The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1879, Page 7

CANDY PULLING. How Social Enjoyment Is Drawn Out of Cane Juice, AN ALABAMA FESTIVITY. The Musical Games, “Ugly Mug,” “So Ear-ly in the Moming.” Newros, Ala., Feb. 17, 1879, Iam, unfortunately, in the condition Mark Twain was left in by the refrain— Punch, brothers. punch; punch with eare; Punch in the presence of the passengaire, and scarcely had I recovered from the novelties of the “gander pulling” when, in my rambles through the same section of Alabama, I fell upon another pastime as unique as that witnessed on Christmas Day and not less interesting to one who had never seen it before, and there fell in with a refrain that has haunted me ever since. This imp of the per- verse, this unrelenting, ever ringing refrain— So ear-ly in the moraing— whose musical and nonsensical cadence irresistibly Mingles with every line I read, runs through my brain toward all points of the mental compass. I have concluded to give to the readers of the HrnaLp the event which brought about this state of affuirs. It is a social pastime flourishing in ths same lati- tude, and assimilates to it in its unmistakable social tone. It is styled the ‘candy pulling,” and is more social, as the presence of the girls is necessary to its Buccess and acceptableness. Sinco I have been in this vicinity I have heard of several, and have had more than one invitation to attend, and on one even- ing last week, hearing that the regular Christmas run of candy pullings would probably close that evening for the season, I determined to attend. THE CIRCUMSPKOT HOST. Promptly at eight o’clock I was on hand at the hos- pitable home of one of the patriarchs of the “wire grass” region, who, I subsequently learned, was very much averse to dancing, as it tended, he said, to bad morals and was otherwise sinful, but advocated the candy pulling as the acme of social attainments consistent with the rules of the Primitive Baptist Church, of which he was a zeslous member. His was alarge single story house, built of logs, and every room was a bedroom, not excepting the parlor. ‘The house stood in the centre of a large yard, dotted with a few straggling hollyhocks, rosebushes, bachelor button and rosemary buds; a Wash- ington bower vine climbed up one corner of the piazza, which ran the entire length of the house, and hung in long trailing streamers from the low caves, while a few tall oaks spread their long, gaunt branches like ghostly arms overhead. This was only ® short distance from the scene of the “gander pulling,” and not a few of the young men present this evening were recognized by me as present on that “ancestral” occasion. Dropping in two or three at a time to the parlor, the company soon overflowed into the other parts of the house. I was talking toa blonde of twenty who had read the account ot the “gander pulling” in the HERraup of the 12th inst., Bnd who seemed greatly amused at the manifested distaste to the publicity of that sport on the part of some of the “pullers.” Her comments wore just, discriminating and cutting in condemnation of the barbarous custom. é THECCANDY PULLING. ‘This entertainment gets its name from the mak: of candy, which, however, by innovation has coased to be the leading feature of the entertainment. A large pot of the syrup of sugar cane (which grows wellin this section and is made up by the farmers for their own consumption) is put upon a fire to boil, and kept there till the syrup reaches a certain consistency, which is just before it sugars, when it is taken off and the hot syrup put into plates to cool, when it is too thick to run. Generally a boy and girl form s partnership over a plate and “pull” together. The hands are rnvbed copiously with lard or butter, and the two tuke the contents of the plate in their hands, One grasps tho glutinous substance and draws it out, the other grasps in between the partner's hands and pulls toward himself, the other with one hand grasps be- tween his other hand and his partner’s and pulls, and thus on 4s regular as a weaver’s shuttle tillin a few minutes it becomes nearly white and of such a con- sistency as to be drawn out to a surprising length. In this condition it is an exceedingly sweet and de- lightful candy, and has the advantage of being per- fectly pure. MUSICAL GAMES. On this occasion, while the candy was being boiled and while I was discussing country gossip with the pretty blonde, my attention was attracted by loud singing in the yard in front of the house, It rose and fell on the clear, soft evening air, a queer min- gling of melodious and discordant voices, from the highest alto to the lowest bass, and each in its own chosen key. It was far from the unadulterated flood of melody one hears by moonlight on the grand canal in the far famed city of music—Venice—and was equally removed from that which inspired some quill- driver to unburden his soul with the beautiful but fruitless sentiment— Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. “$0 KAI-LY IN TAK MORNING. Ahalf dozen young men and boys, with about an equal number of girls as partners, were marchin, around a young lady seated in a chair, who look: rather abashe by her conspicuous position. As they marched they sang, the voices of the girls minghng with those oi the sterner sex like silver threads in Kersey textures, and roso and fell and echoed in the vast pine forest which lay out from the house fence. The song ran as follows to @ very simple yet not unmusical air;— Here's a young lady sot down to sleep, Here's a young Indy sot down to sloop, Here's & young lady sot down to sloep, So ear-ly in the morning. @ needs & young au to hoop hor awake, young man to keep her awake, oung man Lo keep har awake, y in the morning. 6 down or spol it to me, e down of spell it to ne, ne down or spell it to me, So oar-ly in the morning. Here the leader stooped down his ear to receive her ‘whispered choice, and when delivered, he resumed the March, the young lady arose from the chair and Joined her partuecr, who had all this time been marching in the rear alone, and again the woods re- sounded with:— Mr. Jon Jones, your name it is ealled, dir Jolin Jones, your wame it ts called, t. John Jones, your waine ci ioypniuane Mr. John Jones came forward and seated himeelf in the chair, and the whole song was gone through again with such arrangement of the words as suited the change from a “young lady” to “young man.” Te chose a young lady, whose name was incorporated into the next stanza, as his had been. AN ELASTIC MELODY, I have forgotten her name, but it was similar to, as She Bh long and hard to fit in as Polly Ann Jane Maria Smith, but the tune was elastic and accommodating laughed a@ little and the audience kind, and gay when the leader, having stretched the airto the verge of destruction, had several words loft over, which, if you will permit the illustration, he thrust out in a straight line, inclining downward at an anglo of sixty ees. This necessarily prolonged effort ended like a bugle note which dies from sheer want of the ecessary raw material to keep it going. It is due to the history of the occasion to say Miss Polly Ann Jane Maria Smith offended at the musical Pom aged her name had received and stubbornly re- ft to come to