The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1875, Page 7

THE SMALLPOX HOSPITAL, Sisters of Charity Nursing the Victims. A REFORM AND A RELIEF. ——_— The Noble Ladies’ Journey to the Sufferers. TENDERNESS IN PLACH OF NEGLECT. | The six Sisters of Charity who were selected to take charge of the Smalipox Hospital on Black+ Weil's Isiand are now actively enguged tn per-ect- ing the arrangements of that sorrowful abode in socordance witn the best plans for such an insti- tution, and have nearly completed the preliml- bary changes which the imperfectious of the old system made necessary. So much was known of the Smallpox Hospital irom the many compiaints made against it by patients who by @ miracle had eacaped the usual fate of all who had been doomed to enter its portals, and from some oMictais who bad grown disgusted with the terrible neglect of the patients, that the public looked upon the place with a feeling of terror and witha pity for the un‘ortunate stricken inmates, whica was deep- ened by tne knowledge that it was impossible to procure permanent relief. THE SYSTEM AS IT WAS. The manner in which the hospital was conducted left the patients completely at the mercy of a set of nurnes, whose only idea of their duty consisted in being sent back to the punishment in the Pent- tentiary, from which they “had been relieved to | perform the tender and painstaking ofMces of - waiting upon the siok and the aying. It became s00n @ mere matter of routine for this class of persons to act as nurses, and it may easily be Imagined how easy it was to continue a system by which an apparent attention to duty was the cover for & most unscrupulous avoidance of the comfort and cage ol the patient,in order to se. cure for themselves the idleness and laziness which before they were sent to prison was doubtless the main cause of their ever being sent there. Even some of the doctorson the island ald not escape the charge of being remiss in their duty of secur- ing @ reformation, abd of insisting that the pa- tients should be attended to under every circum- Stance. It was repiied on the part of the doctors that, they did not see now anything better coula be done; that the prisonets selected for the duties of nurse weré the best they had on the island who were willing to risk the chances of disease, and that no very particular neglects were noticeable so far as they bad observed, This last polut of explanation by the medical men was Gouptless true, for the system already referred to enabled the attendantsto put in @ good appear. ance when the doctors were going the rounds, There was, ofcourse, &@ paid matronin the place, buteven she could not be always watchiul, and was compelled to acknowledge the situation. It | \s not so long go, perhaps @ couple of years, sinc? @ matron of the institution, who had just leit 1, unfolded a shocking i} tale in regard to the conduct of the hos- pital. Her allegations were flerce; but they Were not near so astounding nor half so appalitng | as that which aroused the whole community in | the case of Eliza Collins, the poor emigrant girl, » Who, 1+ 1s asserted, was outraged, wien in a state bi convalescence, by the keeper called the *Major.’? Many of the charges Which nad been made age the nurees and otoer attendants were passed o lightly on tne simple plea that the poor creatures | were obliged to take stimulants to support them in their arduous toil, and that, if Jault were to be found for this, who would supply the remedy ? put the outrage alieged to have been perpetrated by the ‘Major’? upon the poor sick girl had vo such excalpatory reson tor its mitiga- on, There was no drunkenness in this case, but there Was a shameless attempt made to cicar bim Bitogetner of the consequences o1 the offence by two gentlemen holding official positions, the lame- ness O! Walch was Well developed, though tno ac- gused keeper escaped any adequate punishment. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction were aroused, the Commissioners of Emigration also got stirred up, but, better than all, the sense | Of tue community was eniisted, aud, as it was un- mistakubly felt by aliconcerned, it became hope- tul that at last something might be doue, HOW BELAKY CAME, Some months since Dr. stephen Smith, -of the Board of Health, cailed on the Rev. Dr. McGlvon, Pastor of St. Stepnen’s churcn, Twenty-eiguth Greet, asking bim to co-operate in endeavoring to gecure the services 0! the Sisters of Charity as nurses. Dr. McGlynn readily cobsented, but ex- pressed A regret that there seemea to be objec- Mong, ost Unreasonable in every way, to have the Sisiers admitted to the hospitals in the city whieh Were not under the especial care ol somo Oatholic organization, ‘The injustice done to these | ious women by this exclu-iveness Was «reat, lor | it Bupposed Necessarily that instead ot performing the duties undertaken by them and which consti- tuted in the main their miesion they would be pre- Judiced against non-Catholics und consequently either negiect the poor patient or tr, to disturb the religious faitn he prolessed. Toe battle flelds of Kurope attested the falsehood of such @ supposition, It was woncder- lui, said Dr. McGlynn, how, with the still tresh recoliections ot our own tour years’ war, people hesitated about the ministration of one of these ladics at the bedside ol suflerers trom disease, Perhaps there could be objection raised againat thei attendance even in the wards of a smallpux hospital; anynow, 1 Was certain, 80 lar us te (Dr. McGlynn) had heard, that in no hosptral in | the world was their gently presence more needed or their efficient nursing more to be desired than in that smaipox Hospital on toe islaud. Dr. smith entirely agreed tn the sentiments ex- pressed by Dr. McGlynn. He hoped thut the hos- pital would soon be piacea entirely under the cone trol oi the Board of health, and that the Commis- stoners of Charities and Ocrrection would cease to have anything at ail to say aboutgt. the conversation related above, authentic in substance, was fulluowed by the expression of recollections of the old army hospital whica dur- ing the rebellion was located in Ceutral Park, and of which Dr. Smita was the doctor in sup) charge and oi which lor three yeers Dr. McGlynn was tue chaplain. In that army nospttal the Sis- ters o1 Charity were tne nurses, and ali the maao- agement of the wounded soldiers was in their hands, When Dr. Smith became connected with the Board of Health and discovered the wretched workings of the Sinalipux Hospital ne workea steudily upon the remembrance o! the efiicient aid the sick soldiers had received frot tue Sisters of Charity in years gone by, when the Centra! Park Hospital was 8 grate to bones a broken down svidier,” and it was that these two army doctors, divine and the viher @ medical, brought about a plan for procuring competeut nurses to poor bmnallpox patients. The Sister who pea in charge of the hospital as Sister Superior is the snthe WhO was In charge ol the soldiers’ Hospital