in Paris a bookon “the Ottoman army and its actual ofgantzatioo,” which has some instructive information, The London Academy basa fino critical article on M. Thiers and bis writings by M. Etienne Coquerol. We are to have a new book on China, being a thor- ough history of the laws, manners and customs of tne people, by Archdeacon Gray, who has lived in China twenty five years, It will be iilostrated by Chineso artists, Mr. J. R. Green's new “ilistory of the English Peo- ple,” which wilt be in four volames, will cover tho whole period from the Roman occupation down to the your 1870, Protessor Laveloye’s “Forms of Property” has been translated by G. A, Marriott, and will soon appear from Macmillan’s press, Mr, William Binck’s “Greon Vastur dilly”? will be compiuted this fall, M. La Marmora has written im Italian “Secrets of State in Constiiutional Goveraments.” “tha Socldié Russe; par un Russe,” bas been trans. lated from Russian into French, and appears tn two exceedingly interesting volumes, and Picca- Benest Nuudet te out with atwo volume novel en- titled * Davie! Kerfond’s Confession 4’ un Homme du Mande.” More American books are getting reprinted in Lon- don than formerly. The London Athenqum says that though there is some art of book making about ‘Tbe Art of Beauty,”’ by Airs W. R Haweis, the work {s written with sobriety, taste and sense, and its ideas on dress and house decoration cannot but do good. “Ihe Land of Bolivar; or, War, Peace and Adven- ture in the Republic of Venezuela,” by James M. Spence, will soon appear in London. A new life of Genghiz Khan, from Chinese sources, by Professor Douglas, 18 in Tribner’s London press. A new critica! biography of Shelley, with what are called tresh information and incidents, is being pre- pared by Mr. George Barnett Smith, AMUSE MENTS. GILMORE'S GARDEN, An unusually large audience assembied at this fa- Vorite place of resort last evening to enjoy the fresh attraction offored by Mr, Gilmore in the shape of the Aschenbrodel orchestra and its performances im com- Dinution with bis own superb band. The programme Was unique, embracing such tirst clars music as the overture, '*Robespierre,”’ Beethoven's fitth symphony, the “Centennial Hymn,” by Gomez, the “American Hymn,” by Keller; tho by Rietzel (played under the directio: ), and other equally good ections. stessrs, Arbuckle, Eller and ‘Turner were the soloists, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Mme. Javansk plays in Boston this week. John Brougham has purchused Stanley McKenna’s mew comedy of ‘Our Oddities.’ Last week the citizens of Worcester, Mass., enjoyed & prolonged feast of classical music ina series of six concerts, 2 Marriage” will be performed at the Philadelphia Museum to-night, simultaneous with its production at Wallack’s, Mr. John &, Owens has purchased a new comedy, titled “Cheek; or, The Ambitious Statesman,” from Samuel H, Church, of Pittsburg, Pa, aad will produce it in vbat city in March, 1878. Dr, Leopold Damrosen nas veen invited to give a series of symphony matinées on successive Saturdays this winter, He has accepted this invitation and will shortly publish bis plans about these concerts, Mr. Leonard Grover’s new comedy, “The Remark- able History of Lispell,’* will be brougut out ai iho Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, ou Wednesda The original Swodish ladies’ quartet, who will arrive on the City of Brussels in a day or two, will enter upon a concert tour of the country, They will prob- ably commence iu Steinway Hall about the middle of October. Mr, Harold Powor, the son of the first and the most famous of the Irish comedians, has recently arrived in New York, and will soon give a lecture upon lecturers, with imitations and illustrations which, It 1s said, are very funny. The chief attraction at the Leeds (England) Musical Festival will be Dr. Macfarren'’s new oratorio, “Joweph,”” which contains among oiher songs one for Mile, Albant, who is expected in England irom Spa im- mediately, On the organ at Halberstadt there are painted the Portrait of three monks, who, according to tradition, ng themselves to death with sacred music, while 3: taa satin a double bass, disturbing them with bh groans and grows, Mr. Joun 8. Clarke appeared at the Haymarket, Lon- don, On the 15th inst, before the largest house of the season. Ho played two of his most popular and amus- ing charact Paul Pry and Major De Boots, and bis re-appearance was enthusiastically welcomed, On the 16th and 17th of October a grand musical fes- tival is to be held in Boston, There will be two choruses of 1,300 voices, oue of which will comprise Boston societics and the other out-of-town organizi tions, Brignoli and M. W. Whitney will be among the soloists, and Carl Zerrabn conductor, Dr. G. A, Macfarren’s opera, ‘Robin Hood,” waa lately revived by Carl Rosa tn Dublin, The London Pigaro says:—''1t 16 a work which, despite its defects, breathes the very spirit of dance music. Tuat it 16 moro a collection of