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TEETOTALISH ftND CBUBCH MEMBERSHIP. MURDER OF A WIFE. least the art pf disguising them, and wo can Beo nothing to what ho Bald, orta the merciful concession of which be was the mouthpiece, of which ho ough to bo ashamed. Hp declared without any hesitation that the Government had been induced to reverse its decision In the case of Burke by the indico'tontnfnuh. llceentimenlvMchhad been eZmted well as in Ireland, and that the effect of the sentence woSd be lost In dition of the mind of the naltnn tJ, lcon" ESTABLISHED 1844.

CARD TO THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC. DAVTES LEYS, Lto n. J. Davies ft CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS, Rcspcctruiiv and Clinton Brooklyn, 'Pneotlroo)iyn and vicinity solicit a co partnership. auS R.

J. DAVIE3 wm that patronaee no long enjoyed. not reassure ofSSyearf, need BatUfacttonT continued efforU to givo my admiration being, of course, proportioned to the Belf dental it coats them those to whom drink is no grallflcation, but positively diBagrecable, not being entitled to any. The expediency argument, however, like drink Itself, is capable of greater abuse, and If applied, as teetotalers generally apply it, is liable to break down 1 It is not an absolute truth but 0 very limited one and must be applied with many and careful restrictions. Some of my brethren may have a weakness for silver spoons.

Bat I would not on that account givo up using them. I would simply keep them as much out their reach as possible, and in extreme cases perhaps, might feel inclined to lock up the weak brethren themselves, in Borne kindly jail or reformatory. Many weak Christians seem think that if certain geological facts are established and the six day's creation proved an absurdity, it will be all up with the Bible. Must geological statistics therefore be put a stop to To weak Christians luxuries of all de Bcriptlons dress, Jewelry and good eating, for exam, pie, are and ever have been, great stumbling blocks and causes of offence. And some of the wisest men that have ever lived, have for these and similar reasons, set their faces against aU luxury whatever.

Mu Topics of To Day. WHkei Spirit says nearly all the German dealers sold lager last Sunday with the full knowledge of the police. Wendell Phillips publishes in his organ, tho Anti Slavery Standard, an article favoring confiscation. The historic precedents cited in support of hia policy are the Norman conquest of England, tho French Revolution and tho American Hevolution. Confiscation waB enforced in all these cases and therefore, it is argued, it should ho put in operation against the South.

Phillips' examples arc not very happy. Tho Norman conquest was the relentless crushing out of a nationality. Tho infuriated revolutionists of France confiscated, but they also guillotined. The Tories whose estates were confiscated were refugees who refused to recognize tho new and rightful govern, ment of the United States. Tho South offors no parallel to PhillipB' examples.

It ia not proposed to crush out but to build up and restore a nationality. The bloody carnival of the Red Republicans wilt not be revived. The Southern people have not fled the country, abandoning their estates and refusing allegiance. They recognise the authority of tho Union and wish to remain on and cultivate their lands. Not one of the, precedents cited is of any value.

sion arise for reconsidering it. Some restriction on the oratory of juvenile Blackstone will be needed. The previous question is an effectual one, and will be resorted to, before many days are over, we believe. Plymouth Church Teetotallsm and Church Membership. We publish in another column the details of a somewhat singular case which has recently come before the shepherds of Plymouth Church, placed at the doors of the fold to see that no wolves in sheep's clothing get in among the lambs of the flock.

Our correspondent, it seems made application to be admitted to Plymouth church as a member thereof. He was turned over to three sage and venerable inquisitors, wTho examined into his qualifications for the goodly association he aspired to. The applicant was found all right on doctrinal tests, and was on the point of being admitted among the elect wlien, in an evil hour for mil agle THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 13. This paper lias the Largest Circulation Of any Evening paper published In the nlted Statos. Its value as an Advertising medium Is therefore apparent.

TThe Accident" at the Now York Academy of Music. Last night one of the Japanese performers a mere child of ten years of ago, known to the puWic as All Kight" was hauled up to the roof of the New York Academy of Music, from which a rope was suspended, running at an angle of about forty five degrees to the floor, in the dress circle. Attached to the rope were rollers to which the little performer was accustomed to cling while he slid along the rope with, of course, from the nature of the descent, amazing velocity. Last night, when lie had reached about half way down, and while about forty feet from the ground, the rope slipped from its place, the child lost his hold, and was precipitated to the floor By accident" his neck was not broken, and at the latest accounts he was still living. The reporters in describing the affair, tell us that the incident occasioned the greatest excitement within the building.

Every person in the audience had his or her eyes fixed on the little fellowj watching, of course, the chances of his coming down in safety. He failed to do so, and thereupon the male portion of the audience raised up their voices to express their horror and consternation." Ladies ran from their places, shieking, and many of them those who could count upon immediate assistance, we assume fainted, in true feminine fashion. For (he life of us we cannot see the occasion for this uproar. This child ha9 been exposed to the chances of breaking his neck night af ter night, and it was this very fact which gave zest to the performance aud secured patronage for the entertainment. It was no doubt lioped that httle "All Eight" would come down safe, but there was a chance that he would not, and the opportunity of witnessing the chance was the attraction.

The feeling of those who attend such exhibitions was naively expressed by the little boy who expended his entire school allowance in attending the circus. "When asked why he went so often, he naively replied, "that he was sure the fellow who his head in the lion's mouth would "have it bit off some day, and he had "resolved to lose no possible chance of being 'present on the occasion." If the semblance of a human head had been placed between the lion's jaws, the boy would not have given the price of a stick of candy "to see the show." But the chance that a real live man might have his stupid head nipped off by a Jbeaat not quite so stupid, was an attraction for which the boy was willing to sacrifice any amount of stomachic luxury to witness. If the rope at the Academy of Music had been placed so close to the floor that he might risk a fall with safety, not a baker's dozen of the audience would care even to look at his adventure. Had preparation been made for receiving him on some soft substance, the whole thing would be regarded as little better than a humbug. If little "All Bight" had been surreptitiously tied to the rope so that ho could not by any possibility fall, and the fact had been suddenly brought to the attention of the audience, we would not be prepared to guarantee the manager's safety in the face of a disgusted, deceived and enrag ed crowd, upon whom the "swindle" might have been attempted.

If a dog or cat were put in the child's place, who would care to witness the chance the dumb brute had for his life? Our human friend, De Berg, even would hardly have had an opportunity of interfering, for the performance would not would never be repeated. But the chance of a real child, as dear to somebody it may be in the rice fields of the strange and far away land, as the reader's child is to him the chances of the little fellow been picked up in the parquette of the Academy of Music a heap of bleeding flesh and broken bones, this is an attraction which may well bring together "numerous refined and cultivated audiences." The particular feat of sliding down the rope has not even dexterity to recommend it. Any full crown man wit.Vi nnHnm.Tr strength and nerve mighfcafio it. HodIct people, in their Ja sa Hfclesrtt'i. a item ii.

yilu lJurtlPri AcaaemflojSeig ian Stme the pej would be some at somcthiuff to boasffit vheMjfpnnilar mishaps are the subject of conversation. We have frequently seen men put themselves forward as the most important personage of an evening on the strength of an acquaintance with some one who had secured notoriety, either bad or good. To have crossed the City Park an hour before Gonzales killed bis victim to have ex changed recognition with Carr reached the spot where was lying in wait for before he Skidmore him, to have actually seen the crucible in which Prof. Webster burned the remains of Dr Parkman, any of these distinctions is sufficient to' create an ordinary drawing room sensation The man or woman who had the good fortune to be at the Academy of Jflusic last evening, will everywhere find groups of interested listeners. Miss Mac Flimsey was, no doubt, present, and that amiable maiden will be an unusually welcome visitor to day when she calls on her dear, delightful Fifth avenue friends, and announces to them the distinction she has enjoyed in being present at "that most unhappy af 'fair at the Academy last evening." Blondin and his compeers well know that characteristic of human nature upon which they rely for support.

Blondin might walk on a tight rope along Gowanus Canal, from Carroll street to Penny Bridge, but no man would walk from the Fulton Ferry to the City Hall to see him, because if he fell into the canal he would surely flounder out. But let Blondin cross the Niagara rapids, and people will go hundreds of miles to see him, iecause there is a chance that he may fall off, if he does that is the last of him, and the lonojs of his life would be in some sense reflected on those who witnessed his death. Any of the elder Japanese jugglers could have attempted the feat which brought little All Right" to grief. But the delightful element of the sensation was that the performer was but a child, and might be expected at any time to give way to childish fear, or his half knit sinews might fail, as they did, and the chance that they would, was the capital of the "enterprising managers" of "All Right." Any full grown fool, light of neaa ana neeis may De at liberty to risk his worthless neck if he chooses, but the law ought to interfere for the protection of children whose lives are staked to afford an hour's sport for the highly cultivated people who can find no better way of amusing themselves than in watching the chances of an urchin breaking his neck, for the profit of heartless caterers to a semi barbarous taste. The fate of the crops are said to depend mainly on the weather for the two weeks now ensuing.

The weather' has been gradually growing warmer ever since the severe storm of Sunday last, and to day the temperature has reached summer heat. With any like decent summer weather the harvests of all kinds of grain, fruit and vegetables will be the most abundant we have had for years, So far we are assured against a scarcity of breadstuff's by the maturity of the winter crops in excellent condition, and if the spring crops prosper as well, the days of high prices for the first necessaries of life will soon be over. Every fine day like the present improves the prospect and makes us all the The Constitutional Convention spent the greater portion of yesterday in discussing a foolish question as to whether or not the right of a majority to demand the previous question should be admitted. The right is essential for the convenience of all public bodies. It is capable of gross abuse, but the abuse of anything cannot be offered as an argument against the use it.

