The Sun (New York) Newspaper, August 7, 1865, Page 1

i ee = THE Number 10,3138. =O ————— he Latest News By Velegraph to the N. ¥. Sum, . THE OCEAN CABLE. 300 Miles Taid. A DIFFICULTY AT THE START, Discovery of a Defect! HOW IT WAS REMEDIED. THE NEWFOUNDLAND CABLE, Results of Under-ru T i$ FOUND TO BE USELESS, IT GENERAL ELROPEAN NEWS, DISTURSANCES IN PRUSSIA. WORKINCMENS MECEING SUPPRESSED GT WASHINGTON DISPATCRES. A MODEL REBEL GEN ERAL, Ho Is Sent to the Workhouse, TEXAS AND MAAKICO, NO FEARS OF CCLLISION. Strict Orders Against Intervention. CTY AND MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, Fratricide in East Brcadway. PASTARDLY MURDER OF A BROTHER Explosion on ‘Board a Steamer, Wires, &c. ABLE, the Footer. Lacendinnry Co, &e THR OCEAN Bucceresful Commencemeut o1 A Pauls Viscovcved aud Cat pris at, | By tuc Fucopesn stouners at thie port we have the | fellow a sccuntof the progress of the grost inter- | Batioual ecuteroriee A teleerans from Valentia of July says: —The shore wud of the oable was landed thie morning euc- | ther being beautiful. Connexions | » Rarument soom at l2.45 P.M. inthe prossuce of a large purse of people. The Kalght of Kerry, in a fow appropriate observations, ipou the nudertaking, aod, in con pon Sir BR. Peel, who made au admir- Qemiully, Ge we were made with & °o fnvoked success clusion, called able addrese « cheers were given for the Quecu en! also ior the b ut of the Lulsed Sustes, A ftevegram of Juay evoulng, en — ‘The pny ing out ot » heavy ehore cable, twenty-seven miles ina feneti, wae co)! ted at 11.50 P.M, last evening, by the Carol ‘\e eplice with she main cable on board the Groat Fastern was comp’ ted at 495 P.M. | fu-cay, avd the pay lug out then then commenced | fror e Gieat Fasteru, Leetlug through the whole | feneth ts perfect The | Tercible and Spoink are ip campany with the Great Wastern The Times correspondent saye :- wouter ully toe, aud the sea is as smooth an gine, We start thie (sunday) worniug., Laromever very band ricdow.” The i imes correspondent accompanying the expe- you hae teograplued the following message from Tue weather is very fine. “The weather ie uu Va Monday, July 2% iriting message vat “ n the Great Raster, dated 4:40 M., aunesac sation, The 0 to three miles we, believed to be « on her end of the ueb strala before the shoro-end y completed, The Great Kastern ja iat 6%. long. 1) about $0 miles anvey © her to-night, cé upeod underrun Not the slighiwst atechiof le rt eplve Was prep rename boy. frow show, The Hawk end the Caroline is go the epiice and repalr opp. heusion exists as to the complete aod immedi- Qte repairot the damarve vo insuiation, The ress of the cabie rema.oe perfect, cad even now the signals fo the cieaslag house ace very distinct. There Vulentia, July 25.—Tho cable ia all righs, bos ben a hi but allis now rectified, The Greas Fasiern telecrop alo latitude 62, longitude 12, thate email fav's has been discovered, and cut out. She te bow paring ous @eain, and the signalling is perioct, Weather very time New York, Aug. 6.—A diepatch from Queenstown, por rtesmelip City of Boston. dated July 87, states that thesionmel.p Great Eastern was ou that morn- fue three bondred wiles out at sea, psying out the cable succes The elcuals were good, and the weathers fine, A private note from Cyrus W. Field osye: “We expect to reach Heart's Content, News spoundiand, about the bib of Auguns.”* ‘The following dispatch, from on board the Great Eastern, to Mr, Baward, Loudon, is of interest: to the tau h, “Puesday, 11 VP. M.--One baudred and dity miles ef cublo laid. “19 midpixht,One hundred and Ofty eight miles run, “Wednesday, 6 A. M.~Two bandred miles of cable laid, Blenale good. All is gulng on well.” London, July 27.