in Contral Park, The names of the Sisters are :— Sister Mary ‘Thomas, Sister Superior; Sister Sco- lastica, sister Marcella, Sister Constance (Ger- man), Sister Angeiina and Sister bernadette, PUBLIC OPINION, | As cacn year the smallpox breaks out in the city | and travels with irs deadly stride up and gown and stretcues iuselt acro-s irom river to river, there 1s not a famuy upon the tead of whose most loved member the ravager may notiest. Once that fatal fitiul pain reveals cue hateiul scourge all hope is lost. There Js uotoing leit then tu hope lor srom mortal alu; for experience has proved thas never again, except by some extraor- diary chance, will that stricken orm a@guin return to healthy activity, The last tight to be seen of the victim is that afforded when the ambulance {s at the door, Dread necessity demands that the patient must go to the smallpox hospital, except in one case out ofa hundred, ‘Ine class of people who are the most labile to caten the disease have, thereiore, a aeep and pecullur interest in tne terrible house by the river side, Where no Iriend can vials thew, no soothing word be said, no kindly relief! be atforded, and wuere, nitherto, the only herp tu the sicxness is done by the hands of selected females trom Blackwell’s Isiana, Lt 18 no Wonder, taen, that thousands of ciuzens and their iamiles ieel a sense 01 comparative reef when they know that in the futare the poor, desolate inmate of the Most necessarily desolate of ai houses jor tne Bick, has at least a nurse who lavors not for a re~ ward here beow, and to whom the poorest of the 4 poor is as dear as 1s the rich, and the most loatu- some suilerer is the most tenderly treated, THE SISTERS ARRIVED, On Wednesday atternoon last no haman eye could derect in the faces of any of the sisters Of Moun; St. Vincent Hospital a sudness that w, uid teil of 4 separation o| some of their umber from the rest, here was the same subdued oneeriul- des, the same resivnution to a laborious itte, though a@ selecied one, that ever characcerizes these religious ladies, Nor when the hour of part- Ie came uid the six ladies Whose names are given Above vetiay the slightest emotio shed wt the parting, They le:t tie c would Jeave on any ordinary daily auty. In going through the sireets to the boat janding no one expressed & hope that they would Jeavo that hor- rib.e piace of suilering to which they were goin, unseatied, lor no one would have believer that these delicately moulded ladies were acceptaace thus | {and died suddenly and quietly at half-past five | dashed from eud to end and trom side to side of | rubust natures only can appreciate. | esque and inspiriting as at midday. on their way to the bedaides of smallpox patients, Who were away trom kith and kin and who were utterly alone im a sickuess of the Joulest kind, The boat bad no terrors for them. Thole waa not a irightened look on their countenances as their eyes fel! upon tae massive and forbidding-!ooking piles of building# on the island they were ap- proaching. As they walked along to the dis: buliding called the Riverside Hospital, where to be now thetr tuture home and where patients were lying in all the agonies, menta! and bodily, of the smallpox, their steps never hesitated, an they entered the doors as calmly as though they were passing throug the portals of a church. Once at home, in the dismal house of pain and death, they set quictly to work. AFTER NINE WEEKS. DEATH BY HYDROPHOBIA FROM THE BITE OF A WORTHLESS CUR. ‘The fact that Mr, Nicholas C. Ryder, of Babylon (formerly Jamaica), died on Tuesday evening last of hydropnhobia has already been briefly men- tloned. The cage is a peculiarly distressing one, and in some respects remarkable. While lo the village of Flatiands, on Sunday, the 201h of No- vember Inst, he was bitten by a wretched littie cur, Wh.ch he was endeavoring to protect from abuse, on the forefinger and thumb of his right hand. At the time he expressed a fear that the bite would result in hydropho- bia, but the wounds were not cauter- ized, and healing naturally, bis fears were some- what allayed. tis fears, however, was not with- out good cause, for on Sunday night last he was seized With restlessness and an toability to swal- low any kind of quid. He did not Bleep avy that night, and as bis restlessness constantly tucreased medical aid Was Summoned. He drank nothing all day Monday, and at night when he a aa to drink some water he was thrown into violént con- Vuisions; nis eyes Were greatly dilated and glared with terror upon those around him, trom whom he constantly implored help, He also nad violent contractions of the throat and chest. A large quantity of morphine was injected under the skin to quiet him, but to no Avail, He was then placed uuder the effects of chloroform jor an hour and a half, out its use had to be discontinued on account oi the nausea and violent contortions of the *bdomen produced by it, Hydrate of chloral was then administered in large doses, and this in a measure tended to quiet his restlessness and terror so that ne could drink, although not with- out greutditiicuity. He continued in this condi- ton all day ‘Tuesday, growing gradually weaker, viclock, ‘he sufferer waa seen by Professor Post, of New York, who, with the other pnysicians, wonounced it an wndoulted case of bydrophobia, | r. Ryder himseif predicted that he would be | seized in nine days, nine weeks or nine months | uiter the bite, ana, curiously enough, just nine ‘Weeks elapsed between the cause and tne dreadful eltect. . SKATING AT THE PARK. | THE PONDS LARGELY PATRONIZED AND THE ICE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, ‘he fraternity of skaters nad @ merry time at the Park yesterday, Aciear, sparkling morning greeced them, and, early taking advantage of the occasion, they repaired to the ponds in large num- bers @nortly after broaktast. Men, women and chilcren were of the gathering, and to an out- sider each and every one seemed infused with much good humor and kindly feeling. Long be- 1ure noon the scene was full of picturesque in- terest, O14 men glided along tue crystal plain with smiles upon their {aces and now and then volunteering to ald the young beginner, naa the double tisfaction of doing a servicé while they added to their own Omusement. There mothers and nurses had the care of children young in years and full of beauty, whose laughter was music itself and greatly contagious. More boisterous than all the rest were the school boys, whose freedom for tne day gave them the chance to have a grand time on the ice. They came in squads early in tue day, andonly abandoned the amusement when sheer exhaustion demanded rest. As soon as their | weary muscies recovered from tne strain to which | irequent bursts of speed had subjected them, “up and at 1t again”? were the words, and so they with that great enjoyment whicn | itis evident | that persons in delicate health cannot remain | upon tne ice for hours, it at all, and this, Do doubt, is the reason that every individual