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v- land second assistant engineers, originally appuinted to a higher grade than third lieutenant, or second assistant engineer, nor until he spall have passed a physical and proiessional examiuation, and promotions will in all cases be Imade according to merit and professional qualifica- tions, without regard vo seniority, Position in the revenue marine was regarded as a sinecure, accessible to those who had the mos in- fue est examination for entry ito the lowest grade Of the service, and upon merit alone will promotions herealter be made, Olicers” the following new sections are incurpora- ted:— / FERRY FATALITY. INUED FROM BIGHTH PAGE. that Jacob Vanderbilt ard my father are first cousins, {not aware Wat we are related in any way. og pn fovoken, and a ‘plan | bul i bore neh aah ook sar owa ave bi my F. Wuy Coptnign tay judging ' from the evidence of the ‘Aud engineer, ‘that they had four solid cooks that they bad too great a beating sur- ‘snd’ too small_o steam apace; I do mot think tron han anything to-do with the explosion at all; steam fore compressed in Water than In the steam space; water timea ts dense as vlonm nnd an enormous quantity of was stered up io the water, ano if the valve 18 fdenly opened the sleam, belug released, suddenly causes losin ONONER-Do you thipk the thirty-tecond part of an | sufficient to wil ‘the pressure of steam ? A That ee think the coudition of the ‘nothing to with it; had anything to d y Professor THURSTON-—Have you any idea what pres- of steam a& the eighth of ab inch fong would stand? That would depend upou the !eogth of ft. Lupposing it, were ‘ove or ten thousand feet in length Kt diderence would ittmake? A. ‘The shortest would i the most; | remember that l'alrbura says that the lenge the fives mugt be in proportion to ¢) diamet withstand the pressure; I no} remember rale for certaining the pressure that voller will stand tt would a wen, didicult rave detected that flaw tn the voller of the Westtield; do Delieve tm the hammer test after the boller has beck pub ether, and I am confident it would not have di is Caw; m order to find the cracks the boiler should He h pplied; the advantace because get up steam it might tif @ crack occurs it is perf; r oni svurts Out, whereas if you get up damaged, At the conclusion of this testimony the Coroner ted that the investigation would stand adjourned fntil half-past nine o’clock to-day, when, after hear- | some further tesimony, the inquest would be | josed, OUR REVENUE MARINE. evised Regulations for the Goversmont of the Service—A Rigid Observance of the | Rules to be Enforced, WASHINGTON, August 14, 1871, ‘The revised regulations for the governmeut of the venue Marine of the United States were to-day | nt to the Secretary of the Treasury from the gov- rnmeut printing office. All orders or regulations om the Treasury Department in conflict with the eW regulations are revoked, and a rigtd observance fF them is required from all persons belonging t this branch of the United States service. inder the head of “Organization” the grades of flicers in this service are captains, first, second nd third Meutenants, chief engineers and first | No person will be Heretotore a , without regard to merit. Secretary Bout- weil, as will be seen by the above, requires the strict- Under the head of “Duties of Officers, upon the receipt of orders from the de- ‘partment, are expected to obey them with alacrity, Any attempt to procure their revocation or qualitl- cation through political or other influence, being Tegarded as prejudiciai so good order and discipline, ‘Wil incur the serious displeasure of the depariment, and a note of the fact will be made upon the roster oi ofiicers Kept at the department opposite the nume of the offending arty, aud will sland so his discredit. All applica 40ns for leaves of abseace on account of sickness ust be acvompamed by ihe certificate prescribed | in the foregoing regulation, together with a certifl- cate of a Board of Survey provided for in the rollow- ing section, and the officer shail state how long he has been absent already on that account and by No ‘departure from the fore- going regulation will be made at the solicitation of éxcept In case of sickness, aud ‘hen only oduciion to the department of a certificate ct that the nature of the disease absolutely quires a change of climate, made by a Board of Survey, consisting of a surgeon m the army or the navy and the surgeon of a marine hospital, who will be invited to constitute snc board by the Col- Jector of Customs, upon ue writtea application of the officer, If these medical officers are not within Teach the Collector will select two physicians, of gvod standing, to make said survey, at the expense of We oficer concerned. Leaves than for sickness, uot to exceed thirty days'in any Oue year, may be granted to oitcers, In the discre- tion of the department, when the exigencies of the public service wil! periuit. The following section is of particular interest to underwriters and ow: of ships, and is specially Important a8 being &@ new ruie enacted by Secretary Boutwell for the protection of the government:— in all cases where revenue vessels employed in assisting vessels in distress Way mcur any heces- sary dauiages or expeuses the owners of thé vessels 59 assisted may be roqnived to indemnify the United States for the 8ame, and fo this end the commanding oilcer suai forward to the Collector of the port under whose superintendence he may be an accurate estimate of expenses incurred and’ damages sus- which the Collector will transmit to the de- pal 16, with a full statement of all the facts, to- gether with the name of the vessel, tae master and consigace at the port to waich she may be bound, Under the head of “General Instructions,” the new regulations contain tne foilowing: — ‘ The practice of presenting swords, plate or other things ol vatus by infertor oNcers or crews to thelr superior or commanding officer, in tne way of com- pliment, and all votes, resolutions or testimomals, Whelner of praise or censure,from iferiors to su- perlors, are injurious to discipime, aud are tuere- fore strictly forbidden. Tue next important addition ts the requirement on the part of the commanatug officer of revenue vessels to make their weekly report in duplicate, | absence, OEE | 6 place one copy of which witli be forwarded to the Treasury Department, Heretofore but one report was made out, anu that forwarded to the Collector of Customs | in the port where the reveaue vessel was stationed, These reports cover all the seiwures and deten- tions made ana every fact connected with any irregu- | | | larity discovered in the ships’ papers, &e. Under | tle old regulations the Collector atone held this | Anformation, and was at liberty to act or make such recommendations a be deemed proper to ube secre- tary of the ‘Treasary i the compromise of cases or | tie exaction of fines. ‘ine new rale will make the | ‘reasury Departinent the judge, and whenever cases | | | ve reported the same information that should guide olleetor Wii be velore tie Department, by the correctness of the Collector's proposition may be examined, It fre uty happens that reve- ers who are enuued one-Tourth =the amount are deprived of it by the trregularities prac- used by cusvoms oilicials. iis, too, Wil be pre- vented by the information filed’ tn the weekly re- port aud transmitied to Treasury Deparunent, giving the Treasury oficutls the privilege of decid: ing Wie are the parties gulitied to tue intormer’s share. Another lunportant section requires the commanding officer to take a complete inventory of all property beionging