The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1875, Page 7

ee IN MEMORIAM. Tribute to the Memory of the Late John Mitchel. HPRESSIVE DEMONSTRATION AT THE HIPPODROME, Funeral Oration by Thomas Clark Luby. Interesting Review of the Situa- tion in Ireland. ‘The memortal services in honor of the late John Mitenel, the Irish patriot, whose flerce and per- sistent opposition to the British government has made his name & housebvid word tn the hearts of bis countrymen, touk place yesterday aiternoon | at the Hippodrome, in presence of a vast multi- wade, Although the arrangements were hardly | so periect as they might have been, the occasion | Was, Leverineless, exceedingly impressive, and Will doubtless be remembered for mauy a day by those who participated therein. wo o’clock was the time announced for tlie commencement of the proceedings, but it was fully an hour later beiore | the spactous amphitheatre contained the crowded assemblage that the event was expected to at- iroct. Atleast five thousand persons, including many ladies, were in attendance, and the funeral oration of Mr. Yhomus Clark Luoy, whicn tormed the great teature of the duy, was listened to with the deepest attention, In the centre of the Hippodrome was erected a handsome dais, surrounding wuich were appro- priate embiems vu! mourning. The band ol the Sixty-ninih regiment, stationed im the immediate Viciuity of tue platiorm, played the well known duge, “Rest, sweet spirit, rest,” and in an instant the great gathering Was hushed tn silence. There | Were presvat, amoug others, Mr, Charies O’Conor, | General McMahon Generali T. Francis Bourke, ex- | Cooxressman W. &, Rooimson and Mr. Mulaly, Shortly aiter three o'clock Genvral Bourke took | the cour and, in introducing we orator of the day, suid:— My duty on this occasion is avery simple one. {have been selected by the ovummittee having | charg@oi these memorial services to introduce to youtne orator ol! the occasion, Iu introducing bim to ‘his Vast and sympatuetic assembiage I think I may confine mysel! to the mention of his oame—(applause)—and while I do not velieve | that all m tats immense gathering can | hear my voice, 1 believe, in the language of | the great Jon Mitcuel, who, on the Jast occasion | he spoke at the Cooper Insutute—the list time we | heard his voice—stated tuat no introduction | should be necessury with regard to him in speak. | | ing to wn lrisu audience. (Uaeers.) I Say, there- fore, that Do iMcroductiou is necessary woen Mr, Thomas Wiark Luby cumes into your presence. He was toe iriend and the co-laborer of the dead Patilot, an Irisoman kuown to ;ou ali, & man | whose acts hive received tue endorsement oi all | true Inecmen, (U.eers,) MR, THOMAS CLARK LUBY’S ADDRESS. Mr. Lub), ou presenting himself, was received with tremendous checring. Alinuugh it was Bin.ost impossible to hear bis voice in ali parts of , the great outicing, his delivery was, nevertheless, | Marked by great Jorce aud pathos, waile, at inter- Vuis, ringing cheers greeted the senuments be couveyed, Me said:— | Labics ANv GuNTLEMEN—To be called on to pro- | DOULCE DEWre vO Wayuilicent aD a-sewDdiage toe Mabe. al speech i WOvUF OF Lhe Wediurys O1 Yo LOLIE @ pairiot as Junu Mitchel, WO, bul a lew shurt Gay8 age Was vur Joremust living country may, is Ab iwuor und a privilegé tiut shoud salis.y tae BwWoOEU vi ADy irisnman, even Wf he Were tue Most gi.ved ol our 1 Standing veiore you, as Lno. do, in. bevience to ibe unauimous Voice of so many large aod LoueDual Societies vi My couu- tyuied, be vugiug Co This migaty Metropolis v1 tHe Fut ‘epul¢, 0 biovklyu and to Jersey Urvy, it WOu d, IMueed, be lise Mudesty On my pari + ere Lio ten you atl dy oe ieet proud of being suv bouvred by my CouuLTyMen. | ireey own, leLow- cCouuir) mes, that Your KiudDess iM tbis IDsiance has 6 Ucked Wwe 10 the hearts core. Ic is uw gener- vaily that 1 Cab never julget. ine grateisl re- DiculTaaee O it Will IW. ys GO me good. ‘Tu the lasi torob of My eXisrence, it Will Keep auve some O1 mY Wid purt.ouc ardor. (Applause. A REVIEW OF THe Past. Jon Mitchel Was kivpapvea by the Britian ane | Therlves 10 1848 aud curred OU iar Irom LIS ne. | lve jaud., Waeu, a ew moatus after, Dut still in Isds, (he criss aud tae seeming nour of revolt | Ggaruet Our tH MewMorial Lyraut~ Caiue, J, COO, Wad | #l a recognized pus, in Compuny wid one wud, @ariy 1U tue Some yeas, had serenucusiy supported doud Mito els War polcy. Taliaue to ty iricad tue waliunt Eugene Orkelly Who alsy, alas! now “pes §umong t.e cead.” Wuile Joun M.teuel was enouring Bis Convict ie, witu Wo.e than Spartan bravery 12 1849 |, as (he associate Oi Jame- Finton Laior, John U'Leary, Paolip Gray and otaers, Was endeavortug co Cary OUL uiS principles in aon aud 12 tue South of irewna; and t then tastea my first experience vi & Binsd eubyeou ld Casuci ju 186) 1 flesueu my muideo pea, so ig @ puollc jourtel, over my vwn vindication of doin Mitchel and riluciples not uissi@uar to Joun he ut- nawe, bis princi} les. Mitcue’s, 1 uave ever since endeavored, to must of wy eoole Abilly, Co ) To, agate by pen wud word ana deed. 1 uave traveled buudreds of | Mies 10 ireland, Many oF them ou jovt abd iM ail Weathers, Ww spread breaucast over my native | a jaud toose saving principles. For this e erossed und recrussed tue veean in seasons of } vemest. For tam 1 have traveiled thousands of | Miles 1B America, m the year 1863 and since, Shuuciuted the patriotic creea of Mitenes in | Geverai Corcvrau’s Camp uuring the siege of putlolsk, Va. From Manbaiten to the spores o: t | Pociilc, irom the rocky iets Of the coast Oo! Mar tw suuuy suvanuan I bave endeavored to mane the basional priociples of Mitenel heard, And a8 | Ar. Mitchet werorcally suffered jor ireland tae puniso.vent of a selon for over five years, so I | uve vorne Wr ireiana five years and tour montns of ,eval seryituve. Have | not then sume ciaim Vo speak to-day iu Jou Mitcne,’s praise. (Unvers.) | THE UNITED 18 It will be the prov. biographer, whoever ve may aS MADy parcicu.ars as Can be Dow © petuer Of us early lie, ni8 training, and tee assu- clatlons (oat surrounded fim im youtn; 60 trace Minuely tue growta oO his ideas; to suow how euco succ.ed:ug year aeveloped more 4nd more | the senvimentw of patriotism woicd be inherited from wis iath r, tne Rey. Mr. Mitchel, geutie~ man, by ail accounts, resemoling fis Miustrivus gon in the sip guiar jorce Oi Wis Cuaracter, and ove Oi those Noriie.D aiseencers wuo, im the trying | periog of 1795, und the years immediately preced. Ing, banded themseives, aloug with Weir Cathonc fellow country men, in the lamous orgamzation 1 “the Uniced Lristinen,” 1 aotagouwm ty Biltisa supremacy. A paius-taking Divg er, in ana- | lyzing and musirating the arecter and geuius of Jonn Michel, would no. merely dweil | oo vil we Sstrrmg incidents o: bis public | cureer, but wousl depict tue eXced@nce ana pur- ity of his privaus ute. In s. ors, he would snow | Mr, Mitene: adunrabie i every relation of ite. | {he patriot of weer: aptible mvegrity, vi a Muelity | to bis couutry’s Cause, resomle against every danger, nut Lo be suaken even by toe agony of hope deterred, by repeated laiiures and disap- polntments, Would alsy sime will muder, but Dot jess Deuutiui Tadianee, a8 & good and affec- tiomate son, Nu-dand and la’her—as a true and Stead ast irend--as