—The eteamship Great Eastern was three bundred miles out thie morning, The signals through the Atlantic cable were good. The weather was tine The Departure From Valcntia, Tho following eraphie necount of the operations preliminary to the salling of the Gireat Restern and the final departure of the telegraph expedition from Valentio, we extract from (he London Times of the Wb ult Té is diffientt to de: rite tn any bmt the moat mat- te: of fact vermis tle routine process which marked the commcncement of ihie euterpriss, it bad al- ready he when the tHe rived and the paddle- tox bo eof the men of aud the cuttere of the Great Eastera were filed t hich passing through the paysug ous 1 ern, nas beng slowly towed from the creat ship to the Caroline, \ The operation of splicing wae one of time and dill. eulty, ior smooth the cea had evened from land, ) the regu ve of sue Atlantic was deep enough { Bir Ko ert Lord Jon Hay and Mr. Russell manaied to vet on beard the ¢ t tern, bus with euch difMficaity that few othe ere induced to ve e on the risk of the uudertaking, and till le to sccomuplish it Soeou aiter 1 o'clock the coils of the deep sea cable were ealely wound on Cwroline, and the work of splicin, This was done board the them at once com- ah Lae cumuer © | Germania’s news and brought tt to thie place, We 4, i y a 7 ate pying beth en of erp, outside wires aud gu pore! ry " bai ta Se el ft adethas NEW bare, and pared down to a fine wedre-shaped point at either end, The connecting conduciors were then overlapped in tee form known as a “scarf” int, and firmly tound toxether with fine threads of copper wire, till the junction was made even stronger than the main portions of the line, The threacs and conductor were then soldered seqetber thickly, and strips of soft gutta percha, like i. of brown tepe, were wound layer over layer, and their edges clerely pressed, #0 aa to form one homo- geueous mass, till @ certain thickness was com- Pietod, Then came a costing of ingulating ta- terial called Chatterton's Compound, and then again anosler layer of gutta porcha tape, until the whole was iuclosed in four rings uf the aulia perche and three of the compound. "ihe joint was then im- mersed iu cold water for testing, and the sianai Proving pertect, the last protection of bemp and o side wire was added, and (he joint sunk again into the #08 that it perfecinem ae to conductivit ad ineuis- ton might be ascertained from the extreme end of the whole lenth ot the cable on board t Ast vast 4 o'clock before the last of these concluded, All the signals from ead to f the wire came wonde-fuily distinct into the instrument room of the Rocelviug-bouse at the head of Folihommeum Bay, and at 4.30 the flees on board the Caroline and Great Eastern were hauled down to show that all was ready. By that time the Great Eastern, which had aways kept moving ber paddice at tutorvals, bad forged ahewd of the Caroline son wo of three inilee, paring out the cabie slowly as euton, aad leaving the lat- ter veae! tho only th which one portion of the wito wae kept above water. The iustant, however, that the fiance went down, the Inet fastenings heid it to the Carolive were casi adtits, aud ereatepiash the final joint of the Atlantic Telegraph end the tiret thirty miles ef ite length weut down siowly into the bice water and were out of sight, Long before this Sir Robert Peel and Lord Joho lay had returned on board the Hawa, which at ouce stesmed away, when the splice was turned adrift, to overtake the Great Kosteru, Ibis was very onsiiy dour, tor while the latter wae barely steaming five Koos nu hour, the former was ruining fourteen, As the tencer came near, the thin uarrow of eabio could be sean parsing over the inet astern, and sinking gectly into the foam strain of any Bind, as ft seemed for nt of #0 to float riowly before it disappeared uncer the «well that still hept rolling deeply in, The after deck spousons brides and paddle boxes of the Urest Eastern wero crowded aa the ue wong side and it was easy from the distance which the tenle beld to distinguish the trees of those on board oe they waved their hate and cheered, In the midat of this the Great Festern fired two gune trom ber 6.40 to mark the commenceinent of her jour- d Sir Robert Peel, mounting to the little qu rdeck of the Ha marked time, while three suiall but earnest ob * given by the selec. company on board t& the mc: of the great euter- prise, In retaru came back a swelling, hearty roar Pp ae with the inet pe and ndkert leaving the Great hich trom ell on board the cable saute of waving bute and chiels the tender dropped aster Esstern dipping slowly but a ily ahead, at the rato of about six koote vn hour, Both the Terribie and Sphynx were close at hand, coutributing al. tie, and but lise, to the buge volume of amoke » hich their wigantic conrort epread tarand wide over the sea, ana Which oveu app red in the distance to ‘aint the Live meuutaios of Kerry on shore. As tong as rigns coud be made or hats waved the veme: wes anxiously watched, tutahe soon hid berwelt in. bor own suioKe, Aud whem the Hawk oeared the Ir ah Coael, a bie’ 6 brown cloud tu the horizon was a!) that here the greatest ship in the world was away to Chieavor to scoomplieh the realiza- tion of an ides even more venturerome and infinitely five lupotaus thau that which she herseli em- Lodies, bimy she be successful | ‘The Newfoundland Cablo, Aspy Bay, August S.