The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1878, Page 4

‘ned with people. Into the churchyard moved the Procession. The casket, held high in the air, with its golden handles and bullion fringes glittering in the open day, formed a focus to. which every eye was turned. Beside the vault Mrs. Stewart stood, sup- ported by Judge Hilton and Mr. Clinch (her brother), and around it the friends of the dead mer- chant most intimate with him in life were grouped. Every head was uncovered, every voice was hushed, and the multitudes in the streets and on the housetops stood looking on in silence while the coffin was made ready to be lowered. Mrs. Stewart seemed deeply moved, and tears streamed down the faces of those around her. | ‘Then the clergymen drew back and the watching throng closed around while the earthly remains of Alexander 'T. Stewart were borne below to be closed from mor- tal sight forever. ‘The vault was then closed and the entrance sodded over. There was nothing but the plain stone slab left to mark the place, and over it the ES spring grass was growing up, yet many 6 ing at it still, Just then the sky, which had been overcast all along, cleared up, and for a moment God’s sunshine fell upon the spot like an assurance of His peace. It probably never entered the mind of one out of the thousands present at these striking scenes that the final rest of the merchant prince’s ashes would, after all, be ruthlessly dist! by the demonic ope entering the brain of some foul fiend of mak- ing money out of a trattic with the body. @ THE STEWART CRYPT. Readers of the HesaLp will renember that the mag- niticent Stewurt Memorial at Garden City, which now in process of construction, contains ‘a vault de- signed for the permanent receptacle of A. T. Stewart's mortal remains. ‘The corner stone of the Stewart Me- morial Cathedral of the Incarnation was laid by Bishop Littlejohn in June, 1877, and it was then thought that the splendid editice was to be completed and dedicated ina year. Owing to delaysin the completion of the we the Memorial is still unfinished, und hence the fact that the remains have not been transferred to the crypt at Garden City. The basement of the cathedral, below the organ and robing rooms, according to the original plans, was to have been fitted up as a mortuary chapel, eighteen feet high and sixteen feet wide, It was to have been lined with marble, and at each corner clusters of granite coluzmns in tints were to have supported the white marble sides and ceiling. In the centre of the crypt two Btone sarcophagi were to have beet placed, with their feet toward the bronze gate at the entrance. One of these was intended for Mr. and the other for Mrs. Stewart, and the estimated cost wus $20,000. The Jatest designs adopted last spring were as follows :— “The crypt is to be in the form of a polygon, with pixtoen sides, twenty-two feet in diameter and twenty leet in height. Each angle is to be ornamented by @ alustered pillar of variegated marble, surmounted by Maborately sculptured polished capitals, | from which will spring the vaulted ribs‘ of the wiling. These ribs will draw together at the ventre, and assimilate the effect of u dome. The ining of the canopy will be highly decorative, maé pe nd chaste. The space between the pillars will ly panelled and sculptured in fine white American statuary marble. The ceiling will be of the Same guaterial, as will also be the tessellated floor. Nine windows will give light to the crypt and the two approaches to it will be on the opposite side, to the right and left, leading from handsome vestibules, which will counect with the cathedral above.” The t was to be completed simultaneously with the cathédral, and owing to the elaborate character of the plans it will probably not be until next year. MRS, STEWART SERIOUSLY TLL. Mrs. A. T. Stewart's marble residence at the corner of Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue was hushed Im silence and gloom yesterday, It appears that the news had been communicated to her early in the morning ina mild and subdued form, far from the spalling naked truth, and all inmates of the house had been warned against speaking to her on the sub- ject. “Hence it was that a female relative (who was condoling with Mrs. Stewart during her indisposition, and who came out to ask the reporter to excuse Mrs. Stewart, as she was ill) was even late in the afternoon ignorant of the event. Precautions were taken not to let Mrs. Stewart see the afternoon newspapers, as it was feared that the shock of reading the horrible-de- tails of the affair might prove serious to the aged Indy. The intimates of the family did not allude to the subject in conversation with Mrs. Stewart even later in the day, when the story was already on every- body’s lips. THE HISTORY OF BODY STEALING. BESURRECTING SKELETONS IN THE OLD DAYS AND “SNATCHING” THEM IN THE NEW TOMBS THAT HAVE BEEN DESECRATED IN THIS COUN- ‘TRY. In every age of society the most ordinary senti- ments of humanity have favored the careful bestowal of the dead, either by burning or by burial. Herodo- tus narrates one of the first instances of resurrecting of which there is any knowledge extant. The Lace- @wmonians, it wilfbe remembered, were in the early part of their history very often at war with the in- habitants of Tegea, a neighboring city, and for a long time the fortune of battle was invariably against ‘them. At length in the reign of the Kings Anaxan- @rides and Aristo they sent to the temple of Apollo at: Delphi and asked of the oracle ‘what sacrifice they should make to propitiate the god. In reply the Pythoness told them that before they could prevail over the Tegeans they must remove from Tegea to Sparta the bones of Orestes, the son of Agamemnon. It seemed impossible that they should @o this since no one knew where the hero was in- terred. At length, however, one Lichas, an Agathoegi, ‘went to Tegea, and, chancing to converse with a black- smith, was informed by him of a disovery which he had made. SEVEN CUBITS IN LENGTH. In digging a well he had found beneath his forge a tomb containing an immense coffin, seven cubits in length, and inclosing the body of a giant. He had covered it up again and had respected its sepulture. Lichas was convinced that this event offered the solu- tion of the oracular riddle and, accordingly he, after much persuasion, rented of the blacksmith his shop and forge and after a few days of residenoe there set to work and dug up the bones of Orestes. He took them to Sparta, and thereafter the arms of his countrymen were always victorious against their ancient enemies, In this instance the motive was the axpiration of a whole nation, but the profession of body snatching, as we pursue its his- tory, descends from such s beginning, which has o dash of epic interest about it, to the most vulgar and most depraved developments. The elder Dumas, in one of his most vivid works and one never read in English, details the horrible experiences of a young physician during the French Revolution in experi- menting upon the trunks and heads of the victims of the guillotine. But he was authorized by the Na tional Convention, and his motive—the determination of the qfestion as to whether death by instant de- eapitation was painful—was divested of all criminality. It was about this time that the practice of dissection became more general among medical students. From the yéar 1800 until 1832 the schools in England, Ire- land and Scotland were almost entirely supplied with subjects for examination by the