The New York Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1871, Page 8

id :.. in the Streets After + tmends in the provin™ the Elections. WAITING FOR THE VERDICT. Prussian Lancers Riding Down Helpless People. THE PARISIANS DEJECTED. Movements of the Zevolationary Socialist Democrsoy. PARis, Feb, 13, 1871. ‘The official revurns of te elections appear to be w feat of arithmetic that the Mayors ot Paris, although sided by 8,000 scrutators, are utterly unable to ac- complich, The ciectious in Paris took place on ihe Sth; but as yet we have received no official state- ment as to the names of those who are to represent this city in the National Assembly, It was oryin- ally announced that the state of the polis would be made known on Friday; then appeared a notice, signed by Jules Favre, stating that, it being utterly impossible to effect the examination of the Votes within the time fixed by the order of the 8th February, the public must rest content for anotner twenty-four hours. The calmness with which the peopte read the placard was surprising. They have become so accustomed to find the promises made by the government broken that they have long since given up belief in the fowery etfasions ef the men ofthe 4ih September. Paristan exeltabtiity has been “knocked into a eaeked hat by tho vicissi- ‘Tuces of the last four months, We take things as ‘hey come and are tnankfal. Two days since the Parisians voted, but they are stil! in the dark as tothe result of their handiwork. A.few months mnce, when imperial velvet ruled the destinies of France, a delay of a few hours in making known to the Belleville pets the state of the popular vote Would have been the signal for riot and barricades. M. Rochefort would have cried aloud tor vengeance in the next number of*the Laverne; i. Gustave Flourens woulkl have screeched the war whoop; paving stones would have beon torn up; omnibuses overturned; Napoleon would have tremblet-on his throne and sycophants tottered around it. In those days of imperial tyranny the oppressors of tae people did not dare to trife with the puble patience. Now, however, Jack 18 a3 good as his master, and his master 1s as good as Jack. What Goes it mat’er whether the result of the electuons were known last week or this? Whether Garibaldi or the Duc d’Anmale, Loals Blane or Prince Napoleon, Jules Pavre or the Pope, represents the inhabitants of Paris, whose intellects have been all more or less stagnated by the siege? Busl- mess men declare that they find 1t impossible to bring their minds again to work. Our heads have vecome unbalanced by the strange, iselated existence we have endured during the past five mont! OC the events which have occurred during ovr 1in- prisonment we know nothiag. The worla has gone Toll.-ng on anead of us; it will be long before we can take up tne running. The slowness in giving the results of the voling is scandaious. In 1848 it was Verified in less than twenty-foar hours. On the oc- casion of the plcdirctte, last year, you may remember that I telegraphed the Paris vote, and, indeed, that of nearly the entire country, durisg the nglt. Yes- terday the National Assembly met at Bordeaux, and yet the Paris elections were not actually known. Jt 36 certain, however, that the capital has placed at the head of the tist the names most nighly prized by the republic. Paris, undaunted by a fve months’ slege, sends to Bordeaux tuose who have getically advised res'stance and opp: Yon, With regard to the Paris elections itis sald that one-trd of the imseribed electors abstalued from voting. This, with a want of proper unde! standing between the various factions of the Liperal conservatives must be the cause ¢ THR VicroRY Another reason sientions is been prison tage of tbe x .ENT PARTY, wiven fr ihe great umber of aly. ne Latural desire of those who have in Paris jor montis to tase adyan- niistice and retura to their “ives or auciful position Of the country at the present momen’ triotism should have tduced atl tot thetr right of vote, even & oT self-gratiGeation. as on the conduct of th 1 Asgemoly tue falure of France will di IN THE PROVINCES the liberal In Paris, nat the Pr of the Sout eo 16.8 Pro t that the nd have a! hosiie movement 1 iat thetr conditions wil ing the arwistice they have continued to prepare for the renewal of he aris of course, utterly powerless, state quo. On Saturday the ly stopped there was r of the con- aused a pa gives “of wounded been brutally k ihy the enemy, of surgeons hay. ing been assassinated, of a wounded captain of the Franes-Ureurs having been tied hands aud f burned alive, Is sufticient fo exasnerate commit reprisals, Ihave meruriahiy the best of my power a fuir, UNBIASED ACCOUNT OF f SCENES I NESSED. Not having been present at acis of eruelty commited vy the Pruxsians { have hitherto passed without notice the b-utal and savage conduct attriuved to the enemy by the French press. 1 have been in- formed on reltab' 2 of the Pru sian wounded were at batJe fields near the pa unjustifiable act was accounted ‘The Freuch had adv, While retreating some German wounded fired as th passed and the brench despatcned them. 1 count given by Gariba'd) avpears increditite, Thad read it on Saturday, instead of this meroing, wWwould have passed unvot! i have r whenever I have Yesterday | we m1 There was a ple waiting peac ¢ slaewatk for ther t to pass the Jin ter the passes had been ined. Neither by gesture nor word w cation offered to The enemy. One of the Pru tue people back with Is hor raised iit band to save himself, the lane angrily in German, “Don't toneh my then reining ick € gave him the spor and detiberat he crowd, scattering, WAVE wit- anpar, thus.—- TAE number © Atte) in Americ v reaked sumania although vertain o| t 5 it was a ema Fr. Uniorinuarely, tt boy hurled a sione Oy Was not a good sh fortuna wee et strong in ine a the s e » the When leaving §t. Denis the veer $0 cross another bri¢gs, 4 A lancer charged an Wy m quantity of glass on His Lack. brutal that an infantry soldier attitude of the Prenen iz most rer explicavie. The vom to accustomed 1s no longer virib Kable; it 1s tu yo we se; Lo ise A coOmmON Out of tem.” Their courage ts undou are evidently detorall Cen ¢ on revenge, viding their ume, joa Of aiman Of iron Will v Iife and action? the bretal assaults commicted Fiscors, apd J returued home saadenec by of thie Daturully lively population now s eT FEW MONTHS APTEAN 112% 4 DREAM, Te Fonperial Guard leaving with enth em, the ‘passage of troops of ory any anne a id artillery amd the cavefuliy oy flreade Mivrallieuses 1 dese ibed to you if aft y. Where are they now?! Swep! away—scarcely a vestige of tho oril Rant throng 16 be found In Paris atag the @stadiis ment of the reprblic With a government of sirenger minds. Muittary pageantry