The Sun (New York) Newspaper, July 4, 1870, Page 3

TIE SINBAD OF AMERICA, WHAT HE SAW IN THE ARCTIC SEAS AND IN 1HE PACIFIC OCEAN. - Avulwhh a Whoe-Krcexing to Death in of the Ship-A Vewsol Sante by aw rpm Hull The Kanukis of Pleasant ta od i ka Bell san Jy April, 1858, @ boy, 17 years away tr fice, shipped on board « whaler, and did got ain out IM an appearance in this city until the 26:1: day of May, 197). All those tatervening years be sjeuton the waters and the islands of the Arctic ard Heil ocewn, Before he returned (o the Pacitie, Which he dit last Week, Le told us his story of wtrange saveature, We jotted down mony things, and now pre-cut them to the readers of Tum Sux. The sub- tect uaturuliy divides itself tuto #MALES AND PEOPLE, and so whales and people it sali be, And first, as Ww the Jona swallower That ten beast Leviathan, whieh God of al ais works Created bugest that Fwim the ocean stream." The whale family, like the human furmily, seems Wo be divided into five general cinsses, to wit,: Sul- fur bottoms, bowheads, California grays, rigut Whales, and spermaceti whales, ‘Tue sulphur bottoms aud bowheads are thus called on account of their plysical appearance, the frst aving a sulphur colored belly, aud the secoad a Dowsuaped head, re ’ Tae svLencR noTtow fm the fest muscled of ail the leviathan tribe. Me ts We fast horse of the seas, ant moves with prodigious locity, It is diffloult tu catch him, but whea he ts eauzht he pays for the trouble, sometimes yielding BO, and occasionally WM) barrels of oil, His native Baunts are in the Arctic Oveau and the Sea of Okoiseh. THe nOWNRAD We also a polur whale; that is to say, like the sulphur Bottom, Le nas his summer residence in the Arctic Ocean, and also visits the fashionable whale water- fag places in the Sea of Okotsch, Io is sometimes flied the “steeple top,” because his blow-hole Sticks up from the top of his head like a small ro- fonda, ‘The bowhead ix a valuable eateh, inasmach as he yields copious oll, and his whalebone ts larger and fiver than that of the right whale, He is also leas dingerous than other varieties, and more readily (alle a victim to the seduetions ol the harpoon, THR CALIFORNIA GRAY, which is a third variety of arctic whale, is some- times celled the muscle-digger, and sometimes the devil-tish, He seems to be a combination of the Whale and the shark. When far up north, in the Arctic Ocean, he is comparatively unbelligerent, and takes a harpoon with sometiing like the resign’ wherewith the early Christians took martyrdo: bui toward the close of the season, when he has worked his way down about Marguerrita Bay, of the coast of California, he becomes as pugnacious ws 4 Scotch Covenanter, and fights for his rights tikea Pilgrim Father. He will pursue a whalevoat into the lazoons where the water is so shallow that hisvust cirease stirs up the mud, “Them are blarsted California grays ‘Il chase a f tree,” bas become an adage amoag wile Raye hud experionce with them, A DANGEROUS BUSINESS, ands upon thousands of sulphar bottoms, bowneads, and California crays pass through Behr. In:’s Straits in tho autumn on their way south, The whalers bogin ) into the Aretic Ocean joa men Who afer them about the Qth of Jane, and retura in & ber, Seme n ambitious and ventare- soue captain will stay Inter, but it is dangerous to with which the Sometimes, ina all over the sur- do +0, on account of the rapid told comes on when it once sets in. Mili day, ice will form in an hou face of the water, so thick that a boat eaumot be pro- peiled through it, and yet too thin to bear a per- fon's Weizht, In such a ease, if there bea dead n. evenit the boats are but a short distance from the sudferings of the freszing men are ter: nd sometines END IN DRATH. Oor returned runaway, whom we wil eall by his c ha, told us of a case Where @ boat wart ) in Within sightofthe ship, whea wv “ vb th of air stirrin After atime the «tile euoush for the lightest of the mea to cris ers foliowed, “ 1 oan ladevoted pomrade had ‘The mate was a gigantic 0,6 2) pouw's and when he and bis com i 1 to make their way over uw th hem. They succeeded in « ‘ into the t ad s their wet 1 a", be pliin view the shin, and t vr s 4 u ‘ jer heaven wuerely « from suca ® fat sprang up, nh the ice to ho ship worke We boxt and recov the bol J cousigned them in fitting manner to the doen, their plunze ov tev Va sthle break a0 entrance for them Aarvugh the crystal lid of their ocean grave, THE BLACK OR RIGHT WHALES gre of late years most pl fo the Japan and Kolisc seas,” They ure largo, muscular, and supple creatures, and exceed rizht whale has an instineu anda hoatoften cha d cinuing. ‘Tae pion of dauzer im and manguvres around Dim tor hoars without gottiag nev him ; and foally be wil stand on bis head fu the water, and swing aud swirl his flukes (thatis bis tail) around J sround for half on i that the most zh Lis guard, if You never saw anything litve it,” ts time in suet a msn: whalemea cannot get var exper said Elisha, as be was deseriliing t Mmunwuvres to us, A Diack Whale will Wire Mis Nose WITH HIS PLE ” tem around in every direction, just at an 4 er ors, tong WII breach a boat if r ian bent exretul,”* rechiag & bout 1" wo asked rs 0 of it—throw them. ® t © an og ' y Grete t r t t rknow Won pon may eaten ‘em shai sues ATTACK A BOAT, acu! on, too: and then it sometimes seems as thongh ‘ t ne particular man that * ove t Blisha’ usually e n lack Whale, he fed ' ne tus like a locomor t Thever Hind again, but when : ‘ ea Dave vim the iron Nard, and ‘ : us, He whirled the boat one ' tan e diste to breseti us; bert 1 rho 1 the eaptain, who ¥ suip, thouct was gone v Tot shook hauds with me, a t 1 Hong way, and sald be never ex y ° n Wneaa WH\Le PEELS THE IRON be kind s shrtot {he-itutes nat moment; "twas tit © that saved us.” p 140 you have to throw @ harpoon }" we wh y ‘ hat is required, A 94 ton Uright. It bat n men" HANDLE Tit 1uON than young men ¢ they Kec married, and live Wives and ¢ Bat hoiie, ah poriaps own a lite property, aud so have a tot of Uhinge to live for, and something to lose. ‘units them for t the tron, Dut your young follow, who ts 1 his pluck, Willsend an tron plumb into a Wile i he thinks heii be crushed the hext secoud. A WALL STREET OPERATION, The ritht whate, and also sulphur bottoms, how Brit, Which is composed OF fatty, olly insets that Bometinies cover the suriace of the water 0 thick!y as to look like seus. ‘The whale plays the sau me on the brit. Which the hangry leviuthans of Wall street sometimes play on the miunows of tt Jucalicy, that is to say, he S scoops? them, Drop Lis wiser jaw below’ the surface, te whale glides over the se ntil Lis eapacious mbuth and throat are fel with water and brit, when he blows off wate loves the brit, ant! begins another scoop ¢ sit lus he keeps on dati his appetite is appeased. Tit srenM BULL, Tn every variety of whales above mentioned, th © y the bull; butin the sperms,’ the ! the lar His head is enoruious, ue ‘ the ju and not unfrequently * y wus, ‘The head contains what ts calle ‘ vhich is @ bony apartment, oval and ellip ts encloses the very finest quality of permed. Lie ease of a fratclass bull holds shout Gud from Uiat it runs down to two cls. ‘The case usuclly contains #out ontouth of the eutire spertm yield of the Whale. ‘Tue bull is THe Me AKO OF THE BRA, Me is thorourhly gun and as cunning as he is brave, Any one who bas ever tried to thrust # pin oF needs through a piece of loose and wrinkled cious knows how difficult 1. is todo 80 compared