the chair, and when later in the evening T had the honor of an introduction to her t ‘was surprised to find a slender, meck-eyed girl of about thirty-five summers, whose ringlets fell in a cataract of diminutive cork screws upon her shoul- ders. Her vast name had overwhelmed her cnorgy and fay itto sleep as by eotic. One more maine would hi 3 Aa it was she ouly got aiffed, ‘SEVERE WE WAS AND STERN TO VIEW.” Presently & mischievous Miss selected a gentle man of forty-five, long aud bony, profoundly digni- fled, with whom a jest was a dark and unpardonable crime, and who gloried in & name whose unctuous piety recalls the role of Cromwell's Parliament of ritans—Salathiel Q. Godlove. This personaye was the pedagogue and singing school teacher of the settlement, and in these solemn days of his pilgrim. age here below he had falten in love with this same little Miss. The leader roared out :— Mr. Salathiel Godlove your namo it ts called, Me. Salnthiol Godlove your name it is enlled, Mr. Sulathiel Godlove your name is is enll So ear-ly in the morning. Poor Salathicl was halting between two opinions, each one of which owned aud possessed its own edge of exquisite ragyedness, If he hearkened to the call down came the temple of his Cigns » to be soiled gud desecrated by unsanctified fatailineity for ever- more; if he refused he would, conumercially speak- ing, make @ corner on dignity which would soar ve par, but it would be like the imperial flight of le high over tho awful and dizzy heights th of loftiest mountains, solitary and " jess, for tho {alr one Would Qiscard iin Re EAA TALE SIE Ac RRs NEU Sec a SER SBS aS oy RE, A Re I IN a ct ISA AR OS NES eS HEE PR SNE ASS LOE ID SNES IONE AGIOS EEE CER CEE AIS ACR ATE NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1879—-QUADRUPLE SHEET—WITH SUPPLEMEN Peremptorily as a person whose companionship Was more congenial to a tombstone, so cold was he. Lcould read all this by the pale light of two tullow candies on a table near where he stiff as his immaculate santeg. collar, But when (shades of the philosophers!) did dignity triumph over the chubby god? He drew up his tall and “awful form” from which distance from necessity would certainly not subtract a single charm, and stepping precisely twenty-seven inches at every pace, with an attitude and erection of body worthy of old Frederick Will- iama’s tail grenadiers, he took the seat amid the silence of a profound surprise, and the song wenton, the uauyhty Miss joining in: Here's an old coon sot down to sleep, Here's an old coon sot down to sleep, Here's an old coon sot down to wleep, So ear-ly in the morning. He wants an old woman to keep him awak: He wants an old woman to keep him awal He wants an old woman to keep him awake, Soearly inthe morning.“ The ‘audible smile” which responded to the pallic art displayed by the change of the verse, together with the wilted appearance of the said Salathiel was a picture worthy of a stronger hght than was shed by the two tallow dips. I saw him but once more curing the evening, and then he was leaning against the walland being consoled by an aged spinster who had an eye to business as wellas fun, He seemed to be “wrastling with the spirit” (a pet expression of his t» denote a conflict of emotions), and shortly afterward, as the sequel showed, he Folded his tent like the Arabs, And as silently stole away, And as the ex-parson in the “Gander Pulling” would say, “The places that kn him once knew him no more again that evening. ‘This play has no end till everybody present has en- ed or refused to participate. About the time it ended it was announced that the candy was ready, and all adjourned to the kitchen room, where there wus chattering, jokes and syrup candy till an hour and a half had flown by on swift wings. Now and then a couple would steal away and pull candy and talk love and gossip to themselves. CANDY COURISIIP. If it is asked how I know they talked love I an- swer:—A bright eyed little beauty, with blue-black hair, and I went out and stood under the stairs and the eaves of the house, near a corner, to pull a huge wisp of candy, ond while there another couple came from round the other way and stopped just round the corner where we could liear everything they said. Atter ufew minutes, during which time we could hear him breathing hard, she said:— “Why don’t you talk to me?” i This candy’s mighty sweet, Miss Lindy,” gasped ec. “Do you really love candy?” “Yes, but you is lots sweeter than candy,” and his hard breathing raised his voice louder than he had counted on, “Hush! “said she, “they will hear you, and then— then what will papa say when it gets to him?” Oh, artand mnocence! He thought it had all just , and ignorance was bliss, I gucss, joney,"” “sugar,” &c., that I heard him murmur. About this time the singing opened again in the front yard, a young fellow came for the biuckeyed beauty aud I strolled around alone to see more of this queer entertainment, THE “UGLY MUG.” ‘This was the name of the play just organizing. A number of couples stood around in a circle and sang :— Stick your right foot out (and out toward the centre went all the right feet.) Stiek your right foot in, {and all the feet were drawn back.) Give your right foot a shake, shake, shake. (Shaking to correspond.) And turn your body all round, Here they all turned round, the boys cutting a step which seemed a compromise between the old style pigeon wing and the wiug-an'-spur shutlie of a mod- ern rooster. They then went through with the left foot, each hand and arm, to the stanza which gave name to the play. Stick your ugly mng out. They all leaned torward and pushed their noses as fur toward the centre as possible, and presented as Fidiculous a scene as could well be imagined, Stick your ugly mug in. (Drawing back to an erect position.) Give your ugly mug & shake, shake, shake, (Which was accordingly done.) And turn your body round, And so ended the “Ugly Mug.” The stock of plays ‘was by no meaus exhausted. The next one was for- ward by couples, taking poet as in an old Vir- ginia reel, and went through the figures of that dance while they sang the following intellectual and soul inspiring song: Mr, Coffee he loves sugar and tea, Mr. Coffee he is a dandy; Mr. Coffve he will treat you well And feed you on good candy. This was sung over and over, sometimes substi- tuting a young fellow’s name for “Mr. Coffee.” Though the play is a reel with the soul left out the patriarch sanctioned it by his presence, and smiled upon the gay and festive scone while he smoked homemade tobacco, which goes here by thd enpho- nious name of ‘‘stiny oye A call was made for Salathiel, but he and. e old maid who consoled him were not tobe found. It was evident that he had departed with his dignity “set down on” and his eolemuity intensified. He had departed with that tender hearted fair one who had for many weary months, like a good general, bided her time and now had made a “ten strike.” Lizzie had missed the most solemn opportunity of the age. She was the girl whose evil genius was the cause of Salathiel’sjuntimely fall. It twelve o'clock when I stopped was near twelve o'c when I step; uit; out by a side gate and into the coal, hard road that led to the little village where I was stopping. At some distance