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TIMM—Aft er an interval of two months Mr Seward
has once more addressed a sympathising and familiar
audience at Auburn. When he last spoke, at the begin-
ning of September, the prospects of Mr Lincoln's re-election
were doubtful, and had recently been gloomy. The op-
portune capture of Atlanta had barely sufficed to inspirit
the Republicans, and if General M'Clellan had not disap
pointed his friends at Chicago it was thought that the De-
mocrats might have won. On the present occasion circum-
stances had curiously changed. The capture of Atlanta
had proved at best only a barren triumph, but the political

tide had turned in Mr Lincoln's favour, and there was little
uncertainty about the result of the contest. So Mr Se-
ward, instead of adroitly comparing his policy with the
policy of his adversaries, and drawing contrasts between
equivocating Democrats and thoroughgoing Republicans,
devoted himself to a general justification of that terrible
war which a majority of his countrymen were evidently
preparing to continue. The tone which he adopted in this
exposition was somewhat remarkable. He no longer spoke
of approaching vi'..tory or speedy triumph3.lHe forebore to
bespeak another " ninety days." He passed over in silence
the prospects of the campaign, and said not a syllable about
Grant or Sheridan, Sherman, or Farragut. The few vague
and general allusions to the war on which he ventured
indicated depression, though not despondency, and
ho drew a dark picture of coming trials.
Nevertheless, he argued that the war must be
fought out to the end, because it involved " the national
existence." That was the ground of the quarrel. To give up
the conflict was to give up " the national life." If this view
of the case be correot, it is not surprising that the war party
has prevailed. Any nation will fight for life, much more a
nation so young, so vigorous, so confident, and so hopeful
as that over which Mr Lincoln presides. But dispassionate
spectators of the strife will certainly ask why the conditions
of national life in America should be so unique and excep-
tional. 'We see thirty millions of men inhabiting-territories
which they themselves acknowledge to be extensive enough
for five times that number. It was one of the boasts of the
Americana that they would soon be a hundred millions.
Four years ago one-third of the present population, being
homogeneous in itself and inhabiting a distinct division of
territory, claimed to dissolve its political union with the re-
mainder, and to establish itself in independence. We must
conclude, therefore, that the Americans of the South,
though only nine millions in number, entertain no mis •
givings about their capacity for national life and existence.
They see their way so confidently, indeed, not only to exis-
tence, but to prosperity, that they are fighting to the death
for the chance of realising their expectations. They have
no fear of foreign invasion, intestine strife, military despot-
ism, political anarchy, or any other of the formidable
visions conjured up by Mr Seward. They are not in the
least afraid of falling into chronic war, like the South Ame-
rican Republics, or of incessantly quarrelling wth the
powerful neighbour on their northern frontier. They
think their Confederacy can maintain itself in security,
independence, and honour, and that they can endure
to see another State equally independent without im-
mediately going to war with it. They hold, in short, that

