The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 24, 1872, Page 2

TUBSDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1872. Amusements To-Day. Footh’s Theatr Mowery ‘Ihent: mire —Ref, Regerker ane Hl Twenty shied w Year's Kve, Aes the Clock "Tan cops Troy ime of salut Ay vy. 1c Wer ate apace, ‘Seen pte al Ween For the accommodation of up-town residen tisements for Tux SUN wiMl be receive: at our regular rates at the up-town advertisement oitices S14 West ‘Thirty-second street, junction of Broadway and Stach Aeanna snd ORO Wass Tonnntp thind wtaaat, appaston Grand Opera House, and on the east side at $11 Grand street, near Kast Broadway, from § A. M. to S:3O P.M, ———- The Cabinet and Mr. Boutwell. The Administration is going off before the wind. In the ewelling sails, its chief officers and its deck hands see nothing but the promise of a smooth and triumphant voyage. Ithas appealed to the people, and the people have rendered their verdict of approval. To be sure, the election went by default at the last. The opposition was not united upon its candidate, and the means and appliances of the Administra- tion were discovered, in the September and October elections, to be 80 abu qant and complete, and the popular <onadence in Gen, Grant so little sb”!eon, that from that period the effort +, aefeat him was by common consent apandoned., There ap- peared to ben chance to win, and the cards wer’, thrown down and not played. The is no way now of estimating the Zeal strength of the opposition to Gen. Grant's Administration. He was voted for in the end, all over the country, by men who meant, in the beginning, to op- pore him, and were at heart opposed to him, but who, secing how things were going, adopted the plan of political hedg- ing, to save themselves locally and othe wise, But we care nothing about this any way. We are perfectly willing to accord anything and everything that anybody and everybody claims. And since the Tribune in its demoralization advised that the opposition electoral vote be cast for Gnayt, we are willing to admit, for the sake of argument, that the new Adminis tration is coming into power on a ununi- mous vote. We ‘e all Democrats, we are all Republican Anything you please, gentlemen, The sun and the moon and the stars are all shining, especially Tne Sun; the breeze is gentle and fair, and everything lovely. The innocents of the Cabinet are all on a sum- mer sea, The jolly Ronesc the virtuous Creswetr, the wise BocTwELL; there they are, smiling, happy, contented. This marvellous trio, when they finally come to that unhappy end, which is ¢ fate of all politicians, will never know what hurt them. will be one day Their political corpses suddenly laid out upon the deck, and the passer-by will read the imseription, “Struck by lightning!" On one may be pinned a sinail additional la- bel, “SEcor;" on another, simply “ Cror- PENNING.’ The significance of these brief inscriptions will need no interpretation. What will be deciphered on the outer gar- ment of the other, we are not so sure; but it will be something that is dimly denoted by the phrase “Wall treet.” it is with him especially that we now have to do. Mr, Boutwettisa man of whom some good things may be said, and in this re- spect he is conspicuously unlike the two other expensive luxuries of the Cabinet to whom we have referred. He is not loose like Ropesox; on the contrary, he is snug. He is not an adventurer like Cresweur, He is an honest graduate of a New England country nd has crept along upward by slow , fastening himself natu- rally and industriously along the walls of the political edifice as tight us an Irish ivy. He is to be commended in that bis grip, though small, is not burglarious. He is at least in no way responsible for any open debauchery of the public morals; and considering the company he is obliged by his position to keep, this virtue be- comes lustrous, It is a great thing in his financial administration that be has the fundamental virtue of pe- This it is that has 's fortune as Secretary This, along with a few streaks of good sense, kept him from being a dead failure, He entered office as the successor of one of the best theoretical fnance ministers we have ever had, who ndered his own brief career luminous cuniary honesty, made Mr, BoutweL of the Treasury. by his unsurpassed expositions; and who, throwing his light far forward on the path of whoever might succeed hin, made Mr, Boutwenr's task from the beginning and his burden 1 But Mr, Boutwetn had nece very soon to do with new cireumstances, and as oon they arose he began to eahibit Lis deficiencies, For ex- ample we of the first things which de- volved upon him wos to refund the six per cent. five-twenties, then inning to fall due, into bonds bearing a lower ra of interest, This wus before the French and German war, Money was every- where plenty and seeking investment in Europe, and there was no great borrower in the market except the United States, At that time Mr, Bour- WELL's course was plain, and what is more, he had the benefit of our advice. We faw then, looking forward, what we now see, looking backward—that the hap- Py moment had arrived for shifting our "ix per cent, five-twenties into five per cent. teu-fortics, The proposition was fore upon Mr, Bourwern's atten. tic He gradually took it in; but his mind seemed to be strained and bewildered by the effort; and although he had the best and soundest advice from the highest sources to support his action, he failed to comprehend the situation so far &s to see what he could do and what he ld not, Perbaps he may plead for excnse that be wasa little befogged at the time by | rent began to go against Mr. Greevey in the eager advice of the late Mr, GREELEY. Whatever Mr, Greeiey’a eminence In other respects, it was not asa financier that he excelled, But Mr. Boutwetn did not then seem to appreciate that fact, and | never to fully comprehend it till the eur- the political world. This result clarified Mr. Bourweit’s vision amazingly But however all this may be, Mr. Bovr- WELLE, being urged, as we have sald, began | palavering in 1870, by asking Congress to give him permission to borrow money at four percent, and fourand a half per cent., and, if necessary, @ little at five per cent., to pay off the six per cent. five-twenties. But his proposition was such a muddle of terms and conditions that Congress fussed and fumed and boggled over it a whole tession, and finally passed the bill in such @ haggard shape that the ghost frightened off lenders of every degree. Finally, @ straight-out five per cent. loan was extort- ed Out lla gn the market. Buta yearand more mtd been spent in th maging effort tp get money cheaper than it could be borrowed; and all the advantages of @ happy juncture of events were lost. ‘QVxe war between France and Germany had changed the whole face of affairs, and mouey Was not to be had even a five per éerit, Sthout begging. Not to make * dead failure of tus “le movement, Mr, Boutwet set about this, and he got off two hundred out of his five hundred mil- THE which it is belleved that itleman’s long experience