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t3T Hill Inimitable Cutti or Haib ad He ears Uteratara. Amid the turmoil of life, the parking cares of business, and the exhaustion attendant upon intellectual strife in the higher walks of life, what refreshment does it aflord to the man, who, by education and cultivated tasters fitted'to enjoy to turn his weary steps into the pleasant fields tirement. They cheer, and. comfort us with them we are merry or sad, thonghtfal or blithe seme, and careless of the passing hour. Deep down in our hearts they dwell amid clustering affections and noble virtues and evor present with us they AH us with light and love, and never satiating, never fading joy.

X. City Park oa Fart Oraene. 1 have observed that trees are being set in the This Paar kii tks Larrest uirealatira Kria( Paper pabluhcd the Lnitad sttatsa. It Tali aa oa AdTsrtislmi Medlua Is there fan apaaiaat. Horrible Effects at Fanaticism tfromthaStiwSarm Couttat.J 'f It seems that there exists in the upper part of the city a peculiar religions seot known aa manitee," who havje made thoir doctrines known by holding meetings at the house of Mr.

Samuel Sly who uvea in a lane or alley between Beavor nnti Dixwell sts. Sly has no wife or. family, but has a wo man living in the' house with him named" Bhoda" Wakeman, who founder of the sect called the "Wakemanites." This woman affirms that she was murdered about thirty years ago, and went to Heaven, and for some reason whieh she 'does not state, came back oa earth, and founded the sect already alluded to. She preaches and prays, and holds meetings at her house, giving to those wno assemble to hear her peouliar stories, her views ef tho Bible and her experience in the spiritual world. Among nor believers and followers are many families who live in Hamden, and they are in the habit of coming down to her houso every Sunday to nt tend meeting.

She held a meeting at hor house last Sunday evening, and there were present Almerorr Sanford and his wife, Justus Matthews, Betsey Keeler, a Mrs. Davis, and a colored man named Jo siah Jackson. They met about 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, and continued their meeting until a iato hour in the night. About 2 o'clock Monday lnorn iDg, the Widow Wakeman (the prophetess) says sho heard a noise in the room below. She occupies a small room in attic of the house.

The house is a small story and a half building, with thin partitions, and and a noise in the lower istory could be easily heard in the rooms above. The widow says that she told Betsey Keeler, when she heard the noise, that he thought "all was not right" Although widow Wakeman affirms that she tho't iWira)srtUTJUtarcl4)f New Vorlr. 18U. (T S. D.

Morbis, Counsellor at Taw Offloe.341 Fulton street, first floor, back room. Bmoklvn myB ly B3T Family Flour from new Wheat, at low eat market prices. GEO. W. MUMBY, au4 tf 58 Pulton street.

XST B. Baowjc, Teacher ot Elocution. Imtrtctlona given at tbe rooldencea of pupils or at his Hal). For terms apply ct 393 Jay sL, CrooUjn, dflai tjr Touno Man's Hats and Caps for tho olidsnv alio Oaiws. Ombnlla.

Carat Bscs ar Trunks. Mthafgoodtlcolcof Bufflo tho oA established lUFOIflOS BlIRT alj lot oppotlte Bands street. H2T Dr Thomas H. Cocskr, Office 249 Fulton street, Brooklyn. Oflko ho'irs i to 10 A.

and 4 to 0 1'. M. Residence 130 ilenrj street. j24 8m 13T MiLBa O'Reilly, IttcTimit and Distiller, 172 SUUTH STREET, u7tr Sew Yotk. HTM; 8.

Paine's Wiiting ami Bookkeep hil Academy, (ostabllnhod 1H49.) at 168 Fulton nt, Brooklyn. Open evar day and evening. Eniire satisfaction guaranteed. Ladies pilvto writing classes, terms $3, 10 lessons, all found. J90 I3T Edward Wilson's Hair Cutting salooo, Gl Fulton to be replete, with all thOM eodirorti convenioncloi tbst appertain to snob wiab lishments; his study (hall be to render It every mar.ser worthy that patronage that lias hitherto been so liberally bestowed npja it.

His stock of Toilet goods will vie with auy kept at similar establishments, and his prices are moderate. Hair Cutting Okk Shilling. N. B. Particular attontion given to the cutting of dreu's Hair, as also to that of Adults.

To those gentlemen who can appreciate the luxury ci properly administered Shampoo, or an easy removal the beard, wo say go to Wilson'B Saloon. Wilson is au nrtisi of no common order. To thoM "Who doTrbtf we say, when your huir wants regulating, fry wuvou's sKiii, mm you win ue tnorougniy saiiensoi ha oannot be surpassed. mh8 sf SUPERIOR COAL. i The Proprietors of tbe LOUUCT MOUNTAIN fiOAr claim that it yields 97 percent, of carbon and only per ceak.wasto.', Our tests, lully realira what tliey claim for it, and that ihore is no coal equal to It for Range Furnace a or Stoves.

