The New York Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1871, Page 8

‘The Communist Convicts Be- _ fore Their Exeeution. ’S LAST HOURS. ‘nm Honorable Death—-A Respected Name—-A Courageous Example. *ERRE’S LAST HOURS. What the French Press Had to Say on the Executions. {HH PRISON WALLS SPEAK. ‘he Ounard steamship Java, Captain Martyn, yam Liverpool December 2, via Queenstown 84, ar Sywed at this port yesterday with two days’ later sews than that brought by the City of Paris. Ressel’s Own Account of His Last Days on ‘ Barth—An Interesting Narrative—Affecting Sceace with His Parents, Sisters and nde—**Not a Lot to Be Pitied.”” Ba miowne 1s @ translation of part of a most teresting manuscript from the pen of the harless tossel, now in the possession of a correspondent RB Paris, who knew the deceased well. The aapuscript ie in the form of a journal, under he title, ‘My Last Days; for my Parents,’’ and the ‘aesages which we present below vividly portray fee alternanons of feeling experienced by the @omed man as the crisis of his fate drew very aar:— Sarcrpay, Nov. 26, 1871, ‘This day has certainly been a memorable one, for ‘ali the days I bave lived tnis 14 one of those on I nave most suffered. Since I left the Com- Ihave had one moment of anguish. It the month of May, while I was hiding in Mireatened with proscription by that am greeable meses. A Versailles journal pub- iahea an acie d’accusa‘ion, written with as success as if 1t had been intended for @ /euitic~ d francs to surrender Paris to M. For the moment I was overcome by 80 ‘auch impudence: | was afraid that I snould not be to clear myself from such a calumny. But, rem the moment of my arrest by the conquerors, mes phase of tie trial, every atvempt by my adversaries agaiust me, has | @eced my character in evidence, so that if ‘ev DOW Dut me (o death they will have had their Toubl¢ for nothing, and have committed a murder gost dangerous for themselves, tor their system, ortheir onidren, 1am, therefore, quite at ease in prison, and concern myself sejdom and little as © the decision of the Coinmission. SECRET DELIBERATIONS, It is nine days since the Commission of Pardons @eombled, and its secret deliberations * * * * ‘@me to an ond yesterday. The result is not yet mown, but the demeanor of those poor wretches Pauvres diadies) snows clearly enouzh that they are Relined to strike; nothing 1s so terrible as people who are frightened. Three days back it was pub- ished that I nad been executed with Ferré. “This vaa,”’ says this morning's Presse, “a ballon Messai, sound publie opinion.” ‘MB YOUNG MEN OF PARIS ASK FOR MERCY TO ROSSEL. esterday, in answer to an appeal of the Constitu- ons. number of young men came from Paris to ie leg to ask or my pardon and to intercede in wiremis, Respectful and moderate they elected ive among themselves as representatives, who on! yaugnt sight of M. Thiers, aud were received by BR Saiot-Hilaire. Thiers Was getting into his car- and refused to listen to them. . “nis step can rove injurious to those whom you wish to ‘e@ve,’’ said he, not, it would seem, without a cer- ain degree of agitation, in spite of the insignificant ‘vamber of those who addressed him. Barthciemy Yas more explicit. * * * “You will prevent the Assembly from retncning to Paris! * * * + # TOU _HAYE GOT SHE REPUBLIC} WHAT MORE CAN YOU WANT? will e: te the Commission of Pardons! * After all, you are not numerous, as you would it to be thought.” To these words, to the inten- den and policy of the government. and to this jast 1 particular, my Iriend Baihant replied, “If not find us rete manag numerous we will it suits you." THE PRISONER AND BIS PARENTS. day Joly came tosee me. He knows nothing. he knows is that the Commission broke up defini- last might, after having adjourned itself to the ry mber and having decided on the ten ap- seals which had been submitted to it. 1 saw My mother and ‘aster came in all haste to warn me that a rumor found credit among the members o/ tbe Com- lon to the effect that, shortly before had petitioned the Minister of ar @ step, which had been reiused me. immediately wrote a letier, which I ad- dressed to my motuer, aud in which | contradicted pe Tumor or calumny of the eleventh hour. festerday Isaw them again in the ‘“‘pariowr.” My other and sister had spent the evening of the day Jetore in waiting for the members of the Commis- i080 come out, nd had seen them pass without tospeak to them. They did not look like le Who nave just decreed somebody's death— were walking with a light step. They were ly very hungry and in a hurry to get their ‘Beir dianer. No; they did not look fierce. Very fate in the evening an English journalist had sent ‘hem Word that all was golng on well, and that he wuld not leave Versailles without letting them know & My father had gone immediately to tell M. Passa, “%& have come to tell you, in order that you gay have @ good night's rest.” To-day, waen the; ‘ame into the parlor, my sister’s teatures were all Ustorted, and she had been drying tears. “sho was gota bad cold,” said my mother to me. My gother was very pale—quite pale. Little Sarah had kept her veil over her eyes, and tried to iook aim. From time to time there was a contractien Q & corner of her li but she was not crying. father stood behind them, as usual; his counten- ace is firm, but I love him too weil not to feel that war he suffers all the more, but I bitterly epent having caused such deep and bitter grief © my beloved favber. I cannot bear that my sarents should be made to surfer. So far as m2 ersonally concerned, I am thick-skinned, and am ollttie preoccupied with this contingency of im: death thatl ask myself at tines whether $ 4s not 8 diseased insensibiiity on my part. But what I cannot understand is tnat, by delaying to ake @ decision aud dissimuwiating tnat decision vhen taken, they siouid prolong the agony of my arents, WhO bave not committed any otner crime Ban that of bringing me into the world and teach- ag meto love my country. Something lias been ecided; they are silent : the decision must be fatal, wach ig the Conclusion at which my parenis hare rived, Snr -—~ THR MOTHER AND HER SON. “Do not exasperate the Commission of Pardon I" weaying of Bartaéiemy! * * © The ‘nt of my parents broke my heart. Yesterday my gother was telling me of the steps she had taken be day before, when euddenly she exclaimed, “I ) anunot go on! I forget! see, I am out of my aind ? My sister, who was more composed, took p tbe narrative, to which 1 did not Isten. saw them and heard them—that was mM = area littie for the rest. To-day it ry mother who 1 caim and my sister who is be- ide if. «We were yee last night: M. Passa tad comiorted us. But ! have confidence,” said my nother, “J have confidence; they will not do any- Bing to you.’ Father talks of other thinga—of ‘ort Sve. Marguerite, of tue last drawt have of the one | am going me promise her to make. laf made two of then, aa op ae) one ge peppng. for Led vie voning, io something fo ser. tte one 1s not crying, but her fear! - stul, “And you, too,” I say to her, “you, too, ‘are tormenting |’ Then she bursta {nto’ vearh peeg caer courage } atanend. My poor little | may poor ttle frieud | they ere rending er lutte But the wound will heal yp, m og a te] J am well aware that nooody will Am 1 of your Old brother; but there 1s still iy ry im your heart for bew friendships. ; care of the others; they have such babit of loving me that | fear for them when Will no longer Dave me to devote themselves to. PRISOM OBLI—HOW ROSSEL RECKIVED Hid VISITORS. The Fo mn ig @ cage Of about one metre tn sur- ‘p0e and three metres igh. At tie back there is & or, on either side brick partitions; in front, "east high, jouble grating made with wire trek th moshes of which are two centmetres this cage is another box siuigitiy aiso at breast heignt, but with- an intervening passage where the They are all four in this box. humor we cail it our Gui ~~ te stationed. ‘wo are i inch and Judy), because the personages are there # closely pack as on the scene where Punch's periormed, Only bere we drama is THE WARDER cottro] our wards is nos flerce ai and now he k, When the aret.g stn ng, send me @ kiss which then each NEW YORK ae Tre HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. HARBOR RI sienna SS ——_ _—_—_—_——_— renee anes? : eight. To-day their poor dear faces were Qowncast | When men become logical there will be no more olars from steamers since Thave been in the ent ‘and discouraged. ‘‘We have been taking patience | revolution. ROSSEL, c 0 U N T E R F E I T IN G. ponent i Dalat WINGY. ¢ aa not take cigars so long,” said my mother to me, ‘that our powers 1 U 5 1 thing I he taken. OW & = named Of endurance are exhausted.” She speaks but few The Time Has Failed Us. Gores, 5. yin mcigars to Rim frome @ nd looks at me with concentrated attention, yourself before public opinion got them from leopatra; I believe engrave my features on her memory, For one moment the warder withdraws to let in other nsitors. She hangs on with her bands to the grat- ig and presses as close to itasshe can. ‘My son, ¥ good son ! my darling! | love you; they wiil do othing to you!’ When the hall hour ts elapsed I allowed to embrace whem at the record ollice— en only two at a time, in order that we may be he more easily surveyed—and their embraces make them anxious, * * * Polson might be handed tome * * * THB DIRROTOR OF THR PRISON is a faithful administrator, So many pounds of live flesh have been entrusted to his care; he must de liver up this live flesh elther to we hulks or to the executioner, or, when it so happens, to freedoin; and 1 feel sure that the last Is tue most to his taste, To commit suiciae, to destroy oneself, would be very wrong; he would be ‘‘deprived of his posi- tion and lose his career.” ‘‘ihis,”” he says to me, “you would not do if you could.” He con- flues to me his anxiety, he tells me how mu confidence he has in me, and yet he takes precautions. This evening I was nowrtngs ona button, the needie Denus between Ongers; | 100k v at it; itis a brand-new needle, which they nave put in the place of the two old steel needies which I haa: they have even taken the trouble to thread it in the same way that the others were threaded. I shall see my parents to-morrow. forted your mother,’ the director 10 me; “t! poor lady si me questions whion are embarrassing. 1 know avso- ver} lutely nothing, Peive you my word of honor. Hutt comforted her. ‘You Will see your son to-morrow,’ I sald to her. ‘To-morrow is Sunday, and no exe- cutious have ever taken place on @ Sunday. They are never carried out on that day. The law forbids it, 80 in and can be easy about 1t.?’? Lt my mother 4s not cousforted with that she must, indeed, be dlf- ficalt to please. “NOT A LOT TO BB PITTIED.” M. Passa came to see me after my parents. He brought me some chocolate. If I were to be shot o-morrow they would find my pockets full of it, tor 1 bad stilt a quantity left before ne came. He brought me better than that—bis good friendship and his kind heart, we really love one another, we understand eaci other; it is @ true blessing that I should have met him; be Das every delicacy of feeling. My dinner is on the table, ne would not disturo we, bat atrer one or two mouthiuis the recollection of my dear parents and their sadness chokea me. 1 got up and began to cry. To die young, of a rapid death, of an honorable death, to leave benind a re- spected name and a courageous exumpie, 18 not a lot to be pitied. My death will bea dunured times more uselul than my ise Des been—more useful than would have been 8 long aad sucvesstui career. T have notningto complain of. But why make 1 parents and sisters auffer? Ie tt sy easy to Kull Man, and it 1s s0 8000 done? Why do you hesiiate to draw from the scapbard the rusty sword of your justice? L. NATHANIEL RUSSEL. ELSVEN O’OL00K aT NIGHT. Personal Recollections of Rossel. The London Daily News publishes some personal recollections of Rossel, written by @ correspondent Who became acquainted with the deceased when he was Chief of the Staff to Ciuseret, The writer says:— Soon after the insurrection of the 18th of March broke out I went to the Ministry of War In order to obtain a /aissez-passer, When larpived at ine sump- tuous hotel in Faubourg St. Germain, which answers wo our dingy War Ofice. | was at once shown into the room in which Colonel Rossel was eugaved in giving audience to a most miscellaneous crowd of peontt, The room was filled with oficers of the Na- jonal Guard, belaced and bedizened with glittering uniforms in the most wonderful manner, and the only man in authority who wore plain clotnes was Rossel himself, who was then acting as chile! of the staff to Cluseret. All the officers seemed afrgid of the young Colonel of Engineers for all nis plain clothes, and perhaps not without reason, for they knew that he was as well acquainted with every de- tall of his profession as they were ignorant of its first rudiments, When I prelerred my reauest fora but also that my t to be sufficient. I ieft rather obtained my “pass,” ‘uck at the piercing glance and the ossessed Manner Of the youth’ul chief uere Was no French fantaronde about hiin at all; and lremember well saying to a friend who had been much with me among the Germans, “Rossel is more like one of Von Moltke’s staff officers than a Frenchinan.” The next ume | saw Colonel Rossel was at a sitting of the cour-mnartia/e, or court martial, of which he was President. One of the charges brought against the ‘ ommunalist Delegate for War was that he presided over iis court martial with extraordinary severity. 1 can only say that im the cases | saw bim try he seemed to me to act with great mildnesa, and only condemned men terms of imprison- ment who had sought and obtained rank and pay under the Commane, and had then refused to go outand Ogntthe Versaliles troops. I velleve Kos sel sentenced one man to death for cowardice under fire, but the sentence was commuted next day by a decree of the Commune, as Rossel probably well knew i would be when he passedit. When Cluseret fell, and Rossel was named Delegate of War in nis stead, I again saw him at the War Orlice, and thls time he at once gave me @ /dissez-passer, stating that he had much pleasure in being of use to me, who was balf a countryman. “My mother was 2 Campbell, you Know, and one of my uncles 13 in your Indian army.” Waile we were waitin; Rossel took me into a side bureau—“Let us see 1 ‘there 18 aay news from the outposts,’’ ne said, open- ing a book of telegrapnic despatches. I turned over the pages, and saw at once—what I had jong sua- pected—that the pews in the Journal Oyicie’ was— ‘well, as false as French official news generaliy is. 1 could not help expressing my disgust at this system of falsehood to Rossel. “I dislike it as mach as you can possibly do,” he ropiled; “but what am I to do dof’ The others insist on docioring despatches, and really i we were to let them know the truth’’—and he stopped. Once we got on the Prussians, Rossel talked very freely about them, aud although it was evident that he baied tiem most bitterly, I should remark that he never said a Word 10 disparagement of, or gaye way to @ single sheer against, the nation which has crushed down bis own go craelly. He remembered, what but t00 many Frenca officers seem now to forget, thata soldier's duty is not to abuse his gountry’s encinies with bis tongue, but to do his best to beat then with “blood and iron.’’ One remark about the men under bis command struck me much. “Qur men are porn disobedient just as the Germans are born obedient.” He never couceaied trom nimseif the terrible lack of discipline whieh existed in the ranks of the National Guard. “How can you do anything with such men and such officers *”” he said one day When some flagrant case of stupid raahep emgeet § came under his eyes, ‘An! if I had only known,” he added, with asizh. But, in ite of his despair, he went on working hard at the War Office; in fact he could not get out of the piace—for plots against him were rife, and it was only by the utmost vigor and strictness that he kept things going at all. At last the crash came, and he fled from tue maniacs in the Commune, who aid not—some of them—screpie to accuse so loyal a man as Rossel with having had an understruding with the enemy. What that understanding was the bloody scene of Monday morning at Satory bas suM@ciently shown us. He hid in @ hofel in the Quartier Latin, and even then carried on nis favorite studies in military history and in strategy. An anonymous denunciation caused him to be arrested, and he {eli into the clutches of M. Thiers’ mouchards. 1 did nov see my ged Iriend again until he was brought up ior trial at Versaities—it was not essy to seo him in prison—and then was ouly able to gpeak to him fora few minutes during & suspension of the sittings of the court martial. “Why did you not come to meor go to my friend ——8 house when the Communists were in search of youf We would have got you safe to Engiand between us.’ “Alas he answered, issez-passer he decitned very politely, very firmly, to give me one, on the ‘ground Passport ought Unhappy at not having but much si “Thad lost the 4 with your addresses on it and — coul not remembper whore to go.’ I half fancy that tne poor fellow in his ex- treme chivalry of Patan was airaid of com- eS irienda, and preferred to take his chance yy himself, alone and unaided. “I expect to be sentenced to death,” be sald, “and on te whole { preter it. Pernaps, ater all, they will not shoot me,” he added, as be saw me joox gloomy when he oor of @ capital sentence. Then he talked quite cheertully of some relatives of his at Brighuon, und of hia “Art of War,” woich was then tu the press. “You will send me any English notices of my book. won't you?’’ he said; ‘send the papers to doly pl oquent and able defender); he will give hem m6, P like Lape hese d that comes from England.’ He was as great @ reader as any Ger- man, and, even when Delegate for War, and with no rest by night or day, he continued to snatch a few moments at his meals to commune with his loved books. I don’t think he cared anyining for politics or even understood much about them, although I remember his roading with interest during his brief reign at tne Ministry of War an article of Mr, Frederic Harrison's on the Commune in the Forinightiy Review. Colonel Owen's work on artillery was also lent him by some English friend during the same period, and J remember his telling me, apropes of tnis latter book, that he had paid a visit to Woolwich and visited the arsenal in detail, with come English officer oi artillery, Rossel was of middie height, slignt but well made in frame, for @ soldier stoop: ng slightly, the effect, Do doudt, of too much reaai ie had a wonderfully intelligent gray eye, and a face waich had ouncen- ee energy and capacity for hard work written every line of it, THE PRISON WALLS SPEAK, “When Men Beceme Logical There Will Be No More Revoluti: i The Gazette de Parts gives the following as copies Of what Rossel and Ferré wrote on the walls of their cells on the night before their execution:— ‘The soldier will never march in the name of 4 theory or even in the name of @ principle, te will march only in the name of @ man. Jn the eyes of Marceau’s soldiers the republic was Marcea Under a republic what is the ideal of ost all the gen It is to work much less tor the repub- an for the dictatorship. Inconsistency of men: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, republican, fied his coun- try, which was @ republic, for an absolute mon- *Voliatre, a courtier of Loute XV., became a oltizen eo pee had ve Vols ri tor Geneva, 0 "000"8 f08 Fars “Il ave com- | | Do not present with nauds full, but with nands pure. The human consclence must be renovated at the same Ume a8 public opinion, The tume has failed mall nilosophy 1s intended to tmprove the world; but where are the men? Where shail we find Saitat Juste to create, with sword in hand, tae won age? The Execution of Gaston (remieux at Mare weilles, (Paris (Nov. 80) correspondence of the London Standard. More blood! Gaston Cremieux, who was sen- tenced to death in August lust for his participation im the Marseilles insurrection, after three mouths of suspense, during which the commutation of his sentence has been repeatedly caey has been at leagth shot, The un/ortunate man died with coul and actually cried, Vine /a Hepudii ” Which brought him to an ignominious dea'h as he fell. He leaves @ wife and three young children, Are we avout to witness the revival of the ‘verreur blanche 2” As with re- rd to Rossel, I will only say that hed Cremievx een executed alter nis successive appeals had been Tejected we might commiserate his fate; but he would. Rot, like Rossel, have been placed on thai kind of pedes'ail which moral sufering always creates in the Minds of the multitude, An execution so long de- ferred always has tne appearance of poiltical re- venge, and the courage sown by the victims adda to the prestige of tue insane cause {or which they died, This young inan, Cre mieux, belonged to the Hebrew persuas on, and his self-possession did not for one moment desert him, He was attended to the piane of exe- cution by the rabbi, He touk up his position against ‘the post provided in such cases 1e8t the emotion of the doumed man shoulda render 1t necessary to fasten him to it. . He refused to be biiudfolded, dellbe- Fately took off his coat, waistcoat and cravat, tirew open his shirt and shouted, “Al/ons—/e Oe lh repv—", A volley which stretched him lileless finished the word for him, Tue troops marched past, and while they did so tne ravol Performed by the prostrate corpse the rites of the dead prescribed vy the law of Moses. Is Unis execution vo be the jast, or, by way of “making tie wicked trem5le,” and reas- suring the tremulous bowrgecls, are we to lave a re. crudescence of wholesale executions? 