The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1873, Page 7

| | OUR REPUBLICAN LEVER Transcendental Glorifications o! the Incoming Year. ‘THE CAPITAL IN A MELLOW MOOD. Old Time Customs and Present Ax- foms of Etiquette. GRANT'S FOURTH RECEPTION. Quick-Witted Diplomatists and Side-Show Gen- tlemen in Full Uniform. Republican Simplicity on the HalfShell, ‘Washington Society as It Began and is Continued. STARS FROM THE EAST. “Sketches of Diplomatists Worth Their Weight in Gold. COCKED HATS AND GOLD LACE, Great Britain, Franee, Spain, Austria, Turkey Sweden, Prossia and Peru Represented, —_—__+__— “TECUMSEH AND HIS BOYS IN BLUE, Receptions by the Oabinet Ministers and High Officials of the Government. SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES AT HOME WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 1, 1873. At this season of the year in Washington city the skies are generally blue and mild and the streets full of melting snow. But such looked-for confusion out of doors never deters the official New Year caller nor answers for an apology to the oMctal hostess. The latter drives away her hus- band, the Senator, to report to the other ladies, and looks over her card basket carefully at dark to count the derelict and express opinions upon them. The society which exists here is a good deal disparaged, but it is really a hale and simple mixture of New England and Western family life, with some New York city style and a good deal of quaint and declining Soutnern mannerism. It may be claimed that Washington city affords the best New Year's celebration in the world. Consid- ering that the Ist of January never received en- tire acknowledgment as the first day of the year until about three hundred years ago, our repub- lican capital has made very general use of that acknowledgment during the three quarters of a century of its foundation. The New Year's practice at the federal capital took its ori- gin from New York city, where General Washing- ton lived about a year as the first President, It is quite apparent from the diary-keepers and letter- writers of that day how disappointed ofice-holders at large were with prim and sedate Philadelphia, as compared with the Frencuified, jocose and tdio- syncratie social life of embryo New York. NEW YORK, OF COURSE, rot the habit of New Year calls from its early Dutch founders obeying Holland custom, and our oficial people have carried that custom through Philadetphia to the banks of the Potomac, where there may be said to be @ more general observance of New Year ateach succeeding first day of the ae NOT TO BE ABANDONED. It would be hard indeed to break up this custom, because the Judges of the Supreme Court, the oMcers of the army and navy, the old soldiers of 1812 and the heads of bureaus would requiré at east three years’ notice of a suspension of New Year ceremonies at the White House te learn it. President Grant, albeit not av ostentatious nor gay Calef Magistrate, has struck a very excellent mean (rom the beginning between WORLDLINESS AND SERIOUSNESS, While he goes to church with puntuality every Sabbath at the head of his family, he haa not accepted the dictum of ascetic people in closing up his state dinners or dispensing with his cigar, and the other cordials which belong even to repub- lican courts. He has been the first Presi- dent to break down altogether the official etiquette of Washington's administration, and goat large, as he pleased, to private weddings and private dinuer parties, and his family have embraced the occasion of New Year's so heartily that to-day thelr reception was of an unusually brilliant char- acter. It was prominently announced, and the hours of reception distributed between the CABINET AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, the Judges of all the courts and members of Con- gress, the army and navy, the heats of bureaus, the old soldiers and old citizens, and finally citizens at large. Two hours were given to the privileged classes, or from eleven to one o'clock, and another hour to mere sightseers. Very complete arrange- ments were made for these celebrations, and for the rapid transit and return of carriages, which pause but @ moment in the deep colonade at the White House door, while within the ngement of hat boxes and pegs for ladies’ cloaks consume the rattling energies of @ sergeant’s file of men. Meantime hundreds of people are rubbing on their gloves and removing their gum shoes, and the in- numerable noises, squeaks and ouches which might otherwise be distingulshabie are drowned by the dooming of the Marine Band, in red uniform, which has a place near the East Room, and to-day keeps up & continual explosion, beginning with “Hail to the Chief!” and for the rest selections of a social sort from the better com; Tr. Let ug start out with the White House—the iace of beginning—and describe official New ear's on this fourth occasion of the same UNDER GENERAL GRANT. This New Year’s Day broke upon Washington city with splashed streets, melting snow, a blinking kind of ote in the weather and the furious running about of butchers’ carts, carrying ee oys- ters to grace entertainment tabics. mn after. ward appeared a great number of n carryin; huge iced cakes upon the tops of their leads, as 1 to give them age and keep them warm there. Next we saw punch bowls for hire of great girth, and heard the cry of “Yers yer lemons!’ Alter the last weary pair of boys carrying a pair of demijohns had passed out of sight, and the first cab made spurt from the livery ‘stable and went about in smart inquiring way, as if to find the man who had ordered it, then we saw the wonder of our pertod, FOREIGN DIPLOMATIST, all feathered, crimped and slashed with lace, fum- bling along irrespective of his sword to join the other legations and salute the President and fe rave old judges also roiled along in staid cabs, and the Tt. ‘who are always ago their cries up “Shine of yer boots” to the Vhite House gi ‘The spectacle o' ately dressed id besashed and b if oficer, with side sword and chapeau, descendin, the rickety wooden steps of some tenement to dn his way into a carriage was one of the frequent sights of the forenoon, and it was leasant re- minder that a yy cottage and emure and Uirtity family life are not incompatible with the glory and sternness of the republican service, HALP OF WABIMNGTON does not know how the other half lives, and, wh: is better, is not distressed about it when it fn out. Whoever can keep Py his head here as an affable person without evil In his nature finds no criticism upon his apparel or mode of life, It was + sometimes inuicrous, however, to note that want of familiarity With social adairs Whigh distinguished iW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1873. hést and visitors, and the dest sotvent tn dilemma was gome quiok-witted girl or ww gentleman, who assisted, as the word goes, and put people en The new uniforms Please every! as to the substitution of belts for sashes; but the lady wives of tne oane fleld officers 0! to tne exclusion of stripes ant epaulottes, The ee enOmrTiON Ae Pein Pig i Bd grand e' . lew Year's recep- tion at the White House, came of with the usual surro’ It is correct to speak of the annual levee of our Chief uaietcave 28 & brilliant ir. For though it is inferior