a tugh-bred geatieman, t Very Soul of honuT—as agenial aoa entertaining | compunion. Aver a graceiul compliment to tue literary ability of the deceased, the speaker pro- ceeded to bis publig live, and im the Course of his | remarks adverted 40 His £ARLY CAREBR, It was shortiy alter the premature death, in 1845, of the pure#souled, chivairous and brilliant Th mus Davis, Whose earpest toougnts in prose apd vers gradually mould into defuive suape 4 a art,, that Joba Mitcne:’s career as a prominent wsh pnavovalist Began. He leit bis Dauve Ulster, 19 waren, after be ad graduated in Trinity Colege, Dunia, ne nad for some years practised @s a suliciwr, And came up to Dubin to take | piace on the Nation, He atonce gave his countrymen spleodid proof ot bis talents. and fis | eXireordmury. daztog became ete loug equally | Dane l¢ required \trle peneiranoa to see tbat be Was desiped soon to take [he foremost Place among tie umilant band o: young patriots ten kavw the “Youug ivetancers.” iis itle cil how appeared im the series of puy- kuown a8 “Duny’s Library of Irevaud," | aod wis fiery attwies made the columas of tae orgaa of onausy glow with @ fercer spirit of dria set rion ane dedance, im i840, in his “railway iele,’? He gave such @ Jore:aste oO the extreme Guess Which be subsequeutly dis yedinevery miuuber ot the United Irahman | phe Wet Coarie { Gave Duty, the proprietor of ihe daiton U ‘ Wa State prosecution. The vail and te Standard had h with military coercion. ‘the | ai!) Nad endeavored to prove | Tele ays would “ud to British troops in- | preased faciuty the eforis of the trish peepee a it exuitingiy duasted \oub iallWuy euterprise Would soon “piace every part of ireia pe withim less then six hours, f journal espe | the agitation system of its only reat lorce—tnat of id | bis daring genius tad absolutely | sae nobier days of his career. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. the vice-regal residence and of the garrison of Dupin, whatever that way amount to,” To this Specimen of BRITISH BLUSTER, John Mitchel gave prompt reply in an articl startling 1m its audacity, maintatwing that all the advantages assumed by ‘the Sta to be given to British miliary rule in treland by the spread of the railway system could easily be neut alized more than this, he told the people bow raiulwa could be made to furnish the readiest means lor: the destraction of the Britisn svidiery. ‘Lous ve turned tue battery o( the Engiisn jodrnalis to speak, on themselves, ‘lroops,”” sala Mitchel tn this singw rticle, “upon their march bg rail might be convemently met with in divers places. Huier, with 013 Tyroleaus, could hardly desire a deadlier am'usd tha. the brinks of a D cutting upon @ railway. Imagine a iew hundre: men tying 1 wait Upon such a spot, with masses of rock trunks of t ees ready to roll down, and a train or two advancing with a regiment of intantry and the engine panting nearer and nearer ull the polished studs ui brass on its front are distinguishable and its name may nearly be read. (Cheers.) Now, in the name ol the Father, and of the Soa and of the Holy Ghost, Now! Kut ’tis a dream. No enemy will dare put us to realize these scenes. Yet let all understand what @ railway may and What it may not do.” (Uheers.) Mitcuel’s vigorous and picturesque rhetoric w boldly indorsed and vindicated by Mr. Dufty couusel, that grand old Iriso patriot, Robert Holmes, the brother-in-law of Robert Kkmmet, in a speech of profound philosophic views and rich With loily seutiments and surpassing eloquence, Rovert Holmes insisted that lawful government did not exist in Ireland and traced tne degraded condiuon of our country to her want ol inde- pendent existence a8 @ nation, The jury -dis- agreed and furtuer proceediugs against wr. Duty were not resorted to by the Crown, The victory was virtually with John Mitchel and Robert Hoimes. It was in ’46, too, that Jonn Mitchel was one of the most prominent actors in that memorabie quarrel and split tuat reut asander, THE “OLD” AND “YOUNG? IRELAND PARTIES, or, a8 they were sometimes stvied, the ‘moral force men’? and the “advocates of physicaltorce.”” ‘The iiustrioas O'Connell was now drawing near | the Close of bis marvellous career, His powers of body and mind were beginning to ial tim. fis great repeai agitation, so iar irom having achieved success, bad even received @ mantiest check from the British goveroment. In short, it | was, ke himself, dully showing increasing sigos | of decrepituue, He bad, 1m truth, at iengto pushed tig favorite tucory ol su-called “moral lorce’ to the utmost pitch of exaggeration, Blinded by fis early triumphs, he had tried to | euect with the machinery of agitation wha: could only be achievea by the armed hand, The Bng- hab wovernment and Legisiature had douptless yieide CATHOLIC “MANCIPATION to vhe peaceful pressure of tne Vatnolics of Ire- laud, England and Scotland, dacked py the public opinion o the Mveral Protestants, ali made more jormigaule by tho halt uttered menace thai aways lurked beniod Lie peacetul trout o: tbe agiiatiou— namely, that a delay Of concession migat at last drive ibe oppressed to arms, But emancipation or the other concessions won by the agitation 8yStem In reality tuok no power from Bugiand, did not weakeo by asinyie link tue chain by which England held ireland independence, In sport, emancipalion and the Other measures won by mere agitation were not internaioual questions like repeal. 1t was altogether a ditterent business when Engiand was wsked to yield any portioa of ber supremacy over Iretand. Power 1s never gleldea save to adequate orce. What force ade- quate to the task ol wresting the legis.ative inde- peadeuce ol Ireland trom En«land could be jound in the mere expression o| the puble opinion of trampled Ireland, even uf the whole country were unanimous? No class of the English people would help [risa public op.pion to Jessen Yoglind’s sway over ireland, I say 1t was the idlest und most de- Jasive dream to tink that apy class of Eugen society Wvuld ever Voluntarily abdicate Its power Ol se: Ving itself at the expense of Ireland, and uf trawplivg uuuer ioul, Wheuvever tt suited its pleas- ure und convenience, her just rigat! (Ubeers.) DANIEL U'CONNELL, Besides, in this year 1546, O’Conneil deprived the th eat held 10 reserve, He br ushr ior vard in Conciiation Hail this abstract proposition :— “Lhat under Do Circumstances WOuld ao Oppressed Daou be justieu im resortim’ tO arms agalost the Uppre-Bor umess first avracked.” Li the peopie Oi Ireland coud ever really Come to actin goud | 1ailh on Us MousiTeUs propusition, tue governe | ment ot Epglanu obiy careimily avoid attacting upd toey migot continue Ing the Liish to the end of time. Need I Suy tO yuu. lebow-countrymen, that the soul o: Joun Mitchel prvguly revolted against cms inseusate ploposition und against that ocher ig. | nove WXim, vy (he ado tow of Wiican, in his vid quays, U?Couuell deroguted so much frou N 8 spleu- did reputation—oainey, *fnat uo atnoguto nue Man irecdow is Wo:th @ drop of woud.” Waen toe maligu Wiuence of Joun O’Comuell over tie decay iug W1Nd O1 bIs great lather nusried tue dis- pate Letseen tae two sectous of the Tepeal party to a@ crisis, Ou the final day of angry Gebate in Conviiation Hall, Jonn Mircuel, 1n 1.3 OD Incisive style, stemalized bimseli NOL less | 4 did Thomas Francis meaguer, Tney soured between them the iadrels 0. the day. Mrtcnel de. | livered a poweriul, Weil-reasoned Address, fuil of muply Cioquenc6, ad Salisiying My mina that, if “pporcunities O44 OCeN iaVEreDie, Be Would huve developed tae qualities o & poweriul devater. Meurner spuke later in the Geoute. His pecuilar, ornate aba lupassiongd deciamation shoae with unusual bril\iaocy. 