The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1870, Page 5

TT NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. 5 — _ fae el | {HE POPE OF THE EAST. The Grand Lama of Tibet—Lamaistic Re- ligion, Mystery and Pontifical Infalli- bility—A_ Monk Reformer Against Budhism—The Red and the Yel- low Churches—Mass on Mount Potata—Bailot- ting for a Head. A most interesting paper in the last number of the Royal Asiatic Society's Journal, by Mr. We Fy Mayers, of the British Consular service in China, dispels much of the mystery which has enveloped ‘the Lamaistic hierarchy of Tibet. Mr» Mayer's ma- terials are drawn from the oficial reports of a former Chinese commissioner at Lhassa, which aeseribe the ceremontals attendant upon the selection and instal- Jation of anew Dalat Lama. He say! Jn the fourteenth century after Onrist the religion of Tibet was Budhism, fore than half obscured by Indian Sivaism aad ‘indigenous Tarantaa super- sutions, Caste and other Brahminical institutions flourished side by side with monagy jo celtbacy and jhe essentiai observances of the Bu t creed, The ie Aan " was a priestly sovereign: ator, n Tone) oaquerors oy China. Ii the early part of "he fifteenth century (1418-1470) i ene monk named Tsungk’al emerged fro an obscure convent somewhere upon ‘the Obina frontier and ae to denounce the corraptions which had crept into Budhism, lad tn the yellow robes gacred to Buda he went from place to place preaching the pure doctrines of Budhism. Such ‘Was his success that before his death the “Yellow Church” had taken the place of the corrapt faith, and the red-clothed Ssakia dynasty had been ex- pailea from the kingdom, , The old sect still Hagers inder the deignation of the Red Church in parts of Tibet and Mongolia. There were many points in Tsungk’aba’s teaching which resembled In a striking manner the doginas and ritual of the Roman Church, And there is no doubt tat European missionaries had penetrated Into Tibet nt the time of his appear- ance. When Tsungk’aba died he bequeatl nis authority, spiritual and temporal, to his two digel- ples, laying upon them the command that “they should be born again, generation a‘ter generation, to practice the doctrines of the Great Couveyance,” The soul of Tsungk’aba himself 1s believed to have ge into the elder of the two, Hence arose he double hierarchy. The name of the elder Lama was called Dalat or “Ocean.” The other was known as the Panshen Drdeni or “Prectous Teacher.” This twofold division of power has still been maintamed, Mr. Mayers would distin- guish the one as the “Head of the Church,” the other as tho ‘Primate,’ but no accurate parallel can ¥ drawa irom any other system. The Paushen Er- lent though inferior in both spiritual and secular guthority to the Dalai Lama, is more completely ab- Stracted from worldly affairs, and, thereiore, ae counted more sacred than his co-regent. His resl- dence ts on Tashi Lumbo, tie Mountain of Good Fors une, While the Dalai has his residence upon Mount ‘otala—a name, doubtiess, connected with Pattala the country of Sakyamuni’s ancestors. Distin- — laymen are sometimes honored witn the de of Nomen’ Han or Prince of the Church. The next grade in imporjance ts the Hutukhtu, or saints, sakin hierarchy, about 160 in ae xX, who would. probably cor- Tespond to the College $f Cardinals in the Roman hierarchy. nag | Possess tho gift of retmbodiment aud are chosen in the same way as the Lamas, The Commissioner Meng Pao describes at full length the selection and fnstallation of the Dalal Lama in 1841, There were four candidates, whose birth in each case had been distinguished by portentous phe« nomena;. At my birth The front of heaven was full of flery shapes, ‘The goats ran from the mountain, and the birds Wore strangely clamorous to the frightful felds. Men Pao, in his despatch to the Lmperor, forwards atiostations that on the night before the birth of one of the children ‘‘a brilliant radiance of many colors: was manifosted in the air; that on the night the chiid was porn the sound of music was heard and milk dropped upon the pillars of the house; and that many other wonders were witnessed. Tne Coinmis- Sioners themselves found the ohild, little more than 4 year old, sitting cross-legged In a dignifed attitudé, seeming able to recognize them and showing not the slightest timidity.. They placed a rosary in the child’s hands, where- poen, che appeared as ough footing sentences m the Sutra of Amita Budua, In address: ing his mother he pronounced te word “A-Ma” with perfect distinctness, His features werc comely and Well formed, and his expression was bright and mtellectual, in a degree superior to that of ordinary oluldren, Another candidate of the same tender rd “was taken up to the Lo-chu-Jih mountain to offer incense, when a pair of crows were seen, which hovered around und gambolied with the ohi{a, who likewise indulged in frolic with the birds, After the child returned to his home he seated himself astride upon & grain sack, and exclaimed that he was riding upon a mule, and wanted to return to his own abode, which seying he repeatea during seve- Yal consecutive days. ‘Tie Commissioners found the child’s countenaice to be of an elevated and digni- fed cast, and his eyes bright. and attractive beyond the fashion of ordinary mortals,” The Commission- ers’ account of the precocity of this child 1s cor- rovorated by Licutenant Samuel Turner, who saw tho Infant Pansuen Erdent in 1783, On tho 4th, in the morning, I was al to visit Teshoo Lama, and 1 fownd him placed in great form upon his mus- nud; on the left side stood his father and mother, op the other the ofleer particularly appointed to walt upon bis per- gon. The mugnudis a fabric of lik cushions piled one upon the other, untll the seat is elevated to the height of four feet from the floor; an embroidered atik covered the top, and the were decorated with pleced of silk of various colors, pended froma the upper and hanging down, I ad: the custom, white pelong Pg os elivered intg the Lama's hands the Uov- is of a string of pearis and coral, while th other tulngs were ret down before him. Having’ perto the ceremony of the exchange of handkerchicta’ with his her and mother, we took our seats on the right of Teaboo ma. On the deliveryjof a speech of congratulations tn tho:name of the Governor General of Bengal, the live creature turned, looking steadfastly towards mé with the appearance of much attention while T apoke, ‘and nodded with reveated but slow movements of the lead, as though. be understooi. and approved | every “word @ parents, who stood 3 but could not uiter by ali the time, eyed their son. with » look of affection, and giuile expressive of heartfelt joy as the propriety of the young Lama's conduet, Hig whole regard was turne was silent and sedate, never once toward bis par i under thefr 1figjence at the times and with wiat- ever pains his manners may have been formed so correct, Foi, Must own his behavior om thie ‘oceaslon appeared per ectly natural aud spontaneous, apd, not. directed by any ac- Hon or ign of authority, Tesoo Lame ia at this time about 18 mouths of age. He did not speak a word, but made flowt expressive sigas aud conducted if with astonish 1g dignity and decorum. Ajter a solemn mass on the summit of Mount Potala the names of four children were piaced in an ‘urn, and the lot fell upon a boy four yi of age, the son of a poor Tibeian fuel seller, who was there- upon dcciared to be the head of the Yellow Ohureh. When the selection .had—been ratified by the Em- peror, the commissioners proceeded to instgll. tho child, to whom a scarf of silk, an image of the “Budha of Boundless, Age,” a bell clapper and rosary of beads had been presented as emblems of ihis future rank, Meng Pao thus reports upon the ceremony:— Your servants, in respectful conformiy with the rules for attendance upon the Dalal Laine, appoiatea detachments of the Chinese garrison troops to fofm an encampment and to Giacharge the duty of body guards ‘during the two days he re- faained there, “On the loth