to the case with whieh it will go through a plece which Js Ughtand smooth Tie sperm bull seems 10 UD- dereland the wriveinla involved in (uis fact. for be Will loosen his skin and wrinkle ft up in such a man- ner that itis difficult to send a on through it, He wil also sing in the water beyond the reach of herpoon or lance, and look np at the whalers with twinkling eyes. “Then he will suddenly disappear, come up a lone Way off, and blow on until he re the boat coiing tor him, when down he will go again beyond reveh, sta: Wiulemen fora waile, then disuppear and come np again wear His original locality, ‘The wily, mith clove creature will keep playing that enme for hears, ord finally becoming weary of it, he ® suldehiy come up right under the bont and KNOCK IT MGI IN AIR, there looking up at the At other tines the sperm bull will Ys a boat gnpon it with dew ferocity mm. We thing back . drops th, rans his ad cuts tt rquar ithe two at A SHIP STOVE AND SUNK BY A SPERM BOLE. Yn 1851, Capt, Da Bois, of the Ann Alexander, Sent a buat's crew after a large «perm bull, As soon as the bull saw them coming, he charged upon them, avd Mt the boat In two. The captain, being as Ducky as the whale, picked up his nen, and then Bove chase with te ‘ship, The bull accepted the © atie retiring fir enowgh to get a good sena-of, he charged straizht down apon tie vessel, and struck it dead In the bow with suca force as to throw the captiin and crew (rom thelr feet, and make the ship quiver from end to end. He then wore off, and Capt, Da Bois giving cinae avain, the whale made a wide cireuit, ond then tearing down nvon the vessel like a tornado, struck it plump in the sido, und stove it beyond all “lone oi repatr, The harpooners cot keveral irons into the breve old levia- than; but as the Ann Alexander begun to sink ripidly, all hands ‘had to trke to the boats, and the whale got off, carrying the harpoons in his body. Tho boats were picked up the noxt day by a whale ship, ang all hinds got safe home, About thre months afterward the whale was captured, with tI Ann Alexanver's irons stili in his body. When at- he cidn't show the least sign of pluck oF ‘The reason of this was discovered on cut- ng Lim up: his bratn was maturated. Tust pro- dizious concussion with the bow of the Ann Alexan- der bad given Lim his death biow. THE PEOPLE OF THR PACIFIC Are as interesting as its whales. Elisha landed on Pleasant Island, ove of the King’s Mill group, twelve Miles north of the equator, when he was ei years old, and lived there nine years, He and bis whaling captain had bad an unploasantness which rendered it necessary for one or the other of them to quit the ship, and Elisha drew the ticket of leave, On being ushore, or rather on « reef which rine around the Island. ho wns set upon by the nattves, who stole Lia tobacco and other portable property, And exhib- ited w disposition to make A PUNCHBOWL OF MIS SKILL, After getting fiirly noon tue island he was taken to uw chiefs house, und the ebief, taking a tune to hin, uflectionate y set lis teeth in bis cheek, In re- Is attention Biisia trust lis thu into ‘seve, wiereat the Pleasant Islauder let go is hold with lis teeth, and set up a frigttiul howl, Wis brought a crowd to his rescue, who held ha's are in order that the ehiof wight wreak Vengeauce upon him by GNAWING OFF MIS Nose, But the American was gome, Lesuing back on those Who beld him, he threw up his teels and planted them productively in the countenance of the advancing chief, sealing him vehemently to grass, wnd setting the ‘ruby copiously flowing, At this, « heavy retainer of the chief advanced sinilingly upon Eiletia’s wome, with gleaming teeth : but again iying Back upon bis captors, te Atel boy sent his right heel percussively into the retuines's mouth and split the sinile intwain, Seetog that notuing could one While lis heels were loose, the natives threw shaw nd held hin) fast from crown to toc, The cnief socing that everything Was «ale, dvanced upou his Lelpless vicitio, and Uh looked dubious for the boy; but iu tid nick of time, he cHier's sisteR-IN-Law on the scene, and tiking a fancy tothe young . tusisted 0 being handed over to her, Chis wus finally d i Kaisha was provided with all the comforts of a home, including. a wife, Who Was & princess from a boring nd and much ed by the chiefs family, with all of whom— ie! inc. vied—the American soon became sufti- cieutly frieudly, THE AMERICAN SAILOR'S New HOM nt Isand {$ so named because it appears m ihe sea. Its native nd {ts inhabitants are known as vOut twenty miles in clreumference, is from 1,000 103.00, The island is ue land ts ftom the sea, e middic being the highest mixture of cural sand and de- ‘Khe principal productions Janas, pumpkins, watermelons, dit-tuly, which hus a kernel like pu ic. The slope of ward to the portion. ‘Tho so: uta, nut ewled th that of an almond, ‘Too live stock consists of rigs, dogs, hens, and few Turaevs were tries, but eould hot be mile to vrop gute or thrive, and there are none now 00 te island. White people, of whom there have beon u tow on the isiand witltn tie list dean years, € tried to keep cattle and horses, but the Kunakas kill them off. They do not. Want. then theuelves, and they are too jealons aad petty to tolerate thcir possession by straugers, THE COCONUT is the chief and most valuod produ {t furnishes Iumber, foot, dria ments, Hzbt, and Walso ad ur Fartnernore, the juiereatinzenuity « is shared evon by the Kanak, has enavled the batives Lo extract and manuficiute a Variety of fers mente t anit alcholiedrinks irom. thie ly tn: Avceut vezetable. The Kavaxae are fond of tobucco, and whenit is scarce they will give a taoasand HUIS for ® poun TOL I. Tuey bave Deed known et of the cloth island, aie man, whic COCOANUTS FoR san who had nd had gecamulated «ix b A PLUG OF TORACCO, on the tthoasand nuts eigity barrels of > ship tonching tuere for Hearly two year ly ceased buying @ rate uf one clLew aud a few of the roy ist, in ravings for’ to. hered that it is no light jo to gather a thomsand coconuts and exrry tie fom ong io Unee miles, for ach ott TODDY AND AGUARDIENTE, ike a drink called totdy, or earo- way, froin the coco mut, by binding up te pod of tue lve, so it Will not burst, and then watting off the end. The sap, from which the milk of the cocoanud comes, runs trom the bound and cut pod clear ae crystal, Many pods will be running at the sine im, us theve ore frou one Uundred to tour bundred eoowa: nuts ona tree. ‘The sup flows from two weeks & two mouths, snd every pod yields ubout a quare » doy, ‘The ends of tie are cut, off every morn: ing, noon, and evening, to.a8 to keep Weim from up and stoppins the fox The sap is sweet wud palatable, The CHILDREN AND PiGs are fod and fatted on it while it exceedingly nutritious aud wh But it soon ferments and turns sour r two days it be- comes alcoholic, aud will’ intoaleate, In this state It is then itis known as tolly or ciro vay. Which is tue» tional bevera a stimutant esp isalso dis tiled, and a kind of rum is marie frou it, whieh is known ase te, that ts (o say, Cocannt branly. ‘Ihia isnot so pooular as the totly, amt drank tuostiy by burut ou! old soukers und forelg ers who toudh at the ishand, ROWS, QUARRELS, AND WAns, A stranger migit live among these people for Monthy without weotws the least ein of fil-temper or ferocity, ond come to thiuk the Kanakus the most peacesble folk on the tuce of the earth; but thot would be an utter delusion. likely some nici the ring of en Some day, or mor he