fn political life inakes him an authority on, the interest in the perform- ancé would be greatly heightened. Nor does: the flow of soul stop here. Other papers areto be read. Among them, @ little later, Mr. Moon—B, B. Moon, in fact —will stir the torpid liver of the dyspeptio with some beautiful thoughts suggested by “the effect of varied manipulations on the quality of cheese.” At the gotng down of the Moon Mr. Winttam BLANDING, with singular appropriateness, will take the fle On the Benefits of Skimming the Night's Milk, As this is believed by many consumers to be the cominon practice of the average trafficker in Orange county, there will be great interest on their part to know to whom the benefits redound. If Mr. BLanptno will just refer, in passing, to the benefits of the kindred practice of di- lution he will make a lively thing of it, and gratify several hundred Constant Readers who have been inquiring about it for years, Among other attractions it is said “a question drawer will be inaugurated, and will doubtless result in benefit to all.” Mr. Srymour having been several times a candidate for office, knows the special weakness of the American people, and no more convincing proof of his final retire- ment from politics could be had than his willinguess to preside over the inaugura- tio of a question drawer. ~ The programme is sometimes obscure, as lions by means of the well-remembered Syndicate machinery, This is the upshot of Mr. Bourwetz’s four years of financiering, so far as any ad- vantage to the Treasury has come of it; yet there was nothing in the way, during the first and second years of his adminis- tration, to prevent the conversion of five hundred millions or more of our six per cent. five-twenties into five per cent. ten- forties, and the consequent saving of five millions per annum of interest money. All that was wanted wasaclear head and an energetic hand. But we had neither; and we had then just exactly what"We have now. rs It is the First Step that Costs. Our readers are aware that two sts of Presidential Electors Qaim to byye been chosen in Arkausas, one for ANT and one for Garevey, and that each set will send their votes to Washington to be opened and counted in the presence of the houses of Congress in February, However the election in Arkansas may have ac- tually gone, we prestime that nobody dreams that any regazd will be paid to the Greetzry votes. They will be hustled aside, and those of the Presidential Elec- tors claiming t have been chosen inthe interest of Grant will be counted, To suppose otherwise is to misunderstand the character of the present Senate and House of Representatives, Practically this 1s of little consequence in regnrd to the election of President and Vice-President this year. The majority for Grant and Wrison fs so large that a dozen States like Arkansas could not change the result. But the precedent is of incalculable importance, A committee of citizens of Arkansas called upon Attorney-General WILLIAMS on Saturday to lay before him certain facts respecting the controversies in that State, and to inquire of him what course the President would pursue in relation thereto, and especially what use would be | made of the United States troops now « tioned at the capital of the Stat Mr. Wruirams, speaking in the name of Presi+ dent Grant, informed the committee that the troops would only be employed to pre serve order and to enforce the decisious of the United States courts, smooth on the surface, but it covers a great deal of mischief. Let us imagine a case which is not unlikely to ocour at the very next Presidential eleo- tion, Suppose the result is close, and may depend upon throwing out the votes of two or three States in the final count by the Senate and. House of Repre- sentatives. How ‘easy it will be, early in February, 1877, three or four days before the votes are to be counted, to go before some small United States Judge in Washington, say like Direct of New Or- his seems ¥ leans, and, on an afMfidavit, get out an er parte injunction prohibiting the Senate and House from counting the electoral votes of just States enough to insure the triumph of the favored candidate, and then put this injunction in the hands of some slippery Marshal like PACKARD to be executed, who, of course, will call to his assistance a regiment or two of troops, and fill the two wings of the Capitol with in- fantry, and occupy the square on the east front with a few batteries—all in the inter- est of law and order, Does not everybody see how promptly this can be done, on the very principle enunciated by Attorne jeneral WILLIAMS in the Arkansas case, and acted upon by Dvnett in the Louisiana case? Will the people be warned in time? — The Subject of Cheese. Of Utica conventions many have been held, various in politics, color, religion, and sex, large and small, quiet and noisy, mixed and unmixed, moral and immoral, annual, triennial, centennial, and millenial, Utica is a good place for conventions, It is not strange that the American dairymen should hold @ convention there on the Mth, 5th, and 16th of January next, as by the modest printed page before us they pr pose. The Hon, Horatio Seymour is President of the association, and it meets for the dclights of social intercourse and a calm and dispassionate discussion of cheese, Mr. ARNOLD of Ithaca is to deliver the an- nual address, his subject “ Words— and why not curds we beg to inquire— to American Cheese Makers.” He will speak first, and very properl of the association; secondly, he will give a general view of the American cheese in- terest; and thirdly, of the direction in which improvements are needed, As if this were not enough of inspiring themes, the programme adds: * It is possible also— ab, blessed possibility!—that the speaker may touch upon the subject of electricity as a practical agent in coagulating milk. Forcshadowingsin this, we suspect, of some subtle application of the lightning rod to the cow, What if, indeed, by some ingen- ious contriv: ARNOLD of Ithaca has util- ized the vtric spark so that by the turn- ing of a crank he can coagulate an entire cow? What grand possibilities this would open to Creswet.'s Government tele- graph system, “Possibly touch upon it!” We shall not be content, nor will the dairy~ men be content, unless he dwells and en- larges upon it, ‘The President of the society may be ex- pected to read @ paper on the use of the of the labors when, 10> instance, * it is desired that sam- ples of cheese and butter, istrative of the theory and practice of those who take ['4rt be placed before the members for test and | {nspection.” Take part of what? The cheese, or the butter, or both? We do not understand, elther, why dairy- men are invited to bring in cheeses * known or believed to be in any degree polsonous.” This is carrying the thing too far. It isn’t the cheese; unless, tudeed, the dairy- men who make the ‘yojsonous cheese are to eat it theme tyes, That, now, would be au entertenment worth while, But ‘ae convention will be a success. Ac:ybody can go every day, and stay all \ day, and get the cream of the