VOLUME XXIV.-NO. 27. IXTEtoDING CARDS, INVITATIONS Vlr for Parties, &c. Now styles. 3IAbON & CO., 901 Chestnut street. de3Ormw EARTH CLOSET CO.'S DRY D R. Tff commodes and apparatus for fixed closets at WM. 0. 11110AITh', 122 l klark et street. Freedom from risk to health and , from offence ; economy of a valuable fer tilizer secured > use of the dry. earth system- ataiff§- - 'DENSON.:—This (Friday) morning. Alexander Ben ton, in the 76th.year et his lice. • • • Due notice will bo given of the funeral. GILLESPIE ' —On tho 13th instant. Mrs. Letitia Gil lespie, widow of the late Andrew Gillespie. • • Duo notice will he given of the funeral: ; • " 11ADRIS..--On the 12th lust.,John W. Harris. In the 801 h year aids ago. , The relatives and friends aro respectfully_invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence. No; 3106 ho -cust street. DO nowlay, the 16th inst., at 2 o'clock. In terment at Laurel 11111. ' • . PATTRIttiON.—Its Richmond, Va,, on the 'morning of Ma7_llol, Dr. Wil liam A Patteraou, In hie 7tith year. THOMPtsUN —On the morning of May 120 i , /Men: 'wife of - Betijshilti - P. - Thontprom - runt - oldc - srdaugtacir o Price I. and Margaret 11, Patron, •• litcnlistivficsaid-friendirotibe—frimily-stys-ityclmi s titled , the funeral. from the residence of her parents, Hlg North Fifth' street. above Brown. on Sunday. at 2 o'clock P. M. Int, rinent at Woodland+, . • • :WA L1C611.:-9riddenly. on I linevaning of the 12th teat., Mrs. liarbara A. Vitillier, fidict of the late Matthew Walker. • Tine ;mike of the funeral will be alien . • • YOUNG.—Qin the morning of the I.lthinstant, Edwin Young, tri thc.7ld year of hie age, Due notice will be given of the funeral. • Mourning-D ry' Goods FOR MAY SALES. 13E'f;SCPN k SON" HAVE LATELY RECEIVED: Black Hermit:ls, tin widths and qualities, 50 ate. to . 4 93 75 ;,Engliall Grenadines,2s cte. ; Sitk Gronadinemsecc. Lyon. Gros Grain Bleck Silks, of the beet %wakes main from ILO to .55 00. Black Alpacius, 371 to 75 eta.: y 8101110'ns, 535; to el 25 ; Auittallau Cropeti.su to 75 cis ; Mohair Tamises or French Alpacas, G 2 to $l. Black Ground and k'hhe Ground Engl WI and !"reach 4 tlt, Jaconeta and tirgandlea, 25 to fAS rte.; Pta(n tilarl-laiaur—Organdtus_auttErentblaconets._ Black Tillbet. Tiernan', Crape Maretz and Barege Square Shawls ; Bernard Points. 'Second Mourottigitolm Goode owl Croy Mixed Pop lins, from Ift7 4 ' cto. to 81 25; Yard wide Black and Wltito itotttiati eldotrNt. mark Ebglirb llorobit7. in.!! ; Blark Kflk,C,hallys ; MI wool Komori Istes * .Tamlnag. Balinten.Pariniannei. Ake.. Black English Crapes and Crape Veils ; .Touvin's and trrrokirr Gloves, ;link Gloves ; BIWA:ns ; Para sols and Sun rtabrallam ; BulTrd Skirts. And all other Cloodsteduisite for Mourning attire. 11101JRNIFiG DRY GOODS HOUSE, No. 918 'CHEST-NUT STREET. myint 1p 1870. EdVE TO-DAY ANOTHER 1870. OPENING OR LLAMA LACE JACK ETA, LLAMA. LACE PANPAETTES, LLAMA LACE FROG IetWIPS. QPRING •MOUNTAIK . LEFIIGII COAL, 4.3 alioars Land _at . CLAIIKtiON'S Yard, MOO Ilarketwereet. - soys 3L3utyl2 PARTY COLORS,. LIGHT 'KID GLOVES For Gentlemen. A Fresh and Most Beautiful Assortment a iT 818 /Sz 82e hes nu S A. M K 'S, Boys' Clothing. 818 & 820 Chestnut St. Our READY-MADE CLOTHING Is as.fine as CUSTOM WORK. Elegant Spring Goods Unequalled Stylishness and Beauty OFFICE OF THE. COMMISSION 1.1" ERS OF FAIRMOUNT PARR. PHILADELPHIA, May 4, Ism. - PARK CARRIAGE SERVICE. TARIFF Of' FARES; I. For a single trip to George's EMI, and re turn .30 cents. 2. For a round trip to Ueorgo's RIB. and re turn 30 cents. 3. Fora single trip to Belmont Mansion, by way of George's Bill when road se sernpitted)...4o cents,. 4. For a round trip to Belmont Idansion,and re• turn - ' - 60 cents, Passengershave the privilege to pay" for the round trip and take tickets for their return,trip from George's 11111 or Belmont Mansion, which may he used on any day. IS. Ticket's, good for any day or trip, can be obtained at the following prices: For five sound tripe to George's Hill $2 00 For five round tripe to Belmont Mansion... 2 00 O. Carriages are provb.ed, In addition to those making the regular tripmbich can bo engaged by the hour, at the following rates : When used by ono person, per hour, or ,leis time $l5O When used by two persons, per hour or less time 1 75 and 25 cents for each additional person, who may origin ally engage the carriage. No vacant seat in a carriage thus engaged shall be used by any one not of the original party, except by their express consent. Published for the informatics, of the public, by order of the Committee on Superintendenm . ef Toilets. DAVID F. FOLEY; myB f s 8t rpi Secretary Park Commission. 0, NATATORIUM AND PHYSIOAL INSTITUTE, • . BROAD street, below WALNUT. SWIMMING 81J110OL FOR LADIES, GENTLEMEN A ND-OHILDREN.• _ - OPEN FROM aA. M. TILL 10 P. M. WATER CHANGING CONSTANTLY. An oven and comfortable temperature maintained by the use of steam boilers. Polite and competent instructors always in attend alice. PelllKUls taught to swim in FROM. SIX TO TEN LES. SONS; NOV - OB.