your servants, escorted the em. o\liment to the monastery at Mount Potala, where reverent prostrations weré perfotmed and the ceremonial ‘ances were fuliilled before the sacre ty’s elevated ancester, the Emperor Pure. On servi reverently took the iden. scrol ° mandate b towed | by your Mafeaty upon the Dalai Lama's embodiment, together with the sabfe cape, the coral court so a aiid tao ara Of (GON tae fa aliverbelng Your Mi pear ‘donations,which they caused to beconvayed tipon ye ww Platforms to ine monastery at Mount Potals and deport giursh devout care in due order in the ‘wall calod ‘Ra tt ANG. e coud! lows wel On arr “upon e dived, and on the atrivdt of the Detar tamateSembetiaient of the Chang-chia, idem seroll, em- esty’a mandate, to the perusal of hall your servants and thi Facing t e Kast. he received with veneration the im ial od the ceremonial of three genudectious and nine prostrations in the direction of the imperial abode, thus testifying bia respectful gratitude for the celestial fi ii invested with the is west Upon the throne; Wherenpon the Chancellor, at the hea of, the Tibetad prieat: hood, tntoned a chant of Bharani formulas, invoking auapl- elous fortune, All the AuuAltu nd lamas having ed obetsances, a great banquet was opened, and mon! forma e ccre- of enthrovement was thus. brought to a close. The day was attended by the utmost fine weather, and everythin eseed of suspicicualy and well, 10 ihe universal delight.cf Rreentire body of clergy aud laity of Lassa, ‘This we agcord- ingly bring to your Mayesty’s knowledge; and In addition we have to state, thut ag the embodiment of the Dalai Lama bas now been enthroned, tt i im conformity with the ex- Jatiog rules, to cease he ‘rom sing the word ‘‘em- Dodiment.”” This we accordingly append, and respectfully Dring before your Majesty's notice. The papers concinde with despatches upon the progress of the child's education. Whether or not, as Mr. Mayer suggests, the system of Tsungk’aba was designed to rivet the Chinese ruie upon Tibet we not say, but there can be no doubt that the long mimorities wien periodically occur have virtually placed the executive power in the hands of two Chinese residents. Ana there can be as little dont that the upperial protection is now the only restraint pon ite Tibetans’ wish to rid themscives of the hierarchy. Any casualty to {he imperial ‘power would be ac- oepied in Tibet as the signal for reyohition. THE ANKUAL CAMP WEETING AT SIAG SING. jm view of the approaching annual’ Methodist calop meeting whieh commences at Stag Sing on Avgost 9 a large number of persous has already. arrived on the grounds, where active prejyiiations for the event have been going On for a ae The. presiding ‘older ‘and Omcer: 0! Me ies uaBakement have given notice that the gates Will be closed. on the Sabbath, and ail strangers exciuded fro} that day. This disposes of a Peat a np long been s sourme of annoyance to the rel jons community of Sing Sing. ii ts unders'ood that the Village authorities will endeavor to gecure the ald fa police force from New York, suMicient to pre- rve order ju the veighvorhood during the continu. dace ef the cap meeting, P Minglod with the most richly finished equi- | by Italian decorators in @ style unknown 1n | railings. ‘The font was one wilderness of bloom, NEW YORK IN 1870. pages are the humbler’ buggies of tue smult | this Country, Dacor eatirely Inalion tastes Carpeted | the dowers were lierally, piled tno it aadeprays | LRAT CRANKY POLITICAL MACHINE. tradesman, {Prom the London Belgravia for July.) The tone and habits of American soclety vary £0 Tapidly in sympathy with the fuctuatiuns in the af- fairs and constitation of the nation that pictures of life and opinion drawn fromthe observation of visi- tors or residents at intervals of a few years present features of remarkable an@ almost tnconcelvable difference. The New York of to-day 1s hardly to be recognized by the visitor who has been a few years absent, Its moral and social aspects change as rap- idly as the actual physical characters of the city; and the views and statements of various sections of men easily lead observers from divers points of view to precisely opposite concinsions, New America, as seen by Mr. Hepworth Dixon, is agitated and con- vulsed by theological aud philosophical dissent; by Mr. Dilke it is seen to be in the perpetual throes of social, political and commercial development, and heaving with incessant changes of disintegration and reformation; to Mr. Sala it isthe scene of oddly contrasting refinement and coarseness, the lacquer of Parisian dissipation oyerlytug the coarseness of native rowdyism and the eccentrivities of an unfu- ished and partt-colored nationality. To the foreign resident, mixing with all cliques and belonging ex- clusively ta, none, there is @ veri-similitude tm all these portraitures which the native American would perhaps be loth toJ admit; they err only by their in- compleveness and by the inevitable errors attaching to a partial survey of so multiform and far-sprexding & superficies, beneath which are at work forces of #in- gular energy, rapidly varying, freqnently clashing, and betraying a fitful and feverish activity. Whoever speaks of New York, speaks now of a society which intimately sympathizes with and reflects the feel- ings and habits of ali the cites of the world, for it 1s a city which is made up of the natives of all others. Its population receives datly accessions from all the capitals of Europe. London, Liverpool, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfort, are as familiar to a large proportion of New Yorkers as to their own inhabit ants, On the one hand thero are the ebb and Now of travel, which never ceases; the constant ude of an Immense emigration, still on the increase; the accession of foretgn capital; and the repeated visits of Buropean capitalists and men of business; on the other, the habitual and prolonged visits to the seats of fashion and of commercial activity by a large pro- Portion of the residents; their foreign correspond- ence and connections, Such causes, continue to give © American society vivid sympathies with all the forms of European thought, and to introduce imitations and reflections of all the habjis of the Old World, ‘These are curiously modified by the ever-peeseut conditions of rapid growth and change, which are tuherént in the natural 8 Of this great continent towards more complete setdement and the fuller developinent of ite resources. What may be the ultimate form Which will grow up out.of the abundant ant a gling elements now Ja course of vital evolution, ib Would indeed pe diiteult to say. Meantime tie scene is one vivid and ever-fresh interest. The observer of religious phenomena finds here in Brook- n @ city of oburches, Along the Fifth avenne he asses in review a noble Catholic cathedral In course of erection in white marble, of which the unfinished glories only rivalied by those of the noble, Mau. Tesque edificé within @ few hnndrea yax of fy, ‘which testides to" the wean, yety aia prominegce of the Hebrew population, who huve chosen Rie m fashionable site—the Beigryyve square Of the Manhattan Igland—for their syna- gogue, Nearly facing itis now the church which, next to Mr. Beecher’s, is perhaps the most popular and numerously attended in New York—that of Dr. Chapin, @ Universalist. Tho wealth and endow- ments of the ancient cathedrals of the “old country”? are already emulated by Trinity church, which ‘owns vast blocks of houses and some acres of real estate, whose value) is already calouiated by, the toch, the original endowment having been a amall farm or two what, @ few score of years sinco Was an agricultural district, and is now the busiest part. of Now York. ‘the absence, of ali connection between Chureh and “State, the absolute freedom and equality of religious sects, and the rivairy thus in- duce®, has given to New York in its most fashiop- able localities an abundance of fine religious edi- fices of all denominasions, which-only reflect the real vitality of religious