The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1871, Page 4

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Te Beuieee. oes A—Advertisémente. 2—Advertisements. 3-The Indians: The Sioux Indians on the War Path; A New Indian Scheme—Incideats of the b (ag SO and Ri pga Re- Yiew—Temporary Acquis f Minnie Davig— The Tmpeson gat ‘of Governor Holdeu, “ot North Carolina—A River Mystery—Breakin Up @ Ball—Not @ Murder—Jersey’s Big Ratt. road Lease—The Derby Coilection—Death of ia E. Lawrence—Patal Ratiread Acct- 4—Editoriais: Leading article, “The Hopeless Prostration of Frauce—Her Cryfig Necessities for Peace”—Amnsement Announcements, S—Ralorais (Continued fiom Pourth Page)—The | ld not provoke. NEW YORK The Hopeless Prostration of Krance~Her Orying Necessities fer Peace. We do not think we exaggerate when wo say that no war in modern times has begotten so much disgust as the war which now rages on French soil, On this Continent who ia the man who is not sick of it? All the world over, where is the maa who can think, who can say, he is not tired of a war which has degenerated into butchery? We do not blame the French people. We do not blame the Ger- mans, We do not—we dare not—blame King William, or Bismarck, or Moltke, or the Crown Prince, or the Red Chariea, We dare not, so far as we know the facta, utter a single word against the Gormans, generals or soldiers, who have figured in this war. It was a war forced upon them. It was a war which they It was a war for which they were noi unprepared. Itis a war—thanks to Prussia—in which Germany has fovealed a power which a large portion of the reading puilic did not believe Germany would or could reveal. But facts are facts, Germany for once has put forth her strength, and poor France Is like the pugilist in the prize ring, who, in the last rounds, which in this case have been numerous, rises but to be knookpd dewn again. The kuock-down blows have been so numerous that the whole oivilized world begins to feel pain and anxiously asks itself the question whother it is not time that the vanquished should recognize defeat and the victor should have his laurels? Let us look at facts, Let us consider the news of to-day. Itis now over five months since this war was entered upon, During all those moaths France has not won a single victory—we do not forget the baptism of fire and the heights of Ssarbruck. Since then how numerous have been the struggles and how numerous the French defeats! Woerth and Weisseubourg, and Grave- lotte and Sedan, and Strasbourg and Metz and Toul and Laon and Mezitres and the narmberless other fights and victorles north and east and west have reveated the weakness of France and the terrifle power of Germany uoder Prussian leadership. When this war began most men believed that the campaign would be short, sharp and decisive; they believed also that the end of the short, sharp and de- cisive campaign would repeat another Jena and make another Napoleon’ master of Ger- many. How completely all such calculations have been baflied! The baptized Prince has been with his mother the Regent for tho last four months an exile or refugee in England. All the best French generals have been made Prussian prisoners. Scarcely less than five hundred thousand of the veteran soldiers of France are looked up in German strongholds, the willing or unwilling recipients of German hospitality, The improvised government which, as we think, betrayed France, has {m- provised new armies, under new generals, and revealed not a little French pluck; but the jmprovised goverument gnd the improvised generals nd the improvised armies have disappeared like chaff before tho | wind when the German forces have appeared. After Sedan, what was not expected from Strasbourg and Metz? After the fall of Stras- bourg and after the fall of the maiden fortress, what was not expected sill! from the Govern- | inent of National Defence? Gambeita inspired great hops. We can afford to forget Napoleon, the captive at Wilhelmshihe. also to forget the exiled Empress at Chisel- hurst. But what has Gambetta done to save France ?—or Jules Favre ?