would suddenly be startled by most kamediately the whole isting Would bein a blaza Every min woul be bangiig away (rom the d his own eabin, and flere eries und yells would Mul the sir, ‘This wold eont or weVeral hours, OF haps all night, or ail day, and when the cause sh be ascertained, tt wonld be fond that the entire tras cas was founded on an unexpected quarrel between ors as to Which one's baby was the hand- soon as the’ narrel begins the friends and rela. tives ot the respective parties take sides, It docs not take long for some oue to hecome ungovernably enraged; wbiow is given or a shot fired; and tie moment’ shot is fired, every one svizes bis xu and blazes away from his docr, at random, so a8 to keep bolligorents at a distance, COTTING UP A BOY AND SMOTHERING A GIRL, Occasionally an intoxicated or brutal man com- its some intolerable offence that calls tor ven- « Such a mon meeting a boy about eleven yeors old, went at lib with a shark-tooth sword, wh is made by fastening sharks’ teeth in a strip of wood, and eut him literally in pieces, He next welanitie gird, and sticking her headforemost ip the mud, ed her to death, This conduct, al though Nel Werful iriends, made aim wipopalar and he was publicly attacked, is his support, and ATE FIGUT 8, rifles, cutlasses, blubber- hh swords, and every vate ht into requisitic id until past ini’ enus rallied t sail one siternod Wiel. Many persons were wounded, some badly ¢ but tobols"wos 1 except Wie monster whose mardi tho hoy and girl provoked th unpie ess He was nearly cut in pieces Pith mluthetoath swords, wiien em tO be rinbiable Weapons, wre #0 Slged that Te Kunas ahave wih, and a sword made o ineisive art cles, when ‘iawn across a human body inst do feariul execution, ‘ihe islanders do not seem to care much even for THE SEVEREST WoRNns, ‘They got badly ent up as to their arms, ankles, feet, bodies, and even get run or shot tires twey get well without any pieces of bone work out of teir Wuunis, but nature seems to be able to make the loss wood, aud the par tient foally comes out apparently os cood as new Ifa white man kilis a Kauska, the fricude of the slaio man rush out and KILL THB FIRST WHITR MAN, they mect, Nor do they always stop with killing tne first one,’ Sometines they vow vengeance against every white oon the island, aod the leading me among Uh have to be een,” and induced to use their influence wit the rank and tile of the avengers, A proper application of popular portable property, especially of tobaceo, usdully effects a {ieation, the natives being alwost siways realy Lo“rmoke the pipe of peace ‘with anybody Who will furnish the tobacco, ‘Tho Pleasant Islanders are reasonably Louest,but they have exnert thieves ainong 4u'the lungs,but tondanee, Sometines, wom it ts donbtinl if even a memoer of ernment could cope in stealing They n't keep thelr hands off of another's property. ey are us stealthy of foot axcats,and ag slelght of hand asa prostidigititent. Tuey' are also compe- tent as to countenance, and will chet # man while looking lim as guliclessly in the eye as doves, ‘One of their stock gimes 14 to tell thinvs to forelen ere over ant over again, will ell pigs, poultry, and other things atone #ife of a #iip. and Hices Will steal the articles tins sold neat the other eile, And they will keep the game going until Ue same thing has becn sold my known to pick aD ad sell itover arin to the eaptain, who had pol for it bata few nites beore, Ifa while man can got the best of <0 ruseal, ind cheat them heavily, they readily forsive iim, and respect him according his sucess, TH coven’ of the island ia in the hands of a chief, who has netty coteis ander him, who are usnaliy members of his fomily by birth or marrifre, The sovernment ie not very rictt, nor is @ ebief by any means beyond sn- Pervision, The laws are few and simple, and not at all onerous, and yet the attempt to enforce them sometimes jends to an uprising which attains to the dignity of a revolution, aud leads to the tnstallation of a new dynasty, The houses of the chiefs aro larger but not much tess squalid than those of their subjects, ‘They are for the most fart Guilt of cocoa nut wood, and are usually one sory high, with a loft overiiead, ENT MARRIAGES, ‘There is vory little love-making among the Kana- kas. Parents contract for the marriage of their childron while they are very young, and the whole Uitng ts carried tarough on business principles, The friends of the bride make up several hundrei new taupas or eenghame, which are coco: Foals, and on the wedding duy there are given to the bridegroom's relations, who distribute them among their friends. In returu for the tapas, t! bridegroom's frieuds give the relations of the bride & bountiful supply of cocoanuts. ‘The bride Jorned with gariands made from the flowers of tie yuteo tree, which buds at nizht, and in the morning is glorious with white flowers of exquisite beauty and fragrance, ‘There is no ceremony. The couple merely say they are married, and married they are. PAINTED LOVER Marriage affairs are ordered differently on the {sland of Rotooma (pronounced Rot-oo-m), 640 miles south of Pleasant Island. ‘The Kotooma v kins cover their hesds and huir to whiteness with Powdered lime. But on the morning of their mar- Thage the lime is disearded, and ail trace of it re- moved. ‘The marriage coremony consists in the lov- ers first taking a united sup of a drind culled cava, nd then in the patuting of them both red from ad 10 foot. ‘This artistic ploce of work Is done by xperte, and not a hair's breadth of the lovers’ Dodies Is permitted to go unudornest, ‘This island of Rotooma is represented to be one of the most attractive spots on the globe. Ite elt mate and productions affurd all thut the heart or palate can desire, Bat there ix oue FRIGHTFUL DRAWBACK to the felicity of white men in this Pa ‘that drawback 14 the fay-fay, aid the fny-fay is A sort of exaggerated elephantiasls which causes the Wietins! armsand leze to ewell up ns large as barrel, iv b fle paradise, “A man don’t feel particuiarly bad or unwell,” said our Informant, “when he bas the fay-fuy; but trouble fs tn his wall and besides, when he isarma ant lege swelled up as big as barrels "t heip imagining that something ts the mutter with him.” ‘The tay-fay does not abide with a white man long afer he leaves Kotuonia, its native home; but it he revurns tuither, and ctays a few wees, it Will aguin assert its dominion ove extremitics, Pleasant Island is the PARADISE OF WOMAN'S mIGuTs, Women have it ail their own way there with one exception, snd it tay be that that one exception is suficient ‘to dash the cup of happiness from their lins, The family rank and property deseend through the mother. ‘The title to land’ is derived through the mother and ler maternal liveage, and it cannot be except by lier consent. ‘The children take rank aceording to their mother's rank, and all the personal property goes to the eldest daughter, 1 all matters us to the sexes, ex- oy Niture bus fixed beyond reversal, ely reverved on Pioasant Island, and a Picssant island it must be ‘or women to live iw Kanaka women take part in athletic ex- are expert bail-players, and it seems at Ho One, either notive or foreigner, cam success: fuly compete with them at checkers. ‘The one exception to fen ily to which we have referres, is thiv: ‘The Kanakas ect baskets thirty fathoms deep outside the coral reets which surround the island, to eateh two varieties of beanti- one of which is red and the other speckled, of which