The New York Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1873, Page 6

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THE KING CANNOT VISIT US, BUT THE CROWN PRINUE WILL! GRANT INVITED TO SWEDEN! PERSONAL GLIMPSES OF SOVEREIGN AND PEOPLE— THIRD AND FOURTH PaGEs. MORE LIGHT ON THE FATEFUL, POLARIS EX- PEDITI N! THE BURNING UF CAPTAIN HALL'S JOURNAL AND HIS SINGULAR DEATH! REPREHENSIBLE REMARKS OF BUDDINGTON! THE “BAD STUFF” IN HALL'S COFFEE! FULL EVIDENCE OF TYSON AND THE ESQUIMAUX—Firra PaGs. THE CHOLERA IN AMERICA! SEVENTY-THREE DEATHS YESTERDAY IN MEMPHIS! THE SCOURGE IN PADUCAH AND MEMPHIS! UNFAVORABLE WEATHER AND GENERAL ALARM—SEVENTH Page. THE CHOLERA IN EUROPE! DEATHS FROM THE DREAD EPIDEMIC REPORTED FROM DANTZIC—SEVENTH PAGE. EPIDEMIC PRECAUTION! INVESTIGATIONS OF THE SANITARY AUTHORITIES! FILTHY STREETS, CELLARS AND SLAUGHTER- HOUSES—IMPROPER SWEEPING OF THE NEW POLICE BROUM—WHERE METRO- POLITANS GO TO KEEP COOL—EiGurH Pace. AN UNSATISFACTORY LESSON TO MURDERERS! ANOTHER SANCTIFIED MANSLAYER HUR- RIED TO THE “HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS!” DELAWARE JUSTICE FOR A NEGRO—EieurH Pace. 4 GLOOMY BRITISH VIEW OF REFORM IN NEW YORK CITY! A GRADUAL CESSATION OF EFFORTS TO ABOLISH CORRUPT RINGS PREDICTED BY “THE THUNDERER'— SEVENTH PAGE. SIX HUNDRED AND FOUR MILES OF THE NEW ATLANTIC CABLE SSSFULLY LAID— IMPORTANT G WS—SEVENTH Page. ANOTHER MINISTERIAL DIFFICULTY IN SPAIN! THE CARLISTS SUFFER A HEAVY DE- FEAT IN LERIDA—SBVENTH Pace. LONDON'S GRAND BALL TO NASSR-ED-DIN! THE LORD MAYOR PRESENTS AN ADDRESS: IN A GOLDEN CASKET! A GORGEOUS SCENE! THREE THOUSAND NOTABLES PRESENT—SEVENTH Pace. RBESISTLESS ONSET OF THE FIRE KING! POTTS- VILLE CITY, PA., THREATENED WITH AN- NIHILATION! RAVAGES IN THE NORTH, EAST, WEST AND SOUTH—PITTSBURG KRACES—SeventTH Pace. MORE BEASTIALITY IN THE QUAKER CITY! TWO LITTLE GIRLS MADE THE VICTIMS OF LUST AND LOCKED UP TO DIE INA CLOSET—SEVENTH Page. NATIONAL CAPITAL ITEMS—THE NEW EXCISE BOARD PROPOSE AN ONSLAUGHT UPON THE RUMSELLERS AND THE ENFORCING OF THE SUNDAY LAW—TeEnrH PaGe. THE CONNECTICUT OLYMPIA! THE AMHERST AND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE CREWS HARDENING THEIR MUSCLE FOR THE GRAND AQUATIC STRUGGLE UNDER JOHN BIGLIN AND ELLIS WARD—Fovurti Pace. THE SCHOONER SCRUB-RACE OF THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB—DANGERS OF MERCY TO MURDERERS—CITY HALL ITEMS— Fourra Pac tWO EXCELLENT TROTTING CONTESTS AT FLEETWOOD! NCE AND BRUNO THE VICTORS EK JEROME PARK SPRING FINALE—Firra Pace. FALSE ECONOMY IN FIRE ALARMS! DEPLET- ING FIRE COMPANIES AND INCREASING THE EXPENS£S! UTILIZING ELEC- TRICITY—EtcuTH Pace. EVENTS AND BUSINESS IN THE HOME AND FOREIGN MARKETS—A VIVELY DAY IN REaL ESTATE—NinTS Pace. CIES! THE SHARKEY TRIAL—ART JoT- TINGS—THE “MUTES” AGAIN DEFEATED— ELSVENTH Pace. ‘Tar Granp Batt 10 Tue Suan 1x Lonvon, last night, at Guildhall, as will be seen from our cable despatches, was right royal and tt affair, John Bull is evidently resolved to prove to the ‘‘King of Kings’’ that England is the true friend of Persia, whatever gay be the professions of Russia King Oscar ef Sweden amd the Herald—The Independent Press a8 the Mouthpiece of the Throme. ‘The journalist is the knight errant of modern civilization, going wherever duty or danger calls. One of the Henanp’s knights has been to Sweden, where he stood with the ambassa- dors of the other Powers, supped with the royal family and had a long audience with the King. All that he saw and much of what was said he has written out in clear, trans- parent English, and we print it to-day in “brev., double lead’’—a higher distinction for the journalist than a patent of nobility. That is » quaint idea where our correspond- ent pictures himself as the representative of a great newspaper, standing an ambassador among the ambassadors at the Oourt of Sweden. If it'werea mero fancy we might smile at its felicity and forget it. But it is something more than the imagery of a skilled writer; it is part of the new philosophy of modern life. The quaintness of tho thought and its felicity of expression both lose them- selves in the background of the picture, wherein is revealed a new allegory for nations, the power of the press hanging like a cloud over royal banners and kingly thrones and imperial crowns. Well might our correspond- ent, invited to the royal ball of King Oscar IL, pass far up in the royal palace at Stock- holm, through the long gallery where officers of the army, members of the Diet and com- moner people were crowded together, through the smaller apartment, where the select nobility were assembled, to the Supreme Chamber where the ambassadors to the Court were waiting for the King. ‘There we stood,” he says, “Metternich, Blumenthal, Men¢brea and all the rest of us.’’ Standing there he was, in- deed, an ambassador like the others—an ambassador whom emperors and kings and presidents could not fail to welcome, for he represented a power greater even than that which names and receives ambassadors—the power which speaks for the people and makes and unmakes empires and kingdoms and re- publics, It is seldom that a newspaper publishes a more striking or interesting letter than the story of our Stockholm correspondent in to- day's Henatp. It comes out of the long Winter of commonplace like a Swedish Sum- mer sun. If it touches all the springs of hu- man curiosity it also gratifies the imagination with pictures that are like fairy etchings. The Swedish lords and ladies swarm around us as we read, for we have found a country where rank goes begging and where the department clerk walks before his chief in the processions of the King. As the Swedish Winter stares at us out of the darkness we get a new ideal of homelike comforts and household garniture. Wherever we turn we see the country of Gus- tavus Adolphus, but it is the country of the fierce old viking refined by modern thought and ruled by a new dynasty firmly seated on the ancient throne. Oscar IL, the grandson of Bernadotte, and on his mother’s side the grandson also of Prince Eugene, the son of Josephine, is all that now remains of royal testimony to Napoleonic power. Fortunately for the Swedes, whose King he is, he seems a glorious monarch for a happy and contented people. Our correspondent draws his portrait with a tender touch ; buta king so quick to recognize the quality of his ambassadors, so ready to welcome the ambassador of a great newspaper, so free to talk and so wise of speech, evidently deserves to be sketched for the world’s sight by a kind, an appreciative and a skilful hand, Oscar II., King of Sweden and Norway, isa remarkable man. Suilor, soldier, historian, musician, poet, prince and king—he is more than these; for he is a wise father and an earnest and indulgent ruler. He speaks of his son, the heir to his throne, as a proud parent, but not asatypical ruler. ‘He isa bright boy,’’ said the King to our correspond- ent, ‘“‘and I hope you liked him.” Of Napo- leon III. he spoke with kindness and fervor, but not with rashness or hyperbole. Upon Euro- pean affairs generally he talks like an intelli- gent gentleman, a well-informed minister and agreat king. But itis in regard to American matters, as a rule so thoroughly misappre- hended at Continental courts, that he shows the extent and variety of his knowledge. ‘I would desire to see California,’ he said, if he visited America. ‘And most of my good fellow countrymen are in the far West—in Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, if I remember the names. I could not go without seeing them and spending some time with them.” There is an exactness of knowledge in this that some European geographers might envy, and certain English, French and German writers for the press would find the King’s information worth acquiring before speaking or attempting to speak of America. In regard to Indian affairs the King's knowledge is sur- prising, and it is even more surprising that he only regrets that the extermination of the savages is apparently necessary and inevitable. “I have hoped all along,” he said, ‘that General Grant would succeed in inducing the Indian tribes to adopt an agricultural, civil- ized life. That would be a noble solution of the whole question, and one the world would welcome; but it seems the only consequences of civilization to your Indians have been the painful consequences—disease and intemper- ance and idleness.” For Mr. Du Chaillu the King had a word of inquiry, for Admiral Farragut a word of kindness and appreciation and for General Canby an expression of sorrow and regret. The King promises to send his son and probable successor to America when the youth’s educa- tion shall be sufficiently advanced to permit his coming, as the Prince of Wales came some years ago, and to General Grant he ex- tends an informal invitation to visit Sweden, where he assures the American leader, Presi- dent or ex-President, a most hearty welcome as ‘‘a man of great renown.” All these things go to make a most interest- ing letter. The world had come to look upon kings as men without thought and without in- tellect, as mere figurcheads for ships of State. | ki themsel and OVTERESTING LEGAL NEWS! LOTTERY pour. | It Was the fault of the kings bh not of the world, that the occupants of thrones should thus be undervalued as men. Royalty shut iteelf away from the press, and did not try to reach the ears and hearts of the people through the new power they could not fail to know was stronger than their thrones. To frivolous tale-bearers like Stockman and other feeble court chroniclers the world looked for its court news and got only vicious versions of old scandals twenty or thirty years after they ougbt to have poen fercotten. looked upon roya: personages as intellectual pigmies; but at last wise sover- eigns are able to lift the veil end invite the press to the palace of the King. As our repre- sentative, surrounded by the other