The subject was disposed of by leaving for the Convention to settle it, should occr WE 'sslHlrsl i ll I' mm A Stray Sheep Refused Admission into the Fold of Plymouth Church. HE DECLINES TO BECOME A TOTAL ABSTAINER. A VERY F17I.I, DISCUSSION OF THE TOTTAI, ABSTINENCE! QUESTION. A TART AND AMUSING LETTER AD DBESBp TO REV, MB, BEEQHER, Brooklyn, June 11, 18G7. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle I wish through the medium of your paper to lay before the public anil ngninii.

and congregation of Plymouth Church, a statement of now at issue between me and the Pastor and Commit! t. body. My application for the privileges of church uersuip uavms Deen rejected by the Examining Committee, because I did not chnnaa totaler at their dictation, I therefore wrote to the Rev. H. W.

Beecher requesting to know how far this ac tion on their part had his sanction. The reverend gentleman making great pretensions to toleration (a sermon of his unon that anhwt i.t now circulating extensively), I thought in my simplicity that I had merely to lay before him the arbitrary and intolerant conduct of his Examining Committee, for tho same to receive his unqualified condemnation. But I now learn that preaching and practice are as widely dissevered In PIvmonth Church a are in this wicked world generally, and (tell it not in Brooklyn publish it not in New York) that the real meaning of the sermon now being circulated by tho Church Union insisting npon an all embracing toleration of the most world wide character, is, when interpreted privately, "rigidly exclude from the privileges of Church membership, all Christians who refuse to swallow teetotallsm and such like crotchets at. tho dictation of the bigoted and intolerant few." 11 you can find space for the enclosed letter to the Rev. H.

W. Beecher, which, by the bye, though written some few weeks ago, he has not yet had the courtesy to acknowledge, much less reply shall feel obliged. The interest of the subject at a. time when teetotallers are becoming daily more rampant and dictatorial must excuse its lengthiness. Yours, S.

H. LETTER TO BEV. MB. BEECHEB ON THE TEM PERANCE QUESTION. 231 SorreBMERHOBW St.

I Brooklyn, 14th Max, 1807. Bev. Benry Ward Beecher; Dear Sir. Having made application to your Examining Committee for church membership. ana mat application naving been refused because I declined swallowing teetotallsm at their dictation.

I shall feel obliged by your kindly informing mehowfarthiB apparently abitrory step meets with your sanction. The application having been made in entire that teetotalism constituted a sine qua non to admis sion to Plymouth Church, and the rather, becausa I had conceived a high admiration for you personallv.and be cause, theologically, I sympathized with you more than 1 nau ever done with any one else, I feel all the more entitled to make the request. But in order at you may understand the matter at iBsue between the committee aud me, I must beg your kind indulgence, whilst I state as concisely as possible the reasons why I am npon principle a moderate drinker and not a total abstainer; and let mo assure you that if npon this question I am nnablo to see eye to eye with you, it is neither for want of mature Investigation, nor from lack of sympathy with all efforts to free men from the dominion of the senses, nor because, personally, drink has for me the slightest charms. Ithinkthatdrinkbasits use as well as its abuse. The illustration used by you on Sunday mornlngto the effect that a drinking saloon was like a cannon and that the saloon keeper was the man who fired it, and therefore responsible for the mischief and destruction it occasioned, however telling in its Immediate effect, I consider flimsy and fallacious.

The liquor dealer is no more responsible for the results of that which he sells, than is the druggist who vends drags or poisons. It is only the most shallow reasoning that endeavors to fasten the responsibility of results upon the drink itself, or the man who sells it. Teetotalers, in their fierce diatribes against drink, often talk as if it wc rational creature, reminding one of the "H' who, having knocked his little head ago' tue table, cries out naughty table." iiii i'uoy who get drunk and blame the mar o'old them the liquor, are only a little less 'Sy. Teetotalers have so muddled up this question, and by the use of illustrations Jjke yonrs, calculated to tell on the feelings rather than the reason, have so confounded the point at issue, as to render one in danger of concluding that drunkenness is neither a sin nor a crime if, as they argue, there is something in drink, so alluring as to make it virtually irresistable If drink necessarily produce drunkenness if tho responsibility of making drunkards is really chargeable upon the sellers of drink if, to use your illustration, (one that I am certain commends itself to every teeto talci, una tine that a temperance audience would cheer tne the drlnwng saloon is the cannon, the drink itself the powder and the proprietor the man who, to serve his own vile purposes, fires it off. Why in the name of common sense attach any stigma to drunkenness i or why be so terribly uncharitable as to consign the poor drunkard to the place of outer darkness? It is really an entire mis ncmer to call the poor fellow a sinner I He is Eimply a victim to drink to be sympathized with.ns much as the poor fellows who could not get out of the way of your cannon.

Teetotalers in their speeches, or rattier oratories," saddle the responsibility of drunkenness, either upon drink itself, the simplest method I or upon the drink seller the political method or best and most logical of all 1 upon the moderate drinker I The fact is they have made a complete moral somersault, callins evil good and good evil. The drunkard is simply an inno cent victim to the drinking customs of society, to be pelted on teetotal platforms and lionized at soirees I His example, too, is splendid a moral beacon set upon a bill the more degraded of course, and the oitener he has been in the gutter the better. As for the moderate drinker he is a decoy duck, luring on innocent yomi men within reach of your terrible cannon I And the more moderate, the more sober he is the more exalting his character in fact the more pernicious and seductive and deplorable his influence I As a logical consequence teetotalers have almost given np inveighing against drunkenness, their original mission their efforts now being mainly directed to a crusade against the moderate drinking or Boher people. Now, I for one, must enter my protest against this puling scnlimentalism. I insist that drunkenness is both a sin and a shame, as much a lust of the flesh as theft or adultery.

I insist upon fastening the responsibility of drunkenness upon the proper shoulders npon the drunkard kimBelf, and not npon either drink the drink seller, or society. My position is this 1 believe that wine and spirits when confined within proper limits are useiul. True they are stimulants; but so is Bociety, so are teetotal speeches, so iB air, so is sun6bine itself! And so long as the health of so many people is below par, so Ion" as we have depressipg and enervating influences all around us, just so long will stimulants of all kinds be useful, and be more or less resorted to. Bat whilst wine and spirits taken In certain limited quantities, are useful both to the healthy and the sick, taken in excess they are poisonous and hurtful to both body and soul and so is iood, and so is pleasure of all kinds. When brandy was first discovered its effects were bo marvelous that it was designated aqua vitae.

Its effects, taken in excess, are delirium tremens. Intellectual and moral idiocy, In the exact proportion that any faculty or thing is calculated, when wisely need, to givo us pleasure or benefit take, for instance, the sexuat faculty is its abuse degrading and pernicious as tp best wine makes the Bourest vinegar as the more resplendent the faculties, when prostituted, the greater the demon so the more useful a drink, the more hurtful is its abuse. Now, as drunkards are. thank God, as much a minority as thieves or adulte rers, I confess myelf totally unable to bod why the whole world is to be turned np side down for their benefit, or why the great moss of sober people are to have their privileges curtailed on their account. And I certainly do not see why special legislation should be effected in their interests (that which would havo a preventive or reformatory character, of course, excep ted), any moro than in the interests of thieves, or any other disturbers of society.

If 1 find that owing to some weakness of tempera ment, some excess of tho animal over the moral and intellectual, I am nnable to take drink in moderation. and am in danger of becoming a drunkard, what Is the course I ought to take Am I to gp about whining to all and sundry, asking ail the sober people in the com munity to Bhnt np their liquor Btores and become tee total on my account, blaming drink the drink scUer the drinking customs of society, in. short, anything and everything but myself or am I to take the sensible course of simply giving up drink myself Two ont of three of the Church committee appointed to confer with me acknowledged that thoy had been in a fairway of becoming drunkards and that therefore they had become teetotalers. I told them that I thought they had only done what was proper and right and in accordance with their Master's orders "If thy right hand offend thee cnt it off, but that my right hand never having given me any cause of offence, but having on the contrary been of great service to mo. begged to be allowed to keep it on.

Upon their quoting John the Baptist me, I took the liberty of observing that I considered John the Baptist the type of the rigorous ascetic, that he was the eworn foe of luxury and comfort of every description, and that, not being at all partial to locusts as food, and having decided antipathy td leathern girdles round about the loins, and camels' hair raiment generally, really must object to following hiB example either one way or the other. I said besides, that Christ the only exemplar that 1 acknowledged, was the exact opposite of John tho Baptist, setting the example of conformity to the then custom ot society in the matter of food and drink and raiment, thus emphatically discountenancing the idea that Christianity sympathized with asceticism In any shape or form. And yet in Christ's time, as in the New England of the present time, the highest, or at any rate, tho most obtrusive typo of morallstB, were undoubtedly tho ascetics. Indeed, many good people Boom to have been Inexpressibly disgusted aud shocked to tfee Christ coiiformlng to the eating and drinking customs, of that day some of them in their zeal going so far as. to say that he bad a devil I As the only penalty that Plymouth Church is disposed to inflict on me for fol lowing His example, is exclusion from their select circle.