are surpssingly delicious Of most reises, Th Ubese flan none but men are ailowed to eat. The eratty creatures have in some Way established the Superstitition that ifany woman sould be allowed to eat of those fish, a strong current would set out from the fisiivg ground and carry te baskets off to sea, and that no red or speckled fix would evermere be ‘caugit by Kanakss, ‘Tho women believe this, and allow Ue mew to eat those delicate fish without molestation, OnuAT swine, The K both astonish ing swimmers, ' The children ure put inthe water as soon as they ean crawl, aad taught to swim, They take to the water Nke fish, cut a child ean ofea swiin before ft can ran, Men, and wouen also, hare been known to swim miles, ‘They an great divors, ne one wou! | infer from their Fetting thome deep to cateh the fish above ong the rocks & squid or entitle t through tie » lots Zo its Daskets thirty fist, ‘They run as squll, which curls hold On te rock, and git to the #1 face, ‘They can stay under water a surprisingly long and ive at the bottom of Lie feels as they now 4 cUrTLrrs But sometin 1 SOMRTIMES FIXES A KANAKA, od sized enttlefish hold of a Messaut tslaader, and bolls him wu water too long evea fora Rabaka, aad whea iii vis eo down Wo whim, they find him with b t up, wid Lis hed or Urvast in the grasp of the fis, und sometines partiaily devoured TRETH AYO HAIR, ‘The Ranakas set great store by their h ‘They make their children Wash and wea w morning, a every meal, ‘ney toke mu 4to koe) their childrea’s t even and regular, It is adisgrace to have pour tec or to lose a tootit, For this teasou thoy will the Mult of a cocoanut tree near which has died, or been buried, or had his blood cause tuey believe the fruit of such a tree w se thelr teeth to decay und fall out, But her the fruit of suet u tree and sell it to tox und take the risk wsto (heir tee A CHANCE FOR MAIR DEALERS, "The Renakas prize their hair bitbly. Irand teoth. th with rand The women their ebiliven's heads to insure @ keep their own hair nent, and When they think ft has obtained its full gro cut At olf, ahuve and oil their he Astarta new crop. Of the huir thus cut off Vey make Varions Oruaments, aud use it uiso for fringe to their taanns, 4 girls have the instinets of beltshood, get thesiselves up tn un attractive standin; their ces for e fond of Thero ia the isiand cael” Ta Manian, “the Music Hull,” in which cone HOOLAM-HOOLANS Nearly the whole popnistion ta 148 UDON thede hoolal hovlals, Some ris OF ire given, pratt When webiel tikes «notion to ive « hoo, Le goes ull around the isha his sing and takes @ reat splurge. isa natural copy: Fiche in the songs, and’ no one can éing aaothers music without the special eonsent o1 the owner, ihe sones descend trom parenta to ebildren, like r personal property, aid the eldest danguter ine itsthem, When the girls attend a hoolult-)oolah nid yutee flowers, 4 und really look handsome, DFATH AND BURIAL, A great outery is made when a Kanaka dies, and W’, Slieils, cor al, wikis With oil, sh ds helt over bin. Ou nily brings out its fail reper en Whut its musical treasures worth, p AUnES are Haed for funerals as stive oveasions, and a gay or sad charucwer is ‘en to them by the performers. ‘The corpse is buried ta tho’ wor the sand. White men are never allowed to be buried near lives, as the latier firmy believe that in such a Ule dead parties would kick ap a1ow. Sone schiel keeps the corpse of one of his fatally in tho house as long as possible, He oils it every day, and makes much of it, aud when he ean keep it no longer he saves “he skull, A great many skulis in a family is 4 mark of distineion and soble Hinenge. 5 f tie Kanakis have heaps of their ancestors piled up in the yard, or in a shed mude for the purpose. TUR RELIGION OF THE KANAKAS, The Konakas believe ina hereafter and ina Sw preme Being, Our roving sailor said tit he bad ited Landreds of islanis in the Pacitie, sun%0-e4 by p ana, an in them all he fin ¢ The fet 1 he, “you have co come out into Christian esuniries to find people who don’t believe in God. They think spirits of (ie dead come hue ue tie living and do a deal of mivebiel, and th deli from the power of the evil ones their ¢ ances lor tuis purpore are sin most singular of all being TB TABOORIC OL SPINIT STONE. ‘This i+ slab three or four feet long. shaped like agravestone, whieh they set up near tLe crave of a body whose Spirit they wish to placate, ‘They ti cover the stone With braided cocoanut lowes, never speak of the buried person again, aul that tine it would be a great radoness forany one t mention him, ‘The Tabooris stones are atl old be youd the memory of the most anelent inhabivants, ind novody knows where they came trom, POSSESSED OF DEVILS. On Stewart's Island, five hundred miles to the asant Leinnd, people are possessed 1's as they were in te days of the Apos: can cast them out, When the "possessio nuction, the victim's hair rises up and stands ht out from his heat, ax though it were charged with electricity; his mouth becomes parch ed; Tis muscles grow risid; his eyeballs start fr thelr sockets; he groans Wil Ayyand wees the bystanders to tike no notice of wit he may siy or do, (or it isn but the devil that iseoming into him, Who wil talk'and aet. He flaaily falls upon the ‘ovinil, then ise comes violent, and has to be he from mischief After a tin comes exhausted and sinks dow Ponting and Mabby, ant remains pale and feeble fo several days. ‘here iv no shamuine in this business. Ty is © reas aud terrible aMiction of some kind: and THE SUN, MUNDAY, JULY 4, those who have seen it do not care to dispute the belief of the natives that it Is a veritable diabolical Possession of the most orthodox type. OFF AGAIN FOR THE PActIC, Tired of civilized Ifo, Elisha not long since ect out on his return tor his equatorial islants, We aye r ceive a letter from him dated at Honolulu. Ho is ably awong bis Kenaka friewds. We hore Wim neving during this summer, and +o. to many questions coneerning the Po. oi whieh be undertook to furnish —s TUE NEXT CENTURY, - The Crowding of the City lation~ Grand Park as the ntystourth Ward of New York—Trintty's Seminary andthe Seminary of the Methodist Con+ ferences Graxo Pank, Weercnesten Co., July 4.—The Magnitude of this Grand Park enterprite bas not burst upon the metropolis, Besides this undertaking Hempstead Plains, with all of Mr, Stewart's mil- lions, dwindles into a desert of dust and inactivity, Here a vemarkuble work is going on. A city, as if by magic, is springing into existence, Magnificent boulevards are reaching up from the sound, long rows of trees have sprung 1p a8 if ina night, anda rest for the toil-worn millions of the metropolis has been found. wens SGraps Pore? Twenty mies Sp ee new maven Railroad, just beyond New Rochelle, where was once an fancient Mohican village, the seeds of this new city are bursting, ‘The company hold ands in Fim rison, Rye, New Rochelle, and Searadate, Its two thousand acres of old Huguenot soil lics nestled be- tween the Hudson and the Sound, The new city ‘was once the battle-ground of the Revolution, lying between the British lines at Kingsbridge and the American front at Byram river. The location wis ‘once famous for deeds of daring, and infamous for acts of rapine and plunder committed by the Cow Boys and Skinners of the Revolution Seven hundred workmen are now ploughing through the ills, blasting the Kidd tressare rocks, and macadamizing miles of boulevard: Everywhere the question is asked: Who ty this bold Western invader of