The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1868, Page 3

WM. M. EVABRTS. Complimentary Dinner at the Astor House. The Bar and the Bench at the Banquet Board. Grant, Farragut, Schofield and Other Distinguished Guests. Speeches of General Grant, Chas. O’Conor, Wm. M. Evarts, General Schofield, Ad- miral Farragut, Jas. W. Gerard, Judge Daly, Mayor Hoffman, Rev. Dr. Hall, Henry J. Raymond, Ex-Goyv. Clifford {of Massachusetts), Attorney General Brewster (of Pennsylvania), Richard A. Dana (of Massachusetts), Mr. Black (of New York), Gunning S. Bedford <City Judge Elect), William E. Dodge and A. Oakey Hall. ‘The Bar of New York entertained last evening. at @ grand banquet at the Astor House, one of its most honorea and distinguished members, William M. Evarts, at present Attorney General of the United States. Some time ago Mr. Evarts was cordially in- vited to accept such a compliment to his high talents and to the patriotism and unselfishness displayed by him in accepting the office which he now holds. Mr. Evarts would not decline an honor so well meant, nor Miss go pleasant and gratifying an opportunity of meeting his colleagues of the Bar and the members of the judiciary, and last evening was the time and the staunch old Astor House the place fixed for the banquet. At six o’clock the halls of the hotel commenced to fill up with lawyers and judges and bankers and representatives of the great business and commer- cial interests of the city. The portion of the house assigned to them was approached through a special door arranged in the public hall, handsomely fes- tooned, and at which were stationed two of the guardians of the city’s peace. Here salutations and introductions and conversation were kept up pl¢a- santly, while in some more private parlors up stairs the invited guests were assembiing. General Grant came down in the carriage and company of Mr. A. T. Stewart, and Mr. KE. Delafteld Smith had the pleasure of performing the same ser- vice for Admiral Farragut. At length the doors of the dining hall were (at feven o'clock) thrown open and the entertainers marched in two by two, encouraged and sustained in the performance of the graver part of their functions by strains from the “Grand Duchess,” executed by Dodworth’s band. When ail had taken thelr stands by their respective chairs the band struck up ‘Hail to the Chief,” and then the guest of the evening, attended by the other invited guests, en- tered the dining hall. Mr. Evarts, arm in arm with Mr. Charles O’Conor, the presiding officer; General Grant with Judge Henry E. Davies, Admirai Farragut with Mr. Edwards Pierrepont, Genera! Banks, of Maseachusetts, with Governor Clifford, of Massachu- setts, and General Schofield, Secretary of War, with Mr. A. T. Stewart. Their entrance was greeted with clapping of hands and other demonstrations. After grace by Rev. Dr. Vinton the guests took their seats and the walters were immediately engaged in active ‘operations. 3 Besides the invited guests already named there were present Mr. Richard A. Dana, of Massachu- setts; Attorney General Brewster, of Pennsylvania; John T. Hoffman, Governor elect of this State; Gun- nings Bedford, City Judge elect; James Gordon Ben- nett, Jr., NEw YORK HERALD; Henry J. Ray- mond, New York Times; Charles A. Dana, New York Sun; Vice Chancellor McCoun; Judges Daly, Gilbert, Barrett, Russel, Clerke, Benedict, Barbour, Hilton, Blatchford, Jones, Suther- * land, Monell, Ingraham, Robertson and Brady; Samuel G. Courtney, United States District Attorney; A. Oakey Hall, District Attorney of thia oty and county; Dr. Adams, Samuel J. Tilden, Professor Dwight, of Columbia College; General Walbridge, J. W. Gerard, William E. Dodge, Richard O'Gorman and Frederick A. Conkling. ‘Phe banqueting hall was handsomely and elabo- rately decorated. On the walls, which were hung profusely with bunting and on which the shields of the various States were suspended, were paintings of Washington, Alexander Hamiiton, Daniel Webster, John Jay, William Curtis Noyes and Judge ,Daly. The principai table was ranged lengthwise on the northern side of the room and the other tabies were placed at right angies to it. ‘The dinner and its accompaniments were highly dreditabie to the Messrs. Stetson and to the com- mittee of arrangements, of which Mr. James Thom- on was the efficient chairman. About 300 persons sat down to table. After some two hours spent in discussing the good things provided the benedictory was pro- nounced by Rev. Dr. Adams. Mr. CHARLES U'CONOR, the presiding officer, then proposed the Grst regular toast—‘‘The President of the United States."” ‘The toast was received with the appropriate bonors—the band piaying “Hail Coiumbia.”” GENERAL GRANT. Mr. O'Conon then proposed the second regular toast—“The President Elect.” ‘The toast was received with much more than the usual honors. All the guests rose to their feet, clapped their hands, waved their handkerchiefs and raised their voices in cheers, At the same ume, frow a lilipatiau iort over the door opposite the place where nerai Grant sat, there was discharged @regular battery of guns, to the great amusement of ai, ‘The band piayed a trumpet call. Then broke out again ive acciamation of tie gue: And then General Grant rose and, in a quiet, simple, unal- junner, spoke as follows:— /BMEN—I thank uu very Kindly for the Mauucr in which you have received the jast toast, which Was iatended as complimentary to myself; aad | inust say ¢ there is no other community taat | would receive such @ demonstration of wei come frou with more gratitude than from the citi- zens W [meet here this evening. 4 t, laving said thus much, took his, seat. re Will received and Joudly cheer Some said, hat is very short," and others rem that tt was to the potat. ‘7 inaed for sone time, and then applause Was CO! roposed and heartily responded three FROM JUDGE NELSON. Judge Hes E. Davies then read @ letter from Jttige Neison, regretting his inability to be present and giving as a seutiment— “Toe honors worthy of the highest ambition of the lawyer, when wont h the infuence | and profes i gi Reations for the W the rectplent—not those (Appiause.) MR. CHARLES O'CONOR. ‘0 ing the health of foliow: iionors that toli ran afcer, SPRECH ¢ ce Rat are 5 Mr. Cta ‘the acest o1 GENTLEM the close of half a century's experience in the legal profession it gives me gieat pleasure to look from the piace to which your favor has assigned me upon this briiliant as- sembly of worth and ta. But for the bright pre- sage if acords my fee ics might be different; they mught be (uged with iy aw but for that confidence in the immortality of honor and virtue which is tangiit aike py religton and philosophy. There is no place ju my bosom for any such regret. 