in splendor to the Court receptions of Old World monarchies, yet it would indicate want of patriotism to admit this or to say anything in maparngenient, of itin describing the scenes and incidents of to-day’s gathering. Your correspondent will bear in mind Fouchsteve' re- mark about his rural nymph Audrey, “It is a poor thing, but our own." According to the programme laid down the Diplomatic Corps commenced to arrive at eleven o'clock, and as their carriages drove up in rapid succession gentlemen in gor- geous dress, resplendent with gold embroidery end stars and crosses of various degrees, colors and sizes, stepped out and were ushered through the large anterooms into the presence of the Presi. Sense party, who stood in a line ready to receive RECEIVING THE GUESTS. First in the line was General Dent, whose square, good-natused face was illumined with a continuous Smile as Ae grasped the hands of every new comer. Next to him stood President Grant, whose counte- nance wore an expression of contentment. He had the same nod and the same warm handshake for everybody. He spoke but little, and that little.only in monosyllables to those whom he knew, as the’ filed past him, He was dressed in the plain blac! regulation claw-hammer coat and black pants, without jewelry of any kind, Next to him stood . MRS. GRANT. °, ] She was dressed in a pearl-colored silk dress, and the kind, motherly face beamed with the same good-natured smile for everybody. Mrs, Grant de- serves a place in the martyrology for the cheerful resignation with which she bore the ordeal of shaking hands all round, ~ MISS NELLY GRANT, if iu alight en silk dress, wore a pleased face, with the kindly Dent elements in it, General Bab- cock occupied a position next to Mrs. Grant. The fascinating Mrs. Williams, wife of the Attorney General, was dressed in plain green silk. The stately Mrs, Senator Chandler and her beautiful daughter, Mrs, Hale and the intellectual Mrs. Sen- ator Conkling and her lovely daughter, assisted in receiving the President's visitors. .To sightseers the diplomatic corps was the most pleasing part of the exhibition. The combined value and weight of their Fos embroidered dress formed the conjec- ture of calculative bystanders, There was the tall and spare form of Sir Edward Thornton, the weight of whose uniform seemed equal to his own avoir- dupois. Around him stood the secretaries and at- tachés of the British Legation, The Marquis de Nouailles and his charming wife circulated tin 4 the diplomatic throng. Admiral Polo, the Spanial Minister, his brother-in-law and his first Secretary, Sefior Potestad, attracted attention by their brilliant uniforms, Baron Lederer, the Austrian Minister, was literally worth his weight in gold. The benevolent-looking Minizter of Russta, the portly Minister of Peru, the tall and command- ing form of the Minister from Sweden, the hand- some and manly looking Bl acque Bey, Count Coritt of Italy; Baron Schiozer, of Germany—all these were the observed of all observers. SECRETARY FISH PRESENTED the different members of the Legation. Blacque Bey, a8 dean of the corps, took precedence. was accompanied by his wife. Sir Edward Thorn- ton was accompanied by Lady Thornton, a blonde and apparently delicate lady. Mrs, Fish was also there, with her handsome daughter, Miss Edith, who wore a rich blue silk. Rignt Hon. Russell Gur- ney, the British Claims Commissioner, and lady were received among the diplomats. ‘The red, blue and green parlors were brilliant}; illuminated, and the atmosphere was laden wit! the perfume of fragrant plants and flowers {rom the conservatory, which were distributed throughout the apartment. Of ali his republican colleagues MR. MARISCAL, THE MEXICAN MINISTE! was the only one who was dressed with republican simplicity. He was accompanied by his handsome wite, an American lady. Mr. Mori, the Japanese Minister, and his secretary were in'the regulation claw-hammer, but the most gorgeousin dress was Major General Mott, who wore the uniform of the Egyptian army, accompanied by nis handsome Greek wife. His manly breast was literally stud- ded with gold down to the waist, and resplendent with two enormous stars, the gift of the Sultan of Turkey and the Viceroy of Egypt. AFTER THE DIPLOMATS came Chief Justice Chase and the Judges of the Supreme Court. Heavy and solid, witu the glamour of wisdom aud learning upon their brows, they saluted with massive respectfulness, Then the Senators and Representatives of Congress, more mixed and democratic, and the Governor of the District of Columbia and the Judges of the Supreme cone of the District of Columbia and of the Court of Claims, THR VICK PRESIDENT ELECT was the object of many congratulations, but he modestly declined to be called by the title of Vice President, by which he was generally addressed. There was also visible the stately Senator Freling- huysen and the courteous Senator Stockton, with a beautifullady named Miss Smith on his arm. Senators Morton, Edmunds, Stewart, Sherman, Fla ‘est, Chandler, Hamilton, Fen- mbull, ‘Bayard and Corbett, and Repre- es Ellis ai, Roberts, Garfield, Scofield aud THE ARMY REPRESENTATIVES. At twelve o’clock entered the officers of the army, wearing their new uniforms and headed by General Sherman, who chatted good-naturedly with everybody, and is the most endless of tnterest- ing talkers. THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS. The navy was exceedingly well represented, and its officers were headed by Admiral Porter, and there were present ear Admirals Golds borough, Sands, Lee, Poor, Case, Boggs and Bailey ; Commodores Aman, Reynolds, Rodgers and Wyman; Commanders Shirkand and Balch; Lieu- tenant Commanders Breeze and Goringe ; Licuten- ants Reemey, Foot and Hitchcock; Surgeons Tur- ner and Pinckney; Paymasters Dunn, Bridge and Cunningham; Professor Eastman, of the Naval Ob- servatory, and many others, The oificers of the marine corps were headed bd; Colonel Zeilin, id mong them were lajors Slack, Cash id Nicholson ; Captains Baker and Williams; Lieutenants ‘eed, Zeilim and others. Anne the officers of- the army were Adjutant General Town- send, Generals Vincent, Whipple, Marcy, Crane, Parke, Casey, Howard, Barnes; Colonels McCoy, Tourtelotte, Bell, Martin, Larned, Bennett, Mack; Surgeons Otis, Woodward and Ballings. Judge Advocate General Holt was also present. Noted among the ladies for beauty and dress were Miss Lizzie Porter, the Admiral’s young daughter; Miss Barnes and the niece of Chief Justice Chase, With the departure of the mid- day pageant the glory of the Presidential recep- tion was over, for the rest was all countrified and commonplace. Next came THR OLDEST MEN of the District of Columbia, irreverently called by the bystanders, the ‘Old Offenders.” They tot- tered in ete, and passed by the Presidential aay each ing rewarded with a hand-shake. lany ofthem appeared as though they would never see another New Year's reception. hey were in the last scene of life—sans teeth, sans eyes, sans everything. After the reception of the oldest inhabitants the Presidential party took a recess of half an hour. Then were admitted the crowd of citizens, a motley, coarse-looking crew. They filedin to the sound of music, and each of them obtained his hand-shake from the President. At two o’clock the