Westchester? who comes without warning to the old headquarters of Washington, tho land of the Huguenots, and plans and builds a city, while the lanes of the Loriilirds are grown over with grass, and Hempstead Plains has become a deserted village? About a yeur ago, Andrew Wilson, Jr, the proprietor of the White Suiphur Springs, near Cincinaati, and an extensive pork man, conceived the {tea of 9 grand suburban town to New York, Mr, Wilson isa live Western man, ns fall of grand ideas as Sutro of California, or Durant of the Pacifle Railroad, Keen, eonfident, far-seoing, and fiery, he magaetizes every one by his great plins, This positive faith in his ereat project interested other men with him, and one quiet morn- ing one hundred Westehestey’ farmers awoke and found themselves bevght out by Mr. Wilson and bis agents, who had worked so silently that neither Knew of the other's sale, ‘Three men, Messr, Ke- uey, Styles, und Fuiler, lending New York bankers, re'tised to'sell, but lave since given their hearty symrathy ant edperation to the enterprise. citizeus around Grand Park have ail come forward, nnd there is everywitere the greatest enthusiasm for the new city. Even the peovle over at White Plains and) in neighboring tows have seen thelr property doubling, and have come forward with their heart} support, As soon as the *.000 seres were purchased, Mr, Wisen threw Sam Ogden of Columbus, Ohio, nd formerly an extensive steamboat owner, witu 700 men, into tae work of grading ond laying out a city, Sam Olen never took hold of atailure, A GRAND BOULEVARD with four rows of trees like Unter der Linden, of Berlin, 8 opened from the sound two miles toward iriem Hatlroad. Esplanates and grand ave. . ull macadainized and livuted with gas, and with Soll sprivging into line, Forty houses are already boilt, Whirty are building, and three sites for cliurches are'located. Mr. Wile son is gencrous to bis 7 men, giving them with Out compensation, the rent of forty houses and pay: ing (hem higa and prompt wages. Associated with Mr. Wilsou is Dr. 8. Silsbee, formerly editor of the Cineinnati Times and un old war eurrespondent as ‘an ecoficer on Gen. Banks's staff, Dr, anaes the New York office, 817 Broadwa”, ud is the Writing man of the enterprise. The Doc? tor ouce ran the Xonin Telegraph when Whi law was writing for the News Whitelaw," said the Doctor, **h just graduated from Oberiin, nd wasalean, lank, long-Laired, greenhorn took- ing doy, Who knew it all aut‘) the wire edze was ta+ ken of by the councry evitors.” Tbe Doctor is truly alive to the great project, and rays it Is f Western men to curry out the grandest e1 which ever electrided New York— ‘bich will give cheap, healthy homes to thousands ccossble to the dusty of our tolling middie Class city. Mr. Wilson las made « MAGNIFICENT PON (TION seres for an Episcopal Theological semingry. yapers are tiene’, and Bistoy. Wilmer, of merous imen fr rinity G Fy on Mon examine the site of the fy Enireopat ¢ The bulidings of the pregected Colloge Will cust @400,000, including Louses for pine Tho Methodist the tine Hawley pi tion of a Methe destined to be tutes of the New England tions wiladd @ literary un city, und make it, as Bis J of America. st have parehased vere f0F the leas «ond girl, tional Inst Institue © to the new op Wilmer ways, te Oxe To-'ay (Mouday) thero is to bea erand celehra- tion here, Horace Greeley, Bishop Wilmer, Brick Pomeroy, and Gov, Hottmaan have ac d invita tions. and Mr Chas. A, Dena has t vited. Aver the celebration, the sues of lots wili com — THE LONG ISLAND CITY PLECTION, pial Aad The Charter Election To-morrow—Repeaters Eapected to be on Hand, Long Island City holds its first election for charter oficors tomorow. The new city em- braces Hunter's Point, Blissville, Ravenswood, Dutch Kills, Astoria, and Bowery Bay, and is ineladed in five wards, It will be controlied by a Mayor, Re- corder, Treasurer, Collector, two Aldermen from each ward, one Justice of the Pea ond two Con- stables, and the entire expenses of the Government are limited to $25,000 annually, ‘Three Uckets are in the ful THE CANDIDATES. Fon Maou, Democratic Citizen Rennbiicnn. A.D. Ditmars.....Aarou Kis A.D. Ditnias FOR RECORDER, Geo. Parsclis,.....John B, Madden’ John B, Madden. Po} Jam John Moran... James Tisdale, YOR COLT reTOR adloy,...James Bradley... C. Johnson. YOR JUSTICE OF THE PRACR. W. Pou! Brown.,.Alex, Morun.,,...Alex. Mo FOR ALDERMEN. w ‘ John Welzand, 5—FMitartsiorn) i Win, Caritu., ve a. F In tho First Ward William Lynam, Geo, W Wiltam Hesney, and Janes Monaghan are Flock, ruaning Without respect to party. Party fines ure slackened for the contest, owi to dieuffection in the Domoeratic ranks, i Madden, the Democratic member of the | ture, Was repudiated by bis party for tronéhery in the Senatorial contest last fall, and he has becoine the leader of the soreberds of the wow city, Abram D. Ditmars may be returned as Mayor if 4 fair election ts hetd ‘Thore is an arrangement for the importation of repeaters from New York and Brooklyn, but the Sherifls Lave taken ample measures to ball their schemes. — Minnie's Luck at Wallac Mr. Broughain’s very good drama, List, make place or He The Red fawn lust Monday at Wallaci’s to one wot so good, though from te od and prolide pea, entitled “ Minnic's Luck, or Ups and Downs of City Live.” ‘The foriner play had to do with high life and this with low was with’ me Hrae' Minnio's Luck" was written, it iy stated, to cive a fleld for the display of the talents of a quite young actress, Miss Leona Cavender, A play manufactured to order for such a specitic pur- to have great general merit, All characters are sucrifieed to give pose is not the subordinate prominence to the one for whom it was prepared, and the setion waits while this one #hows of bis oF her & rit he dancing, sinving, banio i case of Miss Cavend yf n i tires Tuly. in question ay a natural, t noyaney that curries her th her part n ere lit to Herael! tnd pleas her audience, ‘The charactor is that at welild, oud Miss Cuvender gives it with @ebild’s vivacity aud artlossness Mr. irougham has fitted himself with the part ofa wi Laphagard vavion Peulronerons portor of dally paaser, interviewiag every Loy ¥ Mach Ine audueity, and writing up sensitions with an un ness of his heart he rose Mine from a yng castaway nid Festores hoe to r is no compl ‘Of plot to perplex the mi Warta nijtictsy but the lay 9-8 series of inter ctures of nossivte adventure In this chy. M jdart. Pisver, and barry, and Miss Liga! # Annie Deland, and Miss Mestayer ae cant 2 The Burning of & California Town, San Frascmco, duly &—The town of Oroville, Wl, wae nearly, desiroved by fire toxluy. The buildings were mos}; of wood, and Luracd with fueh rapidity bat the iamates barely escaped from te flames, HUNTINGTON'S COURTSHIP. pane at WHY 1 RAN AWAY UPON HI8 WHD- DING DAY. Hantingtow'a Love Mise ™ witern va. Wie Story ary A. Lent Gives Them to the ow he Pel in Love with Another Wonnn-He Wants Miss Lent to Sign a Release, ‘The courtship of the Brewster telegraph ope- raton, Mr. Wim, E. Huntincton, with Miex Mary A. Lent, a highly respectable young woman of that vil Inge, and Huntington's subsequent heartless and unacconntable descrtion of his fair flancée upon the vory eve of their nuptinis, lax already been pub lished in Tae SON, This expor eli-ited a reply to the sllegations then made, whien reply was printed some duys ago, In this reply Huntington etarred Mirs Lont with inconstancy, and states that in August, 1960, he noticed » COLDNESS IN THE TONE OF NER LeTrens, and made mention of the same to her, at the same time giving her warning that beeanse ot the irregular correspondence feclings were undergoing « change, Tho story as told by Miss Leut goes to Prove very conclusively that Huntington had wooed and won her affections, They were betrothed. ‘The day for the marriage ceremony was fixed and daly Pablisted in the church in accordance with his ex- Press desire, and the reereant lover at the last mo- Meat dashed her fond hopes to atoms in the most cruel manner, by coolly assuring her that he LOVED SOMEBODY ELse nrTTrn, and hoped that she would retense bim. “The truth is,” said Miss Lent, “that Huntington had seen whut he thought were brighter eyes aud more winning smiles in the person of Miss Emma Craig of Mineola, young woman to whom he is how engaged to be married.” ‘The deevly wronged young woman, indiznant at the conduct of Huntington, and particularly ia con- sideration of his insinuations impexching her fair home in bis communication to Tur SUX, challone him to unfold all, and she submits tho later lot- ters of Mr. Huntington alone in vindication of her honor, and as proof that his thrests ot publicity were only DRSIGNED TO INTIMIDATE Men, Mies Lent further says, in rezard to the first letter Printed below, that it was “the first letter I re- ceived after his return to Mineola, and the time that he was up here beiore he came to be mar- ried. It is dated April 29. HUNTINGTON PEELS LIKE ONE FORSAKEN. My Dan.ine Mase Safe at Mineola again, and tn Letter spirits than when T lett. I mast confess t tle sorry at leaving you,bat thea Tea jo mind that I would never Browster’s again ass sincle an. Dut as the husoand of Mame. f felt a iitue } mM nt, when in going over to Craic’s [ 10 bare aud gloomy. A found ail my clothes dand Tacs ba T put the: morning to a come, Laon't kanw where I T don't think it best to ha hear from her, for it is a H, but Twill do my bert, th Nine Lent as Mrs. H, inthe thing Pean't 1 the Lat Gf June may arms of her beloved Wilt, Now, for all T know tho contents of ye ever bo glad to get it.tor | knew it ¢ ty dearest darling, and you know, swect, UnZe ¥, 1am awful lonesome, and ften as You caa, so that T ma} anew pair of y,tnind about fo'ting or ra ¥ Remember tug to I Thoticed Dees to Bat fo what to think et tt. would not cousiderable that &he has 6: show itty any one, dear, Lbexin to b ‘Lwrile again until! Sanday, when I will havo long letter for You. Remember me wo your mot! eocioged mente Aud your batiouer. Ha! hal Th good laugh. I found it in ty poexe: last uisht rie pur it in yesterday, aud Lever thought of .t aati row. I wish for time to fy ns fast as possibie, devr Mam: fo that Lmay evaim you as mine. Th * how my oul object (in hiving. Ai my pons and litle projeccs a sudoriinate to our marriace, Limast close, Don't fail to Write Very soon, for now that the Crane have woved, I feel Ike one forsaken, aid #hail look for your letters Very anxiously. Tremalu your trae WiLL. A NATCRE THAT MUST HAVE A LOVING CoMPANTON, MinroLa May 7, tis after a erent struggle and u teal of thought Ve come to the conclusion which Lam about to nown tO you. Mino is a nature that of neces: #iLy Wwust have a foving companion tow ie may cling during life. 1 have tong becn trying to persuads imyself that as the Krew near for our marriage to be cousumated you would change: butno, Tfud, as AL were, a reserve and a studied colduess that Lines chitied me wheaever L would be i Aa advance. I noticed now particularly on tay Xi wager Don't Yoeit that you did not meet_me as you was wont lo do. You attribated your nealoet to do ko to the tact Of Gt marrlage being so hear at hand. that it would not look Well. A pattey exc Witt hint Who ¥ Ir you will ren Jadeed! Ashamed co be seen # soon to be your future hasband ! ember, Lte't quite Lad aboutt atthe time: “Again, sico my’ coming back 1 have received two short letters, written “as though you. were iad to get them off your mind. No word, no loving word from ner whow T once loved better tian ie it- it Y love bas become chilled by your acting Fo, ho Tain telupied to des ent with) Ove ato walk quits vouae ny tile too young ty tanc @ Wushand. Vwisht Tecenary, ered for F better le uite’s tial wes aon wit t! You wi pteage failto ¢ i ould eacritie k over the matter, yon cannot que to the Rawee Delusion that T have. Thing how diferent our dispositivus ore. You are trustial, T Aim Seaton and suspicions: son are a re moderate dirfostiion, white Lam, vers aftes 10 how it Peete to Write all Uh os hat, ae G e 1 believe it 10 he Lor Our eternal cood eheving This, Lusk you to reloase ine [roin my engagement. bet us pot part arenen. es, Daca: Near tele Tein ben thay py to entry. « ard it le teases vou, L weuid Ik letters nod iule articles that You Hi m time to ine, togethicr with my meri, EWI retnrn ihe same to you hy express, for L know you wil Twill sera b, tonal Express om Please do the » ani you wil Wek. WUNTINGLON, Cuil for package at depot, DON'T THINK MB DEVOID OF FEELING, Miwxona, 1% Yonr letter of the oth 1s perore ies was a ttle surprited Ay Well Ls pa your feeling sy bad about my Fequest, Dont think me devotd of feeling when, by way of answer. I say that al present Ecanuot reverse my der)sion. God Tlove you, aud yo have ely ja anit Bart sell $ Hracticaule, Dram May: don d a relies, atl with Your permission, will cali aad sve you on the uth uf May T Wont Ike to write more hut the tratn anc st Ket thie olf to-day, #0. that Tove yon as no words of ming cin cx Simply wewed for a Te.case from te on Twas uot sure but Whabit might be ¥ nearly ou may n Tsay that had It not heen for your # Tshonid havo been willlug to got ho i presc iis it TL may ex tand see nthe soih, lay, when L trust a satisfactory exo Adation may tie nieane vz to LWO Howe's Chat reer wali has byt pervaded them DF some L Yours, We bolt HE LISTENS TO THE Vorce oF soNGaTER, Mixmoua, Thursday Event g. Dania: ( nwo have 1 Lean stand it no On why was Veiy, very foolish as to Date he vo.ce of Un Pevke Wer Who Im FO true to thes We s bavely Mabe! Oh! that L might Nave te ‘wido that whieh Thave done it » Thaston to do the Wext vst t your forivencss forthe great wrone | you. Tupu sive by natures) did 4 Pett f Your vevlect, but simply thonentot te y T lad beech treated, Now, when L look think how /aliliutly yon have worked Just to ph Haine sshigaed 19 aidrers you Hut that you do love me tray, [pre to Wiie gal Ash inie to Ne taken Lack ugiiy ty tie dear vid piace A your acart Lovet F Meme, as yon uted to love me, and let mocall you my Mame duce maw. Quit youkbew haw Tivel to-night vou ty mo. Now or an exile havicn tomy actions. En u Will find a elue to theo ail. Led away by ber actions, while she Was here (lis: Ethma Craig), Lwos tetppted to ask her to Writes nd, w+ ou will Ree, she I8@ BoodMoarted Young lady fo-do vot blame her. Twill bear itil; for Leap pose it will very nearly kil her when eho learns Wall ui engaged to you a, Hut Lmust do what's right T also encore her picture auc letters, and afier you have read them, eminent | Doek togettior with the picture, aud 1 wall Tewari them) to her. Now, dear Manie, how wil we tugnave It? do so Ww eLinartied in May, but there aie ho liivie tations Thave been use my money until | Which will Just about pay ourex: . Now, 1 will leave ita: in Your What shall be done? T have got a leave of abe and must use 1 “Lwin ina terrible Lt you can siraiguien tt, 0. Rij if wor, wil elull f May be done but you mns be ont there on the 25th ctnie know whatia led on the 2th, id the duper and 1 Of he Whole cog abate bere ite have never been itoy aud rome HE CLINGS TO LIS FIRST LOVE, My Drancer Mame—Toam in r ton sunday FO IAG Cit Ww woud Craig, Dao tok so feel wnorey, becwtise OF for her yam E wrong in fee iti T have weit word, saying Wat L Wer it to be iy ai x Drtiove, and exprersiuag my sorrow bees: or | Auifesting W feellig other that ¢ ra Tool it to be my duty (o ewit and ace her ub on Dou you think L hed better Fee her ane toll her in £01 woids sh n Ne voting more thins friend?) Aw to those Inv-Iatione, Mary, 't norrigie vo Giem priite iat Hempelead. 