to the vessel, and on boing relieved to require ils successor ty receipt for 2, adupilcate copy vf Which 18 to be for under the law to of the case reported Hy has not hitherto rament Was without perty on tue revenue v Under the head of Comman(ing Steam | eosvls,? the NeW regulations require that when an leet ‘shall be appointed to tue command of a m vessel be 18 (0 use ail possible diligence to © hiunself acquainted with the principles and construction of the engines, the intention and edect ot the various parts of the wachinery, the ume the engines were constructed, the repairs they may have undergone, the period When the last repairs were mude and When the Vessel Jast recelved new boilers, Thirteen other rules bave been added, specrtying iu detati the pals the commanding officer must take to prevent and avoid accidents, parucnlarly | with regard to the duties of eagineers, one of wich prescribes that the senior engmeer on board shail examine dauy the engmes ana their dependencies and ali parts of tue vessel which are occupied oy } them cr by stores for thelr use, and to report them to tie executive officer (or inspection, to.make fimediate report should any defect or danger ve discovered. ‘ihe rules for whe government of the exrecutive officer, oiticers of the Watch , the second and third Houtenauts, have all been changed and uuportant additions made, looking to the increase of the eiliciency of the service. An entivo new set of rules has been inseried ior the government of een required, and the ainventory of the pro- de boatwaing, gunne: and = carpenters. Au inspecting officer of the rank of captain wilt hereafter be detailed by the department wo thoroughly mspect te condition of the hulls, spurs, rigging, sails, boats, maciinery aad ail the equip: | ments of the revenue vessels in service, to ascertain | if the regulations prescribed have been fully carried Ont, and whether we oiicers In the performance of | their duties have conducted themselves gener | ally with credit to the government. Ruies to prevent collisions, as prescribed by the Board of Supervising Inspectors, will hereafter govern Vessels In the Reveuue Marine Service. The above | are some of the more limportant changes and adal- | Hous made, and, as will be seen by the appotntment | of an Inspecting Olver, 16 Is the determination of Secrotary Houtwell that tie new rules shail be vigidly enforced BRROH BEATEN, Sacrificing a Haman Life to Save a Horse. Yesterday a boatman named O'Brien was drowned in the canal, near Perry street, Trenton, N. J. by some means a horse, of which the boatman had charge, got into the canal, and O'Brien, in oog in Ww aid the horse, was drowned himself, while the horse was saved.’ ‘The * ~ ‘af accidental death, Anouest resulted ia a verdict SCOTT'S CENTENARY. Tribute to the Bard of Abbotsford, Here and Elsewhere. Laying the Corner Stone of a Mon- ument in Central Park. Gathering of the Clans on the Borders of the Lake. A Brilliant and Suggestive Scene in the Playground of the Metropolis, Crations, Quotations and Libations in Honor of Sir Waiter fcott. ‘The centenary of Scotland’s wondrous novelist and epte poet, Sir Walter Scott, was yesterday made memorable by the consecration to his name of a monument in the Central Parks Two continents at one moment sympathizing through the mystic channel of @ common admiration for one great intellect, and dweiling fondiy on the story of one life atone, deciared unmistakably that mind, after all, is the only thing can. win the guer- don of immortal and universal fame. Scotland has reason to feel proud of the honors paid her vard and novelist. England has a countless roll of names distingaished in every walk of literature, Dut three centuries elapsed before the greatest of her poets was remembered by the formal homage which the custom of modern days pays to the ge- nins of the past. Not so with Sootiand. Around the world, through each recurring year, tie lovers of her brightest offspring—the lyric poet of the mass of mankind—Robert Burns, gather at the social board to kindle into enthusiastic flame the warm devotion his marvellous muse inspires. And now another of Scotland’s sons, who half acentury ago poured over the world the very eltxir of romance, fascinating every fancy and opening up treasures of mtellectual delight richer than gleaming gold or dazzling diamonds, comes up for recognition before the great court of which the whole Englisn-speaking race 18 composed. He shall take rank with Burns and with Shak- speare, and the trio of intellectual magicians snall, through the countless -ages yet to come, be lifted higher aud higher and take their places as gods of the literary firmament, America, with the vroad catholicity that marks her approval of great minds from whatever land they spring, appreciated the genius of Scott with as hearty an appreciation as any of his own coun-~ trymen, and New York, which speaks the voice of the country, determined to raise a mon ‘t to his memory, In the Central Park, which in futare years will be the great Waihalla of the world, waere already Shakspeare and Humboldt and Schiller hold a place, the wizard of Abbotsford will be rendered visible in. marble, and his monument, after the model of the beautitul design which his countrymen delignt in pointing out to the stranger amid the streets of Glasgow, will harmonize with the exquisite gems of scenic landscape all around, Not alone does New York exhibit the cosmopoll- tan side of her character in thus paying homage to the good and great of every lime, but she also shows that among her people there Is an ever ready acknowledgment of the wiumphs men achieve in the pure and intangible realms of fancy. The assemblage which witnessed yesterday’s coremontes well represented the literary and artistic elements of New York — sociely. was meet for such @ commemo- ration; and though the heather-clad lulis were absent, and the soft landscape was little sug- gestive of the boid and stirring scenes amid Scotia's mountains and valleys, which the pen of the poct loved so much to portray; yet there was a touch of nature’s trained expression on the face of the beau- tifal Park that the hermit of Abbotsford, had he been there, could hardly welp admiring. The conduct of the ceremonies was in harmony with the place and the occasion, It too often happens in this prosaic age that @ matter | of such peculiar character as paying homage to the memory of one whose gifts were of | the imagination loses force and appropriateness by | the incongruity of the surroundings. In this yin- stance, however, there was @ bappy concord. Those who spoke and dwelt upon the merits and character of the poet rose to the tevel of the occa- sion. They knew of whom they treated, and the language of their eulogy was neither inadequate nor exaggerated, Above ali did the skies and the | green flelds and the gently rustling tees and the still lake, framed im by grim grey rocks, make a fitting picture of tne foreground of the monumental site. Then the multitude covering the area around was a sympathetic one. It came to honor the higher element im man’s nature—to unite in giving visible testimony to the worth and splendor of a great and unusual light among men. No one who was present yesterday will regret the occasion, for though there was neither pomp nor display there was a something in the spirit of the hour that recailed all one's earliest recollections of those marvellous Waverley creations, which in their me, and even yet, continue to work such a spell over the milads of men. ” MARCH OF THE SOCIETIES, Some time before one o'clock ihe members of the different clubs, many of them in Highland costume, assembled at