entertain- ment, and learn which side of his bread is buttered, and find out what cheese makes the liveliest skippers, and all that, And the beauty of it is that you get all the in- formation a great deal easier than the dairyman does his milk, without any pumping. _— Not So. The commission appointed to get up & national exhibition tm Philadelphia, by way of celebrating the one hundredth an- niversary of American independence, have come to Congress to ask for money, “The people of the respective States,” they say, “baye not furnished such material ald as is now required for this important work ;” and accordingly they want Congress to take the money out of the Treasury. We protest against the desired appro- priution, If members of the House or Senate, from patriotic or pecuniary mo- tives, wish to subscribe for themselves a sufficient sum, they have the right to do so; but they have no right to draw upon the taxes of the people for any such purpose, If there is not a sufficient wish in the country to secure the voluntary donation and subscription of all the funds needed for such an exhibition, let us go without it. Indeed, the fact that donations and sub- scriptions are not furnished is evidence enough that the people do not want it. We trust that this belief may prove to be erroneous, and that capital enough may be offered to carry out the project. Phila- delphia alone can furnish it if she chooses, and we hope she will do so, But if in order to have the exhibition it is necessary that the means should be taken out of the taxes of the country, the scheme should be aban- doned, — Senator Freninanvysen has brought for- ward a bill intended to secure amore efficient and honest administration of Indian affairs, « reform which bas long been greatly needed, and never more so than at the present time. It provides that all books and accounts relating to the payment of money or anything else of value on Government account by any Indian superin- tendent, agent, or sub-agent, shall be open to the inspection of any person desiring to examine them; prohibite any official from permitting any person to sign, either as principal or attost- ing witness, any voucher or other paper for the payment or receipt of money or other valuable consideration on Government account unless It 1s filled up {n full both as to amount and ac- count ; provides that all distributions of supplies forthe various Indian tribes shall be made in tions, to prevent fraud, which are fully detailed tn the bill; and that it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to transinit to the United States District Attornoy for the proper Territory certifled copies of all vouchers, ac- counts, and clalms presented to or paid on account of the Indian service in such Territory, which shall be public records, Severe penalties are provided for the violation of apy provistous of this bill, which, if itis passed, may have an Important effect tn checking the shameful frauds which have so long disgraced the admin- istration of Indian affairs, and, as 18 ger for ililett gains to some men very high in station, ‘as well as to an endless throng of obscure cheats and swindlers who have influential friends at court. — : Tt is nowannounced that Mr, WairrLaw Rerp and bis associates have bought back from Mr. WILLtAM OntoN fifty shares in the stock of the Tritune Association, giving them a majority | of the whole property and assuring to them Its control, As they state, they paid Mr, Oxon @ handsome advance, and rumor has it that this | advance {snot leas than one thousand dollara per share, According to the same authority, the capitalist who stands behind Mr. Rec in this transaction is the Hon, WALrrR W. Englewood, @ clever and sti a young man of much money, who has just been elected to Con= gress from that part of Ne Mr. Rerp proposes to conduct {the Tribune as an inde pendent Republican Journal, on the general platform laid down by Mr, GREELEY In his con- tributions tothe paper during the brief period between the time of the election and bis death, Ii is evident, however, that it will be substar tially a new paper, and we trust also that it will be a successful cne, ae The Springfield Republican mentions, in connection with the fact that Mr, postal telegraph has been rather unexpectedly reported by both the Senate and House commit- teos, and that Its friends boast of their ability to procure its passage through Congress, a rumor current In telegraphic circles that stock to tho amount of @ million or 60 has been “ placed where it will do the most good,” and that out- side parties bi ntered Into option contracts to Luke this stock off the hands of Its present holders at 60 within a certain time after the Ex- ecutive signature Is affixed to the bill, Now thi the magnificent returns derived from the jud ous placing of Credit Mobilier stock have be- ne public, itis only natural to suppose that OaKRS Ayres will find bis imitators, As to the truth of the rumor mentioned in the Republican there appears to be no evidence which has been made public as yet, though it would seen im- microscope in testing milk, cream, and cheese, If to this should be added a few thoughts on the milk in the cocoanut, possible for any Congressman to vote for the HUBBARD bill unieas be had some special inter- est In ite success, rally | believed, afforded well cultivated opportunities | HELPS of | Huanarn’s | i oratory” to have the torture system abolished. own pocket—we should doubt this if Mr. Wal SUN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1872. SOME NEW BOOKS: —— A Most Astonishing Sort of Novel. The reader who takes up Mr. MansrrEetp TRACY WALWoRTH's novel, entitled Beverly, or the White Mask, and thinks tho startling interest of the first two sentences cannot be sustained through the hundreds of pages that follow, will find himself mightily at fault before be gets through. ‘The book opens with this volcanic utterance: “Thie chapler ia nob ne It ts tho revelation of a horrible truth.” ‘The ordinary American citizen is caught with the first sentence and transfixed with the sec- ond, To the reader thus caught and impaled the author mercifully offers, without clreumto~ cution or delay, the explanation of the ciroum- stance that the chapter 1s not numbered, “it isseparated,” he says, “ from the chapters of flo~ tion that whatever merciless blows the critics may deal the romance, they may, as mon and citizens of the Great Republic, allow this chapter to stand as the naked and disgraceful truth for the consideration of thoughtful and Christian men.” Itis a short chapter and jerky. Naked and disgraceful truth is apt to be ao. It relates pered. utmost flight when ho did find it; that he be- lieved In metompayobosias built one or two of tho palaces so common on the banks of the Hudson; was rosoued from the detectives who were on his track by Mr. Wiliam Burke, the convict in the unnumbered chapter; after which he went to Russia and lived in a palatial mansion at St. Petersburg, and always, from first to last, talked to everybody like a Christian hero and a saint. ‘The character is so true to life that we yearn