present pos- sessed a countenance beaming all over with health und vigor. | Alter luncheon hours the crowds were aug- | meuted by the arrival of many school girls, who, like the Doys, felt that the charming day should be taken advantage of ia this respect, Lach, armed with the newest pattern of skates, entered luto the sport in that delightful mood indicative 01 a feeling that this winter they have been compensuted, in a slight measure, jor years | of guiness and inaction, the ponds Really it has been a sea- | sou Ol good ice and excelicnt skating. From the third week ip Decemver, witn but lew exceptions, the ‘bali’? has-been at the top of the Arsenui flag- stad, announcing that the Park authoriues were | ready to receive tie thousands anxious to take | part in the pastime, and heartily nave Gotoam’s | dnbabitants responded. Un some of the days toe | interest evinced in the sport was shown by assem. | biages uumvering fuily 10,000, embracing repre- | selllatives irom all Classes of society. Last evening the places of those wno had retired fatizued ana hungry were filied with those who work during the Gay and like to throw off the cares Oi business in Lbis wise rather than in the billiard room or theatre. So at nine and ten o’civck the merry, moving througs under the giare of the bright ice jataps were just as pictur- The lgnts were extinguished at eleven v’civck, the crowds leaving the ponds witu seeming regret at the shortness of tue day. I: pleasant to-day there is no donot that the ice will be in the best possible condition, , CORONERS’ CASES, Sergeant Larkin, of the Twenty-second precinct, yesterday reported to the Ovroners’ Office thay Frauk O’Niell, @ boy, thirteen years of age, who ' on Friday morning bad both his legs crushed, corner of Fifty-first street and Eleventh avenue, by being crushed beneath the wheels of a locomo- tive, belonging to the Hudson Kiver Railroad Com- pany, while attempting to jump aboard the same, was lying in @ dying condirion at his residenco, No. 588 West Forty-lourth street. He subsequently died. Coroner Kessler was botified, The remains of a female child, of recent birth, were yesterday found lying under some iron cast- ings, in front of No, 638 West Twenty-sixth street, and conveyea to the Morgue for examination by Depucy Coroner Cushman. No clew was obtained to thé parentage of the chila by the Sixteentu precinct police. On Friday bight Thomas Rogers, a young man of twenty-one years, was tound lying insensible in the hallway of the house No, 258 West Twentieth strees by his irends, aud death subsequently en sued. Deceased had been drinking to excess dur- ing the duy, Coroner Kessier was notified. Mrs, Sarah Guldin, @ Woman tuirty-six years of age, and a native of New York, who for years past had been subject to epileptic fits, died sudaenly esterday alternoon while ner husband was absent jor @ physician. Coroner Croker was notified to hold au inquest. Jonn Jager, & German laborer, forty years of age, died yes! jay in Bellevue Hospital, irom the Iracture of the arm and other injuries received on the 2d imst., by being caught in maohinery at No, 203 Cherry stree:. Deceased lived at No. 201 Cherry street, where be has leit a family, Coroner Croker Was notified. . Coroner Croker yesterday empanelled a jury in the case of Elizabeth Ciare, the woman who was kuled iv the Cherry street lodging couse on Thu day evening, by having the point of an iron poker, in the hands of her husband, thrust througn the | skull on tue left side of the head. An inquest will , be neld in the case on Monday. e FOUR HOUSES BURNED. \ About one o’clock yesterday morning a4 fire | broke out in & row of frame dwellings on the road | leading to the Hudson County Almshouse, at Snake Hil. The houses were situated. near the trostie work of the Midland Railroad. The Fir Department ot Jersey City was called out, out it was found impussible to get bear enougn to the | buildings to meet the igs! pe Ine flames | spread irom one house to the other with great | ravidity, till the four dwelings were consumed, One of them was occupied by Edward Rall, who succeeded im rescuing nis family ond saving his lurnivare. The puildings were owned by Mr. Rovert Snaw, of New York. ‘The loss does not ex. ceed $3,600, Which 18 fully Covered by insurance, FIRE IN MARION STREET. A fire broke out yesterday morning on the third |, floor of the five story brick building No. 46 Marion street that caused a damage of about $13,0v0. | The first ocr and basement ot the building were occupied by Thomas W. Weathered & Co., steam heaters, who suffered & loss to stock of $200 and to the building of $2,000; insured for $12,000 on | the house and $4,500 on the stock, Rk. W. smith & | Co., bookbinders, occupied the second, third, | fourth and filth floors. They sustatned a iuss to | stock of $10,000 and are isured jor $27,000. ihe cause o( the fire has not yet been ascertained, but itis supposed it was owing to some carciessness on the part of Witham Hale anu John Lunny, em- pioyés ln the building, Who were the lasc to leave It the night belore. THE COURTS. Technicalities of the Law ot False Pretences, A THEATRICAL INJUNCTION. The trial of John Riley, charged with the murder of Nicholas Schumaner, in December last, in a dance house in James street, 1s set down for Mon day, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Mr. Wiliam F. Kintzing, whom Judge Barrett assigned as counsel, will conduct the defence. The case at the time of the killing attracted considerable at- tention and the trial promises to be interesting. In the divorce sult pending between Agnes A, Bates and Dwight D, Bates application was made to Judge Lawrencée, in Supreme Court, Chambers, on bebalt of the plaintim fora decree of divorce upon the report of the referee. Accompanying the application was an aMdavit of service of pro- cessouthe defendant. Judge Lawrence denied the application on account of non-compliance with the rule requiring the party making the service to state that he 1s over twenty-one years of age. TECHNICALITIES OF THE LAW. Ferdinand Bulachofsky was convicrea about year ago in the Court of General Sessions, belore Recorder Hackett, of obtaining money under false pretences and sentenced ior three years to State Prison, The evidence showed that he called on Mrs, Catharine Wolff, and representing that he had goods in the Custom House, but no money to pay the duties, oMered for a loan of $150 to leave with her two valuable gold watches. The money was loaned and the watches accepted as collateral; but the watches proved to be worthless, and the Whole thing an ingenious swindle, of which varl- ous other parties Were aiso sought to be made the victims, In order that the jury might determine the intent of the accused evidence was allowed of the like false representations to other parties, Mr. Wiliam F. Kintzing, the prisoner's counsel, ook exception to this evidence and carried the case to the Court of Appeals, Whore it hagjust been argued, with a View to obtaining & new