belief among the masses, The large influx of ib La aia wwever, Into ‘this an ont Great cities of America, and the over. Wwhelming iufidence which, owing to the present Municipal constitution, the poorer class of irish Voters: exert in municipal governmeat, has given pomemning of @ political character to tno relations of the Catholic imstitutions. A frequent fear is now expressed, and is growing in the minds of observant meno, that serious soci! trouples will from the efforts to secure a predowt- naot<inAuence to Roman Catholic views in the mat- ter of free public education and legislation as to Sunday observances, It 1ollows from the pecattar Telations of the religious sections of American so- clety, that all that concerns theological opinion and development in the Qld World is the subject of Watchful attention and interest. The proceedings of the Ecumentcal Council at Kome are reported and debate i with the most minute interest in tho duily Papers, but not more faithtally, thouzh at greaicr length, than the debates of the Jewish consistories of Paris or Franklort, -or the preparations for Wesleyan or tis uiversaries. Every Monday morning the New York HERALD— the 7% of America—gives ‘lengthened re. Ports of the sermons and discourses in all the prin- cipal churches, chapels, and synagégues. (It is con. always @ Hebrew or an Israelite.) ‘The tone und lite- istic of American journalism. Notonly are the lead- ing topios of the discourse reported, and the best pera quoted, but the manner of the preacher, is dress, uction, and personal pecuitarities are freely handied. The leading members of his congregation are referred to by name; the music, the general as- pect of the congregation and their style of costume are not omitted: and these renorm supply a singular mixture of theology, philosopiy, and frivolous small-talk. In all this may ~ be found the key to one of the. pecuitarities of Boctety in the empire city of America—the complete equally ofreligious professions, To which must be added the cosmopolitan tolerance that. arises from the ingiing Of nationalities and the flactua- tions of opinion arising out of vivient national changes and repeated fiiancial crises. The class of lettered, wealthy, fashionabie or tuxurious tllers— nat consumere fruges—is almost unknown. There is only one word in use to express the class of unoc- cupied men, Men not employed in business are “loafers.” Those who wish tO occupy a position uch as that of the “upper ten thousand” in uropean cities must perforce expatriate them: selves; they find neither sympathy nor companion- 8 “101 al have no place io American Civilization. The clubs are empty, except of a few elderly men, during the 3{ddle part of the day. Barlyinthe morning, aud alter bust- ness hours In the afternoon, the wealth and fashion of the clty may be surveyed—the gontiemen riding or driving with their wives, or “speeding” fast-trot- ting horses elong Harlem lane, and returning more Jeisurely to their homes through Central Park. This Bark is Gnely situated, having great na;urel adva: e3 of rock, mill, valley, garden and greenaward, bY not yet fully tmbered, and lacks age—that great leaideratum of New York—two exec! Hyde Park and filsplay the finest features of the Phienlx Park and he Bols de Boulogne, of which itunties many of the contrasting beauties. Swept by thesea breeze, situated between two broad rivers, of Wich 1! commanas tine views, picturesquely varied hy rocky elevations and grassy slopes, including a flne'Jake covered by a little fleet_of boats, decorated by some. striking chiteotural works, and already embellished py sculptural works of art, furnished wiin gymnasis, restaurants, and convenlentiy jujd out tor public Tus! promenades—this Park, the offspring of a few years’ eifort and expenditure of the city fuade, ig a Just source of Aes aud pride to the ctlizens, and in the season it is a great resort of. the most and the least fashionable classes. Here on a tive atter- noon may be seen and studied some of the inost marked of the external characteristics of society im New York, Observe, first of all, that the value of Itbor—and to that exien. the dignity of manhood—is paipabie even here, amid the display of the insignia of wealth fnd luxury; and note how the democratic absence of exolusivencss aud the remains of republican siu piletty are placed in evidence side by side with t splay Of European habits aud the tntima'e absorp- ton of ail that Is newest ana most costly ta Buro- an invention. A large majority of the carriages re ocdupled by the owner and his wife or friend only, without ¢ither coachman or footman in attendance. Light phactons, buggies ana trot- ng wagons fly past In tapld by horses whose value, esuimaied chiedy by their speed, will vary from fifty pounds up fo a thousand, or even th Tour and five thousand pounds. The possession of fast trotting horses is a great source Of gralification toa large class of Americans, and horses that can do their miie in 2:40 minutes oF le Jetch a price which Would starile an Euyiish ui ora Freneh gandin. In none of the le! tuburies, phactous, curri¢ies, or other lig! riages, of which-there ts an tudnite servant seated. In the heavier barouches and chartots, of which there are very many spien iy appointed, and lined with costly aud celicately colored silks, recline ladies. ‘dressed in the latest Parts fashions, and Whose atiire is as tastefully selected and well narmonivedt in color a8 it is Juxurious da texture and evaves- cent in hue. Paris, the best talors of London, contribute reru- larly their skill and labor to the porsonat decoration of the Radiiués of the Central Park. Butonly coachinan pecuples the vox. Heraldry is seorne: plush is rejected, and liveries are for ihe most purt restricted within limite of extreme rovricty. It is beneath the fignity of man to de carried abont in a menial position ona earriage, where he serves no purpose, and footmen are pares Or not at all to be seen on American ecuipayes. The millionaire dis- ‘vlays his weaith in his carriage ana his horses, and hot, in his men, Bi ae yea are numerous and — well-appointed; 0) more often attacued to @ high, barouche” than to a drag, ‘aviety, is any S trary to etiquette to speak of a man as a Jew; he ta | rary character of these reports are highly character. | succession, drawn | The most f shichable miiliners of | the fast-looking “ trotting-wagon of the notorious “sport”? . eas Pale four high spider wheel: and curtained to suit English ideas of comtort; with ‘ort of small seat raised on | furuiture and han, and the lumbering hack | and largely executed’ by Fren sts; frescoed in which Js lired by the hour by @ party of Germans or | delicaie arabesque; watascoted for the most part ia Irish, mechanics with thelr families ont fora holl- | walnut wood or matogany, in licu of painted or day, Or provincial folk. These may be seen looking | grained deal; with abandant baths and bigh pressure around them With Undiagnised seli-satisfaction aud | Water supply om each oor; with doors wich usually tha ph at the spectacie of the wealth and greatness | slide Lato the walls, 80 as to allow tie suits of rooms of New York, in which they all take a sort of per- , to be thrown together; the passages and stairoaaes Sova! pride. In thelr hage soft hats, rough tweeds, | heated in winter by hot air, whilé thé apartments of Linch dust-coats (Americantce dusters) they fee! as | have open fire-grates, the ordinary good class houses ma at Lome and as fully lords of the plave as the | of Now York cowbine all the best attr.butes of grea‘est of the crowd: they Know, and they glory in | comfort of the honses of the various capitals of the the knowledge, that it 18 ait the growth of yesterday; | World. This remarkable people have absorbed the Uiat the roughest wood-splitter or the least successful | best parts of all they have seen and heard. lor of them all may chum Kin with President | ‘The ordinary life of New York fainilies is modelied ngs of drench beauty and taste, and this conseto' Hess, with the inevitable reflection | of “soclubies;” dancing clubs of young people, who, Of how muck the sone Would astonish the people of , In coteries of twenty or forty, belonging to a viciulty, the Old Country i they could all be present, undere | meet at each other's family houses doving the Hes the’ feeling of independence and prouipts the season, every fortmight, for @ dance. ‘The habit | a house of a friend for ule sake of a troien In the history of the throng that passes there 1s | bY sudden concert and without any previous intima. ampie food to justly such reaechion.