The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1870, Page 4

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B—Aciverusements, 4—Editorials: Leading Article, “Sei ‘ General Grant and ; worse Confounded ‘sonal intelligence— 4 A*Puritan Banquet at Delmonico’s—Return 4 of an Exploring Party from the Amazon—The : Fast fiver Bridge—Heavy Haul by Burglars— Fire in Jersey City. ~The War in Fraice—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World—Art Notes—Amusements— Chauncey Johnsou’s Exploits at the Fifth + Avenue Hotel—Tie Fiddes-Murray Investiga- tion—Business Notices, 6—Merry Christmas: How Best to Celebrate the { Greatest of Christian Holidays; Where to Pur- 5 chase the Gifts of the Season—The Erje Ratl- road Arcana—The Rajiroad Managers’ Conven- uon—Admirals Farragut and Porter. ¥—The Sumner-Grant Inmbroglio; Finale of the Senatorial Debate on the St. Domingo Resolu- tien—New York and Brooklyn Courts—A Mayor Out of Jeopardy—Conyiction of Sam- uel 8. Stevens of Grand Larceny—The Build- ing Murder—Financial and Commercial Re- ports—Marriages and Deaths. S-News from Wazinagton—New York City News— Meteorological Record—Shipping Intelli- gence—Adyertisements. nator Sumner on Domingo—Confasion fre War Sirvatioy.—No important stra- tegic change is reported this morning in the position of the armies in France, except that Manteuffel while continuing his move on Havre is sending forward a forge to attack General Faidherve about Amiens. Tours is said to be occupied by the Germans, and the cutting of the Army of the Loire in two is thus confirmed, General Chauzy, with the left wing of it, is at LeMans, Havre and Cherbourg are both pre- pared for any emergeney, and another sortie is expected from Paris. “Espep IN Smoke” Lireratty—The Pil- grim celebration in New York on Wednesday. Tar New RapioaL SeNAror From MIs- souriis a carpet-bagger from Maine. The “democratic papers say his term of office will be short, albeit he is a better man than Drake, the retiring Senator. Fist Gus FRoM THe New Sn#erirr’s Orrice.—It is stated that Judson Jarvis, a popular attorney and counsellor, has been appointed Order of Arrest Clerk by the Sheriff elect. A Lesson Worta LEARNING was conveyed- by the mode in which the crowd of people as- sembled ia Association Hall to hear Ralph Waldo Emerson made their escape from the burning building. The coolness with which the audience, numbering about a thousand people, got clear witheut damage to any one shows that a panic, with all its terrible calamities, in case of accidents of this kind, can be avoided if people will only exercise a little common sense, und, above all things, will keep cool. Super Dow1rxe yesterday sent below a young forger who is heir to a million dollars for alleged forgery. No amount of bail could tempt the Judge to let him out. Here was a practical iastance of the embarrassment of riches. Tuat TaerE is Mucn Virrve In AN “Ip” has been prominently illustrated by recent occurrences in Washington, It is alleged that President Grant has deelared that “it” he were not President of the United States ho would hold Senator Sumner responsible for certain things; Colonel Babcock, of the Pre- sident’s staff, says “‘if” he were not 89 pearly related. to the President he would “flax out” Sumner 2 la Brooks. Senator Sumner says 4" the statement which has created all this rumpus was likely to be confined to the news- paper in which he found it he would treat it with contempt.- Therefore the remark of Shakspeare, that there is muck virtue in an _ “if,” is fully established—and that, too, ina personal quarrel between great men about ‘a few coffee plantations and iasy niggers in » ‘West India isleot. j Senatot Samnér on Genoral Grant Br Domlage—Qonlusion Worse Contounded. neral Grant has gained in the Sonate a victory on St. Domingo; but ho may well say, as Pyrrlius ‘said on a memorable occasion, “One more such ony will undo us.” It bas made the quarrel of Sumber with Grant ® war £0 the knifo, as was the quarrel between Jnckson aud Calhoun to the bitter end, Sumner takgs the place of Calhoun, as Massa- chusetts has kee sy place of South Gatd- lina, Calhoun, when Vige Prosident, got up 8 Gabingt doclal gu with President Jack- gon. Mar ‘ah mn, then Secretary of State, settled {¢ in favor of Jackson by re- tiring from the Cabinet—a step which com- pelled all his colleagues to fellow suit. Jack- son thon appointed a new Cabinet; but, not forgetting the good service ef Van Buren, nominated him as Minister to England. The vote in the Senate on his confirmation was a tie, and the decision rested upon Calhoun as preaiding officer. His casting vole was cast against Van Buren, and that was the fall of Calhoun, Jackson gave the hint, and Van Buren at the next Presidential election (1832) was run for Vice President with Old Hickory, and elected to the place of Calhoun as Presi- dent of the Sonate. To complete the triamph of Jackson he had Van Buren made President in 1836, thus leaving Calhoun hopelessly out in the cold. In 1876, the whirligig of revolution having put Massachusetts in the place of