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‘that poster ht profit their holy example in the Chu |. The Catholics were, the rey- erend gentiemao: said, in conciusion, ready and Willing to maintain their schools, that their chtl- d@ren may grow up in their faith and set defiance to the spirit of infidelity, which now so generally per- meates the world. SECOND UNITARIAN CHURCH. Confucius and the Chin Religion— Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Chadwick. The Rev. Mr. J. W. Chadwick, pastor of the Sec- end Unitarian church, at the corner of Clinton and Congress streets, Brooklyn, delivered an interest- ing discourse to a large congregation last night at bis church oa “Confucius and the Chinese Rell- gion.” After some introductory remarks in regard to the habits and customs of the Chinese he said that Confucius was born in 561 before the time of Christ. The Chinese were not given to ex- travagance, but they romanced a little over his birth, is father was another Samson, being about ten feet in height. On one occasion, by diut of main strength, he held up a ponderous gate while his soldiers could escape, they having een enticed into the city, The keynote of the sage’s life was struck in the answer of his mother, the youngest of three sisters, with either of whorn his father thought he could be happy ‘were t/other dcarcharmers away.” His father set forth his good qualities and then asked which wonld be his wife, They did not all Speak at once, but the youngest, said, “Why do you ask us? itis tor you tosay.” Her filial devotion was rewarded with @ husband who had already seen his “three score years and ten,” In due time Confucius was born, but not without some portents und prodigies to signalize his tutare Greatuess. The best of these was one Seciating that he should be a throneless king. His first chil he named Le, because on the occasion of its birth he received a present of carp from the Duke @! his vince, Le meaning carp. ‘the original name of nfuclus was Kew, which means knoll, and this was given to him bebause he hada knoll onthe top of hig head. ‘The name is @ Latin orm—that of y fu tise. In his-twenty-second year he began the labor of teaching, but did not put up any claim to originality. He must have had a great deal of Rpt magnetism, for the pupils flocked to him in great numbers, and his house was crowded with them. Perhaps Mrs, Confucius did not bargain for this. At any rate, the marriage does not appear to have been a very happy one. He had his favor- ites amang his pupils, and his affection for those he loved was very strong. At the death of one of bis disciples he could not be comforted. it was argued that Confucius must have believed in immogtality, for he took " guch a deep interest in all the ceremonies over those who died, The coftins must be of a certain thickness and the graves a certain depth. One of his disciples, who had noticed the interest which he took in these matters, was led to ask if the dead had any knowledge of the services to their honor. He replied by saying:—“li I should any that the dead have ich knowledge am afraid‘the filal sons and daughters would en- ger their substances in paying the Jast offices to the departed, and if I were to say that the deaa have not such knowledge | am airaid the unfilial sons would leave their parents unburied. There is RO present urgency about the point. Hereafter you will Know it Jor yoursell.”” The more they thought of Confucius the more they might be inclined to class him with the philosophers and moralists rather than the great religious leaders. He has beat called a prudential moralist. After speaking in high terms of this remarkable man, whose every act was that of sincerity, he closed, and the con- @regation, after singing and prayer, separated. The Tybee Starting on Her Voyage—A Prosperous Departure—“Godspeed” from Friends to All on Board. Candlemas, 1873, must hold a prominent place in fature hustory, for on that day (yesterday) the really inaugural movement toward the founding of ® new city and province, destined, no doubt, to figure largely in this age, was made. The steamer Tybee, bound for Samana Bay, leit her moorings at pler No, 4 North River at about ten o’clock A. M., with a happy party on board, a clear sky overhead, everything “taut and trim” about her decks—auguries of a pleasant and pros- * perous voyage on all sides—and a hearty “God- Bpeed” following her from the crowds who wit- messed her departure. As has already been re- ported, she carries a number of passengers—some bent on pleasure, some on adventure and others on business. A commission, consisting of Messrs, F. Delmonte, W. +L. Halsey and Samuel Samuels, sent out by the company to select asite and jay out the plans for acity, are among the passen- ers. It was expected that a large number of sec- onal houses would be sent out, but as they were not completed in time they will be forwarded on the next trip of the Tybee. It is evident that the company intends to lose no time in pushing forward thetr enterprise, and the auspicious sailing on yesterday, itis to be hoped, will be followed by speedy and snecessfal arrivals and janding at the several ports tor which the ves- sel is destined—Porto Plata, Samana Bay and st. Domingo city, The names of the passengers are as jollows:—K. E. Garczyuski, Kb. Stewart, W. F. Leman, Samuels, W. L. Riche Charies yard, ’ 5. Halsey, F. Deimonte, J. D. WwW. Leaman, A. F. Macias, H. N. Marsh, Q. Adams, James Rennie, A. L. Calleja and ‘wife, . Royeo, Captain Plummer, G, Nettleton and J. M. Deigaao and son, Besides these there are FE. A. Delaney, Captain; Aibert Enery, First Onicer; Robert French, Second Onicer; J. k. Van Dusen, Purser; Edward Garrett Cmef Engineer; dames Morris, Steward, ard twenty-nine in the crew, besides three carpenters, whe go out to put up the wooden sectional houses and hotel as the beginning of the new city of the sea. CUSTOM HOUSE AFFAIRS, A Poor Month’s Business—Scarcity of Are rivals of Vessels the Main Cause—The Doings ef the Warchouse Division— Refand of Taxes—Civil Service Jot- tings—Payment of Saiarics. During the past month a few occasions occurred when business was so pressing at the Custom House that it was thought an active Spring trade had already set in, and it was so reported by those heavily interested. Taken on an average, how- ever, the comparison.of the receipts for January of last year with those of the past month shows a deficiency of more than two million and a half qollars, The real facts conducing to the backwardness -of the Spring trade for the present year are to bé ascribed to the stormy season, which retards the arrival of steamers freighted down with valuable merchandise, Many ot the importers are anx- ously awaiting the coming of their goods, most of which are sold “in bond or to artive.” In numer- ous imstances the expected me§chandise jas already been entered tor withdra’ ‘al, either tor immediate transportution in bond or for consump n. Mr. William D. Robinson, the venerable cashier, states that January has been a very dull month, compared with tle same period of previous years, Last year we liad the tax on coffee and tea, as also ten bag cent higher tari? on