It giro more heat, burns longer, makes less elfnknr, ho cinder, and Ion ashes than any Aithra cilp Cpiil wieha.ve ever seen used, Try a ten as a sample, and 6lirw0rd tor it, yon will dlreet ns to furnish you with a BUpply of that kind of coal. We have made our arrangements with the miners aud are nrarjared tn dnllvnr his' Btiperlor article, well screened, from yard, to famillM andothMs in any part of BrooMyn or Ne York, 'free ef cartage. MAB3TON POWER. Uoal, Depot, on wharf at loot or Dock between Fulton and Catharine Ferries, or SS Bnaver ntnuft. tma doors from Wall street.

Now York. Nassau Insurance Compamv. BROOKLYN, office No. 10 Court Btreet, opposite Cits' nail, je.j AOOO. The.followiug.gentrBmen were this day chosen Dlreo tora ensuing year.

i) wm. M. Wm. F. IJulklev.

Samuel Smith, Coukiin Brush, Mffnnr iirnhv. A. A. Low, H. K.

Corning, Georgo D. Morgan. J. Carson Brevbofi: Thoa. i.

Gerald, Wm. Hooter, Jr. Elijah Lewis, Charles R.Lynde, James Weaver. i Alexander Underbill, Daniel Richards, Thomas Stratton, Geo. L.Shaw.

Stephen Haynes, John J. Stud well, Isaaq Carhart, 'DanTer Tan Vorhcs, John John French. i.eonara uooper, E. 13. Litchfield, Loomls.Bailard, Peter Bateh: Michael Chauncey.

Joseoh C. Johnson. JohnT. Martin, J. A.

H.Bell, i. Wm. H.Cary, Wftrriwnlt Ji.W.Harpbrj 1 B. F. At a mefiUntr Of the Board of Dirantnra thn RAmd a wan ing, WM.

M. HARRIS, was re elected President. HJ fel7JL A.J, BtggMxN. F. C0LT0N, AUCTIO NEE ft.

RE A Qr.r nV f.T(l'Vlr OAS mTirfi vn if inni iwv 0. HUMBERT will sell bl oa'alosue. In his Wars Rnomi. 17aatr174 rnlton et.Brookiyn, on FRIDAY MORIf a large and general 'ataoTtment elegant parlor, chamber, htll.nlainar room and FANCY TORNirORK, ail custom made and. at superior workmanship 'and finish, affording to purchasers a favorable opportunity for prorl dioe themselves with an economical set substantial aocom punyment to tbe ordinary compliments ot the The sale will embrace ths moat desirable articles In the Wsreroem, mans of nhiohbave been prodnoed with ipBclaT reference to too wants of the Holidays, and will ibe found well worthy the attention of carahasers Catalogues and he goods ready for examination the day and evening prevl ona to the sale: dfc gt PLATED CAKE BASKETS, TABLE CAfJ.

tors, Coffee TJroB. Swing Tea Kettles, fine Japanned Tea Trays, Oval nd OothicDatrerns fine Tabl Oatlerv, to. WBIVe KNAPP'8, 203 Jfalton street, d271w cor. Pineapple. Brooklyn.

WET.N0K3E WANTED IN BROOKLYN, to take charge, at her own home, of a baby 8 months Apply to MRS. MULLIGAN, at lit Clinton. St, Brook outjh" CONCERT. THE TREMAINE CHILDREN will alve one, more of their Musical Entertainment) at the Brooklyn Institute, on i FRIDAY EVENING, Deo, 28th, which occasion they wilt be assisted by Miss JraiA Coo hit, who will appear fjr tha first timi before' a Brooklyn aurfif e. Admittance 25 cents.

Doors open at 6) o'eloek. d272l elETS FOR THE HOLIDAYS GOLD AND Silver Watches and a large assortment of Jewelry, Silver and Plated Wire. Gold Watches from Silver Watches from 9 to 160. and ail other articles if reduced, prices, and warranted to bb represented ior isle SPOONXB a WELOH, dJ7.1w. 9 Myrtle ave.

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CHOICE WINES AND LIQC0R3 FOft THB HOLIDAYS. otar'd London Dock Brandtel (pale and dark), Dnfftiordon'Jnalesherriej, AmoaUltado.da.i 4ue Bcf slue" Madeira, London whiskeys, old Jamtioa rum, all of nnriyalieu cusiIWi moitly wwnirwnattims, and designed expresatoor ftaUy Also oar celebrated London Coid.al Gin, no landing ew York. 6J Falton NOTICE.110 the matter of the application ofitheCmnmon Oonncil ofthe Olty of Brooklyn in relation to opening Fifteenth street Trom Hamilton avemte to the Statbasfi line, in the city of Brooklyn. in whom It may onnoera Notice is hereuy given by the undersigned Commissioners nnii A4tiMRiimnnt: In the Ahnvn entitled matter, to. Whcm was relen ed back oar report for review and correc ny a rule oi mai, wo vuugiuuou a report In this muter, and we do hereby give notloe that we iftid report and maD are fllodla tho office of tteoierkof At! Wswfri bH thn loth of Jaauaxli iOWJ.

