The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1875, Page 10

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GOPDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly of the New Yonx Hrnarp will be pent free of postage. | THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An-_ ‘aual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic Bespatches must be addressed New Yon Hens. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received und forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL.... sccnceceeeseeNQ, 105 ————O NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1875.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. The One Hundredth Anniversary of | Important military encounters of modern the Battle of Lexington. We give a large portion of our space this morning to interesting historical and de- scriptive matter relating to the approaching celebrations at Lexington and Concord on the 19th inst., of the first act in the great drama of the American Revolution. We also present 4 map, which will render the deserip- tions and history more easily understood. There are tg be two celebrations—one at Lex- ington and the other at Concord, these ad- jacent towns being of nearly equal interest as classic ground in the early annals of the Revolution. The first blood was, indeed, shed at Lexington in the gray of the morning, between dawn and sunrise; but Concord was the objective point of the British redcoats, who had marched from Boston during the preceding night. They had been sent by General Gage, about nine hundred strong, to seize the cannon and military stores deposited at Concord. The resistance at Lexington was not sufficient to arrest their progress, and soon after sunrise they resumed their march toward Concord, six miles distant, where the fighting was continued. The fact that the affair has always gone by the name of the Battle of Lexington vests no exclusive title in that town to celebrate a transaction which was planned with reference to Con- cord and of which the latter town was the chief scene. Both will be always dear to patriotic hearts, and it is a noble emulation which impels each to claim its share of the AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ARK THEATRE, Broedway.<paty Chock ate -*) M.; closes at ROWERY THEATRE, coreg {Roun THE WORLD IN’ EIGHTY Days, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Fe avenne Sind Twenty-third streeu—-AMMED, at8 closes at 10:45 P. M. sep ROR THEMES: wy actsie ra street anc vam % at rep yt closes atlP.M. Mr. “niguold, atir. corner, Six NERY jatinee jai a THEATRE, near Sixth avenue —La JOLI£ EPCMEOSE. a ara T. M. Mile. Aimee. BAN FRANCISCO [CO MINSTRELS, corner e jwemty-ninth street—NEGRO | BERELY, atSP. Ae; closes at 10 P. M. | B ‘MLNS Reh ERATE 4’ Third avenues BROOKLYN THEATRE, closes at 10:45 P. M. RS. CONWAY'S 'U ORPHANS. at 8 P. M.; ALLACK’S Ser Brosdway—RAFAEL. ater. ny tog at 10:40 P.M, honor. The President of the United States has promised to be present both at the Concord and the Lexington celebration—at the former in the morning and at the latter in the after- noon. He will be accompanied by members of his Cabinet, by the Governor and Legisla- ture ef Massachusetts, and other high dig- nitaries of the State which enjoys the proud distinction of having set the ball of the Revo- lution in motion. There will be, in both towns, orations and poems aud musiz and military display, and the booming of festive cannon and the ringing of church bells in token of joy that were rang | Lexington statues of Hancock and Adams, | who were then staying in the town, are to be unveiled, and Richard-H. Dana, Jr., is to de- the celebration is to come in the afternoon, COLOSSEUM Freee and Thirty-fourth street. serena BY NIGHT. | 1 exhibitions daily, a! aap. Wood's NUSEUM, orner of Thirtieth street—ACROSS THE até P.M; cloves at 1045 ¥.M. Matinee THEATRE COMIQUE, 45 514 Brosgway.—VAbibTY, ats P.M; METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, ‘West Fourteenth eereet, Open from 104. M. toSP. M. SOMERS closes at 10:45 BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, , a al agvenue.—VARIETY, at § P. M.; closes at 1045 ROBINSON HALL, fixteenth street. near Broadway. '—HIBERNICON, at 8 P.M. watines arS P.M. GERMANIA THEATRE, 5 a] street.—INDIGO, at 8 P. = M. Miss Lina Mayr. closes at 10:15 OLYMPIC THEATRE, No. 6c6 Broadway,—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 1045 i. reet and Broadway, Fire BIG ro. psa me BP. St M.: closes at i103) P. M. Mr. Fisher, Mr. Biss Davenport, Mrs. uilbert. *' FIFTA AVENCE THEATR: BOWERY OPERA HOUSE, oo at SP. M.; closes at 10:45 uy QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, THU From our reports thie morning the apa ere thal to-day will be clear and warmer. Wart Srezer Yestenpay.