1 ty ae 1 inut soud to New York lor the paper aud eaveiny Ard Wich Mave then priate h can ‘ H tine. Sow hail we Hatesae? Teuppos wo Tnunc} Vitalions, or Lbave been (hibkie Cr havi te ennounced In church, with te reque:t tue! your friends by present wort way Mr, silleck wich Hike xt bunday. Pitae, VEN IP YOU PAY A very nice slur o1 Parents Wil ok De prew Horning of (hy sob with ith SuMlay id Hike very inneh to have an answer to this, Ko voR THEM, ail be there on Le Pehl not write be the last yon will e ‘write to me a8 Miss Lent, or at least euch fs the hope Yours, WiLL, A TRLEORAM. SrNROLA, May 21, 1870, for wedding. Wil! be f, HUNTINGTON, AUNTINOTON’s FLIGHT. Hontington, after the fight of the night of the in tended marrige, Went to New York. Some iriends of Miss Lent, throazh the columns of Tim 80x, ex. Ie the Gentleman, which culled tortu the #ub- joined : Migs Me A, Lent: Will get fruit. ‘Get team myto there Tuoeday evening. Be Foxy MIs LIPR WAS GROWING 4 LITTLE nntonTeR, ¢10, Test possible that Lmuat attrtitte MY present fvellnes to the consequence of tHe deed ya Dave committed » Yesterday ite was Just Dea inning (0 Grow nittie brighter, wien In going to the offs tare nw Twas told {hat wf, Ort hal heen entered ne to ihe effect that Chad abandoned a young A they slid not enre to give employment fo any, such verson. To gay that L was sth would hat On! Many ext! feebly express my feelins t. Lite did f think when | you Yes, 1 release you from F ehgagerient.” that vou would fot kee T ehnoot thing it of you: even ow I don't think It was you, even though they sald £0. Oh, won't you ease niy nitnd by Kimoly writing to mé to the etfwet that 1am releaved, Won’ fu act of Justice mm making the declaration, eine “do me THE RELRASE. nilersigned In the atixing of hor name to this it, declares W. K. Huntington releared trom tons, ond from the engagement which hay Heretoiore exsted between us. Answer soon and let me trast add \our name to the above jugcon, 40 Wert Fort on will not refuse to Return to W. B. Hunt- hth street, New Yor —__ DEATH IN THE METROPOLIS. aanaipiioe kind of Meat te Bent to Pu tlone Sheep Lambs. Abraham Stran of the Sanitary Police was ac- cused yesterday before Judge Brennaa of trying to Dlockmail Walstein G. Fox, a bateher at Wert Wash- ington Market, by demanding a lamb from him. Mr. Fox testified that on the third of June Stran seized upon three sheop dressed as lambs, and eon- demned them as being unfit toeat, But Mr. Fox spoiled his caseffagainst the officer by adding that he had twenty-eizut lambs " on his stall, ond that one, at least, of those loft behind was far worse than those seized, nevertheless it wus sold to Dutcher and Kent to a public institution in Broo! lyn, Officer Stran swore that the animals wero Diown, and “plaited ” heavily with mutton fat to make them look like lambs, std that as Le found them unfit for human food, he seized them and gent them to the rendering ¥1 Oficer tran prodteed record to show that from Keb. 1, 1963, 10 May 1, meat in Washington Market, 00Y sheep, 13 hogs, Ti ponnes of ham, 628 pounds of bect, 10,525 potinds of poultry, and $,025 pounds of game, —_— Fschewing at all tines e failivitity, Knox, the hatter, of on of belug at th in America. In wothing y ,Pretension to tn Ke r this tree whieh ho ste the Rorgains in Watches, Jowelr:, and Silverware,— J. 1, Jounston & Kovinson, 15) Bowery. Ado. . — _ Good sherry. port, claret, and white wi a $150 ber gailon, at Ii, Mouguin's, 8 and 8 Nassau 6t.—ddv. re FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, Sarenpay, July 2—P. M.—The day has beon qniet th Wall street, such as fe nenally rected oa the near approach of @ clote holiday. ‘The business in ell the departments of tho Stock Exchange was rostrieto de and Gold loom adjourning at one o'clock untt y, Snty 5. A majority of the prigeipal operators nd brokers left the street at an carly hour, to take ad- Vavtage of two days’ recreation, 60 Keldom presented. ‘The pavvage of the ¥ unding Will yesterday by the House was the fubject of very Little comment in monetary les. and had no perceptible influence upon the mar- the Impression being veryidecide.ifthat it will meet with defent in the Senate, even should it be reached The railway share market waa steady and dail during the morning, but efier meridian became sironz on a more active volume of business, the highest prices being made just previous to the adjournment of the Long Room at 9 P.M. on the favorable statement of the elty banks, Lake Shore hae been the favorite stock, having led the 0 list, and advanced from 100% to 101X on Hiberal prichrses, Next in point of in- terest were New Fork Central and Hudson Liver, 81. Pav, Ohio and Mivstss Island, The or Ket clored strong, Dut wi ons, owing to the absence of operators. Tho gold iarket opened ‘Wilh a less confitent tone at 112)4, and alter mornoutart ly reaching 112%, took @ downward turn to 111, fom Whieb Mt rencted to 112, and dnring the remainder of the ay ranged at 111% to the latter figure. Tho prime Fearon attributed for the fall was the unexpect iT of Uke precicus metal py the atcamers ted ii 8 kreat measure by the Indisposition carry their purehases nati Tuesday aie of this gold help morket there war a good sup * wer ty of pattie rried att ¥ balances, $1,901,400; and DA. M..MTY! 07, and prine pal quot 10 A.M PM. 12 Foreign exchange has been dull but firm at the ade vance of yesterday, prime (0 days sterling closing on « Dasis of 1 4@INO: stight, 110% and commercial LONGO. The shipments of olay were S117 A total for the week of $7H,6%, aud since January 1 of £171 88 aealnet $15,511,159 for the ame pertod 1 The total imports oi goods at Uils port for the week amounted to F51448, and of gen eral merchandise $9,025,565, m total of $4,548,310, as ratnst $0,208,588 last Week, and $1,812.49 in 1999, w do crease as compared with last year of $74,119 The ‘Trea z the week received in coin for eas toms, & 1; pata out Iu cota interert on the pable debt, 80,230,290 ; Fold $1,406,000 gold, and bought $2 02,- 000 five-twentics for the speetal fn’, wi Last of the Jace prosran sno instructions bal heen rocalye LV ies Urer Telative to boud pureliees ant gold mites for dive The mosey warket has boen without essential changes the srpply of call berg very abundant ad and ® Canty aie at the close ronad amounts were left with, the Hoad dealers at 2, toy tie sake of the three day Interest. Divcounia were qnict ALrates GF heretutore quoted,” The hanks suowe | «inore flatteriny statement retina Wan tor xeveral previous heavy disbursements of the | Fy Dlg reflected im the farge inerense ts Mie spec o TNe oss in te Deets the clock m te atom t total resery * ne 1 Eacan of y We woral Habs it pks held ha fine ut: , Lon ¢ t + ¢ 5 get ow ; ‘ i i ‘ Legal teniisia: $7 f ‘ a The Goy nt ond market host niet, ant a Norin C4 ned ALS, Carol WIN ¢Harien, 1 and’ Mlssibel