ané gilitering perals, linperial juxary and effeminacy gave way fore sco), calculuting lawyers, accustomed to ana ze facts, | France would hé regencrated; party feel- would no longer obstruct the defence of the country. France aud history wiii pass @ severe Judgment on the self-constituted dire of na uons’ destiules. Sveryiing, they demanded nas Deon cheerfully accorded, The people had put one to save France. The government wiellea umited power. Men, money, Givers of sorvice, the enpport of every class 1 approval of the p bat thes roodiny se aye bom agetn the ‘assistance of 2 oress Werd at mean. They decreed and all obeyed. Who can t the joy and hope meotented uy the be- wleged inbabitauts of the capita when they heard, ac. | aod if a a Y | chairman thar the list Would now bo opened by Mr. ession, “She ght appesreto have been takey | It made my blood boll to wit- | NEW October, fal tem For monthg hope; but he i@ now prostrate. OUR PRESENT Carriviry, although provisions are more be more undearable, since We hive tact with our j than bread and horse 5 ceasant roar of poet i) nes, lief approached thé. ca, ny, have gurrende ana the troops ule that dtea hope bas given place to 9 tion and discontent ost: diaiculs te be de us fed’ a the the jeacribe hould continue war the pointment eit ns at not being able to render assistance Whee, Detlef that the wer will he cent hes daring the as Bhoula Take’ of have coveted shoal t ‘be upab! veat them, natural enongh: but the cannot believe will ratify whe cession and 1,660,009 huinan beings withous consul! Aud hence those most anxious tor peace lear that thelr desire Will not be acer polut worthy of remark js that ti 1 tees, of which the ist of canted; to a great Xtont triumphed m Pens, are pet lesihg their ume. Yo-morrow an extreorelpery eleewral ny Ryne take place, Two delegates from each chib In the twenty arrondissements are invited by the electoral wocialist revoluttonary committee, constituted by the Interaavtonal Workingmen'’s Associaton, the federal chamoer of werklag socletes, and the dele- tion from the twenty atrondissements of Paris, object of the mocting is toarrange the defini- | tive list, for whten the REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY Wui Vote en nurese, The moderate republicans do hot uppreve of the Parts vote. Bers Soca ser uae with the excepuien of a few pames which do bonor | to the persons who selecied tiem, euch as Victor Hugo, Quynet and Louis Blane, the voting In Paris isto be deplored. Varis has botsted the re@ fag of democracy, the provinces have displayed that of reaction. The display of PROVISIONS IN THE SUOP WINDOWS increases daily, but the prices, although consid reduced, are sill high. The aru: tice nas Increased the prices in the villages near Paris. At Longyumeaa the price of meat 18 tour franes per pound, butter three francs, bread thirty-five centhned a pound. It is stated that iuch of the Baglish gift bas vecn Diost grossly misappropriated, and that shopkeepers have boaste’ that the merchandiee 1m their windows: has been o tained from the Englisl stock of pro- visions, Atmong other things sent Irom London, on ait, is. a splendid stock of York hams and bacon, | the odor of whteu app: to have been too much for the German troops, who, when th provisions ¢ tueir ln fell upod the Bo cheer in- tended for starving Parisians, and replaced it with the horrible, rank Silesia bacon which has durtug the past few days been served out at che Mairies of Paris. bly AUSTRIA. ibe Freseh tious—False Security of the Maypsbures—What Is Necessary for the Safety of the Empire. FRANKFORT, Feb. 16, 1871. The Freach elections have been the all interesung topic of ihe day, as on their result the continuance of the war or an early peace was depending. For everybody connected with France it was clear that free elections would result {n the return of a monar- chical Assembiy, as the French peasant is adverse to the tilbulations of party warfare, inseparable of a republic In France, and quite in the hands of the Cathulle priests, Who abhor the very name of a re- public. It will never do in polities to cherish illusions, sud the Germans would have been ill advised indeed if they had made dependent their future security on the ever-changing form of any French government, As 104s, the Orieans party are in £0 large a majority that their ascending the throve ts only a matter of time, ‘The Orieans being a peaceable race and well minded to foreign countries i must be considered for the whole world the best way out of the dilemma the Frenet hav got themseives into by raising a Bonaparte to the throne, who could only maintain his authority by bullying other pations and by med- ding in their aifairs. France is so rick a country and so blessed by nature that she will speedily rée- cover from all her imuisfortunes if she looks to her own afurs and jets other wegple atone. While things take a better turn in France they are agaih on the wrong side in Austria. THE HAPSBURGS AR® INCURABLE, ana believe themselves so much adored and thelr hereditary right so firmly established that they can never undersiand the necessities of a constitutional and modern government. The new Ministry ap- appointed for Cisiithuania 1s the gacntiet thrown into the face of the German people; itis just as if President Graut would fora & cabluet uf secession- ista, leaving the Hungarians aside, Who have their distiact nallonality and who: the pluck to make o di even © obstinate and ret+ the same recogniz rs. The Germans are THE VITAL ELEMENT of the Austrian monarchy. They excel all other remnants of antiquated tribes of the motley Staie in Industry, Knowledge and wealth. They shall now submit tobe ruied b: Ozechs in the nar- row-minded Czechian interes It appears that the Hapsbargers mean thereby to separate the German ieS under their sway from the rest of the Fath- Tn this they will be greatly mistaken, The mian people do not co domination over ign nations, but they h. oved that they are the si half inbabite pait and parce! sounded o st e3 Db, Itis t nity to believe allow @ Wedge to be driv Jet so iw ofthe § auy mom press the cfecily n Stutes With reascn, s, Is mab cigpire, and sur jerman verritory. é rian peopie will 2 into their body, and to portant a country become the headquarters aL the t is under their dominior 1 at Vienn re the Free Press shave nothing to , mind what you are We fear, but you in thé Hapsot about.” HE Vins? CRY OF DISTRESS ed to by millions in doomed to p2r- me. There ec: mance of the ristocracy amontanes will be crampled into the dust, and that the Austrian people will be great guiners If (hey get rid of their miser- able govcrmipent by a timely sui TSE MARBLE CATAEDRAL, Mavey Pouring in for the Completion of the New St. Patrick’s Cathedral—Meeting