—Foreign ex- change was steady ; gold at 115, and money easy on call. ‘Stocks were lower and un- Betiled. Tur Course Warn.—The French government have entered into negotiations for the pur- hase of ten thousand Bohemian horses. Tre Innepnessrsce Cantists have again shown unmistakable signs of vitality in sur- prising a fort near Santander and carrying off a host of prisoners. Bismarck anp tre Porz.—The great Prus- tian statesman declared betore a recent meet- ing of the Diet that he warred not against the Catholic Church, but against the Papacy. This is a distinction without a difference. Smanrry.—There seems some prospect that the murderer Sharkey will be returned to the elutches of the law. He has arrived in Ha- vara irom Santiago de Cuba, and is reported to be much depressed in spirits. We are pot much astonished at this, as the pros- pect of a visit to New York must be anything but cheering to the escaped murderer. It is reported that he made several attempts to escape, ‘and even tried to Gommit suicide. No asylum for the brood of Cain. That is a les- gon good to be tanght. Puaossta.-—The parrot cry which Europe be- @ame accusiomed to during the reign of Napoleon Ul. is about to be taken up by Germany. Prussia means peace, we are now assured, just as “‘the Empire meant peace” a few years oge. In the meantime peaceful Pruesta does all in her power to provoke war, 54 is nolorionsly prepating to precipitate a struguie + hich is intended to make Germany the arbiter of Europe. The proverb about the best laid plans of mice and menu may, bowever, once more prove its trath. A second march to Paris might not end quite so hap- pily as the first. One of the s Trepresen- Pou Prt. Mr. Young, Cath a funeral sermon. he ln: pluncnt Toe Stace axp THE Paulist Fathers, Re’ tative pr acher of t ented Dan e remains of of which ng light. He the part of the Catholic Chr preju- © of the dramatic profession as « Mr. Tal- tage might take a k son from suchmanly, Ubristion and logical remarks those which evaracterized the last tribute paid b; pebt clergyman to the memory of a repre- pentative of that profession which the = preacher has striven so hard to | h ¢ to e deceased sclaimed on h any one. the indispensable public dinner which fitly closes such occasions will take place in that ‘town, and the great dignitaries will eat and | ; | drink to the honor of their country and make | patriotic speeches. The Concord part of the celebration, which is to take place in the | morning, will have more refined attractions. In a pavilion erectgd on the battle field of 1775 the statue of a mmute man (as the hardy militia who held themselves ready to rush to their country’s defence in that crisis at a min- ute’s warning were called) js to be-unveiled, with an address by Ralph Waldo Emerson, a formal oration by George William Curtis and a poem by James Russell Lowell—a bright array of talents and culture which will shed lustre on the Concord branch of the cele- bration—not that these accomplished men of letters, some of whom are also men ot genius, | will eclipse, or attempt to eclipse, the virtues of the heroes of a hundred years ago, but they will recall and portray them in such lively colors as will present them vividly to the men of this age and thereby make the occasion impressive. What Mr. Emerson says will be read with deep interest in every country where the English language is spoken, and, instead of magnifying himself, he will set | forth, in adeqnate language and in a manner to touch the sensibilities of the country, the spirit which moved the Massachusetts yco- mapry in that first bold stroke for liberty. The fact that the statue he is to assist in nn- veiling is the statue of a minute man, a type of the ordinary patriot of the period, will necessarily give a democratic cast to his ad- dress and lead him to assign its due rank to the unselfish devotion to country which ont- weighs social standing and intellectual brili- iancy. Itis the province of genius to enable more ordinary men to see things as they are, and we are confident that the few and fit words spoken by Mr. Emerson on this oc- | casion will assist the country to appreciate | the minute men of 1775 as truly as if they wers our contemporaries. Mr. Lowell and Mr. Curtis are younger men, but they will not full below expectation. trace of the vulgar stilt of an ordinary Fourth of Jnly oration. That field will be left for r-dinner speakers at Lexington. ations for this centennial anniversary from our correspondent, which we print this morning, we reproduct trom the forthcoming Harper's Monthly for May its leading article, relating, not indeed to the celebration, but to the historical event to be celebrated. It is irom