The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1874, Page 5

"THNYKSGIVING IV. BERLIN. Celebration of the Day by Ameri- cans in Germany. Address by Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D. D. BERLIN, Nov. 26, 1874, Thanksgiving Day was celebrated here to-day, ‘the main feature of the celebration being an ad- dress from Rey. Josepn P, Thompson, D. D., on “The Heroic Age of America and Its Legacy.” The reve:end gentleman spoke as follows :— This day belongs to Americans, and surely none ‘Will begrudge them in foreign lands the obser- ‘Vance of @ national festival which brings them guto conscious and Cheerful unison with the miluons of their countrymen at home in the ratetul and adoring recognition of Almighty od, The spirt Of nationulity, in which and through Waicn the peoples are siriving toward a higher ‘orm of Civil and social life, must cause each Dation to respect in every other that observance of patriotic days and Jestivals which it would cherish ior itself, As an American far from home 1 keep 1 remembrance the birthday of Washing- ton, the Fourth of July, the National Thanksgiv- ing, td because I feel thus free to exuibit y Own nationality, I never fail to run ee my American flag in honor of the birthday of the Emperor of Germany, under ‘Whose protection I live, and on olner testal days, in sympathy with the great and noble German nation, which, having done so much for science, Jetters and art, is now, under its new political form, to do its noblest work for the peace of Europe and for the deliverance of civil society from the curse of ecclestastical control. The bet- ter this festival of ours is understood the more will it be appreciated and perbaps imitated also in Europe. Our German triends, however, will get 2B Strange notion OF its history and significance iw they trust to the American correspondents of their own journals jor tnformation touching American ite and institutions. Not long ago I read in a leading newspaper of Berlin a letter trom America describing our Thanksgiving Day. Ol course the writer begun with saying that the Americans have no gemiality. n0 mirthfulness, no Aolidays, no festivals. Tis desolate and gloomy condition of the national mind he ascrived, of | course, to the Puritans, who, he said, would mever allow of any holiday but the Sab- bath, and this they enforced with more than Jewish rigor. Of lite, however, tne President of the United States had nit upon the idea Of a national thanksgiving; and this was so taking, especially with young people, that even the stiff old Purtians of New England were forced to observe it, though they tried to make it as solemn as their Sabbath! This oldest festival, dating from the heroic age o1 America, 1s the best expression of our national spirit, combining into ‘One conception productive enterprise, domestic Jelicity ana religious devotion; for Thanksgiving Day represents tne fruits of industry turned to familly festivity and sanctified by prayer. ‘The Pil- grims were believers; no Haeckel nor fluxley had taught them that man is but a material machine, no Tyndall that prayer is but a powerless supersti- tion, If their beliefs are indeed to be set aside by Materialists as superstition, let us at least be tnankiul that the superstition lived long enough to produce such heroes; and, Jor one, 1 suall’ stand by those heroes ‘till_ materialism shalt produce a race more worthy of my trust and homage. My theme to- day 1s ‘Ihe tieroic Age of America and Its Leg- acy To Be Guarded By Us’’—that which made mea ‘ol culture aud women of refinement willing to suf- Jer persecution, imprisonment, banishment from the comforts of an English home, exile across the ‘sea, cold, hunger, pestilence, death; and all this tor ideas and principles that are to-day tne rich- est treasure and the brightest hope for human- ity—whether you call it superstition or faith—was the stuff or which heroes were made and by which @ nation was nurtured to its manhood. It 4s by the inspiration of that heroic age that the nation has lived through all the changes of the Past, and by conserving this it shall live through ali the commotions of tae present. For myseli, so rooted am 1 in the lessons of this heroic age, that J have no fear of the stability of the imstitutions of ‘the United States, whatever excitements or perils may seem to threaten them. In a lie mot yet long 1 have seen the country Tuined five times by financial panics, only to rise Suain stronger and richer than peiore. In my Doyhood | saw it turned into a military despotism by General Jackson, and now a second time I have seen it turned into a “military despotism” by General Grant, and I have uo douvt it would thrive equaily under the miliary despotism of General Sherman, or General Sheridan, or any other general, except one, whom it could not Burvive, At every Presidential eiection I have geen tue country either actually destroyed througa bribery and corruption or certain to be destroyed af the other party should prevail, and trom 183) to 1860 the Union was dissoived at ieast once during every session of Congress. Yet we still sing with Longfellow :- ‘Thou, too, sail on, O Snip of State! Sail on, O' Union, ‘strong and great! Humanity with all its tears, With all the hopes of fu.ure years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what master laid thy keel. What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail. ana rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, *Tis of the wave and not the rock; *Tls but the flap And not a rent In spite of rock and tempest In spite of ta!se lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Gur hearts, our hopes are ali with thee; Our hearts, our hopes. our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee, are ail with thee! But [ shail be met at once with the taunt, so common in Europe, that Americans have no his- tory; that we are too young to draw motive or | ‘nspiration from the past. Some will ngturally enough coniound the centenary of cur immepend- ence in 1876 with the wooie period of our national hie; but asa people we are older by a third of a conte than the era of toe @reat Elector, and older than the union of Brandenburg and Prussia, Still I snail be told that we have had nu great era of development irom an antiquity hoary with ruins and bung round with traditious. ‘True, the people of the United States cannot trace their origin through those gradations which are said to mark the growth of great peopies from the age of stone; but though we had no iron age we look back to men O01 1ron us Our founders; n0 mythical heroes, but “tuere were giants in those days;” no era of the gods, but there were men who “walked with God; no mailed knights carrying the Crusader’s cross to win the Holy Sepulchre, yet there were pilgrims carrying living Christ to subdue a continent to His Kiugdom. 