reception at the White House was at anend. This reception was a perfectly representative ome, and its humors were Probably, more apparent to a stranger than acitizen, Although there were above sixty police on duty, and the servants, butlers, corporals, &c., of the President’s household wore their dress suits, still afew imterlopers got among the great beings, and after announcing his high- ness the Minister from Zanzibar another person would slide in with a perfectly self-conscious face, and 1n response to the blank nod of the Secretary Temark:— “Mr, President, name is Wilcox.” Wilcox gen- erally went away posing it was allright, and the President knew of po ofclal formulary to e Wilcox kicked by, while Mr. Fish looked the gran- deur of one baified in a great moral duty. AT GENBRAL SHERMAN’S RESIDENCE. The General of the Army lives in an obscure posl- tion for Washington, but he had a brilliant recep- tion, and the house was continually begirt with carriages, while Sherman and his good-looking So head trotting all over town to wait on other adies, SECRETARY BELENAP’S HEADQUARTERS. The Secretary of War received at the Arlington Hotel, where Mrs. Job Stevenson's dress was much remarked among those Of the other ladies, It was @ sage green silk, with pink silk trimmings. Mrs. General Marcy wore a pale maize silk, with flounces of black Chantilly lace, and white polut lace about the neck, MRS, ROBRSON’S RECEPTION, The bluff old sea warrior Robeson had disposed his lunch table so that the young Secretary could be heard to cry by everybody who was thinking of a toast to say. The punch was certainly excellent, Secretary Robeson wore gray pants and black coat, &c, ELL, MR. BOUTW! . who carries his business around with him as if it were his hat, talked syndl at the White House and gave @ great deal of information for New Yeur's. Secretary Boutwell received guests quietly, wife, at their lodgings. OPEN HOUSES. Among those who Lad open the widow of the late James M. Mason. The little sculptress, Vinnie Ream, who has many friends here, notwithstanding the criticism of the literary ladies, held a reception all day at her own genial home on the avenue, not far the Capitol gate. Her mother and the wife and sister of Congress- man Dan Voorhees were with her, and the snug little remdence was nicely festooned, while the busts and finished y MODELS OF MISS REAM were examimed and admired in the adjoinin; studio, Miss Ream lookea as pretty usual though a little fatigued, for between ti e calls of her art afd the unusually adverse notices of all that she has tried to do, she has suffered a ot deal of pain with plucky silence, reat house to-day was eal {s said about the quantity of money has had from the government, but the whole sum has been but $10,000, and she had to pay for the materials agd transportation for per statue fully byo-thirds of this mone: She has put by about ste thousand doll: to give her parents a home, thia ie the whole net result of about six years of antagonism, which has done nothing to adv: better artists in a national point of view, but sorely $0 make Congress disgusted with the whole subject of art competition. Two statues, Just rppeanae were thrown open for competitive models by all sculptors, and not one of those who have abetted attacks fsa this heal hardworking presented a model. It is the difference Shee laboring hard from small beginning, aud looking down-from artistic position to sneer. Another sculptor, kuown to Washington, who might have been seen to-day calling upon the aig: nitaries, was Dr. Stone, who has put two figures in the Capitol and is willing to work, but the govern- ment patron is very parsimonious on points of art. At the St. James flotel the wife and daughter of Clark Mills, the scuJptor, heid a reception, so that on all sides the art ple were aatir. Senator Casserly inhabits a delighttul house op- posite the President's, and his courteous lady re- ceived the whole of the democratic delogation in Congress, as well ag @ large majority of the admin- istration people, . MR, SUMNER, whots not able to get out much, called upon the Casavriye and the Thurmans, who have maintained most generous social relations with him since they have been in Washington, Senator West, of Louisiana, has built one of those curious, cosy houses known only in Washington, and which Rave appeared here for the first time within two or three yoars. They have variegated fronts, copious urns and quaint bay windows, and break up the monotony of our plain domestic architec- ture, Mr. Westis a man of wealth, who has ob- tained his money by adventurous commerce, and he has an exquisite family—nearly grown dzugh- ters and bright boys, and a wife Who is one of the most fieasant hostesses in Washington, He is one pe the oxen Senators who have helped to improve cay MRS, SENATOR FRELINGHUYSEN AND DAUGHTERS, who reside in the cream portion of the West End, held a.choice reception, and were waited upon by the Senator's associates and by a goodly number of New Jersey and New York folks. Chief Jdstice Chase, who has a home in the coun- try, but who quarters at Senator Sprague’s during the Winter, was at home much of the day, Affable, prompt and genial, as when Governor of Qhio years ago, his daughter, who was a universal ladies’ favorite in Washington during Mr. Lincoln's term, seems to have changed only for the better, though she has now three children. By the number, re- bi pa and various quality of aan 5 who came to this house it could be seen that Mr. Chase is still dear to the people of Ohio and the country at iarge. Near Lafayette square, at the Harlan mansion, Mrs, Robert T. Lincoln received for her mother. This house is large and cosey, and there, we be- lieve, Miss Harlan was wooed by haifa dozen prom- ising men prior to thetime when young Robert made his desperate endeavor and carried her away. Mrs, Lincoln is a slender, graceful lady, and, unless we mistake, without children, Washington will lose one of its most beautifal and high spirited ladies in Mrs. Senator Cole, who is noted for the number and beauty of her daugh- ters, Mrs. Cole is a tall, rather grand looking blonde, and some say that she is more of a states- man than the Senator. They received to-day atthe Arlington Hotel, and, in common estimation, made the noblest family group displayed here. THE LOGAN CIRCLE. Few men have been more fortunate in their wives than John A. Logan, who is one of the briskest, most winning and most wifely women at the capital. The Logans have moved away from the more bustling and expensive portion of the city, and inhabit a house on Capitol Hill. To-day Mrs. Logan joined the circle at Secretary Delano’s, and stood up with Mrs. John Delano, Mrs. D. C. Cox and Mrs. Clarke. No liquors were dispensed here, but plenty of food. AT SENATOR CHANDLER'S rich brown stone on H street his courtly lady did the honors late in the evening in the most hospita- ble manner, and her daughter, wie of Congress- man Hale, of Maine, shared the hostesship. The Chandlers spend most of their time in Washington city, which they prefer to Detroit for a residence, and this is their principal establishment. “old Zach,” as he is familiarly called, is noted as much for the warmth of his friendship as for the strength of his resentments, and Maine and Michi- gan