—The Gymnastic Department is reopened, the damages by the late storm being fully repaired. _- - _For tenon, private lessons, Ac., eend or 2 -address fore circul..r , niyl3-2trp§ •J. A'.'PAYNE BRO. • UNIVERSITY .OF PENNSYL -- VANIAT FACULTY OF:ARTS, May 7, 1870. • . ' r-lno-21 CI, ABB for DE REED will belield (except SAT URDAYS/ from May gib to NOV Nth, from t•tc li o'clock, P. M. FRANCIS A. JAIIKSON, • my 7 'tarp§ 4 0 " • Secretary. IL7"Tfir ACADEMY.OF FINE ARTS, havinpr boon injured by the feint etorm,tho Exhibition otthe 'deed-Painting of • • SHERIDAN'S RIDE poetponod for a tow daym • 'TOWARD HOSPITAk NOs. • X5lB and ind 'Lombard street, DiFiponbary PeParirrient, —Medical treatment and medicine fur - Walled grant - toady to the noor.. . . . . .. . . . . .• . . . , ... . , . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........‘, , . . . , ... , .. . _ ... .. „ . . .. . . , ..„..r . ~ -. ... .. - , . . . . . . . . . . .. . . , ... • • 7 . . •, . • - e 1 . 1..* ..,. . .. .., .. • . . . . . . . . , . ~ . .. . • . : . . • . ~ . , s , . . . „ r • .-..... . -, ~ . ... , . . • -4. A.- 4 4.. f --..u.....k - 7! - .. - . .. . .. . . . _., . . „rt. . . ~ .. ~ •, , . , . ,„ . . . ... i. , . .• ...,...... ... .'''' _ . '.,- . '. '- -----"•,--------. ---:.-- . _,_ ___-_______--------- Clothing Boys. mylOtfrpi SECOND EDITION BY TELEGRAPH. DEATH PENALTY. EXECUTION OF JOHN DEAL AT READING. A - Pti I I - Dt sc r ;pito n of the Unfortunate A CONFESSION OF THE CHIME 1 ICE LAST DAY ON EARTH (Special Dee patch to the Phil ta,Evetting Bulletin.] I xeciation orlon." nOtti. R also; May, 13.—This being, the day ap pointed fur the banging of John Deal, alias Zacbariah E.Snyder,for the murder of Richard M. Harlan, a good deal of excitement has been created in this usually quiet city. The murder was committed in October last, near Leesport, Berks county. The victim was a poor, decrepid vagabond; and the murder was the result of a drunken quarrel. Deal's guilt was fully, - proved. He did not deny killing - Harlan, but said be did not intend it, but was defending ill_trisT,ll from __a threatened shot with a pisto, when be struck the blow with the hatchet which proved fatal. Re was an old offender, having served two terms in the 'penitentiary for other crimes. "The Feeling In Reading. The sy mp4tky in .13,entling, tbr the (loomed Mari Wait confined, .few exceptions,- to the clergymen,who have literally been to him as _ministering angels. --The--gal-- lows was yesterday . placed in posihon. Sheriff Allbright concluded to test the expe riment of diminiSbing the bombers of the rab ble surrounding the prison inclosure by ad mitting them in line of • procession, without halting, through, the jail-yard. Fie did this in order 2.9 gratity.theirmorbid curiosity_to_ltok_. uportHie 6102p1e structure upon which so many beings have yielded up the ex piatory.sacrilice, for murders !supposed_ or real, of their • own• lives. Aboutsix - hundred people thus passed, yes terday afternoon, - by the lead-painted steps and the bare cross-beam that .glo.ornib , , stretched- across it, The people thus' gratified were the ccmcrille of Reading. Well-dressed . women were among them. Our reporter. saw some scoresof them, of whom not a few of them held infants in their arms. "They sought to pause in front of it as they passed the gal lows tree. They were pushed forward. They were looking with lingering eyes at the Phila delphia machine, loaned to the authorities of Reading for this- occasion. Sheriff understorsi _tills or 'tr., voriOn eau not. The warden is named Daniel Francis. He wears a. hat very broad of brim, and speaks a patois that constitutes a very striking contrast to the usual vernacular of the people of Reading. He informed us that be entered upon the fimetion , of his war denship early in the month of April, and that he already felt himself" bowed down" by the cares and responsibilities of his position as the custodian in question. He - was. nevertheless willing to endure the responsibility, he ad mitted, even if 'he lulled himself in the en deavor to live. The - • number of Prisoners in the Reading 3.11 is fifiy-nine. To the honor of the female sex our reporter is glad to state there is , but one woman_ She was convicted of a larceny, of which she still claims to have been innocent She is gentle in manlier, dulcet in voice, and in demeanor superlatively sweet. The mat ron has .succeeded with the authorities of the prison in securing her manumission from the restraint of a cell to the comparative liberty of the cuisine. To the excellent matron her assistance proves an invaluable aid. The Reading Jail is a dreary looking struc ture. It has a frowning castellated front. Its turrets Are akin, in. outward appearance, to those that tower over the walls of Moya , mensiug Prison. Its interior is laid out in the shape of a letter T. , Front capital punishment tbe,peaceable vicinity of Reading has been so farexempt, that in an entire century but three persons have been compelled, withiu its limits, to fulfil the " Mosaic teaching, " Au eye, for au eye, a tooth for a tooth." Rxceedingly picturesque and pretty is. The Location of the Jail. It is built upon the uppermost outskirts of the city. A. mountain, clad in the verdure of dwarf nines and cedars, rises abruptly behind ire ample enclosure. This rise of ground is a virtual jungle—a jungle made up, not of cacti and rhododendrons, but of dwarf cedars, bristling with spiculni, with' pine trees, and with an undergrowth of twining herbage, t bat renders the steep hill-side a literal thicket. The, flora of this hill-side would delight the tions even of a professed fern-gatherer in Belgium. Whoever