1 contemplate ie present, the past and the future of our bar with great satisfaction. Trained «to our afdnous pursuit amid such noble exemplars as Emmet, Ogden, Wells, Jones, SBloason aud tuew associates, 1 have lived through anage of generous forensic contention and social irieadsnip with their peers. Passing by, for wai of time, full many a noble name, let me rehearse few:—The second Emmet and the second Hotfman; the gentie, the generous, the cultivated Benjamin F. Batier aga William Kent; that modern Antony, Jonathan Prescott Hall; he yet left to us and so well Hamed the Murat of the bar, Francis Brockhoist Cutting, and he—(how could I pass bim unnoticed')— the invincibie wit, the wary and irresistible tactician; he who bore the bow of Teucer, albeit now Farely used, and who yet lives in unextinguishabie F bade wracing this night's array, James W. rard. 1 have seen these lights pass away from earth or retire from earth's active conficts, Look- ing back upon this long bridge of life spanning the aver of oviivion, as beheld in the vision of Mirza, methinks i see in the distance, up0a 8 lofty summit, the Alorniy commanding Syure of speucer dispens: NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. ing the rigorous justice of the common and the statute law, ‘wills dons another the mild, nal genius of Kent diffuses the current gauilty the letter of each ji it to the w the the necessities of our imperfect vage, Walworth and Bropson— are in closer view and are held in equally honored remembrance. I am nO » and in this connection, I may not of the living; no such consideration rest my voice in refer- arisoned for active in ly hope but @ confident assurauce that private right and public liberty ave not to be left without champfons equal to the task. Indeed, that could not be. The r is not one that th away. His power was beiore all ages; it will govern forever; in boundless grace and wisdom unap- proachable He will supply all needs. This is the consoling faith that keeps alive im the bosom of sae that fire which might otherwise perisit by the side of youthful uni Buontide ambitions battled, members of our bar who at t day could fairly claim the seats once occupied by the great men referred to would be at once presumptuous and invidious. To vindicate the right of each in his de- ‘tment and to award the palm is not my office; it ‘longs to @ serenely deliberate power, at once just and despotic, whose decisions may not be gainsald— that power which in our country is the sovereign dispenser of all honors and ali estimable rewards— pubiic opinion, On the present occasion and jor @ singie purpose I am, indeed, by your appointment, an organ of that power; and ag such it becomes my duty to Gecupy your attention for @ moment while I endeavor in adequate terms to express its judgment. The pure and sagacious Daniel Lord, whose recent loss We all deplore, was tue preceptor of many candl- dates jor eminence in our profession. Among these there sat down, not quite thirty years ago, & young beginuer, ‘The viginis annorwn lucubrationes: Were not denied to his object or at ail. curtailed, nor were other pursuits permitted to Interfere with them or to prevent the complete reatization of their legiti- mate fruit. That trult, in his case, was the full de- velopment of high natural endowments. Following the footsteps of time we tind him in due season at our bar. pe scholarship, profound sagacity, skill in the adaptation of means to ends made perfectly, deep study and attentive appiication in practice 18 the comb.nation required to form an accomplished lawyer. i tga to all observers it existed in him’ who is the subject of my present remarks at a period in- our history to which I would now draw attention. it might be pronounced one of those sea- sons surrounded zero events which is recognized as his harvest by that angel of destiny who selects from the ranks leaders for society. A declaimer once said, and not inaptly, as I think, that the Le- gisiature was the heart of the State, the judiciary its brain and the executive ite hand. The figure is the more appropriate because it assumes that the heart is the emotional part where the will, rather than thought’ or judgment, holds sway. Now, it 80 happened in the course of public events that, ac the point of time to which I refer, the will of the State—whether hastily or wisely I should not say—in fervid indignation at evils, real or imaginary, resolved~upon the terri- ble remedy of smiting oif its right hand, As the foremost advocate in the foremost city of our west- ern world William M. Evarts was at once chosen for the foremost place among those upon whose wisdom and learning it was devolved to avert the mutila- tion. Conformably to the best precedents in history ‘his successful accomplishment of the task was re- warded with the highest official eminence the pro- fession affords. With mingled emotions of pleasure in his advanccment and regret at the partial separa- tion consequent upon it, you and I, as his brethren of the bar, united as we are in tendering him this salutation, will now drink his health, “Our Guest.”” ‘SPEECH OF WM. M. EVARTS. Hon. Ws. M. Evarts in response said:— Mr. PresipeNt—How shall { express, how shai I exhibit to you and to my brethren of the var and to this brilliant array of guests that do our profession the honor to add the lustre of their various renown to this professional festivity—how shal! I express and how exhibit my gratification and my gratitude for this your kindness—ior these your favors’ 1 am sure I shali nof mistake the propriety of the situa- tion if I regard the imeident in my professional life of my being Attorney General of the United States as the occasion rather than tmyself in any principal or important sense the object of tnis public congratulation. lam disposed, sir, to thipk that you are not wrong in your judgment whth Fou have assioned to me 4 soni. plete devotion of my life to our commén profession. A defeat in the competition within my own party for its candidacy for the Senate 1s not substantial or important enough to be counted asa break even in », eenal iy eervioe Wat i = pao te pcy of actual | 1c Ber at I have been c: upon fo parton aes ‘tho of a proeselonal character. ‘The errand that carried me twice to London and to Paria to assist the policy of the chap repre- sented by so eminent ministers as Adams and Dayton abroad was purely © professional duty ; and J feel that I may fairly eay that it was conducted by me as simply and quietiy as its nature red. My present position is almost in duties and in purposes and in service as (ped Borers as it is in name. ‘To appear as a forensic advocate of the Ex- ecutive head in its principal litigations and as the legal adviser of the Executive head and the depart. ments in administrative action are certainly proies- sional duties, and whatever color or quality of politics or statesmanship to which the services ure applied than from the treatment which fhe officer himself gives to them. It is true that both in our own country and in England this oftice is disposed of usually in the distribution of poste of litical trusts, and in this country, thougu not in England, the Attorney General is counted as a member of the Cabinet. But in the circumstances of my own case I cannot Voiunteer to give If the least credit of having attracted attention political abilities or political services; and I must be satisfied to ascribe my promotion to a partial estimate of a professional service and a generous disregard of political diner- ences. .