—or Trochu? Poor Trochu, much against his will, is locked up in Paris. So also is Jules Favre, if he has not Liao ee HERALD, TUESDAY, JAN We can afford | ar m_ France: ‘Trochu’s last Sortie; Inside of Pans; Faidherse’s Route in the North; Bourbaki’as Re 3 Gambetta’s Defeat; The Siexe of Longwy; Naval Fights in bee Pacific—European Congress—The United ‘ates Mission at Lisbon—The Ship Lookout Missing—Personal Intelligence—The BEratp | obtained a safe conduct to attend the London in Massachusetts and Missourl—View: , SF ease Business Notiocs ee ews of the | Conference. And what has become of the ‘Proceedings in Congress—Navai Intell, H The Beautiful Snow: Among the Peo ie Walle wasp who edited La Lanterne? Gambetta, een oer eae 5 Gers on 8 | we know, preferred a balloon escape to life in Three Hours Kew Terk Clty Sows—Riding Paris. But what has Gambetta done? Tours ver a Precipice—Abdnctio De ” ; ‘Aooldent-The Ocntral ants Coc was a grand centre, full for a time of hope for | Lecture by Dr. McCosh on “Science and Natural Theolegy”—Murder in Kinderhook ~ Sir John Rose's Mission—Terrible ne in the West—Fire in Milford, Mass.—! - monial Infellcity la New Hampahire. 7—Advertisements. 8—An Ixion Wheél; The James Fisk, Jr., Spt Against the Albany and Susquehanna t road Company—The Pennsylvania Coal Trade— Voice of the People—Turning the Tables—A Burgiars’ Quartet—Marshal Sharpe's Dead- leck—Hrookiyn Municipal Affairs — ee ings in tne Ceurte—Wt and Trape—The Methodist Preachers—Interesting Seduction Case in Michigan. 9—Oourts (Continued from Fighth Page)—The Bart- lett Mystery In Savannah—Muraered in Cold Blood: Stocking Death of # Wealthy Long Islander—Army Intelligence—Financial and Commercial Keports—a Dog's Kevengo—Will of Edward C. Deiavan—Journalistic Noves— Marriages, Birth and Deaths. we German Empire—Bismarck and favre— The british Parilament—News from Washing- ton and Albany—Shipping Intelligence—Ad- vertiserments, Opor or TaINTED Bez¥F—The withholding, by Governor Bullock, of Georgia, of the cer- tificate of election to Congress of Nelsen Tift, upon a very flimsy pretext. the competirig can- didate, Major Whitely, having already grace- fully thrown up the sponge and acknowledged his defeat. That Bullock needs pickling. Tue “Laxcvace or tre Grrart Here- arrer.”—Rulloff, the murderer, condemned to be hung at Binghamiou, is employing his time in writing’ essays tos gapor in that city on the subject of ancien! and modern lan- guages. Would it not be well for him to study what Longfellow would cail the “lancnage of the great hereatter ?” THe Hover Jupiixy Comsirree have fogreet to report a supplementary election law giving United States inspectors power to do pent anything that seems likely to prevent voting, even in State elections, The gentlemen who compose this commit- tee are in danger of logislatiag too much in ‘this matter. The original enforcement act, which secured such a falr and orderly election aere last November, was an excellent measure, out it may be spoiled by too much legislation, nat as the original republican plan of recon- traction was spoiled, and, like reconstruction, ‘t may ‘‘returnto plagne the inventor.” Anorarr Buu for the licensing of houses of {1 fame has been introduced in the Assembly nd will probably provoke as general discus- jon as the Original Jacobs bill did a year or oth the friends and opponents of the measure. he fact is that the vicious business is carried * a in this city to a frightful extent, and should - brought under the regulation of the authori- es, not merely as a question of revenue, but Tours did well. given up for Bordeaux; and Bordeaux may well ask what they have | France. History will not refuse to admit that But Tours had to be and to-day Tours done for France? The Army of the Loire and the Army of the North and the Army of the East were all the creations of the Govern- ment of National Defence; but De Paladines and Chanzy and Faidherbe and Bourbaki, not to speak of Garibaldi and the others—where are they all? Aswe have said before, look at the news of to-day. Can anything be said to eon- vince the public ef the misery of Paris and the hopelessness thereof? Sortie after sortie has failed, The sortie of the 19th, the details of which we have given to the American pub- lic by special telegrams, has proved more dis- astrous than any or all of its predecessors, Chanzy, with Gambetta at his heels, flees to Cherbourg and the sea. Longwy, the last lingering hope of France in the north, isin flames. Bourbaki, who was to give life to the east, is demoralized aud helpless, It isa sad and painful résumé of facte. But facts are stronger than arguments—more potent than any eloquence—and the painful conclusion must be accepted. What is the conclusion? It is none other than this—that France is hopelessly defeated, aud that the prolongation of the war is reveling to the common sefise of mankind. It is not to be denied that the