ambassa- dors, stood in the Supreme Chamber of King Oscar the King took him by the hand and said he would be glad to see him before he left Sweden. When the newspaper ambassa- dor called to have farewell audience of the King he was warmly received, the King saying he felt honored in welcoming to the capital of his kingdom the representative of a journal so well known to him as the New Yoru Hezanp. And then followed the brave words from which we have quoted, and which fill such prominent space in this day's issue of the paper. fe The interview with the King of Sweden and Norway is another triumph for the enterprise of the Hzratp ; but it has greater significance than the victory for this journal. It opens the way not only for the independent press to reach the audience chambers of emperors and kings, but for emperors and kings to reach the people through independent journals like the H»raup; for even kings must depend upon the newspapers for much of their know!l- edge of what is going on in the world. King Oscar has even the catchword of newspaper readers, and he can say, ‘I see by the papers,"’ &c., as well as Mr. Sardou's typical American, who is never without his blanket sheet. Every day the great mission of inde- pendent journalism is being broadened and widened and deepened, and the Hxraup leads the way. Kings and people are thus brought into closer contact, and the voice of the multi- tude not only goes up to the throne, but the royal answer comes back interpreted through the same channel. On féte days the repre- sentatives of great journals stand up with the highest. The King says to the journalist, “Come and see me,”’ and when the two meet there is much earnest and kindly conversation spoken, to be heard not only in the closet where it is uttered, but-in every corner of tho earth. The French Assembly and the Prose- cution of Deputy Ranc. The debate in the French Assembly on the case of Deputy Rane and the subsequent votes revealed a painful and somewhat suspicious amount of strength on the part of the anti- republicans. M. Ranc’s offence has not been great. He simply used strong language against the present government and regarding the means by which the present government came into power. He did so ina public journal, making reasonably fair use of the liberty of the press, It would not have been difficult to prosecute M. Ranc according to the laws which regulate the press in France. But M. Ranc is a member of the Assembly, and rep- resents a powerful constituency. As @ mem- ber of the Assembly the Lyons Deputy had certain rights which he claims not to have exceeded. It was claimed by one member of the Left that M. Rane should not be given over for prosecution until the charges against him had been properly inquired into, and a resolution was offered accordingly. The reso- lution was lost by a vote of 450 against 200. A subsequent vote was taken, when 485 against 137 declared that the offending Deputy be handed over to General Ladmirault, the Mili- tary Governor of Paris, for immediate trial. Evidently MacMahon is strong in the Assem- bly. Whether he is equally strong in the country remains to be seen. It would not be wonderful if the prosecution of the Deputy from Lyons should prove to be a government mistake. Time will soon tell. Tse Inpustriat Exurition Brut. has been signed by Governor Dix, and it seems to be well guarded to prevent fraud upon the city taxpayers. At first, before amended, it had the appearance of being a job by which the money of the city was to be used chiefly for the benefit of a stock company or to help a stock operation. Now it appears the one mil- lion seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which the Mayor and Common Council are. authorized to loan the company, is to be loaned only upon a first mortgage when the land is purchased and clear of all encum- brance, and that an additional sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars may be loaned on the building as soon as it shall be erected, with another like mortgage on that. The ground and building will certainly be worth much more than two anda half mil- lions, and so the city will be properly pro- tected, provided the deeds be all right and the structure be sach an one as is contemplated and ought to be put up. But there are so many ways in which shrewd speculators can overreach or corrupt officials and fleece the taxpayers that the greatest caution will be needed even with so plain a law to act upon. Porrtics in THE East.—The nomination of Nelson Dingley, Jr., as the republican candi- date for Governor of Maine, and the appoint- ment of George P. Sanger as United States District Attorney for Massachusetts, settle two things, to wit:—That Speaker Blaine’s influ- ence in the republican party in Maine is supreme, for the nominee is familiarly known as ‘‘Blaine’s man,’”’ and that the power of General Butler among the republicans in Massachusetts preponderates over all oppo- sition, for Mr. Sanger was Butler's candidate against the combined forces of the anti- Butlerites. This would seem to secure Butler's nomination as the republican candidate for Governor, in which event his election, like that of Mr. Dingley in Maine, may be considered a foregone conclusion, for in both States the republicans have overwhelming majorities. Tux License Law m Conyecricut.