the differents places of rendezvous and prepared for tue serions business of the day. They Were soon joined by aelegates trom Jersey City, Brooklyn, Boston, Phitadelpiia, Hartford, Hudson, Auburn, Pittston and Scranton, The deiegates who repaired to THE CALEDONIAN CLUB were ushered ito the principal hall, where they Were received by Mr. John Watt, the President of the Club, and the otber offictais, ‘rhe Club House was decorated on the outside by the royal Scottish and 8t. Andrew's flag, while on the Inside the spactons rooms were thrown open for the accommodation of the guests and members. The nail of the building presented a variegated appearance, inasmuch as It had been so arranged that every clan in Scotland, with tts appropriate tarran and embiems, should be represented, In addition to the variettes of color in the Kilts, nose, | Jackets and Vests o1 the men, most of them appeared | With pniilbeg, sporan, dirk and @ Scotch bonnet, or | Glengarry, with the eagle's feather, Each clansman had asprig of dower or some distingwishing emblem in his bonnet, and a plaut fastened at the shoulders by an immense siiver and stone brooch, along with a huge broauswurd, ilaid witil silvér, and worn by the side, AL two o'clock the entire body marched out and Joined the company of the Seventy-ninth regiment of Highlanders at their armory, in Houston street, and vegan their march tn the following order:— Detachinent of Police, Seventy-ninth Regiment of Highlanders, headed by their Band. Robertson's Band, New York Caledonian Club, in full Uniform, Couutry Clubsjand Ciansmen in (uli Costume, headed by Pipers, THE ROUTE OF THB PROCESSION was up Broadway and Fifth avenue to Thirty-second street and Fourth avenue, where they Look tue cars for the Park, The Highiandmen presented a splen- did appearance, and were warmly applauded by the assembled spectators. First came tramping along the Mail, with pold front aad exultant mien, eight pipers, headed by ‘A GIGANTIC CALEDONTAN, who blew a powerful biast of martial Gaelic music, Then followed the St. Andrew Society, tity strong, with national and emblematic banners. “Close be- hind these came the Caledonian Club, the Seventy- ninth, delegates and guests in proper order Atier a brief halt at the Casino for necessary re- freshiments, the columu moved in the order named down the Mail through long lines of admiring spec- ators, and filed fate the cnelosed space set apart for the celebration of the event, THE GATRERING OF THE CLAN Long before four o'clock large crowds gatuered ground the platiorm near the place where the foundation stone was to be laid. ‘Chere haa been an | chee! unusual number of persons.in the Fark, and as tne | were to take piace aurmg me uext twenty years | Conanued hiaintense music from the bands om their arrival foated through the air troops of ladies and children and other lotterers hastened to the scene, where EVERY AVAILABLE SPOT WAS OCCUPIED, ‘There was no admission withia the amphitheatre set apart for the guests without tickets, but even this did not prevent a rush, and hundreds scrambled in together and located themselves as best they could im good positions to see and itear. A good band of music was placed at the rear of the plat- form, and Scotch airs kept the audience in pleasant antictpation until the arrival of the principal actors in the celebration, Without the encircling ropes those unable to get admission formed a goodly crowd of sight-seers and were being constantly in- creased in numbers totne end. Very soon after four o'clock the Highlanders putin an appearance, ana, arrayed in all the toggery of thetr OLD-TIME NATIONAL COSTUME, became an attraction altogether absorbing. The bagpipe lent its peculiar charm to the coming event, while the peculiarities of many of the rank and file of the Caledonian Club, nearly all of whom wore the national dress, formed a subject of con- versatioual criticism not in all cases quite laudatory either of the dress or the wearer, for the physical proportions of everyvody do not quite exactly cor- respond with the kilt and Its attachments, Yet THE SCENE WAS VERY NOVBL as the Caledonians marched ito the enclosure, and the national music made the sous and daughters of “Auld Scotia” kindie into enthusiasm as memories of the “bounie” land were thereby evoked. The crowd assembled was eminently respectable, aud could not have numbered, in the Immediate vicinity of the platform, less than two thousand persona, most of whom were, of course, Scotch or of Scotch descent. As the Seventy-ninth regiment marched in it was filed off around the enclosure, and was a good exhibit of THR BRAWNY RACE which it represented. Caiedomians appeared, led by pipers, and after these came bane of the leading splvits of the occa- lon, all of whom took seats on the platform, thereby ousting many who had been previously comfortably located there. Among tnose present were noticed Mayor Hall, Hosea B. Perkins, Lord Waiter Campbell, Commisstoner Smith, Commis- sioner Wood, Assistant Distriot Attorney Sullivan, Dr. Doremns, Rev. Dr. Thompson, Dr. Carnochan, Mr. Phillips, James Fraser, the members of the Committee on Centenary, the leading officers of the Caledontan Club and others, ‘The day was so beautttully brigtht and clear, with A GENTLE BRERZE BLOWING, that but little inconvenience was felt from the heat, ‘rhe scene was very brilliant, as the enclosure was filied, Everywhere around the eve was pleased with the picturesque effect of the Tightand cosvume, the suniiuer dresses of the ladies and the beauteous sur- roundings of the Park. A reverend silence and attention, mixed with AN EMOTION OF PRIDE called forth by the occasion, characterized the pro- ceedings. Everybody was ta the best of humor, and when the last conungeat of officiais had entered and masiers of ceremonies had space between the plattorm and the site for the monument, those who could do so comfortably seated themselves in iine or in groups on the grass and awaited the opening of the exercises, It must have been about half-past four o’ctock when the chief of the Caledonian Club addressed the Ohair- man of the Centenary Committe and informed nim that ALL WAS READY, and Rey. Dr. Thomson then delivered an eloquent and very appropriate prayer. When the eloquent and tmnpressive prayer offered up by the Rev. Dr. Thomson had been conclude Mr, irving. the Caairman of the Monument Associa- tion, came forward and sata:— LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—Monuments to the dead are not always erected to THE LLLUSTRIOUS DEAD, and are too often the mere expression of national or famtly vanity, It 18 not so tn the present case, for the statue is to one who Knew how to lighten our toils aud increase tue sum of human happiness. In Edinburg there stands a signal monument, marking the love and admiration im which Scott is held by his countrymen. ‘This statue is about to be repro- duced on this spot. The artist has already received ‘he order, and 1% at Work preparing a replica of his statue, which we shall present to the city. Itshail siand as a testament that as Scott belonged to the world, so nls fame 13 as dear to all peoples as to his own countrymen. ‘The great novelist never visited this country. His nuagination DELIGHTED TO REVEL in descriptions of paladins and lords and knights, and to describe their feasts and pomps, and never to be ured of dwelling ou their glory. Had he crossed the Atlantic and beheld our country, with Its glorious destiny and grand future, as scenes met his view the imagination thatioved to dweil upon the past, and paint ita casties aud bis chiefs, might have been tired with tue giorious prospects of the future, What would swelled