ut tholic Archbis op’: thie beautiful ¢ which, When comp eburch at Fifly-frst street 1, Will be the finest ornament to Firth aveune, need not be delayed In construction for of liberality on the pert of the faithful. Happuly tor its success, 1t has become A PASIONABLE OBJHLT OF DONATION, | apd the crowutng of Its graceful spire will only be ler of time, since the pecuniary side of the question presents no barrier. Atthe meeting on the 28d uit, the large sum of $65, ‘bed, and at the adjourned iInveting held on Thursday evening at the Archiepis- ' copal palace, a outpourmg ot generosity was manifested. ir taken by Mr. Wai- liam O'Brien. Archbishop McCloskey made a brie? speech apituluting the necessity of promptly con- » elnding the work ea the marble tempie, Catholic | unificence had worked wonders jutherto, and he | ped that this course would be sustained. Ie in- K, the architect, who, ted his intention of $1,500 per | services in lt was stated by the | Hoguet, the secretary, for additional donations, and j calied on the gentiewen present to register ther with the following maguitieent result:— 3 Of subsertber ng of .3d February, 200 | ug of Thursday W. 5. Caldw ditional Jobu Mo | Total. totes ° oa motion toe me | they state, has been an | the retail! business wonld be dene ' The Reman Catholic Influence Fusing with the Growing German Power. BRUSSELS, Feb. 12, 1871. Euro: ¢ 18 }iterally in a stateof fusion. It reminds one of the great cauldron of the sorceress in Goéthe’s “Fanst'’—some imps are standing round stirring up the infernal potion, while others endeavor to draw near, desirous of their share. The unengaged princely and royal aspirants are ‘he imps, who are domg their utmost in politics, in order, in their turn, to fish in the cau:dron of European complications, into which Bismarck has plunged, pell mell, royalty, feudal absolutiaes, Constitutional, democratic, dema- gogical and even socialistic principles, It 1s left to the chance of the fork or sword-~all ts there. But in order to approach the permission of the German Chance!ler is necessary, who 1s about to prove that he was not too rash when he exclaimed, “Why speak tome of Europe? That no ionger exists, There is but Prussia.” In this chaos of doubt a great fact, | Geserving general artention, comes prominently tuto the foreground—the hostile and fortunate RETURN OF CATHOLICISM, It was belieyed to have been overthrown, not in; deed as dogma, but as a political party. The fallef | ; the temporal power of Papacy was belicved to haye caused tts annihilation in a fatal and irretrievable manner. But, of! surprise! The clerical party has never shown mere forcibly its pro:ean character. It was in Beigiuin, 4318 well Known, that the fall of the temporal power of the Pope coincided with the return of the Catholics to power. Six or seven months have elapsed since that time, and to-day the clerical and legitimist party is rising from tts Sepulchre in France, ts holding up its head, anu takes its place as a living party with which we aball have to deal. It may well be compared with the resurrection of Luzarus, SHB LEGITIMISTS AND THE CATHOLIC POWER. Who could have believed that the withered lites which had been piousty placed among relics by a few noble laches of the Faubourg St. Germain would have been made again to blossom? One cannot for & Moment hesitate on this score. All those now 10 France who have returned within the folds of the principles of the legitimist party are Catholics and upholders of the temporal- power, They had no other choice but Bonapartism or legitimausm, inas- much as they know they haye no more hope from the Orleanists tnan from the republicans. BISHOP DUPANLOUP'S LETTER. The advice given, without the aid of Prusstan bayonets, by Monseigneur Dupantoup, Bishop of Oricans, in his letter to the electors, was:—“Be united In a great, wide sentiment ef. patriousm. Wrest our country frem the abyss iuto which she has sunk; give to yourselves at last an uncontested government, founded upon order and upon just Principles of right; aud, chat it may no longer be the pl layshing of revolution, conciliate authority with uberty.” FRANCE, BELGIUM AND GRAMANY, And it 13 not only in Belgium and in France that a transivory revival, or, to usé @® French idiomatic expression, “Lele de la St. Martin,” of Catholicism nay be seen. A positive phenomenon ts now taking piace in Germany. It 1s scarcely necessary, 1 imagine, to recail to mind that the principal ¢le- ments in the obstinate resis ance met with by Prassia in her absorbing projects of German unifica- Uon was the Catho.ic elemeut. It has been wit- nessed with what tenacity the Catholics of Bavaria defended to the very last the bulwark of Bavaria independence, noth withstanding the breach caused by the diplomacy of Bismarck and by the strategic bullets of General Moltke, Well, by an evolution as untoreseen as it 18 ficant, the Bavarian ultra- montaves are on the point, 1f they haye not done so already, of going over, bag and baggage, to the ry of the Protestant Emperor Wiliam I. of THE BAVARIAN ULTRAMONTANES. The chief of the Bavarian ultramontanes, the Zealous defender of tufailibilty, the uncompro- mising aaversary of Prussia, M, Joerg, bas just Wruten in tue Historical and Catholic Review, pub- lished by bim, a regular manifesto, entitled “The Last Days of Bavariz."” Mr, Joerg, who had fought both vervally and with the pen against the entry of Bavaria into the German Confederation, 15 now going over to the enemy and {3 liberally ‘throwing “we manche apres la cognée.” He says:-—‘Since the King, the goverrment ang the Qhamber have cow- ardly abdicated; since they threw fneinselves Junto the arins of Prussia, let us demand and proclaim the divorce. Let us Lave in view nothing but our Uathohc Interests. Experience proves they are beiter protected, better eneltered {rom violence in Prussia than in any other German Stare annexed to the Confederation. Let us earnestiy rally round the Emperor and the empire.” Behold an ally whoin Bismarck, Dot over scrupulous, will take good care not to desp: COMING EVENTS. M. de Bismarck foresees the contests he is to ex- pect. The liberals and democrats of Germany, es- pecially in the South, sovner or later, will com- mence the strife. Such an sy will be welcome; and the ¢! i party, exclaiming, ‘Cinna, let us be friend: Hi not hold ous the hand to him in yarn. We sball then s triple alliance, ror; Protestant Russ the realization of a strange with her Greek-Pope Empe- and the ultramontane party. ‘This 1s a case in which It may not only pe said that extremes nicer, but that they blend toxether. What opposition could Eur offer to -0 formidable a coalition? DEFECTIONS AMONG THE LIBERALS, Alas! in the body of the liberals the detections are as humerous as tue