(Applause.) And when after a brief term of public service 1 shal resume my ordinary employments at your bar, fortunate indeed shail be if the stronger light and the more curious gaze to which oficial position will have subjected me may not in your tavorable judgment have served to diminish even with you, my irienda, that favor by a betrayal of the poverty of my attainments and the city of my resources. (Renewed applause.) But am not disposed, Mr. President, to tnink or to say that the profession of .aw, in its ordinary routine of dutles, is not 9 public profession, for such I believe it to be in relation to government and the institutions of society—iueir protection and defence. I believe the labors of the lawyer to be more habitually, more definitely, more responsibly labors in the public eervice than any of the other principal professions. I believe that the profesaton 1s to be looked upon in reference to constituted liberty whatever dangers threaten it, whether from the despotism and tyranny oi absolute wer or the anarchy of rash popular enthusiasm, he oid guard that wili ever — it. (Cheers.) Of thetawyer, more truty than of any other pursuit of men tt may be sald, In pricato publicun negotium agit, The presence of so many distinguished divines forbids me to overlook, if I otherwise were incined to, the vast value and the various modes in which the pursuit of their calling is a distinct service to the State. We gather from the wisdom © wicut imes @ great motto, which maxes us 1. | of this proposition, guia leges sine moritu., which may be freely transiated, “What ave constabics cood for without cle en?” And so it is, for who does not know that it is by the instruction in personal virtue, by the lifting more and more classes of so- ciety inio that condition by which they are alaw unto themselves, that civil government and the pro- fession of the law are abie to manage the irreguiar instances of violation which then, aad even then, occur’ But without this a org by the Church and ita servants of the Individua! character of men that compose free society, free soctety would be impossible, and without that preparation the ad- ministration of governinent and the resources of our profession would be as trivial ds binding strong men with withes. And | uk we must aiso admit that, as the clergyman pi: es the lawyer, 80 also the physician goes beior wth. We are glad to see so Many OF them here at dinner, and afcer din- ner we are often obliged w send for them if tuey do not come, (Laughter.) but what are the instructions of virtue and what are the restraints of if tue physical man is not protected, sac dd and healed? And, certainly, even ia the ord ry routine of the service of the medical profession, how large a part of their toils and of their burdens’ are distinctly borne in the service of the State, without fee or reward, in the succor of the indigent sick? But even of iate years a larger claim to pablic service and to public gratitude bas veen iaid apon us by the profession; for the: have assumed, and with fidelity have discharged, the duty of protecting the public health, of averting pestilence and disease and of sustainiug tue community in the enjoyment of life. What more wonderful instance in the history of man than that the medical service of tnis city two Years ago snould have averted the cholera and ieft us untouched by its polzon! What comes nearer to a providence in the adairs of men than such a public service from a iearned profession? But, after all, it is the naval and nuilitary service we are to look to to protect and to defend society against actual ruin and the lives and fortunes of the people from destruc- on. This is greater than to ameliorate lop theirs advantages whea they are preserved, and thus it is aiways th first plaudits and the highest honoi the victories by sea and land by which a nation is made safe. (Applause.) And then the merchants, of Whom I see #0 many goodly representatives about these tablea—the merchants haye this singular ad- vantage over us all, that they alone are permitted in our equal society and undef our republican govern- ment to be called princes. (Laughter.) Princes they are, and rule us with a wand of gold or paper, as the case may be. All are obedient to their’ sway. They support all the professions and pay the expenses of the government, They main- tain the churches and ‘the hospitals, and they are at the basis of this great structure of civilization which I have alluded to in the different branches of pubilc service performed. Yet | inust admit that the aspect of chief interest in which our profession look atthe merchant is his clients. (Laughter.) Their enterprise. their courage, their sagacity, their perse- verance, their skill traverse the globe and ransack its wealth to bring home purses fuil, only to be ligut- ened by the lawyers. {Renewed laughter.) Our profession may be likened to those canvas-backed ducks which we have enjoyed to-m@it. it gets its delicate juices from the peculiar food on which ib livea, the wild celery of the marine marshes, and it saves its tenderness by not beng at the mus- cular edgort of diving to bing it up, and waits uli the apnea ef Sse shes tts ssn trae sro her ren-nenrpsrse eesr i——nenesennneerti el ieli a eteer pt believe, in this case, the whole. pas ee | overto| us q Pier of ind ve lectures and form, it ts discovered that there memorate.. Thus it is that society can never be com- plete. brave men were unlucky for the want of @ person, and the person is unlucky for the want of brave men, But we ought at least to be in reference to this other calling of soe, We no! assamed points church whenever it reaches the Riri hcl Gaetan ates apa eda V ns jan 1D ie doc- trines of the Rubic Taccldes what is necessary for Salvation. The cure of the sick, the healing of broken limbs, and the gunshot wounds are ail looked over by ajudge and jury to see whether the thing has been properly done, and if it has not been, then, in- stead of the patient's ingithe doctor, the doctor has to pay the patient, (Laughter.) And so it is with naval engagments and land batt! we do not stop at the magnitude of this gam Admiral Farragut—(great applause)—is very fortu- nate that he has not been shot by ihe law for too recklessly exposing his life in circumstances that be- fore that time no precedent was jound. Afver Ad- for tl pass enough and not hard enough, because court aud jury could take @ cool survey of the battle after it was fought. Why it happened to me, to show that there is no extravagance 1n this matter, to hear what would be comsidered as far beyond what the scope and duty of ay Profession tO have anything to do with as anyt! ping that could be imagined—the charge of the’ six hundred at Balaklava, discussed on aliidavit and counter afiidavit before the King’s bench in England ona motion to show cause whi! information for libel could not be fled. Lord Cardi- gan, who was the party involved,gcame out from court with a military reputation which his actual conduct in the charge had not been able to secure him, though he was entitled to it. 1 had a perfectly distinct view to my own mind, as a lawyer, exactly where every man in that engagement on both sides stood during the whole of the confict; and vic precise rapidity with which they moved during the five or ten seconds that carried them along into the glory out of which they never came back. Now, | do not know, because libel suits are not much Cab ag have not any information in the nature of a general inquiry that our «distin- mnahed military guests ere are in any particular janger from the oversight of our profession. Bui it the charge of Balaklava cannot escape the scrutiny of the law what can be safe in human aairs? In this scruuny that we have of the other profession we sometiines get a chance to say a pretty good thing about them. And I am sure it may be worth while to recount what reats upon so distinguished and venerable authority as the “Year Book” of the estimates solemnly ree. in law to the position of the clergy on a very definite inquiry, It seems that somebody had been go rude as to call a clergyman a fool, with @ prefix expletive to give point to the stigma drawn from the arsenals of theological de- nunciation, and not from the technical works of the law. Now, in an action ef slander the point came up distinctly; for without speciai damage proved we hold such words injurious only when they in- jure the party spoken of in his profession, and the court held that it was not actionable, for it did not injure the clergyman im his profession. (Laughter.) Bat the court said it would have been actionable had it been of the lawyer. So, too, of the medical profession, We sometimes get a pretty good chance in @ trial at that. {remember an instance when a doctor's bill was under review, and the effort was toshow on the part or the defendant that he had repeated and stretched his visits when there was not any need of it, and his counsel reinforced the witness, endeavoring to show that it was abso- lately necessary, and ied the witness by the qui 2, This was necessary as being a case of danger. 