thousands of other articles which the law of June, 1872, abolished trom whe Ist of August of that year. These reductions in ‘themselves are suffleient to account for the shortness of the receipts for duties, The entire amount collected tor January, 1873, was $10,700,000, The amounts returned by the Auditor's depart- ment on overpaid taxes during January were as follows :— On consumption entries ‘On warehouse entrivs Total refunded... . The annexed statement shows the business of the warehousing division transacted from January 2 to 41, inciusive :— WARRMOUSE ENTRIES. Number of warehouse entries Varobouse and ¢) For export and is a exports, immediate transportation chouse entries Rewarehouse, class 2, forciy in bond yi For consumption. oy. on same... . re Withdrawal tor Feneportetion in United States. For export withdrawal... a Wwarenonse withdrawal ot Export to Canada. al Rewarebiouse and export to Ca ae Number of entries liquidated 2182 Number of entries waiting rep 195 Number of entries waiting return 137 Number of entries ready tor liquidation. tw THE CIVIL SERVICE, Since Jast Tuesday, when Alessrs. Leopold Weil, General Dennis Burke, Mr. Jones and Mr. Cushman underwent a competitive examination for the posi- tion of Assistant Appraiser, nothing was done by the various Boards of Examiners. There are @ number of vacancies existing in the various De- partments caused by promotions of those found competent through the Civil Service Code, and Whose names were duly recorded in the HERALD. Mr. Alvah Trowbridge, a gentleman formerly con- nected with the press, was the fortunate candidate Who was fonnd competent to fili a $2,000 position in the Sub-Treasury Department by Messrs. W. G. White, C, iH. Patterson and F. ©. Fieid, the Board of Examiners of this department. Mr. Trowbridge assumed his duties on the 1st inst. The reguiar monthly payment of employés in the Custom House, Surveyor’s Oiice and, Appraiser’s Departinent occurred on Saturday, and consumed about two hundred thousand dollars, The salaries in the Naval Office are paid out of fees recetved there, excepting a stight monthly deficit, which is Atawn frou the Auditor by requisition, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, °1873—TRIPLE SHEET. KANSAS NO LONGER “BLEEDS,” “Now is the Winter of Our Dis- content Made Glorious Sum- mer by this Sun of York.” And Kansas Cheered When * “Old Pom.” Fell. =~ + The Charge That Atchison Women Were Ac- tively Engaged in the Canvass in Pomeroy’s Interest and Held a Public Meeting to Endorse Him Openly Made. po REMARKABLE CHARGES EDITORIALLY MADE. “What the “Lookers-On” in Kansas Say. Pomeroy Scorched by the Press—‘‘ Get Thee to a Nunnery.” Tne Kansas papers received last evening give a few additional details of the remarkable political revolution that on Thursday eventuated in the utter defeat and possible disgrace of Senator Pome- roy, who had returned to Topeka for re-election. The following special despatches, before and after the final vote, convey facts not before published. ‘ Whe Day Before the Victory. The Lawrence Journal of the 28th has the fol- lowing, dated Topeka, 27th, in explanation of Mr. Pomeroy’s efforts to brighten his recerd:— = Edward Clark, whom Pomeroy’s strikers have accused of forging the Koss letter, has made a clean breast of the whole affair, Clark, for five years past, has been living in Sharon, Pa. Pome- roy telegraphed to him three times to meet him in Pittsburg. They met, Pomeroy offered him money to sign @ statement clearing Pomeroy of that letter. Clark reused. Pomeroy denicd that he had authorized the telegraphed statement that Clark had jorged the letter. Clark came here on his own motion, "and Pomeroy, through misrepre- sentation, got him to sign a letter, and paid him $2,000 for it. Aiterward Clark got nold of Pomeroy’s original Koss letter, and jound that Pomeroy’ also had pupers here from parties in Washington, charging Clark with torg- ing the letter. He then made a clean breast 01 1¢ aud told the whole story, muking alfidavit before Judge Valentine, The matter leaves Pomeroy in a worse shape than ever over the Koss letter. POMEROY SUMMONED TO ANSWER, The Kansas City Times, under date of Topeka, January 27, says: At the commencement of the morning session of the Senate the tollowing resolution, introduced by Mr. St. John, was adopted :— Whereas the sworn evidence is before the members of the senate that one of the citizens ot the State of Kan- sas, 5. ©. Pomeroy, now United States ‘Senator, and a mau aspiring to the position, has olered and with his own hands givena brive of $200), in United states cur- rency, in the city of Topeka, Jandary 16, Is74, to a citi- zen ‘of the United States,’ named” Edward Clark, to procure tron him, the said Uiark, a statement in writing that the said Pomeroy did not’ write a certain lett known as the Koss letter; aud whereas ttis statement was procured and exhibited to the members of the Lezis- lature by the said Pomeroy and his triends to deceive thein; aiid whereas said Pomeroy has never denied the genuineness of the said Ross letter betore; be it Resolved by the Senate of the State ot Kansas That a | committee of five mempers be appointed to invesugate the charges contained in the atiidavits of said Edward Clark, ‘1. Dwight Thacher and James Blood, with power to send for persons and yapers, and report without delay the result of this investigation; and be it further Resoived, that 8. C, Pomeroy be invited by the com- mittee to appear in person and answer as to the facts con- tained in the preamble and the resolutions, A motion was made to amend so as also to in- clude an inquiry into the moral character and con- duct heretoiore of J, M, Harvey, D. P. Lowe, Wil- lam A. Phillips and C. H. Logan, which was deteated. The vote in the first passage of the reso- Jution stood yeas 17, nays 15. After the Rout. The Kansas City Times, writing after the smoke of battle had lifted, thus comments upon the situ- ation. That portion covered by asterisks makes charges of a grave nature against the moral char- acter of Mr. Pomeroy, and, in the absence of the full affidavits, of course, cannot be reproduced here :— Another Paladin has fallen—the great champion of corruption and venality. The iconociastic present 18 striking down inany talse gods all er the land, and among all the victories achieved * within this year of grace 1873 there is none greater than the defeat, the humiliation and dis- grace of S. ©. Pomeroy. Caldweli’s fate is also sealed, and next week will bring his sentence. Thus, all over the lana, iraud and corruption are being exposed and the thin veilof seli-assumed piety and patriotism is being pe from the faces of the corrupt hypocrites, some of whom have been party demigods. But it remained for Kansas—“bleeding Kansas’— yclept “the corrupt Commonwealth”—to give a linishing stroke to this good work. A Week ago the great subsidizer seemed to have possession of the field, He was there in person and supported by the strongest combination of active and servile workers imaginable. He made good use of all his most deceptive and alluring arts, le pretended | fo be making the race solely on high moral prin- ciples. It was industriously noised