" national life" on the continent of America can be main•
tained exactly as on the continent of Europe, by modified
ambition, mutual forbearance, and prudent policy. Why,
then, if nine millions can constitute a living nation, should
not twenty be able to do as well ? To this question neither
Mr Seward nor any other American has ever yet given an
answer. We are left to conje3ture for ourselves what pe-
culiarities of position or passion should prevent Federals
and Confederates from living side by side as peaceably as
Austrians and Prussians. The Confederates, though the
weaker nation, say the thing can be done—the Federals
represent it as utterly impossible. They must fight, Mr
Seward says, because the present civil war, with all its
horrors, its waste, and its carnage, is a better state of
things than the state of things which would follow if the
youth were allowed to go in peace. We cannot under-
stand these apprehensions, We can see very well that if
the Americans had continued of one mind, and had been
con'ent to live in unbroken union upon their immense ter-
ritories, it would have been better for them ; but we re-
cognise only the natural operation of human passions in
the dissensions which marred this prodigious vision. If
America had, indeed, grown into such an empire as was
once anticipated, even the political fabric itself would have
been less wonderful than the moral concord which had
rendered such a consummation possible, In fact, the con-
summation was not anticipated with any confidence by the
founders of the original Republio. Some of the greatest
statesmen of the Union foresaw its disruption, and more
than one recommended that the necessity should be
peaceably accepted when it came.
POST.—The intelligence of one of the most wanton out-
rages ever committed by one Power on the territorial rights
of another was received in New York on the same day on
which its citizens were engaged in voting for the respective
candidates who aspired to the honour of governing the Re-
public for the next four years. It is needless to say that we
refer to the capture of the Florida by the Wachusett in
the harbour of Bahia. We were a little curious to learn in
what language the captain of the Federal cruiser would re-
port his achievement to the head of the naval department,
and equally so to know in what manner the American people
and the American press would regard an act for which it
was confessedly impossible to find either a moral or a legal
justification. In both respects our curiosity has now been
gratified, though some days must yet elapse before the de-
cision of the Federal Government and the verdict of public
opinion in the cities of the North aro definitely expressed.
Although the institutions of America are Democratic, and
the voice of the people is presumed to be supreme, we know
from experience that the decisions of the multitude, how-
ever loudly and energetically expressed, are not unfre-
quently modified when reviewed in the councils of their
chiefs. When Commodore Wilkes made his appearance in
New York with the Confederate Ambassadors (figuratively
speaking) tied to his chariot wheels, loud and universal
were the songs of triumph with which he was hailed. Gideon
Welles, the naval secretary, the same gentleman to whom
the capture of the Florida has now been officially reported,
complimented the commodore on his vigilance and zeal;
and the House of Representatives formally voted him its
thanks for the Lrilliant service he had rendered to his coup•
try. The press, without, we believe, a single exception,
adopted the act of the Federal commodore, and, in that
bombastic language in which it delights so much, declared
on the part of the American people that the act weul'i be
justified, if need were, by force of arms. But, nevertheless,
Messrs Slidell and Mason were delivered up to Great Bri-
ta

in, and an apology made for the wrong which had been
committed. Although, therefore, it would be unsafe to form
any conclusions respecting the course which will be taken
by Mr Lincoln and his advisers, in respect to the capture
of the Florida in Brazilian waters, from the language of
the press, it is not the less interesting to observe the latter
with the view of determining the current of popular opi-
nion. It is for this reason that we propose to offer a few
remarks upon the account of the capture of the Florida
which appeared in a Boston paper on the Bth of November,
as it indicates not obscurely the impression which the an-
nouncement at first blush produced on the American public.
In the first place, we may observe that in all material re.•
spects the version of the transaction published in the Ameri-
can paper is identical with that given by the captain of the
Florida on his arrival in this country. The American account
says nothing of the positive promise given by the Federal
Consul at Bahia that no hostilities should take place in
Brazilian waters; but on this point, which is, however,