prolongation of the war is due mainly to Gambétta and his set. We can forgive Trochu and we can for- give Jules Favre because they have not been ina position to know the facts. Gambetta, however, can plead no such ignorance, Like Milton’s Satan, or Goethe's Mephistopheles, he seems to find a specia! pleasure In anarchy and the parent. Anything rather than give up the power, Anything rather than let go the reine. Gambetta is greater. We have no interest in Gambetta ; but we have an interest in Paris, a deep interest in the welfare of the French people. have hoped against hope. We have sighed for peace, because we have felt that the pro- which now exists, 0 again it is not because we honor fighting in any sense, but because the paraliel is useful and inetractive, ali the misery of which anarchy oan call itself Paris ia great, France fs great; but We have hoped for France; but we longation of the war was a cruel wrong to poor France—who, in the anomalous state of things has no voico—and woago. High moral ground will be taken by | a cruel wrong to humanity at large. We have already referred to the prize ring. If we do When the pugilist is defeated and cannot throw up the sponge his seconds means also of preventing many other | do it for him, It is not unfair to say that poor that find their origin in these places, | France is being compelled to stand up when of effectually preventing their being mado | she has no strength to stand; that she is com- f thieves and desperadocs, velled to oudure blows when she cannot reveat premises, oF it thom, and that for the want of a second she fs being kicked when she is down, Had France a voice to-day she would give in; she would say, “I am beat.” That France is being so abused, that no voice cries peccavé constitutes a ain for which the Government of National Defence, but particu- larly Gambetta, must be lastingly responsible, The prostration of France to-day has not, we think, any parallel in bistory, It might be possible for Prussia to prove that Prussia, after Jona, was more humiliated and even moro exhausted, But leaving that aside, it must be admitted that war has not, in the memory of living men, taken so cruel a form. The successes of Prussia, originally by many hailed as triumphs, have degenerated into butcheries; and yet no reflecting man, the wide world over, can gay that Prussia is to blame, France will not yield, or, rather, does not yield, because France has no yolce to apeak for herself. If this war is not soon ended, If Paris does not soon surrender, this -“bloodlest picture in the book of timo” must become a disgrace to the nations of the civil- ized world, The London Conference waits and refuses to act. It is not at all impos- sible that the London Conference may be reproached by history for its indifference and supineness. After all, however, the blamo must rest with the men who claim to repre- sent France, In 1814, and once again in 1815, France succumbed to the invader, because the men whom in those days France trusted loved France moro than their personal power, It is not 60 to-day; hence the trouble, The Military Situation in France, Gambetta still maintains his defiant position. Notwithstanding the numerous defeats which of late have been sustained by the armies of France there is a disposition evinced to con- tinue the struggle, fight to the bitter end, and if possible secure success, The war now, on the French side, has assumed the phase of a forlorn hope, with the chances altogether in favor of the German arinies, Men may be raised in France, armles may be furnished with ail the implements of war, but the contest seems so altogether hopeless that the warmest sympathizers with the Freach people have begun to regard the situation as hopeless, What, then, do the speeches of Gambetta amount to? They cannot discipline an army, nor can they stay the victorious tide of German success, Cuanzy's army is almost hopelessly used up for further offensive opera- tions; Faidherbe’s forces have been defeated so disastrously that the struggle in the north has assumed so melancholy a phase that for some time, at least, nothing can be expected of it, and Bourbaki’s campaign has ended in so ineffective @ manner that If he fa able to save his army from annihilation he will be ac- complishing as much as his most ardent ad- mirers expect frem him, Trochu in Paris has shown in his recent sorties that he has been able to do nothing. To the north of the doomed clty, as well ag in the south, defeat had wiichaea thé operations of