designed the building and planned the arrangement of its surroundings - 11 ad an evident perception of ,the beautiful. The popular element that our reporter 'en eonntered bust .evening was.of the conserva tive type. The infusion throughont 'it of the grand old Teutonic cautiousness, against making baste too rapidly, was very demon stratively apparent. • When in search of information our reporter was cautiously referred by ono gentleman to another. Whatever information he gained was mainly due to the courteous attention of such - citizens - as Cdr: IVicholeoii — o£tlie Reading Eagle, and to the very courteous physician iu charge of the sanitary affairs of the institution in ,which the doomed man was held a pris oner. As our reporter was, last night, sitting upon the prison-house steps the accompanying musings were not particularly pleasant, as the lizards and other reptiles were emitting their peculiar notes from the lowlands at the base of the hill that towers above the jail, The Executioner was retiring to,onjoy a period of repose after the labor of superintending the erection .of thy gallows. ;lbw this same platform every murderer in Philadelphia, convicted and, exe cuted for the crime, subsequently paid its final penalty. • The use of the gibbet in question was inaugurated by the execution of the brothers Skupinski: It did duty in the death ofArtbur.Spring. The n . egro Mattooks,Probst, Winnemore, Armstrong; Eaton. and Williams' niet - violent deaths -- by falling, - with. throttle around their throats, from its fatal trap. The apparatus was moved to Norristown to choke the__murdered. Biuldock. • It was-taken - to-- D : ioestowto - strisin — J - nyfe anti to Fort Mifflin to hang a soldier whose' unfortunate history is already familiar to every reader of the BULLETIN.. That Twitchell didn't drop from it was because' of the know ledge possessed by some :one of his friends , that hydrocyanic acid, in , a teaspoonful • doSe, possi ssetl sufficient potency to put out of ex istence a regiment of suicides. • In thia case the executioner seems to have a natural. pin-.-, mity to murderers. -Ifs brings his,. gallows from place to place - as a rift-catcher carries his lEMEN ferrets from - barn to barn, and from granary to granary. ' . - The prisoner in the doomed _cell was: very kindly cared for. Sines the sentence or death was pronounced upon hini . lily Appearance _ underwent no change. TO all wbo bare seen. lim in confinement be presented for oort-. sideration a nforareniguia. Our reporter yes terday afternoon was introduced to him in his cell. Ho was certainly very comfortably cared for. His meal's were sent to him from the :Warden's private tattle. His paid rebord isi that of a vagabonit That be yesterday ate with a hearty relish is not to _be _wondered at. __Rev._ - George Fryer, of the Baptist Church, was the first clergyman- to Visit him. An amiable divine of the Methodist denomination was the next to come. These. gentlemen brought - hirtiliociltit and pamphlets.. They. sought to, _instruct-hint.--He—hafi—read—the—Scriptures frcin beginning to end, while doing penal se; vice in• Philadelphia prisons. That a little learning was a dangerous thing was proved in his every action and by, every'argument., Lay-, men and clergymen were alike .aston- i . ished at the retentiveness of his memory .. and _ the . =of his logic. Upon the very verge of. the grave, -with-no p est i ty of - a - reneahof bissentene e; _he argued.with those who sought to bringshirn to penitence .concerning the doctrines : that, touch upon the immortalityof the soul and a future state of reward and ;punishment. He was "next-visited by the Catholic clergy. . Into ; the hands of these reverend fathers ho re signed the further keeping of his soul. He seemed--to be - utterly indifferent as to . the 'future. The pOests yesterday afternoon ad ministered to 'him the . sacraments of the Church of - Rome. These gentlemen were Fathers Filan, Schick and Borneman. Father Pilau is a Philadelphian. The last time our reporter met him he was an assistant priest in 'Philadelphia _to Very Rev. Doctor l Carter at Thirteenth arid Spring Garden:streets. From the first be charged himself with the care of this murderer's eternal welfare:* That he does - not feel encourag_ed,nt_the_present-writing,in the expeetation that he could bring the doomed murderer from darkness into light could be wondered at by no one who yesterday saw, as did brif reporter, the stolid assassin in his cell. - The - doomed man has made no further lon _ While in prison in Philadelphia he learned to read. - During the - years of liis incarceration lie was never without a copy of the Scriptures. He admitted to-day that all his life he was a vagabond. At live years of age he was left a waif upon the stream of time. What he _now says is that from_ that time to - the presentjae hasn't even'enjoyed.the ink dries of a domestic dog that has a kennel in which to lie. At - tile same time he admits the commitedon of the. murder for which he to-day suffers capital - punishinetitT - ilis — cotiduct - sorelYpuizles the attendant priests. To the three gentlemen. who acted as his ,volutiteer.. counsel, be so lied ai to - render - Vulnerable by the assaults, of the District-Attorney what theyhad,deumed_to.he the impregnable points 'of their defence. He_ not only humiliated them in nubile; he.since