1b Was Ou Gais remurkabd.e oc- Cé-iun that be delivered iis celebrated apostropae to the sword, Wale thls auimeated appeal was stil rusaiwg irom vis ps te Smal, varrow- minded svu Of the great v’Vouuell suterrup.cd bim. ine Lord Mayor of Dubin, Wu presided, Teiused Co listen ionger to Meacher’s vung Worus, Alte! vain proves: aeaius’ tuls suai Jul ucerierence wicn the liberty 01 8 eeci, Smi O'Brien, Juba Mitc.el, Tavinas francis Meugne: Devin Revly aud tae ower “Youu, ire.anuers press Waiked out of Couctuation Mull never to return | there ugaiu. THE REPEAL AGITATION, though it continued to dra ser og hing half ead, Uult-alive sort of ex! for rs Jouger, Was, lor all purposes or practicai edicieacy, at un enor JTOM that cay oreh. U'Conuel Limseif Was UOl preseOt oN this Gay Of the split oetween the (wo sections of repeaiers. In toe course vt the 1eoW.og year the Wiustrious tribune, Lignted 1M bove and vroken in lor; uue—his vce power. ul const tuliou Irreirevably saattered, his ouce pow- eriul iateiiect ulmus: gone; Leertbrokeu, .ov, oy bis reverses, by the agOuy Oi fis veluvéd country, tie Woes anu Salleriogs ANd eXva Tiation ot teas of Wiousands O1 Lis auine-siricken country meo— retired to Genos tie proud, to die, On the otver hand, the star of Jobu Mitciel, ike some Meteor, lly rising aoove the ouL 4d Budaenly to become, thouge vut for a vriei season, tue lord of ube ascenuant, (Uoeers,) Having alluded to tue | wok of tue irish C -uiederauen the speaker ad- verted to the memoravie events of 1HB YEAR OF 148, whole civilized | | ' @ year which, be suid, svovk t worid—a year when, ivr a sbort spuce, the geulas Ol revoiution Qumed alvft, pi aug arog Comet, fring one-halt tue aud scattering vertors all around. Tne crisis Oo; Jubu Mitcnei’s lie naa at last com felt and rejoiced in the inspiration of to ume, Inveed, it aim emed as U his spirit bau received some m ud premonition of the great eveuts that were uow to take place all over burope, jollowing each Ovher’s sootsieps jita such startling rapidity. bor oefore one thro hud toppiea, one aynasty tallen—peiore even & | single barricade bad been erected or one cannon | snot had voomed along the Parisian voulevards | jectrilied countrymen 01 y class and shade of opinio by the suaden announcement of a new and « Gacious policy. For a tew monins im 43 Joon Mitcnel Was (0¢ one Man who drew Lo hum the eyes of i im ireland—aye, of ali in Engiaad, Scotland and Wales—enemies as well as Inends, All regarded nim with either love or have. Many, bO douot, speaking of those occur- Tences 0} tue days o/ '48, bave accused Mr. Mitca- el Of raspuess, of going too iast, and have blamed bim for being too openin the enuncia- tion of his war policy. But the acu stances uf Ireiana and o1 taken ito account. Tne Irisn peup! P isning Leiore wis eyes; the gentry had shown iit tie sympathy With toeir suderings: they bad only thought of their own seitisa mterests; they had | only simulated patrivtism im the movement a short (ime previously, Knuwo as the irish Coun- | cil, im order to bring the government to maxe such terms With them as Would enavie them to | save their endangered estates. The creed vf yona Mitchel in 48 was in trum a right maniy one. At tat period he taugnt tne people of Ireland to rely for ireedom matniy on their own hearts aud arms, He did out, a8 Coaries Gavan Duty . encourage his countrymen to in- duige io the delusive expectation that 50,000 Frenchmen would come over to iretand to tree them. Doubtless he tu leit \aat @ people to Win ioreign assistance or even sympathy must first prove that they deservd it by dong something stout and maniy themselves. Provaby he jeit, teo, that @ people strug- | ging jor freedom endanzer the secarity of that freedom il they receive foreign assistance | Without first themselves being op and doing. if | at cercaim periods of his life he may have siligntiy deviated jrom these sentiments, stil I nave iltue doubt that they formed a portion o: his creed in (Cheers.) MITCHELL IN THE DOCK, Of course it 18 not to be expected that, in a address like the present, I coula give you @ nistor, or even @ meagre skewn o1 the events ot '48, Shall not atcempt to pursue the series vi inciuents minutely. I wanted to give you a picture ui John Mivenel 1M bis supreme honr oi pride and mfuence. | Isbowea bim to you greatin that haugaty now I now desire to cali your attention to auotier pi ture, to Jonn Mitchel ia tie duck of G een Street | Court House—to Joon Mitchel made a selon tor his devotion to his country. Ay, our old enemies enacted the “treason-eivay” law for the special pur) 0-e of catcning bim—a deed iniamous, uieriy unWortny 01 & great government. Woile pro- | grand He ceedings were pending against in iney horres the act throagh Periament, sus- penaing standing rules, reading ie turee umes in one night, employing ail their ola Wacmavellian aris, This 18 British Magnanim- | ity toward waive! The Englisa, are tuey not the | people who méudaciousiy vaunt belore tae world | tha they are geverous to baer enemies, that ney never strike af uniair biowy Trey se! Waoen aid | the Logiisa ever treat a fue, once be Was Deipless m their power, With Magoantumuy? Never, in 00 ope Instance since tverr mstory as a Nution. began! | Weil! [he “ireason-lelony act” was passed. At once the Rigat Houorabie British government | With the national quesuon was what made | | crisis of hus fat Stirring | by see te ett es Maris, “iad new ood ikmous law-—a law made, 1 repeat, special- against ope man god also with view to st iguomiuy on patriolic resistance to yrant power—a law, I may add,of watch some more of us Irishmen have since tasted 'he amen- an geen arraigned bim, I say, under this w, packed their juries, mocked justice with their solemn farce under the guise ol a trial, and lo! the great Britisa trick was done; tne juggling, transiormation was complete; Join itehe: was a felon, “pursuant to British act of Parliament.” But swear that Joon Mitchel was grander tn this seeming hour 01 numillation than he waseven in his hour ot pride and *riumph. Be} How pobly he stood that day lu ine iow nobly he conirouted and aefed his powertui enetmit No Greek, no Roman, no Chris- tan martyr, Bo patriot of later days in our own or any other land ever testified tn benall ol a great principle more heroically. That day those woo condemned nim were tne verlest slaves. He was truly a free man and lord over the spirits of resent. He and nis counsei—ziorious old jolmes—were, indeed, worthy of each other, “Tne old man eloquent” again identified oimsell, even proudly aod flercely, with the sentiments con- tained in Mitchei’s writings, and with nis fery letters to the tenant tarmers of Ulster. This Sk:lul mixing of the question of tenant rignt Mitchel at inis time speviuily tormidable to the alien government of Ireland, and jorced ou the The speech of tre venerable Holmes in defence of Mitchel was grand. | wish 1 could give you some extracts irom it, but £ must confine myself