The New York Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1873, Page 7

a ee ee w “ BRAZIL. Speech of His Imperial Majesty Dom Pedro the Second to the Parliament, lose of the First and Opening of the Second Ses- sion of the Legislature—Royal Review of the Situation of the Nation—Progress: Minise terial, Educational and Materialis- tic—Trade, Navigation, Treaties and Telegraphs—Citizen Opin- ion—A Financier in Trouble. By mail from Rio Janeiro we have the following Jeport—special to the HERALD—of the public situ- ation which presented in Brazil on the 7th of May, The statement comes in interesting elaboration of brief telegrams already to hand from Lisbon. Imperialistic Review of the Condition md Wants of the Nation. Rio JANEIRO, May 7, 1873, On the 3d inst. the Emperor announced the close pf the first session of the Fifteenth Legislature of Brazil, and opened the second session with the fol- lowing SPEECH FROM THE THRONE. AvousT AND Most WorTHy REPRESENTATIVES OF Faw NaTion—Once more | thank you, with deep titude, for the demonstrations of your sorrow, ‘hich were very soothing to me, at the loss of my auch beloved mother-in-law, Her Majesty the Em- |p Dowager, Duchess of Braganza, who gave up er soul to God on the 25th oi January last. Thanks to Divine Providence. the epidemic which has attacked some of our maritime cities has not been of the most deadly kind and is disappearing in almost all with the entry of the new season. This result has been greatly contributed to by the sharity of the native and foreign population. Diseases of a different character and considerable Imundations have ravaged some places, but their Injuries have not been so great as those which other peoples experienced of late from analogous causes. The government and tts delegates in the provinces have fulfilled the duty, which the law and humanity imposed upon them in like cases, by promptly joining the succors of the State to those of that private benevolence which is never left un- waniiested in Brazil. The good relations of the Empire with the other Powers remain unaltered, and the government takes much to heart the straitentng of those rela- tions still more, through a just, elevated and gen- erous policy. The ratifications of the treaties of extradition with Portugal, Great Britain and Italy, aud of a postal treaty with Pern, have been ex- changed. The public peace has not been disturbed in an; piece: It 18 to be lamented, however, that indi- ‘idual safety and that of property cannot be roperly protected in our back country, where the fluence of the law does not yet rule eMcaciously fer the prevention of crimes. The radical remedy for this state of things depends upon more rapid communications and other measures tending to ameliorate the moral state of those regions. This {Is not the work of a single aay, but it is our duty to pursue this endeavor with all possible celerity. FINANCE AND COMMERCE. The liquidation of the financial year of 1871-2 and the calculations of the current one confizm the former le) of increase in the public rev- enue. Such circumstances of prosperity will per- mit us to continue to mitigate the burdens of the taxpayers, provided that, in the decretal of new expenditures that may be reclaimed by the most pressing national aspirations, we keep sight of that necessity and of the heavy charges which are legacies of the late war. The increase of pay which you conceded to the army and the navy was an act of justice. The other classes of public func- tionaries who were included iu the recent legisla- tive provisions were likewise deserving of the ben- efit on granted to them. itis most expedient to establish in our administration the principle of having a less numerous personnel, but one better aid, and severely stimulated tothe fulfilment of eir duties, EDUCATION. Popular education and the diffusion of the lights Meeded by our various social classes require a wider and improved plan. In the intent to realize ‘this fruithfal idea—one an object of constant anxiety to the government—it has sought to give the most skilful employment to the means of which it can dispose, and to animate the worthy efforts makin everywhere with the same view—a movement observe with great satisfaction, and one that does eat honor to the character of our countrymen. ie economic interests of Brazil, each day in- creasing, especially requires for their greater and juicker devolopment, the acquisition of useful borers, professional teaching, roads and tele- graphs. the combined application of these providences undoubtedly lies the future safety of bur Jeading industry, toenable, witnout shock or joss, those transformations which, with the course of time, will be going into operation in its lavor and territorial constitution. The sacrifices we will make for this purpose, with the judgment and prudence that so greatly disinguish your resolu- tions, will be amply compensated by the accommo- dation to the people, by the protection to produc- tuve labor and by the increase of the public wealth, RAILWAYS, Studies are being made of extensions of the Per- Rambuco, Bahia and San Pauio railroads, and the railroad which cuts the territories of the province of Rio Janeiro is progressing in quest of the San Francisco. Various other undertakings, by private rsons and by provincial administrations, have en contracted for, without burdening the State coffers, to counect those important trunks of our railroad system. Both the geographical situation and the importance of the production and com- Merce of the province of Rio Grande do Sul call Dpon the general Powers for aid to its endeavors to provide for its safety and to benefit better by its elements of prosperity by a railroad shortening the distances between its sea coast and its trontier with Uruguay. Constructions of the same kind are extending through the territories of neighboring Btates towards the frontier towns. It isexpedient, pie) for us likewise to favor the reciprocal in- rests, The concession made to some parties, for the laying of a submarine telegraph between the north and south of the empire, has been transferred to the Transatlantic Cable Company, on modified conditions which promise the execution of this tm- | oa improvement within the shortest possible ime. MILITARY AND ELECTORIAL REFORM. Two bills oi the most recognized utility, recently presented to you in the name of the government— Dne for reform of the National Guard and the other for that of our system of elections—are now in pendency; and likewise others derived trom your enlightened initiative. Among these last I will mention, because of their reach, those relating to naval promotions, to impressment, to appellant justice and to the creation of a uew province. I ope such important matters will merit your especial care and wiil receive from your enlighten- ment the solutions most adequate to the present circumstances of Brazilian society. A new administrative circumscription, com- ee the fertile margins of the Sen ‘ancisco, will be a centre of life and progress to that extensive and distant region of the national territory still, in great part, deprived of the