abroad by his followers that “no money would be used’—that the “old man” would make a@ square figit and submit his claims on their merits. Ail sorts of subterfuges and dodges were tried. Even the women themselves—tne wives and daughters of his iollowers—must be dragged into the dirty contest, and while a depu- tation of them in Topeka paid their respects in person, others in Atchison improvised a public meeting and endorsed his honesty, morality and patriotism, all of which was industriously used to manufacture capital, and the names of the half a hundred women conspicuously displayed in all the public pgints. seh ge Rt ABO AG, adie Fag Indeed, tais disgusting expedient for manufac- turing sympathy aud capital by dragging into the contest women whose modesty should have taugiit them to shun it asa smallpox hospital has really no paraliel in the history o1 politics, But with all these expedieuts the coveted ob- ject was not yet secured. Hence it seems that in the beginning Of this Week the use of money was resorted to, First some few straggiers, who had , announcing themselves as abu-Pomeroy men, » bought up. This is evident irom tie result of sist ballot, Then Edward Clark, who had been uceused by Pomeroy of forging his name to the | jamous Ross letter, and who had appeared in ‘Topeka, was attempted to be subsidized ito per- | juring himself by acknowledging its authorship. In this attempt, however, the biter was bit, | and Clark, after receiving $2,000 to leave | the place, appeared in the pposition | caucus and displayed the money with which he had been tempted. But still the oid man was apparently master of the situation, de- om all these damaging circumstances, And so the ballot of Tuesday was reacted, and Pomeroy lucked only sixteen votes ol election, Then came the time for the master stroke o! strategy, and it Was attempted Tuesday night. Our account of the | details is not full—we have only the outiime—ow- | ing to sudden and unaccountavie talure of teie- graphic communication soon after the balloting yesterday. Only this we know, that when the vote was reached on Wednesday there was 20 man who had the hardihood to stand apin the Capitol of Kansas and say, “I vote for 5. C. Pomeroy.” An earthquake had passed over the capital, and its shock haa been [elt by all. There was one man in Kansas who could not be bought. His name was A. M. York, and he isa Senator from one of the southwestern counties of the State. He has been the leader of the opposition to Pomeroy, and an- nounced im the caucus last week that if lie were. to so far forget his pledges to his constituents as to vete for Pomeroy he would expect to be lynched if be returned home. Too Much Money To Be True. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, in his Thursday despatches, de- clares:— One of Senator Pomeroy’s old strikers, whom he denominates in a letter as “My Dear Legate,”’ is now here, and says he does not credit the state- ment that Pomeroy has been cuught in bribing Jegisiators to vote for him. He says it is not credible that any man in Kansas would voluntarily surrender $7,000 alter getting his hands onit. He thinks the amount was raised among Pomeroy's enemies and given to York to do jnst what was done, With the understand: * turned, ling that it was to be re- This story is somewhat spotied by the action of the Kansas Legislature, immediately after the result was arrived at, in the disposition of the bribe. On the question being raised as to the dis- posal of the $7,000 placed in the Speaker's hands by State Senator York, the despatches say, a reso- lution was adopted ordering it te be used in the criminal prosecution of the subsidizing Senator. h with an unenviable reputation, give briefly the comments of the leading jour- nals:— {From the Cincinnati Gazette (administration), Jan, 31, Senator Pomeroy stands before the country to- day a disgraced man—disgraced, too, because he has brought disgrace upon the high position he oc- eupied as a Senator of the United States. For a lon; time he has been the subject of severe but, it believed, just criticism, His conduct in the Senate justified the suspicion that he was foremost in the ranks of those Senators whose votes are usually om the side of the land- grabbers and subsidy seekers. If this public verdict is not correct he is a wonderfully ill-used man, It 18 beheved, too, that he bought his way into the United States Senate, and that in this respect he ison the same footing with Cald- well, whose conduct has recently been exposed and who must soon be expelled from the Senate if he docs not sooner resign, Pomeroy took care to take no notice publicly of the charges so often made against him. he been innocent he would long agg have called lor an investigation; but he took care not to ask his fellew Senators to inquire into his conduct., Like Senator Harlan, who had been persistently accused of corruption, he meekly bore it all, and sought to overcome it by obtaining certificates of character as & Christian statesman from men who sadly need a good endorsement, Pomeroy, in the face of a tremendous public sen- timent, notwithstanding his case was an issue in the late election and that a large majority of anti- Pomeroy men had been chosen to the Legislature, returned to Kansas as a candidate for re-election. His own experience and that ef Caldwell led him to believe that money would carry him through, and it has lately been apprehended that he would succeed, and that a fresh disgrace was in store for the gallant littie State of Kansas, But, at the last moment, he was caught, That was sharp practice of Senator York which exposed and deieated Pomeroy; but it was effective; so much so that Pomeroy, who tully expected to be elected, did not receive a single vote. And he was not only de- feated, but waz arrested for bribery. We suppose Senator York is prepared to prove his charge. As it was set up on Pomeroy, it would be strange if the proof were not at hand, In that case the man who figured so extensively in Washington society, and is pow @ United States Senator, may find him- self in the Penitentiary. Upon this point, however, it is proper to await the facts. Honorable men do not play such games as that which York took a hand in, and upon his unsupported testimony it would not be fair to con- demn anybody, it may have appeared differently to those on the ground, and the result of the ballot indicates that York's statement was believed in the Legislature, At any rate Pomeroy was deserted by his iriends at the critical moment, and no one had the courage to give him a vote. Bad as our opinion is of the man, we would be glad if he could be extricated from this last charge; but whether innocent of this or not, he de- served to be deieated, and this result we record with unmixed pleasure, ‘Ihe people of Kansas are now fully aroused to the importance of putting down corruptionists within ner borders, and it 18 to be hoped that they witl persevere until honest men shall represent them at the national capital and at their own cap- ital. If honest men had been elected to the Legis- lature heretojore, the part periormed by corrupt Senatorial aspirants would not have been possible, The people must not