Dated Brooklyn. December SSth. Wy' WUxfaM t. LAWRENCE. NATHAN LANE, 487 Ml (mmlsskasts.

dlstregtod wfth thbadiriis or power in MatfflfiwaSB UV iuiu.ua vuuBoiwu wm jaoBson regara usm aetiokof hazie wood oriMatthews. to see whateffe, it would have upon himVHe5 had procured aitick of that wood a few days previous, in anticipation that it might be necessary to use it for tho purpose as he thought tho bark of hazel, in oonncc uivu wiwu iuor, cuucocteu luguier mig a Lea wa powerful to remove enchantment. This stick, which about an nch in diameter and 2 1 2'feot in length, he had placed in a drawer in tho cellar, and. when spoke to Jackson about using it, J. inquired where he kept it.

'Sly'mformea him, and.went and brought, it. rear room where Jaokuon tho Heraey were, and they knew when he went into Matthew's room with it. When Mr. and Mrs. Sanford went up "stairs, preparatory to taking Matthews Sly went into the irom room 10 mnTwiews, and alter loclungtho doolf, stmek tho deceased; who was sittina in a chuir blind ed, over the right temple with snqh.orco as to Dring nim 10 the uoorana then.

strucK lum several times with the club. He then took his pocket knife. which is some .2 incliea in length', arid commenced cutting Matthews' throat. Matthews groaned, tout aid not uuer a woro alter tbe nrst blow. Sly also took a table fork, With whioh and the knife' he mutilated the body in a ehboking 'manner.

He says, he did notdeBisrn to use any other than thn bludgeon, but afterward the knife and. fork Alter the murder ho had a about secreting the stick, which he afterwards threw in the pri vy vault, with the'knife. His shirt sleeves were 'also cut off and tho' bloody pieces burned' ih' Miss Her sey's stove, the person with whom he conversed re lative to the stiolr. lie. took up some of the blcod irom uie noor and carried it away.

He then went up stairs, where the gathering was, and engaged in prayer. He time and again averred that he alone was engaged, jn the transaotibni He stated that Mr. Wooding had goneJ homo previous to. the murder, and that he'had told no; one. what had transpired.

He knew it was arranged for Mathews to come there that night, and for the purpose onalystatea. After Sly 's confession ho was remanded to prison aud Mrs Wakeman was taken to the Jurv room, and at noon, when left, she was giving, an aoooiint of her visit to the spirit world some thirty years sinoe, at whioh time, she says, she was murdered by her husband, and remained deid Haven hobr rhirinir which time she made the heavenly journey, seeing the Saviomyall the prophets, apostles, martvra and and having. B.realising.jyipvf of the homo: of theblesBed, after which sho was sent back to earth on her mission. She stated that she is 0 years of age, ana jnas 9eenine mocner oi is children, nine Of whom are still Her hroth'er. Slv.

is so age. Tho following persons were taken to the United States District Attorney's office bri Wednesday last by Captain Faunco, on the charge of being engaged in a conspiracy against Nicaragua, and hol'd to bail Mesra. Lyster, Walters, Croley andMor rison were held to bail ia $5,000 oaclv. Messrs. Soott and Ferdon woro dischargo'd, and Mr.

George Hall' was ordored to bo' re arrested for further bail, $2,000, the amount given yesterday; not being deemed sufficient. Mr.1 Bessey turned up among the. missing. Tho Northern Light put to sea last night Additional Evidence! At the. sedpnd trial of Arrison in Ohio, a witness na med John Winters, testified that one day, but a short time prior to the explosion, perhaps two weeks, Arrison came into Mr.

Fletcher's gun shop, and asked to have constructed a machine go into a box and explode i when ignited. Mr. at the time to Mr. "Fletcher, "he wants an infernal machine to hl6w somebo'dy to hell," whereupon the defendant immediately left the shop. Henry Fletcher, the gentleman alluded to above, alsogave in his testimony cor roborating that of Winters.

On the occasion of two opposition boats start ing from Pittsburgh, one (employed a German band to attract passengers the other, being minus the music, and not desiring to be outdone started the steam whistle, which compjetely drowned: the music of the band. The Mavor being called upon, declined to interfere, saying that "oni was a speoimeh of German music, arid the other genuine American." ja Iowa Going Ahead. The city of Burlington, Iowa, is to he lighted with gas, and the Daverj. port Gaxttte printed on a steam pressjlthe first introduced into Iowa. The land offices in the State are crowded with applicants, and In Du buque, in one day, there were recently filed with the register applications for 200,000.

Two Men Over Niagara Palls. The Buffalo Courier is informed by a gentleman from Chip pewa, Canada, that two persons belonging to that village went over the Falls on Friday They were Out on the river fowling, and in pur suit of game, ventored too far ih the current, and wereconsequently carried over tho cataract. Trds. People who suppose that a good prayr er is preferred to a goodact, doubtless imaglno that God has more hearing than eye sight. The end, we fear, will show that they roasoned from false promises.