South Carolina in the government, Sumner substan- tially turps up in the place of Calhoua, Mr. Motley, a literary protégé of Sumuer, is appointed by General Grant Minisier to England, but, after he has been a short time at London, the President, for certain reasons, recalls him. The wrath of Sumner is thereby awakened, and he resolves upon the rdle of Calhoun. He bogins the war openly with the introduction into the Senate of the St. Domingo question, and his first indictment against Grant surpasses all the indictments of Calhoun against Jackson. It surpasses in its specificn- tions of wrongdoing the worst phillippics of “Old Thad Stevens” against Andy Johnson, If Sumner is to be believed Grant is a stupid, would-be dictator, like Johuson; a weak but obstinate old demagogus, like Buchanan; a trading politician, like poor Pierce, and an audacious speculator of the school of Jim Visk, Ifhalf that Sumner says of Grant is true, then, within the next two years, we may look for the fulfilment of Frank Blair's prophecy, that “if General Grant ever gets into the White House you will not get him out till he dies, He will stay there, if he has to make himself Emperor by a coup d'état, like Louis Napoleon.” But we don’t and we can’t believe the half of Sumner’s accusations or Blair's prophecies, But Sumner’s charges are full of thisehief for’ all that, They plainly mark the beginning of the republican revolt, which threatens to be worse than that of Calhoun. Already Sumner is boldly backed in the Senate not only by Schurz, of Missouri, but by Patterson, of New Hampshire; Morrill, of Vermont, and Tipton, of Kansas, on the St. Domingo test question of the administration. On the tax question we find Trumbull, of [Ilinois, dead against the President’s financial policy, and on this and other questions we find the administration all at sca inthe Senate. On this St. Domingo resolution the President has gained a profitloss victory, for what does it sigaily? The resolu- tion is passed by a vote of 81 to 9—apparently a decisive victory; but it is no sach thing. It provides for a commission of three members, with a secretary who can talk Spanish, to go to the republic of Dominica, and to make up from their own researches, travels and obser- vations a complete history of the republic— natural, political, social and industrial—em- bracing everything in the heavens and the Earth, and in the waters under the Earth— men, beasts, birds, fishes, vegetation, mine- rals, rivers, bays, harbors, boundaries, treaties, debts, public opinion oa annexation, an inquiry inte the diseases of the island, and into its sea- sons and its eartiquakes and tornadoes, When they have made up this budget, which Schurz thinks will occupy at least five yeara, the com- mission are to report to the President, and he is to report to Congress, and they are to de- cide according to the evidence, on annexation, yea or nay, ‘The Senate have voted for this commission ; but the resolution has still to pass through the fiery furnace of the House. Will it pass? Perbaps yes; but not without a Donnybrook Fair. Banks, of Massachusetts, is all right, and so is Butler; but we fear there ara many republicans of the House ready fer a bolt. Meantime Morton, Conkling and others of the Senate demand the removal of Sumner from his place as head of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and even his expulsion from the party. But in 1859-60 the Southern oligar- chy, backed by Buchanan, tried this game upon Senator Douglas, and how did they come out? Ask Jeff Davis. But what can the President do in anything on our foreign affairs with Sumner at the head of this committee in the Senate? Anice question, this; and we can only see that it increases the difficulties of the administration with the republican party. Sumner, they say—as ‘‘Honest Old Abe” said of his Secretary, Chase—‘‘has the buzzing bee of the White House in his ear, and he won't be quiet.” He goes also for annexation; but the Canadas are his hobby on those Alabama claims, Very good. General Grant is an annexationist; but his programme is the West Indies, He likes bananas better than codfish. Very goou. But as it is now manifest that the driving of this St. Domingo wedge may split the republican party, why not drop it and iry the Alabama claims? Genetal Schenck,, as the successor of Motley, we believe, has the genuine Western idea with regard to those claims, which is the idea of Old Hickory touching those old French spollations—“‘Pay up or we shall take it out in reprisals.” Is not this likewise Sumner’s idea? It is the idea of his speech, which so startled the poor old British lion that he got up a pretty lively roar over it, Why not, then, drop St. Do- mingo and procced boldly te those Alabama claims; flank Sumaer and bring bim to faco the music or to back out with an apology on this simple proposition—‘‘Here is our bill, em- bracing this thing of Anglo-rebel neutrality ; aettle it or we will let loose the Fenians upon the New Dominion.” Wo think that would settle Sumner; for we half suspect that his famous Alebama claims