—The eteaumer Clara Clarita boarded the schooner Presideut with tho sieamer have meceeded in undecruaning and getting ou board about turee wiles of the New fouudland Telegraph Cable after great and laborious labor, Tho cabie, howeres, fe 0 much corroded that we have no hepe of repaliing it. lo uvderrunning it, 18 parted three tines, Weet no tidings of the steamehip Great Eastern as yet. Warren 0. Lawty From Europe. Three Days Later. Bteamehip Germania, frow Southampton on July 26, bas arrived at thir port. ENGLAND. A Cabinet Council was held on Monday atthe off. clal residence of the First Low of the Treasury, in Downing sirect, Thele Royal Highnesecs, the Prince and Princessof Wales after spending Sunday at St. Michae Mount, landed at Penzance on Monday, and received an ad- droves from the corporation, They will wiait Lands End and then return to Falmouth, The London Sra says: Without counting Dam- bartonebire, * Lore thore is a double return, it will be found that the House will comprise 365 professing Liberals and 290 professing Conservatives, A dispatch received at Liverpool on Monday, July Mth, announces the arrival at Deal of the Bremen barque Constantine, having on board the wrecked crew of the Excex, which was abandoned at eva July @d, The Easex, shortly after leaving Now ork sprang a leak, which compelled the captain to aban dou her, When the crew left the vessel it was he. Heved that she could pot remala long afloat, Tho crew in the boate were tossed about for three days, when the Conssaatine hove in sight and rescued them, The steamseh{p Iowa, sunk of Havre, bas been suc cessfully docked at Cherbourg, PRUSSIA. A telegram from Berlin, of July 234, says: An assembly of workingmen was held bere to-day, at which a commi|itee wae elected coiipored of follow- ers of the school of Schulz Deliteh anc I This committee is depute! to organize a monete ting, to take piace for che puppose of asserting the right of public meeting, A telecram from Cologne, of July 224, says: Court lac! ecntnied tht hasan of & auetten ip bale ype decia ed the committee tor organizing the propored benguet to the Liberal Deputies t be a political aaso- ciaifon, and on that «round dissolved it. ‘The Crown counsel protested avainat (his decision, and the matter will be carried to ® Ligher tribunal. A later telegram says: place this evening in the Zoological (i me ings were, however, interrupted by the au- ties, on account of the epeecnes iunde and tonete pr A military detachment occupied the Gar- den, aud the company dispersed, A telegram, of July 23d, says: other banquet, given yesterday at Deutz near oa in houey of the Prussian Libera! Deputics, wan mterrupted by the Mayor of Dentz, at 11 p. in, A detachment of cuiraaniesy isatationed to-day before the hotel in which the banquet took place, and the steamer which conveyed the company le occaped by the troups. The guesteaf the banquet have loft by ret for Oberiahnstern tm the Iuchy of Nassau, Public order bas not been disturbed. A telogram from Bremen, of July 22d, soye: A Central Committee has been formed bere fof Soe viling the Libe. deputies fo a banquet to be «! in thie city, All the Rrrangements we this fectival have already been A tolegram from Cologne, of July 2b wor) a The guests at the banquet given in honor of the Liberal Deputies, after leaving Deutz, proceeded vea~ terday to Overishnatein, in Nassau. to the Lahneck Hotel, A detachment of soldiers of the Luc ay of ing and e the assem 4 . ane, Bere thea left the towu, pary by rail aud teamer, acti AUSTRIA. A despatch from Vienna, of July 23, says : : i. od that tho Imperial sanction wi! shovels befiven tothe Buvast for 1366, voved by jouses th. bees %o advices received here from Jerusa- lem, the cholera