The poor are oftener prayed for than helped. The reason Is, we believe, that breath is cheaper than bullion Fire and Loss of Life. On Monday night the house of Nicholas Beaker, near Ebenshnrgh, was burned down, and Mr. Beaker, lis wife and two daughters perished in the flames. Two of his sons and somo smaller children made their escape; Ooe Nbw Pabk.

We refer our readers to an ar tiolo fupon ornamental gardening, containing suggestions wliich if actod upon by the parties who have the work on hand will conduoo very muoh to the natural beauties of the spot selected. A Phbtty Broad Hint. To a fond mother whose children were at the time making themselves disagreeable, a gentleman observed, 'I have a decided preference for bad children, ma 'How strange; and pray for what reason 1'J tiey are always sent out of the room A Card to the Poblic. The undersisn ed, well known to the public as the carrier of the BaooK lymEaoli for the Eastern District, would announce to the citizens of that locality that ho has taken a stand at the Fish Market in South Sixth street, between Fourth and Fifth atreots, for the sale of all the newspapers periodicals, fco.of the day, where he respectfully solicits a share of pnblio patronage. JOHN FITZPATRICK.

J5T Hill's Improvhd Instantaneous Ha Dye, bestln use for a black or brown only 4 shillings a box. Permanent no fade. Recommended by chemists, doctorsnd editors. Sold or applied at No. 1 Barclay St.

and 45Nasaau street New York, and atT. W. Wools, 247 Fulton street, Brooklyn, and Mrs. Hayes, 175 Folt6n street Broulyn. oS3 if All thk Magazines, New Works, Nov elsTnusle, Stationery, Fancy Goods, Pictures and BUnk Books.

For sale at MARSH'S ATHENBUM BO0K 8TORE, Jol2tf No. 175 Atlantic street, Uroukly 3f Empire Fobndrt, Furman Street one block from the Fulton Ferry. Castings of every descrip tlon made to order. Columns of various sizes, Castings. Sash Welcnts, constantly on atuaars Hi dors attended to with dispatch.

i ji25tf' fdcKiNWisy a RxER, Proprietors. XT Hill's Practical Philosophical and Illustrated Treatise on the hair, ita dis eases and remedies, given gratis to pnrchaiera oi nis Infallible UNGUENT Tor tho growtn, pra" k. u.t. a.u 347 rnlton street. Brooklyn, Mrs.

Hayes, 175 Falton street Brooklyn and at Not UarJlay street and 45 Najsan street, New York. oS4 tf oi i at on or te hi 'he tbe the and the give can aa For For For For For For For more or to for old if truln To tion the THURSDAY KVKMIJfG, DECEMBER ST. Tha Paar. Thedistress which prevailed among the poor er classes during the past two winters has hap. pily disappeared, and the same degree of privation will not soon again wring the feelings of the poor or the sympathies of the humano.

Tot during every winter season there are cases of real distress, neither few nor far between, which appeal jto the benevolent for succor. Indiscriminate almsgiving is an evil, and creates paupers and idlers, who, void of self respect, would prefer the bread of charity to the fruits of independent and honorable exertion. Those who are anxious to relieve want are oiten at a loss to know how to dispense it in a proper manner. The Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor directs the contributions of the benevolent to the channels in which it will produce beneficent results. It employs in every section of the city a corps of visitors, who visit every applicant for charity, and ascertain the merits of each particular application.

This they do without fee or reward, and often at a sacrifice of personal comfort and convenience, of which few are an adequate idea. It will often happen that persons of feeling and respectability, who by a reverse of fortune, have been reduced from affluence to want, will suffer any degree of privation before they would expose their necessities to the public eye or solicit the "world's cold charity." In such cases this Association, through its agents, seeks out the deserving and administers relief without any parade, and with a proper regard for the delicacy of feeling of the recipients. In all cases Judgment and discrimination are exercised, and the distribution of articles to the needy is ac companied with suggestions and encouragement calculated to induce habits of industry and self respect. The funds confided to the Association are always judiciously disposed of, aDd as it is about to commence operations for the present winter, we commend it to the renewed patron age of our wealty and benevolent citizens. IhsBiw Haven Tragedy.

We are In the habit of regaling ourselves periodically with self congratulatory and self laudatory perfumed essences and delightful odors from the censer of our own enlightment and talk in majestic strains of the nineteenth century, with its free schools, free press, free thought, and free every thing and yet occasionally events are recorded at the present day which outstrip anything in the annals of ignorance and superstition, and the mental midnight of the dark ages. Astrologers and fortune tellers flourish, and occupy columns upon columns of the newspapers with their advertisements, which they could not afford to do unless consulted regularly by crowds of people and spirit rappers hold their circles among all classes in the community. It would appear as if mind and matter were subject to the same imperfections, and as all the discoveries and experience of the medical faculty eannot' prevent the existence of a large amount of disease and physical imbecility, so all the boasted enlightenment of the age fails to eradicate the follies and mental vagaries which often lead to revolting crimes, including suicide and mnrder. Spiritualism has not only peopled Bedlam, but has swelled the list of suicides to a fearful ex tent. No where in the records of Ignorance and su persition have we met with details more revolt ing than the account which we publish from a New Haven (Conn.) paper of a tragedy recently enacted in that city, induced by a belief in a female impostor named Wakeman, who pretends to have died some years ago and gone to heaven, and returned to fulfil some mission, which, from its results so far, seems to have originated in a different quarter.