speech was all for | that embrnaad in the Pacifio slona, NeW YORK HERALD, buncombo—all moonshine, Smoke him out andyoufiz him The democrata are playing fast and loose upon all these questions now. But how did they elect Polk in 1844? On the cry of “Texas and Oregon—iifty-four forty or fight,” though we had nd more title to Orexon above the line of forty-nine than wo have to the Fiji Islands, Desperate cases, however, call for desperate meagures. Everything else fail- ing, the domodrats in 1844 took up Texas and Oregon Pad TOW having Mat Sal the nigger, tha notntsratlon must get up something Vice Texad OF Oregon or a Ruing froutior anove- ment, or the repnblicad party will ‘‘go to grass.” Tho Alabama claims covering Canada will do. We cannot navigate the St. Lawrence without those canals, aud the best fishing of Nova Scotia and all those regions is within those three miles from the shore where General Butler’s and Mr. Sumner'’s constituents cinnot now go. They have to fish outside, and, according to General Grant himself, those New Dominion provincials are getting very impertinent. ‘Try Sumner on this tack and you flank him. At all events, as the republican party is breaking up, the administration must do some- thing to bring it together agaju, or the admin- istration and the party are gone—Grant, Schenck, Butler, Sumner and all. As for Schurz, he can take care of himself, Look- ing at these pariy troubles and babbles we sometimes think that General Grant has the game in his hands anyhow, sometimes that his enemies will drive him to the river, as they did at Shiloh, and that his reserves will not come up; sometimes that we shall have in 1872 a fearful scrub race; and these late scenes in the Senate go very Tar to strengthen us io this opinion. As Congress seems at last to have a surfeit of niggers we know of no better experiment for General Grant than a bold push on those Alabama claims, ¢ Holiday Kecess—The St, Doe mingo Question, The adjournment of Congress yesterday for the Christmas holidays was prefaced by the passage in the Senate of the joint resolution relating to St. Domingo. From noon of Wednesday till near seven o'clock yesterday morning the Senate chamber was the scene of an exciting debate. Sumner raged and ima- gined vain things agalost the President, but found himself refuted logically by Morton, made fun of by Nye, roared upon hy Chandler, and almost drowned under a flood of invective by Conkling; but still, undismayed by the stermhe had himself provoked, he struggled on through the weary hours of the night, and only asthe Sun rose realized the thoroughaoessof bis defeat in the recorded vote of thirty-one to nine. Only three Senators of his own party stood by him in his fall—Schurz, Paiterson, and Morrill of Vermont, Tho first named had had bis own private quarrel with the President, and there- fore voted against the resolution. Patterson, more of a scholar than a politician, flods himself more at home in a university than in the arena where great public events are de- cided, and may be supposed to have a brotherly feeling for the encyclopedic Sumner ; and as for Mr. Morrill, if ho has a weakness, it is for economy, and any project that may take money out of the Treasury finds no friend or supporter in bim. It can, therefore, hardly be said that the joint resolution found on the republican side of the chamber one Senator who voted against it on its merits, No wonder that President Grant felt elated when the pleasant news of the iriumph of his policy and of the utter dofeat of the enemy was announced to him by Vice Prosi- dent Colfax on his return home from the Senate yesterday morning. The vote insures the annexation of St. Domingo, becanse the Senators whom Sumner's impotitic course im- pelled to support the resolution will find it inconsistent, even if so disposed, to vots_here- afier against the project of annexation, The joint resolution, a3 it passed the Senate, was sent yesterday to the House, and lies on the Speaker's table until the reassembling of that Congress body afier the holidays, It will then, we presume, be referred to the Com- mittee on Foreign Afiairs, with leave to report at any iime; and as the chairman of {bat committee, Mr. Banks, and the ma- jority of its members, are warmly in favor of the annexation scheme, it will be promptly reported back, and will be paased by the House with litilo or no opposition. In the Honse yesterday the time was passed altogether ina little badinage among Virgiaia members rela- tive to universal amnesty. In the meantime, Senators and members, clerks and officers, have packed up their travelling valises and started towards all points o’ the compiss to spend their Christmas holi- days at home. Thus closes the first chapter of the acts of the present session. When they come back business will be resumed in earnest, and the two remaining months of the Forty- first Congress will be consumed in the abso- lute and actual work of legislation, Reapina Ovr or tHe Party.