with pride and exultation in a land so rich and boundless in human hopes? Was Not # republican, except in THE WARM PeELINGS that ne felt towards his fellow man, he had a'ways where he could exten couragement to them. the fast friend of your own Washington Irving, oud man’s path many of tue cditicuities that beset youthful authorsmp, Nor was Washington Irving unthankiul or slow to acknowledge (he kind assist- ance which Scort had rendered him, and speaks en- thusiastically of the works of his Scoitisi friend, and says of lum that few men have ever mintstered so much to the happiness and deligut of the people. Ladies and gentlemen, tt is not my province nor is it within my ¢apability to ILLUSTRATE THR WRITINGS OF SCOTT. That will he undertaken by an able and learned friend, who stands ciose by me, and therefore f will nov venture to tonch apon this part of the subject, But | wish to bear testimony to the great personal worth of the man whom we are assembled to honor ed, Ing and to the great purity of all bis writings. these were as remarkable for their goodn as for their wonderiul Isight into Scottish character, and for tho splendor of — their descriptions. Here we find no compromises with vice, ana there Is net one line which he has written which contd catl a blush upon the purest virgin’ Scott was always on the side of virtue, and was ever true im all the relations o life, He was faitaful in tie fulfiiment of duty, and a strict lover of justice. 1k is now forty years since THE HARP OF THE NORTH was broken, and now in the country of his birth, here, aud in other lands thousands are assembled to do homage to one who 18 an honor wo our common humanity, ‘The President here tntrodno Woop, who addressed the 4: SPEECH OF MR. WoOD. MR, VRESID) LAvIkS 42ND G: too partial choice of my native ¢ do Mr. WInhtaM TLEMEN—The regarding tun who fas made this day none ali suceeeding Ume, not ouly im birth, Gut among all the countries ofthe Englisa speaking races, and on their wide expanse the sua never sets. Conscious of my own inability to do justice tommy theme, and feeling that this sacred trust nas been confided to me solely owing to the accident of my birth, Lhope that you will bear with me should | fall to rise to the height of the grea; argument which it ls (0-day my duty to illustrate and set forth to the vest of my Rumble This day one hundred years age a child was boro to our Scottish Jsraei, in a narrow wynd in AULD RERKIR, - Who was to prove beyond comparison the greatest of our race, a race which, though small in numbers, has been reudered illustrious by theologians, by Dlillosophers, by poets. by many a Nero and by many a statesman; but he the centena birth we this day apeer among the greatest of fis countrymen, and Shakspeare, and Shakspeare alone, is to England. Let us 100k at the condition of the world and si clety When Scott made his appoarance on this sphere of ours. Don't be alarmed that T am going “to survey mankind from China to Peru.” I mereiy mean to take a brief view of the condition of affairs in a (ew of the leading countries of the world, thay we may the better compretend the circumstances under which SOOTT'S [NFA was monided, and which conduct Wirough lle, f George Lil, bad reigned over the Unitea Kingdom andthe Aimorican colonies ‘or avout eleven years. He bad just taken Lord North as iis Prime Minister, who Was to preside over the destinies of the United Kingdom for the next tweive years, perhaps te most important of its important history. Our country:nan, Lord Mansfeld, was Lord Chief Justice of England, and another countryman, Alex ander Wedderburn (sudsequentiy Lord Chancellor Loughborougt), had jusi been General, with Tharlow as Attorney General and David Hamegas Uader Secretary of Srave, T HOYISH MIND 4 tWo Of The heads of the rebels of 1746, those of teher and Townley, were sull on Temple Bar. One of the two*tell,oif ta April, Juoius was in the height of his celebrit steam engine, our son and. laying np macertsls for his mortal biog raphy. Dr. Johnson was chatting Boswell about buying the remotest of the Hebrides, Sr, Kilda, and ‘winter with him there, Which promise, two years afierwards resulted in the voyage Lo the Hebrides, The purchase of St Kilia bad been a favorite scheme of Boswell’s, and several years before he had spoken on the sudject to Voltaire at Ferney, who asked Boswell if he intended him to go there. oWn part he would as soon go to the North Pole. ‘The colony of New York tu 1771 was presided over by Governor Weiliam Tryon, who succeeded our countryman Lord Dunmore on his promotion to the Governship of the colony of Virginia, Cadwailader Colden born at Dunse, Scotiaud, tn 1688, wis Lieu tenant Governor of New York, and when he came first to thts country, In 1825, he had lotiers to his randson, Cadwallader D, Oolden, whe bad been jayor of this city, from A SCOTTISH RELATION, and was indebted to him for much hospitality and kindness, In 1771 the world in general was lapped In peace. No anticipation of tue upheavals of society wuich Finally, @ number of the | cleared a | © be Rave said of our lovely country and her bound. | Jess, rolling pratries? Would not his heart have | Although Scott a warm welcome for Americans, and in'every case 4 nis assistance and en- Among others he became by his potent influence cleared away from the young Dlage as follows:— | uniryinen las Cevulved upon me the high honor of addressing you “able for the land of hts bility. | of whose | clebrate was, of them al, withour | Was and ever will be to our beloved Seotiand ‘what | tended to mauence his | made soheitor | James Watt had two years belore completed his tirst | countryman, Janes Boswell, the foolishest of men and the vest of biographers, Was toadying to Joun. | promising if he did that he would go and spead @ | Tf™he did not, he might bay St. Kuda; out for ats | seemed to have disturbed the general mind, ‘A storm was coming, but the wind was stil.” In the midst of this uneventful time, this transition period between the old and the new, Walter Scott was born, the son of Walter scotc, Writer to the Signet, in Edinburg, and Anae Rutherford, nia wile, a healthy boy, with nothing particular about uim, only having A SOUND MIND IN A SOUND BODY; bnt before he was two years old a teething fever, in Some way or other, produced a lameness of nis right leg, from which he never recovered, and his venerable maternal grandtatier, Dr. Ratherfor, pre- | scribed country air for the bor, aod be was sent off to Sandy Knowe, the tarmof nis paternal grandfatier, Robert Scott, who, beginning life as a satior, got | 80 thoroughly disgusted from being shipwrecked on | Wis ret voyage he gave up the profession aud took the farm of Sandy Knowe, In Peeblesture, on his.own responatoiity, borrowing £30 from an old shepherd to stock it, His shepherd aud he went Lo | bay sheep for Sandy Knowe; put while the saep- | herd looked aiter the sheep the farmer, intuenced by ts border blood, Lad speat the £30 0n @ fine hunter, much to the shepherd’s dismay. However, a few days alter ne rode the horse 40 Well to the hounds that he sold him on the fleld for £60, ana the farm was then well stocked with sheep, The Scotts were POOR, BUT OF “GENTLE” BLOOD, and there is a marked dinerence In tots respect be- tween Scotland and Wngiand. Scotland never had any yeomanry class; the people were either ‘“gen- He” or “simple’—that 1s, eitaer belonging, though poor, to the gentry, or “simplo”—that is, belonging lo the peasantry; and however poor the former class might be, liey nad altogether a diferent so- cial position from the peasantry or from what their poverty would have condemned them to ta England. | Young Waiter