—It ap- pears that in Connecticut the new License law, as a change from the old prohibitory Liquor law, works very well. No more liquor is sold or given to thirsty souls than was made away with under prohibition, and from the change in the general law the towns, lumping their savings, gain some $200,000. We have always thought that prohibition in Connecticut was a wooden nutmeg. Brooxtyy Wi, Be Gertine a Bap Name in regard to the cheapness of human life within her jurisdiction if the finding therein of the dead bodies of men, whose lives have been taken by violence, is continued from day to day for a few weeks longer. The churches, we fear, are neglecting their duties in Brooklyn. Avotuzr Case or Insantty.—A Mrs. Rosa Canning has been indicted in Binghamton for the murder of her mother, occupying 9 year in working out her fixed design of a de- cisive aajomeyt with the old lady. NEW YORK HEKALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 2], 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. The Polaris Investigntion—The of the Death ef Captain Hall. To satisfy our readers on the subject, as far as possible, we publish this morning in full the testimony of Captain Tyson, Mr. Meyer, and one of the Esquimau witnesses from the Polaris, as taken before Secretary Robeson and published by the government, in refer- ence to the mysterious death of Captain Hall. In his letter to the President, communicating his official report, Mr. Robeson says:—‘In some of the testimony as given will be found some statements of facts and several strong expreasions of feeling against the officer re- maining in command of tho ship (Budding- ton) after the death of Captain Hall. Theso I feel great reluctance to publish while the per- son referred to is absent in the discharge of a dangerous and responsible duty; but I am constrained to believe it is better for him, and will be more satisfactory to his friends, as well as to the frionds of those still on board the Polaris, that they (the aforesaid facts and ex- pressions) should be published as they were given, rather than that their suppression should be made the foundation of sensational and alarming reports in no degree justified by the real facts.” These views of the Secretary of the Navy indicate the just and generous man. But, when it is considered that he shares in the general responsibility for the melancholy mis- fortunes of the Polaris expedition, ho becomes directly interested in a good report for Captain Buddington. The testimony in question es- tablishes the fact that this officer was not a proper person to be appointed as sailing master on this perilous enterprise, and that in selecting him Mr, Robeson placed a more serious obstruction in the way of Captain Hall than icepacks, icebergs, opposing currents or the darkness, cold or any of the horrors of an Arctic Winter. And what’ are the accepted facts regarding the death of Captain Hall? He returned (24th October, 1871) from that famous sledge expedition northward ‘‘appar- ently in his usual fine health, but was at- tacked the same evening with sickness of the stomach and vomiting.’’ Some days after, however, he recovered sufficiently to move about the cabin and to attempt to attend to business ; but then a relapse followed and he again became delirious, and died on the 8th of November. So the investigating board are unanimous in the opinion that ‘‘the death of Captain Hall resulted naturally from disease.’’ We pronounce no judgment upon this ques- tion. We only bold that upon the facts and the testimony submitted this verdict of Mr. Robeson and his colleagues from their official inquisition does not clear up the mystery. If we had before us the testimony still held in reserve of some of the witnesses examined we might, perhaps, be more embarrassed than ever in forming an opinion as to the specific causes of the death of Captain Hall. Without injustice to any absent party, howover, assuming that his death was from natural causes, we must assume that the climate of those Arctic regions produces a very extraordi- nary form of apoplexy. And why not, it may be asked, when under the baleful influences of those long, cold and dismal Winter nights beyond the Arctic Circle, even the Esquimaux dogs became insane? But still upon this theory of the climate we have a two-edged sword cutting right and left, and so we can have no satisfactory solution of this strange and sad event short of the evidence required from the missing ship. We only hold that Mr. Robeson’s report has not solved the mystery of the death of Captain Hall. The official inquisition certainly