toward it. It isso like the regular New York Stato Senator. They are so apt to belleve in motemprychosis, and to kill poople and spend years in secret chambers with no companions but thelr books, and to discover diamond flelds in South Amorica, and to talk morality to all their friends, and then go to St. Petersburg and die in palattal mansions. So many of them have done this that, on the whole, itis strange somebody has not made a simple yet thrilling aarrative of It before, ‘The other characters {n the story are equally true and life-like. For instance, there comos in to MacGregor, when he 1s having the heart hunger, a “Dream Child,” having clairvoyant powers,who tells him what he is thinking about, and does other such simplo every-day things, She comes up out of the darkness from nowhere how a young man who had been guilty of th Indiseretion of killing a drayman with o cart- rune, and was serving aterm of imprisonment At Sing Sing, was tortured in various ways—do- scribed at length and with pleasing detail—be- cause he would not work; how he was holsted up by the thumbs and found there by a State Senator who happened to be inspecting the Prison, by whom his release was indignantly ordered; how he said his name was William Burke, and fainted away; how the Senator, whose name was Delancy, and who figures afterward asthe hero of the story, had a phy- | sician summoned and agliass of brandy adminis- tered, which he (the Senator) paid for out of his worth had not refused to number the chapter, because It is anaked and disgraceful truth— and how the Senator retumed to the Legisla- ture and ‘exerted all the wonderful arts of his Tio failed of course. Tt has been unife:miy observed that the only effect of worderful arts of ordtory upon a New York Senate has been to relax their conceptions of all other kinds of torture. ‘And then,” Mr. Walworth adds—and this is the naked and disgraceful truth to which he invites the attention of thoughtful and Chris- tlan men—"to-day, in the Christian year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two spelt out with great impressivenoss—" the thamb pulley is in full operation, and the nusaber ‘pul- ! | the whole four hundred and twenty-two pages. public, and {n compliance with stringent regula- | lied’ yearly is two hundred and eight.” And now begins the story with chapter T., whi not being & “Daked and disgraceful truth,” is numbered, tat ts only a little less vol- canto in tts opening, thus: “The midnight storm was at its height.” Then comes a picture, “MacGregor,” who bolts into the page without ny Christian name, appears in “the second story of a small brick house,” “leaning against a window." “ His forehead was pressed against the glass, and tears were streaming from his eyes. These tokens of human agony fell upon the window pane, and rolled down, down tts smooth Inner surface, while the rain drops dashed against the outer surface, and, in unison with the tears, rolled down the glass asif t sympathize with the throes of human anguish ‘This {s all so graphic and #0 intense that it does not occur to the ordinary reader to inquire what sort of anose this man must have had to allow him to press his face to the pane so closely that his tears fet! on the glass; but he pushes on to find out If possible what alled MacGregor. MacGregor was a journalist. But that was only apart of his trouble. He was married. That was another part. His wife had taken advan- tege of his absence, “when he had gone out Into the storm two hours before to purchase fuel for his hous cording to the practice of metropolitan journalists—and had run away with another man—tin the striking language of the novelist, had “fled forever.” The singular feature of the transaction was that “the terrible blow had fallen upon him without warning.” He was naturally disturbed at ner going off with another man; but that she should not have mentioned ft to him beforehand was too much. And this was why “his teeth were set together, his lips parted, and a hiss at intervals between them told that his {ron will was meditating murder.” And yet MacGregor “knew that he would be deserted months be- fore the event occurred ;"' for he traced his ped!- gree “twenty generations to the seers of Scot- land,” and himself had the gift of second sight. Having wrought up the interest of the reader to this pitch, the author dilates at some length upon MacGregor's domestic relations, and the domestic relation gener “Married love,” he says, “is a pric pearl, and must be guarded Mke a pearl,” and must receive “con- stant datly nourishment.” This ts the way pearls retain their value; by being nourished, “Trifling kindnesses must be of hourly occur renoe, else the marriage garden with Its swoet- est of flowers becomes a howling wilderness, and the gentle te of wedlock grows rapidly into &bideons chain.” MacGregor's domestic rela- tlons fell into the howling wilderness stage, and “he became reticent, that very dagger of mai ried life.” But MacGregor, though his tron will meditated murder, practised self-denial, and so far as we can learn did not kill anybody through After months of suffering, we are told that he entered “the circles of refinement,” and that “it was sad to see him look into the face of every woujan he met with that yearning, beg- ging, famished expression, which told too plainly that the great, gifted journalist and orator was dying of beart hunger.” ‘The second chapter introduces the reader to Delancy Manor, on the Hudson River, and Miss Delancy is discovered contemplating the beau- ties of the landscape from a “bold mountain peak.” On her way down the mountain she is confronted by @ man with a gun, (Here the genius of the author shines forth, The man does nothing with the gun, but It keeps up the interest of the reader to know that the man has agun.) He informs the young lady, in t millar, conversational way which such persons always assume, that “there bas arisen a cloud in the Delancy sky," and that she alone “can vert it,"" ‘The man with the gun proves to be a “clearshoaded lawyer,” who forthwith tells her that the cloud Isa deed of the whole Delancy Manor given by Miss Delancy’s grandfather to a scapegrace named James Hartwell, and that she can avert it by marrying James Hartwell, This is fresh, original, striking. The young woman considers the proporition through two pages, We have giv so much of a synopsis of the first two chapters to show that the author of | this story means business from the first word ; that the hair th risos with the * revelation of a horrible truth” ip the chapter that is not num- bered {8 not permitted to curl back upon the reader's head for an instant during the whole harrowing recital. In the third chapter there 1s the grave of an unknown man who was found murdered, Subsequently it turns out that the Senator Delancey who burst into the unnumbered chapter and ordered the tortured convict to be cut down, « i who was the grandfather of Miss Delancy, w'\ se misston in life was to avert the cloud, was (he murderer of the unknown man, ‘The charactor of this aged man must have been taken from real life, so vividly