The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1876, Page 6

THE STATE CAPITAL. The Mayor of Brooklyn and the Charity Commissioners. MORE CROTON WATER WANTED. Playing the Farce of the Lobby Investigation. MODIFYING THE FEMALE WAITER BILL, ALbayy, Feb, Tl, 1876. Tho Kings county delegation bad avery pretty little. fight all to themselves to-day in the Assembly o¥er the bill introduced two woeks ago giving the Mayor of Brooklyn power to appoint twelve persons, residents of that city, Commissioners of Charities and Correction in placo of the Commissioners now in office. The bill was referred, by request of a republican member from Kings county, to the Judiciary Committee, on the ground that there were some doubts as to its constita- tonality which the committee might be able to re- move, The democratic members from the county con- tend that they were led to believe that after the Judi- ciary Committee should have decided these doubts they end their fends who were opposed te the bill would be notified when ‘they could be heard in opposition to it Be this as it may, the bill was reported favorably this morning, and when the question came up on the house agreeing with the report, McGroarty, democrat, moved to have the bill sent to the Committee on Cities, so that a hear- ing could be had upon it. This motion acted like an electric shock on Worth, who is the father of the | bill, and be was on his feet in an instant and launched out into a speech, in which he claimed that the motion was not made in good faith, and that there had beon ample opportunity for the minority from Kings county or for any one else who did not relish the bill to go before the Judiciary Committee and yen- tilate their views Then Talmage and Bradley took a hand in tho fight, and McGroarty got in a sledgohammer blow at Strahqn, — who, he stated, had threatened to tave a correspondent of a Brooklyn paper deprived of the privileges of the floor if he did not retarn to him a copy of the bill he had mado from tho original, which tho clerk of the committee had allowed him to look over. Mr. Mo- Groarty insinuated that Mr. Strahan did this so that the people in Brooklyn would not be able to see for themselves just what the bil was before it was rushed into the House, Strahan defended himself spiritedly from this chargo by saying that, as chairman of the committee, he was responsible for all bills sent to his committee, and had demanded that the copy made of the Dill should be returned to bim. What rgbt he bad to demand any such thing he did not say, bat certain it is that the correspondent was foolish enough to accede to it, An original bill and a copy of it are two different things However, Mr. Strahan acknowledged that aitor ho had asserted his dignity he had freely given a copy of the bill for publication. The discussion about tho matter was ended finally by Mr. McGroarty’s motion being lost by a vote of 61 nays to 51 yeas, MORE CROTON WATER, Another effort is to be made this year to give New York city increased means for an additional supply of Croton water, To-day Mr. Fish introduced an mport. ant bill to this effect, which he did, he said, at the re- quest of Mayor Wickham. It amends the law of 1875, to that the limitations of the Croton water act of 1870, °72, °74, shall be extended for eighteen months, and the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city, by their Comptrolier, are authorized and directed to raiso by law such sum of money as the Commissioner. of Public Works shall certify to be necessary to mect and defray the expenses of the material purchased or to be purchased and of the work doneorto be done and to pay for all land which bas been or shall hereafter be acquired undor the authority of the first section ofthe act by the creation of a public fund or stock to be called the “‘Additiowjal New Croton Aqueduct stock of the city of New York,” which shall bear interest not exceeding woven per cent, to be redeemable at a fixed period not exceeding thirty years. The Aldermen are authorized by the bill, and directed to cause to be raised from time to time by tax upon the estates, real and personal, subject to taxation in, the city and county of New York, such sums of money as may be required to pay the interest on the bonds and to re deom them at maturity. The Commissioner of Public Works is authorizedte use so much of the material ofthe present gate houses and waste weir, which are directed to be romoved by the terms of the Dill, as he desires in Dullding the new gate houses and waste weir and in making the connection with the aqueduct as provided for inthe act. The Commissioner is also empowered either to contract by public or private letting for the performance of the whole or any part of the work au- thorized by the bill, or he may have the work done by days’ work, and may purchase the necessary materials ior the gate houses and ‘waste weir by private purchase or otherwise, as shall scem best to the Commissioner and most advantageous to the city. The Commissioner is directed to complete the work within two years irom the passage of the act. HANSON IS AS HANSON DOKS. 5 vers the f Fulton and The cry of “strike” that was raised second resolution offered by Mr. Hanson, 0 Hamilton, relative to Delaware and Hudson Canal Company’s extortionate prices for trans- porting coal, does not seem to have dis- turbed = him in tho least. The first resolution which he offered about two weeks ago charg- ing “gross miswanagement” by the directors of the company, he frankly confessed a few days after, it will be remembered, was offered by him to oblige a’ person who claimed to be a director of the road, and who turned out to be one of the lobby fraternity. This resolution came like an evil spirit to bother him again to-day, for when he called ap hie coal resolution the Deputy Clerk by mistake took up the former and read the frst two lines before he discovered bis mistake. ‘That is not the one—it ts the other ono,” exclaimed Hanson. The clerk's blunder and Hangon’s remark brought down the house, and for @ while there was a general iaugh all round. In advocating the passage of the coal resolution Hansen said that the company charged “$2 per ton in some instances to carry coal a distance of ten miles He made other telling points against the extortions of the company. The resolution waa heartily supported by Mr, Sher- man, who said if the allegations were true the Legisia. ture should seeto it, But the company was made to understand tfut there were rights other than those belonging to corporations which corporations were bound to respect. Talmage, of Brooklyn, said that coal was obtained at the mines for $2 50a ton and yet people in New York bad to pay $6 25 per ton for it evon before it left the coal boats. Gere, of Toga, added his testimony to that of the others that the company, according to the statements of men of trath and standing in bis district, did exact extortion- ave rates for carrying coal Their motto, ho said, was that of the robber barons in the Middle Ages—*‘might makes right” The resolu- tion, after some little debate, was, on motion of Mr. Sloan, referred to the Commitice on Railroads, Mr. Hanson consenting, they to take into consideration whether the facts in the case justified an investigation. TWHED'S HSCAPE. The Governor, in the opinion of some of the logiela- tors here, ought to have made some arrangements by this time to secure Tweed, or, at least, ought to have done something to punish ‘those through whose care. | leasneas he was allowed to escape, Mr. Peabody, being one of those anxious ones, to-day im the Assembly of- fered the following :— the 4th day of December, 1875, prisoner in the cnstody of the order of the Supreme wear andes oe prrvigions of, tee Te Governor is ‘char Pei oe duty of "removing im rach a ‘office nce or connivance such an cee, has'oceurrea’ it shar iuvestigasion such fects are de- ernor be requested, tf not 1: Tine ‘petite Tovereat, to corsintinicate. to this information ern: OF sear eekig ond together rs ‘other corre. Ferien arene what me w ‘pecure the recapture of sad ay concerning the eaid ose With complete copies. 