to John Mitchel, whose stern deflance o: his Own and nis country’s evemics Was even grander. ‘That patriviic and highly-gited priest, the late Fatner Keuyon, pari-n priest of ‘emplederry, in the gallant county ‘lipperary, used to teil me how sharply, ciearly and decisively Joon Mitcne,’s voice ran through tne hall of trial when he Was asked if he had anytning to say why sentence should oot be passed upon him, and he answered, ‘1 have.” He maintained that the victory was with him, But les me give you a few ol the bola words he uttered on this Memorabie occasion :—“‘l have shown,” said Mite chel, “what toe Jaw 1s made of in ireiaud, [ have shown that Her Majesty’s governinent sustains \t- sell 14 Ireland by packed juries, partisan JUUges, by perjured sueritfs——’ Interrupted by ta Judge, ne continuea—" What J nave now to add 18 | simply this, L have acted ali through this business Irow (ne first under a strong sense 0! duty. 1 do not repent anything I have done and i believe Vhit tae course which | have opened is onl, coin- menced. Tue Roman, when he saw ts band burn. ing to ashes before the tyrant, promised that 300 should follow out his enterprise. Can I not prom. ise if one, tur two, ior three??? (cheers.) His friends vusnhed simuitaneously around him, cry- iug—"Aye!” anc ‘or mel” “Promise tor me!” Lo Yuin tne police tried to repress the tumult; the Judges fd irom the penct, For a mouweut oe haraiy seewed a prisoner on the eve of truuspor- tation, But alas! im a jew minutes he was lorced away. MITCAEL'S DEATH. After reference t+ the recent visit of Mr, Mitchel to ireland and his electivn to Pa lament jor the county of Tipperary, air. Luby Went on say (lat | Mr, Mitchel vad died in ois country’s cause, if | ever man dieu jor Country. Living sti he could, uuder eXisting circumstances, hardly reader such @ Service to mis Country as he Nas dune by his deato, He has served her more toan if he nad | died in actual bartie ior her, especially if tue buctle werea jostone, 415 name, his memory, nis ideas, wil batile oravely against the ioreign domination till 18 country be Jree; just as he iim- seli C.upy wih 1adumiiaoie tecacity, throusn ite, to the immorval prisciple of Ireland’s indepen- dence, His lie and death alike suow toat nis pirit was cast im the true heroic monid. The victor’s :aurels shail yet flourish over bis tomo in we old land. Let us not, then, give to Womanish sorrow becaase he 1s gune irom us. Let | us not s:ed tears, but offer nim the tribute of brave thougats and deeds ior our coun ry, 1 have, speaking tor mysel!, virtue euouxh to | euvy the glory of suca @ deato. Did be not | die io the ful wnd proud possession of nis xreat | faculties anu guts? io the last nis intellect was clear and active and bold; to the last nls pene- | trating, 1e.rless vye suruuk (rom meeting no gaze. | He ould dave to look the universe in tue lace. 10 | the last, in spite o1 jeebieness, the persoual dig- nity of Dis uemeanor tmp essed Dose Weo ap- proached him. ‘lo tue iast bis Mind sept orta | Hashes «1 quaint, svrewd tumor. fo the last he | was earcesi, 10 tne last be enuuciatey the | truth with pecudar bolduess, To the iast ne had | @ Keen eve lor (ue detection ol humbug. No mate | ter how sulema anu sancumuni us # disguise it | might assume, the touca o tis Lthuriel Jance coaid | Make the ialseuved sand coulesseu, Lhus ve saw | AU POlutea OULITOM Lhe c¢ Mincucement tue nol- lowness aud walt Ol reality oO; tue Howe Rule | movement a8 at preseut conducred. Of cour-e ue | aduntied thar it Was doing sume good, +0 vo tar 1! Caused Men, heretuivre antrnstional, lo mov ered Wt in the direciiou of Lisn Datiouality. | UCR Tcividua 6 may yet gu lurthe . Baving vcuwn u compuerisun vetweeo Charles Gavan Duty aud Mirciel, iS Old associate, tae lurmer huviug been honvred by tue Britis gev- ernment, Mr. Luo coniinue THK LAST SOUNES. 1 could have wisued (oat, Lu his last Moments, | Jonn Mitchel had been sv doubly blessed as to have those be wost loved near lim; yet it was | weil Jor sim to breatae his last ut nome, in ais | native lana, so near the very Spot Wuere he was | boro. And ihen oe had deur irivuds aud relatives, — woo loved and revereuced Dim, by tis Dedsid when be did. Ol these, Ove has since rejoine Dlui—ins tried iriend abu companivn jor years, O tis Dro ner-iuei the awabe rtib, & B1uCe.e, devoted, ¢ cous, aule a kine aud honest Man, Whose memory d will forever revere. (Uheers.) eed Tsay (hat sitcne! was buried wii all tue bouor and regret an afectivuace ana grateiul nation coulu RaOW the reMmalDs O! sO bewved a perio? | The proudest iunerais, however, are bat m lan. | choly speciacies. Yet there was une featare at Joun Mitche.’s suneral, suggestive oi encouragement aod hove to ail true lovers of lrelans, A band ot Catuolc clergy wen moved amicably to the grave wita & band Ol dissenting ministers, Alitcnei’s faneral, (ven, preacaes uoron to Irt-hmen ot differ- Sell, in ite, Was lor Du see O1LON Was tO See BD Inde penuent, a irevaod, wita Irsnmen o: all Taces aud 8 gvdu Leighbors aud {vod ie.low citizens, Tne deeds and .erits of Jonn M tenel haraly want a eulogist; they speak suillcienss jor themselves, For yoo, my counirymen | shall only pray (hat, should & savOraDie Opportunity arise, the spirit of Joun Mitchei may animate your thousits and nerve our arins; ‘hat you may aiways be juspired wiih tue same holy natred of joreiga dowination that burbed tirou.o ite in his soul; and that, till Ireland be tree, you cherisa im your heart 0: fearts that lrreconci ave patriotism of vengeance against that tyrant empire upon Whose oppressious tne | SUL never sets, Woich Has been made a reprovcn 1o Jono Mitcnel by Sume mMiseraole fluoky tures, Dut Woich will be bis most enduring ciaim | to the applause of ail brave and generous aod freedom-ioving splits. (Cheers) Mr. Laby’s ddure~s was repearediy interrupted by the warmest aemoust: ations of appiause. General Bourke ‘fen anvounced that a commit- tee of gentiemen haa cunsented to act as trustees ofa iund to be raised tor tue iamiiy o! the de- ceased patriot. This iuad was pot to be presented ray of Charity, oUt aS 4 trioute irom the gener- 008 OUSpOUTINgS O1 the irish peuple in tas coun try. ihe names of the committee inciuded Charles o*Conor, kugene Kelly, U. A. Dana, A. M. Leary, P. Farrelly and J, B. Manuing. In conclusion wea- erai Bourke made @ graceful and delicate appeal on the subject of the tuna in question, and tue | hear y and generous nfaoner im which the ques- | tion was entertained augured well jor the most satistactory results, Toe meeting terminated jortly belore five o'clock. | CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. Ata meeting of this society last Saturday Ri William R. Alger was unanimously offered the permanent pastorate and he has accepted the In- vitation. Toe courch, chapel and vestry, with tae organ and lurniture, cost over $30,000. Tne deot of the suciety 18 $102,000, which it is proposed to off in one year. A suoscripcion i in tne hands | oi the Finance Committee lor tnis purpose. The first (Wo subscriptions amouat to $30,0v0; oth aggregating An equal amount are promised, acd it is hoped Co easily raise the baiance. ine caurch | seats 1,200, The pews are valued sor purposes ot | tiess than nali the cost—varying in price irom $200 to $1,500 each, 80 that every one that chooses can own