The affair, though possessed of features so singularly revolting as to arrest public attention, 'can hardly be made to point moral or even adorn a tale. It would be vain to warn anyone against believing in the mission of such creatures as Miller, the Foxes, or Mrs. 'Wakeman, as it would to warn against madness, or any other form of mental alienation. But it becomes a question how far society should interfere to protect its more helpless members in such cases as this. If the members of Mrs.

Wakeman's circle had any relatives interested in their safety, they should have had them convey ed to the lunatic asylum, and the lady herself, if a mere crazy fanatic, should have been subjected to the same treatm ent, but if a conscious impostor, as she very probably is, then she should have been transferred to the penitentiary. It is our deliberate opinion that any individual who pretends to call spirits from the vasty deep to tip tables and perform other tricks for a fea to the amusement of the thoughtless, the eon tempt of all sane people, and the bewild erment of weak minds, ought to be arrested like any other swindler, and made to do the State some service in our penal institutions. If Peter Punks are arrested for swindling green horns out of their money, why not arrest the greater vagabonds who cheat weak minded people out of their wits 1 We are ashamed to record the fact that the concert of Miss Spinola last night was very poorly attended. Yet the srits of the fair eantatrice ajd her assistants on the occasion were superior to anything offered to our citizens in the way of music for many a day. But it is ever thus in Brook lyn local merit and local talent are always scouted, while any kind of splitting caterwauling if stamped by London or Parisian critics, will go with a rush like a new flonnce or a double barrelled petticoat.

Let some screaming Signora Whistleiski from Kam schatka or Timbuctoo announce herself, and every seat will command a premium but for any Brooklynite to think of being appreciated is out of the question. A prophet is never hon ored in his own country, nor a vocalist in her own city. Miss S. must make a tour of Europe aud return with a drawling lisp and a string of Italian jargon attached to her name, and she will be sure of unmeasured success. Tbc Rev.

Dr. Bethnne will lecture this evening in the regular course of lectures at the Brooklyn Institute. and fragrant paths of literature who can shut' out from his mind thoughts of business with its unceasing din, the sight of the oppressive grat ing struggle of worldly humanity, and under the soft checkered shade" of literature receive peace of mind and serenity of soul. Id his heart trully dwells "the harp of a thousand strings," which, touched by the master hand, breathes through his whole being strains of al most divine harmony. Its music is to him the "song of life," and its measures float around his soul an atmosphere of melody, ever gentle, ever soothing, ever his own.

Time does not lei son its influence or its power, and the man passes down the years of life his nature irradiated by the glorious light which literature sheds upon her votaries. The heavy burdens of life sit lighter on his shoulders, its eares leave fewer lines upon his brow, while, under adversities, and in gloom his spirit springs up again with new vigor, and his misfortunes lose half their oppressiveness as he drinks in comfort and content at the ever gushing springs of literature. In these days of political animosities and national when men seem to cast about for new causes for difference and discontent rather than union and harmony, it may be well for us to remember the claims which literature has upon us the ties by which she binds us togeth er in one great universal brotherhood. Alone, as we stand, American citizens, we are a great, intellectual people. We present to the world the amazing and hitherto unknown spectacle of a great thinking people of a people whose aver age intelligence is far higher than that of any other nation.

Never was there a state in which the national mind was so active, so energetic; and of so deeply thoughtful a character. It is alike the privilege and the misfortune of Americans that they can sip lightly or drink deeply at the springs of literature that they can drink at its pure, refreshing source, or from some of the polluting streamlets which have wandered far from their fount through "noisome shades and poisonous fens." But thus it must be when there is freedom of thought, and the fields 'of literature are thrown wide op en to all comers. It is, on the whole, greatly for the best that it is so, for whatever may be the evils of this unfettered license, that it preponderates greatly in good results cannot be doubted. This is the first fruit of literature, that it makes us a peo ple connected by one strong chain, unity of taste, of educated, refined taste. He who can touch the national intellect is sure of a hearing.

He will be listened throughout the length and breath of the land, and will be received or re jected as he really merits. He comes before a high, dignified tribunal, who, in its judgment, seldom errs. The beneficial influences which literature ex erts over us are incalculably great and good, over a people so fierce as we are in the active utilitarian pursuits of life, the genial sway of literature is no less potent, than it is absolutely I neccessary to our prosperity. We once heard one of the most distinguished orators of our country say that long ago his brain would have withered away, and have become blasted and barren un der the fiery influence of the business duties of life, had it not been for the solace and refreshment of Literature. Grateful as we have reason to be for our own Literature for that which has grown up among us and upon our soil, our own fair and noble creation, we must not forget that Literature as a whole is not local, not national, but it is universal it comprehends all times and all peoples.