had broken out te ce ae snd orous jue ental Aang T Ne Rustrlen residente had solicited eld towards the relief their poorer i view of the existing danger, ‘ A telegram from Vienne, July %, is to file follow. ing effecs : This Chamber of iosulMolech Wes lniocmed Shad YORK, | te table supporters, The Liverwoul Poor says: ' We bear on antbority which we cannot doubt, Kae AUGUST next be prorocued @ members of both ¢ Reichrath will on Thured vy the Emperor in person onset hn are to appear on the above: to assist ip the ceremony at the Lup Herr Von Pratobev then m thanks to the President of the Mo “I know pot whether, or when, we shail meet a. but L do know th @ sball ever remain stead: the Constita’ The President, in returning thanks, said “Wwe will always maintain the Constitution, aut will strive pos oniy to do our duty, but aleo to preserve end defend our rights, 1 close the sittuug by calling for three cheers for the Emperor,” TURKEY, The following teleram is from Constannnopie The romore of a Ministerial crisia, circulated by the opponents of the Conversion echeme, are un founded. The position of Fuad Masha is unshaken ‘The Viceroy le abont to return to Fevpt The slicht outbreak of cholera {nm this city is subsiding. Lhe quarantine regulsiions are, boweve:, stilh main. tained A telegram from Alexandris, of July 22, to the for- eign office, ays: The mortality in Alewandria from chotera th's day ie 8. Lu Cairo the dfeouso ie fnat subeiding. ITALY, A telegram from Florence, of July 2%, states: It is asserted that the Italian government has te erived an official despatch from the Rpanish Cabinet. wherein Spain recoguizes the kingdom of Italy, The despa'ch makes no reservation whatever, and ex Preaved the most friendly feelings on tho part of Spain towards italy STILL LATER. Arrival of the City ef Boston. The Ininan stcamer Cliy of Kosten, which lef Liverpool on the Y6th and Quownustorn on the 27th of July, has arrived at this port. GREAT BRITAIN, The elections wore evorywheie completed, The Dairy News estimates the not lleral gain at %6 eoate, The Heraty andertakes to show that the real gain bolonge tothe conservatives, thonuel it le true the members ofthe party does not appear to be as larce ae it was, but in the last Parliament there fata number of Courervatives, who were in trut! wore devoted supporters of the government than a laree portion of iva notional adherents. The elections heave releved the couservative party of these uu- that probabie that d Pai we be In th efter all exceedingly ton will retire (rom oO! Niament, aro that the © himasell is by no means ows euddoa elevation to the olive of With good judgement and tate be « Interests of the country would be be administration headed by Kurroll, or the bari of lomiing the Louse of Com uonc eo congenial (o his dis; osition and Ble genius. Every one believes th would make # must popularand exc WNOhe end it is around hin that, if our proguosticatious wre Correct, the new cabsnes will be iorued, FRANCE, An Imperial decree had been publiched, promul- gating the International Convention siqued at Gene. va, in August, 1504, for (ue care of wounded soldiers on the baitie-field, An official Leriin paper contradicts a report thatthe Ewperor Napoleon had invited the Queen of Preis to visit the Freuch Court dur The Paris Bourre, on the animate! Keuter, however, was a decline of ibe, from the p ° ‘The results of the municipal elections known up to July 24tb are very favorable w tho government, Neaily evorye lere the whole municipality Lave boeu re-elected. rellor of pared to me Cranvilie, mdon, Mi in hie ord Ge y at Blarriix, BRAZIL, The Londou Times in its city article saya: et ae which French mail steamer Bordeaux for the Kiver eported that the od on the 2hch fre rat Huenoe Avrea, to pr to reopen diplomatic relations with th Empire.” ‘The Times ¢isewhere aunounces that the result of the correspondence which bas taken place between the British, Portuguces aud Hraziien Gov. erumente is, that Deazii mecepte the p opornisof tier Majesty's Goverument of Febrmary ines and dipive matic selations wili be very shortly re-established, atest Commercial, Mf. Cotton \ nou nih Dales {niporiere, The market and pices Alo weak, Breadevatt« ma ket ie quiet and steady, market Sp dull, derod London, July 27, P.M. for money, Awerican Securities,Illnom Central PR, BS'9; Erie K. K., bdenbt; Lod, } Th. P. Males two dave to speculators and ie dail, with lighs euquiry, Liverpool J 0 Provision Laid is Gull at Toe, tor keto ren. Console clored at 89 's890 Kha ive-l wentios, Tue From Washington. A Rebel General Seat to the Workhouse, te. Washington, Aug. 6.