improved in heaith at Sandy Knowe, out slowly, and began early io imbibe a love for old tales and ballads of the border, and to have aristo- cratic and anti-popular feelings. When the Ameri can Revolution broke out tis sympatiles, even as a boy, were all agatust the colonists, aud Le longed to hear of Washington being defeated. ‘The speaker then went onto give an toteresting | sketch Of Scott's eariy iife, and traced the aevelop- ment of his literary tastes. Scoti’s poeiical trausla- tions from the rman and his ‘Minstrelay of the Scottish Border,” witch appeared m 1302, and “sir | Tristram,” published tm 1804, had rather involved | hint In expense taan brought bias any macerta: ben- elit, wi his hospitable mode of life even im his early married days nad involved him in debdt, his ouly income at the time being his wiles £400 per annum aud £200 which he enjoyed aiter December, 1799, a8 Sherut Subsutute of selkirksbire. His pro- fessional gains as an advocate seem to have been next to nothing. Ue must, therefore, have looked forward with great anxiety to the result of the pub- Iteation of his “LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL? which took piace tn January, 1806 1 no doubt the incroduction to that first of his tizee great poems portrayed with accuracy, mucatis muland's, Mis own feelings betore tat nobie poem was given to the public, In 1810 appeared the “Lady of the Lake, the greatest of Scott's three great poems, and by which his uame will be transmitted farther dowa the ages than by any otuer of his poetical works. 1 ought, perhaps, to say that between the publication of | ‘Marmion’? and of the “Lady of the Lake’ Scott had established thatgreat tory organ ihe London Quarir'y in opposition to the wiig Atinburg Re- ew, and both exist with undimiuished vitality to our own day, “The Lady of the Lake” was a great pecuntary 5 $8 than 20,000 copies peing sold witnin a Year after is publication; and tis success was a main cause of SCOTIS PURCHASE OF ABBOTSFORD, which again was the key to his terribie disaster in 1825; so that if misfortunes be olten “blesstags in disgulse,” great successes may, on the other hand, be tie first step to our greatest misfortunes, ‘The time would fail me to quote, even In tho briefest manner, from the sayings of the memoravle bat admirable secondary characters im Scotr’s novets, such as Dominie Sampson, Dandie Din- mont, &¢. Scott padlished, beginning with the “1 ending ~twith ‘arold the — Dauatl targer poems and several minnows. lisned im all twenty-seven novels, beside the life of Bonaparte, lives of Swit, Dryden, &¢, and memoirs, numberless essays, songs. bal- lads, &¢., almost all of which I have read, and I can recollect no word or expression ta aay of tiem whieh could bring a blush into tue cheek ot virgin purity, Whata change tn this respect u taken place during his time from what sted forty or filty years before! You may recoliect nls story of bis venerable kinswoman, ‘irs. Ketth of Kavelston, who asked him to get from the Advocate’s Library and read to her one of Mis, Aphea felin’s novels, which in her youth she bad read aloud ta a mixed company of both sexes WITHOUT ANY FEELING OF IMPROPRIETY. Yet Scott had scarcety begun to read beiore she exclaimed, “Na, na! take awaye’re Aphea Belin Tcanna thote he Ohesterfeld, writing to Madame du Boccage re- specting some French piays, says, in 1750, “We do not deserve the honor you do us ol transiating our Sand novels, Your stage 18 too nice and too te to endure most of our performances, which y not only treedom, but even licentionsness, youd the bounds of decency aud probavility.” 1b is chiefly owing to Sir Walter Scott that tuc verdict | Of 1871 Would reverse the dictum of Six Score years vefere, it would be quite a misiake to Suppose that Scott's novels met with the universal approval of his coun- trymen. Many of these were displeased and shocked at lis seers at the Covenanters; and I very well oe ‘HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1871.—WITH SUPPLEMENT: Picstion Go work, Ana On the 16th of February, 1830, be had his first paralytic attack, {rom which, however, he soon re- covered, kept working on as _ before, But in November, 18230, he had another slight touch of apoplexy, but also recovered from it, On the 21st of March, 1831, he spoke ata pnbiie meeting at Jeuburgh against the Reiorm pill, and was ti and hooved at for his tory sentiments, J well recollect the feeling of sorrow which re formers of that day hnd that he was aot on our side, expressing hts conscientious Opinions, however er- roneous We decmed them. On the 18th of April, 1831, lia friend, Allan Ma- connachie, who was servmg a4 Judge on the Jed- burgh Circuit, came to stay, #3 Was his custom, at Abbotsiord, and Scott, desirous of welcoming uim in somewhat of HIS OLD, JOVIAL STYLE, rank three glasses of champagne, and had a third | stroke of apopietic paralysis, severer than either of the preceding two; still, after recovering so: What, he went on bravely with his work of finishing “Count Robert of Paris” and “Castle Dan 4s)? although himself conscious of the increased we: ness both of body and mind, | The last time tbat | Captain James Gleneairn Burns, the son of Robert | Burns, was invitea py Sir Walter, along with ius wife and Mr. Jonn McDearmid, of the Duintries and Gulloway Courier (whom L often saw when uw boarder with Dr. Henry, of Rothwell), their triend and fellow traveller, to spend # day under his roof, and. having his son, Major Scott, to assist him, Sir Walter did the honors o1 the table graceiuliy to the son of his brother poet and to the neighvoring gentry whom he had Invited to meet him. On the 23d of September, 1831, Sir Waiter loft Ab- botsford for London and arrived there during the excitements and riots occasioned by the rejection of che first Reform bill by the Honse of Lords, when Apsley Honse, the home or the great Duke, was attacked ana the windows broken by the mob. On 2th October, Is3l, Sir Walter sailed frem Ports Mouth on board the Barham ship-ot-war, which had been put at his disposal by the British goverament On the 22d Novemb 1s3i, he reached Malta from thence he sailed in the Barham fe Naples on the 14th of December, Li He stayed at Naples till the 16th of April, 1882. Having given up an iutonded visit to Greece, and being anxious to retarn Abbotstord, he went irom Naples w Rome, leaving | the latter city onthe 11th of May, 1832 The omy | plcasant part of the journey homeward was seemg the pines ana the snow ON TAH TOP OF THE APENINNES, witch put him in mind of scotland, He travelled home by Venice, Inspruck, Munich, Ulm, Heidel. verg and Frankfort, reaching Mayence on the Sth of June, 1832, and thence down the Rhine to Rotter- dam, from whence he reached London on the Lith of June. While tn Landon, at ine si. ° Hotel, Jermyn street (where aome year J oceupied fis very rooms, with wy family very Iii, almost always 1n a state of stapor. He em. barked tor Leith in the steamer James Watt, and arrived there on the 9tn of July, 1842. He leti Raln- burg on the ith of July for Abvotsiord, and arrived there that afternoon i a state of great mental ex- ciiement and boty exhaustion, occasionally rally. ing and then tailing back. Sir Walter itngered on tli the 17th of Soptember, 1832, on the torulng of which day m8 son-in-law, Lockhart, was sent for. tis eye was clear and | calm, but he feit that the end was near at hand, ana in tie spirit of @ litte child he said to Lockkart, “Be a good m my dear. God biess you all!’ and thea sank tuto a tranquil sleep, and remained almost un- conscivus until the ist of September, which was A DAY OF GRRAV BEAUTY, and so warm that every window