The New York Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1872, Page 3

SEWARD. th of the Great American Statesman at Auburn. /THE STORY OF HIS LIFE. Review of His Political and Official Career. Unflinching Devotion to the Cause of Human Freedom. ORATOR, DIPLOMAT AND STATESMAN. HIS LAST HOURS. - AUBURN, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1872, Ammeri¢a's great statesman is no more. William B. Seward, State Senator, twice Governor, twice Waited States Senator and twice Secretary of State, ‘and the friend of mankind and humanity, died this afternoon, at a quarter past three o'clock, without pain, conscious of his dissolution, and surrounded ‘by his family and a few faithful friends, HIS LAST ILLNESS, which Bone at the time thought of sufficient serious- mess to warrant the summoning of the absent members of his family, set in on the morning of Saturday last. On the evening of that day he was engaged with his family at his usual game of whist, ® recreation always indulged in after his daily labers were over, At about nine o'clock he com- plained of not feeling well, and was scized with a ehill and a paroxysm of coughing, which so alarmed the family that Doctor Dimon, his physician, was immediately sent for. After a diagnosis of the case he declared that Mr. Seward was aflicted with an attack of FEVER AND AGUE, po frequent in this climate, and the usual remedies were administered. The chill was of about three hours’ duration, continuing until half-past one in the morning. This was followed bya fever, which ‘was only allayed at five o'clock. The fever was not followed by a perspiration, which caused the physi. cian serious alarm. In the Spring of this year Mr. Seward had a similar attack, and this was a recur- rence of the previous illness, The night was a bad one, and the complaint was combined with a catarrbal affection, which in Mr. Seward’s helpless condition was serious. On Sunday morning he had suMelently recovered to sit up in his study, and, as was his custom, to READ THE NEWS of the day. He took his ood with a good appetite, and the physician expected him to pass a comfort- able night; but he again had a chill and a paroxysm of coughing, and passed a very restless night. On Monday morning he rose as usna) and ate a hearty breakfast. Thereafter he continued the revision 0; his manuscript of travels around the world. The day being a rainy one he was prevented from taking his usual two hours’ drive. He ate quite a hearty dinner and conversed with his family in his customary cheerful manner until ten o’clock, when he retired, He was then AGAIN SEIZED ‘with a chill and an attack of coughing and passed @ very restiess night. The doctor was summoncd at two in the morning and Mr. Seward experienced relief. He fell asleep at about five o'clock in the morning and only awakened at eleven. After per- forming ms toilet he partook of a very slight breakfast, then resuming his daily work, which he continued until six in the evening. Until his last illness Mr. Seward had made it a duty to labor five hours a day, and since his return from his voyage hardly a day has elapsed in which this task has not been performed. Work was to him a pleasure, and his HABITS OF INDUSTRY had become 80 confirmed that to fail to comply with them would have been a source of regret and @ feeling of a day lost. This evening there was no recurrence of his illness. On Wednesday he rose at ten and ate a very light breakfast, consisting of fruit and coffee, He afterwards went to drive, re- turning at noon, He then resumed his work and continued it until six in the evening, retiring at ten. He passed a very restiess night, not enjoying ® morhent’s sicep until four this morning. He then fell into a quict slumber, which continued Until cleven o'clock, Ag usual he was j SHAVED, though remaining abed. At half-past one o'clock this afternoon another fit of coughing ensued, which so distressed him that he requested to be moved from the bed to a lounge in his study or ofice adjacent to his bedroom, which being done seemed to give him relief, The physician was sent | lungs rapidly filling and his breathing being short and ‘dificult. After a vain effort to restore him with stimulants his case was pronounced hopeless And the family collected around the dying father | and statesman. His intellectual faculties remained clear to the last moment, and his APPROACHING DISSOLUTION ‘Was made manifest to him by the weeping faces of his children and relatives and the unpent grief of his servants, to whom he had been so kind a friend | during so many years. The sorrow of his two grandchildren was beyond description, How many | tears will be dropped elsewhere as a tribute to his memory! He requested to be raised, but his sight had become dimmed by approaching death and ne | could only recognize the loved ones by their voices. ' He took successive leave by kissing tiem and ex- pired, with the radiant smile he was wont to give t them in his life time; and, after fulfilling his mission | to family and country, thus passed his great heroic soulaway. There being several near members of his family absent, the day of the funeral has not been tetermined. In all probability the mournful cere- mony will take place on next Sunday, Sketch of William H. Seward. In the death of William H. Seward yesterday another great American has passed from among us to take his place in history. Few men of the last hall century have had more influence upon their age, and he will ever be remembered as a master #pirit of the most solemn and eventiul crisis of our life as a nation, IMS EARLY MFE AND EDUCATION. William Henry Seward was born at the village of Florida, in Orange county, N. Y., May 16, 1801, His father was a physician, but for seventeen years held the office of First Judge of his county. Mr. Seward was of Welsh origin on his father’s and of Irish extraction on his mother’s side, His boyhood was marked by love of study and diligence in learn- ing, and it is said of him while at college that he rose at four o’clock in the morning to prepare the lessons of tue day, thus finding leisure in the oven- (ng for general reading and literary composition, fe received his rudimental education at an acad- emy at Goshen and entered the sophomore class ‘n Union College at the age of fifteen. While in his senior year he obtained leave of absence from col- tege, where he spent six months in teaching. The following is part of an advertisement witich ap- peared on March 2, 1819, in the Journal, published at Milledgeville, Ga:— UNION AcApEMy.