trial. It was claimed that the Recorder erred ito his rvling— first, because 1t went to show, if true, the partici pation of the accused in the commission ul a crime wholly unconnected with that for which he Was tried; and, second, because it was an attack on the general cuardcter of the accused tor honesty, which 18 never admissibie gnless he puts nis Character in Issue. He msisted that It is never allowable to sow, on @ crimimal trial, that a prisoner has @ general disposition to commit crime Or to prove other acts going to show an- other distuncs offence or the purpose of raising an inierence that the prisoner bas committed the offence for which he is on trial. District Attorney Pheips contended .bat the evidence was adiuise sible, as it went to show the intent of the ac cused, and he cited numerous authorities in sup- pore ol tis argument. The point raised by Mr, tntzing 1s an important one, and the decision uf the Court of Appeals will settle an important ques- tion of criminal practice. A THEATRICAL INJUNCTION. There was an unusual array of counsel and of members of the dramatic projession in the United States Circuit Court yesterday morning, Judge Biatchfora presiding. Althouzh the ‘house was full’? the play as set forth in the dilis did not come of, owing to the principal actor in the piece, Judge Blatchford, declining to act. The occasion was the presentation of the piece “Shaughraun’ va. ‘Skibbeeah,” in which Dion Boucicauit was to Personate—not as on Wallack’s boards—the hero of his picce, and Josh Hart, of the Theatre Comique, the counter hero, Skibpeeah, The latter piece, as perturmed at the Theatre Comiqae, 1s alleged to be an iniringement of mr. Boucicault’s copyright of the “Shaugn- raun,” against the continued performance of which Mr, Boncicault has applied for an order of ijuaction, In furtherance or this, an auplication Was made afew days ago oelore Judge Woudrulf ior an order to issue against Mr. Hart to show canse why he should noc be 80 restrained, which was granted, and made returnable for yesterday. At vhe hour fixed Mr. Boucicault, the complainant; Lester Wallack, Mr. Moss, Mr, Montague—ail 0: Wallack’s ‘heatre—came into cours, attended by counsel, in the person of Mr. Kichara O'Gorman. On the other side appeared the deieudaot, Mr. Hart, and @ Nost v1 is proiessiona friends, represented by counsel in tne persone oi ex- Judge Busieed and Assistant District Attorneys William H. Purdy and Louis Post. Great expec- tations were jormed of @ lively aud enjoyavie time; but the Juige willed otherwise. Law books innumerable were placed belore counsel, With bUNndies 01 papers necessary to the proper presentation of the piece; but just belore the curtain rose Judge Biatoniord, alter reading the o:der issued by Judge Woodruif, intimated to counsel und their clients that he would not hear the case. This Wasa great disappointment, one which even the stiver-tonguea U'Gorman couid not obviate, Judge Biatchioid said:—“Geatiemen, Iwill not hear the case. It must be heard by | Judge Woodruff, who issued the order and knows the tacts upon which he grauted tne order.”? ‘The hearing ot the case was then set duwn be- fore Judge Woodruff on Tuesday. Judge Biatcn- fora was inexoragie, anid would not ve moved Jrom his decision. So counsel, their clien's aud their iriends, were ieign to jorego a matinée periormance ‘in the Circuit Courr,’and to me to their more congenial boards at Wallack’s aud the Theatre Comique, Where crowded houses, with more profitable results, were waiting their ap- pearance. DECISIONS. SUPREME COURT-—CHAMBERS, by Judge Lawrence. Cleland vs. Kroo3; Woolsey vs. Trenor.— Granted, . Burchell ve. Beverly; Same vs. Same; Chapman vs. Teutonia Print Works.—Orders granted, in the watter of Pensacola Lumber Cumpany; Thompson vs. Pratt,—Memorandums, Lefever vs. Cerwiliger; Bates vs. Bates,—Mem- oraudum for counsel. Scnaier vs. Sars.—Motion denied, with $10 costs, with Jeave to deienuant to renew on aftidayis In the matter of smith; Blessing vs. Corbit; Maplesdon vs. Vemarest.—Granted, ¥ Irwin ys. Brunswick aud Ainboy Railroad Com- pany; Thompson vs. Pratt.—OUrders granted, Whitmore v8. Green.—'dotion of delendant for leave to amend his answer 18 granted on payment of $10 costs, but with leave to plaintiff! to move to amend his summons and complaint on third Mon. | day ut February, 1875, fa the mutter of The Corn Exchango Insuranee Company, &c.—Order contirming report of rei- eree. SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. By Judge Sedgwick. Cogswell vs. Mavgam et al,—See memorandum for counsel, Sigler vs. Sigier.—Referees’s report confirmed and judgment vf divorce in favor of plamuff against detendant. COMMON PLEAS—SPECIALD TERM. By Judge Robinson. The People vs. Graham.—Sev memorandam, Williams vs, Fuller.—Motion denied, with $10 costs. See opinion. Hirshberg vs. Rosenthal.—Motion denied. Seo memoranaum, TOMBS POLICE COURT. Bofore Judge Smith. FORGERY. On information provided by Charies Christie a warrant was issued for the arrest of E. H, Wilson for jorgery. davit fied, sold a horse to Mr. I. 0. Taylor, a nora dealer of East Twenty-fourth street, irom whom he received a check for $25 on the Fifth National Bank in part payment for the animal. This check ‘was not presented at the bank for payment, but one for $95 and another for $85 were presented and paid, The $85 und $95 checks are now said by Mr. Saylor co be forgeries. hey certamiy are clever ones, as nu differenc: 1s percep- tble between the signature on the genuine $25 chéek and the spurious ones amoutts. The only ovidence against Wiison 1s that Le auswers a description given of him by Mr. Cnristie, On the strength o1 tits deseription Mr. ‘Naylor had Wiison apprehended at Baroum's Howe. Mr, Abe Hummeil, counsel moved for @ discnarge of the complaint, and his motion was denied, as the detectives from tne District Attorney’s office say they wili be able py Monuay morning to produce evidence to identify Wilsou as the lorger. Mr. Hummeil hoped the Judge would fix moderate bail, and $1,500 was set as the amount. In default of sureties Wilson was remanded ior farther examination, A BOLD ROBBERY. Yesterday aiternoon Mr. Aug. Moore, of No. 81 Beekman street, drove to the New Haven sSteam- boat Company’s landing, East River, and dis- mounted irom his wagon, watch coatatoed twenty saws. A few moments after ho had retired into the office & man mounted the svat of the vehicie ana drove off, Officer Peters, who had seen Mr. Moore dismount, Knew that the mau who drove off had no claim to the horse or wagon, 80 he started in pursuit, and soon came uplotne wagon, He brought him back to the steamboat office and in- jormed Mr. Moore, The party went to the station house, Woere the prisoner described himsell as Patrick McCarthy, Toe Coutt neld him ror trial in deiault of $2,000 ba: THE GAME AT “616” BROKEN UP. James Kelso and seventeen others were arrested at No, 616 Broadway yesterday afternoon jor keeping and abetting a faro game. Kelso. the E. H. Wilson, it