natural is it, He was amomber of the New York Senate, and of eourse wo are prepared to believe he was a statesman of eminence, an orator of wonderful magnetism: and power, @ scholar of profound research and almost unlimited acquirements in the realins of sclonoe, literature, and art, ‘That he was all this we haye the authority of the thrilling narrative before us for believing. In the gradual unfolding of the earcer of this scholar and statesman we learn that he has in the Delancy Manor a secret chamber, where, for several years after he is supposed to be dead, he Ives, and is supplied with food by his devoted wife; that he commits only one other murder, to wit, of Hartwell, who held the deed of Delancy Manor, and wanted to marry Miss Delanoy; that he secured from the body of the frst man he murdered the imap of a e fa- | before him a wood, in “ pink satin gaiters” and a“ pink coral neck~ lace,” early in the story, and does all the mys terlous things that the story demands, till toward the end she waltzes around in a ray of sunshine, sud disappears as easily and grace- Folipse, Spiletta, and Marske in their veins exquisite racers from the Kentucky p tures, with the sunlight glancing from ehesthut coats. Passing, after a time. the mea ows, Where these monarchs of the turf were leisurely grazing, the rider and his guide crossed & brook bordered by shrubs, and entered a Gloomy wood, where the sunlight was cut off by the huge cliff crested by Beverly, Into the recesses of this forest they penetrated, and found the road firm and smooth, but the sombre nature of the treer and mosses clinging to the rocks almost appalling. On, on, and still on they Wralkod, at rapid pace, the white page leading, the horsemen following, and wondering where the ascent to Beverly would begin. ‘There was ‘no indication of rising around here, Beside the curving forest road ever stood the luge perpen- dicular sidefof the mountain of rock, whose sum= mit was undistinguishable in the towering mass Of trees overhead the travellers. At last, aftor a distance of four miles had been traversed, they emerged into an. open country. skirted. by woods and watered by acurving stream. Here the road turned abruptly to the northward and d to rise rapidly. ‘They were surely nding the southern slope of the moun- Forest trees were rare upon it. But it waa terraced all the way to the summit, Flowers and fruit trees were growing everywhere, and prings were gushing bright from their native ck, and travelling down the mountain in chan- by the horticulturists At length they reached a point in the ascent Tete the road curved away to the westward, the frult trees an thoroughbreds of Asia, Africa, and N Ware steeds with the blood of Flying flowers still bordering the way. Again the ascent became arduous, but they soon came out upon a plateau of great ex- fent, upon which was seen 4 circular racing ooking horseman now beheld once more surrounded by a circle of elms, upward the the fairy-like grace of the pal could see tl ures of worm: fully a8 Signor Blita's watch disappears into the Potato, No diMculty about It whatever. Then Miss Delancy becomes poor and takes to singing, and Mr. Matzek—the name sounds almost familiar—offers her $12,000 year as soon as he finds her out ; and that {s the most natural thing in the world. Mr. Matzek goes round picking up singers at that price. Hall, Blue & Co., the jewollors, pay a grizaly mariner—Sena~ tor Delancy in disguise—$100,000 In thousand dollar bills for Brazil diamonds, %ith no more question than the San Frazintgeo capitallats made in buying ths salted diamond flelds of Colorado, and something of that kind of commonplace ciroum**ance happens on almost every page. - Sut where the author excels is in vivid and life-like descriptions of the private restdences on the banks of the Hudson, The one which give: the name to the book—Beverly—ts described at length; and though all Americans are familiar with Just such palaces, it may be worth while to give an extract or two from the pen portrait of the place to refresh the memory of the reader, who will at once recognize It, Here {s the entrance of Bevor!, These carefully guarded woods alive with birds are only t ng, mask to the areas setate: Rumor bas it that beyond all theso Hes the real Reverly, the palace on the slope of a mountain. True, you can catch a glimpee of a lake girt with stimmor-houses of marble, and on a green isle in its midst a fountain from @ rocky altitude pours down incessant sheets of water, quivering {n the sunlight. You see all this from the porter's te, and yet you know nothing of Beverly. ‘One morning in midsummer a horseman retn- edin his black steed before the huge, white marble elephants which flanked the sliver-barred ate of Beverly. Four keepers of the gate tinmo- Mlately appeared from. the vine-clad porters lodge, arrayed tn scarlet dress, wearing red caps with white plumes, and armed with sabres, ‘The horseman presented his pass to one who appear. ed to he chief of the Keepers. The man glanced st the bold signature a the bottom of the pass. tt is our master’s own hand,” ald. “ En- ter, for y ne, sir. ‘idely, and the horse. loved behind him wt now emerged from the in a white velvet sult, The gate swung back man cntered. ‘The gate a musical clang. A page thea porter's lodge, cl with silver belt, and a silver star upon his white vel He carried in his hand a small silver bu ving, “Tam the guide, sir; please Polfaw mor" he walked ahead upon the hard grav elied "road ata rapid pace, the rider walking bis horse behind him, When they had gone a quarter of a mile they feached the lake shore, and turned abruptly to the right, still following the gravelled road. ‘The rider gazed upon mmer houses upon the » of the lake, with their slender, Co- columns, and thelr rows of statiiary, aired of the page their use. The guide assured him they were bathing houses for the use of the guests of his master, Any one who dosired seclusion, a bath, or private study, could find in each little temple’ every convenience for these purposes. Each summer house was sup- plied with a library, with bouquets of fresh howers every morning, and with an elegant lunch, on a tray of gold every noon. A solitary senti- nel in a scarlet dress was seen pacing the shure, Who, according to the gulde, Was ever on thé alert to wait upon guests who might stray in this direction for study or for a bath, ‘The instant the rider turned from the lake he saw far awa wering @ dome. the exquisite marble s she hill, and fanked on smed to leap. fro a imp At the foot were stalking abo nearer the — numb others, which sprang up from wand gazed at the intruder. n he the vicinity of me bill and the cascades, he discovered the road led through 'e rocky pass. b m the hill and one of the waterfalls, ‘This pass had been so art~ fully disguised with foliage that It could only be discovered upon a near approach, and the lilusion was retained until the last ‘moment that the road here was at an end. With a gen- tle ascent, the road now led up through the pass, gray rocks, moist with waver, towering on elther side, and ‘crowned at the