influx and advantages of civilization, The alleviation of the National Guard irom the heavy burden it has, 80 long borne with distinguished civism, by meet- ing eisewhere the requirements of jocal police, will be @ provision conciliating the supreme interest of the public order with tue liberty of the citizen. The toral relorm proposes to ure the pri- mary condition of our form of government, the genuine sane of the popular vote, a goal of the most consitint efforts of a free people, whose chief power shfuld be derived trom public opiuion aud the authority of the law. Horn, August an’ most worthy represehtatives of the ation, tt is ever With entire trust in your enlight- ened patriotism and with the strongest faith in the grand tuvore of Brazil that I address you trom this Position, the duties of which I seek to discharge ‘Vith all that love [bear our country. DOM PEDRO IL, Constitutional Emperor and Detender of Brazil. CITIZEN OPINION. The Emperor's speech has been received with @atisfaction as indicating that the policy of the government is to continue in the direction of re- form and of material improvement, at least on a moderate and rather conservative scale. The re- form of the Fleetions bill is of this kind, as it pre- Berves indirect election in the case of the provin- cial and imperial Legislatures, but at the same time abolishes the existing power of the Executive to suspend or annul elections, this power being confined to the judiciary. The bill establishes the principle of minority representation, the vote of each voter or elector being limited to one name in each ticket, which usually consists of three names. This principle is extended to all the elections, from that of Justices and Electors (delegates) to Depu- ties and Senators, A discussion in the Senate occurred on the practice of not discharging soldiers at the expira- tion of their term of enlistment, which 1s usually for nine years, Some men have been kept twenty years; but the government defends the practice on the*plea that, even with impressment con- stantly going on, it is found impossible to raise the army to the 16,000 men—it at present numbering only 13,000—and that the immediate effect of keep: ing faith with the enlisted men would be to reduce it to 11,000. The Conscription bill is therefore urged, and will perhaps pass this session, along with the National Guard bill, which relieves the nationals from police duties, But work is done vers slowly bere, the budget baving still to ao NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 16. 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. through the Senate, although the year for which it provides wil) expire on the 30th of next month, YELLOW FEVER. Yellow fever still holds on, although slowly di- minishing, and the daily deaths from it range be- tween three and eight. But there are very few new cases, and the whole rate of the mortality of the city is considerably lessened, showing that its sanitary condition i# fast returning te an ordinary state, TRUST MANAGEMENT AND LAW, ‘The preliminary examination into the case of the Managing Director of the Brazilian Navigation Com- pany has been finished and the sentence of the ex- amining Judge is looked for this week. The Chief of Police has notified the United States Consul not to grant a passport to the ex-Manager, and has issued a circular to all thesteamship companies forbid- ding them to grant him passage. A judiciary ex- amination of the books has resulted in the discov- ery that 7,000 shares ($700,000) of an over issue were Secretly sold here through one agent while a premium of fifteen per cent existed, MILITARY NOTES. In military matters there may be some things which, as Dundreary says, nobody can understand, It is pretty certain that no one who ever knew anything about military life can possibly under- stand why it is that the Seventh regiment will not go into encampment this Summer, The regiment went last year, and what was the result? Every company came home with the conviction that it had been in a real campaign and haa done all that it could do to make military life, in the militia view of it, @ thing of absolute glory, if not a joy forever. From vhe Colonel, who was so strict that he would not allow even a newspaper correspond- ent to run the guard to benefit the telegraph companies, to the Quartermaster, who, all the encampment through, sustained his existence on gour-crout and honey, everything was discl- pline, The boys came home finally—well, let it be said, fatigued and worn out; but every man of them—and there is not a woman in the regi- ment, thanks to the discriminating influence of Colonel Ryder—who did not feel better all the sea- son alter because of his campaign hardships. And with all the experience of the past as an encour- agement for the future, it is given out now in good faith that the Gray Coats are not to go out into the green fields far away from all scenes of temptation this year, *It is true that one of the companies has just lost a dear and cherished leader, who was to all a brother and a friend, and that it cannot be- lieve that a command should go to camp for the Summer while the echoes of the dirge played over the freshly opened grave yet linger in the ears of all the men; but soldiers, we all know, must be soldiers, no matter how the skies may darken. He who has gone 1s fondly cherished in all hearts, but the Seventn regiment ought not for a single sorrow give up what is the duty of a thousand men. The militia look to it for example; the necessities of an encampment grow more and more urgent every year, and though the penurious policy of the State Legisla- ture be injurious, the grand old, independent, go- ahead regulations of the city’s pet regiment should be held to strictly, so that the sonar regiments, full of ambition as they one and all are, may not jJalter and tall by the wayside. The rifle range at Creedmoor is to be opened, the; say, on the 2istinst. It is devoutly to be hope tnat something of the opening kind will be done with Creedmoor, for we have been so often threat- ened with the grandest kind of Inanearasions thereabouts that it is almost time something was done. The Solons at Albany a year ago did mag- niticently by Creedmoor, but this year that $14,000 bill and its half dozen or so of staff oficer cre- atements did not take well, and so it wiil be an evidence of good for evil if Creedmoor very soon shows some signs of life. And when it is Pasian ada fixed institution, it is fur- ther to be hoped that it will be made really and truly an institution’to perfect our militia marks- men—that and nothing more. Creedmoor will be honored when the first fruits of its usefulness shall have been made apparent, and there is no doubt, judging from present indications, but that it will be to the militia what its original in England 1s to the volunteers of that tight little island. <Aiter the 2ist instant we will know what is what, and we hope that the friends of the National Guardsmen will find no occasion to indulge in “insubordina- tion.” But, at.all events, let Creedmoor be the tar- get of the sharpshooters of all the land and not the particular property of a few nobodies who may strive to load down its benefits with close corpora- tion ambitions, Speaking of Creedmoor, it may be as weil just here to make public the rules that now govern itso far as practitioners are concerned. ‘hey are as tollows:— 1. The range can only be used by members of the asso- ciation (except when otherwise directed), and all mem- bers are required to exhibit their tickets to the range keeper betore firing, except Where they are personaliy Known to him. 2, To avoid accident and insure the enforcement of the prescribed rules, each member visiting the range for practice is required to enter his name in the range book \d shoot at such target as shall be specified by the range eeper. 