—The friends of science are re- spectfully informed that a private academy has lately been @stabiished in the neighborhood of Major William Alexander, Mr. William Walker and Colonel Wiliam E. Adams, in Putnam county, on & site obtained from Francis Ward, Esq., not far from Garner's Ferry, and will go into operation on the 19th of April, The academy edifice, which will be ready for the reception of students by that day, will be spacious and commodious, adapted to the accommodation of eighty to one hundred scholars, in two schools, The rector, Mr. William H. Seward, is late from Union Rotage ot New York, | trom whieh institution he comes ighly recom- m@epacd sg & young gentleman of good moral for, but Mr. Seward was beyond human aid, his | the mother of a numerous and happy family and to see her husband at the height of his career. She died while he was Secretary of State. At the Bar Mr. Seward at once took a leading position. In his Management of @ cause he early showed disposition to rely upon the equity of rather than on the recorded rulings of Courts, and it is said of him that during the course of his practice he has never acted @ man against & woman, and never against an accused party; and that stance of gross outrage upon a young woman aman, MR. SEWARD AS A STATE SENATOR. Pqitics naturally engaged the attention of the young lawyer of Auburn. His first political act was in 1824, when he prepared an address fora federal convention, im which he boldly and scathiagly denounced. the Albany Regency, In 1828 he supported John Quincy Adams for the Presidency, but he took no prominent part in the Political movements of the day till 1820, when he was elected to the State Senate us the candidate of the anti-Masonic party. The opposition to Masonry, growing out of the alleged abduction of Morgan from Batavia in 1826, had become a poweriul ele- ment in politics, and go intense was the feeling that Mr. Seward received a majority of 2,000 votes in a district which had previously given a large ad- verse vote, But the Jackson party held and con- tinued to hold unlimited sway; 80 that, while Mr. Seward during the four years he sat in the Senate at Albany, became noted for the able manner in which he advocated the abolition of imprisonment for debt, improvement in prison discipline, the election of various officers by the people in- stead of their appointment by the Governor and Senate and the interests of popu- lar education and internal improvements, it was chiefy by his great speech against the removal of the deposits in 1834 that he first gained distinction throughout the State and nation. Joint resolutions had been in- troduced into the Legislature and were passed by the Assembly without a dissenting voice approv- ing of General Jackson’s action. In the Senate, however, they met with a diferent reception, and Mr. Seward’s vigorous and earnest effort, which occupied two days in its delivery, not only en- hanced the reputation of the rising young states- man, but exerted a decided influence throughout the country. HE BECOMES GOVERNOR OF THE STATE. The financial revulsion of 1887 opened the way for Mr, Seward’s election as Governor of the State in 1838, He had been a candidate four years ve- fore, but was beaten by William L, Marcy. In spite of a vehement opposition he had a majority of 10,000, and witn the exception of De Witt Chnton was the first Governor of the State elected in oppo- sition to the Albany Regency. Governor Seward’s policy was in keeping with the policy pursued by Governor Clinton, and during his administration he upheld the system of internal improvements, of which De Witt Clinton was the strenuous adyo- cate. But many difficulties eurrounded his ad- ministration, The business of the country had been prostrated by the financial revulsion of 1837, and it was this condition of affairs which opened the way for his election the next year. In the political slang of the day, the contest was between Small B. Seward and Big Bill Marcy, these pseu- donyms having reference to the currency of the State. An act had previously been passed bya democratic Legislature restriciing the circulation of bank notes under $6, Alter the suspension of specie payments the State was flooded with the small notes of New England banks, and there was a clamor for the repeal of the small billlaw. This was not avery broad financial policy, and though it was effective in aiding Mr. Seward’s election it | is seldom referred to by his panegyrists as an evi- dence of his statesmanship, In other respects he showed a more comprehensive wisdom, and among the measures to which he early directed his atten- tion, besides the relief of the finances and the vigorous prosecution of the public works, including | the enlargement of the Erie Canal, were the exten- | Sion of popular education, the removal of | the legal disabilities imposed upon foreigners | and the abolishment of imprisonment for | debt, His efforts to secure the diffusion of common school education among the chil- dren of all classes and creeds, especially those of foreign parentage in large cities, by apro rata distribution