summit, where the sides of the pass cut sharply against the blue of the sky, with evergreens densely crowded. ‘This harrow way was long, and gave no gilmpse of what was beyond. Nearer and nearer came the termination of the pass. It was over at length, this wild way out by the Anctent of Days before man lived, and then came the surprise of art. ‘The hoofs of the steed clattered upon the marble floor of a temple which was bullt against ver the end of pass. So noble a hall, classical divinities, and 80 1 columns, seemed too like the hasty erections of the wizard, Sleep, At the further end of this temple was a blue silk curtain, upon which the guide tells him to fix his eyes. The horseman looked at this curtain, which he had supposed to be a partition in. the white marble te . While the juide raised the silver bugle to his lips and blew aloud blast, Lastantly, by nome unseen agency, the blue silk. rol slowly up, and he saw, far away perched upon a mountain’ crag, Beveriy! Was ita painting, or was ita dream? Ifa painting, the Deity had sketched it, If a dream, he hoped to dream forever, Across the green valley, and upon a cliff, apparently inaccessible, so high and abrupt waa the mountain wall, reigned the fairy-like Pinnacles and colonnades of the palace of Dash= wood; 80 White, so ethereal, so like the effu out, graceful structures the white clouds form n the firmament, that for a moment the delu- sion was powerful that ft wasa cloud temple Testing upon the shoulder of the mountain. To reach the palace they rode through a val- aey in which thoroughbred horses roamed in freedom, and this valley looked as follows : At the right, the valley was closed against the west winds by a dense and dark forest, wh Issued a brook, At the left, the valley ter nated in a lake, apparently & half mile wid: upon Which two sail boats were lazily moving in the faint breeze, The boat houses upon the margin of the lake were miniature Moslent temples, and from the flagstaff at the summit of the dome of each a blue silken banner was floating, In tho lake was seen a lon; green Island with trees clustered at one nd and with an irregular mass of rocks at the othe where, the guide Informed the stranger, agrotto: was hidden, and spactous enough to’ contain large cabinets of sea shells and marine animal and plants preserved in jars for the contemplas tlon of the scientific and the curious. Beyor the luke, hills, rocky or covered with wo nds, were visibl © oasy but re caves chi waters w sap in waterfalls tt low, Groups of Gree! sin marble were cong 1 reaching the saw a party of wood er acluster of trees, and ds below, yinphs standing fu the attitude of disputing abc Toad to take, as three well-beaten ways b diverged, aud might all lead across the valley to Beverly. * One road,” sald the gulde, “will take you around the rn side of the mountain to the Figat Face track which the palace park over. ooks. Another leads away around the northern end of the lake to the woods where my master has locatod his menagerie of beasts and rep. tilos, and this third one, after winding through the valley, sweeps around to the eastern side of the mountala, and brings you up to Beverly from the rear,’ We will, therefore, take the last one, Butl will first signal to my master that you'are coming ‘The speaker raised the silver bugle to his lips and sounded a long vall to the pinnacles,towers, and corridors of the palace, which now seemed to be nearly over thelr heuds, and in contact with the blue canopy of heaven, Starling echoes revorberated along the sides fey. “Thon came silence, followed by the boonis ing of acannon and a puff « palace above. A large blue the top of a and then were seen the galleries he ethereal structure, and ladies and gentlemen waved hand- kerchiefs and hats in welcome to the stran- ker so far below them, Pliment by waving his handkerchief to the many diamond fleld in Bouth America, which it took him several chapters of tropical description to fad, out which made bim rich beyond fancy's er faces looking down upon him, ‘Thea th a ide conducted him ‘acre 4 the valley, ‘on heir way they passed near droves of horses of of Bovertt. me in clothed the elegance an ity of their seated upon th orien with tl randahs shaded by vines reading apart, It ‘was the southern side he was approaching, and arbors had been erected upon the plazza, some of which seemed to be one sheet of pink or white roses, : . . . Tha guide conducted the rid long fight of marble steps I ease to the foot of a up to the palace, and here indicated that the ascent must now be made on foot. A groom came forward from the racing stables on the plateau, at the sound of the guide's bugle, and relieved the Tider. of. his. horse. Then the guide tea the way up the steps, At the blast of the bu many of the guests above had hastened to the tdye of the piazza to look down upon the new- comer. They welcomed him by waving hand- kerchiefs and scarfs, and before he had ascended half way he was enabled to recognize several familiar faces, He saw that the /lite of the me- tropolis were the guests at Boverly. ‘That man the Old World people will be astonished by 1h, and they ought to be. ‘ This is a book that will be read when Scott aud | Dickens are forgotten. It is Monte Christog Robinson Crusoe, Footfalls on the Boundaries | of Another World, and The Message sud Ao companying Documents, all in sno, $e A SULCINE'S LETTER, ~~ The Poticy Man wh Shot Himself in ¢ tral Park—Wishiag to Die tur Six Year At the inquest yesterday over the body of Charles Johnson, who shot bi nself ia Central Park on Saturday, the following singular jettor was read New Your, Mr. M. Kennea; Dean Stn: T wish yor 0 0 he bert advantage Jou cans bmnce Kae n East Fountu starr, Noy 73. Property to 2, Rest floor 0 t, office 118 Thompson street, and in this Fourth at Au three trun nd clothing, hook’ My by iny wife ang ebitire ” Irfleld county, Conn. By writing to Parlay we, New © 4 OF by telegrapl grounds ory will ot New Canna, and’ they will meot vie 6 Canaan depot e what tine ‘you will ieore York, 80 a8 to 0 delay. willbe endugh’to bear ail expenses, whiehiwiliee aaa where near $100, and if there should be any left AG Gxpenses I wish it to go to the Darius Bt. John fan wir’ Mr. Kennedy, I am sorry to give you th % you the trouble, you see u my is carried out, and obi an CHARLES Sounsome™ ave nothing to eay more than this: I tried do my duty to every one ly sod fairly, Toa nso how I have been treated and defrauded most shame fally. 1 forgive them. May they all prosper with it, © have no one to care for or cure for me—not a relative in the world. I have no wish to live, nor have wished to for the last six years, Bo farewe! May God prosper you CHARLO Jomnnen. 