0 lay and counsy of N ow if Save boek taken DISCHARGE OP BANERUPTS. ‘The bill Mr. Engiebart has introduced in the Assem- | as an amendment to the in Bankrupwy of 1875 provides that the committee ma direct an ent to be made the cle ig FA a ie, Joma S & person the court wberein and the date whon ‘ihe’ for adjodication was filed, There: the of the estate acquired by the discharged heey after the date of the Gling of his petition tor adjudication in shall vo ree and discharged from the Lea | Judgment. fo TNR FEMALE WAITER BILL. the Dall amendalory of iho law of 1802, whi iD never Was one, except to the extent cf having received P| as an infant the rito of baptism in that Church, upon or county shall make the entry, and ai real | institutions ag a Protestant and amid Protestant sur- Assembly Judiciary Committee have oe Lee ve would natura’ | in walking up and down State street occasionally. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1876.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. probibfts the sale of Nquor in apy place where ca) exhibitions are gyen, with a the employment of les to furmeh es gad sl places; they can, therefore, under the bill thus amend ed, be employed ‘ip any other capacity, ‘THE “DAILY 7" 08, Mr, Straban, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, deutes that he pocketed the ‘les amendment to the original Datly Register bill, which was sent to New York with the bill. He says, on the contrary, that he incorporated the Ruggles amendment in the substitute for the original bill Li ago to the House yesterday, precisely as Mr, Ruggles wanted it By and by tne real history of the influences that are being brought to bear all around, among the Assemblymen, to keep the calen- dar job under the control of the Daily Kegister people wiilcome to hght. A LOBBY INVESTIGATION. ‘That lobby investigation does not seem to amount to much yet. ‘The Judiciary Committee have bad elab- orate Subpo*nas printed, and {t is said one of them has Deen actually served upon a lobbyist The investiga- | tion ts to be carried on by a sub-committee, composed of Strahan and two otuers whose names have not ,been announced. The imvestigauon is to be held in secret, so secret, in ~ fact, that the members of tbe Judiciary Committee who are not on the sub-commuttee will not be allowed to ‘attend the sub-committee’s sessions, All thi: done, it insaid, with a view of not allowing one lobbyist to know what another testified to before all who are wanted are examined, as if lobbyists had any se- crete from one another, The only way for the committee to investigate the lobby t# to begin at the deginning with the “big bugs,” and not confine their attention to the insignificant fellows who only do the hegre | of others, aces d much as a day laborer works for his foreman. jut we all know how the great Erie Investigating Committee of 1872 only elicited one statement of importance, and that under vath came from Barber himself, which was that he had never paid a dollar for a member to yote and that a certain few thousand dollars traced to him were paid to htm for the xervice he rendered somebody a the opinion of everybody the present investigation will be a ridiculous farce, and making so much mystery about it only makes the thing look all the more absurd. LEGISLATIVE. NOTES. It was so dark in the Assembly chamber at noon to- day that the gas had to be lit, [t was a superiiuity, as. the Kings county delegation were debating their Charity bill at the time. George West introduced a bill to-day to allow women to vote, West is the Adonis of the House. Tho women suffragists, who have been besieging him for a week, will have a torchlight procession at Ballston at the close of the session. A BLUNDER OF DEMOCRATIC SENATORS, The resolutions adopted yesterday in reference to the question of the Canal Auditorship expressed the sonse of the republican element of the Senate in condemna tion of the Governor’s course in refusing to withdraw the nomination of Schuyler and send in another name. In the controversy over this matter. the democrats, aggrieved at the indignity, were loud in’ expressing their disapprobation of the language of the original resolution, which plainly called on the Governor to say what be intended todo about the matter, Woodin modified his resola- t#n—in fact offered a substitute making no request upon his Excellency for information and uo direction that the resolutious should be transmitted to him. The democrats now feel that they havo been caught in a trap, or at least tho Governor has, through the lack of foresight on the part of his supporters. Had they permitted the original resolution to stand the Governor would have been furnished exactly what he wanted—the op- portunity of sending in a message in reply. Now this is denied bin, -Mr. Bradley, democrat, stood up this morning and moved that the resolutions adopted by the Senate yes- terday be addressed and transmitred ‘to tne Governor, ‘This, he said, was proper, in order that the Govern¢ might bave an opportunity either of sending in another nomination to the Senate or of communicating his reasons for withholding such nomination. Mr. Rogers rephed that it was buta few days since that the minority of the Senate had shown a proper sensitiveness when the proposition was made to address the Governor. The question had been disposed of by amicable arrangement, The resolutions passed yester- day did not instract the Governor; did not ask his opinion. They simply expressed the judgment of the Senate, He thoaght ihat the present anxiety of the Senator from the Twenty-soventh (Mr, Bradiey) was, therefore, misplaced. Mr. Bradley asked what practical effect the resolu- tious would bavo if not sent to the Governor. Mr. Rogers rephed that it was perfectly proper for the Senate to give expression to its opinion on so grave @ situation as that presented in the matter of the Audi- torship. Mr. Bradley—Does the Senator from the Thirty-first object to having the resolutions sent to the Governor? Mr. Rogers—I have no objection to the Governor acquainting himself with the resolutions, and, doubt- less, he has already done so, It may also be thata week in advance of the passage of the resolutions he had prepared a message on the question of the Auditor. ship, which he would be glad to have an «Opportunity of presenting to the Seu ate, He contended, however, that tho Senate was not called upon to formally cotmmunicate the resolu- tons in question to the Governor. He, therefore, moved to lay the motion on the table and it was carried. Five or six republican Senators were absent, and the democrats tried by two successive attempts to get Mr. Bradley’s motion through and get the Gov- ernor’s reply, which was already drawn up, sent in before adjournmeut, Senator Doolittle, ob- serving the critical situation of affairs, at once made a motion to adjourn, which was carried by a majority of two