immaterial to the real issue, the testimony of the Brazilian
authorities is conclusive. In the report made by Captain
Collins to the Naval Secretary every admission is made
which suffices to stamp the seizure of the Confederate vessel
as an unprovoked outrage on the rights of Brazil. " The
Florida," he writes, " with 58 men and 12 officers, was
cap'ured about three o'clock on the morning of the 7th
October, in the Bay of San Salvador, Brazil, by the officers
and crew of this vessel, without loss of life. Five of the
officers, including her commander, and the remainder of the
crew were ashore. The Florida had her mainmast and
mainyard carried away, and her bulwarks cut down. This
vessel sustained no injury." We will be perfectly content
to strike out, as surplusage, the details of the transaction
which Captain Collins promised should be forwarded to the
Chief of the Naval Department, and which have already
appeared in the English and the American papers, and to
let the claims of Brazil for reparation and apology rest en
the facts admitted in the former report of the captain of the
Wachusett. In the dead of night, and in the harbour of a
neutral Power, Captain Collins admits that he captured an
enemy's vessel, having carried away her mainmast and cut
down her bulwarks in what, we believe, will turn out to have
been an ineffectual attempt to sink the vessel and all she
contained as she lay at anchor. Of justification or excuse
for an act which, devoid of such, is on the face of it illegal,
there is not a single word, That such a report could be sub-
mitted to his superiors by an officer employed in the navy
of a civilised State is in itself one of nokelinary significance.
But, turning from Captain Collins's repoit to the detailed
account published by the Boston Post, one is struck by the
apparent unconsciousness on the part of the writer that the
capture of the Florida was other than a highly meritorious
act. It commences by stating that the Kearsage, which had
just arrived in the port of Boston, brought "the gratifying
intelligence of the capture of the pirate Florida." Then
follows a detained account of the circumstances under which
tho Florida was seized, an account which, as we have
already observed, is almost identical with that which was
furnished to us by the captain of that vessel. That the Con-
federate vessel was in the Brazilian port is admitted—nay,
it is even eta ted that she "was taken charge by the Brazi-
lian authorities, and came to anchor under the guns of two
forts, one mounting 21 and the other 18 guns ; a sloop of
war of 21 guns, and a barque, also carrying artillery, both
belonging to the Brazilian Government, also anchored
within pistol shot of the Florida, and formed a circle around
"ner." Of the fact of her having been under the protection
of the Brazilian Government no doubt can exist, and we are
therefore induced to give perfect credence to the additional
statement that—" The officers of the rebel craft seemed to
entertain no fear of danger from the Wachusett, and
everything about the ship was still and silent as on board
a merchantman." Such being the position of the Florida, we
are told that the captain of the Wachusett l" called a
consultation of his officers, at which itqyas re.
solved to sink the pirate in the harbour;" an,, in pur-
suance of this resolution, "Captain Collins aimed to strike
the vessel amidships, which would almost instantly have
sunk her; but his vessel veered and he hit her on the
quarter." In consequence of this error in *exit* the
Florida had merely her bulwarks cut down and herinain-
mast carried away; but ae, "in the excitement of.the oc-
casion, some pistols were discharged and two guns acci-
dentally fired from the Wachusett," the officer in &remand
of the Florida, being "unprepared, had no alternative but
to surrender." The sequel is stated with a frankneas which
is unexceptionable. The Wachusett towed the Florida out
to sea, and " when the day broke Captain Collins saw a
side-wheel steamer towing a Brazilian man-of-war out of
Bahia, but he put on all sail and a full head of Steam and
was soon out of sight." Such is the story as it is told by
an American journal, and without one single word of regret
or the faintest expression of a suspicion that a grievous
offence against the law of nations had been eiimmitted.
Newspapers are universally accepted as the organkof public
opinion, and correctly so, for unless they expressed with
tolerable accuracy the sentiments of their rea4ars they
could not possibly exist. The publication of a niwspa'per
is a purely commercial speculation, and like everything of
a similar character it depends exclusively on tli!e public
support. We can scarcely believe that the sentiments of
the writer in the _Boston Posb will be endorsed by the Fede-
ral Government; but that such sentiments should be ex-
pressed with the -sincere and, doubtless, well-founded belief
that they would meet with the approval of the public to
whom they were addressed speaks badly not only for the
legal but for the moral training of the American people.

The Murder the Plaistow Marshes.

VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER AGAINST

KOHL.

Yesterday morning Mr C. C. Lewis, coroner for Essex,
resumed the inquiry at the Court-house of Ilford G4Ol, into
the circumstances attending the murder of a German named
John alias Theodor Christian Fuhrhop, whose decapitated
body was found on Tuesday, the Bth, in Plaistow-marshes,
near the Victoria Ducks

Mr Hubert Wood, solicitor, of tho firm of Wood and King,
Basinghall-street, appeared to watch the proceedings on
behalf of the accused man, Ferdinand Edward Karl Kohl,
who, in accordance with the request of the jury, was
present to hear the evidence. The court was densely
crowded.

