The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1871, Page 4

4 ) PRINCE ALEXIS, [2"= Review of the Present Condi- tion of Russia, The Elements of its Population, Its Seheme of Government and Religion, Sketeh of the Origin, Growth and Strength of the Russian Navy. MEMORIES OF ‘Soiree Russe” at the Academy of Musie. "63. The Celebration by the Americans of 1813 of Russian Victories, ‘The visit of the Granda Duke Alexis will probably have the indirect effect of inducing our people to study up the present condition of Russia, Fifteen years ago Mv. Sala and the “Englishwoman in Russia’ familiarized us with its social and domestic customs; and Mr, Hepworth Dixon’s re- cent volumes, unreliable as they are proved to be in detatls, give a fair picture of the religious and social forces that are uneasily preparing to work out the Politica! future of this vast empire. Among the latest news we have received from Europe bas been the signifcaut fact that the International is silently but surely spreading itself through the land— tat it has established a headquarters ta St. Petersburg, and is from thence despatch. ing aciive agents to the four points of the compass, Remembering what Mr. Dixon and others have told us—tnat already in Russia there are little Communities which are practicaliy socialist, and TFemembering, too, the peculiar fervor and enthu- slasm that mark the Russian character, and of which, if proof be needed, the annual pilgrimage of from fiity to a hundred thousana devotees to the Holy Places at Jerusalem is a sufficiently sigmficant example—Russla becomes, perhaps, the most inter- esting country in Europe to the eyes of the chougnt- ful observer of the “larger politics” of the “wide, Majestic world.” While we shall be féting the Grand Duke as one of the most splendid and glittering Ggures in the Russia of to-day, itis well to remember that the agents of revolution are earngstly plotting to inaugurate that more liberal and progressive political régime which many thinkers look upon as probably the controlling geulus of the Russia of the Tuture. Russia, both in territory and population, is the Most important member of the family of civilized uations. Its vast area may be conceived by remem- bering that it has more than four times the extent Of the Roman empire under Augustus, and that it 1s much larger than the combined territory of France, Austria, Prassia and Italy. Ana although Much of its soil in Asia ts sterile and vatueless, the Greater portion of the gross acreage is singularly productive and needs but intelligent agricultural effort to be developed into wonderful wealth. Even Sat present tilled, with the radest appilances and & peasantry cxceptionally tgnorant aud etupid, even | for Europe, 1¢ is one of the great grain exporting Communities of the world, aud competes in the Markets of Great Britain with American produce. Russia had in 1858 no less than seventy-flve mil. lions of population, and by the present time this has probably been increased at least tea per cent, Its people, however, are singularly heterogeneous, Qnd comprise no less than a huadred and twelve various peoples, representing seven great races— Belaves, Fins, Germans, Turks (or ‘artars), Caucas- lans, Jews and Mongols, Tie Sciaves are far the Most numerous, and number 5 000, Large as Is the present pumber of the snbdjects of tne Czar, vnly 130 years ago the entire population was only 14,009,000, Toe growth of the Russians, indeed, nu- merically, is almost as striking as tuat of ine Ameri- cans, bis populavon ts sharply defined by caste, distinctions tnto tue orders of nobility, bourgeoisie aud peasants, The first of tuese Classes posseses nearly tue whole of the soll, tac land having been mapped out tuto Immense estates. Yo the novility bave also been granted many special ee, and immunities; but these, since the abo- ition Of the system Oi serf lavor m 1861 .by the Emperor Alexander, have been greatly curtaied. The bourgeoisie comprises all the trading and m¢- Chante c.asses, and the peasants are tue actively agricuitural class. ‘fhe goverument of Russia is an absolute mon- archy—the most complete anc ct formof an unlimited despotism that men wi white faces have ever sudered. The throne di ie tu male, but should there be no neir, & woman may be called upon to © crown. This ruler is termed z or Autocrat. bere aro =o nos written ~—Circumseriptions { his functions; there is mo lumit or boand to his will. At bis caprice he cau deprive any of his sub. | jects, even the highest in rank, of hverty and fortune; and ifis vast power has bee: any rate in the past—freely exercised. The ( Ss assisted In his administration by a conaci! of the empire—a Dody composed of the mem of the Oabinet, such of the Ligh nobility who enjoy the ttle of | ruad duke and a namocr of onarties and ads of departments who ¢ ated coun ocilors by the will of the so’ and not by sirtue of thelr holding any particuiar office, There {s also @ senate, formed bv inne! ta same process, Which publishes ali laws and rees of the | tonareh and which forms the supreme tribunal of Appeal of the courts aud possesses con- Biderable patronage. The Cabinet of the Emperor, however, has the right of modifying all its decisions. ‘Ihe ordinary routi f government | carried on by one of the mo porate bureau. pracies in the world. Tae is divided tato ughty-foar departunent Bach of tuese 1s admin- farerea by a military governor, a civil governor and ®@ deputy civil governor.” These departments are subdivided into districts of manageable ciunensions, bach of which 1s kept under strict official despotisin. hese are the general features Of the system, which, however, is modified in some of the Asty roy mees to meet the necessities of the nomadic tribes, Russia 1s very op- ressive and confused. The ju of course, he le arbiter of the case, wnd as there are at least thirty thousand é bul oflumes conflicting Statutes Jn his task is trequently one of exireme difficulty, That corruption and venality should turive uuder such @ ryiie ts a matter of course, In religion Russia mainly belongs to the Russo- Greek Church, more than three-fourths of its popus | lation belonging to that comy ton. Among the Other sects are Homan Catuoiws, Litherags, Ar Menians, Calvinists, Jews, Musstilinans, Buuddinists | and Chamanists. The Russo-G Church 1s the wame as the Greek Churcn, kecondary points of discip been its nominal head since the days of 1 Great. The governing body of the Church i ¢ Holy Synod, composed of metropolitans Y areh- bishops. It directs the imternal diseipline and ine pecuniary interests of the Church; it nas full power bver ail the clergy, and wiso enjoys the privilege ot censorsiup over all religious works. It bas also cer Tain civil functions and has absolute control of mar+ flages, it is headed, however, by a procurear Benerai named by the Emperor, who is the direct Fepresentative of the sovereign, and transmits lla riers to the Church. The Czar, as head of the hurch, is @ reality and not a mere fetMious tgure- Post, such as is the Queen of Engiaud over the Angitean Church, He ia, indeed, alino-t as Much @ Spiritual prince as the Pope The Russinn Nav er the A sketch of the imperial navy, past and present, will be appropriate at this time, The cordial sympathy existing Letween the kwo countries, and the many acts of cour | tesy that have passed between the oficers the Russian navy and thgse of the United during the past two years would, in any ‘Bvent, Make the subject an interesting one. The mce Of & powerful marine, especially in the Sea, has been always a loading