1s America young’ So the Roman Catholic Caurch taunts Protestantism with its youth—“Your Church dates only irom Luther, ours irom Peter.” But Protes- lantism answers, Ours was not a birth but a res torauion. We recovered the Church, not irom the | hand of Peter but irom that of Christ. And so America cau say the whole past is ours; tor we recovered man {rom oppression, we recovered truth irom tradiuon, we recovered liberty from tyranny. Our development dates from the age when England was resplendent with the names of Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney and Ben Jonson, of Bishops Halli anu flooker, and with the rising glory of Bacon, who made both history and science possivie; irom the age when Germany haa experienced her emanciption trom spiritual toraldom through tne mie throes of the Reformation; from the age when Holland, by the wise counsels and heroic sacrifices of William the silent, had given Europe the example oi a free state; irom the age when calvin had wrought out the sovereignty of God in ordaining, and Arminios the freedom of man in willing ‘was when the seventeenth century had opened ‘under the concentrated light and warmth of these reductive influences in ilterature, In politics, in theology, that the Pilgrims, nurtured in Engiand, domiciled in Holland, set iortn for America, carry- Ing with them the most advanced ideas of Church and of State, and leaving behind them the tradi- tions, the encumbrances, the obscurations of the past. It nas been fitiy sald of them tnat “God Sirted the wheat of the Uld World for this planting of the New.” Of the heroism with which they entered upon their voyage in the Mayflower, witn which they met the hardships of the first winter at Piymouth and the perils irom the Indians, I will not here stop to speak. 1 might go back to the pertis and escapes of the first settiement in Virginia, or come down to the later wars with the Indians and the French; I might follow the course oi emigration ‘Westward; everywhere it is the same story of Neroic Men and women nurturing a nation up to iis manhood. And when the hour of that man- hood cume we see assembled the company of iifty-five men who subscribed twat Declaration of Independence in which they pleaged to each other “tnelr lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor,” signing it with the scaffold in view, Franklin ying, “Now, we must all bang together, or we shali ve hanged separately.” Ihave @ right to give unis testimony. Born in the city of Penn; schooled in the very hau where the Continental Congress had its first devates; accus- tomed to hear trom my father how his grandsire ave nis yet young lue in the bloody deience of idgefleld; accustomed from an elder source to hear the tradition of that ancestral mother who ‘was set up in tne pillory in England for quitting the Establishment and going to a Puritan conven- tical, and for gathering chiluren in her house to Tread to them the Bible that was hidden in her | footstoo!, and who crossed the sea ~ the infant colony of Massachusetts, saying, hough wild beasts and savages are there, there is freedom to worship God,” Born in this atmosobere and ahar- ing this Inheritance, | dare to stand up. in pres- ence of the heroic names and memories of tne Ola World and say, We, too, have had our age of heroes; [| dare to stand before the proudest nobdiiity of Europe and say, We, 100, are of noble biood—aye, the noblest blood of earsh, the blood that Jsreely spent itself tor rinoiple, tor liberty, for man, for God. But itis ime that we should turn to the legacy of this Heroic age. This may be summed up in the three terms—seli-government tn the State, freedom for the Uhnrob, good will toward mankind. ‘The first item of bhip legacy 18 imatituyopal Liberty of ac. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER JU, 1874,—TRIPLE SHEET, Sion, with constitutional unity of administrarion— im other wor local self-government combinea with concer and reguiated unity, providing , equally against centralization and disintegration. ; Fix your thoughts, I pray you, upon these terms and the things that they define; for in these lie the essence, the beanty, the strength of American institutions and the warrant of their perpetuity. George Eliot says:—“Among all forms of mistake prophecy ts the most gratuitous.” Yet I wii! risk one prophecy. No intelligent German, and almost no inteiligent Englishman, expects or desires that his couniry shall become @ Repuvite, I respect the judgment and the feelings of Germans and Eng- isninen; indeed, why should they wish for a change? Yet they are constantly saying, “he United States will become a monarchy or a des- ism.” Now I predict that Germany will ive times sooner and England ten times sooner be- come a Repudlic than the United States wiil be- come a Muvarchy or @ despotism; and, asa man oF intelligence, [ have the same right vo oe believed, when speaking for my country. But | will give reasons :—Why is tt that france and Spain have so oiten failed in the attempt to govern themseives through repubilcan forms ? One cause of tnis fatl- ure ts common to both, the sad necessity for every government 01 Burope of maintaining a huge stan ing army ‘or defence, In times o' public peri or coniusion such an army ts a temptation and an in- strument for some bold or cunning man to sub- vert the liperties of bis country, public 13 safe—First, through thé everlasting fort mutual jeaiousies, and, we may hope, the good Jaith of the greater Powers, But this aside. In France there bas always been a tendency to cen- tralization, to concentrate all government in the capital ; in Spain, on the other hand, a tendency to extreme localization through the jealousy 01 rival provinces. Bus in America local independence and comprehensive unity were combiued from the tirst—the Plymouth democracy the type of the one, the New England confederation of the other, Here in Prussia we have lately seen the national Parlia- ment giving to tne Kreis, or county—almost torc- ing ope it—a larger measure of local freedom. in New England.the State was bullt up from the county, the county irom the township, and this peal from the little school district. ‘thus, frou his very infancy, the American citizen 18 sur- rounded with the mstitutions of Htnerty, which are at the same time its munitions. He is trained to self-government in the least affairs, the affuirs that most nearly touch himself; and ior the larger affairs 18 trained to combination with others in a representative government of powers carelully lumited and clearly defined, ‘that has been our seg in the past, and that is our surety for the juture. Tnat conception of humanity toward which Buckle and Comte and Mill and Spencer have la- boriousiy but ineffectually striven was first pro- ciaimed in the Gospel and first formulated by the Pilgrim tn the Clrch and in the dtate. ‘Ihe sec- ond item of this fegacy is the absolute freedom of religion, The Puritans who came over and set- tled Massaciiusetts Bay were by no means perfect on this point, either in their conception or their practice; but the Ptigrim colony of Plymouth, Made up’ of separatists, founded’ in conscience, warded the rights of conscience. Penn, whe juaker, proclaimed liberty of couscience upon the principle of justice: ‘We Must give the liberty we ask. We cannot be talse to our principles though it were to relieve ourselves; for we would have none to suffer for dissent on any hand.’ Calvert, the Catholic, mpuroRCnen the same religious liverty in Maryland; but, avove all, Koger Williams was at once apostle, prophet and contessor 01 religiocs liberty for all mankind. lt 18 said that Thomas Jefferson derived his first conception of a republican, government from ob- serving & Baptist ehuren; and we know that the fear ol a State churcn bein; onies hastened the Revolution. All honor to ethnology ior what it has done to realize the aMinities of races; all honor to piiilology lor tracing the root aMnities of human tongues; but when we would see both these achievements in their noblest form we must follow the cultured and scholarly Eliot as he leaves his attachea Church and friends in Roxbury, believing that savages could be vetter civilized ae Gospel than by unnom Aes and goes to the Indian settie- ment and sits in grimy, filthy wigwams, that ho May reduce a barbarous tongue to written iorm, and translate into it the Word of God; or we must go to Stockbilaze, where Jonathan Edwards. whose equal ag @ phuosopher we must seek in Kant and then wait a century ior another, divides ms time between the profoundest speculations on the hu- man mind and teaching the Indtans around him toread the Bible, that he may evoke from their dark minds @ spark of tnat glows in him like the seraphim,. America bas humanity, offering to all a home under the pro- tection of equal laws. May! ask your patience a few moments longer while I speak of guarding this rich and precious Jegacy, this glorious heritage Of the heroic age? First, 1n civil affairs must we be more watchfal for the perfect enjoyment and exercise of hberty, J disdain to speak of the necessity of purity at tle polis, for every instinct of honor, of manliness, of seif-protection, must prompt to that. My appeal is for the rescue of liberty (rom the tyranny of ma- jorities, from the tyranny of the press and the tyranny of public opinion, How long shall we be content to vibrate between majorities, now of this party and now of that, each over- riding the other and undoing itswork? [tis not enough that every man has a right to vote—nay, that right alone may be @ peril to liberty itsel!; but every man has the rigt to be reasonably and fairly represented, as to his essential tnterests and wellare, in tne government uf the country. If am arepadiican, What rignt have I to rule iorever a democrat by sheer force of numbers, eniorcing my opinions and my policy without thougit or care for his? if we would not have liberty a mere football in the game of parties we must devise some method of election like that of Iilnois for in- } stance, by which the rights Of minorities shall be fairly consulted and government snall be not must be asserted and firmly held against tue tyranny of the press and of public opinion. We must stand for the right of aman to be true to mimself against the clamor of press or party; we word, manhood, restored to it primitive worth. of sitme; then politicians will not be made vile through being always represented and denounced as vile; shen children will not grow up to think that political success is to be won by tho sacrifice of personal houor. At @ time when 80 large a part of Christendom 13 straining its utmost powers in preparations for war it is hard to be- lteve the saying of President Grant in nis last 1 augural:—“The nations are fast becoming so civil- ized as to teel that there is a better way tosettie their diMcuities than by dghting.” But the nations do feel this notwitnstandiog; they are learning the lesson; the good time 1s coming. On, let it be the proud mission of the United States to give again toe exal J dey of government at home without an army and the settlement of aifficulties abroad without the sword! Oh, come the day when Rea- son and Law shall govern the world and he alone and in song—who bas done most or suffered most Jor the good of bis fellow man! Then in the cycle of history shail the heroic age of America return once more; and there upon that Plymouth Bay, where now the ocean cable links tie Old Worid to the New, shall be seen tue Pilgrim standing with head uncovered, but crowned with heavenly glory, and lips parted not in prayer, but in praise that the Kingdom of Obrist has been established in those “remote parts of the worid” where once this ‘unconscious hero” offerod himself as “a stepping stone unto others for the periormance of 80 great a work.” MINISTER SCHENCK AND THE ENGLISH CUTLERS. The “Great Northern Banquet,’ or cutlers’ feast, of England was given at SheMeld on the 26tn of November with,the usual ¢clat and toasts Of personal honor and national compliment, After dinner the Right Hon. Lord Houghton gave “The United States of America.” He said:—I think I may say that you have accorded to me the second toast of thisevening, In the frst toast, which you gave so admiraoly, you reterred not only to the gracious lady who occupies the throne, liberties, in which we live and enjoy our being. In the second toast, as I assume it, which you have given to me, tt is not only the health of the distinguished diplomist that we are to drink, but that great other England beyond the Atlantic, which represents, and which will represent to times untold, the great English race, the English life, the Engiish manners and the SheMela and America is too notorious for me to speak of. I have an instance before me here to-day. Iam at this present moment enjoying the hospitality, of @ gentieman who owus what he culls the Washington Works, (Hear, hear.”’) 1 remember a littie incident in the lite of thas gen- tleman. I believe he is a much older person than Lam, perhaps twice as oid (laughter), vhough he looks much younger. He had a difficulty with a@ gentleman in America. Uther people would bave gone through a whole course of correspondence; but, Instead, he thought he had better go to ’Frisco at once, and he went juat as if he was hs to Leeds, and in a week or two he settied the dispute. This shows how in your daily life you have that connection with that great country waich | wish you to feel, to understand and to exemplify, by the health you witi give to Genera! Sohenck. (Loud cheers.) MINISTBR SCHENCK’S SPEECH. General Schenck, Uniied States Minister, was loudly cheered on rising to respond. He said :— Mr. Master Cutler, my lords, ladies and gentie- men: It ts utterly impossible for to make ft acknowledgment to so0 for the hearty manner in which you have received the toast to my country, (“Hear, dear.) [tis to me most gratiying that upon the occasion of ret Visit to your town of SheMela_ I should be thus received by the goodly company assembled here to-night. (Cheers) SiemMeid is to me and to my country no new name. We have been accus- tomed—for no one can probably tei how long—to hear of the great centres of tndnstry and of progress in this great country of yours, such as is your town, (Cheers.) Familiar names to ns are Manchester, Birmingham aod shemeld; and well thoy may be—/'Hear.!? The swiss Ke- | esses of the mountatns, und, next, through tne | forced upon the col- | mmortal fire that | been always true to this legacy of @ world-wide | 1or a party, but for the citizen; and, to this end, | } personal liberty of thought, 0! opinion, of action, | union. want character, reputation, personality—in one | ‘Then good and honest men will consent to take | s offices irom which they now shrink as irom a pit | Shall be hailed as hero—to be honored in statue | but to this State of Englana, its laws and | English speech, (Cheers.) The connection between - they are names wbicn carry with them tne very j idea of the greatness, and the wealth. and the wero! England, (Cheers.) I am weil aware ‘Nat not One sing je word that! can ntter wil! aud the good opimion of yourselves (loud lauchter and cheers) and to the loyal contentment wnich Englishmen are at is moment enjoying. | (Cheers,) 1 I gay auything in tegard any country I would prefer to of my own—(laughter)—and to say how that we, too, like yourselves, have sort Of modest power of boastfulness of ourselves— (laughter cheers)—in which I know I snail have your sympa- thies, (Laughter.) 