After the jury had answered to their names, the coroner
read over the depositions of the witnesses previously exa-
mined, and Mrs Wade was recalled, and confirmed her
previous statement that she was certain Kohl had posses-
don of her chopper on the 3d inst., when the murder was
supposed to have been committed.
'The following evidence was then taken :
Police-sergeant Bridgland, 65 K, said about half-past
11 o'clock on the night of Tuesday, the Bth inst., the pri-
soner (Kohl) was charged by Superintendent Howie with
being concerned in the murder of Fuhrhop in the Plaistow-
marshes. The charge was entered on the sheet, and read to
the prisoner as he stood in the dock, The prisoner said, "I
well know where I was on that--;"
but he did not finish
the sentence. The prisoner was then taken to a cell, and
witness took all his clothing from him. It consisted of a
coat, waistcoat, trousers, cotton drawers, cotton shirt
worsted socks. a neckerchief and worsted comforter, and a
pair of low shoes. The articles now produced were the same
He took them all, with the chopper and knife found, to Dr
Letheby, at the London I
Hospital, on the 15th inst. He de-
livered them to Dr Letheby himself, and they were all then
in the same state as when
he received them. He remained
at the hospital and brought back the articles.
Dr H. Letheby, of 17,
Sussex-place, Regent's-park, said
he was Professor of Chemistry at the Landon Hospital. On
Tuesday, the 15 inst., he received from the last witness the
articles of clothing and the chopper and knife produced. He
submitted them all to a very careful examination. He re-
moved the handle of the chopper in order to examine the in-
terior of the hole in which it was fixed. He found on the
edge of the chopper, about an inch from the top of it, in a
cavity caused by a portion of the edge being broken off, a
small quantity of brownish matter, which had the appear-
ance of coagulated blood. ne now produced a portion of it
under a microscopic glass. On examination under the
microscope he found the matter contained fibres of wool
dyed red and brown, some fibres of white wool, and white
cotton, a fibre of cotton dyed violet, and one dyed magenta
red; besides which there was a good deal of the outward sur-
face of human skin, with a small quantity of rust and iron,
and a brown substance, the nature of which he could not de-
termine. All these things were now in the same state under
the glass produced. He next examined the coat, and found
on it several spots, which ho removed, and on the front
part of the left skirt, near the bottom, he found a spot
which he ascertained to be blood. A portion of it still
remains on the same part of the coat, and he had every
reason to believe that it was human blood. He found on
the right hand front of the waistcoat, just over the pocket,
a spot of blood, The other spots on the clothing were in
several cases of the same nature as the paint on the top of
ot the
mattere t chopperhe
orng the
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theofthe
trousers, and a good deal of the same
waistcoat. The conclusion which For example, there was such a spot
he arrived at from the examination was, that human skin,
mixed with fibres, was on the chopper, and blood on the
clothes. He would add that more of the same sort was on
the cloth,
fioe,bttarheksae away to examine, and
coat
had been removed as
s
that the bare traces of blood
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Coroner—The possible—sowhichb e bloodfounnb odewmdi
nioudnote nhht
other the
r spots on the clothing do not
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appear to be blood. lie could not say positively that the
marks blood, but from appearances
had n of blood
of
no
doubt Ii human
examinedthe knife, but did not
find any marks of blood on it.
The Coroner—ls it important that I should take down
your statement as to the marks of blood having been it. wero
re-
moved from the coat ?
Dr Lotheby— yes; so far that it is evident these spots
have been removed as much as possible, leaving only a very
small quantity still adherent to the fibre of the cloth.
John Pinkley, assistant to Mr Darlow, pawnbroker, of
2, Victoria Do Dock -road, produced the following articles re-
ceived in pledge, viz. :—A ring, pledged for ss, on the 12th
October, in the name of John Borrup—a watch, pledged for
12s, on the 15th October. He believed these articles were
pledged by the prisoner, but would not swear to it; three
f
shirts, pledged for
2s 6d on the 19th October, in the name
of Ann Williams ; a shirt, waistcoat, and handkerchief,
pledged for Ss, on the 27th October, by a man who gave the
name of John Cole, 4, Hoy-
street. Witness had often seen
i the prisoner in
the shop, and believed that he pledged most
of these articles.
Cross-examine
' d by Mr Wood—When he saw the prisoner
in the shop witness believed he was by himself, except on
one occasion.
Mrs Elizabeth Warren, in whose house the murdered man
to his lodging with the prisoner, examined
resided previous
each of the articles produced, and identified the whole as