feature of Musoovite policy. In the Baitic, too, feets have peen fount potential agents in extending and con- Russian dominion. in fact, at the pres. jt day a great navy is as essential to tue govern of the Czar as agreatarmy. The eutire Black feet which, befure the Crimean war, was the of every trac Russian ters of the harbor of Sebastopol; bul the shins disappeared im the | destrable seaports, In 1703 he latd own bands the foundation of a fortnow existing tn the centre of St. Petersburg, and he wrote that in creating that city he made ‘a Joop hole by whton the light of Western trade aud civilization were to be admitted into the darkness of half Oriental barbarism, in which Russia was then buried.” To Peter, who died in 1725, is due ine credit of commencing tne structure of a navy that now ranks among the first in the world, and is every day increasing im strength. During the Cighteeuth century aud the wars of the French repubitc and ot Napoleon the navy, still in its in- Tancy, was not able to take part in any of the areat naval combats that marked that era, and besides It ‘Was part of early Rassian policy to use it in the Bal- tic and Black Sea. The object of this paper will be to trace its history, including some notices of opera- tions in the Crimea, and of occasions wien acts of courtesy were exchanged between the navies of Russia and of the United States. PRTEB THR GREAT, Peter the Great finding Russia, as stated, without ships, laid the foundations of a navy by employ Duich and Venetian shipwrights to build several small vessels on Lake Perpas. He learned practical seamanship by cruising on board Dutch and Engiisn ships at Archangel, and he sent young Russians to Venice, Leghora and Holland for the same purpose. Looking to @ more extended maritime policy he be- sieged and took the city of A near the Black Sea. In order to improve his subjects he fostered commerce with the Western Powers of Kurope, and, sensible of his own defecis, left his douitnions for a temporary absence abroad. He Went at first, with a few attendants, to live at Saardam, @ famous ship-ouilding port in Holland, where, in the disguise of a Dut skipper, Peter Timmerman by name, he led the life of acommon shipwright. He rose early In the morning, boiled tus own pot and received wages for hislapor. To the practice of shipbuiiaing and kindred trades he adacd various studies, as natural philosophy, astron- omy and geography. From Holland he went (in 1693) to London, “Here,” says Macauley, ‘his Stately form, his intellectual forehead, his piercing black eyes, his Tartar nose and mouth, his gracions smile, bis frown, black with the stormy rago and hate of a barbarous tyrant, and above all, a strange, nervous convulsion Which sometimes transfixed his | countenance during a few moments into an object it was impossible to loo upon without terror; the immense quantities 01 meat which he devoured, the pints of brandy which he swallowed, and which it Was said he carefully distilled wita his own hands; the fool who jabbered at his feet, the monkeys who grinned at the back of hischat, were for some weeks popular subjects of conversation tn the Enclish mciropolis, He removed to Deptford and returned to Holland in a yacht which Wiiham Ill. presented to bim, and taking sitag & nuinber of sclentific men." With tne information and practical expe- rence thus acquired Peter came back to Russia, where he at once began to lay, broad and deep, the foundations of the Muscovite empire, STATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN NAVY, The Rus-ian navy consists of two great divisions— the ficet of the Baitic and that of the Biack Sea, Each of these fleets is divided into sections, of which three are in or near the Baltic and three in or near ie Black Sea. Forty-three ships are sta- tioned In the Caspian, thirty in the Aral sea, forty on the Pacific or Siberian station, tea im the White Sea, and numbers are cruising in different portions of the world, The distribution of these vessels has, of course, reference to the poiicy of Russia, both in- ternal and external, The section in the Black Sea, Wuich is now being rapidly increased in numb¢ts, character and strengih, has iis headquarters at Sebastopol. The ships in the Caspian and Aral seas cruise on the coasts of Persia and ‘Lurkistan, the latter being the most advanced territory acquired tn the direction of Central Asia, and which brings Russia in close proximity vo British India. The Pacific squadron, siationed on the Amoor, occupies & commanding position in reference to China and Japan, aud late lutelligence 1s to the effect that the important Island of Sagalien has been permanently occupied, despite the protests of the representatives of the treaty Powers, Tae Amoor squadron was recently Jargely increased. THE FLEET RECONSTRUCTED IN 1860, Before the Crimean war the imperial navy con- sisted of about two hundred ships, principally wooden. They carried 35,000 men and were armed with 8,409 guns, ‘the vessels were mostly con- structed of fir—a very inferior article in poiut of du- rability and Mapility to splintering in action. The Workmanship was not good. But since 1858 the en- tire navy has been undergoing reconstruction. What remalned of the old ships after the Crimean war were thoroughly overhauled, and what were found worth preserving were altered, repaired and every tm- provement in guns, &C., introduced, The agents of , the government have closely watched the progress } of shipbuilding and improvements in gunnery that have gone on In foreign Countries, ana thesé nave been applied at the great naval depots and dock- yards, parucularly at Cronstadt, one of the fnest harbors for warlike purposes im the world. A hittle over two years ago extensive irlals of Krupp's cleven-inch Gast sivel pbreech-loading guns were made In presence of the Emperor at the Walkow artillery school, near St. Petersburg. Up to 1869 the regular calibre used was nine-luchk. The guns now in use in firing recently sont shot through a shield representing @ poriion of the broadsidg of the English iron-clad Hercules. NAVAL MOVEMENTS NOW IN PROGRESS. In a letter from Moscow, written early last month, it 13 Stated that great Cforts to improve the Russian Bavy are stl ps on, Satlors at Croustadt are being iustracted In gunnery, gymnastics and naut- cal movements of every Kind. At Kikolaiet! great mawbers of ollcers and men are alsv engaged in similar excreises. It is known that in 1871 an un- usuaily large sum will be devoted to the building of now Vessels and reconstruction of others, ‘Thirty- one miilions of rubles were appropriated last year for harbor fortifications in Riga and Odessa, Par- ticular attention i3 given to the school of marine cadets at St. Petersburg, a government institution similar to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. In February, 1871, orders were seut to Cronstadt for batiding two more monitors on the American plan, | the remodelling of several gunboats and the con- | Struction of a storm deck for the frigate Admiral Tenmichagof. Orders were tssued at the same time to purchase 10 my TS eight steam vessels for ob- servation service in the Black and to | Sweaborg for the construction of a number ‘of won barges and refitting several steamers, | A_ flotilla was ordered also to con- | Structed for immediate service in the Caspian | Sea. These movements are certainly Indicative of a ) determination to bring the imperial navy up toa high standard. It 1s stated that there 13 some | scarcity Of scamen, and that superior inducements are offered to good mariners to enter