did so when, imelled by Christian. charity, they subsequently visited him -on ntissions of mercy in the cell of the condemned. He left with one of these gentlemen five sheets of closely-written foolscap. Their 'contents' are merely an- illiterate rhapsody. One page is covered with doggerel verse. No line of either is worth publishing. Of so, little interest IS it that the 'father confsors, who have under taken the charge of the. m -- an'a vv ,spiritualel farri.4 ppm rinnrunruayst b A There is nothing useful in it but adthohition. to young men against the use of intoxicating drink. It is - the old, old story = a story told a thousand times over,with a thousand changes ; a tune played a thousand times over in a thou sand transpositions of the moral scale. The demeanor of 'lily Prisoner in Ms Cell was-edemeanor in :which resignation and in difference were singularly blended. He yes terday-inade hearty-disiber.- .Of the bounti ful supply of egp and .steak. that-wan--last evening supplied to him t he called for an ad ditional supply. Mr. Nicholson, of the Read ing Eagle, accompanied our reporter to the cell of the dondeinned. To this, gentleman, as he iwalJowed his invitingly served supper, he remarked,." Be certain to be here to-morrow, and see thejig out!: He wore a suit of appa rel sent te him in which to set presentably to Mr. Photographer Sailer. His picture seems to have pleased him. The raiment that he wore When it was taken . he expressed a desire to retain until he exchanged it for the apparel of the tomb. To his death upon the scaffold the unfortu nate man seemed to, entertain no other senti ment than that of perfect Resignation. When Titus was hung, at Carlisle, a year ago, the man literally embraced death as welcome relief from harrowing , self-reproaoh. He bad killed his friend. So deeply bad the tooth of remorse stricken into his heart ? that but for his pinioned hands he would have kissed the rope that choked out the life he was so glad to lose., the hapless Deal had no de sire either, for pardon or reprieve. The only lingering regret expressed by him was that his parentage 'should have been uncertain. He yesterday admitted that the on 4 name he ever knew was Zaeliariab E. Snyder. By this name he enlisted in the army. Ile, under it, served throughout the late war. As a soldier, he ad mitted to Father Schieb, lie was refractory, at times even turbulent. He doesn't claim to have been influenced in his enlistment by motives of patriotism. He seems, in the ebul lition of the excitement of enlistment, to have come to the surface with kindred scum. He deserted on the eve of one of the most impor tant battles, but was restored to duty, in some way that he doesn't disclose, without the usual payment of, disciplinatory penalty.' What he rather strenuously maintains is that his parents abandoned him, at the early age of five years, to the cold charity of the world. In the asser tion that but for this he would not to-day have paid upon the scaffold the penalty of the Mosaic law for the commission of murder, be, to the last moment of his existence, most per sistently. adhered. The reason for the unfor tunate man's Mange of Fame was develoPed on the occasion. of his trial. Two days after he hacked out the' brains of Harland he assumed the name of John Deal. What he now claims is that this change of name was prompted by a nervous, apprehen sion lest his family relatives might identify him as the committer of the crime. He was reared in Luzerne Co. Since the commission of this murder several persons in close con sanguinity with him have declared to, him their relationship. His stubbornness, or' his -ignoranceihere - makes itself conspicuous.. He still claims that ()fills immediate relatives he had no knowledge. Re thus lied to his counsel. The opinion, that he lied with equal fluency to the attendant priest is pretty generally enter tained. This Fs conjectured \to some extent from His Manner. into the eye of rip one did_ he steadily look He had been married. Re deserted his wife ahe was a widow,with four children, His continuance with her was very short. His sentences to the - penitentiary weie - in - tte:first COFO tbr laeeny,•in 00,second case for an offence upon a woman that in these columns is nameless. The man was purely animal. His eyes were of that peculiarly colorless appear ance that omitted nb responsive spark, from the soul, within to the look - that one !limit upon him. He .spent' 11114 Lnst Nitchte in company with a watchman. The' latter never left,him. Fla showed no inclination to anticipate the dime of the ltalter. He evinced FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1870. no special nervousness when he heard the ring .f the carpPnters' hammers in putting up en, st atiold. • During the night before last he fell asleep about•l2 o'clock, and awoke with' keen appetite for breakfast at 6A. M. The nature of his sacramental communications—to -his _ spiritual advisers were, of course, revealed to one.. lb Robert Morrell; of Philadelphia, who made the mechaniCal arrang..ment4 for the execution, he Seemed to centre his greateSt interest. • If heat all-made--exhibition of nee - vousnessit, was in the ,6agerness,with be Safe the: soundness of the' fatal rope. This rope bad been made in the factory of Edwin R. Fitler 8c,C0., in Philadelphia Ats integrity had previously been