The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1875, Page 3

THE WATER WE DRINK. No Cause for Alarm cr Apprehension in the Stream from Croton Lake, le ltl MATTER NOT DELETERIOUS, ORGANIC Comparison of Onr Water Supply With That Supplied to Other Large Cities. Judging by the light of the fact contained tn the “Report upon the Sanitary Chemistry of Water,” which was made some time ago py Proiessor Charles F. Chandler, Ph. D., M. D.. LL. D., to the American Public Health Association, it ts hardiy possible for the Croton water to become impreg- nated with matter which will destroy its good qQalities and make it a pest mstead of a benefit % our popalation, It may even be said that if organic matter, the result of animal decompost- tion, was thrown into the feeders of the Croton River its water when received and used here would not communicate any evil effects, The volume of the water, its continual movement, whereby at steadily takes up oxygen, and other agents would rid it of poisonous material belore it ar- rived at the High Bridge. Tne evidence im favor of this theory is found in the results of the exami- ation of the waters ol the Hudson River, and of the Thames, in Hngland. Notwithstanding the fact that tue Hudson has poured into it at Albany the Grainage o1 an aree of about 7,000 square miles, m which area there are three not particularly cleanly clties—lroy, West Troy and Utien—tae water of that river isfound nt to be drank, The area of the watershed of she Thames. above where the London water companies procure the drinking Buid which they circulate Metropoits, 16 3,676 square miles. The population Of thatarea is about 1,000,000 souls, while the Population of that partof the watershed of the Hudson which 1s above Albany 18 abeut 400,000, Prolessor Caandier states these and ovber facts, Makes acomparison between the couditions al- Jecting the waters of the umes and of the Hua- son rivers, and, having proven that, although the agents having efect upon the lormer river are the more numerous and unpleasant, its waters are wholesome, he, by & process of deduction, ows that the waters Of the Hudson are fit to he drank. he haa aiready shown by anilysis that the water of the Huson River at Albany con{ aimed no harmiul ingredient. In aconversation which the writer kad with Professor Chandier yesterday that gentleman 1d “the Croton water now Contains more organic matier than it usually has in it, bus that the matier Goes not render it deleterious to the health. might contain five times as much of kind of organic matter without being hurtiul. This is so because the matter is of vegetavie orig, 11 1t were the result of animal decomposi- tion and shouid remain in the Water as the vege- sable organic matter now does, it would make the water poisonous to the people who drank o/ it. It would oring to them the germs of typhoid tever and other diseases. The report made by Dr. Chandler “Upon tne San- atary Chemistry of Water” says Oncanig Marren.—The organic u tabie origin, such as occurs wo th fhree grains per galion. oul in ponds wna rivers, ey yellow to the wate harm homabie. The nitrates, nitrites and ani in wells in denscly peopled towns are thi Jess, but iLeir preseuce proves the contam imation of the water with the products of decomposition of animal ret- bse and should alwaye be viewed tn the lgbt uf @ warn- ing Oo! the presence of impending danger. ANIMAL ExXCKKIA.—Phe product ol the decomposition of annnai matter in water is however, Ly lar the most objecuonabic impuriiy. Organic maiters, produced by the decomposition of vegetable substances, sre not expecially dangerous, but the products of decomposing animal substances are- highty dangerous even when in minute quantities. These unpurities do bot make them- selves apparent to the taste. On the contrary. suc Waters ure irequently considered unusually fine flavor, and: persons Fo @ great distance to procure thein. vertheless, they contain an active poisou. Mapy discases of the most fatal character are now traced to the use of water poisoned with the soakace from soils charged with sewage and excremental Matters. eudden outbreaks of disease of a dysenwrie character are often caused by an irraption of sewage tuto wells, either trom # bretk in the sewer or cesspo ity of Yhe season. Such contutt not indicated by any tee pry le change im arance of the water. The filtered sewage, clea: and transparent, carries with It the ” of the disease. Ata convent in Munich thirty-one on: of 241 of the inmates were affected with typhoul tever It was found upon Investigation that the wel! war polinted Dy sewage, and the diseuse disappeared as soon as the proper repairs were made. ‘The report goes on to show that cholera, typhoid fever and kindred diseases have usually been dis- weuitnated by the water of wells into which sewage had run or soaked through tue ground. It says:— this city, during the last century and betore the intro- tter of a purely vege- e extentot one. two or Which are al by the de then in use by sewage and { b visitation has occurred since the im roton water and the completion of the very perfect system of sewers. a, though it does not originate trom polluted water, is dissented anion by the aid ot wells and other iimpure water sup- piles It nas been said, in the early part of this article, that even il the headwaters Of the Croton River were contaminated by animal matter, ine drink. Ing fluid which is conVeyes into our houses Yould notbe harméul to our health, Perhaps, if the Croton River were impregnated with sewage every few ycurs by deadly epidemit Deheved to huve been tuvored and inv through the British | This method is @ secondary prool, for , | T5$) 2 | supplied with cola atr drawn from cellars go toul pi'23] § | that they were useless for everytuing but coal a : 88) = | storage, and they were not fit for that. We can iF Source t es) £ | readuy imagine the effect which the foul, damp | 53 | ae from such a hole, sucked up, heated and : $3) * | poured out at the registers, would have a eo ——|———|-—=|——— upon tne health of those compelled to New York...../Croton, average tor | breathe it. In nearly ail the downtown 7 “| thirteen weeks, 1867.) 3.90) 0.6¢! 4.53 | districts, especially those negiected netghborhoods Maw York ois. Ganache. Re das | Song our river fronts crowded with well Wied | New York. stdin too , tenements, arise in the tide, & heavy rain or gen- 4.7 eral thaw, leaks in the sewers and other causes, ; New York. 4 | lead to an overfiow of /oui smelling liquid from de- New York. | fective arain pipes. What are these cellars flooded > | With, and what 18 the effect ot such flooding upon | New York 4.442 | une pubiic health ? During the cold weaver water ria 43.00 | 8 cut off (rom a great number Of houses. The past . Brookiyn..... ~~” | unusually severe winter uas kept the plumbers ex- 3.92 ceplionally busy, but the ireezing of service pipes: Boston ...... 