the French arms. St. Denis has - bee silenced—another proof of the thoreugh investment of the capital and. of the efii- ciency of tho German armies, With such | successes as those which are recorded in the telegrams published In this morning's | Heratp we may at any moment expect to hear | of the capitulation of Paris, Trochu asks for on armistice, which Moltke denies. The ap- plication of itself implies the weakness of the pent-up Parisians more forcibly than any argu- ment we could urge as sa evidence of the fast waning strength of the French. The defeat of the Army of the Loire, upon the success of which the Parisians built up such flattering hopes, has operated so unfavorably on the besleged Parisians that they have no heart to continue the struggle, The creation of a | triumvirate, composed of Génerals Vinoy, Trebault and Clement Thomas, to take the place of General Trochu, cannot mend matters, We think, however, when the war closes that it can be shown that General Trochu lacked the self-reliance necessary to secure that success which the French armies aimed at, but which they were never able to attain, It is now too late to make changes, and the homely adage of the late President Lincoln, that it is unlucky or was bad policy to swap horses while crossing. a stream, so applies to the present situation of affairs in France that none will attempt to deny its force. Looking all over the situation in France to-day we cannot see the slightest glimmer of hope for the French cause. Beaten in the West, beaten in the East, beaten in the North and almost paralyzed in Paris, we cannot sce even a loophole for French escape. Gambetta may rave, Trochu plan, Chanzy speculate, Bourbaki attempt and Faidherbe reorganize, but what do all these amount to in faco of the practical results which everywhere follow the operations of German arms, No one knows better to-day what the French require than General Moltke; no one, not those even among ihe French themselves, can so thorongbly appreciate the advan- tage of the acquisition of time to the French as the German Commander-in-Chief; but that time so much needed by the French ¢annot be fad, and the want of it will bring defost to the French armies as surely as to-morrow’s #im will rise, In face, then, of the disasters which in all probability must result if the struggle is continued, would it not be humane on the part of the leaders who now conduct the affairs of France to bring this dreadful and useless sacrifice of human life to aclose? The day cannot long be delayed when France will have to yleld; all hope is gone, further resistance is vain; a continu. ance of the struggle is criminal and France is now helpless. Were the sentiments of the French people to-day truly interpreted, in the face of the calamities which have befallen them, we have no hesitation in saying that the ex- clamation would be, coming from the hearts of the people, ‘‘Let us have peace.” Nimrop Tween, the mighty hunter of the period, 1s now bent on bringing down small religious game. He introduced a bill {n the State Senate yesterday, giving religious corpo- rations the right to purchase lands and erect houses for schools and the residences of clergymen, if they wish, Waar Is Taz Marrer witn Ovr Cairor- mia Exouances?—The Alia California has not been received at this office for some time, and tho San Francisco Bulletin only comes soml-occasionally. What's the matter? UARY 24, 187L—WiTH SUPPLEMENT. Bismarck Places Jules Envro in a ‘Cor. ner’—Uan the Frenth Statesman “Come to Time t” : Premier Count von Bismarck continues to use the Cabinet pen of Prussian diplomacy against the ministerlal arguments of the gentlemen who have undertaken to conduct the affairs of France in as pointed a manner and quite as actively as Yon Molike does the bayonet and the cannon against Paris, French ministerial logic tells for nothing in its theorizing plaint, which inclines considerably towards sophistry, against the hard brained, perhaps hard-hearted, materialism of the North German Minister. He fs positively bewildering to M. Jules Favre on the subject of the Fronch represen- tation in the London Conference, Indeed, it appears as if Bismarck has determined that the famous Frenoh statesman and legislator shall not be able to recognize himself by the time ho reaches his chair near the “green table” in Downing street, but that he will appear before the other delegates after the fashion of the little woman in the nursery tale, who fell asleep by the wayside and could not identify