tested by the • jerking weight of fifteen hundred pentad:4. A 9. cured of this fact,and the murderer questioned no more. im cnn this morning rose- bright atilt beau- . iful-upon His Last Day Epos' Earth. ,IsTo rain had fallen in Reading on the day previous. Dew gems gleamed upon the lilacs, and birds were singing their matins from the leafy coverts in the vicinity of the jail, as the reverend clergy walked up the g. raveled ave nue to the prison gate. Had the sky, been murky: and the picture one of gloom, the case might have been- different. -- -- As it was, the hearts of the good clergymen were additionally heavy. When asked if he bad anything to add to his previous statements, the prisoner replied promptly-in the negative. With the advice to bid adieu to all worldly matters, the clergy men then resumed their task of preparing the, murderer for death? The ritual of Rome, pre-'- scribed upon such occasions, was then begun, and for an hour the miserable man- was- en gaged-in the - exercises enjoined by his in structors. ' , At, an early hour this morning the con demned man received the Viaticum from Father Bournernann. The _miserable wretch was almost 'in a state of collapse, his hands cold, his lips twitching, and his face perfectly bloodless. At ten o'clock he was visited in his Yandt, - lianckii and Maltzberger. He added nothing, however, to his previous statements, beyond admitting previous larcenies, which he has hitherto con cealed from his counsel. Deal wall more dead than alive, when Father Bournemann arrived at his cell, at half-past ten o'clock, to administer the last rites of the Church. He received .eXtreme unction,._ and. all the privileges of the Church, except burial in consecrated ground. The crowd around the jail-yard consisted mostly of women and was very-large. :Upon your correspondent leaving the con demned cell, _D eel ' s- la.st - rensark_was_that_he_ - now - " - didn't fear death or the devil. He only feared God." ; He seemed scarcely con scious of what he.was saying. .. _ mufdirer, - was hung at forty minutes past one this afternoon. .Despite his livid lips and slow beating of heart, Deal evinced a disposition to shake off bia_languor, in. proportion as -tlle time for his violent death drew near.. A simple stained pine coffin was carried Into the jail at eleven o'clock. It passed in the corridor the priest ho was wrrying out the Sacred Host, of which the doomedman had just partaken. _ The preliminary arrangements -were excel lently conducted. Sheriff Albright supervised everything in nerson. The condemned man had previously ;consigned his 'body to the clergy, the supposition that brother in I 1 , -/ Przie county would claim it proving de . gr continued up to the final- moment. The con demned asked to be despatched, at eleven o'clock, but, for unexplained reasons, the Sheriff declined co - replying. The jail recep tion room in the meantime was tilled with members of the press, present I'mui :ill parts of the country. At 1 o'clock Sheriff Albright entered the prisoner's cell to take him out to die,,according to the , duty imposed upon him by the law. ' "I am ready," , wa.s the response, and the prisoner walked - out - with. an 'almost reeling step, weak and staggering. • He previously shook bands, for the last time, With the Sheriff and his attendants. Going to the scaffold he lookedmore like a somnambulist than a being in the possession of his waking senses. A number present, awed at the spectacle, covered their faces as be passed the line of procession led by the clergy. - The prisoner was supported by Father Bournemanu. The jury and counsel followed. There was no graveled walk over- which to move. The pavement is of cobble-stones. The prisoner ascended the'scaffold with fal tering steps. Half an hour before leaving the cell a meal was served to him from the war den's table. It gave him temporary revivifi cation. It is due to the Catholic clergy to say that the condemned was a convert to Catholicity hile an inmate of the Reading Prison, and was baptized in the cell. The execution was - consummated at half past one o'clock. The condemned was supported by the priests. Sheriff Albright managed the execution with remarkably good judgment. Upon the seattold the condemned man sitn• ply said: "My friends, 'Lam here to expiate a crime for which lam now sincerely sorry. I tee] that I have obtained forgiVeness,and hope to be embraced in the encircling arms of my Say] our.'? The unfortunate man died with scarcely a perceptible struggle. COMMON PLEAS-Judge Paxson.—Louisa E. Koecker vs. Leonard Koecker. A libel for divorce.. .Before reported. This morning, on the .question whether Dr; Koecker was guilty of contempt - in - refusing to - produce , his daughters for witnesses, in obedience to a writ of habeas corpus ad test(ficandum, the. Judge decided that there was no contempt; that the writ was improvidently issued, and, under the - statutes, could not apply to a case like this, as the writ was designed for cases where the citizens were in duress. In the present case t here-was-no-proof-that-the-daughters-desi red to come from Boston to testify, or that they had been served with a subpoena, or were de tained by the action of Dr. Koecker. r. McElroy, for Mrs..Koecker, now ii.sked leave to withdraw the issue prayed for by the libellant. Mr. Northrop and Mr. F. C. Brewster, for Dr. Reecho; opposed the rrotion, on the ground that a jury bad been called and sworn, and the respondent wa,s entitled to hare the ease tried. Judge Paxson decided that it was too late to withdraw the issue after the jury was sworn. M r. C uyl er,.. for ,Mrs. lie miter, now proposed to t•uffer a noursuit, with leave to move to take it off. • Judge Paxson granted the motion, and thus the case is withdrawn from the public for the present. . . —Parepa-Rosa announced Oberon for Cleve land, with Hersee in the cast. Harsco was r.ick, or wouldn't, and the Bohemian Geri, with. Mrs. Seguin as.