the service. | The increase of the Caspian Sea squadron may be | considered one of the eifects of the modification of ; the ireaty of Paris this year. PRESENT STRENGTH OF THE RUSSTAN NAVY. The naval strength of Russia ag 16 was at the latest dates, not melading the additions ordered | during the present year, si00a as follows:—Cuiras- siered turret ships, 21; frigates, 8; monitors, 10; | corvettes and clippel gundoats, 68; steamtugs, 12; other vessels, tal, 296, To man these | We Admirals and holders of separate commands, 117; under Officers, 4,035; seamen, 23,154; reserve, ‘9t- lotal, 49,626. ‘These vessels are all etther in ervice or can be made ready for sea in a short time. The following tavle will show the con- | ditton o: the tmperial navy from tne date of its com- plete reconstracuon 3 Ironclads, Monitors, Steamers. boon b 1864 «16 - 63 48 1866 4 59 1808. “4 87 186: id 29 1870. z 3 25 * Eight ships in course of coustruction. In 1569 the total horse power of the vessels pro- | pellea by steam was 000; the number of guus | (ueaviest caubre), 2, Including tea floating vat- | teries used for harbor mee, the number of guns 1s i 2 at the present time, ‘These batteries are | re ated as being equal to the most powerful | Monitors, and could, tm cases of necessity, be fought at sea, Mauy of the ships carry batteries of Gi ig guns that lave been manufactured in the United States and in Belgium. It would appear that mulitary is joined to naval ank ia the Ruseiam Ravy, for generals soweumes pom mand foets. r t | The Reception of the Russian Fleet in 1863. | In September, 186: ew Yorkers hailed | With a characteristic welcome the arrival of | fve Rossian war vessels—the flagship Alex- ander Nevyski, commanded by Admiral Lesoy- ki, aud Viag Captains Lakovoin and Semechkin; tue screw frigate Peresvet, Captain Kopytoy; the | screw frigate Dsliaba, Captain Boutakoff; tue screw | sloop Vitiaz, Captain Lond, and the screw | sloop Vabiag, Captain Cremer. Three days after ar- rival tne gallant Admiral and bis suite were enter. tained at the Metropotitan Hotel by Mr. James Ends, an iron-clad copiractor. Among the Americans present were Admiral Parragat, Commodore Brad- ford, Geueral Walbridge and otuer prominent mea, The Russian Adwiral, iu broken but intelligible Eng- lien, made a speech of gexngwicdgment, tn which be aiiuded to his Imperial master a& the emaneipator of | the serfs and the friend of mankind. He aiso spoke words in reference to the war then raging which Americans can never forget. “I believe it to be the Pad of every country to defend its mtegrity—either to live e* @ nation or to die, Theré 18 no mid- die grow said nh Of the tt f Wiih roses, awere /?'ed and excurstonized and haved with addresses of welcome and kinaness wherever they went, public processions and ban- | quets and balls beng given both at New York and estiagton in their especial honor, It would be tedious to give the particulars of these entortain- ments in deta, The crowning point and cilminat- wry Of the festivities Were Teacned i a ball at ca \emny of Music op the Sth of November, ‘This ove of the most magni { assemb) w York, or, indeed, th Aitte word! i ever seen It was christened — by managers & Soirée Russe.” Gorgeous toilets, blazing damon fe popping of and gay Quiforms, the popping of ere wooden and oid fashioned, and would | champagne corks, the raius Of music, the stir and accounted of little value jovt at this time, | Tustle of moving dancers, and the odor of flowers combine} to make wp a keene Of exceptional brit the Great, at the beginning of the cighteonth | flagcey. The tumor Of Ils wor opront testes tury, found Russia without a navy, and with meee. and ou - i Td were 80 starded = . ea. 1 atthe rulente cordiate thus pleasantly proved to ly one port—Archangel, 10 the White Sea. ‘The | Crist nerween the young republic of the West nua great victory of Puitowa made Peter master of the Goulbern shore of Fiuland, anil gave him tue great aud vi hesiwiet toe yusempire Of the Bust that they uw dowa ihe gauatict of dedance to NEW YORK HERAL the two by formally recognizing the rebel States ag a@ naftonality. Never provably did a social gather- Ing become s0 famous; never, certainly, did one Dave such importaut political results, Let us hope that the comtog of the Grand Dake will again fan into @ bright fame of enthusiasm the kindly feeling Which has always existed between progressive Russia and realized (reedom in America | NAPOLEON'S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW How the Event Was Celebrated by Americans of 1818—A Chapter of Ancient History— ‘What a Rummage Among Oli Newspapers Has Unearthed. Wasninaton, D. C., Oct., 1971, Fifty-eight vears and a half ago the following an- pouncement was made in one of the newspapers then printed in the District of Columbia:— CELEBRATION, All gentlemen in the neighborhood who wish to unite in celebrating the Russtan victories, the ex- pulsion and precipttate fight of Napoleon from the last independent nation on tho Continent; the de- liverance of these United States and of mankind at large from threatened bondage, and the greatest afiiotions that ever threatened humanity, are re- quested to send in their names immediately to the bar of the Union Hotel, Georgetown. Appropriate Music, vocal and instramental; an emblematic inting and other suitable accompaniments will prepared for the occasion. The day of the ain- ner cannot be fixed until a suflicieat number of Dames are sent in. THE SITUATION AT THE TIME, This was in April,1813, James Madison was Presl- dent, Albert Galiatin was Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Hamilton was Secretary of the Navy, General Armstrong was Secretary of War, James Monroe was Secretary of State, Gideon Granger was Post. master, and Wiliam Pinkney Attorney General. The second war with Great Britain bad been in Progress more than « year and peace was yet far distant. Party spirit rau high. The old federalists, the opponents of the war, composed a formidable op- position. Their newspaper organs were vigorous In assaults upoa the war policy and the administration. Timothy Pickering was in frequent contribution to their columns in the shape of letters to the people Of the United States on the powers of the Exccutive and the current interpretation of the constitution. The democratic papers were equally vigorous in re- ply. Joseph Gales was editor of the National Intel- Tigencer, called in that day the “Court Journal,” and Madison and the members of his Cabinet inspired and wrote nearly all of tts editorials, The party prints abused Madison terribly. It was charged that he was the secret friend of France and of Napoleon; that the war was protracted mainly to further the desigus of the great Emperor by hum- bling and weakening his rival. The White House was always referred to as the ‘Palace, Madison as “His Royal Highness,” aud the members of his family were ironically styled “princes and princesses of the blood.” He was soundly abused—the same as Grant 1s to-day—for appognting a iong list of them to office without the slightest regard to their quall- fications and acquirements, No charge appeared too vile or atrocious to bring against him, He was called a “coward’’ aud ‘‘muser,”’ making money on the misery of his country, What delicious glimpses of the past there are in some of these old newspapers! Here ts the ALANMING INTELLIGENCE that the city of Baltimore is in q state “of uproar, confusion and dismay” in consequence of the ap- Pearance of @ British squadron “visivie in the bay from the tops of the houses.” The