1am afraid Of one thing, and It 1s this—ihat tue governinent, seeing the cilect produced »y the executions that have already teken place, should yield to the usual argument Whion that most numerous of pariies— the party of polirvons—inevitably put forward, that alier showing relentless severity towards those in whose behaif pubitc sympathy was excited, mercy towards ‘uainteresting oifenders’’ would be con- sidered as @ sign of weakness. Tue french Press on the Executions. M. Gambetta’s journal, La République Frangatse, of the 29:n ult, says of the execuuons:— applications of mothers, the cry of pubife opinion, the jons ot press, the’ warnings of politi have Leen wile useless against ao umnuigoie re: Six months r the deieat of tue insurrection and many weeks after the sentences of death were passed three prisoners bave been doue to veath. of State” has prevalied and the voice of bumanity been neglected. We could not imagine a greater calamity to our country, alreay tried by so many terrible disasters, Instead of appeasement by clemency, we find a course of severity which terriiies us tor the {uture. Who shail arrest our cownwar. course, which Europe regarca with sadness? We will say no more. | We ure neither free euough nor calm enough to write all that we think, The épuliicain, which gives a general support to M. Thiers, publishes ouly the first iew tines of an articie on the executions by a writer wio signs “Panurge,” and inen, after many points, the editor gays:-—** Weare obliged Lo suppress this contribution, We cannot afiord to forget tuat the press 18 under the staie of siege.’? ‘he Bonaparust Ordre says:— This fs the tirst time that the system of Parllament: delays has been appiied. to capital punishment. We think the experiment inielicitous, and cannot help calling to mind the lurkish proverb—“Better prompt iniquity than slow justice." Certain republicans accuse the old republican Journal, the S cle, of treason, because it goes in for @ gradual renewal of the Assembly. The deience of the Sec'e is, that altnouga beyond all doubt the Assembly, elected in a hurry to make peace, 1s an usurping power now that it claims to be sovereiga and constiiuent, this Asseubiy 1s ade facy power, the sole effective interpreter of its own attributes, whicb cannot be upset with. outarevoluuon. Therefore, thinks the oe, itis @ great polut gained tl the Assembly, which might exist perpetually, consents to retire by instalments. ‘This reasoning seeius to be wise. The Assembly has nO plausiple pretensions to say that It now repree sents the country. But 1uasmuch as it is resolved jw die hard, and ciing to power as long as possible with tolerable decency, it 18 probably polite, and the least of two evils, Jor the republican party to sub- mit to the usurpation of the Assembiy, on the con- dition that it will gradually dissolve itself, and give place to newer and more deliverate expressions of the national will. A “ketch of the Consp'rator Blangal. ‘The Paris correspondent of the Pall Mal! Gazette, under date of the ist inst, gives the following sketcn of the notorious old conspirator blangui:— As the hoary conspirator Bianqui will shortly be tried a Jew notes on his career may prove of inter- est. Since the decline of carbonarism, down to the recent explosion, Bianqui, Waetuer free or in prison, has uever ceased to trouble the repose of tne coun- try, Viewed by tne ‘keds’ as a mysterious and superhuman clef, he 13 regarded by his enemies as @ political mouster with no otuer creed than thal of the lerror, One of istanqui’s compatriots has made @ long and patient study o/ the man—a study which furnisues us with the following information:— Louls Auguste Blangu! was born in the Maritime Alps in 1806, His moter, Sopule Briere ve brionvilie, died about a dozen years azo iD Haris, over elghty years of age, an the iaat she appears to have been a woman of a pecullarly strong mind. Blanqui’s father was from Nice, and advo- gated the annexation to Frauce In 1792. He took his eest in jays aiter the death of the K his first vote was fn ‘avor of declaring war Archvishop of Paris. He was a(terwards arresied with the Girondi: pire he was @ prefect. and showed c: administrator. Louis Auguste Blanqui, born at the toot of s the mountains, till driven his tamily in [615, The Mianguis then Beauce, where Louis August me 8 but, when thirteen years old, | iatingulshed biusel’ wt the College Charle- magne, taking prizes for Latin, history and geography, ‘Among other schoo.feliows were M. Mianeau, Minter of Jrouyn @’Lbuys. In 1824 Blanqui went t0 a, chateau ner Toulouse as a tutor, capital scholar, feeble to look at, palo, of an Infexivie en- ergy and already @ carvonarist.' He 'was always porin Over his booxe with bis {alcun eves; his rorenead was brow and bis features sharp and sarcasti General Compans, in wWuose bouse be was, likei aud e met hin, for he was witty and gay as well as good tempered, He was sobriety itself, and neither dran« wine, iceey nor coffee; avoided suit, pepper and animal fuod, and lived ch fruit. Blangut, too, Nighted tn the open ai was hardy as a Cossack; in winter as w summer he slept with his window open and close to the window, and the snow falling on his bed’would not awake him. He remxined two years in juis chateau, and then returned to Paris, where he mixed up in politics, and after a curious courtahip of six years married an exorilent woman, 6 not long before he got into trouble, aud his wife died rafter be had been condemaed to perpetual imprison- This was a terrible biow to Blanqul, wao alterwarde “Compared to that crusiing misfortune twenty-eight Fears of captiviy sit as licotiy on meas a feather, Ami to bink that | am sometimes treated like a wild beast who has tumbled into a dieb. But J have remained mght and day face to face with the shadow of her who is no more.” So wrote Blanqnt, and by all accounts his wife was ® most worthy, sensible aud loving woman—a haud- gome Woman, too, tor Bianqui used to say sie had the “gait of an empresa.” ‘Tue writer of the study Says that he Often saw Blangqui when at Satnie- Peiagic, in 1848, and then he was a sickly-looking litue man, with hair prematurely wiite:— I felt myself drawn toward him (coutinues the writer) by his implacability towara tbe idiots of his party and his through contempt for sentimental verbiage, No man of uitra Views was #0 sober of words and gestures as ivaugul, no physiognomy more speaking and active than his, A red- akin by his cunning, a man at once simple and shrewd, calm af a lske and quick as powder, with the resination of a Trappist, fiery as a tribune, persevering as a missionary, Voltarian by the vivacity of his wit, the coldness of ule heart and his incredulity, a thorough cynic, clear of apeech, obscuse in his desigos, Louis Auguste Wlanqui by his mys: terious aire, the fear and hatred of the public, bas assumed the proportions of « giant. Such is the sketch given of this terrible conspira- tor cemanded by the Commune in exchange for the the Alps, spent his youth amon thence wit! = wr DEADHEADS, Jeint Committee of Western and Southern Kallronde—A Sudden Check to the Gentles men of thes#Kree Pas? Class. Sr. Louis, vec, 18, 1871, A meeting of tha, raliroad oMcers of quiie a num- ber of Western roads Was held here yesterday to modify the evils of t,\@ free pass system. It was decided that the usuak annual passes between the oMicers of connecting jit'¢3 sould be given. Passes for travelling agents or he employés of other roads Will be granted on aicth 'T irom the presisent. or other general managing of !cer for each paruicular cake, and only for busine 33 purposes. Halt tare uckets to clergymen shah issued only to those living on the line