on — back an odd sight met my gaze. Inthe dim light of the candles torms were sitting, standing, moving slowly about among the scant shrubbery, ® procession moving anu the strains of one of those play songs ringing out upon the soft and pleasant air. It struck me forcibly that while the words of those songs are all puerile and silly the airs are all soft and full of melody, and some of these rude people have voices naturally at- tuned by the soft warm air of the glorious South land. As IL rose a gentle hill near the village a slight breeze bore to my ears slong through the odorous pines the swelling refrain, So ear—ly in the morning. To say that there was a chorus in its rendition, softened by distance and the blended faint soughing of the pines, as it rose and fell in the mellow cadence of the old fashioned Methodist ane ground songs, would violate the name of sacred and undefiled truth. I xtood still and listened, while I thought over this primitive offshoot of social relations, until the last note died on the air, and with a wind full of the scenes I had just witnessed I turned in for the night. Weariness handed me over to drowsiness, and drow- siness was handing me over to sleep; queer, dis- jointed ideas came across my mind, vague, shadowy and flitting, and I was hovering over the confines of theland of dreams. Among the thousand vagaries common to such hours I seemed to see a lank fellow in jeans and a red necktie, with a mouth shaped like & gopher-hole, singing, So car—ly in the morning. FIRES. FLOUR MILLS BURNED. Corxtne, N. ¥., Feb, 22, 1879. The Southern Tier Fiouring Mills, owned by 8. T. Hayt, were destroyed by fire this morning. Loss, $40,000; insurance, $35,000, FARM HOUSE BURNED. RerLanp, Vt., Fob. 22, 1879, Jesse L, Billings’ farm house was burned Friday. oo insurance is $6,250, which does not cover the 1098. A CHURCH BURNED. Srrinarrenp, Mass., Feb. 22, 1879, The Congregational Church st Mittineague was ‘burned this afternoon, taking fre from a hot stove in the ladies’ parlor, where there was to have becn a meoting a little later. It was a wooden building, erected in 1847, and was insured for $3,000, The fur- niture and uow organ were insured for $600, A NARROW ESCAPE. Lewrston, Me., Fob, 22, 1879, Tho residence of R. E. Patterson was destroyed by firo this morning. The loss is $6,000; insured for eS The fire originated from a furnace. The Mnily barely escaped with their lives, FOUNDRY BURNED. Crncrxxatt, Ohio, Feb, 22, 1879. Gunkle’s foundry and Knast’s furniture warehouse, at Newport, Ky., were burned last night. Total loss, $7,600; no insurance, PRINTERS BURNED OUT. Curcaao, Fob. 22, 1879. A fire late last night destroyed the property of Mil- ler, Wagner & Umdonstock, printers, to the value of $10,000; of Potkin & Cruver, printers, $4,000; Hou- lon, binder, $1,000; fully insured. CHEESE FACTORY DESTROYED, Lanane, Ill, Feb, 29, 1879, D, A. Dawes’ cheese factory and feed mill were en- tirely destroyed by fire at four o’clock this morning, together with 2,000 bushels of grain. The ‘oun te $12,000; Uninsured, A MILL CONSUMED, Grimsby, Ont., Fob, 22, 1879, A fing today destroyed Robertson's grist mill; lows $5,000, Insured for $1,200 each in the Commercial Union, Phenix, Mutual and Waterloo Mutual, FIRK IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, SuMMEnsIpE, Féb. 22, 1879, A fire last night destroyed the business places of Wright Bros, John MeKenzie, J. A, Sharp and C. . Saunders, and two dwellings. The loss is $20,000, THE BALTIMORE ELOPEMENT. MISS BAILEY SAID TO BE IN NEW YORK AND PROBABLY ON HER DEATHBED—FLETCUEL'S LETTER TO HIS WIFE. {BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Baxrrmone, Feb, 22, 1879. Another chapter in the Fletcher-Bailey scandal case was developed to-day throngh a yeutleman who had been a bourder at Mrs. Bailey's residence up to within @ few days of the elopement. These par- ticulars surround the affair with many painful cir- cumstances too delicate for publication. Lieutenant Fletcher became boarder in Mra, Bailey's house in October last, with his wife and two children, and, though Mrs, Bailey and other members of her family assert that they never saw any imprudent conduct between Fletcher and Miss Bailey, others in the house were not so blind. Mrs, Bailey, it is alleged, was informed of the situation of affairs on the Friday betore the elopement took place, but indignantly denied the allegations against her daughter. The most painful part of the affuir is that Miss Bailey’s health was such that her condition could no longer be concealed, though it was stated that Flotcher was not the author of her ruin, MINS BAILEY IN NEW YORK. A reporter was infurmed this morning that Miss Bailey is now a patient at a lying-in hospital in New York, and that her whereabouts is known to her father, who is in that city, and probably to others in Baltimore. The young woman, it is stated, is in a very precarious condition, and is probably’on her deathbed, LETTERS PROM THE FUGITIVES, When the guilty pair ran away each of them left letters behind them. Fletcher wrote to his wife and to Miss Bailey’s mother, and the young woman aiso wrote to her mother. ‘The contents of the letters to Mrs. Bailey are not known. In Fletcher's letter to his wife he tells her that since their marriage, seven yours ago, he has not been happy in her society. He asserts that he loved Miss Dora Bailey from the very first moment he saw her, He informs his wife that he had eloped with Miss Bailey, and that the last time he would ever write his real name was at the end of that letter. A gontleman of this city will leave for New York to-night, and will see Miss Bailey's father and tell him where he can find his daughter, if he does not already know of her whereabouts. GUESSES THAT PROVED FALSE. [By TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) RicrMmonp, Va., Feb. 22, 1879. Upon further investigation to-day it was ascer- tained that the lady and gentleman who were said yesterday to answer to the description of Lieutenant Arthur H. Fletcher and Miss Bailey, of Baltimore, supposed to have eloped on Tuesday last, were @ Pennsylvanian of about forty years of age and a very handsome wife of some sixteen years, The latter arrived here re- cently, and, after engaging private quarters, lived so quietly and mysteriously as to give rise to the sus- Picion in the neighborhood that they were the slaying pair, So singular are these circumstances that the female gossips of the vicinity are not yet satisfied that this is not an elopement, or at least a runaway match. MEXICAN VETERANS’ REUNION. Bautimone, Md., Feb. 22, 1879. The National Association of Veterans of the Mexi- can War met here to-day. General Denver, of Ohio, presided. Among the delegates present were General H. Gates Gibson, United States Army; Hon. James Shields, of Missouri; Hon. J. J. Martin, of Alabama; Hon. Robert Klotz; General Biles, of Penn sylvania; General John 38. Williams, of Kentucky; General J. T, Bartholow, of Missouri; Colonel Edward Cantrell and Major James Rielly, of North Carolina; Major Milligan, of Virginia, and Colonel William L. Tidball and Colonel George W. Leonard, of New York. The only business transacted was the ap- pointment of acommittee to visit Washington and press upon