pant a@conjoint stream to-day to his establish- ment. Avery cordial reception was that of Mrs. Sena- tor Fenton and her very intelligent and nimble daughter, Miss Josephine, at the Senator's sn mansion on Layfayette square. Mrs. Fenton an her daughter have spent much time recently in Europe, and Miss Josephine is her father’s reliance and favorite. She is said to have some ofhis political Genine and to prefer his society to anything which is prominent social position can add to it. Ifany- body expects to see in Mr. Fenton a cast-down man he will Gisappointed Jor Fenton grows cheertul upon defeat and serious after victory. He has that one solace at least which will exist when public life has ceased to amuse—an exquisite family, whose comlort has been his study. AT SENATOR POMREOY’S. Just behind Se! r Sumner’s house and cut off from it by a part of the Arlington Hotel is the man- sion of that fine Epicurean Christian, Senator Pom- eroy, who has been married, if tradition be correct, three times and to a lady twice married before. Mrs, Pomeroy is a dark-eyed and dark-haired pa lady of great force of character, and nothing Is described as finer ol its kind to-day than she, assisted by the Senator at times, among the rich furniture and paintings-of the establishment, while every now and then a visitor turns the con- versation on the question of Angola goats, which Senator Pomeroy is trying to domesticate, and has several hundred in a fock somewhere in Kansas. Every time @ man comes in not very fertile of speech, he fumbles his hat and twitches his mouth, and finally says—“How are your goats coming on, Senator’ At once the Senator draws a little to one side, as if he were separating the goats from the sheep, and quite an agricultural discussion happens at one ena ot the room, while Mrs. Pome- roy carries on the society part at the other end. Some of the newspapers affect to wonder how Patio f keeps hia popularity so long in Kansas, This welcoming kind of home at Washington, with its robust cheer, may account at least in part jor the fact. SENATOR CORBETT. A quaint, wide, dowahill street of Washington is ‘Thirteenth, which shows by the style of its houses that at one time it was the very nye 4 of thistown. Here resides Senator Corbett, of Ore- gon, @ finely cut moral man and merchant, whose wife received to-day, assisted by Mrs. Alvord, wife of the Paymaster General. There are more Ore- gon folks here than one a! distance might think, and if these failed to make the procession sum- cient, there was no want of delightful people who have made the acquaintance of the family here and learned to appreciate them. SENATOR STEWART. A really dashiag man in the Senate is Stewart, of Nevada, who has been the great mining lawyer of the Pacific coast, and who received the largest fee ever paid in a mining case, in the Gould and Curry claim of Nevada. Senator Stewart has built a fine house here, near Minister Schenck's. His wife is the danghter of the celebrated Senator Foote, of Mississippi, a lady worthy of her plucky ba perce who entertained New Year's visitors conjointly with the rere and modest Mrs. Cary, her widowed sister, and her daughter, Miss Stew- art, who is just coming into society. GOVERNOR COOKE'S NEW YEAR'S VISITORS. ‘rhe roomy Italian villa of Governor Henry D. Cooke, at Georgetown, was brightened by the kindly and assuring address of Mrs. Cooke and her lovely young daughter. The Governor's wife leads a quiet, housebold life, travelling at times for her health; and he expects to retire, it is sa! wish, at an early year in order to avoid fu sponsibilities. Mrs, Alexander Shepherd entertained at her ele- gant villa residence on Connecticut avenue, assisted by her sister. Mrs. Shepherd isa general favorite in this city, and has a stylish courteay re- minding one of the carriage of Old New York in New Year’s time. The pretty and almost girlish wife of A. B. Mullett, the driving architect of the Treasury and the State Department, received to-day with the family of John P. Bigelow of the Treasury. Mr. Mullett is the hardest working man in Washing- ton, and one of the poorest. Accusation heaps millions on his head, while to my knowledge he is practically poor as a cierk, and so entirely ab- sorbed in his avocation that he has no time for pickings in it. THE OLD JOINT HIGH READQUARTERS, The house so long occupied by the British mem- bers of the Joint High Commission, which the Brit 59. ernment meditated buying as @ home for the Resident loge was opened to-day by Mrs. Franklin Philp and her daughter, and its superb gailery of English water color paintings shown to guests, JUDGE UPTON'S HOSPITALITY, At Maha Upton’s home Miss Olive wey, Seward, adopted daughter, secretary and executor of the late Secretary Seward, bestowed her be and brightening regard upon visitors. She a magnificent lady to look upon, as the men say, and was dressed in mourning, Judge Upton being a aralytic his BEY, educated and attractive San ater, also a hostess to-day, performs literary work and translates for kim. The home of Mrs. Admiral Dahigren, late the resi- peed of Carl Schurz, was open only to intimate ‘lends, Mrs. General Delafield gave a very sumptuous reception, being the capstone, as they say, of the social spire. At General Myers’, his lady received with the beautiful wile of Colonel Strong. MISCELLANEOUS RECEPTIONS. Among the well-to-do citizens of Washington who entertained this day were the foilowing:—Mrs. J. M. Carlisle, in her solid and imposing East End mansion, ‘The wife of one of the most powerful yers before the Supreme Court, Mrs. Carlisle belonged to the democratic social régime here, and there was a cheerful awakening to-day of representati ladies and misses in suc- cession of that exiled line, There was Preston, daughter of Buchanan's a “pg Kentucky. belle, and ra. Major Wright, who had the aid of her gallant nsband, also Miss Kate Hop- kins, @ peerless débutants. Mr. Carlisle, house. holder at _ thi: a meee was a poor lad in this city who rated himeelf py talent and high character, and he is the only lawyer of old days, except Caleb Cushing, who holds his rank here. Mrs. Hallett Kilbourne, who has just returned from Lay od with her fine, young daughters, noble blondes, received at her home in the North End, This lady is the wile of the chief re negotiator here, and as man and wife the) to make the at superb couple in the District. Kyboutae, Shepherd, Chief of the Board of Public Works, and Cluss, architect, are now building in common the ghree noblest houses in this city, Mrs. Kilbourne's dve: not from Worth, but from the lady who maXes his desi; a6 was a rich biack Antwerp silk, court train, There were three scolloped rumes of bive silk, bound with same trimming as the portions. The court train was finished jn with the finest black Ohane tiliy lace, which extended down the sides of the front and around the train; the bodice was open, a rumie of white Valenciennes lace trimmed the neck and a fall of black lace fell over the white. Mr, Gobright, who has maintained his place a quarter ofa century and writes poems far hia grandchildren, kept open house, with his lady and mnarried OREN CF, in good, hale, Maryland fashion all day, and the wife and sparkling daughter of the oldest correspondent here entertained at Mrs, Poore’s