of the’ road aud having no Other occupation than preacht,"& Passes ror purely charitable purposes may be gt Ven, ali passes to be signed by the president or the , Managing oilicer of ue road giving passes. Passes \%ali nol be given ped yess ireight, hotel kee, ers or clerks, A committee was also appointed to (‘all @ meeting of presidents, superintendents and of, er general man- aging officers of the Western and Southern rau. roads, to be held on the 1ith of Jam ‘ary next, tor the purpose of organizing an assoch Won of such Officers for the advancement of railrc’ad manage ment and ratiroad interests througnon! the West and South, PATAL OAR OBUSHING CASUALTY. Oscar Bibbig, the German who was crusi,'ed be- Death the wheels of car 129 of the, Belt Raf toad, corner of South and Coriears streets, on Tues day evening, particulars of which have already appear? in the HERALD, subsequently died in Bellevue Hos- Dital, Deceased gave his name, age and residence be Thirveenth ee season, Martin Tuoker, driver of the car, lying oo the track and was not pon him. in ects tatiaehce va aad on The “reason » He was then nineteen, a Continuation of the Trial of Minor, the Alleged Counterfeiter. Extraordinary Evidence of a Secret | Service Detective. ‘The trial of Joshua D, Minor, who is indicted for having counterfelt money and counterfeit plates in his possession, was resumed yesterday in the United ‘States Circuit Court, before Judge Benedict. As ‘On the preceding day, the attendance of spectators ‘Was large, every seat in the court room belog oc- cupied. Mr. Pierrepont, with Mr. Purdy and Mr. De Kay, conducted the prosecution on bebalf of the govern- ment, and Mr. Fullerton and Mr. B. K. Phelps ap- peared as counsel on behalf of the defenaant, Mumor. HENRY 0. COLE RECALLED. Henry 0. Cole was recalled, He corrected a state- ment made in his evidence on the previous day to the effect that le had received $700 irom David Keene by a check payable to bearer on the Grocers’ Bank. He now recollected that he haa received that amount {rom Keene, not by a check, but in money. CROSS-EXAMINATION OF W. W. KENNOCH, W. W. Kennoch, an officer of the secret service, who bad been examined on the previous day by Mr. Pierrepont with regard to the circumstances of Minor’s arrest on the night of the 25tn of October at Sixty-second street, was cross-examined by Mr. Fullerton, Witness said he had gone with Cole to his house in Eighty-fourth street to get the deed of that house for the purpose of giving It as security on the charge on which Cole had been arrested; he came down with Cole to Colonel Whitley's office, where the deed was given to Whitley, and the witness knew nothing furiher of it; with Tes;eot to the package of bills which the witness had received irom Cole, he said that he had marked ten of the bills in one of the bundles; he did not believe he nad marked more of them; but counsel Jor tne defence hanaed witness several of the packages with his name written on the back and part of the bills, and he seemed to be quite puzzled to explain this cir- cumstance, He continued—Coie went to the Boule- vard, on Fifty-ninth street; J kept him im view; he got to Sixty-seventh street; he went im frontof @ stable; he was gone some five or ten minutes; he Went into a house and came out of it with another man, and turned down the Boulevard, and when they had got “some distance Cole fell back, and at Sixty-second street a man stepped out and handed Minor a package; the man who handed the package siarted to run, and Minor returned with the package to where Cole was; Oiticer Applegate was chiet of “the operation’’ that night; 1 was directed by Apple- gate to keep my eye on Cole, Much of the examination at this point was taken Up witn an inquiry as to whether the witness saw Cole go into the stable, where, it was alleged, he ‘was to meet Minor for the purpose of receiving from Nim the ten doilar and two dollar plates, in consid- eration of a payment by Cole to Minor of $1,500, The ‘witness said he did not see Cole go into the stable, Mr. Fullerton called his attention to a statement in his examtuation before the Commissioner, in which he distincuy averred that Cole did enter the stable, The exp.anation of the witness was that he did mot think he had answered in that way; he thought he: had said that Cole was standing in the entrance to the stable, He coud not say there was a light m the sta'le; was under & truck partof the time, while Cole was standing op- posite the stabie, and witness tuinks he was behind the truck when Cole started from the stable en- trance; saw him go towards Minor’s house, or the house he bad siace ascertatued (o be Minor’s; migat have said yesterday that he nad seen him go out or the gate; when Cole und Minor passed him on the boulevard be Knew Cole trom his appearance, dress and voice; heard him speak to Minor # outa drill- ing machive; had seen him since several umes walking In the street, but had no conversation with him; when Coie aud Minor got to the boulevard they went towards Fifty-muth street; I think when Cole ‘Was standing opposite the siabis 1 saw two of my associates going down SixXty-seventn street and two Teturned; wuen 1 went back again for the money, Which we did nov find on Migor; I fouad be Louo there; 1 got down on iny knees 1n the mud with & jantern and began picking up the money. [This was the $1,500 10 good money which Cole alleges he Passed to Minor when the latter delivered nin the plates.) saw Ballard hand the package to Mimor and witness then said to Oiicer Drummond, “Be quick or you will lose your man:’’ Cole toid me he Was going to get @ package from @ man in front ofa stable; Cole gave me asiznal for tie arrest of Minor; he was to lilt his hat, and if it was too dark he was to pass his handercuiel around his vody trom oue pocket to another; Applegate knew also that that was to be the signal. Q. if that was to be the signal why did you goand nige under tue truck A, Coie having gone into the nouse, which I have since ascertained to be Minor’s, altered Une programme; my instrucuons were not to iet Cole go out of my sight; I could not have siopped him Golds at 1 had no orders tu stop now that tie house was ted any one to o1e Loid me ue would wa.k lar enough to give tue sigual; | think I am sure | did not notice any signal irom Cole when T arrested Minor; | saw Batiard hand the package to Mipor, and the man who handed the package ran; Minor returned to Cole, and as Minor got to Cole, I arrested Minor; I heard some murm ig _vetween Ballard and Cole; 1 cannot swear that I heard words; when I seized Minor I saw him throw the package from his nand; | will not swear thatin throwimg the package from him ie made the gesture or motion with bis arm which have used here to illustrate the motion, Q. State to the jury how you distinguish between throwing and aropping the packager A. As 1 took hold of nim he had the package 1 his hand, and just then he threw the package Irom nim; | cannot swear that] saw any motion of his arm; | swear that he threw it, and did not drop it, because it fell five or six feet from hin with a heavy thud, beiug heavy; he then got hold of me; he threw the package from him before he wok hold of me; 1 think he threw the package trom | bis right side; 1 canuot say thal he threw it with bis Tiht hand; the package was heavy; 1t aiterwaras turned out to be the package containing the plates in question. iis