As there is a political world, so is there an intellectual world, the last is one and all pervading, science, art, philosophy, aesthi ties are but provinces in it. It is the world of thought, and as such it rules and guides the world of matter, for ideas are at the bottom of, and rule everything. Thus Literature understood in its widest and most comprehensive sense has the highest claim upon our gratitude, for it is the author as well as embodiement of civilization. Therefore it is that forgetting the causes of political and international enmity we may remember and cherish with never lessening gratitude the bonds by which Literature connects us to merry old England. bat a debt do we owe her What joy, what peace, what inestimable blessings has she bestowed upon us.

Were the literature of England, the labor of her great and noble minds blotted out of existence, what a bl tnk void would there bo in the hap piness of mankind. Down to the middle of the eighteenth century the literature of England is ours alio. Her bards are as much ours as hers. And what a glorious inheritance have we received. What an Illustrious line does the long roll of our In tellectual ancestry present.

From the early dawn when the good old Chaucer sung in stirring strains down to the full blaze of day In the time of the Georges, extends that unbroken chain of genius. What a galaxy of stars was there in the Lliaabethian poriod, justly oalled the Augustan age of Eoglish literature. Then swset Spencer, "the poets' poet," "soft enchantments drew" with his melodious verse. Then "our pleasant Willy" delighted, as he has ever since done, the hearts and minds of all men with the sublimity of his genius, with his wondrous penetration into the depths of human nature. There too was Ben Jonson, than whom no man has touched the deep feelings of the heart more delicately, more truly in some of his exquisite verses.

Ford, Massinger, Fielding were alse then. And who can forget quaint old Burton with his inexhaustible fund of humor anil knowledge. Dr. Johnson, that warm, firm and hearty hater, Goldsmith, Gray, Dryden, Swift, Stone, Cowper, Herbert, Herrick further back, DeFoe, a thousand others in poetry and prose what a host of bright names. In art, in science, in metaphysics, ethics, politics, in short in every department of thought which the human mind can enlighten it is the same, the long ranks shine with brilliant stars.

For us they all live yet. They are our solace and delight, our boon comrades at the festive board, the never tiling companions in the domestic circle, and the bosom friends of our re Park on Fort Green. As I oan seo only a small part of the ground from the street, I da not judge of the style of planting but as a false taste in somo re spects has become prevalent in this country, I beg leave to make a few suggestions, which the manager of those grounds is of course as free to rejoot as I am to make them. When different kinds of trees are set miscellaneously, they diminish the apparent extent of the ground; they look scattered and meagre, distances become vague. A fine tree is scarcely noticed in the confused assemblage, and by no means makes up for a deficiency in its less beautiful neighbor.

When trees are massed judiciously, they may be said to have a dramatic effect on the landscape. The quick eye of the gardener will see where a clump of evergreens, a row of evergreens, a row of olms, or a vista of maples will make a picturesque viow, and add the idea of spaoe and grandeur to his area. He will soize the appropriate place to edge a slope with lime or walnut trees, and to border the margin of a gravelled or pared drive or walk with a hedge of locust. A tall group of ohesnute on the edge of a small lawn or opening opposite the termination of a vista will produce a very imposing effect. The lawn will appear threo times larger than ii really is, and the Budden surprise on passing through the vista, will enhance the oliarm and the illusion.

I do not recommend the locust for shade treos, though one of the most beautiful, beoauso its limbs are generally so broken by high winds as to make it look decayed and unthrifty but kept down in thiekiy planted hedges its verdure is surpassingly fine. Fort Greene has a surfaoe so varied that it gives scope for very picturesque arrangements. Few places without water have such capacity for variety of scenery, The sunny knolls should be well sodded with lawn grasB, and spacious enoug'a to form striking contrasts with deep coppices near them. These should, one or more, bo near enough to give agreeable shadoto a side or corner of the open spaces, when the weather is warm. Walnuts are excellent for coppices, and the tulio tree is magnificent for row on a level line.

it is tor an issolated position that tho tulip tree is pre eminent. Next to it and by some preferred to it, is the Elm, which grows up in a highly symetrical form when stand ing mono. It should never be forcolton that onnn arena, fin. iBhed by winding slopes, add immensely to the ef ibvi. vv ltu ciumps oi low irees, coppices or tall trees, and linen of limn rrnfiu.

nnd viRtna nf aim. alra I VA. UUU ill and tulip trees, skilfully adjusted, and open turfed spaces, ornamented with laurols, roses, and other biitudb, line enclosure at a oTt ureeno may appear to wu hu uuuujuu oa, ouuoilJUK 111 UlULUruBqUO Wl" feet the best specimen of Teniers landsenne. I cannot forbear repoating that trees should not do sei miscellaneously, out that clumps, and groups, and rows, and vistas, and hedgeB, and borders should each be made np of a single kind not every other one in oak, or a biroh, or a willow or a pine, or a naixtnre of them all, as has boon the onstom for a few years past. A City Park should not resemble an orchard or a woodland, but an ornamented artisti cai lanascape.