herself on waking, for the reason that the mischievous boys had ‘cut her petticoats all round about,” causlaog her to exclaim, “this can be none of I.” By a oable telegram from Berlin we are enabled to state to-day that Bils- marck has issued a olroular on the sub- ject of M. Favre's mission to London and his application for a Prussian safe conduct ass from Paris, The Count declined to enter into “any such negotlations,” His roasons are:—Presuming that the authority of the French provisional government bad not been recognized by the French nation the Prussian army commanders allowed M. Favre to pass their lines on one occasion without prejudging the question of recognition of the republic. It is now impossible to give M. Favre a Prussian pass, for the reason of his declaration that an invitation to take partin the proceedings of the congress, or the taking of part therein by him, “would be @ recognition of the French republic.” Bismarck is more than satirical in hia concluding words, He is sovere, particu- larly when ho inquires if it is really worth M. Favre's trouble to seek to go to London, asthe “interests which are at stake in Paris overshadow the Eastern question.” The German Premier, who is a veritable Gradgrind in the matter of ‘‘facts,” has, by the circulation of this State paper, thrown a new description of shell iato Paris—a missile which may be taken either way, “‘raw or on the half shell.” It is “working” indeed already ; for we are informed by another cable telegram, which reached us last night, that ell the Mayors in Paris have met for @ consultation on the case of M. Jules Favre and the conference and Bis- marck, and that they did not know what to make of it, and go separated divided in opinion, and consequently without arriving ata doe cisive resolution, M. Favre thus remains in a very noyel and extraordinary position. He own identity. A Regular Old Siylo Snow Storm. -It has cemo at last. We were beginning to be puzzled with the continued dryness of the winter—a freezing drought—with its conse- quences of exhausted sireamsin New England and shortened supplies of water here and in Jersey City and Philadelphia, until we heard of the heavy snow storm out West, coming in like a Russian with a rush, from the Rocky Mountains, and spreading itself all round to Chicago to te depth of nearly two feet ona level. Then we bezan to think it will be our turn next for a good old-fashioned, white- eoated, continental nor’easter, blockading the city railways and putting all downtown move- ments up town out of joiat, When that light, drizzling rain came on last Saturday night wo thought it would probably enlarge itself into a steady, welcome easterly rain of two or three days’ duration, to make up for lost time; but lo, and behold! after an hour ortwo the elouds had vanished and The stars with glory crown’d the night, The change, however, from the compara- tively mild temperature of Saturday evening to the Canadian cold of Sunday morning was ominous, It wes a change which portended mischief, and with the report yesterday morn- ing from Washington that it was snowing there, and that the wind was dead set north- east, we knew what, with the Washington railway train, was coming. When, about noon, there began to fall here from the leaden sky a light drizzle of fine, sharp, cutting particles of snow, We were satisfled that it meant busi- ness—that at last, under a full spread of can- vas, a regular old style January nor’easter, dead in the wind’s eye, heading into and np Chesapeake Bay, from the aboundiog vapors of the Gulf Siream, was making the run of the Atlantic slope for the Blusnoses of Nova Scotia. The storm appears to have extended from Virginia, the ‘Old Domin- ion,” to the New Dominion; from south to north, and from the windy waste of Coney Island westward to the woods of Micbigan, It is remarkable, too, that this storm was ushered in with the coldest skies of the season— the thermometer in the morning marking here about ten degrees above zero, and the cold in- creasing with every league northward, till at Calais, Me., it reached—where nothing is green except the travellers to that God-forsaken country—the Greenland November figure of thirty degrees below zero. Such a snow as this 1s bad for the town, or, we may say, asa horse car driver defines it, “It is a perfect nuisance ;” but it is a great thing for the coun- try, to say nothing of the half-way houses on routeto High Bridge and other suburban places, and to say nothing of sleighs, sleigh belles and livery stables. We think it likely that as the spell of our long dry time has at length been broken we shall have a liberal supply of rains and snows henceforward till the return of the flowera of May. This storm, at all events, makes a conspicuous landmark in the progress of the winter, just asa great battle makes its mark for the historian of a war. A TampgRANcr Movement prom THE Rica Directioy.