- The talk eras | HOl,, ace among the imeans by Which tuls gay hatred, noble looking man who dashes past, drawn | Sidi Intercourse is maintained, by two fast crotiers Which coni? not be bought for | , Those sociables avord usually exemplication of five thousand pounds, whose due grave counzenance | the passtonate love of Rowers und the costly indul- and intellectual looking head are famittarized by a , Be2ce of that passion, witch New Yorkers have bor hundred protographs and engravings, and whose | fowe from the French, und in which they surpass name ant story is @ household word ‘In America, | {helrorginal, Agigautio bouquet of Nowers, began jife as a man in the port of New York. , {fom three to five pounds sterling, 4s usual Rough ia speech, iterate as fow Americans now chavactariatic hearing of the poorest Roman of em | of evening visiting, surprise parties, or meetings at | all, costing | looking men they, Were—ft atiendants for tn pretty y 8 to the young lady of the house where the “soctable” | hung drooping over tiie side. witar was @ star made of smilax and white pinks, The pulpit was covered with brignt Dianne. lowers and bouquets Were placed fm every available spot, Loving hands have had the arrangement of ail this, and they had been directed by artistte tastes. Green, wuite aud seariet were the only colors em. ployed aud the edeet was very beautiful, TAL BRIDUAMALDS, Four prettier girls could scarcely have been cho- sen than the Misses Tatbot, Hildreth, Nesmith and Chandler, whom Maa Batier selected as her attend ants, They were all graceful, stylish, pretty firs Gad it would be diMeuit to choose between them, Miss Hilldreth, Miss Butler's cousin, 18 a delicate Dionde, witha sweet, amiable face and very gentle In the centre of the ut ex-tinver, with Lincoln ex-rall-splitter, or | on that of Engiaud—the separate house, Wie family} mauners. Mixa Talbot {4 darker, bub ver: with Jounson @x-tatior; before each hem Hes a | habits, the love of domeatictty and of comfort, But | stylish and piquant, and sparkling and bril- (slant vista of possible prosperity, which shall give | this is modified by the in/usion of contiaental galety | lant in conversation, Misa Nesmith 19 a Lim an eqaality of station, of infinence or of wealth | and facilities for outdoor amusement, The love of | decidedly handsome girl, dicnifigd and re- With the proudest and most brilliant of the throug; | dancing is universal A favorite mstitution is that Mias’Chan'tler is’ a pleasiag blonde, a | werved. | daughter of Senator Chandler of Michigan, and Great favorite iu society. Lhey were dressed allke in white silk dresses, made en train, with low cor. | sage and tulie overskirts, They wore half-yells of tulle, folding over and half hiding their faces. The only difference tn their toilets was the flowers they wore, Miss Hildreth had her overdress looped with delicate pink roses and wore them in her har, Miss Neamith wore crimson roses, Miss Talbot green ivy | and Miss Chandler bine forget-me-nots, Each car- ried a solid bouquet of her distinguishing tower. THE GROOMSMIN were all army friends of General Ames, an’ gallant. | bridesmaids. ‘They were General Carleton, Colonel Merrill, Major Ativooc and Colonel Bullinton. are, ine hero of a score of great struggles in the | pone ‘These bouquets are of remarkapie size and rellway World, the couwoller of great lines of road, ene Y be raey Bilig Of Now York, aud who wreuiteot ae the solomalties, fetes and events of New York life. | & fortune estimated at ten millions sterling—ne is @ | The gentleman Who wishes to testify ius devovton to favorito type of tue Kind of suceess Which the average | ® Young jady does so by dally offerings of magnif- American as constantly before his eyes, Shorty ; Cut Mowers, Statesmen, orators, opera dancers, | Pasdes a small wrinicied old man, Dantel Drew; a | GlVines, are alike accustomed to recelve tese | millionatre ot almost 3 large re-od » OFigIMALLY A floral tributes, he bride is married beneath catile drover, now a great stock operator, andcon- | & tmagaificent Moral bell; the coin ls decorated | troliiug vast sums of ready money, revered by many | With exquisite crosses, crowns and wreaths of sliming nghts in the religious world, a founder of | Sowers, of which some are interred in the grave, Feligious Seminaries and folleges, a Mberal donor to | aud ottiers preserved beneath glass as mementoos, churches, shrewd, homely, and caustic in speech, | T goods” merchant, whose marable paiuce towers bY four men. ‘There are slemen = whose above ail others on Pith aveaue, whose colossal | 8ecial repytation ts bulit on dowors, One especially stores are the pride and boast of Broadway—one , uusts hts ingenuity and lavishos bis Muanees on of the few objécts of interest which Prince Arthur ‘al devices Of the most lavish bewuty and varted Inspected oa his recent visit. to New York— | novelly on all suitabio occasions of happy omen to hoso poilti¢al —infiuence mainly contributed | Mls fair iriends, tO the election of President Grant. Tho steps | _ The custom of making new year's gifts and new in his careor afford & theme on wlueh the | Yeu’s visits, which is also borrowed and exaggerated New Yorker loves to dwell. Born of humble Irish | from the Freach, affords a gre parentage, mainly selt-educated, ta 0 florists of New York, Besides the more cost!y and teacher, then @ small shop keeper, without friends, | Solid gifts which pass berween person’ uniler obliga- faiily, fortune or counection to aid him, he hag | Hoes of relationship, affection, or adairs, thereare gradually built up a business of unrivailed magn. , countless gifts of fowers and bonpons. The love tude, and aecamulated a vast fortune, which he tg | Of sweeumeats—or candies as they are here called— beginning to apply to purposes of public utility. | 18 Universal, Frenen confectioners are to be found He Js now employed in a great enterprise for build | all over the city. ‘The trade in caramels, ing, Xt @ cost of about $4,000,000, a small town in | chocolates, and ail their pralines, tribe, cunt is pearing. an, immense pile, destined to afford cheap lodgings | Of luxury and utility, and adequate protection to. the hard worked | Wich constitute tie most usual and formal elviitty. like female work: York, and wnb! to be Mr, Stewart's intention and desire to repay his | Wilh @ pi debt to the city by Whee and patriotic devotion of ‘s. Owivog everything to New | Of the most expensive and tastefal character, or it ce of colored ribbon, New-year's day 1s observed as the strictest kind of holiday, A oastom is wealth to the promotion of the welfare of jig | Which requires every man to call In full dress on the poor #ndaborious citizens, And so the aspiring | ladies of iis acquaintance is stil tn force, but it Will New Yorker sees with pride amony the “aristo- | not, 1 think, Jast much longer. This year a very cvats” this newly e@uriched dry goods merchant, | large number of ladies did nor recetve, the gentie- Whose or.giu Was of the humblest, whose wealth is ; men only left their cards. With the tendency to ex- of to-day, Whose iilaence, politically and socially, | aggeration whieh ts often visible iu New York socie- 1s paramon.t; he hears wiih paualaction of Mr, | t¥, and which provokes a sometimes irrepressipie Stewart’s marble palace, of his gallery of pictures, , Staile, at somo housed where tho ladies did not “re. of We respect: paid to his wile by princes, oi tho | ceive,” they had suspended ag