falterings, Joubt is a source of irritation, and freezes the most ardent convictions. For the present the party of lherty nave nothing to do but ty collect together their disbanded members, to concentrate theinseives, to organize thelr legions: and to walt, The liberal party alone can afford to watt. Lieerty can never be wholly opliterated. Liberty is eternal, and her triumph, under any eventualiues, assure MARKETREN’S PROPOSAL, the Pro- ‘ihey Mean to Do— posers Are and What ie et the Wheel. ‘The recent agitation on the market question has inoroughly aroused the occupants of Washington and West Washington Markets to a full sense of the value of the interests ainvolvee, and they have set themselves to work to find a clear road which will suit all parties through the chaos of contending interests which now block the way. The difficulty seems to be that the public, which is composed of wholesale { and retali consumers, wants one thing, the sinking jund another, and the marketmen (who are retail aad Wholesale dealers) something different. In the endesvor to unify all nese - CLASHING INTE! the present occupanis of the ther committes, = propoze to present upok = =& proper valuation, by competent pariles for Uwenty-one years, with wherage privileges and renewals of tne same at au annual rentalof ten per cent on the assessed value of the property. ‘ihey farther agree to builda MAGNIFICENT IRON STRUCTURE on the ground vow occupied by Washington Market, with ai the modern improvements and conve: miences for market purposes, five years from the date cf the conclusion of the a They say they wili, at the same limé, bind themscives ty keep the premises fa accordance with the sanitary rates of the Board of Health. ‘They Will pay on cach renewal of the term ten per cent upon the valine of ihe estate as it may then be esti- inated, minvs the improvements, which shall revert to the tenants on the expiration of the lease. If through lease the the ground between tue present market front and the ayer stall be filled in they cower to take it on the same terms, all fees jor wagons to be collected by them and a'l priviteges to be theirs, as at present. ‘fhe market, roved lately ty the amount i They contend that SHOULD THEI PLAN KE CARRIED OUT up town, and ihe erect Would become an ex- Hlishment, which would he ¢ Interests of the public 2 an impe ent y he whirans baz o A DEPOS FOR THE EQIR RATLWAY, for which tt 1s sought to displace them. After a careful consideration of the numerous inter- ests invo:ved the marketnien have come to the con- clusion that this proposition would be the simplest and most equitable solution, and the most directly tending to the interests of tue public, of the qnestion at isue, than f A SAD STORY. A Drevken Hasband and a Dead Wile. On Thuraaay afternoon the wife of Edward Gur- gen, of 448 West Tulrty-sccond street, committed suicide by taking Paris green. When officer Morgan, of the Twentieth precinct, enterc] tacir apartments he found the wife lytag on the floor, in one corner of the room, dead, and the hasbaud lying in the mid- dle of the foor stupidiy dronk, ile was removed to the stetion house, and remamod pratislly «unconscious until yesterday morning, when he was informed of the uniortunate ondiuon of his domesii: affairs. He was conveyed vefore Justice Cox cn a charge of habvituai intoxtea- tion, but, promising to remain sober until his wife was buried, was allowed to go home, Gurgen has ame place on day evening nex | willing to eigu cheeks for the object ai 3 luvite. been constantly mtoxteated for the past three weeks, antl megiected to provide for his family, cl d to have 60 worked upon his wife's ed to destroy herself, YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1871.—-W1ITH SUPPLEMEN Soiideet tinectats tay ar tana 482: | FORMIDABLE EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL. The College of the City of New York. THE COURTS. wer The results of the late semi-annual examination | The Oase of Oaptain Grindle, of the Old Colony— in the college have just been announced. There has never been @ more thorough and at the same time more satisfactory examination. The Faculty feel greatly pleased over it, and rightly, too; but not miore than the trustees, and not more than ali should who feel an interest in the success and growth of the eoliege. The following table gives the resulte of the examination:— Not to umber Number Return to Number in bs al | Sentore, 81 ‘a ‘ ~ al | Juatore.. 8 a 1 od Sophomores, 63 5 2 Freshmen... 144 121 2B 7 Introductory 293 232 60 - Total...... 684 405 8 r) Tu conversing with President Webb concerning the recent examination it was gratifying to hear him express strong feeling of personal regard for all the Faculty. He was particularly pleased with tne resulta in vhe Greex Department, where the order now maintained enapies the Professor to give evl- dence of his high scuolarty ability and gain for the ‘the reputation tt aspires to gain as an instl- tution offermg to good students a strong and thorough curr! The students have now a de- culum. clded interest In weir Greek. i @ literary maga- in _ this country— been epenbiy pabuened. in Cornell verel- only. 0 Coll in Harvard, cnigan an Unt study of history pertoney a . To this het should be add th pollens. of the City of New York. In the fo New York Free Academy a Professorship of. a Belles Lettres was one of the first ited. 18 Was in 1848, Theodore Irving was 1852, in Which year he was succeeded Charles E. Anthon, the present Professor, For the last een years universal history bas been ay stematics taught in the academy and its suc- ir, the Age on the plan of the Scotch ry hat «is, by wu & text book, whence Pg studeni prepare their recitu- tons, by then making the _ recita & groundwork on which all manner of observations, illustrations, theories, applications and supplement ary instruction generally, is embroidered. The ob- jects kept steadily In view are to give the stucent nowledge and a desire to obtain more Knowledge, to interest him in history, to exhibit the right method of cultivating it, and to encourage and de- yelop an unpreyudiced and candid spirit of historical researcd. Jn the college curriculum, ac- cordingly, this branch has from the first been con- sidered as holding a position by no means inferior to any other, and its influence has been as marked and satisfactory as any. In connection with the above it may be remarked that, as to the attention paid to literatare proper and the study of English in our City College, it 1s pro- bably no exaggeration to say it possesses the most complete curriculum in this department of our col- leges, while the introductory class are exercised in false syntax, prosody aud versification, with me- mortter tasks in American poetry, and cultivate an