The New York Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1875, Page 8

& NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ANN STREET, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS —On and SMter Januery 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the Naw Youx Hxnarp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every ay in the year. Four cents per copy. An- ual subscription price #12. All business or news letters and hadoeinact flespatches must be addressed New Youre Mrmr. Rejected communications will not be re- gurned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. KONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Bubscriptions and advertisements will be received und forwarded on the same terms as in New York. —— — TOLUME XL...-2. ++. +000 <= AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. Pee Gpera—iALISMAN, at 8 I. M.; closes at 10:45 M, sireet THE BLACK .M. Matinee at 2 Miss Kellogg. 2 EES) ae er. +3 < THEATRE COMIQUE, Fo, Brosdway.—V. ABIELY, at 8B, M.; closes at 10:45 sovesee NO, 06 ETROPOLITA EU! 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Gold sSdvanced to 1144, and closed at 114}. Waar Dors ‘Tras Mran?—The pardon of Ingersoll, the Tammany chairmaker, by Governor Tilden. Epvcatiox ty Spary.—The professors and students of the Spanish universities are said to be united in opposing the educational laws, and intend to make a general demonstra- tion. But the young Alfonso ought not to be Dlamed. The boy bas just left school himself and naturally wishes to be revenged upon his books. A Tuearexep Nemaxce.—In- @ communi- estion which we publish to-day will be found @ statement of facis of which the Health Board should take cognizance: that wish to fulfil their duties toward the pu It appears that abattoirs have been e lished on the North RB in a district the slaughtering of animals and the dis; of the refuse of e dead carcasses may seri- ously interfere with the public hea the warm we er. is a subject franght with interest to th and demands im- Peratively instant ir tion. body ab- where h during Tae Lavy Wassivoron Recerrios To Niont.—Now that we are nearing the celebra- tion of our Centennial, th Academy this evenip Jarly interesting, especiaily ‘with one of oar m court of tho firs 80 event att must prove particu. The i lady at deserving charities nd the most revere who ever presided at the White House, which many historic person th their will be faith? ally cep daced, and presence, the succeeding tea party will be feminiscence of those days kere th re wer nobility and honor in bigh places, and + grabs, third terms and official backslidings wero uvheard of. The prey event have been of the most elaborate and ex- tensive kind, and it is to be hoped that the will be ample enough to enable St. Tohn's Guild to pursue its good work tions for this | the political current continues to move in the | | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, also exhibited in the blindness of the demo- | The Democratio Victory in Connecticut. The democrats won in Connecticnt yester- doy what will pass in their party organs for great victory, They have elected their three of the four Congressmen. Barnum (democrat) is re-elected im the Fourth dis- trict, Hawley (republican) defeated in the First, and Kellogg (republican) de- feated in the second, Starkweather in the | third district being the only republican Con- gressman elected. The democratic majority on the State ticket is somewhat smaller than it was a yearago. The gain of Congressmen does not count as compared with the election of last year when members of Congress were not chosen. Two years ago, when members of the Forty-third Congress were elected in Connecticut, the reaction against the republican party had not set in, and a comparison of the Congressional | vote throws no light on the question whether | same direction and with the same force as it | did in the surprising revolution which elec- trified the country last autumn. In the spring | of 1873 President Grant had just been inaugu- | State ticket, a majority of the Legislature and | rated a second time, after a triumphant | re-election; the democratic party, still smart- | ing under the great Greeley defeat, was in a | state of prostration; business seemed pros- | perous, the panic not occurring until nearly six months later, and,the republicans had ac- |, cordingly every advantage in the April elec- | tion that year in Connecticut, A gain of | Congressmen now, under circumstances so dif- | ferent, proves nothing respecting the state of public feeling in 1875 as compared with 1874. It is only by gains or losses between this | year and last that anything can safely be in- | ferred as to the growth or decline of parties | and the present drift of political sentiment. | All comparisons are idle except those founded | onthe vote of 1874, when no Congressmen | were elected. We must compare State ticket | with State ticket, and 1875 with 1874, to find whether the Connecticut democracy is in a | state of progress or decay. It appears by the returns thus far received ‘that the democratic party very nearly holds