1 commenced board of & Monday afternoon, ana in advance, which will be up next Mot ny a tose,’ At my funeral no 6: Hy Ws—even the cheapeat posaibie. f ‘ia intend toda at the ‘and have my vemade the proper sl raw at the bottom and one ra] ve, with ofe bundle of at the top, and filled up with dirt and gravel, #0 ae pave trod te and © pense. So hope you will make | lor Lam but dust, and 2, dost & orld nomen, —1 leave some mone fi ell. i in the upper drawer of ich { wish to-bs published to.the corrections, 80 a8 to have tt read in- betance the same ag it is written. nothing but dust ; 60 may it be. must be hard as adamant who feels not a thrill of pleasure at being welcomed by youth, beauty, and genius. All of these were waiting for him now. His eyes brightened, and he removed his hat, ashe ascended the steps, in acknowledg- ment of their greeting. At last he stood upon the broad marble platform at the top, and found that a pavilion of blue and white silk was erect. ed over the silver-barred gate which pani him to the guests upon the plazza, He foun that the edge of this plazza was protected by a sllver-barred bannister, from which the guests of the house could look down on racing days to the splendid circular course just below them, Passing through the pavilion he was met and reeted, warmly by acquaintances, and intro; luced to many people of distinction, who had heard of his fame as a littératcur. ‘The charm of this description ts that It Is so accurate—there are so many of these places, with silver-barred gates, and silver-barred ban- isters, with pavilions of blue and white silk over them, and pages with silver bugles standing round to welcome guests, and all that sort of thing, on the Hudson river, that one cannot say this describes any particular one of them. How this simple yet eloquent description must make the pampered nobility of the Old World, among whom It must have atremendous sale, tear their hair with envy and jealousy. Further on, the author gives the following cat- alogue of the Jewels of the owner of Beverly, which to any one familiar with the treasures of North river mansions will not seem extravagant : A brass, key was applied to, the keyhole ty Dashwood, the tron door swung back, and Le azed in wonder upon the apartments of his fost: The frst room. was circular, and walled apparently with crimson velvet, up hung polished sabres and gold-tnounted pistols of every variety and calibre. Tho flash of pol- ished steel and jewels was on every side, lighted ‘as the apartinent was by a great skylight, Upon a centre table, covered with a circular sheet of glistening steel, stood French jewel cases, which the master of Beverly opened and exhibited to his guest. In one of them were twenty gold rings, each with a single diamond, of which the Jargest was one and a half inches round, and the smallest a quarter of an inch. One was a large ow diamond. 1a another Jewel case two @iamonds were placed as pendants at the end of alarge necklace of pearls, ‘There were two pearl necklaces, each pearl perfectly round and white, and as large 4s a pea. One pearl bracelet contained a central pearl the size of a cherry. Casket after casket was opened by the owner, and diamonds seemed to have literally been showered upon the strange man by some detty. Five sabres were then exhibited to the editor, All nad the flat side of the scabbard richly enam- elled in gold. One waa ablaze of diamonds on the hilt and scabbard, another was rich in pearis, and another still had the sword-knot and tassels made of pearls. One diamond was then taken from a case. whitch was as large as the celebrated Derichnoir,” or “Sea of Light.” Among the treasures was an opal of the size of « filbert, clasped in the clawsof agoldeneagle.wrought with wonderful art. It had such vivid and vari~ ouscolors that all the beauty of the heavens gould beseen in it. Gem after getn was brought forth, until MacGregor was bewildered, ‘The most exquisite work of the lapidary was visible upon some of the amethysta brought out for bis inspection. One of these beautiful stones rivalled the one which contained the famous portrait {ntaglio of Sapor. It was of @ rich dark purple lustre, and had carved upon it the likeness of Ir. Dashwood. Finally the banker exhibited a diamond as large as the well-known Koh-l-noor, It was shaped differently from that royal stone. A private bedchamber in the palace is thus described ; ‘The walls were covered with Marie Stuart biue velvet. The ceiling was frescoed with a proces- sion of water nymphs dressed in blue. The window curtains were blue silk lined with white, and the under curtains were of the finest snowy lace. The carpet was light blue, with white lilies scattered upon it; and the mantet- piece was of carved ivory, and was decorated with agreat mirror, framed ina polished frame ite, with nner frame of gold, 1 the mant marble miniatures | ox and Eos, and between them a golden clock ticked away the hours, When the clock str kien lark flew from the works and alixh the head vette of gold surmounting the elaborate tin 1 the great windows was the sumptuous o the banker, with its blue silk and lace gathered ih the hand of an angel of marble, which jutted far out from the wall. It was the angel of night fyt ar upon her fore- head, ‘The ha ¥ revealed the mierpane heavy with silk embroidery, and Ane linen of the pillow cases edged with . No part of the bedstead was visible, so luxuriously did the coverings droop to the floor, a mass of linen, lace, and white silk. An ivor table at ed artic dies of everything were silver. which held back the window curtains were broad chains of pure silver, ‘The elaborate bureau and the chairs were of varnished whitewood, inlaid with bands of chased silver, and covered with blue velvet. Oval frames of carved silver on the walls contained gracefully ned topical birds | in water colors. “A page, arrayed in purple yelvet with a silver star upon his left breast,” the library, of which the following Is a brief ace count: Here were quaint old volumes that might have been issued to the world when Laurens Jans- zoon Coster first printed with his wooden type deriving bis inspirat beneath the tree of Haarlem, Here were Japanese and ‘Tartar vol- | umes, printed from wooden type, a thousand years’ b preciou: the ind re the European printer was bo treasured relics of the early art, w vunitable will of s¢ traveller ich had wrested from the grasp of some nomadic savant | in the desert of Gobi, or chal shrewd bibliopole of Miako, Upon adivan wer lying open two rare volumes from the Baglish | plunder of the famous Mysore library, whose | Hluminated pages astonished the British Orien- tal scholars by the skill and beauty of their d for with somo workmanship, which rivalled th. who adorned the ancient missali Catholic faith, The Northman and the Ori had yielded up their national works at the t of the talistmanic Here were the Pravda Rusk: the pe Id of Uh 1 Slavic wor law), the sati ir, the dramas of the more modern Poleyuy and Kukolnik, and Pogodin’s critical works on the ancient nistory of Russa, The Ulgur litera ture had not been Buddhist doctriv through its pages. ‘and lite Here, too, ature traceable ore reoresenta @ second era of Turkish literatur n their soldiers had overrun Persia, and the knowledge and sentiment of that laud bad tinged the works of the Turki scholars. The blographles of Mir-A the astronomical works of Ulugh Be these shelves. Western Turks were and) physician: Neshiml, the freethinl Meshihl, the renowned élegist; Monat Effendi,’ the historian; the annalists, Saad-ed- Deen, Tzzi, and Vasif; aud Baki, the prince of lyric poets. were on y The lights of the Osmanli or oot hers he bhi, the Tt will not be surprising to our readers that this palace, and these grounds, and this library, and all the surroundings, are the property of State Senator who has been an ambassador to Russta, has murdered two men, {sa fugitive from Justice, and believes in the transmigration of every hue peculiar to the gracefully lubed | souls, Such things are very common here, But corts the visitor to | f i, it have to care! ane i nope y beable to ee 1k OF correct. FE called a giept between 9 and 10; she would not ‘9 me—M. J. My Em My writing Is for the beneft of the prese an: ir to jarge. Crantns Jonweon, . M: rit will be wanderer on the earth fora bk od to come after my death—-the death of my ly. There it be famine, aod terror, and the len id eruptl Tt has already begua Dymurder apd robvery. ov. 21.