'e3, sir,” said the witness, ‘1 considered him in danger until the doctor left him.’’ ‘The iabors of our profes- sion, Mr. President, are-not always important or dificult in proportion to their as: or their bril- Hancy. It is said that to fight in the dark in a ditch requires more heroism than to do so at the head of an army, with the sound cf music and the faunting of banners. But certainly I think that, setting aside constitutional questions, it social questions, moral questions and those which involve the passions of society or of indiyiduals, ang Which atiracy Teal hard tug Ol a iuwyer uh wy {riai, apd aveve ‘all in a jury trial where you liave & hopeless case for deteuce, Then you want your mind clear. heard an American anecdote repeated by no legs an authority than the Lord Chancellor of England, and which comes in play here. It is sald that Judge Warren, at one time in Boston, tn the midst of one of the heated terms which make summer so uncom- fortable, was sitiing in his ofice turning over some papers, when a client of his, a tailor, came ip and said, “I see, Judge, you work this hot weather.” “Oh no,” said the Judge, “1 am merely attend: on matters which require some little attention. It is too hot todo any real work.’ Said the tatlor, “That 1s how I feel. I can get along with the ordinary cutting and sewing, bit when I come to the button-holing | must have my mind clear.” (arene) AndT incline to think, Mr. President, at you have a defendant who must have a verdict againat him and when all you can do or hope to do is to make it as little as possible, then you re- quire that clearness of mind for button-holing the judge and jury which this tailor spoke of. (Laugh- ter.) The rea! honor of a young lawyer is when he finds himself pitted against his senior in the profession. It shows him that he is advancing in his profession. And i do not know that, however great the embar- Tagsment and gratitication which I have had at dif- ferent times in meeting you, Mr. President, in the profeesion, I have ever nad so great embarrassment as in this association to-night; for you have spoken wholly on my side, and I cannot be permitted to add anything to it, and it is impossible that I should be expected to gainsay it. But the crown and summit of our profession is the judiciary. (Applause.) It is the best, the highest, the most beneficent station in human avaira. All men worship the upright and the able jud; Ail men revere the memory of the upright and the able judge. And by the same rule all men abhor the unjust judge—(continued ap- Peg all men, to the latest generations, curse is memory. How nobly and how admirab!y have we seen the judiciary act, and how many excellent, able, upright, laborious, tll compensated judges we have known! Let us leave the matter there, rejoic- ing that we gee 80 many whow I have pralsed at our table to-day, and especially that one who adorned the bench when I was adinitted to the bar, Vice Chanceilor McCoun, in perfect healtu and vigor and with the respect and observance of us all, honors us by his presence. When I see how iittle he is changed 1 hope that | am not much ch: I—(laughter)—and then I think how has the judicial establishment and the professional practiee varied from those days. (Hear,) The judicial station, I have said, ts the crown and summit of the profession. All men unite in bless- Ing the judge's abilities, wnich can never be too great, aod his justice, which can never be too severe. I noticed in some observations of Archbishop Whate- ley about the profession of udvocate, a remark that it is not a benefit to society to have an advocate who is’ more brilliant and able than the rest, for 1t makes thi all uneven, and justice is not done. id take up that idea, Mr. President, alths 1 should for myself, I am afraid, Mr. that your iife would have been ago; 1 do not know how mang of our brethren at the bar, now here, would be taken off by untimely deaths unless our pevpie learn to promote them to the bench, (Laughter.,) And now, air. President, closing these observations, desuitory and far too long already, [ may be permitted to say a@ word or two about the od fortune which has attended my life. 1 do not ‘now that, in thirty years which, as student and lawyer, have almost elapsed since I came to your city, any man has ever done me an unkindness or an injusiice. Aud if | cou'd feel that, even ina feeble degree, | have never uone an unkindness or tn- justice to a brother in our profession, I te apa abave hope that had, in some degree, the debt which I owe to you it seems to me as if I were in debt, from the beginning 10 the end, to others. [ do not speak of how much | owe to my masters in the law school— Story and Greenteaf; but I may be permitted to say that no man can owe a greater debt to a teacher and @ master and an exemplar anc a friend than I owe to Daniel Lord. (Applause.) Aud i tay be permitted to say that no young man can be aided in the earlier years of his profession more than | was aided by as- sociation with Prescott 1, Applause.) A: to my partners stil! abodt me—pgriners never changed, but only « w in the twenty-eight years of my professional iife— your knowledge of them forbids, and makes it uu- for me to speak. I recognize the debt— shali be set to my life (until when we are admoxu: to call no man fortunate) I may weil be deemed for- tunate if any law student, or any young lawyer, or any dying veteran of the profession shail feei, even in a moderate degree, towards me as | do towards these, my masters and my frien Mr. Evarts resumed his seat aiid great applause, ‘The next toast was ¢ ray and Navy.’ Music Uy the band—‘‘Star Spang'ed Banner.” The toast of “The Army aud Navy” was givenand drank with all the honors. . GBNBRAL SCHOFIEL General ScHOFIELD, on to respond to the toast, said:—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, in the monarchies of the Old World it is said that the army is the ri of the empire. With equal trath it may ‘ve said in this hc og Mad army 18 iue safety of the republic. (Cheers,) bile equally true, yet how different the meauing of these words in their applt- cation in the two cases, ‘The army on which this repubitc relies for ita safety is no vast body of idie, ignorant men, drilled and disciplined to exe- cute the will of @ eT nor yet is it the little nucleus regular troops in which is bay the knowledge of the art of ‘war ready to be disseminated to an unlimited extent in time of need. The army of the republic is com- posed of the great body ff, the young men of the nation—men who a@re haviiually employed in the arts of peace, but who spring to arms when their country calls, and rally around the littie body of traines officers and men who stand ready to lead to victory, (Great cheers.) How perfectly, though perhaps unconsciously, the couatry feels the fact that in its army is its main reliance — for prota eee the men whose patriotism, cour abhity and fidelity haye been tried on the Held of ba: (vheera.) Whether it bein the world of commerce, | of trade or science—whether it be in the legisla- | "3 SPRRCH. them miral Bynge was shot for not dghting quite soon |) bench, or in the executive chair, these are oruied save forme vi ee ES for what they do. Fer iek nopiace but with true, humbie, honest fidelity endeavor to do their whole coer im any we A — bod couneymen may assign them, e army of tl ver fe my y @ republic may e' m fatan high and honorable character for bravery, jodesty and patriotic devotion to duty. (Applause.) SPEECH OF ADMIRAL FARRAGUT. On the Admiral rising to respond to the toast of the Navy, he was greeted with great applause. He said—Mr. Chairmen and gentlemen, in response to the sentiment you have so kindly received 1 will aokpoweecee it ‘and thank you for it. The President of this meeting announced me as the representative of the navy. The navy, I believe, has always done its duty. ‘It 1s a nucleus around which, I hope, our yous men will always be found to rally. I have been ely abroad as the war is now over, and I was sent away @erhaps to give me re- creation—(laughter)—and now it affords me at pleasure to say that in all my intercourse with foreign nations | found always extended to me the hand of fellowship and goodwill everywhere, (Applause.) I do notthink we shall be calied upon to do much more service in the way of war. (Ap- plause.) In the mzidst of which the Admiral took bis ‘The next toast was “The Veterans of the Bar.’ The toast was very happily responded to by Mr. JAMES W. GeRanyd, who Kept the younger members of the company in fits of laughter ‘at his witty and Py teosagy points and remarks in his review of @ history of the bar some forty years back. The sixth regular toast—‘: The Juaiciary’’—was re- sponded to by Judge Daly, who treated the subject with bis usual ability, and whom the course of his remarks was frequently applauded, yang pest toast was “The City and State of New SPEECH OF MAYOR HOFFMAN, GOVERNOR ELECT. ‘The toast next on the list, ag above, having been duly honored, the Governor elect responded to it a3 follows:—As Governor he felt some in. responding to one portion of the toast—the city—nhe having tendered his resignation of Mayor he doubted the propriety of saying anything about it, and on the other hand, so far as the State was concerned, as it was proposed or talked of very seriously to contest his election, he doubted the propricty of saying anything about it. (Cheers.) One act of his life he was sure he could refer to without the slightest reference to political ailairs or to political ditlerences, He referred to the honored guest of the evening, when he stepped aside, not from his professional duty, but in the way of it,,to give his (Mr. Evarts’) services in defence of the Chief Magistrate of the country, incurring thereby perhaps the enmity of some and making no new friends, But recognizing the fact that professional duty called him where he went, withsability unsurpassed—with boldaess and firmness—(cheers)—he went to the dis- charge of it. (Referring to Mr. Evarts’ brilliant criti- cism of Mr. Boutwell’s impeachment speech and of his fight of fancy ad astra, he made a happy allu- sion between that and the present occasion an Astor, which elicited general laughter.) Mr Hoffman, con- tnuing, said he had noticed that some of our distin- fore. countrymen in the interior had proposec. to ivide the State. He would not, however, divide the toast, “The Empire City and the Empire Stat city had always better belong to the Sta’ State had better belong to the city. (Chee: do very well together; they might not do very wel apart. (Applause and laughter.) ye very well unite as Empire City and Empire State. ‘he Em- pire City makes the Empire State and the Empire State makes the Empire City. ete) But when he heard men of prominence and distinction within our borders talking about division because some perhaps in some localities pubiic sentiment went for division. . But this spirit of secession in the State or in the Union had better be quenched here. (Great applause.) He knew no betier Ve for it or time than the present, when the Presideat elect—(great cheers)—who, in his sphere and in the line of his duty, did so much to prevent division in the country, and, if he was permitted to say it, he knew of i no better time and no better man to de- nounce the idea of dividing a State or @ country than the present—when he was elected at this time to preside over the destl- mies of the -whole country. Serplsase.) ‘The Gov- enor elect closed with the sentiment: now give you, gentlemen, “The city and State New York, that have grown and prospered together—may the ae fanaticism of man never be able to divide ‘The next toast, in honor of the other learned pro- fessions, was responded to, for the clergy, by Kev. Dr. Hall, and for the press by Henry J. Raymond. Tue next toast—‘The Bar of our Sister States’— was responded to by ex-Governor Clifford, of Massa- chusetts, aud Attorbey General Brewster, of Penon- sylvania, %s> - - ees ‘The next toast—“The Law Schools of the Coun- try'’—was responded to by Mr. Richard A. Dana, of Massachusetts, in which he spoke of Mr. O’Conor as being at the headship of the American bar, and of Mr. Evarts as being the frst Cabinet Minister seiected from the city of New York since Alexander Ham- ten it . ft Black, of New York, was called upon and spoke to the same toast. The next toast was “The Junior Members of the New York Bar,” to which Mr. O’Conor said one of its most briliiant members, Gunning S. Bedford, would respond. (Cheers.) ¥ SPEECH OF MR. BEDFORD, CITY JUDGE ELECT. Mr. CHAIRMAN AND GUNTLEMEN—It affords me much pieasure to meet you all on this most interest- ing occasion, and beg leare to return you my cordial thanks for the sentiment to which you ask me to reply—‘The junior members of the bar.” Before doing 80, however, allow me to say that we have assembled here this evening to pay homage to a dis- tinguished guest, the Hon. William M. Evarts, who how holds and who so ably fills the high position of Attorney General of the United S' which i tion he has attained by his consistent and meritori- ous career. This splendid ovation is indeed a just and fitting tribute to exalted worth, and I feel that it fully apprectated and will ever be heid in grateful remembrance, And now, gentle- men, a3 is “the junior members of the bar.’ In reply to this sentiment 1 would say that our pro- fession is a giorious one. It has ite |i yetit has its rewards, and he who pursues it with @ proper spirit and determination will rarely fail to attain the consummation of his highest aspirations. The stu- dent at law should ever remember that permanent success in‘his profession willin a great measure de- pend upon his own individual efforts. “Nulla dies sine ined? should at the very commencement of his career be his motto, and he should never lose ht the fact as diMcuities surround him fresh energies should be awakened and increased resolution made to go onward. This is emphatically a progressive age, and he who does not Keep pace with the times must of necessity prove laggar@in the race and his light become dimmed, if not extinguished—non progredi est regredi, There is, gentiemen, it -should be remem- h moral responsibility connected with our pl . One of the great attributes of the lawyer is to dispense justice. Before God he has sworn to maintain the rights of — his fellow man; to preserve the scales in equillbriam—not the weight of one feather more nor less. His pui as well as his ambition should be to do right, and in doing right he will find him- self in lon of that gem—the mens sibi conscia cap te Pog ore hg EE bo nag country, Tecognizes no superior oW- ledge, and estimates mind as the richest y that man can bequeath to man. If you wish for ilias- trations of what I now tell tell you, they are to be found among the good and wise in divinity, in medicine, in law and in commerce, The Church embraces within yl peng Many gifted men, who have adorned and shed a lustre around her, and who ri have languished and died in ob- scurity, had it not been thut a just tribute was paid to their persevering efforts in the cause of science and letters. So, tov, has it been with the profession of medicine. Look to her aanala; read the history of her great men—of those master spirits who have done so much to honor and enpich that noble science, and Eh! will find numerous examples worthy of imitation. You will have exhibited to your View lessons of encouragement in the moment |. Of trial and models which, while they are calculated to elicit your admiration, wiil serve in the dark hour of adversity as beacon lights to guide you on to brilliant achtevements. | couid, if it were deemed necessal Wray before you the names of many Miustriot men inthe profession of the law who commenced life in poverty and pursued their studies under circumstances the most disheartening, a who, by the force of talent and untiring industry, have obtained a niciie in the temple of fuine, and reached the highest position ever awarded to genius and honest effort. And now, gentlemen, in con- clusion, may I not express the hope that the young men of our profession wili ever bear in memory these beautiful lines ?