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NEW YORK AERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET, Bi is LITERATURE. Sketch of the Latest Literary Issues of the Lon- don Fablishing Houses. Lonpon, Jan. 21, The aow year has brought us no very remarkable © books, though 4 good many interesting and valu- abie ones in special branches of literature. We are anxiously expecting the third and concluding votume of Mr. Forster’s “Life of Dickens.’ quite as well that this biography has been brought out piecemeal, though the first fervor of feeling | The | regarding Dickeus has naturally died away, lapse of time permits the author to deal more candidly with his very diMeult task, and will | enable the public to bring @ calmer judgment to | Im biography we | bear upon his fulfilment of it, have an interesting “Lile of Mrs. Somerville,” writ-" ten by ber daughter, and erring only by its brevity—a most uucommon error. The details of the dllustrious Woman’s life are most interesting, and i¢ is pleasant to find that she was the simplest, the most patient, the least “blue” as well as the most learned of ladies. She had a large circle of friends, and was a3 much beloved for ner personal qualities as ebe was admired for her exceptional genius. ‘The biography and letters of Mr. Archibald Con- stable are rather interesting, though, perhaps, be- cause there are very ‘ew of his own letters and a great many of other people's, Sydney Smith, Godwin, Lockhart and Sir Walter Scott were among his most frequent correspondents. The third volume of the memoir deals with the rela- tions which existed between Sir Walter Scott, the Ballantynes and Constable, and is intended to re- tute Lockhart’s account of Constabie’s trearment | of Sir Walter. Probably no one cares mucti about | itat this date; but there is more to be said for Constable than we ever supposed could be said; but, perhaps, the truest comment is to be found in that phrase ior which, among So many others, we have to thank Dic! jt was all a muddle.” The Publishers took their gold laying goose for a phoenix, and lo! the flames consumed him in earnest. The memoir of Constable dves not clear ‘ny of the parties concerned from blame; it ouly distributes it a little more equally. | Messrs. Hurst & Blackett ha recently pub- lished a “Life of the Right Honorable Spencer Perceval,” including his correspondence with sev- | eral distinguished persons. e lve is written by | his grandson, Mr. Spencer Walpole, who has lived | from his boyhood among statesmen and politicians, | and is thoroughly well versed in the history of his | grand/ather's time. The book is uselul, authentic, conscientious and dull. | The Journal of Sir Hope Grant, pubifshed under the ttle of “Incidents in the Sepoy War, 1857-3," is @ remarkably interesting volume. Its temper- ate and humane tone—that, be it remembered, of a@ man invested with immense responsibilit the spot and in the midst of all the facts—con- trasts curiously and favorably with that of many of the criticisms upon it. Blackwood's Magazine, for instance, revives, with malignant and indeed ludicrous fury, all the absurd stories of outrage ‘and mutilation which hardly gained credence even at the time among persons whose judgment had apy foundation in knowledge. and were, on a searching official investigation, utterly dis- proved and exploded. This is the more to be regretted because the cruelty of English reprisals remains a biot upon our history in India, For what countless murders is the story of the pair of child’s boots found in the road at Meerut account- able ? Almost everybody believed that the little severed feet were in them, aad even English Women boasted of the vengeance taken for the deed in the name of “the ladies and the babies," until, months afterwards, it came out that there were no feet in the boots, which had merely been thrown away as useless by an ayab, The account of the mutin), from a military point of view, is done by Captain Knollys, R. A., who is too much bent on praising General Anson and denouncing pubdlic criticism of military affairs and officers to be very instructive or convincing. Ii any event in our history can be said to place the value and im- portance of public criticism and the popular vigi- lance over the military service quite beyond dis- pute, except oy sticklers for aristocratic privi- leges and the right divine of noble lords to spend the public money and degrade the national dignity by unabashed favoritism, without rebuke or ques- with 1 tion, that event is the appointment of General Anson as Commander-in-Chief of the Indian army. We do not think Captain Knollys will convince any Itig | *#mes, Mr. Frank Vincent is almost unique tiem, bis bright, cheery, full of observation, and the kind of easy, natural, unconstrained sssocia- tion which proves profoudd reading without dis- Playing tt, , “The Land of the White Eleptiant,’ by Mr. Vin- cent, 18 another instance of the superiority of your countrymen over ours, in the writing of books of travel, as a g@neral rule. For directness, for 5ay- ing what he has to say straight off, and beginning | at the really interesting and important portion of | his travels at once, instead of reiterating old descriptions which every one has read 4 sey of 8 | book a model. It is rendered additionally inter- | esting by the extraordinary changes which are taking piace im Spain; that remote and wonderful jand now making strides towards the adoption of Western civilization more energetto than those of the “Land of the Rising Sun’’ itself. Mr. David Ker, late Khivan correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, is about to publish a work en- tatled, “On the Road to Khiva.’’ It is announced that the work will contain a minute description of the whole country between the Russian trontier of Europe and Aighanistan, with an offcial map and hitherto unpublished purticulars respecting the Khivan expedition, It is generally supposed that it will not contain the picturesque passage to which public attention was directed as a coinci- dence by the Pall Mall Gazette, In more general literature the most noteworthy new book is “Master Spirits,’ by Mr. Robert Bu- chanan, Itis odd, bumptious, clever, unreasonable, | bright, shallow, sometimes ridiculous, always inter- esting and occasionally very true, He denounces criticism, but he is eminentiy critical, as critical as he is poetical, and, except in the case of Mr. John Morley, when he writes downright nonsense, his | appreciations are quite fascinating. A pleasant little volame, called “Sahara and Lap- land,” translated from the French of M. Goblet a@Alviella, by Mrs. Cashel Hoey, is among the pretty books of the month, and a new story, which commences in Cornhill tor January, 1s the chief event in fiction. It is called “Far from the Mad- ding Crowd,” and was at first supposed to be writ. ten by “George Eliot.’ The effect produced by the first few chapters will make a name worth making by this story. The “Chesterfield Letters of 1873" scandal is at | length dying out, and, as the Guards’ Club have decided upon not expelling Lord Desart, it is to be hoped society will come to no harsher decision. ENGLISH LITERATURE OF 1873. The Book Makers and Readers Britain. Lonpon, Jan, 18, 1874. Nearly five thousand volumes of new books, new editions and American importations have been published in England during 1873, Of this number 3,463 Volumes were new publications, Nearly 5,000 books in one year 13 a great number. The English Publishers’ Circular says When we remember the adage that a great book 13 a great evil we may presume that a great many books can hanily be aless one. But, as the wise of King has assured us, no doubt after a compilation | or his Proverbs, “that of making books there 18 no end,” we must be content to chronicle every year an increase. If we multiply our 4,991 books by 300, which is a very smail average for each edition, we shall find that there is an im- mense supply of books for the reading public, and that the varied tastes of that public, which every | year increases in numbers, and, let us hope, in spite of the critics, in taste, is not inclined to agree with the medimval Pope who was for re- ducing all the books in the worid to the number of 6,000, Which be thought a liberal supply. The elder Disraeli tells us that the four ages of typography ending in the beginning of the nineteenth century produced no less than 3,641,960 works, or, again counting the issues at 300 eacd, an aggregate down to the year 1516 of 3,277,640,000 books. Aiter this we may contemplate the fecundity of the past year with some composure. Speaking of the character of the pubilcations the Cirewar continues :— Novels, tales and works of fiction take the lead with 831 works, an increase of ten per cent on last y ar. Theology, sermons and biblical works, itnerto in the ascendant, rank second 1n the list; we have from this source 770 works. The next highest number is 588 works of art and science and illustrated works classified with art as being in some Measure artistic. We are giad to find that this Class of works is rapidly rising; as we become more exact and scientific we may become, perhaps, Jess sensational, Law and jurisprudence furnish the smallest quota, but these Somewhat dry treatises gives us the respectable number of 142. The next smallest number 1s 170 pamphlets, political and so- cial treatises; and medicine and surgery turnish us works; while the belles-lettres, essays and monographs ou especial subjects give us 199. This year in poetry and the drama, including 16 such | Works imported trom America, we have the re- _ Spectabie total of 329; while in history and biogra- | one to the contrary—certainly not by denouncing phy we have a total of 42s, @ great improvement | the right of the public to hold, to express and to enforce their opinions, | Colonel Chesney’s “Essays on Military Biography” is very interesting. The most unmilitary reader must find the book pleasant, were 1 only for its charming style and its refreshing impartiality. It is partly biographical, partly historical, partly speculative, and in all clear and impartial. Your readers will, we believe, be especially attracted by Col. Chesney's handling of the great antagonists, Lee and Grant, who bave been called “the Hector and Achilles of the American NDiad.”’ To English readers the book is especially charming, because it tells the story of the achievements of Lieu- tenant Colonel Gordon, popularly known as “Chinese Gordon,” whose heroic deeds in China, with their immense results in res- cuing the tphabitants of vast districts from the frightful cruelties of the Talpings—a tyranny but imperiecuy understood previous to this ex- position of it—form anarrative of absorbing in- terest. Colonel Gordon is, personally, the most unassuming o! men. He bas declined all the splen- dors proffered by the young Emperor of China, and has now gone to the interior of Africa as the leader of the Khedive's expedition, in place of Sir Samuel Baker, whose new work is to published at the end of this month, Avery able translation from the German of Ma- ™ Jor Von Schnell has just appeared, entitled “The Operations of the First Army noder General Von Steinmetz to the Capitulation of Metz.” The transiation is by Captain Hoilist, R. A., and the book, though technical, is eminently read: able. The second volume of Captain Duncan's “History of the Royal Artillery’? has appeared. It is much more interesting tuan the first, and abounds in capital anecdotes. An antiquarian work on Woodstock Manor, by Mr. Marshall, tormerly a fellow of C. C. C., Oxford, hitherto non-existent, which, considering the ex- traordinary wealth in MSs. of every kind pos- sessed by the various co! and the great pro- prietors, is inexplicable. Marshall is an ex- ceedingly laborious unimaginative Mr. bat dry and writer, and it is characteristic of bis qualities, bot positive and negative, that he makes only the barest incidental reference in a foot note to Sir Walter Scott's famous novel, “Woodstock,” and yet the history of the place and the time is as closely observed and as inseparably connected with Scott’s “Woodstock” as that of Plessis-les- Tours is with “Quentin Durward,” or the Isle of Man with “Peveri of the Peak.” Among works of travel Captain Butler's “Wid North Land” is incomparably the most patings A second edition was announced 4 week alter the publication of the first, and the “run” upon i¢ at Mudie's ts tremendous. It is even more admirably written than was the author’s first work, “lhe Great Lone Land,’ and the intense, unfagging interest of the narrative, the glow of adventure and te remarkable sympathy with and love of nature which pervade it render it quite exceptional among works of its class. No doubt We shail have to welcome a third book from Cap- tain Butler on bis retarn from the Gold Coast. It will be curious to observe whether he will be able to invest our gallant allies, the Fantees, and our | ure, on last year. Perhaps also among the historical | works we may put a fair portion of the 227 juvenile nd tales, many of which are founded on | u history. For the young also we must add, 1, but the Main portion of the 413 educational, cal and philological works, and some part of the 283 works on voyages, travels aud geographi- cal research. while we reserve entirely ior the grown up and mature the 159 works on political economy, social subjects, trade and commerce, which closes our list. December and November are the great publishing months, April taking third place, the last monta, December, exhausting the efforts of the next January, which only pro- duces 4 comparatively feeble issue. in the following table is given the year’s publica- tions, classified as to subject, new books, new editions, and American importations:— 3 PubKications, z Theology, sermons, biblical, &c...] O64| 1921 18) 77 Educational, classical and philolog- | i veveseoes| 296] WN) 6) 413 Juvenile works and ta! 219} 36] 2) a7 | N and other fietion..!.] 