votes, to the disappointment of the democrats and the still greater disappointment of the Governor. MORRISSKY ON LOCAL ASSESSMENTS, In Committee of the Whole Senator Morrissey ex- phined the provisions of his bill relative to the pay- mentofassessments in New York city for local im- provements, He said it was simply a granting of grace to delinquent taxpayers by extending the time wherein to pay their arrears of assessments, ami, by dividing the sum due from each to the city into three equal insta ments payable cach year foratermn of three years, with eight in place of twelve per cent, make it as eusy as possible on the property holder, while insuring pay- ment to the city treasury. ‘The Senate being without a two-thirds representation to-day no bills were passed, and the only bill intro- duced was one by Hamilton Harris, appropriating $75,000 to improve the navigation of the Hudson, be- tween Troy and Coxsackie, Alfred Mosher, Jesse Buel, W. i Morton and J. H. Curtiss bemmg named as Com- missioners, LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE. THE IMPEACHMENT OF KELLOGG LOOKED FOR— PREPARING FOR ACTION—STATE OFFICIALS IMPLICATED BY THB INVESTIGATING CoM- MITTEE, New Onuxans, Feb, 11, 1878 The city was placed under unusual excitement to- day, owing to the presence of a large extra force of uni- formed and ununiformed policemen in and around the State House. Tne House remained in session until half-past six o'clock P. M., and it was not until the ad- journment of that body that the Senate and Kellogg himself resolved to adjourn also, The scare, of course, was based on the impeachment probability. It is even asserted, on the authority of a colored mem- ber, that tho United States military forces were also “in session’? during tho entire day; they having been notified by Kellogg of his apprehensions The republicans are laboring under the behef that the impeachment business will be eprung at any moment; but careful inquiry shows that the democrats and conservatives, having determined te succeed, they will act only when they may bring articles of impeachment of a character that will be 50 positive that not even the lukewarm amembers will be ‘enabled to exercise thelr weakness, In conversation with a very intelligent member of the House your correspondent discovered that the democrats were legislating with great system and tact, much more than they have shown in the past, and that they propose to eschew everything politi- cal in their appreciation of the acts of Kellogg, or that would, under the broadest construction, render them ‘liable to the charge of violating the Wheeler adjustment. The charges under which Kellogg ay be imponched, will be based on the report various investigating committees ro- garding the sll use of State moneys, and in which the Lieutenant Governor, the president of one of our leading national banks and a large grain dealer are said to beseriously implicated. The protracted session ot the House to-day was, to all appearances, due to the consideration of the Civil Reform bill containing 120 sections. Immediately be ge the adjournment of the House to-night, Mumford, the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, resigned and Hugh J. Campbell, Major General of Militia, was elected to Mil his place. Antoine White eulogizing Mumford took occasion to Say that he would nevertheless be in attendance every day to lend hie assistance to the Senate. This unex- pected action of the Senate is considered as a throat by the democrats. BLAINE’S RELIGION. THE NEW TEST. ‘To rhe Epiton ov roe Henatp:— The Washington correspondent of the HeraLp was yesterday guilty of repeating the story, which has re- cently obtained such currency throughout the whole jand, that ex-Speaker Blaine was brought up in the Catholic Charch, but atterward fell away from that ro- ligion, and, in the language of his political adversaries, ts chargeable with the infamy that attaches to religious apostacy, with the view to his own personal advances ment Permit me to contradict in the Henau these slanderous accusations. As an intimate friend of members of his family, as one who can speak with authority, Iam enabled to deny as utterly unfounded the various stories in circulation wo the affect that Mr. Blaine was ‘‘bred a Catholic himself,” or ‘brought up {n that Charch,” or ‘trained to & Catholic, teaching.” The fact is that while the parents and brothers and sisters of Mr. Biatae were and are Catholics he bimseif nd a his early edacation and training were ail in Prote: roundin| A man’s religion {n this freo land is his.own basi- ness. It may be one thing to accuse » man of Cath- oheiem, bat quite another thing tw seek to biur his personal character with the infamy which apostasy imply, Benpecitally, Saw Youa Fem LU. doid theatri- provision eyes y THE BROADWAY FIRE. SCENE AT THE RUINS YESTERDAY—THE FUNERAL OF THE DEAD FIREMEN. The scene at the ruins of the Broadway fire yester- day was a busy one. All day long @ small army of laborers carried on the work of salvage, and amid the ruins could be seen, in different places, heaps of dry goods still smoking. The different safe companies were represented by large trucks and gangs of men, dragging from the bricks and mortar the buried safes. Daring the day six in all were taken out, and as a rule their contents were found preserved, A small one, be- longing to William Smith & Co., was dug out and found worthless, all its contents having been consumed, It was afterward ascertained that one of the employés of the firm, on tho night of the tire, opened it in the en- deavor to save Its contents, but was driven from the spot by the approach of the flames before he could save anything or again lock it up. The quantity of salvage, in the opinion of exports, will be very small, probcbly not exceeding tn goods more than $5,000. From morning till night thousands of spectators Mned Broadway, curiously watching the workmen, and*| tho police had all they could do to keep the thorough- fare open for travel, The firms burned out have posted temporary signs on the telegraph posts along the ruins giving the location of their new places of business. 1* is thought that four or five days will elapse before the burned place is cleared sufficiently to admit of begin- ning the work of rebutlding. Fire Marshal Sheldon is still busy at his work of in- Chambers” of the country, and after the by Holland of the code Ni n in 1811, the Or- ‘pnans’ Chambers ceased functions, the property. their possession came under the juriedis > r ibe Orphans’ Chambers was ordared, by royal deoree was order and a settlement fixed at six months’ time thereafter, This statute remained in force until 1852, when tho Dutch Parliament the statute of limitations, by which law all unclaimed inheritances irrevocably es- cheated, after a lapse of five years, to the State. This is the irit of the law In a nutshell. 