— of great men all r make our lives: ps ting, leave be! Footpriats on the sand: th ‘Let ue, then, be up and doing, Wh'a beart for any fate, hieving, stiil pursuing, Learn to labor ‘aad to wal. The twelfth regular toast, “The Merchants of New York," Was responded to by Mr. Willlam #. Dodge. ‘The last toast, “To Woman,’* was responded to by Mr. A. Oakey Hail, Mr. O’Conor read a letter from ex-Judge J. W, Ed- monds, giving as a sentiment:—‘Henry Stanbery, late Attorney General of the United States. a sac Hiocing power and position to the demands of grati- tude and friendship he has displayed a ness of eoul worthy alike of our admiration and {initation, and, has shown himself a worthy member of our pro- fession. It wae half-past twelve when the speechmaking chose, and the guests depurted after a vote of thanks to Mr. U'Vonor. BANQUET SCENES. ‘The dinner of the bar of New York to Attorney General Bvarts last night w: recherohe affair, ‘The company was briliaat. e Being a legal affair, everything for a time was ¢on- ducted after a courtly fashion or according to the “rules of court.’ After that again everything went on much as usual, agin all such “cases made: and provided.” Tho cuisine was all that the most legal palate could desire. ‘The wines, too, were unexceptionable, not a singic domurrer having been put in or motion to quash, thougi motions in chambers were frequent during the More vigorous ducks have brougat tothe suriace , lve ba'ls of the State or of the pation, oF on the ; latter portion of the evening. Not one of these were set a aa a a tw 3 aside or denied, so that this portion of the proceedings went on swimmingly, the parties having presented their motions, hurrying out of chambers with all haste consistent with propriety and resuming their places at the festive board. In the cases referred to no retaining fees were asked—a sacrifice of profes- sional etiquette unprecedented. In the reception room, prior to the time-honored air from the band of “Balance a Straw,’ which means look out for whack, summoning Brother Busfuz and the host of Brother Simpkeuses to the scene of the convivialities, there was kept up an in- cessant tumult of voices, as if all the criers of all the courts in the city had met to practice after the tan. ner of the young drum corps on Governor's Island of asunny morning. There was no possible way of en- forcing silence. The consequence was fearful. The police were several times on the point of rushing in with thetr truncheons, Luckily for whatever legal lore their craniums contained, Kennedy’s skull crackers were each time restrained, though they hard with @ peut up desire to “go in.” One official eudgeller from the Green Isle exclaimed in a fit of delight, “Och, and shure its only the devil among the lawyers, it is.’ This changed the current of official wrath, and many a jest was cracked at the expense of the devil among the tawyers, more harmless taan the pre- viously contemplated eracking of skulla, The good taste ana appreciation of the committee of arrangements were exhibited In the array of in- vited guests that honored the banquet with their presence. The first soldier and first sailor of the na- Uon, the nonpariels of the military and naval service of this or any country were present; distinguished citizens, the youngand true Amer- jeans of the preseut day, the material that is 6to «shape and mould tie future with the genuine Excelsior instinct, stamped on every feature, were intermixed with grave and reverend seignors, who, having left their impress on the pres- ent, are merely biding their time a.aid the changing scenes around them, and whici: tiey coutributed.so much to bring about. At the guests’ table were also the luminaries of the bench, the United states bench veing eminently rep- sented. These legal lummaries, federal and State, while they cannot claim as theirs by any right, human. or divine, the application of the moito nungam dormio, or the motto of that vested right luminary over the way from Stetson’s, that says it “shines for all,” and hasn’t as much as a glimmer for any, the legal luminaries are good in their way. Why they are Son in taeir day and generation’ that they are only mortal, and liable, consequently, to have the “shine” taken out of them, as a few of sald luminaries know too well to thetr sorrow. Some of these were at the bar dinner, though they did their gastronomical devoirs pretty bravely under a bar sinister. So much for luminaries. Now for all mortal “luminaries,” whether legal or otherwise, there must be, because they are mortal, mortal *extinguishers.” And tn juxtaposition with some of the “luminaries” last night were the excit- ing wishers, re: to douce the present luminaries’ glimmer at the first streak of day that ushered in next New Year. A eae family” arrangement was this, and was due to Mr. James Thomson, the able chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. Judges, just and unjust, was one of the themes touched A ae by the honored guest of the evening in his beautiful speech. But was Mr. Evarts not bim- self unjust in imagining such a thing as an “unjust judge” in our community? Hear him, notwith- standing, ye judges of Gotham—“All abhor the un- just judge and ail men of his generation curse his memory.’ The other arrangements were very well carried out. Stetson, Sr., and his young olive branches— the latter particularly—were shooting out every- where, doing good service wherever they appeared. The speeches were very good in their way, but that of the chairman, the venerable Mr. O’Conor, was the chef @auvre of all his happiest post prandial eiforts, It was full of battle fire, such as in its rapid discharges and imspiriting volleys must have struck. an electric chord in the hearts of the baitle-ffied sol- dier and satlor who were on either side of him. MR. A. OAKEY HALL ON WOMAN. The proceedings were brought to a close about half-past twelve o’clock. Mr. A. Oakey Hull was the last man seen on his legs. He was then talking of nolle prosequis and the toast ‘Dear Woman.” He talked of dreams about the en- trances of nolie prosequis and dear woman, Judge Brady and nosegays, in the latter of which Judge Brady or his brother, James T., it was impossi- bie to tell which, was terribly mixed up. Nobody minded, however, whether Mr. Hall represented woman or “any other man,” as he talked of the gal- Jantry of the bar to woman, till a youthful member exclaimed, ‘Whick-nobody does deny.’ This killed off the gallant Hall and even sent the venerable chairman into hystertes, from which he, however, speedily recovered and at once dismissed the tew remaining convives, So ended thiy greut bar ban- quet. - LECTURES ‘LAST NiGHT. Lemercier’s Lectures=The Anatomical Structure. ‘The fifth of Dr. Lemercier’s highly iustractive and interesting lectures on human and comparative anatomy was delivered last evening &t the Cooper Institute. Man and his newly discovered haif- brother, the gorilla, having been thoroughly dis- sected and fully discussed in the preceding lectures, ast night that noble animal, the horse, was trotted out to exhibit the peculiarities of its bone structure and muscular development. The marvellously articulated Ife-size anatomical models by means of which the lecturer illustrates how fearfully and wonderfully the higher order of animals are made were ranged on either side of the platform, and looked so natu- rally unnatural and uncomfortably raw that it made one’s flesh to creep to look at them. The loose limbs, livers, lungs, hearts, &c., which were strewn around in picturesque confusion, occasioned a surange blending of reminiscences of painful scenes wit- nessed in army surgeons’ tents at the close of sanguinary engagements—with impressions received while inspecting improved abattoire. As to the doctor, any one ignorant of the language in which he was would have been puzzled to decide whether he was holding a post mortem under the direction of a coroner or making investi- tions as to the nature of the cattle plague for the ard of Health, The model of the horse exhibited last evening was so perfect and life-like thatit was surprising it did not kick out its fayed legs when the anatomist touched it on the raw. Hav- ing introduced the model with a few humor- ous remarks the lecturer commenced by stat- ing that whereas a period of twenty years ig required for the completion of the bone-forming Fomapicted inve. years. The average iste Of man in five years. Stoutd be one nindred years, or five times the period oe for the completion of the bone cess; an 1 of a horze shoul twenty-five years. sible, bj a Tab aher five years the secretion o! ceases. If before attaining the age of five a horse is orked he becomes dwarfed and _ is not ly to itve long. Racing destroys instead of improv horses, Harness must be fitted to the form the animal, otherwise it compresses veing and occasions disease. The horse should be treated kindly. He responds by a motion to sensations received. If you whip him he very naturally runs away; but if you treat him kindly he comes towards you. Here the lecturer removed several layers of muscle and demonstrated that the neck and head work by a lever piaced tn the centre of the back. Racing horses have long necks, In pulling the reins to check @ horse we contract his neck, depress the head, and so the cenire of gravity is thrown back until he stops. In ranning the lever ia lengthened. The ears may be calied indices to the horse's mind. Inteiligent animals priok up their ears when spoken to, ones throw the ears back. When a horse is ears are without expression. ‘The ears should be far apart, the eyes wide open and theforeliead broad. the Arabs say, “The horse must have tie flat fore- head and the courage of the buil."” The horse does not breathe by his mouth,’he breathes by the uo: nostriis should be very large, so that he c: dignk in air freely. The mouth of a young horse 18 rdond, with age it becomes narrow and ciongated. The Arab says, speaking of his horse, “ie drst years are for my young brother, the ne. Myself and the last for my enemy.” enlarge the nostrils of their cattle means. The horse hag only one jugular vein, nen have three, After the hi and spinetae withers are the next Ln ag or to be examined before nse. making a pure e withers are never too h f a vear Dr. HorsemIts ro- sel. ligatures operate easily. The loin must be short, the chest must be square and the imnscles of the shoulders well! developed. The dexterity with which the anatomist ripped up the muscles of his model, amputated te imbs and displayed the wonders of ‘the interior was something astonishing. In <issecting the legs the lecturer explained the diderence be- trreen the muscular dove pment of racers and cart horses. The veterinary surgeon Wio éaid “No foot, no horse,” was perfectly correct. Horses should be shod without pay! the patural form of the hoof. The hoof may be descrived as an elastic box, which expands and contracts as the horse puts down or raises the foot. Commencing at the ears, the anatomist <diase-ted and discussed his subject, muscle by muscle, and tendon by tendon down down to the hoofs, and hay- ing carefully examined the latter extremities: inside and out, he treated his audience to an inside view, which was decidedly the sensation of the evening, and concluded by going through the internal arrange- mente in detail. The audience expressed their satisfaction with hearty applause, and @ resolution was moved and adopted passing high eulogiams on the learued lec- turer and wishing him every success. Madame Olympe Audouard—History of Comedy and Tragedy=Criticism of French Authors. ‘The second of the series of causeries or “confer- ences,” announced by Madame la Comtesse de la Moriliére, under her family name of Olympe Audo- uard, came off yesterday evening at tie private theatre of the Union League Club fonse, on Twenty- sixth street and Madison avenue, Owing to the rain many were prevented from attending, and hence the audience was but slim, but high!y intelligent, fashionable and appreciative. The subject of the “conference” was the history of comedy and tragedy, ancient and modern, witlt illustrations from well known French authors and critic\sms of their works. The fair entertainer commenced by telling her guests that map was, ip his very essence, the great- est comedian. The sovereign princes are actors, playing comedy and tragedy, loose end fast, with their neighbors and their own people. The aiplo- mats are comedians in four different parts; they play with their superiors, the kings; their equais, the ministers; with their inferiors and even with themselves. ‘The financiers are comedians; hus- bands are comedians to ther wives. In fact, com- edy is as old as the workl. Greece was the cradle of acting comedy and Bacchus fis’ fate for he made mea drank with Wine, and in their drunkenness they caricatured Others on the streets, and thus introduced mimicry. Then Came the singers—the chanteurs—who went from Village to viliage giving public exhibitions. Aristophanes trst introduced the theatre into the public arena, {nd tn his plays pictured the passions of man—ambition, rage, egotism—when the author turned the shafts of his mind against power. Now the roles Nave changed, and power turns its shafts against the wind of the author. Madame Audouard then skippingly referred to the ancient representation of Biblical terles as the incipient germ of the modern theatre, spoke of the bards in the north of France and of the trou- badours in the south, aud mentioned Cwur de Lion as one of them. The tronbadou ¢ knighis, always at tle service of woman; they sang of grace, of beauty and viriue, admired what was handsome and most perfect, God, man and woman. After de- seribing the bards of the North imilar ven Madame Audouard came to the century, which she declared to have been one of the grandest ot poesy,and described Corneille and Racine, Sue landed the splendid diction and the grand 5 of both, and as an example she recited ssenes Irom Andro- mache of Racine and from Horace of Cornicile, With true womanly devotion she characterized Moiicre as ever young, though 200 years eld, and who will re- main young, for he who would under ul soclet; should still read Moliére, as nature never clanges. short biographical sketeh of Moliére followed, show- ing that a3 he passed through every phase of life, from the lowest to the highest, he was