3. Members first arriving have the-right to choose the distance at which they shall fire, and:no squad shall fire in the rear of another, except at target at least two hundred tect to one side, nor, even in that case, it objec- tion is made by any member of the squad in tront or by the range keeper. 4. Members firing at each target will form themselves into squads as they arrive, each squad electing a captain, who Will keep the score and enforce the rules of thé range. All arriving subsequently will obey his orders. He will receive trom the range keeper the necessary flags, disks, £c, and be responsible for their safe return, unless he should leave betore the rest of the squad, in which cage the man last on the ground will be respon- le. 6. The danger flag must be hoisted on the flagstaff be- fore firing commences at any of the targets, and must not be lowered until it is conciuded. 6. All but the one fring shall be at least three yards rear of the distance mark, no one using a muzzl loader shall cap, or breech-loader shall loud, until he steps to the front to shoot. 7. The range keeper will have general supervision of the firing, and be reponsible for its being managed with order and saiety. In case of any violation of the associa- tion’s rules, or any conduct tending to injure the property of the association, cause any accident or create any dis- furbance, he will tat ouce require the oflender to desist from firing, and, if necessary, to quit the range, and will report all such offenders to the Executive Committee. } The range keeper iy prohibited from acting as marker. 9. The firing shall be in accordance with the rules of the association, 10. No hatr-triggers shall be allowed on the range. UL ‘The attention of those using the range is called to the following provisions ot chapter 699, Laws of 1572 (vol. 2, p. 1,657), tor, “the purpose of preserving the property of the State’ and of the National Rifle Association upon such Tange, and of preventiug accidents, the persons employed thereon by sald Rifle Association are hereby vested with the powers of constables when in the performance ot their duties, and wearing such badge of office as shall be prescribed by such association, and all persons tres- passing upon such range, or injuring any of the argeim or other property situate thereon. oF wilfully violating any of the regulations established to secure satety thereon, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- meanor.” Gitmore’s Band {s to arrive here next Wednes- day. The band, by the way, is to act as the musical cortége of the Charlestown cadets, Captain Pray commanding. The cadets in particular, and the ban‘ in general, are to be the guests of Companies B and D of the Twenty-second regiment. On the day of their arrival the Bostonians will have a grand banquet at the armory of the Twenty-second. On the 19th inst. the cadets will hie homeward, and Companies B and D will be their escort. The Hubites will have a good time, itis apparent, from the preparations that are being made, and if whey get home soul and boay together, sound and well, | they will indeed be iortunate. Companies B and D, it is said, had intended for the delectation, not to Say envy, of their guests, to get up to order somewhere about town “a big fire’ during the stay of the cadets that would outrival the bigger of the two Boston fires, However they were in- formed by Chief Matsell that, as that kind of an entertainment would necessitate the burning down of a shanty on the rocks in Fifty-ninth street solely, the idea was abandoned, . Mayor Powell is ina bad way. He wanted, they say, to witness the review of the Second division last week and could not. The reason why he could not was simply because he and a sandy- haired sergeant disagreed. The Mayor*elieved he had a right to go where he pleased; the Sergeant, under orders, did not construe the Mayor’s rights as the Mayor thought they should be construed, ‘The Mayor was right in his way and the Sergeant Was right in lis way; so it 18 deemed tmpossibie that @ duel will foliow the little unpleasantness. A veteran drum major has, we are glad to see, “got his back up” about his uniiorm. The veteran is right in his claim that adrum major can dress as fancifully as his regimento r superior oificers see fit that he shoald be dressed, His citations of proof from West Point and Fortress Monroe drum major- isms are well taken, The veteran apparently knows his business, and newspaper men ought to let him atone with his feathers and bearskin if they do uot hanker after a sudden death. A MODEST LUNATIO, A Jerseyman Who Belteves He Is Queen Victoria’s Husband. John Grogan is a Newarker of about twenty-six, the son of agrocer. He was well educated, and a year or two ago took a trip to England, While in London, it is reported, he one day created a genuine sensation by springing at Her Majesty's carriage while driving turough Hyde Park, with a@ view of saluting her royal lips. John was promptly seized by the guards in nt. tendance and locked in jail, but it was soon dis- covered that he was insane, He was forwarded to his friends in this country, and has lately been in the Essex County Lunatle Asylum. He escaped thence a few weeks ago and the police have been trying to find him, but without success. The oecape was kept @ secret by the authorities, lest the fact might perchance cause annoyance to Her Majesty of Great Britain, ART MATTERS, Mr. Frank Waller has made a much happier im- Pression upon the public than one 80 recently re- turned from studies abroad, and so utterly un- known here previously, would have been justified in expecting. In his “Tombs of the Calipha,” just completed and now visible at his studio, 806 Broadway, the peculiarity of the Egyp- tian climate is evident in the almost sunset effect worn by the early § after- noon. The tombs consist of @ number of well-enclosed buildings, among which the dome and the minaret are conspieuous, The same lime- stone of which the Pyramids are built is employed in these structures, The observer 1s supposed to be standing with his back to Cairo and looking out toward the desert. Mr. Waller has thoughtfully grouped all incidents which could deepen the idea of Joneliness and desertion without detracting from the bright picturesqueness of the view. We. see a handful of isolated, time-worn, uninhabited buildings on the edge of a vast desert; but we also