3. | 1% something that happens ry year, and In Philadelphia $30 hunareds, and perhaps thousands, of buildings Philideiphia, 3.48 throughoat the city, water closets accumulate 10.78 itn over empty traps witch are not and cannot | 643, De Gusned ior weeks ata time. 1 know of one | 13.93 | buliding in an important business street, in [Lake rey, 627 | which there are probably sixty offices. Fach | Lake Mit an. | office 18 occupied by at least tive people, taking tenesee | Tee the average of the whole building. On the ate street well. 83 | lower floor there are nine water closets in almost | \ 3 ; Constant use, and through these pot a drop of Passaic River. .eeeees 2.46) 7.44) water has passed lor about ten weeks. in sou Cit | dwellings this neglect of decency, to say nothing ‘Trenton. . Delaware River. 0.55/ 3.48 | Of Sanitary precautions, would not have been London 0-88) 16.38 | carried tO the same extent as in the case de- poe 9.59) 9.97 | scribed, but during the past season a very ply. ; 1.34] 3.21 | large proportion of the resideats of this Bais! .[Seiie, above the Loo} Stag | Clty were for weexs at & time without water 2] Raver Veoht.. 2/13} 16.58 | CnoUT to insure cleanliness ot person, much tess +|Deep well at the Keis. | fov uses too oiten neglected even when water 13 ery 4,38] 6.93 anundant. In many Houses occapied by people in It | the same | ns NEW, YURK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘waters ‘the still frozen certh, the water ts often ‘when it reaches the city, and alarmists begin iscuss the dangers to be ended trom nd. ived trom jut it wholesome ‘our purity of the Croton water is remarkable. Ify at this table you will see the quaniitica of th substances obtaiue! from oue United states gi cubic inches in 1569 aud 187: SOLIDS CONTAINED 18 ONM GALLON oF cuoTOR Ww fav ter. Thi ou glance different Soda... Potassa. Line. Mugnesia. Chlorins 4 Sulphuric acid. Siiic# Alumina and oxide af iro: Carbdonte acid (calculated 2074 Water in bicarbona O421 Organic and volati 0.874 Totals a) Less uxys : Tine, 09 Torad we Seate ss OTS 5.300 ‘These acids and bases are ‘probably combined in the water as followsi— Chjoride of sodiam. 0.284 0286 os Oud 2331 Ls a2 0.658 Biearbonate of magnesi: Silica... Aluinina and oxide of Organic matter... Totale........... On evaporating a gallon ¢ 4.78 grains is obtaived, th magnesia being ert as sunp tabular statement shows how ares with the waters supplied to oiber cities : PORITY OF CITY WATERS—IMPURITINS CONTAINED IN ONE WIN GALLON OF TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-ONM CUMIC INCANS, KXPUKAKKD IN GRAINS. 1 iron., 6 and The following carbonate favorably th hat the Croton compare: ith the water supplied to other A call your adtention specially 19 the sixth water on. | ‘You tee by vo bly in purity ties, it, that of the well west of oi see, contuiny forty-thres impurities m one gallon, of whi grains are orgume matier, You will not be surprived when Lieli you that this well i« situated. in a shanty village, where cholera was & few years ago extremely fatal. tral Park. This wa- and one-halt grains of DRAINAGE AND HEALTH. A PRACTICAL LECTURE IN REFERENCE TO SEW- | ERAGE AND HOUSE DRAINAGE. Last evening there was a full atiendance at the School of Mines attached to Columbia College to Neten to a paper read belore the Public Health Association, by Mr. James C. Bayies, on the sub- ject of sanitary house drainage, At this partcu- jar juncture the theme possesses more than ordi- | bary interest, and the extracts that foliow are well deserving consideration, | Mr. marked :— The indifference manifested by people in all classes of society with regard to the department Of sanitury science, Which deals with bouse drain- | age, is, 1 think, attributable to popular ignorance, Comp \ratively few people know what sewer gas is, and those who have been connected with tue ' corps Oo! city sanitary inspectors have, doubtiess, found that a majority of people believe there isa | | great deal more talk about it among those who ciaim to be scientific sanitarians then its import- ance really warrants, This ia # ©erlous mistake, | which cannot faii totmperfi the pubic health by giving rise to a fuise sense oO: security, and en- couraging the toleration of dangerous nuisances, ‘The experience of centuries has taught that the gases generated mm sewers are dangerous to heaith, These are chiefly carvonic acid, nitrogen, sulphuretted hydrogen, ammoniacal compounds and feud organic vapor. Of these nydrogen ts the | least formidabie, a though it will not support ani- @ueuon of rewers or the Croton water, was ravayed | proportionately with the Hudson and Thames | Tivers the above statement wouid not be rruc. ‘Vhe agencies by which sewage Ip running streams 18 destroy ure “injusorial animale, aquatic plants, fish, and chemical oxidation.” It bas vecn estimated that these do their work of purification thoroughly, while the sewage Is running ten or | twelve wiles with ihe stream, The more violent ure the dashings of the wa however, the quicker is the Work Oi purification eflected, for, al every movement, the water takes in a new supply of oxygen, Which hastens the pro- cess ol chemical oxidation. The louowing gues- tons and answers, part of the proceed.ngs of a Parliamentary investigation into tne fitness ior domestic which are extracted irom Professor Chandler's yeport, throw a uFeat deal oO! light upou the jact toat rivers purty themselves :— & What quantity of waier, as compared with the volume of sewage, is necessary tor the purpose of Ureaking up into its original elements the se which hus been discharged mito it? A. Generally dwenty to one; ifthe water flows rapidly and is mich disturbed, +0 es 10 be coutinuaily receiving fresh oxygen 4 smaller quantity, even twelve to one, will effect me process; i iL proceeds very tardily tl nay take & litte more, but tauatly twenty to one is abundant. ¥. You remember, do’ you not, the orixinal condits of the river at Leicester ‘alter receiving & ay of the town into alt A. the water was ts black as this mk; 1 do not mean to say That it was absolutely so Unick, but, looking at it mass, it was as black as ink; nothing would hve i and the smell was abounnable; but by the Loughborough, twelve intles' below, it was entirely restored (o its pristine condition; you could stand on ine bridge there and see the fish swimming among the 0 } at Lelcesier use of the waters of the Thames, and | mai life. Carbone acid 18 too well known to need description; suiphuretied hydrogen ta, | believe, one of the most poisonous gases Of known compo- sition; and the jetid orgamic vapor, concerning which but little can be definitely known, ix proba- bly the most dangerous, because mosi subtie, of all tbe emanations irom decomposing sewage, In well ventilated sewers analysis shows tle presence of carbonic acid, micvogen, sui- phuretted hydrogen and traces of the otber gises mentioned ; but the sewers oi New York are not well ventilated, Indeed, they are much of ihe time with no ventilation at all, consequently we may expect to find in them a rare combination of Joul gas Probably the only thing that saves us irom a continuous epidemic of typhoid fever, is the fact that our sewage is more diluted wita water, in proportion to its volume, than that of any other large city. lu the use of water we are exiravagant to a degree unknows in any part of Europe, and to this fact I thing we may owe Such immunity a8 we have thus jar en- joyed from the consequence of our neglect of tbe proper ventilation of onr sewers, Owning to this dilution of our sewige, 111s proba- ble that less gas ts generated tn proportion