Queenstown packet was captured within sight of tne fort and unloaded in the presence of the helpless spectators onthe shore. ‘The city was totally deficient ii mill- tary supplies and the militia compantes ordered out were compelied to find their own ammunition. This must have been exceedingly pleasant reading: for Mr. Madison and the timid Cabinet who snbse- quently ran away at the baitie of Bladensburg, leaving a State dinner cooked in the White House of all moral sentiment and grossness of personal abuse all former demociatic een Vv fe have often remarked the dull matignily and vulgar insoience of this gentleman in debate; we have also remarked his coarse and mawkisn attempts at eulogy ‘aud we know not which a man of taste and true honor would most deprecate. His ‘sign-post daubery’ of those pure patriots Thomas Jefferson and Jaines Madison are as indicative of lis taste and Moral tact as his ribald invective against Mr. uincy. His blasphemous compliments are in- initely more revolting than even the grosseireld of his manners. He seems for some days to have been collecting the materials for this display of lis devo- tion to the Court; and av lene, luke one of those sheils or carcasses charged with fetid and noisome combustibles, he bursts on the floor of Congress, with no other harm or Tega rourdae than the stench that followed the explosion. As an orator this speaker seems to us to greatly resemble the tallor’s goose, that is ‘both hot and heavy,’ as a statesman, to comprehend as much of the principles of legislation aud the various questions growin; out of our foreign relations a3 ought to be expect from a man bred to the bar of Kentucky; and a gen- tleman, as much courtesy in bis language and man- ners as naturally belongs to one habituated to the brawls of a Kentucky tavern and eminently distin- gers among the honorable corps of blacklegs, this occasion we are tola that Mr. Clay had his head “powdered” and that he wore “a dress comb. Here 1s something about ~~ HULL'S COURT MARTIAL and Winchester’s lost battle at Frenchtown and Harrison’s campaign on the border. Baltimore iu- vites plans for her now famous monument to rae ington, and holds out strong inducements of val- uabie prizes to the purchasers of her lottery sed] an account of the attack on Ogdensburg by Way O! retaiiation for the assault on Brockville; the burn- ing of Havre-de-Grace; an invitation to the citizens of Georgetown to meet for the purpose of consider- ing their “aefenceless conaition,” General Dear. born’s oficors write that they expect $9 RO into snug winter quarters in Montreal, in_ which they were sadiy disappointed, ‘Thus,’ sald the edito- rial histortan, ‘terminates the third invasion of Canada. If the laurels which the commanding gen- eral has thorein gathered are not of as brilliant a tint as those on the famous Boston-made coat it must be recoliected that they were gathered in haste, and to pick the best sprigs.”” This coat of born's must have Deen a romarkable garm His enemies seom never to have tired of pok fun at him on its account, *‘It 1s said,"? says one oO! them, “that General Dearborn 18 sick of his army and his army is sick of the General; that he has found the climate of Canada too cool or the looks of the enemy too bot, and that he has written that he would iike to sleep snugly again in the War Depart- men‘ in preference to being kept awake on the battle field. He also writes that the bed of honor 1a rather hard, and that it snot made up to suit his gout or his humor; 80 it is proposed to accommodate iim in his ola berth, But here ties the difliculty, ‘The General would willingly give up his comMAnG,. but he does not know what todo with his coat. lM is said that he writes that 1t will cost too much to cut tt up into clothes for nis chilaren, and the gofd lace 18 too good to be lost, In this diiemma he pro- poses that the ‘reasury should allow him for his coat out of the contingencies of the War Depart. ment, in support or which he urges that every but- ton hole 1s covered with laurels which have been won on the Canada frontier, The proposition 18 now under debate in the Cabinet.” WHAT THE NEWSPAPER USED TO BE. The newspaper of sixty years ago is, after all, dreary reading. It was written fora class, It was all statesmansnip, a record 0. Presidents’ messages and long, tiresome speeches of politicians, wita letters from Revolutionary sages and learned essays on the theories of government and the constitution. It is no more like the HERALD of to-day taan Nites? Register or the Congressional Globe, The life and activity of the world, the real business of life, found no place in its columns, I have looked through a volume for an entire year and cannot tell how much @ pound of beef was or the price of coalper ton, A war tem says that wheat is a dollar per bushel, and that is all. Notices of lotteries are numerous enough, The “Pennsylvania Juternal Navigation Lottery,” Whatever that may be, had 12,511 prizes, one of which was valued at $30,000. Ti were sold at $10 50, Young ladies’ seminaries patronized the advertising columns pretty liverally, and the dry goods stores were not ungenerous sometimes. Land sale advertisements are scattered all over, and the Notices of taverns are curiosities of literature, which some one ought to collect and preserve, In four or five hundred pages I only find one mar- Tlage notice—namely, “Married, in Wen- am, Mass, Benjamin Nichols, Esq., of Salem, to Miss Mary Pickering, daughter of tl Hon, Timotiy Pickering.” And here 18 something which J am certain will interest:—“To the Hon. the General Assembly of Maryland—The petition of Elizabeth Bonaparte, of the city of Baltimore, re- spectfully represents that your petitioner was united in matrimonial alliance with Jerome Bonaparte some time during the year 1803; that since that eriod her husbaad departed from this country for ‘ance, Where, on his arrival, his brother, the Em- peror Napoleon, thought proper to annul the mar- that time was not aitagen S for the Euglish grenavtie: ‘Then we have the an- nouncement that the public records were to. be ree moved from Annapolis; that Mr. Randolph had lost his election in Virginia through the studied gerry- Mandering of his district, Mere is the advertise. meat of one ot the Virgiflia Lees offering $100 re- ward for the return of @ runaway slave; accusations against the gov mentel robbing the Post Ufice mails; the promotion of Winfield Scott; the procla- Imation Of tue rituee Regent notifying the Powers friendly to him tha! Le hal Diockwued vue pores age harbors of the Chesapeake and ti ver Delaware; the conyiction ta Hag! the Marquis His Majes- ty’s service and the imposition of a fine of $26,000 and four montus’ imprisonment; the advertisement of Livingston & Futon, patentees for steamboats, “for subscriptions to form a stock to complete a line of steamboats through the North Carolina waters;’’ the seven, column deciarauon of the Prince of Wales on the war, treating of the ‘orders in council’ and the “grievances” enumerated in Madison's war mes- sage, and closing in the following sharp language :—~ This disposition of the government of the United States, this compleie suvserviency to the ruler of France, this hostile temper toward Great Britain— are evident in almost pe ae! page of the oficial cor- respondence of the American with the French gov- ernment, Against this course of condact—the real cause of the present war- the Prince Kegent sot emutly protests, While contending against France, in defence not only of the liberties of Great. britain but of the world, His Koyal Highness