the pen of Mr. Frederic Hudson, who, sihee bis retirement from journelism, has sought health in the pleasanttown of Concord. It conveys a vivid impression of the occur- | the night of the 18th and the morning and day of the 19th of April, 1775. It is an article which evinces the tact of an accomplished journalist, who knows precisely on what occasions fulness of detail. minute particulars and reproduction of passages from original docaiments are in keep- ing with the interest of a subject. We are sensible that by merely copying the article without the accompanying illustrations and fac-similes we do scant justice both to Mr. Hudson and the popular magazine which he makes the vehicle of his researches; but his timely article is richly worth the space we give it, even though stripped of its pictorial and other embellishments, The events of 1775 were appropriately hon- ored in sem-centennial celebrations fifty years ago; andalthough Mr. Everett was then ator at Lexington and Mr. Webster at Bunker Hiil, the last having the advantage of the presence of Lafayette and many sur- viving soldiers of the Revolution, who fur- ed the occasion for the two most won- rences of the outbursts of eloquence in that at address—in spite, we say, of the advan- tage of such orators and such accessories, we doubt whether { ‘ation was as weil qualified to app: the Revolution as we are half a century later, Our recent experience enables us to under- stand why a small skirmish like the affair at | Lexington deserves to rank among the most the same | one hundred years ago as signals of warning | | and alarm to rally the sleeping yeomen. At | liver the oration. And as the Lexington part of | | In nothing that | any of the three may say will there be any | es the interesting description of the | irst struggles of | times. Batiles (if we follow common usage and call the Lexington affair a battle) do not derive their importance from the number of killed and wounded, but from their public consequences. We of this generation are in a better position to understand this truth than apy other generation of Americans have been since the period of the Revolution. The firing upon Fort Sumter was really a very small affair, but we all know how it electrified the country and fired the public heart. Even amid the greatest battles of the civil war it did not lose its deep interest. No blood was shed at Sumter, but the mere act of dis- charging cannon against the walls of a fort kindled the country from end to end into a state of the most intense and un- controllable excitement. The effect of what is called the battle of Lexington was even greater on the men of that time. They had ground with impromptu public meetings, like the great one in Union square and similar ones in other cities immediately after the firing upon Sumter ; but, although our popu- lation was then sparse and the circulation of intelligence slow, the news of Lexington caused a greater ferment than the news of Sumter. At Lexington actual blood had been spilled, and that makes a great difference in appeals to human sensibilities. The peril that was braved by a handful of colonists who rose against the British Empire struck a deeper chord than our comparatively safe resistance to Southern secession. But still | the excitement that was kindled by Sumter enables us to realize, as our fathers céuld not from anything in their experience, why the skirmish at Lexington so profoundly stirred | public fecling and why it deserves to be | ranked among the capital events of the Ameri- | can Revolution, We trust that these approaching celebra- | tions at Lexington and Concord will have as Centennial celebration at Philadelphia as the battle of Lexington had in paving the way for ; the Declaration of Independence. Handled as it ought to be, and no doubt will be, by the orators and poets next Monday, it should infuse life and freshness into what our people | have learned and read about the struggle for independence. Mr. Emerson’s address and Mr. Lowell’s poem will be printed by every newspaper in the land and read by every citizen. If these men of genius are equal to | the occasion their productions will do in- | | finitely more than all that has been said and | written in the turgid Fourth-of-July vein to A New Criminal Court, A bill was introdaced in the Assembly yes- | terday by Mr. Waebner for organizing a new criminal court in this city, to hold. as it | would sem, an intermediate rank between the police courts and the Court of General Seesions. Its jurisdiction is to exiend to all | crimes except the great ones of murder, arson and burglary. It is proposed that the new court cousist of two judges, prob- ably with the intention that they sball sit alternately, and, by relieving each