appears by the af. | } throughout tuc countr# was there more security for larger | for Wilaon, | dealer, was heid in default of bail, and all the others were discharged, as none of the officers who made the descent could swear that they were playing the game, JEFFERSON MARKET POLICE COURT. Belore Jadgo Otterbourg. PLUNDERING A HOTEL GUEST. Isaac Newton is scarcely worthy to bear that honorable cognomen if the charge preferred against him yesterday be true. James M. Cavanagh, & guest at the Sturtevant House, caused the arrest oi a fireman o! that name employed in the hotel, who, he alleges, stole his wallet containing $50. The great philosopher's namesake was required to jarpiad $1,000 bail to answer. ROBBING A JEWELLER, George Williams entered the jewelry store of Mrs. Alice R. Laudon, at No, 247 Hudson street, yesterday, and asked permission to see some ‘watches, He solected one worth about $40, and, parang it in b18 pocket, took to his heels, Hyman idman pursued him and captured the fuzitive in Dominick street. between Varick and Clark, with the timepiece on his person. Officer White, of the Twenty-eighth precinct, then came up and gireated, Willams. He was held for triat in $1,000 all. ESSEX MARKET POLICE COURT. Before Judge Murray. . BREACH OF TRUST. Mr. Adolph Baum, residing at No, 41 Ridge street, ‘was sent by his employer, Isaac Mayer, a grocer, doing business at No, 1,053 Third avenue, to collect @ bill of $45, He received a check for that amount, ayable to bearer, whicn he got cashed and ‘applied ho proceeds to his own benefit, He held yes- terday in $1,000 bail to answer, DOCK THIEVES. John Kane, James Morris and William Grimo Were taken inte custody by Uficer Leary, ol the Seventh precinct, and arraigned yesterday charged with having stolen two boxes of tobacco trom the dock, foot of Rutgers street, East River. Tne stolen pfoperty belonged to Christopher Jansen, of South strect, and was found in the possession of the prisoners. They were held to ball in delanuit of $1,000 each. FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET COURT. Before Judge Flammer. ATTEMPT TO ROB A COAL OFFICE. On Friday night an attempt was made by three men torob the coal office No. 1,014 Second ave. nue. AS they had effected an entrance by forcing the door with @ jimmy and were in the act of packing up whatever they found convenient Ofiicer Kerns, of the Nineteenth precinct, discov- erea them. They saw bim, he says, as soon as he saw them, and he was therefore unable to call 10 his. aid nove o1 his brother officers or the whole three might easily fave deen captured. As it was, he arrested one, Who gave tis name as Thomas Price, who was committed at this court yesterday tor trial. ‘The police taenthty the prisoner as one of the brass door bandie thieves who were ar- rested in the sime precinct about a year ago, Price was then tound guilty, but for some reason sentence was suspended, aud he escaped tue pun- | ishment he go richly deserved, Jovn McDonnei), another of the prisoners engaged in the assault on Tnomas Reilly, who Was so near being murdered with a bottle on | Wednesday night last, in East Seventy-fourth street. was arrested on Friday night by Detectives Modowan and Levins, of the Nineteenth precinct, On being arraigned at this court yesverday be was held, with Thomas Fox, to await the resuit of Relily’s injuries, THE CHARGE OF MAYHEM DISMISSED. The charge of mayhem against tne real estate broker, Mr. Loeb, was dismissed, the Court being unable jrom tne testimony to devide other wise. ANOTHER TUNNEL ACCIDENT. TWO MEN INJURED—CASUALTIES DURING THE YEAR. ‘The rumor of another accident at the Delaware and Lackawanna tunnel now being excavated under Bergen Hiil brought a HeRaLp reporter to that place yesterday. He learned that in shait No. 5, Known as the ‘death shaft,” two men named Peter O'Connor, a resident of Jay street, and Edward Dempsey, residing in Latd- law avenue, were injured by a edge of rock Jalling on them = at the bottom ofthe shaft. It appears that the pucket | Was filled with water and was being hoisted through the shaft when it swayed to and iro, striking and dislodging a piece o! loosened rock. The met were clearing away the débris at the bot- tom Of the shatt,@ depth of eignty-iour eet trom the suriace, When the stone jell. Althougn they escaped being crushed to death, not being direcyyy uuder the stone, they were +o injured that they had to be drawu uo immediately. Mr. McAndrews, the contractor, delence against the charges brought agalust him urising out of the frequent accidents. He said that every case Ol accident arose from the revk- lesgness.of the men themselves; that nowhere entered intoa in the machinery, The work ot fonnelling was | commenced a year ago, and since that time fifteen men were eitoer killed or ijured, as follows :— Two men killed by @ locomotive at the west end; one injared by falling into No, 6 shait; oue iavally “lojured by » rock in No. 6 shalt; Jour men killed by falling down No. 5 shatt; two men killed by whe explosion of cartridges at the blacksmith sbop, east eud; three men injured in No. 2 shalt, and two men, as above related, in- jured 1n No, 5 shait. The tunnel will be seven- elgnths of a mile in lengtn and will require a year aud @balf to complete it. Besides tne excava- | tions at each end there are six shatts, with the | following aepths:—No. 1, 95 jeet; No. 2, 85 feet; No. 3, 75 feet; No. 4, 75 leat; No. 5, 84 feet; No. 6 85 feet. There are 760 men employed in the work ANOTHER JERSEY OHURCH DiIP- FICULTY. For some time past the trustees of the Hoboken Methodist Episcopal church, which is situated at the corner of Eighth and Washington streets, have been organizing an opposition to their pas- tor, Rev. J. R. Bryan. They kept their procoed- ings quiet until very recently, when, finding the anti-pastoral clans sufficiently disciplined and marsnalled, they resoived to put the reverend gentleman's misdeeds belore the puplic. This | unwritten Indictment charges the pas tor with not being eloquent enough and failing to carry conviction to the minds of nis audiences. The gentlemen aon’t state what it is that they wanted him to convince them of, but it is generally believed that they have no reference to points of dogma, as they are sufficiently well grounded in them. The pastor | made no reference to the movement until Fritiay night, when he stated tint on Sunday (to-day) he | woula speak of his relations to the church, the | flourishing condition of its fnances since his inau- guration, and the position in which he had recenty | foand bimself. Alter communion service to-day a vote will be taken on the question, “Snail the Kev. J. R. Bryan be retained as pastor for another year or not?” In anticipation ol @ victory, the trustees and stewards have been visiting other churches to test the oratorical abiilty of various pastors and mop & favorite in their minds’ eyes for the puipit of Ho- boken, The stard of fate have fixed a checkered | career for tnis church. Ten years ago