was entitied to look ior a far different result. From their common origin, from their common tnieresis, from the r pro- fessed principies of freedom and independence, the United states were the last Power in which Great Britain could have expected to dad a wiliiag instru- mentand abettor of French tyranuy. Disappointed in this his just expectation, the Prince Regent will still pursve the policy which the British government has so long and tavariably matitained in repelling injustice and in supporting te general rights of nations; and under the favor of Providence, relying On the justice of his cause and the tried loyalty and firmness of the British nation, His Royal Highness confidently looks forward to a successful issue to the contest in Wich he has thus been compelled niost reluctantly to engage, Fulton had noi yet succeeded in hla steamboat pro- jects; Morse had not erected the telegraphic lines between Battlmore and Washington; the day of the fast clippers, the pouy expresses and the carrier pigeons even had not come, The IeRaLp had not arrived with its marvellous enterprise, and this Im- portant State paper was not veproducea in the United States until sixty days after it had seen the light in Eugiand, ‘Then we have of of Sligo of enticing seamen from DESPATCHES from the Commandey-in-Chief of the Russian army, Kutursod, on whose name, at the expease of the French, the English hamortists made so many puns, i reuch ariny had recrossed the in those days), pursued by Adimiral Tenitchagom, “without intermission, and gaining repeated advantages over the cnemy.’’ Vis+ count Cathcart sends the ernment that “the disaffection among Napoleon's troops has increased to such & pitch that they with one voice charge him as the author of al! their mis- ery,” which calls (o mind a similar criticism and charge against our modern Napoleon after the Sedan disasters. The then Czar Alexauder of all the Russians was quite as good a writer of military and martial proclamations as the famous Corsicau, in proof of which witness the following extract from one of his bulletins :—“It is sufficient to say that out of the 300,000 men (exclusive of Austrians) who penctrated into the heart of Russia, not thirty thousand of them, even If they should be favored by foriune, will ever revisit their country. ‘The manner tu wich Napoleon recrossed the fron- ler c@u assurediy be no longer a secret to Europe, * * ® Indeed, tt is diMeutt to conceive that in a campaign of only four months’ duration 180,009 tocuee shold have been taken from the enemy, esides 900 pieces of cannon, forty-nine stand of colors and all (he wagon trains and baggage of the army.” ma RUMORS, _ Rumors of the death, capture or assassination of Napoleon by one of iis own soldiers were started on the authority of all manner of “‘rellaple” gentlemen, coming iu the strongest and most mysterious ways—- by “orig jast arrived’ at Boston or Baltimore and communicated in “a letter to a gentleman of high standing here.” And then the ant-administration and anu war journals blazed out bitter denuncia- Uons of the “tyrant” aud the scourge,” with mock Suggestions to the Madisonian royal family to go into mourning and to drape the public buildings im honor of the death of our ally, Congress did not coutribute MaDy sensations sixty years ago, The Seamen ‘and the. Impressment, the Militia and the Loan bilis and tne suspension of the Non-tmporta+ tion acts were ine in topion Of devate and dis- cussion. theury Olay was eR er of the Mouse of Representatives; George Clinton, Vice President, wesided over tue Senate. The Welt of Ula ay now be seen in od hail which 80 often rang wilh his eloquence, It seeins a sort of profanaiion to say aught of him, except in the way of 58, ad yet arene were fow tien in bis generation Who were 80 severely criti. cise At the risk of bringing pain aud sorrow to thousands of old whig patriots and of lacerating their feclings tr viel mM: '! quote what an opponent saii about the favo son of Kentueky iu the stormy daya of 1812-1 This gentleman's Speech on the Army pill has not yet been formally reported, hut from sketches contiined in letters it appears 19 have surpassed ina profigate contempt Triage between your petitioner and the said Jerome, Who has since united himself in marriage with a German princess and been created King of W halia. Your petitioner dcems it unnecessary, deed, the delicacy of her situation would permit it, to recount those various considerations that ought to influence an intelligent Legislature in granting the necessary ald to dissolve a union con- tracted and maintained under such circumstances. She thcretore respectfully submits her case to your honorable body, who, while they reflect that general nulity points out the indissoluble nature of the mar- riage contract, will not fatito remember that cases fais may be consulted Wiekodl*eRiness, of idind- manent good of society. ELIZABETH BONAPARTE. ELIZABETH BONAPARTE, What a history is crowded into the life of this withered Ilttle old woman, who was the belle of Baltimore aud of the United States two generations ago, Whose name filled the world, who lives for the Bonapartes still, waiting and watching for the real- ization of her girlish dreams of empire and sover- eignty! She has forgiven the Emperor the cruel wrong he did her, and is proud that she was the wife and is the mother of a Bonaparte. Womea have always been associated with the Bonapartes im astrange, sad sort of a way. There was Jose- phine and ‘Maria Theresa and Madame Bonaparte and Eugénie, ail of them, with one exception, for- eign to France, too, tke the Napoleons themselves, it was amid these excitements and sensations; bulletins from the Grand Army, twenty, thirty, fifty in number, of Napoleon; counter bulletins from the Russtan Aduirais and gencrals; proclamations and rotests Irom the ish Regent; tales of barbar- ity on our own Indian frontier, when Florida was a foreign tand, Illinois a territory aud the great Amer- ican Desert uncarved into- States—it was amid the varying accounts of the fortunes of war and the bril- liant successes of our young navy, under Lawrence and Perry and Decatur, that the news of tue dis- astrous end of the Russtan campaign was slowly brought to our grandiathers by a bark, ‘forty-two days from Cadiz,” aud that the federal opponcits of the administration prepared to celebrate it all over the country. At Boston ‘THR FESTIVITIES were pariiculariy brilliant. The celebratton took place on the 25th of March, 1813, and consisted of wn oratorio, Which Was performed im the chap the chorus was Cad of two hundred amateurs. The Rey. Mr. Channing offered a prayer, ‘perfectly adapted to the solemn occasion,” and’ sneceeded “in uniting the elegance of Fén¢ion with tue sim- plicity of the apostolic age.” ‘This was foliowed by adinner in the afternoon at the Exchange. The Hon. Harrison G. Otis presided, assisted by Dr. Warren, ion, William Brown, Hon. J. Thorndike, J. Hunnewell, Colonel J. Osgood, Ozias Goodwin and Sanwuel G. Perkins a3 Vico Presidents, Among the invited guests were the Hon. T. Pickering, Generals Cobb and Brooks, Hon. sts, Lloyd and Quincy, Chief Justice Parsons, Judges Sewall, Thacher and Parker, President Kirkland, Drs, Lathrop and Bald- win, Rey. Mr. Chanuing “and others of the rever- end clergy of the town.” When the toast of the Emperor of Russia was given a curtain was drawn which disclosed a transparent likeness of Alexander tm full uniform, with the motto, “Alexander, the De- liverer of urope.” When the toast in honor of Moscow was given another transparency was