I probably, on the whole, have no reason to complain. Tho only other argument worth referring to that your Committee brought before mo, was the expediency of argument Now, I frankly confess that I con sider thiB argument very strong, and that for thoso teetotalers who give np tho gratification of drinking wine or spirits for Bake of their weaker brethren, I entertain only the respect and admiration in Infuriated Husband beats his Wife to Death in Presence of their Children. DETAILS OF THE SICKENING SCENE, ARREST OF THE MURDERER. Yesterday the Eagle, in advance of all co temporaries, presented its readers tho particulars, as far as known, of the murder of a Collector named Mr. James Porter, who was found floating ln tho East River, wlth a pistol shot throngh hia forehead.

While this account was being printed and read, another person was dying in the heart of tho City from the effects of Injuries received at the hands of an infuriated man. With the coming of hot weather crime ever increases, the blood becomes hot, so that less provocation is required to produce tho necessary frenzy for the commission of murder, but this season has begun with a fearful vigor. New weaponB for the purpose of human taking off have been brought into servico, air gun assassinations and Paris Green suicides are something unusual in the annals of local crime. Tho community stands shocked at the announcement that two victims of murder are now lying at the Willonghby street Dead House, each crime being separate and distinct. Tho one as bold and heartless aB the other was mercenary and mysterious, give the lovers of sensation all tho varieties of surroundings to these dreadful crimes.

It is not an enviable state of things in a peaceful community, when a 8kidmore stands at the bar of Justice for mnrder, a Donaldson, with reeking hands, is confined for wife murder, and a stiff bedy at the Dead House turns its white face to Heaven pleading for vengeanco on the persons who for money deprived it of life. THE WIFE MURDER HOW IT OCCURRED. The wife murder was committed yesterday afternoon at a tenement honse, No. 129 Plymouth street, between Bridge and Jay atreetB, and the victim is Margaret Donaldson, wife or The mas Donaldson, a machinist. Whiskey drinking was undoubtedly the primary cause or this most atrocious crime.

The Donaldsons occupied rooms on the second floor of the house named For Borne time past they have not lived happily together, having often quarreled and even come to blows the latter having been Inflicted upon the often uncomplaining wife by the brutal husband. In her misery, Mrs. Donaldson, sought forgetfulness in drink, which only added to the rage of the hnsband, ho himselfa drinking man. Yesterday Mrs. Donaldson had been drinking in her rooms with a Mrs, Quigloy and another woman.

Between twelve and one o'clock, Donaldson returned from his work in New York, and Boeing the state of affairs, commenced to QUARREL WITH HIS WIFE, the two being alone in their rooniB at the time. They had not been long together when other persons in the house heard cries of distress, which were continued some minutes. Thinking that something serious must be the cause of the cries, other inmates of the honse, Mrs. Whalen and a young woman named Kate Neil, proceeded to the rooms occupied by tho Donaldsons. There was the husband, with his coat off and his Bleeves rolled np, Btriding up and down the room in an excited, angry manner, while in a corner tho wife crouched in terror, with her hands on either side of her head, from which the blood wu3 streaming from HER DEATH WOUNDS.

On cloecr examination the women found that Mrs. Donaldson had beon injured abont tho head and body in a frightful manner, cither by being kickoi or with some blunt weapon. When 'Mrs. Whalen told him ho would be Borry for what he hat! done, the brute replied: "NotaG dd bit of it; I will kill her if I havo to swing for it." At Mrs. Donaldson's request, her friends engaged the husband's attention, while his wife CRAWLED DOWN STAIRS.

and sought refuge in a small apartment used by a Mrs. Leonard for storing wood and coal. The other women talked with Donaldson until they thought his wife was safe out of his reach, and then left him. He remained in the room after that, and all was quiet. In the meantime, Mrs.

Donaldson had found a pallet on which she laid and Buffered until death relieved tier about six o'clock. It is somewhat strange that none of the inmates of the house went to where the unfortunate woman was secreted, until Mrs. Leonard entered to procure some coal, when she discovered Mrs. Donald Bon, breathing heavily, with hor clothing aud the pallet stained with blood, and life fast ebbing. DEATH OF THE VICTIM.

Mrs. Leonard seeing the Btate of affairs, called Mrs. Whalen and other inmates of the house, who immediately sent for a physician and Rev. Father Reed, of the Church of the Assumption, corner York and Jay streets, but before either of them arrived the unfortunate woman had breathed her last. Mrs.

Whalen then went to Donaldson's room and informed him of his wife's death, when he replied, "May the devil kill yon," and seizing his coat started from the room. Mrs. Whalen followed, raising an alarm. Ho then went down the stairs, cast a glance at the body of his wife as he passed the apartment into which she had crawled, aud then passed out into the street. He proceeded through Plymouth street, In the direction of Gold, walking along leisurely.

ARREST OF THE MURDERER. Seeing Donaldson leave the house, and fearing that ho might escape, one of the women followed him to the corner of Gold street, where she saw Sergeant Crowe, of the Forty second Precinct, and informed him that Donaldson had killed his wife. TheSsrgeant immediately arrested the man, who made no resistance, and took him to the station house, where he waa locked up in a cell. On being questioned afterwards, the murderer said he "returned home between twelve and one o'clock from New York, where he had been at work. He found his wife in Mrs.

Cuigley'a room drinking, and brought her donn to their own rood. He struck her with his Set, and was with her about five lnlnutcf She went down to tho first floorand a neighbor eaid she had gone out or the house." The prisoner further stated that he saw his wife in tho little room where she died as he passed from the house. STATEMENT OF DECEASED'S DAUGHTER. From the statement of the prisoner's daughter, a girl some six or seven years or age, it appears that she was sent out for a bottle of liquor by her mother In the early part of the afternoon, which waa drank by her mother, Mra. Quigley and another woman, whom she did not know.

When her father came in, her mother attempted to light tho fire, but nt this moment the pri soner KnocKea ner aown on the floor and boat her with his flBts, a chair, This beating continued at intervals until Mrs. Whalen and Kate Nell entered. The daughter and her infant eistcr were la the room all tho time, the latter upon the bed. WHAT MRS. WHALEN SAYS.

Mrs. Whalen says that yesterday morning deceased bad told her that she found a bottle of liquor on the table in the room, which had evidently boon left thero by her husband, who was drunk and who went from the houEe to procure some of his tools preparatory to commencing work again. He had been out of employment for some time, was frequently Intoxicated, and often beat his wife, who never offered the least resistance or complained of her cruel husband. WHO THE DONALDSONS ARE. Thomas Donaldson, the murderer, waa bora in Scotland, is about forty years of age, and a machinist by occupation.

He had lived in this country tor a number of years. His wife was a native of Ireland, thirty five years of age, and leaves two children, both girls. THE CORONER TAKES CHARGE OF THE BODY. Coroner Lynch arrived at tho house about nino o'clock last evening, nnd, after cansinsr the body to bo removed to the dead honse in Willonghby street, proceeded to empanel a jury, preparatory to holding an inquest. The locality was crowded during the evening by persons curious to view the scene of the tragedy or learn whatever details they could in relation to the wife mnrdcr.

This morning Surgeons are engaged in making a poet mortem examination on the body of Mrs. Donald Bon, and thus far it appears that she was beaten In a brutal manner, which probably caused her death. A hammer found in Donaldson's room docs not show any evidence of having been need in the assault. The whole affair Eecms to hove been a fatal wlfe beatin" case. The accused haB been committed to jail by Coroner Lynch.

The inquest will be held to morrow afternoon. Real Estate Transfers. The following Real Estate transfers have not heretofore been oulv liBhed: Atlantic av, 8 150 ft Vanderbilt av. lot 50x100 Bedford Bt, 8 8, 100 ft 3 iot 25x75' Bereen dace. s.

100 ft uo 2,730 Bergen at, 80 ft Vanderbilt av, lot 2O160 iro ii 8t' cor AUamic aT t3i.iox Carlton 290 ft ii MyriYe avjb't iaaiiub Cagsrivea at, 200 ft Evergreen av, lot DuffleldBt," ft' Wiilo'ughby 'at, lot" aix 527 9,000 3,000 1,100 2,000 5,800 0,500 Grand av, 807 ft Gates av, lot 19xl0L0 Hart Bt, fl 8, 325 ft Marcy av, 23x100. Ijvimreton st, 8 8 ft SE Boerum Bt, io't ilo XCD.4 MirjOr06C SV' 9 of Ewe'n's't; lot S0x 100" Bt lot 24 0 aVdT0.ai''' ib5h 8,200 2,100 1,500 4,500 00 8,000 0,000 500 12.000 3,750 4,100 10,000 4,500 8,630 5,500 2,000 garatoga av, NE cor Fulton "tot Oairjiii'd 10x70 01 Van Brunt sThl Powen ati'lot 8t100.Bt' r'aS" WiioSr 8t' 'Ga'es iid 0xpi vnnaermit av, I s' i'ob'ii Eighin' Tenth 'lot Mlxioo' 8 i66Yt NW NVreSiSnh Fifth a'vVio't Fifty nine ioia m'i'ilrf'' Vii iv 1::: 56th eta. hnni l' MJ 'Q n1 cm In thh Skoat? by an cSZ'W4 Preeinct, on complaiat o7 B. n.mtlltt "h0 Gardiner WitfT stealing a quaDtity of Bcpra and tobacco, valued at $211, from Th6 rroirly In the 113 PMtnere. On the case beln Bnetlcy, that official ordereS KSSSy t0 retimed to Gardiner, but Just tliea 5K 1 and soUed the totaccofbr revenue laws, in not being "ndlcaUon Collector Wood's office forad Loafing.