paternal home tn Georgetown, while mean- time these old male stagera wore out with the youngest complimenting womankind, ‘ RS. DR. NEWMAN, Of clerical people Mra, Dr. Newman, a fine brunette lady, received, with the wife of R. M. Corwing, attorney for General Fremont’s railway, in a new Italian-looking villa, next door to the wife of ex-Register of the Treasury Jettreys, who was also at home, Mrs. Byron Sunderland, wife of the late chap- lain, received with her graceiul daughters, Rose and Laura, and her son's bride, Mrs, Erskine Sun- deriand, The large mansion on K street, still unfinished, is Mr. Hutchinson's, one of the lessees of the Alaska fur seal islands, which was partly thrown open to-day, and Hutchinson, who is one of the brightest lawyers naturalized in Washington, made the edifice merry. BACK TO THE EXECUTIYR MANSION, Having made the roumd of these many recep- tions let us again return to the White House to gee how they are getting on there at the shutting-up thine of two o'clock P. M. The Old Defenders and the Old Inhanitants are still lurking around in @ lost kind of way to find somebody to tell their reminiscences to, or as if they were not quite sure they had yet become dia- nsable in # diplomatic point of view. The quaint iry of townspeople, darkies and folks stopping over the day at thé hotels, were pouring along, wistful or grimacing, to shake that anguished mag- isterial hand. The smell of savory plants and ferns took away the flavor of our horny-handed and loyal genera*ion, and the red-coated Marine Band was still booming the waltz of Weber or the rattle of Offenbach’s tuberculous music, It was neither welcome nor interest; 1t was the official privilege invaded by the many and digriity ag- gravated by what it must submit to. THE OLD INHABITANT OF WASHINGTON, While loitering inthe White House we fallin with the immemorial New Year’s caller. He wears @ stil hat five or six years out of fashion, but well rubbed up with aclothes bruah, and his necktie has a yellowish tinge, as if it were carefully put Jes in camphor on the 1st of January to do duty for the succeeding year. There is a small-clothes 100K about this olt gentleman’s legs, as if he were making a gradual transition from the fashion of knee-breeches to trousers; but this may be ex- pisines on the ground of shrinkage, both as to legs and ents. His watch ts silver, of course, and held by a guard with a silver slide upon it, the slide looking Very thin; and itis his delight to in- form the President that he has never omitted the customary call since Mra. Madison introduced it. “Was Mrs, Madison then the importer of New Year's receptions in Washington?’ say we to the old cailer. “Dear bless you! yes, She had seen it in New York when the capital had been amongst the Dutch twenty years before, and if on take up Washington Irving’s letters you will find that @bont 1811 he describes Dolly Madison as ‘a fine, portly, buxom dame who has a smile and a pleasant word for everybody,’ while her husband, Jamie, is denoted as ‘a withered little apple-John, and made even more obscure by the splendor of Mrs. Cutts and Mrs. Washington, sisters of the New Year's hostess,’ That's EXACTLY MY REMEMBRANCE, SIR’? “Not in such style did the severe Francis Jeffrey tell how Mr. Madison looked on New Year's?” says another old inhabitant. “Jeffrey said that Madison ‘looked like a schoolmaster dressed up for a funeral in small clothes and knee buckles, with powdered hair and much ostentation of friendship and conversation,’ '” Then we have the old inhabitants, who constitute a society here, bag Wey all in @ group to compare notes whenever the Marine Band will let them pil other, and we pick up a good deal of gossip. OLD TIME WHITE HOUSE RECEPTIONS—MADISON. In 1816, with the White House in ruins, it seems that Mr. Madison removed to an extraordinary old mansion called the Octagon, which stands on the flank of the White House, overlooking certain va- cant lots and flats of the Potomac an Moarrye in @ grandiose way SB at Arlington, which holds it in stately contemplation from the opposite heights, There, by the courtesy of John Taylor, of Mount Airy, Va., who had constructed this enormous brick mansion, the New Year's reception was held, and in the same dwelling about @ month afterward Madison signed the Treaty of Ghent, The two succeeding aene found the Madison family in a private establishment on the avenue, about two blocks trom the White House, receiving their friends, and MRS, MONROR had the first opportunity to reopen the Executive Mansion proper about 1818. Tus latter was the halcyon day ot society in Washington under the old condition of things. The acerbities of party, which had raged through five terms and three adminis- trations, were now almost wholly composed; for Monroe's administration was the era of good feel- ing, and Adams men and Jefferson men sunook hands for the whole of Monroe's first term, TUE GRADE OF CONGRESSMEN was also high at that time, and tae recent wars in Europe had released tor diplomatic holidays in America a higher grade of men in experience and gentility than we had heretojore known, There was Stratford Canning, representing Great Britain, and Hyde de Neuville, representing the recovered jourbon dynasty of France, Mr, Monroe was plain, and ojten embarrassed for words, but his native kindness won respect more than Madison's mincing volubility. Mrs. Monroe had been a Miss Kortwright, of New York, and her daughter, Mrs. George Hay, of Vir- ginia, had been a schoolinate of Hortense beanhar- nais, daughter of Josephine and mother of Louis Napoleon. During Mrs. Monroe’s occupancy of the White House the Marine Band made its most gorgeous appearance, and in 1824 the White House Was thrown open for the Pa FIRST TIME ON NEW YRAR’S DAY to the general public. The little old National Intelligencer congratulated mankind next morning that the people could behave decorously under such temptati That was a celebrated reception on the Ist of January, 1825, when the old frame of things was about disjointing, and Adams, Clay, Jackson, Calhoun aud Crawiord were contestin, for Monroe's place. General Lafayette, who had just been given $200,000 for his Kevolutionary services by our Con- gress, attended the New Year's ceromonies at the hite House with his son, George Washington Lafayette, There were also present the Patroon, Van Rensselaer, Rufus King, Harrison Gray Otus (the politest mam in Boston), Governor Gore, of the Bay State; Edward Livingston, of Louisiana; Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Crawford, Everett, Hayne, of South Carolina; Jackson, Lowell and Gorham, of Boston, and Wilde, of Georgia, in most cases ac- campaiied by the ladies of their honseholds. Per- haps this was the greatest reception in point ofchar- acter ever known at the capital city. The same night Congress gave a magnificent entertainment to the Marquis de Lafayette at Williamson’s—now Wiliard’s—Hotel; for by this time hotel life was creeping up at the capital, and the Marquis was a guest at Brown's Hotel, at the east end. Joel R, Poinsett, of South Carolina, afterwards Van Buren’s Secretary of War, managed the enter- tainment at Willard’s, where 200 geutlemea were assemled, and the President of the Senate, Gail- lard, and Henry Clay, the Speaker, had