—The formation of a Congressional Temperance Society in Washington is a good movement from the right direotion. Now let us have a Legislative temperance movement in Albany, It may spread with advantage to Now York city, and gradually extend, with beneficial effects, all over the country. Butin order to succeed it must bo kept aloof from the corrupting Influences of politics, ‘ay come, porhaps, in the end, to doubt bis | Congress Yesterday—A Boon ite Potsloucté— Civil Service Reform—The Nostal Tele- araph—The Air Line Railroad to \Washing- ton—Staf! Rask in the Navy. A most important bill was taken up in the Senate yesterday, and passed without digcus- slon, and even without the formality of a vote by yoas and nays. We refer to a bill reported . by Senator Edmunds, from the Committee on Pensions, glving to all military and naval pen- sionera, including widows and orphans, an in- crease of twenty per cent on the amounts now paid to them, such increase to commence from the 4th of March next, and to continue for five years. As the annual amonnt of our present pension roll is- thirty millions of dollars, this bill will add six millions a year to the expenditures of the government, making for the five years an additional outlay of thirty millions, This is a large ex- penditure in the aggregate, although few would find fault with the liberality of Congress in ro- gard to tho poor pensioners, We only fear that it will bo made uso of as an argument to continue the income tax and to keep up the high duties on imports, The question of the Georgla Senatorship came up in the form of a report from the Judl- clary Committee, declaring Joshua Hi'l en- titled tothe seat, with a minority report de- olaring Messrs. Farrow and Whiteley entitled to seats; and still another minorlty report, signed by Senator Thurman, endorsing tho majority report, and giving the second seat to Mr, Miller for the term ending 4th March next, They were all laid aside for future action, The fifth member from Georgia, Mr. Payne, was sworn In and admitted to his soat in the House of Representatives, The resolutions of the Indiana Legislature, instructing the Senators and requesting the Representatives from that State to vote against the annexation of St. Domingo, were pre- sented in the House by an Indiana member and in tho Senate by Mr. Sumner. Subse- quently Senator Trumbull’s bill to rellove members of Congress from importunity in relation to applications for offico was taken up | and discassed in the Senate till adjourament. The business of the House yesterday, as on every Monday, was of a miscelianeous charac- | A large number of bills wero introduced | ter. and referred. The only one of public interest among them was one to reduce the rates of | telegraphic correspondence and to connect the | telegraphs with the Postal Department of the | government. But inasmuch as the bill rather seeks to incorporate a new company, with special priviloges, than to turn over the whole business of telegraphing to the Post Office Departmont, it 1s not very easy to see where the advantage over the existiag system comes in. The matter was referred to the special committee on the subject, and will be heard of no more during the present session. The bill for the Air Line Railroad between this city and Washington came up, ‘but as its “consideration is limited tp what ts technically known as the “morning hour,” its opponents had only to consume the tino by dilatory mo- tions to sead it over till next Monday, and that parliamentary manceuvre was resorted to with success, Afterwards the bill establishing staff rank in the navy for officers of the Med- ical Department, the Pay Department and the Bugineers’ Deprrtment, came up, and was 4) cussed for some time, the argument on the one , side being that it was necessary to have those staff ranks defined in order to prevent confu- sion and disagreement in the service, and the argument on the other side being that such | designation of rank was not only unnecessary, ; but absord. However, Naval Affairs carried its point, and the bill | was passed. A summary of its provisions will