James Thetford, aged vtJJSu'S! Yoik4i7; Benjamin Sickles, 17 George Burflcld.H; and 10, were arrested ast evening tyoffloera of the Central Ofllco, for loaf inff on the corner of Bond street and Fulton avenue. I his morning they wore, taken before Justice C'qru wcll, bo roprimtuidcd uxii discharged tUom. I' tv ail wfth Mr.DavhV 1 hot tTv.a3 .1" to the business dtu to Bo back on tho repot 1 1'rescrtptlon SenthS supervision of Mr tho ran, who has becS fmrae Oeorea ing. oar careful train Oar Rtock (first rinsq n.i. and will bo found replete in lu ni PV becn enlarged.

We desire notice to be takin Jim make a speciality of keeping for medicinal use onlv. Saca couii tr. sjP'rtt Moesrs. IVES, BEECAEK i O) of we hone will be some suarontcc of out tntMtion? Tri" almost universal dilution to call It no woril Krom we are compelled to this courso to Justify of these goods. juatu our KuowIedQ Night bell attended by Mr.

Cochran JUNCTION OF FbLTOS AND CLINTON ST3. jea an ENGLISH CARPETS, HIRAM ANDERSON'S, No. 99 BOWERY. PARLOR CARPETS, CARPETS FOR HOTELS. 80,000 yards CHAMBER CARPETS, at 70c, 73c, KIc, mi 95c.

per yard, new small patterns. ENGLISH ROYAL VELVET, at lovr prices. ENGLISH BKUbSELS CARPETING, at greatly reduced prices. ALSO, DOUBLE SUPERFINE INGRAIN CARPETS. FLOOR OILCLOTHS.

From 3 to 21 feet wide. ALSO, 20,00 YARDS OILCLOTHS, Small figure, 4 4 wide, 50c. Small figure, 5 4 wide, 55c. Small figure, 6 4 wide, "3c. Small figure, 8 1 wide, 90c.

RUGS, MATS, MATTING FOR OFFICES. MASONIC CARPETS Made to order. SCO Dleces or White. Fancv anil Cheeked MATTING. lust received from Canton, at low prices, all widths, 25c, ouc, sue.

to 00c per aru. IRAM ANDERSON, No. 09 Bowery, JcU6t MACKENZIE'S ELEGANT SILK SACQUES AND CIRCULARS. THE "QUEEN" at 30. THE "ISABELLA CATOLICA" at $25.

THE "MARIA OP RUSSIA" at 30. LLAMA LACE POINTS from f23 to 100. No. 2 CLINTON PLACE. iel ct Eighth Bt, one door from Broattway.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN TlAVIXO FINE CLOTHES. LACES, TO WASH AND IRON, Con have the same propcrlv attended to. a 190 FULTON STREET, UP STAIRS, ROOM 1. Also Sewing Machlno Work of all kinds, French Fin. 'eCrtmplug, Sc, done with neatacua and dlspatoh.

BATCHELOK'S HAIR DYE. This splendid Hair Dyo is the best In the worta; Vtm only true and perfect Dy; harmless; reliable: Instsntaae ons; no disappointment; no ridfentons Unts; remedies tha ill effects of bd Dyes; Invigorates and loaves tie Hair son cd beaBttful black or brown. Sold by all Drtigeurt aaa Perfumers. SUMMER CLOTniNO. THE CHEAPEST THE BEST.

DEVLIN 4 CO, JeSlOt LONG ISLAND SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY. NOTICE. The books for Subscriptions to the Capital Stack this Company wilt bo open at tho Brooklyn Bank, Bo. I Front on and after June Ulh, from 9 A. M.

until 1 P. daily. JOHN A. LOTT, President. P.

S. nggnattEOs, Secretary. myU L5t INDEPENDENCE DAY. FOURTH OF JULY, 1770. No.

84 MAIDEN LANR, NEW YORK. JOSEPH B. PaiiDT'S TWESTY i'OUKTH ANNUAL SALE 07 FIREWORKS PARLOR, GARDEN and EXHIBITION. COMPRISING THE BERT ASSORTMENT EVER OFFURED. THE LENGTH OF TIME ESTABLISHED), AMI LARGE SALES THIiOrrtH EVERY STATE IN TIIK UNION, A SUFFICIENT GUARANTEE FOIi QUALITY ASH JeSlnr PRICE.

TURKISH BATH, 83 AND 65 COLUMBIA STREET, BROOKLYN HEIGHTS. Honrs LADIES 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.

GENTS 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. mra MThU THE JAUNAY CHAMPAGNE.

JOHN OsrtORN ft CO. IS Reaver itreet, Now YQ lAeettCT of tho ASSOCIATION VtNlOOt.K DR CHAMP AOHK, L. Jonimy ft Managers) confidently recommend the above wine as or strictly first class GLnl unsurpassed quality. Ills dry, (ltilicato, but full of vinous body not sweat ness and ora pale, nofnn.l color; from lis purity, pecv Uarly sultahlo for medicinal purposes. in fmgrasea and other captiFKClnir prcpai ties rciflcr It a trcassreto all coDsumcrs of refined and uucor.

taste. For tale ln Now Vorfc by PARIS ALLEN, 51 Droad street. W. S. CORWIN ft 900 W.

CEERY, 719 Kra'adtrar. II. B. JACKFON, 193 Fifth ovo'nnr. FRED.

S. COZZF.NS. 73 Warren street. THOMAS McMULLEN. It lioav street.

ft W. IK 'atnl street. H.B.K1KK 'B'lon street. J. F.

WEHNElL DESIGNERS AND MAN ACTTJRKR4 or RICH CABINET FnnNITUnB, PARLOR. LIBRARY AND DINING HuOM SKT1. Warranted all pnro horse hair upholstery. CHAMBER SETS or aa entire new stjle or arcfiltectlf All goods warranted. 1M AND 171 FULTON STREET, 101 AND 105 OKANOB ST.

BiyM TO EXCURSIONS, SCHOOLS AND PIC NIOS. Tho BLUFF GROVE, at FORT LEE. Ii now open fr the season, with three targe platforms for danclnir. ROBERT ANNL'TV, I'ronrlutor. now TO GET THERE: Tho THOMAS K.

1IHLSII will leave dally from the foot of Clirlstotihur st al 10 A. 8, 5 aud 7 I'. landing at Slth st. JoS(4' SILVER PLATED WAKE, li DB BT TUB CBLBBBATBD REDFIELD ft RICE MANUFACTURING Or NSW YORK. EQUAL D7 NOT SUPERIOR TO ANY DJ THB MARKET.

RETAILED AT WHOLESALE PRICKS. Having become Utciy Interested In the above hosse, ser ev crl years experience with their wares, we are pared to offer a largo assortment of the above good! Btrictly wholesale prices, thus saviag to the consumer usual retail profit. Every article marked ln plain ojra and courteously oxhlbttod. W. R.

TICB, Jal2 3awtfS Hfi Fulton street, eorner Johmoi. BUSINESS NOTICES. MBS. WEST, COUKT STUEET, COR ner or Sackett. would Inform her friends and tha of Brooklyn, that since her return she has marked down her stock or SPRING AND SUMMER BONNETS much below Fprlnir prices, and amongst them are Kreuets Bonnets, selected or herself In Paris.

Also, a very tanm Block of Children's Hats at the lowest prices. Jell 5t Oiy fir ATLANTIC STKEE NEAR LP 4 Bond Dyppepsla, Cancers. Tumora. Leo corrhea, D'abetcs, Rheumatism, cur.jtl hy Mrs. ANNAE.PARK.il.il..

without rirm.i(ni ttl.wiHn nr BliBtcrine; but by electricity. The treatment Is pleasant even to Infants. We do NOT SHOCK the patient. K. kir ence may be seen at the oltle uonsuttalions free.

hours from 8 A. M. to 7 M. Jell lit RACE AND BROOKS, DENTISTS, HAVE removed to 318 Clinton street. JelOim BISSOHJTION OF CO PARTNERSHIP The undersigned, having ceased to carry 011 less as Distillers and Rectifier, have this ved the co partnership heretofore existing under the Una name ofUACH ft PUFFKH.

All persons havi.iR cliims against tald firm, will please present them for EaYment. and those Indebted (o said llrm, will olitlac us paying up luimedfa'ety. Kltlier partner will sin the liquidation. Brooklyn, June 1, 1SC7. JOHN C.

HATCH, GEO. S. PCFFF.R. Jcllfeod 83 WMIiam street. N.

Y. ARCHITECTURE THE UNDERSIGN cd, liavlnp made a tour of ubaervaMon AocerUlo. the most liprvnl Ifnl pnmfart ami ppfinmntr19l rlf. nf uuiiainp pracucea at me present ne. are pivparau to nrescnt 11 are invnii furnish plans for, and snpcrintpiid the crciUm of h.niiea or all stzeB and styleB.

BAXTEIt KKAN, Cons ArchltPPtn 2TiR WflfifiiTiDtrin fttrni ni.nn;ft. tim P.ul oltice N. Money adranced. Jel0vl MADAME KROSS, FROM PARIS Xo. 1 Johnson street, corner of Kin ion.

Drees. Cloaks and Mantillas got up fn ihe latest ntjles and f.islilona and done togWe as also at Uiu sliortedt notice The ladleg of Brooklyn are requested to call. JelOlm MADAMK KIU)S5, 1 Johnson t. ITOB SALE LIMB FOB FARMING OR JL other purposes, damaged by the fire on SJturdjy ruornlng, for sale by the undersigned at their yard on KlKshtr.p avenue near Clinton. Receiving this day a now stock of Lime.

Cement. Plaster, Laths, Ac. Alt orders will he tilted without at either of their yards, viz: Flu thing avenue near ave, and Coot of Bond at, Gowanus CrceSc. June 10. is Jel0 6t 11.