‘!.._Arline," was_ subbtitateu _at ttie-lre4traioment:—Theatr raper says.'" wag 111.10 b as would have made Balfe turn over in his grave.' But then Balfe isn't dead'. e wino rniis , fling Road—a Apechneu of the London' Queen, the newspaper and court ehroniek; for April 28d, there aonearod followintuninonat the Literary Notes and Queries :—" Poona Wanted;-:.:Where can flied Ttotelceray's- verses' Sheridold Ride?— THE COURTS. me F.A.itr_..A;l4l:).. The Letters Sought to be Produced on the Trial. EPISTLEst (5V A . VVI.p".O7rO HER HUS 14A 61 U. WHAT CHANGES • SIX YP,ARS HAVE WitOUtiHT. A Con trpst fteiween Mrs. McFarland's Let- ter and Her "Affidavit" [From the flew York Vomit'. • Yesterday Mr. McFarland paid.a visit to the Tombs which institution has been his home from November 26th, 1869, to May 10th, 1870, for the purpose of removing- small library and bidding adieu to the officials of the prison. He expressed_ his _ackno tvledgments-- to-• Mr. Stacom, - Mr. Mark Finlay; the keepers, and Mrs. roster, the matron , of the - prison,for their uniform kindness to him during his sojourn within their jurisdiction. Mr. McFarlanu then paid a _visit to his• counsel and afterward retitripOi to his present home, where be received the visits of several personal friends who came to congratulate him upon his acquittal. 10 a .reporter of the Times, who waited upon him last evening, Mr. McFarland pre sented the subjoined letters for publication, considering that these of them Selves were a sufficient answer to the statements made in Mrs. McFarland's "affidavit", as printqd in the Trioune " Extra" of May 11. In order to show the contrast between Mrs. McFarland, as .she was at the time these. let ters were written, and. the_snte_lady as she_ appears in her " affidavit" of May 9, 1870, the subjoined extract is made from her " affi davit" of periods during which she, at the dates mentioned, spoke most endearingly of her husband in letters which are in her own handwriting, and therefore Cannot - be dis puted-: IAI • IL „. From 111 f re. McFarland's "A fildavir." - •," went back - to my father's in Octeb - e - f, 1859, and remained almost ayear, till August, 1860. At this time, in October,lBs9, when I re turned home, if I bad ha courage to have told my mother anclfather,orniy.troubled life, I should prOhatily never have returned to this_ man: I3nt I' e`atild hot speak. It was so hard a thing to- tell. - How a "Cruelly Ford Wife" Addressee_ ' - - 3ler iidd6eiurt A-WREST-F. 11- AI ay- 27,-1860: My-Dear Hus— band :—lt is Sunday evening. - - I have Just lighted the lamp. Am sitting by my table in my fanilliar,rocking-chair.'ln my - hand is my new gold pen-holder, and this paper rests on • the-last number of the 21e/antic, which serves as a writing-desk.. Little Percy sleeps quietly in my bed, hiS head carefully disposed so that he shall not nestle it _under the blankets; and bis little hands - felded on his breaSt., Ho goes to bed before dark now, and sleeps all the evening, hardly awaking when I (some to bed: He . is such. - Ta 7 littler - ctantorr - to sleep-witti.. , l - love him so much. You don't know how much. I have drawn- quite a picture ou the last page,, of- ''Percy _ __but._ .1 . and dirt. It isso, because I am preparing to go away. ' To-morrow-we-gb-to---Mr;--Yeaton's;- to stay until the grand house-cleaning and' painting, with which Now England people celebrate the advent of spring, is ended. I rather bate to leave home with Percy while be is so young; still, I am very glad I have so pleasant a place to stop. My cape came Satur day afternoon at 2 o'clock. I wad delighted with it, and the heading was a Surprise. I did not think of that_ being in the box.. Shave. told you so many times thatl knew you were the best husband in the.world that I shall not reiterate. Put me docin your debtor for at leastrilty kisses, for so handsome a garment. It -will last me years and years. I could en gage no one to make my cape; so I sat doWn and made it sufficiently to wear to-day, and shall finish it myself, arid I thluk I did it as well as a. dressmaker could. To-day, in the after noon, I went to church. I wore my blue flounced silk, my cape with the splendid broad lace, my new 'bonnet, which I trimmed with black lace and straw trimming on the outside, and inside with straw-col red flowers and strings, and kid gloves the ex ct color of my bonnet-strings:. Was I not I\ery hand somely dressed? When I was all dressed and surveyed myself in the glass I .had only one want overawed; and that was a husband to go to church with me. Bow proud I should have felt if I could have taken your arm and walked along. As it was I went off alone. I felt dissatisfied in spite of everything. The, feeling conscious that Iwas the most elegantly dressed lady out did not even