in the house was open, aud, surrounded by his family, aud with the vippitng sound of the Tweed over tts pebbies dis- tinctly audible as they knelt around lls bed, the soul of the mighty minstrel passed from Sunshine to the suniess land, And fared forth upon ‘That inevitable.road Which leads us to our last abode, tis to the memory of the great and good man Whose carcer, from the eradle to the grave, 1] have thus roughly and {mpertectly deserided, that we are about to ct &@ monument in tots noble I and wiien his stetue stall pave been placed on that pe- destal, of which we to-day lay the foundation, it shail look down on many a lovely American matden, as light of foot as Ellen Dougias, tripping across the green sward, and upon many a sprightiy Di Vernon witching the “world with graceful horsemanship,” and it may be also on the wan of maturer years, meditating about the uncer- tainties of human Ife, and while watching the shadows of the clouds as they chase each other over these verdant flelds, feeling in his inmost heart the trath of scott’s beaatiful lines — Like April morning clouds, that pasa In varying shadow o'er the grass, And imitate on field and furrow Lite's chequered scene of joy and sorrow. LAYING THE CORNER STONE. When Mr. Wood had conciuded bis addresa Mr, James Fraser, Chairman of Site and Foundation cComunittes, handed to Mr, Irving, who presided, a trowel with which to lay the stone. A pro- on was then formed, consisting of Mayor Hall, Mr. Irving and others, who proceeded to the site. Mr. Irving then laid the stone, assisted by the Mayor and others. = The stone contained @ copy of the constitution and act of incorporation of St. Andrew's Society, recollect that, after reading “Old Mortality” to us, my own father gave as an antidote the whole of Woodrow's “suierings of the Kirk of Scotiand,” tu one or two follo volumes, besides an occustonal dose of the “Scottish Worthies.” Up to the June of 1825 Scott had pubiished twenty- one of his twenty-seven novels, and in the latver part of that year Was engaged upon “Woodstock,” hittle witting the disaster that was lnpending over him. Aly owa recoliect.on of THAT TERRIBLE YEAR is sociated with great pleasure and happiness, ‘The mercauiile bose in Which 1 was most dceply interested Was one of the few that in that disas- trous year not only escaped mnscuthed when so flay thodsands wére ruiffed, but made very large profits on cotton, and 1 myself spent a portion of the summer in visitng the Hebrides with a sctenttic party of botanists¥and mineralogists, the head of which was Dr. Hooker, afterwards Sir Willtam dack- son Hooker, Professor of Goluny in the Universtiy of Glasgow. ‘The storm did not actually barst upon Scolt's head until January 16, 1525, when, through the involv- ment of the printing houses of James Ballantyne & of Which he Was @ partner, with Constable & of Edinburg, and Mr. Robinson, of Louth—ail of Which coacerns tailed in that awful crisis—ne Was ruined, and became personally Hable for up- wards of £100,900 (£117,000). He and his partners mighs Wave gone into bankruptcy, paid a fair divi- dend and got a discharge from their credivors, but six Walter hongraply preferred to PEVOTE ALL {YS FORTUNE ume and tatents to thé noble éadeavo to pay his} creditors in til they would consent tv give hun | opporiumty, which thiy did. Lockhart, in tus | | cviléal, sneering way, says that, ta so actlig, Sir Waiter acted **with the feelings, not of a merchant, | batof a geutioman, Kk GOd that there are | hundreds of merenants oa both sides ol the Atlantic who have acted and would act in precisely the saine way under similar circumstanc Why sir Walter ever became a trader has often been Wondered at, especiaily by those who know that custom, if not law, 18 opposed to any advocate engaging i trade. [ suppose he pecan @ pariwer of Joseph Batiantyne, Jr, partly from fricndstip to the Baliantynes, but mainly with a | view to mereasing his own ways and Meaas. This | he confesses very frankly in a letter to Locknart, dated 20th January, 1820, in whieh he explitas tat | owing to tls predecessor in the Clerk's ofice of the | sessions having lived six ye | Nad been nomunated jomtly with him to that oi | on ihe agreement that Scout, while bis predecessor | lived, was to do all the work aud give aim ail the pay, which agreement being carried out leit Scott | | only his £300 per annum from his sherifship, and | 2400 0f Lady Scott's, and What ae made trom bis dooks, and Im vat earlier time he oniy got £600 for the “Lay” and £1,000 for “Marmion,” while ali the tume ne was | SPENDING FRERLY AND LIVING HOSPITABLY, so that there really Was some excuse for him ekeing ont his means by trade if he had not kept jatter such a profound@gecret. It seems to | been one of the few Weak points in Scott's | character to carry Co an extreme the last couplet of Burns’ advice to a young friend :- Aye (ree aff hand your story tell When wi’ a bosom crony, But aye keep something to's oursell Ye dinna teli to ony. Having gone into business he appears never to have token any business-like supervision of it, | | left it entirely to the care, or carelessness, of lis partuers, the Balianlynes, If tt were #0 ft was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Uiesar answerdd it, |. He appears also to have settled Abbotsford upon | his son, without consulting his partners or looking } Into lus asairs to ascertain tf, after meeting ali his llabiltttes, 1e had a right to make the settlement, Perhaps he really had; at any rate, tls creditors did not disturb that settlement.’ And most nobly, ener: | getically and self-denyingly did THK GREAT MAGICIAN work for them, 80 that in 1840, wheu the original | nebe had reauced to £54,000, bis creditors | unantmousty passed thts resoladon:—“That sir Waiter Scott be requested vo accept of his furniture, | place, linen, paintings, brary and curiosities of every description, as ie best means the crediors have of e) ing their high sense of his most how c ck and tu grateiui acknowledge- ment for the unparalleled and must stecessfal exer- tions ie Ras made and conunues to make for them.” “Woodstock,” Which was pfnished in the first three montns of 1826, sold in April, 1826, for | £8,228, and in dune, 1827, he got £18,000 for the “Life | | Of Napoleon” —enormous prices, The novela wich | he paoushed alter fis failure tn 1828 were six, to wit:—"Woodstook,"’ “Chronicies of the Canon. gat Fair Maid of Perth,’ “Anne of Glerstein,” ‘count Rovert of Paris” aad “Caste Dangerous.” | Of these Lthink oniy “Woodstock” and the “Pair | Maia of Perth” aie equal to his earlier novels, On the Loth of May, 1826, on the top of all Scott's | monetary disasters, he lost the wife with whom he | had lived on affectionate terms for twenty-nine years, and aifhough she was not his first love, and had nev folbies, he appears, from his diary, to have feit the loss Of her society deeply; but with regard to ; this and ail HIS OTHER sorRows, he acted In the most manly manner, and “Set a stout heart to a stey brae,” like a good scotsman, Ho revisited London th tne latier part of 1826, and was received with the greatest distinction by King, hobles sua veovle, On his retura to Scotland ne | dispersed early, fully satisfied with the celebration | weil KnoWn group,representing “Auld Lang Syne; and here, just as the echoes of the parting cheers of with list of officers and members since 1756; hstorl- cal sketch of St, Andrew’s Society, with centennial oration by Rev. Joun Thompson, D. D.; account of annual dinner at Delmontco's, October 3, 1820; list of we Scott Monument Committee; ist of oficers and Committees of St. Audrew’s Sootety elected November 10, 1870; reports