silver card-basket to offers mace tv hun of the Lighest oMlces of the State, | the bell, to receive the cards of ‘callers, and mn order of his humble beginaings, great achievement aud , tv avoid the tocessent appeals to the door bell Lobe Od,evis, Pccullarities of climate are pressed into the service ‘Ph's 18 the type of “aristocracy” which New York ; Of gay society. During the summer the heat of the Abundantly presents, Its Marquis of Westmiuster | Weaihor brings the Limates even of the most fashion- is the gon Of ajourneyman furcier, who, ewlgratlig | Able houses our on Lo the “stoop,” or high doorsteps to the shores of New Yors and acquiring a lortuue , leading up toeach house. Thus are extemporized An'the fur business, had ube shrewaness aad wisdoin | URiversal out door moeungs, friendly greetings ana to foresee that the growtt of New York Would mmake | @2 Out door neigh orly intercourse pecuilar to hot lnveaiment in real estate the most certatu of all | climates, ‘Phe ‘door stoop” takes the place of ihe speculations, and so.became the purchaser of farm | houseiop in the Last. A siranger passing along the Jands and wastes uty years ago at lesg for the acro | fashionable side streets of New York on a warm than they now sell bY tie yard, He deft the tacesof , Summer's asternoon i surprised at the spectacie of his sensé of indebt-dness to the cliy by the founda- | ponne of lightly aud elewantly dressed ladies siand- tion of the Astor Linrary, tiamen after him; and ais | tng and sitting about on the doorsteps, with head 80 and grandaona, ‘ollowlng riaidly the peecepts aud | UaCovered, attended by gentiemen smoking, laugh- example of the founder of the family, are now the | ing, talking and exchanging greetings across the type of what 1s aceepted in New York ag the highest | road and other side, ‘This would be very bad man- Class of aristocrat. With an tnmediate weaith in | bers in London or anywhere but In New vork or in landed property Which can hardly be estimated, | the Bast, Here it is @ graceful and agreeable con- and whica cannot provaply be equalled by the pos- | coasion to the heat of the climate during some part Sessions of any otter proprietura in the world, and | Of the year, With a sure prospective increase which outrans ¢ The arctic rigor of the winter 1s utilized for the culation, the graudsons of Jacob Astor are as rigidly , Organization of slelghin with aticctive to the management of their aifurs, a3 | all their overflowing hilarity and exuberant fun. Carefully cousicicrate of all plans for tie develop- | The milduess of such & season as the winter just ment of the resonrces of their possessions, and as | past, which was so exceptionally clement as to leave Personally solicttous for tne improvement of the | but. little snow on the und and but little ice on eneral aspecis of the city ay any small householder , the water about New York, was a source of social orlandagentcan be. Pabiue literesta in no way | lamentation. On the first heavy fall of snow the air sufier from the acctumuiaton of property in their | 18 musical with @ thongand bells, as the graceful hands. They ao not thi themselves privilezed | sleighs, drawn by gatly caparisoned horses, giide to beidle. ‘They flud their pleasure in accepting and | elong the avenues. The crisp froshuess of the air, vigorously fuitiiling the ponstbilities of wealth; | the rapidity und smoothness of the motion, the they are herd-working, we'leducated, public- | Music of the beils, and the general spirit of gatety spirited, upright, unovtentatous gentlemen; and so | Which characterize sleighing, make It one of the Urey fultil the American idcal of aristocracy. Of | most favorite and characteristic atmusements of the Wealth an ciated with education, ill-gotcen or | city, Large public vehicles, and the genera) substt- inysteriously amassed—of triumphant rascality well | tuéon of “runners” for wheels, enable almost the BUded—of “hamciess wud successful roguery blazing | whole population to take part in it; and the scene 13 With ostentatious fuery, wolding court in public | often one of extraordinary animation and galety, places, having its retinue of literary beralds, ite The rigour of the winter and the heat of the sum- | tvadn of judictal abeitors, its crowd of political ac- | mer season are remarkable features of climate wh complices—tiere are here more sirtking examples | modify the habits of society, From June to Septem- than can be well conceived’ by the foreigaer, | bor fasiionable New York takes refuge in Newport, expressed without apparent exaggeration, | Saratoga, Long Branch, White Mountains, Niagara, Station has woshing: of hereditery or fixed, polit: | or starts for Europe, ‘Tho eight days’ trip acrosé the eal office implies discredit xather than honor, jucl- ; Atlantic, which to our minds ia a serious undertak- Cal oMce is very frequently ihe by-word of tho | Ing, is littie to the American, accustomed to long market-place, aud the juige’s mantle the mere cloak ; distances of three or four days’ travel, from one of corruption, which it covers without pretending to great town to another, ou his own continent. He conceal, Byen in =a learned professions the ave- | starts for Paris or London with as little ree nutes to distinction Raye not always been of the most | as tor New Orleans or St. Augustine. The two honorable and re; ha months? vacation gives him five or six weeks in Eu- ote nt the safeguards tor education and chafacier are only begmuing to | rope, and to the iadies of the family Buch a tmp is | be satisfaetorily and completely orgauized. ‘iho | one long hollday. ‘To iollow New York out of town conventional tests belowging to the soctety of the | would be beyond the limits of our intention at pres- capitais. of Kurope do aot, therefore, exist bere. Men ent, | tac tee admisat of 1ntO BUctoLy hot for what they | ae = have becy og may be, from ie associations con. yy | “ Hi ¥ Heeted witt an histot:c name, from te. acknow!- THE WEDDING OF BLANCHE BUTLER, edzed culture, probity end public epirtt necessarily manne attaching 40 political or judicial position or frou the tacily acknowiedged guarantees belonging to transmitted connection with great names, old famt- les, pabue duties ant professional pursuits; thelr gann 18 of to-day—it regards neither the future nor e past. Such is the versatility of the people and #0 nn- meécous and vary ing the avenues of enterprise which | and was selected and made under the supervision of the connity offers that @ large proportion of the | Mrs, Webster, the sister of Mrs. Butler, who 13 at men one meets have passed through a varicty of | pursuits before fault Pactling Om tut In wien Present 1n Germany superintending the education The Trousseau—The Bridesmaidsy the Pron cuts aud the Toilets. [From the Boston Post, July 22.) HE TROUSSEAU. bed aed om wrought bo to hed fa | of her own children and the two sons of General face. ‘The sueccasive metamorphoses of sailor, | cietk, gold. digger, dry. gouds terenant, Buller, Whore there with iter, Everything ts very | cotton “planter, “shipowner, bleckade run: | @legant, and neither pains nor expense has peen uer, liquor eater, stock operator and cotton | spared to make the troussean ax complete as pos- broker have heen passed through by one compara- tively young and Wealiby man. 