his pew. SAD CASUALTY. DROWNING OF A PLEASURE PARTY OF YOUNG MEN IN CHARLESTON HARBOR. (From the Charleston Onronici, April 14) ‘The city was thrown into a state of gloom yes terday afternoon by the report of the sad tate of some of the young men composing the fishing party aboard the Ella Anpa, which left her dock | yesterday morning, 7d, sailing down the bay, nehored off the Housa.onic buoy, where several hours were spent in fishing. Tne boat’s company consisted of W. V. Sarvis, Adolph Davis, quarter- Master’s clerk at the Citadel; James Leany, A. W. Adams, Jona K. Bnsiow, son o1J, A. Busiow, mer- cnant of this city; George EK. Kent, a young New Yorker who has been engaged io tue auction business here, und te crew, cousisting of Captain Isaac KE. Relyea and Gilman Burke (sun of | Captain Wiliam Burke, the weli known pilot). | Avout one o’ciock the Eila Anna sated on .er | homeward trip, and When sume distance off Bow- | man’s jeity, oa suiliven’s Island, ine helm was | pus hard down, with the Intent to wear snip, bub she fatied to answer her beim, and was struck by | a flaw as she brought ap in the wind, Her gag: | wales Were lorced under, aud she sauk almost 1in- | mediately. Piiot voat No.9, Captain Corker i | command, Which was off Camming’s Point av the time, at once stood Away lor Le Scene vi Tho “is- aster, and succeeded im rescu:ny Captain Relyea and Mr. A. W. Adams, one of the party. A work- man on the xgrillage, who ainv witnessed the accident, at once pat Of ina small bout, . nd picked up Messrs. Survis and Leany. Mr. Sarvis was asleep im a sinall boat atiacaed to the F Anua at the time of the ac ident, which awok him, aod he tried to cnt loose irom the yacut, vat jailed, and must haye dro wued Dut for the umely | assistance rendered by the nodie ieitow who su ceeved in saving im. fhe rest of the party, co sistiug of Messrs, Kent, Ensiow, Davis and Bur! Must Rave etther aeen drowne’ or swept our to sea, OF both, as up to our going to press notaing further had been neard of the uniortunate iel- lows. Attempts wert made las‘ night to find the boat after a long search im the Vicinity of the accident, without HORSE NOTES. Since the HenaLp report of Wednesday last there heve veen no changes ta the odds offered on the betting books at tne Subscription Room of the Jockey Club, Business, however, has been active during the week past, many tardy owners coming forward and laying their money on such horses as they are confivent will be abie to juifl engage- ments, These gentlemen and the trainers gene- rally are hope'ul that tne time is ac hand when vhe neck of the tong winter will be fairly broken, and the last one o! the proverbial nine lives of the snow storms died out from exhaustion. No class of citizens are more actively alive to the fact tnat spring should be with us in reality as well as in name than turimen. The ractng season ts rapidly approaching. Yet much in the matter of preparation of the hundreds of horses tor the coming great struggles ts very backward. Warm sunstine and the butterflies are what are now demanaed, as with their visitation every- thing In the racing worla again starts into life and activity, At the best, however, the horses coming from the Southern race courses will have the pull over those trained at the North, and even in Kentucky this spring. The {frost 1s so deep into the ground that it will yet be some time before anything but walking can be indulged in. ‘The 8,ring meeting of the Galveston Jockey Club is next in order. Extensive preparations have been made to accommodate the expected racing stables, and a lively reunion is certain. Begins 20tn inst,, continuing jour days. Alter Galveston the meeung of the Nashville Blood Horse Assvcia'ion will attract the attention of turfmen, Tbe track is already in fine order and @ great number of thoroughbreds are daily at work over it, Commences May 4, continuing four days. ‘The first spring trotting meeting of the season in this vicimity 18 announced to take place at Deertoot Park, commencing iuesday, May 11, and contipuing the 12th, 13th and 14th. Purses are Offered jor 3:10, 2:35, 2:33, 3, 2:38, 2:45 and classes; also, under gaddie, for horses that never beat 2:33 under saddle or in harness, Tne eptries close at Jonnson Brothers’ rooms on Thurs- day, May 6, at nine P. M. At Jerome Park there are two stables in train- ing for the coming racing season. These are the public stacle of Mr. R. W. Walden, emoracing a Biring Of twWeive, and tI ot Mr, Jobo Hunter, tour horses. In Walden’s stable there are Lawrence & G. Lorilara’s Saylock, b. h., 6 years, by Lexington, dam Eaith, Lawrence & G, Lorilurd’s Hyder All, or. ©, 3 years, by Leamington, dam Lady Duke. Join O’Donnel’s Milner, ch, ©, 3 sears, py ‘Lea Miogton, dam by Lexington, F. Augu-tus Schermerhora’s Pinecroft, b. bh, 6 years, by Kentucky, dam Biue Riboon, Lawrence & G. Loriliard’s Bullet, ca, g., 5 years, by Bulletin, dain by Waguer. Lawrence & G. Lortilard’s Resolute, cn. b., 4 yeacs, by Kevolver, dum Mat te Lawreace & G, Lorillard’s Austrine, ch, m., 4 years, by Australian, dam Kate Haye: W. Waideu’s Wincaester, db. c, 4 years, by Jerome Edgar, dam Minnie Minor. Lawrence & G. Lov:hard’s Kitten, br. f.,2 years, by inp. Eclipse, cam Pussy. Luwrence & G, Loriilura’s Ambush, 2 years, bY Ausiraiau, dam Douy Morgan, Lawreuce & G. Loriuar.’s ——, 2 years, by Hamp- ton U.urt, dam Rebecca. io Huater’s stubie are to be found:— Hunter & ravers’ King Puiu, b, b, 4 years, by “Lexingion, dam £itham La: John Hunter’s Austraund, ch, £,8 years, by | Australian, dam Dolue Carter, Jonbn Hua er’s Suooarst, ch, G,2 years, by Pionet, daw Bettie Ward, Joou Hunter's Captain Garland, ch. c., 2 years, by War Dance, dau: Un ine, Colonei McDaniel lest New York Friday nteht jast, via New York Central and Hudsuu River Kailroad, ior Nurstoga, Witu bis entire string of horses .p traluing. ine winners o Friday’s races at New Orieans paid io ihe Mutual povis at Jonnsen’s tue jollows Ine suias;—thnidie race, fom Leatuers, $123 25; mile veats, Mary L,, $16 Jv; One Mic and LuTee- quarters, Captain Hat ningon, $91 60; Uaptain Hurcom-op, with Bouaventure out, $47 50, Katner a nandsome re ura jor each $5 1nvestest. Uceivent was expected to arrive in Fuiladelphia | on Sa urday. Breeze Park. ‘Tue Pactie Jockey Club, says the Daily Alta Cal- rnd, Vth ist. HAs just sued Anotaer invita- ‘nla to she World to biiug lorward Its DESt HOls*s aud Compete lor cuin. At their third anpua! meeting im November next Of $30,000 in gold Wii be pul Up tor a soar-ia! trace, open to the world wud divided as tol- —$15.000 to the Brst Noise, $6,009 to the sec- oud, $5,0u0 to the tut.d und $4,000 to the Jourin. Toe tei ms are tus set forta:— Horses from Europe allowed $1.50 and five pounds fu reign’; Norses east of tho tocky Mountains, $1.00): jorses fom Vreeon, Nevada, Utah and Lolorado, $5.0, for travelang expenses, rive to euler aid three to start to make a race. kntrance ion per cent. Kntries to close Uciober 13, .875, with the secretary, at the Lick House, can Francisco. Yne President, Mr. A.J, Bryant, aod the Seo- retary, Mr. Wiill.m Soear, Dave issued tae iol- lowing aduress:— The Pacific Jockey Club this opportunity of thanking their ieliow citizens and the puolic ior the vers lueral suppor: gives to (heir tormer efforts, aud Tetor WILD prise to the 3 3s that attented them. Ke- lying