gf the school fund among all the schools, was vigorously opposed and vehemently denounced by the Protestant clergy, and though the controversy continued throughout his entire administration the result was our present public school system. His efforts for the codification of the laws and in behalf of “judicial reform” also ied to the radical changes which were subsequently made in the State constitution; but it is doubtful whether “the probity, technicalities and expen- siveness of the British Courts’ were not cheaper and better than the practice under the code. Governor Seward*was re-elected In 1840, in conse- quence, his enemies said, of the Presidential elec- tion, which gave him the benefit of the “log cabin debauchery and coonskin mummery” of the Harrison campaign. It was during his second term that the famous controversy arose with the Governor of Virginia in regard to slavery and the rendition of fugitive slaves. In this corre- spondence Governor Seward maintained that no State could force a requisition upon another State when such requisition was founded on an act which was only criminal by local legislation, and his opposition finally led to the enactment of the | Fugitive Slave law by Congress. Governor Seward | party went ont of power with him, “SEWARD, WRED AND GREELEY.” One of the singular episodes of the politics of that time was the formation, in 1837, of the part- nership of Seward, Weed and Greeley. Mr. Weed was four years older than Mr. Seward, and Mr. Greeley was by ten years his junior, All of them were men of ability, but Mr. Greeley was the least known of the triumvirate, and he was chosen by the other two to edit a campaign paper at Albany advocating Seward’s election. In his famous iet- ter of November 11, 1854, dissolving the partner- ship, Mr. Greeley said:—‘“It was work that made no figure and created no sensation, but I loved it and did it well.” Weed got his share, and perhaps more than his share, of the feed from the public erfb, but Seward entirely overlooked Greeley—a disappointment which the Philosopher took in a somewhat unphilosophical spirit, Weed urged in Seward’s exculpation what was probably the truth, though it was stated by indirection only, that tho head of the firm never suspected tnat the jumor partner desired onice or the offer of ofive. When the greatness of these men and the number of years during which they worked in harmony are considered their partnership appears only less re- markable than the Albany Regency, against which the firm battied so long and so effectively, MR, SEWARD AS A LAWYER, On his retirement from his oficial duties at Al- bany Mr. Seward at once resumed the practice of his profession at Auburn, During tie next six years he gave all his thoughts and time to his du- ties as an advocate, In the Governor's chair he had shown the knowledge of the lawyer and the nerve of the practical statesman on more than one occasion, and bis fame had become so great that it was easy for him to extend his practice at the bar, His success was glowing and brilliant. Con- fined at first to the Courts of the State, in which his services were in great request, it was not jong till he obtained also a lucrative practice in the Courts of the United States, Patent cases were his specialty; but, atthe same time, his generous disposition and, perhaps, a not unreasonable desire of extending his reputation, sometimes induced was demanded by the British Mintster at Wash- tngton. President Van Buren refused to comply with this demand and communicated his decision to Governor Seward. This wan at the close of Van 3s 38 detention of McLeod, nor yet on his trial, on his conviction, but on his ex: Such an end to the trial was not ant! Governor Seward was aware that the i was averted, and the Governor, who, jurt before and during the trial, was accused of wantonly pro- voking a war with Great Britain was then halled as & wise and sagacious who could sustain the honor of America in the eyes of the world, HIS POLITICAL VIRWS—ANTI-SLAVERY. Though occupy only a private station from 1843 to 1849, Governor Seward did not cease vo take a@ great interest in public affairs, and he was really the head of the free soil party. During his early residence in the South he had imbibed a strong dislike to the “peculiar institution.” This was strengthened by his triamph t the case of the three colored sailors demanded during bis administra, tion by the Governor of Virginia for being con- cerned in aiding the escape of a slave. It was this which put him at the head of the anti-slavery movement, where he maintained bis place til slavery itself was extinct by the famous prociama- tion under his own hand. In he sup- ported Henry Ciay for the Presidency with great ardor, and four years later labored with equal zeal in behalf of General Taylor, believ- ing that Taylor's course, if elected, would be favor. able to the exclusion of slavery from the territory acquired in the Mexican war. He accordingly de- voted himself with great energy to the canvass in the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and | Massachusetts. In the last mentioned campaign he constantly and decidedly identified himself with the anti-slavery wing of the whig party, and there- by incurred unpopularity and rebuke from his more conservative and trimming politica! friends. But the whig Legislature elected with General Taylor in that year chose him to the Senate of the United States in place of General Dix, and then he began inf earnest the anti-slavery battle, which it was the mission of his life to pursue, HIS CAREER AS A SENATOR. In March, 1849, Mr. Seward was elected to the Senate of the United States, and from that time his career became national. On the meeting of Congress, in December following, the Southern members, apprehending the adoption of an anti- slavery