'Co Bnd soldiers who | Sle. Among the things that were seat were :— were bred ns lawyers, leadiug stockbrokers prod as | One dozen roves de nui’ trimmed with, Velen- doctors, sugat pias 'y goods mercliants: to ; Clenues. nd Judges who beve been sloemakers and shoe- One dozen robes de nuit trimmed with French makers who have been bred to tie law, are not un- | Work, » coumnon meidents. Hence @ visitor’ falling upon | One dozen sets under clothing with Valenciennes some of the many rougher specimens of the upper | bands and edges, ¥ - ten may easily set down the general standard of | | Gne dozen sets under clothing with French em- cultivation, refinement or morailty as inGnitely } broidered bunds and edges. i lower than It should justly be marked. He needs to One dozen embroidered cambric conbing-jacl have adeyvate moans of corrécting his judgment b; One dozen corset covers trimmed with Va Wider subscqucnt experience ond to make due al ; Clennes and French embroide lowance for the dissonance of the elements of a con- ‘One-liaif dozen embroidered Nannel under skir ta, course $0 requ ntly renewed under muliiiadinous One dozen camnbric skirts for walking dresses, influences not easily harmonized or regulated, One dozen cambrly, plcirts for frain dresses. Alpid all the fluctuations and ‘eccentricities there One dozen pairs silk siockligts, 4s much in New York soctzl organization to charm, Qne dozen pairs Lisle-thread stockings. to atiract, to ellclt admiration and gratitnde. ‘The Two dozen pairs Baloriggau stockings. various merits of many forms of national character, Phree pair shppers. the attractions ot mony ktnds of natlonal enitivation, Two dozen pairs white kid gloves, #1x buttons, thought and mote of og ie pe. are there .re- One dozen patrs ght-shade kid gloves, three but- markably combined. Te Sicon earnestness and | tous. energy are evinced by vis muliioide of enterprises, | the restless commercial activity which is always Stirring, the veriousness and solidity of the religious | Four gets French flowers. feeling, the faiuily Lfe and the luve of free institu. | Six fans. ; Uons. German Miellectuality brings about a more Five hats. ophic and meiapnysical tn- | Six white cambric dresses. } ance. The sober iudustry, me Oue Wiite French muslin, with train, | love of broad humor, the stmple tastes for public | Six embroidered musiin jackets, | amusement, the wide cultivation of music, all testliy | handkerchiefs, ; © German inftucnce. The Liederkrang and the | Valenciennes handkerchiefs, | Arion, the tniversal presouce of a pano in every French embrotdered nandkerchiefs, | i One dozen pairs dark-shade Kidtgloves, three but- tons, respectable house, the mdnner gesangrerein and Two dozen hemstitched (with imitial) bandKer- the love of public pro is are among the milder | chicts. Social Initucnces o} Germany upon America, France | — Point lace overskitt and Qonnce half yard deep. exerts her tfluence in the jove of amusement, the | attention to ali the refigeinents of dress, the habltual | | gaiety of the season, the love of opera cod masqyed | bauls, the open welcome and habitual courtesy to | strangers. The hospitality which Americans re ceive in Paris, where they dre favorite guests at the Tulleries as in all the feading salons, and the | courtesies and pleasy to which they become | habituated, ‘hey ise and import ito New Yors, not only ‘or their own de‘ectacion, bul for the | beuellt of strang fe relative imhospiiality of London and Londoners is mueh felt, and Is a source | | of comment. The Londoner Who goes to New York | with any adequate introduction recelves a welcome of prolonged trendline: Hie is admitted to the | what is reporte? to hay hovses and shares atcnce in the pleasures and pur- | American girls abroad— the Princess doen't puits of new American friends. Nor does a single | have such elaborate underelotatng 2s you Ameri- card of invitation (oa state Gummer there, @% here, | cans.” Well, these same Ammericin girs are prin. ease (he conscience of all the davies of Nospitality. | cesses in their way and they certainly bauve royal The clubs aie thrown open to hiin—soretimes for a | tastes m the maiter of dressing, Week or fortnight, or in seme cases for a much DECORATION OF VEE CHURCH. longer period—and he is entitied to alt the priviteges | St. Anue’s church, where tae & iy Was por- of membership. There are very tew clubs iw Lopson | formed, is one of the oldest churehes in Lowell, and tn which @ foreigner on a visit Wilt be adunitied fur- | it forms a pleasing contrast to the brtek business ter than the hall or the stravgers) room blocks, sithaced ax it is in the very heart of the ey. ‘The houses to Wiich @ foreigner is adinitted who | Ibis of uy stono, and is ximost compleiely cov. presents his credentials In New York offer much to woodbine. It was brilliantly tllummated, Aliact and to elicit admiration, As the people | and its foral decorations were lovely in the ex- themselves fre@ descended irom every SLOLALLY, | treme. No professional florist bad a hand in the aad connbually renew their drafts upon ail thé Ba | watier. Lhe flowers were faruished and the work ropean peoples, and their intimacy with the iadul- {ail done by the young friends of Mas gences of Buronpean capitets, so thetr homes aro | Butler, who took this pleasant way of showing their roplete with tie suggestions of Cosmopolitan intellt- | affection for her, and theiy work was exquisitely Point lace shawl. Two Liama lace jackets, Four parasols, Bix suits, Everything is in the most perfect taste and like all French things exqnisitely and daintily made, ‘There is nothing stiff or set looking, but it seems almost as though tie things were tossed together and held by invisibie thread. The laces are of the finest and the embroidery of the mosi delicate. One can beleve on © exquisice things gence, luxury aud refiuement. The greater part of | and gracefully p med. An arch of towers piodern New York houses are substantially built of | was placed over the entrance to the chancel, com- brown stone, on a peculiarly convenient. pian, | posed of white pinks, rove buds and. scarict _ ‘They gre furnivhed with a lightness and | ers, Interwoven with the graceful smilax. The alta clogance which recall only Parisian — salons, } was draped with white ilusion ed festoons of ‘The walls and ceiings are habitually freacoed | flowers hung over it aud were wound arouad the ‘he Rev. Mr. Ward Beecher preaches with a floral | lovely gifis which were sent her by ner many much feared by men of Dusiness, a seii-mi ) basket by his side, On tke occasion.of a benellt | frienis, They were elegant in the extreme and were and such as oniy this country produces, re | Might to a favorite actress latoly, a basket of choice | very varied. The library was devoted to tuelr dis- rarely will be seen the tall, spare figure, aud keon, | flowers was brought on to the stage as an offering | play and looked a “perfect bazaar with — ita | intelligent buat seve! face of the great “dry | from her admirers, which hy to be carted | weatth of richness and pberuty. Like every other | ‘at harvest to tie | the ininediate vicinity of New York, wile will | be only second to that of Parls; and at the com- aiford to clerks ana others of sual ineans | Menoement o the how year the sineste are Wronaed comfortable suburban. residences at moderate ; With purchasers of every Kad of gift, trom thé inds rents, Witnin New York he oostly jewels, Lhrotigh git the gamut of small artictes | lown to flowers and candies, { and poorly paid Classes of scamstresses and other | Of course the casket contaiuing the candies may be | gold, anothet ot ed with children, 1t is understuod | Way reduce itself toan eoamelled-paper bag tied | Nearly ail the bridal outfit was ordered abroad, | Duchesse Jace overskirt and flounce buif yard deep. | 1 sad to one of our | THE USHERS, Flowers indeed enter very i: ruely into all | Messrs, John H. Kimball, F. T. Greenhalge, Julian | Talbot, W. H. McDaniels, Thomas Nesmith, Jr, and Willis Farrington are all Lowell gentiemen, well Known in society and evidently well up fn their dn~ ties, which they performet with great, ease and eles gance, in looking at the array one tnstinetively won- ders if all Lowell is composed entirely of good-looking people. TNE WEDDING PRESENTS. No farther proof of tue estumation Butler was held could be wisied atte which, Miss secing the Yoon it was literally filed with flowers. These | hung in garlands ant festoons froia the walls, | | while the’ pietures, the doors and windows were | | garianded with inew, and baskets and bouquets were in abunda: A lovely boudoir piano of Chickering’s make stood in tho long window, General Ames’ present to the bride was an elegant | bracelet of Roman gold, with Oriental pearls, exquisitely