—If it is competent for the republicans who don’t know exactly where they stand themselves to read anybody out of the republican party, it is a fine instanco of retributive justice to have them read Sumner out—Samner, who hag been a lion in the fight ever since ho was knocked into confirmed abolitionism by Preston Brooks’ cane—Sumuer, who was a veteran of abolitionism when some of his readers-out were just shedding their demo- cratic skins—Sumuer, too, who, claiming a chief proprietorship in the party, has been mercilessly rigid in reading out of it such re- cusant members as Fessenden, Trumbull aud the fumous seven who saved Andy Johnson. Sumner has been biiter against all such. He has been the conscience of the radical party, stinging all the weaker members to his ideas of duty, and now to have the wile party, as it were, stinging him in turn is 8 consummation that the grave Senator from Massachusetts never expected to see. , Gavyerat Sonexok has beeu confirmed as Minister to England. Reportep Newsparer Cnance 1s Catt- FoRNIA,—The San Francisco Chronicle states that the reported journslistic change of base in that city refers to the Buitetin, which, it is -averred, has been transferred from s republi- oan to a democratic basis. Similar changes soem to be occurring in other regions than Mari all in turn bear testimony to the defeat of the French after vain attempts to stay the flowing tide of German victory. Sedan fell the empire, and with the surrender of MacMabon’s forces all but one of the impe- rial armies—that of Bazaine—beeame _ pri- goners. fell, and to the surprise of all Marshal Bazaine, with an army numbering over one hundred aud seventy thousand men, without making at least a grand final struggle, surrendered to Prince Fyederick Charles, tlon three marshals, sixty-six generals, six thousand officers and a vast army were lost to France. apparent. been proclaimed; the gates of Paris had been closed and the city surrounded by the Ger- mans, opinion of many, at this particular juncture was-a mistake, previous to taking their position outside tho walls, directe1 their attention to the provinces and dispersed the armies then organizing, the hope of succor from with out would have been dissipated in the minds of the Parisians, and Politicians began to interfere. FrancemThe Avmies of the Ezopire and tho Armies of # Republic. Onehy one have the armies of the omptre @isnppeared; general after general of the impérial régime has laid down bis sword at the feet of the German victor; eagle after eagle of the Napoleonic standards has fallen into the possession of the invader, but the flag of republican France to-day waves, if not in victory, at least io defiance to the onquctor. A calm considerssi22 St a9 situation & this hour, when the fush and Oxcitomont of claimed victories on both sides have passed away, clearly shows that the attempts of the Germans to annililate the Army ‘Of the Loiré have proved unsuccessful. General Von der Tami ried it and failed; the samo general, assisted by the Duke of Meck- lenburg, essayed the task, and likéwise failed. Then came Prince Frederick Charles, with his veterans of a hundred fights—the very flower of the German invading army, with the laurels of Melz still fresh upon their brows—and even he was unequal to thetask, Since the occupa- tion of Orleans by the Prussians, October 14, after a series of severe battles, the fortunes of war have not favored the German armies with that same unvarying success which charac- terized the early days of the cam- paign, ‘The battles in which the im- perial forces were engaged, from the very day even on which ‘Louis received his baptism of fire,” wore distinguished by disas- ters as unprecedenicd as they were continu- ous. Weissenburg, Woerth, Forbach, Metz, -Tour, Rezonville, Beaumont and Sedan With the fall of But a short time elapsed ere Metz By this capitula- At this period of the war a change became The republic had some time since The investment of Paris, in tho Had the German armies, the war probably have been brought to a close sooner than itwillbe. The armies of the Loire, of the North, of the Vosges, together with others, were boing organized. It is only neces- sary to recall the late war in this country to illustrate Low rapidly mew can be got ready for the field when emergency demands it. The incentive for immediate action was immense. The republic had been proclaimed, but the soil of France was occupied by the invader; the imperial armies had all failed, and where the empire proved powerless the ropubllo re- solved to be successful, which cheered the drooping spirits of the French people was that won by General Pal- The firat success adiues, November 9, Von der Tana was driven from Orleans and the city reoccupied by the French. Paladines is condemned by some for not following up the advantage he gained by this victory, but a little reflection; we think, will show that {t was the pari ofa prudent commander to pursue the course ho had chosen. recruits, nor was his army sufficiently strong in numbers to risk such aw advance, Von der Tann could oaly have been driven back on the main body of the German army before Paris. Army of the Loire was