policy, took ground in opposition to General Taylor’s administration, while the friends of free- dom at that time in the two houses mostly sup- ported it. Seward at once exhibited all the bold- ness and zeal which had ever characterized his conduct against slavery, and openly and warmly deciared that he would make no further conces- sions to the slave power. In return he was bitterly and vehemently denounced as a seditious person and dangerous agitator. But he breathed de- fiance in return, and it is a curious fact in his history that in the years which have elapsed since he came prominently before the country he more than once stood alone as the advocate of reforms which, at subsequent periods, have been adopted as the settled policy of the whole people. He was in advance of his con- temporaries in his ideas, but nothing could cause lum to deviate from his convictions. He took the ground that “freedom is national and slavery sec- tional,” and that “the purpose of the federal Onion was to establish the blessing Of justice and hu- manity, and not to enjarge the area of bondage and oppression.”? As early as 1850, in a speech on the admission of California into the Union, he said:— “dt is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. Itis true it was acquired by the valor and by the weaith of the whole nation; but we hold, nevertheless, no arbjtrary power over it. We hold no arbitrary power over anything, whether ac- quired lawfully or seized by usurpation. The con- stitution regulates our stewardship; the constitu- tion devotes the domain to union, to defence, to wel’are and to liberty, But there is a higher law tian the constitution which regulates our authority over the national domain and devotes it to the same ae purposes, The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. Weare His stewards, and must so | discharge our trust as to secure in the highest at- tainable degree their happiness.” It was from | declined to be again # candidate in 1913, and his | this speech that the Higher Law doctrine took its origin, and more than any phrase ever uttered against slavery did it goad the people to maduees, THE HIGHER LAW DOCTRINE. The Higher Law doctrine which Mr. Seward an- nounced in @ phrase was little understood by the people, and fearfully distorted and magnified by the political leaders, But one thing all could see, and that was that it meant an unrelenting an bitter war upon slavery. fete) except the hand. ful of abolitionists who exerted little reai influence in our politics at any time, was of the abolishment of s'avery in the States, and while Mr. Seward’s political friends scarcely apoio- ized for his bold utterances in favor of the higher law, his enemies not only denounced him, but said in unmistakable language :—“When his friends de- Clare that it is not the purpose of the republican party to attack slavery im the States they are Leither ingenuous nor truthful, When they avow an attachment to the constitution, and that they will maintain it, they deceive themselves and misiead the public, unless they abandon and disavow the leadership of Mr. Seward. He is so consti tuted, has such feebie and meagre per- ceptions of the higher qualities and duties of a statesman, that he will never pay the slightest regard for or respect to these assurances of his friends. He lacks fidelity—he lacks constitutional morality, as his whole history ean wal His adoption of the apologetic tone was #0 com- mon that this was true of nearly all his friends, aud when any of them ventured to say something | in his behalfit was generally a bit of timid ruetoric to the effect that it would not form a permanent objection to Governor Seward that ‘‘he is no ad- herent oj the superficial and wretched philosophy which derives the distinctions of morality trom the caprices of opiniva, In common with the greatest thinkers of all ages, he traces the obligation of right to the uncreated wisdom of the Deity, With Plato and Cicero, in ancient times, with Bacon, Hooker and Cudworth at a later date, he recog: nizes the bosom of the Deity as the seat and foun- tain of law, ‘whose volce is the harmony of the world,’ ? THE “IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.” In 1858, paring ie scioarasoegt of Congress, he pronounced at Rochester one 0! thoge djscours which form an epoch not only in the life of ah ora- tor, butin the history of a country. The words “irrepressible confilct” are found in this discourse. “Slavery,” said he, “8 @ Cal ulcer, which should be effectually circumscribed ff we would not see it soon spread over the whole country. The country cannot remain half slave and halt Irce; it must be all one or the other.” Never had the slavery question been exposed with such ene! and clearness, The South felt this blow sensibly. His speeches on the repeai of the Missouri Com- promise and the admission of Kansas, like those on the compromises of were widely circulated among the peopie, also deliv. in favor | madn less alike of iriend, oF foe, the assurance of haughti- And Dr. Russell, the famous corre: dent of the London Timea, whose exploits at Bull Run make his utterances so peculiarly valuable, said of about the time he left the Senate to assume a in My. Lincoln's Cabinet :—"Mr, Seward is a miidie-sized man, of feeble build, with the stoop contracted from sedentary habits and application to the desk, and has a peculiar attitude when seated which immediately attracts attention. eee Soe Eran bend 12 0 on 8 long,- slender and jects over the chest in an argumenta- tive kind of way, as if.the keen eyes were seekin, for an adversary; the mouth is remarkably tlexi- ble, large but well formed, the nose prominent and a the eyes secret but penetrating, and lively 4 humor some kind twinkling ut them ; the brow bold and broad, but not remarkably ele- vated; the white hair silvery