2 ain w aware, gentie- men, that tne toast which you kindly drank—a toast which afords to me additional pleasure in being tendered de- cause it comes irom that true, staunch, tried friend of America in an bour when were str gling jor the integrity of our government—Mou: ton Miiues as he was those days— (cheers)—i am well aware that in offering this toast it 18. not rected to myself personaily, bat 1t is a toast to my country— (cheers)—and as a toast Lo the gov- z e ernment Of the people of the United States from the very bottom of my heart thank yon for it, (Cheers.) There is one | thing Which makes the occasion of my meeuug ou here to-night to me particularly interesting, YOu are perhaps aware that Chis isan auniversary | im one sense in my country, It is more than an anniversary, tt 18 one day of general thanksgiving | for the year, I hoid that, as between Great Britain and the United states of America, | peace is above all the relation that | should be maincaimed between the two countries as a duty, a privilege, a homage, to tne Civiuzation ofthe world. (Cheers.) But, gentie- men, I promised to boast a little. (Laugnter.) We ure your greatest market, in the first piace; and I know that will go straight home to the bearts of the sheffield men. (Laughter and | cheers.) 1 see by the returns of your own | government that during the past year the aggie- | gate of imports and exports with the United | States upon the part of Great Britain have | amounted to £105,000,000 sterling; that is one- sixth of your whole aggregate trade with all the world. (Cheers.) Thatis nearly twice as much a3 you have with the next nation that gives you | her greatest trade—Franc your neighbor. | Then, again, ours is the country where you make your investments. (Great laughter.) Those investments do not always prove to be profitable— | (renewed laughter)—and vet you have made ex- ceedingly large returns, (Chéers.) in the third place, ours 18 the country trom which you draw most Of your bread. In the fourth piace, ours 18 the country to Which your neighbors, your brothers | your children, your friends go for a home, to the number of thousands and tens of thousands. (Cheers.) In the next place, a thing weil worth considering is, we are growing to be rivals of yourselves even in manu actures; for you perliaps are not aware that, while we produce trom the soil of our country oniy something over $2,000,000,000 m value, our manufactures amount to over $4,000,000,008, I mention these things as reasons for & good Paderatanding barween you gpa us. iow, how shall that good tinder- standing ge kept up? By the simplest of ali pro- cesses, Come and see us. (Laughter and cheers.) Come over the Atlantic and make usa Visit. It has come now—vy the enterprise of your ship- builders aud companies more than ours—to be a mere ferry, Come over then, as Lord Hough- ton says Mr. Forster nas been recently, in order that you may return and report to your country- men. My word for it, the more we know of you and the more you know of us the better we shall like each other And the better it will be for us ail, (Loud cheers.) Come over in 1876, (Laughter.) It you will do that, I really entertain confidence, in barmony with my friend, Lord Houghton, that these two great kindred Eng!ish speaking nations can togetber, if they will or need, stand against the world, (Loud cheers.) MEETING OF *LONGSHOREMEN. Reviewing the Recent Present Situation as Several Committees. About 900 of the ‘longshoremen of New York Strike—The Reported by assembled last evening in St. Peter’s Hall, on | the corner of Cedar and Church streets, Brooklyn sent some delegates, Hobo. | ken sent @ few only and Jersey City | sent none. The object of the mecting, as stated | by the President, Mr, Roger Burke, was to take a | general view of the whole state of affairs, to see how many members of the union were now at work, how many were out of employment and how many were so indigent as to require help from the funds of the organization. The strike bad been in active existence now since the 16th day of November last. Very few members of the union had proved themselves consequently the strike of the men had been a decided success far, The President furthermore stated that at feast three-fourths of the members were now engaged in regular employment on all steamship lines save those on which the Walah Brothers acted as stevedores, The result of the meeting would be a more periect harmony among the members and a more reasonable inter- course with the merchants of the city. in accordance with tue solicitauon of the union some days ago a commit- tee of five previously appointed by tie Seamen’s Association handed in their report to the chairman, Mr. Caurcnil. This report showed | that the aloresaid association were willing and giad to aid the ‘longshoremen, and promised, if taken into the organization, to act in per- fect accordance with the laws of The Committee on Press Matters re- ported that they had furnished ‘the requisite | advertisements to the Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston papers, a8 ordered at a previous mecting, waruing tie unemployed of those cities tu keep wway from New York on account of the strike, and assuring them that such a course | would be finaily advantageous to them, The Committee on Outrages, Arrests, [mprison- ments and Ball reported that no action had been recently taken, for the simple reason tndt nove of them now were confined in prison or | in any jeopardy. The chairman congratulated the orgauizauion upon the gocd conduct of the men during the strike, and stated that this Was the best key to their success. ‘The Brooklyn men were reported as receiving the Tegulat rates at present, but in many cases green hands were employed, and with these unqualified Nongshoremen the work of the companies who em- ployed them was progressing slowly. The ques. tion arose as to whether the present stevedores (outsiders) employed on the vartous steamships could be allowed under the present circumstances to hold out in antagonism to the union. A discus- sion ensued which showed that the greater num- ber of stevedores had already surrendered to the demands of the men, and that it was impossible for them to hold out. Mr. Westman stated that but few calls bad been made tor Money, and the President furthermore stated that only $500 had been paid out to unemployed men, One delegate said that a stevedore who could not act according to the ideas of the members ought tobe removed. This sug- gestion was humorously discussed and finally de- cided in the affirmative. Another delegate stated that divers were actuall employed in rescuing goods which had been thrown overboard, owing | | to the incapacity of the non-union men, | i SAILOR STRIKERS IN PROCESSION. about Yesterday forenoon seven hundred sailors, who have becn on a Strike for some ume, | formed in procession in Franklin square and marched through several streets in the lower part of the city, preceded by a band and police omMcers. There were a considerable number of fags and banners—the latter with inscriptions condemning the “Shipping act” and the Com- missioner appointed under tt for this port. The conduct and bearing of tae men were unexcep- | tionadle. The marshal was Mr. William Churchill, who had as assistants Messrs, Wiliam Hughes and Henry Richards, The demonstration was under the auspices of the United Seamen's Association, Prior to the