other, keep the court pretty constantly open. They are to be appointed by the Mayor, with the consent ot the Aldermen, and an assistant district attorney is to be appointed, charged | Tombs, which are so unhealthy that there | was much talk a year or two since of | building a new city prison, are always fall of untried prisoners; and the expense of a new court, tosend them to State Prison or | set them at liberty without needless delay, | would be a bagatelle in comparison with the interest on the money a new prison would cost. Buteven if the Tombs were the most | salubrious place in the city the argument would be almost equally strong for the new court. Imprisonment is a punishment, and very often . punishment in- flicted on the innocent, who ought to have the speediest opportunity. to clear themselves and go at large. The great hard- ship of detaining witnesses for trials long deferred is another strovg reason in favor of Mr. Waebner’s bill. text, and do not know whether it may require amendment in some of its details; but it is sound in substance, and, either with or with- out amendments, it ought to become a law. Amending an Error. Last week the Board of Apportionment | adopted a resolution, at the request of Comp- troller Green, authorizing the issue of bonds to the amount of one hundred and eighty thousand dollars to pay judgments obtained against the city. Mr. Wheeler, the President of the Tax Department, requested information at the time as tothe amount of the original claims and the amount of costs gnd interest. This the Comptroller refused to give; but as he represented that the money was instantly required to prevent a levy on the city prop- erty the authority to issue the bonds was given. Yesterday the Board again met, and as it was ascertained that the bonds had not yet been needed the resoiution authorizing their issue was reconsidered and laid on the table. The judgments obtained are for gas bills long overdue, and the litigation has cost the city twenty-eight thousand dollars. We have frequently cautioned the Board of Ap- portionment against the issue of judgment bonds until fail information as to the claims is in their possession. Bills that ought to be paid out of the yearly approprin- tions are thrown into the courts, fought at every step, delayed for two years or there- abouts, and then paid outof the proceeds of bonds that becorae an addition to the public debt. This is part of the policy of “bridging over” and concealing from the people the de- ficieney that actually exists in the treasury. The Board of Apportionment shonld not au- thorize the issue of any more judgment bonds their until the whole facts of the case are in possession. We Have a very quarrelsome State A bly. Yesterday morning another breeze sprang up over the bill to create the office of In- speetor of Pubiic Works. Mr. Daly uudertook to hurry up the report of the committee, but the chairman, Mr. Waehner, having been in- structed to report yesterday, chose to take his own time of day for complying with the order | of the House. Of course, Speaker McGuire | took a hand in the “scrimmage.” What | | power could keep a McGuire out of a free | | fight? not, indeed, our means of covering acres of | great an effect in awakening interest in the | We have not seen its | “Natural Love and Affection and the Thirtcenth Part of a Dollar.” The details of the real estate transactions of William M. Tweed and his associates, the publication of which is commenced in the Heraxp to-day, will form a new and interest- ing chapter in the history of the late Ring. The passage of laws by the present Legislature to facilitate the recovery of money stolen from the public treasury, by making it possible to reach the property purchased therewith, has given a new impetus to the civil suits brought against the members of the Ring, and affords the hope that we may at last be euabled to | compel restitution of at least a portion of the plunder. The information now laid before the public will aid materially in accomplish- ing that desirable result. The eagerness, the desperation we may say, with which Mr. | Tweed threw his enormous property out of his | hands the moment the shadow of the coming | retribution fell distinctly across his path can have but one interpretation. It was the in- stinct of the robber to hide what he has stolen, It is conclusive proof that the real estate Tweed had accumulated was actually purchased with the money ab- | stracted trom the city treasury by means of fraudulent bills and forged warrants. We know from this evidence that the three mill- ion dollars paid by him for the houses and lands described in our list belonged rightfully to the citizens of New York, just as positively as we should know it if we had seen