persons known as ‘resurrectionists” or “body snatohers.” They were generally of the lowest type of brutality, men who de- lighted in their own depravity and in the ghoul-like nuture of their calling, and they were not averse to committing murder for the attainment of their ends, The custom of ransacking graveyards became so com- mon that every one iu dying had before his eyes the Picture of the probable future disposal of his body, and those who firmly believed in the dogma of the heavenward resurrection experienced intense mental anxiety. WATCHMEN POR THE DEAD. The first measure of precaution which was taken Was to appoint guards to patrol among the tombs at night, but the profits of violating their trust were #0 tempting that very soon they ceased to be employed. ‘The robbers had bestowed on them a certain per- centage of the sales which they made, and at last they very naturally embraced tho profession thom- selves, It wae carried on with great dexterity, and the public and the authorities wore slow in learning the method of operation. It was this: —When they secretly arrived at the scene of their explott t first cleared away the earth from the head of the cof- fin only, leaving the remainder of ti tie disturbed as possible, Then they forced open the lid with a very strong crowbar, which was expecially made for the purpose, and resembled « burglar’s jimmy. ‘The lid usually supaped in two, leaving an aperture through which the corpse was drawn by ‘tueans of a rope fastened about its neck, or “HURKING.”” . The celebra f murder in Edinburgh, which wore the origin of the term “Burking’, caused «uch widespread horror and indignation that the British Parliament beyan to take the noed of medical sei dis- section and stp ply the subjects. found ju the Annnal Register the report of several trials of In Glasgow a man was obs placing # newly born child and: went out they cried, wd aoon eae together und the child from hit and it waa . A surgeon on examining it declared *n stillborn. ‘The eulprit‘proved to be a ent who hed been attending the mother during her confinement. Another case in the same ear Was that of uw etudent of medicine, named He was indicted together with « bricklayer of & rexton iademeanor, in hay- 14th of Sep! lawfully and wilfully nm open a vault in t hot Hendon, and in having unlawfully sev head from a body there interred, to the outrage of public decenc The jury found them guilty, but recommended them to mercy on the ground that they had committed the offence ‘with view of turthering the interests of science. The body-snatchers of London are quite a numerous class, and a character in one of Dickens’ novels, best known us the husband of the woman who 80 uently “flopped,” may be taken as o sam- le of Paris also consumes an Ber of human Peng nl in her dissecting rooms, where. . IN AMERICA. In this country the crime of desecrating graves never attracted much attention before the year 1576. Since then it has inc in frequency, until is not only a class of criminals devoted to it, but kindred and more dreadful line of operations has sprung from it. It seems to be the natural ambition of these ghouls and vampires to get possession of the remains of the most prominent rsonages, and re- cently fears have been expressed that even the tomb of Washington might not be safe, It is not so very jong Sep that the grave of Henry Clay was pa sips wit 1859 there was great ex- citement in Troy over another atrocious case of *‘re- surrecting.” A young man named Michuel Price, about nineteen years of age, had died of consum tion, and was interred in St. Mary’s Cemetery, on Hill. Lg ae weaha A oe go | was om night warn y a that tome one intruded on the he and next morning discovered footsteps Krading fo Jain, ward the spot where the body of Price had 5 earth had been disturbed and there were marks of blood on the turf where the corpse had been removed, The next day # mob forced open a room in which it was supposed to be concealed, and it was there found upon a dissecting board, A riot ensued, and the building came near to being torn down. In September, 1873, the vault containing the remains ef Chancellor Livingston at Red Hook; in this State, was broken open the bones found in the coffin were scattered about.: The robbers only carried away the silver mountings, however, and not molest the remains of the great jurist. LINCOLN'S TOMB DESECRATED, On the 7th of November, 1876, an attempt was made to steal the body of President Lincoln from its tomb at Springfield, Ti. ‘The scheme was well arranged; but a detective had obtained # hint of it long before the plot was ripe. The chief spirit in the de- sign was & man named erance Mullan, who kept a saloon in West Madison strect, in Chicago. With bim Jack was associated Hughes, a notorious counterfeiter and thief, William Swigle, known among the people of his ilk as the “Prince of Ropers,” was & conspirator; but he, too, was an informer in the service of a detective, Mr. P. D. Tyrrell. After the others had tried him to their satisfaction and had concluded that’ they could trust him ped told him that they intended to get posse sion of the remains of the dead president. They in- tended to bury them in some remote and lonely place and ony to reveal their whereabouts upon the pay- ment of a large reward. Swigle was not quite ready to join them in the scheme and asked for time .to consider it. He mformed Mr. Cc. W. Deane, a lawer of Chicago, and Detective Tyrrell of all that he had seen. They communicated with Mr. Robert Lincoln, the son of the late President, and upon consultation it was de- termined that Swigle should continue to take part in the conspiracy, #0 as to be the means of alpen, ag consummation. He returned to Hughes and Mullan, and told them that he approved their plan. A con- tractor, then’in good social standing, was taken into their confidence, and sent to Springfield to examine the tomb. He reportad its condition, and the night of the 17th was fixed upon for the execution of the nefarious project. THE PLAN DISCOVERED, In the meantime all of these facts had been com- municated to Detective Washburn, and he and Tyrrell got ready to go to Springfield. Mullan had ordered Swigle to procure a team and wagon, and had told him that he intended to reinter the body in the sand under the bridge over pe Sangamon River, or else to sink it in the water. e detectives and Mullan and his party went to Springfield on the same train. When they arrived there they separated and lodged in different hotels. Mullan durin; the day, which was that of the President election, took some tools which he had forgotten along and Swigle and Hughes were ordered out to survey the ground. When it was dark thecon- spirators had ull gathered there and the detectives were following them in :& private carriage. The latter were well hidden away before the burglary was begun. The monument under which the body of Mr. Lincoln reposes stands at the top of an acclivity facing the south, The resurrectionists passed to the north side and began sawing the lock off the door of the cata- comb, Swigle crept back to the other side and told Tyrrell of the “progress they were making. The detectives wail until the robbers hadp entered the vault and then hurried around to prevent them from coming out free. At this moment a cap on a revolver accidentally exploded, and it was necessary to throw caution to the winds. The detectives reached the door before the echo had died away, but they were too late. The robbers had fied, and the place was de- serted, There was no