be found in our Congressional reports. This, with the passage of a bill for the appoint- ment of a commissioner on fish and fisheries, to inquire into the causes of the diminution | of the supply of food fish in the waters of the sea coast and lakes, and io report remedies therefor, was the only business of any public interest that came before the House yesterday. Marshal Sharpe’s “Dendlock.” The even tenor of the ways of the officials in the federal courts building, on Chambers street, has been unexpectedly ruffled and disturbed within the past few days. This unusual state of affairs arises through the action of United States Marsbal Sharpe, who has assumed the principal réle of an original version of the play ‘“‘A New Way to Pay Old Debts.” The Marshal, it seems, has a penchant for disburs- ing the moneys of the federal government which come into his bands from sales of pro- } perty seized by him and his deputies under the judicial process of the federal courts of the district. Like a shrewd operator, he firat de- ducts from these public funds his own expensea, perquisites and emoluments, and then, with a savoir faire hardly to be expected from so rough an exterior as possessed by him, he makes return of the balance, and politely re- quests Mr, Betts, Clerk of the United States District Court, to legalize his action by taxing and certifying the bills presented to him in the usual way. But Mr, Betts is a stickler for form and precedent, and prefers to be guided rather by the leticr of the law and his experience of its ebuervance by other marshals for twenty-five years than to yield to the sharp practice of the present successor of all past marshals. He therefore declines te accept the cash returns of the Marshal's office other. than in the “gross.” Besides which, Mr. Betts claims that Mr. Sharpo has not farnished with his mutilated accounts the proper vouchers to enable him to officially pass upon them, even were they fn all other respects correct. The rule of Court on this branch of the Mar- shal’s duties recites, “‘When any moneys shall come to the hands of the Marshal, under or by virtue of any order or process of the Court, he shall forthwith pay over the ‘gross’ amount thereof to the Clerk, with a bill of his charges thereon,” Sc. By what mental or legal light the Marshal interprets the foregoing rule to satisfy his official conscience that he is right in maklag his deductions first and payments afterwards does not yet appear. An opportunity, how- ever, will be afforded him ina day or two to explain himstlf on the subject before Judge Blatchford, whose attontion has been already directed, to the “little onpleasantness” created by the, Marshal's waywardness or legal obli- x to read the law aright, In the meantime o affairs of the District Clork’s office are ata the Committee on | aeRMlock,” Ia hs fat aa thoy tolate (6A businéss:returns of the office with the at ties at Wasdington. A Law to Prevent Murder by Apethes carie? Agsistante. The Albany Legislature uhould not adjourm withoat passing a law to prevent murder of training on the part of apothecaries al}. in their employ, for their thorough examinss tion by duly authorized medical men before belng permitted to open or to serve in drag- gista’ shops, and for severe penalties in every case of fatal consequences from ignorance or carelessness in dispensing medicines, has be- come absolutely indispensable, How urgent is the necessity of passing and rigidly enforcing it is shown by the alarming frequency of scci- dents—nearly all of which have proved fatal—» occasioned by culpable mistakes on the part of apothecaries or their assistants during the past year, The number of these accidents occurring in this city alone is almost inoredi- ble. Every other city in the land can exhibit & proportionately fearful list. One phy- siclan in Boston has said that three times within a singla year he has had his prescriptions answered by the return of substances which were not written for, and although these mistakes were not of a danger-, ous character they betrayed a carolessness or ignorance on the part of the dispenser whick would indicate the possibility of future mise takes not so harmless, The samo physician communicated to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal ® case in which he was called in the night time to a patient who had an ulcer upon the lower log, from which the bandages had not been removed for several days, and the foul ulceration had opened a blood vessel. The doctor wrote for a scruple