engaged, aad although Von der Tann had now the Duke of Meeklen- burg and Prince Frederick Charles aos bis allies he accomplished no decisive result, for the battle at Beaune la Rolande was at best only a very doubtful victory for the Ger- mane, His troops were nouarly all raw Besides, A lull succeeded, and again the About this time a new element appeared, Gambetts and Keratry had plans for victory. Full well do the people of this couatry know, without recapitu- lation here, how the Northern armies in the late war wore hampered, retarded, almost demo- yalized, by the same insidious influence, until General Grant assumed the supreme com- mand and resolved to fight the battlee of the nation according te the rules of military science, and not in keeping with the ways of political intrigues. This determination saved the Union; the lack of it works injuricusly for the cause of France, Paladiues was removed and another general appointed to his com- mand. The Army of the Loire has since then been divided ; still, however, it remains de- flant. And this is not the only army of the republic. The late sortity from Paris have proven that Trochu’s forces are capable of good work. In the North of France another army, daily increasing in numbers, also exists. Tho Army of the Vosges is still complete, Sonth- ern France, it must be admitted, has not re- sponded as it should to the appeals of the re- public. This exhibit we lay before eur read- érs, and from it they can: judge how republl- can France has maintained itself up to the presont, tine,” ‘The armies of the empire have, one by one, laid down their arms almost at the approach of the enemy. The armies of the repnblic, laboring under heavy disadvantages, still present an undaunted front, and though the forlorn hope they now lead may fall, still failure cannot rob from them the gratitude of their country nor the admiration of the world. Rossrry oy JEWELS has not only become a common praetice, but a science. The last suc- cessful attempt in this way was that of a re- spectable looking old gentleman, cryisg “Whoa!” to his horse, while he was filling his pockets with jewels in the presence of the inno- cent storekeeper, who thought that a gentle- man with a horse and buggy at the door and a full wallet to show could not be a thief. But that was just where the tradesman was at fault, because the horse and buggy were trap and the wallet contained only worthless money. But the jewels were gone, The moral of this atory is that storekeepers should be more on thair onard at thia holiday season. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2%, 1870, The Ocenpation of Tours, The report comes that this city, 60 recently the capital of France, has been occupied by the Prussians without opposition, The story is probably true; for some time we heard that- a force under Prince Frederick Obarles was in its immediate neighborhood, ang Gambetta did not intend to hold it Jonger than was necessary to secure the retreat of General Chauzy westward, It ig enoguraglg to know that Gampetia had the | zt gourage to glve up the city without 6pposition Father “ad to Boon up a small atmy inside to hold ho bo captured ith it. When the Frote armies have loarned to give itp thelr _untenabl g e r non-strategic cities as easily as théy er lives and services to the éaqsefor which th i are warring they will have foudd the cheapes and most thorough method of conduoting war against a foreign enemy. It is the principle of Moscow warfare adjusted to a summer cli- mate. The city of Tours has none of tho great his- toric reminiscences so general among the an- cient cities of France to commend it especially to the French love of dramatic niceties. Its past history is 80 intimately connected with Louis XL, the weak-minded, and his barber, Olliver Lo Dain, that no feeling of old ancestral pride is much touched by the German desecra- tion of the city. How Tmyos Are Dong “Quretty” IN Gxoraia.—Our despatches in regard to the election in Georgia are very amusing as well as instructive. In one despatch we are in- formed that ‘‘the election is progressing quietly,” that ‘there {s no disturbance ;” in another that “the military have been called out to suppress a negro riot;” in another that “a white man has been arrested for inciting negroes to vote illegally;” in another that “three election managers have been arrested and imprisoned for receiving illegal votes,” and finally that ‘Judge Linton Stephens, brother of the well known Alexander H., has knocked down a Dr. Brown in a personal allercation.” If this 1s the way the Georgians have of conducting things ‘‘quletly” they cer- tainly have a lively method of showing it, Anpy Jounson’s Ortnion.