ballads, a mosaic, composed of scraps of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Mercadante, with some English dance tunes, than an opera is true, but At is one of tho most cburacteristic of the author's pro- ductions, He wrote It in 1860, at the age of forty seven, and Jon Oxenford wrote the libretto.’” The Theatre Francaise, which ts the new name for what was once Bryant’s Opera House, will open to- morrow evening for a season of French performances. It 18 at present the plan to play only three nights per week—namely, Tucsdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, The opening piece 1s “Les Faux Bonshommes,” a four actcomedy, by Barriere, On Thursday ‘Le Procés Veauradieux,” from which Boucicault adapted ‘*For- bidden Fruit,’? will be the pitce de resistance, with “Le Serment d’Horace” as a curtain raiser. LONG ISLAND SAVINGS BANK. WHAT THE ACTING BANK SUPERINTENDENT THINKS OF TAE LATEST PROPOSITION OF THE TRUSTEES. ALpany, Sept. 29, 1877. Acting Superintendent Lamb, of the Banking De- partment, hus just sent the following letter to ifr. Fowler, the Secretary of the Long Island Savings Bank, relating to the proposition that the trustees of that institution should retain contro! of 11s assets on condition of ngroeing to pay a certain percentage of | losses within a certain time, af, i.amb, tt will be seen, takes a ground tn his reply that will probably arouse the trustees to a fuller sense of what their re- sponsibilities are, as he states very positively that in the event of certain transactions by the bank they are Fecvniarily lable. LETTRE OF THE SUPRRINTENDENT. The following ts the letter:— BANK Department, Anant, Sept. 26, 1877. E, b. Fow.enr, Secretary :— ‘Sit—I atm 10 receipt of your letter with the enciosed Tesviutions adoped by the trustees of your ask respecting the liquidation of the bank. it is of course well known to you and the trustees of the bank that 1 was very desirous ot xecur- in. some action on the part of the trustees whica would protect 8 depositors betore proceedings were tken Jor the dissolution of the corporation, I did not realizo my hopes in that way, My preseaot Wish 18 to do the vest I can for the depositors, jit in the present = wituation 1 can do | anythiag. Lt thought) woen it read = your notification of the appointment of a receiver upou ihe application of an alleged depositor that there was very chverful acquiescence in tout act. My tuformation re- | specting the conuition of the bank 1 derived from | reports and the reports of examiners appointed by the the examiner reported the bank de- id in income too. He has recently ficient 1D assecs juformed me that such delicioncy was never made up to this day, Iu 1877, | fouod @ detictency of imcome and a nominal | sarpias wih reat ostaie at cost, He Guds turther reasou tor the opinion that we bank hus | reaily Deen insolvent since 1868 if certain auexplained churges to buiiding account ve deducted trom the as- | serted com: of the building, If the bank bus been tn- solvent ior over a yeur it 18 possible, even probable, | that dividends have beex paid tu excess of curnings, aud 1 this has been done trustees are Liable pecuniarily to tae depositors for such excess paid ut euch dividend, assuinipg that the bank was iusoiveut in asse i such hability should ve found to exist d would have # just und legal claim upou the tr In this condition of tue affairs of the bunk my present information concerning tho trausuctions of the bank 1 could not consent to the proposal of your trustees, at least until the books, accounts and trans- | actions of the bank were very thoroughly investigated by an accountant In whose capacity and fairness I had entire confidence, with the view of asceriaining what the trustees owe the depositors, if anything, lor the reasons L have mentioned, 1 took solely at the rights and the interests of tue depositors, | will do what ever seems to mo to be to their advantage when 1 am possesaed of ail the tacts mi ry to form au intel- ligent and aiate judginent. ra truly, HENRY i. LAMB, Acting Superintendent, August 23, be again A NEW DESTROYER. {From the Pall Mall Gazette.) While the phylioxora is ravaging the vinoyards and the Colorado beetle threatening the potato fields of France yet another plague is reported to appeared inthe Pyrenean districta This time itis the groves | and woods of chestnut trees which are menaced. Ac cording to the Courrier de Bayonne a iarge number of these trees in the canton of Espelette and elsewhere have been attacked by small biack insects, havag shining bodies, with six legs and sual) wings, but mp Parently incapable of flying. These insects, it see at thoir Way i beneatu the bark of the treo at el of the ground, aud then work rounu the tree be- tween tho bark and the bard wood up oa height of some ten feet. The conducting vessels of the sap boing thus destroyed the trees soon dry up and wither. The insects are generally followed ‘by a species of worm, which ascenus even higher