capable of {udwing them all truly. His vivacity of mind and is powers of observation enabled him to depict with truth every character, and ‘Tartuife’’ was cited as one of the best comedies in existence, She read several passages with effect, and the declaration of the hypocrite, that a wron, action may be expiated by purity of intention, evoke merriment and applause by iis language as well as its rendition. “The Misanthrope,’ of Moliére, was referred to as his next best work, and that it was wholly natural, and ascene from this play was also well recited. “Le Malade Imaginaire” (‘*The Imagi- nary Invalid”) was then alluded to, and that at ite fourth representation Moliere himself fell and was carried home tnsensible. A side remark thrown in here that the present academicians, the members of the French Academy of Sciences, are more attracted by @ good cook than by the Academy, created much merriment, Madame Audouard then passed on to Ponsard, and clted his masterplece—“L’Monneur et L?Argent’? (Honor and Money)—in evidence of his high talent asa dramatic poet. She then passed on to Alexan- dre Dumas jilx, whose writings she ceclared to be not literature, but mathematics, containing no feel- ing, but only slnesse of language. There was in them a total absence of moral sense. He takes his heromes from the impure strata of society, and in- stanced “L’idée de Mme. Aubray’’ in proof of her assertion, which work, i her opinion was utterty avsurd, Alexandre; Dumas pere had a generous and warm heart, the younger Dumas was coid and calculating; while the first writes with heart and soul, as in “Inconnu,” the latter writes with his logic, as when he sketched the character of Jack Sterne, Dumas fils is, in fact, writing tor the twen- tieth century and not for the present, ‘Emile Augier” was then lightly touched, and Madame Audouard passed on to Victorien Sardou, who Wants, ke Moliére, to expose the ridiculous side of society. “Les Bon Amis intimes’? and also “La Famille Bennotton’’—the lat- ter of which was transferred to the American stage as ‘A Fast Family’*—were selected as proofs of his endeavors to imitate Moliére. From the last piece she recited several scenes to the delight of the audienoe. But she regretted that the pictures were too overdrawn; that they give to the foretgner a wrong conception of Parisian Jife, and that instead of correcting abuses this style plays introduced a jargon, now becoming popular among certain classes in Pal Yes, it represented a ceriain type of the youth of Paris, who, thongh but fourteen or fifteen years old, already bce their lorgnette and talk ill of woman. Announcing that her next lecture would he on the literary works of Victor Hugo, the stance cloged, The whole was a very interesting entertainment. Her conversational readings are indecd admirable, and prove her to posseas great natural talent, varied information and a pleas! style of delivery. Ip reading seiections from the comic plays referred to Madame Audouard was also praiseworthy; not so, however, in the tragic passages from Coraetile and Racine, in which her voice was jarring and her de- livery monotonous and wanting in that dramatic *modtiation of tone and action so necessary fora proper representation of high tragedy. Her next ponference, oF causerie, {3 to take place on Friday evening of this week, at the same place. LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP STAR OF THE UNION. Safety of the Passengers and Crew—Assist- ance Sent to the Wreck, Havana, Nov. 17, 1368. Intelligence has been received here tha* the steam- ship Star of the Union, Captain Jones, which satled from New Orleans on Tuesday last for this port, was totally wrecked on the coast of this isiand, near Bahia Honda. The crew and passengers were all saved, but no farther particulars are known as yet, Her cargo consisted of 213 bales cotton, 55 nogs- heads sugar, 100 bundles hides, 185 barrels molasses and 25 bales moss, for Philadelphia. For Havana, 49 tierces hams, 70 barrels flour, 100 baies hay, one barre! cotton seed and 250 barrels potatoes. Advices from Havana state that Admiral Hoff has ordered the United States gunboat Penobscot to sail immediately for Bahia Honda to render assistance to the passengers and crew of the steamer Star of the Union. The Star of the Union was an oak built vessel of 1,076 tons register, built in Philadelphia in 1367, where she was owned, and traded between Philadel- phia and New Orleans via Havana. PARTICULARS OF THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER MATANZAS, Escape of the Crew—Their Rescue by a British Vessel and Arrival at Fortress Men- roe. FORTRESS MONROE, Nov. 16, 1868. Captain 0. P. Hazard, of the steamer Matanzas, arrived here this morning with his officers and crew, thirty-one men all told, on the British schooner Frank, which had picked them up atsea. The cap- tain reports that the Matanzas left Savannah, Ga., on Friday ist, with a full cargo of cotton for New York. On Sunday night, between twelve and one o'clock, one of the valves of her boiler was blown out, which set Gre to the vessel. The captain called all hands on deck, rigged the donkey engine and hose and began throwing water upon the fire. Despite their efforts the ‘ames =. idly gained upon them. Not wishing to leave ti ship until the last moment, the captain and crew re- mained until they were compelled to take to tie boats. So intense had each and every one been in endeavoring to check the flames that they saved no- thing of their personal effects. The purser secured the ship’s papers, bills of lading, &c., which were the only things caken from the vessel—not even a pound of bread ora drop of water. Thecrew were divided into three squads and took to the smail boats, keeping close in company until daylight, when to their great joy they discovered a sail bearing down for them. It provedto be the schooner Frank, or Sydney, trom Turks Island, with a caro of salt for Hailfax, which picked them up and brought them safely into this port. The captain pi led to Norfolk with his crew and will leave on the steamer to-night for New York. The schooner Frank sailed at noon for her ‘lestination. ° ‘The Matanzas was a screw steamer of about 1,200 tons. She Was built in New York in 1860, and dur. ing the war was chartered by the goveroment for a transport. She had @ valuable cargo of cotton on board, which was provably fully insured; bat we are informed that there was no Insurance on the vessel, Captain Hazard wishes to express to Captain Brown, of the schooner Frank. his stucere thanks 01 behalf of himself, oilicers and crew for the Kin treatment received. FROM FORTRESS MONIOE. Suicide of a Soldter=Photographing Ord« nance Experiments. ForTres3 MonwOog, Nov. 16, 1868. Orderly Sergeant Lawrence Dunne, of Company B, Twenty-first United States infantry, stationed at Norfolk, Va., deliberately committed suicide yester- day morning, just atrevellie, It seems that he had laid dowh in his bunk upon his back and piaced the muzzle of his musket under his chin and pulled the tri with his hand- kerchief, just a9 the le for reveillo was biown. Lieutenant B. H. , commanding the o upon hearing the roceeded to quarters and found iin Weltoring ia The sergeant is said to have been an ex- and ne canse of Bi conan, os trenain a mystery. His roma’ to the national @ to-day and conve; vj 10 ine vaverred “the eerie his gore. on ras brought hi Pao pee A at Loos whre with military honors . ASkifai pho ographer connect6d with the oe hance Dapartinent at Washington fas arrived Her and 19 making arrangements to tyke puotograp! of the tarzets frou a bum proof p° aitor each shot in thet Hoodung experiments, tut am ioe the efact antount of damage done by even prejee thie.