HAHTKAf OO. ATXBSTIO PERSOSS HA VINO Government claims In the banc's of Aunt 'V which they suspect have bpen collected, ran set their moncj.by addressing D. II. Box 5.253 New York oss office. EW BANKRUPTCY LAW BOOKS ror nilnn in the Bankruptcy Court, by UJ VJV.b Accountant, basement so.

9 mougnu near City Hull. Brooklyn. AND OTXUUUWvfmortae.lnstin,sftomiMOto DRAKE CO Wlllounnuy itreci WIRE WORK A. BATAILLE COs manafactnrcrs of aU kinds of useful and ornamental wire work; wire trellis for front or houses, horJcrlnea Tor flower plot, archways for cemeteries, Ac win Bliades. lamlscsnc wire shades, wire oths.

coal ana Band screens, and alt goods warrant! of the best itnallty of material and workmanship at the very lonrest prices K8 Atlantic st, between Clinton anil Henry rtt. Jul! 9t' iMLOAK, MANTILLA AND DRESS has all the new itvlo or Pari Cloalts. Basancs, acquis and Drrssea for summer wear. Ladlei wishing to furnish their own material, can have their garments made In tho best manner. Traveling suits made at the shortest notice.

Sllss D. has constantly on hand a spleidld Kaort ment orTrimmtngs, Including fringes. Qlinps, arjloonj, Bottor.s.and all the finest quality. Warerooms, Jfo. a3 Fulton street, up stairs.

Je5gy BUSHES OF EVERY DESCRIPTIOS AT TICK BKUSH FACTOKY, 29 PEARL STREET, NKW YOUK, BulIdlnfJ All articles at tbe lowest factory prices. KKS3MAKLNG FRENCH DRESS. II MAKIXG MADA1I NICHOLS, Late with tTS. Server, 33 Uoutaine street, would respectfully lnfortsl her numerous patrons, that abe baa opened rooms a Set i.ii win aiiena ur ureas vifc an ika nrancnea. jes In prfss spcK in tno blgbest terms of this valuable work.

All business roenMKimlt. Baa no competition. IMco onlr 3. 1. O.

Box 6J98. T. I. KELLOGG. IK Uaawi ft, hew ork.

11. CUITTliNDEN, General Agen tor and Hoyt streets. Je8 PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OSf WILLIAM D.YEKDKR. of King: Notice li hereby given, according lo law, to persons having claims against JKSSS ISLRa, late of the City of Brooklyn, deceased, that thoy arori? outred to exhibit thu same, with the vnnclte nt thrir utrcu to exiitttit mo same, with tno vouchers thereof, to he subscriber, thf. executor, at his rfAn3 the subscriber, the.

executor, at bit rcildouce, KH nen street, ln tbe City of Brooklyn, on or before the ilxteentk day or Attcnst naxt. Dated Kebroarr sth. ism. teu lawmirr jukl u. uuilNETT; Bxeoawr ness in having first come to a severe concluaion, and lenient one.

That the ftfiSff! howeVTecK wKvc polled 1 Institut with or itv mat 1 01 Patriotism to attempt to alter the with a c2nty. have never been confounded ul mariJerers and robbers and while sever Sk0Bftem marly In the eye of the uMhinkinJ i.Z oral 01 III presentthe weakness .1 "1 Ul ln D01QW reuef, in a case like the tempt, With thetoofSSSryiSuoiS blunderUB'arde lon lf BSrke taS I most cnvlcts than some the. most enlfgbtencd European aud other couu hirtv that during the 'Z Ik Victoria's refgn thero ha? not Deep a Buigla execution for treason, ftnu Uer Majesty R'" ben relieved of a work of anxiety when flnSS3. PubUc opinion compelled the t0 change course. It must oe borne in mind, too, that no British soldier lost bis life, aud the insurgents in their wickedness showed a becom Tfle conduct of the Government was the more creditable because it is not m11 lt.el nPTlianient or in the country, and It will find that it has gained strength and confidence bv the course which, fn this Instance, it has pursued.

The announcement by Mr. Mill, on Monday evonlm? which preceded Mr. Disrael's declaration, that a pefl tion was on its way from Dublin, praying that the life of Burke might be Bpared, signed by the Provost of trinity College and a considerable nnmber of the Fellows, and other eminent men in the Irish metropolis Pvco 'he, wish for mercy there was general rather than Foreign Fashions for June. Although the robe fourreau and the short costume appear to be the styles, par excellence, of tho present season, they are made with such various mod 0DB tbtit? Phaps, will not be difficult to adapt them to mOBt tastes For example, tho short dresses are made in all possible styles short skirt over one to match, or of a contrasting color skirt caught up by bows or rosettes skirt plaited up square at the sides tunic rounded and short in front, open at the sides, and longer and square at the back long skirt, but so caught up as to appear tied skirt tied up at the back and sides in briel, skirts drawn np to various heights and in various ways, or abort, open, etc. The paletot matching the dress is very generally worn with these dresses.

Some of the prettiest of these costumes are made of black taffetas, the bottom trimmed round with a double bias of green, blue, or violet the underskirt having two or three narrow flounces, and the Bhort black paletot with a bias or piping to match. The "Greek" and "Jewess" sleeves are coming more and more into favor; they are more especially suitable for dresses of a rich material. The "Greek" sleeve is open quite to the top of the arm, and cut square The "JewcBs" 1b a wide open fileeve, but made round and slightly pointed. They are both made very long. To the robe fourreau, with its long train, tunics are sometimes added, or tho front of the dress is made of a different color to the other part of the robe, formin" a tablier or plastron: in the latter the trimming Is generally placed on the body in the form of a Spanish vest, rounded in front and quite short at the back Blue, maize, and bouton d'or are, perhaps, the favorite colore just now, but many dresses are of a blue grey or apcarl grey.

Embroidery of silk and beads Is very much used as a trimming; also plaits of silk, either matching the dresB or of a different shade; bnt nothing is more in vogue as a trimming, than satin. Long Bashes, tied behind, are much worn, as well as the. peplum ceinture of jet. The newest bonnets are very small fanchons or oval Bhapea rounded at the back, tho part resting on the chignon trimmed with lace orlieads and delicate Bpraya of flowers but without doubt, the very Email bonnets require more skill in the arrangement of tho trimming than the coffures worn a year or two ago, as it is no small difficulty so to place the flowers, feathers, or ribbons (and, In some cases all three of these) on bo small a foundation without overcrowding it, and so giving the appearance of heaviness however, thia Is an art which many of our modistes have attained, the proof of which we have In many elegant and becoming coiffures. Strawberry Festival.

Washington Stueet M. E. Chuhch. Last evening was just warm cnongh to load people to think of ice cream and strawberries, therefore a goodly number of people assembled in the chapel of this church. This festival was in aid of tho Sabbath schools, and was ln every way a success.

The Sabbath school room waB UBcd for the purpose of conversation, BingiDg, music and addresses, while the lecture room was taken for a refreshment saloon. The festival was enlivened by the muBic of MiBS Buckaloo and tho choir of the church. Master Coggshall gave a recitation that was received with great favor and applause by the auditors. The management of this pleasant affair was in the hands of a committee which was composed of the following ladies and gentlemen Messrs Muchmore, Hart and Quincy and Misses Buckaloo, Bellamy and Greenwood. The guests all expressed themselves well pleased with the affair, and gave tha committee great praise on their 'xtZuil management.

SavKNTH Avenue M. E. Chuhcii. Another festival was held last evening in the chapel or this church, ln Seventh avenue, nearFlatbu3h avenue. All festivals seem to be well attended this year, and this was no exception to the general rule.

One can hardly spend a more enjoyable evening, than at a strawberry festival, and as this church has a name for doing all things well, denizens of that locality flocked to the church, and enjoyed the luBcions borries and rich cream. Singing and addresses helped tho happy hourB to pass quickly away. Elm Place Congregational Ciitjiich, The ladies of thia church will haye their annual festival and concert this evening. II is hardly necessary to eay anything concerning this church, its reputation for good things is too widely extended. The festival of this church will come off this evening.

Agood time may be expected, as in addition to tho berriea and cream, Professor Frobishor, of New York College, will give a selection of readings, and good music will be provided. TniitD Presbyterian Crrancn. The festival of this church will be held thia evening at the Brooklyn Institute, for the benefit of the Sabbath School. The hall is a tine place for such a gathering, and undoubtedly will be well filled. Amusemc nts.

The Pare Theatre. To night Brougham's inimitable burlesque of "Pocahontas" will be preeehtcd With new cast, Miss Laura Queen will essay "ye gentle savage Mr. Mestayer, Powhatan Mrs. Henri, John Smith, etc. To conclude with the nautical drama of "Ben Bolt." To morrow evening Mr.

Conway will take hisbvhiefit when "Guy Mannering" will be presented, introducing Mrs. Conway in the arduous role of lreg iterrUess, with Mr. Conway as Dandle Binmont, Hoole y's Ofera Ho0sb. The Japanese here are "all right" and do their terrific descents comfortably. Little Eddie has become quite a favorite.

Miss Denvil. Miss Rachel Deavil who has been playing a star engagement with much success at Edward's Opera Houbo, in the Eastern District, will take a benefit to morrow evening, which will afford an opportunity for tho numerous friends of this estimable lady and talented artiste to testify their regard bv fil ling the house. Avery attractive bill is offered for the occasion. IfATHER O'JttEnLY Association. To night at the Academy of Music, a testimonial will be offered to the Father O'Reilly Musical Association in thOBbnpeof a dramatic and musical entertainment.