to the volume of flow than mn cities, wiere more atien- ton has been given to this subject; bur it ts nope the lese desirable to keep the atiof our unyen- | tilate dwellings. sewers irom mingling wWirn that of our fo show how this may be done most | economically and effectaally 1s the object of this aper. Further on Mr. Bayles tllustrate¢ the DEFECTS IN WATER CLOKETS, and went on to say that there are water closcts in | | the markets, of Kagish and Amencan invention, ne it got to | Deautiul reedy and other plants crowing in the water | Just axon the purest stream ‘at the bottom ; chacis an inst tion. If the water of the Croton River should become poisoned it would Lave no such variety Oo] means to purily itself as the Thames aod the Hudson nave, or, to speak re strictly, that part of It wmich reached vnis city for consumption would rovably be noxious and a cause of disease, whe bat part which went over Croton Dam would be purified ere it would reach the Hudson River. The reason for this 18 easily discovered. The water that would come to tne city would not have been arated ag the Would water which would go danc- ing down to the Hudson, and hence its sewage Im- purities would pot undergo chemical action like ‘ou could see every pebble ce ut the effect of oxida. to that to which the Impurities in the other water | were suojected. fhe Croton River, however, 18 never likely to we It8 waters poisoned by iecal impurities, roveseor Chandier has made a thorough examiua- tion 0! the watershed of the Croton, and 1s 01 the opinion that it will always be the region o! bucolic lve, abu that not enough o! suck civilizing agents as iactorics will ever exist In it to pollute the ‘Waters of which we crink. The joliowing statements and s arom Professor Cnandler’s “Report seresting ond mstructive. If they are remem ered vy the peopie who read them, there will not wea very wide-spread feeling Of alarm iu reference \@o the Croton water uot our drinking nid has through some means now uniorseen, sonous and pernicious to tne humadl sys- King our present Knowledge of ike Croton @ean index thet period is very far distant, He Baya: — ‘Thevcharacter of the Croton water fo marautee water of the bes it Mis Of Lauren ban gueiss revelers tht quickly abserbed and fiwred by th ee srawels, to gash oul in gui! istics, taken sped ix of a nature $e" Mounties and fajita, Which is pure sileeuus eands ers springs, ‘eeding itt ters to the browks which nds, which ser aural storage reservoirs. Frou Mow the large streams wiueb, by wuating, form the Croton River, Vbis is Onally expanced b» the dam t ghe head of the aqueduct into a Mca, deop jak@, the fountain reservoir, or Croton | Lake, teh v quiet waters deposit the finer ard thas uncer ni tion betore Shey are Adu tied to the aqu Nowhere alonk the sireams can anything be found which can render th waters ibopure, generally d at p Rugged rocks or bright green avder them, ‘A’ jaw tactories have been. 0: re the water power is avaliable, bit acarciul examination tailed the water by thew. 5 the watersied, wbere omits; Dut, as aire wy Fore nothing “is taker 09 render it unwholesome. At ¢ as when the snyw wel! rom such vegetable mat- ter that cag in any wi iain seasons of the year, tig spring, aug the | against Which no reasonable ovection can be urged, When properly counected with the scr- vice and soil pipes. Every imtehWent plumber knows which they are, and wil pr: vide one if desired todo so, The closet whidi, irom a sam. tary point of view, I conside? most periect | 1s the ship water closet, Which, wih some moidifi- | done, woald have given little or w troubie. only effective means of diminishing the danger of | @ very ine | | most cations, Would be a valuable improvement upon anything now in use in dwellings, This 1s @ pump closet, in Which a force putap remves everything {rom the hopper and ‘orces tt our if the soll pipe. ‘These closets are made for use bdow tne water line, so their action has to be mad: positive, whie Uhey are absolutely water and air ight. ‘the man ner in which a Water cioset is comected with tn soil pipe 18 Of great importance. THE PLUMBER 18 OFTEN RESIONSIBLE for the Offensiveness and unwmlesomeness of water closets, which, had his work’ been properly The un escape of sewer gas Into a Nou IS to afford it ab eusier means Of getting out tha through the water in the traps by veniilating tle soil pipe. In common work this pipe generaly ends in the highest water cioset or Wash basin in the house. To prevent te gases fromm escapng dependence is placed on the traps. being that the express purpose of the trap is to odors, they prevent “he escape of and if other means will be saperfuous. This argument is upon ap evident misunderstanding of tue Lions which sometimes exists Mm our sewers, In tis city there are periods, sonetimes several weeks in duration, when, so far a 1 can learn, our sewers are wosoluiely without tentilation, and when the only escape sor gases, which are often held under considerable pressure, is through soit and wasie pipes. Our chief devend nee for sewer ventilation Is upon the periorations in tue man- hoie covers. These are. better tain no openings at all, When they are oven, but the) are labie— certain, indeed—to beco choked with mud and dust during much of thetime, and trom the first snowfall of winter until sping, PLUMBERS HELD TO ACCDINT, The speaker proceeded to anaie te proper functtons of the plumber, and s My attention was lately culied to x house occuged by a iriend, in which the faint, depressing odd always notive- able im the bathroom and adjoinog apartments revealed the presence of sewer ge. A thorouch examination of the plumbing Wirk was made, which revealed certain defects oni too (reauentiy met wittrin private dwellings. tne bathroom there wad a common tub, basin, rc, The waste Pipe trom\the bathtub was conneced with the soil pipe of whi et below the trap, Onsequentiy the air from thewewer escaped ito ‘oom. Ulos- ing this operting Was of 00 use, borever, until the basin waste \as also closed, whn there was a sight improvement; but sewer gs continued to gas ant foul are provided eagupe shrougy yhe OVerQuW Pips WhICR were ) She AOWInAbON, 4% | ¢ Uroion com- | ties :— hb over four avd one-balt Bayles re- | the comnon argument | without traps and connected in the usual manner, and which could not be tigutly closed. This was, of course, @ case of gross aegiect, carelessness or ignorance on the part of the plumber. If the over- flow and waste pipes were to be carried into the il pipe, below the main they should iso ave been provided with for otherwise the sewer is practically ope: to the house. ‘Though this ai rangement of pipes is about a6 bad as {t could be, it is oy BO Means uncommon. in another instance, when inspecting a very costly | Mr. Bayles, that an attempt had been made to form a stench trap in each of the waste pipes, both from bath tubs and vasina, but the | plumber, apparently ignorant of the action | Of the trap, bad, in several instances, after bending | bis pipe, set it up at such an angle that the | 3 | water remaining in the trap would hardly fill the pipe, while in other cases the bends were so long | @nd 86 nearly horizontal what the force of the | water would nearly empty them and leave a pas- | sare for