Congress the equity of their claims to be placed upon the pension list. Colonel Joseph H. Ruddach, president of the Maryland Association, welcomed the delegates and General Denver re- sponded. There were about one hundred veterans resent. x The evening session was largely attended, quite a number of “3 bein; present and the seeeaty room crowded. The following officers were elec! for the ensuing year: ident, General J. W. Denver, of Ohio; Vice Presidents, John Love, of Indiana, Major General W. F. General Benjamin Alvord, United States Army; Rear Admiral Fabius Stanley and Surgeon General W. Maxwell, United States Navy, and two from each State; Secretary, Alexander Konaday, ‘Washington, D. C.; Treasurer, 8. V. Niles, Washing: ton, D.C.; Marshal, General E. BR. Biles, Philadel- hia; Finance Committee, Major General 8. P. leintzelman, 8. V. Niles and M. D. Montis. General Shields was then introduced, and spoke of the war with Mexico, of which he ssid no faithful history had ever been written. Ho de- clared it a campaign which the world had never equalled in success. Spoeches were also made by General Gibson, United States Army; Colonel E. 'T. Joyce, of Baltimore; Colonel Cantrell, of North Caro- lina; Judge Martin, of Alabama; General J. D. Car- rington, of Maryland, and Major Milligan, of Nor- folk, Va. The association will meet at Norfolk on the 23d February, 1850. MORE INDIAN MURDERS. Deapwoon, D. T., Feb. 22, 1879. A report has just reached here from Rapids City that two hunters, Fingeson and Thompson, were murdered on the 2th, by Indians, near that place. A party of twenty men started from Rapids City to bring in the bodies and notify rauchmen of the vicinity of danger. GENERAL CHILTON’S FUNERAL. Ricumonp, Va., Feb. 22, 1879. The remains of the late General R. H. Chilton, in charge of the Columbus, Ga., military, reached here at a quarter to five P. M. today, and were received at the depot by the First regiment, Virginia volunteers. Governor Holliday, as the rep- resentative of the State; General W. H. F. Leo, resident of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginta, and many other State and city officials and veterans of late war, participated in the obsequics, which were quite imposing. The remsins were escorted to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where the funeral services took place, and they were then taken to Hollywood Cemetery for interment. A large con- course of tga joined in doing honor to the de- ceased soldier. PRIVACY OF TELEGRAMS, Some interest is felt here in business circles in the contest between the manager of the Western Union telegraph office at Topeka, Kan., and a com- mittee of the Legislature. Said committee having refused to accept Telegraph Manager Smith's respoctful reply, and having Diaced him in custody, the rights of the respective parties arc to be tested. Sympathy here is with the telograph company, as it fe believed the privacy ot despatches should be pro- served as well as that of letters. The case for the telegraph company is being managed from here by Norman Williams, attorney. COMSTOCK ON THE WAR PATH. In front of No. 605 Broadway a very eloquent and persistent street vender yesterday took his stand. He had a big box of which he madea great display aud alittle box which rarely made its appearance. In the big box was @ number of metal “canines,” which were made to afford a large and appreciative audience quite a fund of amusement. The secrets of the small box, un- folded to the public gaze only at intervals, consisted of a number of pictures of very quostionable exe- eution and very pronounced immorality. There were many wicked onlookers and the vender wes thriving on both dogs and pictures when a new comer elbowed himself into the crowd and at once developed quite an interest in what was going on. It was Anthony Comstock. After eyeing reprovingly the depraved crowd he made a grab for the vender and captured him, the little dogs, questionable pictures and all, The big box he placed under his right arm, its fellow being occupied by the prisoner, and so proceeded down Broadway to the tutense admiration of the by- rs. Near Prince street # hard looking huik of a fellow came lumber up behind, and, when he was close upon Comstock, ‘thrust out his arm, and ina moment after both he and the big box were disappearing around the corner of a street, while the agent for the Society for the Preven- tion of Vice was in hot pursuit at his heels, It was © race, Both men made good time; but ock at last closed in on the adventurous ptured him and handed him over to Officer Hart, of the Fourteenth precinct. ‘The other captive had got away. At tho si house the prisoner ave the name of John Parcall, No, 19 Rose atrect, and he persisted in with: holding the cause of his hostility to the Society for the Prevention of Crime, ac Coms' box snateber, and CUP HER THROAT. Cathorino Erickson, of No. 198 Madison street, attempted to commit suicide at haif- past one o'clock this morning, by cutting her throat with a razor, Sho was taken to Chambers Street Hospital, where she now lies in eritical condition, OBITUARY. THE SIXTH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. The Atlantic cable yesterday announced the death of Henry-Pelhain-Alexander Pelham-Clinton, sixth Duke of Newcastle. He was the son of the Duke who accompanied tue Prince of Wales on his visit to this country, ‘fhe Duke just dead was born on the 25th of January, 1834, and succeeded his father as sixth Duke on the isth of October, 1864. He was educated at Eton, and from thence was transferred to Oxford. His Grace's accession to the turf began at an age which indicated his passion for it, in 1856 he bad horses in conjunction with Mr. Parr, who trained them at Benbams, near Wantage; and among them were In- difference, a very bad animal, but not badly named; Nerio, a plater, and Gaspard, who ran a dead heat tor the Cesarewitch with Sir W. Booth’s Artless, his chance being much deteriorated by his having been sent to Paris the previous week to run for the Grand Prix de l’Empereur. His Grace had likewise an interest for a short time in Fisher- man, as a two-year-old, and likewise when he ran for the Lincoln dicap as a three and was beaten by Tame Deer. Lupus was another animal that won him a few races; but, on the whole, his career in the Wantage stable was very unprofitable. After this time family reasons induced the Eurl of Lincoln—for he had not then succeeded to the duke- dom—to give up keeping horses, and for some little time he was merely a spectator at races. His next ven- ture was with Aurelian in the Findon sta- ble, but the change from Mr. Parr to Will- iam Goater brought scarcely any _altera- tion of luck. In fact, such an unlucky carcer would huve caused many a beginner with less pluck to give over. But the Duke of Newcuatle was not the person to retire from an arena where distine- tions are to be gained without making every effort to attain them; aud as Mat Dawson happened to be at liberty, through resigning the service of Mr. Merry, His Grace engaged him, The first victory of the new trainer was with Julius, at Winchester. ‘The Duke's passion led to’ most disastrous results. In 1809 the aristocratic neighbor- hood of Carlton Gardens wituessed an unusual scene. The