—The State Departwont bas been officially advised by our Consul at Port Mahon, that the cholera, which bas prevailed im Egypt, te slowly advancing. Headds “From the reported nw ture of the diseuse there la considerable apprehension here, this being @ quarantine station, that it may axain spread over the country.” The stories told that our government ite largely adding to our military foro io lexas are contradict ed by the official order to (iea, Sheridan, to cause all the voluoteer white troops, cavalry, infantry and ar- tiliery, serving In that departincat, which he may think can be divpensed with, to Le mustered out of the service, The mustore out will be by entire orvan- izations, including all sud from other sources, The afiernvon papore represent that the robe! Gen- era! Ben, G. Hill wae arrested last night for drunken and dirordorty couduet, and for want of money to pay the fine, was to-day ent to (he workhouse for thirty days. Hill used to be a respectable aud iniliential citizen of Tennessee, but imbibing the epirisof re- Leliion with equal parts of the epirit of Bourbon hae proven too much for him President Johnson has noarly recovered from his sickne # of @ week's duration, aud to-day received Visitors, The President to-day pardoned Bishop Lyneh, of South Carolina, now in Home, Italy, and W, Bb Weed, sentenced to ie penitentiary for two years, Mis, Cora A. 8 ccnm, Miss Ida Blocum Urjuehart, of New Orleans, The contivcsted eetates of Mre, recotumeudation ditions thereto by recruits for larceny, and Mrs, Caroline A were also pardoned Slocum were ieateied tw her, va ti of Gen, Butler, On Thursday nikht the p er D, H, Mount, bound to the city, and the larey peiler New Yo k, bound to Philadelphia, collide! near Point Lookout, and both were injured. The latter was badly dam. aged, and for a time was ina eluking condition, bus by the speedy use of the pumps and ‘he prompt action on the part of the crow, the 4k was stopped, end she proceeded on her tip. ‘The Mount has arrived here, and will be immediately repaired, Capt, Percival Drayton, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, died ataisio hour last alight, He had been ill only two days. Ie partic.psied with Admiral Dupont fm the taking of l’ort Royal, aud other impor. tant places, Captain Percival Draro was a native of South Carolina, and euiered the 2avy December Ist, 1827, a midshipmes ou the iri4at Hadeon, The funeral will take place in this city 00 Monday after. noon, The PortmasterGeneral bas just ordered the Teowel +{ mail sexvieo on si Mollie & Ohio Rai. 8 SSS sso SNSSSSSNSSoMspsaes sap 7, 1865. road, from Mobile, Ala, to Colamtus, Ky. including Moawon, and other points, Additional post-otficos in tro South and Southwost have been re-cpened. The Btate Department has been officially informed that @ new source of industry ts in proeess of develop- ment at Antigua, W 1. by the discovery of a very valuable deposit of guavo on the island Roduida, some of which will soon be sont (o this country, Acall for auational convention, to be composed of threo delegates from aach Cougressional district in the country, to devise means fo. securing the voting Privilege to the calored people, is being extensively circulated and siyned in Norfolk, Vortsmouth, aad other parts of Southeastern Virginia, Washinvton, Auy, 6.—#everal applications have lately been made to the executive authorities for special permission to visit Jefferson Davis, One of these waa made by his former physician, who, at the rejuest of his family, desires to professionally ascor- talon the actual condition of that individual's healih, ‘Tothis no answer bas yet been made, The Govern- ment, however, has abondant reasons of constantly being advised ou that eutject; and so far as is known here, the prisoner's health is not euffering frum his prevent treatment. The Geversl commanding tho Department of Texas is enjoined to aatrict and falthiml observance of the instructions heretofore fesued, which require him to forbear from any form of intervention In the war between France and the sovereign power of Mexico, of which President Juaroz continues to bo recoguised as tho chiot, | From Fortress Monroo. The Frigate Congress Down Agnin, Itc, (Correspondence uf the Sun.) Fortress Monroe, Aug, 4.