elementary but useful acqaintance with Anglo- Saxon and the historic basis of English forms. In the college course proper the Freshmen enter first pea. the study of American literature, on the basis of H. T. Tackerman’s summary, going throu, aiso a thorough course in the derivation or the language, with dictation exercises in connection therewith. In the Sophomore class the study of synonymes by a remarkably thorough system acquaints the student with the nice discriminations of the language; and gueny the second term the ‘wtudy of i, literature, in its philosophy as well Ma Ritors, naw'’s Manual being the text book, Is carried up to Queen Anne's reign. The Juniors take up the history of the Eng'ish language and continue the stady of the iterature. The Seniors study French and German literature from Botta’s General Handboos. One drawback 1s to be noted, that the Public schools, which furnish the material for the Colloge, are not as successiul as could pe desired in teacbing spelling and elementary. mar. Proti- clent in “test words,”’ in the spelling of those in I abe students of the College are too apt bly deficient—a deficiency for which the public ig inched to blamé the College itself, Walle tne fault is solely with the public schools. The Netessity for Normal Instructi Ail the large cities of the Union, even Providence, R.1., were anti lately ahead of New York city in the matter of norinal instruction. Heretofore scholars possessing a certain amount of Knowledge, and that of akind principally bazed on memorizing, obtained certificates as teachers. These diplomas once procured, the graduates feund places in the public schools, and then without any question as to fitness, without any evidence of the power to dls- cipline or re sixty or seventy pupils were en- trusted to thgir care. Is it eny wonder that conse- quences of tf worst kind resulted? Such teachera, entering on ther duties withent actral teaching experience, must necessarily blunder and fall, ana blunder and fail they did. Ry such Instruction children acquired a alsgust tor all kuowleage, and, preferring the free and open streets to the diy routine exercises of the schoolroom, swelled the sounz army of Idlers aud vagrants with which this cily 1s infested. Now, 1t1s from this army that our juvenile thieves are re- cruited, to reform whom our taxpayers expend im- Mense sums annually. ‘die remedy for this state of things is casy and natural. It ts simply to render the schoolrooin attractive, to make knowledge interest: Ing iastead of repulsive by employing skiiled teachers. In a word, weed incompetent teachel to make way for properly traimed instructors. T! this is done the growmg evil of vagrancy, with ats atteydant burden of taxation, caunot be avoided or diminisned. Consttered from this point of wew alone the question “Will normal instruction pay? 1s answered. ‘There is another aspect which enables us to see that, by meaus of such instruc. ton, our present apprepriations for educational purposes can be consideraply lessened, Is a large, lneMicient standing army more economical than # smaller, becter disciplined, compact one? If four trained teachers can do more work, and bet‘er of its kind, than six untrained Instructors, and if they will perform tlus for the salaries now paid to five of the latter, cannot a considerable saving ve effected ¥ ‘The truth is, there woula be a raving in a multt- tude of respects—in school materials, book, pens, ink. slates, peacils, maps, furniture—which are costiy items of educational expenditure, Such things under the control of careless teachers are } Wasted aud abused, which under beiter manag ment would be preserved and made to last ionge AS @ step in tne rigut direction tie Normal College Was founded one year ago, and during the shot time the institution has been In existence it has me! with the most gratifying success. Tne work before the college is ef the most urgent kind, and its mag- nitude may be Judged from the fact that more than 1,009 young ladies flocked to us openmg, and the a gate of apolicaiions for admission siuce would as large a fizure. Yet, while fortunate iu its staf, in its programme of studies, and, above all, in securing the attacament of ite students, the caleee labors under serious disadvantages. Regarding the location the president tells usin his report that the noise of the neighboring theroughfares disturbs the recitations, ‘Then the classroom nccommo- dation is inadequate, the Jight i& bad, the Ventilation Worse and playground tnere is none. In the case of young men of hardy consitiuUons all this would be endurable enough, but in the case of dell- cafe young ladies, the very cream of our grammar schools, suck want of convenience aud comfert must tell on the heaith and mind, In such an attnesphere nervousness, exhaustion and prostration thrive and there the trsi seers of consumption are sown. ‘These considerations point to th: immediate ne- cessity of erecting the new Noimai College without hesttancy or delay. The site 1s marked cut, the la- borers are ready and want work, ike educational needs of our city call for such @ structure, and it 1s to be hoped that the powers that be will look to tt and lasten the consum Lou. Educational Notes, The amended charter of Long Island City has been periected by the committee of Aldermen and eit zens appointed by the Mayor. A number of side Issues have been forced upon tie board of them is, “Sheil the Bible be read in the school: The Catholic part of the community contend that as Tully two-thirds of the children of the city who attend the schools belong to Catholic families, the reading should be dispensed with, wile the Protestants con. tend that it is 4 question of State law and should not be brought mto the charter. A large part of lwo sesst has been occupied in discussing the ma'ter and hearing the opinions of citizens. “A Taxpayer” of Brook’ “xrites to one of the local papers a screed, the whele purport of which 18 a hit at “Greenteal’s New Series,” Me says:— Do you ask why I writs there undera:und that “tireenleat’s ( vigorously pressed on the [bua parties are moving bi merey's cake, in the 2 chestion Lis bet id money Ido but prevend to be much oF but T hardly torn of the sor! ut finding some the Queen’ Eng read on page BL “A lumberman, haying 630,00 { ota ida.d feet of it," or on page 148, “The coutenta of m rectangular sold eedual, kc.” ‘Now, certainly a schoo! book should be fa model af accuracy. We can hardly expect our chiidren to be guiltless of bad f mar if we put iu their hauds school books that abound fp if, Butlet this pars. There are stilt graver thoughts in Greentonr. : The arrangement J2 in some casos fntolerabte—for in- stance, when the United Statics money Is treated before dec!