and fine—a subtle, quick maa, in power, eee. to perorate and to utterances, fond of badinage, burst- = tance of State mysteries, and Ss the ity C4 directing the .oreign icy of 3 ous country—as Americans think—in MR. SEWARD IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT, During the entire administra’ = ure cay tion of Abraham Geor in ace tributes of a Prime Minister, and the “little bell” had in ita sober which reveals the great power of his office in hands at such atime, His management of portfolio, during a period of unpre- peril and Saul, is universally allowed we been marked by the most transcendant and cousummate diplomatic talent. It was jaty to preserve relations of amity between rnment and those of foreign Powers, and , 100, ata time when many European nations were diligent in their attempts to provoke inter- mational misunderstandings which should lead to open war, How to preserve aconcillatory line of conduct which should yet not degenerate into ser- vility, but should be firm and dignified, was a prob- jem which, considering the facts of the case, was ‘as diMicull to solve as any that ever before puzzled the brain ofa mat. And our foreign relations needed for their successful management modera- tion, good temper, kKeeness and marvellous mastery Ld SY international law, These Mr. Sew ye im an eminent degree, and, he hot escape criticism even from his his course was, in the main, satisfactory, Preserving the country 0a it did from complications with nations and yet maintaining B cientty and reserve especially dificult in a time of civil war. In the tamous Trent amir, when Mason and Stidell were taken from an English mail steamer, he failed to exhibit the sternness he had shown in i es TG fe & = F ; evenness of temper, and tniactory “as the. Preceut a8 recen’ trivunal at Geneva. Mr. Seward’s acce| all, the Convention at 1900, was nominated for the Prest- and enthusiastic part of the repub- ed Mr. Seward, and he received Srst ballot to 103 for Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Lincoln was nominated he cordially to the candidate of the party, the canvass made an extensive tour ol HST gabe 2 23 F: asvawinaced in 1865, at the same time Mr. Seward was severely wounded by a cow- ardly blow while confined to asick bed, He hada short time before been thrown from his carriage, and he was still suffering from the fall when the attempt at assasanation was male. THE ATCRMET AT ASSANSINATION, At the time that Payne entered the Les gt Me chamber after the seamle in the hallway with his son, Mr. Frederick Seward, he was lyi upon his sire, close to the edge of his bed, with his head resting in & frame, which had been made to give him ease and to protect his broken jaw from nd sure. to keep awake, having n ck man’s fancy—it was that e slept he would wake up with lockjaw. He was brought to full conselousness by the scumMe in the passageway, followed by the entrance of the assassin and the cry of Mise Seward—Oh! he will kiil my father!’ but he saw nothing iS aeseilant until a hand appeared above his , and then his thought was, “What handsome cloth t overcoat is made of.” The ii! assassin's face then ereceres, and the helpless , “What @ liandsome man.” rain striking him neck, then put he felt no The statesman only though’ Then came @ sensation as of smartly upon ove side of his (ace quickly the same upon the other side, severe pain, This was the assassin’ blood spouted. ite thought “My Lime has com: failing from the bed to the floor, fainted, sens: tion of returning cosciousness was that he was drinking tea, abd that it “tasted good.” Mra, Seward wos giving him tea with a spoon. fie heard low voices around him, asking aud replying as to Whether it would be possible for him to recover, He could not speak, but his eyes showed his con- sciousness and that he desired to speak. They brought him a porcelain tablet, on whieh he man- aged to write, “Give me some more tea, I shall ft well.” And from that moment he has slowly, ut steadily recovered health and strqngth, SEWARD AND JOUNSON, During the administration of Andrew Joynson Mr. Seward maintained the ascendancy he bad juired under Abraham Lincoln. differences with Ce rendered most of his schemes nugatory. roject to purchase the isiand of St. Thomas, and the subsequently con- summated negotiations with the lanish gove ¢ to nothing, Luovgh Mr. Seward had he Wert Indies to investigate the metter, is St. Domingo scheme was as bad a failure as Grant's efforts in the same direction. eee See which he directed Reverdy Johnsen to make wit d Clarendon also failed, principally on account seria of cogent Ine of consequential | ct he always. evince deal of. nd bitterly denounced and jouled wi te trifiug., Ti fried through under Johnson's anapi this, 80 far, has not proved an acquisition of any great consequence, KE. SEWARD AS A TRAVELLER. Thoach a ho of home ate studious ta his habits Mr, Seward had been quite He performed frequent Summer tours in the Sout ern aud Western States, nade @ pleasure Se a Jew years ago to the coust of Labrador, and in 4 he made a tour to Burope, to pt and the Land, returning by the way of His fi journey to burepe was mode in i and his expo. cores LAA) were detailed @ 4aee of titers toan iv. powapaper. retire- ment from public oMee he vi td Ment at li on lis return home, It was ne tion a) time to make @ tour round the world, but his design was frustrated aod was pot under- taken Ull the Autumn of 18Tl. the day Lefore he was seized with the illness which ended his lite he wos engaged giving the finishing touches to the barrative Of that journey remark: for being ac. are aged by @ man of his years and in his Ketle condition, The work wil be edited by his daughter, Olive Risley Seward, whe accompanied him on lis Wonderful journey, and Will give the re- cord of his travels, and his