the stolen greenbacks traced by Governor Tilden into Tweed’s hands actually paid out by the latter | to the parties from whom the purchases were | made, viction is supplied by other members of the ; notorious Ring, in the character of the trans- fers of property made by them as they stood panic-stricken at the discovery and exposure of their guilt. Taken in connection with the fact | that no defence bas been offered to the charge | of public robbery brought agaist the Ring plunderers, but that they have relied wholly on legal technicalities to avoid restitution and defeat justice, the disclosures we now make assure a verdict of the courts in favor of the people in the suits to be tried under the new laws. Within the period during which the prin- cipal raids were made upon the city treasury— that is to say, from 1864 onward—Mr. Tweed appears to have purchased real estate to the amount of three million dollars. In some purchases—as, tor instance, those mate of Charles G. Cornell and Terence Farley—only nominal amounts were paid, the ‘‘considera- tion” appearing to have been other than that of money. The property thus acquired by ‘Tweed, and nearly all held by him in 1871, must, therefore, represent considerably more than the above sum. He appears to bave | received in all, for sales purporting to have been made by him, one million nine hundred and dollars, Of this amount, however, thou seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars is | been received from Richard | alleged to have M.. Tweed for purchases made by him from his father in the latter part of 1871. The property thus bought by the son includes the “Circle’’ property, at Fifty-sighth and Fifty- ninth’ streets and Eighth avenue, for two hundred thousand dollars; the eleven acres on Kingsbridge road, for two hun- dred and fitty thousand dollars, with the special duty of conducting prosecu- | the Fifth avenue and Forty-third street prop- tions in this court. We think this a necessary addition to our machinery of justice. The | erty, for two hundred and seventy-five thou- sand dollars. At the very time these large | purchases were made by Richard M. Tweed, “natural love and Affection and the thirteenth part of a dollar’ induced bis father to make over to bim in addition some twenty other lots of real estate, aggregating in value, at the original purchase price, over one million four | hundred thousand dollars. In other words, William M. Tweed put out of his own name | into the name of his son Richard real estate to the amount of nearly one million and a half dollars, alleging that the transfers were genuine transactions and that the considera- tion in each case was “natural love and af- fection and the thirteenth part of a dollar." It scarcely requires the statement that Mr, Tweed has other children, to whom this preference of s favored heir would have been gross injustice, to show the true character and interest of these transactions. Tae man had robbed the city sought to ' | who secure his plunder by making over to his | son the property purchased with the stolen money. The courts will restore this | property to the people to whom it belongs, | despite these counterfeit sales and transfers, just as certainly as they would restore a stolen pocketbook to its owner, although it had been transferred by the thief to a third party. Nor would any subsequent purchasers from Richard M. Tweed be protected, tor it was their place to satisfy themselves that the As we shall show, the same self-con- | and | seller's title way good, and in sq doing they | must bave discovered the true character of the transactions between the Ring plunderer and his son. Among the curious disclosures made by the | exhibit we now publish is that of the part- nership speculation made by Messrs. Thomas Murphy, Peter B. Sweeny, Hugh Smith, Richard B. Connolly and William M. Tweed. | These parties jointly purchased a whole block between Sixty-ninth and Seventieth streets | | were four millions of slaves under a repub- and Madison and Fourth avenues, for two hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hun- dred dollars. They appear to have sold in May and September, 1871, fourteen lots out of this purchase to John C. Thompson for two hundred and ten thousand dollars. A singn- | | lar complication of deeds appears to have resulted from the copartnership, but event- nally, when disaster overtook the Ring, Mr. Murphy bought ovt his associates at twenty- seven thousand five hundred dollars for each share, or one bundred and ten thousand dollars for the lot. the old Ring have been engaged, bond fide purcl »s would be protected where no col- lusion could be shown to have existed. It would, to de ruptions oi the how far the knowledgo ing, which every intelligent