elate me. I wondered as I sat in church if people didn't think was what they call a " grass widow," and then I thought they. Would think, they. must think, I must have a good husband or he wouldn't give me such pretty things to wear. Don't you wish you could have seen we? I have got a.nice large box to pack our furs and all winter garments in. I shall put them in it to-morrow, and nail it up, with plenty of camphor around the things, so your overcoat cannot get eaten by moths, and\, the things will- all be ready to move. I' expect the Republican campaign will be a great advantage to you if you can engage in it without loss of time. If you are remunerated for your services it will make you • known in New York, and I hope will open to you some steady, profitable business. iliave no doubt you can mahe one of the best. political speeches that could be made. I am very confident in your ability, and am critical, you know, severely so. Only one week has elapsed since you left. It seems a, much longer time. lam resolved not to complain at your absence this time, for I hope this fall will. see us finally established, and I know you know as well as I do that these_are_our._ hest years we are passing apart while baby is young, and 'that if we wish to enjoy life in a house together, it must not be long deferred. I will try and get time to write a daily journal this week and send it at the end of the week. T will give you a record of the little events that till my life. Will that do? Did you see MA, Philbrick in Boston? How 'was your inter view with him? Do write it in your next. Write me as diverting letters as possible. lam your very affectionate wife, A88Y... From Mrs. IlloFarhat:Ws AlLMdavit Mr.McFarland was unspeakably cruel to-me this fall and winter of 1862 and 1863, while we: boarded at N 0.68 Varick street.' We occupied the only sleeping apartment on the parlor floor, and he could . give full scope to his furies without fear of being overheard. * * * Be would lock himself into the roomwlth me and give way to such terrible furies that only, the extremest pride and self-control prevented me from making my misery, known.. Ho brought Verne what he professed was prus k4c acid, and threatened to take it and force - me:to takeit — Re - woilld - snatc h sciiisors re. y wort-baske, a tnti, tearing Obis: t breast, he would brandish them about, swear mg he would "let out his heart's blood" ,ber fore me." He toitine (then a shrinking girl) that he.. .kept., loaded. pistols, with-whielt7ho -I Co l 4:knrkiff(fOlVelitliboet At • * * , * * '---Irrom the time be got his plinie intim Enroll mcnt Unice. in 1863, until the Fall of 18(4, Mr. McFarland tent ine,bottle three thous, and Moved met() eight difikent boarding-houses. for ono moment, I wits veaeeful in the_poS ' P...I4Q4 :: Vf.RE ..'i,c,t).4!.:'.'' session of a shelter, his habits or dissatisfied _ temper drove hire to change. * * gs• .* * * 4 in the Spring of 1863 Mr. McFarland got ap- : pointed tou position in, the office of one of MUT - Provost-Marshals under the Enrollment act. ,:I vqtnt to Sec Mr. Greeley in company with his. sister, Mriceleaveland, and a1..0 to see several' other person., to get influence for Mr. Mc Far falai!: In doing so I acted under Mr. Itforiir land's orders, and against My own feelings, which always revolted at the idea of seek ing e office for him, though he. never scru pled to use my cubes. As soon as he gob this' office I ceased reading in publics and my preparations for the stage, and irethe Spring after he was appointed, went home to , my father's'and remained a short tithe.: _Therv.: McFarland summoned me to New - York with - Percyrwbo - wasill - at - thellme - andlardy abler to travel. I objected 'to leaving home, where , he;sent peremptorily,, saying " he would burin my father's house over my head" if rdid not , come. I arrived in New York in August, an& wfls there a few Weeks when the physician. said that Percy would Me if:he.were back to - the country, and I again retro : Enid my father and staved till. Aovernher._ -No--- vember, 1803;1 came back teNew York., We ook room,for a few weeksion Va.rick street, but soon removed early in January, to No.-16. 4 Larnartine place. West ty-nintli-street. Mrs. McFarland tn Her band; Jelly( IS, 1563. M ANCITESTER, July 6,1863.—My Dear Hrts-- , ' band : I went down to the city last night, about five o'clock, and came home this atter-. noon. I called first at Sarah• Gould's. She was veryglad to see me, and we had a nice' long talk together. She is living in the city, a good ways up town, and has a pleasant little parlor and bed-room of her own. Charley is it nice little boy and very fine-looking.--Sarah looks much as usual -handsomer, if anything, . than she has been. -After tea at Sarah's, she and I and our Sarah, who came down with me, went over to Ruth's. We found thorn at , Dr. Custer's, and saw the chiding Edward, with Ruth and her mother. 1 hey were all glad to see me. Ruth is looking very thin, and thinks she' shall go to Chicago this month. She has a long vacation from her f. school. It commences now and lasts eight weeks. After meeting Ruth, she and Ed, anti • Lena Custer joined us, and* we went to seers., display of fireworks, which we're Very geed. 1, I came hach and stayedwith 'Ruth all night,' ' and this mot ning it rained so that Will could not come down for us till quite late this after; noon; the pleasure of my' visit dowp there was a good deal Impaired by the miserable state of my health. I haven't been ,well ati.instant since I left New York.