moon, and the sky was thick with clouds. The detectives immediately scattered in all directions, but it was so dark that they could not have seen 4 person ten feet away. Nothing was heard of the robbers. THE COFFIN MOVED. On examination it was found that the lid of the sarcophagus had been pried off. It isa slab of marble about two feet broad, band feet long and two inches thick. They had also taken off the end , which were set in plaster of paris arid bound with copper hooks. The coffin had been moved about two tect. They were about dra’ it out when the alarm: oc- eu Hughes and Mullen were arrested in Chicago on the 17th of November, and six months afterward were sentenced to serve one year in the Illinois Peni- tentiary. POPULAR This outrage excited the deepest indignation through- out the entire Union; but, althor this feeling was freely and cloquently expressed, it did not deter other ectunluals frown ng fm the dangerous and infer- nal occupation. The has frequently contained telegraphic accounts of the rifling of graves, and on the 3lst of last January reported the arrest in Toledo of one Charles O. Morton styling himself a doctor, who was sccused gf exhuming the of # lady aged eighty-three, and that of a boy ag thirteen. fe had sent them to the Ann Arbor ical College, which was just then in_ notoriety on account of the facility with which dead humanity could be On the Sist of May the public was painfully startled 6 31st of May the public was by learning that the corpse of John Scott Tesccteca, son of President Harrison, had been discovered hang- by the neck in a chute connected with one of the eu lars of the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati. Mr. Harrison had been dead about one week, and was interred in the Presbyterian cemetery at North Bend, Ind. Special precautions had been taken to guard against desecration of his grave, and it had been dug very deep and walled up with bricks. Large stones weighing several tons had been placed on top of the metallic coffin and then been fey ce- mented together. A man namef Linn had been hired to stand guard against trespassers. The family of Mr. Harrison had been painfully impreased by the robbery of the tomb of a young gentleman named Devons, and Mr. John Harrison was one of a party who went to the college to search for the body. jat was horror to come there fi to face with his dead i Subsequently Devons’ body was found at Ann Arbor, where many other missing citizens of prominence up in the well pickling vats of the partment. graphic despatch from Chicago, dated Novem- contained news of the arrest of A. Mackey, of Keokuk, Iowa, for receiving “resurrected” bodies. One of them was sent to the medical college in that city. POE'S BRAIN PETRIFIED,, [From the St. Louis Republican.} ‘Two very curious relics have recently been brought from Baltimore to this city and are likely to remain here in some collection. A gentleman from St. Louis, an admirer of Edgar A. Poe, while lately in Baltimore visited the graveyard where the poet rested so long before his bones were taken to be placed beneath a monument, and there had a curious interview with the sexton who attended to the romeval of the poet's body. The wexton said that when the grave -was opened the remains of Poe were found to consist of «a tolerably well preserved skeleton—that was all. The sexton lifted the head and referring to the matter said:—*‘His brain rattled around inside just like « lump of mud, sir.” His idea was that the brain had dried and hardened in the skull. Over the grave of Poe stood a plain slab of sandstone bearing merely a number to distinguish the grave from o' 5 his stone the St. Louis gentleman purchased from the sexton, and also a portion of one of the side boards of the poet's coffin. The wood appears to be walnut, and when the time in which the coffin was in the ground before the disinterment is considered remains in an excellent state of preservation. It is under- stood that the interesting relics will be presented to the Mercantile Library. They would certainly prove a curious addition to the collection of that institution. SETTLING THEIR DIFFERENCES, ‘The committees appointed by the holders of ro coiver’s certificates and by the first mortgage bond- holders of the New York and Oswego Midland Rail- way to perfect a plan for reorganizing the road, met last night in room No. 102 of the Gilaey House. Among those representing the holders of receivers certificates were ex-Mayor William H. Wickham, Cor- poration Counsel Whitney, Thomas Dickson, President of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, and Judge Williams, ‘The first Inortgage bondholders were repre- sented by W. C. Jordan, Mr. Livingston, of Livingston, ‘ost & Co.; H. Amy, of Amy & Co., and others. Mr. Thomas Dickson occupied the chair and Mr. Whitney acted aa secretary. It was decided after a long discus- sion that the hi of receiver's certifica should receive for the same preferred stock, and th dholders should receive coi mon stock for their b ‘This agreement will have to be submitted by the mittees to their different constituencies for approval. A PATIENT'S JEALOUSY. Thomas MeNully, twenty-eight years of age, bas been # patient in the Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island lawely, suffering from a spinal complaint, He was recently displaced from the position of nurse in 1 iis ward, and his place filled by Charles A. Cody. The former nurse held his successor responsible for his displacement, and on Wednesday night while Cody lay in bed asleep he nesculted him with @ hatchet, it is said, ond alivost murdered him, He was committed without bail in the Fife: h Street Court yester- day to await the rewult of C8ly's injuries, which are | sald to be of the gravest natury, the first mortgage bo CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE DOCTOR. meee t Olmstead Makes a Speech the State. Lawyer for THE EVIDENCE REVIEWED. Buiwerrorr, Conn., Nov. 7, 1878. ‘The Alexander case was resumed this morning, and the attendance through the day has been much larger than heretofore. Every available place in the room ‘and gallery was filled and the attendance of ladies was large. Some of the counsel seem to think that the termination of the case will depend principally upon the arguments. During the afternoon session Mrs. Alexander sat near the prisoner's box and listened with profound attention to every word that was said by counsel on either side, Bassett was also in court, but seemed entirely unconcerned, and he appeared more as @ witness than a prisoner, although he paid strict attention to all that was said. The witnesa took the stand and testified as fol- lows:—I never asked Dr. Sanford not to mention this affair; he volunteered it himself; I had read about doctors buying , subjects and paying for them in in- stalments; never had any conversation with Bassett in connection with this; I tried the front door under the impulse of the moment; I might have got away and hid from him, but would not have exposed him; I did not ask why Bassett had brought that fellow home with him; he had often brought men home to dine while he talked with them; Ido not remember their names; I saw Weinbecker and Bassett walking around the yard soon after they came to my house; did not give Stuftering Jack a ylass of whiskey after supper, nor previous to his lying down on the lounge; I had nothing to say to him only when he was at the table; I told Chief Marsh that Jack had the baby in the kitchen playing with it; Itold Marsh that Jack laid on the lounge