the posts of honor. On one side of Gaitlard sat James Mon- roe and on the other Lafayette. There were seen down the board the faces of Samuel Smith, of Maryland; Rufus King, John Quincy Adams, Jack- son, Chandler, 01 Maiue; De Woilt, Generals Dear- born, Scott, Macomb, rbard, Jessup, and the veterans Bainbridge, Stewart, Morris and Tingley. Prospere gave the dinner, ‘A CELEBRATED FRENCM COOK, who charged but $100 for his services, To this dinner came unexpectedly an old Revolutionary soidier, named John Near, wao had removed Lafayette When wounded off the ficid of Brandywine, and he this dinner free, a French embrace from La- fayette, a vote of honor trom Congress and two weeks of feasting. ‘The old gentleman left Wash- ington witb no liver to speak of, but $2,000, which he invested ina farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Lafayette’s toast at this dinner was, “Perpetual Union Among the States,” and Clay's was, “General Bolivar, of South America!” THE NEW YEAR CUSTOM BECOMES GENFRAL, ood example ran fas! id about 1830 private houses in Washington were thrown open in co: sonance with the White House custom. ‘The sam: fine clothes, epaulettes and court dresses which had been seen at the White House appeared at mansions like that of Mr. Ogle Taylor, next door to the subsequent Seward Rouse, on Lafayette Mrs. Madison having held over amongjthe ‘led upon at New Year's, 1849, by all the grand gucsts who had been at the White House in a body, and all were amazed to find that she hi Lag la neither a face nor a name, and to this day she holds the highest rank among the ladies of Presidents, scene her father had kept a boarding house in Philadelphia, where she met Madison as a widow, the relict of ot Todd, The fine old lady had her fortune squan- dered at last by her son by the first husband. THE LITERARY PRESIDENT. The Taylor family, both from derivation and edu- cation, always held imposing vank in Washington, and we owe toa lady of the household the most circomstantial accounts of Washington ge in Madison's time, and subsequently John Quince; Adams—on New Year's Day, 1828—wrote an origi- nai poem in Mrs. Tayior’s album, and the same day he received and lunched his guests at the White House, After he had retired as a private citizen to a house on the corner of Sixteenth and I streets he still received calls from ladies and gentlemen on the ist of January, for he was an object of re- spect, althot at stiff and fastidious, and owed mucit o! ‘ation to his amiable wr THE FASHIONS AND NEW YEAK’S. It is remembered here among old citizens that at the President's New Year receptions winter bon- nets, cloak: \d shawls came out for the first time,, although it would be thought a deprivation nowy days to delay warm and suitable costume so latg, ay the season. It was GENERAL JACKSON / who diluted the exclusiveugss of rece ptiogy, when he gave the annaal receptions between 1839 ana 1837, He _— somothing to eat to all, and it was on one of s2id New Yoi a that the vast cheese which ad beon made-for him tn Jetforson county, New York, was distributed in quarter pound slices, and much of it trampled under foot upon the carpets, so that the smell ascended to heaven, Van Buren stopped the refreshments on New Year's, and the same have never been re- stored. After Van Buren's tine @ political revoin- tion, followed by the defection of Mr. Tyler to lus party. shortened the feast at New Year's, and Mr, ‘olk’# term was consumed with the Mexican war, so that, when we add to these untoward facts the death of General Tayler, we must look to PILLMORE'S ADMINISTRATION for a hearty revival of New Year's, His first recep- tion was a ges reconaissance of good manuers and good cheer, and his own handsoine counte- nance aad portly body graced the occasion. Frank Pierce would have also made a kindlier time o1 his New Year's receptions but for the loss ofa son, Which #emoved Mrs. Pierce from the public circle, Harriet Lane gave @ social excellence to Bu- chanan’s term, her manners being frank and sin- cere; and Mr. Lincoin, who was always beloved, exercised no repreasing tnfuence upon the social ceremonial of the day, While Andrew Johnson, des- pite all his Aght with Congress and despite the Widowed nature of his household, was foliowed to the dant by the multitude whenever he kept open GENERAL GRANT hea Reps wp the full spirit of New Year's, for his family have an abundance of sparkle and youth, and there is something very agreeable in his own distinct iteration of every caller's name, aceompa- nied by a genial look which is suiiictent for any stranger's seli-esteem. Washington city shows in por aay much greater and nobler than in the times which it is customary to deplore. It is now the best paxca city in this country, asphaltum and wood eing substituted for the miserable mud street of other times, when the carriages of the big bugs would sometimes stall before the President's own door. Above ninety miles of new foot pavement has been put down here within the past year, aud gdove 116 miles of new carriageway, These figures do not show the extent of the new work laid down in Washington more vividly than the miserable nature of the former city, wherein sq much is claimed in favor of their New Year's ceremonies to the depreciation of our own times, When Mrs. Madison came to the White House the population of Washington was less than that of Georgetown, our suburb, Greenleaf, Law, Morris and the “bulls” in Washington real estate were all ruined, and even in 1840 Mr. Rush, of Philadelphia, wrote & common opinion when he said that he had “lost all confidence in Washington property.” It was the Capitol extension, begun in 1851, which gave THE OITY BY THE POTOMAC some renewed hope; but the turning days of the war, when freedom appropriated this city tor all the inture, showed Washington to have become a Northern city, with institutions, projects, contem- plated railroads and some homogeneous civic spirit. About five hundred frst class houses have been built here since the war, in almost all of which genctel hospitality waa tendered to-day, and while there are few persons here of overbear- ing wealth, there is a general life—social and material, and, strange as it may seem, even moral—which {ndicates a better organized society than was ever known before, even when a few per- sons splashed their way through a straggling vil- e Without pavements, street lamps or curbings ; when all the dismal reservations were unenclose: and acommon post and rail fence, such as now shuts up a pasture field, surrounded “THE PRESIDENT’S MANSION, Those were the squalid days of proud penury and wretched profiigacy. Everything was magnified, from the beauty of the hostess to the size ofthe savory cheese which she set out for lunch with Madeira, pony ae will still ensue before Wash- ington city will fill the measure of public expecta- tion, but there is no question that its New Year's ceremonies make it on that day one of the liveliest towns in America. GENTLEMEN OF GENOA. More Disguised Millionnaires from the Valleys and Mountains of Italy. Yesterday the steamship Erin, of the National line, brought to our shores a large body of exiles from sunny Italy, Though accredited in some quarters with being counts (they number, male and female, 550) of decayed but