procession a meeting of tue association was held in East Broadway, at which several addresses were delivered and the views of the sailors expressed. It was stated that | = the Shipping Commissioner construed the law in ao arbitrary and ovpresvive manner; that he looked solely to the matter of adding to his al- ready large income, and that instead of pain @ bonefit the ofice operated most unjustly towar¢ satiors. The requirements of the law were ig- nored, and men were shipped from all sorts of pee and ut all hours of the day and night. | joreover the spectal deputies of the Commis. | sioner, it was charged, receiyed unauthorized | large lees or bonuses for furnishing crews to ves. | | | sels, and that omy sucn boarding houses as stood well in the estimation of the Commissioner were allowed the privilege ot farnishing men to Amort- } can vessels. It was unanimously resolved to peti- tion Congress for the repeal of the Shipping act. Another alleged grievance was the State law reguiating the granting of licenses to satlors’ | boarding Louses, and it Was resolved to ask the | Legisiature to repeal it. At the Shipping Commisstoner’s oMce in Cherry street yesterday forenoon business was progress. ing as usual. There was @ fair attendance of sailors tn the reading room and tn the offices up Stairs waiting foremployment. The cierks sta‘ed that the strike which took place a short time since was nearly Over, but there was no lack of men during its continuance. The supply now was greater than the demand, and the men were en- tirely satisfied with the new rates of wages. On the other hand the leaders of the strike insist that they and their thousands of feliow members are every day wronged by the Commissioner, and that they rely on Congress and the Legisiature to do them justi SUICIDE, speak | | he started. The soilowing is a summary of the miles he walkea beiore going to sleep :— renegades to the princtples of the society, and | ‘longshore- | thus | the | | felt that by so doing he could do with a sleep Kattarina Richter, a German woman thirty- three years of age, Who lived at No, 44. Past | Fiith atreet, on Wednesday evening, while lavor- ing under temporary aberration of mind, cour mitted suicide by swall green, whitch she had procured jor the parye Coroner Kessier Was notified to noid an ine over the remains. Deceased had been ia pocr hear’) —for | heath for 4 jong ume, ig & Quantity of Paris | | great of Edwards’ iriends and sympathizers that THE LONG WALK. Professor Judd Still on the Track and Con- fident of Suecess. The Number of Spectators Increasing. The physical and mental strain that Professor Judd has undergone during the past three days had not yet Worn Dim out, and he walked yester- day with a firmer tread than he displayed on the second day of the trial, The periect condition of the man isMow beginning to tell, although many. contend that iis muscular deveopment is rather too large to assist Him asa walker, fe continued walking on Wednesday evening tn the presence of several hundred spectators, until 12h, O4m, 3s, When he stopped and retired to his room, im the middie of bis 192d mile, and, feeling sleepy, was undressed and put to bed, Before lying down he took ten drops of a preparation recommended by Dr, Budd, his medi- cal adviser, which sent him off in a quiet sleep. He was awakened a few minutes alter tree A. M., and, after being rubbed, was brought on the track, looking fresher and better than he has been since He commenced walking yesterday morning at 3H3A. M., and at once struck into a good gait of about @ mile in 14 minutes, which he kept up for about tnree miles, He made his first five miles in 1b. 16m, 56s,, and that includea a short stop of tiree minutes and a half that he made to fix his shoes. He livened up considerably on hts 200th mile, making the seven laps in 13m. 21s, In the next mile he made a short rest of six minutes, and had his oack and body rubbed. He then started fresh, and made his next Mile in 14m. 383. He stopped in the mid- die of his 205th mile and ate his breakfast. He aid not have avery good appetite, but appeared to relish some botled sago, He ate very little meat and drank a half cup of tea, He walked very steadily for the next five miles, making the dia- tance in about 1h. 20m. A number of spectators had by this time dropped in and he began to im- prove his gait, making the next three miles in 1dm. 273., 14m. 238, and 13m. He then asked to have some of the reports in the morning papers read to him, and @ gentleman took the HERALD and read the account pubiished tuerein aloud as he waiked alongside, which seemed to relieve the Professor very much, He felt very confident ot his own powers of endurance, and said that now he had stood the strain of the first three days he felt sure be would last out and success- Jolly complete his task, At 10h. 16m. he stopped and was thoroughly rubbed down by @ Turkish bath operator, which greatly improved his con- dition, He also changed his shoes and stockings, and had his teet bataed. He then walked tivo niles without resting, and at 1h. 16m. he stopped eighteen mtnutes on the track and ate his dinner. He was complaining & good deal about the track, saying that it had soddened down and that there was no springto it. Some shavings were sent lor; but belore they arrived he ordered a boy to loosen the dirt with a rake so as Lo soften it ior his icet, He ate a remarka- biy good dinner, cleaning plates, dishes and cups that nad been pleatiully supplied with rare roast beef, potatoes, boiled corn, boiled sago, tea and brown bread. He started immediately aiter his dinner and struck a pretty Jair gait of about a nue in fifteen minutes. At two P. M. Gtimore’s band arrived, and wen the music started Judd increased nig speed and made his next mile in a little over thirteen minutes. Mr. Stafford, of the Athletic Club, was walking with him most of the morning and cheered him up with his com pany and conversation, as also several other mem- bers of the same organization. He walked his next five miles, reaching his 230th, at 3h. 19m. 158., on an average of about 14 minutes, which was showing considerable improvement, Just bde- fore completing his 230th miie, nowever, the Pro- fessor again indulged in a short rest on his cot, on the track, of lom. 18s., during which he changed is more shoes and resumed socks, He then once weary way, and made ., @uring which ne stopped. 