—Hoage left me yesterday with $98.8 in Pe One ane t Mrs, Port ‘Yesterday worting book siiort., 8.58 due mo, THE GREAT FAST RIVER BRIDGE. ibe je Reports of Commit attome * ‘The Directors of the East River Bridgé Company met yesterday to take action upon the, reports of the Investigating Committee pres sented at the last meeting. Having been in~ formed by the Secretary of the company at tha previous meeting that these reports would be ready for publication after the adjournment of yesterday's meeting, a SUN reporter called uport that gentleman at the appointed timo and asked permission to copy them, ‘The Secretary de- glined to accede to the request, stating that thé Directors had not yet adopted either of the rex ports, and that until they had done so they would not be given to the press. From Mr. Demas Barnes, one of the Directors, the reporter learned that no deciston was arrived at yester. day as to their final disposition, and that the further consideration of them had been poste luntil the next meeting. seal of secrecy placed upon the month of the Directors at the meeting at which the re~ ports were read, has prevented their content from being known even to the stockholders, From a gentleman who knows well the inner working of the company, the reporter asce! tained the following facts: The reports we presented, one by Messrs. Howitt and Schroeder, and the other by Mr. Barues. Licth reveal ct that the affairs of the company are in a very bad condition, and show, among other thingy tthe cash On hand Is nearly exhausted, and ‘the work which has been done Is by no means commensurate with the amount of money which has been expended in doing it. The majority of the committee charge this condition of affairs solely to the mismanage- ment of the Superintendent, expecting by this course to compel him to resign. In this manner they hope to lead the stockholders of the com= pany and the public to believe that the only ob- | stacle to the success of the enterprise Ix out of the way, and that in the future the business @ the company will be properly conducted. Mr. Barnes, In his report, endeavors to show that the Superintendent is but the tool of a King which seeks to control the concern, and that bis removal will be followed by placing another man of their choice in his place, He contends that this King must be totally destroved, and the management ol ‘airs given to other men before the people can be led to believe that the come pany ever intend to build the bridge: he reporter's informant also said that the Keeping Back Directors were greatly alarmed at the dis- closures made by the resentation rts, and since thelr ve been almost daily examining books. Through fear that Knowledge of their contents might, prevent (he ing of more money, they will doubtless do ing in their power to prevent their pub: at —— HORACE GREELEY'S WILLS. facile The Case Adjourned until Jan, 13—Barlow, Larecque & Macfariand Ida's Coun: Counsel for the contestants of Mr, Greo- ley's last will failed to put in an appearance be- fore Surrogate Coffin yesterday. A telegram was received from Mr. Isaiah Willlains, ade dressed to Miss Ida Greeley, requesting consent to an adjournment until Friday. Friday being set down for another cause, all further proveed: case were adjourned until Monday, 3. Messrs. Harlow, Larocque & Mac been engaged as counsel for the Greeley, in addition to Judge Hart and elson, who have heretofore couducted the Sie ES se Tragedian Assaulied by a Dutch envy Weight. Thomas Koppa was arrest | ago charged with having assault 1a few days d and battered | SiogGum, Koppa is a fair-haired, blue-vyed, | rotund Amsterdamer, Sling is a lank and tawny ‘Tartar—a Chinaman-—“wrinkled and brown as a bag of leather.” He is also the heavy tragedian of the Chinese theatre on Jackson street, and it was his devotion to his sublime profession that brought down upon him the weance of Koppa. It appears that the lettered Dutehman and the cultured ‘Tare | tar upy adj Ht houses on Jackson street, near Dupont, and at t eof each 1 performance it is the at his lodgings the part b | lowing ht, while the im. disc appropriate ymbals, et of which is quite inspiring Last Friday night Sling ¢ » home with as immensely tmportant igninent for the fol. lowing day's performance. After partaking | ¢ A light collation of varnished pork and rat psy he called bis family circle around bim to o the rehearsal, lmpressed with the importa of the occasion the musicians let th; to play on. thi vers of bis family by means of cer: ©. the Com 3 overlooked, with Ila veins of | | out wi nanimation, and the trag dian b tation in a’ me vergetic and in le than usual ppa had erewlilo retired, aud was peacefully st in his little bed, dre } rippling streams, | Just changin | the br frat whang © the enchantia the led yned bis eyes and tin himmel! ta so dam Shinevinan vas und moosic twas ali in vain. Gum had by this ting me thoroughly fimbued with the haracter le Was to asstime, aud W aw jug soap’ and finging ils pone about | in most astounding manner, while the orehes | tra fairly howled, Tt was too much for human endurance, and the enraged Dutehman sprang out of bed, donned his boots and trousers, aud bursting in upon the domentic circle of the Gums, Degan to lay about him like Frat Tuck with his quarter staf. ‘The appaied tra, } gedian roared in lusty tones for the police wid 1 a representative of the force appeared and ne that was being He was arraig His only put a atop to the ha ny the Infurtated Koppa, fore Judi excuse was “pledge you my vurd, Shudg any shkleep for more as veek mii {shness, und I dink ft yas about 1) He was ordered to appear for sentence —— plications between nd England, A Sr, Pererspona, Dec, 2.—The Russirn Worl! (Dewapaper) In ite issue to day gaye the British 4 Louderback on Threa tussle ed OC andor at St. Petersburg has notifed Prince Gor! Ss Kom tnat 1che Husaian troops penetrate a between Khiva and Afghanistan Bugiatl will boom pelled to interfere in Afgoun BAN FRancisco, Deo, 2.—Advices from Art zona to the 14th of Deceni den received. Cee Crook id from Date creek Me Camp Whipple, ( Dowell, and C ‘country ove camp, Cau!