Cross-examined by Mr Wood—When the deceased left
my house there was some conversation about the money
he owed me, and witness sent for the police.
.J.Jseph Williams, of 8, Hoy street, said ho was a boiler-
maker, and the prisoner was his brother-in-law. 0 the
afternoon of the 15th of October witness met the [prisoner
about half-past four o'clock, at the top of Hoy-street, and
they went and had two pints of stout at the Duke of Cam-
bridge Tavern. The prisoner then showed him the ticket of
a watch. Witness asked if John was gone away, and the
prisoner replied " Yes." Witness then said that ho thought
he saw John about three o'clock on that afternoon,when the
prisoner rejoined that John had met with an accident, and
that he had left him at North Woolwich. Witness proposed
to go and see him, when the prisoner said, " John will not
like to come home until after dark." The prisoner said
John's accident arose from a pistol which he was playing
with, and
_that he held it to his ear, and talked about com-
mitting suicide. Witness went home and had his tea, and
went to the prisoner's house at seven o'clock, when the pri-
soner told him that John was in bed and asleep. The pri-
soner also told him that John sent him to pawn his watch
at Darlow's. After the police searched the prisoner's house
witness saw a padlock on the premises hanging on a nail,
and he took it, but afterwards lost it.
By the Coroner—The prisoner said that the deceased
took a pistol from hi; packet and held it to his head, and it
went " click."
By Mr Wood—He believed that the prisoner and de-
ceased often went together to pawn articles.
Andrew Stewart, of Clyde-wharf, Victoria Docks, said he
was a sugar-boiler, and had known the prisoner about three
months. The prisoner had been in the employ of witness,
and was so in September last. Witness remembered the
body of the deceased man being found on Tuesday, the Bth
inst. He knew the reed-bed where the body was found.
He saw the prisoner standing close to his premises on the
Monday and Tuesday of the week when the body was
sound. The premises of witness were about 500 yards from
the reed bed. On one morning, but he could not say when,
he saw the prisoner close to his premises as early in the
morning as half-past 6. The prisoner asked witness for em-
ployment, and witness said, '‘ I thought yon were going to
Germany, as you said you intended to go there when you
hft me." The prisoner said he had been to Germany, but
hed returned.
By the Coroner—Witness believed that he first accosted
the prisoner by saying, " Hallos, I thought you were gone
to Germany," and the prisoner then said he had returned,
The prisoner left the employ of witness in September last.
Wm. Richardson, landlord of the Graving Dock Tavern,
North Woolwich-road, said on Tuesday, November 8, the
body of the deceased was brought to his house, Witness
saw the prisoner at 4 o'clock on that afternoon, and asked
him if he had not missed a friend, and the prisoner replied
" Yes, he had lost him in Ratcliff-highway." In reply to
his questions the prisoner said he had made no inquiry re-
specting his friend, and that he did not wish to see the body,
as he did not like to witness such sights. The prisoner after-
wards accompanied witness to see the body, and witness
pointed out the clothing found upon it. On first seeing the
body the prisoner shivered and turned his face towards the
wall. Witness then said to the prisoner, `• I think you know
something about this, and I shall detain you and give you
into custody." The prisoner made no reply. lie had previ-
ously said that he believed the trousers found on the body
belonged to his companion John, but the boots were sot the
same. The witness theu detailed evidence previously given
as to the prisoner's apprehension.

James Burbigh, assistant to Mr Ashbridge, pawnbroker,
of 1, Waterloo-terrace, Commercial-road East, said a coat
was pawned at his master's shop for 78 on Oct, 20.
The Coroner—Have you brought it?
Witness—No, I came away in a great hurry.
Coroner-. Then the sooner you get home the better.
The witness said the coat had been produced before the
magistrate on the previous Saturday and identified.

Mrs Warren was then recalled, and said on Saturday

last she saw an overcoat produced by the witness Burleigh,
and she at once identified it as having belonged to the mur-
dered man, who took it away from her house with a railway
blanket on the Monday before he went to live at Kohl's.

Edward Dangerfield, assistant to Mr Cresawell, pawn-
broker, of 88, High-street, Whitechapel, produoed a coat
pawned for 2s, on the 14th September, in the name of John
Cole, 9, Leman-street. He believed the prisoner Fawned
the coat, but could not swear to him.