political, social, moral philosophical observations and refections, in Mr. Seward's own words; together with lis inter views and talks With Preddents, Kings, Sultans, Khédives, Tycoons, Mikados, bast Potentates, and His Holiness the Pope, AS A STATESMAN AND 4 SCHOLAR Mr, Soward was & mote) for the observance of the rising generation. Keverses found him ceim ; sve cess never intoxicated him. His firm, straight forward course secured the esteem even of his ad- versaries, and those who, before the war, comet. ered him their mortal enemy, later rendered merited homage to his loyaity. had the credit of causing it 19 be recownized as an i of conduct that no La) Measures should be applied beyond those indispe: knife, the enunciation of on supremacy of the federal erament and to con duce to restoration 9 the Umon. mia the more engrossing cares of public omiee he found time for literary labor, and the collection of speeches and state i a im 1853 all bear the impress of mind, matic cor! while greatly enhanced his linker and ep beaten nor Swai to him by treating diseases “by the be petteved | quived to leave their aad The announcement of the death of Mr. Seward is received with regret in all quarters, The State Department building will, as a mark of respect to his memory, be draped with mourning. Profound Sensation at the State Capi- tal—Widespread Regret. ALBany, N, Y., Oct, 10, 1872, The sudden announcement of the death of William H. Seward caused a profound sensation here, It was entirely unexpected, and has produced wide- spread regret, THE NEW PRIMATE. Arrival of Archbishop Bayley at Baltimore— Preparations for His Enthronement in the Cathedral Next Sunday—Imposing Cere- mony of Investing with the Pal- lium—The Musical Programme, BaLmimons, Oct. 10, 1872. Archbishop Bayley, accompanied by Rev. Father Doane, of Newark, arrived here yesterday, and proceeded at once to the Archiepiscopal residence, on Charles street, where his arrival was not wholly unexpected, It was, nevertheless, a pleasant sur- Prise to the reverend clergy living here. The fact of his presence in Baltimore was unknown until to- day. The Archbishop declined to see any but those with whom he wished to converse on matters per- taining to the Archdiocese, As has been already stated, he declines any public reception, and limits the demonstration to what is actually required by the rubric. The arrangements for the elevation to the Archiepiscopal throne on Sunday are pro- gressing quietly, but with a commendable zeal, The mass selected to be sung is Beethoven's mass in ©, regarded by composers and clerics generally as the grandest musical contribution to the service of the Church. In addition there will be “Diabelli’s Landamus,” sung by a quartet; Hummel’s “Alma Virgo,” and English “Te Deum,” by Meineke, and “Veni Creator,” a solo to be sung by Mr. E, L. Gannon, of Washington, The choir, composed of the best vocalists, supported by an orchestra selected from the first musicians of Baitt- more, will be under the direction of the veteran Cy ete Mr. Geegan, who, at the rehearsal which takes place to-morrow afternoon, expects to make such disposition of the ditferent parts as to secure the finest etfect. The services on Sunday morning will commence at eleven o'clock, when the Most Reverend James Roosevelt Bayley, D. D., will be enthroned in the Cathedral as the are Archbishop of Baltimore and Primate of the United States. ¢ installation of Archbishop Bayley will probably be the grandest ceremony of the kinu ever witnessed in this coun- try, for in addition to the solemn installation ser- vices, he will also be invested with the pallium, an event that has seldom occurred before on the same day in any American diocese. Archbishop Spalding did not receive the pallium until twelve months after his instal- ‘tion, while his predecessor, Archbishop Whitfleld, who was consecrated May bt) 1828, was not invested with the sacred emblem of authorit; until the latter part of the following year. It stated that this is the first instance in this Arch- diocese of the yalium being received by an arch- bishop on the is installation, To avoid cor ;no person will be admitted into the churchN0s.arjat a ticket until the grand procession of seminarians, acolytes, local and visiting cerey and bishops has proceeded from the rehiepiscopal residence to the front entrance of fhe church. When the pro- cession reaches the sanctuary the doors will be opened to all. The Young Catholics’ Friend Society and four delegates from the other Catholic societies of Baltimore will act as a guard of honor during the procession that will escort Archbishop Bayley from his mansion on North Charlies street to the main entrance of the Cathedral. It is expected that large delegations from the societies of Wash- pain, lewark and other places will arrive in Baltimore early on Sunday morning to participate in the exercises. At present itis not known what bishops wiil attend, but it 13 expected that all in the province of Baltimore, except Bishop Whelan, of Wheeling, will he present. He was too unweil at last accounts to travel. THE CIVIL SERVICE. Propounded— vik Bervice In- “Father” of the vited to be Present. Bright and early, in fact as soon as the office was opened for the day's business, a jarge number of applicants who had petitioned for positions in the government service, and were notified to be pre- sent yesterday for examination, appeared at the rooms of the Examining Board in the Custom House, The candidates, as they were seated around the huge table in the large room engaged tn their task of jotting down answers to the knotty questions propounded, presented an appearance of great intelligence, respectability and refinement, Which at once demonstrated that only merit of education and not political preferment constituted the only conditions under the