of persulphate of iron, After waiting for half an hour, during which the hemorrhage waa checked by the application of ice, the messen- ger returned with « quantity of powdered sul phate of fron. In this instance the Ignorance | of the person left in attendance was fortu- nately followed by no ill consequences, but in many cases time thus lost might be a very serious matter, To some countries such an occurrence would be impossible, because there the aumber of apothecaries’ sheps is limited by law, and no one can be principal or assisiant who has not studied a cortuin time and passed certain examinations. In England public opinion was so much excited by Professor Taylor's rex | port, published in 1864, on the number of { deaths caused by poisons in that country, demonstrating that a very@rge percentage ofthe same was the result of carelessness in ! dispensing om the part of apothecaries, asta | lead to the proposal of all sorts of remedies | except the right one, in the form ‘poison | bills,” safety botiles, &e., ‘inti i $3 | that oxpress Parligmentary action in the pre< | mises was requisite, and a strict law wat | paseed to restrain the evil. In France the | Soclété de Pharmacie, founded in 1771, and the Ecole de Pharmacie have together edu« { cated the public mind to a sense of the indis¢ pensableness of thorough training on the part of apothecaries and their assistants. Many | of the latter have full diplomas as apothecaries ‘ long before they set up in business for thems ' selves, and the former are, ‘without exception, obliged to present certificates of having passed elght years of study in legally established pharmacies, or three years in practice and. ! three years in following lectures, to pass three | rigid examinations and to be twenty-five years | of age, in order to receive the diplomas which entitle them to exercise their profession in all the departments of France, The Frencl i apothecary fs held responsible for the mis- | takes of his assistants. | The growing tendency in our American cities to conyert a serious and responsible businass into a faney goods establishment, where numerous salesmen are required, has been properly reprohended by some of oa | medical journals as | most dangerous evil. ; A learned profession should not be allawed to degenerate into a mere trade, Not a fow of the fatal mistakes in apothecaries’ shops have been made by assistants whose extrome youth | is an exaggeration rather than an extenuation ; of their guilt and that of thoir employers, and our neighbor Hndaut sets a good example by ; conspicuously placarding as a rule ‘No medi- cines dispensed by boys.” But we repeat, the Legislature should pass a law to prevent mnr- | der by apothecarias’ assistants, whother boys or meu, ‘Tae Burns ANNIVERSARY will be celebrated this year with great éclat, This evening the Rev. Samuel Osgood, D, D., will deliver am oration before the Buras Club, at Steinway Hall, Mr. William Qullen Bryant presiding, and the annual dinner of the club will be held | to-morrow evening at the Metropolitan Hotel, with tie usual variety of toasts, speeches and song appropriate to so festive an occasion. Both of these celebrations will attract some of tho most distinguished of our citizeas among the hearty and mirthful throng of “Auld Scotia’s” sons, who delight to honor the gentus: andthe momory of the bard of the people, “Bobby Burns.” Hox. Josnva Hri1 seems to be the only one of Georgia’s numerous delegation at all likely to secure admission to the Senate. Poor Blodgett, who has-been flying around Wash ington trying to impress the magnitude of his own claims upon the Judiciary Committeo, ie not eveu mentioned in their report, Governor Horpen’s InmrgacuMEst —Oue special despatch from Raleigh shows that Gov~ ernor Holden is determined to make a strong fight for his gubernatorial seat in Norih Caro-. lina. Impeachment trials are at the beet merely lumbering vehicles for party spite, and we have not had any very important precedent case in this. country yet which need disoour- age Governor Holden, The radioalg in Con- gross wore ‘as venomous in their hatred of President Johnson as the Ku Klux in North Carolina are in their hatred of Governor, Holden, and yet he escaped impeachmerA, and we doubt not Gavernor Holden has as goed a chance, THE ABpvOTION Cas in Saugertics, “whiow we chronicle elsewhere, is one of numerous attempts which are probably never hop¢d of in the public prints, to lead young cowntry girls iho tho sin and shame of the oliv. This oaga