stone walls of one ot the largest man- sions on Carlton House terrace were defaced by the vulgar posters of an auctioneer, and its massive doors were thrown open, not at the bidding of its master, but through the inexorable mandate of the law; und not to the customary high-bred visitors of that refined locality, but to a mixed and curious crowd, embracing the rich and the poor, the spec- ulator and the idler, the swell and the snob, Up and down the broad stone steps and magnificent staircases passed and repassed groups of men and women “unusual to the scene’-—brokers, boarding house keepers, stout landladies, second hand dealers, hook-nosed, sharp sporting men and any number of female Toodieses—bent upon securing bargains and eager to bid for anything, from a court suit to a coal scuttle, that might be found handy to have in the house. ‘In the spacious rooms, which the rough hands of the auction porters were uble to en- tirely divest of their natural air of refinement and elegance, statesmen, peers and fashionables of both sexes were hustled and elbowed by the common rabble, aud pressed and persecuted to their evident disgust by persistent commission men with dirty shirts, dirtier hands and large diamond pins. Every- where, outside the mansion and inside, from yarret to cellar, from dining room to stable, was told the tale of the final ruin of its owner, the young Duke of Newcastle. The story of how the young Duke lost his tortune is worth telling, even if some recapitulation is necessary. In 1861, when Earl of Lincoln, he married Henrietta Adela Hope, the daughter of a wealthy banker, and a very beautiful girl. The Karl was then thirty-one years of aye, but he had already given evidence of the evil passion that occasioned his disaster. He was at that ime in debt deeply enough to render a temporary residence on the Continent desirable, and to create an obstacle to his inclination for a settled life. These facts were communicated to Mr. Hope, whose own domestic lite had not been without its trials, and he at once sought an interview with the Earl, ‘How much do you owo in all ?”' inquired the banker. “Forty-tive thousand pounds will cover my debts," was the reply of the Earl. “Is that all?’ exclaimed Mr. Hope in some surprise; “then it is easily arran; and wrote a check for the amount. Prudent fathers may now maintain that the bestowal of this sum upon a young spendthrift was not half #0 censurable as the risking a daughter's tuture happiness by # union with one who thus early evinced his incapacity to resist the ailurements of those arch tempters, gambling and debt; but it must be remembered that the Karl had a rich dukedom at his back, and that a divided house was not the most desirable home for a young and beautiful daughter. Few moralizing parents would have hesitated under such circumstances. ‘The aris- tocratic lovers wore wedded, and neither the breath of envy nor the yet more poisonous tongue of the self-righteous Pharisee has ventured to hint that they have not been a united and affectionate couple. In 1864 the earl succeeded to the dukedom, his heir, the pres- ent Earlof Lincoln, having been born the same year. Married life und the allurements of a home brightened by infancy wore not sufficient to cure the Duke ot his passion for the excitement of the turf. As soon as he found himself master of the noble fortune and vast estates attached to the dukedom he launched out into the most extravagant speculations in horseflesh, and was at once surrounded by the lecches and blacklegs who have of late years disgraced the English turf. The result” was easy to foresee. In five years the young Duke dissipated a princely fortune and literally made himself a pauper. It seems incredible that estates and moneys that brought him in £75,000 a year should so soon have melted away, but so it was; and for several years the man who, in 1864, found ‘him- self master of his maguificent income, with a man- sion in town and one of the very finest country houses in all England, was forced to live on his wife's settlement and the bounty of his rich mother-in-law. Such is the bricf story of the career that closed with the auction sale of the contents of the “Dneal mansion” on Carlton House terrace. Of the Duke of Newcastle personally it is rather dif- ficult to speak, as his frank and affable manners, his extreme kindness of heart and the courage with which he endured his reverses on the turf, extended the popularity which his father, who literally sac- rificed his life to his country, enjoyed among all classes of hiscountrymen. The Duke did not embark on the stormy sea of politics, although he sat in the louse of Commons for a short time for Newark. But on those occasions on which he had to appear in public his addresses were marked by # vigor and grasp of thought which plainly showed the stock from whence he sprung; and We have no less an ai ‘ty than that ot Mr. Gladstone, who was his father’s executor, that it His Grace had applied himself to a political life the same distinctions which his father gained were quite within his reach. Among other offices which the late Duke held was that of Grand Master of the Free Masons of Nottingham, and in that capacity, as well as the landlord of an extensive and prosperous tenantry, his rule was as mild and paternal as that which might have been expected trom his character; and he entirely ignored the famous doctrine of his grandtather relative to “a man having the right todo us he likes with his own,” forthe freedom of elec- tion prevailed on the Clumber estate at Taxford, Nottinghamshire, as much as the most ardent lover of civil and religious liberty could have desired. REV. Dit, BENJAMIN [. HAIGHT. Rev. Dr. Benjamin I. Haight, who was for many years assistant pastor of St. Paul's and Trinity churches and a professor in the Protestant Episcopal General Theological Seminary, died on Friday at his residence, No, 56 West Twenty-sixth street. He leaves a wife and one son. His funeral will take place on next Monday afternoon, when services will be celebrated in Trinity Church at one o'clock, During the past five years Dr. Haight’s health was so poor that he was unable to perform any of the active duties of the ministry, but a little previous to that period he was one of the most notable and active members of the Protestant Episcopal clergy. He was especially remarkable for his attainments as a theo- logian and long held an important chair in the prin- cipal seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, As & pastor he was energetic and efficient, as apreachor thoughtful, practical and impressive. His fricnds mourn in him also the loss of # genial and kindly nature. He was born in this city Ovtober 16, 180), and received bis education at Columbia College, from whien he graduated in 1028, He was elev to the ministry in 1831, after completing the usual course of preparation at the Protestant Epi al General Thovlogical Seminary, and was immediately ap- pointed first pastor of St. Peter's Church. He con- tinued to hold that position for three years, at the same time performing the daties of librarian to the Theological Seminary. From 184 to 1837 he was absent from this city, having charge ot St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cineinnati, Ohio, On