perceive a group of travellers with their beasts of burden, and feel the unruffleable calm of the blue Egyptian heavens, The brightness and beauty of the silent sunlight tempers the dreary magnetism of the vast adjacent Sahara, stretch- ing out, remorseless and uniorgiving, a8 a hushed and wavelesa ocean. Much ughter in interest, 14 but grateful, as furnishing a touch of Egyptian life, is a little picture representing a water-carrier, bending beneath the burden of his just filled goat- skin, a8 he stands outside the garden gate on the banks of the Nile, A third picture, in an uncom- pleted state, contains the two figures of Memnon, on the plain before Thebes, The season indicated is that in which the Nile has retired, and @ sweet and tender vegetation has started, We believe that Mr, Waller intends to resume his observations abroad next Fall and during the ensuing Winter, and since his labors in this line promise to be of some in- kb and value, it is to be hoped that the rumor rue, Mr. J. B. Bristol, 806 Broadway, has just com- pleted a picture in waich much of the charac- ter of our Northeastern landscapes is visible. The subject, which was painted to order, is “Great Bar- rington, Mass,’ Mount Everett is seen in the background, and the canvas abounds with rocky yet wooded acclivities and valleys rich in vegeta- tion, With this locality Mr. Bristol is perfectly fa- miliar, and in picturing it he has made use of his enchanting faculty for expressing the joy and glor; of unobstructed sunlight falling upon a variegated landscape wealthy in promises of valuable har- vests. “Sabbath Morning in the Olden Times” is the latest theme that has received image from the hand of Mr. L, Smith, whose statue will be found in the Dodworth Building, at the southwest corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth street. The scene is an English private park in winter, witu a manor house in the background and @ line of peas- antry going to chapel. The peculiar merit is the truth with which the English winter, so much less severe than the American, is represented, the whole being in a warmer ey than Mr. Smith’s previous rendition of the snow season, The forme of the naked and frost-girt trees, yearning after the “green felicity” of Summer, are admirable. The picture is emi- Nently one of those which are talkative about themselves, It tells us the story of a white- bearded landscape, lying cold and quiet beneath a snowfall recently over, and of simpie and con- tented yeomen, full of homely reverence, in cor- respondence to a constitutional Tempest for their social betters and the established order of things. It is one of the most carefully finished of all Mr. Smith’s works, but the finish is not there for the sake of finish, but evidently asa labor of conscience and love and a help toward @ truthful relation of something that the artist had seen worth telling. Mr. R. E. Moore; at 31 Union square, has the be- ginnings of an American gallery, and we hape soon to see them expanded. Among the more attrac- tive works there are Bierstadt’s ‘‘Yosemité Val- ley,” with its wonderfully well portrayed scudding mist, veiling, as with a taint and fil uze, & background of strange, gigantic beauty. ere are also two bright little bits by William Hart, remark- able for preciousness of color and zeal of thought. Two fine compositions by Mr. Entee, one called “Falling Leaves’ and the other ‘The Last Flight of Birds in Autumr,” are full of that gentle and de- lightful melancholy which gives so refined a charm to many of this accomplished artist’s productions, A strong sketch of some hungry cows satisfying themselves is being made use of by Mr. James M. Hart ina larger picture. Another work, as yet in an unfinished stage, represents a froup of cattle nearing a shallow stream, which loses itself be- neath some overlacing boughs. Mr. Hart's studio is to be found in the Dodworth Building, Twenty-sixth atreet and Fifth avenue, A portrait of Colonel Josiah Porter, Chief of Ar- tillery of First division and Coionel of the Twenty- second regiment, has just been finished by Mr. A. Lawrie. The ar earnestness and courage expressed in Colonel Porter's features are of an unusual quality and degree, So much fire and force are not often found in unison with 80 much cool judgment and calculation. This combination of qualities is expressed by the countenance, taken in conne.- tion with the form of the head. The breadth be- tween the opening of the ear (concha) and the point midway between the eyebrows is immense, yet the height of the head from the ear up is greater than the average, and approaches that dome-like conformation of which Sir Walter Scott's brain is the most familiar example. M. Lawrie’s treatment is quite unconventional. He has neither attired his subject in a flaring suit, nor exhibited him maintaining a marble-like rigidity amid the din and danger of battle. He has merely shown him as he might appear ina private room aiter parade. The Sixth corps badge is on his breast; his right arm hangs easily; the left han rests on the hilt of his sword. We know not whether it is in contemplation of the omlcers of the Twenty-second regiment to purchase this fine portrait, but we can conceive of no Sage ee adorn- ment of the walls of their armory in West Four- teenth street. The portrait is now at Mr. Lawrie’s atelier in the Doaworth Building. dialf-a-dozen nearly finished works claim the at- tention of Mr. J. D. Smiilie, but his time is chieny given toa “View on Raquette Lake,” among the Adirondacks. Three bouts are in the foreground, and are, probably, to be filled with one of those jolly parties who make these pine-spiced woods thelr home during 4 month of Summer and bestow blessings on the Rev. W. H. H. Murray for instruct- ing them that it was not necessary to go to Minne- sota or Europe in order to ward off an Incipient consumption. fhe Dodworth Building 1s Mr. Smillie’s headquarters at present, “The Terrace of the Viila Melzi, Lake of Como,” forms the subject of a picture fhe completed by Mr. Wordsworth Thompson, at his studio in Asso- ciation Building. The work is about to be despatched to the owner in Baltimore. The theme admits of, or rather necessitates, a very effective grouping of trees, terraces, stairways, arches, Windows, latticework, screens, horses, pleasure- boats, peasants and gentlefolk. Mr. Thompson has been dramatic in his treatment of these, and has not unhappily stated the languid sensuousness of the ensemole, % A BRUTAL OUTRAGE. ws A Young Lady Hurried Into a Pauper’s Grave, When Her Friends Suppose Her Nearly Well. The poetic truth that “man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn’ was scarcely ever more terribly illustrated than in a case that has just come to the surface in Newark. On Thursday before last Miss Lena Gneiss, daughter of & well-to-do German, of Market street, was taken ill with smalipox. She was placed in the City Smallpox Hospital, a place whose disgraceful char- acter was some time ago exposed in the HgeRaLp, Mr. Gneiss gave strict orders that no expense should be spared in attend ing to his favorite daughter. He expected every day