507] 296 831 jurisprudenc 77 #2) 23) aa Political and social and co 14] 38] a7] 159 Aria, science a 402) 157) 29) 588 Voyages. travels an research 191] 66) 26] 288 History and | 23s) 119) 21) 428 Poetry and 22.) 92| 16) 82 Year books 231 2] io] 2463 S 104) Sl) 24) 179. ys, monograplis.| 125] 68) 15] 199 uding pauphiet not sermous - . 10) 1% Totals... 13463 1,286] 242] 4,991 Or, arranged according to months, as folows:— SUMMARY POR RACH MONTH. New aw American Booka, Bditions. Reprints. January ae) x February 2 it 36 March. a we April 337 14t 36 May.. 209 13a 6 June 25 isk 19 July... . . 193 3 “ ‘August, 6 86 18 September. weveceee 198 uo October 230 85 = November 425 Ww - Decemver + 601 130 bad Totals 1,236 22 THE PENNSYLVANIA DUICH.* ~— Some years ago an article on the “Pennsylvania | Dutch,” understood to have been written by a lady long resident among the Mennonist farmers of Lancaster county, appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. This paper was afterwards reprinted in book form, and now arevised edition, containing much addi- tional information, 1s tssued from the press of J. Br Lippincott & Co, As a@ literary performance the work is of little tmportance, being feeble in style and wanting in the perspicuity, which is the first requisite of good English; but as a permanent record of the manners, customs and religious opin- ions of @ singular people, whose history yet re- mains to be written, it is invaluable. An errone- ous impression likely to be drawn from this volume is that the Pennsylvania Dutch are ali Mennonists, great German family includes the greater part of , the people of the eastern and southern counties, and exhibits, except at pleas- few of the peculiarities noted in worthy enemies, the Ashantees, with any of the | these essays. The great body of the people speak romantic interest he throws over the Indians, the | English, pure and undefiled, at the same time that half breeds, the voyageurs and the Esquimau dogs. Cerf Vola, the “howling dog’ of this won- derful journey in the wild North Land, deserves the classical immortality of an Argus. they are thoroughly conversant with the German dialect known as Pennsyivania Dutch. There are no better specimens of the genuine Pennsylvania Dutcbman than Congressmen Clymer and Killin« “A Summer in Spain,” by Mrs, Ramsay—a very | ger. They were born and bred in the Dutchest of accomplished lady, who has made a translation of the “Divina Comedia’ of Dante into terze rima, which ts, we are told by an eminent Italian scholar, decidedly the closest and best in existence—is a Charming book. Since Mr, Hare's “Wanderings in ‘Spain’ we have been accustomed to think we had had enough of that uncomfortable peninsula—in the Dutch districts, for ina homely Pennsylvania phrase the 2ounties of Berks and Lebanon are ‘‘as Dutch as sour-kraut,” but there is no provincialism intheir speech, though both of them speak the | dialect with fluency. The English vernacular in Pennsylvanta is purer than either in New England or in the Cotton States, and the German dialect is books a¢ in reality—vut this book disyels the mo | just what it pretends to be, “Pennsylvania Dutch.” In her preface to the socead cepunn our author thinks it probable that the “Dutch” tor Ger- man will be discarded in time, No remark could more thoroughly betray her want of philosophical insight into the facts and ob: ‘ations she records, | Let us iustrate this by a liar example. The | paten people of New York are with us not Dutcn, but Knickerbockers.| The German peo- ple of Pennsylvania are not Germans but “Dutch” from the Germap word “deutsch."" | In the same way their neigtbors of Scoten-irisn extraction are “English.” Itis a common remark .of the Pennsylvania farmet ‘we Dutch” and | “you English,’ but the one has no relation to } Holland and the other none tdEngland. The same | causes which transformed the German language | into the Pennsylvanta dialed has changed the | Pennsylvanta German into, the Pennsylvania | Dutch, The only additional ¢hange that can hap- | pen will be the disappearance of both terms with | the dialect that is fast passing away, | The Pennsylvania dialect is made up of German, | English and a few French words, Until within a | few years it was a spokea lamguage only, being entirely without a@ literature. It must be spelled phonetically, being happily without a dictionary. | The German words have lost the rich Mayor of the | German pronunciation. The English words par- take of the German tongue-twisting in their utter. ance. The few French words, which were the feeble contributions of the scattered Huguenot | | families, have lost nearly all trace of their French | origin. It is not easy to give a philosophi- cal explanation of the growth of this dialect, which has become almost a distinct tongue within one hunared = years. The loss of the High German favor ‘is attributabie to the fact that the dialect is based upon South Ger- | man, the original settlers being mostly from Switzerland, the Palatinate, and a few from Ba- | varia. The relations which the dialect bears to the language can be best illustrated | by some literal specimen phrases. Any- ‘one who will lsten 0 two Pensyl- vania Dutchmen conversing will hear exclama- | tions like these—Xoock amole tof (Just look at | that!) tor Guck einmal da! Halcy bissel! (Wait a | little bit!) for Wart! ein Dischen! Gutenodit! (Good | evening!) for Guten Abend! Will nemmert break- | fast hawe es wie mir ? (Does nobody want break- | fast bat us %) for Wird niemana mit uns Frinstilck | nehmen? ‘Sis awdlich das die Lite kay appetit | | havwe! (It is strange that these people have no ap- petite!) for Es ist sonderbar, dass diese Leute kei- | | nen Appetit haben! Kumm, site dich bei, und nemm’s mit uns so gut as mer'’s hen! (Come, sit down and eat with us as good as we have it!) for | | Komm, setzet euch, und esset mit uns so gut wie | wir es haben! and Mer hens yetst g’say; yetst eller | mer hame gay! (We've seen it now; now let's go | home!) for Nun, wir haben es gesehen, jetzt lasset uns zu Haus’ gehen. Any intelligent reader will see how far the Pennsylvania German | has departed from the German standard. Yet we | nna some of their descendants gravely speaking of | this dialect as German. An amusing instance or | | this isin an article on Pennsylvania German by Professor Staher in the Mercersburg Xeview. He constantly speaks of this conglomerate speech as German, even when saying that the definite article is used for dieser, diese, dieses (this), and seller, Selle, seU (French celut, celle,) for fener, jene, jenes | (that), and while admitting that nouns have no changes of form except to distinguish singular and plural, but claiming that these, where they exist, are the same as in High German. Had the Professor been a little more frank he would have admitted not only that the Pennsylvania ‘Ger- man” has lost the changes of form in nouns but the nouns themselves. Says the author of the essays now under review :—“I once asked a woman | what pie crust is in Dutch. ‘Pykroosht,’ she an- | swered.” So it is with many other words. Dr. | Harbaugh's famous Pennsylvania Dutch poem | begins:— “Heit is ’s 'xdctly zwansig, Johr, | Daes ich bin owwe naus; | Nau binich widder lewig z'rick Un schteh am Schulhaus an d’e Krick, | Juscht neekscbt an’s Dady’s Haus."’ | ’Xuctly (exactly) is a word) constantly in the moutos of Professor Staher’s “Germans.” The | Pennsylvania dialect is, as We have already | said, almost a distinct tongue formed from the German, English and French vocabulary | just as the English language was based upon Nor- man, Saxon and Latin speech. Il English words with their Germanic pronunciation and ite German | | words with their semi-South German semi-Angli- cised sound are its essential ingredients. The same thing is not true in general of words often used by the Dutch inspeaking English. The author of this volume gives a number ofspecimens, as “lasty” for durable, “bestowed” for made a present of, “strangers” tor guests. ‘‘struvly” for disheveled, “so middlin’’ for pretty well, ‘cross” for angry, “mind” for remember, &c. These examples show @ singular want of knowleage of the English language on the part of the author of these essays. Most of them are not provincialisms even. Bestowed is is a word recognized by Webster in its Pennsylva- | nia meaning and its use under any circumstances | ig im better taste than the use of ‘donated.’’ | Within a week the Boston Post said the old elms | in Tremont street were a butt for the ridicule of strangers, If the guests or visitors of the New | England metropolis are “strangers” why are not | guests or visitors of the Pennsylvania farmer? | | There are cross babies and cross nammas where ever the English language is spoken, and Webster | | quotes Bishop Taylor as authority for this use of | the word. “A lasty basket’ is not a more re- maurkable phrase than Shakespeare's “‘vasty deep.” “So middlin” is not a provincialism but a vulgar- | ism, like “you know how it is yourself.” Struaviy is the only word without authority or the color of authority, and it is good enongh to be pure Saxon. To speak of ‘a struvly head’ is more akin to the genius of English speech than to araw upon the Latin through old French and Spanish for “a disheveled head.” How extremely | | dangerous it 18 to attribute particu- lar words to particular sections {s well ilins- | trated by the last word cited, “mind.” A Scotch | solaier in India was complained of to General Have- lock by his English officer for impertinence. The impertinence consisted in the use of the word “mind,” which, in the Scotchman's mouth, meant | only that he had forgotten his duty, but to the Englishman was @ distinct avowal that he wil- fully disregarded it. in Pennsylvania the word is used in both senses. There are a few words which, {f not confined to Pennsylvania, are not in common use elsewhere. One of these is “infare,” a recep- tion to @ bridal party on the return from the wed- ding tour. * Another 1s ‘“‘snits,"’ dried apples, from Schneiden, to cut, geschnitien, Snitz is the verb, winch applies to the cutting of dried appi | There are other words like these, but the Pennayi- vanian carefully guards his tongue against them | when away from home. With such words as these with which to illustrate Pennsylvania provincial- | isms it is singuiar that Mrs, Gibbons should chose 80 many not peculiar to Pennayivania, but our author evidently is not very profound in philologi« cal stady, and any sclool giri could overturn her | good natured chatter about the misuse of English | words by the Pennsylvania Dutch. | Separating the Mennonista and Dunkers trom the | great family of the Pennsylvania Dutch—that ts the descendants of the Swiss exiles who flea to the Palatinate and other parts of Europe, and finally to America to escape Zwinglian intolerance and | Protestant persecution—from the posterity of | those German emigrants who brought with them | or their co-religionists, the Dankers; whereas the | the Lutheran and Reformed faith we have in this volume an interesting record, The fault of the book is in its want of discrimination in this as in other respects; the Swiss Anabaptists standing for | the great body of the people, both Protestant and Catholic, and thus, by implication, giving mse to many erroneous impressions. As regards the Men- nonists and Dunkers there are few errors of fact in the volume, and the promised emigration of the Russian Mennonists—a part of the same Swiss fam- liy—makes the subject doubly interesting. Both Mennonists and Dunkers are pietists. Probably this is the reason that the Prussian, unlike tae , Russian part or the church, has no thought of emt- gration on account of the military law, the Emperor William himself being pietistic. The Men- nonists, like the Quakers, are religiously opposed to taking oaths and bearing arms, and though they taining reparation for injuries they may have suf- fered. They are reputed so be hostile to educa- tion, but have never seriously opposed the co: Mon schools, They believe in the three R's as & necessity, but regard the two G's as worldly wis- dom. Too much schoot going, they fear, will make their children lasy, and laziness is almost # mortal sin among these simple people. Like the Quakers, the Mennonists wear plain clothes, cut in a pecu- Mar fashion, The ooats are called “shad bellies,” from thetr shape. The men wear low, sti hats, with s very broad brim, and all the women who “belong to the meetingt'—even the unmarried ones—wear white linen or muslin caps. The only religious difference of the Amish branch of the church from their Mennonist brethren is that both men and women wear hooks and eyes on their clothes instead of buttons, Formerly some of the branches of the Church encouraged full .beards, without the mus- tache, as a mark of extreme piety; but of late Years this feature has not been so marked, because the worldly people have cultivated the hair on the face in auch fantastic shapes as to destroy the Pletistic aspects of the beard. All these details Mrs, Gibbons has told in a very interesting way, and she has detailed at considerable length the religious practices of her unassuming neighbors. She might have made her book more valuable if sho had written a fuller account of their domestic life, for @ people who never help their guests at table, who reject the title of “Mr.”, who make love facing each otner, with their chairs corner to corner, and who dress even their little children like old men and women, have much in their manners and customs that ts worth the telling. It she had possessed the power of narrating in graphic lan- guage all that she knows or might have learned ner book would have been a worthy monument to ® peculiar and worthy people. As it is tne com- | plete storyof “The Pennsylvania Dutch" yet re- mpains to be written. * “Pennsylvania Dutoh'’ and Other Essays. Second Edition, with Additions, Philadeipiia, J, B. Lippincott & Co, PETER COOPER ON + The following letter has been addressed by Mr. Peter Cooper to the Hon. H, G. Eastman, at the latter's request, on the question of rapid transi! Nsw York, Feb. 7, 1874. RAPID TRANSIT. Hon. H. G. Eastman :— MY DAR 51R—Jn