its own as compared with last year. Eighty- | one towns which last year gave Ingersoll a | | plurality of 2,093 over his republican com- | Ho, f2t Broadway —VARIETY. at 8 F. M.; closes at 10:45 | id Third avenues— | the defeat of Hawley and Kellogg for Con- | | gress, butthat is only a gain as compared | the State the democratic loss from last | year _ mach fuller vote than in 1874, but the gains petitor give him this year o plurality of | 1,864, and if this ratio prevails through is not serious, There is a | by both parties are nearly equal. In the eighty-one towns already referred to the increase of the democratic vote is 2,278, and the increase of the republican vote 2,507—a neck-and-neck race so far as mere gains are concernetl, According to the natural progress of political rev- olutions the democratic party should have made great gains instead of trifling | losses. The splendid victories in other States last year ought to have helped them; the recent military interference with the Louisiana Legislature should have brought them ad- ditional votes; the republican blunder of run- ning a servile supporter of Grant for the Gov- | ernorship gave them an advantage which ought to have increased their majority. And yet, instead of gaining thousands, they have not held their majority of last year. They stand where they did, or rather not quite as well as they did, one year ago, when the “tidal wave’’ had scarcely begun to move. They are entitled to rejoice over with the spring of 1873, when the republican | party hed just elected a President and was in the full tide of undiminished success. The arrest of democratic gains in the opening elections of the year is fortunate for | the perty—fortunate, we mean, if it shall have the good sense to accept the valuable lesson it teaches. The democratic party has been under a hallucination as to the causes of its great victories last year. The checks to its progress, first in New Hampshire and now in a slighter degree in Connectient, ought to dispel illusions. The mistake has consisted in attributing last year's successes to a reaction in the public mind in favor that type of democracy known | as Bourbonism, which learns nothing and forgets nothing. The republicans who assisted the democracy last year by staying sullenly « rom the polls, or who strength- ened it by voting for the democratic candi- dates, ¢ and never meant to be understood as renonneing, any principle for which they contended during the war or the great reconstruction controversy which of i not renounce, absorbed public attention for the ensu- ing five or six years. In voting for democratic candidate last year, or in giving them indirect support by declining to vote, the disaffected republicans still “kept the faith’’ to which they were pledged by their antecedents. The direct | snpport of the democracy by some of them and the indirect support by others had a double object. It was one part of their inten- tion to give @ warning to the republican teach it the necessity of reforming abuses if it expected to retain its hold on the country. This was the view of those republicans who simply abstained from voting. ‘The other pert of the intention was to satisfy the dem- ocratic party thet it might hope for the sup- | port of former republicans ifit accepted in | good faith the results of the war, letting by- gones be bygones, and addressing itself to administrative reforms. This was the view of such former —_ republicans | as voted with the democracy. The falling | back into the republican ranks of either of these classes would leave the democratic party | as hopeless and imbecile as it was during the war and in the Presidential elections of 1868 and 1872. The democratic ers perpetrated the blunder of regarding temporary republican recruits » Bonrbonism, and they are begin- party and* he as onverts ¢ sense- they n, «® dyed-in-the-wool Senate; in Missouri Schurz, a states- whom they might have ve the seat he erate General and Such display to reap the consequences of so In ning Connectient Wéeted = Mr. Bourbon, to the they man of Mr. ity, flung « ,and g » their party toa smait Conte of Boarbonism ha’ lienated thousands of voters who might otherwise have acted steadily with the demo- cratic party. jonist. | abate, and if there should be a considerable | sensitive. As soon as ho learned that Mr. | Disraeli thought no more of him than of | | history. One of them was the leader of a | aisy !'’ sweet Kathleen would cry. | ticians a pleasant time, and if | | chooses to send one across the Gulf of Mexico | good, lend. | | government officially called to the recent | This strange want of political penetration is | cratic leaders to the main cause of the sur- | prising revolution which turned their heads | last year. The great democratic victo- ries were chiefly due to the panic and the stagnation which followed. The ‘‘tidal wave’ was set in motion | by the panic, and now, when the panic has | spent its force and business begins to revive, _ the progress of the ‘‘tidal wave’’ is arrested, Every other cause to which the democratic party organs and stump orators ascribe their successes last year was in full operation long before the panic commenced, and has lost mone of its force. Not even the third term hos been renounced, and on other subjects President Grant is more justly exposed to damaging criticism | than he was last autumn, when the elec- tions ‘were so unfavorable to his adminis- | tration. His action in the South | was far more acceptable in the early part of last year than it has been this year, Last year he promptly refused to in- | interfere in Texas; he avoided interference in Arkansas as long as he could, and when he did | act his course met the general approbation — | of both parties. But this year his military | intervention in Louisiana and Mississippi has | | exposed him to.a great deal of well-founded | | | denunciation. These causes ought to | have made the democratic victory in Con- | necticut greater than it is, especially as the | republican partly strongly indorsed the Presi- | dent. But the panic ond business stagnotion, | | which have heretofore helped the democracy | more than any other cause, are beginning to | revival of business, extending and growing through the season, the party will find it more | difficult to make converts than in the autumn | elections of last year. The result of the Connecticut election | gives the democratic party no reason for | discouragement if its leaders will have the | wisdom to abjure Bourbonism once for all, and if their opponents shall persist in their allegiance to Grant in spite of his third term aspirations. In New Hamp- shire the republicans repudiated the third term and recovered the State. By pursuing the same course they might have recovered | Connecticut, whereas, in consequence of in- | dorsing Grant, they have barely made a small | reduction of the democratic majority of | last year. If in next fall’s elections the republicans resolutely and unequivocally | throw Grant's third term aspirations | overboard the renewed business activity which mast by that time have taken place | | will enable them to recover a great deal of the ground they lost last year. They might | have done better in Connecticut than they | did in New Hampshire if they had cast off the heavy load of Grantism with which they were handicapped. Disraeli and Bismarck. We published yesterday a piece of news | which deserved more attention than it prob- | ably received. This was the speech of Mr. | Disraeli in Parliament contradictory of the | rumor that he had apologized to Prince Bis- marck for saying that an English workingman enjoyed privileges which foreign noblemen | did not. The Count Von Arnim had just been arrested, and these words were thought | to refer to that arbitrary measure. Mr. Disraeli took an appropriate occasion—the debate on the Irish Coercion bill—to say that | | when he made that remark he was no more thinking of Prince Bismarck than of Rory O’More. This apology only aggravates his offence. Does the English Premier think it proper | to tantalize his German brother in this way? Wars have often been caused by smaller events, and Bismarck is known to be quite Rory O'More ho inquired who that individual was. Now, there are two Rorys in Irish rebellion, and the other courted Katbleen Bawn, and teased her till ‘Yerra, Rory, be It is not likely that Bismarck will be complimented by the comparison to either of them. He has | just threatened Belgium, and as itis but a step over through Holland to Great Britain there is no knowing what he may doif Mr. Disraeli keeps up such unpleasant classifica- tions. So much for Bismarck. On the other side, the Irish have a very high opin- ion of both of the Rory OMores, and doubtless are indignant when Mr. Disraeli proclaims in the House of Commons that he | thinks no more of the Rorys than of Bis- | marck. They feel the affront more keenly | because itis given ata time when the policy of coercion which one gf the Rorys resisted is resumed. We are much afraid that the | Premier has got himself into a bad box. On | the one hand is Bismarck enraged at being compared with Rory, and on the other is | Rory furious at being likened to Bismarek. Tre Jacyt Mexico.—Some of onr newspapers are making # great noise because a revenue cutter has taken some of our Sena- tors and their families to Vera Cruz, ond we are told about the corruption of the govern- ment, abont the vessels becoming pleasure yachts, about the waste of public money and | soon. We do not care much about these complaints. These revenue cntters are used | for all sorts of purposes—firemen's excursions | up and down the bay, for giving tired poli- | e government | To itis a small matter. These picayune criticisms upon the acts of the administration do no and only weaken the effects of just | criticism when censure is needed. If Presi- | than allow a dent Grant, does nothing worse Tevenue cutter to sail aronnd the Gulf of Mexico with a party of Senators he will retire from public life with universal esteem. We think it is Carlyle who says that one of tho most necessary things for man todo is to clean his i of cant; and there is nothing that is more offensive to us than these canting criticisms upon the acts of the