-The U. 8. frigate Con- eroes, raised yesterday at 10 o'clock, was hopt afloat walting for high water to take her from her bed of until 6 p.m. when the puinpe gavo out, and she sunk, though fn a more favoradie position. on higher ground than where she was before, We cannot ascertain from the best authority that Dick Taylor hea been at this place; aud, no doubs, the suoouncement of Lis coming here was incorrect, The schooner Maria Pearson railed this evening tor Now York, with gun carriages for Fort Schuylos, Rows lioms [By Folograph to the Kew York Sum} ASuasouar telegram states that civil war is re- ported to be commencing in Japan, During the week the Comptrotier ef the Currency hae iasued to Nations! Banka ,$4,600110; total arnount jaaued, #165, 704, 440, Ges, Borima left Washington on Saturday evening, destined for Sharon Springs, where bis family are now scjourping Genanan Grast, with his staff, arrived at Quebec at 7 o'clock Baturiiay evening, Admiral Lope, With the war steamers Biyx and Liffey, also arrived there the sameday, General Grant dines with the Govertur- General aud Admiral Hope to~ day. A pispatom from Quebeo states that John A. MeDouall bas been called in as Premier, in place of Mr, Tacho, deceased, Great excitement exists in consequence on the part of the friends of George Hrown, to whom that position belongs. Ruinors are curront of We probable breaking up of the ealloent, By the recent completion of a telegraph Hne be- tween Pine Biull sud Camden, Ark., telegraphic communication is opened to Galveston, by Shreve port, Me The lines in course of cumplotion iu Western Texas will soon give tho Washinton authorities connection with Bau Anto- nio, Hrownsyville aud other points on the luxe frontier. # land Houson, General intelligence, (By Maui te the New York Bun.) Tur leading merchantsand slave traderaof Caba are seeking au order to shop the slave tra “avon on that wlend, abeuce, Tur Poughkeepme Fagin says that a well known sporting u of thet city has sued the proper per- cbs for the stake money in the late boatrace. Aa ali Lets ero illegal, tho Eagum thinks the New Yorkers will have so diagorge, Puixos Narotmon and wife have left France in consequence of 46 rupture between the Prince and his su,ust cousin, and are now traveling in Eug- 1 where thoy will probably take up perma- nent residence A ponkry show has been opened at the Avricn!- tural Hall, London, The catslogue coutaing 153 e:tries, The show ja promoted by the fuciety four Preveuting Cruelty to A is, and some ladioa aud geniienen who #.e anxious that donkeys should to more merciully treated than thoy gous erally are Aw old German doctorin the north partof this Btaie has prophesied couceroing the mouth of Au- gust, a follows: There wi! be ve days noted tor heat--the Th, a mild heat; 11th, @ burping heat; 14th, very hot; 19th, flies very troublesome; 26ih, scorching hot, Ilo adv see easpension of seyero jabor, and to drink but little cold water, Ar Berkley, Md., @ young colored man, who bad been payink asitentions jo an UuwWilling colored | girl, recously asked her for the last time ff she would marry him, She seid she would not, when he held up @ peace of paper, remarking, * Ibis 1s your death warrant.’’ He immediately drow a revulve:, aud fired swice, k lling both ber and bim- sell A rine cecurred lately at the British Museum, dotug serious da The tire, origin unknown, broke out in the workshops, in which « certain number of |+ aod manuseripts were under repair; among ‘# the Anglo-Ba\un man- userl noywn a6 Pope Gregory the Greavs “Pas tora! This very siuportans MS. wes given by Allret the Groat to Plegtsuud, Archbishop of Can- terbury. Waits a non of Mr. Stephen Bu of Fant Galeus, Il, wes carrying some sleaves ot wheats a few uava eince, a ratiie snake crawhd from one of the sheaves, enteriug the boy's pantalvons at the waistband, without biting following down, made its exit at hie foot. Lhe boy and some con. panions, who Lanpened to Rear by, attacked the