his” return me rector of All Saints’ OChurch and cone. professor of pastoral theology at the Protestant Episcopal Seni- nary. His tenure of ehair was confirmed in isti by his appointment as professor, and he con- tinned to hold it until 1855, In the meantime his alma mater, Columbia College, had conferred op him jexree of doctor of ove in recognition of his ning and ebility. In 1885 he was aesigned to ‘Trinity Church as assistant pastor, but was shortly after obliged to resign the ition on account of im paired health, and visited Kurope for rest and ree tivn. On his return to New York he was chosen stant pastor of St. Paul's Church, In 1874 he was © chosen associate rector of Trinity parish, but ‘ax obliged to resign that office about two years ago, his heaith having been for some time greatly on- feebled. He was one of the oldest trustees of Coluim- bia College, and was tor more than twenty years sec- retary of the couvention of this diocese. For ten years he was member ond secretary of the “standing committee.” In 1873 he was elected Bishop of Massa- chusetis, but declined to accept that office, Anum ber of his sermons and addresses have beeu collected and published in a small volume. CAMILLUS FARRAND, A private letter from Piura, Peru, brings intelli- gence of the death last month of Camillus Farrand, the South American traveller and explorer. Twenty- two years ago Mr. Farrand was well known as a New York photographer. He was of an adventurous 3 disposition, and becoming intorested in published accounts of South Aiueriean scenery he planned an extensive series of travels for the purpose of taking stereoscopiv views of the wonders of nature on that continent. In the prosecution of this enterprise he left New York in 18 short visits to this city ft lite in South America, travelling thousands of miles on foot or muleback, or in native eances and other primitive conveyances, through New Granada, Beua- dor, Bolivia and Peru, He cucountered many hardships and perils, was robbed more than once and frequently had the utmost difficulty in trans. porting his apparatus and baggage over the gigantic mountains and the difficult passes of those countries. On one occasion during an exploration of the group of yoleanic mountains near Quito he penctr 2,000 teet into the crater of Pechincha, a vuleano which continually emits sinoke and salphurous vapor, and remainied there some days making careful views of the interior, He made between two and three thousand stereoscopic views, many of them of remarkable interest. About five hundred of these views were sent home, a large number of others are in Piura and the rest were in his possession at Are- quipa at the time of his death, From a scientific standpoint these views are of great value, as they fur- nish many important additions to men’s knowledge of the geology and anthropology, the flora and the fauns, of a highly interesting and comparatively un- known region, For instance, Mr. Farrand has proved the existence of glaciers in South America, even in those portions of Ecuador which are nearest the Hyuatorial line, a hitherto mooted question among sclentists. Among his othercontributions to science Mr. Farrand sent to tae Smithsonian Institution an interesting collection of mumuuitied heads tound in the uca burial grounds near Cuzco, the ancient capital of the Inca race. Mr, Farrand was fifty- eight years of age, and leaves a wite, # son anda daughter in this city. FRIEDRICH EDUARD MEYERHEIM, PAINTER. There died at Berlin, on the 18th ult., in his seventy-first year, Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim, a well known German geure painter. fle was the son ofa highly thought of decorative artist, was born at Dantzic on January 7, 1808, and received his first in- struction in painting in his father’s studio. At the age of fifteen yeurs ho had alroady become known by several landscapes and, receiving a scholarship from asociety of his native town, went to study at tho Berlin Academy in 1530, He followed no master, and accepted advice trom a number of young artists, who were banded together in a sort of opposi- tion to the Academy. He did while in rlin lithographic ‘drawings of well known and monuments in Brandenburg. His début was made in 1834 with a painting which made quite a sensation, “The Blind Beggar.” “A Village Festival,” painted in 1536, was his g) est success, belongs to the city of Berlin and now hangs in the Natlonal Gallery. Among pictures idyllic and somewhat sentimental in style are “Milkwoman Counting Her Gains,” a “Grandmother jhowing Her Grandecnild How to Skip the Rope,” “The Little Cats" and “The Village School.” He was represented at the Paris Exhibition of 1855 by two little canvases, “Brunswick Peasants Going to Church” and “An Artisans’ Family,” for which he received a second class medal, and at that of 1867 by “Phe Nestling.” His pictures are widely known by. photographs and engravings and are very popular. Meyerheim received many honors in Germany, was member of the Academies of Dresden and Berlin and Was muuie a professor atthe Academy of the latter city in 1855. PROPESSOR TOBIAS VON BECK. ‘The University of ‘Tibingen has suffered a great loss in the death of Dr. John Tobias von Beck, Professor of Evangelical Theology, the senior of his faculty, and one of the oldest teachers of the university, in which he has been at work since 1843, As preacher at the Stiftskirche his power- ful and peculiarly “geistvoll”” manner of preaching has been well known to residents and visitors for luany years. He retained ay unusual manly vigor to hix seventy-fifth year, and still lectured ‘in the University to the Christmas vacation. The Tabingen Chronik attributes to him a great share in the present ty of the Univ He was one of the most Living representatives of that character- istically Swabian school of theology which looked to Bengel and Octinger as its founders and pat- terns. Beck's individuality, simplicity and com- manding power fascinated the young men who year ufter year were gent from all parts ot Germany, and even from other countries, to sit at his feet. His strong Biblical tendencies dis- inclined bin from joining either of the ecclesiastical parties, and he always went his own independent way in every religious question. He was born in 1804, became Pfarrar at Waidthann in 1827 and at Mer- gentheim in 1829. In 1836 he was Professor of ‘The- ology at Busel, where he remained until his call to Tubingen. A third edition of his “Gedanken fir Christliches Leben und Geistliches Amt” appeared about a year ago. ADOLE JENSEN, GERMAN COMPOSER. Adolf Jensen, the well known and gifted composer, died at Baden-Baden January 24, of a chest com- plaint, in his forty-first yoar. He was born at Kénigsberg, East Prussia, Jannary 12, 1897, studied composition under Ehlert and Marpurg, displayed a precocious talent aud published a multitude of sonatas, overtures, quatuors and songs. He had a chequered career. In 1856 he went to Russia and taught the piano in order to accumulate sufficient money to place himself under the tuition of Schu- mann, which was his cherished dream, but betors he could accomplish his purpose’ that great master was dead. Returning to Germany in 1857, he resided successively in Berlin, Leipsic, Weiter