—Andy Johnson has just told an interviewer that General Grant is no more fit to be President than a “goose.” Will the defunct “bushelman” never “sink the shop?” Personal Intelligence. Major D. A. Stark, of the British Army, who is stationed at Moutreai, arrived yesterday at the St. Dents Hotel. Speaker Blaine, of the House of Representatives, reached this city last evening from Washington and put up at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. M. Oleof Stevensen, the new Swedish Minister to Washington, 13 among the arrivals by the steamer Russia, He 1s temporarily at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr. R. T, Banks, Mayor of Balumore, and four mempers of the Baltimore Uommenh Council, are stopping at the Grand Central Hotel. Judge 5. O. Hastings, of San Francisco, 1s staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge David Davis, of Washington, came to the clty yesterday and alighted at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. William H. Barnum, member of Congress from Connecticut, arrived yesterday at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mrs. Governor Sprague, of Rhodé Island, and her sister, iiss Chase, are at the Hoffman House. THE AMAZON. Reta:n of the Cornell University Exploring Party. The scientific world waa thrown into quite a flutter yesterday by the arrival of the Brazilian mail steamer Merrimac, which arrived in New. York on Wednesday night, with Protessor Frederick ©. Hartt and party, who have been on an ex- ploring expedition up through the Valley of the Amazon. The vessel now Hes at the pier at Har- beck’s stores, Brooklyn, She had on board a num- ber of boxes containing a large collection of geo- logical speciinens, fossil fishes and mollusks. This collection 1s designed for Cornell ove whitier it was sent yesterday in charge of Mr. W. A, Wilmot, one of the gentlomen composing the ex- plorlng party. iS ‘The cetatls of the expedition as narrated by the explorers are very interesting and important, as they tend -to disprove Professor Agassiz’s South American glacial theory. The party left this clty in June last, and have been absent six months. Ai- riviug at St. Carlos, in the mowth of the Amazon river, they embarked on board a steamer for Obyd to which point vessels ply regularly. A small vessel was here chartered, and they proceeded farther ‘west up the great river, occasionally diverging from their course to explore the Xinga, Tapajoz, Tocan- tins, Pacaxa, Garppataba, Ironbeas, Canoma and other tributaries of the Amazon. Lt many prs on the tributaries navigation was e remely iMeult, and small boats Lad to be used, Vegetation is remarkably luxuriant, and gome of Paty! ST oe poupaee t [sigesd hevmnped or arch formed by the branches of the trees meeting overhead, ‘the branches ire fatervwinéd with vines so thickly that itis impossible to see the sky through them. Frequently 1t is so dark at midday in this tunnel that torches aré necessary to enable the ex- plorers to make thelr way. Monstrous reptiles in- Test these jungles. Professor Hartt and his companions encountered no little danger and hardship, but what they saw and the important knowledge which they gained amply repaid them for their trouble. Discoveries made by fessor Harti’s party, it is said, tend, to great measure, to dispute brotessor. 8 theory. Professor Hartt’s party are of the opinion that the “scratches” supposed to have been bd by glaciers ages ago are Owing to cntircly oat causes. It nical is ae thet Professor Hartt’s geolo; uinens and fossil mollusks and fishes comprise the largest collection of the kind ever brought at one time from Brazil. THE EAST BIVYE BRIDGE, mnt RRA nh Tke Caisson on the Brooklyn Side the Proper Depth. Lotxry The catsson or foundation of the tower of the Bast river briage on the Brooklyn shore -has been sent home to its bed beneath the bottom of the river. ‘The announcement of the fact was made by the superintendent of the work, Mr. W. O. Kingsley, yes- terday. [tis now forty-five feet below low tide mark, thus making the top or roof of the massive wooden structure four feet below thesuriace of the river bed, suficiently beneath the mud to shield jt from the action of the marine insects, The weight of the caisson 1s 80,000 tons, Stone piers, topped with brick, sevonty-four in number, have been erected at close intervals in the chambers: of the structure. Each of these piers is four feet square, and they were built to within two feet of the roof of the chambers, oe Which the caissou has been gradually lowered. The rate of the sinking procéss has been about eighteen inches por week, The filliiig of tho cavity ‘Will be commenced to-day. Seven thonsand yards ie concrete will be required to fill in. This work will weupy @ large force until the 1st of March, when the caisson Will be 9 soltd mass, ready for the raising of the tower, — WEAVY HAUL BY BURGLARS. The residence of James B, Colgate, at Glenwood, near Yonkers, Westchester county, was entered at an early hour yesterday morning by two burglars, who succeeded in carrying off a quantity of articles, including furs, Jewelry, wearing apparel and siiver- ware, Valued in ail ab $1,300, As the burglars were descent from his sleeping apartment Mr, Colgate awoke and Instantly raised an alarm, which was re- sponded to by three sto shots from the retreatin; robbers. The des) es subsequently Look the Failrond fo Hust into #3, und aiter br: King bates store at that place proceeded fo Dob ) Ferry, where they