new rule to secure government employment to such as demonstrated the ps a quaiification. The Collectors’ Board of Examiners —Deputy Col- lectors James, Lydecker and Special Deputy Sur- He ict, aswinted by Colonel Silas W. Burt, OMice Board—were duly on hand to in- the documents filled in by the applicants spect and to decide upon the reative merit of each man’s productions. This is by no means an eas matter, a8 some seven different documents, cack containing a¢ many Various problems to be solved, are submitted and adjudicated upon for appoint- ment or promotion, The offices vacant and which were competed for at this trial consisted of two day inspectors, salary $4 per diem; two night inspectors at a salary of $3 =. night, and one $1,500 clerkship. The ques- * propounded in this instance differed materially from those exacted at the pre- vious e@Xaminations required—a een. in knowleage of the organization of the general government, peciee representation, learning as American history, a thorough knowledge of arithmetic, requirements of merchantile usages in rece , delivering and shipping freight; to be versed im the geography of this country, especially as to the sea coast, and such other fics nd ta as would demand solution in the higher branches of the pubite schools. ‘The result, as a matter of course, cannot be de- termined for several days, owing to the delicate mining the standard of e weight.” In this the Hoard of | Ts ld Lew ging and must judgmen' 10 the readi- bees and 4 a yore of the examined and how near to comp! teness the same has arrived. Out of the twenty-seven candidates examined yes- terday not @ single one was known to any member of the Board; hence the recommendations preter- red by them for promotion can only emanate from @ fwil conviction of competency and educational ralifcation. Assoon as the candidate had concluded the duties required of him the Secretary to the several Boards iatrodaced the applicants, who were re- #8 and at the same time that ther cases would receive due con- sideration and the result be communicated to them as 8000 as arrived Among the aspirants for oue of the above vacancies competed for yester- day Was an old, gray-hatred gentleman, once a prominent doctor, who had to undergo the same ex- aminalions as his ae com| 4 anda bright, oung colored man, Ww xbibited considerable tatent and praes * the manner of answering the various rudiments of examination. The Commissions having learned that Ion. George Wiliam Curtis, the Chief of the Civil Service, was in town, sent him an if,tation to be preseut at the examination of app.cants to-day, SAN PRaNcraco, Oct. 10, 1872. ‘The Arizona Miner of October 1, in an extra, says:—“Liewtenant Max Kiesendersf, with a troop of twenty-one men of the Fifth cavalry, came upon the Aj tn force, fifty miles from Prescott, and ul seventeen, when the Indians fled. In their camp corn and other stolen property were found, show that the Indians who were killed drew vations the camp on the Verde reservation to 2 CUBA LIBRE. Anniversary of the Independence of the Ever Faithful Isle.” The Position of the Insurgen Portrayed. Grand Mass Meeting at the Cooper Instlsi tute---Patriotic Orations. SKETCH OF THE STRUGGLE FOR Yesterday, the 10th of October, was the anniver- sary of Cuban independence as proclaimed by Ca: los Manuel Cespedes and Francisco Aguilera, at th small village of Yara, in the year 1868, and it appropriately celebrated by the Cubans residing 1 this city, most of whom are exiles under the 4 crees of the Spanish government, Cespedes, short time previous to his proclamation, had secretly notified of his intended arrest by th Spanish authorities, which precipitated a mor ment long in contemplation. le gathered gether some two hundred of his followers—a fail proportion of whom were manumitted slave: clared for an independent republic, and soon afte) was at the head of several thousand men, ai tioned at various points in the castera and centr: portions of the island. \ STYLE OF WARFARE. From that day to the present the war has bee: kept up against the combined military and navi service of Spain amid every disheartening cireu: stance. Adopting a style of warfare similar to that of the liberals under Juarez in Mexico during thi French intervention—that is, of avoiding bat with the forces of spain, superior in number an equipment—the Cubans are still struggling, an have hopes of wearying Spain into # recognition their independence, i For the benefit of their brothers in arms, thi Cubans in the United Statcs resolved to devote entire proceeds of their labor during the annivel sary day. At an early hour the Cuban flag was thrown ou! from the front of the City Hall and other prominen| points in the city, and at twelve M. a salute of ONE HUNDRED GUNS was fired. At half-past twelve religions services, were held at the Cuban Episcopal church in Twenty. second street. A large audience gathered at the Speen hour, the large majority of which wi: ladies, After the usual services a discotlrse appro-' riate to the occasion was preached by the pastor, r. J. Palma, who referred in touching terms t the necessity for patience under tribulation and ai abiding faith in a happy issue out of the same. In the evening a yen mass meeting of the friends o! Cuba was held at Cooper Institute. At the how announced for opening the large audience roo was comfortably filled, and before the exercise commenced it was full to overflowing. The stag was tastefully decorated with Cuban and sad colors, the goddess of liberty, in a star-spangle: robe of blue, holding the Cuban flag, forming th centrepiece. Before the meeting opened a shabb; elderly individual, in a far-gone state of intoxic tion, took a position fronting the audience and an: nounced the death of our honored EX-SECRETARY, WILLIAM Hl. SEWARD. This announcement he repeated