7 all those old Dutch claims, so much noised about in the United States, passed forever into the pos- session of the Dutch erences, and, adds Mr. Mueller, “I trust that eu; heirs of Brandt, Metzger, Webber, Leitner and others will make a note of the foregoing and forever discard all dreams of sud- denty becoming millionnaires, They are bunting mere phantoms,’ OBITUARY. ACTOR AND THEATRICAL MAN- AGER. Thomas Barry, the well known theatrical manager and actor, died at his residence, in Boston, Mass, about five o’clock on Friday morning, the 11th inst, of an attack of paratysis, from which he had been a help- "less sufferer for several years The day previous he was apparently in his usual condition, and at three o’clock on Fnday morning was observed by his son, who occupied the same room, to be asleep. Upon next noticing him, two hours later, he was found to be dead. From appearances he must have died calmly and peacefully, asa man would who had spun ont the thread of Ite to its full tension. THOMAS BARRY, vestigating the origin of the fire aud states that in » a fow days be will be able to submit his complete re- port to the Board of Fire Commissioners, Investiga- tion thos far shows that the rapid spreaa of the flamcs was due to ventilation afforded by the elevator sage in the rear of No, 444 Broadway, which fanned the element, The following are additional insurances on the stock of Guiterman Brothers, No, 454 Broadwa; Adriatic. Merchants’. + $5,000 tna. N. York Equitable. 2,500 Arctic. x Providence, Wash- Citizens’, Missouri, 5,000 ington LL SR ea +++ 6,000 Queen's, 15,000 Commercial Union, Royal. 7,500 0,000 Stuyvesant . 5.000 Union Mutual. 7,500 2,500 Westchester, 000 Gerard. + 2,500 The following are the additional insurances of John & Haulin, stationer, No. 440 Broadway :—* Citizens’, Newark... $4,000 New Jersey Fire... $5,000 German American... 2,000 ‘THE INQUEST, ‘The day after the fire Coroner Woltman proceeded to the Eighth precinct station house, where the dead bodies of the brave firemen still lay, aud empanelled as a jury:—E. M. Blum, of No, 023 Broadway; 0. L. Syplin, of No. 593 Broadway; H. E. Merriam, of No. 577 Broadway; E, 0, Abbott,’ of No. 554 Broadway; J. V. Fuller, of No, 550 Broadway; G. Shelthar, of No. 548 Broadway; J. H. Brown, of Na 542 Broadway; J.B. Fisher, of No, 640 Broadway; B, Westerman, of No. 524 Broaaway; L. F. Georger, of Nos, 502 and 504 Broadway, and F, ‘M. Smith, ot Nos 408 and 400 Broad- way. After viewing the corpses the Coroner permitted the jury to retire. The inquest is to be held next week, but'tho day is not yet fixed upon. Richard Burke, aged thirty-five, of No, 31 Willett steeet, one of the firemen who were go severely !n- jured at the great fire on Broadway Jast Tuesday, was 80 il! last evening that he had to be transferred in the ambulance to Bolievue Hospital. FIRKMEN’S PUNERAL, The deceased firemen, David Muldrow and David Clute, who met death in'the discharge of duty at tho lute great fre in Broadway, wero interred yesterday with becoming honors. The Rev, Dr. White, of the Twenty-third street Presbyterian church, pronounced a brief but pathetic funeral sermon at the late resi- dence of David Clute, after which bis remains were taken to the Masonic Temple, Sixth svenue and Twenty-third street, where further relig- jous services were. performed by Dr. White, The — brethren of Tyrian Lodge, No, 618, F. and A. M., to which the deceased belonged, received the remains with due Masonic ceremonies, and a lodge of sorrow was formed. The hall of the Temple was well filled, and a considerable number of representa- tives from other lodges were present. The W. M. John McGeeban, P. M. George W. Palmer and R. W. and Rev. Dr. Elsegood, of East New York, officiated at tho celebration of the Masonic rites. When these were over the rosewood casket, ornamented with Masonic em- hlems in silver, which encased the body, was placed in the hearse, and at two o'clock the procession moved down Sixth avenue to Tenth street. At this point the cortége was jomed by that which conducted the re- mains of Muldrew. At Muldrew’s funeral tho Rev. Mr, Andrews, of Washington county, pronounced the funeral services. The funeral cortége proceeded out of West Tenth street in the following order:+A platoon of Metro- politan police, under the command of Captain Byrnes; a detachment of firemen trom Engine No. 30 an vartous other companies of the Fire Department Among those present were Chief Engineer Bates, and Assistant Engineers Shay, Ki and Giquel Then came the Tyrian Lodge, No 618, F. and A. M., in mourning and with their regalia covered. The hearse containing Clute’s remains came next and close to it followed that in which Muldrew’s body was laid. By. the side of each hearse walked, with solemn twelve firemen as pall bearers, and a long Itne of car- riages which contained the friends of the departed brave men closed up the rear. All along the whole way from Masonic Temple, over Tenth street and down Broadway to South ferry, the streets passed over by the mournful procession were crowded by thousands of people. Just at three o'clock the procession came iy front of the blackened and smouldering ruins where the unfortunate men bad so bravely met their fate, and while the dead bodies were passing along in front of the smokin and yawning walls, beneath whose fire-scoreh: heights they fell, a perceptible tremor waa noticed to pass through the moving multitude At this point of the road the crush and jam among the crowd who noiselessly swarmed along cither sidewalk was tre- mendous, A few minutes before four o'clock the funerals reached South ferry, at which point firemen and. policemen formed in line on the west side of the street and respectfully galuted the remains of the dead as’ these passed along to Greenwood Cemetery, whero,: with duo formality, they were committed to’ Moth earth, ‘ FIRES YESTERDAY. At a quarter-past one yesterday morning Captain McDonnell and his detective, while passing through Prince street, discovered a fire on the first floor of the HIS LIFE CARERS. Mr. Barry’s life was @ long and eventtul one, and thero 1s probably not another man in America now living whose stage life has covered so many years, He was born in England July 27, 1798, and was, therefore, m Isis seventy-cighth ycar. Hie début on the stage .Was made in Tichfleld, England, in 1816, in the charac- Yer of Sir Philip Blandford in Martin’s comedy of “Speed the Plough.” Subsequently he appeared in the English Provinces under Mr, Macreaay’s father’s management, where he played with ability such parts as Rolla, Wolsey, Damon and others. Later ho joined the famous Lynn company, the best outside London at the time, which included sach people as Mra. Warner, Mrs, Vernon, Tyrone Power and the Chapman Brothers. From Lynn he went to Brighton and became manager of the theatre, leaving the provinoial stage, Mr. Barry made his London début May 15, 1825, at Druy Lane Theatre, as King Henry IV. to the Hotspur of Macready. In the fall of the same year he played his farewell English engagement, Prior to his do- parture for America he acted Macbeth on his benefit night, under the patronage of Lord Russell and the officers of the army. Qn the 7th of Novomber, 1826, Mr. Barry left England and landed in America on the 10th of December. He came with the expectation of finding, as he did, a fair field for the exercise of his professional abilities. Here he found the stage occu- pred by such histrionic magnates as the elder Kean, William ©, Macready, Cooper, Janius Brutus Booth, Conway, Edwin Forrest and other dramatic stara Ho made of December, is first appearance in America on the 16th $26, ut the Park Theatre, New York, aopeer ins as the Stranger, with rare ability. lo «was soon after imtrusted with the ‘stage management of the Park Theatre, where his correct taste and excellent judgment were almost immediately perceptible in the order, elegance and Mberality of his arrangements. He remained at that post until the summer of 1833, when he removed to Boston for the pur of assuming the manage- ment of the Tremont Theatre, which he directed until the year 1839 to the entire satisfaction