A large number of ladies and gentlemen will gracefully co operate in tne pleasant affair. Mr. Barney Williams, as popular Bocially as professionally will ODDear. Mr Hooley, the prince of minstrel managers, will contri bute to the programme through some of hia best Der formers. Messrs.

Barnum and Freliga have consented to tne appearance of their leading actors and ac tresses. The bill opens with the capital farce "Tho insu Tiger," in which Barney Williams will play Paddy Byan and sing "Pat Malloy." After this the Father O'Reilly Band will render Beveral selections. An interlude of vocal music and dancing will follow and the entertainment will conclude with the domes tic drama "The Harvest Storm." the characters boin Bustained by Mr. Bridgman, Mrs. Prior, and other competent artiste.

That the house will be crowded mere cannot be a doubt. Bttdwohth. Mr. J. H.

Budworth. an old Brooklyn favorite, will take a benefit at the Bowery iucaire, lu inorrow evening, when he will nlav "Rid Ton inusre. jur. james of this clly bupi wrt jiir. cuaworin.

Pic Nic Yesterday afternoon and evening Pope's celebrated Park, under tho nrnnri.tnnMn nr wua ine scene gaiety and feasting, the occasion boing tho second annual ple nic of the Greenwood Social Club. The best of order was preserved, and the participants are under obligations to Sergeant Mackellar and assistants for tha well ro n. T. TV.ti;. TT V.

lated arrangements adopted to insure a pleasant time. But pleasure is never unalloyed, we arc told An accident occured on the grounds, which marred for awhile the enjoyment of those present. A man named Adam Krautz was knocked down and rendered insensible by a scup while in motion whether the Ininrica he sustained are of a Berioua nature or not wo have not learned. He was taken cbaree or and carried into the hotel by Sergeant Mackellar and his brother. Offi cer Mackellar.

iiAW srvTuiiiiiuiszyoB. COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER Before JtrooE iiAHNAED AND JUSTICES HOTT AND VOOBJUES. COUNSEL FOR BKIDMORE. In the Court of Over and Terminer, this morning, Thomas E. Pcarsall and Bernard Hughes were assigned by the Court as counsel to defend Skid more, the air gun murderer.

There was a large crowd in the court, in the expectation of seeing the notorious criminal but, os he was not brought up, they wero disappointed in consequence. The case is set down for trial positively on Monday next, and a panel of 250 jurors has been summoned. DOTTED STATES DISTRICT COURT Betobe JUDGE BENEDICT. THE FIRST PETITION IN BANKRUPTCY. The first Detition in Bankrnntev in thp TT S.

Courts of the E. was filed this morning in the U. S. District Court, the petitioner being Alexander A Cabrc, residing at 244 Ewcn street, E. D.

The affidavit sets forth that he is indebted tn thi amonnt of $18,624, aud that Mb entire aasetA amount to only 10,178, consisting of a claim against the Mexican Government and the receivers of tho Columbia Insurance Company, for the loss and confiscation of the schooner Wilson Crawford and her cargo, ln 1865. This claim has been in the hands of Messrs. Baxter Mor rei ior a year past. S. COMMISSIONER'S COURT Betobe Com lOSSIONEB NeWTOH.

THE 8TATEH 18LAKI EMBEZZLEMENT. The case of John Crocheron. Deontv finl lcctor in the Richmond County District, under Collector Carman, who is charged with embezzling some 8,000 offends belonging to tho Government, was np this morning before Commissioner Newton. The only evidence taken was that of the book keeper and teller of the Merchants' Bank, who testified to the account of the prisoner at the bank. Prior to hia arrest he had deposited the aura of $38,000 in the bank, on account of the Government.

The monej was mostly in checks, some of which wero refused on account of not being properly certified. Prisoner took them off, and came back with other checks to the same amount, which were taken on deposiU. The case was iueu iyuumeu iui wc itmi wnen 11 will be summed nn bv Mr. Anthon for thn nriannpr nnrf thn United States District Attorney for tho Government. II Mil il IH III 11 sic, dancing, operatic and dramatic entertalments also great causes of Stninblfcg, rj faai serisi (fig( God has given us Is I Now' I acknow ledge all this, but contend nevertheless, that the policy of calling npon the mass to deny themselves all and sundry gratifications, for the Bake of the few to whom they are the cause of stumbling, is not a wise one.

I think the better policy is to educate the weaker brethren and encourage them so to strengthen their moral and intellectual powers, that they may ultimately be enabled to rise into a higher moral atmosphere, when such things wiU cease to be temptations to them, and thoy may enjoy to the falj their legitimate use. I know and am persuaded of the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of Besides, if Paul himself was willing neither to eat flesh nor drink wine whilst the world Btood, If thereby one brother was weakened, I have yet to learn that he made conformity to that rule a test of church membership. His more charitable and liberal rule was, I think, "Let every one be fully persuaded in his own mind." A word more, as you clergymen say, and I have done. At the close of my interview with the Committee, I stated to them that before making application for church membership I had been teaching In tho Sunday School, and that I had purposed becoming a permanent teacher, but that as the matter now stood, I was desirous of knowing whether or not that would meet with their approbation. Mr.

Fanning, for whoso kind and earnest attempts to make a teototaier of me, I am much obliged, very kindly said that he saw no possible objection, bnt that in the contrary he thought I might be of great service. On the matter being referred to Copt. Duncan, however, he placed Ms most emphatic veto upon it. As I have great fondnesB for the Sunday School work, and was very desirous of joining your school, this decision hurt me much more than my rejection by the church. In fact I could not conscientiously enter a church over whose portals was inscribed such an uncharitable dogma, and feel rather glad than otherwiso of the opportunity of recording my emphatic protest against making teetotalism a test of Christianity.

This refusal to allow me to join in the Sunday School work reminds me of certain disciples (in whom the Captain Duncan spirit seems to have been strong) coming to Jcbus, Baying, "Master, we Baw one casting out devils in thy name, and we forbade him, because he followeth not with us." Plymouth Church was certainly the last place where I should havo looked for a parallel to that old story. Not having the pleasure of knowing you personally, I did not care to seek a personal Interview. There was, therefore, no course left me but to write you, which I am afraid I have done at greater length than you will find pleasant. So, apologizing for the lengthiness of my communication, I am, dear sir, yours very slncerly, 8. H.

LATE FOREIGN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA'S MAILS. The Kcsult of tho Groat Tailors' Strike In London Tho Wealthy Falling Uacb on their Cast oft Clothes Tho Defeat of the Government on the Reform Bill Serious Illness of Charles Kcon, the Actor Tho Now Cunard Steamship Russia The Government and the Fe. nian Prisoners Intelligence for tho ladles Fashions for June. The steamship Persia arrived at New York this forenoon.

Her news is four days later than has been received by mail. The following extracts from our foreign flies will be found of interest ll ttr'cat Tailors' Strike. The strike between the master tailors and tho men ehows no symptoms of being brought to an amicable cIobo. The former held a meeting recently, at which they declared that they were fast getting the number of workmen thoy want, and the suggestion of arbitration was scouted. Those who remain out seem likely to be eoon limited to those horrible places knowa as the "sweating shops." The result will be that the ordinary workmen, after allowing the very best part of the season to be wasted in enforced idleness, will be in a worse position than before.

So far, the higher class of customers in London, sympathizing with the injustice of the "screw" attempted to bo put on the employers, have fallen back on their old wardrobes, ana the circulation of money has been greatly Impeded in consequence. The Defeat of the Government on the Reform Bill. The Government, it will be seen, received a whSVH0 yf 00 lh0 Part of the Reform Bill which relates to the re distribntion of scats. Mr ijfung moved an amendment nn Hipir anmo tn n. Wltb a Population of less than 10,000 at the last census shall return ire than ons member.

There was a tolerably full house, no less than 4E5 members being present, aud the majority against the Government amounted to the formidable number of 1ST. This vote will altogether disarrange the Government scheme for the re distribution of soafs and how it will be received by them will form an exciting theme lor some time to come. Serious Illness of Charles Kean. From tho Liverpool Times The play going public, and indeed the world generally, will be pained to hear of the sudden and bq frMr C1.larlM Kra" sudden that ho i ir "ib cuuracier 01 King Lear, in which he was to Imve appeared on Wednesday nWht at the Prince of Wales Theatre, and so serious that doubtful whether he will cvir be able to return to the stage and under the most favorable circumstances 7 'uHMUOulc "me i no announcement of this distressing inte iieenco has filled the own with a general feeling of gloW. Mr.

Kean wit 10 me terminated his engagement two nishts fnllnnr. ing his illness, and in antfcipatlon of that fvent every scat In the house, including the orchestra including the orchestra soatB, had S.fK'Tly Wc lea torn the certificate of Dr. Manifold that the affection which has produced this melancholy result is disease of the heart miiMuiuB puiuiu ly com mon In onr time, nnri wMM, mn sufferer being conscious of it. The certiflcatc al "which will render his acting again for some time to 352 htP0SB b'eC i8 c'nownthatX. Kean when thin nlflTnifv fivoi rnnir visit to the provinces, previous to 'taking fntleme kSS, Jfcaeion of winch he had ornament.