upon cae hearty co-operation of tae business por- w ike will go iu training at Puint tlon of their tizens (ey have determined this Year to imerease tae size of Purses suilicrent to in Guce the best hurses in the wocid to contend tur them, their object beme to “bring to and Keep in’ this Suid A cl.ss 0. horses that wilt eurich the tate with .heir vioow, and enable our breeders to produce in a tow 2 i a8 tO salisiy all partics oF <e's Paradise, aud aso to i give the pe le Wwiar to tke great verdy Day of nglang, in wh’ may Join im the pleasure and excilement, and attest their aumuauon tor the noblest of ail anima.s, the horse AQUATICS IN NEWTOWN CREEK. Despite the raw, chilly weather yesterday con. sicerabie amusement was found in Newtown Creek im the practice by the participants in the July regattas. Numerous boats were out, inciuding the barges of the Seawanbaka and Ariington clubs, of Brookiyn, and the Friendsoip Olab, of New York, the four-oared crews ofeach club also indulged in their daily pull, as did Bigiin and Enygichart im their shelis. A scrud race was siarted between tne turee | Darges, Out was suddeuly conciuaed by tne cap- sizing Ola il On the course. ‘Tue crews je Seawanhaka and the Arlington clus will now practise aauy, aud vhey, with tue several projessionals, will make the during the entire season, and mucn sport is antic- ipated. PAN amateur race is spoken of for Sunday after- contestants have not yet transpired. METROPOLITAN TOTAL ABSTINENCE UNION. Delegates from fifteen Parochial Oatnolic Total Abstinence Societies o1 this city met yesterday in St. Joseph’s Hall, on Sixth avenue, @ County Convention of the. Metropolitan Catholic Total Abstinence Union of New York Stave. Rules were adopted, officers elected and preparations made for ® grand union demonstration m reek lively | od around | Cooper Institate, to be participated in by | all the societies of the city, which number 10,000 members. The time was fixed for Wednesday, May 19 The National President of the Catnotic Total Abstinence Union, Rev. Patr.ck Byrne, has aiready accepted an invitation to be one of tne speakers. Emiaent clergymen of this city are also iavited, Admission is to ve iree, the object beimg to. arouse public sentiment against the vice of intemperance and to draw re- us parish total avstinence so- dent of the Metropulian Stare Union stated that news irom th State was received snowing special activity, espe- cially m Elmira and vicinity. Committees were appointed to canvass aad or. ganze, With the pastors’ approval, in ail paris of tne city. THE LONG ISLAND HORTICULTURAL PAIR. A large number of the ladies of Queens county met with @ committee of the Agricuitaral so- clety, on the Jair grounds, at Mineola, on Satur- day, to Make arrangements for the festival to be weld during the continuance of the horticultural exhibition of the society on the 16th and i7th of June next. The tollowimg named ladies were ap- pointed to solicit co-operation in their respective towns, and were requested to meet at tne fair grounds on Wednesday, the 23th ins &t eleven O'o,0ck A. M.i—Norta Hemystead, a rederck Interior of the | Wikeis and Mrs, K. B. Thorne; Oyster Bay, Mis. B. A. Hopkins ’ Undernil, ; Fiusoimy, Mins Aunie Nr 138 HaURAL Baker; Jemaica, Mrs. cnarles Welling aud Mrs, George | amsou Smita: Mempstead, % Heury Be Price, urs, Georg: W. Bergen and Mrs, isaac 5 Wulets; Newtown, Mrs. Uiuries D. Levericn and Mrs. Mody; New York, Mrs, Thomas teveboru and Mrs. Eoward H. Cari. The jaates wil serve re- {resoments—sucn as sanawiche: strawoerries, cake, dc. nt the exuibitivn is In progress. coflee, ie cream, large hall, woule | on impor to any amount Ww THE BEECHER TRIAL OPENING OF THE SIXTEENTH WEEK .OF THE TRIAL—MBE, FULLERION'S HEALTH. Aur, Fullerton being reported as recovered from Dis illness, it may confidently be expected that the proceedings in the great.trial will be resumed to-day. We shall again have the great defendant on the rack of cross-examination, and our readers Will no doubr follow the imtellectual contest be- tween the learned couusel and his witness with an interest seldom manifested in the literature of la courts, Of course Mr. Beecner, having denied so much in his direct examinauon, will continue to forget many things that ho might be expected to remember, and he wiil probably resume his monosyijabic responses to the searcting inquiries of nis remorseless examiner. To-day is tue opening of the sixteenth week, and yet we are told that Mr, Beecher will not leave the witness chair until the end of tne week. The ordeal through which she pastor of Piymouth is passiug Is one toat iew Meo could suscdla with all ther facuities unim- paired, Mr, Bvecner, however, seems tv hold bis Mental and physical streogen in tueir old-time vigor. That he nas prepared and nerved him- sell for the task is easily seen. But toe remark he made to a iriend yesterday | that “the man whois caugnt in @ thunder snower most expect to yet wet,” reveals the polosopu- ical taro of his mind betver than any late urver- ance on iS part, Lhe remuimader ol his cross- eXamination Iorms 1M its result and scope the pivotal point in the legal drama now being per- formed to lull and interested houses. How will Mr. Beecher sustain his part is a question thatcan ony ve answered wheu he leaves the witness chair, JUDGE FULLERTON’S HEALTH. NEWBURG, April 18, 1875, Ex-Judge William Fullerton, the “great Ame! ican cross-examiner,”’ 18 still at his summer re: | dence in Grand street, in this city. His vealth has considerably improved since he obtained leave of absence from his wearisome duties iu the Beecher trial, but he has not entirely recovered. He Will probably be able to resume pis work in the court rou to-morrow. His malady 1s an affection O1 (he digestive Orguns, Wulcb 18 uggravatea by the Impure air of the courtrvow aud causes the Vertigo and other brain disturbances 01 which he complaius. In @ conversat.on yesterday aiter- noon, Judge falierton said that the prosecution in the case Would bot Object Lo the culling Of Mrs, ‘Tilton as a witness jor the uelence, BROOKLYN'S STI. VINCENT’S HOME FOR BOYS. LAYING THE FOUNDATION TO BECOME GOOD CITIZENS. The annual report of one of the many excellent Institutions in waich tue City of Cnureves abounds, St. Vincen’s Home tor Boys, has just been issued by the Board ol Directors. The butiding is located | in Poplar street, convenient to the Fulton Jerry, and, therefore, most admirably situated in point of accommouation for the newsbuys and bvot- blacks who enjoy its shelter and comiort, The Home contains @ chapel sufficient to seat 150 boys; @ gymnasiam, scovolroom, two dorwit- ories, with Mity beds in eacn; washrooms, &c, Near- ly every bed is occupied, aud every encouragement that coniorms to moral and inuocent pleasure is heid out to the street juveniles, who through ne- tural deprivation or newlect are thrown upon tne coid and corrupting inQuences of tne city at an age When the twig may ve vent for good or evil to tueimselves aod society, Co come and remain there. For five eveuiugs each week scnooi is tuaght o @ compet-n¢ teacuer, trom Novemver 1 til tne last oi June. in conjunction witu tue scacol there is a dramatio cluv, wuicb 1s 4 fine seurce of | harmless recreatiun fur the littie felows, some of woom may sion to loos to tneir laurels, Jor.bi—“Altaough