2m. 48. to HX his shoes, which had been badly tied, The next five miles showed a somewhat bud average, but this was owing to the necessity arising of ireqnently stopping to arrange his shoes, which every now and again seemed to get somewhat uacomiortable (rom the dirt and saw- dust of the track getting into them. In the middle of his torty-third mile Judd retired to his room tor change of clothes and sup- per. The latter consisted of rare-cooked mutton ps, tea, toast and sago. This occupied htm He toed the scratch opposite the judges’ stand again at oh. 54m. 108s, He walked bia 230th mile in 14m. 45s, When he siowed up a littie for the next four, when he seemed to limber up again and push out ise legs with more vigor, covering his next four or five miles on an average of about i4m. lis. to the mile, About half-pasc seven o’clock the numoer of spectators had greatly increased, and among those present were noticed several of the first fumilies of the city. This sbpesteg to have a good effect on the spirits of the Protessor. ‘The band, too, put in an appearance about this time and starting out with some lively airs set Judd travel- liug around bis course at & gait of a little over | fourteen minutes to the mile, the 246th being recorded on the judges’ book at 8a. fim. 428, Judd appeared at this time to be as well a8 ever, and looked capable of endur- ing forever. He said, whem guestionea on the subject, that he was sure to make bis walk, ana would be willing to stake hig money and thus bace ‘up his own opinion. He also said be was walking somewhat slowly in order to rest himsell, as he of an hour or two at the thus save what he calls his locomotive powers ior his efforta at the Inder end ofthe week. There yy 80 far to be but little doubt that Professor Judd will not only beat Westou's time but make the 500 miles he started for. The 246th mile was completed at Oh. 3m. 10s., when he rested for about 40 seconds, in order to drink some beef tea, He then started again and was to continue to walk untli he coinpietea nis 00th mile, When he intended to sleep for one nour | and a half. ‘The following is the time summary of each mile since he recommenced his task yesterday morn- most, and A LIGHT WEIGHT LOVE FEAST. The Lost Infants at Harry Hill's | Brave Billy Eawards Bids Goodby to | the Ropes and Stakes Forever=Arthur Chambe: and His Benetit—The Elite of the Hard-Fisted Assembled Together | To Take a Last Look—Homeric Speech | of Mr. Hill. In the vicinity of Houston and Crosby streets yesterday afternoon it was noticeable that a large crowd had gathered, chiefly consisting of young men, with @ Clean shaven aspect, and having brawny shoulders and large spaces between their eyes across the forehead. In and aroand Harry His Variety Theatre there was also a large | number of persons, ail of the male sex, | many of whom were evidently of te re- | spectabie class and wearing nice clothes | and in many cases diamond pina. The occasion of ail this crowd of & complimentary benefit which was to be tendered to Arthur Chamoers by the itiends of the pugiiss, and aigo there | was to be a presentation of a magnificent silver belt, valued at $400, to the little light weight | etor of Beacon Park, Dultt for the occasion, and was enclosed by Tropes, after the manner of the fistic arena. Back in the wine room, up stairs, there was a gathering of distinguished persons, or peopie who fancied that they were distinguisned. Among these peo- ple the boxers moved in their shirt sleeves, and they were watched, a8 @ cat does her kittens, lovingly and fondly, by old “Bill” Tovee, the vet- eran master of ceremonies. ‘Bill informed the writer that he was $200 in debt, and that he wished the public to know that he would have a benefit before the holidays, after which old ‘Bill’ will invest in a fourteen pound goose, AN ABLE-RODIED WOMAN. Sitting at a table in the wine room waga fine healthy and largely iimbed woman, the famous Mary Colson, who wetghs 185 pounds and has not anounce of superflaous fesh,on her body, Miss Colson was, & few years since, one of the beanties of the “Black Crook,” and 1t is sald that she is & terrific hard hitter with che gloves, She said yes- terday ‘I uate to see young men dancing around pretending to spar, api | want to see them bit each Otwer real hard, George, Besides, I would like to have @ chance to spar with some of them mysel!, and | bet you that 1 would be able to take care Of mysell,”” Just at this moment Harry Hill entered the room, and observing that tne graceiul and strong armed Miss Colson was smoking a Prizna Donna, he cried out to her, “Oh, don’t smoke to-day, my gal; we have the best Jamilies trom Murray ‘Ili ln the ’ouse, and it don’s do, you know.” Miss Coulson tossed ner cigar in the replace and Bill Tovee took off bis ‘blue Belcher” to loan to @ young man who was about to box. A large pumber of the “distinguished” people came up stairs to look at the handsome belt, which was made of solid silver, weighing over four pounds, and was thirty-three inches in circumference, The performance began with song by & “young kid,” as Harry calied him, who tmiormed the assembiage that they never would miss the water until the well ran dry, a fact which is patent to the Most ill-constructed mind, . Then there wasa fancy dance by Miss Colson, who received much appiause irom the farmers, Woo Dad come ali the Way Irom Flushing to see the show. There were severai most ciegant ‘“set-tos,”? as the young men present called them, when tne gloves and spar- ring was made vetween Fields and Leonard, two youngsters, who went at each other like tigers, and seomed anvious to devour each other. Then “Seddon’s Mouse,” alittle Diack eyed, ratusn looking boy and another youth, pamed Joun Kelly, ventured their sxill. George Seddons . and Patsy Hogan, Mike Co- burn sand Edward Mullahan, Patsy O’Hara and Dan Dougherty foliowed each other im rapid suc- cession, aud there was some excellent sparring between Coburn and Mallahan, and terrific bard work between O’Hara and Dougherty, in which the latter received three falls in @ good-natured manner. Then there was @ lull, aud Harry Hill sung out, ‘“ilorder, gents; Ove minutes for re- freshments, and then we'll ave the wind hup be- tween Hedwards and Harthur Chambers.” The time having elapsed Billy Edwards appeared on ke stage in flesh-colored tights, ana looking a3 andgoiue #3 @ picture, and was followed by Ar- ur Chambers, aiso looking tn eXcelient trim. parr Mill iutroauced tue two sparrers as fol- ows t— SPEECH OF MR. HARRY HILL. “GENTLEMEN—This his Billy Hedwards, 126 puns; the nother his Harthur Chambers, 120 puns— botn puble young men. Prize figntingisa like the third term—nhit is their hole; bus boxing 1s not. And which you are aware Billy Hedwards is a boxer, Hut is the manly hart, aud which you har aware his a crime when you takes a knife or a pis- tol Hany mao nis liable to shoot is friend, and then what does he say? Why, he sare, “My God! look at what I have done!” Now, Billy Hedwards ig a young man has halwaysa respected nisseli— and you mustn’t mind my grammar, un- accustomed as I ham to public speaking—he know that yourself; and which you are haware, he wos @ mechanic and getting good wages, and [ have known him teu or fifteen years since he came to this country, and ’e bis a square young fellow. (Cheers,) _And which you are haware, he did not want to fight at hall, out some of his [riends Wanted im to do it and some noble gents have sub- scribed to give him @ beit, I have known Biily Hed wards 800 halways knowed him to be square; and I ‘ave done business with him, and the best way to know @ man is when you know him in. business, and then on know him sure. (Cheers,) Aad now it hismy widvice and the hadvice of the other friends of Billy's, and which we kuow ’e ‘a3 lots of iriends, and if’ehas any henemies’e couldn’t nave any Bil tri luck @nd prosperity is the prayer oi ’Arry ‘ill.”” (Cheers.) GIVING THE BELT. Then Harry piaced the belt around Edwards’ waist, and, uinid much oheering alter the belt was taken off, Arthur Chambers and Billy Ed- Wards bad @ magnificent sparring in which it was hard to tell whicon wus the etter man. Much amusement cuased Chee a) entertainment by the appear- auce of Netse the stage witn a cigar box in one outstretched hund and a glass of gin and seltzer in the other. He oufered to spar Bill Tovee, and the latter “put up” his hands for the munstrei, who instantly dis- appeared bebind the scenes. ‘Then Harry Hill av- Seymour, who could