and went to sleep, and that Bassett put chloroform on a sponge and put it to the nose of Stut- tering Jack. : Mr. Olmstead here asked the witness to give him the substance of the two letters that she wrote to Dr. Sanford, which were destroyed. She gave it as fol- lows:— MRS. BASSETT'’S LETTERS TO THR DOCTOR. Docror Sanvoup—I have just received your strange letter. Iam greatly astonished at its contents. You gave me to understand when Iwas at your house on a visit that any subject that I migtit send you with L. E. A. on the subject would be received and that you would send me a money or- der, but you much rather thitt I myself would come for, the money, When I told you that I had « friend that was likely fo bo found dad wt any moment from bard drinking you told me how @Rond it safe for you, I took you to be a gen- tloman of your word, but you appear to bave no feoling or sympathy for the poor. Ygu have goods for yourself aud cannot sympathize with (Signed) Witness continued—This was about word for word which I wrote, as near as Ican remember. Mr. Olm- stead requestioned her about the contents of the let- ter, and she said I was only reminding him of what he had told. me; the friend I spoke of was the drunken husband I had in my mind; Dr. Sanford said to me that he was afraid of getting himself into a scrape; he said that he had got to be very carefuland did not want to draw the law down on him; this was said at his office and in the presence of the Cavanaugh ‘woman. * Witness was here asked if Bassett the second letter, and she said yes; Bassett said that Dr. Sanford knew she was in need of money, and if I wrote him he would’pay attention to it; tt was astonished at the letter that Dr. Sanford wrote to me, and he felt that it was only ascheme to keep him out of theclutches of the law; he told me to write what had passed between us; he (Bassett) said if I would go down and see him it would be better than lenty of thie world’s 1@ poor. LEA. sending it through the mail; he was afraid that too much had already; he told me that I could write better than he could, because I knew what had passed between us; I wrote the letter from these in-, structions. A QUESTION BY JUDGE BEARDSLEY. then if she had ever taken chloroform herself. She gooey “‘Lhave; but I was never ES when it has taken by others.” Dr. ford was recalled by the State in rebuttal, and was asked if Mrs. Alexander ever wrote such & letter us she had stated. He said:—She did not write me such & letter; it is a pure fabrication; I said nothing of the kind about being afraid of getting myself into a scrape. DOCTOR SANFORD'’S ACCOUNT OF THE LETTERS. She wrote me as near as I can remember that she had received my letter; she said she was disappointed in it; the rest wes ins tone. of fatlt finding, and was discourteous; I destroyed the letter; it was quite at variance with the conversation which I first had with with her; I never gave any instructions how to send anything to me; there was nothing said about sending or receiving subjects at the interview. OTHER TESTINONY. Mr. Doten was then put on the stand by the State; he was present at the interview at the police statior he said:—I saw her in the station house; she said that interview that Bassett commanded her to help him in putting the body in the barrel ; she said she was ve Ty much and went to assist him and fell in a fit penide the babrel, and while on her knees she mado use of the expression, ““My God! forgive me for hav- ing anything to do with such # crime or thing.” On cross-examination he said he was present at the inter. view before Chief Marsh. Charles Coles was next called. He testified that he saw Bassett in Stevens’ drug store-on the 6th of July; his place of business is the next door; Bassett had a and # piece of white paper in his hand. Testi- mony objected to and ruled out. At this bour—s quarter past ten o’clock—the evi- dence was all in and the Court took # recess of about ten minutes. At halt-past ten o’clock Mr, Olmstead commenced his argument on the part of the State as follows :— ARGUMENT YOR THE STATE. GENTLEMEN oF THE JURY—This is avery painful duty which I have to perform, and, no matter what the consequences may be, it is our duty to disc! it faithfully. I shail endeavor to keep within the lines of the evidence, and shall take it up step by step and review it to the end, and I hope, gentlemen, that you will bear with me. Gen- tlemen, this is ® most extraordinary Cogs and I venture to say it has no precedence in our history, The deed was not done to “glut savage vengeance.” It whs a money making arrangement; it was all money. A young man, without a relative to care for him, no friends, was made the victim of a wilful and premeditated murder for the try sun of $25. Gentlemen, this was a cool and pre- meditated murder. The victim had just returned from a voyage on the water; was lured into the home of el mage ate and smoked with his ers poms friends; was induced to lie on the lounge and then chloroformed to death by them! Were there ever such sickening incidents brought before a community as were out on the witness stand? The deed was committed, the body hid, and no eye but theirs had seen them. Truly, nay is, “Murder will out;” the secret cannot be kept; it overcomes the perpetrator and he cannot keep it; he thinks the world sees it in his face; it must be confessed. Do you wouder, then, that this necret was confessed? It was confessed. Now, gen- tlemey, in CO per ang this case and reviewing the evidence, I will read @ portion of the law on the sub- ject of murder in the first degree. MURDER IN THE ¥iusT DEGLER. ‘The first thing is as to the law in such cases. Tt is that the body must be found dead and the death proved, and that the death was caused by erimi- nal ney. Now, eS has the State proved that k Weinbecker is dead and that he came to his death by criminal agency? Of this there is no doubt in the slightest degree. (Mr. Olmstead then te- viewed the testimony of the different witnesses who testified as to the whereabouts of Weinbeckor vious to the time of his cw.) ‘Now, Lim , ig there any doubt in this matter’ ‘his woman, forty-four years of age, living in open shame with this man, who is only twenty-five or twenty-six yetirs of age. (Mrs. Alexander here burat out in tears and wept bitterly, as did also her mother, who sat beside her.) On the 28th of September last a coat and » pair of shocs were found—where?