ancient families, the greater part are, without doubt, only barren of cash, This does not prevent them from pein “all honorable men," and after a careful inspection of the palms of many, as they were extended outward, no “horny hands of laborers” spoken of by the Consul General of the Italian governmeat, at Five loints House ot In- dustry on Monday night last, were visible. In fact, ail the males were evidently gentlemen in reduce circumstances, and the females are entitled to honorable mention for having the courage to share their fortunes. The children came io the natural course of events. EN ROUTE TO BUENOS AYRES. These emigrdes, who ruthlessly tore themselves away from the land of their birth, regardless of the entreaties of government oilictals that they would remain to houor their land by their presence, urehased tickets for Buenos Ayres, and, ike Captain Kidd, “they sailed aad they sailed.” But through some dread fatality that seems to follow all Itelians who want to go to Buenos Ayres, they were forced by a trifling misunderstanding ou the part of “the shipping agents” to pursue a route leading to and likely to end in New York, Perhaps im this last case, if only for the sake of variety, it may be weil to imagine that the Erin was bound for South America, but was forced out of her course and so | far north as this port by the great storms tiat lave prevailed on the Atlantic. ON TOUCHING TERRA FIRMA the exiles went to Castle Garden, wiere they were | courteously received by the officials of the hospita- | ble Superintendent Casserly, They brought their baggage in their arms, and after they had depos- ited it in careless negligence upon the floor they | yn advanced and wrote in a facile running and vheir names in the autograph album pro- vided by the Commissioners cf Emigration. Some smiled ‘and simply made curious little crosses. There were not inore than half a dozen of the 550 who did not smile beputifally. Then they rushed Outside the paling and raised @ great cry. They shouted, “Franco-bolla!"" THE SCENE LAST NIGHT was picturesque in the extreme. The men stalked about in great mantles, wrapped around them ina fashion that would drive a tragedian to despair with jealousy. The women lay carelessly among the bundles of b: and clothing near the great stove, and the children were huddled together to keep their little bodies warm. In the absence of Di Byrnes the Sergeant in charge, Mr. J. R. Martin, went about with the HeraLp Teporter, and pointed out the cases of greatest apparent destitution, Few of these people have any money with which to buy their food. They left the land of olives and virus for the promised one of milk and honey ; and they, like their fictitious. lord of Como, find no honey on their lips, and are little likely to find any, SNOWBALLS AND PISTOLS IN WILLIAMS. BURG, A Boy Shot-Arrest anc Honest Confession ot His Assailant. At about four o’clock yesterday afternoon two gangs of boys became involved in an altercation at the intersection of South Fourth and Eleventh streets, Williamsburg, when a German boy named Frederick Thardewald, a cripple, was knocked down by one of the opposing gang. The boy, being ofa sensitive nature, as cripples generally are, drew small pistol and shot his sup- posed assailant, Andrew Armstrong, fifteen years of age, in the left arm. tmstrong was taken to the Fourth street station house, where Police Le oe Brady extracted the ball, bound up his wounds and sent him to the resi dence of his parents, 4 Scholes street, Last evel ing Officer McCue arrested Tharde |, and he was locked up ona charge of felonious assault. The young prisoner, on being questioned by Captain Wogiom, spoke out frankly. He said that Arm- strong’s gang snowballed his and put them all to fiight but himself, He, being lame, cvuld not run, and while he was being pelted he drew his little pistol and shot Spee ty “You have got yourself in a bad scrape, my boy," said the Captain to the prisoner. “IT know I have, sir,’ he promptly responded; “but I could not help it because I could not run.’” A OBAPTER OF AOOIDENTS IN WILLIAMS- BU: The following accidents occurred in Williams- burg yesterday:—Peter Emken, employed in a sugar refinery in South Ninth street, accidentally shot nimself in the left hand while saluting the New Year. The bullet cut an artery, that was tied up by Police Surgeon Brady. Peter Burns, & laborer, accidentally fell on the ice in North Second street and broke his collar bone. He was sent to his residence, No. 281 First street, by Police Surgeon Brady, who ‘8 that the breaking of a collar bone ia only a trifiing matter oe | perature. 7 SUPERHEATED STEAM. Tho Cause of the Fire at the Circas—Opinions of Experts. Mr. Van Dee Weyde on Fire Marsha’ ib MeSpedon’s Report. . To Tu Eprron or 0k HERALD :— Our form of government, preferable as it is before other forms prevailing in the rest of the world, has still some defects, from which undoubde- edly it will be purified in due time, One of the most glaring of these defects is that men are oftemr appointed to offices the duties of which they can- not properly perform, simply for the want of edu= cational training of the kind required for suck: oMce, Fire Marshal Thomas McSpedon ts an itlus— tration in point. He publishes tn your paper of December 31 a communication om superheated steam which 13 & confession of ignorance about the subject. He asserts that if there is sufticlent steam remaining the pipes after the fires have been banked it is Mable to turn into @ gay that makes the pipes red hot, and that this occurs “whem there 1s absolutely not fire enough to make steam from the water.” This ts simply an absurd aaser- tion, without any fonndation whatsoever. Whem there Is not dre enough to make steam from water when the boiler is under. a pressure of say sixty pounds (which corresponds to 300degrees Fahren- heit), how can the steam in the pipes become-red hot (which corresponds to 900 degrees Fahren- heit)? The highest steam pressure ever practi- cally experimented with was %50 pounds to the square inch; but no boiler, even the strongest in use, can stand this. It requires special apparatas on asmall scale to experiment safely with sucta heat and pressure, and ths pressure corresponds With-only 509 degrees Fahrenheit—a temperature: which is several hundred degrees below red heat» Only when there is no more water im the bollqr jf, would be possible for the furnace to heat the . to this or a higher, bursting everything. Superhe: excessive pressure can only be en an active lively fire is in contact with tubes containing steam without water. The Fire Marshal says further, “A pound of steam will occupy 2,600 times the space of a pound of water.” This Is a misstate- ment, as 1,700 is the number at 212 degrees Fahren- helt, and as long as there is water left in the boiler it becomes less than this at higher temperatures and pressures, Out of contact with water steam willexpand according to Mariotte’s law, so thi for every 460 degrees increase of hi it will double its volume ; therefore, at 670 degrees it will oonnny e 3,400, and at 900 degrees, the red heat, occupy about .200 times the ofthe water, Mr. McSpedon further says 98 fire will heat that 2,600 pounds of steam than the pound of water.” Here we have one pound of water expanded by heat into