of the public, althowgh the financial panic which occurred in the United States during a portion of the time largely tended to prostrate the interests of the drama in Bos- ton, and, In consequence, resulted in the ruin of Mr. Barry’s fortuné, In 1839 be returned to New York and was for a time manager of the Bowery Theatre; but his old position at the Park was resumed in 1841, and he remained there as stage manager until the manage- ment was broken w In the winter of 1! e produced Richard IIL on ascale of theatrical poif- icence never before seen in New York, Charles performing Richard From 1848 1851 he Managed the National Theatre, the proprietor, Mn Pelby, then being an invalid. From 1851 to 1854 he was manager, under & A. Marshall, of the Broaaway Theatre, and 1n 1854 he was again called to Boston to take charge of the en? Boston Theatre, then just completed, and which he managed till the year 1860 ‘Mr. Barry was married in May, 1856, to Miss Clara S. who, as woll as her father, mother and sister, ‘was a member of the Boston Theatre company. They have had threo daughters and one son—the latter quite lad. For several years past Mrs. Barry has been the popular leading lady at the Boston Theatre, and is as respected in private life as she is liked as an rformance was In 1870, at Solwyn’s Bure in “Lady ©! - tre, which period he retired finally from th the past three years he has been confn ‘with paralysis, Ho has in this country fulfilled suo- cessful engagements in Boston, New York, Cincinnati and Chicago. He was among the comparatively few whose personal character and cultivated minds have given dignity atonce to the stage and society. For several years he was among the most popular favorites ‘of the Amorican public, and his excellent personations of Lord Townley, Duke Aranza, Joseph Surface, and a ye number of second parts m tragedy, fully entitled him to the position he held, particularly as in his prime Nag reer? a handsome face, a graceful person and a full, llow voice. Mr. Ty agsisted at the arrangement of tho first testi- monial benefit given in Ameri and of several others that were given afterward. were offered him during his residence in the city of Boston—one by the actors of the National Theatre, in 1851, and the other in 1858 by a commitiee of gentlemen, Both were respectfully declined; the first, because be con- sidered it unjust toward the pockets of his brother actors. and the last because the time for stock benefits had arrive and he feared that the complimentary benefit would prove injurious to their receipts. Mr. Barry’s management was also distinguished for its hiberality. Prior to nis leaving the Boston Theatro he we the Mt. Vernon Association the use of the theatre one-fourth the sum paid a few nights before by the Boston Light Infantry for the great " Ball,” and to the friends of the dri who wi w give a five story brick building, No. 117, occepied as a box factory by N. L. Burdick & Sons. They succeeded in extinguishing the fire alter it had cansed a damage of $100; insured in the Phenix Insurance Company. Cause unknown. At six o’clock a fire broke out in the cellar of the three story brick dwelling No. 104 East Twenty-second stroe occupied by Dr. G. C. Lansing, caused by a barrel rubbish tgniting from being too near the furnace; dam- age trifling. ‘At ten 0 clock the second floor of the five story tene- ment house No. 20 Orchard street, occupied by John Goss, caught fire, and was damaged $50; cause un known. OLD DUTCH CLAIMS, BAD NEWS FOR THE KNICKERBOCKER FORTUNE HUNTERS, From time to timo the descendants of those old Dutch families who firet peopled this island of New Amster- dam are excited with the hope of boing able to enrich themselves vy claiming large inheritances which some scheming ana unsuccessful agent had assured them was bequeathed by the European branch of the family to the American off-shoots, In their vain endeavors to Possess themselves of these advertised ‘Castles in Spain’? many respectable American families of Dutch descent have allowed themselves to become the dupes of sharpers who pretended that they could place heirs in possession of property which either never existed or never was willed to them. In this way unsuspecting and unsophisticated citizens of Now York and vicinity have beon fleeced out of considerable money and robbed of much valuable time. A gentleman of this city, who was advisod that bis wife had suddenly become the heiress of vast wealth in Holland by the recent decease of an octogenarian rela- tive in the flats of the Low country, wrote on the sub- ject to Mr. Mueller, the American Consul at Amster- dam and received in return, not, indeed. the fortune which it was said bad been willed to his spouse, but some useful information on the interesting subject of OLD DUTCH CLAiMms, Mr. Mueller says that at the consulate which ts under his charge American fortune-hupting letters bave be- come a perfect piagno. Hardly an American mail reaches Amsterdam without bringing to the Consul some of these epistles, The United Staies Consulate at-Rotterdam and tho United States Legation at The Hague most likely fare no better in this respect. ¢ episties usually commence in something like this manner :— “About -180 years ago a certain Van B——m left $40,000,000, which are now in the Bank of Holland, I am oue of bis heirs. 1 have, however, changed my nave, which is pow Van B——r," &a Some time ago a Pennsylvania lady astonished the Consui by conveying the startling intelligence that her mother, who was ninety-one years of age, had the gift of second sight, and that the aged dame had seen $30,000,000 in the Bank of Holland, all of whieh be- longed to ber. The writer added the trifling request that the Consul would be kind enough to draw the money and send it to America by the next mail, but to be sure to buy & large drat on Pbiladeiphia, as New York was too far off, The specimen lettere above alluded to will convey an idea of the nature of many communicafuns which reach the consular office in Amsterdam, Yet many of them came, strangely enough, from _ jntelli- gent persons and even men of standing. This being the case, our consnlar representative in Amsterdam thinks that it would be well to at once puta stop to this sort of diplomatic literature by drawing public at tention to the law as itactually existe in Hollamd. Under tne old Dutch law the administration of un- complimentary benefit to Mr. J. Pilgrim, manager, author and acior, he proffered the theatre treo of a a Mr. Barry’s funeral will take place on Bun- RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN TAYLOR COLERIDGE. A cable telegram from London, under date of the 11th inst., announces the occurrence of the doath of the Right Honorable Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Kt, an em» nent lawyer, upright judge anda trusted counsellor of ' the English Crown. He was born in the year 1790, and was consequently, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. Ho was a nephew of Coleridge the poet His father was the late James Coleridge, of Heath's Court, Devon, who married Miss Taylor. In the year 1818 the de coased married Marey, second daughver of the late Rev. Albert Buchanan, D. D., by whom he had, with other issue, his son, Sir John Duke Colomdgo, the famous English lawyer, who was so remarkably distinguished dy ’ his great legal effort during the Tichborne trial Sir Jonn Taylor Coleridge was educated at Eton, and graduated from Oxford University. His college career was greatly distinguished, as he beeame