than the former, euting cbavnels not only beneuth the bark, but even futo the hard wood of the tree, The jusses aireudy occasioned by these (wo scourges are stated by the Courrier to ve Very great, Enure plantations nave been destroyed, the vidext and strongest trees beimg attacked as well as the young and tender. | years that the bloody past will not only be atoned for, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OUTOBER 1, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. THE AIKEN MASSACRE, Secnnetdiiemtiintas Sketch of Rockwell, Danite~ Chief. the THE BETRAYAL AND MURDER The Evidence of Rockwell's Guilt in the Possession of the Authorities, The announcement in yesierday’s Hexawv of the arrest of the notorious Orin Porter Rockwell, ou tho charge of compiicity in what is known in Utah os “the Aiken masmscre," isa movement on the part of the federal authorities in thut Territory whicn will teach the Mormons that though the decease of Brigham Young euds ull crimmmal — pro- ceedings as far as connectifg him with the Utah murders is concerned, that the course of jus- tice Is by that event in no way changed, and that those who were the instruments in his hands in carrying out bis orders must meet the full effect of their own deeds, And answer for their own gulity part in tho crimes | that have been committed im that territory. Beyond the lesson that Rockwell's arrest imparis to thore who have reason to apprehend a day of judgment, there is im this arrest the wratifying assurance to those who have been over- awed by «system of terrorism for a long poriod of but the future of that Territory will at no distant day become as secure for the life aud property of au American citizen as any other part of the Union. While mien of the stamp ol Rockwell have been allowed to roam at liberty, boasting of their bloody work and threatening whoever became obnoxiwus to them or to their masters, wo teoling of personal security could posmbly be enjoyed, and there 18, therefore, now the double satisiaction of seeing the guilty brought to punishment and the taw-abiding citizeng relieved from any apprehension of danger. A SKETCH OP ROCKWELL. Next to the name of Brigham Young, there has been no name so notorious in Utan as that of Orin Porter Rockwell; he was par excellence “the destroying an- ge” of the Church, Visitors to Utay, if only there for a tow days, have all heard of him, and those who pave secu bim_ per- sonally will never forget the peculiar impressions | that pis presence icaves upon the stranger's mind. He goes about the city, not in the costumo of the Ital- jan brigand, with a waist velt ful! of pistols and stil lettos to impress his victims with his greatness; be is a different kind of personage, and with a make up po- culiarly his own, He isnot physically large enough to be either at first attractive or imposing, but he has all the sans sousiance about him of a per- | wonage accustomed to do what he wants to ao | and to go where it pleases him. No one would ever imagine, from secing him pass, that he had any | particalar business to seo to inthe direction in whych | he was walking whicn he could not qnite us easily abandon and turn about and go In the opposite direc. tion without ever disturbing his mental programme. He is to all intents and purposes in waywardness a rough, Western Cwsar de Bazan, without that gentle- man’s instincts and accomplisninents, and when under liquor @ noisy, yelling, quarrelsome, insulting braggart. HIS DEVOTION TO THE PROPHET, “*Port,’? as he is called in Utab, became a Mormon when he was very young, anc he early evinced a devo. | Mon for the personal welfare of the founder of Mor- monism that amounted to the strongest affection and idolatry, Ho bang around him, not with fwntng syo- opbancy, but in manitesting a desire to be usoful and | to do anyting that was wanted, and the more daring the servico required the better “Port” liked 1, He could look alter the Prophet’s stable, drive his carriage, go with @ message to a plurat exhort bis brethren to be faithfal, or cut a throat if that work was on hand, and it was deemed necessary for the comfort of the Prophet that it should be done. Such is the B. ¥, Rockwell of Mormon history, His tirst eminont service im the assassination busi- ness, so fur as knowa, was in 1941 or 1842, and to that incident there is a great deal of interesting circumstance. The Mormons had been, as a body, expellea from the State of Missouri under the order of Governor Lilburn W. Boggs, in 1839. There was much suflering endured by the iormons, a groat deal of cruelty inilicted upon them in their flight, and as a natural consequence there wus an iv- tense hutred engendered against the Governor who hud issued the order of extermination, and im after years the prophet Smith secmeu to have concentrated within his inspired soul all the love of retribution against Boggs that his people could think of, and he is said to have resolved on encompassing the death of this