not be found, and finally Eph Horn, in answer to an appeal, fell over the stage and offered to spar with Seymour, out in detult of the latter appearing kph pus ou a minstrel look of at Bill ‘Tovee, who, meaning business, advanced on Mr. Horn, The minstrel, seeing that ‘Tovee was in dead earnest, who did not know Bon Horn, the latter took flignt, and couid not be found any more than Mr. Seymour. ‘The silver belt presented to Edwards by his friends con- tained the following inscription:—"Presented to the world, December 10, 1874, at Harry Mill’s Vertety Tueatre, New York city, by his many friends, Who appreciate his manly qualities, and who belteve Dim without @ peer as @ light weignt boxer,” Ndwards has now left the ring forever, and lexves hosts of friends, who are giad to see him enter new path in life, He will travel with Chambers and give athletic entertainments througbout the country, TURF DISPUTES. Meeting of the Board of Appeals of the National Trotting Association—Thira Day’s Proceedings. ‘The Board of Appeals of the National Trotting Association continued its session yesterday at the Everett House. There were present Colonel U. W. Woolley, chairman, Cincinnati; ©, J. Hamlin, Buffalo; Gates H. Barnard, Troy; Edwin Thorne, Thorndule, N. Y.; William Edwards, Cleveland; Lewis J. Powers, Springfield; T. J. Vail, secretary, follows: No. 335. Aug. B.S, Foote, Washington, D. ©., va. Massiilon Driving Park, Masstilon, Oblo—Appeal trom an order expelling him.—Continued to March meeting. No. 337. John E, Turner, Philadelpni: Park Association, Utica, N. Y.—Appeal from deci- sion. of jadges of a race.—Continued to March meeting. No. 338. William R. Armstrong, Detroit, Mich. (ex parte) —Application for removal ol penalty of expulsion officially ratified Marca 13, 1874.—In this case the Michigan State Agriouitural Society, which expelled Armstrong, 8ubseguently passed a resoiution recommending him to leniency and Lue removal of the penalty. Kelerred to executive session of Board, No, 339, R, P. Stetson, Philadelphia, vs. Ggien Driving Park, Ulyde, N. Y.—Appeal irom an ofder suspending him and bay mare Susie Kuria—don- tinued to March meeting. No, 340, R. P. Stetson, Philadelphia, vs. Syracuse Driving Park, Syracuse, N. Y.—Appeai from an der suspending him apd bay mare sie Kurtz.— Continued to March meeting. No. 541. H. W. Howe vs. D. W. Beckler, propri- joston, Mase,—Compiaint ontinued to March and application for an order. meeting. No, 342. James Flanagan, New York (ex parte Application lor a decision respecting a dispute: ! rec f ft] lack gelding Vulcap.—Vontinued to fcord tte stig 6 ty House, Galesburg, Il, vs. St. Lows Agricultural aud Mechanical Association, St. Louis, Laer hoe trom decisionol judges.— Continued to March meeting, No. 308. Harrisburg Park Assoctation, vs. F. A. Burr, Washington city, D. C.—Appiication tor an Jee on the sorrel mare Lady Patterson.—Referrea to executive session of Board on the papers sub. mitted. No, 273. B. S. Knowles, Worcester, Mass., vs. Worcester Agricultural Society and W, M, Man- from decision of judges aud ciaim that Mr. Mau- doli’s eniry Was ineligible by reason of prior sus- cnsion, Vontinued to March meeting. George C, Dewhurst, Worcester, Mass., ester Agriculiural Society afta W. M. Wo peal irom decision of judges and claim thas Mr. andell's entry was ineligible by reason of prior suspension, Continued to March teasing. ingston ADs No, 32 . W. Fleming, New York. Va. Driving Park Association, Kingston, N. peal trom order suspending pim and bay mare Lady Trimble.—Temporarily rein: ed by having made the proper deposits with urer 0; Na- tional Association. Referred to executive session of Board, No, 181, Patrick Clark vs. Catskill Park Associ- ation—Application for remo { penalty of expul- | sion imposed upon himself and horse Joe Clark.— This case was continued Jrom a lormer meetin, champion of tie world, “Billy? Edwards, who, it was understcod, would take his leave of the ptize ring forever. Inside of the theatre and in the barroom and on the stairways the jam was so | Js Was almost impossibie to Move hither or saiiwer, Murphy oow owns horse be relieved from the paroled 80 lon: ing. All the money won trom the Catskilt Drivin: Park as been returned and the penalties atvacne: se duiy paid, Taken under advisement. 5S Hiram Woodrum. Boston, Mass. v: to the No. 4 No. Driving Park, Syracuse, N. order suspending him and the sorrel colt Jerald for non-payment ofentrance money.—! 18 @ minor, appeared and claime Yas haiways reapected ‘isself as @ man and you | iriends without faviug hepeimies. Aud | hope that } Hedwards will settio down to work at his | eé, which 18 &@ mechanic, and may ie have | match, | was , ymour in full. fighting costume on | ; county, yesterday, nouuced that Seddons' Mouse would spar with i rage and rausied | Wiliam Edwards, the champion light weight of | | he | engendered, | with Lachaume. | possivie adverse decision of the courts, the latter | conveyed she property indicated to a tira party, | and hein turn reconveyed it to tne wife of La- | chaume. The son-t Hartford, The proceedings of the session were as | order of suspension for hon-payment of entrance | dell, Worcester, Mass.—Appeal and clatm.—Appeal | vs, Mandell, Worcester, Mass.—Appeal and claim.—Ap- | Days succeeded days, weeks elapsed, and yet he held July 14, 1874, at which time the penalty of ex- pulsion was revived against Clark, the temporary | reter extended to him expiring by limitation, John Joe viark, and seeks snes se stand- | event. A® yet nothing is known as to 5 | Astage, having an excellent smooth noor, was | Deerfoot Driving Park, Wiliam McMahon, pro- prietor, Parkville, L. .—Appeal from an order Suspending him and the brown gelding Falmouth Boy.—A‘idavits were submitted irom C. W. Huntington, owner of Falmouth Boy, Hiram Woodruff and otuers, denying that the horse was Hable, asthe race did not fill, and the ten per cent of the entrance, which'was enclosed by check, was returved for this reason, Then another race was “cooked up,” and Falmouth Boy entered without consent, Mr. McMahon, upon examina- Lion, denied ail this, and explained the circum- stances connected with the event, and claimed that the entrance was due, Will be decided tn ex- 8, Toledo, Ohio, vs. Deerfoot m McMahon, preprievor, Park: L, .—Appeal {rom an order suspending him and the brown gelding Vanity Pair.—vVounsellot Whitehead for appesiant submitted aMdavits claim- ibg that the race was not filed according to the and his suspension was @ piece of assump- and gross in. ice, Counselior Thomas ap- peared for the réspondent, who, upon examina on, Leid that the race was in strict conformity with the rules, and that the entrance muney ought Robe paid, Itwill be decided in executive ses- No. 315, Wid & Burr, Martinsburg, W. Va., 8 Washington Driving Association. Washington, D. C.—Appeai {rom an order suspending Wild & Burr and the sorrel getding Arthur Wild for non-pay- ment of entrance fee.—Voluminous affidavits were submitted by the association, and Mr. Burr ap- peared in belalf of the appellants, New matter eing introduced the case was continued to the March term, in order that botn parties may be properly notified, and then be preparea to submit the cause for final action. No. 289. Wild & Burr, Martinsburg, W. Va., vs. Southern Onio Fair Association, Dayton, Onio— Appeal from an order suspendin: an the appellants the sorrel gelding Arthur Wild for non-pay- ment of entrance fee.