from 1835. to 1869 of St. Andrew's Society; coms, silver of the United States one dollar, titty’ cents, twenty-five ceuts, ten cents, five cents, five cent nickel; three, two and one cent nickel (gift of Mr, Robert Gordon); copy of Aunual Report of Grand tional Curling Olub of tne United States, for 1ST; copy of Annual Report of the Royal Caledonian Club for 1870; Rules and Regulations of the New York Caledonian Club, aud silver badge; copies of dally and weekly papers for August, 1871; copy of Miller's “New Guide to Cenwal Park;” list of subscribers to the Scott Mounment fund; notices tor meetings 4ju and 14th August, 1871; Canadian colns— tty cents, twenty-five cents, twenty Ceats, ten cents aid five cents (gift of William A. Fraser); coples of cards of Invitation; copy of constitution aud bylaws North American United Caledonian As- sociation; report of Finance Committee New York Caledonian Club, 1870; copy of certificate of mem- bership of Caledonian Club; United States paper currency, from G, S, Fraser; the New YORK UZRALD, Trivine, Times, World, Journal af Conmerce and Sun of tothof August, 1871, MAYOR HALLS RESPONSR. On the coneluston of tne ceremony Mayor Hall satd— Lavigs AND GENTLEMRN—You have lata tho foundation stone for & monument to him whose Magic pen revivitied the traditions and history of ‘and and made him the real monarch of long line of romance-embucd kings. No roan the American metropolis be reproached for nol memoriaiizing Scott, Onr municipal traditions show that Irom is earliest inspired minstreisy to. his last matchless prose—from nis youth of chivalric ambitioa to his age of almost Incarnate foruitude—New Yorkers listened fondly to his every lay, explored every reaim of fancy which he created or peopled, and rivalled evea Scotchmen in enthusivsm for his private public and professional cai Lt ts fitting, then, that you should allow New York, througn her representative, to now participate in this ceremony, and to pleage ner holiest care of your bounufai private memorial upon this pablic sit Standing in the presence of somany scholars. | may well be forgiven what erwise Would seem pedantte in now closing with a Latin poet that have before been used in portraying Walter Scott the man:— sibi que impertosus, n@ NOFA, NEque vincula terrent ; contemneré houures, ——Sapien: Quetw neque pauperles spousare cupkituibn Fortis; et in aeipso Lotus, teres atque rotundds, Externi ne quid vaieat per love morar; In quem manca ruit semper fortuna. And as we leave the monumental spot tet us allite- rate Unis last line, as expressing our wish toward the statue soon to arise:— In quem bona erescit semper fortuna, HE COLD COLLATION, No sooner had the Mayor concluded hfs remarks in response to the address of Mr. Fraser than the pent-up enthusiasm of the pipers broke ont wildly and strangely on the evening air, and when tt sub- sided for a time Robertson’s band struck up the “Blne Bells of Scotland.’ The procession reformed & few minutes later, and, headed by pipers and band, marched toward the Casino, where a collation had in the meantime been prepared. The room was speedily filled and the viands were attacked with extraordinary ardor. A mountain of chicken, beef, salads, tongue and fruits was duly disposed of ana washed down with deep draughta of genuine Scotch ale. There Was lomense enthusiasm, reat hilarity and cheers innumeradle for cott aud all things Scottish, The company of the first centenary of the bard of Abbotsford. There Were somo amusing scenes In the Park be fore and after the collation, very patriotic ana en- Uirely harwiless. Atthe back of the Casino ts the the lingering banqueters floated out from the open windows, @ party of two gentlemen in tame un- dress, a hercuiean Highiander wearing in his cap an enormous feather, aud two ladies, stood, stared and sang at the top ot thelr volves “SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE B® FORGOT.” Patrotle ardor 18 not to be restraimed by considera tions of the eternal fitness of things. By seven o'clock the Park was deserted and the last admirer of the great Scotch poet, novelist and historian fad departed for the city, there to recall around bounttiul tables the pleasant incidents of the memorable day, BANQUET AT DELMONICO'S. At Deimonico’s Fourteenth street establishment a Select number of guests assembied in the evening. old splendor or Abbotsford Was revived was when | and that the noble oll man had been insulted for | | for the Caledonian games are very numerous and“: M. Archibald, Lord Walter Campbell (brother of the Marquis of Lorn), Mr. Willtam Wood and @ large number of leading citizens of the metropolis. The banquet hall was beauufuily decorated with flags of various ns, the “Unton Jack’ and “Star Spangled Banu predominating, Near the head of the tavle was a striking Ukeness of Scott, and near the Vico President's seat was a copy of the original design of the monament in Princesa aquare, Edinburg. A quantity of flowers, sent over by u | present occupant of Abvotaford—sir James R. Ho | Scott—among others the saucy Scotch thuscte, whlon ) ls supposed to be uttering the hichiy appropriate Phrase, *.Yerno me impune lacessit.” ‘The banquet was strictly private, and was devota of much of the formality and conveationality which ¢ state dinnera generally. Tt was dignt- without being stiff, and was evidently fe thoroughly enjoyed by all present. THE ¢ “BRATION ELSEWHERE. In Paterson, N. J. The anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birthday Was celebrated in the Paterson Opera House lase night under the auspices of the Paterson Carling Club. Mrs. Biama Waller appeared as Meg Merriltes, toa full house, after which Mv. J. f. Smith (the chame pion auoit pitcher), who hes recently reopened the Opera House Hovel, gave a grand reception and nquet, lasting from half past eleven to two o'clock, Many eminent citizens were present, and with toasta and Kentiiments the Wee sma’ Lours were reached anyoody knew it General Grant was ex- to be present, but had not arrived up wo @ late hour, Honors at “he In).* Bosvoy, August 15, 1871, The centennial anniversary of the birthday or Sit Scott was appropriately noticed at the meet. ing of the Massachusetts Historical Society weday by addresses by the president, Robert ©, Winthrop, George UtMard, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Kev, Dr. Waterston. Letters were read from Wiliam Gatien Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes and others, Walter Scott was elected an honorary member of this society in 1822, A Waverley Holiday in Connda, is foronro, Ont., Augast 15, 1871, To-day tsa civic holiday, and business ts gener. « ally suspended. Caledontan games, a Lacrosse. + and numerous exercises take pince, The entries the list of prizes large, The meeting 19 expected to 4 be unusually successful, Deputations from the Cale donian societies of Montreal, St. Catharines andl other places are to be present. In the evening they Wil be an exteusive celebration of the Scott cem= ray, tenary. itis also bemg generally celeurated 10 ally the principat p ‘Ss throughouws tne Dominion, ra Bush fires are becoutng very frequent and, desiractive in many neigavors, in consequence of prolonged drought. iow iu the Old World. Lonpon, August 15, 1871, The Scott Centenary was celebrated to-day by a banquet tn the great hall of the Cannon street Ho. tel. Mr. Hepworth Dixon occupied the chair ag President, with the Duke of Manchester, Lord Lyt ton and Dr. Ramsay as Vice Presidents. Some four Hips br all or nearly all distinguished in the world of letters, were present. ‘The toasis were much the same as at the Edinburg celebration on the 9th inst. The day