— were found in the yard of the very place where Mra. Ale; jor and Bassett lived. How came they there? Ia the? no doubt as to who put them there? there no doubt who these clothes belonged to? You gen- tlemen have heard the evidence. The comb and book were found in the pocket of the coat, and you have heard the witnesses testify that “Stuttering Jack” had those things up to the time of his disappearancé, Gentlemen, a bar- fel was fotind on the 28th of September; Mr. Phillips | identified the head; in that barrel was found a dead | body, Whos@body was it ¢ Dr. Hubbard says the bod, was five feeteight inches high, Mr, Wyncoop toatl fied that Weinbecker was five feet eight inches high. Dr. Hubbard also testified that he took a ring ‘off the finger with @ nick in it. Whose ring was this? You heard Wyncoop’s testimony in regatd to this ring, Now, gentlemen, is there any doubt as to whowe body this was? Now, gentlemen, did Weinbecker come to his death by criminal agency? We elwim that we have roved beyond @ reasonabble doubt that Mrs. Alexan- der waa the criminal agency. that sho caused, gbetted, counselled, hired or eom- manded angther, Her confession of the crime eon- victs hery according to. the surrounding clreum~ atances, w! t she be the principal or not. You will ber, gentlemen, that Mra, Alexander said the were all locked, she going from one Foon Wy Mother undoubtedly to prevent any sur. prise. jow, fentiomen, did Mra, Alexander “aid or | | abut if this ¢rime 7” Now, in regard w her coufesaiony m committed, She did not go home to her mother or tell =r one of it until she found that furniture been sold by Bassett; then alone the peotenss, on the other side stand here and tell saw Bassett standing over the body; him the chloroform; I saw the man gasp; Ishuddered to see him take hold of the dead man’s hands.” Is this not assisting in this crime? She was present but did not try to escape. She admitted that she saw him pour the chloroform on the sponge; saw him place it to his nose; saw the man three ie ogg Co ergo na al not try to escape, Now, ‘ou, lemen, if she did not assist, if she did not wvaid or abot” in this crime. She said she could not touch a dead body, but when Bassett called for the ro) she handed it to him, and when he asked her to help him put the body in the barrel she held the barrel and t! it the y in. New, itlemen, is this reasonable, & woman could do all of this and be present while the deed was committed dhe was an “assistant.” Gentlemen, is this true it a fable. Is ita story of the Arabian Nights, or is it a story of a reality which happened in the ig of Bridgeport. she acs into the wagon and went to New Haven. What did she do that for? She went to New Haven to Doctor San- ford’s office, and he tells you that she was not crying nor did she exhibit much emotion. MRS. ALEXANDER’S ELEPHANT. After Dr, Sanford had refused to take the she found that she had an elephant on her hands and did not know. what to do with it. She was terribl; afraid of Bassett; but she lived with him. She had lenty of chances to get away from him, but did not. he loved him, and yet he was such a terrible fellow she was afraid of him. What does this mean? Did she not know that she had power and influence over Bassett, and did she not think that she could appear before him and make him own that he did it and not her? It will be claimed on the other side that although she did assist Bassett, she did it through fear of him, Will this excuse her from this crime? I say not. If all of these were true it will not excuse her in the eyes of the law. She had a pistol, and this was logded and at her command, yet she was terribly afraid of Bassett. I now approach the most important point in all this case. Itake it that the only question in this case is, Is Mrs. Alexander guilty of murder in the first or second ? In order to convict a pérson of mur- der in the first degree the State has to prove that the murder was wilful and premeditated. We have proved this by overwhelming evidence. She, with Frank Bas- sett, concocted this scheme; they have been together for’ four years. Gentlemen, you will recollect on Mrs. Alexander's cross-examination that in the conversation with Lizzie Cavanaugh Bassett was there. She related to him the conversation they had on their visit to Dr. Sanford, and he coincided with it. Now, in these points we get the key that will unlock all tho locks in this mystery. In this conversation with Dr. Young she asked the ‘price of bodies; she thought that she would not live long; if he wanted a ody she could procure him one at any time. When he questioned her in regard to that she said she re- ferred to her former husband, who was liable to. die at any time. Gentlemen, do you be- lievo that? She was opening a way to get rid of bodies, She was going into the bukiness. e then went to Dr. Sanford and asked if he bought bodies. He asked her how. She said, ‘Dead or alive.” She told him she would rather he'would buy her alive and bag ep if in instalments. ‘Do you believe that ?” It he told her that he did not buy them alive she would have turned on her heel and left the place. THE CRIME PREMEDITATED. This scheme had been concocted, and she was on & mission to sell bodies. Instead of her being indig- nant at being refused the privilege of selling her own body, she said that she could procure two other bodies tor the college if they wished them. Does this not tend to shpw that she intended to furnish some one else and not erself ? This occurred in the fofte. part of April. ne peed bi ene ean to = Renton askin, wend her the addgess of a man who open: pets ‘What did she want of a man of this descrip- tion? Ah, gentlemen, this shows that she was pre- a way to furnish the medical college with sub- jects, If it was her body that she wished to dispose of what did she want of 4 man of this kind? She also NT, “wrote that she two or three bodies. Now, what does that mean? Did she not con- the witness stand yesterday, when fess upon asked what she meant when she wrote to Dr. Sanford, that she had some bodies now ? She said one was her husband and the other her son-in-law. Gentlemen, did 2a ever hear of such a thing? A woman who claims be in such fear of a man like Frank Bassett, con- +h a scheme to sell the bodies of a husband eo OW : at this letter e Te] is morn: as the one which she wrote to Dr. Sanford. Doesn’t this show that she and Bassett were in colleagne together to furnish this college with bodies? Well, what is the next thing? Chloroform is bought by Bassett and taken home. She knew that it was there. Is there any doubt about this? Next the barrel was bought: She claimed that she wanted it to send clothes home to her mother in. Do you believe that? A woman who ‘was poor and destitute sending clothes away by the barrelfult This barrel was rigs ie but a day or 80 be- fore the crime was committed. Now, gentlemen, don’t you believe that this scheme was concocted by both and was premeditated by them? Could Frank tt take @ man into her death and she not know sosihing about it? Dogon believe it? When asked if she knew Stuttering Jack she said “No,” but Bassett knew him. Ah, , they had conversed about this man. was a poor friendless man, and if he was missed there would be nothing said aboutit. All that Task of you, gentlemen, is that you weigh all the evi- dence in this case and render such on your oath do conscientiously. At three o'clock Mr. Olmstead finished his argument and thanked the jury for their attention. MRS. ALEXAXDER WEEPS. Soon after Mr. Olmstead commenced his iment Mrs, Alexander burst into tears and wept bitterly, as did also her mother, who was sitting beside her. 5 Alexander seemed deeply affected and cried st inter- vals through the day. A SPEECH FOR THE DEFENCE. Mr. A. M. Talmage, associate counsel on the part of the defence, followed Mr. Olmstead. He said:— Now, gentlemen, the only evidence against Mrs, Alexander is her own testimony, and if any of her statement is true is it not all true? We say, gentlemen, that she stands before pe guiltless of this crime for which she charged. She has told you her story in a plain and simple way. She only divulged this secret when she had been robbed of everything that she posscesed by the man Bassett, in whom she stood in fear. The State has made a great hue and cry because there was a barrel and chloroform in the house. Bassett bought the barrel as did he also the chloroform. The question now arises, Mrs. Alexander did not commit the murder, who did? The circumstance strongly points to Frank Bassett. It was he who bought the chloroform and barrel. It way he who hired the team and drove to Now Haven. It was he who sto) drinking