Mrs Warren, on inspecting the coat, said ehe could not
identify it as belonging to the murdered man.
Mrs Eliza Whitmore, who resided in the same house as

the prisoner and the deceased, at 4, IIey• street, was then
re-examined, and repeated her former statement that she
saw the prisoner go out between seven and eight o'clock on
the Monday morning before the body was discovered. She
did not see him return, but saw him a short time after he
returned, and said to him, " Then you have not gone to
work yet ?" He replied that the gentleman was gone to
Scotland, and would not return for three or four days, and
at the expiration of that time he was going to work for him.
She did not remember what the prisoner wore when he went
out with the deceased on the morning of the 3d inst.
Dr Morris, of Victoria Dock-road, was then re-examined
as to the result of the post mortem examination of the de-
ceased. On examining the head he found a very extensive
fracture of the left temporal bone, and the fracture of the
bone readily admitted his three fingers. The bone was, in
fact, completely smashed, as though it was dune by a ham-
mer or a hatchet. The brain was healthy in appearance,
but very much lacerated on the left side owing to the frac.
ture of the skull. All the viscera of the chest and abdomen
were very healthy. The stomach contained about three or
four ounces of undigested food. There was no blood in
the heart, which might easily be accounted for by haemor-
rhage which took place from the wound in the brain. These
were all the appearances which ha saw. The result of his
examination convinced him that the first blow was given at
the back of the head, and from the appearance of the wound

it must have been done Ly a hatchet, or some such weapon
as that produced. After receiving such a wound a man
could not live many seconds. The other wourds might
have been done after death had taken place. He had ex-
amined the chopper or hatchet produced, and believed that
the blow was made with just such a weapon. His opinion
was that the head was not severed from the body until some
time after the latter was cold. It might have been removed
by such a knife as that produced with the aid of a hatchet.
He did not think that the instruments used for the sever-
ance of the htad from the body were very sharp. The bone
was cut entirely through, and that could not have been done
with the knife produced without the aid of a stronger in-
strument.

Inspector Samuel Nightingale, of the R division. said he
accompanied Superintendent Howie to the house of the pi i-
roner on the afternoon of the Bth inst. lie procured a cab
and took the prisoner and his wife to the shed of the Graving
Dock Tavern, where the body was lying. The wife of the
prisoner identified the body as being that of the missing man
John. The witness then repeated his previous evidence as
to the apprehension of the prisoner.
Other witnesses who had been previously examined were
then questioned by the Coroner and jury, and adhered to
their former statements.

The prisoner throughout the whole of the proceedings
appeared to exhibit the utmost indifference, and more than
once laughed when the witnesses were giving evidence.
Abut one o'clock the coroner and jury adjourned for half
an hour, and during that interval the prisoner observed to a
police constable present, " They are a long time over it.
When are they going to hear my witnesses ?"
This being the whole of the evidence,
The learned Coroner proceeded to present the case to the
jury. He observed he need scarcely allude to the fact that
this was a most important investigation, which demanded at
the hands of the jury the most careful consideration. It
would be the duty of the jury to decide what was the cause
of death, and having done so, to say how that cause arose.
If they adopted hie ♦iew of the case they would say that the
immediate cause of deth was tho tremendous blow which
the unhappy man received on the back of his head. But the
further and very important question then arose—by whom
was that blow inflicted The evidence tending to elucidate
this matter, although of an important nature, had been pre-
sented in a somewhat disjointed manner, and he would very
briefly recapitulate some of those points which he thought
worthy of special attention. It appeared that a few weeks
since the murdered man arrived in this country from Ger-
many. In the first instance he took lodgings at the house of
Mrs Warren, where he remained about a fortnight. At that
time his wardrobe appeared to be as well furnished as could
have been expected from a man in his condition of life. He
left the house of Mrs Warren and went to reside at the house
of the prisoner. That was on Monday, the 10th October,
and it was worthy of remark that the pawning of the clothes
of deceased commenced almost immediately afterwards.
Why this should be so he (the coroner) could not conceive,
inasmuch as Mrs Warren proved that the deceased, when he
left her house had a sum of £4 7s 6d., and the prisoner had
said some weeks afterwards that deceased possessed £4 10s.
On Tuesday, the 3d instant, the deceased and the prisoner
left Hoy-street together at half-past 9 o'clock in the morn.
ing, and they were seen together near the reed.bed in the

marshes at 10 o'clock. The evidence on the latter point
was conclusive, and there was no hitch, as was sometimes
the case, with regard to identification, as both witnesses

gave a reason for knowing the parties. Lee said to his corn-

'Anion `‘ Here are two Germans whom we have seen at