their edifice stood on the pubiic square, but the Hoboken Ree compelled thom to leave, and had the ullding pulled down, altnougn were let roam over the place ior many a yet thereaiter, Tho financial dificuities in the con. struction of the present building were very great and the greatest dificulty of all now lies 1a ther way—the task Of pleasing the critical directors. THE CUSTOM HOUSE. As stated In tne HERALD of yesterday, the par- ties implicated in the frauds against the revenue (Lawrence and Graf) have fied the city, and can- not be found by the officers who are in search of them, Itis believed they took fright at the premature mention of their names by one of the city papers, thus defeating the ends of justice. Mr. Lawrence, as has already been told, is one of | the old Tweed ring, and an officer of the Americus | Club, He is an offender agaiust the revenue laws | of long standing, and was formerly convicted of | offences against the government, Mr. Graff, his | supposed confederate, was a liquor dealer, doing bi ess in Warren stree*, it is supposed more for vhe purpose of covering up his real transac- tions of iraudulent importations than for any rots to be derived irom his ostensible | usiness. Wile due credit should be given to Inspector Klinck for his iaithiul obedience to bis iInstractions from Collector Arthur and Deputy Surveyor Phelps, the iact should not be lost sight of that Captain Brackett ano Mr. Balch, ot the surveyor’s Deparcment, were voth silent and effective agents in oreaking up one of tne most formivable combinations ol reyenue robbers ever organized tn New York. If bonest merchants are to be protected ander the United States iaws in the pursuit of their business certainly the efforts of the authorities to prevent and punish smuggiing should meet with the recoguition of all good citizens, ¢ ‘The Collector of the Port has until February 15 to present (he names oj tne oilictais of tne depart- ment who are to be gacrificod, It ia beileved they humber about sixty names, and General Arthur is caretuily considering them in order that equaland exact justice may be done wherever the “axe may jail.”’ There were nu new develupments yesterday in regard to the case 01 Colones! Des Anges, A GRAND FETE. A Levee of the Olden Time To Be Held in Gotham. “Lady Washington Reception,” at the Academy of Music, To Be Given in Aid of the Float- ing Hospital of St. John’s Guild. The announcement that has been made of a “Lady Washington Keception,”’ at the Academy of Music, on the 22a of February next, causes no Uttle fluttering in the fashtonable world. Not alone ig New York to be represented, but Boston, Philadelphia and other stald towns are already at work furbishing up old costumes, cunning old memoirs, refreshing old recollections and drilliag old people. Every village where the Revyolution- ary tocsin sounded will send some patriotic soul to represent it on this grand gcala night in the mMoetropolis—some granddaughter, or grandson, or great granddaughter or great great graudson of the illustrious rebels of ’76, Probably no similar occasion in the last half century could have laid clatm to being graced by sO many representatives of men and women Jamed in our earlier as well as later annals, or boasted of 60 macy bearers Of names famous in America, as will this ‘tea party’ on the eve of our nundredth year. . IN A SOCIAL SENSE this reception will be a memorable event, The élite of the younger a8 well as Older families in town and country will contribute to the brilliant gathering, and everything that art can produce and wealth purchase will be made tributary to their enjoyment. The cards of invitation are to be fMo-similes of those issued by the wifoof the first President upon tne occasion of her famous recep- tions, Among tnose who are already interested in the affair are descendants of Hamilton, Morris, Jay, Livingston, Adams, Schuyler, Burr and Put- pam. An active cotrespondence is being carried on with descendants of soldiers, statesmen and others of prominence in the pre-Revolutionary and colonial days, a8 wellas in “the times that tried men’s souls,” and many are signitying an inten- tion to be present. ‘Thirteen tables, each repre- senting one of THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES will be presided over by ladies representing these States, thirteen at each table. At the Massachu- setts table tea will be poured by a lady, a lineal descendant of John Adams. It is expected that every table will have its {ull cluster of those, who have a lineal rignt to wear names greatly honored by our Jathers. No doubt, too, each will be the centre of an attraction, drawirg about it an en- uhusiastiv throng; for, though the doctrine of State rights has gone the way of Calhoun, there exists in almost every bosom an affection and a preierence hard to uprovt for all that reminds you of the valieys, mountains and rivers, the farms, hamlets and cittes of the State you call home. As New York, with iva thousand hotels, is populated with homeless people this yearning for the associa tions that remind you of your earlier dreamsis here most acute. No donbdt there will be a friendly rivalry of States giving guests of foreign birth an opportunity to pay a compliment to such ag are feebly represented by bestowing upon their tables the major portion of the patronage. MBS. WASHINGTON'S DRAWING ROOM will be reproduced with great care and exactness upon the stage of the Academy. Wantel Hunting- ton, late President of the National Academy of Design, wili there arrange @ living representation of his famous picture of “The Republican Court; or, Mrs. Washington's Reception Day.” In many instances the notable characters in this picture ; Will De personated by their descendants, Uos- tumes, laces and diamonds worn at the receptions given at the Presidential mansion in the first ears of the Republic will iuroish the toilets of those who have inherited them as hetriooms, and who often preserve a strong fumliy likeness to tne origiual wearers. The floral decorations and masic, it ts prophe- sied, will Surpass in atiractions ail that the most enth 1c dream of, whtie art will lend its e chaptment to the scene 10 the presence of rarest works on every nand, Fountains ot periumed waters will make the air iragrant with their odors; every device that can lure the senses and fascinate the sou! will be employed, and the illu. sion will 0 produced that we are o1 that simple age wheo our fatners and mothers found delight | in etarty rambles about the Battery or indulged | in the mild dissipation of arinking Bobea at the tea gardens in Chatham street, THE SIMPLE REPUBLICAN MANNBRS, ofthe time When our fathers wore perukes and powdered wigs, coats witn yard wide Mppels, Knee breeches, silk and worsted hose, and high- heeied snvues with silver buckies, while they raised cocked hats io salutation and went armed with heavy-headed canes, and snuifboxes only to be compared with Saratoga trunks in point of size. Those days of republican simplicity, when