reptile aud kiliod it. The spolla amounted to three rings and # button, Tus Covanien pe £aone ev Lore chral news reais us from Autun; gers ha i The people of Autus must not, therefore, dic, unless they wish their bodies to remain unburied. We see no other way of opposing the pretensions of men who live by other people's deaths, Hizh prices seem wo be ‘atlecting every- thing. Some men now claim that they can's afford to live at the present rates anc! \f this grave- digwers’ strike succeeds it will soon be 40 that they can't allord to die, Tas magistrate’s examination of tie cireum- stances connected with the murder at Manchesier, Connecticut, of Mrs. Starkweathor and ber daugh- ter, took place on Friday lest. Young Siark- weather, who stands charged with the horrible wrocly of killing bis mosbes aud maior, mala colont. They wish to bring in 3,000 ya: ‘Bepal- Mravedg- -Third Year. tained throughout the proceedings a demeanor of coo!neas and hardened indifference, On the con- clusion of the aoe oF i committed for trial, The rem: Mrs. and Miss Starkweather were Interred at Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, on Thursday last, Tbe funeral was vumerously attended, Som interesting experiments have just been ‘eat L'Orient, on board the Coligny, the object bie to us lige the electric light at aes, Ry submarine Leman the water bot ad SB Kress dey #0 that it was possible to look down from the ox and soe the fish, attracted by the light, switnminy round the lam aquarium, in!na Uraliate Were ed far down in the teed focluding a ret: bie specimen with @ b something like thet of a calees. Wonder if it Was bot ® balfbroter of Darnum’s Pejee Mermaid, On the occasion of the nomination for North Wikis on Tussday last, » London Stan, rather fugenine methed!l w: opted ta order to adrod of the rough- acted by the bounty of 68, = sworn in to ect as apecial constables, A shorttime belore the proceedings commenced. the entire body were marched into the Coru Ex- change, where they were locked up until the nom- {pation was over, The result was that po disturb. ance wha scourred, The dodge was worthy of s Yankee, aud Police Comunesiouer Acton would do well to make s uote of it, Tur Sovrm Easvsan Gazerrr, England, reporte that s young Woinan named Stevens revently bad editiculty with her lover, and attempted to com- mit suicide by jumping from « ipics on the Const, nearly mia hundred feet high. She made the fearful leap from the top of the cliff, but her crino- tine coughs in the shrubbery growing out from the rock# ata point about one bundred foet from the top. tlore the rere woman hung suspeuded the Grosler part of the day, making Wants etlurts to torr herself loowe a anplete the work of self- Gestruction, She was tiuaily rescued by her lover, who was les down froin the top by a rope, [tis i @ Loped be will never have cause to repent thet aot, LOCAL NEWS, NEW YORK AND THE VICINITY, Coonrry Ata vor City Prorur,—Those who are compelled to remain in the elty duriuy these warm Ca;scan scarcely appreciaio tho invigorating cltforeuce In the atmosphere of the country, to tho {n.pure alr citizens are obliged to inhale, A short excurtion upon one of the many steamboats plying Up the North River, makes this difference so manifecs that it seems astonishing no enterprising steamboat man has yet found it protitable to establish « place of puble resort, and give the people an op- portunity of sailing thither at @ cheap rate, Ip former times, one could go to Coney Island nud Deck for twenty-five conte. A trip to Staten Island and back now costa twenty cents ten centatoo much, Other short excursions, out of the city, are equally expensive, and deter many from @too freojnent indulvence in thom, The clase of citiveon who would be most benefitted by cheaper conveyances, toand from the country places, in the nelxhborhood of the city, cannot often afford to make such atripwith their families, and hence their op portanity of obtaining @ breath of country air, are Teetricted to an occasional jaunt, on a week day, whep they must love their pay fora day's work; or they must toke am excursion ou tho Babbath, unless they are rostricted to the Central Bark, at present the only truly delightful place of resort which is Oanllye and choaply, accessible to the people. A laree majors