compliance with your request I write to say that | have given some attention to the subject Of rapid transit in our city. { have satisfied myself with a plan that I feel so sure of the great advantages it will have over all other | plans that have been presented that I will gladly | subscribe $100,000 in a stock for that purpose as | soon a8 satisiactory parties are found to undertake the work, My pian would require the covering of the enure sidewalks of an avenue, or as I should | recommend in preference, that @ right of way, sometimes vote they never hold office or seek the ald of the aw for enforcing their contracts .or ob from twenty-five to thirty feet wide on the east side of Third avenue, should be purchased, run- ning directly through the second stories of all the houses distant 100 feet trom the east line of said Third avenue. it will be found that the present foundations of the houses are amply sufficient for the support of an enaless chain of light eight wheel cars, of six feet in width, witn their backs and ends to run close together, forming an endless chain of wire rope and cars, with six feet of sidewalk on each | side for entering the cars, These cars are to be drawn by this endiess wire rope fastened strongly to the centre of each car, rope Will be entirely out of the way oi doing or receiving harm, The weight of the wire rope will "this propelling wire | be carried by being tastened to the centre o! each | car, and will thus form an endless chain of cars and rope to be propelled by being made to pass around @ drum wheel driven by a stationary steam power, to be placed, one end at Harlem Bridge, the other at any convenient place in the lower part of the city, The advantages of this plan over all others are that it will own @ well lighted, covered Tight of way through its whole length.’ The rail track will cross all the streets at a sufficient height to be out of the way of street travel, and tree from the constant danger of irigbtening horses, and free also from the inconvenience of show and rain, sparks and gas, that must be spread through the strects by any locomotive propelling power. The great advantage of this pian 1s, that the cars: can be propelled at any required speed, and can be made to stop at any convenient distances and receive and discharge passengers at all parts of the line, and take up all the power expended in stopping the cars, in a way that will be immedit- ately given out again to set them in motion, and | thus save at least one half of the propelling power. ‘This plan of road will be at an equal height from the streets throughout tts whole iine, and will re- quire no more power than a dead level, as there will always be a8 much weight going down bill as there is going up. Another great advantage of this plan is that it will be nearly {ree trom noise. The rails can be greased, and any amount of treizht and baggage | Mr. carried through a sheltered way on platform | cars piaced in this line of cars at convenient dis- tances apart. Ali goods can be taken on and off at all the stopping places on the line in the same time that will be required for the passengers to get in and out of the cars. This plan will not disturb the vaults, water pipes of the street, and will make sheltered convenient business places of all the second stories of the buiidings through its whole line, and would, if required, transport a million ot people in ‘as and | aday. Yours, with great respect, oe PETER COOPER. THE OOOPER UNION. Richard A. Proctor’s Lecture on the | Stars. Notwithstanding the unfavorable state of the Weather the hall of the Cooper Union was last night crowded by an intelligent audience to listen to what Professor Proctor had to communicate on the subject of stars, their growth and develop ment. It is not necessary to enter tuto details, as the lecture has already been reported in the HERALD. It was repeated for the benefit of the general public under the auspices of the Cooper Union, The attempt to popularize the study of as- tronomy, by making lectures on the subject by men so eminent in the science world as Mr. Proctor part of the free course, deserves commendation. It ‘would be difficult to select a subject better fitted to interest @ popular audience than the number- | tnfinite | less worlds which shine in the depths of space. In all recorded time they have been present, circling through the re- gions ol space, going, no man knows whither, but capable, by their vastness and multitude, of im- pressing the mind with the grandest conceptions of the power and glory of the Creator. This is the pervading idea of Mr. Proctor’s lectures. He does not seek to oppose the truths of science to the teachings of religion, but rather to raise and ennoble our ideas of the vastness and majesty of creatton—the handiwork of God. LECTUBE BY HON. BIOHARD O’GORMAN, On Thursday evening, February 12, Hon. Richard O'Gorman will deliver bis lecture on “Edmund Burke,” at Cooper Institute, for the benefit of the St. Mary's Library Association, This organization has already done much to entitle it to public favor, and there is little doubt that the object of the lec- ture, no less than the reputation of the lecturer, will insure @ large attendance, There are several societies of this kind springing upin connection with the city churches, constl- tuting a powerful antidote to the evil influence of the streets and the dramshops. Their rooms are supplied with wholesome literature, and enable young men to pass their leisure hours with enter- tainment as well as profit. DR. DIO LEWIS AND HIS REFORM. CALDWELL, Noble county, Ohio, Feb. 4, 1874, To THK EDITOR OF THE H&RALD:— Dr. Dio Lewis, it seems, does not read the news- papers, or he would not have been caught making 60 foolish a blunder as he made in the following letter, which is in my possession :—‘Boston, Mass., Feb, 1, 1874. Colonel James W. Barnes, Caldwell, Ohio:—Sir—I noticed your lectures in Ohio last summer on ‘The County Without a Dramshop,’ and thought yon would bea likely person to answer the following inquiries:—Do your peopie desire to | Margaret and Lady Mary Ashburnham (her 4i MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. ‘The Core y and Presents, (From the mn Court Journal.) The marriage of Si! Alexander Bannerman, of Elsick, Bart, and th) Lady Katherine Ashburn- ham, eldest daughter of the Karl of Ashburnham, was solomnised at &% Peter's, Faton square, on Tuesday. The bridal y assembled at the church about a quarter to wie o’olock. The Countess Ashbirnham and the eight brides- maids received the bride at the church, she being accompanied by her Ather, the Karl of Asaburn- ham, who gave her ae Sir Alexander Banrerman was attended by the Marquis of Tavistock, who acted as best man. The bride wore # dryas of white satin, with two Brussels lace flounc@, neaded with wreaths of orange blossoms, a lage Brussels !ace veil, and a wreath of orange bigsoms and myrtic fastened by five diamond eat the gift of the bridegroom, Her other ornament} were a diamond necklace, with ruby and diam)nd: pendant, the gilt