i have possessed in the lat. “id person must pait of the year 1871, would work | a fovleiture of that protection in pur- | chas i of the Ring conspira- te, At all events, it seems certain sales and transfers without con. sideration, made to near relatives or confiden- tial friends of the public plunderers, will not be allowed to interfere with the right of the city to take back the money stolen from its treasury. tors | Of course, in this or m any other | real estate transactions in which menibers of | however, be a qnestion for the courts | of the cor. | | | Beecher did do some or all of the things in | one thing which he cannot afford ix to have | wrong, though it had not come to be, as | untiring energy and extended influence, Mr. Beecher’s Cross-Examination. Tho thing which most strikes the public in Mr. Beecher’s replies to Mr. Fullerton’s ques- tions is the extraordinary imperfection of his memory respecting certain classes of events. We attach no importance to the point raised by Mr. Pallerton in the ouiset as to the man- ner in which Mr. Beecher chose to be sworn. It isa mere form, which the law properly leaves to be decided by the person taking the oath. The only legal effect of an oath, in whatever form taken, is to subject the swearer to the penalties of perjury if he swear falsely, and these peoalties do not depend on the manner of the o9th, Asa question of moral obliga- tion or religious sanction the difference be- tween forms of swearing is equally frivolous. A man who swears with uplifted hand as strictly binds himself to tell the truth as if he kissed the leather binding of a Bible, and he has as much reason to fear future punishment for perjury under the one form as under the other. The only mistake, if any, which Mr. Beecher has made in this trifling matter was in saying that he had conscientious scruples against being sworn on the Bible, when it would seem that, in point of fact, he was sworn in that way before the Brooklyn Grand Jury no longer ago than last fall. Had he reflected on this subject sufficiently to make ita matter of conscience, it is strange that he cannot now recollect in what form he took the oath on so recent an occasion, As we began by remarking, the most note- worthy thing in Mr. Beecher’s cross-examina- tion is his singular and repeated failures to recollect certain classes of facts. The gen- eral character of his testimony on cross-ex- amination is a close repetition of what he swore toin his direct examination so far as Mr. Fullerton’s questions cover the same ground, but an almost total oblivion of ex- ternal facts to which he had not previously sworn. He cannot remember whether he did or did nottake drives with Mrs, Tilton in a close carriage, and declines to swear either way. He is equaily unable to recollect whether he did or did not drive with her ina baggy to Greenwood ; whether he did or did not walk with her {frequently in the streets; whether he did or did not go with her to Sarony’s; whether he did or did not take her up or set her down in their drives at some other place than her own door ; whether she did or did not visit him at his house in the absence of his wile, and a great many other things of the hke character. This isa cautious and perfectly safe method of testifying, especially as to external facts which might have tallen under the observation of other persons. If the plaintiff should be able to prove that Mr. respect to which he has no recollection the only consequence would be to show that the specific facts were true, but not to break down or impair the credibility of the witness, In a case in which it is so manifest that there has been perjury on one side or the other it is all important to Mr. Beecher not to lxy himself open to contradiction by rebutting evidence from other persons than Tilton, Moulton and Mrs. Moulton. He has staked his veracity against theirs, and the his truthfulness impugned by other witnesses than the alleged parnes to the conspiracy. Only he and they know what passed between him and them when alone, and point blank contradictions between these witnessed only raise questions of veracity which cannot be settled by the testimony of disinterested wit- nesses. Mr. Beecher is prudently cautious not to lay himself open to contradiction by persons who would have no mo- tive to swear against him, and > very properly refuses to testify one way or | the other about things he does not remember. | It is supposable that somebody may have | seen him do the things to which Mr. Fuller- ton’s questions seem to point, and too great aconfidence in his memory might therefore be fatal. But he swears positively enough to what did or did not take place in circum- stances where he was exposed to contradic- tion by nobody except