arch enomy of the common faith, THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. He prophesied that Bogzs should die u violent death within a yeur from the ulterauce of the predkcwon, us modern prophets teach that ® mau should sve that his own prophesies are tusfilied Smitn engaged thia devoted Rockwell to assassinate the cffonding Gov. bor, aud whie His Excelleney was one eveuing enjo ing the quiet of his hoine, tu Independence, Mo., some one shot at bim through the window. He wasseri ously wounded with buckshot im the head, vut recov- ered and lived several years alter, Warrants were immediately issued for tho avproben- sion of Smith and Rockwell, and trom that hour til his tragic death, two years later, officers of tne kaw were iu the pursuit ol the Prophet He was several wife, | tmes arrested on that charge, but through the tortuaus | windings of the law Smith siways managed to escape. Rock weil fled trom Nauvoo, came to ihe & and, under another name, concealed hi time about Tom’s River and Barnegat, N. J., there were some devoted Mormons to shelter lam. Ho denies that he made the attempt at assassigutwn, and was able lo prove that he was a few miles diswot (rom the place at the time that the shooting occarred; but he bad no business being 1m thay neighborhood at wll, and it is pretty certain that it be did not fire at tho Governor some one did shoot by his mstractiou, and thet ho only waited ata suificieut distance trom the scene to be avle (o prove an ulibi and to beuter arrauge for himweli and accomplice to make their escape. ‘A SECOND SaMSON. Smith had such influence over him that he told Por- ter never ugain to shear hs locks, and, like Saxnsou, he would be unconquerable so long as he preserved his hair unsoorn, To-day hia long biack bair is Uraided ike a Chinaman’s qucue and circles round his head, aud he believes that while his hair 1s uncut be pew! charmed With such an education such fanaucism all cise with which be bas been suosequently charged 18 not only very possible tor bit to do, but very probavie, How many persous be may have “put out of the way’? nv ono | ‘nows, but Wis elforts in that direction are saad to have been very successtul and his viciiins very mu merous, But from the region of covjecture we comme direct to the crime with Wuich Lo 1% Low charged by the Grand Jury and on which ho was arrestod on Swt- uruay:s— TUR AIKEN MASSACRE. Next to the atrocity of the Mountain Meadows massacre there has nothing im Utah made such #. profound impression upou those acquainted with tue \ Yona! sentiment and jaw, 1 | murders on the P the “taking off of the four Gentiles was decidea epon, During the same B on which the council was : eat | merpowe 4 by the council started sout! ai remaining under tne esoort of Rockwell, reuewed their Jourvey on the following moralng, When they had Feached a good camping place by the banks of » stream Rockwell told them that that was the vest camping place they would find that aay, and there they were to stop over night. THe MURDERERS JOIN THE CAMP. The party of Mormons who had started out ahead ht bad wheeled roaad an: came up to them, as it were, unex! and asked perm ssion to join their camp for the night After moved their belts with their od knives, took off their heavy over. drew them over their bodies as laid themselves down for the bight, of them by the rers bad provided Kingbolis of th they They were soon asleep. That there should no sudden wwakening of any missfre of @ revol! the murd themselves with clubs and t wagons, Two of them were insi killed, Johu Aikeu was but slightly wounded, ringing to bis feet made for the hb, but ashot from Joho Kink, one of the Mormons, laid him seaseless on the ground. The “Coionel” fled and reached the brush, carrying with bim a shot from the revolver of Rockweil, and believing, as he did, that the whole party hod been attacked by the banditti, hoe fled back to Nephi, never Fa sangton | that it was from that place that the murderers h gone. He travelled twenty-five miles during the might, und when he again belwid the people he had left only the mor. ing before, he thouzht he was once more safe aud re.ated to them the incidents of the attack, which they fF wijh borror, Before the murderers left the camp where the attack was made they threw the three bodies ito t and John Aiken, who w: posed, revived eulticiently to be able to crawl into the brush, and 1a the darknes was unseen, He overheard what bad tran. that the Mor. spired, leat mons ‘hac managed to ge was nowhere “Colonel.’’ Ther wounds were were advised to return to y were fuur miles on the way they were treacherously murdered, their bodies were loaded with rock and thrown inte a swamp. THE MURDER OF THE LAST TWO, ‘The two others who remained 1p Salt Lake were af terward taken by Kockwell and bis associates soutn. ward and when at “the point of the mountains,” ou tue southern river of the Sait Luke basin, they were muderously attackea, Buck, though wounded, fled and pluoged into the Jordan, swam to the opposite shore and got back to the elty, Ho related hit story to many persons still there, who will: ing to tostily to what he informed them He was soon alterward induced to go with & protessed Iriegu to live im the country, and woen he was a miles out of tue city he was shot through the and buried by the roadside, ‘fhe murder of the | one Was, no doubt, the work of the notorious Bill Hickman, Rockweil’s associate, for he reiates the cir- cumstances in bis coniessious with such minuteness as to leave no doubt that he did the dees He closes bis narrative of tuat muraer with charming simplicity. “The man, Buck,” says he, “gota shot througa the bead and was put across the fence ina ditch, A rag was hung on abush to know the place, We returned to the cy to General Grant's, as per agreement, and found nim at home with Genera! Kimball, 0. P. Rock- woil and somebody else whose name J do not recollect now, They asked if all was right, and Ltoid them it was, They cot spades, aud we all’ went back, deep- ened the ditch, put him in and buried him, returned to Grant's, took some whiskey and separated for the ight.” ‘Tue reader of such heartle dors cannot but wish that o them way speedily ve brougs and treacherous mur- 'y guilty among to Judgment. THE MORMON PROBLEM. AN OPEN LETTER 10 THE PRESIDENT FROM ANN ELIZA YOUNG. Lockrort, N. Y. To His Exerunency RK. B. Hayes HoNorey Sin—It is with great hesttancy that I ad- dress you, because I know how completely cares of State are enyrossing your every hour; what great policies and questions are calling for your constant and vigilant attention, and how Unceasing are the de- mands made upon you. But | believe you have entered upon the duties of your exalted office with the sincera determination, with God’s help, to make your incum- bency of the Presidential chair a marked one for purity o( administration, tor thorough retorm where retorm as needed, for the promotion of fellowstip and union, in beart as well as in law, between all sections of the country—in a word, tor official honesty and national harmony, progress and pros- perity. Had 1 not believed that it was your purpose to inaugurate and press an active campaiga agutnst Villany, iraud, Imposition and wrong ol every charac. ter that may bo perpetrated in viviation of the aa and the punishment of | which you may properly infuence and ui I should not address you this lett that your hope 1s to leave your office with the nation better for you baving been tour yeara at the helm, 1 respectfully but carnestly call your attention to that imgaity avd viasphemy ‘called * Mormonism,” trusting that tb: Sept. 25, 1877. great crimo aad disgrace to the nation, #0 Joug tolerated und now s0 defiant, may be judged and condemned, and the conden unflinchingly executed. foil from my eyes, and that God reveuied to me the awiul ubyss inte which | was blindly burrying, even though the revelation came through grief and pain. was born in Mormondom, feared iu the trmest of Mormon households, and 1 knew, therefore, the bondage tu which tho hearts und covsciences of sc { muny of my sistors ure hold. Iwasa victim to the power and persecution of the late pretended prophet and revelator, and became his unwilling wile. ‘Then I discovered what an enormous imposition was being practised upon the sincere believers of this most faise religion, and 1 jong with alt my heart, to see, broken and dispeliod, this wicked Mormon despo- tisu and dejusion, Ou, how long it bas been tolerated! The biood- soaked sod of lonely Mountain Meadows, the brutal butchery of the dissenting Morrisites, tho thousand laing instigated by the acknowledged | head of the Mormon Church and done by Morm | tools a: Morinon command have been crying for vei | geance many and many years to deaf ears! Shall tl Voices that Fise out of tho gory bistery of Mormon- ism calling for judgment upou it sull be unheeded ? Do uot be persuaded that the Mormon faith will go | down ere long under the pressure of Christian com- petition und exveration, It bas withstood the com- petition for forty-seven years, and in that time has rien from @ church of six members to | 209,000, and almost mouthly sbip loeds of aeludea Tecruits arrive without protest or hindrance at the wharves of New York to augment the sorrowtul ran ‘of polygamous Wives or contribute to the working and finwacial stronzth of the Church. While the govt ment has tolerated and waited Mormonism has pros- pered until {¢ demands # State to control and boldi, Claim recognition as a religious denomination und the constitucional guarantee. Nor 1s it sufficient e: cuse ior iguot the subject now ms phatic In against pol my bave already bean enacted. lam aware of these Jaws and enactments, and I also know that Mormons laugh at them as only the impotent frothing of “Gentile”? wrath, They have hindered no plan of the Cburcb, they bave trustrated no scheme, they have interfered with not a | single one of the thousands of polygamous mar- riages