of the Earl of Ashburnham) raby and diamond earrings from the bride's brotvers and sisters, and 4 brace- let of diamonds, rubps and emeralds, the gilt of her uncle, the Hon. Iprey Ashburnham. The eight attendat vridesmaids—namely, Lady ters), Lady Katherne Gordon, Hon. Katherine Scott, Miss Swinb: Lady Margaret and Lady Elinor Amherst and Sophia Leslie Melville— wore dresses of whi® silk, trimmed with swans- down and sprays if camelias; tuile veils and | camelias. Kach of he youthiul ladies wore a gold locket, the gilt of tl set in rubies, emer: Alter the marrlageceremopy, the wedding party reassembled to brealfast at Ashburnham House, where covers were lad for fifty guests. At two o’clock Sir iexander and Lady Kathar- ine left AshburnhamHouse in a carriage and four for Fairntll, the Earl and Countess of Derby's resi- dence near Tunbriag Wells, to spend the honey- The bride’s Favelling dress was of green velvet, with sable trmmuin; green velvet bon- net, trimmed with eis lace, and sable mull, THR WDING PRESENTS were very bps In addition to the jew- els the bride wore At her marriage, the Hon. Peroy Ashburnham gave @ bundeau for the head, of rubies, emeralds and diamond: sir Alexander Banjerman an ebony dressing case, with gold m@ntings, a Norwegian gold mounted belt, diagond and pearl solitaires, two gold chains and$ gold brooch sct with lapis lazuli and pearls; th¢Duke and Duchess of Cleve- land, @ gilt inkstandj Viscount St. Asaph, a pair of diamond earrings; tle Duchess of Beutord, a silver embossed casket; thi Marquis and Marchioness of Bute, a gold bracelé; the Earl of Cork, a gold workbox with momgram in blue enamel; tne Countess of Ashburnjam, @ gold tea service; the Countess of Antrim silver casket; His Excel- lency the Turkish Anbassador, an opal and diamond locket; the Countessof Bantry, a gold sugar basin aud tongs; Viscoun) Kirkaldie, an emerald, ruby and diamond ring; the Countess (Dowager) of Camperdown, & goldcoin necklace and earrings; briaegroom, with monogram nd diamonds. Lord and Lady = Abercrombie, a gold brooch and earings set with = Seotea pearls; the Cowtess of Derby, a gold blue enameiied bra@eiet set with diamonds; the Marchioness of Weftminster, a gold casxet; Lad: Theodora Grosvenos a gold link bracelet set witl onyx; Lady Etizateth Asnburnham, @ gold ink- stand; the Countess Amherst, ® gold bracelet set With pearls; the MSses Swinburne, a silver casket; vhe Hon. George Duncan, a@ solitaire set with Scotch pearis; i he and Lady Mary Gordon, a silver casket; the don. Mrs. John Ashley, a sold and silver salver;sir Thomas Gladstone, a silver and oxidised etd and candlesticks to match; Hon. Edvard Kenyon, a shell mounted with silver cupid jHon, Mrs. Denison, gilt flagree Indian bracket; Dowager Lady Stunley of Aide: ley, @ flower vase, Mr, and Hon, Mrs, Percy Mit- ford, @ salver; Jr. Percy Wodeho a riding. whip mounted m gold with monogram; Hon. and Mrs, Hamilton, an Indian shawl; the El of Ashburnham, @ ruby acelet; Mr. and Lady Elinor ir of silver candlesticks; Mr. Turick Hamil- coral locket and chain; Lady ; Lady Constance gold jonbonniére; Admiral and Lady Jane Swinburne, } Bible in gold case; Hon, kdward Dutton, a: Brussep lace veil; Lord sackville Cecil, a silver box; L largaret Amherst, a gold bell; the Earl of Aber@en, @ pair of vases; a handsome travelling clock fom the Earl and Countess of Ash- burnham’s domstics; Lady Theodosia Ashbur ham, & gold br@elet set with cameo and onyx; the Ladies Mar! ana Jane Stewart, an oxidized and diamond Wodehouse, a Maud Stanley, a diver casket; & pearl silver vase; is Bannerman, a massive gold bracelet; Hon. Mrs, Tomline, a pair of gilt candlestick: lonel Thellussop, an oxidized silver, bo: jJady Howard of Glossop, a gold snake pracelet; Lady Mary Nisbet lamilton, an old silver inkstand, set with turquoise; Mr. Bickersteth, an oxidised casket; Mr. John Bicke'steth, an mounted in gold; Lady Mary Wilbraham Egerton, @ silver sugar bain; Lord and Lady Polwarth, silver cross and bracelet set with cairngorm: Lady Katherine Gordon, @ pair of basins; Sir Bartle ana Laay Frere and 1d sugar iss Frere, @ pair of Algerine candk#ticks, a China card basket and beautifully painted fan; Hon. Henry and Hon. Katherine Scott, a gold blue enamelied locket set with pearls; Hon. and Rey. Canon Baillie, an ivory church service; Mr. Lewis Mejen- die, an old silver dish. Among other donors were the Earl and Countess of Haddington, Lord Jervis- woode and Hon. Mrs. Baillie, Lord W. Hay, Lady Harriet Lindsay, Lady Mary Primrose, Lady Foley, Lady Harriet Lindsay, Lady G. Ver- non, Lady Frances Hamilton, Hon. Mrs, Joba Staniey, Hon. Major Baillie, Major the Hon. obert Baillie Hamilton, Hon. Francis Scott, Hon. Mrs. Baillie Hamilton, the Rignt Hon. Robert and Mrs. Lowe, Colonel M. Fra- zer, the Misses Gladstone, Mr. James Daly, Mr. An- derson, Miss Geary, Mr. J, Kirby Moore, Mr, and Mrs. Marlow, Mrs, Gardner and Misses Gardner, Mrs. Edward Hodgson, Miss Hodgson, Miss Mar- aret Hodgson, Mrs. Cospatrick Hamilton, Mrs. ohn Maxton, Misses Bailhe, Dr. Biakeston, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Bridgman Simpson, Mrs, Digby, Mr. J. H. Trelawny, &c. ‘The eight bridesmaids’ lockets, with monograms in rubies, emeralds and diamonds, were made by the old firm ot Read & Son, Jermyn street, St. James’. Some fine specimens of Minton’s china, supplied by Messrs, among the wedding presents. ortion of her ladyship’s troussean was sup- by Miss Sinith, of 195 Sloan street. THE NACHTMAN. plie HERMAN CONTE Investigation by the Assembly Commit- tee on Privileges and Elections—The Alleged Frauds in the Eighth District. | The Assembly Committee on Privileges and Elec- tions, who have been investigating the contests in this city, resumed yesterday morning, at the Me- tropolitan Hotel, the evidence in the dispute be- tween Martin Nachtman and Jacob Messner for the seat of George Scherman as Assemblyman from the eighth district. There were three candl- dates in the fleld, and Scherman was declared elected by the county canvassers. Both his op- ponents claim the seat on the charge of fraud and alleged irregularities on the part of the election inspectors. The session yesterday was confined to recording the testimony of witnesses who voted for Nachtman, with a view of showing that he se- cured more votes in certain districts than were counted for him. Messrs. Wiugate and Fellows appeared for Mr. Nachtman, and United States District Attorney Bliss, Commissioner Davenport and Lyman H. ‘Tre- main for Scherman. Cornelius Reily, of No. 8 Chrystle street, testi- fled that be voted for Nachtman in the Ninth dis- trict, Michael Nevins, of No. 85 Canal street, voted the democratic ticket, but could not swear that Natchman’s name was on the ballot, Edward Kane, 0! No. 85 Canal street, testified that he yoted for Nachtman; saw Nachtman’s name on the ballot, Jonn Kane, of No. 47 Eldridge street, yoted at the corner of Hester and Forsyth streets for Nachtman and the tuil democratic ticket. George Sweeny, of No, 111 Essex street, voted in the Sixth