was als celebrated at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, and in various towns in The Celovrs Among others were ¥ or Hall, Conswi Genfral Scotland. POPULAR EDUCATION. Settlement of the Westchester School War—Stata Superintendent Weaver Decides in Favor of the Haskin Board-The Camp- Horring Crowd Annihilated. ‘Tne school oMcer controversy in School district No. 1 (Fordham and Tremont) of the town of Weat Farms has been finally settled by the State Superin- tendent of Public Instruction, A. B. Weaver, as will be seen by the following oplaion in the matter. This opinion, from which there 13 no appeal, settles the case against the Camp-Herring Board of Education, and declares the only legal Board existing in the tstrict to be that of which John B. Haskin is the President, William Meikleham ts the Secretary and Frederick ©, Berte is the Treasurer. The Board declared in the vpinion to be usurpers of authority consisted of Hugh N, Camp, John Berrian, Morris Wilkins, Peer Hurley, Alexander M., Stanton and Lewis G. Morris. The following is the OPINION OF THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT. Sratr or Naw Yous, DrrantMENT OF PUBLIG INSTRUCTIONS — On the Appeal of Ralph L. Anderton, Frederick 0. Berta, | William Metkleham, Alexander Mf. Sohell and John B. Has- kin, vs. Peter Hurley, Morris Wilkins, Hugh N. Camp, John #errian, Lewis G. Morris and Alexander M. Stanton— Betore the Superintendent. Tors 19 an appeal by tue above named appellants, whe claim to have been duly elected members of the Board of Education ot School district No. 1, of the town of West Farms, tn the county of Westchoater, at the annual election held therein, pursuant to law, on the 1th day of April, 1871, from od usurpation of the respondenta in assuming to act asthe Huard of Education of the said dis- trict to the exclusion of the appellants. Tho right of tne re- spondent Stanton to membership in the Boat conceded. It {a shown that on the 24th day of March, 1871, public no- tice was given to the quaiffied voters of the district that » special moeting would be beld “at School No, 1, Tremont,” in the eee Ou the Jith day of A, L371, “between the hours of four o'clock. and nine o'ciock FM. for the purpose of electing two members to the Board of Education of said district for three years, to fill the vacancles caused by tho ox- ieation of the torms of offics of John Berrian and Willlam ammertield, deceased.” No question ts as to tho regularity of this notice ta any respect, oxer contended by the appellants that It did not speci!y all the places in (hv Board to be lied by the moet, Fir ing. fi is alleged, and not denied, that on the day and before {= the hour appointed for the meeting a large number or the ssermbled in front of the school house, but that the as then locked ani guarded by a polloeman, and 4 ¢ remainea until four o'clock In the afternoon, the hour iixed for the meeting. At the appointed hour the door was opaned, and many voters @t once passed up to the room where the election was to be held. It appears, however, that when they reached the room a meeting, claimed by the respondents to have been the regular ne, nad bech organized bya small number of persons, who (11y aome way previously obtalued uccom. t clearly appears from the evidence that this organization had been effected before the hour fixed for the meeting. At the time named tn the notice, and aa soon as adinittance to the schoolroom was obtained by the main body of the voters, another meeting was organized. ‘The aasermbiage which con- vened and organized before the hour appointed was in no respect « lawiul meeting nnder the call for the election of mombers of the Board. ‘The fact that the Secretary of the Board acted as clerk, or that ballots were received in a ballot box from such of the voters as chose to deposi them therein, contd not legalize the proceedings or entitie to membersalp in the Board any of the persons ramet upon much ballots. From a careful consid:ration of all the evidence submitted on this poiat [ have come to the couciustou that the other meeting organized ater the door was opened was the rezniat meoting, and the circumstance that the ballots were de posited fo w hat does not invaiidate the et The regularity of the meeting last organtzed being thus lished, it only remains to determine who of the appel- elected and their terins, ‘The cali being (or the election of two members for the full torm of three years, and William Meikleham and Frederick ©. Berto having received a majority of the votes cast at the regular meeting for that term, tuey are hereby declared to be duy elected. own that Morris Wilkins and Hugh N, Camp dia Taajority of the votes gas: for mempers_ of tue election held on the 12th day of April, 1870, th ally ontitied to membership therein, ‘The election of members the present year had, nizing the diatries r specified in the were never It ing called for th in my judgment, a right under the act o1 to fill any vacanoles in tho Board, whet notice for the meeting or {note. John B. Haskin and Alex- reosived all the votes cast to fill the ander M. Schell having vacancies in the Board created by the faliure of the meetin; of 1870 to elect, they dociared to have been thus ele members of the Board for the term of two years. From the evidence subinitted on that pointl am of the opinion that Peter Hurley had ceased to be a resident of the district when the election was held, and, consequently, that Kalbh L, Anderton was legally chosen a member of the Board for one year to fill the vacancy thus created, be having received ali the votes cast for that purpose, ‘The appeliants, therefore, with the respondent Alexander M. Stanton, whose term of office, it appears, had not expired at the thne of the last annual election for members ol Board, are hereby declared to constitute the Board of Eda cation of said School disirict No.1, im the town of Weat Farms, Westonester aonnty, ‘This decision must be flied with Clerk of the Board of Edu- cation of School district No. 1, in the town of West Farms, 4 notice thereof must be by him givea to the respond: ents, with opportunity to examine the samo. Given under my hand and the seaiof tue Department of Pubile Iustruction at Albany, this 12th day of Augast, 1371. ABRAM B. WEAVER, Superintendent of Pubile lustruction INDIANA AFFAIRS. Attempted Wholesale Land Robbery—A Nice Job of Wall Stroet Operators—The State Printers Indicted for Perjury. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aagust 15, 1871. The details of what Is asserted to be a tremendous land robbery nave just come tolightnere. At the last session of the Legislature an act was passed providing for the drainage of wet lands along the Kankakee River, and authorizing @ company to be formed with authority to assess the lands for te cost of drainage. A company was formed, composed of Wall street, New York, capi- tausts, who matured plans lor forcing the present owners of the land into payment of assessments amounting tn many cases lo more than the value of the lauds and in the aggregate over four mlllion dollars, Six hundred thousand acrea of land in Lake, Newton, Jaspor, br etd Stark, Porter and St, Joseph counties are cle the scheme. Intense excitement exists tn these nues. The land owners have but a few days to make legal resistance, and will make tmmediate application to the United States Courts for an in- Junction to restrain proceedings tuder this sohene. The Grand Jury to-iay returaed an Indichwent against R. J. Bright, Stace Printer, for peryury, aud bali has been given in the sum of $3. Applica tion has been male by deience for immediate Wak, aud the Gowrt Wil hear ae case (o-morro wy