government. ‘Te Paest r has given his opinion upon Mexican affairs with more than usngl free- dom. He says there is no present resson for apprehending war, but, of course, no on could tell what might happen in the futore. In the meanwhile the frontier is to be pro- tected, and the attention of the Mexican raids. (and to the public, Perhaps the most ob- | At his own home he took one hundred and | been equal in fluid quantity to the one hun- | the first one hundred and eighty were | fact that the exaggerated nervous action upon | great nervous centres was not the source of | the spasmodic trouble. Life itself began to | blame does not rest with the press. ‘T'te trial | industrious, and partly also because he is | | allega The Brooklyn Medical Tragedy. In the melancholy tragedy just enacted in Brooklyn in the name of science and medical treatment there are some grave lessons, equally important to the medical profession viously important lesson touches the great differences that may exist between different specumens of what is nominally the same medicine. At the office of Dr. Agnew Mr. Walker took one hundred and eighty drops of the extract of conium without notable effect. fifty minims and was killed. Ordinarily the word “minim” is used in this connection as more formal than the word “drop;” but if the minims were measured in the graduated glass the one hundred and fifty minims might have dred and eighty drops. But if they were the same in quantity, how different in effect were the two specimens of medicine! Conium, as sold in the apothecary shops, is commonly inert, and this experience of its worthlessness has even led many writers on the materia medica to treat as delusion the accounts of its effects put on record by the older physicians, As the ordinary extracts are made in Europe, the inactivity which is their common characteristic may be due to defec- tive processes in the manufacture, to adultera- tion or to age, and the consequent destruction of the energetic elements of the substance. Evidently the hundred and eighty drops were from a specimen of this inert sort. © But Squibb’s extracts are not like those that have been stowed away in gallipots in somebody's musty shop for half a century, and his ex- tract of conium was as vigorous as all the medicines that come from his laboratory are known to be. It may mdeed have been made from the plant as it grows in this country; but the great difference between such a medi- cine as found in the shops and the same medi- cine as prepared in an establishment like Squibb’s is a fact of which every practitioner would seem likely to take notice, and we an- ticipate some material correction in the his- tory of the case, But the case also involves an important lesson on the wisdom of giving virulent poisons in only tentative doses in every case where it 1s possible that there may be an error in the diagnosis—that is to say in cases whero those conditions may really not be present upon the presumed presence of which the propriety of gtving a ceriain medicine is based. Fifty minims of Squibb’s extract prostrated this man. It was four or five times as much 2s any healthy person could take with impunity ata dose. But he took a hun- dred more subsequently, end he had taken one hundred and eighty drops a short time before—say three hundred and sixty drops in all between two and six o'clock of the same afternoon—with just a possibility that | not absolutely inert, but came with | cumulative effect upon the operation of | that whose greater activity started the | train of symptoms. If the man’s brain and spine were in a normal physiological | condition the prescription pointed tho way to | certain death, If they were in a disordered | state there was the probability that they | | would not be reduced to paralysis, but might be only reduced so far as to insure quiet and regular action. But the result points to the | which the use of the powerful sedative was based did not exist ; that undue action of the yield while the twitching of the tacial muscles | was still in full play, and they were evidently, therefore, beyond the reach of the medicine that was violent enough to completely para- lyze those important nerves upon which the action of the heart and the muscles of respir- | ation depend. In short, the result points’ to a diagnosis that might have saved Dr. Brown- Séquard many searings and scorings of this victim of erroveous theory. The Position of Mr. Beecher. The trial in Brooklyn has long since passed out of the ordinary rules which govern actions | atlaw. The general custom on the part of | the press not to comment upon cases before a | court and jury bas not been followed by our | journals in dealing with Mr. Beecher. We | think it isa mistake in many ways, but the | of Mr. Beecher has never been a purely legal proceeding, either by plaintiff or defendant. | Both gentlemen addressed themselves to the public, in statements, in cards and ‘inter- views” and strenuous efforts to manufacture and stimulate public opinion. Mr. Tilton | himselt did a vast amount of work in this di- | | rection, and with great effect, for he succeeded | in