to be informed of her convylescence, as the Case was not considered a very bad one, and made inquiry, but received no satisfactory in- formation. Finally, on Friday \ast, he proceeded to the Pest House himself. ‘Ihe terrible shock he received can better be imagined than described, when it is stated that he was bluntly informed that not only had his daughter been dead nearly a week, but that she had immediately been consigned to @ pauper’s grave. Mr. Gneiss was well nigh broken-hearted, For a long time he was speechless, but finally gave vent to his feelings in bitter denunciations of the inhuman smalipox authorities, who had pegiected to inform him of his cbild’s decease, 80 that at least she might receive decent burial. Mr. Gneiss himself is responsible for the above alleged facts. Similar cases of shameless, inhuman «dis- regard of the dead or the living have come to the Knowledge of the HERALD representative, and in several instances have been narrated in these col- umns., Itis due to the public that the Newark Board of Health should institute a strict nvestiga- tion into the entire management of the pest house. THE HAMILTON FERRY DISASTER, The mangled body of Antonio Reyes, the Spanish youth of eighteen years, who was crushed to death last Sunday afternoon by the Hamilton ferryboat Baltic, was found near the ferry slip, at the foot of Whitehall street, yesterday, It will be remembered that the deceased, with five other young Spaniards, was passing the ferry slip ir a small sailboat. The Baltic approaching the slip, the Spaniards be- came pauic-stricken, and, losing control of their boat, she was struck and capsized by the Baitic, and five of the amateur hoat- men precipitated into the water, but were saved by the jerry employés and passengers. Young Reyes, however, seized the guaras of the Baltic, and while trying to climb on board he was horribly crusned between her guards and the timbers of the slip. His body fell into the river and could not be found until yesterday, when it rose to the suriace, Coroner Young, upon being notified of the recovery of the body, gave a permit for its removal to the residence Of the parents of the deceased, in Sixth avenue, An inquest will probably be heid to-mor- LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Junius is the name of a new London paper, which has many characteristics of the Tomahawk, Hacuetre & Co. announce 4 “Descriptive, His- torical and Archwological Guide to the Orient,” by Emile Isambert, THE FORENSIC SPEECHES of David Paul Brown, of old one of the leading lights of the Philadelpma Bar, have been edited by his son, Robert E. Brown, and will be published by subscription. In. 4 BOOK entitled “Adamantia,” just out in London, Captain Lindley has shown how the Brit- ish government has robbed the South African Re- public of Orange of its diamond flelds. This is one Of the Most atrocious land stéals of John Bull, who is always grabbing the richest patches of the earth’s surface for his own benefit, Mr. THomas Wriaurt, the London antiquary, has completed a second volume of vocabularies, illus- trating the manners of our forefathers, as well as ‘the history of the forms of elementary education and of the languages spoken in England from the tenth century to the fifteenth, Ouivz Logan's Summer romance will be issued by Adams, Victor & Co.,in July. “They Met by Chance” is its title, THE TWENTY-SIXTH VOLUME of the great ‘‘His- toire Littéraire de France,” just published by Ditot, is devoted to the fourteenth century, A NEW BOOK by Miss Harriet W. Preston, who writes as cleverly in her own language as trom others, promises to be of novel form as weil as of novel title, “The Nineteenth Century in Love.” The hero is a newspaper correspondent, the heroine @ cultivated New England girl. A LiFE of the late James Hannay, the versatile writer and critic, who died while Consul at Barce- lona, 18 to appear from the pen ot Mrs. Annie Thomas Cudlip, Tag Diaky aNd Letters of the musical com- poser Moscheles, with life by his widow, will ap- pear in London in two volumes, Dr. Howson. Dean of Chester, a rosy divine who is freshly remembered by many Americans, is writ- ing & series of articles for the Art Journal ou the River Dee, They are prettily illustrated, B. G. TEUBNER, Leipsic, announces a “Modern Literaturs of Poetry,’’ by Adolph Stern, to be pub- lished in two volumes. Mr. Herwortn Drxon will leave shortly for the United States to deliver a course of lectures upon the Spanish Republic and the new German Empire, ‘Tax Most Curious correspondence, perhaps, in which John Stuart Mill was ever engaged was a discussion which he carried on for some months in French (a language which he talked and wrote flu- ently and admirably) with Auguste Comte, respect- ing women. The exalted opinion which Mill held of the sex is well known, and Comte controverted it by maintaining that “the intelligence of women amounted at best to only a small instantaneous Sagacity.’ ‘ONE OF THE shrewd sayings of Lady Ashburton, recorded in Lord Houghton’s “Monographs, Social and Personal,’’ is this:— In one’s youth one doubts whether one has a body, and when one gets old whether one has a soul; but the body asserts itself’ so much the stronger of the two. THE AvTHOR of “Red as @ Rose is She,’? Miss Rhoda Bronghton, has a new novel in press at the Appletons—“Miss Nancy.” LEvy announces a new work by A. de Gasparin, under the title, ‘Luther et la Réforme au XVle Siecle,” and “Rome et le Vrai,’ by Felix Bunge- ner. NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. From D, Appleton & Co:—“The Coal Regions of America: Thdir Topography, Geology and Develop- ment.” By James Macfarlane, A. M. From Harper & Brothers:—‘“I Go A Fishing.” By W. C. Prime. From G. P. 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By a prominent London jour- nalist. ‘What Will the World Say?’ A novel of every-day life. ‘“Onlya Woman.” Both by Ojos Morenos. “Must It Be?” Aromance, Translated from the German of Carl Ditlef. From James R. Osgood & Co., Boston: Maxwell,” By Lady Blake. “Ruth EXPERIENCE OF A FENIAN CONVICT. ae leerce err aan Singular Case Before the Court of Qucen’s Bench—Pricked with Needles and Tortured with Galvanic Batteries— Prison Life in England—Was, or Was It Not, a Case of Cruelty? At the Ball Court, in London, before Mr. Justice Blackburn, Mr. Justice Quain and Mr. Justice Archibald, the Attorney General and Mr. Bowen appeared to show cause why a criminal informa+ tion should not be filed against John Henry Parker Wilson, who is the medical officer of the convict prison at Woking, and late assistant-surgeon at the convict prison, Milbank, and against Dr. John Burns, of the Chatham Convict Prison, for having cruelly ill-treated a Fenian prisoner named Daniel Reading. Reading’s aMdavit, which was read by Mr. Bown, stated that he was, in November, 1867, con- victed at Manchester and sentenced to five years’ penal servitude, In November, 1867, he was con- veyed to Milbank Prison, where he remained until the 16th of July, 1868, when he was removed to Chatham, where he remained until March, 1872. ln that month he was brought again to Milbank, and