district on Nachtman’s ballot, and als» the straight Tammany Hall ticket. henry Herzog, of No. 111 Essex street, voted tu the Sixth district for Nachtman; read his ballot. Pever Scuater, of No. 73 Forsyth street, voted for Schermann for As- sembly. J. H. Sctineiderwent, of No. 95 Canal street, voted in the Eleventh district for Nacnt- man, reading his ballot before depositing it. Daniel Rosenbaum, of No, 111 Norfolk street, read | his ballots and yoted for Nachtman. John Mul- cahy, of No. 75 Canal street, voted in the Eleventh district for Nachtman and read his bailot. John have me inaugurate my new reform in your county? If so, could you secure to me $50 for a course of lectures? “Respectfully, Dio Lewis." _ The letter bas been handed around, and occasions Infinite merriment here, where the fact is weil un- derstood that Noble county, Ohio, has not had a single dramshop in it for years, and any amount of agitation could not improve the temperance situa- tion, Colonel Barnes is very reticent, but he mast enjoy the joke hugely when it 1s remembered he lectured gratis ali over Ohio last summer, in the | very counties where the women’s wor is waging hottest, lecturing on “Noble County—The County Without a Dramshop.” His plan and Lewis’ are one and the same, and was effective here years | belore Lewis was ever heard of, PRIVATE DALZELL. FREE AT LAST, Ex-Sherif Brennan and ex-Deputy Shields were Teieased yesterday morning, at seven o'clock. They drove away tn a carriage which conveyed them to their respective residences. There was no band of music present and no saivos of artiliery were fired, as the ex-Sheriff set his face against all demonstrations. The only persona who witnessed his departure were the turnkey and some small boys in the street, Who waved their ragged caps when the burly frame of the ex-Sneriff issued from the jai, As Ms. Brennan had forbidden ail other ovations this was the only ome he received, Sullivan, of No. 88 Chrystie street, voted in the Ninth district for Nachtman, reading his ticket; did not vote the otier ballots. Mr. Wingate called attention to the fact, re- markable in politics, thas in the teenth districts, where there we venteen can- didates, each democratic candidate secured 75 votes, and each republican candidate 180 In the former district, and 61 for the democrats and 124 for the republicans in the latter district, shows ing that nota single voter scratched his ticket. Mr. Wingate, in answer to a question, stated that they did not expect to he able to show enough votes deposited for Nachtman to elect him, but they propose to show fraud in the management of elections by excluding watchers, counting Nacht~ man’s votes jor Scberman, and that the votes of the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Seventeenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first districts should be thrown out, leaving @ plurality for Nachtman of 60 or 70 votes, Louis Koch, ot No, 106 Delancey street, voted hog the Sixth district for Nachtman, reading (ae bal: lot belore voting it, Henry W. Heenan, of No. Broome street, voted in the Kieventh Sache Oe oon snot tell whom he yore gaan shas be voted the Tammany ticket The Committee Sajourned atl Friday next, at nine o'clock P, M., when the case for fachtman will be closed, and’ then the petition of Jacob Mes- suer, the other contestant, Will be taken up. Hon, | ivory paper knife | Zoode, of South Audley street, were | THE LESSON OF CARTAGENA. Are the Spaniards an Enduring Peopte ? {From the Spectator, Jan. 24.] Tt ts a pity that in the rapid current of events all over Europe the defence of Cartagena should be #0 rapidly forgotten, for it presents points of mest substantial interest, So far as we know no cause for that rebellion has ever been distinctly stated by its authors, no defined grievance, no particular {dea. At first the citizens were supposed to be given to Communism ; that is, to be mere plunder- ers, or men filled with the idea that the principle of equality involves equality of property, which, of course, cam only be reached, and then only for the moment, by confiscation, But, apart from @ few wandering Communists, who were promptly suppressed, we do not find that the leaders issued any programme of this sort, while we do find that the citizens carefully abstained from plunder; that the junta levied reg- ular but very moderate taxes, and only used the government stores when actually attacked. The rich houses were not plundered, and all but the rich seem to have been quite unanimous in the defence, | The men obeyed their real leaders, Gutierrez, Roque Barcla, Galvez and a few more, quite implicitly, and to the last supported them in putting down the few soldiers of socialism who wished to burn | or blow up their city. The junta behaved well and reasonably in all their dealings with for- eigners, and though the improvised alilors were not very brave, they were a8 brave as the blockading squadron appeared to be; while the landsmen stoo out the | siege with the utmost heroism, never abandoning | their houses even when riddled with shelis, acting as soldiers when ordered and making flerce sorties upon the besieging army. At the very last they insisted upon honorable terms, and when the} | were granted insisted on the terms being accepted, | met the Centralist eat cheerfully and return | as far as possible to their ordinary occupations, | They have not carried their object, whatever it | was; they have not had a pleasant time of it dur- | ing the Siege and they have lost hundreas of | Irtends and relations, yet they mix with their con~ querers on a periectly amicable footing. Ap- parently they regard the rebellion as an incident | in their lives, disastrous, no coubt, but still an accountable and. rather creditable incident, That also seems to be their con- querors’ opinion, They do not hate them for having fought, they do not despise them for their | cause, whatever it was, but simply regard the whole affair as an incident which is over and in which they have won. Even the sight of the houses Tuined does not produce bitterness, and the for- eigners who have returned seem as safe as if they were at home. So18 the {creign hotel. It 1s true that the junta is said to have been asked by the | British Consul to look alter it, and the British Con- sul was extremely respected because he objected to run away, and saw everybody out of the place, | but what sort of authority was it which was 80 readily and completely obeyed? Even the con- | victs Seem to have been tractable, and the con- | querors, who made no stipulation about them, are not going to inflict any punishment for rebellion, but merely to relegate them to their tasks. | Ali this is very unlike anything that ever takes place in France or Italy, or, indeed, in Spain itsel | where the cities have frequently maniieste great bitterness, or even bloodthirstiness, against the authorities, and recalls to us '@ sentence uttered by some boatmen to | @ correspondent in the very middle of the | siege, that they would rather be beaten by the foreigners or