and Dresden; was for some time ‘leader of the theatrical orchestra at Posen, lived at Copen- hayen, with Neils Gade, and returned in 1859 to his native Kouigsberg, where he again became # teacher of music. Afterward he was a professor at Dresden aud at Gritz, where ho long resid His numerous compositions were essentially lyrical and he wus cs- teemed the ablest represen f the school of Schumann, One of his most ambitions performances was a biblic ene for the orchestra “The Pilgrims to Emmaus," but his most famous piece was his sonata (op. 25) for the pianoforte, FRYDERYK HENRYK LEWESTAM, POLISH AULHOR. A Polish writer died lately at Warsaw who deserves afew words of notice. Fryderyk Henryk Lewestam was born at Hamburg in 1817, and his earliest works were written in German. He translated, under the title of “Polnische Volkssagen und Miirchen,”’ Wojcicki's lection of Polish legends, and he wrote much about Polish literature in Au/ead, His first work of note in Polish was his “Pierwotne dzieje Polski" (Warsaw, 1M1). In 1841 bo settled in Warsaw, where ho founded a critic journal and edited several sections ot the great “Kneykiopedya Powszechna,” pub. lished by Orgelbrand at Warsaw. But his chief work was his “History of | Literature,” ur volumes, “‘Historyja Literatury Powszech ln 146 he became Professor of Literature in the Warsaw High School. afterward merged in the University, in which he retained his professorship. As it was necessary that the holder of the chair should publicly maintain a thesis in Russian, he wont to Kief not long atterward and there held forth “On the Scandinavian Sagas’ in the St. Viadinir University. In 187% he founded the Wiek or Age, one of the most widely circulated of Polish daily papers FREDERICK DE CLUE. Frederick De Clue, a resident of East New York, died yesterday morning at the advanced age of eighty- two years. He was for many years # resident of this city and kept the hotel known as the “Vlagstaff,"" on the Battery. He succeeded to the proprietorship of the hotel upon the death of his father, which arred in 1824, In the great fire of 1835 it was burned down. ‘The deceased was then a member of Engine Company No. 4, and while doing duty on that oecasion fell and tujured his back. He afterward went to reside at Babylon, L. L, where he remained ten years. Mr. De Clue then took ap his residence inthe Kleventh ward of Brooklyn, where he was known 4s “Bunker Hill.” For the past ten years Mr. De Clue had been blind, He had been a widower for eleven yeurs and leaves eight children—six boys and twogirls, He was very much respected by all who knew hit, KHALIL SHERI? PACHA, TURKISH STATESMAN, Khalil Sherif Pacha, one of the most distinguished of Turkish statesmen, died at Constantinople on the 11th ult., aged about sixty yours. He had been a favorite of successive Sultans, was more than once sign Affairs and Awbassador to West- e Uhad also been more than once ban- ished from court. He married the Princess Navli, adwughter of Mustapha Pazyl Pacha, and niece of the Khedive of Egypt, and he would have played a great part during the recent war had he not been prostratcd by asanstroke the day before the cleva- tion of the present Sultan. He was, however, ap- pointed Ambassador to Paris, where he became in sane and wus recalled. A few months ago he was at- tacked with softening of the brain, and for two months before his death had been confined to his room. He wae buried in t rand cemetery, near the magnificent tombs of Mahmoud I, and the late Abdul Aziz, ABIEL B. MILLS, Abiel B, Mills died in this city on Wednesday last of pneumonia after @ brief illness, Hoe was one of the oldest residents of Fort Washington, now known as Washington Heights. His funeral yesterday after- hoon was laryely attended, many prominent cltizens being present, ‘The service was heli in the Church of the Intercession, at the Boulevard and 167th street, “PHE PIONEER” BILLIARD ‘TABLE, {From the Monterey (Cal.) Californian.] In the barroom of @ Monterey hotel stands the pioncer billiard table of the Golden State. This table was manufactured in England in 1832, was sold to a scion of English aristocracy in 1893 and was finally purchased and sent to Monterey in the happy, golden days of "4, and its advent here was enthusi: astically celebrated and everybody got happy on the tive occasion, Lhe table cost orimiually about by 7 JAPAN AND AMERICA, BEC Y HISTORY OF THE TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE UNITED SPATES—WHAT Was AIMED AT AND WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED, ‘Loxto, Jan, 27, 1879. There are circumstances, hitherto untold, con- nected with tho treaty recently negotiated between the United States and Japan, which should be pecul- iarly interesting to American readers. They show that, in spite of the watchtulness and activity of British diplomacy in the far Hast, a movement wag secretly instituted and virtually carried to com- pletion, by which the influence hitherto enjoyed English yepresentatives in Japan would have been suddenly and thoroughly absorbed by those of the United Staies, At all times America has possessed a degree of friendship and confidence here which no European State could rival, But by the exercise of combined craft and ms the Envoy of ut Britain has suceceded in maintaining a sway by which none could effectively dispute. Some time 20, however, the plan was conceived of establishing a @oxer alliance between the Eanpire and the Repub- lie®y means of a new treaty which should restore ertain sovereign rights to Japan, the deprivation of c which is her standing grievan The ben- etits were to be mutual. It w essential that the movement be kept from the knowledge or suspicion of English agents, both here and in Washington, for even in the American capital the British government has found the means of pursuing an anti-Jupanese policy during the past few years, This is apparent from the fact that a continuous succession of secretaries to the British Legation in Japan has been transferred to Washing- ton, and the results of their interference have been unfailingly reflected at this seat of government (Lok10). pwn that although the pre- caution was su apan, aud that the English Minister was completely bafiled, there is reason to fear a disarrangement of the whole proceeding through carclessness in America. The terms of the treaty were settled, and though the final adjustments were arranged by telegraph it was believed that every provision was satisfactorily insured on both sides. On the 29th of July last a despatch waa received here announcing that the document had been signed at Washington four days previously. It had already been thought desirable to divert the at- tention of che British officials, for the that the Japanese authorities are sustaining their own cause with the courage and independent spirit which would best be- come them. The prolonged endurance of the exactions and oppressions inflicted by the Envoy of England appears too often to have deprived them of the power to assert their plainest and simplest rights when he confronted them. An American news- paper published here—the Tokio 7imes—undertook to prepare the way by a series of articles urgently advocating the expediency of just such a convention us was in