remained untii the Sth of October, 1872, when he was discharged. During the first part of his confinement at Milbank he was placed under pun- ishment and kept upon bread and water. On be- ing broug?t back irom Chatham to Milbank he was placed in the solitary cell in the infirmary. On the following morning the medica) officer of the prison, accompanied by Mr. Wilson, went to see him, and commenced pricking his feet with needles. They continued to do so for about an hour, when Mr. Wilson caught hold of his foot and pulled him out of bed. He was then dragged into the surgery, where a galvanic battery was applied to different parts of the body, causing intense pain. Ropes were then tied round his legs and pulled alternately, making his legs move in imitation of walking. On the next day the treatment was re- peated, when the pain was so:great that he screamed out. A towel was thereupon rammed into his mouth, and he was then lifted up by two powerful men and let drop upon the bed, He was aiterwards placed in a cold bath, and his head held under water by the warder’s feet until he be- caine insensibie. When he recovered he found himself lying upon the floor. He was aiterwards dragged out by two men, when Mr. Wilson struck him in the stomach until he vomited, wheu he told the warders to wipe up the discharge with the prisoner's face, In August he was re- moved to the solitary cell, and kept there until September 8 without a bed. He complained of this treatment to the doctor, who ordered his removal to other quarters. His limbs were paralyzed, and he Was unable to walk without assistance, and, therefore, coula not comply with the order, The aMidavits of the medical officers denied these cruelties, and, with the exception of Dr. Steele, they were of the opinion that the prisoner had feigned paralysis, Br. Steele thought there were symptoms Of palalysis in the lower limps, The other officers swore that the prisoner was treated with kindness and courtesy, The Attorney Gen- eral appeared inthe case and said it was credit- able that Dr. steele and Dr, Burns should differ as to the medical merits of the case, but he main- woe that malingering was common with con- cts. Mr. Matthews, for the relator, contended that Dr. O'Leary’s amMidavit on bebaif of tne prisoner was sustained by the evidence of Dr, Steele, and that many charges put forward by the prisoner were uncontradicted, Mr. Russell thonght the case of suMcient impor- tance to go before a jury. Justice Blackburn discharged the motion, which degision was concurred in by Mr. Jastice Quain and Mr. Justice Archibald. The ground ot the decision Was that there was no foundation for the state- ments as contained in the afMdavit of the relator, us compared With the evidence of the prison MUNICIPAL MATTERS, All Quiet Yesterday—Queer Rumors Con- cerning the Aldermanic Ring—The City Record Contract Awarded—What Does It Mean? Another very dull day closed over the City Hall yesterday,and ofice-holders and office-seekers were alike few and far between, or, rather, they were not doing much and talked very little, Nothing whatever was developed in the way of new rumors of new combinations or fresh departures of old ones, The Aldermen stick like men to their posi- tions and the Mayor sticks like two or three men to his, The reported combination to retain Jus- tices Ledwith, Hogan and Bixby on the police bench, alluded to in yesterday’s HERALD, obtained further confirmation by* publicity even among persons who bad not read the newspaper version of it, and itis said that the plan is this:—Alderman Monheimer, the Apollo Hall representative, wants to have Justice Bixby hold over, and Aldermen Flanagan, Lysaght, McCatierty, Reilly and Van Schaick support Justices Ledwith and Hogan. It is asserted that the only desire of the combmation is to have the Mayor put his toot down and keep it down, by refusing to send in any more nomina- tions. Meantime the combination, which has drawn one or two innocent neutrals into its folds and one or two mefnbers who themselves have can- didates whom they desire to have confirmed, will do all tn its power to KEEP THE RING INTACT, and to prevent a repeal of the resolution adopted on Thursday. In this way the present incunibents will hold over indefinitely, The combination, how- ever, is a very Ut ain one, being mace up of the most incongruous elements in the Board and is liable to weaken and fall to pieces any da, Alder- men Koch and Kehr are looked upon 4s. ng fair neutrals, having no particular axe to grind and de- siring to serve their constituents well, and as it is pretty well known that they have no candidates, though undoubtedly ONE OR TWO GERMANS will be nominated, they are not bound by any par- ticular object to’ help out other men in’ their fights, Alderman Van Schaick has not been pri ent at any of the rece et and is looked upon as being in ¢' pendent to be bound long to any se of ace tion, Alderman billings is a bred-in-the-bone re- publican, and has been proud to be looked upon as a reformer, and there do not appear on the § @iy very strong reasons to hold him to a that will, while it lasts, only tend to the bene incumbent democratic’ police justices, ‘there are others who could be readily alluded to, but the four above named are suMcient with the exisung mi- lessi's. Morr: Jurendorier aud Falconer—to upset th 7 reject whomever they pleas it stands, In a lengthy conversation with a Heranp re- fer yesterday Alderman McUatierty eld that his point, taken on Thursday, that the entire work of nominating and contirming all the appointments made under the charter was tilegal and wouid have to be done over again. Certainly he very high legal authority for his position, though the reporter is not at present at liberty to use the name given by the Alderman, His additiona! point, that the establishment of the City Record is illegalon the ground that the advertisements lor proposals for printing the oficial journal were NOP PRINTED AS REQUIRED BY THE CHART in “the five daily papers printed in New Yo naving the largest circuiation’ therein, certainly seems to be very well taken, for it is a fact that one paper omitted has a lary circulation than at least two or three of those seiected, The award for publishing the Gity Record was made yesterday in favor of P. W. Rhodes, the low- est bidder, and his boudsmen were accepted by the Commission, with the understanding that they shall be finally approved by the Comptroller. ‘They justify in $5,000 each. Rhodes’ tender was as {ol- lows:—Coinposition, per 1,000 ems, 50 cents; stanc ing matter, per 1,000 and double column work, per alterations, per hour, 40'cen's; presswork, per “token” of 250 copies, 50 cents;’ paper, per Team of 500 sheets, 75 pounds to the ream, $13 50, Everything in this bid 1s lower than is understood to be the fair rates, but the composition and press- work are fearfully BELOW ORDINARY RATES. Indeed, the composition is at a rate that 1s spurned by all the printers known as “Union men,” and particularly when it 18 considered that near all the Record work will be night work, The stand- ing matter is accepted at a half rate price, and