air above it. In most cases of defective | trap arrangements which have come under my Botice it 18 but just to say that the fault lay wholly with the plumbers. The pipes were im- | properly placed, the traps set up wrong or the | work in some way “boteked” in putting it ether. Tois shows the danger of intrust- ing plumbing work to incompetent, ignorant or careiess workmen, when any connection Is to ve opened between the sewers and the inside of a | Bouse, Fortunately for many so-called practical plumbers, but unfortunately for the public health, | comparanyely few persons know whether the work for which they pay is done properly or not, | especially when it 18 #0 placed as to be difficult cess; but when the presence of sewer yas 18 de- tected, and the cause of its presence ls unknown, | 18 would, in every case, be a judicious economy to | empioy an expert to discover and remedy the de- fect at any cost, “THE CELLARS IN MANY HOUSES | in _New York, said the speaker, are flooded with sewaxe @ good part of the time. [have known | mstances in whicn hot air furnaces nave been & | comlortable circumstances, especially tnose built | in Frenco flats, tanks to which no attention 1s | given from one year’s end to another are the res- ervoirs from which 1s drawn ‘all the water used for drinking and cooking. Lclimbed into one of these tanks a Jew days ago ana found it coated “on the bottom with a bed of soit, | Oozy, brown mua, to the depth of nearly two | inches. | Of the service pipe been raised nigher above the | DoLtom. There was no means of clearing ou: this | tank except by partially | EMPTYING IT THROUGH THE SRRVIOR PIPE, removing in pails What remumed, and sponging out the deposit. The tank Was a wooden vox, | lined with sneet zinc, and | ieund tt coated oa the luside With & Whitish seale of considerable thick- | | ness, composed o: the oxide and poisonuus saite of zinc, which readily form upon the metal | When subjected to the action of Croton | Water. This is no unusual case. Whole biocks | Of houses in the upper part of the eity are sup- | pled with water arawa from just such tanks, and | 1 the dwellers in flats could be induced to look into them occasionally with a light they would ve , lostructed, if not entertained, I call attention to Uiese tacts merely as showing the extent and im- portance of thesnbdiect which! have attempted to discuss so imperiectly and which I commend to your consideration, THE MEDICO-1 GAL SOCIETY. THE THIRD ANNUAL DINNER AND REUNION. ‘The third annual dinner of the Medico-Legal ; Society took place last evening at Delmonico’s. More than eeventy members and guests sat down to the dinner. Amoug the distinguished persons present were Judge Joseph F. Daly, Pretessor Witiam A, Mammond, Judge P. J. Joachimsen, | Horace Barnard, Join H. Watson, Willard Parker, | ‘The | Professor Doremus and W. Stoughton, societies and cluos were represented as foliows: ‘St. Patrick’s Society, President Thomas Barbour; New Engiapd Society, Elow © Coudert; The French Society, Frederick Coudert; Arcadiun Cluv, Rovert B, Roosevelt; ar Association, Edgar Van Winkle; Army and Navy, General Gibson, The President, Clark Beli, made the following opening remarks:— ‘The science of medical jurisprudence receives an increased interest and lusire by the recurrence | Of such sestive occasions as the present, for it seems to bring together at one table the two pro- 1€381008 Most proiwundiy feared, and, at the same time, most bighly prized, by maukind. There may be those who might regard such a conjanc- tion vi so latge a body of lawyers and doctors with feelings akin to alarm, Nothing can more sorcibly or feeliugly ilustrate the value and chums of this society than a glance atthe two great classes of men Who are not only Its support- ers but who are iu themselves the chief recipients of its benetlis and blessings. Take the cuse of that most amiavie, poianthropic, Jeained and sell-sacrificing prolession—tne medical men ot our country; men wno nave devoted them- selves to the weifare of the race, to tue amelioration of their kind, to | the care of the sick, ~=ang = whose = whole ile is given, with fidelity and great labor, to tne noblest work o! their grand calling. Take such a man, doomed by a cruel jate to carry jorever his ) saddle bags, crammed full with all the remedies in | the pharuacopia, or with a duli lead pencil scratching prescriptions for the druggist clerks 10 fill up tor his sudering patients, without an hour he can call his own, oO rest at bight nor sleep by day; no Sabbath, no recreation thar the eternal and horrid omee vel! and cai! may not ring him to Dis feet and doom aim to lavor, Is it to be won- dered at that such men grow desperate? Is it sarprising that 4 man should bleed his patients ? Do not lawyers even do the same when they exact , retainers ? Aud turning from this picture to that other class—those patient, long-suffering, iabor.ous men of thet men who have learneu to suffer and grow stron: ee, but who do not preac! verprising, much abused vlass, wilo have been striving to turn an honest penny by the trial of a case in the courts, or bowing down to the tard work and drudgery of an oilice, or getting Yome poor devi! of a client out oi a bad scrape. Teke this man from the dust and grim of nis brieis, irom the drudging of bis provessional life, aud bring him to this supreme, this sacred hour, when naught can come vetween “the cap and toe lip,’ when be can have the Peaceful and quiet enjoyment of such a dinner as Delmouico can give, with none to molest or to | make him airaid; and this, gentiemen, is one of the offices and @ part of the mission of this Medico- Legai Society. ‘VYhe regular toasts were responded to as fol- Wet i jOWs i— | “Phe Medico-Legal Soctety.” by Professor Witlam A. Hummoud; “fhe Medical Facuity,”? by br. L. A. Sayre; “the Bencn,’’ by Judye Josepn F. Daly; “The Medicai Profession,” by Protessor A. B. Crosby; “the Bar.) oy Mr. Edward Patterson ; “Phe Pres: by Dr. Puller Walker; “Our r Societies,” by Dr, Frederick A. Leute; ne | Academy of Medicine,” by Dr. Elisworth Eliot, The sestivities continued anti | as iace hour, HOW TO REACH THE NORTH POLE. | SEND COMPTROLLER GRE SEEK Ir. New York, March 11, 1876, To THE EpiToR oF THE Henat. Thanks to the HERALD, Which has devoted so much space tothe progress of Arctic discovery, | the great body of Americaus entertain a lively interest im its successiul issue, We teel, too, a | Rational pride in the past achievements of our own countrymen in tose frozen regions, ana earnestly desire that the credit of first reaching | the North Pole may be won by American enter- prise and daring, and expect the Star Span- gied Banner to be the emviem ot sove- reigoty which shall thencefortn foat from us peak. Yo surtoer this ooject { would | @uggest that the next American Arctic expedition should go vy the route of Smitn’s Sound and pene- | trate as far into the nigu latitude as possible | doring the short summer, Let tuem carry all requisites to make (bemseives safe and comfor:- | | able there for the winter, They might thence, | | whenever the weather ana wind should serve, | | prosecute the exploration by means o! a properly | | equipped balloon. This Would be watted by | soatnerly winds directly im the desired direction | over the open sea. Aiter the precise position of + el Pole had been properly ascertained and marked any wind of heaven would convey the party away. For the proper execution of this project | Would nominate Andrew H. Green to command the balicon T appeal contidentiy to the people of New York to B of plumbing in a Western city, I found, said | It would have been deeper had the mouth | IN A BALLOON To | ar col re felder’a panda AMUSEMENTS. LYCEUM THEATRE. Mae. Ristort played ‘‘Luerezia Borgia” for the last time last evening belore a crowded assem- | plage. and deepened the profound impression she | created on Tuesday night, when she frst essayed | the rdle of the terrivie poisoner. in the last scene with Gennaro, whom she implores to save bimself and allow his guilty companions to perish, and to whom in the agones of death she reveals the fatal mystery of his birth, Mme. Ristori seemed to be inspired With the true spirit of tragedy, and the | asm of the audience was boundie: she | appears to-night for the last time as Blizabeth, and Will impersonate Mary Stuart ac the Saturday matinée. MRS. CONWAY'S THEATRE. Last night Mr. John McCullough appeared at this house as Virginius in Sheridan Knowles’ aa- mirable play of that name, The story upon which it is founded is one of the most romantic in the whole range of the classical drama. It is one that touches the strings of the human heart deeply and joses none of its power t. move the human soul by lapse of time. Mr. McCullough’s rendering of the Roman father is marked by a } strength and dignity that few know how to impart | to 1% without sacrificing the delicacy and teuder- ness it 18 80 necessary to preserve. in the scenes with his danghter he was particular, | happy, and it would ve diMicult to convey wit better effect the manly love of the stern Roman Jor his cnilé, What pleased us most in Mr. | MeCallough’s performance was his quiet demeanor and graceiul and appropriate action in the scenes | wich bis daughter and her lover, of feeling were marked with great firmness and subtlety of touch. ‘The splendid pbysique and studiously correct costumes ofithe actor made and when ke stabbea his daughter to save her | from dishonor the physica! power of the man gave Joce and magnetism to his picturing of passion | wrougut to tne verge 0} madness. ‘The Virginius) of Mr. McCullough ts a truly commendable performance, ‘ull of fire, emotional tenderness and passion, 1t1s finished and shaded im @ Manner uot often seen on the American | stage, and if demonstrates ciearly that Mr. McCullough is not content to rest on the laurels he has won, but constantly strives aiter periec- ; lon. ‘This is the true way to assure the brilliant future tiiat lies belore him. Migs Lillian Conway's lnpersonation of Virginia was sweet and graceful, aud Mr. Roche made an effective Icilius, | “Jack Cade” will be presented to-night on the occasion of Mr, McCullough’s benefit, and ought to draw @ crowded house, matinée will be given, when “Romeo aud Juliei? will be presented, Miss Lillian Conway undertak- ing, for the first time, the role of Juliet. Mr. ' cutlo, STEINWAY HALI——-MISS HEILBRON’S PIANO R= OrraL, | This very clever and highly accomplished young artiste gave a plano recital yesterday afternoon at | P Steinway’s which had many points of interest, She was assisted by Miss Wilhelmina E. Benziger, @ very ambitious young singer, who essayea “Casta Diva; Mr. Sweet, a baritone with a rich, sonorous voice; Mr, Lanzer, a violimist, and Mr. Alfred H. Pease, briluant and effective t | wattz, Mr, Pease’s trapscription was the feature of the recital and received @ hearty encore. Miss Heilbron also piayea Liszt’s “Rhapsodie Hon- groise, No. 3?’ one of the least effective of this verlew Of works by the Abbe, Her next recital takes place on the 25tu inst., and on that occasion sho will be assisted by Miss Bianone Ellerman and | Meath Russell Glover, Sweet, Lanver and Caui- | feid. | ASSOCIATION HALL—MRS. GOODWYN’S DRAMATIO RECITAL. A large audience assembied last evening at this | hail to hear Mrs, Priscilla Cooper Goodwyn recite | the following selections :—‘‘The Belis,”’ E. A. Poe; “Nothing to Wear,’ Butier; “High Tide on the | Coast of Lincoinshire,” Jean Ingelow; “How’smy | Boy ?”? Sydney Dovell: “David Copperfiela’s Wooing,’? Charlies Dickens; ‘Kentucky Belle,” | | Miss Woolson; “Her Letter,” Bret_ Harte; “The | Dream of fugené Aram,” Hood. The lady has a clear, musical voice, which has evidently re- | ceived a thorough elocutionary training, und she appreciation of each subject she essayed, which 48 seldom heard except irom a professional actress of distinction, Sie was received with consider able lavor by the audience. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. M. B. Laurent gives a concert at Steinway Hall on the 19th inst, Mr. Jerome Hopkins gives a piano lecture con- | cert at Steimway Hall this atternoon, Mme. Ris‘or! Will appear on Wednesday next, for the first time :his season, In the rdle of Marie Antoinette. Mine. Madeline Schiller plays Beethoven’s E flat concerto at Thomas’ classical matinée, at Stein- way’s, on Satarday. Mr. Harry Wall, the dramatic agent, has re_ turned 'rom apn extended tour through Europe ) and bas disposed of two of the latest French plays, ‘Rose Michel” and “Le Tour du Monde,’ to | Mr. Augustin Daiy. BILLIARD NOTES. | The biluard players bave agreed to play for the | benefit of the family of the deceased Mr. Gavits | on the evening of Friday, March 2¢, The enter- tainment will consist of @ series of contests be- tween Messrs. Vignaux, Garnier, Cyrille Dion, Joe Dion, Francois Ubassy, Maurice Daly, Rudolphe and others, An exhibition of fancy shots will aiso be given, and everything that can be done to ; amuse the visitors will be cheerfully performed by the players, ‘he tainily of the late Mr. Gavitt has great claims on the generosity of the bisllard public, as he devoted twenty-five years of his life to pushing forward the game turough the press and other channels. As the billiard players, man- utacturers and saloon keepers nave joined hands in this undertaking, Tammany Hall wiil tn all provaoility be filled with the tinest audience ever present at @ billlard exhibition, Cyrille Dion, the next candidate for the posses- sion of tne Delaney Emoiem, is already hard at work practising for bis match with Vignaux, the presentincumbent, fhe principals me. yester- | day and decided to play the game on the evening of Thursday, March 25, tne day beiore that se- lectea for the exhibition game jor the benefit of the famiiy Of Mr. Gavitt. Cyrille is practising day and evening, in a down town room, where a GrimMth table has been put up for his use. Specu- lation on the resuit of the game has hardly yet commenced, although one bet of 100 to 40 on Vig- paux was made a couple of nights ago. The Brooklyn bilitard patrons are considerably excited over the foriacoming professional tour- nament that isto commence on the evening of April 1, at the City Assembly Rooms, under the management of Mr. A. R. Samuells. As this will be the tirst professianai tournament ever played on Long Island, its success is assured, $1,500 will be contested for, which will be divided as follows :—$600 to the first, $400 to the second, | $250 to the third, $150 to the