after the crime had been committed, so that by chance nothing connected with the crime should get out. It was he who brought Weinbecker to house, He ato and smoked with him. ‘The counsel continued and took up a t portion of his time in reading extracts from different works on law in criminal cases, and he only touched on some of the principal ints in the case. After thanking the jury for their attention, he left the case in the hands of his colleague, Mr. Thompson. The Court adjourned at # quarter to four o'clock, to mect this morning at nine o’clock, when Mr. Thompson will make the closing argument. Baseott’s trial commence week after next, be- fore the same judges who are in this case. His coun- sel are anxious that he be tried at once, as they are prepared to go on with it. ¢ ATTEMPTED SUICIDES. A woman, evidently laboring under » fit of tem- porary insanity, attempted suicide twice yesterday jouse and chloroform him to The State must prove | morning, once by trying to leap from the Greenpoint ferryboat and once in the Seventh precinct station house, Williamsburg, by taking -morphine. .she had been taken to the station house by Officer Kelly, and when given « drink Water threy’ come morphine into 1 from small box she held tm her hand, The draught was taken from her before she had swallowed more than one mouthful, however. She gave her name as Louisa Messenger, of No, 116 Houston street. Amiddle man leaped from tho Roosevelt street prt boat Alaska yesterday afternoon, but was res- by the deck hands. He expressed his shame at the folly of the attempt, the cold water having brought him to reason. He refused to give his name, address or the cause of his action. RECEIVING LORD DUFFERIN AT HOME. (From tho Dublin Irish Times, Oct. 26.) A large and highly influential meeting, representa tive of the gentry of Down and Antrim and the leading citizens of Belfast, was held yesterday afternoon in the Belfast Music Hall, in secordance with a numer- ously signed requisition to the High Sheriff of Down, to take st for organizing ® proj reception to Lord Dufferin, ex-Governor General of Canada, on his return to Ireland. He is expected soon. Major Hall, High Sheriff of Down, presided. Among those present were Lord Newry, Lord de Ros, Lord Templetown, the Bishop of Down, Mr. Corry, M.P.; Mr. Chaine, M.P.; Sir Thomas Bateson, M.P.; Mr, Dalway, M.P.; Mr. Mulholland, M.P., and Sir John Preston, D.L., Mayor of Belfast. On the motion of Sir Thomas M’Clure, seconded by Lord de Ron, it was agreed — “That the return of the Earl of Dufferin to this coun- try affords @ suitable opportunity for honoring him a4 a distinguished Irishman and for his wise and pru; dent statesmanship while Governor General of Canada,” Sir Thomas Bateson moved, and Major Crawford seconded—“That this meeting invites the inhabitants of Belfast and Ulster to nnite, irrespec- tive of party, in entertaining Lord Dufferin at a ban- oe of a non-political character.” It was agreed, on | motion of the Bishop of Down, seconded by Mr. | d. Whyte, D. L.—That the High Sheriffs of Down committee to communicate with Lord Duflerin on his | arrival, and invite him to a banquet on @ day to be | fixed by His Lordship.” ‘The meeting war of a most | harmonious character, and the banatiet promises to be a great suéeoos, It is expected that it will not be confined to the province, but assume national dim | sous eu as you can“ and Antrim andithe Mayor of Belfast be appointed a | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET. CONNECTICUTS HORROR. . OBITUARY. FRANCIS MACDONALD. A Mr. Francis Macdonald, senior member of the firm of Henderson"Brothers, agents for the Anchor line of steamships, died yesterday morning at his residence, Townsend avenue, Clifton, Staten Island, He was born in Ellensburg, Scotland, in 1825, and came to this country in 1847, beginning his mercantile lite three years later under the firm name of Francis Mac- donald & Co. His partner was James Hutcheson. ‘The firm exported and provisions. The first Anchor line steamship which came to this port was consigned to Mr. Macdonald, his firm having been agents for the line for some years, ‘The Anchor line ‘was established on the other side in 1856, but did not commence running to this until 1863, and since that time until his death Mr. Macdonald was identified with it. In the commencement one steam- ship berg yey each month. In 1867 the firm of Francis donald & Co. was dissolved by the death of James Hutcheson, and on January 1, 1868, the firm 6f Henderson Brothers was established with Mr. Mac- donald as a member. The deceased received his education and served his apprenticeship in the shipping business in Glasgow, Scotland. In social life he was a man of fine manners and a lover of the fine arts, He was well informed concerning all parts of Europe, and had travelled ex- tensively. Mr. Macdonald was one of the founders of the luce ge, and was held in high esteem by his fellow members, The flags on that building were at half-mast yesterday in respect to his memory, and a meeting of the enn Ha of the Exchange has been called for to-day, at half-past two P. M., to take suitable action in relation to his death. Mr. Mac- donald had been complaining for the past few years, but attended to business up to last April, when he ‘was compelled tg take to his bed. He had 4 complica- tion of disorders, but the immediate cause of his death was consumption. He leaves a widow and two children—a son and a |- fag ope ctioae affluent circumstances. He has resided in the same place on Staten Island for a quarter of a century, his funeral will take place from his resi- dence on Saturday at half-past one o'clock. JOHN ‘HAWES. The flags on the Produce Exchange were at half- mast yesterday on account of the death of John Hawes, one of its oldest members. Mr. Hawes, who was sixty-three years of age, died on Wednesday, at his residence, No. 368 Greenwich streat. Ho was a number of years, He finally settled in this city and opened bakery at No, 368 Greenwich street. In 1864 he became a partner in a firm with Mr. Robinsan, of the house of Lang & Robinson, No. 36 Whitehall street, and remained as such until 1869. During all this time he still carriod on is bakery, and was ono of the oldest bakers in this city. Mr. Hawes leaves a family of nine children, three by his first and six by his second wife. SAILORS’ BOARDING HOUSES. The Commissioners for Licensing Sailors’ Board- ing Houses met yestetday at No. GT Wall street. After the reading of the minutes Commissioner Ferris ob- Jected to that part which stated that at the last meet- ing of the Board it had been decided to pay Mr. N. Dana Wells, the secretary, a salary of $1,000 per an- num. He thought that the Commissioners should give their services without pay, and claimed that after paying incidental expenses ‘the balance of the amount collected from boarding house keepers for licenses should be expended in assisting shipwrecked and destitute sailors. He said that according to certi- fied copies of the reports of the Board from 1866 to 1876, which he had in his possession, it was shown that $10,899 had been collected from board- ing house keepers for licenses, and of that amount only $92 had been expended according to law in as- sisting destitute sailors. The minutes, however, were adopted, and Commissioners Ferris and. Wilson entered a protest aguinst it, The treasurer, Mr. Welles, was then requested to give # statement of the financial condition of the Board. He said that $1,841.51 had been collected during 1878 for licenses