rest satisfied with the ex- porare and defeat of Caldwell, Pomeroy and Ross, ut apply the knife to the men who sold their votes to the corruptionists, always bearing in mind that the man wuo sells and the man who buys are egually guilty. {From the Inter-Ocean (administration), Jan, 31.) ‘bhese are perilous times for rascals, high and low. The man with more money than brains, and less conscicnce than depravity, 18 being taught a few lessons that he will not soon forget, We think itone of the happiest auguries fer the future that, Just as we were seemingly drilting into great danger irom monopolies and the corrupting influences of money, @ blow should be struck at the former Which stops them in their aggressive warfare and buts them on the defensive, while the latter is fairly crushed beneath the overwhelming power ol ah awakened and startled public conscience. No better illustratioy could be given of the horror with which the corrupt use of money 18 regarded than the action of the Kansas Legislature in’ the matter of Mr. Pomeroy. He lias been often accused of improper conduct, but the allegations have been looked upon herewwlore as the mventions of malice, and he-has coutinued to occupy a very prominent place in the Senate. These charges dO not seem to meet with that prompt denial that we had a reason to expect from the senator, and the fact that his friends in the Legislature iorsook him to a man indicates that they believed them to be true, It 1s almost incred- ible that, with his colleague already under trial for this crime of bribery, Mr. Pomeroy should seek to compass an election by the same means; and we are yet prepared to hear that the whole thing is a sharp trick to defeat him. butif the story is true, then—what? Mr. Pomeroy has not long to serve in the Senate, but if these are the facts he has already been there too long. This is a repub- lic; in the untrammelied choice of the people lies our only security. ‘fhe man who seeks to corrupt public conscience, to negative the voice of the peo- ple by the prrensee of their representatives, should disgrace his high position no ionger than may be required to cali the roll of his associates We do not seek to forestall the verdict that must soon be rendered as to the guilt ot Mr. Pomeroy. If he is innocent no one will more gladly do him justice; if guilty We congratulate the republicans of Kansas | on their escape from the disgrace of his re-clec- tion, and call upon the Senate to purify itself of his presence, [From the Louisville ev ren (democratic), jan. 31. Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, one of the men who have been making the United States Senate an unciean place by bribery and corruption, re- ceived bis reward last Wednesday trom the Kansas Legislature, before which body he was a candidate lor re-election, He was literaily wiped out, not re ceiving a solitary vote. the deleat was more bitter because wholly unlooked for, Kansas in her iniancy was a bone of contention, and her terri- tory was the theatre of a contest which began the “Niad of evils” that afterwards befell the whole country; but in Pomeroy’s disgrace, if fol- lowed by the expulsion from the Senate of his no less intamous colleague Caldwell, we shall recognize the verification of the adage that “out ot evil cometn good,”? Justice will not always aca. her coming, and her sword, though long suspended, Wiil at last fail with fatal effect upon the necks of the political Iscariots who make a traffic of their votes and betray every public trust. ‘The Free- shooter in the German legend bargained with tue devil for seven bullets which were never to miss their mark, The Freeshooter bagged his game, much to his satisiaction, until the seventh bullet, whose course the devil wasgunning enough to re- tain under his control, was turned in its fight and sent through the heart of the miserable hunter, Poweroy has been cut down by the devil’s seventh bullet at the very moment he jancied he was about to bring down another prize. {From the Chicago Times (democratic), Jan. 31.) The political thundercloud which exploded in the Kansas Legislature on Wednesday will re- move from the pelitical atmosphere of this country another of the pestiient corruptionists whose pres- ence in our public life has long been an active cause ot the sproad of the most virulent political disease. But the open and unblushing scoundrelism of the man Pomeroy, even while the country is ringing with popular execration of his associate scoundrel Caldweli, und of his other asso¢iate scoundrels, the Collaxes, Pattersons, Ameses, Kelleys et al.. in Washington, is much jess a cause of amazement than are the terrible disclosures which prove the corrupt villany of the latter. After making very sweeping charges against the defeated Senator, that it would be diMfcult to establish in a court of law, the Times concludes :— That the wily old corruptionist fell so com- pletely into the sare laid for him by his enemies proves both the desperation of the unscrupulous »coundrel and the over-confidence of a rogue who has played the seme game before with better suc- cess. ‘the facts turnish as good moral ground for belief that Pomeroy has besore gained a seat in the United States Senate by purchase and bribery as the positive proof against Caldwell furnishes for a like belie) in his case, {From the Detroit Post (republican), Jan. 31.) “pither senator Pomeroy has been fairly de- tected and exposed im attempting to secure a re- election to the United States Senate by bribery, or else 4 member of the Kansas State Senate, named York, las played it on Pomeroy in a way he de- Spises, und that at the last moment, when it was too jate to make a successiul denial in time to affect the election.” i? The Fost, after describing the scene when York charged the crime of bribery upon Pomeroy, con- cludes — Now, tf this was a shrewd device of the oppo- nents of Pomeroy, whereby, at an expense of $7,000 and a Jajsehood, they ruined Pomeroy's chances and elected their man, then it was a very sharp as well as very dishonest trick. But if it was a true story, then Pomeroy is ruined and de- serves it. There has been so much trickery prac- tised in the Kansas Legisiature in electing United States Senators that the public will do well het to jump to @ conclusion in this matter, but awiit iurther revelations. [From the St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald (independent), Jan. 30, 3 Pomeroy is defeated and disgraced, and few, if auy, of our readers will sympathize with him. He will retire into private life and political ebiivion 1 e are glad 10 see that the United States Senate, a republican body, is being weeded of its corrupt members. Tue re- pubiican party is aparty of progress, enterprise and honor, and it will never countenance fraud or corruption im any shape. Let the corruptionista and Schewers go—thew absence will be neither missed bor regretted, (From the Richmond Wh'g—democratic, Whiist the press everywhere throughoct the country was loaded down with the evidence of fraud dud corruption in nearly ail the departments of the government, the hardened convict of Kansas, 5. C. Pomeroy, for twelve years United States Senator, deliberately