unvelled, representing “Mos- cow in Flames,” with the Russian eagle rising from the burning with the motto in hts beak “Moscow is not Russia.” The other toasts were “Our National Rulers—may theic people sce in them now what history mustsoy of them hereafter; “The Patriots of Spain and Portugal;" “The Mad- man of Frauce—the Russian regimen: teed water and phlebotomy till reason be restored.” And then there was a song to the tune of ‘“‘Down,Down, Derry Down,” opening with— When Bony set out on bis Russian campaign He trusted In trtumph to mareh * Uy Having murried old Brau and handouf'd the Caar, And in # few weeks put au end to the war, And closing— Now I've finished the pong Free. attempted Charge all! let us drink Alexander the King, Alexander t ay lie long live and Felgn, Wh id from |he Corsican ybain, Of course there a: = a jong and eloquent, short and witty, dry avd but through all of them there breathod a spirit e miration and love for Russie. Mr. Fustarpbieve, the Russian Consul, being called on, handed the the lent @ Written speech, Which was from ite the following extract is taken:—“I was a Russian, and iy 0! the rity of iar fice su nema pee ae st jotives to mine !—you hav ic that generous impuise of ti Rat that purest source of human nature, which altered by no distance of time or space, marks with indigna- tion the daring footsteps of lawless oppression, with the sufferers, assists them by hes and prayers when other means are denied, and hails with rapturous joy their final deliverance, It 1s thus you have am) My and with tenfold interest, repaid Rus- sia for at hese emotions of admiration and concern with which she beheld your revolutionary st 7 with which her former sovereigns contem the giory of your living heroes, and with whicn her pres. ent monarch dwelis on the memory of your Wash- dngton, like whom, and like nis own ancester, Peter the Great, he aspires only to become the father of ns country—a bien ambition, worthy of unitation "i deserving Of success.” onsevoral other speeches were Made {f eulogy of Russia. Among those who sent letters regretting their inability to attend were the Hon, Thomas Hl. Perkins, Hon. Peter C. Brooks, Hon, Danicl Sargent, Benjamin Weld, Hou, Artemus Ward, John T. Apthorp, Wm. Sullivan, Nathawel Goddard Hon. &. f. Paine, Generat Heath, Hon. 0. Gore, and oilers, Similar celebrations (ook place in various other cities of the South and Kast, TH WASHINGTON CRLEBRATION. Ti seems strange in this yoar Of 1871, that George. town, msteat of Washiggtgn, shguid have toca D, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 187L—TRIPLE SHEMY. selected for this purpose; but it must be remémbe! that Washington al that dme was a mere suburb Georgetown, although it was dignified with the name of the capital, It congisted only of abont fifteen or sixteen hundred houses, scattered in various directions and clustei around the oMces, such as the vap! and the ite House. Market men never thought of stopping in Washivg- ton, but passed through to Georgetown. The ar- rangements for the banquet were fAnally completed May, and the following notice ‘was given On the first of that month:—‘‘Ihe Com- mittee of Arrangements for tne celebration of the Russian victories, inform the public that te cere- Mionies of the day for Sat , the Sth of June, Will commence at Mr. Balch’s church, at to o’cloc! with prayer, preceding an address to be delivere pr ae Custis, Dinner wih be served at the Union vern at four o'clock. Gentlemen are requested to call for their tickets of admission to the dinner early iu the morning. A fine band of music will attena in the church and gf dinner—John Peters, Robert Beverley, Williazt, Marbury, Thomas Peters, Francis Dodge, Joln §, Sti Washington Bowie and John Lee.” THE ORDER OF FESTIVITIES. The momeatous day at last came, and ‘ihe Rua- newspaper ‘with greas pomp and fecling. aN Targe and Druliane assembly” met at Mr, Balcn's church, The exercises consisted of music of an ‘‘ex- Teneae sort!’ by a select band of performers brought rom a distance, The ladies were first introduced into the church, then the members of the Senate aud House of Representatives, members of the Maryland Legislature, strangers and citizens of the District, A large pew in front of the pulpit was occupied by the President and Vice Presidents of the day and the Consul o! ir. Madison was not present DPAlDe because “nothing was more galling to poor Madison than the Russian victories, the arrangements made for their celebration seem to have affected the little man with a shuddering ague, if we may judge from his last Jntelligencer, Where he compares them toa pestilence.” At nalt-past two the Russian Minister, his lady, Counsellor of Legati reached the church in Were escorted to alarge pew adjoining that occu- pied by the President ant Vice Presidents or the reverend clergy and the orator of the is, of Ari Balch 1 was long or whe reason i Then came Mr, With the oration, “which at ever, touch moved tho heart, and was throughout ad- mired and applauded.” The ‘scene’ was closed with prayer, ‘when the lady of the Russian Mints- ter was conducted to her cai with the music of @ Russian march by the gentlemen who directed this dnteresting spectacle.” The Russian Legation Was escorted to the Union Hotel, succeeded by the Spanish Consul, the members of Congress aud the Taithful federalists of the Maryland Legislature. THS DINNER. I have been looking a long time for the name of this ‘Presidenv’ of the day, and have at last found it almost at the close of the proceedings, It was Governor T, S, Lee, Two hundred and iifty gentle- men sat down to dinner, or, rather, to the “sump= tuous entertainment provided by Mr. Orawiord.”’ The toasts were twenty-seven in number, from which it may be imagined that the dinner was a regular, old-tashtoned affair, when he who was not able to drink his half dozen bottles was not fit com- pany, tor gentlemen. ‘the second toast was “The Empire of Russia—may this Northern star break the Power of atfraction that has fastened the Continent of Europe to the magnet of France,’ “Alexander, the Deliverer,”” was responded to by Robert G, Harper, Esq., of Baltimore. Mr, Harper made an excellent speech. 1t was, of course, main- ly a eulogy of Alexander and an attack on Napo- leon, whose character he sketched as follows:— “Utterly regardless of the calamities of other coun- tries or his own; a stranger to justice, pity and re- morse; deaf alike to the voice of nature and the cries of misery; gioomy, vindictive and implacable; perfidious and cruel from nature and policy; impet- ‘uous in his passions, immovable in bis purposes and fertule In his means; equally subtle and bold; des- plsing pleasure and incapable of repose, this singu. lar being seems inaccessible to every feeling but lust of power and susceptible of no gratification except that of trampling on the necks of others, Driven forward by @ restless, furious and insatiable ambition, he proclaims his plan of universal domin- ion, which he scarcely deigns to cover with the flimsy veil of ‘durable peace and the freedom of the seas.’ And he ostentatiously displays, in his conduct and language on every occasion, a con- tempt and scorn for those who are cheated by these shallow and hypocritical pretences 1ato tne further- ance of nis designs, whichis equalled only by his Yage and ruthless vengeance against all who oppose them.’