fourth and $100 to the fith. Vignaux, Albert Garnier, Francois Ubassy, Maurice Daly, A. P. Rudoiphe, Cyrille Dion and Josepn Dion—have agreed to contest for the prizes, and although there will be two that cannot win a prize they will not go away empty handed, as the manager will probabiy make some arrangement for their benefit. ‘The games will be 300 points at the three-ball game, and two will be afternoon and two in the evening. has reduced the price of admission vo fiity ceuts, | Witn twenty-fve cents extra fora reserved seat SPARRING EXHIBITION. | Tom Allen, of St. Louis, who is matched to fight | George Rooke, of Newark, for the championship and $1,500 a side, Was tendered a complimentary | exhib! ‘The attendance was quite gratitying in the mat- ter of numbers to those interested, and she enter- tainment proved @ pleasant success. A variety performance introduced the serious business of , the alternoon, which consisted of several boxing encounters, Of the latter there were really fne displays, which were greatiy appreciated. The first pair that stepped upon the stage were War. wick Edwards aud Jim Kelly, al “Harry dirs Chicken.” Warry had the best of it, though the bout was very amicable, Next came George Siler and Bill Madden, who | Tattled away pleasantly and retired ior the third set-10, vetween Pete Croker and ve Taylor. The latter entered vigorousiy into the spirit of the Sport, giving a really good exhibition of the art of Bell-celence, dividing the honors and applause, Jim Turner and Patsy O'Hara then entertained the audience, making Way for Mickey Coburn and Patsey Hogan. mered away at each other im bull dog style jor some time, when Allen and Jim Coyne stepped tor- ward to wind up the afternoon's sport. They | Were received in a figurative sense with a flourish Their boxing | of trumpets, being in ring costume. was a treat, bord men commencing work and con- tinutng tt as if they thoroughly enjoyed the amuse- ment of knocking each other around. The second deposit of $260 a side in the stakes for the forthcoming battle between Rooke and deposited in the temporary stake- , PVeuLng, ar ‘The gradations | hin a fitting representative of the old Rowan, | On Saturday a special | MeCunough wili appear for the occasion as Mer- | who played with her’ his last | scription of a popular | A purse of | Seven of the best players in the world—Maurice | A rigid in the | ‘he manager | mn yesterday afternoon at Harry Hili’s. | Harry Hicken and Arthur Cham. | bers, determined opponents, toliowed, and ham- | JOHN MITCHEL. etme REVIEW OF HWJ# POLITICAL POKITION— BIS CON- j FEDERATE RECORD. Dubin, Feb. 27, 1876. Your London advices will have made you ac- | quainted with the dissatisfaction which has been developed with reference to the taumuituary way | in which the House of Commons decidea, on the | 18th, that John Mitchel, being a teion, whose sen- tence had not been completed, was incapable of situng in the House. The Ties has challenged the government to arrest Mitchel, and insists that it 19 Meitber justice nor common sense (even If it | ve law) toexclude Mitchel from Parliament if it | is the Case that be cannot be even arrested, | OTIZEN OPINION, In Ireland the matter has been taken up ina | different spirit. When the news came over nine days ago that the House of Commons nad de- | clared Mitenel Incapable of sitting in Parliament, | | and had ordered a new election for Tipperary, the | prevalent impression was that it was useless to persevere aud try to force Mitchel invo Parlia | ment. Some other candidate should be selected, | But gradually men’s minds cleared; the London Times article came to show that there was a stroug show of argument in favor of the view that the House had not decided on suMicient grounds, and that a legal tribunal might set aside this decision, On Sunday it was resolved to start Mitcnel ny | | | and the next morning his adaress to the electors | of Tipperary was circulating ali over Ireland. said He ns or Tirremary:—You have made me your T sincerely thank you. The Britis 3 pronounced me disaualified to repre. | At You. your verdict? If not, vote for me. 1 | stand again, unpromised and umpledy | This struck a chord sure to vibrate not alone in | Tipperary, but all over Ireland, Two days after- ward a letter was published addressed to Mr, Madden, the Honorary Secretary of the Mitchel | Committee, Clonmel, by J. P. Ronague, the Mem- | ber for Vork city. In this letter Mr. Ronague | ‘insists there can be no question now what part | every lrishman should take in the Tipperary eiec- ; tion. It is ne longer tne guestion of an Individual | Or of shades of politics.”’ And he goes on 10 Insist that any man who could be so buse as to Oppose | Mitchel should be adjudged by Irish opinion in- | capabie of ever being elected in all juiure time. \ HIS LECTURB, | Mitchel was to have given &@ public lecture last | night (Friday, 26th) 19 Cork on the question of | {The Tipperary Blection.”” But he was tuo pros- trate, Yet when ne learned how great would be | the disappointment he rose from his sick bed, went down to the Athenwum, and sat there wile | youug John Dillon read the tecture which Mitcuel | had dictated to him, He vindicated himsel! from the charge of being a “felon”? op the ground tuat | i r | | with scorn the story of bis having broken ‘is arole, Then, be sud, the case Was simply this, was Iipperary to be prevented irom electing him merely because the Prime Minister of Kngland, wich an overwhelming majority at his back, chose to deciare Lim ineligible ? If he succeeds now he Tay successiuily uy the experiment with Limerick, cork, Wateriord, of Cork \o stand by the Tipperary men in their struggle. It 18 neediess to say tbat the greatest | enthusiasm characterized the proceedings. CONDITION OF HEALTH. or five days the clue! places in Tipperary ; but the state of bis health renders this out of the ques tion. It is, however, not of the smaliest conse: | quence. He will be either returned without a moment, Mitchel’s majority will be overwhelming, In the Jormer cage he will again STAND FACE TO FACE with the House of Commons, In the latter case the beaten candidate may present a petition, and the case would come before the Court of Common Pleas, It is a strange coincidence taat the Chief Justice of this Court ty Mr. Monahan, who was Attorney General 10 1848, Im that capacity pro- wecuted Mitchel, | ‘I WAS A CONFEDERATE—8O WERE ALL BEST MEN I MET IN AMERICA. ” {From the Cork Examiner, Feb. 27.) A large audience assembied at the Theatre Royal looked jorward to with a great deal of interest. For half an hour the house waited with the great- est patience, whiling away the time by facetious remarks and ironical entreaties for “cheers for Judge Keogh; then it was whispered around that Mr. Mitchel had taken very ijl and could not possibly come down, Alter preparing himself for the lecture it appeared he fainted, and any move. | dangerous, At bis crisis some menivers of the com- mittee were despatched to Sunday’s Weil, and Mr. Mitchel, making a great effort, rose from bis sick | couch aud accompanied them back to the theatre, | at nine o'clock the curtain rose, and Mr. Mitchei | Was scen silting in an arm chair, looking very 1 | ana physically prostrate. Mr. Mitchel was greeted | with tremendous cheering, renewed again ana | again, the entire audience rising and waving hats and pocket handkerchiefs, When the excitement had supsided Mr. Haly, I. C., Moved that Alderman | vwyer take the chatr, | Mr. Mitchel’s lecture was read for bim, as nj | been anuounced by another gentleman. In tne Th | course of the tecture he said:— ter nas dared to say that my alleged aisaviluy rests upon two distinct grounds—one, that lam now a felon, and this is the only legai ground alleged; the other is, that I broke my paroie of houor, a matter Which hag nothing to du with the law of the case at all, and 1s only dragged in to cover me | with execration, and to bring my constituents into contempt for having elected such a person. | Toe London Times, indeed, has discovered a third disgraceit) efime of ‘which 1 have been guilly—viz., that 1 was a Southern Contederate during te war im America, AS to this last charge, | own the soft impeachment, | Was a Con- lederate, and 80 were ull the best men that | met in America, (Hear, hear.) My three sons served in the Confederate army, and (wo of tiem fell in battles Lam not sueh & craven recfeant as to affect to be ashamed of that cause. As {or the otter far more dreadful crime charged against me—namely, that £ broke my parole of nouor in escaping irom & penai colony, I mignt, pervaps, content myself With referring to the authority of Mr. Martin, member for Meatu; oi Mr. simyta, member for Westmeath, and of Mr. Sinith O’Brien (cheers), Who bave ail indigmautly vin- dicated me against that ruMlan charge. Does Mr. Disraeli imagine jor @ moment that li I had done the shameiul deed he attributes to me | couid now stand up and look my countrymen in the face?” Mr. Mitchel Went On from this point to defend his action in escaping !rem the penal seitiement ae already given. He said:—‘‘The events passed | Inore than a quarter Of a century ago, aba the | only narrative of ail the details is that which [ have given myself in @ Journal which | kept at the | time. That journal, however, was published in | America, and its circalation was prevented in this | country by the ipterference of Dublin Castile, so | that probably mot one in forty of those now | Present ever saw It, 1 hold that volume now in my hand, and shall presently read the page of It | referring to my escape. But first 1 point your at- | tention to this fact, that Iwas three years at large | in Van Diemen’s Lan, confined there only by the promise which I Bad given, aithough there was no day or night when I might not nave quitted the colony with ease and security, if I had conde- scended to escape Clandestinely, and thereiore | dishonorably.”? WILLIAM J. SHARKEY. | THE AMERICAN MURDERER ENJOYING HIS LIb- ERTY IN HAVANA. | Havana, March 6, 1875. | William J. Sharkey t# again at liberty, and en- joys the mnsic in the Plaza Isabel as if he were an | old resident and nothing had ever happened to him, It 1s well known at present in Havana that ho | has plenty of friends. When Maggie Jordan went | to New York and reported his brutality bis friends both here and, it is said, in New York threatened _ | to have nothing more to do with him, but when @ rumor was circulated that the Spanish authorities were willing to give bim up in case he was sent | tor they all came forward, and with the aid of a | few hundred doilars procured his reiease irom jail, WHO ARE HIS FRIENDS? | Ten days ago one would have supposed that | Sharkey had not @ intend in the world, and, even | now, it is hard to tell who are bis iriends; tor | those who have talked most bitterly against aim | were the first 10 go to his assistance, and although | Lhey disclaim having anything to do with him tt | is Well known he receives the same amount of aid | from them since his release as be did before nis arrest. LED ASTRAY, | | | | | | | A peptuagenarian of the old school was found | wandering about the streets yesterday, and was corted to the Park Hospital by one of the officers | of the Twenty-sixth precinct. Dr. Hull, the House Surgeon, examined the poor old man, bat all that | they could ascertain from him was that his nawe was Thomas Jefferson, He was unavie to say where he resided. He stated, however, that he was seventy-taree years of age, and that he muss | bave been “looney” when he left home in the | | morning. In tis Tight hand he carried au old | | fasmoned walking cane, painted red, white and blue, Dr. Hull subsequently ascertained where he | resided, and he was sent home under escort, Dur. | ing Mis brief stay in the hospital he delivered a somewhat erratic panegyric upom ai) the great eR Ol MAQdeND FINE, _ “ | te was convicted by @ packed jury; ne repudiated | He ended by asking the peopie | Mitchel was to have visited during the next four | | contest, or, it seme tory (no one else would dare | deiy the popula? feeling) is nominated at the iast | THE | | last night to hear Mr. Mitchel’s lecture, which was — displayed a degree of dramatic power and keen | ment on his part would, it was feared, be very | Prime Minis- | CARDINAL CULLEN. ‘Tweity-fifth Anniversary of His Elevation to the Episcopaey. FATHER TOM BURKE'S SERMON, DUBLIN, Feb. 27, 1875. A ceremony of much Interest, not only to (h@ Roman Catholic communion, who were more directly concerned, but also to the Irisn people generally, took piace here last Thursday, 20tty inst, It was the twenty-fiftn anniversary of Cardinal! Cullen's elevation to the Episcopacy. Ong the Continent such a recurrence is always come memorated with special solemnt: and in Gere many especially the “silver wedding” of a bishop: to his See ts an occasion of general festivity for his diocesans, laity as well asclergy. Some years ago it was the good fortune of tie present write: to assist af the celebration of the “silver wedding” of the present Bishop of Strasburg, Dr. Ress. Cardinal Reisach, who was then the Archbishop of{ Munich, was present, as also two or three Frencha archbishops, beside some thirteen or fourteen French and German bishops, The whole city and! neighborhood of Strasburg were en fete. Shops! were closed, pusiness suspended, and the epjoy< ment of a general holiday was the appearancel everywhere presented. In Ireiand, however, it ist only lately that such a practice has come into ex- istence, and, indeed, this is the first occasion om which celebration proper has been held. THE “SILVER WEDDING” OF 1HE IRISH CARDINALS ‘The chief ceremony consisted in @ bigh mass ati the Cathedral, in Mariborough street. The Car-* dinal bimsel! was the celebrant, and, on this ocw casion, besides the usual gorgeous vestmenisl worn by a Roman Catholic bishop at high mass, net wore TRE PALLIUM, which 19 a special archiepiscopal ornament of, vestment worn only on rare occasions and which. the canons direct to be Interred with each arco bishop on his death, This ornament is a narrow! band of the finest texture, woven of pure whitey lamo’s wool; it has five black crosses woven into; the stuf, The pailium is blessed specially by they Pope once a year, on the vigil of St, Peter’s lenst,, It is granted with great solemnity, in a pablio consistory, and the Archbishop 18 subsequenuy? invested with it in a spectal rite, | A SPLENDID SCENK—SOLEMN CEREMONY. The Romanm Catholic Primate “of all Ireland,’® Archpishop