placed in the hands of State Senator York $7,000, a8 a bribe § secure his vote, This the Senator sent to the clerk’s desk, with a statement of the facts, which caused not only an excitement, but the election of the Hon. Jotin James Ingails, by @ nearly unanimous vote, to the United States Senate, and the prompt arrest of the late Hen. Pomeroy. Well may our Comments of the Outside Press. The press of the country, both republican ana i. democratic, comment freely upon the resuit, we ! “ honest German iriend exclaim, ‘Mine Got, vot a country!” #roin the Utica Herald (republican), Feb, 1.) Sor novile sratrum /—Caldawell and Pomeroy, of Kansas. They appear to be two beautiful birds! There seems to be nD doubt that both rege the favor of the Kansas Legislature; but unfor- tunately for their financial investment, but for. tunately for the public, they did not at the same time purchase their seats in the Senate, sneagh one of them has for a season filled one there. ie Far Western political idea may be one simp! money ; but it will not work well when applied on @ national scale, whatever it may do in (From the Newark Daily, yournal (democratic), “Subsidy Pom.” is Saagercaniy, sick, Won’t the good and tly Brother Harlan pray for him ? Brother H. is amply qualified, for it was only a few days before “Pom,” became the victim (|) of “a foul conspiracy” (! !) that he (Brother H.) certified that ‘those who know him intimately and well believe him to be one of the truest and purest of our pabite men, as they know him to be one of the most generous. His benetactions have made hun- dreds of worthy families rejoice. Those who ought to know him thoroughly regard hin as singularly ‘unselfish, caring only for money as he can use it, not to agerandize himself, but to accomplish some good,” Good enough, Let us pray for “Pom.” A SLEIGHING SUNDAY. Five Thousand Persons Gliding on Runners Be- fore the Wind—“As Through the Park We *Go”—Champagne and Passion on the Boad—The Skaters’ Carnival—Ladies in Sealskin Migs ie Warm Furs. We are now in the fourth month of the Winter season. This lively, swarming and bustling metro- polis was*never no swarming, bustling or lively on a Sunday in Winter as it was yesterday. The gay and festive population came out. Sleighs were everywhere. The hard, crisp snow, THE BITTER, BITING, BRACING AIR, the music of the bells, the masses of well dressed, pleasant faced but cold looking people on the streets, the idea which struck all the sleigh riders that another day might not come like yesterday to give them so much enjoyment again—all these things suggested to the carnivalists that the pres- ent moment, never to come again, saould be taken at its proper advantage. In the vicinity of the Park every approach wag covered with rapidly movingsleighs. Those who had no business or other cares came out in their glory. Central Park was & moving, bustling ‘aleidoscope, FORM AND COLOR filled all its avenues. The white, hard and crack- jing snow seemed imbued with the life of a fairy jJand. Gorgeous raiment, pinched faces and bright, glowing and tempestuous eyes dazzled the lone waylarer plodding aleng in his moccasins or Arctic shoes. It1s only given to those who are conver- sant with the ways of THE FAIR, FEMININE AND PICKLE SEX, and who have a knowledge of the unbridled pro- pensities of a horse’s hard mouth, to enjoy a sleigh ride. Nations may decay, races may perish, but as long as snow is snow, and as long as women are oe to pleasure, a sleigh ride must be declared to e she acme of connubial felicity and lovers’ enjoy- ment. it was fair to see this dream of beautiful women Some people have a faculty of making a great deal ofexcitement for thelr own particular party and a great deal of amusement for the general driving publ when they ride in sleighs. It might be noticed ere that the young man who does not know how to drive a pair of horses is at once A MOURNFUL SPECTACKE for the immortal gods and a delirious subjéct of amusement for mankind, Then the young lady whose teet are cold, and whose cavaiier, either from economical principles or from an unnata- rally modest distrust of public opinion, hesitates to ask her to lunch—he can hardly be said to occupy @ heroic position in his girl’seyes. No longer can he expect to fill the place of the is ADMIRABLE CRICHTON, Sleighing has one effect. It levels all people. The bracing wind, the fresh air, the tinntinabulation of the bells, the cheers from parties driving like HOWLING DERVISES on either side, up and down—all these accessories and surroundings tenc to elevate the understana- ing. With the thermometer at zero, or below it, little trifling details of everyday life tade away, obstacles disappear, contrarieties are sutgnerged and a pleasant expanse of good feeling rises up and covers with good luck all those who have abandon or esprit, \tke the caul of a fortunate first-born child. Through the Park the rapid coursers harnessed to sleighs drove wantonly fierce as the chargers of Phoebus, nothing Caring. nothing denying to themselves; the world was all before them, the metropolitan po- lice in the background, and dire, but certain, Futurity hung a _ flattering pros- pect of the Widow Clicquot at Stetson’s and broiled chicken and mushrooms at McVomb’s Dam. Two thousand sleighs passed up the road and through the Central Park yesterday. It was a sleighing carnival in very truth, and those who experienced | it must conless it. THE SKATING MULTITUDE were as much in earnest as their sleighing friends. Thousands of skaters visited the Park and made the air hilarious on the surface of every conceivable frozen pond near the city. The often heard of ball was up with a vengeance. The ice in the Park was thick with skaters, and the manly defenders of the common law, in gray uni- forms, were as busy as the bees whose honey is pro- duced by the labored industry of a communistic hive, : WHEN THE NIGHT FELL and the stars glimmered in the blue concave, when hot coffee was pressed to carmine lips, when the ‘atmosphere was redolent with the whispered sounds of breathing affection; when heart an- swered ‘to heart and soft utterances per- | meated the Winter ozone, and while the steely clink of the skates made a delightful and irrepressible meiody, the stern business of life was forgotten, Ceres and the Pleads looked down, and Venus herself, bright, everlasting goddess of the northern sky, looked in celestial tunetuiness upon the thousands who said to themselves, “We are here to enjoy; while we live let us live, and let the world roll aroand.” A SIRANGE LOVE STORY. No One to Love=A New York Jeweller’s Clerk, Disappointed in Love, a Hermit in the Minnesota Forests. The Duluth (Minn.) Herald of the 2th ult. gives a romantic account of the finding in the pine forests on Cloynet River, two weeks ago, of a young man, formerly a clerk in a Broadway jewelry store. It appears that a party of explorers, while at sup- per, heard, a melodious voice singing “No one to love, none to caress,’ For @ few moments they were ata loss to dis- cover from whence the melody came, but on peer- ing through a thicket, which lay to the north of them, they discovered a young man, apparently about five and twenty