forming a party against the most adverse circumstances, a party that will sustain him | whether he wins or loses. Mr. Beecher has | not been so fortunate in affecting public | opinion, probably because he has not been so | in the position of a strong man surrounded by a@ multitude of friends, sustained by | wealth, position and influence, while his an- | tagonist seems to be alone in the world, with- | out money or friends. Since we are, therefore, all discussing the Beecher case, there is one point that we think should be made, and it is this:—While Mr. Beecher is on the stend let him have the fall benefit of bis evidence. Many of onr journals are discussing Mr. Beecher's evidence as though he must necessarily be lying. Nothing could be more unfair, not only to the defendant but to ordinary justice and fair | play. If Mr. Beecher’s evidence enn be destroyed it will be done by due process of | law, either by cross-examination or the evi- dence of witnesses competent to disprove his While he is on the stand let him the protection which all witnesses re- | rotection from public opinion by the Judge on the bench. mms. bay ceive, the sar whieh is gra ‘This tendency to look upon every witness as | a deliberate perjymer, as a liar and a partisan, | is deplorable. Fuxthermore, in the case of Mr. | Beecher we ought also to remember that he is in this He He ived many } position of per- | an old inan. has community. sonal iuflnenee, and religions power which belonged to no other clergyman. For a generation bh een & representative | Anerican, a manin whose genius we all felt a pride. He lived tor sixty years without 4 | | stain upon his name, in high public respect, | revered os a teacher of the Gospel, # leader in | \ | make precisely the same inquiries relating to | his appointees. | doubt of it either, General Butler had the habit of taking good | | care of his friends. APRIL 6, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET, —— f this chassotee ani of. tioee youre antess the matters of vital interest to the publie—suck witness box, and takes an oath before ‘tho ever living God, the searcher of all hearts,” to tell the truth, we should do him the justice to listen to his story and not to insist that every sentence he utters is a lie because it does not tally with our hopes or our preju- dices. Weare certainly no partisan of Mr. Beecher. There are many things in his course, even from his own admissions, which we cannot but censure. We like to see fair play. While he is testifying, at least, and speaking under the most solemn circumstances that can sur- round a citizen, it is the height of rudeness, not to say injustice, to endeavor to break down his testimony by denunciation. If it is to be broken down let the lawyers doit. But give Mr. Beecher the benefit of his life, of his years, of the fearful responsibility he has atatake, and, above all, of the fact that he is | speaking under the solemnity of an oath and in presence of the penalties of the law. Albany This Week. “The Legislature reassembled last evening, and the present bids fair to bea comparatively quiet week at Albany, The excitement caused by Governor Tilden’s canal message has pretty much subsided, and nothing is likely to occur to revive it. Everybody, Canal Ring and all, professes to desire investigation, and every- body is certain to get what he pretends he wants. Before the week ends there will be three committees of investigation fully equipped, namely, Governor Tilden’s com- mission, the joint committee of the Legisla- ture and the committee of the Canal Board; which is very much as if three different grand juries were applied to at the same time to find a bill of indictment founded on the same evi- dence and subject matter. This multitude of investigating bodies, each acting indepen- dently of the others, has its ridiculous side. They are all to have power to send for papers and documents, subpoena wit- nesses, administer oaths and to pun- ish for contempts. Now, supposing it shonld happen that each commission or committee should subpana some witness— say Jarvis Lord—before it for examination on | the same day, which of the three subpmuas would he obey? If he goes before the joint committee, will the Governor's commission issue a warrant to bring him by force? Will witnesses be imprisoned for contempt by two of the three investigating bodies because they prefer to testify before the third? Are the competing committees to tug and haul for the possession of persons and papers like the dogs in Homer around a fresh hide, each pulling a different way? Courts of justice avoid such conflicts, because three courts never sit at once to try the same criminal or conduct | the same investigation. The truth is that one committee of investigation, if it be competent and honest, is as good asa dozen; and if they are not honest, they may throw endless | impediments in each other's way by their | equal ang conflicting rights to persons and | papers at the same time. The public will have confidence in Governor Tilden’s com- | mission of four, and it is simply preposterous | | to put two rival committees in the field to | the same subject. We suppose Governor Tilden will send the names of the Commissioners to the Senate for confirmation in the course of the day. There would be some mortification and loss of prestige if any of them should be rejected, as itwould expose the Governor to charges of partisan bias or want of fairness, which, how- ever unfounded, would more or less impair his influence. He will, therefore, be likely to as causing street obstructions to be removed, keeping crossings clear and paying attention to the condition of street lamps. There are hundreds of nuisances in this city which a little attention on the part of the police would remove, Asitis, the force seem to devote their energies solely to lounging around when no disturbance occurs, and to an inordinate use of their clubs when some helpless way- farers happen to stagger or stumble, Spring. Of all the seasons Spring is the most om quettish, She is like the princess who stooped and kissed the sleeping poet under the tree, who still slept on but dreamed a different dream. The earth was hardly conscious that spring had come till yesterday, when blue skies dropped ethereal mildnes: (Thomson) on her bosom. It is indeed the time when | the young, the rosy spring gives to the breeze ber scenfed wing (Anacreon) and April is garlanded with all the fairest flowers and freshest buds the earth brings forth (Spenser). Well was it observed that like ax army defeated the snow hath retreated (Words. worth) and that the fields with flowers are decked in every hue (Drummond), though we must not go out just yet to pull them. The swallow also brings us the season of vernal delight, with his back all of sable and belly of white (Anonymous), and there are daffodils which come before the swallow dares ayd take the winds of March with beanty (Shakespeare). In the spring a brighter crimson burns upon the robin’s breast (Tennyson), and a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love (Ibid). Now is heard the sound of vernal showers on the twinkling grass (Shelley), and with his um brella wanders forth the byacinthine boy, for whom morn well might break and April bloom (Emerson). Now shall we notice how our swift Spring heaps the orchards full of bloom and scent (Lowell), and the maiden May returns with a pretty haste (Barry Corn- wall). Now do the majority of in- telligent people think it better to sport with Amaryllis in the shade or with the tangles of Nemra’s hair (Milton) than to creep into some still cavern deep, there to weep and weep and weep (Ten- nyson). All these and many other things do we see and enjoy now that Spring has broken the icy fetters of the silver streams (Wiikesbarre special despatch), and all nature rejoices that grim-visaged March hassmoothed his frosty pow (Burns and Shakespeare), Spring ! beautiful Spring! has returned with birds and flowers (vrigina!l), and new fashion- able styles in hats, bonnets, dresses (adver- tisements), influenzas and catarrhs and hun- dreds of other things make business lively. Much more might be said of Spring, but her lovely and bewitching smiles of yesterday show that at last she has consented to speak for herself. Austria anp Iraty.—The visit of the Em- peror of Austria to Italy, and his reception | by the King at Venice, are important only because of the past relations of the two coun- tries. A few years ago the Italians, and none of them more than the Venetians, hated Austria because she held them in subjugation. Now we are told that the Emperor was re- ceived with enthusiasm, as a foreign guest, by a people who always rejected him as a ruler. There is a lesson in this reconciliation which other nations, and England particularly, would do well to heed. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The new opera house in Paris cost $10,000,000. proceed with great caution, making no selec- tion until he has first satisfied himself that | awkward accusations having the least color of | truth cannot be suddenly sprung upon any of — If any of them should have | a vulnerable spot the Canal Ring would be | quite certain to detect and proclaim it. The members of the legislative joint com- | mittee were announced last evening, by | | Speaker McGuire on the part of the Assembly | and Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer on the | part of the Senate. Two of the three Sen- | ators appointed decline to serve, so the com- mittee is not yet complete. Beyond the | corfpletion of the joint committee and the | nomination and confirmation of the Gov- ernor’s commission there is little prospect of anything being done at Albany this week relating to the ‘canal controversy. “Tae Oupest Lawyer 1s tHe Wontp.”