universally say there is “a Woolly head in e” somewhere, And that Is just how QUARANTINE MATTERS. What the Health Officials Say About the Approach of Cholera—Their Readi-+ ness for Any Emergency. While there are many and continued rumors of dread King Cholera visiting cities in the Southern States not more than three or four days’ journey from New York, it behooves the Health oMicials among us to be on the alert, lest the disease should steal a march upon the crowded metropolis and assume the form of an epidemic. That such caution and watchfulness as the case demands is exercised at the entrance of our port, where infectious diseases are supposed first to demand entrance among us, a visit to Quarantive will fully satisfy the most exacting inquirer, The authorities hold that they are ever on the look out for cholera and kindred diseases, but they do not anticipate that the former will reach the port at this time, yet it may, as any single passenger from a village in Europe or cise- where infected with the disease might take passage on board a crowded ship, and alter departure con- taminate the majority of his or her fellow passen- gers. This risk has been deemed one of danger for years, and now is held as such by the medical gentiemen there in charge, but not mure so than during many seasons past. Regarding the existence of choiera at New Or- leans and other Southern ports having commerce with New York, the officials say, that while that disease may exist in that section, it is not fully de- cided that itis such, or the medical men there- abouts would not differ so widely regarding it, aiter it being among them a week or more, as cholera is @ disease that makes its mark in such & manner there can be no mistakingit. Another tm- ore matter is that there has Leen no published istory of ite approach and appearance in the Southern cities named, and tus fs singular, as cholera 1s not indigenous, while cholera morbus is, Yet the continued reports from that section have created a cause for additional watchfuiness, tf such @ thing is possible, and this is daily exercised. In the matter of this or other infectious diseases existing in European ports dealing with New York, Teports up to this time assure the health oMicers there are none, but in the inland towns and vil- lages where many emigrants come from, there 18 the same amount of such diseases as have been no- ticed during the past three years, But the oilicials controlling the steamships plying to our shores are exceedingly careful tat no sick person shall take assage in them, No longer is it a matter of indil- ference to care for the sanitary condition of the hundreds upon a vessel, but, while guarding against the presence of any disease by examina- tion before departing, ft is the study of all the ott- cers to maintain the cleanliness of the steerage, in order that they may successfully undergo the sant- tary examination to whicn they are here subjected, But should the choiera visit this port in more than isolated cases, which 18 highly timnprobabie, this season, the Quarantine authorities are fully prepared for it. The West Bank hospitals are in thorough condition for the reception of patients, and, besides, the Illinois and Delaware, moored in the lower bay, are ready for the same service, and in case of an emergency, even at this time, the buildings on Hottman Island, though not fully in order, might be called into requisition. All ves- sels—and this i$ @ usual precautionary measure of the Health oMcers from the 15th of May each Seton a ports in the West Indies, bermuda, lexico, the Spanish Main, the Kast Coast of South America and the West Coast of Afric: well as from ports where cholera and yellow 4 prevatied at the time o{ departure, or upon which cases of such disease occurred during the passage, are boarded from the liimois, in the lower bay, and this Wise provision is carefully carried out. In addition to the above general information the Quarantine oficiais report that, up to this time, all the passengers and crews of the vessels arriv- ing from New Orleats have been found pertectly healthy, and that the yellow fever, 80 bad of late in Rio Janeiro, is greatly abating, So far this season the health oMcials may fellcl- tate themselves upou tie escape of the city from infectious diseases brought in by sea, There have been but four cases of yellow fever reported, and these were nearly convalescent when they arrived, Nevertheleless, to prevent infection they were sent to the West Bank Hospital, and two of them have since been discharge¢ The only vesseis now in port undergoing surveillance are the steam- ship City of Havana and the bark Jonathan Case, irom Havana. They hi rases on board, but are detatned in the upper Quarantiae to diseharge cargo, Affairs at the Quarantine are very dull at present, but tne vigilance exercised over up- bound vessels is not in the* least reiaxed, and the Heaith O:icer and bis assistants are con- stantly on picket, as it were, looking out for the enemy that does not show itself, The Health Om- cer has Intelligence thatthe fever has abated so mucli at Rio Janeiro that the Spanish Quarantine authorities have greatly relaxed their campaign against vessels from that and contiguous ports. He has received {nformation that the yellow fever is epidemic at Pernambuco, and hereafter all ves- sels irom that port Will be compelled to discharge cargo below the city. At present the Quaranune omictals seem to entertain no serious fears of the \mportation of sompasioms disease; but if it come they icel sanguine of their abiiity to successtully aye with it and confine its career to the lower 80 complete are their arrangements to meet emergency that may arise, a RR 49 DISCONTENTED DEMOCRATS). SD ee of What is Thought by City Politicians off the Recent Meeting of the Apollo Hall Democracy. MAYOR HAVEMEYER’S OPINIONS, Wheat Leading Aldermen Think About Apoll@ Hall—Will Tammany Admit the Apollo Hall Organization!— The meeting of the Apollo Hall democracy, hea At Robinson Hall, on Friday evening, was the ube ject of conversation among the politicians yesters! day, A reporter of the HBRALD sought to gather up this conversation so as to present it in @ con» crete form, in the shape of representative opinion, For this purpose he sought interviews with several representative men, with the following result :— WHAT THE MAYOR SAYS. “Mr, Mayor,’ said the reporter, “may I ask What your judgment is of the meeting of the Apollo Hall democracy last evening?” “I have not read the reports in the morning papers. I certainly glanced a report over; but I did not see enough of it to form much of a judge ment about it, or tosee what it is they wanted,’ answered the Mayor, “What appears to be wanted by the Apollo Hall people, according to the speech of Mr. W. Oy Barrett, is to unite with Yammany Hall, and, ace cording to the resolutions stibmitted by Mr, Courte hey, there 18 a crusigle against ‘the dead and buried carcass of Know-Nothingism,’ which 18 said to have been brought again to the front, and which crusade the Apollo Hall democracy pled themselves to support. The main point of the resolutions is the manifestation of a desire for the union of the democratic party, What is your opinion of all this as a democrat, Mr, Mayor?? “Ldon’t think the democratic party has much to do with it, or that those who provoked this meet ing had its interests very much at heart. The Apollo Hall organization was started because those Whostarted it thought they did not get spoils enowgh, from Tammany when Tammany was in power. They now find they don't get very many spoils, and they think their chances will be improved by going to Tammany. I think that is about the amount of political intevest there is in this moves ment.” “Do you think Tammany will admit them, Mr. Mayor, after this appeal ?”