Alter you arrested Minor what did you do with vole? A, Alter Applegate put the irons on him, and lassisied him, we arrested Cole; whea they fixa lan arresi & party the mau tliat he 1s "in"? with i$ lo be arrested, and sometimes he is not; we took Cole and Minor down to 62 Bleecker street, to Colo- nel Wuitley’s office; we did not take Ballard down in the carriage; when I was behind the truck I saw Cole and Minor passing ou towards Sixty-seventh street; at the wine 1 was under the truck two men other than Minor and Cole did not pass me, nor were Minor ana Cole joined by anyoouy untul Cole joimed Ballard; | did not see any one on the street at the ine except my own associates, untii at the time of the arre-t some man came up and said, “Ob, you are making an arrest; do not huri that man; | went into THE SECRET SERVICE a year ago; I had some cigars in my possession in Broadway that were not stamped—about 4,800 cigars; 1 got them Jrom @ man named Sievel origi- nally; they ceme trom his house; I got them at Sie- vei’s house, along With @ man named Clandei; I was going to deliver (hem to @ house corner of Broadway and Eighth street, | was to get $140 for tiem; Clandel came along with me; 1 was arrested and taken to tne ofice of Colonel Whitley by Nettlesbip; it 18 tour or five months ugo since I took Clandel in the em- ployment of the secret service; 1 have been a water vender on board sieamstuips. 9. How long after you made your last passage in @ steamer were you arrested? A. It may be three or four mouths; 1 went down to the Mbrro Castle to Sliow how Cigars were smuxgied; I weut with a note to one McHenry on board the Missouri or Columbia appointing a meeting with one Wightman, Who was an Oflicer in Colonel Whitiey’s emp.oy at the time; McHenry was to bring cigars; 1 have heard that Wightman was sent to the State Prison; I never got any cigars from Wightman, put Wight- man said to me, he being a United States oftieer, that he got the cigars from McHenry; 1 think Colonel Whitley sent me down to McHenry w say Lat he wanted to see him; | never got cigars {rom the steamer Missouri; McHenry came up to see Colonel Whitley; I know McKinley, steward, I think, of the Columbia; 1 know a man named McUleary, who was on board the Cieopatra; 1 got property trom aim. Q. Did you get cigars from him on board the vessel Cleopatra? A. No, not directly from him; L may have had four or five thousand cigars sent to my house by Alfred Baker; I sold those cigars for their benefit. q. To whom did you sell them? A. I do not think Ihave aright to answer that or implicate men that do not want to be implicated, CourT— You must answer the question. Witness—I sold some to Mr. Gardner, at Ludlow Street Jail, and to one Brown, in Grand street, and & person bamed Stubbleman; other persons came to me with notes from Baker to deliver cigars to them; I nave only sold cigars for Baker and McCleary; the Mexican mail agent sent quantities of Cigars to my nouse, No. 8 Suoriff street, for security: come with age} Ishould judge that twenty thousand or thirty thousand cigars were sent to my house in Rea WO four months; I ix V6 Bold NO Cigars on account ay of those per- fon Within the past year; I knew vhe duty was not paid on those cigars; I knew thatl was assist in defrauding the government; mvs | was ail $260 @ thousand for selling tem; poe Peers oe aes, ait op tad 1 used to see them lying ju the entry; & man would nove and get a tains of sia’ were in the same prison with me; d for aby crime in connection with them: Iwas in Jail once; that was for an affair ‘n woich | was protecting my mother from an assault; in the Clarke case | swore to a confeasio2 that Clarke made to me; 1 was introduced to Clarke By another person under the name of Vincent B. news; I do not know what has become of the pT ag that Ifound at the place where 1 arrested After a brief redirect examination of the witness ag adjourned until eleven o’clock this morn- A MAN AND A BROTHER IN THE JURY BOX. The First Colored Man Called On to Serve as a Juror in the City of New York, ASTONISHMENT IN COURT. He Tells a Herald Reporter “What He Thinks About It.” On the jury panel of the Marine Court, Part 3, presided over for the term by Judge Joachimsen, is the name Richard M. Williams, When the pane ‘was called over by the Clerk on Monday Mr. Richard M. Williams answered to his name, stepped for- Ward and took his seat in the jury box to the astonisnment of all in Court, He was a colored man—‘“only this and nothing more.” The Judge LOOKED AT HIM OURIOUSLY, but sald nothing. The reading of the panel went on alter an awkward pause; tie jurymen who had been sworn stared with open eyes at their sable tel- low “juryman and brother,’ wio became at once the cynosure for all eyes. He withstood the inspection bravely, and did not become 4 WHIT WHITER under the optical battery which was levelled at him. He modestly took his seat, was sworn in and the case which he was empanelied to try proceeded ‘Without interruption, though a sensation was evi- dently looked jorward to in Court should some thin-skinned juryman make an objection to serve. No such Ovjection occurred, and the first colored man ever summoned to discharge one of the most important duties of ciuzenship in the city or State of New York listened to and adjudicated on the testimony of his white fellow citizens, ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE STEP Was made, and practically the colored man isa cltizea of New York and admitted to his tuli rigots as such, It was @ triumph of the fifteenth amendment, and Mr. Williams mocestly bore his blushing honors as ajuryman, The case at issue was thoroughly inves- tigated, the verdict in the case was approved of by the Judge, and Mr, Williams’ fellow jurymen say that they wished for no better associate, THE DUSKY JURYMAN ‘Was excused on ‘Tuesday, but was punctually present atthe nour for the opening of the Court yesterday. Mn Wiliams 1s a fine-iooking mulatto, of magnifi- cent physique, neariy six teet high, broad shoul- dered, with limbs in proportion, Since first he appeared in Court he has shown himself extremely unassuming, thereby showing that ge lacks @ characteristic, common to the “colored folks’? who have been brought into public ufe. He has carefully avoided observation, and even reiuses to take a seat in Court, standing ail the tame vebind a partuion near the door, completely hidden trom everybody in Court, awaiting the cChauce of being calied tu serve. After the case in which he Was a juryuan bad conciuded he quickly left the Court, aud was not seen again until bis ame was Called yesterday moramg. A HHRALD reporter audressed Mr. Wiliams, and had the following conversation wito him:— KEPORTER—Mr, Willams, 1 am @ newspaper re- porter. Have you xny objection to talk with me? Mr. WiLLIAMs (laughing hugely and showing every white tooth in nis head)—You are going to interview me, Lsuppose. (Here aguin.he laughed unul bis sides shook.) Das good, das good, indeed. I’ve uo ‘jection, 1’m sure. REPORTER—I suppose neh know that you are the first colored juryman who nas been euipanellea in New York? Mr. WILLIAMS (with great unction)—Das so. Iam de {ust cullered pusson who was called on a jury in dis city, san, "i KEPORTER—In the State of New York, too, 1 be- eve, air, WILLIAMS (with evident relish)—1 tink so. “I am de {ust callered pusson. This reflection seemed to tickle Mr. Williams