tpt w Irvine Kayings Tust (ution hag deelaed iis reruint by wn adver tiene Shore, Ae mE ; — New York Ma Sarenpay, July 2-1 Ship ping apd andl steady tern and St Dat other qualities dilly extra $5184 650) do. round jooup UI al anet ald Bidet PUNDITEE y kuow What you tend dois iy regard to Invitations. chow WHC @ Kod lous letter, Remembe: it wall und FpOUL by ateainh, WIM Blips ng prices generally frm, fx fear iiead WUE Blob st iieisity’s Saves and Resek: 019 & ta and Ch ehonath tnd ¢ Wie dtaumibed wud ford and fries kT ist was gust, ta j nib Vithason aoa Tiny. Le Eaves shares were strung: With sales uf | Closing prices at 1:90 Mi mut. A SY. at 0. Wy SVC Lek 15 nit i} head Wie Vaie sores.ccd0h) Why Do a: ring; $1. at, for No.2 4o., ama 1981.15 for No.3 Chica zo soring Nw aakes, and $1.51\5 981.95 for Darley in, talr demand; salve 700 i io, 2 Ohieato at toe, Bari alt higher; emi efwte ne #1 1o@ei.20. One actives. salon tee . Sir ses ed nd heavy; ralow amp an | onaound at cu 0. for new Western nixed ; $1.2) for We ‘Weatern yellow #1.10, rk in Maht demant and frm; Sees ; wm fh rn dow und Dhie. moos at €H ave Beot In moderate demn: plain and extra tess eet dil "at We HOWINAL Cat meats quiet but rin Hee pickled hame at ve, y. Ut 1S“eltXe, for eft Pat tNeeltise. A tc. dor No, 1, ids Stemi, n white, — MARINE INTELLIGENCE, couneasieaniens MINJATHNE, ALMANAC.-TMT4 DAY. sued GH! Moon Rots... 11 8 HIS Day, Sandy Mook..11 01 Gov, Istand.t1 10) Hell Gato,....19 6 —_—> Arrived cw Bteamship John Gibeon, Washington and Alexandria, mdse. and pare. nehip City of Baltimore. Fiverrool, meee and pase, Mnship Herman Livingston, Savane’, mdse, and Ae, rig Ida M. Comery, Trinidod, near. i rig Carrie B. Pickering, (alearion, eugar and mo- lageen, Fit Hyperion, Havana, scar, ig Gambia. Sa vanitia, mise. Hz Anna Rirabetiy, Hangor, 1amber, Sehit Independence, Charleston, 8 C4 twriber. Behr Welcome R, Beebe Rockiaud, Me., 1ce. Aiko, the uanal river aud constwise Voss Sar Children often need a good, safe tonic, ‘which, without posscering the qualities of an unbealthy atimulant, will yet serve to give tone to the stomach nd strengthen the organs of digestion, and by infusing naturally new vigor into the system, overconie any ap- parent fecblones# and want of vitality. Dr. Jayn Vermifuge 18 a compound well snited to euch erses, ‘and besides being © mort nsefal tonte, its ioug estad- lished reputation asa Vermifuge oontribates to wake ita remedy frequently required in every family, likely, if administered promptly and judiciously, to save tho parent much anxiety and expense, and tho chiki a great deal of suffering, Bold everywhere. Smail size di cents; double size BY cents per bottie, Perfectly Safe in all Cases. Mrs. WINLOW'S SOOTHING SY RCP, for all diseasen of children, such as tecthing, wind colle, &e., roliabie. and harmless remedy. Tt aot only re tho ehild from pain, but rogniates te sivinach and bowels, corrects acidity and gives tone and enerzy the whole system ; gives rost ty the uiother aad health tothe ehild. —— The Tocrensing Dema Tiehu anmMelently indicates 11 diseates of the bladder, kidooys, and arinary orzane, Tes also eminently sucoesstul tn counteracting dyapep- sia, organic weakness, dropty, gravel, siranzury, fo male complatuts, diabevor, and catarth of the bladder. — dd for Holmbot Foncher, mons, fleas, and ail verniim, Tats is the origt- hol, pure article, without change. While several arth cles pretend to destroy, Lyon's kills, and without pot son, Its effects are wonderful. None ca be relied upon except that signed E. LYON, Ruy and use Lyon's Powder, and you will not be troubled with water bugs. Celebration at Grand Park. jos who DESIKE to participate in tae ‘oF OUR NATIONAL. ANSIVET ON MONDAY, JULY te willtake ty BARLIEN TRAINS a7 A. Mani # AM. Tt all who lowe on tue teks 4. tow wall arrive in Une for the ERTS COLLATION ane OON SALE. Carriages will be mm attendance upon the that NG arrival of each train Ales and genticmon may. be aisuret EWOUKS, Will be permiteed on te croniid every Hovision will by iuade for the confor: terrabhnentat visitors, Te MEME trains lonve Aepot,, corns ang di ay., at7 A.M. Bata ie ANDULW WIESON, Jn oi7 Broadway. ance os bration Fi of vith Read To-Morrow's Seu. Wheeler & Wilson Machines, 1.411 Hronds Mt by paving f19 aon ant 8ib per ac Machines to tet a MARKIED. MUSGRAVE —F1L.D On Monday. tune 2t, at Orne neisea, by ths , oF of iiritish er of David Dudie, DIVORCED, DAVIS.—In this city, en Jute F Loew, Mary HODES Ta tits Indge Jd. Freed Dayid G. Jes. th, the Thesday week Ligh e om Wh heath red her soul. The remnuins will metoken £ to Calvary Come‘ery (oF Ini A lativew of the Balry MOKG family are ros ne, Mila PALE RS D N'<In Hroonivn, Bs sn Morgan, Widow Of e funeral ! dently, Wa) Colc Geo. We ‘ar hart, Lowis & atts »: TALPEN.~oy His relatives and friend Tappen. dts, are funeral, front the Rn And those of his father Geo, fiOMy hewned to wttend Nis re Church, eorier of Mualon aye and 2th ston Wednesday mornuig, July 6 Wb 16 O'clock, without furher notes 4 Norice-1.0, of O. F.—The. members of Diamond Oto, Now 119, Are Fequested To Het? al the Loaee Hivom, atti o'eiork Myon Tuesday. Joly attend te brotucr. AP Wood.” ordes. JAS. T. IUDEON, N.G. + Special Hotices, the funeral of ou. EXCELSIOR ROOFING COMPANY, (ucurporaced inder tie Laws of tls State.) Oftice % Dey +t P. NOBLE, President, Tin roofs coated with our Exce'sior Cement, Other roofé with Canvass, Felting, and Grave aky roots Fepaired and made water tight ALL Wo! IRAN TED. We claim for our Cou yerority over al! others for ite elasiieity, 19 + to water, its tre proof qu dit y Werte jou to tho following well-koowa, G D, MORGAN, New York. Hon, GEORGE OPDYKE, New Yory Pr. ©, CALHOUN, F #. Fonsth Nat, Bank, Gon. JOUN A. DL Y EJ BLARE, Esq. Pt fe Nat. Bar And others LING WAU, CHINES 40 Hons 1th CONDLLIATION FREE. PILYSICIAN, READ TOMORROW'S SUN, INLAND, OF Foad, (00k huGtovell ety MINNIE WARE bes AMM DRAWINGS. A.-OP FICIAL SINMONS & CO's LOTTE bextra ¢ missor iL ase No. 485, duly" 2, 187% 4 1, PeOry M4, ti, 63, and ini th wiwiy, 1) bulton se LARATION OF THE BOARD OF . CASNVASSERS OF THE COUNTY "OR Ti relubon to votes given for Thapectors of two The Loft County" Cauyassers of th comuty of New York, havilyg Cunvaeaed and estimat they @241 klection Distriets of a: kiection hold on the Livi day of the General do Lerepy certify, deteriuige, aud declare FIGNTEENTIE WARD, ‘That Forbes Ho! ‘and Thoms Van ft by greatest number of votes, werk duly Tap tors of Blection tor Uae Fast E.eeuon L ob Kightcenth Ward That Frank O'Donnell and Rott, rrentes of yours it rae Hofforan, by the or Disteio! of the 1 iW hat Dan pie and Wiliam J greatest nun Of Election for the Fourth kecton b) Kile na) ‘That Janes Prh and Jonn Foster, py the eventort aumber of vores, were aaly oleetod T ‘of Kd fon for the Filth Becton Disuict of Ue Kightoanth Ward Pai dames Owens and Heory Mathews, by the grea’ est numer of \ wore duly. ¢ ‘ t Eietion tor tue 880 Election District of the Eight eeytn Word: That Williaa Baird and Wiliam ©. Ottrion, by the greatest 1 Of votes, were duly ected Tips fort of Liection lor the seventh Eicethu Datret of uo Kjghiecen a Ward, Tha FL. Waite and wart Marrener duly elected ‘Lisp atl, Election District of at umber ot vores, were tor the El ‘ Trust A. Moran and John By the g! Of votes, Were duly elected ter Ww the Ninth Election District of the bigileent ard That K. Kimbark and Frans Kinney. by the greatest BumMour Uf Volvs, were duly elected Luspeotors of Bice