got on board the Montreal ¢: and left for the city, twenty minutes before a posse of the Yonkers police arrived at the last named place, FIRE IN JERSEY CITY. is Late last night a fire was discovered in Moore & Co.'s steel elastic car wheel factory, located in Greene gtreet, Jersey City. The firemen were romptiy on hand, but notwithstanding their efforts Proud of about $16; rod by the com- 000 will Bu any. It is not like that baidding was red, ot ap couiolod Suir aout pix Weeks ac’ The Descendants of the Pilgrims Celebrate Their Briltiant and Intel the Gifth jubiice of the landing of the Filgrims ea geljgom has there Worthy descendant of the many f 3 Rot n, General MoDowell, Ralph Waido A little before seven the guosts werd tiarshalled mien of the old-time Puritans, filed into the banquets At the conclusion of the substantial part of tho A PURITAN BANQUET. Fifth Jubileo by a “Frugal Dinner” at Dob Mopico’e-Speech by Gencral Shor- man—A ~< eptnal, Astemblage, ‘The New haiuaateee eat last the slxty-Arth anuiversary of tho New York eS Of the sooiety b, Reg’ at Delmonico’s, , bei $very sett In tho large saloon was fi an ay gether @ more billiané gt blage. Jgdeed, the presen' nets for which this has long beer pen g thé quests werd General Sherman, Sesrotary William Cullen Bryant, Mr. Consul ald and Dr. Bellows. ; ‘ Ane os y by Mr. E. M. Bailey and Mr. J, H, Choate, and with an aspect but little resembling the sad and sober ing hall, the band meantime striking up a patriotic alr, festivities a brief.and appropriate prayer was de- livered by Kev, Merrill Richardson, the Chairman. PURITAN Wit, Mr, JoserH H. Qnoare then delivered a discuretve but humorous speech of some twenty minutes in length, At least naif that time, however, was takon up by the up- roarious and irresistible laughter with whion he waa constantly interrupted. After a few introductory remarks the speaker compared himself to the Presi. dent of the United States, In the first place, he said, he was like the President in that only one person in the United States could hold either position at the same time. Then again, they were alike in the fact that both positions deserved twice the amount of salary which was awarded tothem, And lastly it was a»solutely neces- sary for the tncumbents of both positions to have @ distinct and definite policy of ther own. His (Mr. Choate’s) policy was the vory simple one of letting every one do and say and act and think exactly a3 he pleased, Whether the same system would do equally well for his illustrious colleague in Washington was somewhat doubtful, Mr. Choate, at the conclusion of his speech, relapsed into a perfectly wonderiul spell of seriousness, in the course of which he pald an elo- quent tribute to the solid virtues of the noble men in whose houor the present banquet was being held. But, ere he closed, he relapsed into his usuat inveterate vein of kindiy humor, and he coucluded amid the loudest enthusiam of mirth, ‘To the first toast, of “Lhe Day We Celeprate,” the Rev, Dr. Bellows cloquently responded, landing the Puritans for thetr intolerance of everything that was base, mean and vicious, Tne next toast, “Tho President,” was acknowle edged by Secretary Robeson, who, as was perhapa but natural, pelted his governmental chief with aov- eral pounds Of verbai sugar plams, Rate W. EmMexson spoke in response to the third toast, gnd at considerable length, making an amusing reference to the high tribute which the Secretary of the Navy Department at L nopptey, yee bad Cee wd paid to the Pilgxim Fathers and the peopie of Tg England. But-he believed history would second his efforts in that repect. No doubt the Pilgrim Fathers did n good many eccentric things, but they did more that were not eccentric. He might be a little greon about them—(laugiter)—but of course he expected his Ignorance in that respect.to be overlooked. As he had not been instructed to make a speech he said of course one could not be expected trom him, * GENERAL SHEBMAN’S SPEECH. To the next toast—“The Army and Navy”—Gen- oral SHERMAN responded as follows:—I did not learn until J came nere lo-night the toast to whioh I was to respond, and as it 15 somewhat novel, the Army and Navy—(applanse and laughter)—I hope you will permit me to preface it by a few remarks to aig me with your society. 1 first doubtea muclt ir had a right to 9) here at all—whether I Was eligible to membership with men who claim Plymouth Rock or Massachusetus or New England as thelr Nome, But give me another generation, and I can say my father and mother were both New England born. GENERAL SHERMAN’S ANCESTRY, I learn from books alone that in ee years after the Pilgrins lauded at Plymouth, three persons of the name of Sherman reached the jon colony, One was the Revs 3 and bis 5 John Sherman; cousin came with sing oan Sherman, who was styled tain, This John Sherman was the ancestor of pe Sherman. John Sherman and his cousin settled a Watertown, Mass., and it is related of John Shers an that he preached @ Sermon under 9 trev at ‘atertown, Another Sherman—Samuel—was the ancestor of my family. ‘That was