The intelligence cannot fa 1 to cause great distress in London Abb rule, actors live lonrr. niffl therefore, be unhealthy.0' Macready. now verging towards his SOth year, is ln his retirement inline fail 5 1" 1 7 01 mina ana Dody. Van denhoff lived to bo 72. Charles Vr.

nlii.j aeeofSS. All the Kembles went down to the grave cf the century reached the allotted period of human" ty, and many of them considerably exceeded it It is to be hoocd that TVf If PJir, if." his late hard work, may be able at no distant day to re uppear Deiore tne lootllghts in the capital, and WW Tn a 111 ce oj unusual success TI10 Now Cunard Steamship "Itussla. The splendid new screw steamship Russia." the latest addition to the fleet of the British and North American Royal Mail Company, arrived in tho Mersey on Wednesday morning last, at nine o'clock, from the Clyde, after a rather boisterous paesage, which, not wit.iciu.iui.ig ins avua wina mat prevailed daring nearly all the way, was accomplished in fifteen hours exactly from Wemyss Bay to the Ball Buoy. The the largest screw steamer belonging to the Cunard Company; was built and ongined by the eminent firm of James and George Thompson, of Go vnn. on tho Clyde, who wero also builders of the "Australasian" and the "Java," as well as some of the vessels belong to the Mediterranean fleet of Messrs.

Burns and Maclvor. Her dimensions are length over all. 370 feet; breadth, 43 feet; depth, 21) feet tonnage, 3,141. The engines (direct action) are of TC0 horse power nominal, but capable of workin up to nearly five times that amount. Her Internal uiuukb ure cnusie, elegant, ana substantial.

The principal saloon is 62 feet long and 19 feet wide it is a magnificent apartment, richly furnished, and wains cotted throughout its entire length with polished bird's eye maple, the paneling and as well as those of the ceiling, being tastefully enriched with gold ornamentation. The sleeping berths are arranged on the main deck they are contained in a hundred Btaterooms, and afford accommodation for 303 first class and a limited number of second class passengers Although the last of the mail contract line," she is certainly not the least magnificent. Undeterred by tho approaching termination of the Government contract, her enterprising owners have relaxed not one jot of their energies in producing a specimen of naval architecture equal to anything afloat. Everything that ingenuity could devise has been provided, and builders and owners have ample reason to be satisfied with the results. From her trial trip, which took place on Monday last, to the great satisfaction of the Admiralty ofllciala, her speed is likely to be very high.

Tho distanoo from tac Ctofch to the Cumbrae Lighthouse 13 knots was run in 55 minutes, and subsequently she was tested several times on the measured mile, givln an average speed of IS knots per hour. In these trials the vessel was loaded with 1,200 tone of iron to a mean depth of 20 feet, the engineB making from 55 to 53 revolutions per minute, and not the slightest approach to heating in any of the bearings was observable. The Russia is heavily barque rigged, and, from tho great.length of berJmastB, carries an immense spread of canvas. Ihc Action or the Government ln Par doning tho Fenian Prisoners. From the European Times.

When more than fifty members of Parliament waited on Lord Derby on Saturday, the 25th of May, to impress upon him the necessity of conciliating public opinion on both sides of the Channel by sparln" the lire of the Fenian convict Burke, tho question was ably argued by the more prominent members of the deputation. His lordehip, withont compromising his colleagues or bimfielf, declared frankly that tSe Cabinet had given to the subject the best consideration in their power, and bad arrived at the conclusion that the capital sentence ought to bo carried out. They had solicited tho presence at their deliberations of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and they could see nothing In the circumstances which ought to prevent the law from taking its He would, however, bring the' subject again before hiB colleagueB. It was tho inten tion or tho gentlemen, if thoy had been met with a point blank refusal, to havo proceeded in a body to Balmoral, and asked for an act of grace and clemency at the foot of the throne. Happily, there was no necessity.

The Cabinet reconsidered the determination at which they had arrived, and agreed to substitute the milder for tho more severe sentence, and the announcement of the fact in both Houses of Parliament was a real relief to the public mind. In tho House of Commons this duty devolved or Mr Disraeli, and a spectator who was preBont declared that he became very pale ln making tho announce ment. "'Some thonght it was becanse he was ashamed of the position into which be hod once more bean placed by the adherence of his collcaguoa to a course of which he disapproved. Qn the other hand, the na tnre cf the subject was such as might well warrant a certain degree of feeling and the extreme pallor of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's face gave anair of sincerity to the emotion evinced in his delivery which was certainly very great." This exhibition of foeling will ralBB the Chancellor of tho Exehequor ln the estimation of the public. Hitherto he has beon regarded osaman who, if not devoid of cuscepUuliiltos, Baa at him, he was asked his views oil the temperance question.

He replied that ho was a temperance man, but that he occasionally indulged in a social glass. When asked as to the number ot libations, he replied that they varied with cir cumstances. Not caring much for stimulants for their own sake, some days he took none at all. When thrown into society had occasionally reached as high as three, or even four glasses of wine, and even on occasions when Bourbon or brandy was in order, he had joined his friends in drinking it, but always in moderation. Ho was asked if for the benefit of his example he would not become a teeto talar and refrain from the use of liquor altogether.

One of the Examiners offered himself as an awful example," and related his experience for the benefit of the weaker brother. He had been in the habit of using liquor, had grown fond of it, had in his early days actually fallen as Noah did, and on one occasion woke up after an ungodly revel to find his spouse in tears by his bedside. He was converted as suddenly as was Saul on his way to Damascus, joined the temperance society and remained a teetotaller ever since. The incorrigible applicant for church membership argued that the same necessity did not exist in both cases. He admired the resolution of the Plymouth patriarch in abandoning the use of liquor altogether, since he was tempted to abuse his privilege, but, as in his case, he was not tempted to over indulgence, he could not see why he should be called upon to deny himself a right which would have deprviect him of the opportunity of testing the reality of the miracle performed at Canaan in Qallilee, long ago, if he had been among those invited to the feast.

The Examining Committee was inexorable, and stood on the principle "no liquor, no church communion." The applicant then appealed by letter to the pastor ot the Church, the Kev. Mr. Beecher. We publish the letter elsewhere, and it will be found rather interesting reading, Mr. Beecher has not yet seen fit to respond to it.

We need hardly say that if he should choose to do so, publicly, the columns of the Eagle are now, as ever, at his service. The Duuderberg. This warlike craft about which we have heard so much, weut on a trial trip yesterday with the French officers who are to take charge of her, on board. She made good time for a vessel of her build and satisfied her new owners. It is amusing to notice the change of tone of the New York papers since the vessel has been sold to France.

We used to hear that the Dunderberg was the most terrible craft afloat compared to other iron clads, a perfect triton a mong the minnows capable of sinking and destroying an ordinary fleet, and as invulnerable as Achilles. It was probably on account of these representations that France and Prussia were each so anxious to buy her. Now the World says "It ia now pretty well understood that the United States lose and the French gain very little in the way of naval strength by the transfer of this vessel. She lias speed, is splendidly built, can c.irry an im iuci.be urinuuiem, ana wouia oe a powerim ram it Bhe coum pec near enougn to tne opposing vessel, cat mis is me aiiucuity. one is many detective n.uiicr oi Mrmur, ine more recently coj rencu una jLugnsn guns coma KnocK ner.

Derorc sne miriy got in action. This t. understand, out iney Dongnt tne prevent me rusaians getting ni uuiy party imo ronue anyrnin before the Dim The Dunderberg is Stion of what the famous 17 was to have been. We be precious humbug has been aban and the proceeds of a million dollars 'or so left to rust in the Hoboken Dock yard. For a quarter of a century the public were entertained with promises of this vronderful affair, and various appropriations were obtained from Congress, from time to time, to complete the Stevens' battery, which was to obviate all necessity for a navy or coast forti ficafons to defend New York.

The war came, and the Stevens' battery, which was began about 1840, was still unfinished, as it is to this day. If it could only be put together somehow, so as to float it out of the port, we might sell it to France, or Prussia, or Japan. Like the Dunderberg, it might not be of much use, but the purchaser would have the same consolation of keeping others from getting it, and it would be a relief to us to get rid of the concern. An Awful Bnmor, A Washington correspondent notices the fact that many of the more intelligent negroes are in favor of the re emigration of their race to their native Africa, where a black republic, modeled af ter tue American fashion, invites them. What on earth would become of the "loyal" party of this 'country if the negro should leave? Every one of the" eternal verities would go with them, and thousands of lusty fellows, who are now living by politics, would have to take up the shovel and the hoe," thrown down by the black folks.

The Washington Intelligencer, in discussinc the question of the responsibility of the Gov! eminent for the sufferings of our soldiers in Southern prisons during the war, says "Davis did the best he could for them in tho exhausted condition of his country, and warned their Government, over and over again, that they were suffering and it could not bo helped. He pleaded for an exchange, man for man, and then for an exchange of the sick, which he even offered to send home without any return of Southern prisoners but all appeals fell lifeless upon the cold ears of a heartless Government. It refused to come to tho relief of its own suflerinw nnri inn ci diers, and preferred they should remain in prison and uli iu inuuuL iiiu Buuouiiictj ui tue souiD. Thee are facts, unanswerable, damnini? facts, nnd thB up judgment against the reviiers of the South sooner or later." Whereupon the Nevf York Tribune re marks "But what we urge, and shall persistently domand Is a searching, tlwrough investigation of the whole maker of t) treament of prisoners throughout our late Civil ao uwb vvimvr no wnat it has too long ccgiected raise a Joint Committee so const! tutcd as to command universal confidence, and direct that Committee to investigate every complaint of inhumanity to prisoners, whether by our own or by Rebel commanders. Wheneversuch inhiimanityis proved let it be traced up to its source, and the blame fastened where it justly belongs.

The investigation ought to have been ordered long ago. Even yet it is timely, although at least one man has been hanged, by what may turn out after all to be a mistake. Hanging first, and an investigation afterwards, is an odd way of doing business, to say the least of it. The Brooklyn (E. Press made its initial appearance yesterday.