the Carlists than by those execraple people at Madrid. It is conceivably possible that the Cartagenians are not Communists at all, but | just Communalists—that ts, people with a genuine | patriotism extending only to their own cantons, not at all desirous to injure that, but wanting to | Keep that isolated, ana resenting bitterly any attack upon its separateness. To usin England, | with our strong and long descended nationat life, such an idea is almost inconceivable; but it penetrated the ancient world—witness | the histories of Rome and of Jerusalem—it was almust the basis of society in the Middle Ages, es pecially in Italy, and it may Nourish still in Spain, Y | it will be remembered that one object of the French | Revolution was to crush this sentiment out, thas | the charge of federalism was the one which sent | the Girondists to the guillotine, that immense sep- | arations of opinion according to geography and not according to class, still perplex byes? reformers in France, and that nearly every revolt in Spain has been the revolt of a city acting for itself, or of many cities all acting as separate entities. The people are not bad people or plundering people, or idiotic people, but only limited people, © whom their city is their country, awak- ening all of pride or patriotism that they ossess. The Spanish Army is always supposed tn ' England to have behaved badly in the Peninsular | war; but the grand feat—the suppression of Du- | pont’s army at Baylen—was accomplished by | Spaniards alone, and several cities made the mos' heroic resistance oneither side. It would almost seem as if an inconvenient virtue, a spirit of over- | developed localism, were more injurious to Spain than even her highly-developed vices. Modern nations require centralism, because they require large armies, large revenues, large reserves to be completely safe; and Castelar, alter four montha of power, has perceived that as fully as any ‘king; but is it quite fair to wonder that ‘ignorant _men, shut out from tne world as all Spantards are more or less shut | out, should fail to appreciate what to them must | be abstract truths? Of course trey must be com- | pelled to see them. We are not quarrelling for ® | moment with a bombardment indispensable to protect national life, but only trying to under- stand the dominant idea which made it necessary. | And not believing in men omege. into wickedness for its own sake, or perceiving that tnese Cartha- | genians sought mere plunder, we are compelled to believe that some strong feeling lay at the bottom of this revolt. If that is acorrect theory, Spain may yet have a fature, for an idea inconsistent with the facts of the age always dies away, and the railway, the telegraph, and the newspaper, will ultimately do their civilizing work. It is not yet | flity years since Italians of one city called Italians of another Forestiere, and now Italy would | fight for its unity to the death, would surrender | freedom rather than nationality. The same change may occur in Spain, and, if it does, from one of the weakest of States she will become, as it were in a day, one of the most powertul. However de- graded her politicians may be—there are sound | men among them yet—her people evidently can fight and endure, and be temperate in victory or | defeat, We detest the cause for which Galves fought, hoiding national lite essential to the steady | Progress of national prosperity; but if Spain hag | many men, Jike that particular repel, who cannot | write, but can organise men as well as ever Dold, | the baker of Fiorence, could, we cannot believe | that all hope ts lost for Spain. Just now she needa a Dictatorsnip; but Serrano, Carlism, bankruptcy | and most other evils are, alter all, but incidenta in the life of an enduring people. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FROM STARVATION. Captain Max Macher, a very respectable and well educated German, who was driven by hunger | and misery to attempt sulcide, was visited yester- day at the Bellevae Hospital by a reporter of the | Heratp. He denied the report which was pub- | shed in a morning Journal yesterday, and declared | that he had thus far conversed with no reporter of | that or any other paper. Captain Macher, who waa still very ‘eeble, told the story of nis sufferings in | a plain unvarnished manner. He had been three | years in this country, having had to fly his country | for participating in aduel. For a while he made some money by importing laces, &c., in @ smalh | way, but ever since the panic he found it impos. sible to gain a living, Despite the most strennous | efforts to find a situation he could obtain no means | of subsistance, and for the last five or six weeks was exposed to she sufferings of cold and hunger. From Wednesday morning to Friday night he ,; had no food whatever, and was finally driven to suicide “to end all his tortures,” as he said, He had respectable connections in Germany, and hia parents in Breslau, who were well off, would un- | doubtedly send him some money in about four weeks. Now he was without a cent, however, and without decent clothes, and it he could but obtaim some clean apparei and money enough for the next two weeks he would again try to find work. He said the Hebrew Benevolent Society had given him a ticket to go to Boston, which he was unable to use, aud noW his only hope was that the society would take pity on him and send him to the Jew ish Hospital. ‘Captain Macher, who 18 @ Beret seems to be honest and to speak the truth, and t is to be hoped that some of our wealthy and be- nevolent Hebrew citizens will take an interest in his case, Contributions may be sent to Warden Brennan, of Bellevue Hospital. ponies co RELL | TAMMANY COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION, The Tammany Committee on Organization met yosterday at Tammany Hall and organized for the year by the election of Jonn Keily, Chairman; Ed- nnelly, Treasurer, and George W. Mor- arte, wale and Henry D. Purroy, Secretaries, Messrs. Pecer B. Olney, Henry 1. Purroy and George W. Morton were appointed a Committee on | the Kevision of the Bylaws. ‘The protest of the defeated candidates for dele- gates to the General Committee from the Nine feenth Assembly district, constituting the ucket | headed by Joseph J. Marron, was taken up, and | it was decided that the certificate of election awarded by the inspectors to the ticket headed by Thomas O'Callahan was valid and that the pro- | test could not be entertained. The usual routine business of the committee was | transacted and the committee adjourned. BARBAROUS ASSASSINATION OF A OHILD, LovisviL_s, Ky., Feb, 7, 1874. | In Montgomery county, Ky., last Saturday night a band of masked men visited the house of aman named Carter. No one was home at the time but & little son of Carter, aged seven years, who at sight of she men rau towards a neighbor's house. The men fired at the child as he ran, ingicsing wounds from which he died last night. A | paper advises the organization o! a vigilance com dmittee to hunt down the murderera, |