seven or eight generations ago. Even thus the common ai ‘y of these two families were but a kinship of cousins, and I oaly knew this & few days stnce. Samuel Sherman was @ young man of eighteen yeara of age, and, being somewhat. adventurous and of no profession, he om ted from Massachusetts to the distant country of Connecticut, He wee the branch of the family \d settled 5 ura ore le lived there until 1634 3 ford. It w 5 jig middle son was John Shermat t john at another John, and he agai & mine gone man, who was of Stratford also and @ man of con- siderable note. He was & contemporary of Roger Sherman and was 4 member of the Legislature tor thirty years. His pease child settled tn Norwalk, and perhaps there dre men living qporemember him. He was one of the people who lost property by Ar- nold’s descent upon the coast of Conuectieut, and, therefore, acquired by that a right to a portion of the five hundred thousand acres donated to Con- pectieyt in the Western Reserve, He went to thi Weat find was one of some gentiemen who mado treaty with the Indians, and in 1805 returned wo Connecticut. He went out in 1608 again and made ~ a partition of what 18 kuown as the Frieland district, Huron and Erie counties, Ohio. My father, hearing of sul bequuful coun- try in the West,a. young lawyer, twenty yeais of age, married Ine Hoyt, and went out towards the setiing Sun. Bothjof their fauilies were well known in Gonnecucat, and their families are well known still in Norwalk, My father went to Lancaster, Ohio, followeJ by tg othe? on horseback, with @& -chtid in her arms. ny think I was that child, but that is a mistake, That was Charles Sherman, who is now Judge Charles Sherman. Iam the sixth ef eleven children born in Lancaster. Qur father died: and left us ail poor, but friends came up and as sisted us, and we reached maturity and married, and the number of our children [ cannot keep count of: But I cau assure you that the Sliermans are a nu- merous familly, and are strung from liere to the Pa; cific coast. I think they obey the divine command: ment. They have gone forth, multiplied, and & hope they have done their share towat replenish: ing the earth, It nhee portion to respond for THA ARMY AND NAVY by association. Kindred pep ye they are alike dear to every,soldier—carrying as they do the same flag for the ane country and same cause. And Ve lesites to sow any seeds of disunign between t! bey ae services is not a woienee Bd Leia! @ trdé recollect a eM AsaO> Lay g ‘ith Rigs Bids oF Ade heve foughy ath its Toprospnsati 6s, 90) times in Flotida fn t} Verglades an somone in ganges a Know hd better soldiers, bagi or mies at As to eae pruty, 1 beg to construe {t in its st sense, and to 1m? fie le in it every man who can bear arms in the pubs vice; for i regular army of the United Fe ye alike, I}iave to say thi not, as We are Snited States has never bowed its neck in sitb- mission to @ foe, but always and cheerfully to the law, At present it is put a mere handful of men, 80,000 in number, and scattered over the Con- tinot from shore to stioré, so that it would require Almost a search Warrant to find them, per are om their ete ever watchful of onty one tl mn -—to protect the frontier, 60 as 10 prepare the way for Somnine ener \d little by little, as lux and facyities app! hima, the soldier knows he to be pushed out further, He is always kept: in @ desert region, without relief, witout nope and ever the subject of eternal adicus. Spoken of as tyrants, tho soldiers are yet the most- snbmisgive citizens in the land, I challenge com- parison of them with any body of men of like num- ber in any partof the Earth for subordination to the oflaw. Even inthe South, where we are taught to think the pistol and the daggor rule, send) a ive compa! f soldiers, thirty, perhaps, 1m, nd qnietdde reigns there at once. Theréd a single exception, at loast I have yet to hear one. And yet wo heat them spoken of -as tyrants, armed with the power of the law, alt over the South, ree from any responsibility to the State authorities, and you in say also protected by the laws of Congress froi arrest. Nevertheless, you cannot point to a singie instance where one soldier, officer or man has done an act of tyranny, of harshness, of cruelly or injus- tice. Now, the whole of this army, constituted ag it is, is taught the tim bedience to ts superior oflcers. ofticers, tu mee heir superiors, who atg responsible to the Ire: dent of the out States, who is responsible to the people, This chain of authori, extending from the extreme to the contre, gives us the assurance oF the army 1s 4 Cie ve body to protect the. country against friénd and foe, againgt citizen oo lien. By the simple force of eres example, and the personalrespect which command in their neighborhood, ‘hey tain porperual aes ae al cas Rata aati gree own person Lory OF ris ment We almost cov Bad delight fu the prospect ofa foreign war, where 1s Well detingl gud Dow, am cong fod ones fines duties. delicate and diMoult in tho extreme, and they Rave pers fule aid eee Sane yeu Of ado iistogre (wong and continued apolauaeg