- mals, of which itiea direct appicstion. Ths rules are en- cumbered with many words. ¢ definitions are maddy, might cite nemerous cases ta point; but any oue, inte: rested needs only to look at the ru'cs an‘ detintiions for him- self, = ‘Worst of all, the Wook fs not practical. It docs not farnish what boys need to prepare them for the counting room—nay, it fs culpadly deticlem un s0.0€ of the most izaportant com inerclat subjects. Now here fs te sadent told the legal rate of interest in the several States, Accounts of sales, stocks and stockjobbing are not treated at all; the very word “stock,” as far as we can sce, fe not detive!. Imagine feclings of ® young man who should get. position tn W sireot and bave derive! bis business knowledge trom Green- leaf. Over 809 applications for admission to the Normal College during this month, ‘There were 530 candi dates actually examined, of whom 350 were success. ful. ‘There are now 1,126 pupil teachers in the Nermal 1 College, Oharge Against Captain Peabody and His Mates—The Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad Company Litigation —Inte- resting Contract Suit—A Contested ‘Will Case—Close of the Febru- ary Term of the Court of Gen- eral Sessions—Decisions, UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Jurisdiction of Federal Tribuaets. Wasuineron, March 4. No. 97.—The Susquehanna and Wyoining Vatley Railroad and Coat Company vs. R. M. Blaichfora and J. B. Newman.—Appeal from the Circnit Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, ‘This bill Was filed in March, 1867, to obtain the sale ef cer- tain lands belonging to the ratiroad company upon which the appellees hela @ mortgage in trast for the use of Henry Beckett, an alien, and Joseph Lioyd, a citizen, both residents of New Jersey. Beckett hela $260,000 and Loyd $78,900 of the bonds of the com- pany and the allegation was the non-payment of interést thereon. Upon the hearing the decree was for the complainants, extending only to the pay- Ment of the coupons with interest and costs, if paid within one month of the date of the decree. The Qppellants insist here that Newman, one of the p lainuns, residing in Pennsylvania, the residence of he company, the court Was,without jurisdicuon to ne the decree, except it was shown that all he bonds secured by the mor: and outstanding were owned by pari qualified by citizenship to gue in the federal courts of the district where the sult was brought, and that the suit was brought for their benefit; and these facts, it 13 satd, were not suMiciéntly shewn. 11 is urged also that the demand ‘Was insuflicient, and that the company onered to yn all the couposs presented, after deductin; the government tax. Tue appellees maintain thai ib 1s well settled that the jurisdiction of the Court, When founded upon the citizenship of the parues, rests upon that of the real, and not of the nominal erties to the suit; that “the Courts of the United tates have jurisdiction in a case between citizens of the same State if the plaintif are only nomimally such for the nse of an alien,” The question ts to be tested by ascertaining who are the parties bene- ficisily interested; in whose favor and against whom Wiil the final decree be actually made? It is mant- fest that in this case nothing can be decreed in favor of Newman, the party demurred to. Both he and Blatchford are the mere mstruments or conduits through whom the legal ght of the real plaintit could be asserted. On the merits it ts submitted (hat no proof can be found in the record sustaining the allegations of the answer as to the offer of the company to pay er the fatlure of demand, UNITED STATES CIRGUIT COUT. Captain Grindle and the Old Colony Caec. Before Judge Woodruff, ‘The trial of Captain Isaiah 8. Grindle, tne captain of the American ship Old Colony, was commenced in the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Woodruff, on an indictment chargmg him with cruelly treating two of his seamen, Raymond Rau and Franco Frank, while on a voyage from Cadlz to thls port, Assistant United States District Attor- neys Davies aud Purdy appeared for the govern- ment, ang Judge Fullerton for the accused. TESTIMONY POR THE PROSECUTION. Wm. Smith, a seaman on the vessel; Augustus Jones foolpredh, the cook,.and H. B, Dockerty, the second mate, were called as government witnesses, The testimony was, in subatance, the same as here- fotore published, the purport of it being that Rau gnd Frauk were compelled to do duty when suffering from severe illness, and were cruelly and Inbamanty treated on account ef not being able to satistactorily is such duty. The testimony also showed ‘bat on one occasion, when Rau had been sent to do work that he complained he was unable to do, he endeavored to commit suicide by hanging himself in the rigging, and was discovéred by the second mate and cut down just m time to save his life; that on another occasion, while Rau’s feet were In a dreadful condition from sores, the captain amused himself by walking over them repeatedly with hig heavy bouts; that Kan was dressed up in a fantastl- cal suit, shoes fastened on his eara, with the toes ointed upward, 80 as to make him look like a don- ey; a stick, On Which a flag was mounted, put pe- tween his manacied arms and his body, and while in this condition, and sufering from ‘hhonger and ee was made to Liarch up and down the deck jor hours with a long chain, to which he was mana- cied, dragging behind, to afford diversion for the captain; that both Kau and Frank were conflied in a close, noilsome room, with irene on their hands and chaimed to the floor, for weeks Vogether, with no sustenance ‘Dnt ~bread& and water, éxcept a little, now and then, that the cook, out of compassion, smug- gied to them, and ali because they could not work. In addition to this a conspiracy was formed To have these unfortunates charged with attempting to set the vessel on fire, 80 a8 to forestall any com- plaint they might make, on arriving at this port, on account of their Weatment; and, as the second mate testified, “a Job was put up on them,’ by Placing matches and burned paper where it was alleged Rau ana Frank had pat them for tie purpose of firing the vessel. Cn the arrival of the vessel Rau and Frank were arrested, on the complaint of the captain, for an alleged attempt at arson; but they Were goon discharged, the Coramissioner before Wuom they were brought stuting that the captain, instead of the men, should have been the party ar- rested. Other witnesses corroborated tis testl- mony, end an adjournment was had before the case Was concluded, Fa UNITED STATES DISTAICT COURT. The Boston, Hariford and Eric Railroad Company—Decree of Bankruptcy Issued. Before Judge Biatenford. In the Matter of the Bankruptey of he Boston, Harvord and Erte Ratlroad Company.