our mothera wore hoops and fturbelows and farthin- gales, with red cloaks and minute pointed shoes, modelled after the slippers 01 far-famed Cindereila. Of course there are many who will not appear in these charming aod simple toilets at the Academy reception. Vanity will lead them to adhere to the more romantic und elegant habits of uur decade— the flowing claw-hammer coat, and the snowy, ribe boniike te, 80 thoroughly in harmony with all complexions., 1ti8 & Wise provision of the com- mittee that gentlemen in evening dress may be admitted on an oqual footing with thuse wno ap- pear in “ye ancient clothes.’” THE CAINA USED AT THE TABLES will be of a uniform pattern, and an exact re) duction of that whicn adorued the sideboard in Lady Washing‘'on’s house, Alter tea has been served, the cups and saucers, bearing the Wash- ington arms, will be disposed of at auction ag souvenirs of tne “tea purty.” The drawing of the prize statue of “Ruin,” a life-size marbie by a famuus Italian sculptor (LOmbardt) will take place at the close of the evening's festivities. Other works ol art will be disposed of at the same time to the fortunate hoiders of the winning tickets, Atleast, such is understood to be tne purpose of the committee having these matters in charge. PURPOSE OF TIE RECEPTION, The reception is to be given in aid ofthe fund for the permanent Floating Mospitul of st, Jonn’s Guild. A barge 1s to be constructed capable of carrying 2,500 sick children aud mothers, aod fitted up expressly ior this purpose, coating, tt is estimated, about $20,000. Every reader of the HERALD 13 familiar with the good work performed last summer by the “Babies’ Lite Boat"? projected and commanded by the Rev. Alvab Wiswall, the master of the Guid, Ata time when epidemic diseases Were raging with such virulence that in- fanta were dying in the metropolis at the rate of 1,000 in every seventeen days the Floating Hos- pital of the Guild yathered’ the sick and dying on voard, and daily cruised with them down’ the Bay to the ocean, up the Hudson to the High- lands, and along the Sound for many a mile, taking themout of the stifling tenement Jun. geons and fairly deluging them With pure atr till color and life and vigor came back to them. THE FLOATING HOSPITAL of last summer, nowever, was but an ordin barge, temporarily withdrawn from its legit business of transporting produce upon the at id | son, Its decks were fitted up with rode benohes, @ tabies were ranged along the lowet | and p deck, as one of the Peres was a plentiful supp'y of wuoleso: and nicely prepared io0d. Notwithstanding ¢ wonderiul resaits attained in the saving of Ii the arrangements on board the vessels employed Were necessarily impefiect and tnconventent, Littie or no cooking could be done on board, and the food prepared on the night previous was bronght on board cold. Another trouole was that while every day was precious during tue time the epidemics raged no food could be cooked on Sun- day, and consequently noexcursion could be made on the following day. BUILDING THE BARGE, The barge, 1o be constructed as a permanent hosp! will be complete, so far as experience ives suggestion. ‘Tne upper deck will be inciosed yy Wire screens, Dreast high, aod furnished with a piano. Tne lower deck will be fitted with neat tables and seate, and will also be supplied with cot-beds, to be used in ex- tremo cases, with other movable hospital iurni- ture. This deck Wilt also be 1uclosed, uwving sild- ing windows and thorough heating arrangements, ‘Yoe told will be fitted up with a Kitchen, cooking apparatus and facilities ior bathing. It is worthy ol remark that while our ordinary hospitals cost Jrom several hundred thousand dollars to a mil- jion Of more to build the hospital bacge costs but a few thousands anc has many advantages over the Hxed hospitais, It goes ulier its patients trom one point of the city to another, When the day is sultry and the heat oppressive it carries them to where the breeze conies cool [rom the ocean, of to quiet country nooks along the sound or rivers, Where the air blows balmy and laden witn per- fume of flowers and grasses and trees from over tne land, THE SANITARY ASPECTS of the question are deservin: Rotice from mavy points of view, In case of contagtons visiting tho City the advantages of @ hospital of this kind are maniioid. Itis also proposed that in winter the barge suall be moored of the poorer quarters of the city, ana RT its missiou of mercy and charity throughout the year. such, then, is the nooie ware to ata of which the “Lady Wasmington Reception” ts to be given. No yonder that the ¢itte of society in this city of charities have found it ® Work worthy of the most curative agents em- | T tela entbusiastic or that the Executive mittee having the mater 1m charge numbers (4 than 100 persons, each and every «ne.eminent im some especial path of honor and use.uiness. ‘The followiag are the gentlemen forming this commu Ci EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Wiliam Cullen Bryant. J. 0. Woods. Peter Cooper. dames M. Dunbar. Wuison @. Hunt, Joseph W. Drexel. Luther B. Wyman, William H. Cromwell, Samuel B. H. Vance. Joseph Park, Jr, F. A. P. Barnard, Edwin Bates. Joun R, Brady. E. De Grietis August Belmont. Robert W. Hutchings 8. H. Wales, Joseph H. Choate. Abram R. Lawrence, Cnarles W. Griswold, Parke Godwin. William Orton, EL W. Andrews. George M, Van Nort. Algernon 8, Sullivan, Henry G. Stebbins, Jonn T, Agnew. James Thomson. Arthur Leary. D. Hunwungton. Edward L. Hone. Winfield F, Hancock, Major General U.S. A. Willtam Borden. Johu Hl. Halt. B. G, Arnoid. Henry Havemeyer. Richard M, Hoe, William Watson. Eason. Philip Schuyler. Henry Bergh. John D. Wrighs Henry Draper. F. Frederic Gunther. George H. Sharpe. ©. A. Arthur. Samuel L. M Barlow. m2. E. A. Quintard. Charles K. Gi L, P. Morton. A, H. Latin, William H. Webb. W. R. Beebe. Witham H, Guion. Wiliam D. Shipman. Charles P. Daly. Allen S. Webb. Hramelin Hy Kopbaelach, Franklin H. le! Charies i kaibaeese Wiliam Brookfield. Henry Hentz, Willatd Parker, M. D, Wm. Tud Helmuth, M. D, Albert E. Sumner, M. D, Willtam , Tillinghast, Wilitam A. Darling. D. Salomon, John Bigelow. F. A. Conkling, Richard O'Gorman, William H. Wickham. Wiliam C. Conner. anc i. y John C. Southwick. Burtou N. Harrison. E, Delafield Smith, William C, Wuiting. Jonn F, Plummen Francis P. Furnald, Whitelaw Reid, T, Batley Myers, William R. ‘Travers, Arthur Gilman. Nathaniel Wheeler, Uswald Ottendorfer, Tn addition to the above, a large npanes of lady managers have been selected by the Executive Committee, of which William Cullen Bryant 1s Pres- ident, who have organized by the election of tue following ladies as officers:— Mrs, Judge Koosevett, President. Mrs. soln Jacob Astor, First Vice Presiaent, Mrs. J. R. Brady, Second Vice President, Mrs. 8. L. M. Barlow, Third Vice President, Mrs. Edward Cooper, Fourth Vice President. ‘The, rooms of the Executive Committee are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Daily