and $1,094 41 expended, leaving a balance on hand amounting to $747 10, The secretary announced that he had procured the indictment by the Grand Jury of thirty boarding house keepers in this city and several in Brooklyn for refusing to take out licenses, AMERICAN INSTITUTE. A stated quarterly meeting of the members of the American Institute took place last evening at the rooms of the Cooper Institute. The President, Mr. Nathan C. Ely, took the chair at eight o’clock. Mr. John W. Chambers was appointed ‘secretary pro, tem. Mr. Martin preferred charges against a member of the Institute for remarks damaging to the character of the officers of the Institute. he following committee was appointed by the Chair to investigate the charges and report at the next quartely meeting :—Dr, A. 8. Heath, R. J. Dodge, John W. Morgan, William T. Satter and Dr. H. Carlos. Some proposed amendments to the bylaws in re- lation to members’ tickets were laid over till the next quarterly meet ACCUSED OF FORGERY. Michael A, McCool, of No, 2 East Seventy-ninth street, was arraigned at the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday, sccused of having forged his mother’s name to a promissory note for pee’ be ‘nid pete Cana thurty sonal _ es and made pay rt, ds 8 after date at the Grand Central Bank. Te camo into the hands of Hayden & Duckworth, produce dealers, No. 325 Washington street, and when they presented it for redemption at the bank it was protested and then repudiated by Mrs. McCool as a foi » Michael was arrested at Hayden & Duckworth’s tigation and held for examination yesterday. CITY NEWS ITEMS. A concert will bo given this evening Before the patients of Bellevue Hospital by Professor O’ Reardon ‘and members of Miner's variety troupe. Alderman John J. Morris, who was recently stabbed. by some unknown person, visited the City Hall for the first time since the assault yesterday afternoon, A hearing was set down for yesterday in the Cooper-Marshall case, before Referee Barbour, but owing to the absence of Mr. Ten Eyck a postpone- ment was ordered until Monday next at eleven A. M. An unusually large congregation assembled last evening in the Seventh Avenue Methodist Church, near Fourteenth street, to bid farewell to Miss Jennie Gibson and Miss Fannie Sparks, who sail to-morrow as missionaries to Japan. Mr. George Guisch, of No. 217 Bowery, waa sent to the Commissioners of Charities and Correction bj Judge Dutfy, at Essex Market Court, yesterday, suf- fering from insanity. He was driven mad, ‘it is claimed, by having met with reverses in politics. Custom House Inspector McCort yesterday visited the steamer Carondelet from Havana, lying at Brook- lyn, and seized 960 choice Hayana ci » Night In- spectors De Revere and Brewn se! 600 cigars and 280 bundles of cigarettes from sailors attyched to the steamer City of Washington. ‘The sale of the Strong Library was continued ycs- terday before a large attendance of book buyers. was — as much interest about this day's sale as that of Wednesday; the books were not #o rare and consequently did not fetch such high prices, The sale will be continued to-day. John Brown, thirty-five years old, and Lizzie Will- fams, on retiring on Wednesday night at the St. Law- rence Hotel, 31 wery, blew out the gas, of turning it off. They were found you morning in a suffocated condition Ros Thompson, the night clerk. Ronndsman took them to the Chambers Street Hospital. The stockholders of tho New York and Island idge Company met yesterday at No. 25 Wall street and elected the following board of Directors :—William Steinway, Pliny Freeman, Charles H. Rogers, Archi- bald M. Bliss, John T. Conover, Charles A. Trow- bridge, Henry G. Schmidt, H. C. Poppenhusen, Ed- ward J, Woolsey, Charles F. ‘Tretbar, Gottlieb Gun- ther, Thomas Ilainey and Robert M. C. Graham, 4g SUBURBAN NOTES. ‘Tho Shiloh Baptist Church at Jamaica, Ly I., will be dedicated on Thursday afternoon next. Chiet Engincer hey, Set of the United States Navy, will in a few daye make another trial of the pheumadle street railway ear ou Second avenue, Brook ‘The annual meeting of the Queens Nero Hon gst tural Society for the election of a President, Vice Pres- terday from the effects of a fall on bol agen ile visiting @ neighbor in Clinton avenue he slipped and fell from the stoop. He was pleked up in @ state of unconsciousness and so remained until his death. ‘The bodies of Captain Augustus Mabie and his ite, Alteretta, and their two young children, Charles an Florence, who wero drowned in the Hudson, near Hastings, about two days ago, by the sinking of a canal bout, haye been recovered, after an inquest by Coroner Hughes, of Yonkers, were sent to Port Ewan for burial. George W. Coolbangh, & cigar manufacturer, of Newark, was arrested yesterday on a charge of de- frauding the gover stamps, He was ad it by using cancelled revenue ted to bail in the sum of $1,000, His prentises were searched and 3,000 cigars and 600 jong of tobaceo, unstamped, were found; also a ree quantity of cancelled stamps. Sherman Warner, conductor of a freight train on the Southern Railroad of Long Island was on Wednesday | evening standing on the track between the Jamaica and Van Wyck avenue switch, when he was struck by the locomutive of the Brookiyn train and thrown a distance of several feet, receiving injuries that will probably prove fatal, Thomas Devlin went gunning in the woods on Staten Island a few days ago, aud while walking about thought-he saw a rabbit in some bushes, He fired at the object, and immediately after the air was filled with yells and groans, A man named Thornas Con- siding had been reclining behind the bushes and re- coived the contents of Deviin's [4 in his left leg. He caused the latter’ harge of felonious as- a salt, and on Weduesdoy Devlin was held in default of $000 ball to answer, born in Nova Scotia and followed 4 seafaring life for, ident, Treasurer and Secretary, will bo held at the fair grounds, Mincola, on Tuesday ‘next. Andrew Volk, an old and highly respected German | of Newark, who hind lived there since 1949, dlod. yes- J ABT IN CYPRUS. GENERAL DI C§SNOLA'S OPENING LECTURE I® CHICKERING HALL. ‘The first lecture of a course of four on “Cyprus, its Ancient Art and History,” was delivered by Gen- eral Luigi P. di Cesnola before a large audience at Chickering Hall last evening. On the platform with the lecturer were seated several of the prominent citi- zens on whose invitation the lectures are given. The lecturer's remarks were illustrated by programmes on which were cuts of specimens in the Cesnola colleo tion atthe Metropolitan Museum, to which the leo turer referred during his discourse. In opening, General Cesnola, who was introduced in a few comp! ‘tary words by Professor R. D. Hitch- cock, said that B¥fore he parted with his audience he hoped to awaken a more intelligent interest in that grand and unique collection of Cypriote autiquities at the Museum, which some of our fellow citizens, fiilled with a love for all that pertains to art and science, have been the means of securing to the city of New York, and which will be a monument in all time to come of their wise forethought and splendid liberality, He proposed to show the different influences of Egyptian, Assyrian, Phoenician and early Greek art as exhibited in: those ancient monuments discovered in Cyprus. He intended also to treat of the history and literature of that famous island, which in ancient times was the radia- tory point of ‘civilization, and the place where Greek ideas and Greek forms of wi ip were