process of preparation, aud thus to yradu- ally accustom the English mind to the unexpected transaction, so that when the real news should come the shock would be more easi stained. BEWARE OF THE UNITED STATES, ‘The appeurance of these articles produced more than the anticipated effect. The British Minister, Sir H. Parkes, embodied them in despatches to his government, and denounced them as @ nefarious at- tempt to instigate the Japanese to course which would give the United States the commanding posi- tion here and would prove ruinous to British inter- ests. These despatches were sent hence about the middle of Angust, and it was turther urged in them that every effort would be mace in America to avert the consummation of so formidable an alliance. ‘lhe Minister's consternation may be imagined when, a fortnight later, he received intelligence from London by telegraph that the treaty was actually signed and that he was required to inform himseit as to its nature and details. Lhe explosion that followed in the leyation is declared to have been wholly beyond precedent. Sir H. Parkea flew in haste to the Japanese Forcign Oilice and de- manded full information; but, for once, he was put off with an evasion. ' His position was cer- tainly awkward. His letters proclaiming the down- fall of British supremacy if the treaty were executed were on their way home, and the discovery was forced, upon him, not that he had been outwitted, but that he had outwitted himself. Fors considerable time it appeared tliat the discomnfiture would hold him in check during the brief remaining period of his ac- tive duty; but by degrees it began to be known that the treaty was not all that had been originally expected. The whole facts have come to public hght within a few days, the yovernimont knowing that, after the presentation of the treaty to the United States Senate, no turther concealment would be practicable. A HOSTILE HAND. It is now painfully evideut that some hostile hand has .been at work in the mauipulation of the docn- ment, and the indications point to English influence at Washington. It is certain, in the first place, that news of the signing of the treaty was sent from America to England snd from England to the envo; here before any information could have been legiti- mately reveaicd, Now it is disclosed that one single clause las been surreptitiously introduced which ab- solutely vitiates and nullifes the whole business, This is the article which provides that the treaty shall go into cftect when similar treaties with all other Powers shall be concluded. It is impossible to conceive of a more wretched non sequitur. It makes the treaty a bundle of waste paper. The only valuable result of the arrangement would have beou tor America to lead the way with an original treaty, the ratification ot which would com- pel all the other Powers to follow suit. They couid not have avoided it, and America would have taken the front stand in every kind of influence and moral power here. Now the opportunity is wasted. The performance turns out 4 mere farce. Of course the European governments, with England at the head will never conclude such @ treaty so long as they « avoid it. Itis be ed by England to be diametrically adverse to British commercial interests. LETHARGY OF THE STATK DEVARTMENT. To Americans in Japan it seems extraordinary that the State Department should not have been sensible of the impropriety of allowing its actions to be regulated by the caprices of European Powers, ‘That is what it amounts to. The United States say to Japan, “We will pledge ourselves to this treaty if the nations of Europe will allow us to abide by it.” It is needless to say that the Japanese ru are astounded and bewildered. Mr. Bingh the United States Minister, left Japan bot dise gusted and indignant, as the officials at Washington have doubtless learned. What will be the ultimate consequence is uncertain. Japan may, as a formality, ratify the treaty, but the government cares nothing for it, and is utterly annoyed and grieved at receiv ing such a blow from the couutry upon whose good will it chiefly relied. “THE BLACK PES HORRIBLE DETAILS OF THE PLAGUE IN RUS- SIA—BURNING THE CORPSES—WORSE THAN YELLOW FEVER. A private letter from St. Petersburg, dated January 27, just received in this city, says:— T have a sad story to teil. You have probably hgard some reports about the epidemic prevailing in Rus- sia, It is a most tearful disease, brought here by the soldiers from the hast. Lt has spread in the South- ern provinces of Russia at @ rapid rate, Thou- sands upon thousands have died with it withia the last five day The victims when taken live only two hours, and turn as black all over as @ All the physicians ordered to the care of the ve died within twenty-four hours after their arrival. The corpses are burned and so are the houses in which the people died. Whole towns have n laid waste during the past fow days. The gov- ernment has placed a cordon of soldiers around the infected provinces, so that the people cannot yet out and spread the disease, Any who attempt to leave and break through the cordon are shot dead on the spot. The people are beginning to feel uneasy all over the Empire. CANNOT GET AWAY. The government, of course, does not allow the news to get out. All reports are suppressed, but the worst of all is (hat nobody can get out of the Em- pire. The Austrian and Germen governments have placed a double cordon of soldiers along all the fron- tiers, preventing all persons from entering their territory from Russia, All persous from Russia by railroad sre stopped at the frontier and detained twenty days in quarantine, their baggs and clothing disinfected, aud if they prove right after the lapse twenty days they are per- mitted to cross the border. quarantine the people barns, without an Of course, a knowles travelling. Thore is anywhere. May God gr pest,” as they call i checker. 1 believe the gove power to prevent the disease fre it is not stayed soon then the vietims may uxands daily. It is much wo than the yellow fever was in the South last sumine LEGEND OF THE PLAGUK. It waa brought by tar soldier a month ago, who, on leaving the Turkish territory, pulled of from a dead Turk on the battle field a handseme sitk shawl, which he tied around his bod: On are Tiving in his native town he presented the shawl to his sweetheart, a girl of nineteen years. She tied it eround her body and danced about for joy m a room During the twenty days’ housed in large sheds and mmodations or comforts. may in some way be it is doing all in its tu which were somo twenty-five people. | In twa hours «he died, and five hours after tho rntroduction of the shawl into the room the whole party of twen+ ty-five had died, All turned black. In three days the whole town, containing 1,100 people, had died with the exeeption of forty-three persons who had fled in time. From this town the pest began spread ing all over the country. INSTANTLY KLLLED, Charles Koppelhover, aged thirty years, and reaid- ing at No. 15 Greenwich street, while at work yester+ day in the bold of the steamship Knickerbocker, which is anchored of pier 9 North River, was ine stantly killed by @ siing full of freight falling om hiu. Koppelhover had only been in the country bia Mouths.