meeungs are pro- pesea. and there is no doubt that tue Lady Wash. ington Reception on the evening of February 23 will be tae grandest affair New York nas witnessed for many years. A OELESTIAL CELEBRATION. THE BELLEVILLE CHINEH IN HIS NEW YEAR GLOBY—THREE DAYS OF SACRED AND SECU LAB FEASTING. ‘The. Bellevilie Chinese ts an historic character. Three or four years ago he came from the Flower, Lana via San Francisco and settled in Capram Hervoey’s laundry, some seventy-five strong, and supplanted in the business of ‘washing and iron- img done here”? as many good, stout, Irish girls, who, for some cause or other, nad struck work. The Captain thought hehad a prize. Three years have cured him considerably, The Coeiestiais have turned out to be anything out a firat clays invest Ment; but still the Captain strives to do the best he can under his contract. He has now in nu lace about 100 subjects of the ‘Son of the Sun." It has been customary with these long-tated, Wwooden-shod, almond-eyed, imported BelleviNiang to celebrate their New Year a whole week. As long as they were paid by the year they dia 80; but this year, being paid by the piece, tney com tented themselves with 4 THREE DAYS’ CELEBRATION, proving that they, like the ordinary “barbarian” or “‘Melican man,’ have a stray eye to the main chance. Their celebration this year began on William H. Appleton, Elitot C. Cowdin. George H, Brodhead, John B. Norris. Augustus Schell. Frank E. Howe, Lucius Buckeye. C. L. Titfany. Louis Von Homans, Julius Catiin, Jr. H. B, Clafin, C. K. Garrison. Hepry A. Smythe. David Dudley Field, Caarles H. Van Brung, Samuel Blatchford. Qyrus W. Field. Hooper C. Van Voorst, John W, Harper, James L. Jones. J. ¥. Daly. John M. Pinkney. William B. Ogden. L, M. Bates. J. A. Hopper, Thursday and wound up yesterday, with what, in their country and among their class, will be con. sidered great éclat, Exceptin the matter of tne music the proceedings on Thursday and Friday | Were tame compared with those of yesterday. } | | | | j | | | | Yesterday was the great day, the big day tor china, a sort of conglomerate Fourth orsaiy Kee Year’s and St. Patrick’s Day ceremoninal on @ most intensely uncelestial ‘Celestial’! lan, it Was the climactic holiday, wien john = Chinaman, attired im nis * hes bib and tucker” of the Cutty Sark shape im myrtahzed in “Tam O'Shanter”, his feet in hand. me miniature caudes, with Dutch galiot sterns, d bis Nair done up in the best style, @ la Pekin, smiled and jabbered and enjoyed bimsell to me heart’s content. There was music all aay long, and nearly loud enough to be heard in the tlenats office. ‘here were fireworks in abundance at noonday and at oignt. There was a pork and chicken sacrificial, and there was feast ing, merry-making and receiving ‘catig’! on the ‘“melican man’s plan.’ Durh toe day as many as from 250 to 300 ladies ane gen. tiemen from New York and Newarx and nearer points visited the laundry and uccepted tue hose pitaities of the Chinamen. Besides the mu services, &c., the guests were regaled with «a kinds of rich iruit cake, oranges, appies, nuts, sweetmeate and lemonade. MUSIC, FIREWORKS AND SACRIFICE. The music rendered was entirely instrumental Tt was Of acharacter difficult to associate with Vhat music wach “hath charms to sooth the save age breast.”” The instruments used were several pan drums, several ear-cracking cymbals, a mini ture violonceilo—the tones of which tore the oral hary idea of music to tatters—and a fife, which ab most rivalled in volume and shriliness the locomo- tive whistle. The New Year's odes, Flowery Land symphonies, &c., were periurmed with a lotce not merely Jorte, butGwit that of a iorty horse power Calliope dreadfully out of tune. About two o'clock the sacrificial ceremonies. began im “che chapel,” @ room or cioset-ltke dimenstons, Hex against the wall, had been arranged an altar, on which were placed three large and several smail Chinese candies. Against the wall, behind the candies, was a picture, representing three figares—God in the centre, the Good Spirit (@ fine buxom female figure) on His right, and the Evil One (a homely, whiskered man) on Hig left, the one tmploring Him to save and the other to destroy, the Good Spirit seeming to have the closest car. All the Chinamen being crowded in the chapel, witn Rey. Messrs. Bergfels and streag in their rear, as spectators, Hung ihoon, the Bas advanced, made his obeisance velore the tar with great reverence, knelt, prayed ana thes offeréd tie SAORIFICE OF PORK AND CHICKENS, This ended, the Chinamen advanced by tw imitated Hung Thoon and retirea, Alter thi etrings of fireworks, several yards long, arranged spin: the side of the building on the outside, Were fired olf with & view to srightening off th Evil One, who was presumed to have been driven @way bythe sacrifice, Ajlday long tne candles ‘were kept burning. In the evening there was a more imposia, eplay of reworks, and the celebration endea amid great ayes and hilarity, jt no drankenness, Kev. Mr. is, WhO bas en laboring to Christianize the Chinese, and has @ Sunday scnool class of thirty odd scholars, says they can all read and write. None ure yet con- verted, but Captata Hervey says the scholars are his best workers, Atew days ago Mr. Bergiels | gave Onarlie Ming, the chief Onnerae, & HBRAL! With the news o1 the Chinese Emperor's death rr it. Cuarite said nis people did not care ma they regarded the Emperor as a usurper. He x | pected a revolution, but his peopio would not sag much until they gut letters themselves irom China, THE NEW WISCONSIN SENATOR. To THE EpIToR oF THE HERALD:— The HERALD 1s too disparaging on Hon. Angue Cameron, the newly elected Senagjor irom Wis consin, Ican say this of my own knowledge. His Jamily were Scotch, and resided at Caledonia, Livingston county, N. Y. He was educated at Genesee College. He held tho first place there with fis brother Daga:d. They lead always, as I koow at the time from those there. I knew him at Buffalo as a law student in the oMce of Waa worth & Cameron during some seven years and more, He bad great business ability, and had charge of the property and the large rentals of Gen. eral Wadsworth’s estate. He displayed tact, judg Meut and Scotch perseverance in everything he aid. This ducy kept nim from the Bar atter ne wat | admitted, as [| often heard him say. He neve exerted pimself in his profession till Sen up Burfato and started at La Crosse, where he has suc: ceeded in every Way till he went to the Senate ior four years, and 18 now Speaker of the House jor the second ume. How great he may yet be | know not, He certainly bas large information ‘and energy of character aud marked sense. He alwaye makes /riends and is a rite, Now, sir, I think 1b vetter to Have 81 @ Senator than Mat. Uar- penter, who is always “damned short” that he was retained in questionable matters indeed. at an old triend of Angas Cameron, I think i man to become useful. Hois a good depater a speaker. Vory truly, &c., Ve We he No, 9 Nassau street, Febguary 6, 19%