years old, approaching, The tail, slender and rather good-looking fellow wore a Mackinac coat, fur cap and German socks and moc- casons. On coming up to them he passed the com- pliments of the evening, and was about to pass when the explorer asked him if he wouldn’t stop and take a cup ol coffee. At first he declined the civility, but the request being urged he finally con- sented to accept. ‘This singular recluse, on being pressed for a reason for his strarge mode of itte, stated :— I belong to New York city, and my parents now reside on Third avenue. About two years agol made the acquaintance of a Miss Henderson, an | actress, Who plays under an assumed name, She was about a8 sweet a girl, so far a8 looks went, as ever the sun shone upon. It is neediess to tell you that, after @ year’s courtship, she consented to be my wife. All the preparations for our marriage were made, but just one k prior to the day on which we were to be united a lady iriend informed my mother that I was about to be most terribiy disappointed, ked in what way, this lady | handed a note from 8 Henderson to my mother, in which she (Miss Henderson) admitted falling from virtue some three years before, and begging may mother to disclose it to me through my tather. The letter further stated that she, my betrothed, could never again see me. This dreadful news, of course, came to iny ears in a very sort time after it had been imparted to my mother. Iknew not what to do, and finally wandered out here in the hope that T might in solitude Jorget my heart-sick troubl But Ihave not. [have lived in this re- ion for nearly four montns, almost wholly sustain- fh myself by my gun and ta Bel fie then went on to say that his tent was about three miles from the spot where he was being re- gaied; that he did not know how long he should remain; but that, after having his hopes tn life blasted, he intended to live away from the snares of both mam and womankind, As far as could be eaned em some desultory remarks made \); fim before leaving the exploring camp, Which he did just at twilight, this disappointed lover had been a clerk in some jewelry establishinent on Broadway, New York, © BELLEVUE HOSPITAL Statistics of the Work of a Year. The offictal statistics of the Bellevue Hospital for the year ending February 1 are furnished in the ,) sollowing aggregate uumbers by Warden Bren- nani— Ontdoer poor (Burean) Number of prescriptions isssued..... Increase of new patients over last year's number.. 2, Increase of prescriptions over last year’s. ‘ Number of ambulance cases for the year. 1478 Police CASCS....+44+6 462 Coroners’ ¢1 463, Deaths. 1a Numbe: pn OAT eo Niimber of ndiniasions ogee Birthe.. oe seeee eens “14 Total number treated “43 Sonstrokes. . ly Obstetrical cases. le ART MATTERS. ° The Palette Club’s Reception. The Palette Club intends holding an art and mu- of | sical reception this evening at its rooms, 126 Sec- ond avenue. Entertainments of this character are ansas. | among the finest festivals of art celebrated in this city, and the reputation of the Palette Club more than justifies the pleasurable anticlpations which will be raised. Reception to General di Cesnola. A reception will be tendered this evening to General di Cesnola at the Metropolitan Art Mu- seum. It is scarcely necessary to remark, in pass” ing, that this reception is a graceful and peculiarly appropriate tribute to the enterprise, the shrewd- ness, the self-abnegation and the archwological zeal of General di Cesnola, to whom the United States not less than the city of New York are in- debted for those invaluable Cyprus antiquities of which the first and only account that has yet ap- peared in an American paper was printed in last Wednesday's HEeRa.p. The Rossiter Pictures. These pictures, to which reference was made a few days ago, will be exhibited to-day, to-morrow and on Wednesday, at the Clinton Hali salerooms, Astor place, and not at the Art Rooms, 817 broad- way. During these three days the exhibition will be open day and evening. Comment has already been passed upon some of the larger paintings, such as “The Jews in Captivity,” “The Home of Washington After the War” and “The Merchants of Am:rica,”’ and due reference was likewise made to “Charity, or Christ on the Tuesday of Passion Week.” Among the more sahent of the other works are “Types and Temperaments,” “Miriam Exulting in the Destruction of Pharaoh’s Hosts,” “Noah and his Family Awaiting the Return of the Dove,” “Signing the Constitution,” ‘tne Dis- soverers of America” and ‘The Prince of Wales at the Tomb of Washington.” All of these are by the late Mr. Rossiter, and some of them are extraordinary specimens of his sympathy with the historic and heroic, “Types and Tem- peraments” is a picture containing twelve female figures, representative, as the title implies, of va- rious orders of beauty. Most of the varieties that range between brunette and blonde are expressed with delicacy and force, On the extreme left of the composition a serene and serious brunette plays upona harp. On the lett sit two girls, one with ex- ceedingly light golden hair and one with locks of a@rich auburn. The golden-haired beauty rests on an elbow. Beside her, still proceeding toward the right, reclines a second tawny-tressed maiden, with arms iolded, In the background are four figures standing. One of these plays a timbrel ande looks back with half-turned head, Of the remain- ing three, two stand erect together, gazing intently on the dark-skinned harp player, who appears to furnish the Keynote of interest Lo the picture. On the extreme right rest two beauties, one fair and the other dark, with eyes turned in the direction of the musician, Just belore them sits a brunette, one hand supporting her head, the other clasping a scroll of paper and reposing on her knee. She gazes intently before her, In the middle fore- ground is,a beautilul girl with bare feet, her back toward the observer, but side-face visible. Inge- nuity and taste are felt in the disposition of these figures, and i! any great fault be perceptible it is jound in the want of a suiliciently strong imdividu- ality in each. in “Miriam” the warlike ecstasy of the principal figure is the most remarkable trait. The hour de- lineated is that indicated in the twentieth and twenty-first verses of the fifteenth chapter of Exodus :—‘‘And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out alter her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.’