im- mensely, for he iaugned to himseli with internal sat- istacuon. Suddeuly be stopped short, and turning a fd reporter With @ very indignaut look he added:— “They got me wrong—Iain’t no Baxter street niggah.” REPORTER—How 80, Mr. Williams ? Mr. WILLiams—Tuey got me down as livin’ at No, 65 Baxter street, 1 dont live in no Baxter street; I live at No, 143 Chrystie street. Mr. Williams seemed lo lay great stres’ upun this distinction, for he added:—*My place o’ business is at No. 158 Grand street.” RerorTeR—Might I ask what is your profession, Mr. Williams, Mr. WILLIAMS (with evident relish)—“T’m a bar. sir. Then, correcung himself, he added quickly, “I’m @ hairdresser, hairdressing, davs my busiess; I live in Cirystie street and I Keep a hair- dresser’s shop ta Granu street.” Red ask were you born in New ork Mr. WILLIAMS—Yes, sir, 1 was born in dis city, in de Kighth ward, and (modestly) was edicated here, too, REPORTER—Where, might I ask? Mr. WiLLIAMS—At tue colored school in Laurens street; under the late Mr. Weeks. Did you ever bear of hun? ‘The reporter acknowledged his ignorance of the ast exisience or merits of the late Mr. Weeks, and . Williams voluateered the Information that his futher was a colored man, and that he had come to New York trom the South, KEPORTER—Mg, Williams, how do you suppose it happened that youare the first of the colored peo- ple called on a jury in New York? Mr, WILLIAMS—I don’t know—(again with great ‘unction)—I am the iust, thouga, REPORTEKR—Do you know whether colored people are to be calied on the jury panei jor we future from the roll of citizens? Mr. WILLIAMS—Dat's more den I can say. The cullud foiks have talked @ good deal about my being called, though. RaerorTER—O; course you think it only right that they should be cailed ou to serve as jurors? Mr. WiLtiaMs—) aon’t see why dey wouldn’t. Most of em know the difference weil enough. Mr. Williams then reminded the reporter that a jury was to be called at twelve o'ciock, and he “anust be on hand, you know,’ The drat colored juryman then entered the Court took up his position behind the partition and was immediately called as FOREMAN OF THE JURY in the case of Jewet vs, Prondy, for wages. He took @ seat modestly in the jury box and had to undergo the same trying ordeal as on Monday, numbers of loungers going to the Court specially to have @ look at him. Mr. Williams was dressed yesterday very plainty, not to say seedily. He wore @ threadbare over. coat, well-worn light pants and vest, and showed = pewets but @ ring on the little Anger of his right anid. such is the representative of our colored citizens as summoned to act, for the first time, as jurors in our Civ State Courts. ALLEGED ORUELTY TO A WIFE, The Difficuity of Seckiog a Divorce in Brooke lyn—she Would Have Her Alimony. Some time since Mrs. Fidelia R. Manning, whose husband is & druggist, doing business in Clinton street, commenced an action for limited divorce on the ground of cruelty and neglect A reference of the case was made to Mr 8. B. Lewis, to take testimony and report, Con- siderablé testimony was taken, but no report was made. In the meantime the parties lived very un- happliy together, and Mrs, Manning had her hus- band arrested for cruelty towards her. He cbarged that she was insane, and took measures for having her placed in @ lunatic asylum and made the neces- sary affidaviis, upon which Justices Walsh and Buckley issued @ warrant directing the Com: jon of Charities to take charge of her, She was re.eased ona writ of baveas corpus vy Judge Pratt, The Case Was NeXt sent to a referee, who reported in favor of @ divorce, which report’ was subsequentiy confirmed, and Mra. Manning got @ perpetual se ation and was allowed the custody of the children and $200 alimony up to the time of the dt- yorce, and $9 weekly theréafter, On Sunday last Mrs. Mauning, who since her separation has been living With @ triend, in a confectionery store in Court street, never having received any moni from her husband, went to his house and ask im for some, He retused to give her any, ordered er to leave, and threatened If she did not that he ould turn her out. She told him spe wuss inves Important Action of the Shipping Interest of New York, Meetings at the Chamber of Commerce and Mery chants’ News Rooms Yesterday—Influential Organizations of Traders for Correction, of Harbor Abuses—Preparations. for Obtaining an Effective Reform by the State Legislature and by Congress, A meeting was held yesterday at the Chamber of Commerce of the committee of the Chamber which had been appointed to take action in reference to abuses connected with the government of the hare bor and the port. There were also present the fole lowing committees of the trading associations com. nected witn shipping: —Produce Excnange—Johm H. Boynton, J. E. Muller, Theo. Hulstea, Josie Macey, N. C. Cabet; Grocers’ Board of Trade—Wm. R, Kirkland, David M. Tonnire, B, B, Sherman, Joseph R. Burte, Francis Hathway; Shipowners’ Assoclation—8. Devisser, Charles H, Marshall, M, Hunter; Vessel Owners’ Association—M. Wilson, M,| Devisser. Solon Humphreys, of the Chamber of Comm: presided, The chairman explained the course the organization, and \ir. Charles H, Marsball, representing the Vessel Uwners’ Assodiation, was chosen secretary of tne joint committee, Mr, Wilson, who had nitherto acted as secretary, being unable to continue to act, The CHAIRMAN, In opening the proceedings, said that it was almost impossible to compute the damage inflicted upon the coamerce of the port by the irregularities of the present system, It was our duty, he said, to ascertain the extent of the existing abuses and then to apply the remedy, Organized action 18 needed and prompt measures should be applied at once, cise our commerce will be driven from the port. The SECRETARY read @ numver of letters ad- dressed to the Chamber of Commerce Commitres, which was appointed to consider the subject last year, showing the arbitrary powers given toor ag sumed by the officials, Mr. BRETT moved that a committee of three be appointed to consider the subject and suggest @ line of remedy to be submitted to the Legislature, ‘This was subsequently umeudea by Mr. Fogg so that one from each tnterest represented in the meeting compose tie committee. Mr. BREtr reported thai two amdavita se prepared in regard to the trouble between the bor masters aud Lhe agenis of the transpol committees, showing the exiraorainary course the former, and that the saine would be forw to Governor Hoffman yesterday. ‘The committee to collate evidence and suggesy remedies was then formed, as follows»—On bedi the Chamber of Commerce, Solon Bom phere im orters’ and Grocers’ Board of Irade, W. R. Kirk- and; Ship Owners’ Association, &. B, Min tarn, Produce Exchanye, Join H. Boynton; and Vessel Owners’ and Captatus’ Uo-operative Society, Lore e Y. Van Brunt. Wituout taking turtuer action 1 meeting adjourned. MMETING OF THE SHIP OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, A meeting of the avove As.ociation was held ime Mediately after the adjournment of the meeting at the Chamber of Commerce, at tue Merchants News Room In Pine sircet. Mr. ireit occupied the ohair. After the reading o/ the minutes of the last meet- ing, and the transaction of o.her forma: business, the following report of the Harbor Masters’ Commit; tee Was read:— The joint committee on behalf of the Vessel Owners and