Feilow of Exeter Schiege and Vinerian Schoiar in 1815, and Master of arts in 1817. Im the year 1819 he was called to the Bar. He was recorder of Exeter from 1832 to 1835, and aJudge of the Courtof Queen’s Bench in 1835 He held this high position during upward of twenty-three zenrs. and was appointed a Privy Councillor ot the wn. He became editor of the rterly Review y the retirement of Gifford in 1 but resigned in 1825, on account of professional engagements, and was succeeded by Lockhart. He published an annotated edition of Bilackstone’s “Commentanes” and a “Memoir of the Rev, John Kemble,”” @. W. SCRIVEN, M. D. While last Sunday’s gale was at its heiebt, Dr. G. W. Seriven, of Long Branch, N. J., was driving in a cov- ered buggy along the beach to visit a patient. Sudden. ly the hurricane blast overturned his vebicle, precip tating him with violence to the ground. From the ef. fects of the injuries thus received vr. Scriven died yesterday at his Isto residence at Long Branch, Drs. Van Buren, Martoe and other eminent physicians of this city did all that their medical skill could suggest to save his life, but without avail. There have been few recent deaths in this profession that will be more widely mourned. Born in Oswego county and havin, "ion uated with bigh honors at the Albany Medical bo lege, Dr, Scriven settled at Long Branch twenty-three years 0, where he has ever ago germans bis profession, Of most affable manners an ing rare skill in his profession, bis name and his reputation are most widely Known in connection more particularly with his extended practice among the summer visitors at this famed watering piace. 18 lectures before the medical students at Bellevue Hospital, and especially upon spotted fevor, so virulent eight years at Long Branch, evinced the most thorough medical research, His untimely death in the prime of manhood—tor he ‘was only forty-nine years old—and with the most bril- iant professional proepects before him, will be widely lamented. He leaves- only a wife, but his circle of mourners reaches far and wide, SIR DAVID DUMBRECK, K.C.B. [From the London Telegraph, Jan, 29.) The death is announced, at the age of seventy-five years, of Sir David Dumbreck, M. D., Honorary Physician to the Queen, which took place at Floreneo on the 24th inst He was attached to the headquarters ‘on the nredical staff during the Crimean war, took part REVERDY JOHNSON. CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS DEATH—DR, STUNER’S CONCLUSIONS PROM AN EXAMINATION OF THE WOUNDS—ACTION OF THE MARYLAND LEGIS- LATURE. Awxarouts, Md., Feb. 11, 1876. The main facts connected with the sudden and tragic death of Reverdy Johnson in the grounds attached to the Executive Mansion, as telegraphed jast night, are not changed by later developments this morning, is death was so sudden and unexpected, after his appear ance in the State Library and aboat the State House yesterday while the Logislature was in session, !n ap- parently ful health, that the community has not yot recovered from the shock. Dr. Lewis H. Stuner, State Senator from Frederick county, @ distinguished physician and chief inspector of the sanitary commission in the army of the Potomao during the late war, who examined. the body shortly aftor it was found, gives the following as his theory of the cause of death — “Mr. Johnson either stumbled over a piece of coal or, being seized with vertigo or incipient symptoms of apoplexy, and, strtving to save himself, moved toward the west, staggering along the northerly side of the | Executive Mansion, at each step his body gaining addi- tional momentum, so that having reached the door leading into the basement he swayed around to the south and fell, striking his head against a sharp corner of the granite base course of the house, which gave the * first wound on tho head Reaching the pavement, made of rough cobble stones, a second wound was ro- cotved in front of the first. At this instant probably the bones of the nose were fractured, and one joint of the seeond finger of the right hand was dislocated Whether after straggies account for theabrasions on the knees and the fingers of the left hand cannot be posi- tively asserted, although it is probable the wounds in the scalp were accompanied with fractures of the ex- ternal bones of the cranium, possibly with those also of the base, which must have been accompanied with robable rupture of some of tho arteries at the base.” h mast have resulted almost instantly. Mr. Gwynne, Attorney General of the State and son- in-law of Mr. Johnson, is of opinion that he was seized with vertigo and fell, as he a similar attack, lasting three hours, while attending the trials in South Carolina several years since, Immediately on the assemDling of the General pooch to-day the following coiiimunication was re- ceived tn botll nouses 8 Devant’ AxNaPouis, Feb. 11, 1876 GENTLEMEN OF TUX SxNaTe aND House OF DeLegates — ‘The melancholy daty devolves on me of informing you by icial communication of the doath of Hon. Reverdy Jolm- ‘This sad event occurred last evening at the Executive ion ‘Sn upaccoun unwitnessed accident. ‘The distinguished abilities of Mr. Jobuson as a jurist and statesman have long made him tho pride of his State, and on this most sad occasion the General Assembly of Maryland may deem it, proper $0 pay bis memory shat ee of Bees Nie entinenie services to his Stat 601 \. Print i JON LEE CARROLL, On receipt of this communication both houses took action to pay proper respect to the deceased and im- mediately adjourned, They will assembio in the hall of the House at three o’clock P. M., and, proceeding thence to the Executive Mansion, will in a body escort the remains to the depot, whence the body will bo taken to Baltimore in a spectal car. von, M MUNICIPAL HONORS TO THE MEMORY OF THE DECEASED—ACTION OF THE BALTIMORE AU- THORITIES, Barrrvorg, Feb, 11, 1876. Mayor Latrobe this morning issued an order direct- ing that the City Council be convened in extra session this evening in order that some action may be taken to indicate a proper appreciation of the great loss sus- tained in the death of Hon. Reverdy Johnson, the dis- tinguished statesman and jurist, The flags on all the public buildings are displayed at half mast in respect to the memory of the deceased. Ata meeting of the Suprome Bench this morning it ‘was resolved to hold a meeting at noon to-morrow to take appropriate action on the death of Mr, Johnson. In the United States District Court the death of Hon. Reverdy Johnson was announced by United States District Attorney Stirling and the Court imme- diately adjourned. A meeting of the members of the Baltimore Bar will be held to: morrow to take appropriateaction in respect to the deocased. MR. JOHNSON’S REMAINS SENT TO BALTIMORE— HONOBS TO HIS MEMORY. Bartmors, Feb, 11, 1876, The remains of Hon. Reverdy Johnson were escorted from the oxecutive mansion at Annapolis this after- noon by Governor Carroll, both houses of the Legisla- ture, acoompanied by their officers; the members of the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Admiral Rodgers and Commander Terry, of the Naval School; the Presi- dent, faculty and students of St. John’s College, of which Mx Johnson was an alumnus; members of the Bar and citizens of Annapolis—all on foot—to the depot, where they were placed in a special car and brought to this city, accompanied by relatives and friends, The funeral will take place on Sw t threo o’clock, from his late residence, No. 118 Park avenue, and the interment