—A sketch of the oldest lawyer in the country, and perhaps in the worla, will be found in our columns this morning. The Hon. Elbert Herring, whose career is now sketched, has celebrated his ninety-eighth birthday. He | remembers New York when the city did not | | extend much beyond Ann street, and when | the hest people resided below Wail street, and | when Bridewell Jail stood on the site of the City Hall, and when the city was not half the size of Newark. Mr. Herring has lived in New York for more than ninety years, was admittea to the Bar in 1798, and was a judge | | ofthe Marine Court the year Napoleon be- | came Emperor of France. Charles O'Conor, | now an old and iilustrious man, was « student in his office. Mr. Herring was also Commis- sioner of Indian Affairs—the first that held the position. The presence of a fnan like Mr. Herring among us, who lived in a world which seems to have rolled into a distant past, is a poetic illustration of the centennial time | upon which we have fallen. Lives like these | are monuments, and should be cherished. Gevenat Borien has written a letter, which is quoted in onr Washington despatches, de- nying that he uses his personal influ. | ence to secure federal appointments for his friends. On the contrary, he says that since his Congressional term expired he has not thought it proper to in- terfere in such matters, and it was no doubt with a sardonic recollection of the scores of applications made to “him that he adds, | “ET have no doubt t you regret this resuit which election of last fall has bronght about. We have no for with Waar tee Pouce Micwr Paevent.—A cor- respondent, following the suggestions which have been made in the Hunanp, says that our | policemen might be made to do an incalcu- lable amount of good if, in addition to patrol- all’ bis faults | General Sir Hope Grant played apon the fiddle, Mayor Charles M, Reed, of Erie, Pa., is staying at the Filtn Avenue Hote), Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, is residing tem- porarily at the Windsor Hotel. Bishop Gilbert Haven, of Georgia, has taken ap his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Genera! Sheridan ts at New Orleans, probably on | account of the Mexico-Texas border troubles, Captain L. Moragues, 07 the Spavtsh Ordnance Commission, is quartered at the Hoffman Hoase, Postmasier General Marshall Jewell was in this city for @ short time jast evening, on the way trom Hartford to Washington. General Albert G. Lawrence, of Rhode Island, formeriy United States Minister to Costa Rica, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman James G. Biaine returned to this elty last evening trom a brief campaign in Con necticnt and is at the Filth Avenne Hotel. Mr. Frencis Thomas, of Maryland, has resigned the office of Minister to ern. His Exocllency the President lias not yet selected his successor. M. Jnies Bernoa, a Frenchman, Cariist cor- respondent of the French Journal del’ Bs’, has been captured and shot by some of Alfonso’s volan- teers. Germany's military forces, including those of Bavaria, comprise at this moment 31,830 oMcers, 1,529,000 men, 914,970 horses, 2,700 fleld and 820 siege pieces of cannon. . Charles Albrigut, Tecentiy Congressman-at- Large from Pennsylvania, is at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr. Albright has ceased to be a Congress man, though he still remains at The commission of Mr. John C, New, of Indiana, recently appoiuted Treasurer of the United States, to take effect trom Jane 50 next, was signed by His Exceliency the Presiaent yesterday and for- warded to Indianapolis. All the gunson the great ram Thunderer will be worked by machinery. If they keep on in- creasing the vimensions of fron-clads the notion of men handling toem at all will be comparabie te ants running & windmill. tis thus that the Madrid Gazette informs the world that Aifonso and his sister are weil:—“Hie Majesty the King (whom God preserve) and lier Royal Highness the [nianta Donua isabel continue in this coart without novelty in their important | healtn.” The London Alhen@um must pay some $6,000 to an aggrieved pubiiaher, 80 says the jarymen who tried the case. in their criticism they alleged taar the Messrs. Johnson, of Edinburgh, sold some one else's work as A. Keith Johnstone's, and tous im posed on the pubiic. Toe Ducuess of Edinbargh while ont driving was caught ina shower and borrowed an umbrella at acottage of an old woman, who refused to loan any but the “second best one,” and next day the Duchess sent it home with her compliments, one sovereign and @ pound of tea, The report that M. Pant Caesagnac nad been publicly chastised by & woman was an invention, and firet appeared Im the Avénement. M. Cassag- nue addresses the editor of that papor by name m this style:—"You attribate to me habits | café haunter, of a drinser of absinthe, prot y imagining that we spend onr time a¥you repub- licans do, tippling th the pipe-scdden atmosphere of smoking rooms. And, finally, you relate with the most circumstantial details an aggression | against me, in which f am made to jook like a fool. This morpimg in your paper you apologize I refuse your apology. An apology from you is | like @ bad srfiling—base coin, which no oue wii! jook at. However, there is oné thing I wisn to tell you—that your paper should be the last to publisn these stories about encounters, assaults, duelling, &c., having at its bead such a double dyed coward a8 yoursell, whom I have the bonor | politics, society and religion When » man | ling their beats, they would attend to other | to assure of my profound contempt.” »