some ten min. utes after, causing. from _ his Pppearance, mor amusement than the gravity of his subject ward ‘anted, ADDRESS TO THE CUBANS. , There was scattered through the audience an ad: dress to the Cubans reciting the general conditios of the insurrection In a very favorable light, stated that the patriots numbered ten thor soldiers, well armed and disciplined; that Genet teaacis Agramonte held the advanced position f the Camaguey, and that his actions at various ints had covered him with immeasurable glory. it was claimed that the Spanish forces were suffer: ing severely from the climate, that the volunteer constitute ‘an clement of discord, and that perse< verance on the pa’ of the patriots was certain va be followed by ultimate succe: Saor after eight wie miure prominent Cubans ang Cutau sympathizers appeared on the stage, and Ramon Cespedes, Commissioner from the Cuban Republic, called the mecting to order and au- nounced for the CHAIRMAN OF THE EVENING that well-known friend of Cuba, Mr, Charles Dana,’? In his remarks Mr. Dana paid a high tribute to the heroism and long sutfering of the Cubans, He said:—‘No grander sight is presented in the an-, nals of history than that ot the Cubans gheag ‘ for that liberty for which our forefathers fought an: died.” He vindicated the right of selt-government, and insisted that Cuba belongs of right to her ow sons. He felt eppressed with shame at the attitud of the American government and the manner in which Cuba had been treated, and argued that i€ was the duty of the United States to extend a help- ing hand to the struggling patriots. Whether thid would be done or not he Knew not; but Cuba wad certain to achieve her independence, with or with- out ald, There was no cause for discouragement, The other Spanish republics had struggied for tem or twelve years, and so, if necessary to success, would Cuba, Mr. Dana’s remarks were receive with genuine Cuban enthusiasm. At their close an enthusiastic individual proposed THREE Ci#EERS FOR HORACZ GREELEY, pee were given with a will, mingled with a few hisses, The next speaker was Ramon Cespedes, who read from manuscript a patriotic address highly lauda- tory of the patriots, and by no means compliment« ary to the Spanish volunteers. He was very bitter upon Valmaseda, whom he styled a criminal with- outshame. He portrayed the demoralized condi- tion of the Spanish solaiery, the turbulence and in« subordination of the volunteers, and the bad con- dition of the Banco Espaiol—tae base of Spanish finances in Cuba—and argued hope of success ta the Cubans from these causes. He closed wit vivas tor Cespedes and the Cuban army, which were heartily responded to by the audience, Mr. J. M. Mazorga, the general Cuban agent, then took the palabra, and, after a short adaress in Spanish, made way for GENERAL M’MAION, President of the Cuban League. The General, alter thanking the audience for the enthusiastic reception accorded lim, stated that he did not pro- ose to make an claborate speech. He merely desired to express his sympathies for a cause which must excite the sympathy of every lover of humanity. He referred to and deprecated the attitude of the United States toward Cuba, but pre- dicted her witimate success in achieving her inde- pendence, thongh compelled to struggle alone, THE SPE OF THE EVENING. in the Spanish language was then made by Mr. J. Mestre, a distinguished Cuban lawyer. The burden of his remarks turned upon a contrast be tween the colonial system of Spain and England. The one brought religious toleration, the other the Inquisition. In his elaboration of this idea he was particularly effective, and was greeted with fre- quent outbursts of applause. Assistant District Attorney ALGERNON 8. SUL! VaN followed in an eloquent speech upon the right of self-government with reference to those nations and peoples whose struggies for liberty have beem the most prolonged and bloody. Other speeches followed and the meeting ada- Journed at a late hour, with loud cries of “Viva Cuba libre I’ ARMY ORDERS, SHINGTON, Oct. 10, 1872, The Superintendent of the Mounted Recruiting Service has been ordered to forward two hundred recruits to Omaha for assignment to the Second cavalry, and the Superintendent of the General Re- cruiting Service is ordered to send eighty-five re- cruits from Newport Barracks, Kentucky, to the same place for assignment to the Fourteenth in- lautry, all in the Department of the Platte. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Movements of the V els of the Asiatic Squadron. The HERALD special correspondent in Yokohama, Japan, supplies the following report under date of September 5:—The whole American fleet, with the exception of the Lackawanna, which i at Yokohama, and the Monocacy, which is on the dry dock at Yokoska, is at Chefoo for rendezvous. The diferent vessels will depart thence to go to their respective stations for the Winter, Our European Squadron, ON BOARD UNITED STATES SHIP SHENANDOAH, ‘ Brest, Sept. 25, 1872, ‘ To THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD:— Our fleet is now disposed as follows:—The Wabash is at Cherbourg; the Brooklyn, Plymouth, Congress and Shenandoah are here; the Wachusett is at Portsmouth, England, coalin driven in by bad weather, ptain Rhind relieved tain Shafeldt, In command of the Congress, ion ‘The oj now is that we shall | fo hence t” Ferrol, thenee ta Lisbon, thence to Cadiz, where the Stet wilfsep- arate, but no one can Bay positively if this be so. Yours, &¢, H. Naval Orders. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 1872, Lieutenants Francis W. Dickens and James A. Chelsey have been ordered to the Kansas. Lieu. tenant James M. Miller is placed on waiting orders, Assistant Paymaster Curtis H. Thomas has been detached from the Naval Academy and ordered to She Palos, Asiatic station.