will taxe placo at Greon- mount Cemetery, The City Council convened tn extra sesston this even~ ing, Mayor Latrobe presiding. Eulogies were delivered and resolutions adopted expressing the deep sense of the loss which pervades the whole community at the sad and sudden death of Hon, Reverdy Jobnson; that in the death of Mr. Jounson the city of Baltimoro lost her most distinguished citizen, and, as a mark of re- spect, that the Mayor and City Council attend tho funeral in a body. THE LATE JAMES T. BRADY, To ras Eprror ov tHe Herawp;— ‘Will you allow me to intrade upon you @ question which has often puzzled me? Itis why the members. of the legal profession in New York have never taken any steps to perpetuate the memory of one who, while alive, they all joined in admiring and almost vener- ating. I allude to the late James T. Brady, whose death, but a few years since, was so widely felt and de plored among every class of hisfellowcitizens At the commencement of the late civil war he was one of the first m this city to raise his voice in behalf of our strug- gling Union. His voico did certainly as much to send Tecruits into our volunteer regiments and to strengthen the nerve aud sipewa of our youth as thatof any hap vl roo | as State. jot only by his patriotism, by his superb mental qualities and bis oratorical pechios was he traly emi- nent, These the worldin general knew and re- ciated fully, The inner man was equally worthy of all love. None who knew bim could tail to Lene: se) the bonest, genial, tender and true nature of James T. Brady. be acquainted with him was to bestow upon him the warmest affection. His voice was always raised spontaneously in behalf of the oppressed. His hand was as 0; to poverty as his heart was to human suffering. 1 am unable to speak of the man whom I was to call my friend as he you must impute it to my want of ability to do we yea and his generous natare com- plete justice. course it would be unbecoming for me even apparently to take tho initiative in originating: such @ memorial to James T. Brady 10 deserves. But if his legal brethren shoula feel disposed to remem- ber one whom they loved while living, and erect a statue to him, I should feel only too happy to con- tribute my mite toward it, And I feel convinced hun- dreds of others who were professionally unconnected with bim would proudly and uphesitatingly respond with me to each a cail were i made at the present time. Trusting that I have not taken too great a liberty in calling your attention to this, I have the honor to sign m; , yours, Teen ARNEY WILLIAMS, SUICIDE OF A PROMINENT MASON. Mr, John Hastings, a prominent citizen of Newark, N, J., committed suicide yesterday morning by throw- ing himecif in front of the Easton express train, on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, at the Nesbitt street crossing, in that city, Mr, Hastings ‘was a prominent member of the Odd Fellows Society and when be came to this country from England his object was to settlo some difficulties then existing in the Order. He was also Past Master of Newark Lodge, Past High Priest of Union Chapter, R. A. M.; Prelate of is Commandery, Knights Templars, and a member of Kane Council. He was also Past Grand Master of the Order of Druids in the United States and Vice President of tho Newark Burns Club. He re- cently failed in business, which seriously’ affected his brain and he hau twice previously attempted suicide. NEGLIGENCE AT BELLEVUE. The jury im the case of Frederick Knauff, who died at Bellevue Hospital on the 4th inst, while undergoing an amputation of one of his legs, yesterday rendered the following verdict:—‘We find that deceased came to his death from innalation of ether, accelerated by hypertrophy of the heart, and that the tmmediate cause of death was asphyxia, the result of accumulated mucus from the bronchia ascending the trachea in the act of vomiting, and we censure the nurses for allowing food to be given to the patient so short a time before tho administration of ether, and we blame the physicians in charge for not ascertaining the condition ‘of the patient before administering the ether, and reo- ommend that proper rules be adopted to vent sim- Har accidents” ssi COOPER UNION FREE LECTURES, at the affair in Bulgenac, was present at the battles of Alma and Inkermann, capture of Balaklava and siege of Sebastopol He receiyed the war medal with four | el also the Turkish modal; was a khigbt of the | Fow Class of the Order of the Medjidic, an@ was McC. _ J claimed estates beloaged to We difereat Orphans’ created a knight in 1871 The next lecture in the free course of lectures for the People at the Cooper Union will take place in the great ball evening at ight o'clock. Subject—' Tho Greek Tempia'’ Lecturer—Proiessor Wii il, Goodyear, ‘of imfnite variety of design, | Where the girl was attended r a home by Ler friends, bf THE EXHIBITION. ‘THE CONDITION OF THE GROUNDS AND THY FIVE PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS —EVERYTHING. NBARLY RBADY. PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 11, 1876, Those who have faith in special providences may cer- tainly be pardoned tor believing that there are evi- dences of a meteorological interposition in behalf ov tne Centennial Exhibition, It would seem as thong Kature—with an eye friendly t our forthcoming na- tional birthday party—had so far departed from hor usual winter severity as to favor as with weather of al: most unprecedented mildness, preventing the eartl from freezing or being covered with ice and snow for the sole purpose of enabling the great work of prepa- ration upon the CENTENNIAL RXHIRITION GROUNDS to go forward without interruption. Owing to the un usually miki weather not a single day’s work has bee lost, and there is as much activity at the grounds and: as large an army of busy workers as upon the balmiest. day of summer, Within an astonishingly short timo a small city almost has grown up amid the trees and shrubbery of Fairmount Park. Over fifty buildings: are now im various stages of construction, the most important nearly finished, and many others whichara of minor consequence, yet incomplete. The ‘greatest variety in form and style is observable—from the many-turreted iron and glass main building, with its: immense expanse of twenty acres, and tho massive and. magnificent granite Art Gallery, to the smallest chalet of light wood and gay colors. But even these are not all’ Beside the fifty or oghty structures now under way, plans are being made and ground staked off tor half as many more; and it may be predicted with cer- tainty that when the Exhibition opens there will be at Joast 100 buildings, representing every nationality and within the tbree- mile enclosure of the great fair. The lakesand fountains are being prepared, the walks and roads macadamized, the little “rapid transit’? steam. railway which will convey visitors from point to point is betnglatd, shrubbery and trees aro being set ang lawns terraced and sodded. Hundreds of workmen of all sorts—carpenters, painters, decorators, builders, masons, laborers, plumbers and gardenors are moving about or plying the tools of their trades, and on all sides the greatest activity ts observable On the maiv. building alone, Mr. Dobbins, the contractor, has had 8,000 men at work, but is mow rapidly roducing the force, bis labor being so near completion. The most confirmed croaker wiio has been predicting (with some: show ot reason not long. ago) that the buildings could not be ready in time, cannot but