consutamated since their enaciment, They have been words, idle words only. 1 beseech you to | plead to Congross to put into these laws the breath of nd to make them, being the voice of the peuple, as terrible as the voice of God to those who dare | disobey. Nor, again, should it be believed that the late Brighara Young was’ such a prop and pillar to Mor- | monisin that it is likely to fali to ruins now that be is removed, fis present successor, Jou Taylor, was inventor of the great im- advisors and conidants of He ts a six-wived tut?” in chureh intrigae, a bitter bater “Geutiles,”” Having becn one of the “perrscused in the early days of the Chured, and, being am itious to win a fame cqual to that ot his motorious predeces+ sor, it may be expected that be will indefatigably labor to prosper bis evil cause. And the day is soon coming when younger men, with the enthasiasm, darin| energy und ambition of youth will succeed tot! leadership, to begin new eras of proselyting for recruit. Feported tucts as the murder of the Aiken party. From the statements that baye been mude vy some who pave claimed to have facts the following 18 about eramento, | —A company of six meu leit & Calitornia, in the spring of 1958, with the mtention meeting United States ariny, then on its way Utab, under the command of Colonel Albert Sido Jounsou. Tue party consisted of two brothers, Jol and William Aiken, a person of the name of Buck, who was called “Colonel”? and two others. 0 these was a carpenter, avother was a blacksmith wore “troders” and the other two were prob- | avly “sports,” who had been attracted taither by the usual opportunities of making money Where there was alarge number of soldiers they bud travelled through the western portion of Utwh in company with Mormoos who were returuing t Sult Lake from Care ity to take part in the “Utah war.” This party Gentiles bad no Lroabio with the Momagns with } they were on the best BI terms But as they Were well mouutedand bad good pack auimais, and tue sormon train was traveling slow, when they got within a hundred niles of salt Lake Cily, aud there was then no appre- hevsion trom Indian attacks, vade the Mormons goodv ‘Tuey had no tuterruption en the till they reached @ Mormon sottie! miles north of the city, gud as the was and held as “spew”? are said to have bad in property, stock and wiv cy to the value of $25,000, Nothing was proven agaiust them, and their iberty was given to tiem upon conditions that they should return to Calitoraia by the soutnera route, They could not be permuted to go enn to join arty alter passing turough tbe city. Iwo of the ty remained tn the ety and the Alkens aud she utners proceeded soutuward trom with ap escort, of which this Orin Porter was ehiel, erritory then uuder martial law they were arrested The Aiken purty ‘opti, seventy-five miles south of ke, the ‘company rested, and as that Was the Jasi setiiemont belore en. tering’ upon @ less frequented road than that over Which they had already travetied, it scems that Rock- well bud orders to soon alter ‘use them up.” The doomed men siopped at the honge of “a very excellent man’? by the name o! Timotuy B, ing and “building up the kingdom’? Surely the time to act 18 to-day, I veseech you to eniorce the now In existenes, if they are sufficiess; insti tional legislation, it ne Mormonism wo nom the force ies; 1t deserves tue besom of destruction, having scorned tho voice of admonition and wrreng. Respectiully, ANN ELIZA YOUNG, MORTALITY IN THE OITY. The following statistics touching the mortality of the last quarter in New York are furnished by the Register of Vital Statisth July. . August September, Totals. ory In the corresponding months of 1875 the deauhs aggregated 9,239. THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. The regular cours of iectures of the New York Col« loge of Veterinary Sargoons will open at the cullege, No, 205 Lexington avenue, this evening, and will con- Unownnts) Murch 1, 1878 The lectures will be boih didaetic and climeal, and the faculty will endeavor t tthe course eminently practical by affording the students a for dissection, and for watoing U eatment of diseased animals in the veterinary hospitul attached to the institution, A | modirate toe Is charged for attendance at the lectures, A CONTEMPTIBLE THIEF, A man was detected by Special Officer Convery yess torday afternoon in the act of stealing money trom the poor boxes of St Stephen’s Roman Catholic Church, corner of Summit and Hicks streets, South Brookiyn. Ho was taken to the Butler streot station house, where, upon searching bis pockets, skeleton Foote, and trom some of the members of bis family informacion has since been obtained that leads now to (he apprehension of Kock well. A council was there held by the Mormon dignitaries of Nephi and the plan of koys und $2 25 in small change were found, He gave his name as Jon Thompson, aged twenty-eght yeare, He said he lived in Greeupvint, but be retused to give his residence,