establishes the correctness in every essential point of the original report of the evidence taken from Captain Tyson and his party by our careful correspondent at St. Johns, both in regurd to the strange and untimely death of Captain Hall and to the separation of the Polaris from Captain Tyson and his companions on their providential ice floe. We hope now that the missing ship will be found, and that thereby all the exciting doubts and apprehensions ex- isting will be satisfactorily accounted for. But if the ship is lost with all on board? Then these mysterious events of the unfortu- nate Polaris expedition will probably continue a subject of doubt and debate till, in the lapse of centuries, utterly forgotten. The Influence of a Death. Wall street yesterday presented another of tho strange magnetic phases so characteristic of that spasmodic locality. A gentleman died—one who has long been identified with railroad and other enterprises, and whose name in connection with various interests has become a sort of “household word” on "Change. Instantly the pocket nerve began to throb and men to wonder what amount of money was to be made out of Death! Cliques hurriedly gathered to speculate on the event. Combinations were organized to create de- pressing influences, and before high noon a whole brigade of wild men were shouting their arithmetical measure of a Wall street obituary notice over a dead brother. To one outside of their circle, studying the lessons of the hour, it was o curious picture of human nature, not merely because the shadows were pencilled in the gloom of the grave, but because it exhibited the wonderful brain power that may be put forth by some men and be made to radiate to the very ex- tremes of our commercial influence. Doubt- less much if not all of this effect is artificial. Nevertheless, under the manipulation of the shrewd men whose vocation it is to speculate on the best or the saddest events of life, the result is always perceptible, just as it was ap- parent yesterday in the raid by a party of bears whose vicious aim was to make it ob- vious that the death of Horace F, Clark was necessarily the keynote of misfortune to all the enterprises with which, in life, he was most identified. Axornern Bupcet or Fines, including an extensive one in Pottsville, one destroying a town in Michigan and others more or less destructive, is embraced in our telegraphic despatches of yeaterday’s events, East and West. The general dryness of the season in the Northern States has doubtless much to do with these frequent fires, but they are much more, we fear, due to general negligence and carelessness. And here we may ask, if with such a catalogue of fires as that which we give this morning for one day in the early Summer, what shall we have in the usually dry season of Autumn, especially in the combustible wooden towns, pine forests and withered prairies of the West? This is a matter de- manding general attention, Sram—Tam Prosracr o” 4 Brvat, Rerop- 11¢,—One of our latest items of news from |. Spain, and certainly one of the most impor- tant which we have had from that country for some time, is that an attempt is about to be made to overthrow the present federal Re- public and to establish a unitarian Republic, with Serrano at its head. Timeo Danaos. The advent of Serrano to power means the restoration of the monarchy, with Alfonso, Isabella's son, for King. The federal Repub- lic ought not to be condemned until it has a ‘fair show. It looks to the United States as its model. At least it means progress, while it is undeniable that the unitarian Republic means reaction, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Congressman Peter M. Dox 18 asthe St. Nich- olas Hotel. AGreek banker has bought the City of Parga, situated on the Adriatic. Commodore ©. R. P. Rodgers has returned to Washington from California, Ex-Congressman John B. Alley, of Massachu- setts, is at the Astor House, Judge W. 8, Lincoln, of Washington, has arrived @t the Grand Central Hotel. Truman G. Youngtove, ex-Speaker of the Assem- bly, is at the Fiith Avenue Hotel, Professor F. Bowen, of Harvard University, is in town, staying at the Everett House. Captain Tibbitts, of the steamship City of Brook- lyn, is registered at the Everett House. Congressman William H. Barnum, of Connecti- cut, is staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel. A piece of President Grant's handiwork as a tan- ner 1s being exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition. Rey. John 8. Ezell, of South Carolina, convicted of Ku Kluxiana, has been pardoned by the Presl- dent. Henry M, Smith has retired from the managerial chair of the Chicago Zrivwne and accepted the Presidency of a new market company. + A Deautifully modelled schooner, destined for the life-saving service on the Atlantic coast, has been named after Chief Justice Charles P. Daly. Colonel William A. McKellip, of Maryland, United States Commissioner to Vienna, and