set, and 4 beauttfally carved cameo ring, | with pluin, heavy setting. There way silver i pro- ' fusion. A very éiegant service, lined with gold, was sent by General Ames’ fathor, There was the } usual “quantity of sold dishes, forks and | Spoons, berry dishes, pigchors, vases, nut crackers | | and picks; table, dessert and tea spoons In silver; elegant card. recetvers in silver and — bronze; ) bronze figures exquisitely wrougit; vases of delicaté jorceltin and toilet sets of Dresden china. One of | he most unique things Was a dessert’ sol of Majolica Ware, tho plates leai-shaped ‘and each of the fruit in the design of the special fruit it was to Fans to the usual amount were presented. Several lovely setg of Jewelry, one of turquoise and man gold in an antique ara, Byzantine Mosiac set. was lovely. The one of a) others the most admired was of’ Boman gold au | Malachite, the malachite carved like cameo, with | Roman heads. It comprised brooch, earrings, | bracelets, sleeve buttons and neck!ace. It was ex- quistie. There were books and trinkets in profusion, pictures and statuettes. Nothing was missing which could with propriety be o‘fered. ‘THE COURTS. UNITED STATES COMMISSION:8S’ COURT. Tho Brandon Alleged Counterfeit Case. Before Commissioner Shields, The United States vs, John Brandon.—The de- fendapt 19 proprietor of a lager beer saloon in | Broome street and 1s charged with being a shover | Of the queer. Ho was arrested at his piace of busl- ness on the 20th, when there was found upon his person @ large number of two dollar. covaterfeit bills on the Westchester County Bank, ten dollar Poughkeepsie Bank bills and twenty dollar New York national bank bills, Afver examinauon the Commissioner reserved decteion. . Bankruptcy. Daring the past week discharges in bankruptcy | have been granted.to Ben Hurxthal, Wiillam Wolf, | Joseph Friedlander, John F. Dushan and Julius Frankenstein, - SUPREME COUNT—SPECIAL TERM. The Gewan Divorce—The Charges Agninat the Husband NotwProved. Before Judge Brady. Mary E. Gowan vs. John Gowan.—The Court re- ferred the issues in this case to be tried by Mr. Wi- jam ©, ‘Traphagen as referee. It will be remem- | bered as reported in the HeRaLp that the defendant Alleges that the charges of edultery made by his | Wife agalist him were ipperted by perjured tesi mony. 1 one Henry Geston 18 now in’ prison awaiting 1:3 trial for perjury committed before the referee, Edwin James, counsel for the defendant, filed the report of the referee, deciding the charges of adui- tery were not proved, and that the complaint should | ve dismiased, with costs, BROGALYN COURTS. ° UNITED STATES OISTAICT COURT. An Alleged Nuisance, Before Judge Benedict. The argument in the matter of the application of ' the United States for an injunction to restrain ©. '. Reynolds & Co. from continuing thetr color thanu- factory, corner of Flushing and Cariton avenues, which has been complained of as @ nuisance by Colonel Broome, of the Navy Yard, was heard yesterday afternoon. Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Cath appeared for the United States, and produced @ pumber of afiiavits of Loa eye restding in the vicinity of the factory, set- | ting forth that they had been sickened by tne” odors emunating from the establishment. Affidavits from | chemists Were aiso read, setting forth thatthe odors | arlving from the bolting ef oll, coghineal and sul- Dheret of lime, whieh, a8 charged, ty Carried on there, were deleterious to vealth. Mr. Waidron, for the defence, produced aMdavits from other chemists, including Drs. Doremus and | Squibb, contending that the bolting of eochineal in ‘Water Was not deleterious to health, After some fur- ther proceedings Judge Benedict adjourned the case taken on both sides, SUPREME COUAT—QECIAL TERM, A Street Opening Squabble, Before Judge Pratt. An application was made on behalf of Charles Pratt yesterday for a mandamus requiring the Com- | mon Council to direct the Corporation Counsel to | Appoint commissioners for the opening of Pratt | street, B. D., under chapter 607 of the laws of 1869, | The appitcant is now engaged in the-ol! business on the street. The act in Dagon ad also directs the opening of North Thirteenth street, from First street to Pratt street. Mr. Jesse Johnson, Assistant Corpo- fe Ae Counsel, opposed the application for a inan- lamus, on the ground that the act of 1862 effeo- tuaily precluded North Thirteenth street; and as regarded the open- lng of Pratt street, he was of vpinion that the relator dtd not come into court beng sg hands, as by the act he had procures islvtupe right or thf et REA Rot TH tee a, ait was desirous of making himself famous by givtt Lis name to a street the expenses of wave erat have to be borne by all the properly dwiiéis in that portion of the city, but wich would not oeneft any person except Ulinself. Mr. Bergen, for the applicatton, argued that the Act Of 1862 did not apply to North Thirteenth street, bat only to such streets as were legally opened at oe Ume, The act of 1869, he contended, was man- datory. Judge Pratt took the papers and reserved his de- ctsion. : CITY counT. | The New Judge Sworn In—Terms of the Court. Alexander McCue, one of the newly elected Judges of the City Vourt, having returned from his’ visit to Lurope, yesterday took ihe oath of office, which was administered by his associate, Judge Thoimpson. | The three judges of the court subsequently promul- | gated the following order with reierence to We | Various terma:— | ‘The Judges of the City Court of Brooklyn hereby | appoint the following general, wial and special terms Of eaid court:— GENERAL TERMS. Third Monday of September, November, January, March, May anu duty. TRIAL. TERMS. ‘Terms for the trial of tseres of law and fact, First’ Monday of September, Gewher, November, December, January, Pevrngry, March, April, May, June, Juiy and August, SPECIAL. ‘TERMS, First Monday of September, October, November, December, January, February, Mareb, April, May, June, July and Poe st SORGE THOMPSON, JOSEPH. NBILSO} Judges. ALEXANDER M Joseriu J. Sackwrr, Clerk, COMMUNIPAW STOCK YARDS, During the past week 217 cara arrived at the Com- munipaw Stock Yards, contaming 1,962 cattle‘ 7,638 } Mog» vad 6,843 sheep, There were slaughtered 481 cattle, 7,619 hogs and 5,921 sheep, | wntil Monday, when additional tesumony will be | he application 80 far as it related to | The Feud of the O’Carolins and the 0’ Hanlons Transferred from the “Ould Dart” to Now York—The Rival “Big Six’ Associations of the Fifteenth Ward—Each Firm Paddles Its Own Canoe and Fancies It has Demolished the Othor— Waich is the “Pure Peter ?” —* About thiriy members of te Carolin wing of the Fifteenth Ward William M. Tweed Association met or Friday evening at their headquarters, Liberty House, corner of Houston and Greene streets, In: conse~ quence of the siormy scenes which marked the last meeting at Mr. Gibbon’s house, ia Washington square, lively times were autleipated, and tn the early part of the evening the members of the Carolin faction, who took possession or the han, prepared to protect (!) themselves if necessary, cast many an anxious eye at the door, evidently expect Ing the arrival of Hanlon’s party in force. But there was no cause for apprehension, The Cirolinists Were left to enjoy the fruits of their doubtrul victory in quiet, while Hanlon is about to execute a counter move and proclaifa his friends the Simon Pures—the Veritable ig Six Association of the Fifteenth ward. Time alone (and W. M. 7.) can decide the preten- sions of the rival organizations, As for the Carolintsts, when they perceived that. there was to be no opposition from the deposed president and hts party anxiety gave way to security, and faces that before were darkened by doubts and fears were wreathed in smiles, The business was allcut and dried and was disposed of with commendable despatelyby Mr, Caroltn and the few men who run the machine. Mr, Carolin calied the meeting to order at half-past ebght o’ ot and took his “Keat, apparently unconctous of whit