Captains’ Ausociation, und of the Sitpowners? tion, to whom was referred the question of “how best to reform the abuses existing under the preseot barbor masters’ aye tem 7" beg leave to report :— ‘That the law provides for the appointment of one captain of the port and eieven harbor inasters, Investing them with the most absolute power und oo.itroi over the movements all vessels in the harbor. The sal Ollclala ts provided (or by a tax ot one und hai? cent a ton, couputed on the registered tonn aa wana enter the port of New York ani unioad, load, or make fast to any whart, and in aadition thereto certain fees are cok lected from canal boats, Thus law sirieily prohibits the inking of bribes or constde: rations of any xind vy taese barbor masters, and required that they shal Foal at their posts aod suveha to thels dor personally. ba age tax of one and one-half conte per ton for har been collected ‘The tonnage bor masters’ fees has, of inte ye the Custom House, on tho entry of tue vessal, Under & rangement between these oiliclals, amount annually collected to this way is about the su forty thousand dollars, which ts exelusive of a. revenue derived from the canal boats; in all mated amount of about sifty thousand dollars of so-called legal tax upon tonnage. fo earilet years. the barbor masters were mo integrity, having suflicieat nautical kaowi uperintend the movements of veasels, jungry politiciaus, mostly trom the rural tirely {ynorant of their duties, and who occupy ith party poiltics and moueyyelting. These men assert that they are heavily taxed for political purposes, and that their appointment costs a large amount of money, and Use these circumstances as an excuse for thelr exactions, The corruption connected with these officials comes more and more Jusupportable. The amount Diackmall levied upon thé shipping in some of the frequented distriots is vatimated by competent judges at not ie harbor master, The total Dr Jess than e three years, carry out their scheme of ropbery, the burbor masters have called tae towboat men to thelr ald, und now work wader cover of steainboat bills, collected ostensibly for “services rendered, Which billa embrace, jpesides the ordinary towage, varying from 1b to’ $200, und whlch exita amonute and passed over to agents and by them distributed to the officials, It as absolutely impossible for any ship or yossel to obtain a berth in any of the downtown docks without arranging matters with the harbor masters, directly or in- Gireetiy. Bevdrens of vemite souk tee "Brookiya docks, and in many cases pay extra cartage on their cargoes rather than submit to the exorbitant demands of the harbor masters on the New York side. Your committee do not deem it necessary on this occasion to present specific cases or the names of the sufferers, ag the extortions are practised every day, and, without exce) upon every vessel that loada or ‘unoads, So long as thi Retarious system prevails informers would meet with re- tation, Some years since an effort was made to break up the ays. tem; but the leading steva lores who teatitied to the corrug- tions beyore the Lugislacure suilered severely for years after. asters, Who wards through the enmity of the harbor mi obstructed their business in every possible manner, Your committee consider that proper authority should be ised over the docks, piers and ts of all vessels arbor; but that, walle suct ls wre subjected to arfage, that the officials in ahi the communit; o by \directly, by comme! direct! orn re ‘The Supreme Court of the United States uas decided in two Instances, that all tonnage tax opun abipping by Blate autho. rity is tnconstitutional and illegal, and in conformity there- With the Treasury Deparment of the United st iy Mr..N. Baryent: tue Commissiouer of of Customs, ier date of August (369, instructed Mr. Moses H. Grinnell, then Collector of this port, that the collection of harbor master’ fees could not be jusiitied by any custom, ana that all mm Dow to these decisions of the highest trivunal of the le Notwithstanding tuls, narbor master’s 908 are now as before ted’ thro Tegularly colle ugh the om House, tl branch “of the governmeat apparently vouching for their legality in direct opposition the above decisions, solely because it is uuderstood that @ commission is allowed for the coliection, Such instruments as masters bave assisted aacerially in bringing about the prea- ent depressed conaition of the shipping interest, and ali good citizens should ald in removing the iniquity, After @ careful examination ot the whole subject your committee would respectfully sugyest that the int of the commerce 0| the port demand a total abolition of the svatem of barbor maste! both tliegal and unne- nd they would recommend that the entire conti and management of the docks, as weil as the movements the veasels usiuy them, should’ be placed under the jarledlo- tion of the Dock Commissio, and remain free of all ex- he shipping, except the prescribed whart ‘0 recommended that all ollicers hereafter appointed to attend to the berthing or moving of vessels {0 and about the di Il have been shipmasiers, and who aball hold during olfice certificates of good standing from the Bhip- masters’ Association of New York, or that the appointess aball ularly licensed pilots of the port, ai of- ficials shall wear @ prescribed uniform or other distinctive badge, in order to prevent the usurpation of their functions by improper eptiey ‘in view of the great dimiculty of obtalning redress of grtev. nitude as the above through pace apeetfully mugcested shat the. matter be before ths Citizens’ Committee of Seventy, now {a session, and that their powerful co-operation 'be solicited in favor of the much needed reform; also that your committee be authorized to seek the good oillces of such Senators sa may favor the proper protection of the various mercantile Inleresie of the port, And, further, thas, your committee be continued and empowerea to obtain afiidavite that will sul facts embodied in this ‘as well as en {rom owner bodies that may desire All of whiok ie ‘ances of such mi means ft is re atantiate the leading to act with commit co-operation on the same sui fully submitted, ALLSTON WILSON, ‘Chairman of Commit Shipowners’ JOUN G, DALI . WARD. J. New York, Nov. 28, 1871. The report was adopted and referred to the gem eral cominittes, meeting at the Chamber of yt meroe, The meeting ‘hen adjourned, SUIOIDE OF A LADY BY SHOOTING. Physical Saffering the Cause. For some years past Mrs, Mary Everard, a very estimable lady, has had epileptic convaisions av in- tervals, which seemed to effeot her brain, and at times she would be exceedingly depressed. Most of the time she has been under the care of Dr. Mc- Cready, of East Twenty-third street, who, however, could render only temporary relief, On Tuesday afternoon, during the absence of ter hus. band, Mr. James Everard, who lives at 206 East ‘Thirty-secon en, she had another attack, and tun a” nzied state of mind which en- sued she took a pistol from @ bureaa drawer in which it was lucked, and P ving toe muzsle to her right temple Page tue trig and sent @ bullet brain, Mrs. Kv was subsequen found ling on the flour in a state of insensibility, and aiter lingering seveial hours death ensu Ooroner Keenan yesterday afternoon held an in- {arliotSinaos ty stg whe tbs jooting wi Mrs. i See arwane of age ande iv a6 -pine years aguive of ifeland, or