Professor James W. Reese, of same State, sails for Europe to- day on the steamer Victorla, Congressman Ashley, of Ohio, is in Illinois ar- ranging to go into the business of manufacturing steel. Back-pay Ronbaainen ought to know ail about that business. €olonel Beverley Kennon, an American officer in the Egyptian army, has been decorated by the Khedive with the order of Medijidieh, third class, for ingenuity, activity and perseverance displayed in the conception and construction of a battery at Alexandria. Joseph Brooks has commenced a suit in the Cir- cuit Court of Pulaski county, Arkansas, against Governor Baxter for the oMce of Governor. This is @ much better way of settling sucn cases than getting up riotous demonstrations or calling on Uncle Sam's troops. The Chicago Times states that Governor Austin, of Minnesota, says he cannot afford the honor of holding the oMce of Governor, even though he lives in the most un-Austintatious manner. So there are now only twenty-nine candidates for Governor of the North Star State. Mr. Robert Lowe, the Chancellor of the British Exchequer, is a much disliked man. He has many hobbies, one of which his opponents declare he has at last ridden literally to death. They assert that while careering along on a bicycle Mr. Lowe struck and injured Mr. George Smith, a tradesman, so that, being unable to attend to his business, he drowned himself in the Thames. The Prince de Joinville, in a late speech at Lan- gres, quoted President Lincoln as having told him, in response to a question as to his policy :—“I have UO settled policy. This is my line of conduct: when the tent of government 1s shaken I try to secure it by fixing a fresh peg to stay it, or else I hammer at the others to drive them deeper.” ‘The Prince then asserted that he only wished te keep the “tent of government” steady, and would endeavor to sup- ply new pegs or strengthen the hold of old ones to effect his purpose, SPEAKER BLAINE’S TOUR. Sr, Joseru, Mo., June 20, 1873. Hon. James G. Blaine, Speaker of the House, ac- companied by his wife, sister and son and Miss Abigail Dodge, better known under the nom de plume of “Gail Hamilton,” arrived hore to-day on their return from a visit to the Pacific coast, Utah and Colorado. Mr. Blaine was met at the depot by @ number of citizens and old acquaintances and Welcomed to the city. Ril left for Chicago, by way of Council Bluffs, to- nigl MANHATTAN OLUB—HORACE F, CLARK. At a meeting of the Managing Committee of the Manhattan Club yesterday evening it was Voted, That the Managing Committee of the Man- hattan Club, lamenting the suaden death ef their associate, Mr. Horace F, Clark, will attend his fu- neral on Sunday afvernoon at halt-past four o'clock, and invite the members of the Club to attend with them at the Madison square church at the same time, and to join with them in that tribute of re- spect to his memory. MANTON MARBLE, Secretary. WEATHER REPORT. pes ea eT WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHiRF SIGNAL OFFICER, WaAsHINGTON, June 21—1 A. M. Probabilities, For New England gentle and fresh westerly to northerly winds, clear weather and lower tem- perature than on Friday are probable; for the Middle States and lower lake region very generally clear weather and light to fresh westerly and northerly winds, shifting to westerly and southerly over the latter; for the South Atlantic States light to fresh southwesterly to northwesterly winds and generally clear weather; for the Gulf States east of the Mississipi, light to fresh southeasterly and southwesterly winds and clear or partly clearing weather ; for the upper iake region easterly to southerly winds and generally clear weather; south of the latter re- gion, over Missouri and Tennessee, winds shifting to southeasterly and southwesterly, and clear or artiy cloudy weather; for the Northwest dimin- ishing pressure, with easterly to southerly winds, The Weather in This City Yesterday. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, Herald Building :— 1872. 1873. 34. M 71 76 6 A.M a7 9 A.M. 85 12M.... 87 12 P. Average ‘ature yesterday The Heated Term in the City. The weather yesterday was much more pleasant than the on‘day previous, yet it was hot enough to make everybody uncomfortable, and people sought for the shady side of the street with a determined perseverance tobe prudent that was worthy of commendation, To say that there was not much sweltering would be only denying a consequence ofa June heated term, The breeze that came from the river did noble service to poor suffering humanity, and was appreciated with @ zest only equalled by the leasure of first sunshine after @ hard inter. That | the heated term is not yet upon us in all its force is unfortunately true, for we may be certain that some barming days are yet to come before the sun slides down from us. But there is wonderful virtue in cool lager veer and iced sodas, these beverages possessing am extraordinary influence on ie imagination