—In Uns case petitions were filed by Jame: den and the Adams’ Express Company, asking for adjudication of bank- ruptey against the Boston, Hartford and Erie Ratl- road Company; whereupon Seth Adams filea an ap- Filcation for a suspension of proceedings in this aisizict in said petition, alleging te pending of proceedings of the same character upen his petition in the district of Massachusetts, Alter full character. Assistant and elaborate argument by ali parties concerned, Judge Blatchford ¢ his decision, Gismissing the application of Scth Adams. Orders of adjudication ol baukruptcy were prepzred on the 28tn Pebruary and han 1ed to the Judge for lus signature, the rati- Toad company buying previously withdrawi 23 de- nial of bankruptcy. Connsel for Adains obtained edt to reargueé lis motion, aud it came up fore the District Court. The argument was pria- cipally as to the proper construction of the sixteenth order in regard to the juriadiction of the Court. The petitioner cialmed that the pecceedings should be held here notwithstanaing the action in Maseachus- sets. Judge Blatchford amrmed his decision, deny- ing Aaums’ petition and sending the case to Regis- trar Ketchum. Arather curlous suit of crosz-practice occurred during the argument. Mr. Choate, of counsel for Seth Adams, in closing, produced a certiltea copy of dyudication in bankruptcy granted bg tue District ‘ourt of Massuchusetts, and which bore date Merch 1s71. and he clatimed that under the rute the Court in Massachusctys acquired excinsive jurisdic. diction, Such would probably have been the resutt had not Mr. Da Costa, of the counsel tor Adams Express Company, & Mr. Curus, of counsel for James Aliea, produced an adindication in bankruptcy against the Boston, Hariford aud Erie road in the Southern District cl New York, dated Miret 1, TL ‘This put an entirely new aspect upon Mtr, Cheate’ Motion, and the Court deciied as above stated. UNITED STAT S SOMMISSIONEBS’ COURT. ‘The Case of Captain Peabody. Before Comutissioner Shields, The defence in the case in which Captain Peabody and his maves are charged with crucity to colored feamen has been concluded, all the witnesses testl- fying to the captain’s and mates! uniform kinanzes to the crew. The second mate, agatast woom the | strongest case was made out by the prosecution, was aliowed to go on his ownrecountzance, and the suim- ming up Was adjourned to Monday next. SUPREME COURT—GPCCiAL. TERY. Interseting Suit as to an Asreememt Aho Building Fronts, Before Judge Ingratam, Horace F, Clark vs, Tie New York Life Insivancs ang Trust Company and James Purcell and Othe? ‘This action 1s brougat to restratn the owner and lessee of the premises on the southenst coracr of Broadway and Tyenty-second street from build- ing thereon to the Iine of the streot, and to compel them to set back thelr bulidings seven and ajall feet. ‘the owners, represented by the Trust Com- Pany and others, leased tie premices in question to James Purcell, and bound him to erect a building covering the whole premises, The original owncrs of the property on Twenty-second strect, between Broadway aud Fourth avenue, covenanted that the buildings to be erected on Twenty-second street should be set back seven and @ half feet. ‘The plaintif’ owns the lot adjoining the pre- mises in question, on Which a house was built pu suant to the restriction, and this acon 1s eee by him to deterinine whether this restriction applies to a bulding erected upon Proadway and running back on Twenty-second «treet, Of course In u case of this Intercstand mugnitude an unusual nomber of lawyers were employed and by their combined efforts managed to occupy the attention of ime Court nearly all day. For We plaintiff hero ap- eared Messrs. Beach, Daly and Brown; for tie Trust Yom pany Messrs. Betts and Robinson and Joseph J. » Martin, and for Vurce!i, Mr Wittiam H. arnoux, | ‘The evidence having ail been put In an adjournment pa . til Monday to hear the argument of Decisions. By Judge Cardozo, Hunter et al, vs, Middieton et at.—Injunction dis- solved, costs to abide event, Bentz va, —Memoranda for counsel. Soa feld ce Decline Mouon granted. ‘SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. By Judge Freedman. Isaac Hutchinson vs, Willtam Smith.—Order granted. Jesse Nall v8, Charles A, Darlington.—Same, Chartes N. Mallory vs, The West Shore Hudson River Railroad Company.—Same. John McGinn vs. Joseph Rose.—Order denying motion, with ten doliars costs, anne va, Flack,—Motion denied, with ten daery MARINE COURT, Decisions. v8. Rogeflela.—Judgment for plainthf on re- Teree ‘8 report and twenty-five dollars allowance, O' Neti vs, Attwood,—Motion granted on terms, Townsend ve. 0’ Connell.—Motion granted on terms, Haven ve, Leland.—Motion granted, Foster vs. Condit.—Motion dented. Gaghagan va, Clayton.—Referred. Townsend vs, O' Connell.— Reterred. Zalinka vs, Henkel,—Referred. The Nattonal Wood aw ne Compan vs, Held,—Judgment for plaintiff for g270 and Coste, SURROGATE’S COURT. The McCahill Contested Will Caec. Before Surrogate Hutchings. The contestea will case of Bryan McOahill occa Pied the attention of Surrogate Hutchings yesterday. McCahill died, leaving about $300,000 or $400,000, His will left some legacies, amounting in all to $2,600; for certain religieus purposes,;gave his wife @ house and household furniture and $1,200 @ year in leu of dower, and then divi all the rest of his Drosetyy, equally between nephews end nieces, excluding Bryan MoCahill, ag having had his share, and giving another, Peter Brady, seven dollars per week. A codicil, executed @ month later, gave the interest of $5,000 @ year ta the wife and children of bryan McCahill unul the youngest came of age, on Condition that he would convey the house he held to the executors of the will in trust for his wife and children. By the will the nieces’ shares are tied np for their ‘ives with cross remainders among them. The widew and some of the heirs contest the will. The Estate of Louis Bonard. The wiil of Louis Bonard, leaving the whole of his property to the Society for the Prevention of Crus to Animals, was executed on the 14th of February. Four days previously he signed another will, leaving $30,000 to his friend Walter Jones and $10,000 to Wiliam R. Bell, and the rest of his property to thé society, ‘This will, which was prepared by W. Bell, of the Registrar's office, is now in the hands Surrogate Hutchings. This puts a different tothe late Mr. Bonard’s bequest. Whether it wil affect the eccentric but philanthropic Bergh’s bile— if he has any—or not rematns to be seen. COURT OF GENESAL SESSION. Close of the Term—Senterces of Alleged Murderers and Convicted Barziars asd Thieves—Van CEcien, the Wall Street Forger, Sent to the State Prison for Nine Years. Before Recorder Hackett. Yesterday being the iast