? “f really cannot say what Tammany might be disposed to do. It is, at least, very doubtful whether the remnant of an organization driven to desperate chances is of much value to anybody. It ig @ remnant that is very much like vultures gathering around @ carcass that they are about to settle upon.” “What do you think of the ‘Know Nothingism of the resolutions ¢”? Mr, Mayor. “I don't know what it means, Iam quite sure I have given no indications of ‘Know Nothingism.’ I don’t care what o man is—whether he is a Ger® man, an Irishman, an American, a Protestant OF @ Catholic, All I care about is, can he do the work he {3 intended for? If he can, he suits me, no matter where he comes from, 1 don’t wonder that some of the Irish feel uneasy at the present outlook of things. They have been accustomed to fill nearly all the oitices in the city, to draw large pay and do very little work. Now they are asked to do more work and have less pay and they don’t like it ‘They cannot grumbie about ‘Know-Nothingism.? ‘They nearly filall the public oMces, As to the Germans, tueir claims are recognized, but they don’t apply for political position in such numbers as the Irish. Generally the Germans have somee thing better to do than fl political oMces, They have been taught trades and are in business, and, taking in consideration their number in this eity, may be said to be but poorly represented as offices seekers, So thatI don’t think that this cry of ‘Know-Nothingism’ will do Apollo Hall much go@d.’? A gentleman, who was listening to this inter- view, sald that he thought that it showed the folly and the absence of goud generalship in the leaders of Apolio Hall to raise this question. Taking down the Compendium of the Ninth Census, he said, fee | don’t know whether you have ever looked in ahis census to see What the character of the population of New Yorkis. I will figure it out for you, ad given in this oficial return, This is it:— 'he Germans in the city number. at Britain and Ireland. Native born i ‘ i : “Now, that is an oMeil return, accepted by all men. Now, if Apollo tiall want to fight it ou} on that line of ‘Know-Nothingism,’ let them be pre pared, to tuke the consequences of their determina tion, MORRIS SAYS. , “Alderman,” said the reporter us he met him in City Hail Park, “what do you think of tne Apolio Hail meeting last night’ uncombe, sir; ail buucombe; every bit of 1t.? he ‘Know Nothingisu’ included, too, | supe Yhat is the worst part of tt. Why, that of self is enougu to kill the organization, They don't know what they are doing, sir, They have gob desperate and are catching at straws, “Do you think Tammany will take them in, Alderman?” “I don’t see why Tammany should. What use are they to anybody? Who are they? A fag end of adetunet organization, That is’ about what tue present Apolio Hall democracy is,’” The Alderman Was here buttonholed by an unfor- tunate ofice-seeker, who wanted the exercise im his behalf of the Alderman’s interest with the Mayor, The reporter tuok pity upon the much+ talked-to City Father and bid him ‘good day.” WHAT ALDERMAN M’CAFFERTY SAYS. Alderman McCatferty was found by the reporter in the Clerk’s office of the Board of Aldermen. “Alderman,” said the reporter, “as 2 good Tames many man, what do you tink of that meeting last night of the Apollo Hall democracy?” “Well, I think, Barrett said in his speech last night, that t emocracy should unite their forces, and Apollo Halt proposes this by way of union. [think it all rigut, aud it should be sup. ported.” “Do you think Tammany will receive them ?? Weil, a8 @ Tammany Hall man L don’t sce th: ough: to give an opinion, [don’t see any reason why they should not be received, Lam free to si that. This ‘Know Nothingism,’ which is antl- American and anti-democratic, opposed to ail-prins cipies of liberty, must be stopped, It ean only be stopt by a united democ ” “But is there any of this spirit of ‘Know Nothings ism’ manilested in the disposal of patronage 1” “Certainly there is. ‘Ih ish have a goo rece ord. The thest m nt im the world is au Irisite man, Mr. A. I, Stewart. ‘They occupy distinguished places at the bar, on the bench and in every walk of file, both public and private, and why should they not have their recognition? Why should their claims be ignored ? “Bat are their claims ignored?” “Has not the Mayor ignored them, virtually?—s® he has. In the commissions there ts one German— Mr, bissingers—and he holding @ commission with+ WHAT ALDERMAN out salary. They say Dr. Hail is an irishman, But if he is not, there is not one Irishman on thé come missions. Political places are filled from the voun- cil of political reiorm, an organization that Ys In- tensely American. [lave no objection to Amert+ cans, but I do object, a8 a democrat, to tis deters mination to give nobody else any show but an American.” “Lam told on very good authority that this pref erence of Americans ts a detusion.”’ “LT have been told 80 by the very same authority, Thave no donvt, who has told you, but I don't be- lieve it for all that, Facts are against it, and [can snow it and I have shown it, You will see yet that that point about the charter which I have taken | agood one. I have the opinion of eminent laws yers tuat none of these Commissioners are legally appointed, “L thought that question was disposed of long ago, and that it was jound by the Corporation Couns sel that there was nothing in it.” “When the legality of the standing of the prese ent hoiders of the Commission 1s tested itwill ha seen who is right. The fuct is, sir, that the best en for giving this city a good government that has ever occurred for a quarter of & centur, has been lost—and I deeply regret it—by the greed Of councils of political reforu What is the conse- quence ? There is not one Commission epreing harmoniusly to-day, nor one department wit! another, All this 18 the effect of the Mayor's ap- pointments, to a large extent.’”? “Returning to"Apollo Hall, what do you reall suppose {will be done, practically, with that organ! zavion 9 “I think they will unite with Tammany, and this city, which is certainly democratic, wil goso iy November, without doubt.’ The interview closed here, but during the day the reporter continued to gather opinions together, and he found that there were many who thqught as Alderman McCafferty did. A FLOUR MILL BURNED, MILWAUKEE, June 14, 1873, A fire at Sanck Centre, Minn, on Thursday, burned Alexander Moore's flouring mill, Loag $12,000,