in reconciling men to what can’t be helped. It is @ pleasure not to have to record a death roll from sumstrokes, nor to have to give a Mat of Root totlers whose weary bodies yielded to the exhausting heat. Yet the first genuine case of sunstroke oceurred yesterday, the victim hel @ boy about fifteen years of age, named Haines, @ messenger the American bp a nh vompany, nd who resided at 471 Second avenue, ‘The boy Wasstrciken in Fourth avenue, at the corner of Twenty-seventh street, and was thence taken to Daina sppted an, ‘uuremiting_atontan, slog and wi tor bis life, peldtio ela there seemed 40 & OBITUARY. Jehan A. Kemnedy, Ex-Superintendem or Pelice. i Jobe A. Kennedy, ex-Superintendent of the New York Metropolitan Police, died yesterday, in che sixty-ninth year of his age, at his residence in this city, of neuralgia of the heart, after sufering the most terrible agony. Yor some time back he ap- parently had @ premonition that his end was Spproaching, for at a recent meeting of police Officials in reference to the police monument a6 Cypreas Hilla Cemetery ne stated that he hoped the arrangements would be speedily completed, aa no one knew who might be the first to die, HIS LIFE AND SBRVIORS. John A. Kennedy was a native of the city of Bat. timore, his iather being a highly respected resident of that city. At an early age the subject of the sketch became an avowed abolitionist, aud wrote later on many articles for W. Lioya Garrwoa's anti-slavery paper. From this it will be seen that he formed strong opinious and was not afraid of openly avowing them, Mr. Kennedy came to this city in 1828 and worked as a journeyman sign painter in Greenwich street, and subsequently had a store of his own. As years rolled on he was twice elected Councilman from the Filth ward, and about 1854 he was appointed Superintendent of Oastie Garden by Governor Horatio Seymour, Here be effected most salutary changes in the working of that institution, and made it a credit tustead of a disgrace to the city. While holding this position his great executive abilities were first brought into play. and the public appreciated the revolu- tion effected in the management of the emigrant reception system. In the year 1860 he was appointed Superinten- dent of Police by a Board of Police Uommusstonera consisting of J, Bowen, J. G, Borgen and T. 0, Ac- on aut remained m comes hee (869, He was the hird Superintendent under reorganized police force of 1857, Mr. Taimage being first and General Pilsbury second, the lourth, fi and sixth being Jourdan, Kelso and Matsell. The changes effected in the Police Department by Mr. one oy bia new sphere Were numerous, and it can fig said that he brought the force to an admiri state of discipline, and, what ts saying more, made himself very popular, with few exceptions, to the men under his command. THE CITY RIOTS OF '63. The courageous conduct of Mr. Kennedy dari the 1863 riots is a tradition among the police, how he and his friend Thomas U. Acton 1 fs into the thickest of the fray, regardless of whetl they lost thetr lives or not. To his dying day Mr. Kennedy was never free from suffering, caused by the murderous shower of stones thrown at bim jm Forty-filth street and Lexington avenue, when was about addressing the rioters, who, upon learn- ing who he was, pelted him with stones and brick- bats, and one of his legs was so damaged that it ane eine ap unter nee ten pacar ont of it, 9 id gts. A certain amount of meted foklag hiett ‘Sodasonally fake place fete police ferce about ‘General Order Kennedy,” as he was sometimes facetiously termed, but the men under his command knew that his’ only ambition was to have the force made as effective as possible, and that his Judgment was good and hig bravery unquestioned. om RESIGNS FROM THE POLI After nine years’ indefatigable work he resigned his position a8 Police Superintendent, feeling that age was commencing to tell upon him, and became President of the Avenue C Railroad, and more re- cently he beceme collector of assessments, which position he held to the time of his death. WAR REMINISCENCES, During the war he acted as Provost Marshal, an@ helped to send out several regiments to the war. His brother, W. D. Kennedy, who was known as “Father of the Counsel,” algo helped to send ont the Tammany regiment. Previous to the war he saw that it was inevitable, and did all he could ia obtaining supplies of guns, &c. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. When the Board of Supervisors was established Mr. Kennedy was Sppointed one of its membera, and remained so until he joined the police in 1860.. HIS HISTORY OF ODD FELLOWSHIP. One of the earliest aad most enthusiastic mem- bers of the stic craft of Odd-Fellowship in this country was the late Superintendent of Police, and he Sven ena reached the distinction of being Grand Sire of the United States. At the moment of his death he was Grand Master of the State, and it was his intention to proceed in August im thas capacity to the meeting at Albany, to represent Getty’s Lodge. Beside bis bier in his cry be bandsomely iramed address presented to him by lodge just mentioned, dedicated to the “Gran Reprersnaate, and Grand. Master of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York and Grand Sire of the United States.” A few days before hig death he completed a book on the history of Odd-Fellowship in the United ear In Masonry he was @ member of the Manito odge. In politics Mr. Kennedy was a strong repub- lican, having been President of the General Com- mittee several times. By turns he wae a “‘barm burner,” in the old Van Rensselaer period a free- soller, and in 1865 was a werm adherent of the for- tunes of General Fremont, Subsequently he allied himself with the present republican par , and re- ceived his political reward at its han pring the influential positions which he did at various umet it was but natural that he should have pro- voked the enmity of no inconsiderable portion of the community, especially during the ti Periods of the late war, when his power was most autocratic, and, at least through his subor- dinates, exercised arbitrarily. Among his friends he was regarded as a just man, conscientious even’ to severity im the discharge of his oficial duties, brave to a fault and without a stain upon his pere sonal character, THE FUNERAL, The funeral will doubtless be an immense one, and Will probably be conducted by the Odd Fellows. Large Masonic and police delegations will also be present. The interment will take place at Cypress Hills Cemetery. Among the visitors to the house of mourning Jast night were Mr. T. C. Acton, of the Assay Office; Thurlow Weed, Police Inspector Dilks, Mr. Storrs, of the Comptroller's office; Mr. McWaters, ofthe Costom House; Mr. C. Ellwood and numerous other intimate iriends. A large Rumber of letters of sympathy were recelved by his widow last evening. Tylor Smith, M.D. Tylor Smith, M. D., an eminent English physt- cian, was walking by the river side at Richmond just lately, when he was seized with a sudden an@ alarming tHness. He was carried by two water- men to the Richmond Infirmary, and Dr. Hills and Dr. Withecombe were soon in attendance and di@ all that medical skill could suggest to endeavor to restore consciousness, but, notwithstanding all their efforts, Dr. Smith expired within three aours mission to the infirmary. Dr. Smit ‘was formerly Lage to the Westminster Hospt- tal, and was the author of several works well known to the medical profession in Europe and America, M. Lavalle. The death is announced of M. Lavallé, the foandes of the Eeole Ceutrale, of France, for the /nstructiom, of chemistry, and of which he held the managemen& for upwards of thirty years. He was aiso a director of the Orleans Ratlway Company from its beginning. M. Lou! St. Arnaud. The French journals announce the death, in the Department of the Gironde, where he possesse® some property, of M. Louis-Adolphe, Leroy de St. Arnaud, aged seventy-one, brother of the late Marshal ‘St. Arnaud, le was named Mayor of the Twelith arrondissement in 1851, was afterward ap- pointed Councillor of State, and eventually entered the French Senate. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT, M. EMILE DE LAVELEFYE, the well known Belgian. publicist and professor at the University of Li¢ge, has published & work entitled “Des Causes Acta- elles la Guerre en Europe et de l’Arbitrage.” MIRABEAU’S LETTERS to Reybaz, first found at Geneva, make it evident that the former in many instances received speeches ready prepared, which he learned by heart and delivered with all the fire and passion of improvisation. It is to be hoped that a book containing the whole correspondence will appear. A SAGACIOUS AND THOUGHTFUL German, Kart Hillebrand, has written a book on “The Frencte People in the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Cen- tury,” which ts full of penetrating criticism. of “la grande nation.” The character of the whole race, says Mr. Hillebrand, is femenine. “French sociability 1s at bottom @ mutual vanity insurance association.” The nation is vain, weak and sa- perficial, witha timid, gregarious temper, incapa- bie of any of the higher efforts, eitner of virtue ar wisdom. M, Thiers, he says, has an absolute-in~ difference as to forms of government—an indiffer~ ence which an enormous majority of Frenchmen share, but are ashamed to avow. NEW YORK STATE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION. POUGHKEEPSIE, June 20, 1873. ‘The New York State Editorial Association closem its meeting to-day with ajvisit to Vassar College thie afternoon and a banquet at the Opera House this evening Governor Hawley, of Cennectieut, being present at the latter. To-night the Association adopted aresolution requesting tne members of Qoaerese from the State of New Y: 6rd a vill in eevee f the redwotion of duties ‘oa ine ype metal, Ail of the " the Association will have he ect ta kori wee