tue Howe is not sectarian, a3 | ‘Toe report secs yet cum el older heads in the proles- | qi Bo religieus disquiiufcauon recoguized by which ap applicagt may ve deoled samission | to 18 venellis (thus claiming @ common | brothernovd and benefiting all alike, wita- our Gaistinction Of Creed), yet tere is Do fact tual bi ard ot Directors takes greater gra ifiva- | tion In img than, teat Guring wwe past two | years (ity boys made tueir Ost communion. lo the same time 503 boys ap roactied tae sacra- meats, uud We are bap, y iM saying that a ougver o; Luese gv Monthly. @ Menton tuese facts to SvOW Cuat these buys are laying the fouudatioa to become useial ciuzeus aud Worthy memuers of | society.” | An iuea of the work can be formed when it is stated tuac 23,415 lodgings hav been jurnis! | and 64,116 meals supplied. The receipts from ail sources during the year Li amounied to bat $6456, Whica, though smali, Was ao increase us compared with the precediog year, wneu they | Were $6,087 42. ‘Lhe chief source oi revenue 18 derived trom the ten per cent coutribu- tivus of the comlerences of the St Vin- cent de Paul societies attached to tie several cuurches, Tue amount expeuded on sala- ries lor the past year 18 $879% Tov debt due on the souse Is $4,574, The officers are as follows:— Presivent, Rignt Rev. Jonu Luugniia, D, D.; Vice deuts, Bernard Bogan, Kovert Myban; Re- Beroura cor Mar Curran; Spiritual Direc The reports were distriouted among ihe c ngre- gations in attendance at tbe Catholic churcues yesterday. SUDDEN DEATHS. Jonn E. Pool, aged jorty-iour, residing at 128th street and Third avenue, died about nine o'clock last night from a wound inflicted by @ smali pen- knile in the cali of bis leg while cutting some woodbrush at Florence's Hote: on the l0ta of tuis munti. A boy named Shirah Miller, about nine years of age, jel on tue corner of Forty-sixth streee and bieventh avenue, about eignt o’c.ock last Bight, aud died almost immeciately. The vody was Tied by the revidence of Lis parents, No, 029 West Forty sixth streei, by an officer of tne tweniy- second precinct, snd the Corouer was notified. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. | Margaret McOusher, aged forty, attempted sui- cide last nignt by taking @ quantity of Paris eeu, She was found suffering irom its effects | yy an officer oi the Fourteenta precinct, and was seut to Bellevue Hospital | TREASURY DECISIONS. WASHINGTON, April 18, 1875. ‘The following are decisions of the Treasury De- partment for tne month of February :— | Canadian stone is dutiable, though mm) coutract tor we use o the Unived states. duty is $1 50 per ton, whe her dressed or und: , tue secretary of ihe treasury ts anthorized to cause yachcs empioved exciusively a> pleasure vessels and de- Signed as models of naval architecture, to be licensed on terms Which Will authorize them to proceed by sea to foreigu ports be may also commission licensed yacuts Delonging to rexularly orwauized and incorporated yacit clubs, (0 ideuialy them and their owners. ANgTAVINES ON iron, or engraved cy.inders for yw! | Sotton yoods, ure dutiable as manuiactar of iron a thirty-five per cent, and shee yekius with the Wool ou at the rate of thirvy Der cent ad valorem. ‘The extract ot sumac 18 not to be ciassified as extract | of dyewoud. Invoices are to be made out in the currency of the | coun.ry whence the importation is made. ihe department holds that aazarine in the form ofa | liquid of semit-ciuid extract, or preparation derived from coal tar, 18 properly chargeable with ducy at twenty per cen. ad Yalorem as @ manuiactured article not spectaily Frovied tor. eB and smali brass horns are properly Classitied as toys. The act npproved Favruary 8 last applies to wines in warehouse. Un other merchandise aiected, only to goods impo. ted trom and alter the date of the passage of the act. “ ‘Composition metal leat is not classified as metal tim- nies burges are to be documented. Bocokenties not snwusee catmot be withdrawn for transportation or exportation. Hive per cent for breacage is not allowed on efferveso- ing wes in warehouse. The eroands on which this osition i& takeD are iuatthe five per o cited et of February 8, 1875, being an a lowance in iteu kage, Is thefetore analjgous to aliwance for damages from other causes. Chrorate ot wal wae should De assessed at the rate of twenty per cent ad valorem. Decalcomaine ornaments are classed as manufactures ot paper. SILVER COIN AND DUTIES. The following decision re to What extents it 1s receival ‘Treasury Derdnrwenr, Fed. 6, 1875. sim—Your letter of the 31 inst. imquiring to what ex- tent silver coins of the United States are receivaole in fayment of duces, aud {f avy different congderation is ty be given to stiver coins dated prior to Ino, has been received, In reply, you are imormed that the silver dolars of the United sta her (han (hose known as “trade dollars,” wil be received for payment of dur ever. The (ase ant silver coins of the United erates of less cet 1 be feceived in payment ot duties on under ihe rate of tollows: Zi t—When the otal amount of duties in any one en- try cannot be paid entirely in gold coin oF silver dolar because Involving @ tract i part of ome doliar, sai traci. it io Unied states sliver coins | ot | hominarion than one Gotiar, the only hmicauon to this rule oejug teat created by the eleventh section | or (ve act of Maren 3, 185, which limits the smotut which may be received of the three-cent silver cous to | thirty cents and an f. | ‘Serond—When the otal amount of duties pa | 83 than $5, the total any one entr nor part in niver doliats of coins of ine U ay be pard ii as denomination the bree cent silver cuins Above Moted. As the iurther of «he stiver collars atid three-cent pieces been protuwited by the Coimage act of 18/3, no Feference appears to be made to ihem in the Kevised Sia.tiies; but as these coins will doubtless remain for some thue, more or less, In cit. culation, the iaw and reguiations herctorwre exis ug co. vraing heir vaide, and for what purpose amt in | what amount receivabie ior the government dues wil be continued In eff be matter of dates of issue there saoubt be no ation in siiver coivage. Resprcttaiy, CHAS. F | . CONAN L, Acting Secretary. SURYEYOR OF CUSTOMS, St. |ouls, Mo, | and was manaoed vy the , With the limitation as to | | @ud irom tue maj 7 NEW YORK CITY. Stephen Sebenbdaum iell on tne ice in front the Astor House on the 8th uit. and fractured bie iT a Ld died yesterday at Beilevue Hospital of pyem Terence Fay, of No, 39 East Forty-first street, accidentally ‘ell down stairs yesterday morning sustaining severe injuries on tne head. He was removed to Bellevue Hospital, Maria Vaihart, aged sixty-three years, fell out of the fourth -tory window of her residence, No. Twenty-tnird street, yesterday murning and sustained a iracture 0! the skull. Mary Ano Davis, who was struck on the head with a stone by William Lyon on the the 11th inst, at tne corner of Seven eenth street and avent A, died at Bellevue Hospital, Saturday nigoy Jonn Hunter, of Newark, N. J., was found om West street early yesterday morning suffering from a severe cut in the foretiead, infilcted bysome unknown parties. He was sent to Bellevue Hos pital. Jonn Carey, residing at No. 609 Greenwich street, accidentally feli from the track of the Ele vated Railroad, at the corner of