first .de- veloped. There Hellenic and Semetic settlements first came into contact. When the Greeks first went to Cyprus they had no developed art; their art germi- there. It was necessary, therefore, to under- stand the ancient history and art of that island, the central meeting point of races, if we would understand much of carly Greek art. There the Phonicians of Sidon first took their wares for sale, and those of Euypt and Assyria, ‘There is, therefore, little to wonder at that our pos- session ‘of the Cypriote antiquities is by scholars abroad as a European misfortune. They form the link which connects the Asiatic and Egyptian arts with that of Greece. In the wonderful progress, which began in the East and culminated in the sculp- oe of Parthenon, the art of Cyprus is an important stage. EARLY SETTLERS. j The lecturer then gave @ description of the Phoni- cians, the first colonists of Cyprus, and of a visit to the site of Sidon. The Greeks in their art, he said, continuing his argument, borrowed from other na- tions, but what they took was always of the best. A description of the copper mining and manufactures of the island was-then given and its present worth- lessness to England tellingly shown. Ezekiel was quoted about the commerce and manufactures of Tyre. The Phanicians, if not- the original settlers of Cyprus, were at all events the first who can be suid to have utilized the resources of the island and to have brought it to a com! tively advanced civilization, Consider- pe votion to commerce, their dependence on ~ heenicia roper as the chief seat of their nationality, the Phoenicians of Cyprus could not be expected to create any distinct phase of art. others in simi= lar circumstances they copied from the powerful neighbors with whom they came in contact. These, in the earliest period, were exclusively Assyria and Egypt, and by @ careful inspection of the C; ote ptatucs in ‘the Metropolitan Museum it can be seen how this or that element of de- sign, peculiar to nations, was seized uj one or the other of these nm, partially modified and reproduced, with the addition of certain purely Pha- nician characteristics. The necessities of their trade with these countries also obliged them to adopt cer- tain features of the of both, The lecturer re- ferred his audience to their programmes, the speci- mens reproduced on which he described carefully. It was shown that this borrowing of features from Egypt and Assyria resulted in a mixture of styles. OTHER ART WORKS. Yon The colonists of Cyprus were the metal workers of the ancient world; but they also produced many statues, made pottery, e1 ved gems and manufac- tured articles of taste and luxury. The statues were of the common calcareous stone of the island. Leav- ing for the present those after Greck. and Roman models, there are a large number clearly imitated from tian and Assyrian work. In pottery and gem engraving this was equally true. ‘scarabs in the coll jon, says fessor Sayce, of Oxford, are a true revelation of the _ histo: of jlyptic art from the earliest tines to Fanianiie: of the fifth century before our era. In closing General di Cesnola deavored to show that in the occu) pt e Cyprus the Phoenecians were mainly indebted for tic designs to Egypt and Assyria, he wou! in eak of the early colonization of the next lecture, ‘s, after their return from achieved thro: fe aeties ~ it lites tation in ry; of rary reput nm a early times bythe 4 settlers, and of the impulse which gave to Cypriote art. * ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. . ‘The scientists who assembled at Columbia’ College syesterday were warm in their praises of the photo- graphs of the sun exhibited to them at the reception given at Dr. Draper's residence, No. 271 Madison ave- nue, the night previous. Tpe photographs in ques- tion were a portion of the successful results of Dr. Draper's recent eclipse expedition. They are regarded as some of the most valuable contributions to science ‘obtained from the recent observations. ‘The meeting yesterday was called to order by Presi- dent Marsh, The first paper read was a sketch of the life of the Iste Professor Mahan, of West Point, by General H. L. Abbott. The early histery and successful career of the Professor were described at length. The generals in the Mexican and civil ware who had followed Professor Mahan’s teaching were uniformly more successful than those who had deviated from it. Of the next paper, by Professor Loomis, “Contribw tions to Meteorology,” the title only was read, its au thor being absent. ” Mr. Davidson, of thé Coast Survey, made s com munication upon the instruments of procision at the Paris Exhibition. He described min- utely the graduations of the instruments used in odesic surveys. The makers of some of the instruments as the Exhibition were very reluctant to allow them to be examined and pre- vented Mr. Davidson from taking any drawings of them. He thought the American instruments supe rior. In California he had been accustomed to use base lines up to 160 miles in length, while with the European instruments only half that length could be attained with the same accuracy. Professor Newberry then entertained his hearers with a paper on some remains of fossil fishes from the rocks of Ohio. They beloiged to the class of sharks and had teeth four inches juare. After this the Academy ‘adjourned for lunc’ President Barnard. at the residence of WHITE LIGHT. On _tho reassembling of the members Professor O. N. Rood, of Columbia, read « paper on the “Quantitative Analysis of White ” By a ae of pera ed 3 a a ey ries ol numbers resent quant the different colors it in white white light into warm q = oranges and yellows—far outweighed the latter—the blues and greens. Professor Alexander next gave his views on the origin snd nt state of the forms of many estas that the forma Professor Rood read a ir con’ ob fections to Herring's theorlor of Seer ag Professor New! read a second communication on some te gp’ Avo in geologio sinner toeall and Proto iF Cope read & paper on jans. ©The seasion then sdjourned until this morning et eleven o'clock. — THE GOLDEN STATE. Professor Van de Mark, of San Francisco, deliverod a lecture last night in Steinway Hall on the subject of “California and the Pacific Coast.” An audience of some four hundred persons, many of them old Call- fornians, greeted the lecturer. He believed that emi- ion to the Golden Stato was the true selu- “hard times” problem, That im- a saniteriam ‘a 5 jorious June all year round; there were flowers and fruits from January to Deve ber; Gate was wonderfully grand gfum. WRECK OF A BARK. The brig Robert Mowe, Captain MacLaurio, with Captain McDonald and crew of the bark Gagelle on board, arrived at Prentice's stores, Brooklyn, yester- day afternoon from St. Kitts, West Indies, loaded with sigar, She reached St. Kitts on the 15th of October list, and two days later was ordered by Mr. Burlidgo, agent of H. Trowbridge’s Sons, this city, who was then at St. Peria, to proceed to Sands Point and take fh the cargo of the bark Gazelle, which had pbeon blown ashore at that place. Wi! she errived st Sands Point Captain MacLaurie at the crewof the Gazelle had placed the on ie beach, and succeeded in getting the vessel Whe was badly damaged and “ho; and had been condemned. ‘Captain McDonald stated that she was lyitig out in the bay only partly loaded, when « squall struck her and she dragged her anchors pebere, He livés were lost. Tho Robert Mowe left Sands Point on the 20th of October with the cargo and crew of the