admit his error now, thanks te the pleasaut weather we have had, asho looks down upon the busy scene from the observatory which ap enterprising Yi eo ba erected upon Bei- mont Hill, just outside the ba STUPENDOUS PREPARATIONS, \ At the southern front of the boundary line, Elm ave~ nue, where are the principal entrances and spproses. from the city, the main exhibition building and Machinery Hall stretch along tm What appears to be « continuous line, the length of which is three-quarters ofa mile, In reality there isaspace of 400 feet be- tween them, but as itis filled by three contiguous small structures, the offices of the Centennial Commis- sion, the offices of the Board ot Finance and the ticket offices and gateways, the effect at a little distance is that of one immense building exactly as long as fliteen New York city blocks, or three-quarters of a mile. THE MAIN BULLDING, The main building is completed except the four towers inthe centre, the flagstaffs of which will be borne majestically 150 feet above the ground. These towers are nearly complet and the central spaco which they will cover at the intersection of the two: principal aisles of the building is equal to what would have to be stretched across Srerenirosd and Market. stres the widest thoroughfarcs in Philadelphia, to ‘oe roofed over at their junction, whero- both strects are about each. 115 feet wide When this portion—a mere bagatelle yari- son—is finished, and the decoration and painting, nearly finished, are over, the it structure will have received its last touches. As faras all really necessary pur are concerned, however, the building is roady for the reception of goods now, and some of the foreign oxhibits are now lying there waiting to be un~ packed, MACHINERY BALL, Machinery Hall is entirely completed. It does not. cover twenty acres of ground, like the main duilding, ‘Dut it manages to spread ftself over seventeen, The boiler house for the Corliss engine, which will rer the power for its machinery, stands just north of tho hall, and 1s nearly ready to roof over. It has two large chimneys, ninety fect high, and if it were not situated so near ite huge neighbor would Be thought guite a structure. It will contain twenty ie Cor boilers to feed the monster engine In the « re of Maehinery Hall. This — is now being: put in: place, It cost $70,000, and ts the most powerful steam engine tm the world, having tho enormous cal yy of 2,500 horse power. This monster will be one of the features of the Exhibition of which America may well be proud. Europe can abow nothing like it It is worthy of a detailed deseription and will bo treated of in a subsequent letter, The assiguments of space have been made in Machinery Hall, and the floor is checkered with colored lines, enclosing the name of the exhibitor to whom it has been sane A por- tion of the building is (enced off for tho United States Custom House authorities, and the 5 i belonging to the Khedive of Egypt, Sweden, Norway and some ‘other nations are guarded by government officials, MEMORIAL HALL North of the main building is the Memorial Hall or Art Gallery. Its massive granite walls, chaste design and magnificent proportions form a pleasing contrast to the other structures It covers an acre and a half of ground and is on the most commanding height of the Lansdowne plateau, but ite proxunity to the main building diminishes Its rent size It has been found to be too for tho great demand upon its wall space and another building is just about odeginning 100 feet distant to be used as an annex. It will be 350 fect by 180 feet, and will be of brick overcast cement, to imitate the granito of Memorial Hall. The hall is in the same mising condition as the other two principal build- ings. It is finished, except in the interior decorations and the surroundings, such as the terraces and statuary and garden ornaments, which are to add beauty to it. In proportion to its size jt ts the most costly of the buildings, requiring an outlay of $1,500,000, but its ma- terials are enduring granite, giass and or iron, no w inflammables being used, 80 that It is believed deserve that much abused claim of “fireproof.” HORTICULTURAL BALIy East of the central portion of the enclosure ts the: Horticultural Hall, where certain Washington Congress- men recenily accepted of Philadelphia hospitality and wont back too Washington to oppose Philadelphia's pet. project. It is comple and already containg the Lab Sarre exhibition of rare plants and exotics. its design in the Mauresque style of architecture of the- century—all graceful ourves and circles and bright colors—makes it at present the most picturesque object in the enclosure. It only covers one and a quar- ter acres ani is far too small to satisfy th mands that have been made upon its space. A proposition to enlarge it 1s now under consideration. At the extreme north of the exhibition onclosure is tho AGRICULTURAL BUILDING. . It 1s the most backward of all because it was com. menced iast, but will be ready in timo. It is about one-third finished. The United States government baflding was recently described in these columns at length. Is is very nearly ready. The special structures are so varied and nomerour that they must form matter for a subsequent jeter. RHODE ISLAND AND THB EXHIBITION. Provipence, Feb. 11, 1876. A resolution was passed tn the Senate to-day, appro- frswe ad $10,000 to the expenses of the Centennial Ex. One hundred and fifty Rhode Islanders have made applhcation for space at the Centennial grounds, he MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH COMMISSION SAI. FOR PHILADELPHIA—RBOYAL ENGINEERS AND LONDON CITY POLICE TO BE ON HAND. [From the Irish (Dublin) Times, Jan, 20.} Yesterday Professor Archer, F, RB. 8, £., accompanied by twelve members of the staff of the British Commis- sion, sailed in the American steamship Ohio for Phila- delphia. Tho party proceed out to prepare for and ar- range the products of industry, art and science of Great Britain at the Centenary Exhibition. Professor Archer gained bigh reputation for his efficient services: at the exhibitions of 1851 and 1862, and at that at Mos- cow. In abouts month he will be joined by Colonel Stanford, R. A., with another detachment of the staff of the commission, A company of the Roya) Engin- gers and a select body of the London Metropolitan Police will accompany Colonel Stanford. It is now cer- tain that the great ball, the largest structure of the: kind ever planned, will be comp! in all its parte, before the ist of June. The offices, barracks, and workmen's quarters assigned to tho British Commis- sioners are nearly finished. They are situated in the eae | portion of Fairmount park, and are built in the style of old English architecture.’ A HEROIO PRIEST, As the ferryboat Maspeth was entering the slip at the foot of Bast Houston street at five o'clock yeater- day evening, Amolia May, aged twenty-seven, of No, 199 Cannon street, attempted euicide by stepping into the river. A sirong current was running at the time, and the unfortunate woman was being rapidly borne up the river. At this juncture Fathor Adams, a Catholic eine of Williamsburg, sprang from the crowd of hes- rep J Passehgers, and, jumping overboard, swam after the ee teehee sat at this moment one of the in the ri impossible to ascertain, eppenen' tat br egelne na “porn Priest and woman were picked up by the unknown tug and brought to the foot of East Houston street. — They Were taken to the Eleventh prectnet station house, Maclay and takon -