? The artist, however, has turnished Miriam with cymbols instead of timbrel, perhaps because a more muscular and heroic effort could be thereby produced, She stands, like a Jewish Joan d’Arc, on a rock overhanging the sea, in which the perishing hosts of Pharaoh may be discerned. Fierce exul- tation, stern joy, pious fanaticism are powerfudly epicted. In “Noah and his Family,” one of the largest pictures in the salesroom, are nine figures, including a child, Noah stands at the back inviting, with outstretched hand, at- tention to the returning dove, Beside Noah, who forms the principal figure, are two Fe hee One of these is composed of Noah’s wile, Shem, Shem’s wife and Japheth. They occupy the leit of the picture, and their looks are fixed, with expressions ranging between fear and amazement, upon the returning dove. The otuer Troup comprises Ham, Ham’s wife, tae wife of japheth and @ little child; all are more or less en- gaged in iooking at the “bow in the cloud.” One of the partitiops of the Ark is supposed to be re- moved, and the family gazes with mingied emotion upon the withdrawing waters. On Noah’s right stands Shem, apparently amazed and terrified. “At his feet crouch his mother, his wife and his brother Japheth. His wife shades her eyes with her ands, interested and anxious. On Noah's left stands Ham, facing him, with both hands raised, At Ham's feet sit his wife and the wife of Japheth, the first lifting her hands in supplication, the other apparently directing observation to tie rainvow. A child nestles near, with alamb curled beside him. “Signing the Constitution,” of course, placgs its locality in Independence Hall, Philadetphia. The hour selected for illustration is when the members have lett their seats alter the close of business. James Wilson is in the act of signing, while George Ciymer, Roger Sherman, George Keed and John Dickenson sand by. Robert Morris, seated, 1s talking to MAflin and Fitzsimmons; while behind Join Rutledgé sits George Wythe, whe, it wili be remembered, dil not sign, In the centre are dis- covered Hamilton and Madison talking together. Franklin, near the left foreground, is directin, Governor Morris’ attention to the eMgy behin« Washington. There are about fifty figures in all, each suggestive of profoundly interesting historical associations. “The Discoverers of America” groups, under their respective national standards, the principal navigators, from Colambus to Hendrick Hudson, who contributed to the discovery of various impor- tant portions of the Continent of America. It is clever piece of historic generalization. We must conclude with a reference to “The Prince of Wales at the Tomb of Wastington”—a subject impressive from its associations and touched with something like sanctity on account of the majestic virtues of the great man to whom the best in all succeeding time have paid tribute. Forcign Art Notes. Mr. Hodgson is engaged on three of those Oriental subjects in which he has lately been so successful, Mr. Storey has on his easel “Toujours Perdrix,” in which a Dutch gentleman, discussing a game pie, is interrupted by a servant bearing a brace of pheasants. Another picture, “The Baby,” repre- sents parents displaying @ not too attractive child to an old gentleman, who affects rapture. he Ladies’ Night” is Mr. Wynficld’s latest sub- ject. Two pictures occupy Mr. Pettie—‘Sanctuary”’ and “The Flag of Truce,” The rumor that General de Cesnola lately sold at certain auction roomsin London some fine scuip- ture trom Cyprus is entirely erroneous. The museum of wooden sculpture in the Louvre has been enriched by works brought back from parks and residences not in public occupation, In the centre of the Salle de Coysevox is placed a statue of & shepherd playing on a flute, by Uoyse- vox, and dated 1709. In the Salle de Puget are four terms representing the seasons and two statues by Théodon. In the Suile des Conston are the statues of Slodtz and Mercury, by Pegalle, inlead. In the Salle de Chaudet are the Jeanne d’Are of Rude, the Sappho of Prodier and Philo- pamen of David d’Angers. Kauibach is preparing @ large cartoon of the Deiuge for the Vienna Exhibition, Holman Hunt's new picture, which has occupied him three years, Was finished at the beginning of the present Ri"s, It includes life-size figures of Christ amd the Virgin in Joseph's workshop at Bethiehem, is named “The Shadow o1 Death,” and represents a prevision of the crucifixion. The Virgin kneels betore a large casket, with her back towards us. Christ stands risen to his full heignt, looking upwards, praying earnestly, and his arms extended in the ancient attitude of prayer. The attitude and expression are said te be intensely athetic. The London Athenwum suys:—"The action B that ofa presageful mind which welcomes rest from labor and that end of trouble pre-signified by repose. As Christ is standing thus with arms out- spread inthe fuil light of the low sun, the shadow 18 projected on the wall of the room at his full size, and thus it suggests the attitude of a sufferer on the cross. It is this shadow which has attracted the attention of the Virgin, who, as we have said, kneels Pefore a coffer, of which sie has jugt raised the id. With @ sudden action she has turned towards the omen. The artist intends to suggest | that the Virgin observed that her Son, ever blame- less in life and now @ man, devoted himself to the duties of His home, and, as yet, showed no signs of | the accomplishment of those prophecies which were said to be connecied with His career, so that she uestions herself abot the honors which attended is infancy, As if to convince herself of their Rey she has opened the casket where are stored the gifts of the kings, the crown, jncense, &c, While opening this the si ol frre, pas caught her eye by its ominous form. Although her face is hidden from us her emotio: re perfectly expressed by her attitude, The straining of her head in the act of turning, the grasp of her some- What wasted hands on the coffer, the very settling of her bye robe and its accompaniments about her form seem to take part in and render dist! her surprise and pain,” Sia v 5 “HARRY’S” HOUSE. Ex-Senator Genet and the Harlem Court House— What “Prince Hal” Thinks of Senator Tiemann’s Report—He Will “Sink or Swim” on the Evidence. The report of the Senate Committee on the Har- lem Court House and the conclusions stated as the judgment of the committee created quite 4 stir among the politicians around the city on Saturday. The discussion and examination before the Com- missioners in this city were fully reported in the HERALD during the progress of the investigation, and their import was pretty generally understood, The committee, consisting of the venerable Sena- tors Tiemann, Benedict and Weismann, in pre- senting the testimony to the Senate, conclude their report as follows:— In the judgment of your committee Mr. Genet does no® account ior the mol iey received by him upon the city rrants and used in the construction ot Coure House. Your committee do. further report that, in their judgment, nis matter was concelved in fraud and iniquity. ‘That in the boldness of its design and the ‘otfronter, own in its execution it is not sur- passed by any of the frauds that have been perpetrated upon the treasury of the city of New York. tif the Commissioners did not share in the proceeds of the trans- action it was through gross negligence and entire disre~ gard of their duties that these frauds were enabled to be erpetrated, Your committee would recommend that the testimony be printed anid an oe Mayor, Diseri ict Comptroller. o' Aermey, ate soit thereon as justice ‘and the Interests of the city may require. For the purpose of ascertaining how the burly Harry felt in relation to this report, and what he was going to do about it, a HeraLp reporter called on hin at his office on Saturday and stated his mis< sion. “Prince Hal’—as he was familiarly called im the days that are gone—was