ity of persons, inhabitants of temement houses, and ill-ventilated habitations require some greater bai of alr than any that ean be obtained in the ‘tral Park, If those poople could, durtag the aum- fF, ernbark upon & steamboat, stopping at various wharves (after flvoorsix o'clock P, M.), and enjoy for a moderate prive @ delight ul sail of a few wiles up the North or Fart Rivers, retarning to the clty at hodtitng, the bills of mortality would be decreased wouderfully, The steamboat proprietor who would inavvurate such ao enterprise could net fail to make ® large Atonmt of money the firet season, and be re- membered aa a public benefactor, Dime excursion tripe up the North River, or down the bay, would be found ‘omunerative, Who will give the people auch an opportunity ? Mokoer wv Tae Sevevrn Warp—A Man Kitten ey His Buorage.—Thomas Tristram, a wire weavor, was shot in the right breast and instantly killed, about 0 o'clock on Saturday morning, at No, 34 Kast Boowdway, by bie brother Richard Tristram, The deceased, his mother, and two brothers, John aud Richard Tristram, ocenped the second floor of the above bullding, the first tloor being occupied as « lager-bier saloon, It appoars that all of the brothers had bees drinking durtug the eventing, and that Joho and Vhomas had quarrelied in a saloon, Richard did not retury home until a late hour, at which time the other members of the family had retired, Soon after hin return, the fighting occurred, Tho keeper of the saloon on the Urst floor saw Kichard have two platels in his possession during the evening. Below we give the principal evidenes taken before Coroner Wilkdey, who held an inquest on the body of deceased on Bat- urday efteraoon : knily Seaman testified that she lives in a room adjoining the one in which the murder was commit- ted; about hulf-past two o'clock on Saturday rhe beard a ncise aud loud talking in the room occu- vied by the deceased; witness got on a chair and igh « side window into the hall and also in sroom, the light suddenly wens ont, and yard 4 1AD eer ru have your blood ;"" she the thas) of a pistol and heard 6 report of fire. arws almost insteutly afterwards; bofore the pistol wae fire), witness heard a woman any—" Go out fors policeman;” #he believed it was the mother of de- cewed who made the remark; after the shooting, withess saw two men go outof the room; they eame back with polloeman; witness asked Mrs. ‘I'ristram whe wos the matter, but she made no reply; witness then went back to her room. Lel-com Trtatram testified giet she was the mother of decoased, and lived at No, Kast Broadway; her soot, Kichard, Thomas, and Jobu, and Catherine, Joun's wife, aud Bamuel, her grandson, and heise] occupied four rooms on the s6 floor, Jobn came home about 10 o'clock om Friday night; he was a littie iwtoxieated; he had some marks of violence on hie sce: witness understood he had had @ row in » nelahbor'e lager bier saioon; witness sent for some inger bier, Thomas, the deceased, was in bed in the kitchen; she gave bln some bier, witn d ber deughter-im-law, Catharine, went to bed about 1) clocks witneee did not know t time it was chard came hame; she ver ok On Baturday moru she thought was a lamp falling: « Catharine; afterwards she a \ stove dond, with lis head doe witness went in and aroured the others; ahe sen Richard out for @ doctor; the mall pistol which was shown to witness, belonged w Thomas, and the large one was purchased by Richard to send to California; Kichard aod Thomas had no quarrei ou Friday; they wero good friends. Frederwk Eivckho? teified that he keope a Inger bier saloon on the j¢t floor of premises $4 East Hroad- on Friday nixht be closed hi place about baif- clock, witness could uot sleep; he after. ou son to kid d Listened; be heard the old to go out bea past twelve v wards b id 2otne one easy, Tommy, get up. i; you told my mother you wan witness got ul) way, “No he didul Ket a policeman; and told Samuel the same voiee said, I'li shoot you; I mast have your blood;" th, light im the room; they commenced again, at oul; witmess heard t! 6 your "he then scullle, as though one man was pulling another one gat of edt w}theg then Aeerd ohn's volas, while 4 rcoeL an ely afterw: the ceport of @ platol; witness called “Watch (Comtinnod em the Last Page.) and sup