The Beookltn City Hospital Dioiasb op thi Sdtxrintehdsnt. We regret to learn that Mr. John Morgan, tho Superintendent of the Brooklyn City Hospital, died at that institution on Sunday morn ing, the 2Sd instant. Mr. Morgan was bom in the town of Cold Comer, Breconshire, South WaloB, and came to this country when twenty three yeara of age.

Some ten years ago ho was appointed Deputy Superintendent of the New York Hospital, a post ho 'filled with much credit to himself and to that institution and in 1851 ho noooptod tho appointment of Superintendent of the Brooklyn City Hospital, in which position he remained up to the time of his death. Mr. Morgan was a man of much dignity and suavity of manner qualities that fitted him to perform acceptably the duties of the responsible position he held. Under his management, new wing was added to the hospital, and many important reforms effected in its government, making it one of tho most admirably conducted establishments of tho kind in tho country. Tho obsequies took place at thoHospitnl yesterday, at 1 P.M., and was attended by the members of the St.

David's Benevolent and Benefit Sooieties, the directors, trustees, and other officials connected with the Hospital, and tho friends of the deceased. Eev. Mr. Guion officiated, and read the service according to the Episcopalian ritual after which the body was taken for interment to Cypress Hills Cemetery. Mr.

Moegah was fifty five years of ago at tho time of hia death, and leaves a family to mourn his loss. Putnam's Mohthlt For January, is published and contains the following among Jits most prominent articles: William Shakspeare and his plays an inquiry concerning them The Ghost a Christmas Story; The Virginia Springs; Piescott's Phillip the Second; Low Life in the Pampas; Scamporias; Progress of Religious Ideas Owl Copse in three parts an amusing affair; Calhoun on Government. Also the customary editorial notes for the month. The leading article on Shakspeare is an attempt to discredit the authorship of the works of Shakspeare, and to prove that they were written by somebody else than the reputed author. A weaker and more "lame and impotent" attempt was never made; it is mere declamation, and not the slightest shadow of poof is produced to sustain the ground assumed by the writer.

The other articles In the magazine are of a more Interesting character, and will be eagerly perusod by the admirers of this excellent magazine. The Ghost Story is equal the celebrated Christmas stories of Dickens. Hodsbbold Words, for January, aro already published. Besides the story of JSentiment and Actionpublishing on the first page of the Eagle, It contains a multitude of essays of the deepest Interest. Boss Clark, by Fanny Fern, Is published, and for sale by M.

Nevin, 180 Fulton near Orange. It is marked by a sprightly and vigorous stylo, and has occasional passages of deep pathos, which will move the sympathies of the dullest reader. Few of the blemishes of the writer's style are discernable In this work, and Its popularity will doubtless exceed that of any of her former works, The Soft Convention. The Evening Post reviews an article the Albany Atlas, in which the necessity of taking ultra abolition ground in the Soft State Convention, to meet on the 10th proximo is denied, and the Post advi ses its friends to keep out of the Convention altogether, as they cannot frame its resolves to suit their tastes. The Daily News states that the article in the Post was occasioned by a con ference with the Custom House officials, who are anxious to conduct their convention in a hard shell manner, so as to give them a chance at Cincinnati, and they want the earnest free soil wing of the party to keep away.

Hence the warning in the Port. "all wsb right below" at two o'clock in the morning, no offort was made by her to ascertain anything concerning me Bnpposoa rrouDie. About 0 o'olosk yesterday (Monday) morning, a young son of Justus Matthews began to eearch for nis latner, wondering why he had not made his appearance at so late an hour in tho morning. Ho went to the door of one of the front rooms ana found it locked, but persisted in breaking open the door. He looked into the room and there beheld hia lather lying dead upon the floor, with pools of blood surrounding his head.

The boy was struok almost dumb with terror, and immediately ran into tho street and went to the next house and cot Mr. Lewis Dorman to come to the house and seo the body. Mr. D. did not go into tne nonse, ouc immediately went and nooned Justice Bennett of the facts.

Mr. Bennett and a number of men repaired immediately to tho scene of blood. They found the body to be that of Justus Matthews, who is a pistol maker, and works at; Whitneyville, but lives in Hamden. He was one of the individuals present at the mooting held at the house on Sunday evening. When first discovered the body lay upon tho floor, with the head towards a bed in the room and it was found with the face turned tovnrds the window, lying upou the left side, and lay very nearly in the middle of the room.

Clotted blood and hair lay upon the floor around A OAnAMi Af KfAn4 a head. It was truly an awful scene to witness. Tho throat was cut nearly irom ear to ear, and his head seemed to be nearly severed from his body. It is evidont that ho could not have committed the deed himself from the nature of the wounds. They were doubtless made by a hatchet or some instrument heavier and more powerful than a knife or razor' A small rope was found on the floor, and marks of a rope were discovered on hiB wrists, and it was evident that the wrists had been bound by this same rope.