—In this case it seems that Wild & Burr desired to enter their horse in the three minute and 2:50 purses, as above, when they received notice that the entrance would not ve received unless the money accompanied it. ing the entry was not accepted, the appellants made other arrangements and 80 notified the Southern Obio Find- fagements, and r Assoviation, the suspensions were whoily unjustifiable, decided in executive session. 52 Wm. Kishop, New York vs. Syracuse Y.—Appeai trom an hen will hop, who that Jonn Boughrum used his name without his knowledge in the entry. Taken onder advisement, No, 263. James McKee, Patersou, N. J. (ox parte)—Application for removal of penaity of exe egy imposed on him by the Gosneu Driving ark Association.—Set down for special hearing by the Board at ten o'clock this morning. No. 27 (Miscellaneous). Valley Point Agricul- tural and Mecbanical Society, Cuba, N, Y., vs. Alexander Carpenter, James McKee, Paterson, N. J.; James Irving, New York, and the black stallion W. H. Ripley—Evidence on which an order of pulsion was issued.—It seems that the above a: Ciation st their fall meeting this year gave @ 2:40 urse, in which there was entered the hors ‘assaic, Subsequently it was ascertained thas Passaic was none other than the black stallion W. H. Ripley, who haa a prior record, according to evidence furnished, {n 2:35, Among the amiaavits presented by the Valley Park Association was that o! O. R, Sackett, of Suspension Bridge, N. Y., woo swears to the recognition of the horse; that of J. A. Phillips, who says that Ripley belougs to James Irving, and that he entered him at Warwick under another nam bus fia not start him: his best record 1s 2:35, which he received a6 Prospect Park, September 10, 1872, and he also trotted at middletown tn the 2:34 race, September 29, 1874. William Mack, of New York, also testified to the reeognition of Passaio a8 being Ripley, and that he had a better record than 2:40 at the time of the contest in Cuba, James McKee appeared aa one of the respondents and asked the Board to postpone its hearing until this morning, when he ‘Will be ready for trial, also promising the attend- ance of Mr. Irving. ‘The Board at this juncture went into executive session. ENGLISH HORSE NOTES, Lora Portsmouth’s brood mare Cacauca was sound dead in her box on the 2lst of November, having cast twin colts by Parmesan. Cachuca (folded in 1860) was by Fandango, dam La Victime, by Flatcatcher. ‘Among other improvements that are likely to distinguish the next racing season from its prede- cessors at Newmarket is a Dew race: to be called the Dewharst Plate, of 300 sovs. proposed to be given by Mr. T. Gee, Newmarket, for two-year- olas, to be ran on Thursaay in the Houghton meetings. The distance of this race is proposed to be oVer the last seven furlongs of the Kowicy mile. THE MURDEROUS LITIGANT. A Weatchester County Crime Revived= Trial of August Lachaume for Agsault With Intent to Kill, at Yonkers. The trial of August Lachaume, tndicted for as- ault with intent to kill James P. Sanders, by shooting bim twice, inthe City Court room, at | Yonkers, last Jung, was commenced in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at White Plains, Westcnester before Justice Pratt and the Justices of Sessions. As the particulars of the crime were fully re- | ported in the HBRALD at the time itis only necea- sary here to succinctly epitomize the murderous assault and the circumstances leading directly thereto. The prisoner, @ native of France, who followed the occupation of a florist and market gardener at Yonkers, had become violently op- posed to his daughter and her husband, the family feud extending through years, resuiling in con- atant litigation over a piece of property which the son-in-law claimed a share of, having, before the 1 teeling was been working in partnersnip To secure himself against any ww subsequently commenced en action to have the alleged Iliegal conveyance set aside, apd the case was transierred to a reieree for the purpose of eliciting testimony 1a regard to 1. On June 80, of the present year, a hearing was had in Yonkers, before tne releree and, after tnree or four hours had been consumed in ete hn ba oe an adjourn- ment was agreed upon. before the parties nad arisen from their seats, bowever, Lachaume arew loaded revolver, and, approaching Sanders from hind, fired at him twice, both bullets taking fect—one in the neck, near the shoulder, and the other penetrating the back and traversing the abdominal cavity, Without, however, touching a vital part. Tne victim of Lachaume’s wrath, it ‘will be recollected, was the opposing counsel in the oase, Since the incarceration of the prisoner his counsel have applied for a commisston to examine into Lis mental condition, which was set forth as being of such a character as to render him irre- sponsiple for his acte on the day that the crime was committed. Accordingly Justice Tappen ap- | " wi % va. Ctica | pointed @ commission, composed of two physt- olans and & prominent lawyer, who, after hear- ing @ voluminous amount of testimony in the mat- ter, reported against the theory of insanity. For the prosecucion County Judge uifford, the reteree, was Called, and he testified to the shoot- ing in the courtroom, detailing in substance the account aiready given in the HERALD, bis tes+ timony belng corroborated by Armand R. Stain- ack, WhO Was acting a8 interpreter on the occa- sion, The precise character of the wounds was also descrived by the medical men who were calied in to attend the suderer, after which the prosecu- tion rested, The delence set up was that of insanity, ana to suvsrantiate this theory several witn es were piaced upon tie stand, some of whom testitiea tuat the prisoner had had @ severe attack of | typhotd fever in September, 1873, since which time nig actions had been strange and his manner Unusual and eccentric. The prisoner's son deposed that his father had been in the habit of carrying @ pistol during the last two years. The Physician who attended Lacnaume during wis tl. hess testified that the nervous system of the prisoner seemed then to be deranged, but he could hot say that he had seen bim oiten siuce the time of his liness, ‘The tylal was still in progress at a late hour iast | evebing. ‘LOST ONB FOUND, Return of the Missing Youth Frederich Green to His Home—Gencral Rejoicing in Hartford. Hartrorp, Conn., Dec. 10, 1874, Just seven weeks ago to-motrow Frederick Green, son of General and Mrs. Wiliam H, Green, of this city, disappeared mysteriously, The Hex: ALD at the time published an account of the occurrence and of the measures taken to ascer- tain the boy’s whereabouts. Since then constant effort has been made to find the lost one aid not return, The anxiety of bis friends in- creased, and the fond parents were almost dis- tracted in the tear that he might have met death at the hands of some assassin, when las evening the long suspense, the anxiety and sorrow which have made life almo: burden to those were reiieved by a r oo an oe ‘ai md just at you reen F sate and. sound. Genera! Swan, son-in-law of General Green, immediately Oe ceeded to Niantic, and the missing youth reached home to-day. THE NEWS OF HIS RETURN spread rapidiy, and the whole city seems to Jols in the giadness of the parents, apon whom have been showered gongratulations on the nappy weeks young Green bas been during his sevea | ausence or the reason why he so suddenly de | parted,