found seated behind a handsome French cylinder-top desk. He was puf- fing away on a fragrant Havana and gazing altgr~ nately at a photograph of the Harlem Court House, @ portrait of W. ( conner, 8 print o/ the new Capi~ tol at Albany, a fire extil isher and out at the new Post Office building. He received the HERALD representative with all the courtesy of Chesterfleid, and invited him to take a seat. After the usual formalities had ba en fo through the subject of the report was ope| by the question :- Ge< net, Lsuppose you Aave seen the account of ti fact that the Senate Committee has made a prett, strong report about the Harlem Court House ?”” Mr. GeNeT—Yes, but it don’t amount to any< thing. If old Tiemann would only report the evi+ ‘dence’ to the Senate without his opinions I would be Hedy satisfied. ERALD REPRESENTATIVE—What are you going to do about 10? Mr. GeneT—Nothing. I ooh ven the Senate to print the testimony Fast as it was taken down by the stenographer, and let the public decide froux that. On the testimony given beiore the com- mittee I am perfectly content to—to, well— SINK OR SWIM. Why, my counsel assures me that there is noth- ing at ali in the evidence against me. HERALD REPRESENTATIVE—What can the Senate do in the matter? carried outin Mr. GeNer—I don’t know what they cando. F den’t see that they can do anythin; Of course they'll have the testimony printed and sent to the Mayor aud District Attorney, but they can’t inter- fere with me, HERALD REPRESENTATIVE—Can they not impeach or indict the Commissioners? Mr. GENET—r'hey might, but that would not in- jure me. 1 was not a Commissioner; I was only counsel to the Commissioners, 1 received $5,000, my fee, and that was all. I was not a public oficial in the case. I was acting in a private capacitya ‘The whole amount ofthe thing is this—old Tiemann is an inveterate enemy ef mine, and he would like to crush me politically if he could. He is one of the bitterest old fossils 1 ever knew tn politics, and he and a few others think they can Killme, Now, £ don’t intend to be killed. I feel good for ten years yet, and 1 mean to fight them all the time. (After a pause.) Just les them print the testimony as it was given. I have a full copy of the testimony as taken by the stenographer and I will compare it. If they print it correctly I will leave it to the publio to decide, That's all I can say on the subject. [ know I have done nothing that is not right, and if you are going to publish anything just say that I want the real testimony printed in full and let the public judge for themselves. I’m not ashamed of my record; and the men who want to crash me now—the very same men who cry out against the present charter, some of them were just as loud in praise of it before—torget, or pretend not to know, that Iwas the only member ot the Senate from this city in 1870 who voted against it. Finding that the Senator, although debated fed the subject, would say nothing more than that he was willing to stahd or fall by “the evidence,” the reporter took his leave. Tne VARIOUS weekly newspapers are competing against each other for circulation by offering pre- miums in chromos for new subscribers. The man- ulacture of chromos for this use already absorbs the entire capacity of some manufacturers of this specialty. EMILE DE LAVELAYE has just published in Paris his best work, “L’Instruction du Peuple.”? Mrs. ANN S, STEPHENS’ “Fashion and Famine’? is sold in Paris book shops at one franc and twenty- five centimes under the title of “Opulence et Misére,”” HoRACE WALPOLE used to call the “Dialogues of the Dead,” by Lord Lyttleton, “Dead Dialogues,’? and the epithet well fits the vapid character of the book. M. LABOULAYE has just issued, under the title of “Lettres Politiques,” his sketch of a republican constitution for France, modeHed mainly on that of the.United States. THE Best Book on arboriculture recently issued is published at Nice, under the title of ‘Dictionnaire | des Foréts;- legislation et administration, recuel complet concernant les foréts depuis 1672 jusq’cn 1871.” M. Lrtrre, the author of the greatest French dic- tionary, which seems destined to take the place of that of the Academy (forever incomplete), lives in humbie lodgings and in honorable poverty. He is arepublican, aud refused from Napoleon IIL tho Cross of the Legion of Honor and a pension, Tue Pall Mall Gazette and the Saturday Review have a standing quarrel over the merits of Mr. Froude as a historian. The Saturday declares that the historian of the Tudors has,a mind that is “in- herently inaccurate,” and the Pall Mall retorta that the critical journal deals habitually im “coarse insinuations.” Mrs. MONTAGU, Who wrote a century ago, studied gentlemen as profoundly as the ladies. Sho gently laughed at Dr. Young’s philosophy, which brougut him to believe that one vice corrects another tillan anima! made up of ten thousand bad qualities grows up to be a social creature tol- erable to live with. Sir William Brown could hardly claim this toleration, for he had not discov- ered (said Mrs. Montagu) that the wisest man in the company is not always the most welcome, and that people are not at times disposed to be in- formed, AN ENGLISH COMMISSION for the discovery of his torical documents scattered in private families has recently unearthed and published some curious and valudble letters of Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, James I. and other notable charac- ters. MR. SaMpeEL Hazarp’s “Santo Domingo and Hayti,”’ which was first published in London in or- der to secure the author the English copyright (aa the law of that country requires in the case of @ foreign author), is published here by Harper & Brothers. The Saturday Review, no lenient critic of things American, finds the book to be a systematic and agreeably told history and description of the isiand. “The narrative ef Mr. Hazard’s tour,” says the Review, “is graphic and often picturesque; it ia compiled with praiseworthy care, and shows throughout more than common powers of observa- tion and juagment.’’ Mas, EvizapetH MONTAGU thus wrote of her far- famed cousin, Lady Mary Wortley Montage, in 1762:— « When natore ts at the trouble of making avery Singular person time does right im respecting it. She does not look older*than when she went id, tas more than the vivacity of fifteen and a m bry which, perhaps, is unique. She neither thinks, speaks, acts hor dresses like anybedy else. Her domestick is made up of all nations, and, when you get into her drat room, you imagine you are in the first story of ‘tie Tower of Habel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door, he gives it to an Italian, who delivers it toa Frenchman, the Frenchinan to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a Polander; so that by the time you get to her ladyship’s presence you have changed your name five times without the expense of an act of Parliament. OUT ON THE HEAD, Samuel Hunter, of 351 West Seventeenth street, was assaulted yesterday morning in an oyster saloon on hth avenue, near Sixteenth street, by James ty ‘and dangerously wounded on the head. He was attended to by the Police Surgeon of tue Fifth precinct and sent to his home