was about to take place, although a quict lapkeron might. have nouced him haod about the variods resolutions which were afterwards read with* an air of most refreshing spontanetiy by the members appointed for that duty. The minutes of the laso regular, meetng which recorded the deposition of Mr. Marcus Hanlon and his expulsion from the association by a two-thirds vote, were approved by acciamation, after which the Chairman iimocently asked what was the business before the meeting. Thereupon Mr. WILLIAM GALLAGHER jumped on his feet, and with a degree of hesitation pardonable under the cireumstances, considering that be ha:t only reeeived the document a few minutes before from Mr. Caro- lin, read the following resolution:— Resolved, That Timothy Kelly be-and he fs hereby ap- Pointed Bectetary in place of Mr. J. MeKenne, who's heredy removed, ‘This réesolntion was passed nnanimon: mealately after the newly appointed secr the following resoiution:— Resolved, That Dr. J. T. Nagle be and he is hereby elected treasurer of this orgauization, tu place of §, ©, Sloane, removed. _ This revolution was als9 efrried by acclamation. Mr. William Gallagher, ‘oF @ similar Operation, was installed sergeanvarirms, aud then, after the SUMMARY PRCAPITATION OF HANLON'S SATELLINES, the assdtlation proceeded to elect & president. It. was a foregone conclusion who the fortunate Individual woul be; bat a lithe coyness and show of modesty Was thought appropriate on the occa- sion. Mr. WILLIAM GALLAGHER Moved that the prest- dency of tie organization be tendered to Mr. John A. Carolin, Mr. Carolin begged to deeiine putting this Motion, as it concerned himself, and thereapon vacated the chair, which was occlipied by the secros tary. Mr. Canorrn then sald that he did not seek the honor of presiding over the assoclation and hopes the members would select some person better qualified to occupy that posttion than he was, He wished, however, to place bis record before the Members aud explain certain circumstances Which had tended to throw discredit) on the organization, He then proceeded to dissect the political character of Mr. Hanion, He has beea in this country about five years and came into the Fifteenth ward last October, where he at once set himself up as a candidate for Assembly in opposition to Tammany ‘all in the hope of neing boughtout, Fatitng to dnd ® purchaser he collapsed. Next he supported an opposition candidate, who only ar 300 votes, While the Tammany nominee poled 2,909. This showed his. influence in the ward. I fact, he was a dead politician when the split arose between . the young democracy avd the old Levy, of the party. He grasped at this last chance and statted an organization called the Fifteenth Ward William M. Tweed Association. Previous to this he (Mr. Carolin) had organized an assoctation in the lower part of the ward under a differcnt name, but at that crisis they had assumed the name of the grand leader ef the party, Wililam M. Tweed. A consoli- dation of the two organizations followed, and for some time harmony reigned, until it was dis- covered that Hanlon was selling the association, when he was justly expelled by a two-third vote. ‘The friends of Hanion had attempted to get ap & disturbance atthe house of Mr. Gibbons, but they had been folled, and were now raving like disap- pointed soreheads, as they were. This was in brief the history of the association up to the present ume. Mr. Carolin was then elected by acclamation, and returned thanks for the unexpected anid unsolicited honor which had been forced on jim, Two new members were ¢lected, after which the meeting al- | journed, vastly pleased with themselves aud all we world, and tm- tary read The O’Uanlon Faction. The members ofthe “regular” (?) branch of that “cranky maciine,” the Fifteenth Ward William M. Tweed Association, met on the same evening at the Tooms of the club, No, 2 Clinton place, the original president, Mr. Marcus Hanl n, inthe chair, and Mr. | McKenna secretary. The minutes of last regular meeting were read and approved. JOuN Bort, Jr., made @ motion to investigate the: disgraceful conduct of certain members of the association in connection with the meetings of the the 16th and ivth tel opted. MARCDs HANLON, president of the meeting, said:— In order to show fairly that those who were brought into the hail as meinbers of the association on the occasion of the 18th inst. were not members, 1 will state that Inquiries were made of me for Marcus. Hanlon,” and, that those who, by their outrageous conduct, gagged the meeting and forced the mem- bers of the clab from the room, did not even know the presiding officer at sight, and with the exceptian of two, who created the disturbance at Mr. Gibson's, did not kuow me as { passed through their ranks, and were hallooing to find out who I was, Colonel SamuBL ©. SLOAN, treasurer, sald:—I congratulate those present on the fact that the raf flans who had become attached to the association Im | & moment of political excitement have voluntarily left the organization, and I, for one, thank God that the — who belonged to us are still to be found in our ranks. I am very glad that the official roll remains {ntact, or nearly so, a3 one oilice alone 18 yacant, As the Wm. M. Tweed Asso~ ciation of the Fifteenth carried the ward in the last election, and not the bummers of the Eighth, #0 in the next contest we hope, and I gay for one, believ~ ing that our cause ts Just we will carry it in succeed- ing ones. ir, Epwann 8. Lawson deplored the fact that no young organzation ever founded m New York, wm the Interest of the democracy was without dissensions, and a. lentifut number of them, and added, with much force, that the members he saw around him stood free from connection with any such dissension and firm for the president of the organization—Marcus Hanlon—and they Were determined to fight the bat- tle out at all hazards and to any bitter end. Alter a few remarks by Mr. McKenna and Vice | Presidents Lewis aud Roussen the meeting } adjourned. CHANGES IN THe FIRE O:PAR\ MENT, Fine Depat ese City New York, | New York, July 23, 1870. The following promotions and transfers have beer made in this Department, to take eifect from the 26the Inst. :— 2 PROMOTIONS. Assistant foreman ae W. Erb to be foreman, | and assigned io Hook and Ladder Company No. 7} | assistant foreman John Coyte, to be foreman, aud assigned to Engine Company No, 2 TRANSFERS. Foremen—Peter Wier, Engine Company No. 2 to Engine Company No, Jobo W. Miler, bogines Company No. 8 to Engine Company No. 17; W. Mo- | Laughlin, Engine Company No. 9 to Engine Qom- | pany No. 24; John Castles, ey Company No. iL | to Engine Company No. 12; John H. Kehoe, Engine | Company No. 16 to Engine ‘Company No. 25; Justin | A. Patten, ty Company No. 31 to Nagine Com- | pany No. 11; Schaylor Livingston, Engine age oe 25 to Eogine Company No, 16; Will Hi. Woo | Engine Company No. 2 to Engine Company No. | Wiliam DB. Nash, Kagine Company No. to Engine | Company No, Opry Wart, Engine Company No. 38 to Engine Company) No. 6; L. Chamberiain, Kngine Company . 17 to Bn= ine Cotmpany No. 31; Benjamin A. Gicquel, Engine Any aed No. Sto Engine Company No. 9. Assist- gat foremen—Wiliam F. Hayes, Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 to Hook and Ladder Costpany No. 65 Henty Schuch, Hook and Ladder Compaus 4to | Hook and Ladder Company No. 16; bdward 8. | Smith, Hook and Ladder Company No. 8 to Engine Company No. 22. : CHAS. E. GILDERSLEVE, secretary, THE WOBOKEN FERRY. MASTERS’ EXCURSION, | The gentlemen who draw tn the pennies at the | Hoboken ferryhouses are making preparations for a moonlight excursion, Every year the same individ- uals embark on a stmilar expedition, but a special, comunitiee Is vow actively at Work to make the ex-) curston on the night of the 10th of August surpass all others, One or two ladies will accompany each male pa er, and music, a8 weil as ealables and drink abi iit add to the festivities of the night. Two barges will conve; tes for the purcese: y We party vo a grove elected