one pound of steam at 2,600 times its original volume, and Mr. Mc- Spedon calls it 2,600 pounds of steam! That superheated steam may be very dangerous, by making all woodwork in the neighborhood of the pipes as dry as tinder and very hot at the same time, is evident; but that a single furnace with a banked-up fire not hot enough to make steam from the water may cause the steam in the pipes to become red hot is a danger which can exist only in the imagination of people who labor under the disadvantage of want of information and of sound judgment. P, H. VAN DER WEYDE, M. D., Editor of the Manufacturer and Builder. Norman Wiard Defends the Fire Mare shal’s Theory. WASHINGTON, Dec, 30, 1872. ‘To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Your correspondent in to-(ay’s HERALD—who, F suspect, 18 a member of the firm that made the dan- gerous boiler used in the Fourteenth street Ma- seum and Menagerie building—seems to have made an attempt to cast ridicule upon the able and fear- less report of the Fire Marshal upon the cause ot the late conflagration in Mr.sBarnum’s establisht- ment, and essentially suggests the conundrum, How could the steam become hotter by putting out the fre? I believe myself to beeven more familar with the subject than the Fire Marshal; fires re- sulting from overheated steam and the cause ot voller explosions having been the subject of ab most continuous experiment and study with me for nearly fifteen years, ‘The Baker & Smith boiler used tn the structure referred to was simply a large number of slightly inclined rows of iron pipes, ina cubical form of cluster, inclosed within a brick room of inside dt- mensions just suflcient to contain the pipes. Be- low these, within the room, the fre was built upon grates, and one of the effects of the fire was te heat up tie interior surface of the brick wall and its brick cover or roof to an extremely high tem- The pipes forming the cluster before re- ferred to were arranged in nearly horizontal rows and also in perpendicular rows, but in the latter adjustment they were connected together at the alternate ends, 30 that h perpendicular ar- rangement of the whole was essentially one contin- uous pipe, runuing back and forth across the cuamber from the bottom to the top. Hal! or more than half of these back an forfh pipes from the bottom were intended to and usually did coutain water, Above the water for the remainder of the length is contained the steam generated by the action the fire. While the dire was extremely hot the steam generated in that part of the long, com tinuous pipe would, in passing rapidly through such along column of water, carry along with it considerable liquid, by which the steam above would be surcharged in suificient quantity to / absorb whatever supertieat would be at any tiine communicated” above the ordinary or supposed/ level of the water in the pipes, The surplus water; thus forced up into the steam mechanically wo pass over into the steam drum, and, impelled the current of steam, would flow along the steal pipes to the radiators used for heating the buil- ing, and with the water of condensation ret to the boiler by a back-flow pipe, this cireulation of eombined water steam would keep all parts. of apparatus nearly at the temperature of the /ot- test water, thereby preventing the slightest sper- heating, 80 long a3 the fre continued hot epigh to cause this violent circulation, Now put of the- fire altogether, and the genoration of steamm the lower pipes would cease, the water levelfvould full down lower and the steam, drained of £s Sur- ius water, would quickly become dry anj ready Kor the superheating process. Tuen tl heat, for the occasion in the red-hot prick oF would quickly perffm . that function and make the steam as hot the sem. perature of incandescence. The radiat! of heat from the surface of the pipes farthesyfrom the boiler. would slightly condense the steam at stored W) surrounding walls, that point and would reduce tly Pressure sumMciently to cause af curre of . hos. steam (or gas, for dry steam is gas) 9 Sow alon the pipes from the boiler, by which ty Pt es woul be made hot enough to set fire to fe first come bustible within their range, and thyis the answer to Mr. Baker's conundram. | I mag this same ex- planation to the firm that made ty Poller that set fire to the Museum four years ago/ | showed them drawings often or twelve devicespoy one of which would, ifapplied to their boileg have rendered them absolutely sate. They ooh-poohad the idea that steam “could cagse / fire,’ and would not listen to a proposal for thgsdoption of the al- most inexpensiye ce oi ve ~ < were in ey c * error when taey dl CORMAN WIARD. Harvey P. x Harvey Prindie Peet, Al.D. Ph. D., Emeritas Principal of the New Yok Institution for the In struction of the Deaf afl Dumb, died: at a quarter before two o'clock in t® morning yesterday, Jam uary.1. He had,been/ondined to his bed for some weeks by rheamaty section. The immediate cause of death wag Probably, insu/Bcient or sus pended action of Ae heart, inducing congestion of the lungs. Dr. Peet wag Porn in Bethlehem, Conn., Novem ber 19, in dire y/ar 1794, and hence was in his sev- enty-ninth yer at the moment of his decease. He graduated a/ Yale College with honor In the year if it be properly attended to. Peter Burns differs with the Doctor. Patrick White, @ laborer, thirty-five. years of age, fell on the ice and sustained a fracture of the nght ankle. He was gent to the City Hospital by the police. Edward Stilyomb, forty years of age, acciden- tally fell fromfthe third story of his restdence, 72 Boerum street, and sustained injuries that are likely to Pipve fatal. He was sent to the City Hospital. / ‘ SEVERELY BURNED. Enlenf, Bradley, aged forty, residing at 320 East Forty/ftth street, was severely burned about four o’cly:& yesterday afternoon by her clothes tak} fire while 8 kindling @ fire. She was vemgred e 9 Bellevue Hospital. A SEA OAPTAIN DROWNED. Roderick Madison, captain of the schooner Arthur Clift, lying at Peck alip, fell overboard at eight o’clock last evening and was drowaed, Bis body was recovered. 1622, and tie Same year accepted an appointment ‘asan instyactor in the Asylum for the Deaf oud Dumb at Aartiord, in the same State. The repute tion he soon acquired as One of the most eficient teachers of deaf runtes tn the world led to his being invited to take the position of Principal of the New. York Isstitution, which under hig care gr to pe the largest school of ‘its class, On, either side of the Atlantic. Betissnd, five yeas sine? from the more active labore of principal, but still continuing to terest in te cause of deatrnnte education and to give the institution the benefit of his ripe pee rience and rare judgmey.t, Dr. t passed hi declining years in the enYoyment of the rest he had so well earned, made det Ly fy the oare of an exoellont 1a jy-—his third wile, least of the rewardy he enjoyed for his lon ardnous lebors wag the privilege of seeing the i v A for so mR stitution to which ‘nis life was eroted | pa. he | ears fourishing’to the most com yxtent, under Tre care of his on surviving Bele Isanc Lewis Breet, LL.D. The pul teations oe late Dr. Peet for the benefit of tho deal sad ave univer aily accopted, in number, @x! value, Q9of a very superior order,