-Thatattack-ofincliges=r7,-- tion was, very bad until Friday, when, as began to get better of that, my catarrhal,affec-' tion . carne on - drettlifiilly.`andgave me an in fiammatlon of the throatollll6llls now - extend-- , -- ing down to the bronchia,arld makes rue-quite sick. I got some medicine of Dr. Custer; brit', I suppose it will have _to take_its.L.course. , T, _ the meantime I feel very uncomfortable. Sarah Gould Lai:invited, JIMA to go-upetci their farm next. Wednesday morning and stay' the rest of the week. We shall take the obil-p;i dren - and see how. they 'get along together", There is - a family in the hoase, but 'Sarah has reserved her parlor' and . the little bed-room . out of it, and a chambertapstairs, so that there 's - a - me - e — ocla - ce - for us: We sbulT etirrry proVf- si ons, and have plenty of fruit, milk and eggs. up there. It will be quite, nice; will it not? • Sarah .says , as. we shall live_meatly, in .the..; oods it.ill be oldie liVn_aananincr no ,r fn. Mountains with some friends on a pedestrian tour-He gees -on- -sketching- advantages. have seen - some -- exquisite - bits--of--pictures-by - him, but neither of his great works are on ex hibition, I feel anxious to hear from you, to know where you went for a boarding-place, and if you are comfortably settled. Write me a detailed account of all your operations after. • my departure. We - have bad an extra to-day, with most • delightful news, that .Longstreet and Hill were • ; captured, and a great many prisonrs taken, I hope it is not too good- , to be true. Mac, be - sure and do not forget to take back MN. leaveland's " Carlyle" beforeshe.goes, aaepe particularly requested it. I asked Percy waat I should tell papa, and he says, of Tell him I'm a good boy." He cried for. you Saturday' morning when he waked up, and said lie wanted his papa. I suppose you will do all you can toward • giving tether a place in New York, without any additional urging, but I hope you will , de so if it is at all possible. I wish . that-I: hail never written that letter, and .it really mAkes me feel dreadfully to come and see, straightened in circumstances they are here. They have no vegetables yet, and they buy no meat, so that my only hope- is in writing as much as possible. Percy will live on cracked, wheat. Mother got a little last week. Manchester looks more woe-begone and, forlorn than ever, and I bate the sight of it worse every time I see it. As for. Ball. Hill, it is hideous—positively repulsive in its aspect after seeing New Jersey's fertile fields. I shall expect to hear from you to-morrowl- Direct always in care of William Sage, that it - will go in father's box. Be very careful what you .eat, try and spend- your time in that student-liko manner-which you resolved upon.. Your affectionate wife, Atter Men' Have you seen my scissors anywhere about • the room. Please look. How Her Brother Regarded Daniel at , 'lbis Time.. MANCIIEBTER, N. H., July 0,1863.-31 y Dear Brother: I sit down this evening tp express a fervent wish that you will come home to . spend, a part at least, of the summer - vacation with me. We will thengea finhing,,berrying, and have a good time genera Thy. . You remember the stroll we tookzin the F.' meadow last summer, andlew we laiqton the • knoll, and that you tried.to explain thascienee. Of geology to me. ' I coukFnot uaderstand you - very well then, but now., having studed - that part of physical geography, called . geologyrl shall be better able to converse with.you. I am happy to say thati.ll have most finished algebra. . Little Percy is, in.my- opinion, smatter. - than - when - he left - here, and loves Ins - Uncle. Will full better. He now tells me. to tell you.. that he tired crackers Fourth of July. It has been raining hard to-day, but before this it had not rainethsince the of June. I have not much more, ray object in writing+ being to hope you will soon Genie home and enjoy the summer weather here. As it is late in the evenin.,, ,, 1 will now. end. my note, and bid, yon go4xi-by, hoping, Were long that you wilt be at home with its. Yours affectiouately, W.F. Sails. Extract front a Letter of Hay if. 1804. This - letter related to dcmestic affairs with. which the public have no concern, and. 1110 extracts are made for the purpose of showing the affection which Mrs. McFarland at that time eutt, , rtained for herhusbande 111ANC13103THIG, May 7, 1864.—ify Dear /Ns. b an d * I shall write altnost every day, but von must not be worded if -you-don't . , eiwaye hear, and I can't write veryumoh. * If you have any time, wife, write for next Fall's campaign. Write often. • Your affectionate wife ADDY.' the-17-ah-^atographier - Society in London, the Sehecta' aFi iR was called,—but shouldit not have been Schoda • .Canna ?-15,. as a curious mixture of Latin an(t renk, and the taransformatione that - some -ttio-twanm_artieleant fOctil exppri ned_wtre Ivoniterinl indeed. , :.Wlto would for a moment s.ippose that "Arnbcopti " Pullen ~ Litotre,idlagroteieensesi' and AnatioubePlaOr, ,were. the bumble dii4hes so lityown, .Itimb-cutlets,'spz/n&hlake,4t,„ anti, (Weise and green peas :'•
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