? Harper was not very much astray after all in his estimate of tho great conqueror. The company was, it appears, composed of ‘men Of the old school,” aged patriots, who had come from afar to join in this characteristic jubilee. ae the invited guests were Thomas Johnson and Thomas Sim Lee, Charies Carroll, of Carrollton, the Heads of the Departments of the general govern- Ment and several others in military and civil life. Mr. Carroll, who was unable to attend, wrote:— “No onc can more heartily rejoice at these victories than 1 do, considering them as securing the inde- pendence of Burope and our own.” ‘ Tt was in this way that we showed our sympathy With Russia neariy sixty years Cg The friendship, which then existed is fresh and green to-day, It has come down to as among the sweetest and most precious of our traditions irom generatton to gener- ation, Nearly all tho gentlemen who sat down to this olden Georgetown banquet have long since been forgotten; but there was one there whom. we have not forgotten, and one not likely soon to forget. The, accounts of spe coepieton. mention nth nn 3 lastett Wacorator’ oP VIR inain aint toes Lie notice for which, I suppose, he was diy graterul, That man was Goorge Peabody, then a dry goods merchant in the humble litde town, and afterwards the great London banker, ahose ‘namte we have since learaed to place high aboye the Oarrolls and the Lees and the Custises, avove Senators and statesmen and Presidents, the story of whose nene- Hetil has been told in every country m all the worl ANXIOUS INQUIRIES FOR THE AR- RIVAL OF THE PRINCE. Military Movements—The American Squadron Still Watching Down the Bay. “Has the Grand Duke arrived yet? This was the question asked on all sides yesterday. “Not yet,’ was the only answer, with, it must be admitted, a certain empliasis indicative of disappointment. At the rooms of the Executive Committee Major Mont- gomery had time for little else than replying to the hundreds of questions propounded to him, Mem- bers of the Reception Committee were desirous of having the “latest information,” as their wives and daughters had in most cases completed ail their arrangements and were wailing, Officers connected With the military are anxlous to know how soon they will have to turn out onthe day in question, Indeed, since the false alarm of Monday last every- body appears to have been on the qui vive, As there has been considerable discussion on the question of the time that will be occupied in sailing up the bay, @ letter was yesterday Addressed to Vice Admiral Rowan asking him to make such arrangements on the day the Prince is landed as will enable the convoy to arrive off the Battery by two o'clock in the afternoon at the latest, The reasons for this request are—first, that otherwise the royal guest would probably bot be landed at pier No. 1 until about four o'clock, and then by the time the procession nad arrived at the Clarendon it would be quite dark and the most imposing part of the programme, the review, would of necessity be omitted. Secondly, on account of the troops As previousiy published in the HeraD, there will be about eight theusand men ordered to take partin the movement, and when these form in line and depioy along Broad. Way, the thousands of spectators will assemble in the streets and the windows of the buildings throughout the entire distance. General Shaler has ordered that every regiment shall be in line pre- cisely at haif-past ofe o'clock, so that ne may meet the views of the Executive Commit: tee, but he says (and wisely 80), that it would fair quid be unfair agent fe precedent established when the Prince of Wales visited these shores, and kecp the mititary waiting for hours pre- vious to the arrival of the young Russlan. If the men are ordered to be punctual tt would be unfair to keep them standing afterwards for any length of ume. Besides, they would practically block the streets the entire time and be put to the trouble of resisting an excited crowd as long ag they remained in position, It 18 arranged with Superintendent Kelso, who has shown every disposition to do whatever he can tomake the affair os agreeable as possible, that When the carriages containing the Prince, his suite and the Executive Committee arrive in Union square @ aqnad of oMcers shall stand along the curb on the cast side, be tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth atreets, and at a preconcerted signal, after all the carriages have deen drawn up, open each vehicle at the same instant, and thos empty them without stopping the eortége. This 1s done in order to save time. The Prince and the committee will then re- lire to the rooms prepared for them, aud as soon as he steps out upon the balcony General Shaler, at the head of we firat column, will commence the March past. The carriages, on being unloaded, will pass round Eignteonth street, whtle the troops Will pass straight along Fourth avenue and als- TAC, Subsequentiy General Shaler, as % member of the committee, Will be Presented to the Prince by ine Russian Minister, and he will thon bring forward the py oe stair ee ree Fool ae oficers, Who Will each receive an tntrod ul 5 Tae Navy Department has loaned the committee & great number of American flags, which will be | disoiaved’ oa the stgaiers, vesseut accompany tug the dects and on some of the principal butldiugs long = preg ee In aaaition to these haan urchase 10) jan flag, the inipesial ensigns, ig tor aispiay on the occa- sion, The sachems at the City Hall will hoist » Russian flag, but not the “imperial.” M. Catacazy he Could be might object to plac! tomahawkea, ahd rom rannary Russian ae ‘whose gaze covers neler of New Yor “ata of will float under the wnose of rk. The following notice je ception Committee: Deaar aed by the He OFFice oF THe kxeourieR ComurrtEE’ FOR THE RECEPTION OF anise: be DoKe ALEXIS, Tt is horeb; i ie y announced, nerally, that, should the oo Saturday the reseption ta ths eee Boat pied parade will fake place on the following Monday. “In evens menohers of the Rasen Committee and invited will assemble on board the Mary Powell at the hour nd place named in previous orders, {By order of Exocutive Committee, - JAMES E. MONTGOMERY, Secretary. THR FLEET, The squadron which is at present lying off Graves- gaa Bay, L. 1, outside the Narrows, aro not likely oO move from their nresent anchorage before tne arrival of the Russians, The tender Tallapoosa, under the command of Acting Lieutenant Mc: Ritehie, is lying inside of Sandy Hook, to steams over to the flagstlp Congress immediately the Rug- sians are sighted. If the weather is clear the Talla- poosa will hoist @ special signat and fire two Se The salute 18 80 arranged that upon the secon ry from the Congress the Severn will take Itup. ‘The Troquois and Kansas, which are not saluting vea- sels, will continue firing as long as the Severn, thus forming a seu de joie. The thick fog of yesterday and tne barrenness ot its promise of the guests’ arrival made the feeling of suspense very depressing aboard. Mr. Frank Thomsen, Superintendent of the Eastern Division of the Onto and Erie Ratiroad, has been appointed manager of ratiroad service for the Grand Duke Alexis during his visit to the United States, CATLIN'S INDIAN CARTOONS. Exhibition at the Somerville Gallery. One of the most curions and imteresting colleo- tions that hasever been placed vefore the public 4g at present on view in the Somerville Gallery. It consists of upwards of six hundred original paint- ings in oll, containing more than twenty thousand figures, representing the. manners and customs ot @race of men who are disappearing like shadowe before the advance of civilization and leaving no trail behind them, Ina short time the manners, customs and features of me THE PRIMITIVE