The house was thoroughly searched, and bloody clothes were found, and marks of blood upon both sides of the door leading to the room in whioh the hoay was discovered, a. common outcner tcnne was found in a box or small chest, well sharpened and having the appoaranco of being uBed recently, but no hatchet was found oxcept one bo dull and rusty that no use ec uld be made oi it. The following persons were arrested during the afternoon and lodged in jail, charged with committing or in some way being accessory to the crime Israel Wooding, Almeron Sanford and wife, Abigail Sa bles, Thankful S. Horsey, the widow Wakeman (tho prophetess I oamuei oiy and a colored man named Josiah Jackson. At 7 o'clock last evening the jury of Inquest mot pursuant to adjournment.

Dr. Jewott testified that he thought Matthews could not have made the wound upon hia neck him self, as it was carried bo far toward tho back of the neck. Mrs. Almeron Sandford sworn I went to the house of Mr. Sly between 8 and 9 o'clook I walked in from Hamden with my husband; Wooding, Jackson, Slv.

Mrs. Davis and Betsoy Keeler were there the deceased was my brother ho came in about 10 o'clock in the evening; I had seen my brother in Hamden tho dav nrevioua. anH hp, nniH lm was about going to attend the meeting; we wanted hi' a to attend the meeting so that ho could get rid, of tho ovil spirit that was him he said there was a darknoBs in hia mind that prevented him from praying when ho came into the house, he took off his boots to warm his foet beforo the fire the fire was made for him, as thoy wore expecting him I tied a handkerchief over his eyes, to prevent his enchanting us I then tied his wrists together with a cord I said to him, 'I do this for the glory of God and in the fear of tho Lord wo talked with him some length of time about his evil spirit we then went up stairs and went to praying for him, and continued praying until midnight, when he came tho messenger (Mrs. aKeman) telt his presence and telt bad, and although she was not informed of it, still she know he was eoming wo wont down twice from the room above to the room below Jwhere Matthews was Boated he was thon sitting in a rooking ohair wowont down a third time and found him there, with his eyes blindfolded, and hia hands tied in tho same manner as they were whenfwo left him; my husband wont down with mo the third time, and no one else was with us tho "messenger" soon afterwards said that Matthews might or mnst leave the house I think Wooding had left the house soon after we went up Btairs we heard screamine and groans from tho room below, where Matthews was we jrau Deiow, and tried to neat in tno doors, but they were fastened; I told my husband that I wished wo could Sbreak in the doors Sly dodged away from us, I think he went into the room and fastened the doors last night Mrs. Wakeman, the "messenger," told me that she was informed that they had found the instrument with whioh they killed Matthows we went np stairs when we found that we could not get into the room below, wo went upstairs and wont to prayinu; MissHersoyond Jack son was with us, but Sly was not in the room with us above my husband Boon went home could not tell whether Sly came into the room afterward or not I had the impression that Matthews was killed, but thought he had killed himself; I tried to get Jackson to go into the Toom below, but he did not dare to I did not bee any weapon or knifo in tho hands of any one that night.

Wooding and Sly seemed calm and colleoted all that night we all be lieved that it Mrs. WaKeman wus onchantod by this evil spirit, and died, the judgment would come; wo all bolieve that Mrs. Wakoman is a messenger sont by God on earth to rodcem mankind we are all hor followors, and believe that if Matthew's evil spirit enchanted her she would die thought ho had better die than navo tho messenger tno messenger had roquested me to got my brother to tho meeting, and that ia the reason we went to seo him about it this evil spirit camofrom AmosHuntsomo time last summer after he got it he went home and his wife went into oonvulsiono, and seemed to know that her husband had an evil spirit sho prayod for him and tried to get unseen power away irom nim there was something dreadml'in his appearance thon; I believe there is an unsoon power that will destroy people and they not know it; this is reTealod by the messenger my brother's wife tells an awinl story about the effect tho evil spirit had on her she is also a believer the messenger has revelations from God, and iB directed by a Supremo Power inall she does she does not command her followers to exeoute her wishes, however. fJustice Bennett hero read a part of a letter writ ten by the witness last summer, in whieh she desires to have her brothot attend the meetings again. She doolaresinher letter that Matthews, her brother, was the 'man of and she urged him to have the ovil spirit cast out of him witness continued to say that she believed if the man of Bin could bo put out of the way, tho world might be redeemed in conclusion the witness testified that she did not behove that he killed himself.

00KTBS3ION 07 TUB MDRDBREIt. At 9 A. M. to day, Samuel Sly, one of tho persons arrested, was brought boforo tho jury, he having provionsly informed Sheriff Parinaleo that he was ready to make a clean breast in roirard to tho bloody transaction. His confession, whieh did not clflae until about twelve o'clock, was to tho following effect, though his manner of relating it was not of tho most favorable character for reporting, he frequently bo ginning in the middle and working out each way.

and as often ropeating some particulars over and ovor. However, taken in connection with the statements of other parties examined, it is probably as near the truth as can Da expected. Sly opened by admitting that he, and he alono, committed the murder, although beforo ho closed his statement he related oirouinstanoos vMch tend to implicate Jaokson, tho negro, and Miss Hergey as being accessories..