Gansevoort street and Ninth avenue, vreaking nis ght wrist He was taken Lo Bellevue Hospital. A lecture willbe delivered this evening im the Geographical Rooms, Cooper Union, before the New York Society of Practical Engineering, by D. D. Wiliamson, M. he subject of tae lec ture will be “The Truth About Steam ploughing.” Early yesterday murning an officer of the Four. teenth precinct found William Brogan, aged forty years, intoxicated, at the corner of Spring and Elizabeth streets, suffering from a severe wound on the hana, which tad been inflicted by some per. gon unknown, He was sent to Bellevue Hospital Walter Skiff, living at No. 518 West Filty-second street, was stabbed tn the left arm by some un known person at the corner of Hudson and Charl ton streets shortly alter midnight on Saturday, being inioxicated ac the time. He was cared 108 o Ma | at tue Sixteenth precinct station house, While Freaerick Harvie, of Hudson City, N. J, was walking vn Green wica atreet, near Cortlandt, yesterday morning, Charles P, Schaad, alias George Smith, snatched nis watch and chain and ran away with toem. He was pursued by an otiicer of the Twenty-seventh precinct and w bended with the stolen property in his posse: He was locked up. BROOKLYN. About midnignt of Saturday Officer Berschaft heard cries of murder proceeding from the tené+ ment No. 314 Devoe street, Williamsburg, Forcing his way in he found Philip Steinmerz, & man of thirty years, bratally oeating an old «an named Joseph Gambocn. Mrs. Gambocn, a young woman, and wife of the man assauired, begged the officer to separate them, woicn he did, arresting Stetmte metz jor the assault, The trouble arose from the fact that tae three occupied tae same couch, LONG ISLAND. A large hotel for the accommodation of summer boarders is now being cons'ructed at Bellport, the line of the Soutnern Railroad, Pan A number of cases of varioloid and one fatal case of smallpox h4ve occurred in Gen Cove, and the autnorities have estad.ished a hospital for the Varioioid patients, There ta taik of establishing a propeller freighe line across the Sound between Huntington and Norwalk, Cona., to enable the farmers of the north side more readily to dispose of sneir prod- uce. Now that the ice ts cleared ‘rom the Great South Bay many of the planters tind that the oysters Jert on the beds during the winter are about halt Od tue 108s Will prove quit® heavy in come sequeace. Mr, Marzo E, Smith, of Islip, launched from his yard, on Saturday, the sloop Mary Alice, 87 feet Keel, 15 feet beam and 434 feet bold, and ne ts now | butiding @sluop yacht lor @ Mr. Willougaoy, of Pailadeipuia, The summer residence (unoccupied) of Mn Boerman Jonnson, in che westera part of the vil lage of Islip, was entered by burglars on Saturaay nigot and ransacked from cellar to gnrret. ry little O! value appears to have oeen carried away, but many things were broken and otnerwise Im Jured io # spirit of Mace or Gestructiveness, The remains of a man were found ina small creek bear Fleet’s meadows, at Jamaica South, yesterday morning. ‘ihe bones were almost en- tirely denuded of flesh, showing that imey ha@ been in the Water jor a coasiderable time, The remains are believed to be those of Aaron Far- may, of Springfield, who was knocked overvoard irom Dts boat in Jamaica Bay, in August last, by the booin vitting hin. » The arrangemeit of the asparagus growers with the Long Island Railroad Company was den per- fected, and a special pignt train Will be started on the 4tn of M to contloue during tue asparagus nd berry season. The irain will leave Locust ‘ailey at 'wenty minutes to nine P. M. eaca day, and arrive in New )ork at hali-past two tne ob lowing moraing. ‘The rate of ireight for asparagws Will be oue aud One-eignth cent per ouacn. The three-masted schooner Lizzie Yates wag launched from the yard 0: Bishop & Rowland, at Greenport, ou Wednesday aiternoon, Her dimen- sions are 110 leet keel, 118 1 over all, 31 feet beam and 8 ieet hold, with @ tonnage of 199 98 100, Cus om House measurement. Sie 1s owned oy J. B. Ward & Co., wita otvers, o New “York, and Will be commanded by Cavtain W. B. Pnalit, During the severe snow s'o m of Tuesaay last Captain Wiltam Pearsall, of the schooner Wilitam P. Bozgs, of Staten Island, while adjusting some o| the rigging, Was washed overboard off Lloyd's Neck. being neavily clad—having on three coats and a heavy pair o( raver boots—bhe sank 19m diately aod was lost. Toe schoouer was aaioaue apiain and & nan ava boy, ‘ihe two latter succeeded ia reach the shore in an almust iruzem conuition, am the schooner now lies on Livyd’s Neck with several of her pranks started. The Captain's body has nos been recuvered, STATEN ISLAND. The Rev. Father Lewis, of St. Mary's, Clifton, te @t present in Rome. and bas had an interview with tae Pope. General Gibson, in command of Fort Wadsworth, 1s now in Washington. It is expected that wors on the fortifications will be commenced on hit revarn, The Assessors of the village of Edgewater bave conc. uded tueir assessments in a manner satisiag tory to all coucerned, and the books will be deliv. ered to the trustees im the beginning of next week. Juage Barnard has denied the motion of the Trusvees of Edgewater to confirm the report of ommissioners of Assessment for the Centre This virtuaily aunuls the proceed ings taken to open that sireet to Cliton. There seems to be some duudt among the colle tors of the various towns of Richmond county as to whether the time for the collection of the State, couuty and town taxes bas been extended to tae Bist oO: May ur to the last of the present moath, HOMICIDE IN STAMFORD, CONN. STAMFORD, April 18, 1875, A murder was committed here about five o’clook this aiteraoon, the aetauils of whica aré as fol- low: The persou who committed tne deed is young man about twenty-three years ola, named Arthur Slater, and bis victim a German, who goee by tne name of Jacob. Slater had been drinking with two or three young men, and a sum of money had been intrusted to niscare by @ iriend. OF going to the stabie to get bis horse he showed the money to the German. who, in a joking way, eatd “snut the door «nd 1 wii make things rigat! Slater immediately drew ots pistol, and, fours ing it besore Jacob, said “1 WILL SHOOT You,’? The bail entered Jacob’s severiug an artery. He rushed to ti ana, jauing down, expired inside Of Ove minutes, ‘This is the frst murcer that nas been Known here ine ieeling bere Is that the shoot ccidevta!. Slater gave himseil up 10 the proper autuorities. . GARIBALDI ON THE GERMAN CHURCH : STRUGGLE, In reply to a recent anti-Papal manifesto of Karl Bund, toat gentieman received the foliowing lewer from Gartoaidi:— and firea. Rome, March 28, 1875, My Dear FRrrenp—I believe there is not in all the world a country (ess really Carnole ‘hao Italy, Goveromeat aod tse Upper Classes alfec) @ Varn one devotion Whica they du wot feel, As to the mass vi tae people, they do not celeve ia Cauthol 1ist, ana 10 (he Catnoll>s cuurches one Onty sees bigeted oO. Wome fo obeaia ‘fom government tue Chamver & deoree for getting rid of th pucy is for Lae onment die ficuit inveed, Nevertievess, you may ve pertedts couvV.need CnAt ue great majority of tHe Iattul Na ion SyMvatnizes with Germany in ie ener. getic War agatast Jesuiism in aii its orms, | Byer yours, G. GAKIBALUL, Kakt Buty, London,