day of the Febroary term,’ which has extenued into the present month, the’ court room was crowded by lawyers and citizens” desirous of seeing the noted criminals whom thd Recorder was expected to sentence. The term Which has just ciosed will be memorable in the annals of this court. His Honor te Recorder, wig;? by the dignified and impartial manner in which he} discharges his oficial duties, disposed of more cases’ during the term than on any previous month ance he has prealded im the General Sessions, Not leas than 170 prisoners have been tried, the aggregate punishment meted out to those who werd convictea of crimes being about 800 years. the District Attorney observed to the jury a Tew days since, the majority of the indictments were for, Offences against the property of citizeus, such burglary and larceny, “And yet two celebrate: cases were tried during the month of a different ) istrict. Attorney Snullivan tried Dr.) Gwynne, who was convicted of bigamy ; also Minnie Davis, for arson, who was also found gutity, and’ Charles McDermott for outraging a little girl. } Recorder Hackett, acting up to his known record)? did not swerve from the performance of his duty. ib modifyiag the punishinent in these cases, but lncted out the full penalty. McDermott was sent for twenty years, Minule Davis ten years and Dr; Gwynne for five years, to the Stats Prison. 1 District Attorney Garvin and Messrs, Sullivan and Fellows were present In court yesterday morning. * Patrick Grinin, who pleaded gullty to Janghic atrick Grifin, who pleaded guilty to mans I. ter in the third degree. ae caused the death o! George H. Johnson, was the first prisoner arraigne: Tor sentence. Mr. Howe urged in his extenuation, lis previous good characier and the fact that he was aitacked and beaten by the deceased. ‘The Recorder. Said he never could be made to believe that he would. be justified, except by the most extraordinary cir- cumstances, from diminishing the pevalty placed in. the discretion of the Court In cases of this character. ‘The District Attorney acted with great consideration vo the accused 1 accepting the plea of manslaughter, Griitin was sent to the State Prison for four years, SENTENCE OF VAN EETEN. Louls M, Van Keten was then arraigned. Judge Stuart made some feeling remarks in mitigation of: punishment, stating that his chent knew that he had jeopardized the Interests of the commercial public by his wrongs, but that at the expiration of his punishment he promises to be a better man. i District Attorney Garvin said:--In reference to this case your Honor will recollect that the commer-, cial community in this great metropolis has been shaken from centre to circumference by the conduct of men of this description. When you sap the foun- dations of comercial credit and intercourse be; tween commercial men, and ta regard to very larg: amounts of money, and establish o° want of confidence, you shake all that 18 most sacred in business circles, ‘Chis man, whatever bia former history may have been, 1s undoubted! guilty of all that he has pleaded to in this case, ani he deserves no sort of mercy at the hands of courts or juries for what he has done. His conduct before and since the transactions for which he now appeara: at the bar of this court to-day was of such a charac- ter as to utterly preciude the possibility of any sympathy being exteuded to him. But I am bound to say that he has rendered some little service to the public by some disclosures he has made, and, notwithstanding his misdeeds, I think there ought to be some allowance made for that service. I move that sentence be passed on the two indict. ments to which he nas pleaded guilty. . The Recorder, in passing senténce. sald:— Van Eerex—This community will breathe more freely when tney shall have jcarned the sentence that f am about to pronounce. 1 do not intend to abuse you nor unnecessarily waste the ume of the ourt In adverting to the many infamies that have arked your iife. Tsimply announce the sentencd of the Court, which 18, that you be confined on the first indictinent tn ie State Prison for the period of five yeays at hard lavor, and on the second indict. ment for four veara, the punisiiment to commence at the expiration of the first sente: The spectators listened with intense interest to the sentence of Van Esten, and a general feeling of satisfaction wag manifested at the termination ot his guilty and eventtal career. The bankers who were detrauded by this accomplished forger con- sented to let Mrs. Van Meren retatn valugole atay monds which Van Eeten gave to a mistress with, whom he was travelling when the detectives ar- rested him in New Orlean: BROCKWAY REMANDED FOR SENTE! Charles 1D. Vanderpool, ailas tvor y, pleaded gullly to forgery in thet who was charged with an exter placed at the bar for sentence, Judge Garvin expressed thi might be postponed for 2 1ew come to lis Knowledge which inight Icad him to fee} it to be his daty to put Brockway on trial, as he was a forger of the stamp of Van Lcten. The Recorder directed the prisoner to be re‘nanded, OTHER SENTENCES, Philip Brady, who was conyi of an assanlt, with a danscrous weapon, was sentenced to the State Prison for eighteen months. Charies Kellly, Who was convietea of burglary tn the third degree, upon whose person a Icaded re- volver Was Touudl, Was sent to the State Prison for five years, the Recorder obsersiny thal Le was in- formed Reilly was one of the most dartug burglars in the city. John T. Koright, wio cheated an emigrant out of & tew dollars, was scuienced to the Penitentiary for sx months. His Honor sald that aithougn Enright Proved ® previous good character, he feit It to be 168 fey Pa yoroee he severest penalty which he Ould {pose FoF Hetty larceny, in order, if posetble, to broak up the organized system of emgrant swiudhing at tho Battery, Richard McGovern, who was fotutly indicted with, John Tague, pleaded .guilty to per ‘larionsly ente: ing che premises of Willlam Wi. Arnott, 418 West ‘went y-8ixtd strect, on the 2th of Jauuary, worlh of property having been stolen, Le was re- manded for sentence. His confederate was sent to the State Prison a few daye since for five years. John Donovan, who, ou the 20th of February stole a bag containing clothing, the property of William M. Chappell, was convicted of potty larceny and sent to the Penttonuary for sx months. “& HORSE: A HORSH] MY KINGDOM FOR 4 HORSE! Alonzo Green pleaded guilty to grand larceny, h counsel stating that a ycar and a haif since his client was gal ny of a similar offence. He was oharged on both occasions with stealing horses, His counsel sald wat Grecn inet with awevere acci- CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE. iy, who d degree, and ‘ive forgery, was lesire that sentence Facts had just | bi