the alleged conspira- tors. It seems pretty clear from Mr. Beecher’s manner of testifying that he isto be in no danger from rebutting evidence. An Anti-Slavery Centennial, “The Pennsylvania Society for promoting | the Abolition of Slavery’’ celebrated its one hundredth anniversary at Philadelphia yes | terday. Its history is as illustrious as it is long. When it was established, in 1775, | slavery was not looked upon universally as a | was afterward the case, defended as | a right. ‘The system of slave Jabor still existed in some Northern States, | while in the South it was rapidly substituting itselt tor all other forms of industry. At that time, when even American independence had not been declared, the movement was begun which was ultimately to secure American free- | dom for all, and a few citizens of Philadelphia | met to organize an association which now looks back upon a century of struggle, defeat, | misrepresentation and finally of triumph. At that time there were four hundred thousand slaves in the American colonies ; the mem- bers of ghe society can remember when there lican form of government; and that there | is now not one is toa large extent due to its Many distinguished names are connected with its history. Benjamin Franklin was its Presi- dent in 1790, aud sent. in the name of the society, to Congress a memorial, asking that body to “devise means for removing the in- consistency of slavery from the American people.” Its great work was, however, done long after Franklin's time. From 1820 to 1865 it had an incessant struggle with the slave power, and was regarded by the abolitionists throughout the country as the most influential of the State anti- slavery organization. We recall among its active members in more recent times | Dr. Joseph Parrish, David Paul Brown, Ed- ward Hopper, Dillwyn Parrish, Thaddeus | Stevens, William~Still, Reuben Tomlinson, | George H. Earle, Benjamin Coates, the Lewises, and many others who were promi- | nent m the closing years of the anti-slavery | struggle. Some of these joined in the cele- bration of the centennial anniversary yester- day, and whatever criticism may be made upon the acts of the society it may safely claim for itself no ordinary place in the his- tory of the great war between the North and | South upon the slave question. Its centen- | all arrived at the Grand | nial recalls many exciting events, ‘part of which it was and all of which it saw,"’ which had a profound effect upon tho destinies of the nation. Vice President Wilson, Fred Douglass, Dr. William Elder and the venerable Lucretia Mott, who will, we hope, live to see her own centennial celebrated, were some of the principal speakers at the meeting. Governor Kellogg and the Louisiana Legislature. The Louisiana Legislature met yesterday under circumstances infinitely more encour- aging than those attendant upon its recent session. There was no call for the military and no excuse whatever for their interference, The Legislature was as orderly as our own, and perhaps even more peaceful, and there is good reason to believe that the Wheeler promise will receive the support of both the political parties. This tranquil con- dition of affairs is made more encour- aging by the Message of Governor Kellogg, which deserves emphatic commendation for its moderation and its excellent recom- mendations. The Governor points out to the Legislature the evils that the long war of fac- tions and parties has produced, and appeala to the people to sink party ends and unite to advance the general good. Louisiana has a bright future before her if this advice is acted upon, anda graver respunsibility rests upon this Legislature than upon any which has met since the close of the war. The success of the Wheeler compromiss may be looked upon as a test of the ability of the rival parties to fight their political battles without threatening the peace of the community and giving the administration and its agents a perpetual pretext for interference. We trust that the President will now not only keep his own hands off Louisiana, but that he will for bid the federal officers in the State to renew their intrigues for power. Louisiana needs nothing so much now as fair play in what we believe to be a sincere attempt of both the Governor and Legislature to establish perma- nent order and peace. Tue Mxxers.—Matters in Pennsylvania re- main in statu quo. There seems no imme- diate prospect that the miners will resuma work, and the soldiers are, like Micawber, waiting for something to turn up. ‘The whole struggle is eminently foolish on both sides, for the parties to it are paying far more to carry their point than their success will be worth. lf employers and employed would only adopt the system of mutual concession it would in the end prove far better for the people immediately interested and for the community. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Beecher bezins his cross-exXamination with avery bad memory, Lord William Hay, of England, has apartments at the Brevoort House. Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, ts sojourning at the St. James Hotel. Raipb Wiiton’s Weird. By Mrs. Alexander. New York: Henry Hoit & Co, @ Mrs. Gerald’s Niece, By Lady Georgiana Faller ton. New York: D. & J. Sadler & Co. State Senator Butler B. Strang, of Pennsylvania, is staying at the Grand Central Hotel. Colonel Dickinson Woodruif, United States Army, is quartered at the Everett House. Rear Admiral James H. Strong, United States Navy. is registered at the New York Hotel. Judge Hendrick B. Wright, of Pennsylvania, is residing temporarily at the St. James Hotel. Mr. De Witt U, Littieyonn, of Oswego, N, Y., ts among the late arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel Sharkey seems to be shirkey with regara to the rope that is waiting for him so patiently at the Tombs. Report of the Proceecings of the First Congress _ of the Protestant Episcopal Church im the United | States. Mrs. Belknap, wife of the Secretary of War, ar. rived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening from Washington. Judge Joseph Potter, of the New York Supreme Court jor the Foarth Judicial district, has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Tne Internal Mission of the Holy Ghost. By Henry Edward. Archbishop of Westminster. New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co, If Dr. Brown-Sequard ever did say that the President would die in six months unless he changed pis habits, then the Doctor misvaicu: lated either the resistance of pecullar constitu tions or the strengta of the conium, Messrs. Simoa Cameron, H. B. Anthony, Zach Chandler, George R, Dennis and Wayne McVeigh ‘onal Hotel, Jackson ville, Fla,, on the 10th inst. Does that mean re cuperation and greea peas, or wnat? In Burgundy and Lorraine awild piant grows, on the root of which are tubers like small potatoes, but which. have the taste of clestnats, on ac count of which taste it is cailed by the people the ground chestnut, It is now proposed to cultivate ‘this for !ood in place of the potato. The story goes that M. Thiers asked Professos Ranke—“‘Against whom are you fighting, now that the French Emperor is deposed?” “Crest Louis XIV.” was the prompt reply; and Von Ranke’s new “History of England in the Seven- teenth Century” verifies the assertion. Volney V. Smith was yesterday appointed Con- sul at St. Thomas, West Indies. He is the same person who was Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, and last iall claimed to be Governor on the ground that Governor Baxter had abdicated and aban- doned the office, permitting Garland to take pos- session of It. President Grant and party will arrive in this city to-day en route for Boston, when a reception banquet will be given them at the Revere House to-morrow evening, On Saturday the President and Cabinet will be dined by the Commercial Clay, and in the evening tney will proceed to Concord, where tney will pass the Sabbath. ‘The Great South ; a Record of Journeys in Louis, ana, Texas, Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginiaand Maryland. By Edward King. Protusely ulustrated by J. Wells Champney. Hartford: American Puolishing Company. Some Spanish jagglery is apparently on foot. The Paris Figaro gives the following without vouching for it:—*‘A very distinguished Spaniard, that the world has believed to be dead and buried tor five years, is in fact alive and will be heard from presently.” Prim is ciearly the person hinted at, but the story is too attenuat». M. Maunoir nas miormed Jadge Day, President | of the American Geograpmcal Society, tat the Paris Geographical Society has voted the La | Roquette medal to Captain Hail as ieader of the Polaris expedition, and that in accordance | with tne rales of the society, a8 Captain Hall i¢ dead, the medal will be given to his heirs, Twenty-five handred dollars was the remedy given by a British jury for the damaged affections of Miss Nightingale. She bad never met tae gak Jant c in bat once; but when she iearned that he bad satiea for the Cape of Good Hope sue wiote her love. Naturally, the captain answered, a 80 1 Went on from letter to letter, till it reaches the jury as above. At Pesth they have in a museum what they sup posed to be the first meerscnaum pipe ever wade. It was cot by o seniptor in Woot name! Carol Kowates, from piece of meerschaum given in Turkey to Mr. Andrassy, an ancestor of Count Andrassy. Tie idea of making a pipe of this guy stance occurred to Kowates asa happy experi- ment mere,