MacGettizan, of Armagh, and eight other bishops, besides the members of the Cathe drai Chapter and a great pnumover of ciergymen, assisted at tue ceremony. | hi nl civic oMcers and accompanied by several aidere | ration pew. The arl of Granard, Lord O'Hagan, FATHER TOM BURKE'S SERMON. | sermon om the text, First Epistie of St. Peter, | ‘The anctents. therefore, that are among vou, T bes | which is to be revealed in time to come: fecd che flock Incre’s'sake, but voluntarily: neither as lordi receive A never-fading crown of glory. quarter of a centu but they were disappointed, that Cardinal Cullen bad expressly probibtted bim. The Lord Mayor (MacSwiney), attended by the men and town counciliors, came in state equis pages to the chuck aud were present in the corpo- | ana many other leading Catholics were also pres-' ent, and the la: churen Was densely thronged. After the mass the celebrated Dominicam | preacher, Father Barke, deilvered an clogeen® | chap. v., verses 4 seech, Who am mysvifan aucient and a witness of tae | sufferings of Christ: as also a partaker of that glory | of God which is among you, taking care ot it not | straint, but willingly rding to Goa: no | the clergy, but by being a pattern to the tock trem the | And when the Prince of Pastors shall appear Many had looked (orward to an appropriate re. | view of the Cardinal’s episcopal rule during a | The preacher contined himself to general topics, | and at the close of ius discourse disclosed the act “to say One word of himsel! personally.” “TE DEUM."? The church ceremonies Were brought to a close | by the solemn chanting of the “fe Deuin ” alter which His Eminence gave the Papal blessing, im , the mame of the Pope, who had desired tbat os | sympathy with the occasion should be thus sigul. | fed. At the conciusion of the ecclesiastical func. tions an address, suitable to the occasion, wat | read by the Lord Mayor, and replied to by the , Cardinal Archbishop. A BRILLIANT AND FESTIVE ASSEMBLAG In the evening His Kininence Cardinal Cullen enteriained @ large party of layluen and coclesi- astics in the refectory of the Diocesan College of the Holy Cross, at which appropriate toasts were | proposed. Among the speakers, besides the Car- dinal, were the Primate of Iretand, tne Lord Mayor of Dublin, the Dean of the Cathedral Cuap- ter (O'Vonnell), the Karl of Granard, Lord O'ia- gan, the Superior of the Jesuits anu Sir James Power, Burt. CARDINAL CULLEN is now in his seventieth year, fis family orig!- nally belonged to Kitdare, in which county an@ the adjoiniug one of Meath they have, for genera- tions, occupied extensive tracts of land, being largely engaged in the rearing of cattle, both jor the home market and for exportation. Young Pau) Cutien received the first rudiments of learn- ing at @ Quakers’ school, whence he passed |o Carlow College, then presided over vy the celes brated Dr. Doyle. Atan early age he was sent to Kome, where he made bis puosophical and theo- logical studies in the College of the Propaganda, aud obtained bis Joctor’s degree aiter an ex- amination of siugular brilltancy, at which Pope Leo Xil. Was present. Cardinal Capellari, after- ward Pope Gregory XVI., was at tue time Prefect of the Propaganda, ‘thus the learning auu over valuable qualities of the young ecclesiastic were, from iirst known and appreci: ated in the highest Quarters, He was aimost at once appointed Vice Rector of the Propaganda College, whence he was shortiy promuied to the Rectorsbip of the Irish College in Rone, a post woich he heid jor eighicen years in this position, 16 is not tov Much to say, that oe won the confidence, estecm aud bigh opinion of every Irish ULisbop. When the trouvlous times of 1848 began tue pres- ent Pope at once appointed Dr, Cuien to the Rec- torship 0; Propaganoa, in which capacity he en- deared himseli to the students, as Well ax to tic higher authoriues, displaying the greatest tact, combined With singular gentleness of administra= tion and a rare Knowledge uf character. The same qualities made him loved by the st Irish College to a degree which rar lot of the chief of an ecclesiastical se the year 1349 the Archoishopric of came vacant, its diling up a matier of no ordinary dim- culty. Tne remaining three Jrish arcubishops were consulted by Rome, and Right Rev. D MacHale recommended the xppoimtment of Dr. Cullen. The lope warmly embraced the idea, and on the 25th February. 1800, he was consecrated oy Cardinal Castracane, the Grand Penitentiary, ia vhe Church of St. Agatha attached to the Iris College. He arrived in ireland at tne end o! April, and a8 special delegate of the Holy See, presided at the National Synod held ut Thurles, which begam on the 22d August, 1850, and lasted for over three weeks. It was at tuis council that the Irish bish- ops took the resolution of founding A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. From that time forward he has beeo in we front of all ecclesiastical a@uurs in Ireland. In 1652, upon the death of Arcubisuop Murray, of Dublin, | pe was chosen to succeed bim by @ large majority of tne diocesan clergy, and on the 3d of May of that year he was “tiansiated” from Armagh to rablin. THK FIBST IRISHMAN WHO HAS EVER BEEN ACAR- DINAL. In June, 1866, he was created Cardinal by Pops Pius IX, being the firstlrishuian upon whom that ipary. Armagnu be- and Special circumstances made dignity bas been conferied. HIS WOKKS, It would not be possivie within the limits of a Jeter to Say ail vhat nal Cuiien has done to pro mote the interests of the Roman Catholic religion during his episcopacy. Mauy new churches have been duilt and old ones remodeiied and beaurified. Convents have been doudied, many new schools and colleges called into existence. The Catholic University haw been started, A splendid hogpitat has been built and has beeo now for over a dozen years in iull working order. His latest work has been the Diocesan seminary, or College, of Holy Cross, to train young aspirants tou the ministry,. and he is at present erecting, in connection with the seminary, 4 large and handsome churcn on tie model of the old Roman basilicas. In ali the mine istrations which are peculiar to the Roman Catho- lic communion, i must be Samal eved that lew cities are so well cared for as Dublin, Considering, how much they owe to the zeal, the discretion an the piety of their Archbishop, it is not surprising that he possesses the respect and veneration of his Mock, and that they hope ue may yet ve spared, to them for many years. i HUGH M'ADAMS’ CHEST FOUND. BARNEGAT, Marcn 9, 1876, To Tae Eprror oF rae HeRaLD: Deak Sin—I desire to announce tn the column® | of your widely circulated journal that on the ah inst., one of my crew found on the strai Life Saving Station No. 17, a cheat containing a variety of carpenter’s tools, clothing and @ smalt amount of sliver money; also a certificate of des. posit on ings and trust company’s bank if Galveston, xi jor @ considerable sum of inoney. The certificate is dated Jauuary 18, 1875. e itis drawn in favor of Hugh McAdams. The same name is inscribed on the clothing. The above ar- tucies will be delivered to the owner or legal claimants by proving property. and witmous charge op my part. = SANUEL PERRINE, Jr., Keeper of Liye Saving Station No 17, ,