Its typographical success was assured by fidelity to an excellent modei the Baolb aB printed a few years ago on a Bhoet smaller than its present issue. The matter of thc Pra is lively and readable, and it proposes as its first object completeness in lecal news. It has In this field a powerful rival firmly established, and its conductors doubtless understand that it can compete with the Times only by vl gorouB and persistent oflbrt. The Paw enters npon its work in the most amiable mood toward all its co tf mporaries, and doubtless its cordial good will Is entirely reciprocated. It wero well that the intercourse of journals were always thus genially tempered.

Count Bismarck suffers terribly from a nervous disease which prevents himfrom sleeping. To recover some sleep, he gets on a horse at 1 o' clock of tho nightand rides till 4, returns home, goes to bed and sleeps five hours. The house of Wm. Smith, at West Town send, Mass, was burned last week. His wife perished in the building while trying to get out auiuu uiuiiiiu.

Two young ladies going home alone at New Haven, on Saturday evening, were followed and insulted by a fellow, who caught hold of. one of them, when she drew a pistol and. shot Uim in the mouth, the ball passing out through the cheek. TW '111 imilttuk 1 jjjj a a a to i A Canada correspondent of a Baltimore paper furnishes the most Interesting report of Jefferson Davis' movements that has yet been published. The writer is clearly a Davis enthusiast, and refers to the ex Confederate leader as "our gallant and noble chief," "the President," "the victim of oppression and tyranny." Davis' visit to the little Canadian town of Niagara.

where a pleasant Confederate society is springing up," was the occasion of much pleasure to his friends. He went from Montreal on board steamboat, by way of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. At Kingston and Toronto he was warmly welcomed by crowds. At Niagara, where he was tho gueBt of Mr.

Mason, he was serenaded by a hand which played "Dixie" and the "Bonnie Blue Flag." The thoughtful Mason treated tho band. The correspondent intimates that Davis may pass the summer at Niagara, "where he will be accessible to friends from the South, and yet removed from the prying curiosity bo characteristic of tho Yankee." The hospitality of New York is now being extended to the entire City Government of Providence. The Mayor, Aldermen and other officers come (o examine the several public institutions with a view of makiDg improvements in their own. So much pains is taken to represent New York as a frieutfuiiv mis governed city, it is strange people from the provinces look to It as a model lu anything. It is not easy to determine whether the wonderful skill or the apparent peril is the more powerful! attraction of acrobatic performances.

The feats of the trapeze would be quite as difficult of accomplishment at four feet from the stage as at forty, but while upon the latter conditions the gymnast draws crowds, npon the former he probably would not draw at all! Danger, when incurred by somebody else, strangely fascinates almost everybody. The cuanco that Blondin might tumble from his rODe into the rapid current of Niagara brought thousands of people to the river banks. If anybody has been followingnp the Japanese in the firm faith that at some time some ter rible accident would overtake a daring acrobat, tho expectation was fully realized last nisht at the New York Academy of Music. The boy "All Right," the most popular and the most remarkable member of the troupe, while descending a rope from the ceillnc to the Becond tier, either lost his hold, or was thrown oft" by tue yieiumg oi tne stay line accounts differ on this point and fell to the floor, a distance of between thirty and forty feet. This frightful interruption in the evening's amusement duly impressed the lare ludience.

None of the boy's bones were broken, but severe internal injuries were sustained, and the probabilities of death or recovery were believed to be evenly balanced. For a time the accident may Impair the success of acrobatic entertainments, but the next daring and graceful performer will make the public forget the fate of little "All Right." The first Minister from Greece to the United States reached Washington yesterday. He is represented to be a man of ability and culture, and one who will well represent a country with which the American people arc In Cordial sympathy. The dull routine of military stations is sometimes varied by social festivities which shoulder, straps and gilt buttons never fail to make brilliantly successful. One of these delightful episodes brightened life on Governor's Island last night.

The occasion was an entertainment given to the cadets of the French school ship Jean Bart. Jenkins, of course, was there, and reports the presence of a distinguished com pany." Besides the French and American officers there were there civilians from the city, including many ladies. names more than a score of very lovely persons. The Frenchmen were astonished at the charming exhibition, and, being kindly in lormca Dy denums that thero were plenty more of tho same sort, subsided into rhapsodies touching tho beauty of feminine America. Then they went "on Villi the dance," andioy was permitted to be wholly uuconfined.

The busin( re the Constitutional Con vention yei adoption of rales of order. Almost consumed in discussing question" in the y. The rule was opposed by inspected of a desire to make many os, and was finally excluded by a vote Sandy Hook report states that the raft NTonparoii called yesterday morning. Whether she will next be heard from at an English nort or at some point along the Jersey coast, or whether she will never be heard from, are purely speculative questions. Hor detention in port is attributed to bad weather and the deEertion of a prudent sailor.

Society at the Albany Penitentiary will probably be enriched in a fow days by tho presence of Conover, the perjury convict. Conover has spared no cflort to avoid the consequence of his crime. His latest expedient was a motion for a new trial, on the ground that he had discovered evidence Impeaching the witnesses on.whose testimony he was convicted! By advice of his counsel he abandoned this final and desperate expedient, and nothing is left for him but compliance as graceful as possible with the terms of his sentence. The New York Times of this mornino while defending its "Minor Topics" against tho attack 01 jiev. ur.

uurry, of the Christian Advocate, supplies tho Doctor with fresh ammunition in a falselv Binii mental paragraph, soliciting the morbid sympathy of iu ueuan or the actor in the late King tragedy. That a man commits mnrder and Bnicide because ho has not money lUpuj luuuuaruui a "preuy waiter girl" with whom he has lived as a mistress is rtehttv regarded adding.to the abundant evidence lately accumulated of oiuiuiiuB luumerunce to the sanctity of human lire. That a leading journal seeks to make hero of the demoralized youth who proved himself wholly insensible to the opinion of men or the judgment of Heaven 10 a munirnuon 01 prevailing loose views of ngnt ana wrong. Sickles shot Key to and so cicty applauded, while a formal trial resulted In tri uiuyuuuv ocquiuai. uole kills Hiscock, and the j.Tioune paints a touching picture of tho outraged husband.

KiDg slaughtered a woman and hw out his own thin brains because nobody would lend him $E0 to continue a disgraceful liaison. Where upon the Times directs attention to the sad features of tne case, and unda fault with King's friends because they did not supply him with'means for further dissipation, and impliedly censures his family for not receiving the "waiter girl" mistress with open arms. Truly a little old fashioned rigid morality would be wholesome. The fate of Maximilian is still unrlfifliVlprf A dispatch from Eecobedo, reporting the shooting of mat the writer believes muuuiuiii. anu nis generals Bhonld be disposed of in Judge Fisher summarily quashed the panel in the Surratt case, on the ground of irregularity, and ordered new jurors to be summoned.

If their attend ance is procured, it iB expected that the trial will pro Sovereigns are usually content to exchange cards, diplomatically, but royal inter visiting is likely to become fashionable The crowd of crowned heads gainereu in Paris at the exhibition has been tho sensation of the reason, and the excitement is In creased by he fact that one of the guests has been the object of the hospitality of the pistol. Napoleon proposes to return at least two of thosa visits. Next Autumn he and Eugenie will reDair in treat state to the capitals of William of Prussia and Alexander of Rassla, who will in their turn discharge tho duties of uvi aim so lar as may be guard the Man of Destiny who by the way is said to believe fate reserves for him death London from the consequences of tho rash act of any insane French patriot who may take a shot at him. long Island Items. The Long Island Bible Society will hold Bummer meetings at Ureenpoint next Tuesday.

The foreman of Mutual Engine Company No. 1, of Flushing, Mr. Frederick A. Car3e, has been presented by the Company with a handsome silver Jacob W. Laman, of North Hempstead, has remarkable cow.

When four vears old Bhe had twin calves, at five a single calf, at six four, and at Beven lurec, muung ten in tnree years. The fair season is in lively progress. The Union Sabbath School of Jamaica South will hold a festival on the 20th hist. The ladles of the Presbyterian Sabbath School of Jamaica wUl havo their'B on the 26th and 2Tth and the Woodhaven Congregational Church people have fixed their's for the 18th and nth inst. The ladies of tho Jamaica M.

E. Cbnreh are making extensive arrangements for a fair on the Fourth of July. A singular accident caused the death of i3cnjamin marie on nuemtwa near nis residence. He was shooting, and his gun being accident aUy discharged, the rebound drove the breach against hia side below the ribs, causing a fatal injury. Arrangements for the Horticultural Exhibition at the Queens County Fair Grounds on the 24th inst, are nearly complete.

Special premiums of $10 nrt: uuucu uj uiuxciis lur tuu ueat vegctames Dy market gardener, and the best raised in a private earden. for tho best strawberries, for thn best flnml sign, for the best cut flowers, for the best collection of plants, lor tne plants raised without tho aid of a greenhonse, and for the best grapes. Besides the Agricultural Society offers a large number of premiums for fruits, flowers, and vegetables. The SprarrijALisTS. The weekly meeting of Spiritualists of the Eastern district was held at their hall in Fourth Btrcot last evening, and thoy wore addressed by Mr.

Warren Chase on olden time miracles, as compared with what is now performed by tho adherents of this cause. Ho considered too much importance was attached to the miracles recorded in the Bible, and claimed far greater wonders have been worked throngh the agency of the spirits thoy control than were ever performed by ChriBt or tho Prophets. In tho matter of casting out devils, he desired any one so afflicted to call on him, and they should bs relieved at once of such undesirable tenants. Poetic recitations were afterwards given by a Mr. Holmes, a trance medium.

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