INHABITANTS Of this Continent will have become a tradition, In view of this not very remote contingeucy it is of the first tmportance to secure accurate representations of their costumes and customs for the instruction of posterity. Everything connected with the fast- perishing tribes has a historic value that it would be dificult to overrate, and though Americans to- day, in their eager race after wealth, seem but litle interested in the fate of the Indian, the time will come when the antiquarian and the historian will visit with the strongest censure the indifference dis- Played both by-the government and the people ta the preservation of trustworthy records of the Indian nations. in the absence of public interest Mr..Catlin, with a devotion seldom equalled, has de- voted the whole of a long and active lite to the de- Ineation of the habits, costames and customs of the various tribes, Witha zeal and energy that never flagged Mr, Catlin wandered through every tribe, making SKETCHES OF CHIEFS = and warrlors and squaws. He has given us most interesting pictures of their social life in almost all their social relations. He has sat with the chiefs im the council and smoked the calumet of peace, and rode with them on their hunting excursions, shar- ing their hospitalities, thetr fatigues and their dan- gers, and therefore he speaks as one with authority, Better known perhaps in Europe thau tn his native land by his remarkable work “The American In- diaus,” Which shows the writer to be full of LOVR FOR HIS. SUBJECT, and intimately acquainted with the character of the men he describes 80 vividly, he places before us & picture of the ludtan as he 1s found on the prairies or the pampas, In his wanderings on the North American Continent Mr. Catlin has visited every tribe and selected some of thelr peculiar customs for iliustration, so that his collection presents ut with a painted history of the various Indian nationa More vivid than any en could convey, lt redects agood deal of discredit on Americans that so lite interest 18 manifested in the preservation of cor: rectrecoras of tue primitive inhabitants of the Cou- tinent, which are of such GREAT IMPORTANCE to the future historian, while the learned of other countries are. unceasingly laboring to eluciaate Whatever is obscure or doubtful im.the past of their country, Hitherto Mr. Catlin has been Withont support or acknowledgment by the govern- ment of his country, and whatever recognition haa een accorded to him has mostly come from the learned of Europe, who have been deeply hirteredted is labors. With the laudable desire of securing is native land the result of many vest OF diss (terested toll Mr gra nyersdres tO the national government for the sallow ‘his interesting and valuable collections, but in their wisdom tne frovig in power have resolved to ign he claims of Mr. Catlin and to leave ta private enterprise the care of - preven he = dispersion of the collection. This 1 very much to be regretted, as no other man hag éver devoted himself with tne same earnestness to the stndy of Indian customs. In the cartoons at present on exibition @verything has been gacri- iced to truth, but there will be found enougi: of in- cidental romance to furnish food for the imagina- tuon and relieve the naked portrait character of the groups, It is truly like A VISIT TO THE RED MEN to getamong Mr, Catlin’s pictures, for we feel at once that all /s simplicity and trutn. There are no tricks of art in the works before us, nor dq they make any pretentions to high art, but only come as a simple story of national lle passing away—presentt! themselves with the ‘simplictty of forest children and alsa with their freshnesa, The indomitable travel. ler, now 1n his seventy-fifth year, has just returned from Europe, where his paintings attracted con siderable attention, and now places them before THR AMERICAN PUBLIC, It is to be hoped that he will receive the patronage due to his untiring eiforts to furnish retable infor: mation about the Indian tribes, One of the moss interesting sketches in the collection 1s a painting of Chicago as it existed in 1834, when the artist, on his way to the pipestone quarries, stopped at the hotel, which, with a tow frame houses and some wigwams of the Winnebago Indians, occupled the site of the Garden City. THE NINETY-SECOND STREET FERRY, No Possible Ri f from Imposition, Except in a Stringent Law. In August last a HERALD commissioner inspected the boats and boilers of several ferry companies and gave the result of his inspections to the public. He plainly showed, both by his ovservations and the lestumony of employés of the ferry companies whose management was reviewed, that many of the boats aud most of the boilers were unsafe and dangerous to life and property, No change for the better has taken place since then, as the folowing letter shows. The only remedy for people whose lives are impertiied and whose property is jeopardized ts td send honest representatives—no matter the party— to the Legislature; for a stringent legislative enact ment is the only possible relict for the citizens whe 80 properly complain of the rascalities of the ferry companles:— To 7H Epiton OF THR HERA ‘The people living in the vicinity of Ninety-second street complain loudly of the manner in which the ferry to Astor! is managed by Mr. Wynant. Several times it las occurre that persons desirous of crossing the river find the boat starting, and are then obliged to take the cars to Thirty. tonrth street ferry, ‘The owners of the Ninety-second atrest fopry ate also iniepested in the one horse cars. Therefore, Whatever way they treal the passengers, the money is sure a, into the same pocket, Srna yell Known that the steamboats on the Niacty-second sitet ferry ave old, unsound aud. dangerour. They were, tt fs said, second hand boats that have been purchased eae ton ber joppanies by wi 4 Parlled whb Raw fa patbsdge tie nis de ig) the ¢ who, while in charge of the Houston atreot rendered 1: almost unfit for use and @ shame evea to common decency. A change ee better oe Laggh # are ed provements, Mr. Spears, ‘who bas superiocended. the man c ecoud strect terry of any use whatever and thelr hoats are not alone unreliable bul post Uvely dangerous) Is 48 siao reporied that Mr Water about to-call to bie assistance the services of Mr. ith his duties on the Thirty-fou ps are probably the most Feltabye and. sacest in the city. 0TH (Slade i ei REPORT OF THE EASTERN DIS- AnAVOn PENSARY, improve the condition of the Houston street ferry, wi hou reat The following are the officers for the present yoar:—President of the Board of Trustees, William P. Cooledge; Secretary, Russell Raymond; Vice President, Josiah G. Macy; Treasurer, Robert R. Crosby; President of the Medical Board, Re J. iy , M. D.; Seoretary, Royal B. Prescott, a nT attending physicians are the same as jast year, with the exception of Robert Pren- uss, D., Who has been appotntea the’ Department of Diseases of the Chest in the place of Dr. O'Sullivan, Who has been an- olnted consatting physician by the Board of ‘Trus- eos, as a recognition of his services for over twelve years In this acpartment. This is one of our most deserving city charities. During the past year 26,607 patients have oren treated, the district bern ‘one of the largest in the city, extending from Peo! slip to East Fourteenth street. New York may, be justly proud of her public medical charities. The pastern Dispensary fas done a noble work and has been ono of the pioneer institutions where the dest: tute poor never Tall to regelve succor and kind Bistance, :